Short update on life

Haven't been doing too much lately, since that "fantastic day". Just been staying at home, reading and putting together my Freedom Gundam model that my Stanford friends got me for my bday. It's not done yet, basically coz I'm taking my time, doing a little, then doing something else. This is mostly what's happening to me during the early days of a week. Sunday and Monday are really chill days. Nothing to do. Time is spent reading or just playing computer games or watching movies on my computer. Tuesday onwards is more exciting. Frisbee goes on on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. That takes up lots of my energy and time, both the game and the hanging out after that.

Met up with old friends again on Tuesday. Phinehas and Zhongwen, both 2 years and 1 year older than me, from RJC. I know Phinehas through dance and Zhongwen through Mark Lim and the other older canoeists. They were playing frisbee too on Tuesday. After frisbee, we went to Cafe Iguana for Margaritas. It's half price before 9pm, and half price from midnight till close. So, we paid only $15 for 2 jugs of Margaritas and tortilla chips. That's cheap for Singapore. Then I went to watch Bewitched with Joanne. It's not such a good movie. Parts of it was kinda boring, and there wasn't any real climax and anything particularly striking about the movie. So, it was just an eye-candy for 2 hours.

Today was frisbee again. Jason came to play too, even with his "broken knee". Met Fengyuan too. So it's really cool to see old friends again in a new situation, where we all share the same interest. Dinner was as usual, with the frisbee people at Holland Village.

Joyce shared an interesting fact about her brother's, Seiwei's, GIC friends. That she didn't really like them from the interacting at Steph's farewell party. She thought that the GIC scholars seem pretty pretentious and lived in another world. So, she said that she wouldn't ever think of hanging out with them, even if her brother was there. Hmm. I'm more at ease with people of nearly all backgrounds, so I don't have the same concerns as her. But it's an interesting thought about how the normal Singaporeans view the "scholars" and those that have gone overseas. Often with some sort of contempt, that the scholars are so pampered, or that they are just "inhuman" (Meaning that they have done things that are way above normal understanding).

I am a pretty arrogant person too, very prideful about my accomplishments. I know I rub off people the wrong way sometimes. But I am very sure that most scholars want to be part of the system again. They don't want to be different, or seen as completely different from the others. The scholars are here to serve the nation for everyone! Granted that a lot of our mannerisms come from where we were the past years (people change, you know!), we aren't malicious or condescending of people. Respect for everyone is still important. I would be just as pissed off with scholars being condescending of others. But, yeah, some scholars just rub off on others the wrong way. It's a tight rope to walk, between blending in and being different.