Well now...

So it's officially been a year since my last post. Eek >.<" But here I am, supposed to be studying for exams, updating my blog. For the first time this year. When the year is nearly ending. *sigh*

Oh well... Since I'm taking a little break right now before getting right into studying, I might as well make something of it. So. What have I been up to lately? Nothing much really, apart from work, accompanying, procrastinating (really, how could I leave that one out?) and just kidding myself that I can do so much stuff with so little time.

Oh and did I mention that my mother is going overseas next month? Meaning I have to take over her shift at work, and I still have to go to university over the summer. I swear I'm going to die from the stress and overwork. T.T

But then again, I will have things to look forward to. Like people turning 21 (OMG HOW THE HELL DID WE ALL GROW UP SO QUICKLY????) and other birthdays to look forward to *hint hint*, the coming holiday season (hell no I have no time for a holiday!) and other stuff too. But I'll leave that for later heh, make it something to get me through exams and all the rough patches I seem to have been going through lately.

Alright, I can't think of anything else to post right now, but I promise the next time I do, going to tell you about some new dramas I bought and will be watching very soon (I hope!).

Adieu, adieu, to you and you and you... (guess where that's from!! ^^)

until the next time I (can be bothered to) post!! :)

P.S. I think it's time for a change of layout. Promise to change it as soon as I find the time to find new pictures and all of that!!!

Another revelation...

Alright. So this time, the revelation is about religion. I mean, it's something we see everyday of our lives, is it not? Even if you don't believe in a God, or even the plural, we see those people who stand there on the streets, talking about the 'end of the world, save yourself now' and all of that. But really what does it all mean?

Well how this revelation goes is that I recently watched a movie called 'Saving Sarah Cain'. It's about a big-city news columnist who goes to the funeral of her Amish sister and becomes the legal guardian of her 5 nephews and nieces. And as I was watching, it occurred to me that the children seemed to really into their Amish religion. I mean, originally, the sister wasn't Amish, but she met a guy who was I'm guessing, and she obviously moved and changed her religion to be with him. But just like my revelation about love, what if she hadn't met him, hadn't married him and therefore she hadn't moved to the Amish community, her children then, what religion would they be following then?

Following this train of thought, does this mean that our religion is pretty much set by what our parents believe in? Because from birth, we would be exposed to that religion, their views, their beliefs, and we wouldn't know much about other religions. Meaning that from a very young age, these values are imprinted into us. So would this mean that our religion, the things that we belief in, they are defined by our parents?

Of course, a lot of people change as they grow and mature, and many even decide that the religion that they were brought up to believe in does not suit them and change religions. They might even forget about religion altogether and decide not to live with such beliefs. But then again, those who do grow up still believing in what they parents brought them up to believe in, their values are still defined by what their parents have taught them.

Now to add another layer of complexity, how about their religion being defined by where they live? Like for example, in Asian countries, the religions there are generally Buddhism, Taoism, and so on. Then in Europe, those religions tended to be Lutheran, Christianity, though this was later on, and so on and so forth. Does this mean that our beliefs and values are once again also defined by an external factor?

Taking into consideration everything I've written so far, even though our religion is supposed to simply be a reflection of your own beliefs and belong to you and your God/Gods, if there are these external factors to affect what you know, then how is the religion still 'yours'?

R.A.T.L.

Today I had a Revelation About True Love. Hence R.A.T.L.

Here's how it goes. I'd been thinking lately about true love, looking for inspiration for a couple of new stories of mine that I've recently started, and I realized something. People generally go out, or enter into a relationship with someone whom lives in the same area as them. They even marry this person, and if this is the case, then they usually feel that this 'one person' is the one 'true love' of their life. Which got me thinking. In what way would this person still be your true love then? Because if this way of thinking is 'correct', and that usually 'the one' for you lives in the same city as you do, then true love would be limited by the place where you live. But how is that possible? Love is limitless, is it not?

Of course I'm not saying that your true love will definitely be living in the same city where you live, or even the same country, but from what I have seen and understood, this is generally the case. Has fate somehow determined to make it easier to find love and help us on our search for love by narrowing down the places where we have to look? I highly doubt it.

I mean, people go on vacations and move to different cities, different countries even for various reasons. For work, for family, to run away from something, to gain something, and of course they meet new people and become close to them. They may even find their 'one true love' amongst these people.

But think about it. If they hadn't moved or holidayed there in the first place, they wouldn't have met that 'special someone' nor entered into a relationship with them. They might have instead have met someone else in the city where they live and believe that that person instead is 'the one' whom they will spend the rest of their life with.

Then don't forget that there are those that meet that 'one person' whom they are 'madly in love with', up to the point where they would be willing to say goodbye to everything they had known so far and move somewhere else, somewhere completely different to be with that person. It has been known to happen, but a question raised here is, even if you 'knew' that they were the 'special somebody', would you really be willing to go that far to move overseas just to be with them?

I fear this is all too confusing for my brain to comprehend. I must stop here before my brain explodes. >.<"