Behind Being Hot & Cold

HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR!! (SNAKE YEAR!!!)

Considering that it's currently Chinese New Year, you would expect me to be sweating right now, what with all the sunlight and all the firecrackers and "bai-nian"ing and mahjonging and stuff.

Well, no. In fact, quite the opposite. Why, just two days ago I was so cold, there was snow on my coat, which I wore outside my hoodie, which I wore outside my long sleeved T-shirt, which I wore outside my singlet.

That's right, folks. The Jian is NOT in Malaysia, and it's winter where he is.

And even through all these layers, the chill still manages to slip in and stab its cold blade between my ribs. BRRRR!

Why am I in cold cold London, you may ask, when my family is enjoying Chinese New Year festivities back home? (Which I must say gets quieter and quieter each year. Hey, even my cousin in London sez that!)

Two words:

UNIVERSITY INTERVIEWS

Yep. I'm spending my time here for the sake of my future. The things I do to get into med school...

Apparently the med schools I'm applying to do not conduct Skype interviews or have representatives in Malaysia, only personal, real, face-to-face interviews. So 14 hours of sitting in an airplane later, and after 20 minutes per interview, here I am, looking forward for another 14 hours of flight time.

Which is ridonkulous. Simple calculation: 28 hours of useless flight time two ways for a "productive" 20 minute interview. That's like expecting me to have an efficiency of 1/84 (a little over 1%). Really? You expect us to use our time like that and somehow manage to research the cure for cancer/Parkinson's/the next big thingmajig? I expected better of you!!

Well, all of us do take time for granted. Going about with our business, praying for money/fame/love (which I still am), watching the seasons go by. Next thing you know....

Everyone's looking to the past, half of them's looking to the future, but no one's living in the now, and they're wasting my presents! C'mon, people! You Only Live Once:

Flying so often is scary.....

So, Imma hoard my time. Probably bury it underground if possible. If not, I'll spend it the best I can. I resolve not to waste the time of others too. Its not up to me what they would do with their 86,400 seconds a day, but it'll be evil to rob them of it.

Running thru time

Okay, I think that's 5 minutes of your time and an hour of mine wasted. Imma go and do something productive and prepare for college. It's starting soon, y'know. Cya!

P.S. Everyone knows that we have dastardly little time for doing the things we wanna do, but couldn't afford the time. So I officially announce the coming of....

work  in progress

For all your unfinished posts' needs!

work no longer in progress

Behind 2013... so far

2013.... What's new, eh? Only thing great about this year is that the world didn't end last year. Other than that, I guess everything is pretty normal.

Right about now I guess everyone in Malaysia is talking about the upcoming elections, probably in March/April. But why are they making such a big fuss over it? I mean, c'mon. The world's being slowly baked in an oven. UV radiation's hitting everyone because they can. Children are poofing everywhere. The dolphins are probably gonna poof themselves, along with some other fishes.

And everyone in the world is generally getting unhappy over the movement of pieces of paper, and over whomever who gets to control the movements of the pieces of paper. It's kinda funny since it's not the pieces of paper that are unhappy. 

Anyway, the big hoo-ha in Malaysia now is that PSY is coming to Malaysia. I can hear it now, people around the world saying either: "Okay, that's cool" or "Meh. So what?" But right now, right here, you won't believe the noise. Word on the street is that the current guv invited him over with a huge fee of RM 2 mil to perform his Gangnam Style. So skeptics all around me are saying: 

So, yeah. To properly understand why people are saying this, you would probably need to understand how "democracy" works, esp. in Malaysia. But I won't bother explaining it for two reasons.

1) It's too much to explain in a post, or even in 7 books/8 movies.

2) Its probably the same in any part of the world that practices democracy. (No offense, Middle East.)

And everyone else is just ranting around, and posting stuff on Facebook and Twitter and blogs, saying how bad this problem is gonna be and how it'll affect the country and how it shouldn't be and calling the guv unproductive and generally not doing anything productive.

Sometimes I just don't wanna live on this planet anymore and hitchhike a ride to outer space.

Hint hint: highly related to my next post ;)

But then I look around, and I realised something.

Life, in general, sucks.

(Death sucks too, so don't get the wrong idea.)

SO, I decided that I won't let life get the satisfaction of knocking me down, or so help me I'll go on a diet!

To tackle life, first I'm gonna tackle my own problems, like my interviews and applications woes. (Oh, the horror of pre-university work!!) And I've got my crush to worry about, but that's a post for another day. I WILL tackle my own problems myself, thank you very much. I know that ranting around, and posting stuff on Facebook and Twitter and blogs, saying how bad this problem is gonna be and how it'll affect the country and how it shouldn't be and calling the world unproductive and generally not doing anything productive won't solve anything, so I won't. I hope. I'm kinda unpredictable.

And then I'll face life.

But until then, Imma keep a song in my heart and just keep swimming. Because I'm bulletproof and I'll think to myself: What a wonderful world.

These songs are kinda sad, I think. So I'll put Gangnam Style on my heart's playlist, for kicks. What? That song is awesome!



Maybe all I need is a glass of soda and perspective and listen to what little pieces of paper are thinking about right now. I think I'll go and get one now. Cya later.