before you say anything

From tagboard archives - "mike: you're smoking again bro? i told you to QUIT."

NO. I DO NOT SMOKE TOBACCO.

again, again, again.

it's all your fault, Mike. hahaha now everyone thinks i'm a pothead.

aren't kids nowadays supposed to know what "smoking" is? hahaha well, perhaps it has become such an underlying trait that people take it for granted.

smoking, to me, is the use of creativity and fabrication which arises when one has no (or is lacking in) preconceived ideas about the issue at hand.

A perfect example of this would be handing up work, particularly essays. The preconception of ideas is a stage called "drafting" or "mindmapping" of the essay, which people usually omit, especially during one's time at the lower echelons of intellect (e.g. after a long day at school, very tired, cannot think. or perhaps a state of "mental block", a popular excuse among students especially, but has started losing popularity due to its impracticality (teachers just don't fall for it anymore.))

Perhaps its non-colloquial roots have been derived from the nature of smoke as a substance that helps "obscure" things from view. Smoke bombs are used by the military to conceal movement or positioning. Similarly, smoking can obscure the current void or state of vacuum present in its user's brain.

Smoking, however, is, as always, dangerous to your health. One best way to explain this is in the idiom to go up or end up in smoke. It becomes a form of abandon that leads to one not producing any substantial result. As such, smoking is very much affiliated to a last-ditch effort. Like its meaning implies, smoking usually ends up with the smoker failing terribly.

During my time in JC, my greatest smoke stimulant is an Econs essay. Nothing provokes me more than a 25-mark essay in which i only have one substantial page or two key points to write about. Which prompts me to write one substantial page of information, then 4 to 6 further pages of rubbish, redundancies, and of course, beloved graphs and diagrams. Such an excessive usage constitutes a smoke-screen, often characterized by bluish/purplish lips and uncontrolled shivering.

Now, if a friend comes out of an exam with words like "die la, I dunno anything, just wrote rubbish" Then it is obvious that he is suffering from tuberculosis. Bring him to the nearest teacher (of relevance) that you see, and allow her to cure him/her of this state. Usually, the only effective way of getting rid of this is in two steps: 1.) whacking, which leads to 2.) therapy or rehabilitation, in the form of reading up and making an effort to introduce information to your brain.

Ultimately, it is not good for your grades (especially GP). Like i said before, do NOT use it. If you are guilty, start brainstorming and drafting your essays before you do it. Read up, so you will be more immune to cravings.

I'M OUT!!!