Saturday, 06 January 2007 (G)

Back from hong kong for a week +++ liaoz, but somehow still can't get jong kong out of my mind. Apparently almost everything in singapore reminds me of a little hong kong.I think maybe because i m a mountain tortoise.. I think the phrase " You will miss something only when you no longer possess it" applies to me in this case. I can still remember the strong feeling i had when i was about to fly off to hong kong. I just suddenly had this feeling of unknown worriness , rather worried about flying off to a foriegn land, worried that i might not make it back , worried about the uncertainty, can't bear to leave singapore. In short lucky no one came and send me off, i might just feel much worse. I think i m just a little toad at the bottom of the well who is worried about leaving the well to explore whats outside , choosing the safety and familiarity of the small constrain space at the bottom of the well. When i reached hong kong, somehow i managed to see glimpses of singapore in almost everything there. Then now i see flashbacks of hong kong nowadays , for everything from train to food.

For the past few days, i went to minds cafe to play some interesting games. Namely niagara, democrazy, employee of the month and pit.. i like democrazy a lot its about voting for different laws. The gameplay of it is quite interesting i must say. At the end i thought i won with the most points, thats until my friend pointed out one law that was in place, " You add the points of the player to your left at the end" and i am sitting next to someone with the 2nd least number of points and in the end the person on my right(aka the person who pointed out that law to me..ARGH!!!!!) won...Quite an interesting game. Employee of the month is also another worth playing game since u do need to take note of what is happening.. i lost terribly in that game, in the only had one point, BUT i m not the lowest..hahahahah... i got one friend who had negative two points.. apparently he is so not a good employee...

I also went to a plant visit at jurong island. To say that the lectures there are boring is just a HUGE understatement lah.. factoring the fact that i had less than 5 hrs of sleep b4 is sure not helpful, and i don't even want to imagine mk and adec who did not even hv a good sleep, but judging their zombie-like behaviour and blatant sleeping when sitting literally under the noses of the lecturers, you can guess.

Anyway before i end my post, would like to talk about a song that i heard and find it very meaningful. The title of the song is 最初的梦想. The first few lines of the song goes like this:

如果骄傲没被现实大海冷能拍下
又怎会懂得要多努力
才走得到远方
如果梦想不曾坠落悬崖
千钧一发
又怎会晓得执着的人
有隐形翅牓
把眼泪装在心上
会开出勇敢的花


To loosely translate to english, it would be
If proudness is not brought down by the cold reality,
Then how would you realise that only with hard work can bring you forward.
If dreams do not "fall off from a cliff",
Then how do you know that those who tightly hold on to their dreams possesses invisble wings at the crucial moment?
Plant the seeds of tears into your heart,
And it will bloom into flowers of courage.

I find it quite motivating and true i suppose. Think i will end my entry with another line from the song.

沮丧时总会明显感到孤独的重量
多渴望懂得的人给些温暖借个肩膀

Which should mean, when you are down , the loneliness that usually comes alongs will weigh you down. How nice it would be to have someone who realises that provide some warmth and a shoulder?