This will be our fourth session of focus groups, for NM4101, and the participants are contacting me to sign up. Where previously we have had to beg and plead with our circle of friends to turn up and say something.
What's in it for the participants? Why, participation credits of course. This takes a lot of work out of our hands having to make sure friends came down. Should have 2101 and 1101 people take part as well. The power of 靠山 in this modern age and time I argue is still the same. I must internalize this, among other things which are evading me especially in terms of the objectives of NUS to turn me into a critical thinker. Like when I'm actually thinking and using some brain cells at all.
The phrase use it or lose it does jolt me into some awakening and I endeavour to be more active in thinking for all of 5 minutes of course. Can't wait for the next HK Outing, and Friday's dinner with the NOC gang at Seoul Garden, and my new phone on Thurs, and restocking on my aromatherapy incense from ebay.
All's good. I think. Until the thunder claps and the lighning strikes. Which would be soon. Transcripts, essays, presentations, are breathing hard and heavy. It's that time of the semester. That time. Bad time.
