HI THERE, DID YOU JUST FART? BECAUSE SEEING YOU JUST BLOWS ME AWAY..

There's this irritating guy banging on the piano now.. and I can't tell him to stop.
Firstly cause it's a public piano.
Secondly, I can easily shut my door.
Thirdly, he's damn blardy good la!
He's playing the duet thing that most piano players should know.. the same chords wan. But he has his own version of it! And it's really good.. confirm is played impromtu wan, with his own pianos and fortes and allegros and andantes. And he always plays this same song and he sings with it too, I have a suspicious feeling it's his own composition. It's not too bad. Wish I could play like that. See, that's what you get when you realize you LIKE playing the piano 11 years AFTER you started playing the piano. A few months before you leave for tertiary education overseas. Sigh. Sometimes, parents really know what's best. They HAVE after all lived at least twice as long as we have. What makes us think we have the right to go above them? And plus, they've been feeding us, making sure we have roofs above our heads and educating us from Day1.

Con-feew-shears say we marst hap filli-al pie-tee.
The REAL Confucius, mind you. As in the one with a REAL chinese accent if he could actually speak English at that time. As in the one with yellow skin, not orange, not brown and especially not beige. As in the one who spends his time deep in thoughts about social relationships between man-wife, government-people, brother-sister, parents-children.

Anyways, have another Sociology assignment which seems quite fun.
It requires a paper just 250words long, which is one-page, Times New Roman Size 12, double-spaced. Sounds pretty simple, like can do within a couple of hours. There's a catch though. It's called the Breaching Assignment which means we have to breach a taken-for-granted social norm and write about people's reactions and our own feedback, our thoughts. The lecturer was pretty humorous about it in class. We're not allowed to violate any laws and/or cross serious lines. Like, not hand in this paper and say we're breaking the norm of "Students handing up their papers on time". Apparently in his 35 years of teaching, this has happened before. LOL. ANd allegedly, his student once dressed up as Santa Clause to church and stole from the money collection. HAHAHHAHA. what the..

So anyhoos, it seems fun and I got to thinking. Thinking about norms we take for granted is not that difficult. I realize now why they ARE taken for granted. For example, facing the lift doors when you step into a lift. Bet you never realized you did that. Now that you do, bet you can't think of a perfectly good reason why you never not do that in the past. No, the difficulty lies in actually BREAKING the norm. Do i really want to sit in a lecture theatre facing backwards? Isn't that.. a bit rude? Or.. do i really want to attempt picking a fight with the biggest guy on campus in front of everyone for no reason, knowing I cannot win anyways?
This is where one paper which will receive a higher grade than the other. How far are you willing to go? How creative can you get in writing about breaking the simplest norm in just 12-15 lines?

A few ideas that I've came up with include: cross-dressing. But that would be more interesting if i were a guy. Underdressing. Singlet and shorts in this weather? Err maybe not. So bounced to and fro some pretty bland ideas until i came up with this one! Speaking English in an Indian accent, coordinated with the head-shaking movements, when I'm so obviously asian.
I almost tried it! But i was afraid I couldn't keep my laughter in, so i diverted back to speaking my manglish/singlish. Maybe i'll try this with the singaporeans on Thursday at Jae's farewell dinner. If you guys have weird suggestions and want me to do funny things, let me know yah! =)