In all honesty,i find this online journal-thingy a bit contradictory.Why so,you ask?Well,a journal is meant to be private. But writing here it is inevitable that anyone anywhere(well,at least with internet access and a decent computer) can view.Oh,what would we do without the advances in technology and telecomunications?Well,here goes my first ever column(so to speak)...
The past 4 weeks have been so wretched; i swear i've never been in a ruck for such a long period of time in my entire 19 years of existence.Nothing seems to be going right at the present moment. Skool is a perennial struggle in which the only thing consistent is my inconsistency to perform.i always seem to take an eternity to settle down into a new environment(okay,maybe it's not so new,but i did come back from a different environment that i was in for the term break),and this term it's taking far too long.I've taken 4 tests;failing one and having an on-the-line pass for the other.The jury's still out on the other two..
I can only hope that my worst fears will not be realised.Apart from skool,my beloved Man United seems to have caught my wretched luck too.Looking back at this morning's game against FC Porto i can only say that Porto didn't deserve to go through.In their hearts i believe they know that too.They got very lucky.People say u should make your own luck,but there are times when if you have that extra bit of luck everything u touch will turn to gold.I've felt like this before:whenever man united lose an important match,when they get knocked out of a competition..you get the idea.Well,apparently,that's football.As a supporter you're bound to experience extreme highs and lows;i think it's a rather representative description on life too.
We don't always get what we want,and more often than not we want what we know we cannot get.But i guess there's no harm trying.This is obviously a much-repeated cliche,but life in singapore is indeed very stressful.You see people working their arses off just to get a sheet of paper.But then again,in singapore,without qualifications,one is virtually useless(or so the well-educated would have us think).Not many people get the chance to go after their dreams and do what they really wish to do,like maybe sports or the performing arts.
Apparently,these two sectors are more often seen as "leisurely" and most parents would rather their children go for the more "practical" option which is to work hard in their studies,get qualifications and work a 9-5 office job.I'm not against that, but if u look at the things some parents do nowadays, like signing up their children for countless classes,so much that the poor child wouldn't probably even have a childhood.Their classes would seem interminable and no doubt most of them would buckle under the stress sooner rather than later.Remember,they are children after all.. So it's nice to see when parents just let their child develop naturally,and as they grow up help them become people who dare chase and work hard to achieve their dreams.Granted,there's no guarantee that your dreams would turn to reality,but then again it never hurt anyone to try.Chasing a dream and failing is,in my opinion,much better and more admirable than not chasing and instead wondering "what if".Life's too short to be contemplating stuff like that.
I will hold my hands up now and admit that i honestly do not know how i got to this point;i have digressed waaaay too much.My first time,writing,or should i say, typing.It's nice to be doing this;it's similar to writing a journal manually but i guess this is a lot easier on the wrists.My arms hurt,though..maybe i should just leave it at this at write another account on another day..
