<p>They extended the deadline, IIRC.</p>
<p>Considering I rushed all night to get my app submitted on time Jan 2., I was rather surprised. Imagine the things I could have done with my app those two weeks! (I started essay writing really late in mid-December – before that I had pondered a few ideas but I was occupied with other schoolwork. I hope I never commit the same mistake. A whole bloody lot of stress it was – I spent my entire Christmas vacation writing essays to be eventually smashed by my dear db123 
haha!) </p>
<p>It’s funny how you’ve interpreted the piece in a totally different way. I was rather surprised when I found out the piece was a suite to a love opera (it seemed deeper than that!); I always seemed to hear this piece just before I leapt down the seven storey stairs of my HDB flat and through our market for primary school. The sun would be rising, and the air would be cool – we are a tropical city-state, so the air with its pre-dawn dew from the ocean is very refreshing, but it always made me think of distant places. Would a metaphor still fit this? </p>
<p>For the third essay, I’m afraid I have an essay that is too rather kind of vague and abstract; but it was straight-out political! And hey – it details something that I don’t mention often cuz it gets so frequently misintepreted (as I will explain):</p>
<p>c) Discuss something you secretly like but pretend not to or vice versa.</p>
<p>I identify myself as an adherent of anarchist communism, but I rarely admit this except to close friends and teachers, because my position is so frequently misinterpreted. Part of the problem with the label is that since the 1800s, both the terms “anarchism” and “communism” have undergone significant semantic drift.</p>
<p>I do not really oppose order, wish to blow up buildings, support dictatorship, or encourage command economies. In fact, both the “anarchist” and the “communist” parts of the term are important qualifiers to each other: I support neither a strong political state nor a heavily government-regulated economy, but I do not believe in market fundamentalism either.</p>
<p>Market failures are inevitable – whether through externalities or deception of consumers and workers – my wish is to see solutions created based on the nonauthoritarian association of citizens. Rather than give the government more regulatory power for something like environmental protections for example, citizens should realise that their patronisation of an organisation implies their moral support. In an anarchist communist society, well-organised consumer unions would threaten boycotts against unscrupulous corporations – for example, those polluting the environment or knowingly selling harmful products such as tobacco – and force them to change their policies without the need for an overbearing State, or violation of economic freedoms.</p>
<p>To most people however, anarchist communism suggests utter extremism and self-contradiction at the same time. Euphemisms such as “libertarian socialist,” or “left libertarian,” are milder, but are also less satisfactory in describing my position accurately, while still having some of the same problems.</p>