Fate played a part.

There was a discussion among my army colleagues in the store. They talked about everything and eventually found themselves comparing their PSLE results.

I overheard them and was surprised that everyone scored more than 210 points for their PSLE and went on the Express Stream. I only managed to score 186 points for my PSLE and went to the Normal Academic Stream.

I am not ashamed of my results. I got what I deserved. But had I scored better, I would have finished my Secondary School in four years and gone on to the Polytechnic a year earlier. If I had taken this path, things might have been a lot different today. And besides I would have never met my wonderful friends from the Polytechnic and Secondary School.

Education is about learning and not about scoring high marks in tests by preparing oneself by doing past year papers. At the end of the day it’s really not about your education but how one uses his or her education.

Some people I knew in secondary school looked down on my friends and me because they were in express stream and thought of the Normal Academic and Normal technical stream as inferior to them.

Well I can’t change people’s mentality and they are entitled to believe in whatever they want to believe. All I know that fate played a part and I am really proud to be from the Normal Academic stream.

There is a beautiful quote from a Tamil movie, Gentleman, I would like to share that goes something like this. ‘It’s not about how one reaches his destination but it about where he is destined to reach.’

The world awaits.

It began in May 2003, with an idea that I couldn’t get out of my head. I’d find myself thinking about it at night in bed before I’d go to sleep, as if I were watching a movie in my head. Each night I’d see another couple of minutes of the story.

And at that moment all I knew it was the beginning of something. I hadn’t a clue what kind of something. Movie? TV series? Short story? But I knew I had something special. I just didn’t know what I had.

I don’t know anyone who started writing with nothing but a blank page. Mostly you have something. An image, or a character. And mostly you also have either a beginning, a middle or an end.

So here I am, three years later, with only a beginning. And I have learned that you need more than a beginning if anyone was to start writing a story. All I have now is a beginning, and once I had it written down, I now have nowhere to go.

I once read that someone never learns how to write a story but rather learns how to write the story that he or she is writing. I hope I soon learn how because I feel thinned by my imaginations.

I need to march on. I have put in too much effort to let it all go to waste. I guess I have to finish it then and I will.

In a mad world only the mad are sane.
- Akira Kurosawa (1910 - 1998)

Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place.
- Billy Crystal (1947 - )

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
- Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), ‘Art,’ 1841

A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she’s a tramp.
- Joan Rivers (1935 - )

There is something terribly wrong with this country.

Since I was on off today, I decided that today was as good as any to cash in my movie voucher.

So I went to Sun Plaza at Sembawang with my brother and got tickets for V for Vendetta. After having our lunch we went to the cinema and were surprised to find only one other person to have actually bought ticket for the movie.

The movie soon started and the three of us played the part of an audience if that’s what you can call it. The movie was great and I really enjoyed watching it. Watching the movie for a second time has made me think of where my countrymen are heading with their total obedience to their government.

I just hope my fellow Singaporeans do not give up their freedom and hand their lives over to their government. Singapore is a democratic country but it’s slowly becoming a totalitarian state with laws punishing the rebellious nature of men.

There is something terribly wrong with this country and the people are not standing up to it. Yes the government has been our savoir but no matter what they have done they cannot deny our freedom of speech and the freedom to live our lives the way we see fit.

On the day of my enlistment to the compulsory national service I was instructed not to speak or write anything against my own government. In this act alone, my government has denied me of my freedom of speech. On top of that I could be punished if I were to break their rule of conduct.

My question is, why are we so afraid of our government? People have the right to exercise their freedom and the governments shouldn’t be telling people how to live their lives. If Singaporeans allow the government to integrate itself with every aspect of their lives then they might find themselves giving up their cherished freedom.

I hope you people understand what freedom really means.

This blog entry is written for the sake of filling up space.

Due to the recent inactivity of some of the external links in my blog, I have decided that I will rid them of their misery and in their place add new links that I hope will encourage you as my readers to click on them and view their sophisticated contents.

In any case you do not do what I want you to do, know that the world will still continue and you will not be struck by lightning. But any unfortunate events that might occur to you in the course of the coming weeks will not be of my responsibility.

Now I am not frightening you, I am merely saying things happen. Why? Because they were meant to happen. It’s just a rotten fact of life.

Though it would only take me a couple of hours to get this done, I am suppose no one really cares even if I took an entire week to add my new links.

For now know that this blog entry is written for the sake of filling up space. Just like some people in the army.