Had supper earlier with my 23 year old neighbour cum school mate. One of the things we talked about was his experience studying and living in Australia before coming back to finish up his degree. According to him, it is advisable to actually further your studies abroad for a good exposure, and probably a 'perception changer'. He said he has learned how to see things in a different manner, and somehow his experience have made him to become a more confident person. By the time you're back here, you'll start comparing things and complain lots.

At that point, I recalled the times Heng Woon complained and compared things here and in the US. I never liked it when he did that everytime. To me, it was as if an act of a racist. Somehow, I just never got his point. Why does he have to compare things that are of its own quality and all? I mean of course the Americans have the technology that are way better than what we have. We are still catching up, aren't we? Not like we're not doing anything at all; maybe just a little slow. But sometimes, I still think it would be appropriate to appreciate what our country or rather what we have, and stop comparing ourselves so much to a society which is far more advanced. Although I admit I dislike the system [whatever 'system' the government is providing] and some other stuff (which I can't recall at this moment) here,I still think apart from that, there are things that are worth appreciating.

I never really did understood why he has to open his mouth to criticise everytime I praise a local product. Or at other times, his criticism somehow made me feel shallow...until what I have been told today. Not that I'm not proud of my own country anymore but I'm just thinking that reason may be true. Perhaps, if one day I should live abroad, my perception will change too. But well, that's just perhaps...perhaps I get to finish my last semester in Curtin, Australia, or maybe my degree. Perhaps, just perhaps.

Perhaps, I might even get a computer by the end of this weekend and start onlining like how I used to again. Assignments and researches will be so much easier from then on. Sigh, look..it's 4am in the morning and I'm waiting for Heng Woon to come back online just because it's hard for me to get online and I'm using my neighbour's computer now. [he's gone clubbing...dat's y ;) ]

Ah, finally, Woon is back. And so are the whole bunch of guys who went clubbing. One of them seems drunk...shHhhh..... :P