Thursday, August 30, 2007

Feeling sorry for myself


I did a loser thing today: I felt sorry for myself.

Let me elaborate.

I was on the bus out of school with Weixin after lab practical. Weixin and I were discussing our current group project. As we talked, I started to check with him the list of assignments that we had to do.

I found out that there was alot. 4 in fact

Yes it might not seem much. However, one of the assignments requires me to read and understand a research paper. I've tried reading it to no avail, and simply have no idea what they are talking about. How am I going to critique it?
Another assignment was our group project. Weixin told me today that some groups had already finished their proposal. We have not even done ours yet.

Worse still, my group members had schedules that clash. It was going to be difficult for us to get together for any discussion.

Yes, I have so much work yet to be done.

So i pondered about the assignments as I took the bus home, and I felt sorry for myself as I slowly walked back to where I lived.

I was sighing and pity-ing myself when I saw, through the window, workers in the building near my house carrying heavy sacks.

It made me wonder: What would life be like if I was one of the workers? Working, come rain or shine, like this everyday. It'll be hard, definitely.

To come to a foreign land, do shit jobs everyday, sleeping in less than pleasent environments, and having to share accommodation and amenities with many others, would most certainly be something I would not like.


Then I realised...... how lucky I was.

Who am I to complain about work? Work... who doesn't do it? Everyone works.
Hard work? Who doesn't experience hard work?

Why... if people can finish their assignments, why can't I?

Seriously, what is so difficult? It is just work. Isn't it?

I should stop complaining.



To think that I actually felt sorry for myself..... I'm ashamed


Savant at 8/30/2007 06:01:00 pm ; (0) comments

Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Do yourself a favour


Watch Michael Moore's docufilm "SiCKO".

It'll enlighten you and shock you.

Do it now.

http://www.tv-links.co.uk/video/9/7504/12112/74157/103994

Cuba doesn't look that bad anymore.


Savant at 8/29/2007 06:31:00 pm ; (0) comments

Monday, August 27, 2007

1 month onwards, where am I heading?


It's been 4 weeks. Why do I feel so alienated from everything in school? I haven't really got used to the new school term, I'm not concentrating properly, for example, I only realised last night that one of my modules has no tutorials.

This semester is going to be tough. I'm sick of writing lab reports, sick of lousy lecturers who speak gibberish during lectures or tutorials.

I'm sick of not knowing what to do with my life.



If I could improve one aspect of myself, I would certainly ask to be more ambitious.


Savant at 8/27/2007 11:39:00 pm ; (0) comments

Saturday, August 18, 2007

Man jailed 16 years for raping teen daughter


Please take some time now to flip to the Home section of the 18 Aug 07 issue of The Straits Times.

Now take a look at the cover page.

Look at the blue caption box on the right, below the graphic of the pen and paper.

Read the short, 2nd paragraph.


See anything wrong with it?

Why are their mentality like that? This isn't the first time. You're not "showing concern" for your daughter's well-being and safety if you RAPE them. Typical behavior and typical mindset.

The mistress must probably be blind, or too submissive.


Most of the time, I keep seeing the same picture(yes let me generalise, because i see it so often!)
A young woman taking the bus with her child, accompanied by her husband, who's covered in tattoos. The husband wears a cool trucker hat, blasts his music from his handphone, thinking he's cool and IS THE SHIT!

Worse, I've seen one too many times fathers or ever mothers, smoking in the presence of their babies. What the fuck is wrong with these people.

Yes, it's not particularly one racial group that does it. But we all know who does it the most, who appears in the newspapers the most. There's no pretending that the things we read in the papers did not happen.

They did. And it is still happening.

What's worse is the mentality that follows thereafter.
Perhaps if he fathered his own grand-daughter, the mistress would still feel that "He has shown devotion tome and our daughters by his concern for their well-being and safety. He is also a dedicated, loving and good father."

Yeah more like "good GRAND-father"

Savant at 8/18/2007 10:41:00 am ; (0) comments

Monday, August 06, 2007

A fruitful conclusion to weeks of hardwork





Thank you all who made it possible. Thank you for your sacrifice, the late nights, etc.




No matter where, no matter what time, no matter how hard we'd work, the photo we take always seems so familiar. The smiles always remind me of the photos we've taken in the past after concerts.


Thank you all for making it happen!


Savant at 8/06/2007 11:12:00 pm ; (0) comments

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