people tend to focus on negativity for most of their lives that they forget how to look on the good side of others. sure, there may be one or two or three or a bunch of smart-alecy ones who try to be smart-alecy (duh). but if you ignore the nonsense sufficiently, they tend to stop trying to irritate you after a while. plus being judged by sec sch kids is really not part of my concerns. i dont need them to like me so long as they take something back. if they like me, it's a bonus. if they dont, so long as they participate and i deliver what i'm supposed to, then i'm happy.
i'm doing this workshop at the expense of alot of things. of sch work and stupid finance proj plus quiz.
of half of Rature 2006. to digress, the odac guys are still themselves (oks... i will admit it. i miss them and their crappiness and irrelevancies and the ability of plucking topics out of nothing.) and those who watched last year's concert, dont worry cos you didnt miss much. last year's was definitely better. as mr gopalan put it, we could hear the music this year but cant really see/feel the dance.
of sleep. of good skin. of dead brain cells (from stressing myself over the things i'm expected to cover.) of being nagged for having split priorities. at the end of it all, making a difference to even one person makes it all worthwhile. and they may not know it but i'm more inspired by them than they by me.
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