Humans are becoming more and more lazy in recent times, as shown by the rise of internet language, where "lol" has replaced "haha", thereby saving one alphabet and letters in friendster profiles mysteriously go missing like women and children in a slave-trading country, which is an oxymoron, since typing in alternate caps is shit tiring, much like doing battle with a Hwa Chong prelim paper.

Very soon, this laziness will translate into our speech as well, as medisave, medishield and medifund have basically been compressed into what we call "3 Ms", people talk in short, curt and inevitably occassionally rude sentences, as opposed to overflowing, time-wasting, over-the-top, under-the-bridge language of shakespearen times.

Who can blame laziness on the youths of the world when even the adults are slacking off? Adults reading this, don't try to deny it.

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What do you do when you have a paper in eleven hours and your studying so far has been limited to 10 minute intervals with 5 hour breaks in between?

A) Invent a time machine. While obviously the best option, being not much more than a student with an O-level cert and much less than a renowned scientist means that this will be an uphill task. Which creates another dilemma, which means going in circles. Which is what econs feels like right now.

B) Try to study. Realistic, yes, but inevitably bound for failure if the rumour that studying is a progressive effort turns out to be true. Hence may be self-defeating and ego-bruising. Stay away.

C) Run around in circles screaming your head off.

D) Hibernate. Both C and D are performed with the mindset that flogging a dead horse would give you a squishy pink pulp rather than a ride. Which obviously makes the most sense.

Obviously, I won't do any of the above, instead choosing alternative methods of loafing around for the impending, inevitable, inconceivable and in-something else doom.

This is as laughable as my mangling of the English Language.

And when I get my paper, I will look at it and say "this is awkward", or rather switch to a compressed version, "this awk".

Whine report on said econs paper coming soon.