"I want to leave a mark on the world. It is one thing to affect a single person, or even everyone you ever meet. But to affect those whose life you never enter...to affect people from afar...with your words or work or...passion... That's truly something. I want to leave a legacy, and not just drift through this life undetected and then vanish into oblivion without so much as a whisper. To be a dull blip on the radar screen...it's my worst fear."

quoted from loveactually.blogspot.com

Went to watch star wars episode 3 this morning with my dad. Shan't say too much to spoil the movie, but all I wanna say is that it is a REALLY dark episode. Really really dark. But aside from that, the movie could be one of the best episodes ever. The fight scenes are way too cool and the movie is so action-packed. I am definately getting the DVD once it comes out. But that isn't the main reason why I liked star wars. The point is there is so much in the movie that one can identify with. ok I'll spill the beans abit, Anakin is actually a good person who is just so unfortunate to be stuck in a situation which forces him to turn evil. The whole Star Wars experience is just so exhilarating and amazing that I never tire out watching the movies over and over again and playing all sorts of Star Wars games. Alot of the ideas behind Star Wars actually draw parallels to our daily life. Not just the dilemma anakin is in, but also the fall of the republic and failure of democracy, and the jedi philosophies which I have noticed draw its ideas from buddism. You could say Star Wars to some sense depicts the lives of each and every one of us and the world we live in. Star Wars is simply amazing.

Later in the eveing met up with some classmates at kap and went to watch the elddfs production. Very funny and hilarious, and also abit the gross... at one point one MALE actor groped another FEMALE actress' breast(it was part of the script) and there was cross-dressing too. But overall the play was very entertaining and I'd say a job well done to the elddfs ppl. Actually I'm from elddfs too but I was too lazy to join this year's production. =P After that went to makan in the area opposite Beauty World with my classmates before heading home. I'm totally tired out but I guess I ought to write abit about this interesting day and keep this place alive.

Today sure was a rainy day, and it rained all morning till mid-afternoon. Maybe it's mother nature's way of weeping for the war dead. This weekend marks the 6oth anniversary of the end of WW2 in Europe. So many years on, I wonder if lessons have really been learnt from this true horror of the modern times. Although I have great interest in WW2, I for one condemn war for the horrors of war make events like the recent tsunami disaster pale in comparision. Just refer to the links below:

http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/statistics.htm
http://www.angelfire.com/ct/ww2europe/stats.html

some points to note:
-80% of Soviet males born in 1923 didn't survive WWII
-After the war, many Soviet towns and villages had no male population between 15 and 65
-Germany lost a tenth of its population
-Poland lost about a quarter of it's population, the worst of any country
-Holocaust victims only make up a tenth of the war casualties

Really, I don't think we need another war. There is nothing glorious about dying in war. You only become another statistic.

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"only the dead have seen the end of war"

today was a pretty long day. IN the morning dragged myself out of bed at 6++ to go some stupid sports meet, and there goes all my beauty sleep... anyway onli went there for a while before a group of us S75 ppl escaped to the college side and kinda stayed in the string orchestra room with our class cello player, herbert. plaed around with a violin as I hadn't realli touched one sinced I stop learning violin about 1 yr ago. Still pretty gd with it. yah so juz played violin while some of them plaed cards and 1 or 2 others tried out the violin and cello.

later had wushu exco elections. shan't realli go into the details. all i wanna say is that i am quite pleased with the results. hope they can work together effectively and acheive something great, lyk "A" boys n girls div champs next year. they realli have the potential. after the elections went for dinner with some of the seniors n juniors den played some pool at BTP before heading home. Quite tired now.

I think I think too much, too much for my own good. Maybe I should just be a sad, no-life mugger, then I wouldn't think that much. =(