Hearing, reading and knowing what university alumni has to say about their alma altar is still not good enough. Yes they do give us a picture, a rough idea, of the school culture and strengths but do we really fit in?
Just browse through the papers and tah-dah! you'll find half a page of advertisements on a local university and what its alumni has to say. And then you think,"Hey maybe this school is for me! I wannabe smart and successful just like them!"
Truth
1. The students featured are already good enough hence chosen. You might not be. The school does help to boost their success through its syllabus, teaching style, curriculum, activities, etc. If you're not good enough then you'll be deprived of certain priviliges given to only those deserving - the already smart and sucessful. Small fries get shelved and eaten by the jaws of time.
2. I'm a small fry.
Fiction
1. The school can make a small fry become a big fry that will fry others; the lame-ness of this statement is equivalent to the absurdity of the idea.
Just like the relentless and appalling number of death toll reported recently.
Master Jensen: (after hearing the news from BBC) Everywhere people are dying. Not of old age, or sickness but of violence.
Me: (after a momentary pause) And it's sad that people are getting smarter (and more intelligent).
I find it simply alarming that intelligent and well-bred human beings are inflicting pain on Gaia and themselves. And here's the best part: even after knowing better! What is wrong with us? What's happening to the mind that was given to us by Him to be used wisely?
And the government of those affected countries? It is clear and well understood why they refuse to accept foreign aids eventhough the situation is deteriorating exponentially. Having foreign aids to intervene and help settle down the dust would show their incomptence in managing a large-scale catastrophe such as an earthquake and cyclone.
I think there would not be a better time than now to foster good international relations. It's how friendship is built; good friends stay when others walk out. Let them in and help. It's not a problem so stop making it as one. Time is running and more people are dying. Please understand the gravity of the situation.
Can it be pride? Or a whimsical paradox?
To fail is a way to succeed.
Last Thursday I went for a 5-km route march with the MOCC cadets. Not having done a route march for a very long time, I wasn't cynical of my capabilities. I knew I could do it though people were telling me otherwise and discouraging me to go. But that wasn't the problem, this is: during the march a few of the cadets were lumbering even before the halfway point and the instructors were indifferent. I suddenly became mad and worried at the same time. Why didn't they (the cadets) fall out and why didn't the instructors force them to? Those poor fellas were slogging through intense pain. So I talked to Kent (he was the safety officer for the march) about it yesterday and he said something along the line of,"the commander and instructors know but they want to cadets to endure and persevere. It's not being heartless, it's being caring."
Fuck!
And then I realised, it's a fucking natural paradox. But can there be no compromise?
I'm not sure if the Burmese and Chinese government are going to let foreign aids in anytime soon or even ever. But this I know for sure, if they keep preaching that safety is paramount don't openly breach it in the name of paradox. Compromise and lead, that's what I think any good leader should do.
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