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Farenheit 9/11

i was supposed to be at LT 24 for lecture on Food Safety and Security at 8am this morning.
unfortunately, i woke up late, only at 7am! there was no way i am getting to school punctually even if i drive!

still grouchy and groggy from a bad hangover state of mind, walking around my own house in a half drunken stupor... going to school was never quite on my mind. i craved for sleep. pure undistilled sleep. my brain was undergoing reduction! the rapid deprivation of oxygen was suffocating those grey buggers (brain cells) and their nervous pals (nerves), they revolted and started jamming up the human body's working mechanism!

one word of advice: do not drink excessively, or smoke excessively and ill-treat your health.

Yong Tau Foo breakfast at THE DECK. $1.80 for 8 pieces of goodies. quite delicious and filling too!

HY 2202 lecture@12noon. i met lots of familiar faces, namely all those History Yr2 major students. it's like a big friendly family to begin with. Dr Aung Thwin of course is our teddybear-like father figure in class. so big, so warm, so approachable. his academic speciality lies in the cultural and social formation of mainland South East Asia, focusing on Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam. but correspondingly, his expectations of our academic performance is also relatively high. oh! surprisingly, i think marriage did Dr Aung Thwin good. he can now deliver his lectures in a more animated format!

in case you didn't know, when i was in my Year 1 and doing HY 1101E, Dr Aung Thwin took us for part of the syllabus. hey! that guy really can't deliver his lectures! he rambles on and on the contents in this fast-forward yet very monotonous drawl! goodness gracious me! he sent the all of us to sleep in 15mins into lecture! and we still had another 1 hr 45 mins to go?!?! it was really dreadful.

Lecture by Aung Thwin = Lullaby to send all HY 1101E students to afternoon sleep...

this time round, he was good! peppered his lectures with colorful powerpoint slides, being animated in his speech, got rid of that monotonous drawl. i in fact enjoyed his lecture! well, let's now keep our fingers crossed that it would be so for the rest of this semester then!

for the first time, i went to Engin Canteen. hey! they were having that Exxon-Mobil campus concert there! gosh! some stupid guy was singing THE REASON by Hoobastank. for his infomation, THE REASON why he shouldn't sing up there and embarrass himself is because he suck at it! this relates back to the point of why people wanna join THE SINGAPORE IDOL or was it THE SINGAPORE IDIOT in either case? cause for public annoyance and self embarrassment. i won't be at all surprised if that awful guy singing THE REASON was the same LEMON TREE William-Hung wanna-be nerd! can someone just tell me to what extents would people go to for the sake of the quest for fame? =(

and for the first time, i went to the Engin Mac Donald's! i quite like their architecture, where the whole balcony structure juts out of the hill slope. pretty cool! and the minimalistic interior designs of dark wooden panels, glass and metal frames make a well balanced environmental feel. just chill out there, catch a burger and look at girls. fun!

decided to watch movie since the afternoon was still young.

Farenheit 9/11 was really good! the storyline was really sarcastic towards the Bush Admin and it draws out many issues which we otherwise would not have given thoughts about with regards to the Afghan War and Iraq Invasion. the plot was well planned though the ending was kinda draggy and slow. the presentation was funny, a pun in the face but you'll catch their hints. i won't say that it was much of a movie as in the definition of a movie but it was more so.... a documentary portrayed in a humourous manner. worth a watch! all anti-Bush, anti-American hippies of the world unite!

i mean, what are the Americans selling? FREEDOM. as an ideological export.

What is 'freedom'?

Freedom is an abstract concept, which to each individual holds a different meaning. 'Freedom' in the American absolutist definition doesn't mean that other people of other culture would accept nor agree to it.
going to war with the mere excuse of liberating other people's nations under oppressive dictators and in the process, wreck people's homeland, mutate innocent children with violence and bloodshed, break up countless happy families and increase anti-american sentiments is not an excution which reflects 'freedom'.
'Freedom' comes with responsibilties.
Sadam is judged by the International Court. then, who judges America's action with regards to the protracted Vietnam War and the prolonged Iraqi War?

You decide.

posted by Veen @ 23:02