Date: 8.05.2006
Time: 11:41 AM

Ah…a good rest at last makes up for a more mentally active mindset in the morning. That cursed flu is still there, but I think I am a lot more fine. After a few weeks of exploring and amendments, I welcome u to the new face of my blog!

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This post here sets down the floor for a round of serious discussions…

I have been in 0612D for more than 4 months…enjoyed the atmosphere and the bonding between mates, but I feel that me myself has a real problem...

Here, I am treated as ‘genius’ or ‘very smart’…oh, c’mon, times have changed…I believe most of u will know that a rich man will never always be a happy man. Similarly, even though I may have ‘all the knowledge in my hands’, to be frank, I dun really feel happy either.

To illustrate this, I give you a brief account of yesterday:

1. Arrive at school, meet mate ZJ, but without much to talk about.
2. Chem lecture. Nothing much to see here.
3. Maths tutorial. Sit with ZJ and the only things exchanged are tut qns.
4. Physics tut. Sit with mate Iris and only exchange lecture notes and facts…nothing much else here.
5. Lunch, 1st half. Talk with mates in canteen about losing weight…well, cos’ they are pretty outraged at my MC (Understandable). Although the guys here love basketball and talk bout it a lot, I dun even know the rules of basketball, let alone talk about it.
6. Lunch, 2nd half. Finish GP assignment alone in the library and then join the others in an IQ quiz (http://www.highiqsociety.org/).
7. GP. All was quiet.
8. PW. My group has nothing much to talk about. I saw progress cards of SX (one mate) and Irene. Besides that, the people marvelled at how ‘smart’ I am…Nothing impressive nor proud to be about.
9. After PW. Met ZJ, Rochester and Jun Qing . They talk about Outward Bound Singapore (I’m not involved…nothing to talk about), COP at Hougang (They’re having it right at this moment but my flu kept me down…) and Venetia’s PW ( I commented on its achievability.)

See the prob? I JUST have nothing but academic matters to talk about! Well, to explain this, you should understand how a typical day at my home looks like. Reach home, shower, sleep, wake up, coffee, study(6 hrs), dinner, late night gaming(3 hrs), blogging (on wkends), reading bks, sleep. See? My life is really boring…

Now imagine when your parents keep saying nowadays: “Oi! Dun want to study is it? Then wait for what? Wait for your teacher to kick you out of JC eh? U work so hard to go JC, then you wanna ruin it? You jolly well go study NOW or I…” Here, we are talking about parents who just overexerts on the ancient code of study: 没有读书，前途无量. My parents are of this type, wanting me to study 24/7, without much mode of freedom. I am just trying to keep them happy so i do what they say...

Now combine the two and what you get? A guy who may be diligent and ‘clever’ BUT lacks the social life he desires. In addition to my lifestyle, parental pressures have completely stripped me of what I really want: A few hrs of TV, some bonding activities with friends, or just anything out of the bks…

I may look okay in school, but deep inside, I am quietly cursing myself at the many things that I see outside my home and YET, I know nothing about them…0612D, I hope that u understand that from this post, u will understand y I’m pretty BORING and had little life, if any. It’s not that I dun want to be involved or know about something…it’s the lifestyle that is killing me from within.

Now u understand y I want more EQ than IQ.