Saturday, September 27, 2008
New "toys" !
Dad and Mom bought new "toys" today! A new microwave and a proper oven! Yay! Finally a proper oven to bake :)
Postmodernism?
I wrote a whole chunk about authenticity, originality, hypocrisy, postmodernism, blablabla, but I figured it may just offend certain people, so I'd better just shut up in this world of so called free speech.
I'll just end a lovely song and a question.
Don't go changing, to try and please me,
You never let me down before,
Don't imagine, you're too familiar,
And I don't see you anymore.
I would not leave you, in times of trouble,
We never could have come this far,
I took the good times, I'll take the bad times,
I'll take you just the way you are.
Don't go trying, some new fashion,
Don't change the colour of your hair,
You always have my, unspoken passion,
Although I might not seem to care.
I don't want clever, conversation,
I never want to work that hard,
I just want someone, that I can talk to,
I want you just the way you are.
I need to know that you will always be
The same old someone that I knew,
What will it take till you believe in me,
The way that I believe in you?
I said I love you, and that's forever,
And this I promise from the heart,
I couldn't love you, any better,
I love you just the way you are.
I don't want clever, conversation,
I never want to work that hard,
I just want someone, that I can talk to,
I want you just the way you are.
Who is the real McCoy?
I'll just end a lovely song and a question.
Don't go changing, to try and please me,
You never let me down before,
Don't imagine, you're too familiar,
And I don't see you anymore.
I would not leave you, in times of trouble,
We never could have come this far,
I took the good times, I'll take the bad times,
I'll take you just the way you are.
Don't go trying, some new fashion,
Don't change the colour of your hair,
You always have my, unspoken passion,
Although I might not seem to care.
I don't want clever, conversation,
I never want to work that hard,
I just want someone, that I can talk to,
I want you just the way you are.
I need to know that you will always be
The same old someone that I knew,
What will it take till you believe in me,
The way that I believe in you?
I said I love you, and that's forever,
And this I promise from the heart,
I couldn't love you, any better,
I love you just the way you are.
I don't want clever, conversation,
I never want to work that hard,
I just want someone, that I can talk to,
I want you just the way you are.
Who is the real McCoy?
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Among the Multitudes
AMONG THE MULTITUDES
By Wislawa Szymborska
Translated by Clare Cavanagh and Stanislaw Baranczak.
I am who I am.
A coincidence no less unthinkable
than any other.
I could have different
ancestors, after all.
I could have fluttered
from another nest
or crawled bescaled
from another tree.
Nature's wardrobe
holds a fair
supply of costumes:
Spider, seagull, fieldmouse.
each fits perfectly right off
and is dutifully worn
into shreds.
I didn't get a choice either,
but I can't complain.
I could have been someone
much less separate.
someone from an anthill, shoal, or buzzing swarm,
an inch of landscape ruffled by the wind.
Someone much less fortunate,
bred for my fur
or Christmas dinner,
something swimming under a square of glass.
A tree rooted to the ground
as the fire draws near.
A grass blade trampled by a stampede
of incomprehensible events.
A shady type whose darkness
dazzled some.
What if I'd prompted only fear,
Loathing,
or pity?
If I'd been born
in the wrong tribe
with all roads closed before me?
Fate has been kind
to me thus far.
I might never have been given
the memory of happy moments
My yen for comparison
might have been taken away.
I might have been myself minus amazement,
that is,
someone completely different.
http://www.jeanettewinterson.com/pages/content/index.asp?PageID=317
By Wislawa Szymborska
Translated by Clare Cavanagh and Stanislaw Baranczak.
I am who I am.
A coincidence no less unthinkable
than any other.
I could have different
ancestors, after all.
I could have fluttered
from another nest
or crawled bescaled
from another tree.
Nature's wardrobe
holds a fair
supply of costumes:
Spider, seagull, fieldmouse.
each fits perfectly right off
and is dutifully worn
into shreds.
I didn't get a choice either,
but I can't complain.
I could have been someone
much less separate.
someone from an anthill, shoal, or buzzing swarm,
an inch of landscape ruffled by the wind.
Someone much less fortunate,
bred for my fur
or Christmas dinner,
something swimming under a square of glass.
A tree rooted to the ground
as the fire draws near.
A grass blade trampled by a stampede
of incomprehensible events.
A shady type whose darkness
dazzled some.
What if I'd prompted only fear,
Loathing,
or pity?
If I'd been born
in the wrong tribe
with all roads closed before me?
Fate has been kind
to me thus far.
I might never have been given
the memory of happy moments
My yen for comparison
might have been taken away.
I might have been myself minus amazement,
that is,
someone completely different.
http://www.jeanettewinterson.com/pages/content/index.asp?PageID=317
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Where is the love?
Where is the love?
Where is the love?
Where is the love?
Where is the love, the love, the love?
What's the world becoming? The Chinese adding melamine to milk, causing most parts of the world to recall their goods. Don't they think before they act? And then it's the Pakistan Marriott suicide bomb. I just read on Yahoo News that the litter bugs in Singapore is rising. People are throwing things like baby diapers, cigarette butts, plasters and guess what... sanitary pads! How disgusting and abhorring. Urgh..
Caught Mamma Mia! just now. It was not a very nice show. Cheesey plot, bad vocals, and they made it worse by making Colin Firth a gay! OF ALL PEOPLE, WHY COLIN FIRTH??
Ahh..never mind.
On a brighter note, I'm done with 1 essay!
2 more essays and 2 presentations to go!
Where is the love?
Where is the love?
Where is the love, the love, the love?
What's the world becoming? The Chinese adding melamine to milk, causing most parts of the world to recall their goods. Don't they think before they act? And then it's the Pakistan Marriott suicide bomb. I just read on Yahoo News that the litter bugs in Singapore is rising. People are throwing things like baby diapers, cigarette butts, plasters and guess what... sanitary pads! How disgusting and abhorring. Urgh..
Caught Mamma Mia! just now. It was not a very nice show. Cheesey plot, bad vocals, and they made it worse by making Colin Firth a gay! OF ALL PEOPLE, WHY COLIN FIRTH??
Ahh..never mind.
On a brighter note, I'm done with 1 essay!
2 more essays and 2 presentations to go!
Sunday, September 14, 2008
Hehe
Answers without revealing the questions =D
1. Esther
2. My family
3. As of now, Jeanette Winterson (but only for a day), so I can know what she's thinking when she wrote 'Written on the Body'.
4. Lydia
5. Weitse (but in a good way haha)
6. Serene kira kira
7. Kasster maybe
8. Kailing hehe
9. It's a secret
10. Kailing
11. No one
12. Catherine Zeta Jones
13. None whatsoever
14. Girly >> Rachel
15. Josh Holloway? On second thought, I think I'd rather stick to what I am now
16.
17. Nick (don't worry nick, i'm not referring to it mentally)
18. Prince >> Skippy
19. JonC
20. Jeremy F
21. Muuahahahaha
22. I hope I'll never meet such a person
23. My parents
24. Chew Wei? hahaha
25. Stella (Disclaimer: Seemingly, but not exactly true.
26. Haha, it's unlikely of me to do so.
27. My parents
28. Simon (heehee)
29. Same as answer 9. Unless I'm attached to this person, I'll never reveal who he is :p
30. You guys rock.
If you want the questions, you must answer them after I give them to you. If you don't have a blog to put them down, you must email me your answers cos I'm very kaypoh.. hahaha!
1. Esther
2. My family
3. As of now, Jeanette Winterson (but only for a day), so I can know what she's thinking when she wrote 'Written on the Body'.
4. Lydia
5. Weitse (but in a good way haha)
6. Serene kira kira
7. Kasster maybe
8. Kailing hehe
9. It's a secret
10. Kailing
11. No one
12. Catherine Zeta Jones
13. None whatsoever
14. Girly >> Rachel
15. Josh Holloway? On second thought, I think I'd rather stick to what I am now
16.
17. Nick (don't worry nick, i'm not referring to it mentally)
18. Prince >> Skippy
19. JonC
20. Jeremy F
21. Muuahahahaha
22. I hope I'll never meet such a person
23. My parents
24. Chew Wei? hahaha
25. Stella (Disclaimer: Seemingly, but not exactly true.
26. Haha, it's unlikely of me to do so.
27. My parents
28. Simon (heehee)
29. Same as answer 9. Unless I'm attached to this person, I'll never reveal who he is :p
30. You guys rock.
If you want the questions, you must answer them after I give them to you. If you don't have a blog to put them down, you must email me your answers cos I'm very kaypoh.. hahaha!
Friday, September 5, 2008
Vanity
You're so vain, I really can't imagine what will happen if your beauty is taken away one day.