I've been procrastinating about catching "THE ARENA", that debate-styled Singaporean production. So, in order to elimiate this vice, i've strapped myself to the chair in front of the TV.

Really.

I must say! One's brain really works while watching the show. My grey matter tingles with the long forgotten feeling of intellectual and academic engagement. Anyway! This show is REALLY interesting. And, somewhat depressing. You have fifteen-year-olds quoting Marx, outlining Freud's psychoanalytical research (Not like that's hard to do since SEX was really all there is to his research) and throwing words like "elucidate" (A word that i only learnt in JC), "lacuna", "cognate" and etc. like how normal Singaporeans use their "las" and "lors".

Freaky. Freaky. Freaky.

I'm nineteen!!! I should be above and beyond their intellectual genius!

Bah. And i thought i was a wordsmith.

Unpleasant feelings and ugly emotions aside, it was kinda painful to watch today's episode cos' the opposition aka the KC girls (I think, not really sure which school they came from) were being trashed by HCI boys. Against wave after wave of language puppeteers, the opposition's almost barbaric grunting registered as mere noise in the background of a really good song.

However, with that said, i think both team were far from effective debators. At the end of the debate, the exact motion was hardly decipherable.