Leaving on a jet plane

don't know when I'll be back again ...

That's how the lyric of the popular song goes. But I wish it were true for my case. It's 3 hours and 20 minutes before I make my way for a well-deserved holiday and a chance at seeing the world without the aid of artificial lenses! I'm very much looking forward to it but realised that there would be so little time left after I return before term begins. And there are a few people I've been wanting to meet but haven't yet have the opportunity. Sad ...

What I'd like to know is where has all the time between the last time I blogged and now gone to?

Well, the climbing kids did really well in the various categories: 3rd for both boys and girls in the school's team event; 1st and 3rd for girls in the Under 20s, and 1st, 3rd for boys, and 1st and 2nd for girls in the Novice category. Happy for them.

Had lunch with a few of the kids from my class yesterday and it was pleasant. I kind of miss them I guess and it was nice seeing them again. There is ironically so much to know of them but there is never enough time and when one realises the time has past and it is time to move on. This is the condition of transcience. Everything suffers from the erosive effects of time - age, life, material tangibles, chemicals, energy, space, nature, memories and even love. But perhaps what is most painful in life that time does not help take away are regrets, missed opportunities and lost chances. That, to me, is one of the most stark and painful realities of existence - that when the opportunity passes it'll never return again. And it has happened to me ... several times. No matter how one tries to recover that lost moment, it'll never be like what it could have been and it'll never be quite the same. But then again, how does one know how it could have been but only in the recesses of our picture-perfect imagination?

It makes one cherish life more - the awareness of transcience that is. 'Carpe Diem' is the popular tag-phrase bandied around by pretentious literary wannabes. But are we aware of what it truly means? I'm still trying to figure out too and comprehend the notion of 'carpe diem' but I'm not always successful either.

Here's to the next entry two weeks down.