Friday, March 02, 2007
12:50 PM

this week i had two totally surreal experiences. the first was on monday, when my lecturer for Democratic Possibilities said fuck. i mean, well, not a big deal, but still, you know, when you're drowsing in class at 11.30 in the freaking morning your reactions are a little delayed. what people say comes in through one ear and is heard only when it's going out through the other, and you have to reel back to re-confirm what is said, like

p. kenneth: ...so you think the eurasians and caucasians are the privileged audience?
class: *two seconds* "...so you think the eurasians and caucasians are the privileged audience?"
p. kenneth: when they are called shallow and fucking stupid?
class: *two seconds* "when they are called shallow and fucking stupid?"
p. kenneth: does anybody want to make another guess?
class: *two seconds* "does-"
class: !!!

well it wasn't as much !!! as ...er... or ...? or *pause. looks at neighbour.*

anyway, seeing that he's a highly interesting and unconventional (in the sense that he's a totally brilliant guy who got 20 PSC scholarships to go overseas, and is a Royal Fellow of some Royal Society, organises political forums in singapore, is probably a gay activist, and yet seems to be anti-elitist, anti-capitalism-liberal democracy, pro-Marxist-students-may-just-be-another-manifestation-of-pre-democratic-proletariats-or-slaves university professor), it's probably less strange coming from him.

and i missed yesterday's class cos i overslept by 3 hours. am so pissed off. i totally love his classes, maybe political science/political philosophy is my actual calling. should consider the transfer to arts more seriously. at any rate considering taking a minor in philo, cos i want to study John Rawls (modern thinker for liberal democracy), Marx, Hume, and Kant, Fukuyama more in-depth... and i'm also quite interested in Confuscius. i say this probably because of the management science test i've just done and failed. rah.

the second surreal experience deserves a post of its own. i'll break it up...


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