Wednesday, January 24, 2007
I've found the love of my life. ((:Finished reading Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores The Hidden Side of Everything Else. Blah blah.What can I say?
It's awesome! I so love Economics man.ECONOMICS ROCKSSSSS
ROARRR
I think that Economics so rock because it offers a set of tools really useful for measuring and quantifying this world, blah blah, allowing us to make a sense of how reality really works. (:
At its heart Economics is all about understanding how we get what we want mah. :D
And what's even cooler is the fact that,
I keep on coming across cited studies, blah blah, that I have came across in other books.
Freakonomics actually refuted The Tipping Point's theory abt the steep decline of crime rates in US; Freakonomics noted how when parents were fined for picking up their child late from child-care centres, instead of acting as a disincentive, the frequency of late pick-ups actually INCREASED. If I don't remember wrongly, I read of this in The Wisdom of Crowds too. When the book was arguing about the Economic assumption of self-interested, rational humans and contradictory evidence...
It's simply so so so cool can.
I think I would love to conduct and analyse economic experiments too. To sieve through mountains of data and uncover the hidden order, hidden meaning, blah blah behind the facade of the modern world.
I figure that's why I so dream of going to the US for a tertiary education.
LSE is cool, but it's too practical too academic too theoretical to my liking.
I like things that are unconventional,
even though I live by convention. HMM. Whatever larrr.
The thing is,
US just feels like that place with a lot of intellectual energy wild crazy creative sparks flying around to me.
Otherwise,
it wouldn't be all these Westerners writing about Economics in such an... Unconventional fashion, rather than us Asians.
I just feel like there's a certain experience, irreplaceable, unmatchable, that can only be offered by that country which is the epitome of the Capitalist economy.
And like there's this spirit/ soul dying to come into live from within me,
but only US, with all its freedom and individualism and chaos could unleash it from me and truly let it fluorish.
Blah blah.
I just don't think I'll ever live TRULY happily in a small country like Singapore,
with its high GNP and high SOL and political and economic and social stability.
It's like,
I figure that adventurousness is just in my blood. You know.
Even when all I saw was the little streets and the green trees and the endless meadows in China I dreamt of going out there and doing something.
And even though I feel disillusioned at times somehow I could just feel that,,,
distant calling egging me on.
Say,
I don't know what awaits me in the future. Or where I am really going.
But it's some faintest idea that's driving me forward, the wish and desire to see the end for how it really is.
I think that my Asian roots have given me a firm stand of issues of morality, views of friendship and blah blah. But I wanna fully immerse in my other personality too.
Never for a sec have I believed that humans have only one defining personality or whateverrr, blah blah. We all have our different sides. It's just a matter of choice of disclosure.
I know most people tend to know me as an idiot,
but I don't really friggin care. Because as long as I know what I want and who I am, I can't be bothered with other... Shit. WAHAHA.
And I know that people see me as insanely childish at times.
But, well, I like to get intellectual when the need arises and when there is intellectual company only. =Pp
I know I am so absorbed in my own world.
But there's no stopping this yearning in me, of wanting, of dying to see and experience all the pains and woes, joys and fears, blah blah, bloodshed and tears of this world.
I want to see Africa with my own eyes,
feel the heat in the Middle Heat.
It's like how can you know what can we do to steer this world towards making it a better one, to realise the urgency and importance. Unless you witness, experience, and feel all that shit that goes on daily, yet is too distant to be felt/ noticed by our busy urban lives?
I just think it's cool eh.
I like academics and I like the outdoors too.
I don't like people but humans interest me.
I WANNA STUDY ECONOMICS IN US!!! ROARRRRR
;rock YOU.
7:21 PM
