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.
Saturday, August 30, 2008
-sigh-
Sorry for the long hiatus from the blogging world (well, not exactly cos there is another platform of output). Seriously, sometimes there's really nothing much to blog about, and it's time like these that you really question the existence of a blog. How much of it is a facade, a "staged performance", and how much of it is from the heart? -shrugs-
(Disclaimer: Fictional names are used in the next paragraph in order to protect the identity of the school and teachers)
Went back to my alma mater on Thursday with Rek to visit some teachers and asked the teachers about the latest gossips, the screwed-up principal Mr. Mao ZD and the stupid and silly things everyone does on Teachers' Day. (For my year, we did something stupid that upset a particular religion). According to Miss SEA, she has finally agreed with us that Mdm. European is dilapidated. Indeed, when we spoke to her, she inevitably gave us the familiar creeps. Putting her aside, it was an honour to speak to Mr. Silas Marner, and as usual, he had a cup of Lipton tea on his desk, and is ever so respectable when he speaks. Mr. Utopia is still as charming (especially his voice), but doesn't seem as boring as before. Maybe it's due to the fact that he finally has a wife? It is a pity Mr. Batman wasn't there. He still has his favourite Batman figurine on his desk, and according to Mr. Utopia, he isn't as monstrous as he was before because he has finally found THE ONE. Too bad Mr. Nice-Chinese-Teacher wasn't around too, cos he's probably the best Chinese teacher I've ever had, and I really felt ashamed when I nearly flunked my Chinese AO. Ohh.. Mr. Mao ZD has intentions of closing down the Arts Fac again! (#$%^#%) WHAT'S HIS PROBLEM? He should focus on how the Science Fac should excel and shine before touching the Arts Fac. It's not as if the Science Fac has reached perfection. Urgh.. Mr. Utopia has called for support for next year's Drama Fest (cos we were the champions for Drama Fest 2005! -or was it 2006??-) If Drama Fest goes well next year, we might have a chance to revive the Arts Fac :)
It's not that I like my alma mater, but I just wanna help my teachers there.
They have even commented that so far, our batch is better than the recent batches they have taught! :D Makes the visitation worthy after all.
I've come to realise that after the A Levels, I haven't really sat down to mug. Ever since I entered NTU, it's just endless reading. There ain't much technicalities nor much details to memorise. After all, most of the essays (for exams) are based on how we write our essay. All we got to remember is the issues discussed in the texts we've read. What's there to memorise for Literature? I remember mugging for History and Economics was quite fun, yet torturous. There was so much to memorise for History and Economics. I survived, nonetheless.
Since last semester, all the modules I've taken were Lit modules, so studying for the exams was just pure reading. This semester however, I've to cope with Linguistics and Forensic Science. (SCIENCE!) No, I don't hate Science. In fact, I think Biology is very interesting. I'm just not inclined to Science cos I can never understand how certain things work even if you explain it to me several times. Linguistics is very interesting, and I am intending to minor in it. However, I find it quite hard to understand certain terms cos I'm simply not a technical person. Which is why I am forcing myself to sit down and read my textbook, i.e, mug.
It was a difficult attempt. In the afternoon, I read just 3 pages and my eyes were going to close. Just now, I read 2 paragraphs, and the computer seemed like a better option (which is why I am blogging now).
Sigh.. why is mugging so hard?
Must work hard to get into the exchange program next year!
yeah right, stacey.
(Disclaimer: Fictional names are used in the next paragraph in order to protect the identity of the school and teachers)
Went back to my alma mater on Thursday with Rek to visit some teachers and asked the teachers about the latest gossips, the screwed-up principal Mr. Mao ZD and the stupid and silly things everyone does on Teachers' Day. (For my year, we did something stupid that upset a particular religion). According to Miss SEA, she has finally agreed with us that Mdm. European is dilapidated. Indeed, when we spoke to her, she inevitably gave us the familiar creeps. Putting her aside, it was an honour to speak to Mr. Silas Marner, and as usual, he had a cup of Lipton tea on his desk, and is ever so respectable when he speaks. Mr. Utopia is still as charming (especially his voice), but doesn't seem as boring as before. Maybe it's due to the fact that he finally has a wife? It is a pity Mr. Batman wasn't there. He still has his favourite Batman figurine on his desk, and according to Mr. Utopia, he isn't as monstrous as he was before because he has finally found THE ONE. Too bad Mr. Nice-Chinese-Teacher wasn't around too, cos he's probably the best Chinese teacher I've ever had, and I really felt ashamed when I nearly flunked my Chinese AO. Ohh.. Mr. Mao ZD has intentions of closing down the Arts Fac again! (#$%^#%) WHAT'S HIS PROBLEM? He should focus on how the Science Fac should excel and shine before touching the Arts Fac. It's not as if the Science Fac has reached perfection. Urgh.. Mr. Utopia has called for support for next year's Drama Fest (cos we were the champions for Drama Fest 2005! -or was it 2006??-) If Drama Fest goes well next year, we might have a chance to revive the Arts Fac :)
It's not that I like my alma mater, but I just wanna help my teachers there.
They have even commented that so far, our batch is better than the recent batches they have taught! :D Makes the visitation worthy after all.
I've come to realise that after the A Levels, I haven't really sat down to mug. Ever since I entered NTU, it's just endless reading. There ain't much technicalities nor much details to memorise. After all, most of the essays (for exams) are based on how we write our essay. All we got to remember is the issues discussed in the texts we've read. What's there to memorise for Literature? I remember mugging for History and Economics was quite fun, yet torturous. There was so much to memorise for History and Economics. I survived, nonetheless.
Since last semester, all the modules I've taken were Lit modules, so studying for the exams was just pure reading. This semester however, I've to cope with Linguistics and Forensic Science. (SCIENCE!) No, I don't hate Science. In fact, I think Biology is very interesting. I'm just not inclined to Science cos I can never understand how certain things work even if you explain it to me several times. Linguistics is very interesting, and I am intending to minor in it. However, I find it quite hard to understand certain terms cos I'm simply not a technical person. Which is why I am forcing myself to sit down and read my textbook, i.e, mug.
It was a difficult attempt. In the afternoon, I read just 3 pages and my eyes were going to close. Just now, I read 2 paragraphs, and the computer seemed like a better option (which is why I am blogging now).
Sigh.. why is mugging so hard?
Must work hard to get into the exchange program next year!
yeah right, stacey.