all the excitement over, after everyone has left, the buzz slowly dies down.
and its back to digging in to work.
kinda miss the past week though. it was hectic, busy, full of sacridfices at the ezpense of work, but it only makes me look forward to summer.
to see my mom, my sisters. my dad, my grandmas, and grandpa, and everyone back home.
blacks, apple ppl, old classmates, can hardly wait

who can forget?

im looking forward

hegel's theory of self actualisation. sometimes i wonder if ppl in singapore are studying the same thing. i at dchapter one of property law. and its alot more to go. its a horrible feeling knowing that uve got more than half your modules left to go and apporximately one week of break left. its a horrible feeling if dread and annoyance at yourself for not planning ahead well enough and for copious time wasting.
just ploughed thorugh rifkin's age of access. thought it would take me about an hour an a half to get to grips with the material, but NO, i took 4 hours. what the !!!! and i dont even think i can succintly write an essay on it.
ahhh.. the feeling of ineptitude.

for the interested: rifkin prophesizes an age of access where the element governing the sphere of human raltion is no longer the quintessential property right, but the service realtionship. His theory is based on observatinos as to the decline of the provision of goods in the course of a business and the subsequent commodiifcation and commercialisation of culture, experience, relationships, and human time as the basis for trading in the commericial sphere. he gradual erosion of the commericial sphere in to the cultural spherei is a vicous cycle, the commericial sphere premised upon certain human behaviourial norms- the product of the culture and society. He anticipates that this will force a rethink of the whole concept of society and the Lockean concept of the social contract. Should this development not be managed properly, ther ewill be disastrous consequences for human-human relations, economic relations and cause the destabilisation of society.

what i think: the conceot of service and access as a commodity that can be bought, and traded begs the reevalution of the whole idea of property. Blackstone envisioned property as a sphere of influence to the exclusion of others, Modern day property theory is based on the philosphy of hegel and Locke, In light of the modern day developments, maybe it would be prudent for another philospher to come forth and propose a liberal theory of propoerty rhat is abstract, but includes personal autonomy over a concept - culture, IP, not just traditional fungible, alienable physical objects