Politics...

I will never do politics..

Why?

Because it's one place that you never stop getting complains, whining and criticism no matter how hard you try..

And i really hate rude criticisims...especically when it sounds like they themselves could have done it much better. It's just, 马后炮, to me no matter how i look at it. People only make noise when things go wrong, but who would have guessed right? It isn't all as simple as it seems. Just consider yourself dying from a semester with just 5-6 modules with projects and exams..politics is certainly of a much greater depth and breadth than this.

I am not pro government. I see flaws and areas that can be improved as well. But I just don't like it when people don't appreciate others who is sincerely trying to make the country grow, sincerely doing their best. The best may not be what everyone expect though, but the nature and origin is definitely one out of goodness. Politicians get pay as well. Yeah you are damn right, loads of money. So will you do it? Putting in your entire life into it? Can you do a better job? One that not a single soul in the country will complain? If not, then just freaking shut up and dont talk as if everything is screwed up and you seem to be the only enlightened one that sees the truth..

If you tell me the government is corrupted, doing things out of self interest rather than for the nation, then i will be all than willing to join in to make noise and complain. Otherwise, it just doesnt make sense to me not to appreciate all the efforts and goodwill of whoever is leading the nation. A clean and good government is not something that money can buy.

I may not know alot of things, all the so called dirty political way of winning the minds and controlling over people etc..but i see it from just a simple citizen point of view. Singapore is good enough..see it, appreciate it, otherwise just migrate to somewhere else. barking ard meaninglessly doesn't help anyone.

Nothing is perfect. So quit complaining at every little thing you can find fault with..
1,000 docs still not enough
Read the last sentence of the comment "Posted by: cliff52 at Sun Mar 29 18:17:28 SGT 2009", the top most one as of now and you might see where i am coming from..

The world of politics is simply full of skeptical people..no matter how sincere you are, once you are into politics people will just see whatever you do as a 'political tool' and forget about the real nature behind. It's not somewhere i will want to be, but i certainly respect people who are willing to brave the storm and continue doing good for the people, even when the very people they are trying to help are sometimes not even appreciative enough..

no pain, no gain.

my innate believe or maybe i was just brought up that way..
'there is no free lunch'
'higher returns simply means higher risk'
If you want something you have to work for it..there is no easy way out. Or rather, the easy way out probably comes with a price..a different kind of price that you have to pay if you don't want to put in the effort.
This is so concise, so clear, that it almost seem like i am borned holding on to this notion. It's probably one of the few things that really hold true from the bottom of my heart.
I am just not a risk taker, not a gambler, not someone who will celebrate over a windfall.
It's just me i guess.
Anything that doesnt come with substantial amount of effort on my part simply means nothing to me. Maybe that's why i dont like to whine or complain. Because it doesn't really help. It's just like calling out for help, hoping that others will pity you, give you a solution or better still, solve the problem for you..
Oh well..just blattering..sometimes reading my own disorganised thoughts really awe me..lol
Time to start doing some work if i wanna enjoy my easter break without worries! roar~

step up..

Came across this paragraph as i was surfing the net, trying to figure out some things i am supposed to know but i dont really know, because i haven been reading enough..haha

The current financial debacle is really not a “liquidity” crisis as it is often euphemistically called. It is a crisis of overgrowth of financial assets relative to growth of real wealth—pretty much the opposite of too little liquidity. Financial assets have grown by a large multiple of the real economy—paper exchanging for paper is now 20 times greater than exchanges of paper for real commodities. It should be no surprise that the relative value of the vastly more abundant financial assets has fallen in terms of real assets. Real wealth is concrete; financial assets are abstractions—existing real wealth carries a lien on it in the amount of future debt. The value of present real wealth is no longer sufficient to serve as a lien to guarantee the exploding debt. Consequently the debt is being devalued in terms of existing wealth. No one any longer is eager to trade real present wealth for debt even at high interest rates. This is because the debt is worth much less, not because there is not enough money or credit, or because “banks are not lending to each other” as commentators often say.

Extracted from:Herman Daly on the Credit Crisis, Financial Assets, and Real Wealth

Some thoughts during the travel brought me back to a frequent struggle of my inner self. Some stuff i can probably only talk to yanxi about, because he is the only other person that i know is in somewhat the same situation. Stuff which i already have my own answer, only to be subjected to the only constant (change) in this world.

Lotsa ideas, lotsa things that i wanna do, lotsa improvements i wanna make to my life..all the little things, which back in Singapore is simply conveniently engulfed by the enormous amount of workload. Not complaining, just thinking how to sustain such interest when i go back and face reality. There must be a way to balance quality and efficiency, work and play, ideals and realities and many other bipolarities around. I just have to find the best mix. Need some colors in my life..right now (when i was in Singapore) it's too centred around school stuff..have simply been ignoring the other little things in life, which i think i can afford to pay more attention to without much detrimental effects to my results. It's just, back to the same question...

Oh well..that aside..i am getting pay cut? Oo
Civil servants pay shrink

lolx.

Back in Manchester!

Am finally back in my temporary home this semester, which Benji reckon as a 'room' rather than a home..and i cant deny..xD

But it was fun! Less all the waiting, travelling, train and flight delays, it was an enjoyable trip!

And Benji was blessed by some huge bird in venice! (what else can it be...lol..headshot. ouch. i can feel the pain even standing by the side. xD)

Lotsa thinking throughout the trip as well..and i concluded to myself that i wasnt really living my life to the fullest. hmm...too fast pace, too little quality. time to make some changes that can cater to both! =D

drink coffee and relax jack everyday..that was life in the last few days in croatia..haha..

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saddening news about the departure of js's father..take care man...we are around if you need us...

blessmi..

Wish me luck. Though i am not arsenal fan strictly speaking..

ROMA V ARSENAL

Arsenal fans "at risk" travelling to Stadio Olimpico

Will be back on 20th march.

learn how to learn well..

Suddenly had some thoughts about what I have learnt so far...
I suppose if you ask me, i can summarise everything into 2 words:

"GENERAL KNOWLEDGE"

Yeah..that's a rather general statement but it's the best words to sum up my education so far..or rather the technical aspect of it.

Ask me about biology, geography, history, chemistry...anything that i have learnt in the past..all i can tell you is: "ya i know what is plate tectonic, i think i have heard of the Black Sunday and is the iron you talking about the FE in periodic table etc..." oh well..i cant even think of enough examples offhand to blog them down now..geez..but yea..these are what i remember..pathetic? no!

Here comes the main point..what i have really learnt is basically:

"the ABILITY to learn well"

I thought this wasnt something so obvious to everyone..especially if you are always under the disillusion that the education system is screwed and what you are learning are useless to you anyway in the future blar blar blar..Yeah true..but that's the for technical part..the bigger part of education lies on the non-technical part, which is non other than the ability to learn well..

And that ability to learn well comes from many many areas that you cant specifically teach, other than through teaching diff spectrum of these technical stuff. It comes from understanding your own strength and weaknesses, the nature of the different types of academics/practicals, exams, projects, seminars, discussions and all kinds of experience you ever had in learning...aka all the GENERAL KNOWLEDGE that i concluded just now.

知己知彼，百战不殆。

If you dont even understand yourselves, there is no way you are gonna excel in anything you do. And with that, here's some thing i observed about myself, and i know i will definitely learn well (Get A in academic terms, or simply progress very fast in learning other stuff..) when these factors are all present..

1. Serious Motivation
(can be from any source, but must be firm)
2. A clear goal
(dont be ambiguous here..)
3. Reasonably sufficient time

It's not that hard to find some clear goals that can be achieve within a reasonable time span available..what's always lacking is probably the motivation. There can be 101 reasons to why you might wanna work towards a goal..but it's all half f*** if you dont believe 100% in any of them. End up you will only be wasting 99% of the time trying to work towards that goal, only to realise at the final 1% or somewhere midway thinking..why the hell am i torturing myself so hard for anyway?

Well..some rather disorganised thoughts up there, but there is really only 1 key idea..

"Thou who doesn't waiver will succeed."

thoughts..

Read js's blog..here's my thoughts on the incident..

If you believe that the society or anyone out there owes you a living..then blame them all your want..
But to me the society is just a consolidation of people like you and i..coming up with some systems that seeks to make things more organised..in any case, if you expect a perfect system again..then continue blaming more..
Some people might think that if no one complains, things will never improve. Maybe. So continue to complain all you want..
As long as you really believe that you are doing the right thing in your own definition..do whatever you like...
Just try to make informed decisions as much as possible, talk to pple, do some research, get some advise etc..otherwise you may only regret when it's too late.

You lead your own life...

There is really nothing absolutely right or wrong...

That's why some business/arts modules may seems just like bullshiting..which in fact it is because everyone is just coming up with their own ways to explain norms and trends, with models that seems so chim but actually just more crap.

Oh well..

There is no conclusion to these thoughts..really..pick out whatever you want from whatever i wrote..

bored...

nitemare...

Geez..had quite a scary nitemare just now..omg...one of those that made me scream in my dreams..haven had such for quite some time le..

Snapped out of it opening my eyes to see a 'less than familiar' room..suddenly feel a tiny bit of homesickness..and didnt dare to go back to sleep for quite a while cos the images of the terrible nitemare are still stuck in my mind..And there isnt really anything much i can do to get myself out of that situation, and can only continue to lie on my bed and stare at the ceiling..=(

Probably too shag from planning my travel during the easter break yesterday nite..and sorry fu, it just doesnt make sense to my overly pragmatic mind to keep waiting for your confirmation before i plan for my own trip...as the days passes it just get more and more sian to have something that could have been well settled alot earlier to keep dragging..and hostels getting filled, air tickets rising in prices...and not to mention some exchange senior here (that i also dunno very well) giving the "really-not-obvious" and "as-if-i-dunno" kind advice that i should really quickly book my trip for easter break....kind of get put me off though it's just a gentle reminder..i just hate people telling me the obvious..lol..i am smart enough to know it...but of course i would never tell it back to them cos i am also smart enough not to spoil relationship, though i have no intend of building much here..

Arg..suddenly dont like my own practical mind...not the ideal kind of person i want to be..and far from it...haiz...

momentarily feeling down...