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it's funny how post As really left a void in my brain. I tried recalling our maths syllabus for some reason over class bbq and realised that i couldn't quite remember it. and that's after 24 months of maths.
i think my brain is degenerating.
working life is really making a negative impact on my brain because i'm not thinking about more interesting issues, rather just dead tired when i get home, which makes me permanently stuck to the couch and my eyes glued to the TV. somehow this life is different from what i envisioned post As to be--i think post As should be some intellectual liberation since i have time to read more interesting books, interesting ideas and think and reflect more about worldly issues. which sadly isn't exactly happening. Dec and Jan have been great in the way that i've been occupied with work, which is immensely enlightening, but at the same time it's all the occupation with first US apps, then the financial aid forms that are stressing me again.
I need to be more productive in using my brain! and i recently realised this is the last hurrah the last empty period of my life that i can waste, and burn, and ignite, before i get thrown into uni and then graduate to work. i must find some interesting work to do. janice and i were talking over bbq about interesting and fulfilling work which didn't have to be so formal and relatively well paid like internships. i'd love to wait tables and i think i will even if my parents are like ?!?! to it. sometimes i think it's a pity that all my work experiences have been internships and not those that really pay a pittance in exchange for human labour, somehow i'm just too fortunate eh, not having to work for holiday allowances etc. in any case i will go look for some waitressing job hurhur, which should be a good skill to pick up (on top of tutoring) if i ever need to self-finance myself to uk.
this week i read a reply from Minlaw to some foreign paper that ran an article on chee soon juan. it was kind of interesting to see things from the govt's perspective (haha grudgingly? i always felt the chee guy seemed quite pitiful) because they could raise all sorts of exact examples of the laws chee flouted and the number of times he went to jail as default payment, which the foreign paper chose to ignore. haha it's funny but i think the govt made sense. and the law minister's Q&A was interesting as well, in raising the point that even though countries like USA etc claim to have a fully-fledged democracy as a whole, their cities are overwhelmed by one party situations e.g. chicago which has always been a democratic stronghold. which lends support to singapore as a one-party state hurhur. hate to admit that the guy did make some sense huh. xD
that's all that's the least bit intellectual that i read this week. hopefully the coming week after getting rid of finaid forms for 3 schools i will have more time to do more reading. and make the long awaited trip to spend off all my remaining page 1 vouchers from pm bk prize which goodness me was a good 2 years ago.
ohh i feel old. [nearly 2 decades old. 1.9 to be precise. Phew.]
i think my brain is degenerating.
working life is really making a negative impact on my brain because i'm not thinking about more interesting issues, rather just dead tired when i get home, which makes me permanently stuck to the couch and my eyes glued to the TV. somehow this life is different from what i envisioned post As to be--i think post As should be some intellectual liberation since i have time to read more interesting books, interesting ideas and think and reflect more about worldly issues. which sadly isn't exactly happening. Dec and Jan have been great in the way that i've been occupied with work, which is immensely enlightening, but at the same time it's all the occupation with first US apps, then the financial aid forms that are stressing me again.
I need to be more productive in using my brain! and i recently realised this is the last hurrah the last empty period of my life that i can waste, and burn, and ignite, before i get thrown into uni and then graduate to work. i must find some interesting work to do. janice and i were talking over bbq about interesting and fulfilling work which didn't have to be so formal and relatively well paid like internships. i'd love to wait tables and i think i will even if my parents are like ?!?! to it. sometimes i think it's a pity that all my work experiences have been internships and not those that really pay a pittance in exchange for human labour, somehow i'm just too fortunate eh, not having to work for holiday allowances etc. in any case i will go look for some waitressing job hurhur, which should be a good skill to pick up (on top of tutoring) if i ever need to self-finance myself to uk.
this week i read a reply from Minlaw to some foreign paper that ran an article on chee soon juan. it was kind of interesting to see things from the govt's perspective (haha grudgingly? i always felt the chee guy seemed quite pitiful) because they could raise all sorts of exact examples of the laws chee flouted and the number of times he went to jail as default payment, which the foreign paper chose to ignore. haha it's funny but i think the govt made sense. and the law minister's Q&A was interesting as well, in raising the point that even though countries like USA etc claim to have a fully-fledged democracy as a whole, their cities are overwhelmed by one party situations e.g. chicago which has always been a democratic stronghold. which lends support to singapore as a one-party state hurhur. hate to admit that the guy did make some sense huh. xD
that's all that's the least bit intellectual that i read this week. hopefully the coming week after getting rid of finaid forms for 3 schools i will have more time to do more reading. and make the long awaited trip to spend off all my remaining page 1 vouchers from pm bk prize which goodness me was a good 2 years ago.
ohh i feel old. [nearly 2 decades old. 1.9 to be precise. Phew.]