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Loading ...The dream of a bright future is something that had its roots deeply curved around the soil of Singaporeans’ minds. Although money by itself does not emit light, and can in no way contribute to “brightness”, Singaporeans associate “bright” future and wealth with little trouble.
Using the pursue of a “bright future” as a convenient excuse for materialistic wants and pure greed is the norm nowadays. This by itself is bad enough. The fact that the pursue of wealth alone makes Singaporeans unable to think and reflect really trashes the future of Singaporeans and shoves all light into the black hole in some unknown location.
It is of course true that having more money is good. Do you rather earn $20000 a month or $2000 a month? Of course everyone would choose the former. With more money, one can buy more food, gadgets, furniture, and anything one wants, even the life of another human being. However, is it really that good to earn that $20000?
Assuming you do not earn the money through illegal means, earning $20k per month would mean that your job is of high importance, and of high responsibilities. Such would mean very high commitment, invasion of job into family life, and even stress related health problems. Are you ready for that?
Also assuming that you earn $20k per month, and can afford expensive home theatre system, while another person earns only $2k can only afford a normal CRT TV. At first glance, it would seem that you have a better life. But think about it: If your job pays in the area of $20k, do you think you would have the time to enjoy your home theatre system? On the other hand, the $2k earner can spend more time with his family at home, and can enjoy his plain CRT TV for long hours.
For me, a bright future does not equals endless accumulation of wealth. Life will lose its meaning if you can afford anything you want. Scotts Adams, the man behind Dilbert comic, and generally considered as one of the greatest thinkers alive, recounts his experience of his transition from poor to rich.
Before his comic became popular, he had always wanted to buy a particular car model. However, after his comic became a success and he found himself capable of affording as many of that particular car he wanted, he found that there is no meaning in wanting anything anymore. If you get everything you want, you will stop wanting anything. In the end, he just went to a car dealer and randomly picked a car.
The bright future I want consist of me earning a living in my favourite field - IT, with the ability to work from home so that I can be with my family all the time. To put it simply, my 2 dreams are:
1) IT job - which I love to do
2) work from home.
Now, people like NGCH will start giving me bullshit like in the real world it is hard to find jobs that a person like. Just find a well-paying job and make do with it.
To that, I say bullshit!
Dear reader, you have only one life on this world. Do you want to spend the rest of your short life counting notes in your bank, or do you want to do things that stimulate you, makes you happy, and let you die a happy man?
Thus when I look at unmarried but ****ing rich people in their 40s and 50s, I wonder why they had chosen that path. Why do they see wealth as more important than happiness? Wealth cannot follow a person to his grave, but happiness shall always be carved in to the brain. If heaven or hell exists, happy memories will be carried there, not wealth.
Another bullshit that people may give is that money can be used to buy happiness. Is paying for sex, buying exotic gadgets, comfortable furniture considered happiness? No! These are enjoyment, not happiness.
There has to be a cause behind the corrosion of the idea of a “bright future” from happiness to greed. And that cause is most Singaporeans’ parents. Their mindsets, to be exact.
To be continued…
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Loading ...My love affair with music was an interesting one.
It all began when I was in Secondary 2, when I had 100 bucks in my pocket which I wanted to spend to buy something for myself. I was going to spend that on a TV Tuner for my Gameboy Advance, but it was out of stock everywhere I looked. Then I chanced upon a tiny MP3 player from WeeWa! with a whooping 64mb of memory and cost only $99. I bought it.
I started dumping music into the player and love my player to the core. It simply rocks. Having an MP3 player is so much fun.
And the player broke two weeks later when the screen was smashed by a coin residing in the same pants pocket as the player, when the bus I was on did an emergency brake.
Troubled by the prospect of having no MP3 player, I bought another one.
My next MP3 player was a 256mb Creative MuVo Slim. I bought it for 336, and Creative had the guts to price drop it drastically. I began to hate MP3 players. They have fixed memories and quickly dropping prices.
I wanted something with high quality sound. I wanted something that nobody uses. I wanted something unique. I wanted something with replaceable batteries and memory. I researched and found Hi-MD. One of the best choices I’ve ever made.
I took out 549 bucks that would put any iPod owners who are proud of their “expansive” gadget to shame, both price-wise and sound quality wise. I had never own any digital audio player that sounded better than my MZ-NH900.
Later I grew tired for the strange audio artifacts that manifest themselves very heavily on my Audio Technical Ath-EM5. So I did some research and bought Koss Porta Pro, a headphone that had been around since the 1980s, unmatched in price and sound quality since it launch until the entry of Shenn’s MX100 in the 2000s. I bought it, and with my MZ-NH900, life was good.
The same year, a new line of Hi-MD players came out. The highest end model, at a freaking high price tag of US499, was the only MD player in the world that comes with a colour LCD screen and built in camera. I want it. I have no money for it. But my lucky break came when in 2006 various online stores began dropping price on the player (due to low demand, which was due to the outrageously high price tag). I bought it without hesitation for S$350. Life was great.
After enlistment into the army, I left my Hi-MD gears behind. My MZ-NH900 was filling up my girlfriend’s ears with fantastic music, while my DH10P (the one with the camera) was sleeping at home. This was because SAF don’t allow cameras in the camp.
Then I wanted something cool and something that may sound on par or better than an MD player to use in camp. My eyes turned to iAudio’s D2. I wanted to buy it, but the cheaper 2GB models (S$273) was deliberately out of stock, while the 4GB models were expensive (S$388). The player comes with a miniSD slot, so the amount of built in memory didn’t really matter to me. Because of the high demand, low supply, and high price, I’ll be giving this sweet DAP a miss.
However, next time, when a better DAP comes out from iAudio comes out which meets what I want a DAP for, I’m getting it:)
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Loading ...Time was a curious object. While it already exists before man exists, man are the one who perceive them as being what it is and in effect brought time into existence.
We view time as the passing of moments. I have often being puzzled by the fact that every single moment in my life is considered “now” in one moment and exist only as part of my memory in the next. I distinctly remember myself typing that previous fullstop, and now I’m going to type another one. Opps. And another. Time files.
While everyone has time, everyone experiences time differently. It is a well known fact that mental and physical activity that one is undergoing affects the perception of passing of time.
As for me, time begins on Saturday when I book out, and stood frozen when I stepped into Tekong Ferry Terminal on Sunday. And I have to put up with this pathetic perception of time for 1 year and 10 months more.
I long for the time to come when time no longer has any gaps in between.
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Loading ...Weikiat has been very busy these 2 days since his book-in after his super short weekend. He has lotsa trainings and gunning, and he has little time to even sms me. It was his IMT (I think) trial today, and training yesterday. He said he was quite lousy yesterday as his left hand is not strong enough to hold the rifle(I think) properly. But he thinks he passed his trial this morning ba…
Then I think there was some SOC this afternoon, despite heat wave and thunder (or whatever they call it) warnings.
Poor weikiat again. There wasn’t enough admin time for him yesterday. He nearly had no time to bathe. But luckily I forced him to go. Haha… And his business is not done yet. There was no time for him to do his business (earn money.. LOL).
Jia You ba, my dear. You can do it!
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Loading ...I sometimes wonder if parents nowadays have any brains at all.
My girlfriend was blog surfing when she noticed tonnes of parents asking their kids to go for Business degree, when they totally had no passion, talent or interest in that field. The money is good, they say. I ask, “What money?”
Business by itself isn’t really a job, and getting people with no talent, passion or interest to go into business is an almost definite way of dumping money into the rubbish dump, together with a bonus probability of the kid getting bankrupted in the near future.
The parents may even end up with no money for their own coffins.
Notes to those applying for Business just because their parents ask them to, stay out.
The same apply to fucktards applying for other Uni degrees as well. You have no interest, no passion, no talent in whatever you applied for. There is little chance you will take a related job when you graduate, and you are going to have a hard time getting a first class honours. Just fuck off.
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Loading ...He is having his 3-day Situational Test this week. Hence, no smses from him again. Please ask him to blog more when he is free. I know we miss his blog posts. Me too.
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