To My Brother

To My Brother

heya mingwai!! i read your post just now. nice to hear from you!! my brother is the family over-achiever! even though the doesn't think so (trust me, you are!). he attained a junior black belt in taekwando, he's up to the grade 8 in the ABRSM piano courses, and he's one hell of a student! look at his marks! ('Firsts of Firsts' on his blog). now he's starting a band too! gosh! that's great!! he's also very active in his St John Ambulance, and he's forever going out with his friends. he's fast becoming a good basketball player, and he's the only one to score a par on the golfcourse. (i, on the other hand typically score a double-bogey or a triple-bogey. that's waaaaay bad). hahaha...we're having a blog to blog conversation eh? hahaha...

now, you may question the whole purpose in life, and the purpose of studies and the things you study. right now, your education level is actually still pretty basic. they have to cover everything, just so that you have a taste of every facet of each subject, so that explains why you're taking history (when you don't want to be a historian) or geography (when you don't want to be a geologist) and so on...imagine if your cohort were to be channeled into different courses, (maybe the Art, Science, Commerce...), how many of you (possibly even you) know what you all are going to do in the future? and let's say that you want to be an artist, so you get yourself into the Arts stream, what happens when you change your mind? (you'll never be an artist...trust me. aiyah, i think you know that too right? haha...)

what education really is for is so that you learn how to learn. the process of learning itself is important to you. if you never learn how to cope with competition in the class room, if you never learn to take charge in your SJAM, if you never learn how to deal with disappointments, how inadequete a person you would be! education and school is a simulated, enclosed envirnment, in which real life presents itself, albeit in a disguised form.

see? take heart! you're not alone! school's a drag, i tell you. my friends who read this will surely agree with me. there are people who just study and study and study their whole lives away, there are people who take pride in being a slacker, you get teachers who are totally unreasonable, and teachers who are too slack for you to seriously pick up anything passively.

hehe...this is where your band comes in i guess. it makes life interesting isn't it? hahaha...you don't have to buy a keyboard my dear brother...you can rent it, just like the drum set. the most inportant thing is finding a place to jam, like a studio or something. go look online or the yellow pages. sure got wan. what my drummer did last time was he set up his room (he sat on his bed) to mimic the drumset and just drummed away! i tell you, it was hillarious.

so anyway, i've got lotsa work to do. take care man.