Growing Up

As you grow older, I realise that

- It becomes harder and harder to keep your fitness. It requires double the effort for the same result now.

- Friends do drift apart, even those you considered close just a few years ago.

- Circle of friends gets smaller and circle of acquaintances gets larger.

- Growing old is not scary, it's more scary to watch people around you grow old and you kind of realise there's a limit to how long they be around.

- Things will always change even if you stay the same.

- Priorities change. But it does not get any clearer what I really want out of life.

A Story

There was a man who prayed to a stone god, “Dear God, please help me to win the lottery! Please, God, please! Help me to win the lottery.” The next day, the man prayed the same prayer. “Dear God, please help me to win the lottery! Please, God, please! Help me to win the lottery!” And, the next day he prayed the exact same prayer! “Dear God, please help me to win the lottery! Please, God, please! Help me to win the lottery."
Now the story goes that the man prayed this prayer day after day, month after month, until one day something happened. The stone god came to life and stood before the man and said, “Dear Son, please! Please, Son, please! Buy a lottery ticket!”

Minimalist Living

I think I'm getting better and better at this. Getting rid of my consumerism side was not an intended outcome from not having a job, but it's certainly a good effect. Many times, we buy things based on the wants to buy; you don't necessarily need it, and you could certainly go without it, but you still buy it anyway. You earn more, and it spurs you to spend more, and you wonder where all those money go.

Evil Santa

Road Users

http://www.straitstimes.com/breaking-news/singapore/story/changi-accident-third-cyclist-killed-three-days-20130505

Cycling in Singapore is a dangerous affair, at the mercy of unforgiving road users who behave like a bully.

Perhaps it's the prohibitive cost of owning a car. Perhaps it's the crowded roads. When people get behind the wheels, they become another person, one that knows no basic courtesy for other road users, one that gets impatient and short fumed easily. The other day I just saw a lorry and a car exchanging horns, lorry wanted to change lanes, car did not give way, lorry horn car, car horn lorry. And car driver took the hassle to wind down window and put out his hand showing the middle finger.

Seriously.. is it so hard to give and take?