The City That Never Sleeps
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posted : April 22, 2010
The exam stress, or lack of actually, has led me to updating this space frequently. I know all you fans attain such immense joy with my entries. Yes, all you not so secret fans who are now trying to hide that smile of yours behind the screen, it's okay. Reality is always bitter. Suck it in kay!
Anyway, am half way through planned revision for Soci today. Conquered my two not so favourite and huge chapters. Yay to me. By the end of today, Soci revision should be 60% done. As for ME3251 about 80% done. EG2401 is also about 60% done. Haven't gotten to read those cases just yet. Will tackle it over the weekend. The order of exams are such a way the weightage declines by each paper. Weightage for TE finals is about 90%, soci 60%, ethics 50% and econs 40%. My drive to give it all for econs I'm predicting would dip come the Labour Day weekend. Let's see how far Nazia and I can go to keep it high and ace the mod. The President's blogpost about the graduate's attention span has culminated into further research being done in the area. Over a late lunch, ms. patil and I were discussing all that she had unraveled on that topic. I've come to realise my attention span is pretty long. I can focus on a 2 hour lecture at least for about 30 to 40 minutes. I mean yes I admit if you go by the fact that your mind shouldn't wander on a single other thing except the content of what is being taught then the time would be down to seconds. We all have to admit, we are human, therefore we have the innate ability to think. I mean we all should be able to do that. And I for one, think a lot. I always fear someday my brain will explode out of the physical space it is contained within right now, cause too many things run through my mind every split second. Its fun, the study of a human brain. That too, mine to be specific. Maybe after I cease to exist, my brain needs to be kept in the museum for being capable of producing such high speed thoughts. My ego is very huge I know. Alright back to point. Maybe as the Wikipedia article suggested I was not a temperamental kid which explains my relatively long attention span. As a kid, I was very obedient, by the rules, by the book. Not really a book worm. But generally did things I was told or asked to do. I don't usually kick a fuss. Never hid school shoes to avoid school nor did I bury myself into expanding my scientific knowledge over Childcraft. I just went the flow. Took in the things instructed to me. The social context I was in, allowed me to receive the Singapore education through the typical route. But along the way, things happened. People became ugly. They started drawing the lines harder and thicker. That's when I decided to be in control of my own life and not just blindly accept authority. So I began challenging the authoritarians of my life. Both the formal and informal ones. I guess it was a blessing in a disguise that my dad did tell me this was gonna be my last birth. Being a Hindu by birth you subscribe to the fact reincarnation exists. So if you believe in that, yes this is my last birth. Whether or not it is actually true who knows?! Haha. But as humans all you need is faith, reassurance in any form. So yes, I'm just one of those who believe. So, ever since that day, I happily tell myself "Who cares! this is my last life! live it!" for every time I screw up big time, the bad vices I picked up, the vulgarities I sweared only to get caught, whipped and fall. Living life on the edge as I'd like to call it. This spirit is good. It prevents me from being wary of life. Being so scared to prevent harm from befalling only to find myself in a pit hole or something. As the graduate shares with me, this quote pretty much sums up my DOD aptly. "Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round heads in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status-quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify, or vilify them. But the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do." My already high ego is further boosted you would think. But no la. Too high already. So dad, thanks! And if wikipedia was cool enough. How about camerapedia. Awesome ain't it. |
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