The soul in you

Exactly 2 more months down the road, we would have reach the day many call for celebration, X'mas. And what does this mean, it means i'm 3 weeks away from my major project submission and 6 weeks away from my examinations. So time flies once again, and another semester is just about to end.

Probably not gonna touch on too much about studies. I guess the only real thing i can find in university nowadays is that i see muggers and proactive students will tonnes of questions in tutorial and some of the questions are just questioned to portray their intelligence and the extra effort reading up on texts and articles.

Yeah, well done all the top notch students, you earn yourself a great future to come. Only if you are more aware of the fact that you bought yourself a ticket to a possible good prospect/career, but you may not have the other social elements in dealing people, interacting with others, be less outspoken when necessary and be less selfish by not doing a great of work and deliberately give the impression that no work is done. Whether its just competitive nature or not, what's your point?

I think i sound pissed with hardworking and smart students, maybe i am just another typical loser who whines at someone's success, but i guess my point is that i just dislike the very fact that in this dog eat dog world, we are judged by our academic grades more than anything else. Never mind the fact that you're a guy who opens all the doors for strangers, helping every single elderly across the busy roads, for you're just the average Joe if you don't have a colorful resume that are filled with stacks of certificates and letter of recommendations.

So i was reading the yahoo news earlier and i have to quote this out. Extracted from the article, "MM Lee says world economy will be restored in 3 to 5 years", our MM Lee touched on a topic that says, "assortive mating", that is, finding a spouse at your level — something he strongly believes in.

He said: "I have explained this. I think I lost votes after I explained the awful truth. Nobody believed it, but slowly it dawned on them, especially the graduates, that yes, you marry a non—graduate, then you worry about whether or not your son or daughter is going to make it to the university."

So even the government is stressing the importance of qualification of your spouse when you are looking to settle down and start a family. Thus, this topic brings me to another article, also extracted from yahoo news, "Singapore gets top marks in UN World’s Cities Report", in short the UN has lauded the 43—year—old city state as a model city. However, experts cautioned that as all cities progress, they will no longer be measured just by their level of economic, social and environmental progress.

Cities like Singapore will also have to look at its inclusiveness and its quality of life. Related to this, the report said cultural assets too should be protected to nurture the soul of the city.

Quality of life. So i guess living in first class world, we are clouded by all the things that revolves around money. We worry about not getting a job that pays well enough to own a car, a house and support our parents and maybe kids. Maybe, because, with the financial burden piling, you just have to think how much a kid cost you now, instead of the upbringing.

Another thing about being a scholar, or a high flyer in many aspects, is that you are more hated by others rather than gaining respect. Some weeks back, there was this casual conversation with my project team mate and that he was saying he respect a well-doing person more if he/she don tattoos. Well-doing in the sense if he/she is academic high flyer, and is somewhat a pleasant person.

So i offered myself as an example and suggested that what if i'm covered in tattoos, he said he will salute and give me 100% of his respect. So i guess Scofield's role in Prison Break would easily earn a 101% respect from him. But, the big but, does the society accept one who dons a body of tattoos with first class honours, a graduate from Harvard for example?

A 99% no-no, for that the social stigma we have is that one shouldn't smoke, drink or party excessively, and tattoos are just not presentable in the business context.

Coming to the end for this post, just some food for thought, what kind of lifestyle, what kind of academic standings and what kind of family do you see yourself in right now?

I have no clue who's reading this, so i can't really give you my 5 cents worth of opinions regarding you, but for myself, i think i'm in a lifestyle whereby i may be slightly envy by a few, just a few, but i don't enjoy being who i am.

My academic standings is nowhere near excellence and fortunately nowhere near the pit. So i guess i'm just contented with my current grades? And what kind of family do i see myself in? I've seen some friends of mine with slightly less complete family; single family or parents not in speaking terms. So i would say, mine's somewhere in the middle; in terms of income, in terms of unity, in terms of completeness.

So having all the average "rankings" for my life, how good is my quality of life? Personally i like to procrastinate, until when it hits the crunch time, then i'll go into full gear. Bet many of us is just like that. For this, you can probably say that i created my life the way i wanted it to be.

I do love to have lotsa of things for sure, like becoming a self-made billionaire, owning a mansion that has a 5 minutes driveway to my 2 storey doors, drive a ferrari, have a blissful family, but when i have the big word "reality" smack at me, i have to wake up and feel sorry that i don't have the brains, the right ideas nor the right opportunity to make it come true. For now at least.

Seek as i may, i just hope that even when someday i have all the material stuff i yearn to, my soul is still intact. What about you?