Monday, April 11, 2005

Been studying all weekend and the day has arrived for me to take my EBS test! After taking the test, I didn't exactly feel at the top of the hill. I realised that I had made one big mistake and seeing that the question is worth 1% in my total score for the unit, it seems quite serious actually. Well the paper was 10 MCQ questions but is worth 10% of the entire weightage for the course. Heavy duty eh? Oh well it's over so no point crying over spilt milk. Life goes on.

I was studying earlier on in the day at the Reid Library cafe and when I went to the toilet, I noticed a rather interesting scribble over the toilet bowl. It was a poem consisting of 4 lines and it was hilarious. I have included a picture above, of my own personal throne of glory at home with the poem written as a caption under it. I find the graffiti on the toilet walls pretty funny and good for some laughs. I shall try to blog the more interesting ones in the future.

I reached home late today, about 6.30pm. It was totally dark already, probably what it would look like at 8.30 in Singapore. I didn't want to miss my daily jog, so I went jogging, at night this time for the first time ever in Australia. It is noticeably different from Singapore, where I used to jog only at night last time too to avoid the sun. For one, I had to jog with a windbreaker on, it is too chilly to jog without one here, especially in autumn. Secondly, the streets are so much more quiet and I only had to jog past people only a couple of times. Thirdly, the street lightings here are not as bright in Singapore, so a little sidewalk navigation is in order to avoid stepping on uneven ground and injuring yourself in the process. Fourthly, the stars are so beautiful. Gosh when I looked up, my breath was taken away. The stars were out in abundance and it was so beautiful. For a moment I forgot my fatigue and could only marvel at the stars like I've never seen them before, not in this way anyway. You could really see all the constellations with ease and all of them seem so packed together in the sky and you can only wonder how many more of them are hidden to our mortal eyes. It was an absolutely stunning sight to behold.

It really made me think a while about how big the world is, how fabulous it all is. So many times we see ourselves as the center of the universe, never realising how big the universe is. As I looked on the stars, a thought came to me. Are the stars moving? Yes they are because I'm jogging. Then it struck me, that those stars may be moving at speeds so fast, and yet is undetected by us because they are so big and so far away from us. I was like, wow... This is so amazing. We are minute, and the world is a big big world. Sometimes we lose ourselves in this big world, young know-it-alls at the tender age of 23 (for me), we simply fail to recognise that we are insignificant in size. How much more amazing that each of us is loved in our own way, not just by the loved ones around us, but by God himself too. Even the hairs on our head is numbered.

Time to pause for a while, look around us, and smell the flowers in appreciation of life. Oh yes and look at the stars, they're beautiful.