Saturday, May 11, 2002 I had a weird dream last night about birds flying everywhere.. wonder what that means. It seems that nothing much is happening in my life and that I have to gripe about the weather, the people around me just so I have something to post in my blog. That is so sad. On a completely random note, I think I'm getting better at playing chess. I'm not as impatient as ever and I'm learning to see from the other person's point of view. All these uncertainities translate to possibilities and I guess that is what I like about chess. But it is nonetheless a goddamn tiring game, especially if its 3 in the morning and you are struggling to figure out your opponent's move. Thinking back about the idea of history, I figured that history is also very tied up with the problem of language, for language may seem to be the tool with which we shape history, it is not all as innocent as that I think. Language shapes our perceptions of the world; it cannot be regarded as merely a tool at all. I learnt all these from critical reading class on Saussure. I learnt alot but I don't think it shows in my papers at all. haha. I remembered thinking that it was very probably the crappiest piece of shit that I have ever written in my entire life. I guess the results will just show how crappy that really was. Someone once told me that a teacher once set an examination question on the topic "guts." Everyone in the class struggled but they did not do as well as this guy who apparently did not even finish the paper and had even left the examination hall very early. They want to know what he wrote as he's got an A for it. He has written the following sentence :"This takes GUTS." The rest of the paper is blank.

posted by Sharon K at 11:39 pm