Reducing yourself helps thinking clearly.

Browsing through a website w ppl sharing their life lessons when i saw the above sentence which is very fitting for yesterday (i'm blogging at 6.30 in the morning - woke up at 2 sth after a very long sleep) when pw results were announced.
i got a b. hopefully it won't disadvantage me TOO much in trying to get into my desired uni course (which is what, may i ask)
it was way better than what i expected anw.
it's the rxn of the ppl who got a that is more interesting
i rmb a friend saying luckily i didn't get less than an a at the peak of her ecstasy. (if my ears didn't fail me)
i feel a little appalled, frankly.
is that insensitive to those who 'unluckily' got less than an a?
but then, one shouldn't forget that she was so happy that she's already in her own world.
and i suppose she's entitled to it, the happiness.
so it's not up to me to take it personally.
reducing yourself is the key.

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Went to the bank
they have a feedback system whereby the bank staff at the counter will request ppl to press one of the smiley buttons [ :) :/or :( ] at the end
one girl, fr a neighbourhood sch (you'll knw why i hv to specify later), was accompanying her friend.
out of "curiosity" she pressed the button (i assume the :( one)
and got scolded by the bank staff
the girl retorted, sth along the lines of "why can't i...out of fun" in a rowdy way
her friend told her to go off and wait for him somewhere else out of annoyance
and the girl said "i don't care for this (accompanying) business anw" and stormed out of the bank, cursing
and the guy cursed her back as farewell
all under the eyes and within hearing shot of the public (i saw an auntie shaking her head)
this leaves me wondering, why do ppl w better academic results seem tamer and naturally practise more courteousness (to replace civility - a concept that gets more alien as we progress through Heart of Darkness) than some (some, not all) others w lacklustre results who don't see anything wrong w hurling vulgarities and behaving rowdily. (i have a close brush with becoming this way actually - in lower pri and lower sec [tho i'm really q well-behaved in lower sec save the unwarranted vulgarities i spew out thoughtlessly. i must assure you, there was v lil variety xP i sound desperate in minimizing damage])
is it a matter of education (and the discipline that comes along w it) that conditions the students?
students who perform better have more respect for the sch system than those who don't, right (this is assuming their performance are determined more by the amount of effort put in rather than natural ability. so let's just say i'm referring to those bo chap ones)

or is it a matter of nature, and it just so happens that those rowdy characteristics are more commonly found in that certain group.
or maybe ppl w better academic results just express their incivility under other guises, like backstabbing etc?

on the other hand, i feel timid cos i don't dare to do anything less than acceptable cos education has instilled in me a sense of political correctness (which isn't really good i know) and a fear of institution.
this feedback system is so open that i won't dare to give anything less than a :)

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on the bus i was thinking "hmm...there's a $10 note in my wallet, what can I use it to pamper myself with?" since there's now a label to that horrible experience aka pw. it's SEALED.
so i decided on a haircut