in thoughts...

went for the talk yesterday regarding scholarships by european union
thanks Des for telling me
nothing in detail on clinical linguistics, have to check out website on my own
but sounds really really good - you guys wanting scholarships in Europe (BOND-FREE, mind you) check out http://europa.eu.int/comm/education/programmes/mundus/projects/index_en.html
except that they mentioned something like - if you have command of a language spoken in the country you're applying to, it's really an advantage
and considering that it was a talk organized by Dept of European studies,
i was sitting amidst people who could open their mouth slightly
and spew fluent German and French in my face,
i think i felt a little small at that moment. hah.
cos it's a requirement of their department's graduations stuff blah blah.
damn. my German is hopeless.

but the part where i felt most - i dunno how to put it -
was when one of the lecturers went up to speak after the representative from EU finished
he was making general clarifications and announcements about graduation requirements, new rules such as the CAP lock-in or something
and this is the part

he called for office-bearers for European Studies Society.
*deep breath*
a lecturer.
calling for students to join the society as office-bearers.
a call for passionate students to breathe life into the student society.
for "us to get to know each other and learn more from one another".
he commented that they previously had a horse-riding expedition in Malaysia
and he said that such events are actually quite fun "so please join us for some fun"

how ironic isn't it?
here, not so far away, is a student body
with ideas, plans, a full committee of students willing to put in effort
and others come with pins and needles to poke poke poke
to burst plans, to burst hopes
when that student body comes to a state that needs "revival" one day,
will any lecturer step forward to call for students to join it?
fat hope.
unless one of the students in the society comes back as a lecturer that is.
HAH.