Ominous...?

Prologue: I know, I know. I shouldn't wallow too much in depressing thoughts, dreading every single moments that lost as time goes by before the ever-horrifying eventuality sets in and veering straight towards a head-on collision with reality while ending back in the ever mind-grating time back in campus. Instead, I should utilized those wasted time towards productive activities that will be beneficial to my physical and mental well-being, such as exercise or practicing healthy diet or doing something substantial towards activities related with research blah blah blah. I know, people. I know. But cut me some slack, will ya? Cut me some slack. And oh, I just realized that it's my first post in December and it has to start of like this? Oh dear.

Looming storm clouds right after blue skies, taken while I am driving back home going towards Kuching Internation Airports after picking my brother up over MBKS Library. Hopefully this will just remain a weather pattern consistent with the rain density of Kuching (as the wettest major city in Malaysia!) and not indicative of anything related to my future whatsoever. It's all in the head, ZheRong!

I don't want to leave Kuching.

Epilogue: I guess this is a feeling common for all perantau then. It will get really tiring after you trudged through the airport boarding your plane all too many times. Especially after you were/will be confined onto your tight AirAsia seat for the next few hours. *sigh* Kinda missed Malaysia Airlines now. Enough with the sadness, just expressing my lingering emo-ness there, let's take a look at an anecdote with visual aid from PHD Comics: Piled Higher and Deeper!

Apparently for Postgrads in Unites States, my school of thoughts, the Humanities are actually the normal ones (in terms of gender ratio anyway. Most postgrads will end up as wacks after finishing their doctorate) in sharp comparison with engineering, traditionally a male domain in which men got to play with their "tools" and social service profession in which women has expressed their motherly caring instinct towards other people. Talking about gender ratio, just the other day the topic discussed in Suara Siswa in TV1 centred around the phenomena in Malaysian universities that women outnumbered men in most courses at all levels save for those traditionally man-dominated domains like engineering or physics. The discussion ensued talks about the current education system that's inherently bias towards female students, that male prefer hands-on than thinking and memorizing etc. Another interesting bits of information includes that regarding unemployment rate of fresh undergrad, women "leads" too implying that male fresh graduate are more likely to secure a job than their female counterpart. Last but not least is one of the student leader's (a male) commented that leadership position in university as well as the world outside are still dominated by male. Glass ceiling perhaps? What say you then?