Where is this leading to?

The career talk yesterday wasn't really helpful in telling us what we can do.
Description of job opportunities were vague.

Just look at this : "Our staff profile 41% Ph.D, 59% M.Sc and B.Sc."

Why don't they put in the percentage for B.Sc and not bundle up the figures?

But there was a good message by Dr. Low. That is to " just do it ".

I'm embracing that message but I hope I don't end up at the cliff when 2010 comes.

Life Science..... what good can it really do for me?
Why not Chemistry?

I went jogging with Dan yesterday and we felt that we are forced to grow up at this point in life. We are forced to begin to take charge of things in life, we know the inevitable work life will come soon, we will inevitably lose some/a lot of freedom. There'll be major changes in life, good or bad.

Why do we even exist?

Why are we programmed to crave for food, intellectual nourishment, aesthetic nourishment?
If we don't need to eat, don't we need not work at all?

Is it part of evolution? Is my thinking a part of evolution?

We are used to the idea and experience of having a beginning for things and a closure at the end. What if in the objective reality, there is no beginning and no end?

Why is there even propagation of all life forms in the first place? But without propagation, what life form would I be talking about?

Will I be a serial killer of lab mices in the future? Will I live well with this guilt? Why do we eat another life form after another? Aren't there better substitutes? More morally correct substitutes?

As each day passes, the more questions I get. Depressing or liberating?

It exists all the while but it certainly took 20 years for it to register on my mind. I really feel it's a really shockingly diverse world out there. It's hard for a city dweller to peer across the skyscrapers into the 3rd world country to feel and sense their experience of life.
Life must have been too painful, too motivating such that people can travel across continents and try to influence the powers through their limited means, be it wearing a 'No Voice' gag to drive the message home.

First entry with a Mac!

I think I sound like a Mac evangelist.

But Mac is really neat, elegant and simple to use (after some getting used to).
One recent feature I just found out was the ease with which I can change keyboard language input settings. I can switch to german just by clicking the german flag on the menu bar, chinese by clicking the china flag, thai, thai flag etc. The best part is that I don't even have to install Chinese software or german, thai software, it's bundled. I can even type tamil, man.

My 1.83GHz macbook doesn't lag a lot compared to my 2.4GHz WinXP desktop, I can open 5 or 6 applications simultaneously and I don't expect a hanging catastrophe. 10, 20 browsers don't hang the system as well. I can zoom out and expose all the windows and watch them work in realtime (like 5 browsers playing movies simultaneously). If I have the money, maybe I can plug in 1 GB RAM for my PC to do a fair comparison.

Anyway, I'm enjoying School, lots of friends to make, lots of things to learn. Ah, learning is one of the greatest joy on Earth! Right now my favourite subjects are Biochemistry, German and Satellite remote sensing. Especially German, I don't seem to be ever late for German classes. Haha.

All is fun before the exams. I wonder what my CAP and future would be like. Such a daunting thought.


Tschuess!