great, 3/4 of the holidays have passed and i have barely finished 1/4 of my revision. great.

I have been hearing stories from others (who are just as slack as me) and everyone says that the mind is like a sieve that traps nothing. lately I have been suffering from some concentration problems cos I cant focus!!! urgh.

so, partly because I want to read it and partly because I need to read a book for my book review, (am I the only one who actualy READ a book for book review? I'm such a good student:)) I borrowed MM Lee's "hard truths to keep Singapore going" from the library yesterday. So far I have finished 4 chapters and I think that it is a great book to enlighten and remind us that we are not living the life we are living because of some sheer good luck. I agree with what he says, that Singaporeans are taking this comfort now for granted. I remembered that I attended a lecture last year and a Korean student said "Singapore students think that they deserve all these opportunies and stuff, but they are actually not as good as they think they are". I'm not sure how many out there understand this, and how many agree, but I think I know what she means.

My parents' friends' kids are undergoing the gruelsome gaokao these few years and some of them are planning to go Hong Kong for their further studies. I also want to go Hong Kong. Cos not only is university of hong kong the best school in Asia, it is also very strong in economics, they have a three-year instead of four-year education. and plus they teach in English. But thinking how Singaporeans disregard HKU and think that NUS is better than the rest, I'm not sure how my job prospects will be if I were to go HKU. Do I need to get an Ivy-League masters of UK masters after that?

oh well. mug first. think later.