Hi readers of Hangouts of Singapore. The theme for today's post shall be the green-eyed monster that is envy and also of laziness. First, it's been an absolutely slow week for my MOOC efforts. I've put off learning to do other aimless stuff such as a bout of FIFA, and my efforts have mostly been watching lectures in short bursts of five minutes followed by half hour sessions of other things to lessen the boredom. I know that procrastination cannot be the order of the day if I am to actually successfully complete any MOOC in general. I'm hoping to change that when Data Analysis and Statistical Inference by Duke University starts next week. Also, I'm looking to re-enroll in the next run of The Analytics Edge by MIT, which after going through weeks one and two I have to say is really a superb effort by MIT. This is about as good as an MOOC can get in my opinion, any better and you'd probably have to take the course in a physical school.
Let's address the second theme of today's post; envy. Now, Singapore is a competitive as heck country. Everywhere you go you bump into people with impressive credentials. For people not academically achieved, they probably have something else that is worthy of feeling proud of. Trophy wives and girlfriends, for one. Yes, the name is already self-explanatory, trophies are made for showing off. Yet, envy is hard to hold back when I see a guy with an attractive woman. An attractive woman is after all, something that stirs a disturbance at a very primal level in every man. We are born with this instinct hard-wired into our mind, the instinct that her beauty translates into healthy, strong offspring and let's cut to the chase here, we as men all want to fuck a woman like that. And when you're not getting any, it leads to envy. Oh envy you green-eyed monster, I will take steps to destroy you indeed.
Anyway, that's all for this random post on a quiet night, peace people!
