Beyond Selidor

Well it wasn't exactly directed at you, although I suppose I can see that it does apply. I was just saying that generally, if you decided to go to university for a non vocational course then it is not necessarily a surprise that you won't have the earth when you come out right? Like if you go in thinking I just want an education, and then that's what you get and no more, that's really all you can expect?

I don't think that this really applies in Australia where unemployment is low. I know I am a lot more sheltered in Canberra and amongst my circles of friends, and people who want work can generally get it. Although I do know people with non Australian partners and they have had a lot of trouble getting work in their field. Especially engineering, I think that's a tough one.

Sometimes I think about the weird capitalist world that we've created for ourselves (as a global society, although with many players not having much say in things) and just wonder how and why it works. And kind of doubt whether it really does. In other words, I am The Worst Economist In The World, because sometimes I don't believe in the basic market principles behind it. :P Maybe that's a better discussion for a future blog post though.

While I can see your line of thought in relation to naming, I don't quite agree for myself personally, as I have a bit of an objection to the naming of everything. Of course it's useful because you need references, otherwise there'd be lots of "oh you know, that guy with the red hair and freckles... that one" and "that place where I go on weekends that sometimes has mint leaves in the water" which is hardly practical. But beyond the pragmatic reasons, I find it discombobulating how people do use it to segregate themselves. I guess because I think that I'm a very in between person, on so many things (halfway between Chinese and Australian, prefer not to be labelled by my job or regular activities, refusing to have any label for religion) I don't quite understand other people's need to belong so badly. To group themselves with others by taking a name and saying "this is us, this is me". I guess even my name, Trin, is just a weird derivation from a Shanghainese nickname, nothing I chose, but something that I just ended up with. And catpuccino is just a usertag I found in a cute kitten calendar, used for the sake of convenience and cuteness and then was too lazy to change.