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I met my USP academic advisor yesterday and he told me to start planning my CV now, not in my third year. It’s something that we realise is important (especially if we have definite plans about what we want to do) but think that we can leave till later, but it usually ends up being too late.
As such, I am thinking of doing a minor in S.E. Asia studies and studying either Tagalog or Bahasa Indonesia (on my own, that is).
I really need to start praying and thinking about my future…
“We might, over and above all this, add, to what man acquires in the civil state, moral liberty, which alone makes him truly master of himself; for the mere impulse of appetite is slavery, while obedience to a law which we prescribe to ourselves is liberty.”
- Rousseau, The Social Contract
The immediate parallel I thought of was Paul’s letter to the Romans about how we have been freed from the slavery of sin and now are slaves to righteousness. What a great freedom we have!
So far, two friends have left. Sigh.
And last night, as Dil walked off, I looked at one standing by the glass, looking on so mournfully. Tears sprang into my eyes as I walked away.
I told David during the drive home that we don’t have our ice cream buddies anymore.
It does suck.
And so it goes, and so it goes…
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[edit] I’ve had 48 views on this post. So unless the 3 taggers have clicked on this post 16 times, I’m sure that there are more of you out there.
I’ve recently been extremely frustrated with a particular team that I’ve been working with because it seems that no one is listening to me and is just fixated on doing things their own way. Then I realised that the reason that I am so frustrated is because I see it as my own project and not that I am really needed by God to carry out His work. So if He asks me to let someone else do the work, even if it’s not in my style or the way that I deem best, I should be willing to give it up.
So it does seem like I will be throwing in the towel.
Tonight, as I sat with David and Cheryl, many things were left unsaid. Like how this would probably be the last time we’d sit down and just talk like this for many a month, till she comes back. Like how we’ve experienced broken heartedness and yet we talk about it with such light heartedness, some having recovered and healed better than others.
David is now known as the “voice of distraction” and I, the “voice of reason”. We really are rather different. :)
As I sit here contemplating the winds of change (it was an actual EE chapter of mine), two bags of Borders’ books lie waiting to be unpacked and the books to be wrapped and put away. I’m pleased about the 14 books for $61.
But the books will have to wait, I’m going to bed.
As I drove home after lunch with Sze, Dil, Cheryl and Moonie, I realised that in a couple of weeks, that group would have dropped in strength by 50%.
So I’m sitting here, wishing that people didn’t have to leave.
I have heard of the two new appointments. They are shocking and now one wonders what will happen to the institution. It reminds me of Machiavelli (I shall have to start reading The Prince for school soon) and his observations of those who lack tact and diplomacy (This speaking specifically about one of the appointments).
I remember seeing others register shock in response to my preference for the retiree. It was purely strategic, as the retiree was the most powerful out of the quad. There was also a slight fondness for her, having prayed for the retiree a couple of times. Strange, but true.
But we shall wait on the sidelines, waiting to call an out and see who is left standing at the end.
Oh reason not the need.
Singtelllll….! I WANT MY NUMBER BACK! HUMPH.
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