Appreciating Ice-Kachang

sis was home for lunch yesterday, so as usual the family had its little pow-wow over lunch.....

a topic of interest came up, and it was abt the daughter of one of mum's frens.....she's abt a year or so older than i am......and to date, she hasnt decided on wat she wants to do with her life career-wise......basically she's jus bumming ard somewhere in Australia and the mother is paying for her lack of direction........

not that she never had direction at all........she had........but she never really pushed thru with any of them.........

at first she wanted to be a nun......yep a nun......then after going to the nunnery and seeing how life as a nun was like, she backed out.........

den after that, it was something else i cant remember

now, she has enrolled herself in a nursing course......god knows how long she will stick to this direction.........bets?

so anywayz, wat has this gotta do wif Ice-Kachang?

well, the point of this post is not really abt whether the girl finally finds her destiny/direction and lives happily ever-after blah blah blah........she can go turn from nun to hooker for all i care, it's inconsequential to me.......i dun even know her......

the point here is actually abt how the conversation on the topic took place......sometimes i think pple (myself included) tend to over-analyse things........we like to straight away label things as good/bad and/or continue to weigh things against another........

to illustrate my point:
Me : Wouldn't it be great to just live a life like hers? Just nua-ing, not working and yet have the money.
Sis : Yea, but where's your self-worth? Imagine at that age, when you look around and watch your frens move on with their own family and home while you are jus bumming around without any direction at all.
Me : Yea, ok, all the self worth thing, weighing the pros and cons blah blah aside lah. That we all know liao and we can do anytime any day and done it so many times. But for now wouldn't it be nice to just appreciate the superficiality of things? The girl is in a way living the stuff that many pple dream of.

which leads me to Ice-Kachang......sometimes it's nice to jus slowly eat the surrounding the ice + all its coloured syrup and not bother abt how much red-beans there are inside the little mountain and whether you are getting your money's worth of red-beans......

then again, many sg-poreans like to mash up the whole ice-kachang and mix it up before eating.........

for the record, i dun like ice-kachang........but i love chendol.......and yep, i often mix it up before eating.......