Coincident

What a coincident, that indescribable moment when you're viewing some random 9gag's gag and realized that there is somebody, bearing the same name as your childhood friend commented on it. Well, my subconscious was trying to convince me that it ain't real, like Inception which I just watched 10minutes ago. So I decided to scrutinize the whole page, thoroughly, meticulously, to make sure my first glance wasn't unreal.
It is real, indeed!

http://9gag.com/gag/5129827?ref=fb.s

The page is satire regarding our education system. The cartoonist explicitly suggests that our 'work-force' oriented teaching method is not working. Rote-learning, et cetera, et cetera, is long gone out of style and obsolete in the light of modern technology.

This 'Yi Zhang' has different thoughts, quite similar to the Goh Yi Zhang that I knew, always with his bizarre ideas. This stranger simply put it this way: "And another mouth in the unemployment line... Tetiary education isnt for everyone, but dont use it as an excuse for your laziness."

Fuh, darn it. This comment sent me down the memory lane, of the crazy stuff we used to do together. Ideas we came out with, no matter how illogical, hilarious or terrific they might be, we would complement each other for the sake of complementing. Childhood, is the part of the lifetime that you're not needed to worry about anything! Food is served, and spoon-fed; clothes are laundered perfectly by our mothers; while studies? back then we weren't much into schooling, we did our own experiments and verbal thesis for almost everything! Yi Zhang, you're correct, tertiary education is not for everyone, but once you embark upon the journey of life-learning it is inevitable, unless you're John Stuart Mill, having a highly educated father acting as his home-school tutor, commenting on greek philosophy at the age of 10! Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg? They're dropout, but see which college they were admitted in at the first place? The argument of becoming rich doesn't need education is indeed an excuse, the fact that these successful rich entrepreneurs dropout is simply because they're too smart for school already. Ask them, they must have gone through some tough learning curves as well, many wouldn't tell you the intense hardships because they want to look cool, they don't want more rich people, making them 'nonexclusive'!

haha... enough stupid pee li. stop it! okok...

It has been almost 3 years already, here I am, staying up the whole night, practically doing nothing. No more intimate buddies to fool with, stepping into a so-called 'mature' lifestyle, with kiasuness, hatred, and love swept under the carpet, cover up all emotions with a big smile. Life is ain't that bad after all, even if it is, time ticks, breathing continues, and the universe waits for no man. It's time to join that paper chase, that endless academical inflation.

p.s. I sent my friend request to that new 'Yi Zhang'.