So i've just been informed that there'll be a hockey dinner later today, which leaves very little time for me to make up my mind. should i go? already most of the guy's team can be assumed not to be going, and now i just found out that seng, who's one of the few who would usually go, wont be able to make it this time. which leaves probably less guys going than i have fingers on one hand. which is pathetic, to say the least. well, the dinner's gonne be at ion orchard should i decide to go, which is supposed to be some mega high-class shopping complex right (i've never been there before)? i've always wondered what's the point of having these ridiculously big shopping centres. i mean places like vivo city, ion orchard, what are they for? people are going there to buy stuff, not to live there or visit it like some tourist attraction. take vivo for example - on weekdays it's like a ghost town. all the expense, just to capture the fleeting weekend shopper crowd; is it really worth it? why do the developers keep going larger and larger scale when examples such as vivo already tell them that they have already gone beyond increasing returns to scale (haha, injecting some econs, since i've totally forgotten everything and desperately need revision)?
ok, on an unrelated note, edmund has decided to start a new blog! *party poppers* haha finally, the last post from his old blog was from june or something if i'm not wrong. reading his blog suddenly made me think about blogging as a medium. it allows for the average joe to voice out his opinions about anything, securing him his own little speakers' corner with which he can do anything he wants. i guess it's because of things like blogging that i can rest easy every night knowing that 1984 will not become a reality, because as long as thought can be expressed it will never go extinct. but is it a bit presumptuous and perhaps even arrogant to want to write a blog? after all, having a blog implies the underlying assumption that there is an audience somewhere out there who wants to know what you're thinking. is there really? there are so many people in this world; are all of their thoughts worth the time to express? by the virtue of free speech it is demanded of us that we should accord everyone the opportunity and respect to express themselves, but in reality is that so? arrogance has always been a trait i loathed and i have always feared a day when i would be overcome by it, but has it already crept up within me through blogging? do i have a right to shout out my thoughts to the world like people want to listen? having a blog seems to imply "listen to me! hear what i have to say!" and now im wondering if i deserve that privilege. do i have the right to express my thoughts here? should i have the right to? should i speak up if nobody is willing to listen? the starting of a friend's blog makes me question the existence of my own. the irony is rich in this one...
