This semester, the 2 sociological courses I'm undertaking make me have a different view of society. No, or rather, if I was not needed to take the electives, I would never have stop and think about how inequality in the world exists and why they continue to exist for centuries despite the outcries of people who demand for equality. One interesting thing is that my lecturer said, "you think you see race but you don't. It is a social construction." The so called race that most people see is unconsciously tied up with stereotypes that leads to most people accepting each other of the same "colour". However, if what sociology teaches people to see the society in a different light, why are most people not taught that?

I've been feeling lazy. I've not watched a movie, shopping, cycling, played a video game or gymming for a long time. I'm staying at home staring at the computer screen alternating between Facebook and lecture notes. Other than that, I'm dedicating my soul to hall activities. Recently I designed a couple of logos. Here's a preview of the ones I did. I really thought it's not bad but it was not what my committee thinks. So upset.

What do you do if someone does not accept your apology?

20/10/2010

I joined WSC. Volunteer work has been out of my life for a very long time, why did I take it up? I don’t know actually. Part of me wanted to do something different this semester. I went to the RSPVH website and I was briefly touched by the video. I thought if you can make a difference to someone’s life, why not? I went for the events and I could feel that I wouldn’t be very close to the VH people but at least if I stay committed to the cause it would be all right.

I finished paintball event today. Yesterday to be exact. Finally. It feels good. I guess I was given a hall because of that and I would feel uncomfortable if I didn’t finish it. Fortunately Jeremy and I were not in the same plight as the OE’s organisers 2 years ago. I feel that much could be done to improve the event but nevertheless, I hope they enjoy the event though.

My phone screen cracked. The fragments are too many to count. =( I don’t know if it’s still held intact by the screen protector. It looks really bad and it’s hard for me to live with it. It’s so hard to read what’s on the screen like that. The repair cost should be around $180 I guess. I need to go down to HTC service centre to ask. Just did a search on it and the reviews don’t seem too positive. =(( Hai…

Back from Malaysia

It’s the 2nd time I’ve been to Malaysia. This time I was there in Desaru. It sure takes a hell long time to travel via coach to there. It felt like twice the journey of going from Hougang to NTU and back again if not worse. Probably the hot weather made it more unbearable than the arduous journey that I have to sit through to reach that spot on the map. The heat gets trapped in the coach and I feel like a roasted chicken in the “microwave” coach. Ha. But it was quite worth the money ($60) to relax after a stressing semester of studies. Somehow, the time just seems to pass slower in that area. It sets your heart at peace when you set foot on the sand of the beach, with sea breeze lightly brushing your cheeks. It doesn’t have to be far, just somewhere off Singapore will do. LOL.

Somehow for me, uploading pictures to facebook is always very troublesome. It fails me many times. I do not think that it is due to unstable connection. Anyway, the blog here should be more reliable. Ha. Much thanks to the organiser that we really have plentiful of food to barbeque. Stingray, cheese sausage, sambal sotong, crayfish and chicken wings etc. Not forgetting my all-time favourite of barbeque -  BBQ marshmellows! So much so that I think there were surplus of food especially the fish balls. Xueshen (the one on the right) showed me his tummy after the BBQ – looked much like a 5 months old pregnant lady. I suppose that’s all right if all the food comes just right for your taste! Ha..

There were some candid moments in the room though. I was shouting loudly that I was going to take photo of my friend when he was in shower so that he could prepare for it. Here’s what he shows me. LOL. Profile-picture worthy!

Anyway, the main focus of this trip should be go-karting. Remember the one in Escape Theme park? Yes, similar. I was expecting a really much larger terrain for go-karting. I was even hoping for some cool slopes. There was none. The only thing that excites me was the speed. You can literally go up to super high speed. The turning is kind of hard to master. However, despite the numerous advice of slowing down at curves, I sped up instead. I can feel the tyres gripping hard on the ground, just that I don’t feel that attached to the vehicle when I accelerate at turns though. It makes utmost physics sense. Ha.

There were many other things we did that night except sleeping. Gossips as usual were on the agenda for every group gatherings. Actually, there isn’t much to gossip about. Most of them you can actually confirm visually. Spent time talking with this year’s freshmen. Hearing their problems kind of remind me of my plight last year in terms of academics. Well, we all got to be forward-looking, shouldn’t we? Tomorrow will be a better day. Till then, I’m sleeping now. Yawn… More updates through facebook then.