c’est la vie

On rainy days when

the world’s a rivulet-curtain,

grey,

Impassive sky over

busy pitter-patter of droplets I

have a longing.

Have you?

If it ain’t broken, don’t break it. Not all things can be fixed.

Age is NOT just a number - my hamstrings are still aching after Friday’s race in college.

No matter what I think at times, my family is the most important thing to me and what they think of me matters.

When she is in ‘that mood’, just be quiet.

Driving is not something you pass, it’s something you constantly improve on.

Yes, some people need to be spanked when they were children. When they grow up, it becomes caning.

Blaring your music out into the streets - no matter what you think of it - is noise pollution.

There is no such thing as moderated detention - make them suffer.

If I can’t remember your birthday, I won’t expect you to remember mine.

Students are masochistic. Teachers excel at it.

Not many people know this, but teaching is probably the best job in the world.

Getting so drunk you puke in the streets is only ok up to age 21. Ok, maybe 29.

It’s got to be jazz.

Who wants to be unique?

I will never be a sports legend. But community league tennis looks possible.

Staying in is only terrific if I don’t get to do it often.

We can live without TV.

One main mission in my life is to make sure I don’t love the sound of my own voice too much.

What one does doesn’t define what one is.

Wit and knowing how to dance are probably the best babe-magnets. Six-packs sell magazines and health supplements.

If you were counting, you have too much time on your hands.

Heard this during a meeting today, which I remember as:

"Common space is not about homogenisation, it’s about the sharing of space and…

Harmony (ethnic) is not about ignoring differences but making efforts to understand and share a common space…

And that is why we have student wearing uniforms…"

And I wonder, is there a difference between homogenisation and wearing uniforms? Isn’t that a way of erasing what may stand out? (i.e., amulets, religious paraphernalia and ethnic wear).

I understand the necessity to, especially in such a global climate, I just can’t quite figure out the difference…

And the fact that the freedom of self-expression in a common space isn’t quite working out the way it was supposed to is also worrying. What is the way?