Hall life

Had been having lots and lots and lots of fun in the past week. OG dinner to canteen 2, entertainments by our hall cultural groups on Welcome Night, KTV at Chinatown (or rather playing pool in Parklane =) , BBQ at the rooftop of Nanyang House, ice skating 'til 12 am, supper at Geylang 'til 3 am, not to mention DOTAing and Diabloing together with my hall mates everyday and night til 2+ am.

 

The most notable event is that during the BBQ night, the juniors suddenly gathered everyone in the OG together and presented each and everyone of the seniors with a token of appreciation. It's a 30 cm length (quite big!) dark brown star-shaped wooden board with our name written big on the top, a very nice angel drawn on the bottom left and 'Zekkeil, Best OG' on the bottom right. Behind were the signatures by all the freshies. I heard that they did this through the night 'til morning. I never expect they'll have a gift for us on that night and I was really quite touched. Many of the seniors showed their Stars off to other OGs' seniors.

 

It was really quite comical that after receiving their gifts, all the seniors panicked that our presents for them are not ready yet! (Just as slack as ever.) Nanyan, our GL, made the decision immediately to summon all the seniors to her room on that very night to do the photoframes for them.

 

It was so much fun for the past few days.

 

My dad once told me, "青春不留白". People said, "Live life to the fullest". But how exactly do you do that?? Is it

 

1. Play, going overseas, have fun, and do all sorts of activities with all your friends and family until you are dead tired. Then you sleep, wake up and have fun again and do this for everyday. Or


2. Work, gather experience, teach tution, earn money, learn new things, and study for future happiness?

 

Fallacy of answer 1:

You based your happiness on others. Once they are not around, you feel a sense emptiness. I don't like the notion that you've to depend on other people to be happy. It's like drugs. And of course, if you keep doing this, you'll be unhappy in the future (when you da bao!).

 

Fallacy of answer 2:

Why'd you gamble away your chance to have fun now for future's happiness? (Assuming play creates more fun than work.) Afterall, it's highly arguable that these things that you do will give you REAL happiness anyway.

 

 

So what's the answer? It's obviously a balance between answer 1 and 2. But is there an answer 3? Maybe it's the Buddism's way - 涅磐寂静 ? Anwz for me myself, I lean towards answer 1. Why? Simple. If you're going to die next week, what are you going to do in this week? Life is really unpredictable you know. (I'm not saying I'm going to die next week!!! But... who knows?)

 

A cliche: Live everyday as if it's your last.

 

 

Btw, it was during the BBQ night when a thought suddenly strike me (The side effect of answer 1). There's only one more year before wonderful seniors like Subin, Joann etc etc graduate and leave us. How time flies. It was like yesterday when they lead us through our own FOC. Now we've led our juniors through their FOC.

 

Life is short. I'm going to enjoy it.

 

But first, I'm going to do my tutorials.

 

What an irony.

 

 

PS. I think I think too much.

 

PPS. For those who don't know what's DOTA, it stands Defense Of The Ancient. It's a custom map of the game Warcraft III, to be played by at most 10 players. They are divided into 2 teams, and each player controls a hero (each hero has different abilities). Objective of the game is to destroy the other team's main building. It's a game which requires much skill, strategy and teamwork. Competitions are held for this game.