[i wish] watching the australian open on tv is both exciting and semi-depressing at the same time. man, why can't i play like that? it's like no matter how hard i try, i don't think i could ever be good at one thing. i was not born to be magnificent at one thing-- otherwise.. i'd be on tv playing at the australian open =P so yah.. i wish i had one thing i could boast about.. one thing that i love to do, and it shows =) because thennnn, i can share that one thing with everybody else! hmm. so that brings me to the question of.. if i could be really good at one thing.. what would it be? hrm. hrm. hrm. tough question that. for now, i'll just stick to eating i s'pose =D i'm *really* good at that-- and i can share that with lots of people! weeee! oh sigh.

[is the world ending?] so i went out and about today with one of my more thoughtful friends. he and i have a grand history together, friendship-wise, and despite all the years that have passed, he still stands to be one of the more thought-provoking ones. anyhoo. so today he announced that the world was going to end in 20 years-- more or less. he posited that in 20 years, countries would develop so much tension, hatred, and resentment against each other, that they would pretty much get rid of one another. he actually said it might be a good thing because he thought the world needed a wake-up call in this kind of way. he had a point-- does anyone really remember all the lessons from world war I or II for that matter? peace was supposed to have started and continued-- but here we are, on the brink of another war... =T

on a more micro-scale, we ended up talking about what *we* - us little puny people -- could do about it. though i'm not usually this pessimistic or cynical, i did exclaim that i didn't think we had any power. unfortunately, all the power lies in world leaders such as bush. wee. i mean, someone could commit suicide in the name of some cause, and he or she will appear in the paper and have his or her respects paid to.. and then what? no one remembers what that person stood for in the end. sad huh. well, to end on a semi-positive note, my friend & i came to the concensus that, though we have little power, we can still spread goodness in our own way, and that's what really matters. messages like love thy neighbour and think we, not me stood out to the both of us. our society is becoming so me-oriented as of late, and that really bothers me. so the moral of the story? share the love and spread the love. we need more good people around.