World Hello Day/World Television Day
2005-11-21 @ 2:54 p.m.

The half-chapter in Barnes's A History Of The World In 10 1/2 Chapters is possibly the best bit of the entire book. I say possibly because I haven't Tomb, "What will survive of us is love." He misconstrues the point because he, deliberately or otherwise, finished the last two chapters. Parenthesis is a half-chapter about love, which is surprisingly moving. (Barnes does get it wrong about the ending of Larkin's An Arundel he has ignored the context of the poem, especially the previous line's "almost-instinct almost true".) Anyway, it seems the FAQ at MIW lied! You cannot take the NAPFA test in the morning if you have to enlist for PTP in the afternoon, or at least according to what a customer service officer replied to me, it has to be at least two weeks' before enlistment so that they can post you a new letter with your revised enlistment date, assuming you pass with a Silver. That explains why I'm sitting here blogging instead of out jogging. Unless said customer service officer replies within a few hours and informs me that it is in fact possible for me to take my NAPFA test at the end of this month. In other news, Yahoo! successfully returns my blog in the results if you search for my full name, whereas Google doesn't. Oh dear, my faith in Google as the ultimate search engine has been shaken! Haha...

Okay, editing this at sometime past 11 pm. MIW really does provide 24-hour service, sort of. I got a reply from them to my further query, and it turns out that I can take the NAPFA test at the end of the month after all. Damn! That means I should have gone jogging today. I'll have to start tomorrow then, unless I'm studying in school. Please pray for me that I'll pass with a Silver! Still reading Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?, which I really hope to see performed before I die. There's something immensely fascinating about watching two people tear each other to pieces, to me at least. I confess I enjoy having a go at some people, which I know is really bad of me, but it's so much fun, especially when people end up sputtering and groping for ineffectual comebacks! If friendship were represented by a continuous random variable, the interquartile range represents the people I'd be prepared to make fun of. Not a very exact analogy, but graphic enough as a rudimentary explanation.

Come to think of it, I'm not sure if the interquartile range is actually right, since that implies that I'd tongue-lash half of the people I know, which is a bigger number than the number who have actually witnessed my sarcasm. Perhaps it's more accurate to say that it indicates the people I'd be willing to tongue-lash, given the right/wrong combination of circumstances. Yet even that seems to me to be inaccurate, as it just occurred to me that I've made fun of people whom I normally wouldn't make fun of, and felt bad about it afterwards. So perhaps the analogy from statistics really represents that group of people I'd make fun of without feeling bad about it. Shucks, what a long-winded way of saying essentially nothing! Talk about the ironic gap between intention and deed...