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Life has been very very monotonous lately, which pretty much explains the lack of posts right here. Animes have somehow lost their appeal as my number one form of entertainment, which is a bad sign for Odex.

Looking at those around me, those who are going to ORD in one or two months’ time, I could not help but feel a certain dread. True, I no longer have to refer to my ORD year as “the year after next”, but the months stretches in front of me like Sahara dessert. Jan, Feb, March, April and so on and on. A whole year more to go, and then some.

Lost my dear’s couple ring today while on my dad’s car on the way to Pasir Ris beach. The interesting thing is despite practically turning the entire car inside out, we couldn’t find the ring. It seemed to have acquired some RPG like magical qualities on its own and casted a vanishing spell on itself. Its gone for good. Don’t worry dear, don’t be sad. We will buy an even prettier ring next week ok?

Haven’t talked to Poh Wei for very long. Wondering how he’s doing. Also arousing my curiosity is Cygig. When will he talk to me again? I still don’t understand the reason behind him daoing me just because I was unable to talk to him for a few weeks due to me busy giving Slops a do over.

Life is short enough already without actually looking at the seconds ticking by. How I wish time could slow, so that the limited time I have on Earth could be put into better use and be more enriching. However, at the same time I hope for time to past faster. Accelerating towards ORD, accelerating towards the time when time don’t apply to me anymore.

I am growing increasingly disillusioned with the standard of living in Singapore. Despite announcing constant economic growth, ministers have spoken and asked us to “choose cheaper products” due to increasing prices of basic necessities. And choosing cheaper products does not equal to more savings. The reason why we have to choose something cheaper was because due to the increasing prices and stagnant wages, we can no longer afford things that we used to be able to. We have to buy a “cheaper” and probably more inferior product, which in fact costs the same price as what a more superior product costs in the past. This would result in gradual lowering in our standard of living. A very interesting question would hence be, why is Singapore’s strong economic growth accompanied by call for Singaporeans to lower their standard of living?

China people are flooding our workforce. Jobs like toilet cleaners, vendors in shopping centre food courts, waitresses, etc which were once occupied by our older and less educated work force were all replaced by workers from China. Is this because the lower paid Singaporeans have all upgraded their skills to a better job? I highly doubt so. Added to this is the constant call from the government for Singaporeans to work past the retirement age to be less of a burden to the younger generation due to the aging trend in our population. Jobs competition for those lower skilled jobs will definitely become even stronger. And the result? Shopping centres get cheaper toilet cleaners.

And parenting in Singapore is getting lousier and lousier. In the past, the cane is the king. Although using the cane is a pretty violent way to educating young children, it works. Now with younger parents prefering to talk it out with their kids, we see more and more spoilt children running around. A little boy who yanks at his father and sink his nails into his father’s leg because he wants to buy a transformer toy; a little girl who stands on the table and chairs on a fast food restaurant like a Chinese Lion dance while her mother happily enjoys her food; a 8 years old walking around a shopping mall swinging his arms like a hooligan. I think I will be leaving before they are taking over as the country’s leaders.

This is living life without living it. When you see things going obviously wrong and people just pretend or choose not to have noticed them. Things are certainly going downhill. I am just being wash along by the wave of inevitable. I have no choice and could not doing anything. I have lived but not live.

I don’t even know what the hell I am saying.

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