travelling

they say that travelling does wonders for the body and spirit and i couldnt agree more. the more you travel, the more you get to see the world and the more you realise your position in the world. there is so much about reading about other places that a newspaper or book or webpage can do. but when you are there to experience things for yourself, you suddenly realise how much different these the world is.

i did my fair share of travelling this year: to bangkok, phuket, china, hong kong, kl, tioman, new jersey, philadelphia and hopefully new york sometime soon. yes i must admit it is a lot of places for a student but i am glad to have been to these places, not just to enjoy and relax myself but to see how people in different countries behave and react. and i realise how much we, as singaporeans, are ungrateful and sheltered. and that if we do not wake up and realise it, it would lead to our downfall in the future as global economoy fully blooms.

like i say, you can always read about how we are fortunate to live in a safe country and have a clean city and so on but we never really treasure it until we are overseas. when you realise how tough a student's life in the US is as they have to work part time, or sometimes even full time when the situation is bad, while studyin because they have school fees of USD7000 a semester to pay off, you realise how pathetic we are when we complain of our SGD7000 a year school fees. when you realise how hard a person in phuket or china has to work for that 1 dollar to feed themselves and their family, i feel ashamed with myself for spending money so easily to buy the things that i want.

i realise that life is not a bed of roses and that life can be tough, even for a country that we singaporeans think as great such as the states, its not all that when you get to experience it first hand. it makes me realise that i better get my life in check, to really find out the things that i want and how i want to achieve it instead of just dreaming and hoping that it would into my lap one day.

while this lesson can only be transmitted to you in the form of a webpage, and like i say, will never be a substitute for experiencing it first hand, take it from me with a pinch of salt. that who we are tomorrow is determined by our actions today. and that our actions today are determined by the experiences that we have lived thru.

good luck

Tariq :: email ::
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