Hallo ihr alle da draussend...i am at home again on a Wednesday evening because...i have another half-day off! Granted...it's eating into my off balance, but...i assure you that i think more offs are in the making as we speak...i'm down to one measly day though...probably won't take anymore off...i don't need it right now...And today, we had a heritage tour! Through the inner bowels of our city at about 9 in the morning...discovering and re-discovering places which we thought we knew, but actually never really did...and...for the first time after that fateful ball, i saw the Fullerton Hotel again. I must say...i always had the impression that it'd be a pristine white, but i guess...time and the elements are kind to no one...
Did you know:
1. There is a mosque below one of the bank skyscrapers near Boat Quay?
2. Along Waterloo street, there is a Hindu temple containing a statuette of the Goddess of Mercy, and that it is customary for Chinese to leave an offering of joss-sticks before the temple?
3. That the significance of Lady Justice's eyes being nearly closed is that she is impartial to your skin colour, status, wealth, everything but justice itself?
4. That the Cenotaph is actually a sarcophagus for the soldiers who left to fight, died and never came back? That it is an empty grave, devoid of all religious markings, so that any and all can pay respect to them?
Bet you didn't know that...surprisingly, Boat Quay and Clarke Quay are really very quiet and peaceful in the early morning...today was such a beautiful day...the Sun was already beaming in the sky, a sea breeze blew, and there we were, standing on the grey slabs of Boat Quay, looking at skyscrapers, a giant absurd-looking bird, boats sailing on the river, the Fullerton (sigh!) the green spire of that one building (is it the High Court? Or Parliament House? I think so, but blame me if i'm wrong - the Singaporean urban skyline is just so cluttered!) and all the massive skeletons of as yet unknown constructions.
Sigh...I really learnt quite a lot...especially nearing the end of the tour...but...more on that later.
I cannot bowl anymore! I only averaged a pathetic 119 today...cannot make it already. Although i discovered the end-over-end roll which make strike balls have such potent carrying potential...unlike hook balls which lose power, an end-over-end roll does nothing but drive through those pins...but...i lost my hook! I'm releasing my ball wrongly...not getting the correct release at all...which results in pathetic scores...sigh...feel so poor at bowling all of a sudden. Feel like i've failed my bowling balls. Sigh.
Over the past 2 days, i read with a sense of mounting dread and disgust at how one man and his family was discovered dead on Monday. It seems that the man had incurred gambling debts, couldn't keep the temptation of gambling at bay, and once saw his marraige on the rocks because of the debts he incurred. Apparently they got back together when he settled his debts, but now it's happened again and my guess is that...
Man is in financial deep shit. Man borrows money. Wife discovers debt. Wife and Man have big, ugly row. Man kills Wife. Man discovers what he's done and decides to end it all. Man kills kids too for unknown reasons.
Why are people so bloody fucking irresponsible?! You've read the newspaper reports about how loving the family seemed. You've read how their little girl was so loving, sensitive and intelligent. You've read how their boy was the livewire of the class, always witty and bringing laughter...they had so much potential. When will people see that dying is not going to solve any problems? Actually, it's easy for me to say now - the inconsolable never see another way...sigh...i guess this will be an enigma of the human psyche forever...when i feel strongly against is killing the kids. They knew nothing, and even if they did, certainly they had a future to live!
Then again, maybe this 'future' would be one so bleak that it wasn't worth living. The emotional scarring. Growing up all alone. Not having a childhood.
i'm sorry.
Today's observations: Just as Hindus worship the differing facets of the same god, we, too are like multifaceted gems...what are we? Brother. Soldier. Officer. Teacher. Friend. Lover. Son. That much, and so much more...
posted by quatscherei @ 18:22
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