Yourself?

we mug too much in singapore. people in the US spend a lot of time hanging out and being boliao.

know what? people make me sick sometimes. a lot of the time. and sometimes stupid people are eminently difficult to tolerate. (the understatement of the year, hurrah hurrah.)

there used to be this whole big debate about IQ vs. EQ. wonder if EQ's something you can train up, or you have to be born with it? what about talking? some people are natural talkers and others are awkward. ditto the above question.

and then. telephones are uncomfortable. for me, at least. i don't like them unless i'm doing useful stuff. and i don't like leaving messages on answering machines. used to hate it, in fact, but now i'm getting better. i wish people wouldn't be so generic about their answering machines/voicemail msgs. hi this is so and so please leave your name, number and a short msg after the tone. beep. i tried to record a more interesting one the other day but ran over my 60 sec of allotted record time.. life is full of restrictions. and life itself is a restriction, a time/space ultimatum that one has just one chance to fulfill.

i've been told that school is a waste of time. but i think that everything is what you make of it. of course, it's entirely possible to waste all your school years and hit the real world unprepared.. or not. in the end, is street smart better than book smart?

people in the US seem to talk more readily. have they grown up in a more accepting society, a talkier one? i wonder if it's better to have a huge bunch of acquaintances [fast friends] or a small group of close friends.

i wonder if they think rationally less too. "i pledge allegiance to the flag of the US of A, and to the rep. for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all." excuse me while i go outside and cough a bit. liberty and justice for all, my foot. indivisible, my foot. less than a week before the 4th of july independence day a judge in california had the smart idea to remove "under God" from the pledge. hello, they only just put it in around 1954 and now you want to take it out a gain just b/c this guy feels his atheist daughter may be traumatized by hearing (you don't even have to say it anymore) in school and he sued the government?

i'm pretty sure familiarity breeds contempt. don't you always find that the same thing your brother does, your friend might get away with much more easily?
sorry for the scattered thoughts. fireworks go to my head.

posted by anne @ 11:10 am