What is this pain?

I got another think-too-much-but-can't-write syndrome.

Sometimes I wonder what is wrong about this world... Is it something about me that makes the individual so hated and lost, or is it the Earth that constantly cries out, but Man doesn't listen, let alone help? Like people are always wasting - water, food, electricity, money - while very much nearby neighbours like rural China and central Africa are deprived of such things.

Not only the peripherals and tangibles, what about the intangibles like health and spirituality? Is it inclusive to these areas? I don't think so. This is a worldwide apathy.

Many can be aware, as movements and organizations thrive and live on such things, but still conditions are at most alleviated, not healed. I feel their pain and it torments me every second I survive, and all I have been doing is to shut out as much as I can as far. But what can I do of such large scale problems? I cannot offer good solutions, so long as all people continue to pollute their lives in a self-constructed, comfortable blanket of security in their own minds. Very recently I observed that the people around me did not take the effort to finish what they took - be it basic needs like water and food. Just so that it was provided for, did that mean that as a individual responsible for self and the people around you, there can be such a callous wastage of a "small thing" like food? Or am I blowing things up too much when I see a global food shortage, price increases, hoarding happening around me, when I know these have happened due to a collective mindset and actions of such things.

Still, everyone can continue in their own bubble, carry on.

I can only think so much because I'm a sick child. Only when things get wild, do we realise that the wild was long gone. I can only pray that this post was emo, but I don't think so :(

Yet, angry I am. Many things are shrouded within me, but maybe another day, because I need the rest.

Next week P.O.P., but I feel like R.I.P.. Happy things have happened, yet joy I do not have, because the future for me is screwed up, like my uni applications, my sickness now, my next five years of commitment is also under hot soup. I just hope that life would make it worthwhile, while I still am able and can.

May Day!

Ding- Dong Ding- Dong... Ding- Ding- Ding- Dong!
Start of a new month, and without fail the clock boomed out on 12 o'clock today, also declaring Labour day, as well as my off day, although it became a sick day, on this public holiday, so I was on the computer all day, trying to get better.

Okays, so I basically zombied my off with mindless surfing and playing commputer games. But still, I got some things searched out that I was apathatic about until recently.

Don't faint. It's BLOOD.

So it was only when I recieved my dog tag *woof* that I confirmed myself as a blood type B+. Previously, I was a little apprehensive of the classification from the tests done when you are still a baby, because my brother got changed from a B to a O type. Well, at the end I was tested as unchanged, and my blood a little less precious than my brother's (But still more rare!).

Clueless? Do some light reading: http://nobelprize.org/educational_games/medicine/landsteiner/readmore.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABO_blood_group_system
http://www.bloodindex.org/Blood_types.php

In a nutshell, I can only donate to B type and AB type people, but O type is a universal donor. A Alaskan study also states that for my type B+, 8 out of 100 people have it, but I think that the proportion varies from region to region. (http://www.bloodbankofalaska.org/about_blood/types.html)

Japanese also attempted to classify blood type to personality -

You're a rugged individualist, who's straight forward and like to do things your own way. Creative and flexible, you adapt easily to any situation. But your insistence on being independent can sometimes go too far and become a weakness.

True? What do you think?

Seb out.

Wealth is something

"Wealth is not a material gain, but a state of mind."
—Jerry Gillies: Motivational author

I would like to add that " Wealth is something that comes out from what you believe in." Some believe in money, some academics, others health et cetera. So yes, it does come from a state of mind, from single thoughts that harbour and grow, a desire that burns into passion. It agrees with what the common un-English-like saying that, "Wealth comes from oneself."

Taking some preparatory time-off for myself to blog before the enlistment. So some thoughts. Some peer (and senior) teachers have asked me over excessively if I am nervous about army life. And in truth, I repeat to them that I don't.

The reason is simple. My wealth is also my state of mind. I believe that this is an opportunity to fine-tune myself in many aspects, physically, mentally, and experiencally ;) And I got another friend that is supposed to enlist at the exact same slot as me. And seriously we promised to each other that we'll be laughing like crazee monkeys when we get the same bunk room. Hope so.

Gotta run... literally, cos I promised my sis that I would train her 1.6k before I expire at home and get dumped at that squarish island. Better get going!

simple xNOTx stupid

This is the story of an empty soap box. It happened at a large cosmetics company.

A customer complained that the soap box she bought was empty. Very quickly the company found that the promblem was in the assembly line. For some reason, one soap box went through without being filled with soap.

The engineers were asked to solve the problem. They decided on an X-ray machine with two persons watching the screen to make sure the boxes were not empty. Can you imagine how much this solution would cost?

When a worker in a small company was given the same problem, he bought a powerful electric fan to blow at the boxes on the assembly line. If a soap box is empty it would be blown away. Every one will know it is empty, so there will be no more soap boxes leaving the factory empty.

The lesson for all of us: Be as simple as possible, though we do have to bear in mind what Albert Einstein said: "Everything should be as simple as possible, but not simpler."

Always look for simple solutions. Problems are not solved by throwing money away: they are solved by thinking with imagination.

A good solution does not always mean expensive. Likewise, an expensive solution does not always mean good.

Simple does not mean stupid. Simple solutions are the best.

Adapted from psc21 2004

Cheese! LOL

I couldn't help laughing...

A few days ago, I took a cute picture of this - the gym teacher described this as a cheesecake (no touching!)

Then yesterday, my brother fould this factory sale over at woodlands terrace.

Food, marvelous food :)))

Guess what am I enjoying now

Life sometimes works in its own quirky ways. Yum!!!