Perception, Interpretation and Imagination

In my free time, I tend to do a lot of different things like playing computer games, reading, modelling gundams or aircrafts, cycling, travelling etc. As for reading, I read about 4 books each week. These books are borrowed from the National Library so it's a cheap hobby for me. Most of my friends are puzzled as to how I could finish so many books in a week and would I remember or know what the book is about if I read them so fast. I always carry a book with me all the time and that allows me to read when travelling to and fro from work, although most of the time, I'm just lazing on my bed reading.

To me, reading is exactly like watching a movie. I perceive the words on each paragraph of the book, then according to my interpretation, my brain will imagine the things that happen in the book. However, details are not exactly that important to me as who exactly remember little details when they are watching a movie??!! I tend to be sucked into another reality while reading a book which allows me an escape from my current reality. However, it must be noted that even though I can picture the scenes from the book, I am unable to "feel" how the characters are feeling as I'm still detached even though I'm immersed in the environment. The only feeling I get is only based on the perception of the imagined environment I find myself in and that probably explains why I don't like romance novels as I'm unable to feel any love or sadness from the position of the main leads (characters) as I'm still detached.

This is probably also why I sometimes prefer to borrow a book from the library rather than watch a movie adaptation. It might also be interesting to note that for a movie, time is fairly short to tell a whole story and so, some details might be left out (Like character development). For a book, different people might interpret the script differently leading to multiple imagined environments and actions, but for a movie, an environment and the actions are already set in place by the movie director.

Similar to the aftermath of watching a movie, I might not be able to remember everything about the plot after reading, but the gist of what the story is about and the interesting highlights of the book I would still be able to remember them.

Life is a piece of paper

Well, congrats to me, I had finally shifted out my blog to here, a truly blogging site developed for blogging rather than one as an additional feature. I would probably update moi blog weekly ranting about life in general. Oh ya, my investment blog is also up and I had provided a tag link to it unshamefully. LOL! :p

This one would be about me and how to take a light hearted or grim view on everything depending on whether I'm jovial or pissed. Right, let's talk about that all important thing in life which we probably having been doing for the past 16 years. Primary Sch (6) -> Secondary Sch (4) -> Junior College (2) -> University degree (4) ==> 16... yayy! So much for good maths. Now I'm taking my Masters degree which adds on 2 more years for a bloody total of 18 years of formal education. Sorry kiddo, so much for your childhood years if you begin from nursery to kindergarden till primary sch. Sucks to be you! But well, that's 2/3 of my life gone stressing about exams and with these stress, the government expects me to live past 85 to get my annuity (ya right).

Ok, what I actually wanted was ranting about my Masters course rather than the 666 (Thanks to the 66.6% of voters!) government. After going through one year of this Masters course, I'm first of all extremely tired of the many projects that I need to do... Really man, do you really need to do 9 projects for 3 subjects??!! That is damn siong man. Secondly, some people really are clueless on how to do the projects!! Imagine a project for 4 people and only you are the only one that know how to implement it... duh.. that is real sick! Sometimes I wonder if some students are there to get that bloody piece of paper to beautify their resume rather than learning what the lecturers are teaching.

Sometimes I wonder if people are just waving their papers right up your nose and telling you "I have a Masters in IT and thus, I know more about IT than you" but in fact, they are totally clueless about the shit that happens behind the scenes. Dude... I am stressed out from doing a group project individually while you are idling and studying for your exams. Thus, I get the same grade as you for the project and I got shit grades for my exams having less time to study for it while you are getting an A overall. Thanks mate. Ok, in actual fact, I didn't do that badly.. LOL but it's really a shitty business thinking about idlers that talk more than doing.

Ok someone did tell me to ask them to do parts of the project but what they didn't know is that if your teammate does not know how to do it and can't do it, then how??!! (ops pardon the singlish) Bah, perhaps that piece of paper is so important compared to the knowledge you get from the course to boost your career rather than actually knowing how things work. Like XYZSing would say ==> "It is very sad (o.o)y "

I have to pity the HR people, seems that nowadays hiring people based on paper qualifications is damn shack, nothing is real anymore.. LOL!