human disasters

i dun usually blog about international events, but this time round, it really warrants a post from an otherwise apathetic individual.

just watched the channel 8 news about the death of the singaporean woman in india. it's not that it's a SINGAPOREAN woman that i'm emphasizing here, it's just that, more than 140 people have died in 36 hours of terrorist attacks, and i really wonder how many more will be added to the death toll.

it's not even a natural disaster that we can't control, it's a HUMAN disaster caused by people who can control themselves.

it must have been a really terrorising experience in the hotels there. i do imagine myself in those scenes, but the imaginations never lasted beyond seconds. it's just too scary.

and all these while thailand is experience such a chaotic situation too. poor people who are trapped in the airports. i suppose my family will not visit bangkok again in the near future.

and and all these PLUS the economic situation and financial breakdown in US and all the other countries in the world.

what is the world coming to man.

sometimes i do count myself lucky to be in s'pore. we're protected from natural disasters, and also less vulnerable to such human disasters. it's times like these when we start to cherish the stability. 麻雀虽小，五脏俱全.

such events really make exams seem like NOTHING compared to the trouble other people are facing. ah well.

that said, i'm still gonna complain about MA paper. i came back from service ops on wed afternoon and did nothing the whole day. so you think i'll panic on thurs? NOOOOO.... i started panicking on thurs LATE afternoon. and i haven't even DONE my MA tutorials can. (i realised i never touched all the tutorials for all my mods this sem.) so no time to do tutorials rite, i went straight to past year papers. CHIONGED thru 6 past year papers all the way to 2am, referring to textbook half the time. and at 2am, i still have not revised my content. but got to sleep mah, so i just decided to heck and went to sleep.

in the end, i woke up at 6am, scanned thru lecture notes, left home and continued with my notes when i reached school at 8am. wow. am i hardworking or not.-_-

but actually, it probably makes no difference since the paper was kinda undo-able in any case. i realised i always meet with all the wonderfully crafted undoable papers. amelia (lee) and ellen were complaining about fna apr 08 paper, and johnson luther daryk they all complained about my stats paper too. haha. maybe that's how i score huh.

mel said she's going for internship this december. sometimes i really envy people like her who has so much motivation to do these things that support her academic grades. i'm just too passive to do anything about all these. or should i say lazy?

one more paper to go. i wonder what kind of 'stunts' i have for macro this time round. i went shopping at bugis with mum today, tmr i'm going polyclinic, and sunday i'm going for tuition. wow i have (not) ended exams!

真希望这对你来说是种解脱，我不能对你说什么，也不能帮你做什么，这关你也许就得自己过。 我相信既然决定是两个人作的，就一定是经过深思熟虑。看开吧！