Random thought of the day

More often than not, especially when I am jobless ( cos if I am having a job, my mind would be occupied by what I need to finish for that day isn't it? Or perhaps I'd be too tired to think anyway ) my mind will be making me feeling with guilt of being jobless. Not that I didn't try to seek for one, mind you, its just that I have yet gotten the job ( leave it to you to think be it my dream job or just any job ).

Anyway, once guilt ridden, my attention somehow always went to the most extremely irrelevant thoughts and today, it is "What if I am born into a different era or that I can travel back in time, perhaps during the World War II, the Japanese Occupation in Singapore time?" It's not that I like war or anything for that matter. I am just thinking that perhaps a day or two in that era would probably make me mature overnight. One just have to in that period of rough time. Or make me panic enough to realize how fortunate we are now and how short life can be.

I can, however, imagine that I might be shallow enough to worry about the lack of air con or fridge or any of the current comfort lifestyle that these generations now seems to take for granted of. One may asked "Why that era?" Well, for the most basic reason, I guessed I had been having such thoughts since back in Secondary 1 or 2, when my history teacher, Miss Ong, was teaching us the history of Singapore, no one in class was ever bored or inattentive. True, her prizes for the top students in her class ( such as vouchers for Popular bookstore attracts bookworms like me, or a free meal at Seoul Garden which is probably a great deal for the cash strapped students back at my time, or maybe a CD of your choice ) were one of the reasons why everyone paid attention, but also her incredible way of narrating the history to the extend that I felt like the history was unfolded before my very eyes and that as if we were participating the history right there, right in the class.

I can still remember crystal clearly that the frustration we felt when our country fell into the wrong hands and by no less, a lie, that would have been unfounded if only we could tell the information that we knew, to the top authority. Of cos that was only one of the emotions that were to come till I graduated from history or rather, till Miss Ong no longer taught me anyway.

Hmm... Oh well, I shall leave it here for today then...