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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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Tuesday, November 10, 2009

the past two days of off have been absolutely fabulous. i love off days! (or, in proper english, days off).

yesterday my psp went crazy on me and so i decided to bring it down to the shop at far east to get it checked, apparently, the main problem is because i put a different theme in the psp, so that spoilt the system. which seems kinda fishy, because i know for sure that i didn't have any problem with the theme, which was installed one week ago. but nevermind, it's over now. i would love to get a new memory card, preferably 8GB and above. any sponsors? (christmas is just around the corner...)

so i went down to orchard this afternoon with terry. and it was just great walking around orchard on a lazy tuesday afternoon, except it was the school holidays, so there were alot of people around. nevertheless, going to orchard makes me kinda happy, i guess. it was the alternative go-to place during jc, beside J8. i remember going down after school to Lido, where i caught alot of movies for only $3, thanks to Shakira's Shaw card, and also going there to do filming for the MOF video with beanie and hilary. i just don't know why i have so many memories in orchard. i didn't use to like to go there during secondary school. it seemed too far, too crowded, too expensive. but when i went to rj, orchard became the alternative hangout location because i think i was more central (after all, rj is in bishan), and due to the large rgs influence in school. now there are new malls and underpasses. i love how it keeps changing and reinventing itself. viva Orchard road!

was reading this article yesterday in the ST's youthink section, about being a global citizen. this guy, Goh Wen Zhong, was saying that becoming a global citizen wasn't as easy or as glamourous as he thought:

I have certainly aspired to lead the golden life of a global citizen, but grappling with reality is perhaps a different matter. the idea of flitting from one country to the next, taking from each what I like, appealed to me. i thought it would be easy...now, two months into my japanese experience, i would say that all that glitters is not gold.

this is quite unfortunate really. i too, would really love to lead the life of a 'global citizen', to be as at home in Singapore as i would be in London, New York or Tokyo. i certainly can't wait for the day i would fly off to Heathrow and learn to live all alone in a whole new city, on a whole new continent (well, technically, the UK is really a group of islands off Europe). so, when he says it isn't easy to be a global citizen, well, that's just quite sad. still, i would love to live a life flitting between cities, hobnobbing with the global citizenry in English, French, Japanese and Mandarin (oh that sounds so elitist). but seriously, this world is really large and there's just so much to learn, so many places to go to, so many people to meet (so many cuisines to try)...but through it all, i think home will always be Singapore. i grew up here, my friends and family are here, and there's no substituting it i guess, this growing up experience. after all, we are only born in one country.

going back to camp tomorrow. the week will pass quickly, i believe. three days to bookout. stay positive, be happy.

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