Archive for September 13th, 2007
We are insignificant. As taught by tremors.
They say, when a butterfly flutters it’s wings in one part of the world, the other part of the world may experience a catastrophe.
Perhaps, you were one of the lucky, or not so unlucky few in Singapore that experienced the tremors from the 8.4 large earthquake last night. Well, you may have thought it was a great experience (as Singapore rarely has earthquakes that are felt in the West) and just like me, felt that you should take time off to try to overcome the trauma in a desperate bid to slack. But earth’s fury, or sneeze, just highlighted the point that no one is invulnerable to nature’s wrath.
You would have probably guessed by now, I was studying at the time where the earthquake struck. Or rather, more specifically, talking to Andre about the seemingly insignificant EOY score calculations and such. Well, earthquakes are not common see, and my mom felt the tremors, but though she worked too hard in the day and thus felt giddiness, my 2nd bro thought it was his exam stress and dare not voice out. Well, let’s just say they all voiced out at once, and we soon realised we were not the only ones who felt it. Some guy named Jason called ChannelNewsAsia to describe the carpark. Or rather a very mundane description of the scene of the carpark. People running out of their office. People videoing everything down in a bid of fame by hitting 5 million hits on youtube.
I didn’t need to be told twice about the earthquake in Indonesia, especially when there were tremors in class this morning again.
Isn’t it just wonderful to realise that all I care about were marks at the time when the clock tower was shaking? Or the fact that I may die before my time by getting crushed to death when the HDB block I live in collapse? (I live on the 19th floor, mind you.)
I don’t want to die poor, nor do I want to die without getting to experience life’s pleasures.
Today, the professor who volunteered to take time off “his busy schedule” was certainly illuminating. He was your, “for money, will do any job” kind of guy. And he’s a professor? Is this what he truly wants to teach us at school? To join the engineering stream in Uni just to make tons of cash and be my own boss with my skills gained at the Engineering curriculum? Well, he said that passion was needed, (though as a sidenote), which led me to ignore his presentation immediately. I am not going to take Engineering. I may love money, but I’m sure, I rather work for passion with a moderate pay, than a boring job with lots of cash.
I am going to live my life to the fullest, and starting today, I am gonna work hard for the freaking exams, cause I know, I will emerge triumphant at the end of 4 years, with 4k of scholarships and awards awaiting me, making it all worthwhile.
Funny. It all started with a little shaking.
