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Saturday, October 08, 2005
yesterday after returning from school, i saw some "on government service" marked letters on my desk. i was horrified, because i heard that sweesen has to enlist on the SECOND of december. i thought, "that's it. i'm finished." granted, he might have been arrowed early cos of his weight, but i always thought they put the obese people together with the NAPFA losers! ugh i don't want to suffer the same fate, 3 days after the end of exams, and wasted $88 wth.
with trepidation, i tore open the envelopes. to my pleasant delight, i saw this:
Dear Michael,Computerised Pilot Selection System (CPSS) TestCongratulations! We are please to inform you that you have passed the CPSS test. This means that you are a high potential to be a pilot. (And the rest is unimportant application stuff.)i mean, this is just hilarious. as you might remember, if you read my blog on a regular basis, a few entries ago i went for the test and it was an absolute disaster. which leads me on to several conclusions.
1. they have low standards.
2. there must be some kind of mistake.
3. everyone else who took the test then sucked more (which doesn't really apply because even if it was a bell-curve of sorts, they're not obliged to choose their pilots ASAP since they have all the time in the world over the next year or so to choose them)
4. i fluke well. in which case i can only hope that such dumb luck will be somehow bestowed to me for the As too.
eh but so stupid la, i think i only want to be a pilot if i'm under the MINDEF scholarship. might as well serve 2 bonds at the same time.
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from deb:
the dangers of blog surfing include reading someone's blog, whom you don't know, excessively, to the point where you start thinking of the person as your friend. because you know so much about them. but when you stop yourself and take a look at it. it's all one sided. there isn't really a friendship. there's just voyeurism. it's a rather scary thought.i totally agree. i've fallen prey to that, actually. i read blogs so extensively that i feel like i know so much about some people. and i haven't even seen, or talked to them before in real life! the truth really hurts when you discover it's all just been a fantasy of friendship which exists only in your mind. oops, my bad for lowered defences. it's easy to mistake the conversational tone of a personal journal as all-encompassing.
adding on to that, i would say that it's all just an illusion of intimacy, emotionally attaching and investing ourselves to characters we read about. yes, that's right. they're characters and not people. i believe that most blogs out there are just a Show with created personalities. perhaps not created per se, but modified versions of self. to exaggerate/emphasize certain attributes, or downplay others.
which i suppose is actually a good thing. i wouldn't want any tom, dick, or harry to know exactly who i am.
mike just took up your time at
2:51 pm
th time!