Sunday, April 07, 2013

Nostalgia

Went back to my Alma mater on Saturday, at a freakishly early 9:30 am. There was a drizzle throughout the morning which explains the wet floor.

What the hell was I doing there at such an early timing? Soccer. Against our juniors, many of whom I've never seen before. They're only a couple years younger and have all graduated. Well, I said I went for soccer, but I didn't actually play it. No, it's not because I'm a bench warmer, but because I didn't exactly want to play. (and we had more than enough people)

I should probably start by explaining that we played basketball on Thursday. After lying around for a week, suddenly sprinting around at full speed pretty much killed my thighs. I went for soccer more or less for moral support, or just in case someone sprained their ankle or something.

We won though, 7 : 5
Most of which can be largely be attributed to my cheering, obviously.

Speaking about cheering, it was... more or random screaming and shouting. Because it was just too hilarious to watch. Within the first 3 minutes, the score was already 1 : 1. My team's MVP shouted at the opponents, "First to 11 wins!"

The game was funny because our goal keeper did a hat-trick, on himself. Words can't explain the blunders he made, but we weren't exactly mad at him; He hasn't played for a really long time after all. But still, the mistakes were nothing short of hilarious. There were times he dropped the ball as if his gloves were made of oil, and the most epic mistake was him pushing the ball up like volleyball, pushing the ball behind him, right into the net.

Man, I nearly died laughing. 

All in all, it was a pretty good game. It's damn funny when our team shouts, "CHIONG AH!" and the mid fielders and forwards just scramble ahead like bulls. There was also a lot of needless shouting to intimidate the opponents, and it actually worked. Well, they are younger after all. 

I did take a couple of shots after the game, just testing if I still got it or not. And yeah, I surprised myself and my friends that I could pull off some decent shots, not just half-assed ones, then I got scolded immediately for being a lazy fuck and not joining the game.

There are many things I left out as I was just typing with the flow of the post. I'm too lazy to edit them into perfectly readable paragraphs so I'm just going to speed through them.

The road to school has changed. There weren't trees, nor where there so many buildings around. Just a flat grassland, which has disappeared along the years. I can't believe I climbed the freaking hill for so many years at 7+ in the morning. Yes, my school sits on top of a hill. I regret not taking more pictures of the school before leaving, oh well. It's annoying how they built a perfect soccer field right after we graduate. All we had back in the days was a barren field primary made of dust, and weeds.

Damn, I feel so old.

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Tuesday, November 27, 2012

image from thenextweb

I'm relatively old, at least old enough to go through the advancement of computer technology. Old enough to have witness MS-DOS in action, enough to know what a vinyl record is, what a cassette tape is. (and using them of course)

Now, the interesting thing is that you have apps like Instagram and similar apps which mimics analog cameras. Using all the vintage effects, because that's how images looked like last time. The decomposition of the film causes old pictures to look like that.

But what about kids born in the digital age? With all the crystal clear images that we can get simply using our phones. To think that a handphone is something that didn't really exist in my early days. So, how would they recall the past? My recollection of TVs are of the bulky CRTs, fuzzy images, and a lot of yellow tint for whatever reason. Most of the electronics also turn yellow due to the way it's manufactured in the past. (google if you're interested why)

I'm feeling a little lazy so I'll cut the descriptions short. Do you think that kids these days will look back in their childhood in like "HD vision"? What about future down when we have perfected 3D technology and holograms and shit. Would their vintage pictures become HD in 2D?

I find this very amusing. If you have any family videos when you were younger, you'll remember how shitty the quality is, with all the shaking and whatnot. But look at the videos normal people create today, the quality is orders of magnitude better than movies i n the 80s. This shift in perspective is happening so fast that we can actually see it in action.

And I find this terribly amusing. 

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Wednesday, June 27, 2012

I absolutely love this video. 


"We always tell ourselves to look and move forward; isn't there something that we have lost in the past?"

After a long time, I'm finally starting to read back on my very old blog posts. I found out that in my first couple months of writing, I wrote like shit. My English didn't make sense and the sentence structure is all over the place.

Anyway, I found something that is consistent with my old writings. (at least the first few months that I've read) That is, they sounded happy. They are filled with energy and vibrance. Even so, I was going through some tough situations in life couple of years ago. I saw that I kept my head up high, and continued moving through the buckets of shit.

It's these times when I can actually look back in time, reading the words that I carefully crafted years ago. It brings warmth to my heart.  It feels like I'm having a conversation with my younger self.

Recently, I seem to have lost the passion for skating. Slalom to be exact, I still love to skate around randomly. The feeling of being on wheels is hard to explain unless you've experienced it for yourself.

Years ago, I wrote that I fell down very badly after attempting a trick. Couldn't walk properly for days after that. That's interesting to me. It's like, I can actually see how I got to my current level of skating. It made me rethink about taking slalom more seriously. In fact, I probably would spend a little more time on it, since I could really use a good workout from time to time.

This is what I felt watching this video. That I have lost passion for things I used to love very deeply.

We keep trying to move forward, letting go and discarding things that anchor us down. Once in awhile, we should look back and see, was there something important we lost along the way?
Your passion for music, playing games, eating or collecting items? Or your childhood dreams of becoming a pilot and soar in the sky? Or your first love even?

This may seem counter-intuitive, but maybe we need an anchor to hold us down, and let us know where we belong in this huge empty world. We can keep moving forward, but it's nice to have a place you can call home.

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