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Here I sit in front of my laptop, the internet is slowly dying, 14 MB left of internet usage.
Something really stupid just happened to me. As usual, I am a jar of stupidness. Even kathir and E will surely agree on that note. I was printing my stuff in the computer pools in campus. It’s a big campus and there are like 10 computer pools, so there are like 10 printers around. That day, I was printing my stuff and turns out, my document was sent to some printer which is not the one located in the computer pool I was in. Printer no. 8, I just couldn’t locate the printer. So, I went around the campus just to look for the printer. By the end of the day, I just gave up and went home.
One of the best feeling on Earth is just hold my earphones really tight against my ears, listen to every bass of my favourite Lifehouse and scream really hard on my pillow. Oh how much I miss you guys. Yeah, if you are reading this, you are one of the many people I miss. I guess there were a time when we’re laughing with a lifehouse song I picture in my mind at the background, right?
I am enrolled in sustainability engineering practice which requires us to design a project in Tonle Sap for the people of Cambodia. I am so stuck. Seriously stuck.
Design a library keh? or moving school? or a private latrine facility on water? I guess people like me should actually go to Cambodia to have a look at the problems there rather than checking online.
Sometimes I do wonder what is like to be like them, be in their shoes. I do pity them. Most of the kids drop out of school due to poverty. No having a chance to see a better tomorrow. They work as child labor as we happily eating our Hungry Jacks. They enjoy the splashing of fresh water on their faces while we suffer the hours in lecture?
What makes us different? A universe apart or just a hair line fracture closer?
post-script : I’m tired doing the project. I should continue. Am I making the world a better place?
The one that will keep you in his heart,
H J Tan
My gosh, the weather is bloody cold now. I cannot believe that I am shaking my feet to keep myself warm.
Maybe all I need is an adventure. Treasure Island. King Solomon’s mines. Twenty Thousand leagues under the sea. Journey to the centre of the earth. Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy. Around the world in 80 days. Arabian nights. Come fly with me.
Like what jane said, and I totally agree with the radicals. “Someday we’ll know”. Someday we’ll know if love can move a mountain. Someday we’ll know why the sky is blue. Someday we’ll know why I wasn’t the one for you. Someday we’ll know why Samson loved Delilah. Funny lyrics. I agree. Can we see or predict our future? Maybe in twilight zone.
Plans. We all make them. Major or minor, we all make them. It could be just a small arrangment to meet up over supper, or it could be a major one regarding our dreams. That investment you plan to grow whilst you live up for a couple of years.
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We could have our lives plan out. We could have the whole financial scheme, and the hope that life will be much ease. We could sign up for family planning, telling you the appropriate time to have kids and what not. We could have the rough draft of where to work, where to pursue your Masters.
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What if, things that were not part of the plan occur?
You could have been in the Dean’s List your entire tertiary study life, but still be unemployed. You could have graduated a Summa for all I care, but you don’t have the ability to be an outstanding employee.
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Your frames of references, they’d grow weirder too. Adapting baby aliens into your life. Soon, you might speak in some weird ass alien language. Illuminating some weird lime green light from your eyes. Hence, changes the way how you perceive the world……
Siti Nadrah Mustafa (March 09)
That’s what she said. Pretty smart. Kan?
post script : Enema e core
quote in reference from “http://jumpingjane.blogspot.com/2009/03/someday.html”
Finding for life,
Mr. Tan
I’ve been attending a very interesting lecture today. Sustainable engineering practice. Indeed, speaking about the environment is a big issue like what they did over the fox studio when they wrote for The Simpson’s movie that was released 2 years ago. Yes, the environment. Something we can just speak out of our mouth, yet how can simple words or just mere little actions going to help the environment. Yeah, we can take public transport, switch off the lights when it’s not being used or down to protesting in front of some illegal chemical plant.
I get it! Start with one, then slowly we spread the culture. As an engineering student, I am used to the fact that we have to face reality. We don’t expect anyone to be so kind and sincere. Humans are born selfish. We can only do what we are good at, which is applying science to conserve our environment.
This came in as last year, I joined a public speaking competition about environmental sustainability and conservation. I realised among a little crowd of competitors, I was the only one speaking about scientific ways instead of just mere theoritical habits that people might not even actually practice. I am being proud or being a sore loser, but honestly, will you actually take a “might be late”, crowded and slow public transport instead of the comfort, the new leather seat smell and the jealous looks from onlookers of a Maserati Quattroporte down the streets of Bukit Bintang. I am sure Jeremy Clarkson will agree with me.
If you think about what Jeremy Clarkson and some politician might argue, the earth can take care of itself. I do agree with that, but since we have the knowledge, creativity and technology that is gifted by the All-mighty. Why not use it to further enhance our quality of life? We need to take drastic action if we want to protect our environment.
Today, in class, terms like ecological footprints, resource management, sustainable development, environmentalism, spaceship earth and much more. This opened my eyes to a new side of engineering. Long ago, Civil Engineers or known as military engineers at that time were deployed to build buildings and structure for military use and against military attacks. Nowadays since the 1960’s, we focus much on green engineering. I guess that the fact that raised awareness is the renowned picture “the blue marble” taken by Apollo 17 around 18,000 miles in space that made us wonder our positions on our beloved planet and also maybe Hippies played a role in their never say die attitude.
There are a lot of scientific ways we can actually carry out to conserve and sustain our natural resource. Earth is a closed system as explained yesterday in lecture, no materials can be get in or get out of the boundaries. Think about it, we interact directly with the environment, we should have a certain understanding about it. People ask me, whether where would I actually major in, for the final years. Now, maybe it’s environmental engineering. Some people enlist in war, not to fight but to protect their love ones back at home. I enlist myself in engineering, it’s not for me or you but for everyone, isn’t right?
post-script : sometimes we just need to ask ourselves this before doing anything generally, what is the more correct and ethical thing to do? *Think before you throw.*
3538 miles from you,
Han Jun Tan
