tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11498972229669949142011-07-28T04:21:10.367-07:00Jeremy Tenghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15881429256449215441noreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1149897222966994914.post-56792155025307714882009-09-02T09:11:00.000-07:002009-09-02T22:15:22.232-07:00<span style="font-style: italic;">I'm so sorry for not blogging since eons ago. All your supportive tags warrant an update - so enjoy this post!</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.islamicbookstore.org.uk/eshop/images/morals.gif"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 190px; height: 190px;" src="http://www.islamicbookstore.org.uk/eshop/images/morals.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a>Even I myself feel that I've changed a lot, <span style="font-weight: bold;">morally</span>.<br /><br />I wouldn't dare to say this seemingly sympathy-attracting post constitutes an excuse for my truancy nowadays. But can you allow me, for once, to obtain your slightest understanding on how I feel?<br /><br />It feels like <span style="font-style: italic;">a not-so-severe sickness trying to supersede my indolence</span>, altogether trying to make up an excuse for not going to school. Even I myself doubt the need for absence in this case.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Or could it have been all due to mere laziness?</span> I've been lackadaisically leading a hedonistic life, yet still feeling so empty. Not an excuse - but going to school doesn't seem to fill this void segment of life either.<br /><br />After all, school isn't a place where you can only have fun with friends. Otherwise, I would've been a loyal school-goer. <span style="font-weight: bold;">But school is ultimately a place of studying and learning. </span>However fun you play with your friends, you can't elude from this basic definition of going to school - <span style="font-weight: bold;">you're there to learn</span>.<br /><br />Learn? Why are we coerced into learning things that will <span style="font-weight: bold;">eventually only get us a pathetic piece of "O" Level Certificate?</span> Does it really do wonders? Are <span style="font-style: italic;">all</span> the things we learn in school really so useful in the future? Look, what's the use? - In the future we may have that piece of certificate on hand, but we surely will let even the rudimentary details we learned slip from our memory.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">So what conscience can we have in brandishing our certificates?</span> To us, it's partially a tool for us to get jobs.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Why is the world so superficial, so superficial that it's only concerned with what's seen and no more concerned with what's within, so superficial that it bows in admiration at the flourish of qualifications and statuses, so superficial that its eyes are set on everlasting augmentation and never set on a mirror and asking itself, <span style="font-weight: bold;">"What have we all been doing, and why?"</span>...</span><br /><br />In school you see students blindly studying and memorizing and <span style="font-style: italic;">doing</span> everything they're given. <span style="font-weight: bold;">It's just like climbing to the summit of Mount Everest <span style="font-style: italic;">ONLY to obtain a mere paper qualification. </span></span>And believe it or not I'm among a class of these students, relentlessly studying for the relentless tests.<br /><br />Man... they are making me feel so inferior - but I shall intrepidly lead a life of my choice amongst lots of people trying to rise above the rest.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Because people live to die. No one leaves a lasting legacy.</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1149897222966994914-5679215502530771488?l=jeremy-teng.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Jeremy Tenghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15881429256449215441noreply@blogger.com0