~Rantings from the deranged mind~

Greetings,

I have alot of things coming up for me. To me I don't find them interesting at all. haha. The only thing I find interesting now is getting to know the people around me. It really is a case of worklife only gets better when you become friends with those you work with. Past few day I spent a few hours just hanging around in the office after work talking to people. Pretty interesting.

Theres this new guy who is going to Stamford to study and I find him to be such an intellectual and intelligent young man. He seems to be very well read and so far is the only guy whom I could talk to about philosophy and quantum physics without looking at me like im crazy! He seems to be as interested in the latest happenings in the scientific world as much as I did. And yet he is young, brimming with potential. I hope he becomes great someday. However, it seems he hasn't quite accepted the fact that there are people around here who do not think in this broadsense and are more brutish. Because just as we were talking, another guy came in and as he was less refined, I changed to topic to talking to him about past experiences on living a life on betting and smoking and knowing bad people and stuff. Immediately I could see the new guy suddenly got nothing to share and uneasy with talking to this more Ah Beng guy. I guess this is the class gap. Or at least for now it seems.

What disturbed yet comforted me that day was that even for someone as brilliant as this young guy, he has not really figured out what he wanted to do with his life. Disturbing because he was so brilliant yet not using his talents to meaningfulness. Comforting because it meant at least here there was still room for him to be outmatched in this competitive world.

Yesterday I was talking to some other guy in the office till late again. This time this guy whom I shall name X, has quite a different story. X is a regular who seem to be at an impasse of his career. He is young, he is wealthy, he is bright (a Merit Diploma holder) and is attached. He has experienced the spoils of life (goes clubbing, picks up girls and etc) and is looking forward to settling down.

He seems to be having trouble with his girlfriend, because she although being only 1 year younger, seems too childish. Wanting only to live by the day financially, fettishing the little things and dwelling on petty things. He told me he is sick of going out with her sometimes, because it is tiring and costly, yet still likes her enough to want to carry on. Only wishing that one day she would grow up. He told me of how he once fell for this girl who seemed perfect, beautiful brilliant and understanding. Yet this girl could only fall in love with a guy who cheats on her, even being willing to forgive him. He just couldn't see why the good girls always go for the bad guys.

He told me how there are 3 stages to the kind of guys girls like. In the 1st stage, the young girls like guys who look shuave, who are cute, irregardless of whether or not he is a bad guy or whether he likes her. In the 2nd stage, the young ladies now having grown older, like guys who are reasonably goodlooking, but willing to love her more than anything. Irregardless of whether he is capable of supporting her or has other troubles, all is fine so long as he loves her. In the 3rd stage, finally as an adult woman, the ladies simply only prefer guys who are rich. Period.

We both laughed at this seemingly extremist idea. But looking back at his love life and mine, its not really too much of an exaggeration I would say.

Most girls would say there arn't any gentlemen around anymore. And guys would say thats because there arn't any gentlewomen around anymore either.

Again as with X, for being however bright he is, hasn't quite figure out what he wanted to do with his life. Pitty. Something needs to be done to our educational system....