April 5 2005 train home

i suppose in light of the recent events that happened in my university course, i ought to write something. such is the frailty of human relationships. suddenly friends are enemies. suddenly you realize a plot has already been incubating in someone's mind for ages, way before you know it... when you were still talking, joking and smiling to this person, it was already there. you shudder at the person's ability to conceal such a hideous idea. and only when the bomb explodes then you realized there is an expert terrorist in your midst. too late though.

the good thing is, it gives us caution as to the spectrum of people you will meet out there. of course, no one is two-dimensional. the two people we now condemn in the class are not entirely guilty and not entirely without redeeming points. and the rest of us are not innocent either. however, the degree of malice they are capable of far exceeds any one of us. what is definite however, is that this situation is irreparable. trust is definitely a finite resource these days. like fossil fuels, once depleted, it goes up in smoke.