A free day to ponder about life finally!

Tonight has been a long time coming, a night where i find solitude in the comfort of my own home. Not that i'm saying that my housemates are getting in my way all the time; they've been anything but that really. They've actually been great for the last few months and i'm working in the same place as one of them too. So now, i've concluded weeks of assessments, quizzes and the like that are often juggled up by the seasoned uni student during this time of the semester.

At the end of my taxation law quiz, i didnt feel like i aced it, but in somewhat fair circumstances i think i did alright. I was to reiterate that fact at my interview with Maybank, who was up at the Sydney Hilton conducting with graduates and soon-to-be-graduates like myself, about baffling subject contents within the tax regulations and auditing guidelines. I found myself explaining bits and pieces of the tax legislation in a bid to convince him i would WILL be graduating at the end of this semester.

Though i am expecting my audit assignment to taste a battering, and be a brain cell killer for my tutor. It will perplex him to no ends, trying to consider the flow of the whole assignment being pieced together by 4 individuals, one of which was a total recluse who was not only uncontactable, but was unable to confer to us that she was not able to timely dedicate herself to working on the assignment because she was either sick, moving homes, or changed her bloody phone number.

And now i'm done complaining. Time to do some serious pondering while i sip my $8.00 Semillon Sauvignon Blanc. I dont know much about wines, or its significance with the names but for $8.00 worth, it was well and truly good value. So yea, while i was busily sipping my eyes was feasting on a real pleasure of a movie, Being John Malkovich.

Now it's an easy premise to determine that the movie would talk about you being in someone else's shoes or position. Being someone else. Is it totally cool? There are two things in life you wished you could do at least one point in your life. First, people have also been fascinated with the idea of being someone else. The latter point, refers to immortality. The movie addresses them both with certain interesting side points.

One of the points i took note of is the impotence of the 'free markets' regime which dictates supply from demand. We see this fallacy in the regards where the fact exists that a nobody like John Cusack's character, yet embellished with an enthusiasm and genius for puppeteering can only vividly imagine his immense success in his own workshop, devoid of any glamour and attention. On the other hand, when his phenomenal strengths were exposed as John Malkovich, all hell broke loose.

Am i missing something here? Yes, credibility often comes with effort, and Malkovich has pawed his way to fame as an actor. A capitalist is usually one who invests money, but what about the vastness and richness of human capital? We see here Malkovich unleashing his 'immense' talent in puppeteering, greatly revolutionising the entire genre, going to even inspiring the world with his apparent groundbreaking achievements in his artistry. Finance economists will have you know that capitalism is a great way of determining what people want, and economics affects lives and behaviours and for markets to be efficient information must be readily available.

My question is just how did the world come to realise to accept the works of a John Malkovich indulged in puppeteering so monumentally more than a someone else with his rightful claim to the performing talent? You say you trust your eyes, and what your eyes see is evidence, but how your mind portrays inside of itself performs the greatest bias of all, which no one else can see. How did you come to like what you like? Are we imagining that through the course of one person's life, his past dictates his future? That a John Malkovich can unleash just about anything with a great deal of effectual success due in large through his recognition as a person, yet no one knows what another person with less grandeur in stature is like.

The economics of opportunity, a synonym of chance, is just that. Chance. Luck. Fallen from the stars. Anointed by God. Maybe. If there's one thing i shall assume after 2 hours of looking at someone looking at the life through someone else's life, is never to take your own overly ambitious desires to levels beyond your control. If you want the power to do anything, pray.