Another a la carte Posting

11 August 2009, Tuesday

Just wanna share some thoughts that occurred to me randomly at different times this past 2 weeks~ And another nice video clip ;)

Practicality vs Romancing
The thought begins when one of my best friends Jimmy told me sometime last week (or was it the week before? bah~ nvm, haha) that he'd just proposed to his girlfriend of 2 years. No, this isn't about the details of that proposal (not that i really know~ Hur hurr). It's given me something to ponder over though~ Having heard many versions of (sg) couples' relationships from strangers to friends to bf-gf to husband and wife, i've found something that seems...... weird to me. And i'm kind of amazed how de-sensitized to this the people of our country have become. Read on.

So goes the story of the typical courtship in Singapore.
Guy meets gal (or vice versa, sui bian la huh), they develop good impressions for each other (or they bicker) and fall in love, they get together, and after a few years, either "it's about time", or out of the blue they decide to try applying for a house together. Whoops!! They actually DO get the home they applied for. Ok, maybe after two or three tries, whatever. They make some plans for their future, the days roll by, guy proposes to gal, she says yes (hello? was she going to reject anyway?), they go for ROM, and when everything's in place they have their wedding dinner, hopefully they live happily ever after. Ewww~ Nice and practical, Familiar? ;)

Now listen to MY preferred version of sequence of events. Guy meets gal (or vice versa, sui bian la huh), they develop good impressions for each other (or they bicker) and fall in love, they get together. After some time, guy decides that gal is the right person he wants to be with for the rest of his life. He decides, he prepares, he springs a surprise proposal! Wowww, what courage, to propose not knowing if gal is gonna accept. (If gal loves guy enough to want him for the rest of her life) Gal is pleasantly surprised! She's gonna love guy much much more for this surprise anyway, she probably accepts on impulse, but she's never, ever, going to forget this. She'll still decide later that it was the right decision anyway. They're fiance and fiancee now. There's this fresh, new wave of mushy mushy muack muack lovey dovey tian mi qi with each other. Then they make plans together for their new home, family, whatever. This, my friends, is what i call romancing to a marriage. Just look at the difference!! I'm sure you all get what i'm trying to say, Hahaa ;)

Perceived no-needs and dun-wants
Ok, so much for being a hopeless romantic, Hahaa. Next thing concerns pretty much about myself. It was a weekday while i was on a bus on my way home. Was looking at cars zooming past and for some reason, i started wondering why i'd never found being able to drive as something important or indeed, a need at all. Truly told, it wasn't even halfway up my wants list. How the hell did i grow up to be so different from others?

So i did some checks on myself. Hell, numerous times and occasions over the years, i'd complained to myself about darn Singaporeans driving when they could've just taken the public transport and lighten the traffic (of course la, i was probably anxious about possibly being late whenever this comes to mind), keep the air cleaner, and reduce the number of traffic accidents. Moreover, i find cars to be an expensive luxury item, not to mention the ever increasing ERP and petrol prices. And i tell you what, Add to that my principle of not "doing something just because everyone else thinks it's necessary", or quite simply my dislike of social conformity without first convincing myself of it's logic or necessity.

And then my bus reached Old Boon Lay Shopping Centre. This was when i realised the real underlying reason for not feeling the need to drive throughout all these years. I live walking distance to a Shopping centre surrounded by coffeeshops, hawker centre, accessible transport, 24hr stores, etc. I can get just about anything i need or want so easily. If i'd lived somewhere any less convenient all these years... needing, perhaps, to take a bus just to get some food, or tidbits, or groceries and stuff... i think i would have wanted to drive long ago... Time to change my thinking, i suppose ;) And they say an inch of gold couldn't buy one "an inch" of time... Owning a car does invariably save one lots of time, so i guess it's gonna worth it after all.

Just How did it take me so long to realise this!? Haiyo~~~ LOL

The EriAm Sisters
Honestly, i was quite astonished and pleasantly surprised when i first saw this video of The EriAm Sisters. I think it was probably their first appearance on American's got Talent [edit] just recently. And man! They're really fantastic!! ;) And then i also appreciated the way the audience stood up and clapped/cheered/grooved along once they realised how talented the young girls were, God, they really DO know how to appreciate and enjoy watching raw talent on display!! Really, trust me, take some time to watch this, it'll be well worth your time :)
And Ooo!! I love this song!! ;)



Quite strangely, i felt so touched and so proud of them for their parents everytime i watch this...
Hahaaa :p Weird

[edit] You might want to watch with much higher resolution and completeness from intro to judges comments from the following link... Pity embedding's disallowed for this one :p Skip the first part about the freak (it's funny with the emcee though hahaa) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQg3MrMLLRw