Shut me up!

Next week will be the official academic week where school starting in full force rather than last week's mere tinge of the smell of stinky classes. Developmental Bio was fine, reminds me much of Genetics and it takes place in the same lecture hall as well, nothing too excited to shout out about. Physiology was disastrous, I personally not a big fan of attending classes in Budig Hall but this time it is really beyond absurd. I was surrounded by insensitive mushrooms who either talk, whisper, susurrate (f!), rustle and worst of all, 2 girls was seating in front of me with their laptop on facebook through out the whole lecture. For God's sake just drop the class already! Being in huge classes with 500 students is what KU's good at. If they could just downgrade to NCAA division III and cut off all the budget directed to athletic departments and then focus more on expanding academic facilities plus improving their student faculty ratio, I'm pretty sure the ranking will rocket. Biology department is so bad I guess the professors don't like to teach instead they see it as a burden that hindering whatever research they are working on. That's why we often have more than 2 lecturers for one subject switching in between mid semester in different areas of specialization. Wish they could have a unified system and more standardized classes. Oh well, just my 2 cents...I'm transferring out anyways.

My weekend was in a nutshell, bad like BAD. Something happened around the neighbourhood that triggered the police last night. Dear copper knocked my door at 3.30am in the middle of the night asking me series of questions which involved "do you know someone...", "have you seen someone...", I wasn't paying much attention to what he was asking because come on, do I have to repeat myself, it was 3.30 am. So yea, I'm glad they were happy with my answers. Hopefully it wasn't some serial murder on loose that so happened to be my neighbour. Or it could be that 2 guys who escaped from the Arizona prison and finally made their way to the heartland? Whatever it is...

The dear roommate o'mine just broke up with his girlfriend which I think is a good move for him in long run for he is now able to put his heart into studies finally. Fyi, he's a 3rd semester AEC student. Dude, move on already!

Lastly, I was quite amazed at how people getting overwhelmed at the issue of building an Islamic center near Ground Zero site. It is a super sensitive issue that even the great leader does not dare to take clear side. Well I don't see a problem of building a holy place where the liberty to practice religion is set forth by the founding fathers of this country (1st Amendment, was it?). Anyways, it's a battle against terrorists but not Muslims that Americans can't seem to understand. But I can see where it's coming from, if you built a mosque near the site it's indirectly having the terrorists to claim victory at this very ground where 3000 lives were lost and if you don't allow them to build a mosque, they will condemn the US as a narrow minded country where freedom to do whatever ensured by the constitution is plain bs. Oh so much dilemma...I feel sorry for the country and for all the western values as a result of overemphasizing on civil rights. It's astronomical or IMPOSSIBLE to please each and every individual. If freedom is already given to the people then it's sort of telling people that you can do whatever you want within the limit of law and mind your own business. That's really great, but the next thing you want is to be TOLERATE even if you don't like, it's other people's freedom to practice whatever they want.

Western values hmm...so much for civil rights still has much downfall. If I were the ruler, communitarian system or the Asian values is what I would really prefer to have. Gotta give more faith to the leaders we voted and not nit picking all the problems. Be tolerate and patient if plans don't work out at first....just WAIT!

K thanks.