Low fat milk, please

I don't know why, but I'm getting more and more lazy and tired all the time. Its like the drudgery of daily life is eating away at my life's spontaneity.

But enough rants and complaints, because that is all i seem to do nowadays.

So let's talk about current affairs. i watched the speech by our garmen leader. I think he's a brilliant man, who woks hard and basically is serving his country. I myself can't imagine being in his shoes for a day, no matter how much he's paid.

Though, i think that there's an issue that needs more thought. The more university places issue. Just because so many parents are complaining that their children can't get into the 3 local unis does not make it the unis fault. No matter how large the population, there has to be a cap at the number of grads out there. As if the thousands of grads who clog up our streets every year is not enough.

"My son got grades of CDE and C6, and he can't get any place."
"My daughter is in poly now, I'm afraid she can't get a place."

Now the above are just examples, but its close enough. I mean, look at me. I'm a lazy piece of shit, but when push comes to shove, I worked hard to get my crummy place in NTU. Siu Sing worked harder than me, for a longer, more sustained period, that's why he's now in the elite engineering science thing.

Now, those other people out there should work hard too, there is no damn point to dilute the scholar grads with more lazy people like me. Or more people who are more lazy than me (if that's possible).

As if all those other private institutions offering business degrees (at half price and half the time) aren't diluting my prospects enough, I now have to deal with a 4th uni?

Cannot tahan la. I already have all the smart Siu Sings and Audreys taking all the high paying jobs, now I have to slit someone's throat to get a factory supervisor job?

Even CD is offering sponsored degree programs at SIM. Die la. Average joe like me, kena diluted to become ordinary-super-average zul.

I'm like so in love with Audi cars right now. Ever since I played Forza Motorsport 1 in 2003, I've been aroused by Audis.

How am I to afford such luxuries with so much competition? Well, I guess that's life. We want to be an education hub, that's why we're upping the no. of grads.

But at who's expense? No point having so many grads, so much so that we become construction workers or maids in richer countries.. But i guess, the garmen will monitor the situation so we don't become a bangladesh, or philipines. That's what they said la.

But I just want to know what will we call the cream of the crop when its been watered down? The low-fat pasteurised goat's milk of the crop?

The Quartermaster's Visit

Alas, I bringeth news from the front.

I've lost the war. Surrender was inevitable.

The march to the place where I was to surrender was a long, hard one. I handed over my uniform, head bowed down in shame.

Who could have known that such a small thing could have led to my demise?

At last, the hello pandas had their victory.

I traded my No.3 for a 7, and my No.4 for an L.

At this rate, I think I might even be excluded from IPPT. Haha.

The Road Ahead: One pot-hole, and boom!

I must admit, my cold deameanour lately has got people all wondering who died.

Well, I'm not quiet for no reason. I realised something after reading all the post-College Day entries on people's blogs. Lots of people are utterly moronic and stupid. Some, like my students, really test my patience. But, there are just as many out there who are successful. And all you need to run this world are just a few really smart people. The rest will be working for these people.

Academic results are one thing, but what we do now, what courses we choose, the people we mix with, the stuff we expose ourselves to in the media, all these will shape the person we will be in 10 years.

Whether we'll be the next Stephen Hawking or the Korean scientist who faked his results, or the next bill gates or TT Durai, every single small factor comes into play, whether you'll be successful or a loser.

Intergrity, creativity, personal networks, luck etc.

The life ahead of us will be hard and uncertain. And for the stupid CD Mat like me, what lies ahead?

And people can still wonder why I look like shit nowadays. I'm 19 going onto 20, and I have no life plan. My live-life-in-the-moment doesn't work anymore. I've got to start planning. And guess what? I don't know jackshit.

I can only hope that the many of us destined to work for the great few don't know what to do too. Cos, Highway To Hell is playing right now, and it's just such an apt theme song for the way life is heading right now.

LOL. Wait, this isn't funny.

Out-of -Context

A simple conversation with one of my students (not their real names):

"So, Emma, you missed me the other day," I said, " Are we going to make it up?"

"Um, you said you weren't going to camp on National Day?" Emma replied.

"Oh, ya, I forgot.. So I do you in the morning?" I asked in turn.

"Uh, ya. 11.30?" she replied sheepishly.

"That's not morning.." I laugh."So how about Melissa?"

"Oh, Melissa and I were discussing. We want to do it together at the same time. While you're with Melissa, I do something else." she suggested.

"But that won't be very good. Can you last 4 hours? I think its best if I do each of you separately."

"Ok. See you thursday then. Good night." she replied and I made my way out of her house.

You know what I've learnt from recently? Anything taken out of context can look really bad. And no, I'm no pervert. I just have to word my sentences properly from now on, lest I continue this till I start real work, I'll have to pay a fortune in sexual harrassment suits. Haha.