near the end~

Two or three weeks near the end of every school semester, I would always be a wreck. The time when the weeks are crammed with essays and tests is the time when I start to get crankier than usual. Lots of things just occur either simultaneously or back-to-back, which leaves me feeling highly miserable. okay, perhaps my choice of words is a little too harsh, but I really am not my best during these times. and right now, I'm stuck here in that time of year again.

I shall not blog about the times when I have been upset nor the times when I feel like throwing everything down and just do nothing.

anyway, when this time of year comes round, the lectures and tutorials get a bit unusual too. we don't really know when's our last sessions so the mood's pretty tensed and weird. like the inevitable(sharon's current fave word) end is near, but we're not quite sure when exactly it will be. and the mad rush to wrap things up is crazy really.

and I'm still quite puzzled and troubled over yesterday's 209 tutorial. I thought we were having a review, but we ended up having a debate over which fictional character should be voted "protaganist of the year". and so there were characters like sherlock holmes, mr. spock, dracula, jean grey, woody, nancy drew...I ended up choosing Velutha from the god of small things. cause the text has been in my mind ever since the school buds talked about it. but not many people in the class knew about him. anyway, I got knocked out by dracula which was represented by joseph. haha. and geraldine told me to choose another character. so I thought really hard cause my brain wasn't working, and in the end came up with brilliant Captain Jack Sparrow. Which incidentally brought me into the finals of the debate, to be up against of all characters, Barbie.

I tell you, the results came up to a draw, but in the end I myself voted for Barbie. cause you know what, she managed to link up Barbie with an argument that Barbie can lead us to utopia. haha. and how the toy is more than a toy and it represents a unification of all women throughout the world. and how it is an international icon recognised by almost everyone..and some other things which I forgot.

halfway through my debate(we had a few rounds), I couldn't think of what to say about the captain, so I just ended up saying, "well..he's captain jack sparrow, good-looking, witty, intellectual and drinks lots of rum, do I need to say more?"=)

but my final speech was,

Captain Jack Sparrow is a flawed and full-fledged character who lives his life to the fullest. Despite his supposed frivolity, he takes life seriously by daring to believe in his dreams and pursuing them to the end. He never gave up on the Pearl, and he challenges us to put aside our need to care what others think of us, and to just do what we want to do.

(well, of course it came out more strangled than this smooth flow of written words. seriously, the confrontational nature of debates just makes me stumble over my words and it gives me a headache after it all).

amanda being the debater she is, wanted to write an essay after the class against Barbie. I guess after typing it all out, the troubles are gone:)