Wednesday, October 06, 2004
I have noticed something amongst all these days of taking the MRT home. Firstly, it takes about an hour to get from Boon Lay to Yio Chu Kang.
Secondly, the laws of gravity act greatly on sleep heads and the law of attraction often act between that same head and the shoulder of the person sitting next to you and not between some random pretty face and yourself.
Thirdly, somehow there are always more females in public transport. I don't really know why. I'll grab a random picture someday to prove this.
Fourth, my mind wanders alot.
Lastly, some safety signs are really retarded. Due to the fourth observation, I see this:
Long train rides really make me think when I'm not already drooling while dreaming on someone's shoulder. Its not enough for music to take my mind off... which is good cause I get to do some much needed introspection, leading me to my greatest weakness: Gaming Addiction.
The link is something I came across in a forum of sorts online and its good to see that the problem of mine is actually a widespread one amongst computer users. Funny that I can't seem to be able to completely understand why I'm drifting into games instead of focusing on reality but being disconnected from the real world sometimes just doesn't really scare me as much as me being disconnected to this virtual world. Maybe because the virtual world is so riskless.
Anyhoos, if you're addicted to something or is obsessed with things... Here's how one guy adopted Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous combat his addiction to games:
1. We admitted we were powerless over on-line gaming, and that our lives have become unmanageable.
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2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
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3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
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4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
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5. Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
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6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
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7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
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8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
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9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
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10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
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11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
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12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to other compulsive on-line gamers and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
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Interesting eh? I wasn't sure what AA is about before, now i know. Yay.
I also noticed that there are an increase in those "Visit Taiwan" travel posters and ads. Is it the government's attempt to nurture better relations with Taiwan? Don't they know that they have sadly taken sides with one of history's baddest political war? Now they've insulted China, Taiwan has insulted us... where do we stand, humiliated? Its just my thoughts.
Random Links:
Some Chinese researchers have found the HIV immune gene?
Pretty nice Optical Illusions.
I have been just told that I have duty on Sunday. That prevents me from taking another driving lesson! ARgh... SAF... Its almost like they have a knife in your stomach and just when the bleeding has stopped and you actually breathe normally for once... they twist the knife AND stab you in the back at the same time. Talk about abuse...
Here's something I bought and kinda decorated for a birthday present. Personally, I like the figure's poise... all peaceful and relaxed. I got it without the box as it was the display set, the only one left. As long as there is light, it keeps nodding its head. And nodding. And nodding. Just like the faithful Zhao Cai Mao. Makes me wanna sleep. Don't know if the sign is too much. Thoughts?
People often wonder why I don't really wanna go out from my house on weekends. One of the excuses I can think of is that the only mode of transport is 15mins away from my house and that I am just too lazy to walk out in the hot afternoon sun (For I know that I always get up near noon on weekends) just to take a ride to the city for less than 2 hours. Rational bids me to stay at home staring endlessly to a light emmitting box full of rubbish.
I don't know if you have noticed but the colours for the font on the left column always changes when you refresh the page... so does the quotes at the top left. If you cannot see the words... just highlight them. Something I did... Please please please say something in my chat box... they keep threatening to delete it because its gathering so much dust.
Don't we all have to walk the long way to our true home?
