Blow by Blow- 4 april

4/4/2011
Full on IS preparation today. A few more days before all of this ends.
Strangely I just realized how wasteful my life has been throughout this while. In Singapore, I don’t blink an eye when I buy and the shop assistants hand me plastic bags. Not to mention my preference for anything individually wrapped. And then I bring my life from Singapore to china, and I do exactly what I’ve been doing
And I realize the amount of plastic that floats around in the room which 1) becomes unused or 2) rendered useless. My life is really plastic straddled. Even when buying water, I choose the kind with plastic shrink wrap around the bottles instead of a box.
All for the sake of convenience. How I hate convenience. The more we depend on it, the more side effects it has on us, so much to the extent that we forget the basic things that we could have done ourselves, but we don’t, saying it takes up too much trouble
There is no such thing is too much trouble. It’s just the lack of convenience that we harp about.
I just hope not to the extent where we’re substituting the little things like writing a memo with a word document, a drawing or doodling an iphone picture, or even a voice recording instead of speaking, because we’re hoping we can use it over and over again. The sake of convenience. Ah, how nice. 

School grounds at dusk. I still run off occasionally.

I think i took this same picture about 3 weeks ago, and you can see the difference now.. All the leaves are growing back slowly, and the school is being dyed green.

 

 Back alley of the school. No one comes here, given the stench and graffiti on the walls. I'm not saying it's not good, just that they weren't expecting any visitors. 

 Sunshine falling on to the wall. This is a back door used for moving goods, and as usual I walk in the strangest places. I liked the falling of light against the wall, and it forms a straight line (the top outline of the light. If they had painted a mural exactly where the light falls in this picture, I'm pretty sure we would have plenty of people walking into walls. 

Outside the boy's apartment in the back entrance. Sunsets move really fast in this town. 

I think I posted this photograph before. Taken about the same time, this has a bicycle under a tree. It has something reminiscent about it (I'm useless with words), reminding you about the happy days you spend without a care in the world, how you thought all your problems should be the world's concerns, but now.. 

Corridor outside class. I spent so many times walking up at down it, I now know every classroom and door by heart. Usually it's quiet, but when I took it, its silence echoes about the building even more this time. I don't know when I would able to come back to this same place