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Thanks
I give thanks
Not only for
What I have
But also for
What I will
Soon come
To find.

I give thanks
For trials
And tribulations
That have to
Be overcome.

I give thanks
For the test
That must
Be passed.

I give thanks
For happiness
And pain.
No matter the
Emotion - I
Give thanks
Just the same.

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Friday, July 10, 2009

i opened the straits times today, as i do everyday, and i saw this piece of news: Maria Hertogh dies. which kind of surprised me because i didn't know that Maria Hertogh was alive all this while. not that i needed to know that she was still surviving, just that it's something that i've studied about since secondary school and she has been so overused it's almost like she had become fiction. apparently, she left singapore soon after the riots to live in the Netherlands. good choice, Maria.

was on the mrt today and i feel so embarrased about what happened. i was at simei station and this pregnant lady walked in and i didn't notice her at all, being absorbed in this lame but addictive handphone game called Simcities societies. So this aunty sitting beside me actually called the pregnant lady over and offered her her seat, which made me really embarrassed because i think societal conventions would dictate that i should be the one to offer the seat since i was male and younger. Confession: i do not like to give up my seat on the MRT. It’s such a prized possession, a nice, clean plastic seat in a crowded train full of sweaty, dirty bodies. I confess to going extra lengths just to get myself a seat, such as taking the train from boon lay to joo koon to get an empty seat before taking all the way back to tanah merah. (it used to be the other way round: tampines to pasir ris, but that’s not the point).

I have NDP practice tomorrow. The very nice people of the NDP exco deemed it fit to keep the roads closed from 9am-11.30pm. it used to be 9am-10.30pm, but now they’ve extended the road closure by another hour. To add insult to injury, the Division Sergeant Major passed down an order that NSFs are not allowed to walk around in shopping malls or other public places in their uniform, which meant to say that we now have to change from our uniform to our civvies just to walk around in Marina Square during our breaks. All these rules and regulations never fail to annoy me. The SAF is obsessed, and i repeat, obsessed with maintaining a good image. Nothing wrong really, just that they go the extra mile just to impress the public with how efficient, effective and cutting-edge an organisation they think they are, which leaves us, the NSFs at the bottom of the pile, having to live with weird rules and regulations that inconvenience us. Enough said.

So Michael Jackson has had his memorial service. My dear brother didn’t record it for me so i think i will now have to wait for the re-runs, which are nowhere in sight, or watch it on youtube and wait for this slow computer to stream the videos. I’ve been wondering which other singer would be able to elicit such a public outpouring of grief and emotion upon his or her death. I don’t think any star after MJ will be able to. Stevie Wonder? Madonna? Diana Ross? I don’t know. How does one go from being a normal little kid to becoming THE biggest star in the WORLD? Michael Jackson was so big, so massive, so gigantic, i wonder how he managed to do it.

Got to book in tonight because i have NDP tomorrow. Haiz. I hate the journey to Boon Lay.

1:46 pm