achtundzwanzig-28

4/4/2011

Full on IS preparation today. A few more days before all of this ends. 

Strangely I just realized how wasteful my life has been throughout this while. In Singapore, I don’t blink an eye when I buy and the shop assistants hand me plastic bags. Not to mention my preference for anything individually wrapped. And then I bring my life from Singapore to china, and I do exactly what I’ve been doing

And I realize the amount of plastic that floats around in the room which 1) becomes unused or 2) rendered useless. My life is really plastic straddled. Even when buying water, I choose the kind with plastic shrink wrap around the bottles instead of a box.

All for the sake of convenience. How I hate convenience. The more we depend on it, the more side effects it has on us, so much to the extent that we forget the basic things that we could have done ourselves, but we don’t, saying it takes up too much trouble

There is no such thing is too much trouble. It’s just the lack of convenience that we harp about. 

I just hope not to the extent where we’re substituting the little things like writing a memo with a word document, a drawing or doodling an iphone picture, or even a voice recording instead of speaking, because we’re hoping we can use it over and over again. The sake of convenience. Ah, how nice.  

And very soon we're substituting regular meals for pieces of gum like in "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory". I don't think I'll need to buy water then.