A Day in the Life...

I wish life would be a lot more simpler than this...

ok, so this is like the most cliche statement for the 20 somethings; young adults hitting the working world with added responsibilities and pressure to build your career, establish your financial stability in this dog-eat-dog world, try to get hitched (some ppl spend their whole life doing that) save up for wedding tables, gowns, and other peripherals that culminate into a bunch of videos and photo albums that you stash in one corner of the TV drawer to collect dust, save up for your car, your E.C. (hey, we can do a Singaporean version of the O.C. with this title! cept it'd be "Sin-GA-PORE... LANG... Sin-GA-PORE LANG..." instead of "California...") Then you plan for kids and retirement... ah... the Singapore Dream...

And... on top of all that, the STILL-growing up to do cos some of us are still stuck in our teens despite our crossing the quarter of a century mark. You grow old... but you never did grow UP!

Tired?... you bet... Weary?... I'm so numb, I can't tell...

Maybe life here is too fast paced for me... but I really don't know... cos everybody's moving at the same speed that you think it's normal. What's slow? What's fast? It becomes RELATIVE. That's why the Aussies have it real hard when they come over here and the Sin-GA-PORE LANGs kicks into 1st gear and cruise when they go over there. I even heard Singaporeans have to slow down their pace of work there so as not to "spoil market" Amazing! You only hear about this in the SAF when everyone stares down the 'Xiao-On' guy in the platoon lest he sets another new standard in rifle cleaning.

Anyway, I digress. I'm not here to grumble about the relentless pursuit of materialism and the neck-breaking pace of life here in Singapore...

I'm here to simply share what would really make my day.

I want to live in Wonderland.

I just want to wake up in the morning where I can play my PlayStation for as long as I want...

Then, I'll spend the afternoon watching episodes and episodes of Gundam Seed... and whatever other anime...

Later, I'll spend my time day-dreaming about new songs, books, poems, short stories, movies, MTVs, short videos that I want to write, shoot, whatever...

In the midst of this, I'd just go through my CD collection and play my favourite songs in my room... and read some fantasy books or sci-fi pulp.

And even later in the afternoon, I'd actually start on one of these projects that I just dreamed up...

At night, I'll just chill out at some beach with my beach bum friends... to cool Bossa Nova music... and some jazz and Big Band sound.

As the night deepens and all I can hear is the crashing of the waves upon the shore, I'll take a walk along the beach and just listen to the silence of the night...

BUT... and here's the catch, the problem is, by the time I finished item 1, which is play my games for as long as I want, it'd already be late afternoon. And by the time I watched an episode of Gundam Seed and just about to begin my binge on anime, it's already time for dinner! SO, before I can even finish my anime and dream about my new projects, it's already time for bed!

So, there goes the rest of my itinery for the day! Sigh... so many things, so little time...

I don't know what phenomenon you call this, but I'm feeling like my day is just getting shorter, and shorter, and shorter... I feel like I'm not getting enough personal time and it seems to be shrinking as I get along in life... which makes me wonder about how I managed to squeeze all that in when I was a kid back in my secondary school days... hmm... time machine? Or is it because Jesus is coming back and He's quickening the days of our lives on this world?

Not enough sleep, not enough rest, not enough recreation, not enough space... it's the curse of the modern man, I say...

Or it just signals that I need a really, really long vacation (of 2 years) to let go and do all the stuff that I want to do before coming back to the rat race again... :P you know, declare a semi-retirement state to the rest of the world and just appear for gala events and commercials, to earn some cash to sustain myself for the vacation...


ala Stephanie Sun.