I believe all of us, who at least had childhood and adolescence, will totally feel for this movie.
Seriously, this movie brings back our old days, where we missed those days the most. where we had our best times playing around caring no hoot about anything. That, is our youth. The only sad thing was that, I was in a boy's school T.T
But well, everyone has their period of time where they would want to go back to again. Which is, the times where we do not need to worry about anything. Yes. Our adolescence. When we start to mature and explore a whole lot of things in our lives, when we start to experience change in ourselves, physically, biologically, emotionally, mentally, psychologically, ... whatever it is, we just enjoyed these experiences, isn't it?
While watching the movie, I feel a sense of regret hitting me. Because when I see how people can really go all out and enjoy their adolescence days, I asked myself, had I really enjoyed myself to the very second back then? If not, I have wasted that very second of my prime. My youth. Which I feel is of valuable worth to anyone. If people can enjoy, go through like all hell break loose, why didnt I? Is it because I don't dare to? Or i don't know about it? Either way, it struck regret within me as the show screened.
Today, as I flashback my past experiences, well the most I enjoyed is not really the times I went to JC and get good grades. The best times were when I was in primary school, my sec 2 life. And yup. Though not many girls involved, I am content to have them. If u ask me I cannot be happier to be able to go to those days again.
So what now? After the movie? Get back to reality. cherish every second. Because every second of your life will be a diary. When you get past 60s you flash back, what kind of life, excitement, enjoyment you had, will determine whether you have lived life to the fullest, or in vain. :)
I give myself an aim. 5 years. Wahhaha. I shall go make such a "movie" with my buddies and remininsce the days. Provided everyone of us down here succeed. And have financial and time freedom.
Anyway. I cried while watching :(
An evening of mixed feelings started off this way:
On this day itself, I was on my way home from office. I alighted at Jln Toa Payoh to wait for bus service 966. It was 7.45pm and I started waiting for the bus togehter with other commuters.
Minute after minute. Other bus services came and went. The clock ticked. I was listening to song after song on my iphone and well, I realised quite a number of songs had been played and the bus still had not come. Looked at my watch. 8.10. No sign of the bus. Checked the iphone app for the bus. 3 mins. Ok. I waited.
3 mins later, and still no sign of the bus. Looked at the app again. Suddenly it jumped to 14 minutes. So, what had happened? I was beginning to get frustrated. And at the same time, confused. What happened to the bus service? But well, I still waited, not very patiently, and I went about doing my stuff on my phone.
It is 8.30. No sign. Looked at the iphone app again. 1 min to the arrival. I am pretty sure there would be a "Arr" icon showing up on the app if the bus were to arrive. I waited for that whole one minute. No. It jumped back to 12 min. So what exactly was happening to the bus service?
Gotten quite fed up. And more buses came and went. 3 of every other bus services came and went. That's the period of time I waited. And counting. More people showed up at my bus stop, apparently waiting for the same bus as me. I paced up and down the bus stop, with impatient looks on my face, keep opening up the app to hope for some miracle that 12 could just jump to 1. And well, cursing and swearing on my mind and preparing my script so that I know i could lash out to the bus driver later. And facebooking to vent my frustrations.
8.42. The bus finally came. As expected, it was packed. Oh my god. I suddenly had the desperation to dash up the bus because I did not want to be left behind, got squeezed out of the bus, and wait another 52 minutes (the exact time i waited for this bus) for the next.
So luckily I was on the bus. Well to my surprise, an uncle was already talking to the bus driver. And there goes the chain of complaints the bus driver vented out. On the whole drive from Jln Toa Payoh to Bukit Panjang, where the passenger alighted.
That was when I realised, there seemed to be a problem in the organisation that all of us are into - the employee system. Employees always have 2 problems: probem with their colleagues, and problem with their boss. For this bus driver, both.. and the third one: problem with his job. He is a Singaporean, but he was earning meagre pay, just barely enough to support his family. The reason why the bus was so "slow" is because some of his colleagues pulled stunts at the last minute. Causing less trips. Well. As soon as I understood that reason, in my mind I forgave the driver. Because it was not his fault.
As I reached home, I sent in a letter to SMRT. Under feedback. Regarding my experience today.
This experience is still lurking in my mind right now. I started to feel for the driver. You see, employees will never be happy. Be it high paying, low paying, high responsibility, no responsibility, field of your interest or not, whatever. Why? Because when you are inside, the moment you realise you are to DO THE SAME SHIT OVER AND OVER AGAIN FOR 30 YEARS, trust me, no one will dare to dream of that. That was why the other colleagues that realised this went into self-denial and avoidance by pulling such stunts.
As the passenger and the bus driver are chatting, I saw the image of alot of people around me. from my friends, to my parents, to my cousins and relatives. Aren't they inside this rat race also? Where they could not get out of this working world? Seriously who wants to be shouldered with burdens, responsibilities that have nothing to do with your life? And when you see them like that, slogging their guts out just to sustain a lifestyle, Do you imagine yourself inside this scenario as well? If you haven't, pls do so, because you have to get mentally prepared for it. 30 years straight. I'm not bluffing you.
So well guys, or whoever came across this by chance or whatsoever, if you realise you are in a similar situation as this bus driver, please do something about it, or you will end up complaining for the rest of your life.
the world today.
An opinion to the Gen-Y and Gen-Z population of Singapore.
I am an ordinary person. I was born in 1989, and I am currently undergoing tertiary education. I hereby express my opinions to anyone who came across this post, and to whoever see this, well, that was just a few cents worth of my opinions on the world today.
I remembered when I was small my mother always tell me to study hard, so that I can enter college and then university. I heeded my mother's advice without doubt, and I studied very hard through primary school, secondary school, and junior college. Little did I realise that what I had studied, books I had buried myself in for months and years, notes I had written until my wrist once injured over, were for a cause that I had never imagined to be in life; The question "Why do you study?" was thrown at me and all these thoughts jerked me into thinking.
So why do we study? For interest? For prospect? Most probably the latter, to majority of us. The cliche reason of studying to get to a good school, a good college, a good course in the top university and come out with a good cert to apply for a good job/career. All along that was the way since decades ago because our parents had seen such testimonials, people drawing a good pay just using a uni degree.
However, as time passes, as generation changes, more people see this as the way in life. Thus, parents are motivated to make their kids go into the route that they failed to because they missed the chance to do so. And more and more people over the years went in, came out with degree certificates. Well, with more supply of degree candidates, more people vie for jobs requiring that level of education, and employers grabbed the opportunity to slash starting pays of graduates, because of increased competition; Whoever can command a lower starting pay shall get the job.
As degree holders became more common, the upcoming generation shall climb even higher: Degree with Honours. And in just a couple of years' time, the next wave of graduates are out with Degree with Honours. The scenario for degree holders a couple of years back now applied to the current wave of graduates - those with Degree with Honours. This is the current situation today.
Today, 52% of the new people entering the workforce are graduates. To those who are planning for the route to uni, may I ask you a question. Where do you stand now? In the ocean of future graduates few years later, are you confident that you are the one that stands out amidst the others and secure a better future?
To these people I shall have a reason for them to go to uni: to "enjoy" the Rat Race. A race that one will never escape from. Why? Because, once inside, always inside. Until you find another person to take over you. Well, that's the result of being in the norm. For following the crowd.
SGD $1 = USD $0.829476
The rising singapore dollar.
I remember 10 years ago, the exchange rate was 1 USD = 1.717 SGD. And that time USA was a superpower nation. We all thought back then, that USA will never fall. But look at today. It is shaking. Its economy unstable, investors pull out their stocks and shares from US bonds, and much more is going on inside.
What is before is never what will be in the future. We cannot be too comfortable with what we have now. Instead, we should keep ourselves on the lookout of the world happening around us, because we do not know when we will need to change our living strategy in order to get ourselves on the upper hand of the society again.
This world plays on the survival of the fittest. Whoever is unable to follow this trend shall say goodbye to comfort. And live in poverty. Not in terms of finacial ability, but in terms of lifestyle. They will find themselves work and work like there is no end to it. but whoever is able to detect this trend, or phenomenom way before and do something about it will get to enjoy a safe and peaceful, or even exciting ride through the economical waves.
What i am stating here is not a fact; it is just an opinion of what the world is coming to today. This is an era where a lot of people in different parts of the world have different mindsets towards life. Towards their way of living. But whatever it is, we just know one thing: we are responsible for our future. And we better be, for no one else is going to look after our arse.
It's the survival of the fittest, after all.