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why i write in my blog
i write because it helps me to communicate my experiences and development to my friends and fellow blog voyeurs
i write because it creates the illusion that my life is something other than what it is
i write to avoid reality
i write to boast, to complain, to praise, to communicate
i write to improve my writing
i write because i can
i write to purge my random, funny thoughts that occur to me during the day
i write because others do
i write to immortalize my experience, emotions, and memories

rambling
and i'm back. i know it's not the end of the semester but really, procrastination rears its ugly head at any time. things that i have to do and are not done and are waiting to be done, pronto:
read rape of nanking and write response paper
read a chapter of communications textbook
interview professor about cross cultural trip to ghana
interview student about cross cultural trip to ghana
decide on a major/minor and work out my schedule until senior year
read tons of history stuff about abolitionism and slavery
go skiing, if only

and it turns out that i do like my east asian politics class, surprise surprise. our first class, we were given a lee kuan yew interview to read and i had a helluva time doing singapore-bashing (but i am proud of singapore la, cause that's where all my academic certificates come from). i went on a tirade about how singapore was a conveyer belt that produced mindless workers to drive a human capital economy. bla bla bla. about how nepotism had a firm grip on the government even though it tries to maintain transparency. how can you schedule who is to be the next prime minister (i.e. Lee Hsien Loong to succeed Goh Chok Tong in 20??). you might as well align yourself with the Central Communist Party of PRC. and everyone was pretty impressed (score! extra credit please?) and i made friends with a very vocal and intellectual republican student on campus (who is visually impaired and goes by the moniker A.J. Nolte). hope i do well in that class, cross fingers *cough* 4.0 *cough*.
one class i not so like is a class i have to take for science and religion, and it is called Issues in Environmental Science. It does have a pretty impressive sounding name although the class is far from impressive. the professor must love the sound of his voice because he seems to be the only one using it. and he's some insect expert, forgot what the word for it was, so he communicates best to insects for chrissakes, not 20 year old students who could care less about scientific hypothesis testing (which i found out was about dropping things onto the ground and then deducing that all things drop onto the ground). it's probably the only class where no one even bothers to inject their opinion because it's utterly useless.
and i'm going to be studying in philadelphia next semester! happy happy joy joy. i am really looking forward to the big city life and some time away from messiah. my main reason for studying in philly is the variety of class options but another crucial factor is also my inability to discover individuals in messiah whome i can relate to or who i find remotely interesting enough to cling on to.
there is this new reality tv show on nbc and it is called 'the apprentice' where 16 ppl compete for a job as donald trump's assistant for a year. i think the show should reverse its reward. 16 ppl compete to see who doesn't have to work for trump, loser stays. the show is hilarious. there's a board room where trump emerges from a discreet door (prob leads to the toupee parlour that shapes his aerodynamic hairpiece) to address the contestants. and i read somewhere, and i agree, that all the girls vary from hottest girl in the office hot to supermodel hot whereas the best looking guy would seem ordinary next to an Average Joe. reality tv shows are awesome.
tomorrow i have a class cancelled which means i only have 1 class but i have to supplement that to a book that i HAVE to read. it is pretty interesting, 'the rape of nanking', although most japs would disagree. it's about the sino-japanese war and the brutality of the invading japs to the chinese civillians.
blog voyeurism is so fun. recently i've been captivated by filmster, a gay messiah student (very taboo indeed!) who talks about his love life (very saucy!) and about his coming out to his roommate who admits that he knew beforehand (oh, the drama!). that's probably the most risque u can get at messiah without the booze, drugs, and free lovin'.

back for another term
phew! had a four day weekend to mark the end of j-term. visited ken at swarthmore. swat (as they so affectionately call it) has lost its pantheistic status for me. i wonder what the admissions office saw in half of these people.
sure, they can talk politics. yes, lots of activism on campus. but i couldn't really see anything distinctive between swatties and messiah peeps.
attended classes, went for swarthmore christian fellowship, shook my bootie at 2 parties, and learnt to juggle. i feel good about my visit though.
now back to academics. classes i'm looking forward to next sem:
East Asian Politics
Money and Banking
Look for another post when I'm studying for the mid-terms or finals. Procrastination rules.