As 2008 draws to a end, I looked for a apt conclusion to sum the year up. I am startled at how easy the conclusion for 2008 came to me. Was watching 超级星光大道, and sg singer 黄靖伦 was on it singing a song.
当我默默黯然回首
当我看尽潮起潮落
朦胧之间
仿佛我又看见你的脸
依然带着淡淡忧愁的双眼
忽隐忽现
就当全是一场梦
不必演是我的错
无奈的苦笑不必找牵强的理由
就让它日日夜夜刺痛我胸口
让我眼神没有焦点
泪水模糊我的视线
输了你赢了世界又如何
你曾渴望的梦
我想我永远不会懂
我失去你赢了一切
确依然如此冷清
有谁又能让我倾心
除了你
你我之间
难道没有剩下一点点
一点曾经刻骨铭心的眷恋
让你挂念
我只能说如今我已无处可躲
当我默默黯然回首
当我看尽潮起潮落
[林志炫 - 输了你赢了世界又如何]
输了你赢了世界又如何.....
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
I'm pretty sure this is karma..... after i finished the previous post, I went out for a run. And for the first time in my history of running in Pasir Ris Park, I got caught in the rain! Karma is so ironic.... lol... but oh well, i did get a bit of that "high" feeling of driving an open-top vehicle in the rain, just that tiny bit... gosh i miss driving....
okayy... an add-on.... i was in two minds on whether to put this up.... hahaz... lets just call it the birthday incident... On my birthday itself, a friend informed me on msn that my bday was not reflected in the events app, asked me to put it up to see how many ppl will respond to it... And tada! the results is on my facebook wall... lolz.... was more amused than anything.... hahaz....
This cartoon from readers' digest is so apt!
This cartoon from readers' digest is so apt!
Merry Christmas everyone!!!
The concept of love...
It's Christmas's' eve!!! the season of love!! no better time to talk about the concept of love.....
A while ago b4 i left for aussie, one of my bunkmate suddenly threw a qn into the air, "How do you define love?" I started with a reply, "Love is an inspiration." Then paused for a while to generate the elaboration needed but it was pointless, cos i got cut off by him and he started on this concept of love thingy about selfless giving and all that. He even berated me for having no sense of what love is. I dun blame him, he's from chc(no offence intended) just to clarify that his influences are more pop-cultured than others and that the word "inspiration" by itself seems a little weak to carry the whole concept of love. No one pursued the incident after and i kept it at the back of my mind until one day, after reading chuck palahniuk's choke and c.s lewis's screwtape letters one after the other, a wisp of inspiration dawned upon me. And so here I am, after arranging those thoughts, to give you my take on the concept of love.
Many people, when asked to define love, would reach for a personal definition, one that includes the pronoun "I". Love is after all about relationships and it is impossible to talk of one without the pronoun "I". Even in movie Love Actually, the direction explains the use of the ending song as Beach boys' "God only knows what I'd be without you" rather than the beatles "All you need is love" as one to remind people that love is not just a grand big concept, but this small personal thing in every single person's life. However, what i fear is happening is the exact opposite. I would illustrate this using an analogy of Venn diagrams. When asked to define love, people would (if using a Venn diagram) draw many circles around his own one in the middle. He would then be particularly interested in the intersections and would call the better-ing and the expansion of the intersections as love. On surface, this seems to be a fine and sound definition of love, but is it really? I guess our egocentric nature has taken root and we need some reminding to rid us of this painfully myopic view. Love, as it would be defined by me, selfless giving for the better-ing of not the intersection, but of the one you love alone. So, what it means is that after you draw the Venn diagram, you've got to take an eraser and erase away your own circle so that you are able to look at every single circle in your diagram individually as a whole. Your actions, whether they lead to an expansion of the intersections, shouldn't matter to you. What I am saying here is that your love(selfless giving) cannot be motivated by the better-ing of relationships with the people you love(the intersections). Illogical as it may seems, but remember that love is a selfless giving that cannot tolerate the pronoun "I". Hence love is an inspiration - an idea that is a motivation by itself and is sustained by itself exclusively. It is only when you see things this way that you realise how painfully myopic and egocentric we were, and some of the "greatest love" are still now....
Sorry for force-feeding the saggittarian's over idealistic concept of love(yah, it's true, can go check out the personalities of the different star signs) on Christmas' eve. I guess it's best to keep it simple. It's warm fuzzy feeling that you feel in the air =P yupz... and you're hearing connie talbot here with her sweet vocals, belting out "i will always love you"... the innocence and the sincere-ness in the voice......
It's Christmas's' eve!!! the season of love!! no better time to talk about the concept of love.....
A while ago b4 i left for aussie, one of my bunkmate suddenly threw a qn into the air, "How do you define love?" I started with a reply, "Love is an inspiration." Then paused for a while to generate the elaboration needed but it was pointless, cos i got cut off by him and he started on this concept of love thingy about selfless giving and all that. He even berated me for having no sense of what love is. I dun blame him, he's from chc(no offence intended) just to clarify that his influences are more pop-cultured than others and that the word "inspiration" by itself seems a little weak to carry the whole concept of love. No one pursued the incident after and i kept it at the back of my mind until one day, after reading chuck palahniuk's choke and c.s lewis's screwtape letters one after the other, a wisp of inspiration dawned upon me. And so here I am, after arranging those thoughts, to give you my take on the concept of love.
Many people, when asked to define love, would reach for a personal definition, one that includes the pronoun "I". Love is after all about relationships and it is impossible to talk of one without the pronoun "I". Even in movie Love Actually, the direction explains the use of the ending song as Beach boys' "God only knows what I'd be without you" rather than the beatles "All you need is love" as one to remind people that love is not just a grand big concept, but this small personal thing in every single person's life. However, what i fear is happening is the exact opposite. I would illustrate this using an analogy of Venn diagrams. When asked to define love, people would (if using a Venn diagram) draw many circles around his own one in the middle. He would then be particularly interested in the intersections and would call the better-ing and the expansion of the intersections as love. On surface, this seems to be a fine and sound definition of love, but is it really? I guess our egocentric nature has taken root and we need some reminding to rid us of this painfully myopic view. Love, as it would be defined by me, selfless giving for the better-ing of not the intersection, but of the one you love alone. So, what it means is that after you draw the Venn diagram, you've got to take an eraser and erase away your own circle so that you are able to look at every single circle in your diagram individually as a whole. Your actions, whether they lead to an expansion of the intersections, shouldn't matter to you. What I am saying here is that your love(selfless giving) cannot be motivated by the better-ing of relationships with the people you love(the intersections). Illogical as it may seems, but remember that love is a selfless giving that cannot tolerate the pronoun "I". Hence love is an inspiration - an idea that is a motivation by itself and is sustained by itself exclusively. It is only when you see things this way that you realise how painfully myopic and egocentric we were, and some of the "greatest love" are still now....
Sorry for force-feeding the saggittarian's over idealistic concept of love(yah, it's true, can go check out the personalities of the different star signs) on Christmas' eve. I guess it's best to keep it simple. It's warm fuzzy feeling that you feel in the air =P yupz... and you're hearing connie talbot here with her sweet vocals, belting out "i will always love you"... the innocence and the sincere-ness in the voice......
Saturday, December 20, 2008
okayy... to try help ppl understand the post on Choke the novel.... There's a lot of controversial themes and material inside to confuse you(the precise intent of the author) but you've just got to keep your head up and look at the issues objectively. Here's some directions from my POV....
The 3 parts are taken from the same book but at different sections. Part 1 is my attempt at providing a background to the whole episode and also higlighting the "irony"(up to you to interpret) of the insights of the child. Instead of being thankful at being saved, he was thankful for the oppurtunity to obtain affection and attention. This portion should already forewarn you of the next 2 parts.
Part 2 is a description of the main act (after all the novel's called choke for a reason) and a whole lot of self-righteous (again i'm using safe terms here, but yah, it's open to interpretation) justification of the act. Denny obviously objects to it (i like the "why you do this is so infantile" line) but does nothing to stop him.
Part 3 is the interesting one and holds the most important line in the whole episode. "I knew you were faking. Everyone else saw what they wanted to see." Here, the old lady "exposes" him and then praises him, in which he lashes back using extremely strong language.("I don't have a fuck for a heart") Notice the apparent contradiction btw part 2 and 3, where in part 2, he justifies the act and in part 3, he lashes back because someone agrees with him to a certain extent. Why? is the impt qn i shall leave for you to comtemplate......
The 3 parts are taken from the same book but at different sections. Part 1 is my attempt at providing a background to the whole episode and also higlighting the "irony"(up to you to interpret) of the insights of the child. Instead of being thankful at being saved, he was thankful for the oppurtunity to obtain affection and attention. This portion should already forewarn you of the next 2 parts.
Part 2 is a description of the main act (after all the novel's called choke for a reason) and a whole lot of self-righteous (again i'm using safe terms here, but yah, it's open to interpretation) justification of the act. Denny obviously objects to it (i like the "why you do this is so infantile" line) but does nothing to stop him.
Part 3 is the interesting one and holds the most important line in the whole episode. "I knew you were faking. Everyone else saw what they wanted to see." Here, the old lady "exposes" him and then praises him, in which he lashes back using extremely strong language.("I don't have a fuck for a heart") Notice the apparent contradiction btw part 2 and 3, where in part 2, he justifies the act and in part 3, he lashes back because someone agrees with him to a certain extent. Why? is the impt qn i shall leave for you to comtemplate......
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