Tuesday, June 05, 2007

finally.

i just realised that by giving up on NTU's offer, i'm actually letting go of the opportunity to expand my horizons.. to go into another field.. and to maybe touch on other possibilities such as journalism and blablabla. well good thing is, i'm staying away from those political places (which of course pay much more, and would be of a lot of help) but which i don't think i can ever stand. so there goes my hopes of meeting some richass guy. haha! not that those "hopes" were strong enough to stand on their own.

but at least things have fallen into place, they're all decided now. there's no looking back, there's only moving forward. i'm somewhat glad for that, but still i am uncertain about the future. but then i think again - who is? (except for fortune tellers.. but are they able to tell their own future, i wonder?). i am just going to take things a step at a time like what i've always done. high-flying, well-paying jobs? for some reason, i think the only reason why i've ever considered those is only for my future (whereby the world speaks of nothing but $). but for now, i just don't see an immediate need. i think that no matter where you are, if you have what it takes, you will get there anyway. how long it takes, would be an issue for another day.

anyway, i was reading the newpaper (again) the other day and someone wrote in to say that people are simply avoiding places that don't give out plastic bags on certain days so that someone thinks that we should be rewarded for efforts to reduce the use of plastic bags. now i wonder if this is typically s'porean - every effort will be made to get a free gift, including writing in to the press. well i think it is totally disgusting. no offence to the person, because he/she's probably not the only person out there who thinks that the government ought to be rewarding us in some way or other to reduce the use of plastic bags and for joining in the whole 3Rs thing. but hey~ isn't it supposed to be our freaking responsibility? i seriously think that the world has become like this because we, the selfish people of Earth just take our resources entirely forgranted (until someone came up with the 3Rs). so shouldn't it be our responsibility to try and save it since we were the ones who caused global warming and the whole catastrophe? what does this have to do with being rewarded to do so? if its a responsibility, we should be doing it with a heart and not with a heart for monetary or material rewards. i would say 'damn' if i could.

well i'm not a super save-the-earth person (or not as much as when i was younger.. loving the term "environmentalist" and reading up on this enviro-friendly book from the zoo)~ but the simple act of throwing away countless plastic 1.5l polka green tea bottles actually pricks my conscience. and i see this image of a recycling bin miraculously popping up in this tweetle mind of mine everytime i get pricked. how nice.
bee at 7:51 AM