okay. before i start, i realised i got 23 views for the post-concert thoughts and 11 for the short post on jinjia's birthday. HAHAHAHHA. #OKCAN. sorry i find this highly amusing. like please lah LOL. come on people. -rolls eyes-
so yup. i've been meaning to blog for ages. just haven't quite found the time to do so or i just couldn't be bothered at some points in time actually. i realised how much i've been slacking as compared to so many people. not just. but more of. i realised the full extent of my disappointment in myself. have been doing some evaluation and reflection recently to just well, think about so many things. since my previous posts, so many things have happened... i guess recently i've just been overwhelmed by many things. i just need some time off and stuff perhaps. but still, i know that i really can't afford that much time. the amount of time i take to recover is just... atrocious. yknow, sometimes i really hate myself.
i guess i've just been feeling really really unworthy, tired, stupid, ugly, annoyed, frustrated, angry. there are just... that many things that i can deal with at one time i guess. i really hate this feeling of never being good enough for anyone, everyone and myself. so what if you get an A, you didn't get full marks. so what if you get a B, you didn't get and A. or at least, that's how the whole logic goes. perhaps this pressure is just something that i have put on myself. but i know that it's a must for me to get straight As AND a scholarship in order for my brother to have a safety net. i know that it is a must for me to do well in university so that i can get a job to support my brother and put him through uni. it's not quite the things that i would like to worry about right now while still studying but there's no denying the reality. the identity that you acknowledge in life brings about so many responsibilities that you have to fulfil. rights that come without responsibilities should be revoked. i don't think i'll know how to face my parents if i just can't do all those things. everyone just says that putting my brother through uni is not something for me to worry about, but for my parents. so you mean that between now and 5 years later when my brother needs to enter uni, if my parents lose their jobs or are unable to afford the uni fees for my brother, i'm just not going to care? obviously not right. i have to do my part as well. facing the reality that my parents just might lose their jobs soon, or at least for my dad, perhaps within the next 2 years even, is something that i have taken very long to do. sure, we might be more well-off now. but we are only a middle-income family. everything that we have now has been built up from scratch by my parents and they have obviously invested so much time and money into my brother and i in hopes that we will be able to at least get a degree. and the question is always, 'what if we don't?' well, i guess that just means that we'll be hard-pressed to fulfil our responsibilities as children. in this increasingly knowledge-driven economy, having a degree by itself is not enough, having straight As is not enough, having good character is not enough. nothing is ever enough by itself, but rather, you must have everything. the sad reality, i suppose. the reason why i'm actually posting this here is because i'm sick of people judging me for my actions. if you paused to think about it or ask me about it, well, here's the reason. the reason why i'm never satisfied with myself, why i'm constantly having to fake a smile, why i've changed so much. well, go on and continue judging me then.
sigh i guess i've ranted enough 'bout that. there have been so many things happening recently i guess. my cousin buying a house and getting married next year. having to deal with school work. coping with cca. tby concert. elections. crash concert. i guess the expectations of myself from both other people and myself have been weighing me down too much. it's like "oh you're an MEP student, confirm v zai one right". i'm honoured, but you do realise that behind this upholding of expectations is such a huge amount of hardwork right? the amount of readings that i get for mep is equal to that of bio + chem + math. that's how much it is. can you stop judging me for trying to do my work, for actually using the little time that i have in school to do work? "oh music, very easy to score right?" wrong. if it was that easy to score, then why hasn't our school got 100% As or distinctions ever since at least 8 years ago? or, why is it an A level subject? why do so few people take music as a subject for A levels? perhaps if you actually see the amount of work that we do, the amount of effort that we put in just for music alone for these 5 years until now, you would understand a little. can you imagine the total amount of time that you spend on your subjects now? take that, and multiply by two. that's how much we have to deal with on a daily basis. if only music was so easy. if only i didn't have to worry about the grade that i'm going to get for music. if only. but the truth is that it isn't. and you know, this amount of time has been increasing over the years ever since year 1. if you cannot imagine the amount of time that we put in for mep, well, let's just say that it's quite sad i guess. i remember mugging for mep in year 2. mugging before school, during recess and lunch, after school. all just for mep. at least 3 weeks before the exam. just to get that A+. that was in year 2. spending that much time on mep then, is less than the amount of time i spend to study bio now. so please, stop saying that music is such a simple subject. it isn't.
felt that i've drifted away from some people recently. i guess it's kinda sad, since i really treasure some of them so much. perhaps they just don't know it. i don't know anymore. it's just. so confusing. all relationships are confusing. life is confusing. sigh.
i would like to rant so much more. what a pity i just can't. perhaps i should just stop caring so much.
okay on a lighter note, it has been kinda boring since jinjia went into NS LOL. meh. no more daily ranting sessions with epic moments. ohwell. good also lah. it'll make me study more. i think LOL. anyways, it's only NS HAHA. there's still chinhui to do the jikopek face and the D: face and the yay action in school LOL. plus there's still weekends(: wonder how he's doing there HAHA. can't wait for all my stories yay LOL. 'storytelling time' is always so epic hahaha(:
oh shucks it's already so late. shall keep it short. anyways, first session of composition+improvisation workshop was pretty cool!(: and interhouse too!(: really proud of all the drakon warriors who played their best! and of course, all the other athletes as well(: can't wait for the rest of the games and sports carn!(: (even though interhouse reminded me of something sad, but meh.) really looking forward to tby concert despite the amount of work that needs to be done! 32 DAYS #DHSCO #TBY #motivation <3
okay shall end off here. hopefully i won't be coming back to rant any time soon. realised that it has already been a year... so much has happened... next year, it'll be our turn. and we'll show them.
// because forward is the only way to go;
