STUDY THIS?

Good new month every beings. I am taking 4 modules this semester. I can just take 3 modules, but they have this rule that for all international full-time student, we have to take a total of 12 credits or more. Well, so I decided to take photography, but they do not allow. Then I decided to try painting, but no more space. I did thought of acquiring a new language like German, French, Italian, Korean, Japanese etc. but I am not a language person so I decided to skip that section and finally I took up Asian Studies – In the end I dropped it because I need to buy too many textbooks.

They have so many courses here which I will never have the chance to take in Singapore and maybe even if I have the chance I will not take it just because I don’t have to. But here, they have rules you see, so at last I found this module – Tibetan Buddhist Thought.

I stared at these 8 pages of definitions handout which he gave us. Oh really, almost ¾ of them look so damn alien to me. Today was the second class; he talked about selfless, existent and non-existent. Oh god… I tell you, the ang mos have so many questions (just in this class out of my 4 modules). The questions and answers took away half of the lesson. I remembered one of them quite clearly:

Student: “If there is no self, how can there be reincarnation?”
Prof: “well, translation is a very tough job. Sometimes it makes sense in other languages but in English it sounded stupid! …………. (and more)”

Wah!!! I really want to clap. Although I do not agree with him, I guessed he is trying to hold and halt the many incoming question. Many do not even know what is he talking about, many just think they know what he is talking about and keep asking questions after questions which makes him go deeper until at some part I also catch no ball. Come on, it’s just the first formal lesson. Let him teach.

Hmm… anyway, I still have 3 days to decide if I really want to take this module or choose something else.

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