when your world
conspired to tear you down.
when you are nothing about
what you can be,
but only what they see.
when you are not “you”,
you are only one of the
"them" that all the other
"they" say you are.
when you can't help
but believe that this world
is split in two -
the happier, and you.
8:11 PM
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
things are some terrible shitsome wise albeit dead man
said
Reject your sense of injury
and the injury itself disappears.
what the crap
if only we could function as this
utilitarian the wise dead man
assumes us to be.
wish we could either be
totally rational or not at all.
is unhealthy being half rational.
DAMMIT.
10:46 PM
Sunday, March 23, 2008
its all shiz-funn,the tv hype over
political elections lately.
08 has been a
good year for the
opposition parties.
one thing
that sets us apart from our
other democratic counterparts,
(other than that we hold the
Guinness Book of Records for the
largest Man-made Waterfall, among other
really important Records),
is that
our political lives
tend to be plagued by
walk-overs and elections as
exciting as channel8 dramas.
(read: bore.)
it is, then, a big mystery,
what really makes us democratic.
the hottest
political episode singapore has
seen of late
is the Steve Chia dude and his
kinky photography habits.
(sidenote: he does not belong
to the PAP.)
as i am entertained by
shrewd taiwanese politicians throw
chairs at one another in parliament,
and
presidential candidates diss one another
over who the heck
would pick the phone up at 3am,
i kinda wish
mainstream singapore media
had some of these fun to offer.
this is not to
discredit the pluspoints
of a stable political environment,
but things would surely be
healthier
if we were at least half the
democracy we claim to be.
still, it'll be a while till then
since we really don't have any
strong (not to mention, SANE)
opposition party
YET.
watch this if you bother to,
since you'll never see this on TV.
WAHAHA people actually call us
"irritating pimple that refuses to burst".
SO MUCH FOR NATIONAL PRIDE:D
2:40 PM
Saturday, March 15, 2008
this is why she's queen <311:19 PM
Friday, March 07, 2008
Kundera wrote thatbeauty is a world betrayed.
firstly,
that is a really lovely quote,
particularly 'coz its so
impossible to fully assimilate.
i mean,
i hate to break the romanticism
of what seems to be some sort
of impressionistic poetry on beauty,
but what the heck
is he meaning to say??
if i am interpreting this
correctly,(and literally),
since there was a part following
that about
having to demolish the scenery to
find beauty and betrayal
about breaking ranks,
then it's saying that beauty
is, in its rawest essence,
just like the particular segment
of the world that's seeking
to be unconventional.
the common denominator
being ???
in trying to fix this confusion,
i found sth else about beauty:
"There is no excellent beauty that
hath not some strangeness in the proportion."
i think its a great
quote.
strangeness here, i think,
is not about weirdness but about
distance like in "stranger".
alot of times,
we find beauty in its
transience and
the difficulty to grasp.
(much like demand supply curve)
it is far away, unknowable,
intimidating and doesn't
stay around for long.
beauty is so greatly valued
in our world that it becomes
an adequate
substitute to many qualities.
we are not superficial,
we are intrigued.
"beauty is in the eyes of the beholder."
i am drawn to the dark,
and in some masochistic fashion,
broken and dark,to me, are beautiful.
so i think sometimes we love
people so unreservedly because
they are, to us,
so beautiful.
it's awful because in
refusing to let go
of something that must be,
and should be, transient,
we lose all dignity and ourselves
trying to reverse what we know is
the natural course
of events.
how could we be so silly to
unhesitatingly want something
that would inevitably go?
then again,
how could we not want
it because it is, to us,
beautiful?
10:19 PM
