Blogging about nothing

26th October 2007
Saturday
Blogging about nothing

Usually when people blog, they have in mind something to write. But what happens when nothing comes to mind? On such occasions, such as this one, you just click open the new post page, start off with your usual dates and titles and stuff and just type whatever comes to your mind. If you are lucky, words will start flowing. If not, cross your fingers and pray that the words will flow soon.

Everyone encounters Writers' Blocks. Even the author of best selling novels happen to have days where no words flow from their pens. Even so, you have to do what you have to do. As a writer, you have the responsibility of feeding your readers with fresh new works regularly. Even if it is a short passage of only a few lines.

Some people might retort to blogging about their personal feelings about someone or something that happened during the day. Others might prefer to focus on a obscure topic which have manage to evade the spotlight until now. Some might just go on and on about stuff that are not of importance.

There isn't anything big happening today except that I had a pretty weird dream last night. It is fascinating how dreams can defy all forms of logic.

I was in a lift with my former girlfriend and a huge crowd of old classmates. Then some JC students tried to squeeze into the lift, causing the lift to overload. The 'intruders' tried again and again to get on the lift. Getting pretty annoyed, my ex stormed out of the lift with a group of people and went to take the LRT. The lift went up, and I got out and hopped onto another train with the intention of chasing my ex. Somehow the ride ended up in a HDB block and I entered a plain looking flat. I went in and a guy tried to beat me up. And I got into a pretty serious fight with him that ended with me smashing his head into the wall and breaking his neck. My brother called the ambulance and police and carried on watching TV. My whole family was there, but none of them seem bothered by what was happening. After the murder, I simply switched on my laptop and blogged about some stuff (the contents were pretty fuzzy, I can't remember).

Weird? I guess that's an understatement. Heh. I probably had too much knowledge from Chee Hao in the evening.



Well then. In one of my lectures, my lecturer mentioned that the world is governed by physical laws and we will be concerned with 3 laws in this module (mechanics of flight). So a random thought comes to my mind (as always). What happens if one of these laws is broken?

Newton's second law of motion. F=ma. Everyone is pretty familiar with this formula right? What if suddenly, it is discovered that force is equivalent to the product of mass and acceleration for cases, but there are occasions where the force is not equivalent to the product of mass and acceleration.

How will the modern world react? Will all our schools of mechanics suddenly falter and fail? Will our scientists of today despair and abandon hundreds of years of research? Will mankind revert back to the stone age and slowly redefine every single law that has ever been discovered?


In the wake of such thoughts, I am compelled to compare this turmoil with our daily life. We are so used to taking things for granted and if one day, one element of our life disappeared. What will we be? The air-conditioning unit that we rely on every day. The newspaper that is widely available all over the country. What happens if one day, they went missing? Will the traffic run as usual? Will work still carry on? Will that ba chor mee vendor still sell his ba chor mee?

In life, nothing is certain. Life does not have a 3 year warranty to fall back on if anything goes wrong with it. Even if someting goes wrong, you have to live with it. That includes the planet we live on. For how many centuries have Man taken their homes for granted? Global warming now stands at our doorsteps with a warrant to confiscate our homes. Forget all those charts and bar graphs that you see on documentaries. Feel the air around you. Notice the increase in temperature? Recently, the increase have been so obvious that you can even feel the heat from within an air-conditioned room.

The end of this age is near. Make full use of your remaining time and eat a few more bowls of laksa before the end hits.

"Life does not have a 3 year warranty to fall back on if anything goes wrong."
-Han Yong