So sue me, it's MY Prerogative

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Fri, 05 Jan 2007 00:38:32 +0100

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真是失败

但是这证明了一件东西。

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title-1455132

Tue, 19 Dec 2006 04:11:15 +0100

People who do not have the financial ability to go on holiday, should not even consider doing so, at the expense of forcing themselves on their acquaintances.

WTF?! I just received an email from this person whom I went to secondary school with, some 8 years ago. I havent met up with this girl for eons, ever since we graduated. We havent kept in touch, we dont know how each other has evolved through the passage of time. Yet, she had no qualms about asking if she could impose herself on me for 5 days in my home in London. How in the world she even managed to procure my new email address (I only 'publicized' it to select few people), is another thing altogether - although the suspect in mind is gonna get a serious tongue-lashing if she ever crosses my path in the future. But the fact that she unbashfully asserted herself in this manner is intolerable. Geez, and she barely gave me 10 days notice AND actually expected me to concede to allowing her and her boyfriend (whom, I might add has a funny foreign sounding name, which just begs the question, of what sort of person he is (a) really a foreigner, or (b) an asian guy who definitely is one of those cheena people who bestow pompous names on themselves without even considering whether they are appropriate - both options are exactly the sort of stranger I would have the chills being in the same room with) to bunk in with me.

Rightfully, I am being selfish. I have my very own home and yet I am not willing to let some random people use my place as a hotel. But that choice is entirely up to me, and I'm not about to let anyone force their unwanted arses into my life. This is such rubbish behaviour. Like I said, if one isnt willing to spend money on accommodation when they go travelling, then they shouldnt even contemplate going at all.

Thick-skinned, mei you fen chun de ren!!!!!

This just makes me want to avoid meeting up with people altogether. Everyone has a vested interest, and most are nice only because they think they can take advantage of me now or sometime in the future. I wil not tolerate this behaviour any longer. To hell with all of them.

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title-1443759

Sat, 16 Dec 2006 03:02:22 +0100

Freaking hell. what in the world is K going on about? We've been shitting with each other for the past 2hours. Unbelieveable. It must be the lack of other people online at the moment. AND he gave me my 'christmas present'?!?! What the hell was that about.

AND as for P. OMIGOD. Seriously, the phrase 'rubbing shoulders' while mingling as never been so vividly portrayed.

Engimas. All of them. The entire species. Big. Small. Tall. Short. Black. Red. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

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Part of the Elite

Wed, 13 Dec 2006 18:07:45 +0100

I've just emerged from the whole advocacy assessment saga, and allowed my enthusiasm over being given a silent thumbs up by my invigilator to be tempered by a toned down meal with X and B while watching an assortment of people figure-skate in the skating rink in Bishops Square. This makes me lethargic and unwilling to think about the pending Solicitor's Accounts exam. But no worries, I will perform some miracle tomorrow and get the work done.

In a bid to avoid the onset of guilt over my lack of determination to start studying, I happened to chance upon tomorrow.sg. Ahaha, the perennial issue of elitism has reared its ugly head again. And for once I suppose I shall voice out my two pence worth of thoughts on it.

I am unbashfully within the ranks of the elite. And this is by no means purely on Singaporean standards, because I've got a cushy job lined up with one of the most reputable firms in the world, and in European standards, I can do no better. And guess what? I am not ashamed of the position I am in. This vehement holding up of my head comes from the acknowledgement of my own achievements in getting to where I am now. I worked bloody hard for this, and thus I am proud of who I am and what I have become.

This does not mean that I actively go out boasting to the world that I am in such a fortunate position. In fact, given the nature of people and how easily slighted they can get, I often go all out to conceal my status. I would rather not reveal which university I went to or which firms have extended their hand in welcoming me into their offices, simply because things can get ugly and they often do.

And it is my honest belief that all the bad blood which the issue of elitism has generated is partly due to that fact that the general public bestow such a title upon people like myself. If we werent put on the pedestal - ie wow-ed at when we reveal the university we went to or given looks of awe when describing who we are, where we have come from (*cough* 10 A1s for O-levels and a perfect score with 3 s-paper distinctions for A-levels), and where we are headed to - then we would simply be a group of individuals who are merely proud of our individual achievements. All the hipe and hoo-hah over the elite status would be nothing if the general public didnt make a big fuss out of it as well.

And as for the comments made by individuals such as Wee Shumin, such catty and snipe remarks are probably best reserved for the ears of fellow elite members who can probably appreciate and empathise with her views. But one thing I have to say about her ideals is that it probably stems from the recognition that one has to work hard to get somewhere in life, and her intolorance of people who seem to fall short of competence is probably born out of the frustration felt by individuals such as her and yours truly at witnessing the degeneration of people who don't even bother to try at all or don't try as hard as we think they ought to.

For most of the people who are on the highest ranks of the scholastic ladder, reaching it was achieved through sheer hard work. Not many of my peers have done so without copious amounts of sweat, blood and toil expended. And therefore to abhor us based on the fact that we have 'made it', seems just as lowly and despicable as the accusations thrown against us for being unsympathetic towards average populace. And admittedly, I can't say that I can empathise with the so-called average crowd, because I am not part of it, nor do I have close friends who are in it either. But does this mean that I have to actively go out of my comfort zone and try to make friends with said people who distant in relation to me in terms of social proximity, in order to appear less 'high and mighty'? Hah, that would make things even more superficial than they already are.

So basically, I think that too much blood and gore has been wasted on debating this issue. The government evidently thinks that there is something to be said about it, by ranking schools/students, and the world spins on its own little axis on this notion as well, because if everyone in the world was equal AND treated equally, then the whole social hierarchy would collapse (as well as the motivation needed to stir people in striving to climb up the social ladder). So lets leave it at that, shall we? Let each individual live out their own lives, and not mess with each other's. As long as you don't come and bug me, I'll leave you alone. Never mind the fact that I pay 40% income tax to support the welfare system (or in Singapore's case, 22% of the fruit of hard labour doled out to the government to ensure that the middle and lower classes are cared for), or the fact that there is so much pressure on me to achieve what is expected of me. If I dont begrudge these pitfalls which come in tandem with my status, then it is honestly too much for the so-called non-elites to deny me the perks of being so.

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origins

Thu, 23 Nov 2006 00:15:55 +0100

And so this begins - an avenue for me to express myself freely without the fear of being lambasted by others. Yes, you can label me as a coward for attempting to shrink from my 'public' duty of being accountable for my own words.

But it's honestly my prerogative.

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