vesak day.

its quite the norm for the media to focus on some subject matter of any special holiday, such as christmas, vesak day, hari raya... for example, during the period of christmas, the media tends to be very christanity. look at the papers and its content regarding christmas : a lot of articles on how jesus gets rebirthed into the world, how christanity brings hope to the world. today, if you have read the papers, talks alot on how buddhism can help you alleivate stress, bring about peace and help the world. but please, do not get me wrong. i have nothing against these two religons and i'm a buddhist in fact. but it just seems so facet that only on these days that such values are propagated in society. however, being a private company, the straits times do have a business to carry out and it seems that only by publishing such articles during these periods that viewership will be increased. no doubt, they may use the excuse of creating awareness of the occasion or even the values of holiday itself. i doubt that the majority of people in this country will ever give a damn about such things. they will treat any of these as just another day to slack off work, or give themselves a day to catch up with whatever they have lost out on during their normal working days. you might argue that this case isn't true, and that there are a lot of singaporeans whom take this occasions seriously, going to the institutes of prayer. no doubt, there will be quite a number of people who do so and it has been made known to all through the sights and sounds of the media itself. yet, the more important matter on hand, is how to allow such values that the religions propagate to be more significant in today's world. then the world would be a bette place to live in.


back to my personal life(boring part), i have nothing to do on this day really. while i have been attempting to study, i took some time off to write this post, using quite a bit of my brain cells for the above part. currently, i'm doing the GP compre for later's tuition with mr tong. before that, i'm going for physics, and if i'm not wrong, mr chow might run a test on fluids with the group. i think the equations and statements are still quite fresh in my mind, giving that i just had my lecture test. so yeah. its raining now, and justin's at pulau ubin?! ha. i hope he doesn't get drenched. i hope she don't too, if she's not at home. if its of any consolation to myself, we msged each other for the whole night. with a interval of around 20 minutes between each sms. ha. i think i'm going to be okay. but its not going to anytime soon, before i can ask her out again. she says she will be very busy. what to do. :( well, lost was quite nice last night. not bad i can't watch volcano high tonight. got training on saturday morning. mr lee's focus is going to be on my boat. so i have to rest well.

i'm carrying on my work now. just wondering where's my glass of chilled vodka(40%) with lime.