beat of my soul
Tomorrows the surgery, somehow i've been breaking out in cold sweat with nausea and giddyness and constant hiccuping for the past 30 hours or so. Unfortunately i'm not one who gets rid of hiccups easily and they are exceptionally tiring and painful for me and after 25hours my neck now hurts like hell and the rest of my body is weary and sore. Lets hope it disappears, or tomorrow will be one heck of a troublesome day. Anyhow stuff to look forward to includes having real long hair after the MC period is over, haha.
Given the nature of my operation i will probably not be blogging for the next week or two, at all so perhaps this will be an extra long post.
Watching "The Arena" now, with its rather pointless antics its sometimes interesting to watch kids argue with each other. Currently United World College appears to be thrashing Hwa Chong Institution and if they win it will be an utter thrashing of Singapores top ranking secondary schools, following Raffles Institution's loss the last episode. What i am realising from this episode is that HCI seems to be consisting of a team of science students given the format of their arguments and their body language exudes insecurity and lack of confidence. Overall they don't seem to believe too greatly in their points and rely largely on statistics rather than their own views, opinions and conclusion. While the points UWC made aren't really that impressive, they at least have stability and show confidence in their points and speaking. Somehow i feel some sadness that our tops schools are being handed their asses on a local program produced locally, judged locally and broadcasted locally. Of course i may be indignantly biased cause my dad was practically screaming "bitch" at eunice olsen the whole time whenever she votes UWC.
But i personally feel it is not possible to be general about topics like "Are youth today soft?" since every generation has a group of weaklings and also a group of "stronglings". (i quote yy =.=) After all out of 14 billion people there has to be at least a couple hundred that are comparable intellectually, charismatically and/or resilience-wise to any of the greatest and most celebrated minds of human history. What i feel is happening is how a generation that passes through hardships looks upon their offspring reaping the benefits of peace that they had striven for and shake their heads saying: "In our time we were lugging tonnes of rice" and other such stories of hardships in their times. This may be spoken from the Singaporean context where our parents and grandparents lived in the age of coolies and production lines and for some, even a world war but every other country would have its own story that can be compared to us. The great depression, the asian financial crisis, these all are events that affected millions in a generation past to us and it is through these trials that we now live in a relatively stable world. (lets ignore growing nuclear powers) I've got a solution for those who complain, George Bush Jr seems to be getting on that train, Kim Jong il seems to be prepping for it as are other growing powers Iran China India.
War. Complain that the younger generation is soft but look again, what great trouble have we faced that can compare to world wars? There are no international events (thankfully) for us to prove ourselves against that are comparable to one that killed millions and traumatised millions more. In a way this is the "price" of peace, that the next generation gets to live in comfort, facing minimal troubles and worries. After all wasn't what they were fighting for in their wars for freedom, wars for peace? For their children to live in a dream-world without conflict wasn't it? Well this is the result, a "generation of softies".
Need to listen to hardcore music now, some power metal would be terrific during my debilitation in the next two weeks or so, since my surgery is on tje eye, making me effectively half-blind for the whole period of time.
I came up a theory of why people have preferences for music. Ever tapped your feet while just sitting down in a long train or bus ride? As if you were tapping them to a beat that only you can hear, that only you can feel. I think that everyone has their own different beat in them, like how the movie Happy Feet portrays everyone has their own "Heart Song". The music preferences that we have are based on how melodiously the songs themselves fit onto our own personal beats. Double pedal drumming seems to be mine. =/
Anyhow after the results show of The Arena, i somehow feel that HCI will not be participating in the show again. After all, after the first speaker there hardly got any credible points.
As my mom said, "The other team also paiseh for them"
statistics are just numbers
Given the nature of my operation i will probably not be blogging for the next week or two, at all so perhaps this will be an extra long post.
Watching "The Arena" now, with its rather pointless antics its sometimes interesting to watch kids argue with each other. Currently United World College appears to be thrashing Hwa Chong Institution and if they win it will be an utter thrashing of Singapores top ranking secondary schools, following Raffles Institution's loss the last episode. What i am realising from this episode is that HCI seems to be consisting of a team of science students given the format of their arguments and their body language exudes insecurity and lack of confidence. Overall they don't seem to believe too greatly in their points and rely largely on statistics rather than their own views, opinions and conclusion. While the points UWC made aren't really that impressive, they at least have stability and show confidence in their points and speaking. Somehow i feel some sadness that our tops schools are being handed their asses on a local program produced locally, judged locally and broadcasted locally. Of course i may be indignantly biased cause my dad was practically screaming "bitch" at eunice olsen the whole time whenever she votes UWC.
But i personally feel it is not possible to be general about topics like "Are youth today soft?" since every generation has a group of weaklings and also a group of "stronglings". (i quote yy =.=) After all out of 14 billion people there has to be at least a couple hundred that are comparable intellectually, charismatically and/or resilience-wise to any of the greatest and most celebrated minds of human history. What i feel is happening is how a generation that passes through hardships looks upon their offspring reaping the benefits of peace that they had striven for and shake their heads saying: "In our time we were lugging tonnes of rice" and other such stories of hardships in their times. This may be spoken from the Singaporean context where our parents and grandparents lived in the age of coolies and production lines and for some, even a world war but every other country would have its own story that can be compared to us. The great depression, the asian financial crisis, these all are events that affected millions in a generation past to us and it is through these trials that we now live in a relatively stable world. (lets ignore growing nuclear powers) I've got a solution for those who complain, George Bush Jr seems to be getting on that train, Kim Jong il seems to be prepping for it as are other growing powers Iran China India.
War. Complain that the younger generation is soft but look again, what great trouble have we faced that can compare to world wars? There are no international events (thankfully) for us to prove ourselves against that are comparable to one that killed millions and traumatised millions more. In a way this is the "price" of peace, that the next generation gets to live in comfort, facing minimal troubles and worries. After all wasn't what they were fighting for in their wars for freedom, wars for peace? For their children to live in a dream-world without conflict wasn't it? Well this is the result, a "generation of softies".
Need to listen to hardcore music now, some power metal would be terrific during my debilitation in the next two weeks or so, since my surgery is on tje eye, making me effectively half-blind for the whole period of time.
I came up a theory of why people have preferences for music. Ever tapped your feet while just sitting down in a long train or bus ride? As if you were tapping them to a beat that only you can hear, that only you can feel. I think that everyone has their own different beat in them, like how the movie Happy Feet portrays everyone has their own "Heart Song". The music preferences that we have are based on how melodiously the songs themselves fit onto our own personal beats. Double pedal drumming seems to be mine. =/
Anyhow after the results show of The Arena, i somehow feel that HCI will not be participating in the show again. After all, after the first speaker there hardly got any credible points.
As my mom said, "The other team also paiseh for them"
statistics are just numbers
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