Okay, it's been almost two months since I last posted something. I had a draft ready about CNY Day 1, then I didn't finish typing it. Since then, I've forgotten what had happened.
So many things have happened within these two months that makes me go like, whut.
The later part of February and the earlier part of March had nothing much going on actually. All that happened was that I was struggling to stay awake in school and I was really really really really really really prepared to fail my CTs. That's basically it.
Then that fateful day came when Mr Lee Kuan Yew passed away, 23 March 2015. It was the first day of CTs1. I have to admit, in no way am I emotionally attached to him. /Although, I do deeply respect him for everything he has done for our lives./ So I decided not to join the lengthy queues. Flags were flown at half mast in school for the entire school week. And a minute of silence was observed everyday of that week. I did use those minutes of silence to reflect on everything related to Mr Lee Kuan Yew. I made very sure to make full use of it. Then Sunday came when he was moved from the Parliament House to the University Cultural Centre in NUS. My sister and I had listened to the eulogies written for him and were really touched by some of them.
Okay, so I did not just reflect during those minutes of silence. I did a little more reflection on my own time. And I thought: It's good and all how so many people are grateful towards Mr Lee Kuan Yew for dedicating such a huge part of his life to building modern Singapore. But what portion of these people will translate their emotions into actions and start to make Singapore better than it currently is? Isn't building Singapore what Mr LKY spent his life doing? Even though he is gone, we have to be self-sustaining and continue down this path he had so tediously laid out for us. We all play a different part in forming Singapore's community and I believe every small thing we do will have a ripple effect and eventually be part of something bigger. So I'm just putting my hope out here that people /who have yet to realise that/ will realise that and begin to play a useful role in out society. And thus, not only can we honour Mr LKY's memory, but also to grow together.
This has fuelled my thought process of, 'If we do not demonstrate gratitude, are we really grateful?' yeah, I need to figure that one out.
That aside, nothing much has happened.
Oh, wait. There's a little more.
Dajie came to Singapore! Yayyy! She arrived on 1st April and I'm not really sure what she did on that day and the next day. We went out on the following day with Jie in which we first bought the $1 /now $1.20/ ice cream in orchard. Then we went to A&F and bought a few shirts. After that we went around Orchard Rd looking for a cereal named "Cinnamon Toast Crunch" Thooooooo, we didn't manage to find it in the end. We ate llao llao and headed to Orchard Point...? to find that cereal. We walk towards The Cathay to eat Maki San, but we got lazy and just stopped at Plaza Singapura. We ended up........... I can't remember what we did there actually. Ugh.
We had to go home cause mom cooked dinner for us and we had already kind of eaten our dinner.... YAY TO 2 DINNERS.
Woop woop, so that's how it's been.
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