1. I like people who say your names when you meet them or use your name when you're talking to them. Like, instead of a 'hi' the person says 'hi jocelyn'. I don't have many friends like that. And I myself don't really call people by name. Even when I was with vince I would call him 'eh'. And even with friends now, just a 'hey yo'. I think names make people feel very special, like '
i'm saying hi to you and I remember who you are.' Well if you guys are close of course they remember who you are but maybe its more of the person actually puts effort into talking to you. Like they are concentrated on you alone and not other people. For example on MSN, like if someone says hi it's probably just a normal friend who says hi to just about everyone online. But how often do you get someone who says
'hi jocelyn (your name here).'? I tell you, that really makes me feel very good. And suddenly in the middle of the conversation the person says 'jocelyn, you know. blah blah ' . For some reason it really does feel really nice. I shall try that more often. (:
Trying. And for some reasons the people i know who does that are mostly from church.
2. Technology is making people lazy. You know how in ancient times they write letters and scrolls and put them onto pigeons where the pigeons would fly to whereever to pass on the message? Or even runners who help deliver messages through the word of mouth or parchments? Well right now such communication is reduced to emails, textings, and facebook. It's kinda sad. I'm talking about myself actually. Before, I used to write letters and have penpals and all. Now, I'm so lazy even to pick up my phone to text a friend. I procrastinate because typing those few sentences on the phone just seems like such a chore. Why am I so lazy? Even emails, I take forever to reply them. (btw sorry.) Technology makes us lazy! And if they continue to develop self-steering vehicles, self-washing dishes, self-cleaning bathroom, self-making bed, and self-writing laptops (wow.) we will become fat lazy sumos who just sit around ordering machines to do what used to be simple daily chores. I wonder, if life would lose its meaning then.
3. I have so much mixed feelings for Singapore. I love it and yet I hate it. It's great and yet it's not. It's so dilemma-ish. And I also have mixed feelings for ANU. It sounds great and yet it doesn't. And, surprise surprise, Imperial as well. It sounds nice but not really. I need something that sounds more appealing than it doesn't, and something that sounds more appealing than all the rest. Currently you know what that something is? It's working in kumon full time (: for the rest of my life, opening a pasar malam stall selling all my favourite food/things, and also writing. I used to want to do journalism but then I realized that my writing skills suck, and so does my language. It used to be better though, now that I have stopped reading tons and tons of storybooks, my english has gone down the drain and even my grammar is kinda freaking me out. Help! Someone talk to me in some intellectual way. Prepare me for interviews as well (: And really, I really do like writing. (: I have a few short stories somewhere in some computers. Sadly I can't find them. :(
4. Who has more ego? Asians or caucasians? Guys or girls? Ahh I believe the answer to the latter question is quite obvious there's no denying that guys are the one with humongous egos. Especially those in power. Their pride is like, a big giant fiery red ball that doesn't go away. If you throw water at it it grows bigger. .. Okay that doesn't make sense but yeah you get what I mean, I hope. As for asians or caucasians, I have no idea. Maybe I'll get this question answered when I do choose to go either Canberra or London or my studies. But then again as Mr. Adrian Bell has taught us, the answer depends on a few factors: about what, the environment, the age, the background. And also that we can't take an extreme stand is this and there is no absolute answer. So, conclusion? Everyone has pride. XD
The 4 paragraphs above was what I was thinking when chatting/emailing/facebook/texting 4 different people today.
No. 1 : Winston
No. 2 : Ren Kang
No. 3 : Tiwi
No. 4 : Joseph T.
BYEBYE.
