Stage 2 and Onwards

Ah, I haven't blogged in a while.  I have graduated and have been conferred my degree along with the rights, responsibilities and privileges attached.  I did the required photo-taking, hat-throwing and polite-clapping.  

There, this ends yet another leg of my overpriced education.   

2009 is going to be a year of pondering and deciding.  I'm have been 'hanging out' and will continue to be doing so for the next few months until I start graduate school (once again).  I've always been more of a thinker than a doer.  Graduation school probably suits me more in this manner.  I can continue to live in my own bubble world of ideas and concepts that most people do not care much about.  Well, I get to be the brains for humanity or, in all likelihoods, be a slave for publication.  Ah, or maybe... graduate school is where they lock up useless bums and give them a sense of purpose instead of setting them free to wreck havoc upon banality of reality.

Whatever.  I get to go back to Singapore to find my acupuncturist in another attempt to 'fix' my bad liver.  It's not the alcohol.  Really.  Why does no one believe me.  I am pretty sure I drink more apple / grape juice than alcohol.  Anyway, I'll probably spend long hours wandering the streets where my friends toil in corporate buildings earning their living and becoming self sustainable.  I will try to drown my sorrows drinking mocha frappuccinos and delude myself that freedom of thought is of greater value than money.  Ahh.. the sweet scent of money, when will I ever feel your dirty crinkly love again?

Of values and life, of wants and desires, of needs and longings.  Where is the fine balance?  Why must one always give up something for another?  It is a life of limited resources and limited time.  Of the choices we must make and responsibilities we must take.  The burden of growing up.