Ignorance is your new best friend.

Founder's Day today... School usual lah. A parade, which was the first parade in a long time which I didn't participate in, followed by academic awards presentation, which as usual was super boring. Spent the whole time talking with friends and hanging out outside the auditorium. Oh, but one thing I learnt from the whole celebrations is that our school's Philharmonic Orchestra is seriously damn good. Like Damn. Good. Although I'm still probably going for Dance FOA when the time comes for it, since I got quite a few friends in dance.

After school, Caryl, Bryan Seah and I went to CJC to hang out at their canteen and meet friends. Damn awesome. I hung out with their CJ friends for a while, and said hi to quite a few SFX people too. Most of whom were like "What the hell are you doing in CJ?". Lol. We were like seriously damn guai lan, a buch of ACS(I) people sitting in the middle of the CJ canteen. Heh:P Caryl was staying there late for a friend's birthday party, so Bryan and I left early. Oh, and we met Vic Wong at CJ too. AC power! ^.^ But yeah, it was seriously damn fun, hanging around CJ, talking to friends, making new friends.

So yeah, it was a damn epic afternoon.

Oh the bus ride back home from CJ, Bryan and I were sort of discussing about friendship and stereotyping, and judging people. I was further affirmed about this when I went for evening mass. This was this evening's gospel:

Jesus said to his disciples:
“Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.
“Stop judging and you will not be judged.
Stop condemning and you will not be condemned.
Forgive and you will be forgiven.
Give and gifts will be given to you;
a good measure, packed together, shaken down, and overflowing,
will be poured into your lap.
For the measure with which you measure
will in return be measured out to you.”

-Lk 6:36-38

Yeah. So anyway, what we were saying was that we shouldn't force stereotypes onto people, we shouldn't judge people, and we shouldn't base our relationships on merely first impressions. We should give everyone an equal chance. While some people find it hard to make friends, most of the time it's yourself at fault. Often you're letting your impressions cloud you, and you form judgements about the person, making you closed up and unfriendly. And it's true. Like this afternoon, by being totally open, and talking to random CJ guys who were around our table, I made a few new friends, and I realize that they are awesome, totally nice guys.

So yeah, moral of the story is that although it's hard, try not to make first impressions or to judge. Give everyone a chance. Especially since friends and a social life is pretty important to surviving IB.

Sorry if the above post is kinda cliche/lame/senseless. It's hard to type out my thoughts coherently when its 11.30 at night and I'm half dead.

Random Quote:"To err is human, but to really screw up takes a committee" - Colin

Random Quote:
"To err is human, but to really screw up takes a committee" - Colin