Category Archive
The following is a list of all entries from the Refraction category.
Gone Like a Squirrel on Crack
It’s Friday already.
September break is gone.
That’s wonderful isn’t it. A whole week, just gone.
I won’t lie to you and say I didn’t spend this week studying. Prelims MAN! That’s some hard-core shit right there. So I did study. But I didn’t study the way I want to. I’m compelled to finish what I need to finish. I can’t study as hard as I need to when I’m on a deadline. So basically I have most of the work I need to do done, but my revision was sorely lacking in quality. For example, I burned through a life-time’s worth of China history in a couple of days. I’m just refreshing. not improving. This is bad.Fortunately, it’s only the prelims.
Only the prelims. A year ago, I wouldn’t have been thinking like that. See how we grow! Sunken to new lows!
The thing I learn every year is that the big thing that year doesnt really matter in the grand scheme of things. You just need to beat all the little bosses to get to the big one. PSLE, O-levels (snigger), IB and even Uni. All just minor things. They’re just the minor bosses we have to fight through to get to the major one. Which theoretically is Death.
Cough.
That doesnt make me feel happy so I’ll forget that I thought of it.
In the end, when we realize and accept that we don’t really have any control over anything whatsoever in life, I think we would be a lot more happy and carefree. So basically, I trust God to do my worrying for me. I only wish I could remember that more often.
So Long and Thanks for All the Fish
This was a surprise. 2006 is gone for good, and I’m still standing hobbling. Success! Ha-ha! You really had me for a while there, but I managed to scrape my way through in the end. Better luck next time –when Mankind inevitably invents a time machine and I foolishly go back to correct my mistakes. But 2006 wasn’t all that bad. To quote a certain spiky-haired exiled filmmaker friend of ours, “It could be worst” – truly a motto that encapsulates the spirit of 2006. For all the shit that happened significant amounts of good things happened to us, or at least in our general vicinity. I would go into this to greater detail, but I am not a man for reflection (in fact you can see right through me). No, I am not a man for reflection. I’m a man of refraction. I see everything a little warped.
Rather, I am a man of vague statements and ominous mutterings. I have learned a great deal from 2006. I learned that the world is a lot funnier than we let ourselves believe. Good for me. So in the spirit of joy, peace and goodwill to all men, here’s to 2007 – may it not be as shitty as 2006.
