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Been getting fat. Food has been good everyday and chances of exercise is little after NS. But I am determined to make the process slow and hopefully prolong and maintain my fitness.

I also realised that by not working, I am wasting resouces. Wasting money. My friend, who got a job immediately after NS is now lamenting the fact that he regrets working now. I think he envies me. He said he could spend the time doing more things that he all along really wanted to do.

On the other hand, I am envious of him making full use of his time and not wasting resources. I guess that there is always opportunity costs in whatever you do. You gain some, you lose some. I hope I gain more than I lose though.
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If I did not remember wrongly, the law of conservation of energy states that energy can neither be created nor destroyed. This means that energy can only be changed from one form to another. Since heat (energy) is a by-product of almost all work that is done, does it mean that there will one day, all forms of energy will be converted into heat? Then, does it mean that the end of the world is inevitable?

Maybe. Maybe not. The argument above is not totally flawless. This is because heat does convert back into other forms of energy. A very simple example is the convection of air. Heat makes hot air. Hot air moves up, cold air moves down, and the cycle continues. Heat, in this case, is converted into kinetic energy. Yet one may argue again that does it (kinetic energy) not produce heat again? Hmmm...

One thing for sure is that the world's resources is not limitless. I wonder what happens on the day when we realise that all the countries' governments have run the earth dry with all the competition for prosperity and all the bidding to make the standard of human living higher.

By promoting childbirth and increase in population, is Singapore guilty also of running earth dry? Do we assume that there is still much to tap from the earth to make living better and that we need more human resource to tap them? Or is it true that there are still lots of resources to tap from? And is that reason for reproducing? For continuing the line of human generations that will enable us to survive? Do we realise that it may just be a folly that will lead us all to extinction?

From a larger point of view, is it not that the whole human population is just like an enormous ant nest? We are in some way or another instructed by our respective governments to move in one direction or another. We are just like our little six-legged counterparts, who are directed by their ant queen to search for food, feed her, so that generations of ants will reproduce. So that ants do not die out - do not extinct.

Do we sometimes laugh at the ants? Stomp on them? Kill them with spray and curse them when we leave our food unattended? Do we folly again by saying that ants are just mindless living things?
Do we label them "brainless" on occasion? Do we realise that we are similar to them?

We are all working so hard. Working to survive. Working to earn money and feed our families.

Do we realise that there may be another race of 4-dimensioned beings calling us brainless too? Sounds absurd does it not?

I do not know. Sometimes I just happen to consider what the hell are we living for. I cannot help thinking that I am just a minute "ant" in this generation to help in the quest for human survival. Then what after this generation? What comes next?

Currently Feeling Like: Scholes (Man Utd) in a unfamiliar left wing position, feeling lost and helpless.

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