Makes you loose faith in the current justice system.
This is proof of both human strength and human failure. She deserves respect from us.
A moment of peace for what she represents.
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Jaycee Dugard
Makes you loose faith in the current justice system.
This is proof of both human strength and human failure. She deserves respect from us.
A moment of peace for what she represents.
Sunday, October 14, 2012
Career Prospects
I'm gonna be 18 soon. So scary. I still have absolutely no idea what I want to be when I'm older.
I'm most likely gonna study science in university (hope I actually can get in) since I can't give a care about memorising things like they do in arts. But the downside to studying science is the awful compulsory CHEMISTRY. GAHHHHHH.
My mother did talk to me a lot about choosing the right career. Plus last week the school had a "Career Week" where they brought us to various university campuses and also invited professionals from different professions to come and talk to us. Of course, everything was on a first-come-first-serve basis.
I managed to sign up for NUS (National University of Singapore) where the available 80 places were all taken in 10 mins. My schoolmates are so scary.
The environment there is awesome, but that's only natural for the top university in Singapore and top 3 in Asia. School fees are equally as awesome, of course (sarcasm).
I have a very short attention spam. I'm not able to stay interested in anything over a long period of time. My longest hobby is drawing, but that's only because I have nothing to do in school besides drawing anyway. The teachers will catch you if you do anything else. I like singing, but got so sick of it recently. It's all the same songs, over and over and over again. It's repetitive. It's uniform. It's boring.
I think I have a wild streak in me. I have seriously considered dyeing my hair purple or something. I want to dye my hair purple or something, but I won't because I definitely can't pull that off.
Back to career. I am aiming to get into NUS because it will have the best environment (not to mention library). But to enter NUS science faculty, I need STRAIGHT A'S. Righhttt.
I want to choose a career where:
1. I will not compromise my values or my conscience.
2. I can help others.
So, law is out (we all know about the dark side of law). Biological engineering... I'm not so sure. It goes against nature. Plastic surgeon is out (I don't give a shit about physical beauty -you want it, go work out).
Seriously thinking about psychiatry. I do think that I have that something that makes people wanna spill their guts to me, but maybe that's just wishful thinking. Oh well. I still have a year or so to contemplate how I will shape the path towards the rest of my life.
I'm most likely gonna study science in university (hope I actually can get in) since I can't give a care about memorising things like they do in arts. But the downside to studying science is the awful compulsory CHEMISTRY. GAHHHHHH.
My mother did talk to me a lot about choosing the right career. Plus last week the school had a "Career Week" where they brought us to various university campuses and also invited professionals from different professions to come and talk to us. Of course, everything was on a first-come-first-serve basis.
I managed to sign up for NUS (National University of Singapore) where the available 80 places were all taken in 10 mins. My schoolmates are so scary.
The environment there is awesome, but that's only natural for the top university in Singapore and top 3 in Asia. School fees are equally as awesome, of course (sarcasm).
I have a very short attention spam. I'm not able to stay interested in anything over a long period of time. My longest hobby is drawing, but that's only because I have nothing to do in school besides drawing anyway. The teachers will catch you if you do anything else. I like singing, but got so sick of it recently. It's all the same songs, over and over and over again. It's repetitive. It's uniform. It's boring.
I think I have a wild streak in me. I have seriously considered dyeing my hair purple or something. I want to dye my hair purple or something, but I won't because I definitely can't pull that off.
Back to career. I am aiming to get into NUS because it will have the best environment (not to mention library). But to enter NUS science faculty, I need STRAIGHT A'S. Righhttt.
I want to choose a career where:
1. I will not compromise my values or my conscience.
2. I can help others.
So, law is out (we all know about the dark side of law). Biological engineering... I'm not so sure. It goes against nature. Plastic surgeon is out (I don't give a shit about physical beauty -you want it, go work out).
Seriously thinking about psychiatry. I do think that I have that something that makes people wanna spill their guts to me, but maybe that's just wishful thinking. Oh well. I still have a year or so to contemplate how I will shape the path towards the rest of my life.
Friday, October 12, 2012
Sunday, October 7, 2012
Help.
My brother is a lost cause. Maybe it's his computer addiction, maybe it's his personality. Either way, I've given up on him a long time ago. My father... Well frankly he cares only once every blue moon. My mother gave up on him a few months ago. Even my biased-towards-him mother.
I've accepted the bias quite a long time ago, because let's face it, I can bet my hat there isn't a single parent in this world who doesn't favorite a child. This is just how the world works. Favoritism doesn't mean that your parent doesn't love you. He/She just happens to be more generous towards your siblings, whether or not they deserve it. I'm just lucky that this isn't a severe case of favoritism. That story is for another time.
My brother has a severe case of addiction. He doesn't need to eat, sleep, or pee if he has the com. In March when my parents went overseas and dumped my bro on me, he played the com throughout the nights and slept in the mornings. At that time his school was commencing online learning, and there were allocated time slots when they have to go online and look at the lessons.
He skipped every single one of them because he was sleeping.
I knew that he had e-learning, but at that point he doesn't listen so I just gave up.
The thing with him, he doesn't just not listen. He ignores you completely. Like you're not there. He doesn't even bother to turn his damn head to look at you when you're talking to him.
He does this to me and to my mother. Where's his respect? Where did we go wrong? I think my parents did a pretty good job with me because at least I know I have correct priorities and values and respect. And I was left alone for the most part of my life.
He doesn't dare disrespect his father this blatantly. Yet. Mostly because when my dad talks to him it's always about fun and games. Like I said, my dad isn't exactly the parent-type. He's more uncle-type. 90% play with the rare scolding/caning.
I've nagged and nagged and nagged at my bro but to no avail. But what can I do? I can't cane him. I don't have the right to. Besides, caning is useless. My mother continuously caned him for more than a year and he's still as rotten as ever.
Of course, I do suspect the strength behind each cane. She is, after all, a chinese mother with male nepotism. I've repeatedly told her to send my brother to a shrink. She always ends up defending him. Oh yes, she acknowledges that he needs help, but she doesn't do anything. Is she heartbroken that her dearest son has to see a shrink?
He doesn't accept help from me, doesn't accept help from his parents, doesn't accept help from teachers. Who else is there to help him? His good-for-nothing friends? His friends are almost exactly the same as him, only he has it so much worse.
Just three days ago on Friday, he skipped his exam because he couldn't be bothered to wake up and go to school. This isn't the first time. Or the second, or the third this year. I don't even have enough fingers to count. He can't be bothered to give a single damn about education. His only love is a rectangular machine with a screen and runs on electricity.
His situation is ridiculous. Every single day, every single damned day, my mother has to personally wake him up and has to stay awake herself to make sure that he doesn't get back to sleep. Even when she's outside in the early morning, she still has to freaking call him to make sure he's awake. All this for a 13-year-old kid.
In a way, her softness towards him has contributed to his hopeless situation.
God save him and may He help us all.
I've accepted the bias quite a long time ago, because let's face it, I can bet my hat there isn't a single parent in this world who doesn't favorite a child. This is just how the world works. Favoritism doesn't mean that your parent doesn't love you. He/She just happens to be more generous towards your siblings, whether or not they deserve it. I'm just lucky that this isn't a severe case of favoritism. That story is for another time.
My brother has a severe case of addiction. He doesn't need to eat, sleep, or pee if he has the com. In March when my parents went overseas and dumped my bro on me, he played the com throughout the nights and slept in the mornings. At that time his school was commencing online learning, and there were allocated time slots when they have to go online and look at the lessons.
He skipped every single one of them because he was sleeping.
I knew that he had e-learning, but at that point he doesn't listen so I just gave up.
The thing with him, he doesn't just not listen. He ignores you completely. Like you're not there. He doesn't even bother to turn his damn head to look at you when you're talking to him.
He does this to me and to my mother. Where's his respect? Where did we go wrong? I think my parents did a pretty good job with me because at least I know I have correct priorities and values and respect. And I was left alone for the most part of my life.
He doesn't dare disrespect his father this blatantly. Yet. Mostly because when my dad talks to him it's always about fun and games. Like I said, my dad isn't exactly the parent-type. He's more uncle-type. 90% play with the rare scolding/caning.
I've nagged and nagged and nagged at my bro but to no avail. But what can I do? I can't cane him. I don't have the right to. Besides, caning is useless. My mother continuously caned him for more than a year and he's still as rotten as ever.
Of course, I do suspect the strength behind each cane. She is, after all, a chinese mother with male nepotism. I've repeatedly told her to send my brother to a shrink. She always ends up defending him. Oh yes, she acknowledges that he needs help, but she doesn't do anything. Is she heartbroken that her dearest son has to see a shrink?
He doesn't accept help from me, doesn't accept help from his parents, doesn't accept help from teachers. Who else is there to help him? His good-for-nothing friends? His friends are almost exactly the same as him, only he has it so much worse.
Just three days ago on Friday, he skipped his exam because he couldn't be bothered to wake up and go to school. This isn't the first time. Or the second, or the third this year. I don't even have enough fingers to count. He can't be bothered to give a single damn about education. His only love is a rectangular machine with a screen and runs on electricity.
His situation is ridiculous. Every single day, every single damned day, my mother has to personally wake him up and has to stay awake herself to make sure that he doesn't get back to sleep. Even when she's outside in the early morning, she still has to freaking call him to make sure he's awake. All this for a 13-year-old kid.
In a way, her softness towards him has contributed to his hopeless situation.
God save him and may He help us all.
Thursday, October 4, 2012
Good Things Are Meant To Be Shared
Best acoustic version I've seen so far. The lady's voice really suits this type of singing. :)
Peace At Last.....?
I FINISHED MY PROMOS!!! YEAHHHHH!!
But now.. Well, let's just say the after-promos period is nowhere even half as relaxing as I hoped it was. We had the last paper on Tuesday. Break on Wednesday since I didn't have a paper.
Today was horrendous. HORRENDOUS. The first day back, and I score the longest time table combination possible. Went to school at 7.30am, ENDED AT 5.30pm LIKE WTH.
Of course, we haven't started studying yet.
All day, TALKS TALKS TALKS.
SEX ED.
PROJECT WORK.
OMGGGG PROJECT WORK. I hate it. HATE IT.
Reached home at 6.30pm, fell asleep on my bed until 7.15pm, ate dinner until 7.35pm, started doing pw online. UNTIL A MINUTE AGO. @_@
Curse you, PW. Hate you. HATE YOU. I FREAKING HATE YOU.
PS, Google Drive sucks. It was bad before when it was still Google Docs, but now it's so many times worse. In the first 10 minutes alone, my Google crashed 5 times. I was trying to paste a small teeny little paragraph of about 100 words. @#&$%
Sorry about my rant and all. It's 11:11 pm, I'm cranky, I'm smelly, and my abdomen hurts like hell.
Ok bye.
But now.. Well, let's just say the after-promos period is nowhere even half as relaxing as I hoped it was. We had the last paper on Tuesday. Break on Wednesday since I didn't have a paper.
Today was horrendous. HORRENDOUS. The first day back, and I score the longest time table combination possible. Went to school at 7.30am, ENDED AT 5.30pm LIKE WTH.
Of course, we haven't started studying yet.
All day, TALKS TALKS TALKS.
SEX ED.
PROJECT WORK.
OMGGGG PROJECT WORK. I hate it. HATE IT.
Reached home at 6.30pm, fell asleep on my bed until 7.15pm, ate dinner until 7.35pm, started doing pw online. UNTIL A MINUTE AGO. @_@
Curse you, PW. Hate you. HATE YOU. I FREAKING HATE YOU.
PS, Google Drive sucks. It was bad before when it was still Google Docs, but now it's so many times worse. In the first 10 minutes alone, my Google crashed 5 times. I was trying to paste a small teeny little paragraph of about 100 words. @#&$%
Sorry about my rant and all. It's 11:11 pm, I'm cranky, I'm smelly, and my abdomen hurts like hell.
Ok bye.
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