Back from China!

Well, it was really cold and dry, that pretty much sums it up. I saw the terracotta warriors, and I ate a ton of pomegranates, sugarcane and candy fruits. The DVD loot was a little short, but it'll do... for now.

I watched Nights in Rodanthe... finally. It was a typical Nicholas Sparks movie, a little cliche, very romantic, and terribly tear-jerking. The music was a little inappropriate at times, but only the classical ones. It was good.

Grr, I've got so much going on in the future. There's debate training (why oh why?), Bintan trip (I have no idea what I'm supposed to do because I wasn't present for the meeting), Musical Evening emceeing, SMP, SYF, Youth Science Conference, not to mention my holiday homework and all the things I've planned for myself (like my stories and my books), oh and of course all the TV serieses I'm hooked on... sigh...

Today's Friday, the last day of school...
By 2 am tonight, I'm leaving, and for 10 whole days, I won't be in Singapore.
It's sad that I have to leave so soon, I know I'll be missing out on a lot.
My last day with S2 was really something. Lots of photos were taken of me (aren't I glamorous? hahhah), though some were stolen without my consent. Thanks to everyone who wrote me a card, it was really nice of you guys. I hope I get to see some of you guys in Sec 3, but life is so unpredictable. All the best to all my classmates, all my friends, I'll miss you guys.

For now, all that's left to say is goodbye.

Monkey died.

There is a disgusting simplicity in life. It's not as complicated as we'd like to believe. It's just so devastatingly simple that it's depressing to even think about it.
Forget about psychology, philosophy, literature, and all that stuff. Sometimes things just really are what they seem--full of shit. And that's why thinking too deep about 'shit' will destroy your mind. It's never good to give meaning to things that didn't have them in the first place.
Why must we make sense of our lives? Can't we just accept them for what they are--a pitiful insignificant minority in a world of billions.
We need to stop and look at the bigger picture. We have a century, at the very best, of life here on Earth, and that precious bit of life is all we will ever have. Forget about the metaphorical roses that everyone always tells us to go smell, why not go frolicking in a field of flowers right now? Thinking about them roses will do you no good, you have to take the initiative to experience them yourselves.
You only have one life, that's it. That's all we have to make a mark on the world. In a sense, the only reason we're in school right now is because we're all afraid of being forgotten, because when that happens, we'll be gone forever. Vanished without a trace.
People are always forgotten. In 20 years time, I probably won't remember half the people in S2. To me, it'll be as if they never existed. Of course this means that I probably should go to the chalet so that there would be one more memory to cherish, but we'll see.
There is no such thing as Heaven, but there is an afterlife--a life spent in the memory of all those who have remembered you, who keep your soul in the safest place in the world : the ever wonderful, and terribly cheesy, heart.
And that's the only thing that matters. But of course it's better said than done.
Life is simple: it is just a test to see who will be remembered and who won't. Death on the other hand, if accomplished successfully with life, is an awfully big adventure.
With that said, we should be finding the meaning of death, and not life, but it won't be as easy to find. It's gonna be one complicated son of a bitch.