random

just some random thoughts that popped up this morning after reading an article in the news that the government hopes to come out with 60,000 of PhDs by year 2023 (currently we have 10.4K)

60,000 PhDs?
wow, can our local market offers that many job vacancies?
if not, what can this PhDs do for living?
or do we 'retrained' them like what we do currently with those graduates that could not secure a job?
or perhaps 'export' them?

they say research is a lonely and long exhausting journey
and one might end up with empty hands
honestly how many of those renowned scientists that we could remember their names correctly
(not to say remember their findings)
and how many more that are nameless?
so why do you do research?
ask yourself deep
and answer honestly

can it be the reason why i choose to procrastinate
that i rather do other stuffs eg. FB, blogging, leisure reading, think about other activities etc
that are not as urgent or as pressing as reading journal articles, or correcting my manuscript, or starting the new experiment,
is simply because my brain relates disappointment and unhappiness to research experience?
(my brain is searching hard for those rewarding moments to motivate myself to get on to work!) 
and that it would cost more pain and greater energy to overcome research tasks at hand than to procrastinate on them?
if what they say 'Failure do what is tension relieving while winners do what is goal achieving' is as true as it is,
then i think i belong to the former category (-_-;)