Thoughts during a Mid-Monday Afternoon Mug Session

The sights before me are as captured in the following three photographs. The sounds... there is no sound lest the shuffling of papers as another set of notes are successfully copied, or the clicking of the mouse to open another webcast session to help reinforce the ever-so-forgetful mind. I, however can be taken as an anomaly in this sample of bobbing black heads (a feeble attempt at incorporating EC2303 into this blog article...). Idling around, Facebook surfing, shameless napping... these are what make up the bulk of my daily itinerary at YIH study room. Its about 3.20 in the afternoon now, Michelle seems to be throughly caught up in her law stuff and Qiu Rong, she frantically going through tons of what looks to be stats and maths note. JJ's off to "finish" his assignment and I am sitting here, near the entrance looking throughly lost. 

Table Top

To my left.

To my right.

The finals are in two and a half weeks time and its pretty obvious many are feeling the crunch of the up and coming examinations. Again, the story is so very different in my case. Having selected my modules based on what I thought would be important in time to come rather than what I would like to study, I am extremely unmotivated in pressing on the assault. Econometrics, Macro-Analysis, Micro... all have been reduced to a blur of roman symbols and random numerical equations before my oh-so-tired eyes. Two more weeks... till I get my one final chance to reset the course I want to embark on for the next 2-3 years. Its hard to imagine oneself in two years time, graduating, starting on one's careers... but then again it was hard to imagine sitting for the O' levels, A' levels and enlisting in the armed forces too. One moment, a hard to envision possibility in the future; a moment later, a mere reflection in the ever expanding list of "been there, done that". Oh well... I guess we all have to go through it at some point in time. 

Demonstrations in the streets of Bangkok

On a less personal note, the civil unrest in Thailand is getting worse all over again. I'll spare everyone the less thrilling details of what, why and how the mess in the "land of smiles" began, one can find the boring, all too familiar snippets of information in the papers and the daily news. Different Parties, Same People, Different Colored shirts, Same Crappy fight... Unless the government and the conflicting parties can come to some form of consensus, and solve the underlying issues responsible for the persistent unrest in Thailand... I'll never be able get the permission I need to resume my biannual shopping trips in กรุงเทพมหานคร :( My last scheduled trip was cancelled due to the Anti-Thaksin protests a couple of months back. For the sake of the Thai economy and my happiness:), let's all hope this storm blows over soon. 

Sunday's bike ride went terribly well. The ride was blissfully uneventful and many previously observed trends were broken. People woke up on time, the punctual ones were late and those many expected to run over a dog or get run over by a bus, survived the ride. :) 90 plus kilometers in mileage concluded by a sumptuous breakfast at Mac's, I really won't have my Sunday mornings any other way. 

This monday afternoon has been rather unproductive. Before I get back to the books, I really want to thank Kevin for helping me out with the bloody Maple quiz earlier. You're a lifesaver really :) And with that final statement, I am off to finish up one last set of notes before heading to the pool. Till the next entry!