I scribbled through both my science papers.
Had biology tuition today till about 1300 and headed home.
Forcing myself to head home and do work almost everyday now sucks man, I could be out there having fun, but… Examinations.
I have one less subject to depend on compared to my classmates; mother tongue.
Mother tongue is one subject I would never dare to depend on, unless only tested orally.
With only 6 subjects, and the fact that the passing of a language and 4 other relevant subject is required to enter a polytechnic, means that I have to pass all my other 5 subjects, where passing all other 5 only means admission into a polytechnic. Admission into my desired course requires me to make sure my 5 subjects produce grades good enough.
“Don’t flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 – 1894)
What makes you think you know more about your friend than your friend’s enemies?
Surely, enemies know something bad about each other, hence becoming enemies, right?
If so, do you know why your friend’s enemy hates him? Do you think you would still be able to accept your friend for who he is, if you were to find out why his enemies can’t accept him?
“I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.” -Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900)
Me too, I don’t know how many of you do, and how dumb you all think this is, but, I research as far as possible on every single person who befriends me. Be it, looking up their friendster & facebook profiles, entering their names, e-mails and phone numbers in search engines, reading their weblogs if they let me know about it, or if I find it myself, and asking around about them. It’s not a pervertic act, it’s not because I’m too free, it’s not because I’m paranoid, it’s because this way, I’ve found out so much about my friends, and more than just my friends. I even dug out stuffs about my friends’ friends, my schoolmates, my neighbours, or rather, strangers. You never know, one day you might enter your friend’s name into a search engine and find it in a hospital’s records of “successful sex reassignment surgery” patients.
Don’t hesitate, just find out all you can about the people around you.
Make use of their enemies. Make use of the internet. Make use of your observation(observe their behaviour and speech, they tell a lot)
It’ll help a lot.
Should never have believed.
