Thy destiny awaits

Has anyone watched the Bee Movie?

Remember early in the movie, they showed text saying how men thought it was theoretically impossible for bees to fly (fat bodies, teeny wings), but bees don't care what men think, they fly anyway?

I suspect there's a lesson to be learnt there.

Lesson: Not caring what people think, doing what you want anyway.


Obviously this whole scenario has been playing out since long, long ago (i.e since we were kids).

Take for example, this thing that happened a few days ago.

Me, I was eating a piece of chocolate cake. Mmmm chocolate!

I finished mine, and was eyeing my sister's.


"Eh, I eat your cake ah."

"You better not I tell you!"

"If I eat?"

"Then I think you are the most sui person ever lived."

"Cheh like that only?"


And I ate.

Who cares what she thinks.



Okay no la I didn't. Thank goodness for the last bit of decency in me.


But then again there's another lesson to be learnt from the Bee Movie.

Lesson: What people think is impossible isn't necessarily truly impossible.
You just gotta do what you gotta do.


So I was watching A Beautiful Mind on TV3 a few days ago.

It is one of my most favourite movies (it's slotted between LOTR and The Pianist), but watching it from TV3 was really sucky, it cuts to ads without warning, tak syok.

I love, love, LOVE the part where he's told he's been nominated for the Nobel Prize.

I mean, can you imagine?

Schizophrenic guy, whose nerdy ways of walking was mocked by Princeton kids, really pathetic looking, ends up becoming a Nobel Laureate.

How cool is that.

This is the part where we learn that nothing is impossible.

But then again, John Nash is a genius to begin with, so he has an unfair advantage.

I am not a genius when I Started, not a genius Now, just an average kid with average grades and everything.

But the world is my, and OUR, oyster. And clam, and abalone, and mussel, and scallop.

It's so exciting to hear that my friends are starting to get / has already gotten university offers.

Makes me wish I applied to Australian unis when they were having an application fee waiver thing, just for the sake of seeing university acceptance offers coming in 'round this time of the year. Plus Australian university applications seem so much easier (when compared to US apps la).

Imagine, you know, that someone among us will someday be as influential as Oprah Winfrey, or wield as much power as George Bush, or be as Kick-ass-Rockstar as (insert name of rock star).

I'm in the middle of reading The Life of Mahatma Gandhi by Louis Fischer, and of course it hit me that even someone as great as Gandhi used to have a very ho-hum, unglamorous past.

I mean, there you have this kid who is like every other young male kid - hungry for sex, lies to his parents, tries hard to impress.

And look how he ended up. (Well, assassinated, but still revered all over the world.)

One day, you could watch TV and see this guy in power suit being interviewed on some Important Channel like CNN and the like, or you'd see a skinny-jeaned girl (or whatever is hot decades later) being interviewed by MTV VJs, and you'd think, "Familiar wei!"

Neh, that person who used to sit next to / in front of you back in high school loh.

Another lesson learnt: Be nice to everyone in your high school, who knows, he/she might zip right to the top of his/her game and squash the puny still-working-as-janitor/clerk/cashier-you like a cockroach.

Step, splatter, grind, grind, SQUASHED!


However. The saddest of all, undoubtedly, is when we squander off our Humongous Massive Gargantuan Big Big Potential.
Yes, if you collected all our Potential and lined them up next to each other, you'd have a Trip Around the World, Times Ten.

Can you believe next year we'll all be off to university?

So I guess as 2007 comes to an end, and as people SAM people start deciding on which field to devote their entire-forever life to (ooh I made it sound so intimidating), let us not forget that we are, in fact, destined for great things.

Was that motivational enough?

We are destined for great things!


That?

And with this, I end this post of mine. Thank you.



P/S. Changed my font. In case you were wondering why suddenly chooiyen's blog not so hard to read any more.