Friday, September 29, 2006
Idiocy
Just the other day, i had a wonderful quote brewing in my head. Oh, you couldn't have believed how brilliant it was. To put it simply, it was so brilliant, i thought my IQ just increased 30 points just by thinking about it. And then, something interesting happened. My memory failed me again and i totally forgot what it was!! So now, i've to relegate to writing something totally shallow without an ingenius quote prelude.
Anyway, so here i am, back in hall after a week-long hiatus back home. And lately, i've started to accept the grim fact that i'll most probably, or as Joey would say it, supposably never get to enjoy my american lit classes ever. Well, for one, i feel like an outsider for being the only science geek in a class of arty-farty literature majors or at least, arts students. And second of all, the lecturer is a zany neo-buddhist. You know, one of those guys whom when you start a conversation with something simple like, "Hey, how's the coffee?", he'll reply you with a mind-numblingly Zen answer like, "What is the sound of one hand clapping?" or... something of that sort. I mean, it's different if you're ACTUALLY Zen because then, we'll just know you're not supposed to make sense and give up listening to you altogether. But when you mix The Matrix and American political humor, you totally just lose it. The students, i mean. Here we are, trying to make sense out of the whole text we're supposed to be reading, and now we have to decipher YOU as well?
So you see, this entire week is served up to make me feel like a complete idiot. And worse thing is, it's only Monday :(
