|Wednesday, November 22, 2006
the trick to a wonderful world for me is...to have a good morning. seriously. yesterday, i had a bad sinusitic morning, added with the brother thingy, and gosh! i was depressed throughout the day. nauseous. headache. caught a nap at 12PM! what in the world was i doing. and guess what?? I indulged myself with COKE!! gosh. never in my life did i buy a can of COKE solely for myself and yesterday i DID. sigh. but the tom yam soup at woodlands Banquet was great and DARN refreshing. so was the 2hours of detective work by watching CSI MIAMI and CRIMINAL MINDS. so the day ended well. but of course. it cost me my study mood and revision. so. to have a good day, you need to start it right. haha!
anyway, i want to say something. i think as undergraduates, we are too absorbed with theories. maybe that is what university education is all about. we learn about social construct. gender discrimination. we learn how the human works. we learn how the society functions. and then..we cleverly apply it to our society. our community. it sounds appropriate. it sounds apt. but then again, the purpose of living in this world is to better the society. yes we may apply theories. we may apply concepts. because that is basically what we should do. but i sense that we have this quick reaction to simply reduce our society into theories and easily discriminate against them. i do not know how to put this right but when i look at people around me and how they try to rationalize how the malay community is possibly lagged and that the MalayMuslim leaders are not doing enough and are in fact making the community go back further...hmmm. it set me thinking. how do we...put our thoughts,theories and facts (which help people like US understand why the society works this way and how to counter it) into language of the masses? the public or rather, our community would not understand what is this notion of MINDSET. they do not understand that we should erase LABELS. while undergrads know or learn that the act of labelling goes a long way... how do we put this across to...the public? that we cannot keep on labelling the 'hanyut' kids as 'hanyut'. that women who are highly educated and career-minded actually have their reasons why they are not married...sheesh. i feel like i am talking in circles. but my point is.... how do we speak our BOOKS in the language of the MASSES?
ergh. it frustrates me not being able to articulate my point nicely. takpe. i'll try again some other time after i have thought well about it.
* spoken&willspeakagain*
10:36 AM
