i spent the whole day today packing my room in preparation for renovation somewhere within the next month.. and i must say that it's a very very tiring, but rewarding, experience..

after all that packing, i realised that i have one whole box (measuring about 800mm X 400mm x 600mm) filled only with CDs and DVDs... and another bigger box filled with books... and both boxes are nearly too heavy for me to move around the house.. gRRR.. but i did find many nice surprises.. one of it was the graduation bookmark that my primary school english teacher gave me.. and another was from the secondary school chinese teacher..

and as i packed my certificates (which probably took the longest cos i read through each certificate and result slip from primary school all the way till my A level cert), i felt very lucky that the education system in singapore only considers the A level cert and not the others.. because i realised that i scored 10% for my J1 Mathematics, and none of my subjects got above 50% for the whole of JC year 1!!! J2 was slightly better, because there were one or two subjects that crossed the 50% mark.. but still they were distant from decent..

i looked through my entire magazine subscription that i kept since forever.. ranging from the readers' digest at sec 1 and sec 2 to newsweek at sec 3 and sec 4 to times at J1 and J2 to pioneer in NS.. to think that i barely looked through them when i actually subscribed to it!! and now that i've stopped subscribing to them, i read them (well, mainly the "laugher is the best medicine" section in readers' digest.. and a couple of articles like "getting fit fast" in Times, and "the science of religion" in Newsweek..)..

and i cleared my cupboard of lego toys.. and i still have the robotics inventions 1.5 set fully assembled in there.. together with my model crane, model car, and a lego robot that is actually capable of moving around.. painstakingly, i disassembled them.. and i actually think that i will reassemble them when my new house is ready.. lego really brings me great memories because they accompanied me throughout my childhood life (before the dawn of the personal computer).. i could spend hours at length assembling them (and skipping homework sometimes).. and it's amazing knowing how short the attention span of a child can be..

and expectedly, that took up the whole day.. at night, i watched Gray Matters.. it's an old movie about this brother and sister who were so close that everyone thought that they were a couple.. then they decided to find their sibling a bf/gf.. and eventually the bother got himself a perfect match, whereas the sister realised that she was a lesbian when she fell in love with the gf that she herself found for her brother.. and about how she goes about handling her new realisation..

then i re-watched the bucket list again.. because it's soooo nice!! i love the question that carter asked edward.. "have you found joy in your life?", and "has your life brought joy to others?".. it's two very simple and straight-forward questions, yet something that is always worth pondering, and working on.. and to further expand the questions, "on a scale of 1 to 10, how much joy have you found in your life?", and "on a scale of 1 to 10, how much joy has your life brought to others?".. for me, i think the answer to the first question would be 6; and the second, 3.. i have the rest of my lifetime to achieve 10,10.. but then again, do i know how long i will live?? i can only hope that i will live to the day when the figure reaches 10,10..