Saturday, May 10, 2008
life in camp without handphone has made me think a lot, instead of just lying on my bed and watching the fans blades spin or listening to my mp3. i know i always say dont think too much but when you have nothing to do, it happens. i thought about rough plans for the future (so unlike me), what i'll most likely do, when i want to settle down by, roughly at which age i want to retire (a bit far yes i know), what do i want to do after that etc.
though the future is really uncertain, it's sometimes good to at least have a rough idea how you want it to be like.
then i thought about why certain people tend to behave certain way. in camp, you really get to see the entire world. there're different people ranging from ah longs with big tatoos to muggers with thick glasses (not that there're any from ndu, because we're suppose to have perfect eyesight). it's really interesting to see how different people come together and we really learn a lot from each other. like for example my bunkmate's 101 methods of doing every single thing the unorthodox way and never getting caught.
of course there're a lot more to those but i shall just leave it at that.
thanks to no phone week, i've managed to get back to playing chinese chess once again since the primary school days. there're really quite a number of chinese chess pros in ndu so i dont realy have to worry about not having anyone to play with. and it made me realise how playing chess can really really help to kill (a truckload of) time. now i understand why all the lao ah peks like to sit at the void decks and play chess to determine who is treating who to yum cha. maybe i too can do that after i retire. haha.
命运真的很喜欢作弄我们，但是我也是个倔强的笨蛋，词典里可没有“认命”这两个字。
aaron | 8:49 AM
