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18th August 2013, 1.33 PM.
GOOD NEWS: I went cycling just now.
BAD NEWS: I fell asleep afterwards until 1 PM and never did any study.
*Slaps myself* Bad me!
Anyway, I was just thinking of life just now. Honeybee showed me the One Singapore official music video, which was this year's theme song for National Day Parade, when she was at my house last Friday (how time flies). I think this was the first year ever that I didn't watch the NDP (shows what PSLE can do to affect your life! Just kidding.  ) but, eh, whatever.
Watching the video, I cannot picture them mingling about in my head with smiles. "Them" as in the Malays and Chinese. If a group of Malays passed by a group of Chinese, they would all be usually angry scowls, stares, looking at anywhere but each other. Or there would be a few polite smiles. I joked about how, after dancing together, they'd shove each other, tell each other to get lost, and stomp off. It was a joke, mind you, so don't take it too seriously.
I'm not being racist. Sorry if I am, but now I'm confused and I don't know what I'm talking about. 
The point is, can't Singapore be a bit more friendlier? What's with the glances, cold looks, and not looking at each other? I mean, I know that shyness has something to do with that but surely not everybody is shy. I miss the olden days. Everyone seemed much closer then and they all just smiled or acknowledged at each other, stranger or not.
Me? Oh, I'm terribly shy. But the few times I work up the courage to smile at people, they disappoint me. They don't smile back. I mean, sheesh, is it so hard to stretch your facial muscles into a smile? What, is it so wrong of me to wear a scarf? I know that I shouldn't have said (or typed?) that one but it feels so much as though the public is shunning me just because I'm a Muslim. But anyway. I can still a recall a time when I was walking down the slope back to my home and there was a man (my neighbour) sitting on the bench. As I came nearer, I thought to myself, "Okay, this time, don't look so hostile, SMILE at him, I don't care if you're shy, just do it!" So I did. I stared right at him and smiled but he stared right back and...didn't smile... So I merely shifted my eyes to somewhere else and dropped my smile as soon as I passed by him.
I also remember a time at the MRT (Mass Rapid Transit). I'd missed the school bus (ah, I remember, this was last Friday) and I had to take the train to school. I was terribly sleepy and I badly wanted to snatch 45 minutes' worth of sleep. The problem was, if I did fell asleep, I would lean to one side either left or right and I happened to lean towards the left, where there was a Chinese woman sitting in the reserved seat. The moment my head touched her arm, she nudged me roughly and I snapped awake. I knew what had happened immediately but I continued looking down instead, not daring to look her in the face. However, I accidentally fell asleep again and I leaned against her again and this time, she nudged me again but much more roughly. I snapped awake, and my head whipped to the right, before looking to the left, before quickly looking down. I was so embarrassed by then that I stayed awake throughout the entire ride and didn't dare to fall asleep. Once, I actually almost fell asleep again and leaned towards the right this time but I woke myself up just in time.
For this one, this wasn't the first time the leaning thing has happened. I still remember a time when I was riding the bus and to my embarrassment, I fell asleep and woke three times, each time finding my head on the person's shoulder next to me. And the person was a guy. At least, he was nicer and didn't shove me or anything.
Then again, I guess you could say those last two experiences might have nothing to do with the topic I was on. I mean, it would be irritating if that happened to me, right? If not irritating, then uncomfortable, maybe.
I guess I ramble too much. *Sighs* Here I thought this entry was going to be meaningful but it's just me being me. 
Have a meaningful day, everyone. 
"Life is like a rollercoaster." - Miss Dreamer
P.S Maybe things would improve a bit if gangs stopped accusing other people of staring. -_-
P.P.S Then again, there's this quote that says: "Everyone wants to change the world, but nobody wants to change." Makes sense, I guess. *Sighs*
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