It is the final day of April.
This is the 120th day of 2011.
Today I woke up early, went for soccer on a wet pitch, missed a couple of goals and did not really learnt how to long-kick, good game anyway because it was a balanced game.
After that went to Hungry Jacks with some of the PA5510N soccer guys, had a Whopper Jr. Stunner Deal, and went to Coles to get some groceries as the fridge and pantry have been empty (technically still have some instant noodle - but not counted as real food) for several weeks, decided to eat healthily for the next few weeks before assignments and exams come crashing in.
Afternoon, drove to UWA to pick up 3 of our UWA zone brother and sisters in Christ, went to Winthrop Baptist College Auditorium for volunteer briefing for Australian Asian Churches Network's function - Peter Tsukahira's conference.
Arrived home about 7p.m., cooked beef stroganoff and teriyaki chicken with stir-fry cos lettuce with oyster sauce, had them with rice and played Angry Bird on my laptop. Called home, plan to be back on 28th November. Finished dinner, and now typing out all these things to record down what I did today on the 120th day of 2011.
It is a lot of things for today.
Sometimes I think, whether we have enough time to do everything that we want to, and I answered myself, we won't have enough time because we are not meant to do everything.
There are things that are important in our lives and we have to set our priorities right in order to achieve our goals. However, electronic gadgets are being used in such a way that they became the priority instead of helping us to achieve our outcome.
Information travels as fast as the speed of light across vast spaces, through cables, wireless networks and microwaves. Suddenly, we all have a hunger for information; Youtube, Tweeter Facebook, BlackBerryMessenger, WhatsApp...
and we are all connected through this invisible net. We want instant information, instant chatting and actually we become less accountable for what we say because we can always inform people at the last minute. Are we to be blamed? Or the technology that enabled us to do so is to be blamed?
I want to rebel, but I can't afford to lose contact for activities with friends or information from lecturers. This is my dilemma. I decided to not worry about being connected all the time, because if the information is important, it will be relayed to me as soon as possible and not by me trying to absorb everything that is connected to me.
So I decided to read a good old book to prepare for group discussion and then sleep. I am turning off my phone and logging off my Facebook.
Wake me up when April ends.
