Hiiex.
I wanted to blog about how leadership roles in school counts for nothing in this day and age(not that it ever would), but I decided not to.
Oh wait, I just did.
There are always people way out of your league. Not, it's not that you're below them, or above them. It's just different. Different? How so? Let's take education for example.
It is very hard for someone who is like say the brightest pupil in the level to talk to the dumbest one. It's not about discrimination, it's about inability to relate. This inability to relate may culminate into discrimination, but until then it's simply inability to relate.
It's a lack of exposure, the 2 are unlikely to be friends, not now, not ever. Simply because they are on the different ends of spectrum of education. Because they have different friends. Because they have different capabilities.
It's not that the dumbest one is dumb, it's just that he might be the dimmest in terms of academic brilliance. But people label him as dumb anyway, and that's understandable because academic brilliance is a lateral translation of intelligence.
Not wait, I'm sidetracking. I'm talking about how these 2 people are in different leagues.
Because they are in different classes, because of their different backgrounds and learning ability, they are sieved out and arranged in classes which are best suited for them. So they have different friends, they hang out with different people, and they turn out, for the better or worse, differently.
Life is full of differences. Why bother trying to cross this border, to change your league, to enter a league not known to you, simply because you think that that league is better than the one you're currently in? There is supposed to be a fixed ratio for all the leagues in the world. Leagues here would be like:
1) class
2) race
3) ability
4) pay
5) Justice
And by the league I mean like the friends of the person around the target. Let's say I want to get to know a Liverpool player. The player's friends would undoubtedly be rich, because the rich mixes with the rich. So how could I hope to join the rich? It is impossible, there is no common ground, there are no common topics, there are no mutual friends.
I should stop trying to cross-leagues.
Oh, which reminds me of Liverpool. I feel very sad for the Singapore team. It says a lot when you're playing at home, and you're not cheered on by your family members. Seriously, what happened to being patriotic around 3 weeks before National Day?
Is Liverpool, a football club, more important than a country, YOUR country?
To be fair I don't really watch football, nor do I really care about Liverpool or any other football clubs in general, but I have my national pride.
Speaking of which reminds me of the national song, the one they play before, and during the national day. It sucks. The lyrics blur into the music, there is no climax, there is no feeling of pride for the country. Not like the older ones, which I'd be playing a lot these few days.
Can they stop writing songs that suck? I have some nice ones, people can ask me for them:
1998- Kit Chan's 'Home', both English and Chinese*
1999- Evelyn Tan's 'Together'
2000- Evelyn Tan's '心连心‘
2000- Fann Wong's 'Moments of Magic'
2001- Tanya Chua's 'Where I belong', both English and Chinese*
2002- Stephanie Sun's 'We will get there', both English and Chinese*
2003- Stephanie Sun's 'One United People', both English and Chinese*
2006- Kaira Gong's 'My Island Home', both English and Chinese*
*each sold separately(joking, later have copyright law :c )
And there's 'Reach out for the skies' by Rui En and Taufik Batisah, but I forgot which year it came out on =.=
One more thing about Liverpool: There's no need to be crazy over them. You admire their soccer, you admire their game, but you don't have to admire their person.
You don't have to go around chasing them all over Singapore. There is no dignity in that. It's a one-sided experience. You chase them on your feet while they sit on their boat. You take your pictures, spamming your pixels and memory card space, while they sit around not bothered by you.
It's a one-sided experience--you are happy for them, and they are happy for themselves.
You have your own life, you have your own league to stick in with, you have your own social circle.
They are just humans with a lot of money on televisions.
They are still humans, and you are, too.
Everyone is great in his way. There's no need to idolize anyone.
Just realized that I just blogged random shit. But what's below won't be random--it happens only once every year(like all other annual occasions):
Happy birthday.
-- 7/26/2009 12:45:00 AM
