Mashed Potatoes

That day not too long ago I saw a guy riding a bicycle with no seat.

I had just left school on my bike, cycling merrily down the road. At the traffic light I stopped behind a guy riding a bicycle with no seat.

The guy was riding a bicycle with no seat.

He just stood with his legs on the ground and waited patiently for the light to turn green. Then as soon as it was green he started pedaling, without seating down. I stared, awestruck by the guy riding a bicycle with no seat.

I just followed behind him, watching his legs go round and round. He never sat, never looked tired, and accelerated faster than me. I had to cycle quickly to catch up, then he turned right. That was the last I saw the guy riding a bicycle with no seat.

As I rode home (on a bicycle with a seat), I contemplated the meaning of life. I pondered upon how insignificant our lives are, smaller than a speck of dust in the scale of the universe. I also thought that the guy riding a bicycle with no seat was awesome.

I hate it when I feel like I don’t know what to do.

The A-levels AS paper is devious. Not only does the syllabus have the widest scope of all the subjects I’m taking, but the actual paper itself is ridiculous. 80 marks, 90 minutes; you’d think you have enough time to write down everything in your mind.

I had my mock exams last week, and for the first time, I couldn’t finish the paper. I just couldn’t. I already knew that I’d be short on time, but even though I wrote as fast as I could force myself to, I ended up not writing about 4 paragraphs worth of answers. I hate hate hate hate this feeling, it’s exactly like what I felt during the English Literature SPM paper, except that this time the subject is actually important.

Looking at my results, I scored a 60/80 for the Unit 2 paper about macro economics. A respectable score, but I lost 10 marks because I didn’t finish the paper.

-frustration-

I’m close to my limit when it comes to writing. It’s not just me, no one in my class finished every question. I don’t know what I can do to improve my writing speed. I asked my teacher about what I could do, and he said:

“Write faster.”

Thanks.

I’m sure there’s a conspiracy theory somewhere which links the government, xenophobia, accelerated clocks, corruption and economics together. It’s probably true too.

Back from Limbo:

It’s been a long time since I last posted in the blog regularly. It’s strange you know… I thought that going to the UK would inspire me to talk about lots and lots of random things, like describing the new places I go to and showing off the interesting things which happen, but rather, the opposite happened and I became lazy. Too lazy to type a word about my life. It’s with great effort that I even got the will to type this post, but at least I’ve started, and my experience tells me that 99% of the work is just getting the will to start it.

So, yeah, I officially resurrect this blog from Limbo. I hope…

Stuck in Limbo:

I think everyone in the world knows about this by now:

It was the last wish of the Icelandic economy that its ashes be spread over Europe.

Iceland goes bankrupt, then it manages to set itself on fire. This has insurance scam written all over it.

Patron: Waiter, there’s a fly in my soup!
*Waiter pours volcanic ash into the soup*
Patron: What are you doing?!
Waiter: Creating a no-fly zone, sir.

It’s a bit early for Iceland volcano jokes. We should wait awhile for the dust to settle.

My holiday should have ended last week, but two flight delays later, I’m finally flying back to school now. As I sit here in the departure hall, I can look back at a wonderful holiday spent with family, friends and Raina :) Thanks everyone for the great time while
I was home… and I’ll be back soon for even more fun times!

One rainy day, taxi ride, train stop and aeroplane flight later, I arrived home. And home is bliss :)

I’m going to thoroughly enjoy my 2 weeks back in Malaysia. I didn’t realize how busy I was in Cambridge until today when I spent the last 9 hours of my life doing absolutely nothing productive. I miss doing that.