Of the Combs for the Bald
Its been a rough week.Emotionally anyway.I shouldve taken the advice from the newspaper last Sunday when i read about my luck in the coming week.You know those columns with your horoscopes and your luck for the coming week?It asked me take things easy this week,and that things are not as bad as it seems.

However,having a NS enlistment date at 10th of December surely isnt something i can simply "Take it easy".Like i said before,its just too early and i have too many things i havent done.After NS,its the end of youth.Its end of your teenage life and your transformation to a man.Well,for most cases anyway.There's still so many things that i havent accomplish.Things that are exclusive to teenagers.Being young.Being under 20.Being everything.

Oh well,after thinking it through and talking to friends the dust finally settled.After all,there are more unfortunate people out there than myself.Dudley for example,is enlisted on 8th of December.That's not very much more unfortunate than myself,but being earlier is earlier.No questions about that.Being the "December Babies" as i like to call ourselves,i guess the only encouraging thought is to tell ourselves that the earlier we get in the earlier we get out.Every stage of my life seems to have a soul motivation of things.A single destination of a seemingly endless journey.Life in NYJC seemed like years,and the only thing that kept me going was perhaps the end of it all.The life after JC life and before NS.I guess right now,i wont be enjoying a lot of that,considering how that "Life" is shortened by a whole bunch.For some reason,im treating it like i am leaving forever and never to return.But anything could happen amongst the bushes and the twigs,the sand and the sea.Get shot by a bullet,blown up by a grenade,or drowned by an officer(Haha).Anything could happen,and i guess these are just precautionary actions.

Anyway,Dudley and i made a promise with each other that we are going to buy a whole lot of combs and give to our fellow friends who will be out of NS a couple of months later than ourselves.Of course,make sure that our hair are fully grown and dyed maybe.Head on to the camp and visit our friends."Oh,still bald?Oh yes,April isnt it?Well this comb is for you.Im not sure if its practical or not,but it'd come it handy someday." Well,its something im looking forward to definitely.Another motivation for me to drive down another phase of life.A tough and pebble strewn road ahead.

Studied with Samuel,Krishna and Ben at my school today.Its weird how we all have our favorite studying spot,and yet they are always the one flocking to my school to study.Yeah,my school's pretty cool for studying i must admit.Talking to them cure all diseases.Mental ones anyway.I felt a whole lot better talking to them,about our lives ahead and the world beyond.It got me thinking about the departure of someone from your life to pursue their dreams.In a way,it seems a little selfish to do so.After all,you have been part of my life for such a bloody long time,playing an important role and all.Then you leave to pursue your own career?Well,it may seem unfair.But i guess,thats all part of life.Han Li Kwang used to say,that the journey of life is like a bus route.And each stage of our lives is a bus stop.People come and go everyday,and one day that special someone is going to leave on a bus to a destination nobody knows where.Of course,i tried to put it in a more literatural manner.He said it in a pretty tough and Singaporean-like chinese way that disgusted me somehow.Anyway,i think that actually made sense.Hey,to make sense out of his nonsense and bullshit is a big deal indeed.Krishna's going to Germany,and later on to America to do business studies.Its odd that he's doing business without knowing anything about it.He never took Economics,and probably not the basic of basics:Demand and Supply.Oh well,he's there purely for the money.Studying business helps you to make money.A Donald Trump wannabe i guess.

Anyway,its sad to see people leaving your life.But of course,new people will come in and fill their places.Not everybody would leave of course.Im sure Samuel's here to stay in Singapore for quite some time.Sooner or later,im going to start on my journey.Im not sure if im going to succeed.To move on or to turn back.But whatever it is,some people would be left behind and new people met.Its a little selfish,but that's life isnt it.

In the mean time,im going to hang on to that "Motivation".To buy combs for my friends in NS with Dudley after we head on out of camp.Im so going to laugh at those 1 centimetre bald head while i twist my hair around my index finger.Just wait my friends,the jealousy is about to hit in two years' time.Just wait.

Song of the Day---Hotel California by the Eagles (I finally mastered the song.Thank god!)