the allure of forbidden knowledge

The last time Keyun and I were talking on MSN, we were still on a post-NOI-training high and also bored, which is never really a good combination. We started discussing (yes, of all things) our instructors' MSN nicknames and emails ._.

We decided that Daniel's one made the most sense.
Pang Wei's one was the most... hmm. Concise.
Minghan's one was the most bimb.
Zhenghao's one was just plain weird.

So being the nice little curious kids we are, we googled it. Apparently it was Greek (!) for hubris, of all things. The cheemdeepness of all the stuff we found scared us half to death so we decided to embark on a different train of thought.

Daniel's email was weird. We searched it but didn't come up with anything.
Minghan's one was extremely businesslike. Nothing to search there.
Zhenghao's one was typical. Nothing to search there either.
Pang Wei's one was weird. We searched it...

...and discovered that his email is also the name a of game. Specifically, the name of a character in the game-- a "cute little ball of purple fur".

Disturbing.

Yeah so anyway after that Keyun and I gave up googling stuff we didn't know, because we were scared of what we'd find next. More cheemdeep stuff?

And Keyun then said to me: "Next time when you study Frankenstein and the teacher starts talking about the dangers of forbidden knowledge, you'll know what to say: don't google stuff you don't know."

Yeah well anyway she forgot the whole part about how Frankenstein's forbidden-knowledge-creation came back to haunt him.

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Many days later: I'm sitting in the RALA classroom being intimidated by everyone's accents, and then suddenly the teacher mentions hubris.

I am so stunned I don't talk for the rest of the lesson. Not even when the teacher mentions Faustus.