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2004-09-30 @ 11:04 p.m.

Completed a new poem, and read a few more chapters of Northern Lights, which is a lot more interesting than studying. Came across a Christian website which attacks the trilogy for promoting a pantheistic, anti-God agenda. I think the site author needs to get a life. Honestly, it's being narrow-minded to insist that there's only one correct way to interpret a book, even if the author has clearly stated its anti-Christian motivation. Who's to say that someone reading the book cannot grasp the equally valid assertion that the real God of Christianity is not revealed in the Authority, but Dust? Ironically, I'd never have bothered to connect the whole story to an anti-Christian message if I hadn't seen the site. Dogmatic religion has a tendency to impose a pattern of thought, which fixates on anything seen as threatening to itself and attacks it. As Mr Purvis said once, at the heart of Christianity, lies the cross - love and a sacrifice.

Read the commentaries on Silas Marner for fun, since I'm dead set on doing the passage-based questions anyway, so I'll just like read the two texts over the weekend. Mr Kwok's such an unreasonable person sometimes. He practically demanded that we shift Ms Lim's lesson back to its original timeslot, when he's the one who unceremoniously announced that he's taking over Mr Rollason's tutorial. What happened to us being consumers, you know, consumer sovereignty and all that jazz? In any case, I was genuinely spaced out during his double-block tutorial, working on my poem. I should have used my brains, and pretended to go off to RGS with the rest of the people. Heck, I wouldn't have minded actually going there, anything to escape the mind-numbing boredom of a tutorial paper. At least I did more work today than usual, largely because Daniel interrupted my nap with a question about elasticity, which I spent 15 minutes trying to figure out. (So thanks a lot, and I mean it in every shade of meaning from gratitude to sarcasm. Haha!) Economics is at once commen sense and contradiction. Still considering whether I should take 'S' Paper for Economics next year. What is the opportunity cost? The time that could have been spent doing other things, which I'll probably derive more utility from. Choices are bothersome things, because the niggling what-ifs are always there, at the back of your mind...