Phew.

End of Week 5.

What happened to our school stamina?! We used to be able to tahan 10 weeks of Monday - Friday 7.30am - at least 2-3pm?? Whoa man.

Maybe now i will agree with Shanti that my timetable is a little screwed up. Haha initially i was still rather indignant, and 2 weeks ago i was thinking "Wow i feel so productive after my 8h odd week Thursday! :D This is not bad after all!"

Yesterday was the 2nd odd week Thursday and i cannot take it already. I crashed out at about 10pm, and today i was still feeling zombified.

Timetable for Odd Thurs:
8-10am Sociology tutorial (all tutorials are fortnightly) [and this is my favourite tutorial class. :D]
10-12pm Political Science lecture
12-2pm Sociology lecture
4-6pm Political Science tutorial

On hindsight, damn it it was stupid to schedule alternating subjects' tutorials and lectures. DAMN LUAN. And it's my own doing.

But ok to be fair, my timetable's 8h Odd Thurs as compared to my Science fac friends' timetables... they have 8h Everyday, almost.

THERE IS A TRADE-OFF, OKAY. Hahaha! Future prospects of test-tube washers VS admin girl.

Anyway coincidentally this morning Jolenta was asking me about how's class and when talking about it, i realized that i really liked tutorial classes. And the acquaintances that i make from tutorial classes, i really want to make friends with them, too. But the downside is seeing them only every other week, and while in the process of moving from acquaintance to friend, it's weird to talk a lot outside (i also didnt manage to get any contacts), and i dont know them enough to know common topics except for the same module that we're taking. And after feeling so positive and motivated after 1 tutorial class, all the :):):) diminished steadily over the next 2 weeks and right before the class i would be back to :|

Haii. Just some reflection. Sometimes it makes me wish i was more active during class discussion in JC/Sec school (that is, with the bunch of my friends) because it is actually fun. Then again maybe it has something to do with subject matter, like it is more fun to discuss -

Thought experiment- It is wartime. You are hiding in a bunker with 9 other people, and a baby amongst you. The baby starts crying. Soon, the enemy will be able to find you and when they do, they will kill all of you. Would you kill the baby? (Philo)
---or---
Culture & Society. Does globalization lead to convergence or divergence of culture?
Convergence of culture, with ease of exchange of information and knowledge, eg Internet, faster transportation etc. But as cultures converge, it leads to increasing fear in society - of confusion, of loss of self-identity; which will cause people to assert themselves stronger, thus leading to divergence of culture. (Sociology)
[Does this make sense to you?]
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Bourgeoisie VS Proletariats. The Proletariat Revolution is just waiting to happen!! AND IT WILL, SOMEDAY! Workers of the world, unite!
(Political science)
And btw, "bourgeoisie" is a new word i learnt recently and realized that i had completely misunderstood it as the "working class" HAHA THEY ARE THE CAPITALISTS. Oops. And it's a damn fun word to say - boo-shuar-zee. Short form - boo-shuar. Coolios.
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Today in Psych tutorial we tried 3 memory test trials :) Though i am not really sure of the learning points, but it was fun. HAHAHA.

Today's timetable:
8-10am Physics in Life Sciences lecture
12-2pm Pyschology tutorial
2-4pm Philosophy lecture

It was a very overwhelming Philo lect today, (last week i was slacking off) here is something i took down during lecture:
"The problem with virtue, in this sense, is that - to the extent you can teach it - it's no virtue. And to the extent that it's a virtue, you cant teach it.
OK DON’T UNDERSTAND."
^btw the italicized ones are the words of the lecturer.
We're doing Meno now, one of Plato's dialogues. And i'm ashamed to say, i didnt finish reading Meno before the lecture. It... was... just... so... long... +Thursday i crashed out.
+dont mention why i didnt do readings like way in advance.
But here's something i like -
"MENO'S PARADOX: Either we know what something is, or we do not. If we do, then there is no point searching for it. If we don’t, then we will not know what to search for."
Is that true?

Seems like we have all been studying in vain.

Anyway after Philo spontaneously (kinda) met up with Shanti and we went to visit the pet shop along the shophouses near Fong Seng + Cheese Prata, to see guinea pigs! :D The shopkeeper auntie was quite fierce and her son was also less than friendly (but he kinda looks like Yong haha! Built and gait.) and they have a male guinea pig for sale at $50. Thinking of getting a pet, but i'm not sure if it's an irresponsible impulse. If i'm acknowledging that it might be an irresponsible impulse, is it still irresponsible?? Heh ok anyway even if i do get a pet, i think i should adopt at SPCA, just to do some good. I hope. Secret superego of saviorships.

So guinea pig-less and tired from the intense odd week Thurs+Fri combo, i re-watched 黃子華's 《拾下拾下-拾年棟篤笑》 just now. I watched it about one year ago. Wahhh i really admire him. Ultimate, ultimate... But i noticed something -

I was watching this recently - (ok only for those who are interested... or anyone who googled and found me here, hello :D)
黃子華 棟篤笑 <<越大鑊越快樂>> Part 1
and realized he re-used some topics from 拾下拾下!!
1) about the Internet
2) about finding yourself, self-identity, the freedom and courage to express yourself
3) and the technique of introducing "catchphrases", such as "三大予盾：搵食啫、犯法啊、我想[o架]" in 拾下拾下 and "係咁架啦, 好出奇牙?" in 大鑊.
Actually i find the catchphrase technique one of the best elements of his shows, because i'm so amazed and impressed at how he can come up with them in the first place. And how aptly and laconically it applies to large issues, and still easily palatable to everyone and the audience catches on quickly and laps it up.

And as a pun on 拾年 十年, he also mentioned something which was so like "人生有幾多個十年?" EXCEPT HE SAID THAT 10 YEARS AGO ALREADY!!! :) How cool is that.
Loosely transcripted and paraphrased - "10 years is a long time. It's hard to imagine where you'll be 10 years later - i never imagined myself to be here again, 10 years ago."
Yes very true!
(which was also something that i told someone when she asked me how was the philo module - i will go all "OOH THAT'S A VERY GOOD QUESTION... OH YAH AH, THAT'S TRUE..." but when you ask me what's the answer, i cannot tell you)
This is why i was so shocked and jolted that we've known Mr Lim for 7 years till date. 7 years is really a long time. What have i done in the past 7 years?? Where will i be in 7 years??

Wow ok i just found this - 黄大师语录--黄子华拾年栋笃笑之拾下拾下的评论 HAHAHA 黄大师, indeed.
I quote,
"其实我们都是这样的人，可能整天觉得这个世界很荒谬，但总是不断找理由让我们留在这个荒谬的世界。人生在世，就是如此矛盾。
　　黄子华栋笃笑，令我人生多了目标和梦想。"
Ok i wont really put it as seriously as "令我人生多了目标和梦想", but the breadth and universality of topics are really commendable...
Allow me to repeat a tweet which i quoted from another source here 黃子華 - 《嘩眾取寵》 which is a blog entry of a guy who went to watch it live last week (;_;)
"因為黃子華﹐ 我去看了他最新的棟篤笑《嘩眾取寵》﹐ 下半場比上半場精彩﹐
但因為我雙手全程被某人捉緊﹐幾乎沒怎樣拍過手﹐
但真心覺得子華思想透徹才藝出眾別具一格笑中有淚。"
OK I FEEL A NEED TO EXPRESS THIS IN CANTO (sorta) 這句真係講得好!!! (correct me if i'm wrong... and if you can actually guess correctly what i meant to say)

Ok last quote, which was what has been on my nick for the past week.
Quoted from 絕代商驕, which may mean it's a product of the scriptwriters. But just a (biased) hunch, it has very strong 黃子華-ish character
"问世情为何物？情是怪物。"

Woohoo.

And btw, did you know he was a Philosophy major at University of Alberta, Canada??

:)