Weekday Vs Weekend

It’s strange. It’s extreme. I’m so busy during weekdays & find some satisfaction in my work; yet I’m so free during the weekends & don’t feel much satisfaction at all.

After I had vacuumed my house after breakfast, I wondered to myself – what should I do today? Maybe I should go walk around Parkway coz I always come home late & tired after work… so haven’t really been out at all.

In fact, I told my Mum that I felt weird holding the TV remote control, when I turned on the TV to watch one of my VCD this morning. It felt as if I haven’t held the remote control for ages! On weekdays it’s just work & sleep. Even my Blog entries have reduced, not because my life has suddenly become unexciting, but because I’m too tired to type at the end of the work day.

I gazed around at the crowds of people, young & old, bustling around Parkway Parade. In my mind, I thought to myself – what’s all this hype about? Is there really so much to see, buy & do at this shopping centre? Or is there really not much interesting to do at home?

For me, it’s both. There isn’t much that really entices me to do at home or outside during the weekends. Seriously, it’s just the rest & getting away from work, for at least one day of the week, so as to recharge myself for the new week ahead. So that kind-of like makes work my primary focus in my life? Come to think of it, yeah… I think it’s true. Without finding meaning in the work that I do, where else is there any challenge & interest in my life?

Endless shopping doesn’t give any satisfaction at all… maybe watching movies is better… but there aren’t many really worth watching shows lately. In fact, I think the storyline of movies filmed in the earlier Hollywood days were much better. I wonder if film makers are running out of ideas of what kind of movie script to film. It’s like the hype about movies isn’t as ‘hot’ as before already. Maybe because there are so much more other forms of entertainment nowadays… with online games & stuff…

Thinking about it now, I wonder how it would be like to bring my children out to shopping centers next time. These young chaps would probably be running here & there, with my wife & I keeping watch over them... while at the meantime, probably feeling listless about all the shops that are around us. Maybe we might just walk around & see if there is anything that we need to buy… but other than that, at least at this point of time, I really don’t know what else to do at a typical shopping centre here. Shopping paradise, they call it? Shopping… yes… paradise… no. Not for me, at least.

Sigh… I’ll just basically rest for the new week ahead…