Needs and desires.

As defined by the marketing note we had godknowshowmanycenturies ago, needs are basic things that we must have to survive.

You know. Like food, water, air, cash, electricity, internet access and coffee.
No doubt I'd malfunction if my life lack these stuff.

Then there's desire. Things that marketers make you think that you need but dont really need to survive. sounds scary yeah?

Ah well, thats commercialism for you. A modern and widely acceptable form of brainwashing.

Everyday you wake up, listen to the radio, walk on the streets, turn on the tv and go online, you are bombarded with all the unneccesary information and news of the things you should need. Cause apparantly right, we need that latest atas model of car to woo that hot chick you stalk everyday, to drift in, to shoot your own mtv video with jessica simpson.. and I dont know, to be able to walk in a more dignified way in front of your peers?

cause kononnye it comes with a free shirt which you can parade around with and casually tell the unfortunate people who ask you where you got it from "oh, this. I got it from the car I just purchased"

"Some things in life are priceless. For everything else there's mastercard"
what a mastercard moment!

Education now is a need. Not a desire anymore. BUT desiring how much you are willing to sacrifice, financially or otherwise, is an option. Same goes with choosing the course you want. NOT a need.

For some, they choose it out of the desire of others. They sacrificed their own desire to meet with the needs of the so call future economy. Which is ironic since no one can predict whats going to happen in the next 24 hours, apatah lagi in another 24 years?

But in my opinion, when it boils down to the actual decision making, who else can provide better judgement then he himself?

I used to have second thoughts, doubts about pursuing a business related diploma, as I was from pure science and didnt know, didnt give a damn about the difference between supply and demand. As long as I have water, food, air, electricity, internet access and coffee, it shall be none of my business. Leave the numbers and figures to the experts.

Wanna know the reason why I choose business administration last time?
cause I watched too much apprentice thats why.
cause that show makes walking around with an MBA seem cool.

cause my mom's best friend holds an MBA.
and she's way cool.

dont think I'll go that far la. A degree for me will suffice.

cause my SPM results made me feel stupid in the midst of the berpuluh-puluhan A's people get nowadays.
cause I lack the confident to do form 6 and perhaps get a placing in a local Uni?
cause I am not brillant enough to get a scholarship and get whisked off to some foreign land of angmohs?
cause my folks are just normal people with normal salaries?

They say the rat race starts the moment you get into the work force.
I digress.
The rat race actually does start from the moment you step into school.



Such a conflict of needs and desires.
Ah well, its all part and parcel of life anyway.
We all have to gotta learn to deal with it.

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TULAN
=sipeh beh syok

So beh syok that I have to post two emo posts in one day.

Thursday(17/01) BA
Monday(21/01) TI
Wed(23/01) CLM
Thursday(24/01) BMP
Tuesday(29/01) BEC

EXamination timetable for semester 5.
all 9 am papers.
great. just great.

Accounts is first.
Oh crap.
I have no idea what went on during accounts lecture the whole semester!
Just masuk, copy and keluar.
And I think I did horribly in the coursework.
oh dear.
I need divine help.
I need it now.
Quick, get me some colok!

3days later...
is Tamadun Islam.
Ok not so shitty cause we'll be tested on the back chapters only.
And coursework stands around 40% of the results.
Which everyone did resonably well thankfully.
whew!
This paper is a good chance for everyone to aim for A!

2days later...
Commercial Law of Malaysia.
Great la, give us history,
which requires memorizing,
then throw us law 2 days later,
which requires MORE memorizing!
I can almost hear my serebrum screaming.

NEXT DAY
Basic Management Principles.
Coursework I scored ok enough.
But still,
quite alot of things to remember.
Scared my brain scarred from all the memorizing from history and law
then shut down cause feel too traumatized and overworked.

then five days later
Business Economics
I like economics.. but
of all days in the year!
why must it be on the
29th JANUARY 2008!

tulan okay?
cause on the 29th JANUARY 2007
I took my microeconomics exam!

See? Its a conspiracy!
The economics lecturers must love me so much.
keep assigning economics exams on my day!
For two years straight somemore.

evil.
horrible.
despicable.
ran out of words liao.
argh.. fuck.

I'm turning 2 decades old next year.
dah la traumatizing enough to lose that "teen"
gimme a break la people.

.... please?

Labels: exams college, random

Hari ini dalam sejarah

Menurut kata kata orang orang alim, beribu-ribu tahun dahulu, manusia hidup dalam kegelapan. Sesungguhnya kesengsaraan serta keperitan hidup mereka tidak dapat dinafikan atau digambarkan meskipun dalam gambar atau kata-kata. Sehinggalah turunnye wahyu direct broadcast dari Gua Hirak (kononnye kat atas bukit, reception lebih bagus)

Maka, menurut mereka, masa itulah manusia mula muncul dari kegelapan. Mengikut kata-kata, kegelapan yang paling teruk- iaitu kegelapan hati, akhirnya ditawan. Maka, akhirnya zaman jahiliah. Tamatnya zaman gelap.

Atau adakah manusia masih hidup dalam kegelapan? Adakah kegelapan yang terbaru ini sesuatu tanda akan datangnya kegelapan yang lebih mengerikan?

Hari ini, kita duduk dalam kegelapan menanti doa doa kita dimakbulkan. Menunggu wahyu. Menunggu masa untuk berlalu. Seakan-akannya kita seperti tawanan perang terperangkap, terperung dalam kegelapan. Bimbang, takut. Semua diam, tak berani berbisik-bisik, takut dikejar keluar dari kegelapan yang seakan-akan berlanjutan berabad-abad...

sehingga....

huh?
lampu terpasang.
Dengan pasangnya lampu itu, maka kita kembali ke zaman moden. Tidak lagi kita terperangkap di zaman jahiliah, zaman kegelapan. Tetapi kita tetap terperangkap.

Hari ini dalam tarcian history, kita telah memecah rekod dan menduduk ujian yang berlanjutan 4 and setengah jam.



=) Its been awhile since I typed anything in Bahasa Melayu. Hahaha. If you didnt understand all the zaman kegelapan crap I just said before hand, or is sadly ignorant about human history, I forgive you.

Today is the day DBU students became hostages in our own sport complex. In counter strike language, you can call us POWs as well (prisoner of war). Its sad, to be like sitting ducks for one and a half hours in the dark waiting for a stupid generator. As if it isnt bad enough already that the exam lasts for three hours.

Do the maths: 1.30 hour + 3 hours
Thats how long our butts were attached to the seats.

Why an hour half for a generator?
Search me.

Oh yeah, about the exam.I amazed myself by inventing new theories and formulas. And no, I wasnt sitting for tamadun. I was sitting fot Level three Managing Information Systems.

One and a half hours of my life. Of my youth. Wasted. Just like that, passed in just a pointless manner when I could have done so much. But yet what did I do? I sat there in the dark, sleepy and helpless.

Add another one and a half hours and we'll all graduate with masters.
Ms Pushpa told us before that the MBA paper lasts for approximately six hours 0.o!! The things people do to get their masters.. hmmph.

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