okies time to touch on a taboo... but honestly there is nothing taboo about death... i think it is alright to think about it i mean after all it is part and parcel of living... understand death and you will understand how to live... thats how i feel...
anyways i woke up today and was getting ready for school... was in my room of enlightenment where most of my thoughts and ideas are formulated... yea my toilet... i dont know about you but seriously speaking there is something about the toilet... its like when i need inspiration i go there and *BING* i manage to think of a solution...
okok back to topic... so i was there and i was wondering about this question... what is the difference between a man on his death bed or a healthy man walking around the streets... honestly there is only one difference... one knows the chance he has to see the sunrise tomorrow whilst the other thinks he does...
there is honestly nothing very different... we can go anytime anywhere and that is a fact of life... if someone could tell you when you are about to die, you probably would live life differently... that is the sadness of it all... you would either go into depression or you would start meeting up with loved ones or both...
nowadays we go around the place thinking oh death wont be so soon... for people like me we would probably think oh perhaps i might die when i am 75 or 80yrs old... but the matter of fact is that death has no age... no one has an expiry date printed on their backs... no one knows for sure...
i dont know about you but i think i want to live my life now in such a way that if i die at this very moment, i would have no regrets at all and die happily... then comes to the topic of funerals....
you know i have been thinking what would my funeral be like... haaha sometimes i get really bored and i start to wonder.. would there be alot of people to pay respects? would the people that care for me be there and would i be pleased if i knew who came and who didnt? isnt it funny? you spend your whole life living and when you die, people come to say how the respect you and how much you impacted their lives... but you never got to hear it... it is like giving a medal to a fallen soldier... it comforts the family but the person himself is unaware of it all...
you know something you know how i would love my funeral to be? sounds a bit morbid but... hahaha since we are on this topic already and went so far in might as well yea... you know i say i wanna do a free fall on my dying bed just incase the parachute doesnt open but honestly i think ill prefer it to be with the people i love... not in a hospital though... i would love to be outside on my own legs, walker, wheelchair whatever... and when i do pass on i would love my funeral and wake to be a happy occassions... hahaha contradiction to traditions eh... but i would really love that...
people dressed in bright vibrant colours... a white canopy tent (always loved white tents) with cilli red, sunset orange and pure white balloons covering the pillars of the tent... lively music being played over the speakers... tables drapped with white cloths, fine bone china plates with silver wear highlighted with orange napkins folded in a triangle ontop of each plate... great food being served, champagne and wine... festoon the walls with the photos i took, line the tables with photos of me and loved ones happy together...
doesnt sound like the traditional funeral huh... haaha... oh and as for me... well just put me somewhere doesnt matter.... ahhaha... when i describe this it kinda sounds like a celebration doesnt it? well thats the idea... i want it to be a celebration... good music, good ambience, good food and good company... that is what i would love... celebrate not the passing but celebrate the legacy and life...
and well if no legacy was left... i dont mind being cremated on the day itself and tossed into the sea... hahaha... because honestly then i see no point... i personally feel funerals shouldnt be a sad occassion but an occassion where people come together and remember the deceased and celebrate his/ her life together...
well thats my little thinking... ok enough of this morbid post...
friends always care
15:11
dont feel like commenting much so yea here are some pictures...
friends always care
20:04
well recently I have obviously not really been in Singapore much... was just calculating the time that I spent out of Singapore and I realised that most of my time was spent out of Singapore...
Vietnam, Singapore
Vietnam, Singapore
Yunnan, Singapore
and now Shanghai, Singapore
yea been travelling quite a fair bit this holiday... I guess I am pretty lucky... these trips have been great for me, a period where I can relax and consolidate my thoughts... a period where I can be away from everyone and take a refreshing breath of air... a period where I get to know myself better too.. it feels good...
well time to prepare for my departure on tuesday... missing people already...
friends always care
13:08
when i walk, you are beside me
when i think i dont, you knew i did
when i needed you, you carried me
when i ran from fear, you appear to embrace me
when i stumble, you catch me before i fall
thank you
friends always care
01:15