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Sunday, Dec 07, 2008 - 01:13 SGT
Posted By: Gilbert

Holidays Day One

Messed up the final question for Labour Economics, but I suppose that's alright - now I'll surely remember the Efficient Contract Theory for far longer than I would have otherwise.

Filled out some graduate school applications, but my U.S. targets are likely a tad too ambitious. Well, it never hurts (it just costs $$$) to try. I suppose I have other reasons for staying in Singapore as well. The basic personal statement was fine (but I'm not gonna beat someone who can say "I was six years old, the eldest of six children in the Bronx, when my father was murdered", having led a relatively quiet life), but the ones on "how did your personal background influence your decision... how you can contribute to the diversity blah blah" on top of the personal statement were slightly annoying. Guess I'll probably end up at NUS if I do qualify.

In any case, I think I realise what I've been missing:



Haha, "eyes shining like a little kid's". How do I go about getting a pair of those again? It's not really possible to fool oneself into renewed hopefulness, in the same way that one cannot be forbidden to fear, but only be forbidden to show fear. But it also happens that those with less hope probably feel less fear.

Haven't done any commentary on the Mumbai terror attacks that claimed - for the first time - a Singaporean, but truth was I had little to say. It was certainly repulsive, but Singapore's involvement was... for want of a better word, rather random. Bombings are pretty much a dozen a dime in today's world, but only now does the message really hit home.

There was a compelling contrast of views when The New Paper screamed out Cowards! as their headline the day after the tragedy, while a more measured piece in The Straits Times took the opposite position and pointed out that the terrorists were willing to get up close and personal, instead of just leaving explosives in trash bins and whatnot. But cowards or not, they were certainly irrational - or were they?

Not much is likely to change about this sad state of affairs, so let's switch to a more palatable topic. Actually, Roy Keane leaving Sunderland isn't much to cheer about either - love him or hate him, he was the sort of guy that the world could do with more of (less the vindictive leg-breaking), the sort that cares enough to, and dares to, stand up and yell the equivalent of "I FARK U LAH" into others' faces when he is in disagreement with them. Oh, Sunderland face Man Utd next. This is going to be a happy ending after all.

(Now on $1138.25/$1400)

$100 on Man Utd (-2.5) vs Sunderland (at 2.00) - Double or quits!



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