Tuesday, April 26, 2011

The Art Tube.


It's been a rather morbid public holiday recently, having been forced to reflect upon the sanctity and value of human life following the untimely passing of a primary school mate. May she rest in peace.


After a hoard of questions had passed through my mind, mostly confusing and unanswerable, I found myself on very familiar ground. The question I ask the most and the most often- Why live this life?


It doesn't help that Solomon in Ecclesiastes found that life was basically meaningless too- without God, that is. But I guess that God did make us with every intention that we should enjoy the finer points of life, which I consider to mostly consist of the small things, savoured slowly and with time to spare.


I guess even taking pictures with an old Russian Smena Symbol on an Anzac public holiday is really something, huh?


And after reading and hearing about the state that Singapore is currently in, I really cannot complain, can I? So they tax me more here and give my money to people who don't want to work, refuse to look at my Husband's visa and have extremely poor HR and admin systems, but at least I'm not asked to have 2.1 babies and still work like a horse.


Horses and rabbits have different powers, you know, even if the horses are famous for their...