Life, School, Literary StuffFri, 30 November 2007 11:28 am

I have managed to convince myself that if I am going to take extended breaks while studying, I should not use these breaks to watch random videos, but to work on things which are a bit more productive i.e. writing or my Most Important Project which I want to complete by the end of this year: publishing Radio Silence and The Duty in a book, complete with a Foreword, Preface and Glossary.

Have managed to do quite a bit and am feeling very motivated to keep on studying now, because I really have something to look forward to everytime I need to take a break.

Life 12:00 am

And in business and government, in law and medicine, in politics and international diplomacy, no skill is valued more highly than the ability to recognize a problem that others should take seriously, then to articulate that problem in a way that convinces them to care.

– Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb and Joseph M. Williams, The Craft of Research, p. 71; my emphasis

Hmmm.

I think those might be my two biggest flaws sometimes.

For one, I feel that I am able to see problems that others don’t, and that they don’t take me seriously enough when I point out the problem.

Could that mean that I see problems in things that are not really problems at all?

Maybe the answer to this lies mainly in the fact that I have to work on how to better convince people about said problems.

And work on it, I shall!

Rah.

Hey, I’m studying, alright, goddammit, you bastards. I’m just reinforcing what I’m studying through blogging.

Random ThoughtsThu, 29 November 2007 4:29 am

I just had to announce that:

    None of you are safe from me!

Wahahahahahahaha *snort* ooh er how did that get out?

Anyway.

Like, seriously, man, I amazed/shocked/horrified/amused with myself and the things I am capable of doing.

So in keeping with the abstract and WTF-like quality of this post (I assume most of you don’t really understand what I am yammering on about, anyway), I will end off by listing down some of the jobs I can consider in the future if employment is hard to come by:

  1. Photocopy shop assistant - No thanks to the copious amount of photocopying we have to do here in the NUS.
  2. Masseuse - Because everyone agrees I am that good lol
  3. Chef - But er vegetarian stall only, k.
  4. Bartender - For obvious reasons, and last but not least
  5. Private Investigator - Because I am amazed at the things I can dig up while just doing what I do best.

Okbacktoattemptingtostudybye.