Calculations

//Calculations//

I went to the kitchen just now to get a drink, and my mum and dad happened to be there. Apparently, they were in a heated debate over some money issues (more of issues with counting the money). So they decided to engage my help.

The conversation went something like that (after translation):

Mum: Xiang ah, I ask you hor, if I bought 12 packs of XXX (i really cannot remember what was the thing she bought), and it costs $132, and now I want to find out how each pack cost, do I divide 132 with 12 or divide 12 with 132?

*me give stunned look, turned to my dad

Me (to my dad): What do you think?

Dad: That's why we are asking you right, we can't figure it out!

*me give even more stunned look

Me: Please la, this is primary school maths.

Mum: So which one is it?!?!

Me: 132 divide by 12 la! For 2 people who are so good at managing their own finance, I'm appalled you 2 can't figure this out.

Dad: Aiya, sometimes it just don't click the right way.

On a separate note, been teaching quite a few students lately. Spending time with JC students, going through JC syllabus and so on, made me feel rather...old. I mean, whenever I see students in uniform, it just brings back memories of my school days, which honestly speaking, didn't feel that distant and long ago, Especially with the recent surge in meet-ups with JC classmates and friends. But whenever during lesson, somehow they all manage to make me feel like I'm some old man, who knows everything about the JC curriculum at the back of my hand.

Love is over
请你不要再说明
过去就像流云
随风飘去无踪影
-欧阳菲菲 (逝去的爱)

It's not quite the feeling of growing up (or older) that makes me feel uneasy. It's the sense of time that is slipping away so rapidly that intimidates me. Just like what the lyrics say, "过去就像流云, 随风飘去无踪影". And it's ever so hard to live in the moment and truly say that I've lived it to the fullest.

Anyway, as fast as time may seem to slip away, ORD date don't seem to be approaching fast enough. Only 4 more months to ORD, but the obstacle that lies between me and my ORD just keeps growing. Well, but to be slightly cliche, "ain't no mountain high enough, ain't no valley low enough, ain't no river wide enough, to keep me from getting to you". Of course that would literally mean there are tonnes of mountain to climb and river to cross before I can get to my ORD.

Heaven help us all.