Of the Midnight Zombies
Staying up all night watching television has been a common hobby for most people.After all,it is one of those rare moments whereby nobody would threaten your posession of the remote control.Everyone would probably be sleeping,and you are king of the living room,for now.If you have cable television,or a pioneer at midnight television programme surfing,you'll know what i am talking about next.After 12 midnight,the television programmes are dominated by reruns of shows showed earlier on in the day.A couple of years ago,they were dominated by TV Innovation programmes,asking you to buy pots,dish washers,vacuum cleaners,yada yada.Sometimes people just watch these mindless,intelligence lowering programmes for the sake of watching them.They didnt want to sleep.The result?A zombie with two sacks of bags hanging from their eyelids and a remote control in the right hand.Damn.Everything's the same,and for some reason you are sitting through the night watching shows like that because there is simply no other choices.

Ah.Life is like that for now.At least for people in the educational system.Life now,is just like the your channel surfing time after midnight.Everything becomes a rerun,where everything's the same and you havent got much of a choice.Let me guess.You wake up in the morning,you brush your teeth and change into your uniform to go to school.Some lucky souls like me might be able to have breakfast while others might not,then you take a bus or a car,perhaps even get to school on foot.You drag your big bag and butt around school the whole day,and you get home feeling exhausted to do nothing more than a good bathe and a soft mattress.Homeworks?Leave it for later.You start doing your homeworks at 10pm,ends up finishing them or partially finishing them anyway,at 12mn or 1am.Then the whole thing recycles and starts over the moment your clock rings and you open your eyes opens.You start to wonder,

"I did all these yesterday,didnt i?"

Its all a bloody rerun,in which the people at the local broadcasting center never bothered to change new programmes.(Kind of like MediaCorp really.I mean,how often do you see a movie labelled as a "TV Premier"?)For some reasons,we are not switching channels.There might be other more interesting channels,or perhaps something outside that small box of your television.But the bulk of us never bothered to step out of that little box and perhaps do something more exciting.We are all the what i'll like to call,a "Midnight Zombie".Well,save for the remote controls,we are close to that description.People are actually getting used to the fact that the channels are being recycled and going over and over again.Thats pathetic and sad.No one is doing anything about it,and your channel surfing life is dominated by the same show.Think about it.When you are thirty years old and you are ask to testify your youth.What would be the first thing that comes to your mind?Study,study,and more studies.Sad huh.We are 18 year old youngsters,and we are wasting our youth away.Three more years before we are deemed as adults.Three more years left to enjoy your youth,and for the past 10 odd years we have been dominated by studies.What a sad country with a sad bunch of "Midnight Zombies" who are NOT sick by the same broadcasted programmes.Sad.Truly sad.

Song of the moment---Acoustic #3 by Goo Goo Dolls