Old, Past, History

Yesterday, I met up with my friends who could not make it for my Surprise Party which happened on last Sunday. We dined in at Kim Gary Restaurant in Tampines 1. We got our seats pretty fast even though there was a long queue, but it took quite a long time to serve our food. After our meal, we could even chat till 4pm!

We could always talk non-stop... Mainly talking about our lives when we were younger back then (Sounds like we are so old now... >.<), and a bit on our University lives which are just around the corner. When Song Guan came, I brought up the topic about the students in the school he is currently working in. We then started to compare our younger-selves and those students in that school... It was such a vast difference. The mathematics syllabus is constantly going up, while the emphasis on Chinese is going down tremendously. Even a Secondary 2 student don't even know what is the meaning of "不翼而飞"...

After working in Kumon and taking Japanese class, it was then I realised parents always like to bring their children for tuition. The students I entertained are either stressed by many homeworks or capable to handle many homeworks. But I can only see most of them fall under the first category... The lastest Singapore drama series that is currently broadcasting on Channel 8 is also reflecting such situation. Not only the parents are giving them extra tuitions, but also, I believed, sending them for arts classes such as music and dancing. Maybe I'm being ignorant, but most of my friends around me do not really attend tuitions and still could produce good results, some even got excellent grades as well.

Putting that aside, I also realised that I'm always thinking about my lives years ago, the different chapters that I have been through in my life. Thinking what would happen if I take the different route; thinking about what would my family become if things don't happen the way it is now; thinking about the happy moments that I treasured. I'm just trapped in the past, living in my memories, and living in a fantasy world, things happened in Games or Anime... And I always block myself away from the world's current situation and never really think about my future. I will only react to it when reality really hits me. I'm not sure whether is it the world or is it just Singapore that is progressing very fast.. It is just quite tiring...