strike 3

I just have a random question -

Does minister mentor Lee Kuan Yew or senior minister Goh Chok Tong have a religion?

Menstration

Exams screw me up.

Exam periods are like my menses period. Not menses menses as in cramps and moody and pains and suicidal, but more like - exams affect me only once in a while, and only when it's exam periods.

I get insecure - I regret / wonder / cannot figure out why the hell I decided to pursue my degree. This decision had been bugging me for the longest of time - years on end in fact. Maybe after I figure out why, I can try to ask myself why I'm choosing "practical" subjects like economics instead of fun and interesting and more applicable subjects like philsophy or history. I always thought I always liked economics. I also always thought I always disliked history (I never took history for O-Levels in Sec 3 and 4)

Someone please convince me that I will be more "marketable" when the time comes for me to look for my second job after I retire IF I were to complete a major in economics.
Please.....

Get over it.

I find my thoughts wondering off the most when I'm having my exams - I must be in denial.

Perhaps every now and then, someone will have to tell him/her self to get over it. Decide to get over it. But there are a myriad of things that people don't get over - then how?

Perhaps we don't have to get over them things. Mayhaps all we have to do is to remember them; for the good and the bad.
Remember the lessons learnt by reminding your good self about the pain and suffering you experienced so that you won't commit a mistake like that ever again - you try.
Remember also the joys during better times so that when you inadvertantly indulge yourself again in future, you comfort yourself that at least it was good while it lasted - only for a while.

Just don't dwell on it.
Get over it.

proportional slackness

With only 3 days of uni a week - Monday and Friday off, (don't be envious!!) I find myself ridiculously busy.

Leisure became an occupation; or perhaps a preoccupation?

I'm very tempted to think that second year uni is alot tougher than first year.

Why is it that busy people, with their filled up schedules can afford time to achieve more things than the "free" people?

Do they achieve more things because they are busy and so they have to do more? Isn't it more like a requirement then? Maybe these people are just smarter and are higher achievers than others(me!!)?

So does being a high achiever mean that one must have a busy schedule to begin with? Then isn't what they manage to achieve a part of their required work?

And so having a slack lifestyle corresponds proportionally to the lack of achievements?

Its my time table's fault...!!

something brainless

Notice the looong hiatus since the last post? I've been slack... (having heaps of fun?)

Here's two more interesting pics taken from my not-too-recent trip to Bangkok.

This picture was taken in the train station. I travelled all the way to BangKOK in a quest to Bang Sue.

This sticker was found in the toilet of my hotel room. Wastage is definitely not encouraged!!

judgement

'the last opinion in search of the truth of past and future is called the JUDGEMENT.'

-Thomas Hobbes, "Leviathan - Chap VII: Of the Ends, or Resolutions of Discourse"


We know who a judge is and what he does - a neutral party appointed to arbitrate the rights and wrongs of certain disputable issues. This requires him/her to form an opinion. Hence, passing judgements necessarily requires an opinionated person.

A person, when labelled "quick to judge", is often in the derogatory sense. Isn't he/she just a person who is able to form an opinion quickly? What then happens when we call someone "judgemental"? Does he/she judge based on a certain set of (moral?) values known only to him/her? Or is there a universal set of rules/laws/regulations? So when a person has high, strict and moral values, he/she is branded judgemental?! So being judgemental is good! ? Then again, why do we hate judgemental people?

When a person is thought of as a person who won't judge people or friends, does it simply mean not forming an opinion? Or does it mean that the person has got low/loose moral values? What if this person actually does form opinions, but keeps those opinions to him/herself? - "No comments" will then mean that a person doesn't judge but has got high moral values?

Seems like fine lines again, between judging, opinionated, judgemental and quick-to-judge.

life is - eudaimonia?

What is life?
Life is freedom?

What is freedom?
Freedom is the ability to do whatever we would like to do, or feel like doing? (within lawful limits of course)

Why do we like to do the things we like to do, and do the things we feel like doing?
We do the things we like to do and feel like doing in an attempt to achieve an aim or an ultimate purpose?

What is this aim or purpose?
We aim to achieve happiness? To do whatever makes us happy? Because we are happy when we can do the things we like to do isn't it?

What makes us happy then?
I don't know - Many people don't know? Happiness works differently for different people? Definitions of happiness changes with time and circumstances? We know how humans are greedy and are never satisfied? After achieving something, they don't stay happy for too long? Very soon, they yearn for something else? Yearn for that elusive something else that they think will make them happy? Only to find that they are not satisfied? Will we ever be satisfied?

How will we ever be satisfied?
We will be satisfied when we learn how to come to terms with ourselves?

Does coming to terms with ourselves a function of age or maturity, when dreams die and ambitions wane? Does coming to terms with ourselves equate to the lack of drive and motivations? Will the lack of drive and motivations lead to the end of improvements? Or is this being realistic instead of mature? Maybe it's pessimism? Will we ever be clear about what the differences are? Are the differences, if they exist, even important? They are unimportant if we can come to terms with ourselves isn't it? We are going around in circles aren't we?

EUDAIMONIA???