[[un bel di, vedremo!]]*

http://www.mrbrown.com/blog/2008/04/mas-selamat-coi.html, http://www.mrbrownshow.com/2008/04/28/the-mrbrown-show-blame-it-on-somebody-the-anyhowly-remix/. yes, mr brown. it does make some sense though, if you take everything with a pinch of salt.

my specs hurt my right ear ):

hello all. i am prepared for the possibility of attaining a 2.4 gpa this midyear. it is highly probable though not necessarily pleasant, and must as such be prepared for.

sometimes i wonder if i even care what my gpa is or how many betas i have or whatever. most of the time i’m sagacious enough to distill my life down to my survival in this world, and i know i have no choice. musn’t lose sight, musn’t lose sight!

since my parents don’t want to spend so much in june, we’re not going to australia. originally the plan was china (wth) but i managed to convince them to save the cash and spend on usa instead. now it’s tioman, and i shall work towards telling them not to go anywhere but chalets in sentosa so that the usa trip can be a little less budget-tight. (i hope it doesn’t go from usa to something else okay. it changed from central europe to usa cos of the low dollar, but it may just as easily change again!)

i can’t stand my parents’ combined holiday philosophy. my dad is travel-sian after many tiring business trips, and goes places mostly just to help us around because nothing much interests him much save for good deals or digital stuff or both. but the good thing is that, even though he doesn’t necessarily enjoy travelling as much as i might and thus might not find the money as well spent, he isn’t against going places so long as it’s reasonable and practical. unlike my mum, a narrow-minded ass, who only wants to go to very famous and very established places. the great barrier reef, niagara falls, the great wall. it’s not that i don’t want to go to those places, i want to. i just don’t PARTICULARLY want to go, especially since she’s said it so much and it’s very eye-rolling now. what’s worse is that she is completely uninterested and dismissive of unconventional (to her) locations. oh what’s wrong with egypt, just because you don’t know how rich their history is? what’s wrong with going to eastern europe, just because you don’t see the value in their culture? what’s wrong with going to alaska, just because it’s cold? what’s wrong with going to hong kong, just because it’s cosmopolitan and you can shop there like in singapore? what’s wrong with going to greece, just because you don’t speak their language? why must we keep going to china, because it’s cheap, because YOU can speak chinese, because YOU eat their food, because they have a history YOU understand, or what? (i don’t have anything against going to china, in fact, some parts have rather interesting culture. it’s just her attitude that sickens me. and i don’t really appreciate the food/ environment in certain places.) like wth, you go overseas to enjoy yourself and for exposure right? why then is she being so close-minded about places? what’s the exposure if the places you go have to have familiar food, culture, language, monuments, etc? it’s not that places have to be entirely different, but you need to experience the local culture firsthand by doing activities both similar (such as eating, travelling, shopping etc) and different (eg visiting local monuments, ecotourism etc) from what you do in singapore! and seriously currency is no excuse not to visit a place. sure, i know we’re poor people but you can always spend less, or go on fewer holidays! just because china has a rather low currency doesn’t mean we should keep going there. just because australia has a rather high currency doesn’t mean we shouldn’t go there. you mean you won’t go to australia at any point in your life unless the currency depreciates? what kind of logic is that?

hmm, i should channel such discontent to efforts towards my future. they’re directly linked, after all.

speaking of future reminds me of a recent conversation with shu in which we were discussing our prospective occupations. i told her i found it ironic that the two types of jobs i was most interested in happened to be the two types of jobs that half the world finds clichedly lucrative and respectable. but they interest me! i mean, i’ve considered things like doing bpa (bloodstain pattern analysis) and psychophysiology or something, psychology or even metaphysics and tok, but the former two require backgrounds from many different disciplines and the latter two are best kept as hobbies. but somehow the ideas of me spending my life in a hospital rushing around watching people die or spending my life at the bar defending someone think is crap don’t seem all that appealing.

ohwell.

social bleeding studies should just go to hell, it just makes moutains out of molehills.