Got back from Pre-U Sem on Friday. I actually did a pretty long post on it, but somehow blogger didn't save it. Gah. Anyhow, the experience was just da bomb. :) SG 16 and GFC 31 made the whole experience a blissful and enriching one! Panel discussions and the meetings with the various personnel from MOE was quite an eye-opener too.

<3 to Divya, Lisbeth, Queena, Nan, Melissa, Annabel, Fukie, Khalis, Poonam, Jen Wei, Jason, Yuhui, Bin, William, Hariz and Michelle! I hope I didn't leave anyone out.

Photos will be up when Fukie sends them over:D

There are some people in life who are simply destined to do far greater things than any one of us can ever hope to achieve. These are the people who do, rather than talk. These are the people who make a concerted effort to carry out their dreams, their hopes, rather than just talk about them. Rather than just complain about the obstacles in their way of achieving their dreams. These are the people who actually try and remove their obstacles, instead of whining about them.

I've learnt that words are most of the time, useless without any action. You don't need to speak to show your purported big dreams and great hopes, or to show your intellect. I don't need to show off my knowledge in front of people or like books which were on the bestseller's list but which I cannot understand. For example, that book "Tuesdays with Morrie". Such a big deal was made out of it, but I read about 3/4s of it, and I have given up on completing it. I don't see it teaching me anything. Give me Princess Diaries or Shopaholic anyday. I know of people who laugh at me because I read chick lit and love it. They cannot understand why I would rather watch romantic comedies over an intellectual thriller. They regard me with disdain because I don't know one big hotshot in the political scene from the other. They look down on me because I don't seem to take anything seriously.

Yes, I know how you look at me. But I'm glad to say that it has never bothered me. Because as much as you disregard my intellect (I do have one, I assure you), as much as you think I'm some airhead, as much as you think I'm frivolous and inferior... I'm sorry to say then, that you don't know me at all.

I don't want to be narrow-minded like the people who look down on me. I don't ever want to look down on people anymore. I don't want to judge people based on gossip. I don't want to think that I am better than others just because I come from a better school. Most of all, I don't want to and will not try and pass myself off as being "intellectual" and engage in serious debates about politics or whatnot, when I don't care at all.

I leave you with my favourite quote from Sylvia Plath.

"The courage of shutting up, in spite of artillery!"