Sunday, September 21, 2008

-w.h.i.n.e-

"It's the wkend! wad r u doing online??" Hmm. Good question. Someone's out to watch Wall-E, cousins out to the Royal Melbourne Show. Well, I did go out. To get my haircut. I was supposed to go out again, for my 9.4km run today to train for the 10km Melbourne Marathon. Then again, the laziness in me got the better of me this time. Tomorrow perhaps. What an interesting weekend.

You know, sometimes I've been whining so much this semester that even I get sick and tired of hearing myself whine. Yet, somehow or rather, every morning as I wake up to a new day, there would always be something to make matters worse. Friends, School Work, S.A.M. If I could, I would continue to curse and swear at each of them.

Friends, or "Friends", you think you can consider certain human beings to be your "Friends". I thought I could. It's Ok. That's life, That's reality. Maybe sometimes I really try too hard to be nice to "Friends" who simply don't deserve me trying so hard.

School Work. I pride myself and my grades upon being able to gain a thorough understanding of concepts and my "Whys" and "What Ifs" over the years have always managed to get tutors dumbfounded and reply "I'll get back to you". Chances are, they don't usually get back to me. But then again, that's not the point. My rapport with tutors and lecturers have always been good and that has been an integral reason as to how I can enjoy studying and learn for the sake of learning. No wonder I've not been able to derive any joy or passion in my studying this semester, even though 3 of 4 units that I'm taking are Finance units. (And I just realised that actually over the years, my best grades came from Finance units). The tutors are either nonchalant about our learning or their "explanations" go round and round without answering my question, and some of the lecturers, well, they are more concerned with us not disturbing them. One of the tutors actually thought my friend and I were "trying to pick a fight". That's just absurd, to be accused of, or misunderstood as wanting to pick a fight, when I was genuinely seeking knowledge did affected me a bit. Fine, I shall stop whining and move on.

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