long break... long update
prolly been wondering where the heck i've been to, eh? nar, just taking a break for promo. somehow i sincerely HOPE it's not going to be the same standard as the CT, or i'll be in deep trouble somewhere down the line. bade goodbye to friends on online flyff. time to concentrate for the next one month or so. especially since i'm like 3 chapters behind in chemistry and 2 chapters behind in math.
wasn't intending to update till wednesday, because that's when i prolly will have more stories to tell after visiting an old teacher of mine. but i have enough as it is and i don't wanna choke up. later you'll take like 3 hours to read it then don't blame me -.-"
all right, the funny stuff first. a small lil quiz, let's have a look at your creativity.
one of the entrance exams in an acclaimed university in China had this essay topic: (translated into english, of course) in as few words as possible, describe and explain romance and its process.
the entry that got a top score had no more than 30 words. let's see if anyone can beat that.
and another thing: let's say you're the CEO of a company. one particular year sales were rather bad and you know that you probably won't be able to give a fat bonus package at the end of the year. but you want to keep your employees happy, because they may skip to another job. what would you do?
ok now back to more serious and melancholy stuff. i should go in a chronological order of when i got these stuff, i guess.
It has been proven time and again that if you give someone or even an animal and explanation of what reality is supposed to be like, and suddenly take it away from them. they are likely to go mad. in fact experiments were done about this. they put a cat in a cage, and there was a button. everytime the cat pressed the button food came into the cage. after a while the cat got used to it. then they took the cat out and starved it for 2 days, after which they put it back in. but this time the cat received an electric shock each time it pressed the button. food was still provided regualrly and in sufficient quantities, but the cat broke. it refused to take any food, it curled up in a corner. basically it exhibited all the signs of a mentally-unstable or mentally-destroyed person.
keeping that in mind, why does the society keep contradicting itself? especially regarding us, the next generation? Take this from me. doesn't just apply to parents. politicians, teachers, whatever. all part of the picture. just one example should be enough to prove my point i'm quite sure you are able to pick out all the other contradictions in daily life. here: we keep being told that a materialistic society is bad, how we should look beyind materialism etc. and in the same issue or even the same speech we would hear success stories, of rich snob buggers standing in their expensive suits in front of a large bungalow or something. and parents and politicians, who would tell you in one breath that there's more to life than materialism, tell you in the next breath that you'll have to fend for yourself and that nobody's going to care about you. heck, they even tell you that to be "successful" we must score the straight As, get a high paying job, get all the signs of wealth etc. wow so consistent eh? and no don't even try to point out hese contradictions. you're just going to get slapped with the usual tirade of "your generation so ungrateful! look at us. we gave you this, we gave you that blah blah blah" i don't deny that. but don't evade my question. like i said, somewhere much earlier, the only viable reason for someone to NOT want to participate in an argument or discussion is because they have no points at all. no point of argument. DUH. why else would you not want to convince someone else?
and i was reading something about miso soup last week, and had a strange thought. isn't miso soup so much similar to our daily life and society in general? can't draw the connection? you're not thinking like an economist. heck you're prolly not even thinking.
see, miso soup is made up of the soup, and many small ingredients. these ingredients usually float somewhere on top of the liquid. they resemble table scraps, nothing much more. just like us. each of us is table scrap, nothing more. don't delude yourself that much. what would removal of you as a person impact on the society? nothing much. prolly a news report that gets smothered over by the next official statement in one week. but work with a group of others and things happen. it's the combination of a lot of different characters, qualities and a lot of other things that make the miso soup. you will never find two identical ingredients in any miso soup. next time you get the urge to taste miso soup, just remember that we ARE the miso soup.
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ok stuff today.. reading the papers. there were a couple of mildly interesting articles. there's one in the life section about how women should eat more. and yes there's some truth in that. particularly to a certain someone who either starves herself during lunch or else eats a plate of fruits and nothing much else. comeon you're damaging your own health, something that can never be replaced. let me draw an analogy here. jap high schoolgirls wear their skirts super-short thinking guy like it, but according to a survey some years back 80% ofthe guys there are more or less not apprciative of it. i don't know what the rationale for starving yourself is, and i'm not going to delude myself saying that it's for the guys, but still, eat more. there's absolutely NO reason to eat as little as all that. i mean of course if you have a waistline the size of say... ne of the pillars in school then obviously you're in dire need of a diet. doesn't matter if you're a guy or girl, you still need a diet. but if you're of standard and HEALTHY weight then don't go starving yourself into the underweight zone. no point. i would love to talk a lot more but i might get lynched by people i know. just read the life section today i think it's page 7. won't go wrong.
and another article, this time in youthink section. as you know i don't have a very high opinion of that section, but something caught my attention today. guess what it is? STDs among teens -.-" sigh a bit too much hype about it, in my opinion. well... i suppose MOST people are sensible enough to take care of themselves... but as the article says... sometimes its hard to judge and the most odd of circumstances sometimes come to haunt us. tought luck, i guess. but it happens. but that's not the point i wanted to bring up. the article just brought up a conversation i had with yannie quite a lot of weeks ago, after bridge session. i can say with all truthfulness that i have an almost solid wall of ice built around my heart, encasing it like a prisoner. breaking that isn't easy, not easy at all. even those i talk to often, won't know my true feelings. basically, i don't open up a lot. most stuff i talk about, you can talk to me for hours and still not know my values, philosophy and stuff. the question is: how did the wall of ice form? ah, good question. i wasn't inborn with it. in fact i was quite open in the lower primary schools. but some... things... happened. if you happen to catch me when i feel comfortable enough to talk about it, then you may hear the tale.
and finally (thanks for keeping with me till the end of this very long post) there was an article in the chinese newspaper. the parents of overseas children were actually willing to camp at the scholol 5 days in advance just to secure a place for their children. i really cannot find a more suitable example of parental love than that. would you be willing to stand in a queue for anyone for 5 days, rain or shine? sleeping on the cold stone floor? sigh i'd done that for someone once. but only two days... i don't really want to talk about that. painful memories.
finally, i shall actually take time to reply to some of the selfish, immature people who posted annonymously on the tagboard. be glad i'm actually taking time and effort to do this. firstly, as i have said thousands of times before and will say again, people who hide behind a mask of annonymity are the lowliest of cowards. did you know the tagboard keeps a tab on IP addresses? swearing, defaming and other net-related offenses are punishable under the Singapore law. i don't really want to go to authorities, but i will if forced.
and anyway, what makes you think that this blog isaround to serve YOUR needs, to let you read what YOU want? you want something like that, go create your own, or go read one of the other 5 million blogs out there. i have absolutely NO obligation to post what YOU want to read. this isn't consumer-based produce, you know.
that's about all the stories i have since the last update. hope it wasn't too overwhelming.
edit: wow, i ran outta bandwidth. apparently too many ppl listening to the music heh. it'll be up again in 12 days, not to worry.
wasn't intending to update till wednesday, because that's when i prolly will have more stories to tell after visiting an old teacher of mine. but i have enough as it is and i don't wanna choke up. later you'll take like 3 hours to read it then don't blame me -.-"
all right, the funny stuff first. a small lil quiz, let's have a look at your creativity.
one of the entrance exams in an acclaimed university in China had this essay topic: (translated into english, of course) in as few words as possible, describe and explain romance and its process.
the entry that got a top score had no more than 30 words. let's see if anyone can beat that.
and another thing: let's say you're the CEO of a company. one particular year sales were rather bad and you know that you probably won't be able to give a fat bonus package at the end of the year. but you want to keep your employees happy, because they may skip to another job. what would you do?
ok now back to more serious and melancholy stuff. i should go in a chronological order of when i got these stuff, i guess.
It has been proven time and again that if you give someone or even an animal and explanation of what reality is supposed to be like, and suddenly take it away from them. they are likely to go mad. in fact experiments were done about this. they put a cat in a cage, and there was a button. everytime the cat pressed the button food came into the cage. after a while the cat got used to it. then they took the cat out and starved it for 2 days, after which they put it back in. but this time the cat received an electric shock each time it pressed the button. food was still provided regualrly and in sufficient quantities, but the cat broke. it refused to take any food, it curled up in a corner. basically it exhibited all the signs of a mentally-unstable or mentally-destroyed person.
keeping that in mind, why does the society keep contradicting itself? especially regarding us, the next generation? Take this from me. doesn't just apply to parents. politicians, teachers, whatever. all part of the picture. just one example should be enough to prove my point i'm quite sure you are able to pick out all the other contradictions in daily life. here: we keep being told that a materialistic society is bad, how we should look beyind materialism etc. and in the same issue or even the same speech we would hear success stories, of rich snob buggers standing in their expensive suits in front of a large bungalow or something. and parents and politicians, who would tell you in one breath that there's more to life than materialism, tell you in the next breath that you'll have to fend for yourself and that nobody's going to care about you. heck, they even tell you that to be "successful" we must score the straight As, get a high paying job, get all the signs of wealth etc. wow so consistent eh? and no don't even try to point out hese contradictions. you're just going to get slapped with the usual tirade of "your generation so ungrateful! look at us. we gave you this, we gave you that blah blah blah" i don't deny that. but don't evade my question. like i said, somewhere much earlier, the only viable reason for someone to NOT want to participate in an argument or discussion is because they have no points at all. no point of argument. DUH. why else would you not want to convince someone else?
and i was reading something about miso soup last week, and had a strange thought. isn't miso soup so much similar to our daily life and society in general? can't draw the connection? you're not thinking like an economist. heck you're prolly not even thinking.
see, miso soup is made up of the soup, and many small ingredients. these ingredients usually float somewhere on top of the liquid. they resemble table scraps, nothing much more. just like us. each of us is table scrap, nothing more. don't delude yourself that much. what would removal of you as a person impact on the society? nothing much. prolly a news report that gets smothered over by the next official statement in one week. but work with a group of others and things happen. it's the combination of a lot of different characters, qualities and a lot of other things that make the miso soup. you will never find two identical ingredients in any miso soup. next time you get the urge to taste miso soup, just remember that we ARE the miso soup.
...
ok stuff today.. reading the papers. there were a couple of mildly interesting articles. there's one in the life section about how women should eat more. and yes there's some truth in that. particularly to a certain someone who either starves herself during lunch or else eats a plate of fruits and nothing much else. comeon you're damaging your own health, something that can never be replaced. let me draw an analogy here. jap high schoolgirls wear their skirts super-short thinking guy like it, but according to a survey some years back 80% ofthe guys there are more or less not apprciative of it. i don't know what the rationale for starving yourself is, and i'm not going to delude myself saying that it's for the guys, but still, eat more. there's absolutely NO reason to eat as little as all that. i mean of course if you have a waistline the size of say... ne of the pillars in school then obviously you're in dire need of a diet. doesn't matter if you're a guy or girl, you still need a diet. but if you're of standard and HEALTHY weight then don't go starving yourself into the underweight zone. no point. i would love to talk a lot more but i might get lynched by people i know. just read the life section today i think it's page 7. won't go wrong.
and another article, this time in youthink section. as you know i don't have a very high opinion of that section, but something caught my attention today. guess what it is? STDs among teens -.-" sigh a bit too much hype about it, in my opinion. well... i suppose MOST people are sensible enough to take care of themselves... but as the article says... sometimes its hard to judge and the most odd of circumstances sometimes come to haunt us. tought luck, i guess. but it happens. but that's not the point i wanted to bring up. the article just brought up a conversation i had with yannie quite a lot of weeks ago, after bridge session. i can say with all truthfulness that i have an almost solid wall of ice built around my heart, encasing it like a prisoner. breaking that isn't easy, not easy at all. even those i talk to often, won't know my true feelings. basically, i don't open up a lot. most stuff i talk about, you can talk to me for hours and still not know my values, philosophy and stuff. the question is: how did the wall of ice form? ah, good question. i wasn't inborn with it. in fact i was quite open in the lower primary schools. but some... things... happened. if you happen to catch me when i feel comfortable enough to talk about it, then you may hear the tale.
and finally (thanks for keeping with me till the end of this very long post) there was an article in the chinese newspaper. the parents of overseas children were actually willing to camp at the scholol 5 days in advance just to secure a place for their children. i really cannot find a more suitable example of parental love than that. would you be willing to stand in a queue for anyone for 5 days, rain or shine? sleeping on the cold stone floor? sigh i'd done that for someone once. but only two days... i don't really want to talk about that. painful memories.
finally, i shall actually take time to reply to some of the selfish, immature people who posted annonymously on the tagboard. be glad i'm actually taking time and effort to do this. firstly, as i have said thousands of times before and will say again, people who hide behind a mask of annonymity are the lowliest of cowards. did you know the tagboard keeps a tab on IP addresses? swearing, defaming and other net-related offenses are punishable under the Singapore law. i don't really want to go to authorities, but i will if forced.
and anyway, what makes you think that this blog isaround to serve YOUR needs, to let you read what YOU want? you want something like that, go create your own, or go read one of the other 5 million blogs out there. i have absolutely NO obligation to post what YOU want to read. this isn't consumer-based produce, you know.
that's about all the stories i have since the last update. hope it wasn't too overwhelming.
edit: wow, i ran outta bandwidth. apparently too many ppl listening to the music heh. it'll be up again in 12 days, not to worry.
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