I got 23/30 for econs mcq. I was staggered over. This is a big deal. I was equally staggered over at the sight of my other papers. Not because they were equally awesome, but because the marks were just about equal. Now, if only the essay paper wasn't out of 75....
So yeah, my econs isn't that great.
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Strangely, I have absolutely nothing to say right now. It's not like there's anything tangibly bad about nothingness ; Sometimes the absence is more comforting than the presence though almost always less so than the presents. Ecspecially so when you're talking about the presence of Ninja-trained Econs teachers, a bull in a China shop or guest singers on Singapore Idol.
Aside : I'm absolutely sure that the guest performers on Singapore Idol are there for the sole purpose of making the actual contestants look good. Between a bunch of Chinese guys trying to sing Stand by Me, the band doing to Green Day songs what Michael Jackson does to little boys and Rui En butching Iris, it just doesn't get much worse than that. I was most ticked off by the latter though, never mind that she's starkly overrated and really not that pretty, now she has to prove to the whole world(or just Singapore, since SI shown overseas would be accompanied by a laughtrack and called a comedy) that she's about as musically talented as a grey mule on a trampoline. And she still claimed she was bringing out the emotion of the song. Then again, maybe she thought that the song was supposed to bring excruciating pain to the ears of others. (End aside)
I am, in fact, a believer in nothingness ; After all, the most important things don't need a medium by which to be channeled, and everything else is pretty much distraction. There's just something about a void that makes it comforting. To have nothing to look at going forward and nothing to miss looking back, it traps you in the present and makes you live in the moment, which is what life is all about ; Because thinking short term is somewhat reckless and thinking long term lends itself to tunnel vision, it's better to just do what you need to now and adjust later, since plans don't work out 90% of the time anyway.
However, if we filled our lives with only the most important things, and there are actually only so few of them, it does get boring eventually, even if we do know it's important. Kind of like education, see? Anyway, this is where filler comes in ; As a temporary respite to the weariness of life that grows, it also distracts and pulls us away from the most important things, so that when we do return to them we learn to cherish them even more. What these important things actually are, however, differ from person to person. It could be money, love, food, movies, friendship, worship, brotherhood, brothers in the hood or even brother red riding hood.(Does that even make any sense?)
However, things go from one state to another, and way leads on to way ; And somewhere down the line, many, if not all, of us lose sight of these most important things. This can be disguised as changing priorities, paradigm shift or a variety of other things, Elvis Presley, Vanilla Ice or Vanilla Ice Cream among others. And sometimes, when we wake up and realise that we've been neglecting our priorities all the while, it's much too late to do anything about the situation. And as a result, our outlook on life changes as the actual priority shift happens here : Since we've effectively renounced what we stood for in the past, there isn't a reason to go back to it anymore, it would be the same as beating a dead horse till it became fully digested, or eating your own puke. As a more serious analogy, it's like going overseas and coming to find your family dead, leaving you with no choice but to move on with whatever you were doing.
So how does one deal with this? The answer is that you probably can't unless you have built in security cameras in your corneas, because trying to give equal attention to every aspect of your life means that you won't get the full enjoyment of doing any one thing ; A jack of all trades and master of none in some sense. Opportunity cost. A bunch of other economic terms. However, it's the process of actuallt deciding what to leave and what to go with that becomes a bother, and this is where so many people screw up in life and wind up at a desk job cursing their luck every morning and their bosses in the evening when they get to do the honours known as "unpaid overtime". This happens because people fail to realise the full ramifications of what they do. I've said that thinking to far ahead puts you in danger of tunnel vision, which is why that comes in important as people only consider one outcome and not how that outcome affects everything else.
In fact, by now you've already thought of several mistakes that you've made already ; Such as lending money to that guy on the last day of school, helping that old woman cross the road only to realise you were on candid camera or it's inferior little brother Gotcha! or making your movies so predictable that your audience knows the ending while you're halfway through your script(M. Night Shyamalan, here's looking at you.)
Sadly, even if we do realise the mistakes we make, we can never truly determine if the other route would have been better, which makes regret and other past-related emotions somewhat obsolete in today's world.
(Oh, great. I have no idea how to end this post.)
The weird part is, after all that I still feel like I haven't said anything.
Does anything I say make sense anymore? Did it in the first place? Sheesh.
So yeah, my econs isn't that great.
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Strangely, I have absolutely nothing to say right now. It's not like there's anything tangibly bad about nothingness ; Sometimes the absence is more comforting than the presence though almost always less so than the presents. Ecspecially so when you're talking about the presence of Ninja-trained Econs teachers, a bull in a China shop or guest singers on Singapore Idol.
Aside : I'm absolutely sure that the guest performers on Singapore Idol are there for the sole purpose of making the actual contestants look good. Between a bunch of Chinese guys trying to sing Stand by Me, the band doing to Green Day songs what Michael Jackson does to little boys and Rui En butching Iris, it just doesn't get much worse than that. I was most ticked off by the latter though, never mind that she's starkly overrated and really not that pretty, now she has to prove to the whole world(or just Singapore, since SI shown overseas would be accompanied by a laughtrack and called a comedy) that she's about as musically talented as a grey mule on a trampoline. And she still claimed she was bringing out the emotion of the song. Then again, maybe she thought that the song was supposed to bring excruciating pain to the ears of others. (End aside)
I am, in fact, a believer in nothingness ; After all, the most important things don't need a medium by which to be channeled, and everything else is pretty much distraction. There's just something about a void that makes it comforting. To have nothing to look at going forward and nothing to miss looking back, it traps you in the present and makes you live in the moment, which is what life is all about ; Because thinking short term is somewhat reckless and thinking long term lends itself to tunnel vision, it's better to just do what you need to now and adjust later, since plans don't work out 90% of the time anyway.
However, if we filled our lives with only the most important things, and there are actually only so few of them, it does get boring eventually, even if we do know it's important. Kind of like education, see? Anyway, this is where filler comes in ; As a temporary respite to the weariness of life that grows, it also distracts and pulls us away from the most important things, so that when we do return to them we learn to cherish them even more. What these important things actually are, however, differ from person to person. It could be money, love, food, movies, friendship, worship, brotherhood, brothers in the hood or even brother red riding hood.(Does that even make any sense?)
However, things go from one state to another, and way leads on to way ; And somewhere down the line, many, if not all, of us lose sight of these most important things. This can be disguised as changing priorities, paradigm shift or a variety of other things, Elvis Presley, Vanilla Ice or Vanilla Ice Cream among others. And sometimes, when we wake up and realise that we've been neglecting our priorities all the while, it's much too late to do anything about the situation. And as a result, our outlook on life changes as the actual priority shift happens here : Since we've effectively renounced what we stood for in the past, there isn't a reason to go back to it anymore, it would be the same as beating a dead horse till it became fully digested, or eating your own puke. As a more serious analogy, it's like going overseas and coming to find your family dead, leaving you with no choice but to move on with whatever you were doing.
So how does one deal with this? The answer is that you probably can't unless you have built in security cameras in your corneas, because trying to give equal attention to every aspect of your life means that you won't get the full enjoyment of doing any one thing ; A jack of all trades and master of none in some sense. Opportunity cost. A bunch of other economic terms. However, it's the process of actuallt deciding what to leave and what to go with that becomes a bother, and this is where so many people screw up in life and wind up at a desk job cursing their luck every morning and their bosses in the evening when they get to do the honours known as "unpaid overtime". This happens because people fail to realise the full ramifications of what they do. I've said that thinking to far ahead puts you in danger of tunnel vision, which is why that comes in important as people only consider one outcome and not how that outcome affects everything else.
In fact, by now you've already thought of several mistakes that you've made already ; Such as lending money to that guy on the last day of school, helping that old woman cross the road only to realise you were on candid camera or it's inferior little brother Gotcha! or making your movies so predictable that your audience knows the ending while you're halfway through your script(M. Night Shyamalan, here's looking at you.)
Sadly, even if we do realise the mistakes we make, we can never truly determine if the other route would have been better, which makes regret and other past-related emotions somewhat obsolete in today's world.
(Oh, great. I have no idea how to end this post.)
The weird part is, after all that I still feel like I haven't said anything.
Does anything I say make sense anymore? Did it in the first place? Sheesh.
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