Meaningless days and a matter of principle

My days recently are spent staring at my laptop screen. I'm either watching the BBC version of Bleak House on YouTube, helping the Publications and Publicity orientation committee to design brochures and burn cds, or watching the lastest season of Gokusen on cruchyroll.

My parents asked me why I am still helping Hall 6 to do things when I am no longer allowed to stay in the hall next year. Initially, I thought it's an obligation since I've already committed myself to helping out even before I when for exchange last semester. But I think it's more of a matter of principle for me. How can I expect others to take me seriously if I don't do what I say? If I say I'll do something, I mean that I will really do it, unless due to really unfortunate or unforseen circumstances. That's why I don't give promises easily, since to me promises are sacred and should be kept. If I'm not sure that I will be able to fulfill a certain responsibility, nothing will induce me to promise it. Just like how I could have stayed in Hall 6 if I had taken up a JCRC position when I was offered it last year. But knowing that I was going on exchange, it wouldn't be fair to others and I would have broken a promise to lead the Publications Committee for a semester. I'm proud to say that I'm a woman of my word, and sadly not many people are these days. I will not be labelled as someone who gives empty promises, just like a certain predecessor who disappeared from the environment of Hall 6 the moment he knew that he couldn't get to stay last year. So yes, call me foolish or say that I'm wasting my time in doing all the sai gang for Hall 6, but to me, a promise is a promise and anyway, I really like to help out in this year's orientation camp.

Anyway, I managed to register for the class which made me so bitter about last week. And the main reason why I was so royally pissed off is because a professor in charge of the subject registration assured me that I will be given priority in registering for that class and broke his promise and left me to do all the shit by myself. In the end, after many wasted trips to NTU, I managed to solve my own problem and was lucky to get myself registered into the class purely by my own action and without any help from any professors. So yes, how can we even expect young people these days to keep their promises when the elite of our country cannot even do that?

So I'm still bitter about that even though I got my own way in the end, because it's not about getting my own way but a matter of principle for me. Call me naive for all you want, but when it comes to guarding my own principles, I am as stubborn as a spanish bull who just keeps raming into the red cloth, never mind the consequences.