so the 2nd week of sch is almost over.
hard to believe, because this 2 weeks must be the longest week of any semester i've had so far. it feels like i've been here for a month already. the work load, the readings. my entire month of feb and march is just filled with deadlines and exams. i don't even want to bother counting, but it's definitely way more than any other sem. and i'm taking less credits! (ok, credit.)

struggling with my thesis topic. I still have a while to think through it, but i need to finish the preliminary readings and ground work soon, if i want to do some of the field work stuff over summer. Thank God that the prof I asked is willing to be my adviser, even if he's going to be on sabbatical. Hope the department agrees though.

my academic adviser agreed with me though, that i probably want to focus something on singapore, just so that i'm more prepared when i head home to work. i don't want to be so out of touch with singapore's society that i have no inklings of what is going on, both on a grassroots and a national level. ah. we'll see.

510 is scary. downright scary. and anything that seriously threatens my gpa with a D is definitely palpitation-inducing. oh well, we'll see how this goes.

honestly, the entire time that i've done geography, i've been winging it. in sec sch, in jc and even now, in college. i seriously have been winging thru everything. my papers, my reviews, my understanding of the highly-cheem stuff tt i've been poring thru? yeah. i've been winging it. i honestly don't understand half of what i read. urgh.

seriously, i'm not good at geog. i'm just good at bull-shitting. and i guess that really scares me off from studying at a higher level. ok, time to start work.

globalisation: the stretching of connections, relations and networks between human communities, an increase in the intensity of these and a general speeding up of all these phenomena. (David Held)
"globalisation as a concept refers both to the compression of the world and the intensification of consciousness of the world as a whole.. both concrete global interdependence and consciousness of the global whole in the twentieth century" (Roland Robertson, 1992)

globalisation. such a politically-loaded word.