Sister-Friend Day/Human Rights Day/Cut The Cheese Day/Breakfast With Santa (Colorado)
2006-12-10 @ 10:38 p.m.

Finished The Djinn In The Nightingale's Eye. Liked it best of all the five stories in the book, but it's Byatt, so I liked the others too. Now I really, really must buy Possession because it feels almost criminal to have stopped reading it back then because I thought it was too draggy. Anyway, why are people so quick to judge? Whenever people see me reading in camp, like this guy doing counter duty right now, they immediately conclude that I must be from JC. Then it follows that I must be smart because otherwise I wouldn't be reading. Then sometimes, they assume that I don't want their company. Not to say that it isn't occasionally true, but there are times I wish people didn't look at me differently just because of where I've studied and what I like to do. To a certain extent though, they are right. I have expectations of myself and others that I wouldn't have developed if my life had turned out differently. For example, it never really crossed my mind to think of applying to RI until I switched primary schools and entered the GEP at NYPS. From then on, the expectations I had of how my life would turn out were elite, to borrow a current buzzword. Not elitist, mind you, because I'm not really in a position to behave that way. Just elite in the sense of expecting the best. So yes, I might be headed in a different direction from you, but there's no law that says I have to reject you because of that, so don't just assume that I will. If I'm going to reject you, it's going to be for better reasons than you not liking to read. If you think about it, education is possibly one of the most divisive things in ultra-competitive Singapore. I'm just glad I've got to where I am now...