---political correctness of the highest order---
Saturday, November 26, 2005
have you lost your identity too...?
aye...recently i've come to realize that being from Anglo Chinese Junior College actually does more harm than good..
in a month or so i'll get to celebrate my official status as a J6 (or is it 7??)....nah scratch that...there's no such thing as a J6(7)...let's take it from the top again..
i'm currently a final year engineering undergraduate pursuing a degree in one of the 'world class' universities...pretty awesome right? i have the privilege of tens of thousands of others to be in the top 5% of the academic spectrum...and no doubt tens of thousands of sets of parents are beaming with pride that their son/defective son gets to be one of the very few and very privileged to receive a university education...
so since the present is now...'now' being 2005...it doesn't make any logical sense to hold on to self inflated memories from half a decade ago...viewing them through rose tinted glasses in an attempt to block off the truth about this concept called 'reality'..
i've been reflecting quite a bit recently..reflecting the events that've transpired since the turn of the new century..and brutal honesty towards oneself led me to the conclusion that not only did ACJC give me the 2 best years of my life...it probably screwed the next 20 years in the process as well...
naturally...critics of greatness will find heightened planes of arousal picking out all the loopholes they've found...the morally self righteous will casually lament that i myself am the cause of my own problems...and to their credit there lies an element of truth within their nonsensical banter..
those who utilise their cranium's grey matter before mouthing off may point out that circumstances beyond our control simply force us to grow up against our (or at least my) will..and the only way to circumvent the problem is to jump straight in and enjoy the maturing process while you're at it...
finally...those whom i call 'friends' are able to look beyond the physical unholy creature that i am and see someone who has had his world snatched from him just because!
but its time to stop running from the grip of reality...its time to accept what i've been avoiding for so long...one by one even my closest buddies who literally breathed a similar mantra to mine have discarded such puerile notions and moved on to immerse themselves in tertiary life...
ACJC...you have given me a great many memories...ones that i will cherish forever...feelings that tertiary life cannot and will never replicate...however you are but a past chapter...the climax of a story that has long since concluded...it would be unfair to use such a baseline for comparison...
i am now an undergrad who studies in the library...
i am now a person that needs to make sacrifices...
i am now friends with people who draw distinction between work and play
i am now no longer an ACSian...
i am merely....me.
GOT SOMETHING TO SAY??
-e|even¹¹-
in a month or so i'll get to celebrate my official status as a J6 (or is it 7??)....nah scratch that...there's no such thing as a J6(7)...let's take it from the top again..
i'm currently a final year engineering undergraduate pursuing a degree in one of the 'world class' universities...pretty awesome right? i have the privilege of tens of thousands of others to be in the top 5% of the academic spectrum...and no doubt tens of thousands of sets of parents are beaming with pride that their son/defective son gets to be one of the very few and very privileged to receive a university education...
so since the present is now...'now' being 2005...it doesn't make any logical sense to hold on to self inflated memories from half a decade ago...viewing them through rose tinted glasses in an attempt to block off the truth about this concept called 'reality'..
i've been reflecting quite a bit recently..reflecting the events that've transpired since the turn of the new century..and brutal honesty towards oneself led me to the conclusion that not only did ACJC give me the 2 best years of my life...it probably screwed the next 20 years in the process as well...
naturally...critics of greatness will find heightened planes of arousal picking out all the loopholes they've found...the morally self righteous will casually lament that i myself am the cause of my own problems...and to their credit there lies an element of truth within their nonsensical banter..
those who utilise their cranium's grey matter before mouthing off may point out that circumstances beyond our control simply force us to grow up against our (or at least my) will..and the only way to circumvent the problem is to jump straight in and enjoy the maturing process while you're at it...
finally...those whom i call 'friends' are able to look beyond the physical unholy creature that i am and see someone who has had his world snatched from him just because!
but its time to stop running from the grip of reality...its time to accept what i've been avoiding for so long...one by one even my closest buddies who literally breathed a similar mantra to mine have discarded such puerile notions and moved on to immerse themselves in tertiary life...
ACJC...you have given me a great many memories...ones that i will cherish forever...feelings that tertiary life cannot and will never replicate...however you are but a past chapter...the climax of a story that has long since concluded...it would be unfair to use such a baseline for comparison...
i am now an undergrad who studies in the library...
i am now a person that needs to make sacrifices...
i am now friends with people who draw distinction between work and play
i am now no longer an ACSian...
i am merely....me.
GOT SOMETHING TO SAY??
-e|even¹¹-
