i think i have gone completely insane or at least i think i am going completely insane. having said that it also means that i am already somewhat insane. wait, insane is not the word. deluded possibly? i was reading the taipei times this morning, and just fyi thing, it is thankfully in english- that piece of information is for those of you out there who have been desperately praying for me not to come back from taiwan as some chinese-speaking machine because that *points to the abovementioned fact* just proved i am not and will never be. okay, as i was saying, the taipei times. there was this really interesting article- two to be more exact which caught my eye. one was a local letter to the editor regarding the poor education system here in taiwan, about how low-quality universities should be disbanded and how the universities here have now turned into mediocre degree-churning mills; and the other was a foreign article from some english publication that was about the income disparity of this generation and their preceding one in europe. now, you might be wondering why in the HUGE world would these two articles catch my eye? well, in a nutshell- i'm after all going to be a sociology grad. does that answer the question, i think it just succintly did.

why do i think i'm going insane? do you consider researching now for a sociology masters even before i start university proper insane? a friend once asked me how ambitious i think i am and my answer was i have dreams and aspirations and i suppose i would do all i can to get them all. much like ash ketchum, however you spell that in pokemon. i have no idea why i just added that, but hey this blog's meant to be all about spontaneous thinking and self-filtered language; you get the link don't you? so anyway, am i going insane? i think i just need sleep. seriously, five hours of rest, waking up at 5 just to spend the next hour or so in a vehicle to taipei, walking around aimlessly in taipei afterwards which is also when i read the articles, and then finally enduring the next leg of the journey back to camp for the next hour, is really no big joke. of course it's not. you're not laughing. i am most definitely not. the bed longs for me but i cannot yield to her desire, for if i do, i know i will definitely not survive the next same journey as today tomorrow.

now, you decide if i am going insane or already am.