Mileage

It's quite evident that I'm up to my neck in work, so much so that, as I told Jack and my 3220 groupmates, sleep is at the bottom of my Maslow's hierarchy. Maslow will turn in his grave if he knew someone just trashed his theory.

Thanks to my awesome JS2213 groupmates, We managed to squeeze out a full research paper on women's football in Japan! Goddammit nothing can put to words all the effort we put in, especially those 3am MSN convos where everyone's struggling to make sense of themselves, Noel maxing out his library book borrowing limit just to make sure we've got the good stuff to ourselves (ngiak ngiak ngiak...), long Perk Point discussions... But then again, I wouldn't dream of taking another JS module anymore. It's simply too draining, and basically their style of academic writing is realms above what I can achieve. So bye bye to Japanese Studies, I hope we'll never see each other again, as long it manifests in the form of dense readings, grand narratives and some particular tutor. *clears throat*


And it took me 8 hours to juice my brains for a 800-word feature story for 3211. Seriously, I see no news angle in it, but it's still something, so cut me some slack. I totally disappointed myself by writing like a moron for Assignment B, and I didn't make use of the chance to do better for Assignment C. But whatever it is, it just reaffirmed the fact that no matter how well I write news articles, the idea of being a news journalist will probably be stuck outside the window.


And boy, did I spend the entire Saturday afternoon trapped at YIH NUSSU lounge with my 3220 groupmates, trying to tear apart our focus group transcripts in search of salient themes for our content analysis. I bet we'd clocked more hours on this project than anyone else! Pity it's only 30% of our overall grade, which sucks considering the fact that it's a non-examinable module and we all work our arses off enslaving ourselves to put this research paper together. Can't CNM be more flexible? I mean, if the intention is to ward off freeloaders, then I don't think it's the best possible way. Why not work on an incentive-punishment approach? We're not passive creatures, so I believe slackers will definitely be wormed out before the project progresses. Can someone start a petition?



And I miss you. Every single moment, with every single breath.
Please fast forward time, can we?