Facebook: your key to the world

Facebook is an amazing way of reminding you of your pathetic excuse of a school life.

I browse through my friends who are studying in Oxford and Cambridge and Columbia and what other dope ass ivy leagues and top notch shit you've got and I can't help but feel a tinge of regret each time.

I don't know how true it is, but my idea is this - they're there partaking of a splendid education, learning new things, engaging in passionate discourse with people who actually really want to talk about issues and not because they have to fulfill 25% of class participation. They get to be in the midst of brilliant minds which are so brilliant, your sad excuse for a brain struggles each day to comprehend how theirs even got to being that brilliant. They get to interact with people who are passionate about the things they're studying and who don't just brush everything off as belonging purely to the world of academia, making legal theory sound like a chore and forced obligation when it actually is rather intriguing.

I want to be amid that kind of influence too. I want to experience a different kind of education. I would like for my world view to change. And I feel that's what people who study overseas get - a worldview reform. And here we are in Singapore, still obssessed over our little petty gossip, and our insignificant joys of completing memo and our over-rated pains of upcoming memorial. Whereas in Oxford or what have you, life is different, people are different, the culture is different, the take on education is different, you live on your own, you learn new things and the list goes on.

You can't help but feel that the people who've gone overseas have a much broader sense of the world than you do. And you're trapped in sunny singapore where everything's minute. Minute in land space, minute in ideas, minute in experience, just minute.

I do hope with my life that I don't live and die without knowing something bigger and greater than what I've come to know in Singapore. I will just kill myself if that's all I grow to know and understand.