devil + heaven + doing something
Wednesday, December 28, 2005 (7:45 PM)
kerry packer, one of the most promising bid winners to own the integrated resorts here on the shores on southern island off singapore, sentosa has recently passed on. this created much controversy as to whether his son, james packer would have the same tenacity and guts that brought kerry packer to what he is today and continue the bid for a casino under his name. that isn't really my concern here. no, sis isn't sick but i still read the papers this morning, which mentioned about this issue. kerry packer was once clinically dead for 8 whole minutes. when he came to, he said, 'the good news is, there's no devil. the bad news is, there's no heaven. there's nothing.' now we know where we go after we pass on. or maybe, by the term 'clinically dead', we refer to the professionals misconstruing the state of his being for an entire 8 minutes.
i read a quote quite some time back but it didn't cross my mind until i saw it again today. 'worrying is just like sitting in a rocking chair, it gives you something to do but gets you nowhere.' if you do have some troubles, why not go out and do something about it? if not, there's really no point worrying. of course, i'm fully aware that saying is easy and worrying is one of the paraphernalias of life. i wasn't born phlegmatic that i don't fret over anything but still, this quote is really meaningful. for the cynical, perhaps it affects you to the extent that tuesdays with morrie does although you may not agree and it doesn't really bother me if you don't.
i thought i've all planned out a list of beautiful modules to take this coming semester. then it turns out that 2 of the modules have lectures on the same day, same time. i had thought the science of music has 2 lecture groups to choose from and then i realised it has 2 lectures every week. so, i had to give up taking japanese language this semester. perhaps i'm being given more time to change my plans. maybe i shouldn't take japanese language in uni. the original plan was:
1) structures of sentences and meanings
2) structure of sounds and words
3) science of music
4) malay language
5) japanese language
then it turns out, i can only take either science of music or japanese. of course, i'd choose the former. so the next plan was replacing japanese language with singapore's military history. but i'd have to rush from arts to science since the lectures follow one after another and one thing i hate the most is to have to rush (which is precisely why i always wake up more than one hour before going out and leave for destination at least one hour before meeting time). so in the end, i had to take philosophy in place of japanese language to fulfill my faculty exposure requirement. well, you can't get best of all worlds. haha... at least i still have 3 more unrestricted electives to play around with for the next 3 semesters after this coming one is over.
since cors closes at 5pm tomorrow, i will go wreck havoc at soma! then friday being a half working day, i'll do the same to swee lee. carry on worrying... you are next. need a rocking chair?