thank you jengyi ^^ it rocks :)
today morning was kind of weird.
was in class today when national anthem sounded, and obviously you're supposed to stand up when the anthem is played. for some reason nowadays i can't be bothered with it. as in, all the protocol. maybe its laziness. maybe its lousy attitude.
maybe it was after a scenario, where i walked in to a wide corridor and saw a scattered bunch of people, standing stock-still and freeze-dried in various positions, facing random directions, with glassy expressions on their faces. and then i heard the national anthem playing.
good grief, it was like a scene from The Happening where everyone froze in place before they started killing themselves; freaked me out so damn badly. even the teachers were frozen with folders in their hands.
this is a moment whereby some standardisation of national protocol is URGENTLY REQUIRED. but then again, i dont think it will stop looking as bad. it really doesnt matter which direction youre facing when you intend to freeze for 1 min 30 sec, you'll still freak people out.
anyway, continued sitting down while anthem is being played, content to just listen to the meaning of the darn song for once, when mr lim comes in... yups, you should know what happens. haix. im such a hypocrite.
well, that just got me thinking throughout the song. who on earth came up with countries anyway. at what point of time did some toot decide that further classification was required between humans, just based on their habitat/culture/religion? this is not some rhetorical question, it'd really be interesting to know. ok lets say you have a bunch of cavemen. and that bunch of cavemen met another bunch of cavemen. how did they decide that one clan would be called Ugg tribe and the other Ogg tribe, figuratively speaking? the first thing to do is either assess if they're friend or foe right? not huddle and discuss who's going to be called what. so how on earth did separate names for separate tribes come about?
maybe they called each other bad names :D and the names for different groups of people were derived from there. hahax.
in that case, the basis of the world was founded by swear words from a few Neanderthals. that'd definitely be something worth pondering over.^^
in any case, now civilised people freeze in place whenever a particular song in place, the basis behind which is to pay respect to a design on a piece of cloth.
im not trying to be unpatriotic or trying to diss my country. its just one of those funny things in life. yknow, like how the world is run by little bits of paper. and the more bits of paper you have, the more successful you are.
and everyone uses those bits of paper, to get other bits of paper. ie. COEs.
im turning into one of those bochup people i used to hate. yknow, those who don't sing the national song and recite the pledge. still do lah, but the feeling is dwindling. lack of assemblies does have a side effect afterall.
now im thinking about it. do i hate the person i am now, or do i despise the person i was then?
its one of those things that you cant decide just by flipping a coin.
today morning was kind of weird.
was in class today when national anthem sounded, and obviously you're supposed to stand up when the anthem is played. for some reason nowadays i can't be bothered with it. as in, all the protocol. maybe its laziness. maybe its lousy attitude.
maybe it was after a scenario, where i walked in to a wide corridor and saw a scattered bunch of people, standing stock-still and freeze-dried in various positions, facing random directions, with glassy expressions on their faces. and then i heard the national anthem playing.
good grief, it was like a scene from The Happening where everyone froze in place before they started killing themselves; freaked me out so damn badly. even the teachers were frozen with folders in their hands.
this is a moment whereby some standardisation of national protocol is URGENTLY REQUIRED. but then again, i dont think it will stop looking as bad. it really doesnt matter which direction youre facing when you intend to freeze for 1 min 30 sec, you'll still freak people out.
anyway, continued sitting down while anthem is being played, content to just listen to the meaning of the darn song for once, when mr lim comes in... yups, you should know what happens. haix. im such a hypocrite.
well, that just got me thinking throughout the song. who on earth came up with countries anyway. at what point of time did some toot decide that further classification was required between humans, just based on their habitat/culture/religion? this is not some rhetorical question, it'd really be interesting to know. ok lets say you have a bunch of cavemen. and that bunch of cavemen met another bunch of cavemen. how did they decide that one clan would be called Ugg tribe and the other Ogg tribe, figuratively speaking? the first thing to do is either assess if they're friend or foe right? not huddle and discuss who's going to be called what. so how on earth did separate names for separate tribes come about?
maybe they called each other bad names :D and the names for different groups of people were derived from there. hahax.
in that case, the basis of the world was founded by swear words from a few Neanderthals. that'd definitely be something worth pondering over.^^
in any case, now civilised people freeze in place whenever a particular song in place, the basis behind which is to pay respect to a design on a piece of cloth.
im not trying to be unpatriotic or trying to diss my country. its just one of those funny things in life. yknow, like how the world is run by little bits of paper. and the more bits of paper you have, the more successful you are.
and everyone uses those bits of paper, to get other bits of paper. ie. COEs.
im turning into one of those bochup people i used to hate. yknow, those who don't sing the national song and recite the pledge. still do lah, but the feeling is dwindling. lack of assemblies does have a side effect afterall.
now im thinking about it. do i hate the person i am now, or do i despise the person i was then?
its one of those things that you cant decide just by flipping a coin.
