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There's a lovely article in the OpinionJournal about Freedom at Midnight and lessons on leadership. My favourite paragraph:
If you are a leader, recognize what drives you. Know your motives. Mountbatten could have resisted partition, or slowed it, or lessened its impact. He was a decisive and dynamic man, a great one I think, but if he'd been capable of introspection, of self-analysis, of self-skepticism, he might have recognized and resisted his too-driven sense of Mission, and the personal vanity that was always, with him, a spur.
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(I do, I do, I do. Despite - or rather, because - of the fact that my current task has a dynamic deadline. I'll 'splain in a bit. This bracketted portion was just to complain about the fact that even if I manage to put my words on paper, I'm going to need serious editing before they are fit to be shown around, and I'm not very sure if I have either the strength or the drive ... I guess I'll have to hope that the fact that I will have to do a presentation on this, and that it's ten whole juicy percents of the final grade, will push me. Besides which, it's actually interesting, not a comment I can make on a lot of modules right now. Ah, me, ah my. Atleast the library is open until 10pm today ...)
So here we go. 46 days to graduation. Okay, fine, it's not anything to crow about (yet! but merely two weeks from now, we hit the magic number of 31 days! Thirty one days! A month!
There's so much still to do, and so many interesting things just waiting for me, waiting for transport and money and finance and simulation and bioinfo to shift over slightly, waiting for the time to dive in. The time! Dive in! Sigh. Is this what life is all about - doing what you don't like so you can do what you like later? I guess not - I have a great time making websites, and playing around with TaxonDNA - it's just that I don't notice the time passing by like I do with assignments.
Sighs. Okay, I'll try to waste a bit more time a bit more productively, and then it's back to the drawing board.
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Melvin Durai. He makes you laugh, he makes you think. Personally, I prefer the old time stories and rhymes. What about you?
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This poem almost made me cry. Awesome stuff.
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It strikes me that I've been complaining a lot more lately than I have in a while. Well, I don't know. Maybe I compensate by not complaining much until I can't hold it all inside and then just burst open like an overfried sausage. And then I feel all squishy and melty and screwed up and weird. Sigh.
Sickenings. I really ought to get more sleep. I really ought to get more time *off*. Ouchmyhead...
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Feels like shit. Really, truely, like shit. This must be what depressed people feel like all the friggin' time. Now there's a horrible thought for you.
I've had two minor "panic attacks" in the last twenty four hours. I have been up since 1900hrs yesterday. I almost hit a bus this morning on account of my dodgy breaks (okay, the bus would have stopped, since the driver saw me, but it was a closer shave than usual). And when I slept through most of yesterday, I had what were somewhere between bad dreams and non-emotional dreams.
Somewhere in the midst of all of this is the rather sickening realisation that I'm ruining what started off as a not-so-bad-day-at-all. So, double-ugh.
It's March 15th. (Heh. It's right this very instant 12:42pm on March 15th.) The almighty Ides of March, and on a WEDNESDAY. AND (I think) it's Holi. Holi, for crying out loud. Thus, if I'm allowed to go my usual obsessive response, I can claim that today is a sort of weird lunar three-year anniversary of ONE OSD, while this Friday will be the ACTUAL three-year anniversary of ANOTHER OSD. That's gotta be kind of rare, considering that both OSDs kicked off four week periods.
God. If life would only stabilize just a little bit, maybe I could kick back and appreciate just how really great life just might be right about now :). Oh, not just "might be" - IS. Really. I promise. God.
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I just saw bits and pieces of Corpse Bride, and I hated it. HATED it. I didn't see a PART of it which hadn't been done better in another movie or cartoon, their most entertaining sequence was done better by DISNEY using nothing but PINK DRUNK ELEPHANTS, the church sequence was poor compared to Wallace and Grommit: Curse of the Wererabbit, the puns were universally bad, the lyrics were unimaginative, and THERE WAS NO STORY. AT ALL. AT ALL.
I have so many other things to rant about, I don't even have the TIME to rant about it. ugh. ughughughhhhh!
(cries; dies; etc etc etc)
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I just read a really nice article on the Singapore Dream vs the Singapore Plan
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That is all.
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"A beach house," he said, "doesn't even have to be on the beach. Though the best ones are. We all like to congregate," he went on, "at boundary conditions". "Really?" said Arthur. "Where land meets water. Where earth meets air. Where body meets mind. Where space meets time. We like to be on one side, and look at the other."