Tuesday, August 21, 2007

i don't know where we started

thanks to coming home a bit later today the amount of precious time i got to laze around at home while still fully awake was cut short,threatening my plans to either continue studying geog or to sleep early.actually those plans have ceased to exist as of this moment.

spent today wasting my breaks first discussing with saili mel and likuang (i love you guys) about our inherent lack of GP foundation and thus malthus theory like GP fate.not quite malthus la,but definitely NOT boserup,who's an optimist.stupid ****.OKAY stop swearing.then i spent my second break with my class,which decided to eat together since our days as a bunch are rapidly drawing to an end (so sad la,please) it was very nice talking nonsense and laughing with royce,steph and swan..although i don't really remember what was so funny anymore.royce's funny faces (those contorted with embarrassment and indignance) will stick in my mind forever and make me smile years from now (i love you guys!!!).

mr josef posed the hardest question to us today,which i also deem as the stupidest and meanest.we spent a weekend as a class putting together essay plans (working on them ourselves,mind you) and finally when we ask him to check through for us to make sure our answers are alright he gives the bloodiest ultimatum that it's either we let the whole geog cohort photocopy our essay plans which means he'll look through them,or he won't if we decide to be rightfully selfish.omg i seriously felt like regurgitating all my MR=0 facts there and then when mel informed me of his shit.thanks to daryl for teaching me MR=0 and public goods stuff before that in lecture,i can fully support my answer that we're being the world's first idiots who bother producing goods at MR=0 relative to a whole lecture group (who on earth is dumb enough to volunteer time and effort to compile ESSAYS while the rest sit around and study sth else,saving time as we do the hard labour for them?omg.) MR=0! geog essay plans are collective goods! they're non-rival and non-excludable ONLY if we choose to make them public by like,letting someone like mr josef armtwist us into photocopying our work for them just like that with a threat of not marking them at all! nobody else in the world will do it if there's such a thing! it's worth doing NOTHING and waiting for the essays to fall out of the sky (or in this case,stupid hardworking people who collate them for class purposes only initially).and we get NOTHING for it! in fact,we're producing something at such high cost (time,people,time!) whilst everyone else NOW can freeride and get it for nothing.

i only did GP essay and karst/inselberg stuff today): tomorrow we're meeting as a class,together with ms lim (hooray!) to settle the geog essay plan issue.i hope i can either argue my way out of it and convince everyone,like i think i did with the prom issue previously,that we must fight for our rights,as mel says.either that or i exemplify what WWJD is all about.

i'll spend the rest of tonight hoping God will make me less of a hypocrite by tomorrow.

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