Randomness - by Bumbliibee

I was walking into the train station the other day with my head down, trying to stuff a jumper into my bag and trying not to attract too much attention at the fact that my bag was just SIMPLY too small to fit the jumper. After finally succeeding and tossing the huge round bag on my shoulders, i finally glanced in front of me and with my super fast reactions, stopped on the spot. This was an attention seeking moment, that i DEFINITELY did not ask for. I looked around as people gave me weird glares and some old ladies chuckled as they looked at me. My cheeks burnt up as i tried to fake a smile to hide the fact that i was about to die from embarassment. I was in the middle of the busiest station in Sydney, about to walk down the wrong side of the escalators. There was a guy coming up from the escalator towards me laughing as he stepped past me. I awkwardly turned to my right and went down the right escalator. The whole train ride home i sat there wondering why i had made a mistake like that and then i realised the answer. I walk like i drive. For some unknown reason that day, the train station had decided to swap the direction of the escalators. In Australia, we drive on the left side of the road so naturally, we tend to do everything on the left. Hence, that day, i had instinctively walked towards the left escalator without looking.

Don't you find it funny, that we actually do this every single day of our lives without even noticing. When we walk down the streets towards a crowd of people, we tend to dodge towards the left, when we walk to the escalators, we walk to the left and stand to the left. On a busy pedestrian walking, most people walk on the left to prevent people running over eachother. Imagine if we didn't do this instinctively, how messy life would be.

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Wasting food

May 11th 2007 01:57

It's been a while since i've posted here and finally I'm back...
Lately I've been so busy with uni and projects that i just TOTALLY forgot about my orble.
Wondering why I'm suddenly back? It's only because I ran into a series of unlucky events today that i'm not at uni

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does family still exist?

October 1st 2006 08:10

With a blink of an eye, Chinese moon festival is again fast approaching...Chinese moon festival is on the 15th of August following the Lunar calendar...which means its this Friday...I love moon festival because of all the lanterns and moon cakes...It is believed that on this day the moon is the roundest and brightest..

Today i went to a celebration in China Town and there were soooo many ppl there...i like celebrations like these because they make me feel so happy and warm...as i looked at old couples holding their walking sticks, making their way thru the crowd, it hit me, that moon festival wasnt all about moon cakes and lanterns...but also family...thats the thing i enjoy most...it makes me feel lucky to be chinese because of all the festivals we have that are centred around family...im not saying this in any discriminative way whatsoever, but the chinese culture focuses so much on family compared to the western culture...for example....New Years eve in the western culture is so focused on partying and young people...How many of u have walked down the streets of the city on new years eve and found people jumping around like crazy smelling of alcohol...I must admit, im one of those ppl too...which really makes me wonder, are we really there to celebrate the new year? or is it just another excuse for us to party?, is life so boring, that we need to make excuses for excitement?...i remember when i was small, my parents use to take me out to Darling Harbour, in Sydney to watch the new year fireworks, but i always cringed at the fact that we NEVER stayed back for the midnight fireworks, instead we watched the nine o'clock one and went home...my parents use to tell me its because at midnight too many ppl get drunk and it gets dangerous for little kids like me to be running around the streets...now that i'm older, many ppl tell me that the nine o'clock fireworks are for families, and like most ppl my age, i skip the family fireworks and wait up for the midnight ones...y is it that there must b a distinction like that?..yes, i know kids sleep early, but its upsetting to think that the feeling of unity and family doesnt seem to exist anymore...on the other hand, chinese new year is less about party and more about family...it is a tradition to have a family reunion (this is where "red pockets" come in handy)...family members exchange blessings for health, beauty, fortune, knowledge...etc...we pray at temples to wish for luck for ourselves as well as family...we have fire crackers to ward off the past year and welcome the new...we have fireworks at midnight for everybody at the temples (which means no alcohol)...and no, the temple is not boring...just because there's no alcohol and no partying or loud screaming does not mean it is boring...you get to see smiling faces, children laughing, grandparents blessing the younger generations, strangers coming up to you to wish you luck and health and most of the time you end up talking to just about anyone who is stuck in the huge crowd next to you...even tho it may take a whole hour to get from one side of the temple to the other, i find myself still smiling....dont get me wrong tho, im not a boring person, i actually enjoy the western new year because im still young, and young people like to have fun and party...but sometimes i wonder how my new years would past wen im old and lonely and no longer belong to the party scene, will my grandchildren give up their night out to have dinner with me

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Half asleep...

September 30th 2006 14:48

*yawn* staring at the screen in front of me, i can feel my eyes slowly drooping away...why is it that i feeel so sleepy, yet im still sitting here typing away...typing about nonsense...typing about rubbish...

I remember in high school the teacher use to tell us to do some "stream of consciousness" exercises...i was never really good at them...."how is that possible?" u may ask...since stream of consciousness just means u wirte down the first thing that comes to ur mind, there can b no right or wrong, right? well, i always found myself coming up with the weirdest things....somehow, its like my brain functions in opposites...the teacher would say "winter", and i'd write "hot"...weird eh?....well, right now, i feel like im back in high school doing one of those exercises, except, this is an EXTREMELY long exercise

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