The times are changing.
Nigel and Darren are out.
School life is awesome.
Once upon a time, school felt boring. Nothing happens. Nothing changes. We go on in class, people get scolded, homework, tests...
But now, we have awesomeness.
Now, we have randomness.
Now, we have thingy-ness.
And class is in chaos.
Its pretty amazing that we actually still manage to go on with lessons, at a pretty normal pace at that. It truly is much more exciting than the normal things we usually have, especially since all our teachers are much more lenient and epic. Sometimes, its not about trying to make life more interesting, its merely about giving life the chance to make itself more interesting. Let's look at an example of how waiting for things to happen makes things happen:
I heard this story from someone I know. Basically, he got stuck outside his house together with his brother. He somehow left his key behind when he left, he then had two options:
Look for his parents, who were having a meal somewhere.
Wait for his parents to return.
He picked the former, and his brother decided to wait there. And guess what, his parents returned and opened the door for his brother while he was failing somewhere over the rainbow.
This proves 1 thing:
Chinese Proverbs/Idioms (cheng yu) fail.
守株待兔 was disproven.
Again, lets go back to the topic about class chaos. I do believe that none of us (2I1) actually did much to result in the current situation. If we had tried to help, we may still be stuck with 3 of the biggest troublemakers in iSpark.
I'm merely speaking the truth, or what I believe to be the truth, perhaps I should discuss truth in another post ;). There are some things that you have to leave to time to do the dirty work, while there are many other things that we actually have to do ourselves.
But hey, in the end, those who actually do things would probably accomplish more than those who doesn't do anything. Yet, those who don't do anything would still be able to accomplish something.
To end off this post, I'd like to remind everyone:
Haste is the assassin of elegance.
I doubt anyone actually reads this, though ;P
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Taxi Drivers are :(
A while ago (3 months I believe), I visited the blog of a Taxi Driver to do that evaluation worksheet that Ms. Huang wanted us to do about blogs. Anyway, in there, I read of all the "adventures and misadventures" of a Singapore taxi driver. One of the post that caught my eye was this one.
Now, let's talk about something I saw yesterday. While I was on my way back from school, I chanced upon an argument between a taxi driver and two passengers. The conversation went something like this:
Passenger A: There wasn't even an accident on the highway, you are the most dishonest human being I have ever seen!
I only heard her voice because she was shouting it out for the whole world. I didn't hear what the other passenger and the taxi driver was saying, but I inferred that the passenger felt that she was scammed of her time and money.
Well, I can't really say much in the matter, since I don't know whether the taxi driver really lied. But anyway, if he really did, I doubt anyone would be able to sympathise with him the way people sympathised with the taxi driver writing the diary.
Sympathy is a pretty funny thing, the same thing can happen to two people and one of them would be sympathised by others, whereas the other would be detested by the people around him. Let's have a little diagram:
Misunderstanding -> If real -> Hated
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If not real
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Sympathy
Speaking of taxi drivers, reading the blog entries of the taxi diary made me realise something that I didn't before. I realised that even a somewhat average job could actually have so many interesting things happening. Strangely, thousands of shows are focused on the interactions of rich people (*cough* Taiwanese Dramas *cough*) and the simple and small things are often neglected.
I do believe this can be carried on to how our lives sometimes are. We often look at all the big things in life and miss out on the small things. There are tons of examples, but I doubt there's a need to cite them.
To conclude this post, I feel for taxi drivers. They have to deal with all kind of people all the time and people aren't always that normal xD
iSpark is weird. Period.
Now, let's talk about something I saw yesterday. While I was on my way back from school, I chanced upon an argument between a taxi driver and two passengers. The conversation went something like this:
Passenger A: There wasn't even an accident on the highway, you are the most dishonest human being I have ever seen!
I only heard her voice because she was shouting it out for the whole world. I didn't hear what the other passenger and the taxi driver was saying, but I inferred that the passenger felt that she was scammed of her time and money.
Well, I can't really say much in the matter, since I don't know whether the taxi driver really lied. But anyway, if he really did, I doubt anyone would be able to sympathise with him the way people sympathised with the taxi driver writing the diary.
Sympathy is a pretty funny thing, the same thing can happen to two people and one of them would be sympathised by others, whereas the other would be detested by the people around him. Let's have a little diagram:
Misunderstanding -> If real -> Hated
\/
If not real
\/
Sympathy
Speaking of taxi drivers, reading the blog entries of the taxi diary made me realise something that I didn't before. I realised that even a somewhat average job could actually have so many interesting things happening. Strangely, thousands of shows are focused on the interactions of rich people (*cough* Taiwanese Dramas *cough*) and the simple and small things are often neglected.
I do believe this can be carried on to how our lives sometimes are. We often look at all the big things in life and miss out on the small things. There are tons of examples, but I doubt there's a need to cite them.
To conclude this post, I feel for taxi drivers. They have to deal with all kind of people all the time and people aren't always that normal xD
iSpark is weird. Period.
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