2002-02-05 - 8:46 p.m.

It suddenly struck me in my most morose state in NTU that we are in the most exciting time of our life, yet no one has ever taken the time to tell us why is it so.

Most of us have assumed it is the following.

1) Welcome to UNIVERSITY education, ace your exams by swotting, or failing that, corruption, blackmail or violence upon the dean of your faculty.

2)Use the HOSTEL room filled with hard liqeur to seduce the freshmen ingenues into a whorehouse badly disguised as a university accommodation... still the ingenues are on the right side of the law if they are above 16.

3) Now we are outta army and have a few spoondolies and freedom to wave around, which means more time to concentrate on the important things in the transition to adulthood, like boozing, chain smoking, and frat house sex... (man, why does the word sex appear in my mind every so often?).

4) Sex, sex, sex... followed by...

5) Finally conquering the most elusive holy grail of maturity. You get your degree and your first job, and the arm candy whom your frens conveniently refer to as your gf leaves you, citing reasons like:' it's not u, it's me...'

Well, apart from the last bit, I guess we'd all settle for a bit of that. But what if there's something more sinister to this "exciting time of your life"? What if it's actually...

1) Welcome to UNIVERSITY, u realise that after mugging for another 3-4 yrs, what faces u is a job which pays u at the low side of a thousand (if u are lucky)... u are perpertually in a dog fight to get better grades, more free time, and the babes... and as always, you tragically lose.

2) Your 1st day in hostel is marred by the fact that your room mate is a gay. You start wearing 3 pairs of underwear to sleep and carry a pepper spray for self protection against 'Anwar-ism'.

3)We found out that after army, we had lost all touch with reality .Well, if any consolation, u still manage to concentrate on the important things in the transition to adulthood, like boozing, chain smoking, and frat house sex... (man, why does the word sex appear in my mind every so often?).

4) Rejections, rejections, rejections... wanking...

5) You've made the transition into a full fledge adult from the last 25 years of childhood. The government and banks and army start sending u letters to repay the debt in money, or failing which... in blood... and if you are lucky, you manage to find a job in some neighbourhood MacDonalds.

Wah lau, what exciting times!

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