With the sudden craving of minestrone(you sure you know how to pronounce this?) soup after i woke at 2, i dragged myself to the nearest ntuc, the one away from central just to get that can of campbell's. Yesh, im not that lazy ok >:D

Anyway its been long since i've been to that part of clementi, it used to be filled with those old,care-free senior citizens sitting around chatting about everything under the sun and kids(my age back then) running around outside the market. And there used to be large crowds buying fruits from this stuckup,proud fruit stall owner. And obviously all these were the things of the past now. The little town is dead. It has this feeling of greyishness, it has this atmosphere where everyone is just doing things slower than usual, where people have nothing to rush for, living their simple lives to the fullest just by, well, probably stoning there, taking 30mins to drink a cup of coffee alone. A sort of freedom some might say, where the outside world, or the real world doesnt exist. Not in a positive way though.

Much has changed. I remember this straight concrete path toward the market, it used to have this huge growth of mimosas, or touch-me-nots as i call it, next to one part of this path. Like every other kid, i use to step and jump on these plants just to watch them close. Sometimes, i would bend down and slowly give it a slight twitch,and then i'll examine closely at the then amazing plant as it slowly closed its leaves. Today, weeds overflow into the concrete path. The lush green mimosa's with those pink flowers have been replaced with untidy pale green weeds ready to dominate and eat into the other side of the path, with no regard with anything on the path, or the plants on the other side.

So what about you, right now, are the pretty mimosas from the past still as green as before, or has the things around you been weedified?

As much as most people would try to avoid it, our lives are inherently filled with political struggles, where people fight and beat down each other, directly or indirectly to establish some sort of control.

In a way, it starts from a young age. You have kids who just cry when a baby snatches a toy from another to play with his own friends.Primary school kids blame each other when they're losing in a game or some sort, trying to lead the rest authoritatrian-ly(or a perhaps a style of dictatorship?) in the game, brushing off and totally ignoring other people's feeling. In secondary school you have clique wars and from secondary school to jc/poly there is a gray area where people use facebook and twitter to declare their unhappiness to the rest of the world, not like the rest care about it anyway.

Perhaps like every other thing in this world, such a situation would cause everyone to benefit in the long run, but i still dont see how it could be beneficial to anything or anyone. I believe it will cause more tear and put everyone in a spot where just a small friction would start some forest fire thingy. Especially when youre working within an organisation.

I need to read more, my writing abilities has been detereorating like ___ since sec 4 >:O How about some reccommendations for nice books?