Tuesday, 22 May 2007


hihi!!!

yay the blog is back up!!

anyway.. im really sorry, but i need to collect $7 from those who went for fac outing.. coz of the ties...

so far only woon chee, mark, zhi guang, esmond and jin xiang has paid me...

and i have 2 extra ties + 1 more for jin xiang who hasnt got his from me... but im not very sure who hasnt gotten theirs...



I know it can be quite sad when your results dont meet your expectations... but i guess whats done is done, no point worrying over the past, but we should channel our energies to the future. Sometimes... we just have to learn to channel the despair over results into a form of motivation... If you think you did badly this time, work harder next time! The good thing about not having a final examination is that you always get a second chance, and i guess we have no choice but to play the game of becoming educated. And now its still JC, and we have a year and a half left, where mistakes can still be covered up easily, at least before we enter uni (imagine if u punched a bus driver when u are working). Now is the chance to make mistakes, so that we can learn from them and prevent them from happening in the future. Don't be afraid of making wrong decisions now... at least is better to be wrong now than to be sorry later.

Personally I don't like the way academic results make everyone competitive. Academic results do not reflect your ability, but reflect how much you forget instead. True ability transcends academic results, and that is what the IP programme tries to teach us, but unfortunately it seems to be failing. How many people treated their student initiated activities seriously? Do we merely do copy and paste, or reflections with no meaning, or do we really take the opportunity to learn something outside our syllabus? Even now, do we bother to read up beyond the syllabus? The meritocratic system is intended to allow "perfect competition" spur people on to greater heights, but apparently, the thing called the "syllabus" is restricting what we learn.

Theres this thing that has been bugging me for a long time. Ideally speaking, there are many things we should and should not do, but practically speaking they are otherwise. How do we draw the line between being helpful and being taken advantage of? Or.. between helping and spoonfeeding? Or.. between hardwork and mugging? How do we differentiate between being unable to do something and unwilling to do something? What do we mean by "balanced"? I believe it all lies in the person, by setting your own definitions and standards. But, the problem only arises in the big picture, where actions get mistaken.

Last but not least... a question that has troubled many people. Basically, what are we living for? What are our directions in life? What is the purpose of life?

The academics give us callous replies to the meaning of life, and they are barely, or definitely not, answers to our purposes:

Biology: The central dogma. DNA encodes RNA, RNA codes for proteins, and the proteins determine the phenotype and characteristics of an organism. The mind, and all thinking processes are due to complex interactions between the neurotransmitters and proteins present in the neurons of our brains.

Chemistry: Life appears to be thermodynamically unfavourable, as the arrangement of molecules in a living system are highly ordered and non-spontaneous.

Physics: Life arises from probability. The uncertainty principle allows for random arrangement of molecules to form organic matter in the first place.

Mathematics: Not relevant.

Economics: Life is all about profit maximising (or about complex marketing strategies that we have not learnt)

Geography: Without cash, Malthus tells you, "take no brides". Malthus also says that people reproduce too fast (ie have too much fun).

History: World War I - 40 million died. World War II - 56 million died. Please do not repeat your mistakes (at least the world leaders should not). *Malthus must be happy

Perhaps with the exception of Literature. Morale of the story: enjoy the humanities. Studying too much deprives life of its essence.

Junjie says lets mug at 11:55 pm

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