2nd F-up

This is actually comical because I don't really care about the subject. For economics, I picked 2 questions that I was confident of answering, and ended up doing another two instead. Why? Simple - it was a mistake and I didn't even realize it till I was half through the wrong two questions. In the end, I wrote that I couldn't complete the paper because of a hangover and caricatured my school logo, making it into a merlion with the tag line "our morbid nationalism". Then I proceeded to ramble about the modern condition, about Marx - yes the Red one - and Prozac. I drew a connection between these two, dropping in a few socio/philo book titles along the way.

History was better, but the time I spent canceling sentences could have been better spent writing about... 3 paragraphs! Enough to complete my source critiques. My answer for nationalism strayed a little, my answer for the Japanese occupation was pretty good (for someone who hasn't sat for a paper in 1 1/2 years) and the one on maximum government was a little... fragmented. I was hoping for a question on national unity. Oh yes, and if a question doesn't ask about proving/disproving a certain quote or phrase, I'd be totally disoriented.

E.g. comment on the role of ethnicity in post-WW2 SEA = huh!?!? Too friggin broad!

By the end of the day, after spending hours "bent double", I recalled Wilfred Owen's Deuce et Decorum Est and how it rhymed with Study is a Pain in the Ass - the latter being a poem I shall soon compose. Speaking of poetry, I'm able to identify many literary techniques but the "literary effect" is a more elusive substance.

Chinese paper tomorrow, all because Lee Kuan Yew had a fit of conservatism (as revealed in his memoirs) that made a pass in mother tongue necessary for entering a local university. Fuck these conservatives who force their views on others.