Wednesday, March 14, 2007
wow. again more than a week since i last updated. haha. really need to starting making an effort to write.thesis is going on fine. tkm sez that we should be able to finish it up soon. and then the base for my thesis is done. the optional part is on some conjecture. he wants me to do an intensive 3 week research project on that conjecture. meaning everyday i'll hafta go to his office around 9 plus in the morning and work on that conjecture. and hopefully we can get something out of that. if not then i'll just submit the base of my project which should be enough to get my masters degree. haha phew.
just had a long tutorial session today. on laplace transforms. something i know nothing about. haha. but it wasnt too difficult to explain. just that i always feel like i cannot add value to the class because of my lack of knowledge. sigh. oh well. i cant possibly know everything rite?
i think in the past i mentioned something about race and nationality. the more i think about it, the more i feel that the sterotypes people make about one's race serve almost no positive purpose.
so what if i am a chinese. for sure i am, but that carries little weight on how i think or how i behave. for sure, the enviroment we grow up in will influence our thoughts and our beliefs. but to hear people tell me that i should do certain things because i am chinese is ridiculous. to make such comments about a person with respect to his/her country makes more sense (even though in the larger picture it still is rather misguided).
in the theory of animal behaviour, in particular herd behaviour, or even pertaining to insects, in the field of swarm behaviour, we must consider all entities as a single object that moves, breathes and functions as one. however, when we consider human populations, we rarely make generalised assumptions that we all act and think like one. our individual characteristcs are to distinct for us to be able to achieve such a unification of mind. so why then do we subject ourselves to the notion that just because we belong to a collective union that we must necessarily behave like so?
mostly, i think we tend to adopt a very digitalised view of everything. you're either part of the solution or part of the problem. so in our minds we either belong to one group or we dont. and if we do, then we are expected to behave in that swarm like way.
i really do not like other people telling me that chinese people should do this or not do that. because to me, i'm a human first, then singaporean and then chinese. my actions are first determined by my own traits, then the fact that i call some place my home, followed by the totally irrelevant and useless fact that i am chinese.
anyway, would mr sociologist care to comment?
oh ya. got my timing for the vertical marathon haha 14.15.01. a pretty average time i guess. more or less the same as herk and roon. haha oh well. aiming for 10 next year.
ok. i'm starting to feel drowsy. signing off now. you have a good week!
{12:14 PM}
1 Comments:
where got more or less the same timing siah? you totally thrashed me and could have done better had we not 'chatted' so many storeys ley -_-
who told you to do what thing? what chinese supposed to do thing?
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