Posts Tagged ‘Life’
There’s something incredibly soothing and comforting about rainy mornings. Even if the day ahead is one that is incredibly depressing, a short nap under a shelter with the potter patter of raindrops around you just puts you at ease. Even more so when you’re surrounded by trees and canopies and with the cacophony of the inhabitants of Singapore’s rainforests echoing around you.
It has certainly perked me up for the day ahead.
Those of you who have known me for long enough will know that I’m a bit of a Europhile. I plan to study there and have dreams of carving out a career and future for myself on the old continent.
Long has the allure of this historical corner of the world mesmerised me. Everything about the old world, from the rich history to its overwhelming diversity captivates me. It remains to this day, the world’s largest economy, and nowhere else have democracy and civil liberties reached the zenith epitomised by Europe.
It thus pains me tremendously to be bombarded in recent times by swathes of economists and policy makers prophesising the demise of Europe. “The entire continent has plunged into an irrecoverable spiral of decline,” they all echo, and not without merit. After all, the entire European sytem is flawed, a monetary union without the will to pursue political integration, without which economic and fiscal policy nessecary to regulate the Euro cannot be enforced.
Has my passion for the European way of life clouded my judgement? I honestly do not know.
My penchant for travel was cultivated at an early age. In the years between my second birthday and the turn of the century, I went on no less than ten jaunts beyond our shores. Following that initial period of furious adventuring, my love was further reinforced in my youth with three trips to the mesmerising European continent.
Why the sudden recollection you might ask? Well, facebook has bombarded me in recent weeks with photographs of friends and acquaintances on the maiden jaunts overseas, exploring their new campuses and hostels: their homes for the foreseeable future. It made me realise what folly accepting my offer to read Law at the National University of Singapore would be.
Sure it’s a very respectable degree from an institution of standard (arguably). However am I really willing to sacrifice the opportunity to see the world that an overseas education would provide? After receiving the offer from NUS, I was actually under that very impression. Oh how wrong I was.
A little freaked out right now. I actually fainted after my morning run this morning, thankfully after I had made it home. Got a painful little bump on my head to remind myself now.
I guess I should probably start eating more. Maybe hold off on the running a little as well. But then I can’t wear my prom suit! Plus morning runs are supposed to be great for productivity. Oh well we’ll see how I feel tomorrow.
Was bored. This turned out to be quite fun.
My growing years from 2001 to 2009.
