Wednesday Morning Disaster

Spent last night staying up and preparing a research proposal for a report that I will debate upon for the next two months.
As a result I tired to the point where the blinking of my eyes pauses for around 20-30 seconds.
I do have the presentation prepared however I have no clue on what to speak about...so am continuously repeating my speech in my head, over and over and over and over because I know I have to somehow stretch 5 slides worth of information to at least 7 minutes.

Finally I decide to come to college and open the door to my class room only to realize its empty. Oh no no, class isn't canceled...no one has showed up just yet. Crosschecked the time to see if I am just half our early or an hour and half early. Nope, just 25 minutes left for class to begin.

Two students appear, two hot girls. Thats odd. There are no hot girls in my batch, nor in the VC (visual comm) batch for that matter.
Then the professor comes in, looks at me in a weird way, asks me if I am in the right class. I say yea, this is ARCS right?
His response?

No kid, this is Fashion Design. ARCS is at 2 pm.

STUPID BLOODY @#$@#!% TIME TABLE.

So I got up to leave, and just before exiting I let out a sigh and told him that I don't have a team for this subject and he replied by saying not to worry and he will "put" me in a team. Great. Fantastic. Why can't I do it alone...why why why.

I spent hours on researching this topic, its a nice topic... it shows that the "proud" singapore government which allegedly "mocks" our country for being so chaotic, is nothing more than an authoritarian bully. Now I have to "discuss" between me and my 'yet-to-be-named' teammate about whether to pick the beautiful controversial topic which is, in general, not allowed to be spoken of, or pick whatever mindless dull droning topic that he or she picked out.

No there is very little chance of there being a topic more interesting than this.

I have chosen censorship in singapore. Apparently, the press here is ruled with an iron fist. Those who speak or question the government are fined, jailed without trial or worse. And you know me...I love speaking things that are "forbidden".
You all know the forbidden topics in our societies.

And quite frankly, the only...ONLY things that can top this is,
legalization of same sex marriages,
creationism vs evolution : the never ending debate between god and darwin, or
Racism in singapore. Its not as harmonious as people think.

The reason why I didn't pick these is because...
first one has been done to death, there is info everywhere about this. Though it does have that one crippling point that I am fascinated with. The singapore penal code is a mirror of the Indian code, and while India legalized same sex marriages, singapore hasn't. In fact there is an added line which specifically targets gays. Sooo mucn fun when a "chaotic" country like india one-ups singapore.

Second one, you can go back in my archives and read all the posts I have talked about this "god". I have received hate mail, gotten critiques for being insensitive and blah blah...whatever. I don't believe in religion. Plain and simple. So this topic will be biased for me. Darwin rules!

Racism, its a little risky here. Also there might be some bias considering that technically the majority of people who claim singapore isn't racist are usually chinese singaporeans. Ask the indians and the malays here and most of the middle class play a different tune.

I can't think of anything more worthwhile than these topics. It will be a miracle if someone can come up with something more interesting than this. Mind you, I am restricting the topic area to Singapore. Its such a pussified country. Nothing exciting happens here. No controversies, no debates...yea yea its peaceful, bloody annoying. Have some conflicts so we can debate a little.

That could be a topic... the pussification of singapore by its authoritarian government, which technically is too general and when you narrow the topic down, one of its branches come to...censorship.


10.30 am, sitting outside the class, in the hallway leading to the teacher's staffroom. Wish this class was on the usual second floor...they have a sofa there. And a vending machine. I am tired and hungry. Too hungry to sleep peacefully, too tired to go down and buy something.

Wednesday, great damn day.