Twitter blog? lol

I realise that my new blog posts are pretty random... much like how Twitter is used haha... Maybe I should cut down on my lengthy posts and just post short paragraphs about what's on my mind at the moment hahaha... makes for easier reading too!

Just got reminded of a roller hockey team that a bunch of kids staying in Hougang almost formed when I was in primary school (and was the group that I roller-bladed with).

Swift snakes was going to be our name ahaha... Oh well... good memories =)

Individualisation of movie-watching

This post doesn't really have anything to do with the above title hahaha... I was watching the new Japanese movie "Handsome Suit" and realised this movie actually takes me back to my resolutions for 2009.

Go watch the movie! haha... Its damn slapstick in the first part, but once you get to the end, come back to my blog and read my previous post on my 2009 resolutions haha... You'll get what I mean.

Be less judgemental.

從新開張！Re-opening...

Time to sweep the dust off and bring out the beers! ahahaha...

It's time to crank up the gears and get this blog going again.

Watch this space.

OT for the liver

1 bottle of Coors Light, 1 Vodka Cranberry and 2 Vodka Lime = OT for my liver haha...
I think that's the largest amount of alchohol I've consumed in one night zZzZz... Mix beer and liquor somemore -_-'''

But my classmate's birthday party wasn't too bad haha... our teacher/prof was there drinking with us and partying with them (*insert gasps and applause*)

I wonder if we can find such professors/lecturers in NUS... Maybe in Business School or FASS? Or am I just stereotyping (which I have been taught not to) haha...

Need to go run again and be healthy wahaha...

It's been proven. I can't bear to imagine/see myself dancing/moving around to party music haha... Somehow it's more of a "listening" thing to me...

Like how some clubbers can't accept trance/electronic dance music, I find myself actually quite receptive towards it haha...maybe because I listen to the music more than I try to find a way to dance to it.

Next pub/music cafe/chill-out bar please. Uncle over here is non-clubber. Kam Sia.

嘴巴賤。。。哈哈哈。。。

Yes folks... you got that right and you heard me right...... somehow I think I got an acid-laced tongue zZzZz... that goes out of control once in a while...

I think I need to slow down and take a deep breath before I say or do anything haha... I find myself saying or thinking of sacarstic things to say or reply to others wahaha... Sometimes I don't even need to think and the words just come out from my mouth like a reflex action haha...

I've tried controlling it haha...but once in a while... you just let your mouth slip once in a while you know...

Yeah if 包小松 or 包小柏 ever need help, I think they can come look for me zZzZz...

I need to pray for guidance haha...... if not this mouth of mine might get me into trouble in the future wahaha...

I was watching some Japanese variety show and I realised, indeed... kids sometimes say the darndest/hurtful stuff to one another... but at least they blurt it out and somehow seem to forget all about it later... (at least most of the time lah... I don't know about kids nowadays... Some of them seem to have skip the "young and innocent" phase)

Adults? They just think about saying such stuff in their minds and try their best to "gek" and control in order to not say it out...... It's always at the back of their heads... then they PR and act all smiley... Sibei sian... To think that I actually might want to work in a PR firm when I graduate...

Does everyone in the PR industry also behave like that? I hope not zZzZz...

So yeah, I appreciate straightforwardness once in a while haha...

No pictures = Words

Again... another weekend of chiong-ing papers and projects... Life will be pretty dull... until the end of the exams and when the Japan trip comes...

So, presenting more random words to bore us all... wahaha


How to know when you've stayed in Taipei for a loooong time:

1) When you start recognising the part-time staff who work at the nearby 7-11 convenience stall
(includes both day and night shifts)

2) When the cleaning auntie starts striking up a conversation with you... while the both of you
are doing laundry.

3) When you run out of pamphlets to collect (of the places to visit), and you start collecting beer
bottles (to see what kind of beer you can find here)

4) When you realised that you've visited all the night markets in Taipei
(I can hear the whistles and 噓聲/boos hahaha... but seriously... I've checked already... really
all the listed night markets I walk finish liao)

5) When you start lamenting that there's nothing much left to do in Taipei, and the other parts of
Taiwan seem more interesting...

More random stuff to come~

Good or bad?

好人難當，壞人好像比較容易當。That was my MSN nick a few weeks ago haha... Here's how I came up with that nick.

If a person is deemed good, nice and (insert postive adjective here) by others, he or she would must be portraying a positive image.

How can one improve on this positive image? Well... I don't think you can hahaha...how to be "good-er/better"? Just be yourself and be nice. The status-quo is just fine... no issues with that.

How about a "bad" person then? Bad behaviour, bad manners and (insert negative adjective here). Negative image, BUT if you think carefully, the bad guy has a chance of turning into a "good" guy, right? That's what they always portray in the movies... at least in those mainstream movies

Good guy stays a good guy, but bad guy has a chance of becoming a good guy. In this case I think the latter would definitely be more interesting. If you look at the mass media and start to think, can you tell me how many times have we seen the story of "Bad guy turns over a new leaf" or a story that is somewhere along that line?

Not to mention that sometimes one can be called "blur", "傻" or "overly nice" hahaha...... Seriously, I think people sometimes take nice people for granted... to the point where they start to make use of them or treat them like dumb people.

And so the saying goes: 男人不坏，女人不愛。So does this saying really hold truth?

好人難當，壞人好像比較容易當。你想做坏人，還是做好人？

Beats me.

Non-Sequitur (Lyrics)

Fragile

作詞:持田香織
作曲:菊池一仁

いつもそう　単純で　クダラナイことがきっかけで
傷つけてしまうよね　途切れてく会話　虚しいよ

言葉が不器用すぎて　邪魔ばかりする
好きなのに伝わらない　こんな想い　切なくて

「愛しい」だなんて　言い慣れてないケド
今なら言えるよ　君のために
となりで笑っていてくれるのならば
これ以上　他に何も要らないよ
出逢えたことから　全ては始まった
傷つけあう日もあるけれども
「いっしょにいたい」と　そう思えることが
まだ知らない明日へと　つながってゆくよ

精一杯　背伸びして　平然を装っていたけど
余裕などないくせに　また　笑顔つくってしまった

会えない夜はきまって　淋しさ　おそう
好きだから不安になる　こんな想い　悲しくて

「守ってあげる」と　あの時言ったこと
ためらう気持ちも　嘘じゃないよ
それでも　信じてゆこうとする想い
コワレテしまわぬように　抱きしめていたい

こんなにこんなに　君を好きになって
本当に本当に　ウレシイから
たとえば　この先くじけてしまっても
にぎりしめたその手を　もう離さない
出逢えたことから　全ては始まった
傷つけあう日もあるけれども
「いっしょにいたい」と　そう思えることが
まだ知らない明日へと　つながってゆくよ

I don't know the meanings to this song haha... but I like the melody wahaha...
Actually that's how I've been listening to Japanese songs all these while wahaha...

Deafening Silence

Yoyoyo... Project deadlines are drawing closer... so we don't have much time to travel around anymore wahaha... which explains the lack of pictures... but I'm trying to make it a point to write random stuff everyday hahaha...

Ok let's move on to the random topic of the day: Silence... (non-emo dun worry wahaha)
Anyway I don't really know what's with the use of the word "emo" haha... either the word is really over-rated...or I'm becoming an old uncle zzz...

If you don't get it, it's ok haha... like-a-arty-farty stuff sia~

Silence, a powerful weapon.

Implicitly offensive and explicitly defensive.

"Cold" wars between people or a denial of things.

No wonder they say "silence is deafening".

It's like a WMD (weapon of mass destruction)... hahaha...

Freak weather

The weather in Taipei is weird... it can be raining the whole of one week, and then it can be sunny for the next week.

人的心情也如台北的天氣一樣，時冷時熱。真的不懂是在搞什麽。

Non-sequitur Part 2 (Songs)

All those who don't know what non-sequitur mean can go look it up in Wikipedia haha......

Non-sequitur

You know how they say you shouldn't leave your laptop battery attached to the laptop when you're using A/C power? Because it will degenerate the quality and lifespan of the battery?

Hmm...Somehow I'm beginning to feel like the battery wahaha......Damn sian~

Machiam gonna explode soon... Over-charged...

What the heck sia...... This doesn't sound or feel right......

On a last note...

Oh yeah! I forgot to add a nice finishing touch to the previous post/rant hahaha......

What matters is that the action comes from the heart, and not because society deems it "fit" or "only right" to do so.

Peace.Out.

For the record......(rant ahead)

Nothing much to do on a Saturday night. Sunday's the day trip to Nantou (南頭) and I have to get up at 6.00 a.m. to meet the other people going...zzz...... but be prepared for more pic-intensive updates!

Ok. Moving on the more angsty stuff. I have to get this off my chest (after thinking about it for quite some time last night). For the record, what is written below represents views from my perspective. If you have any comments or whatsoever, just put them in my tagboard. Don't go around assuming that all guys think like that. Thank you.

Note: Oei Weiye, Mabel and Zheng Guo! haha... I think you people are the only few that may understand what's written below.

Here goes my rant:

I think the Singaporean society is too socialised today to accept the notion of gender equality. All the talk by feminists, I feel, is just like a gust of hot air. Just read the local newspapers, and you'll get what I mean. The true feminists must be tearing their hair out.

Let me introduce the theory of a "fake feminist" (thanks ah weiye. good theory lol.)
Fake feminists are women who argue for the equal rights of women in a society that is supposedly dominated by men (in their view). However, their notion of "equality" is seriously flawed. They argue for equal pay, equal treatment from employers and the works etc. BUT they expect men to treat them in a different manner. In a manner that is different from how men would usually treat their fellow colleagues.

Now. This is really quite amusing. From my P.O.V, if you're a women/girl/lady, and I treat you differently from how I treat other people, it's because you're my friend/colleague/relative/family/you-get-the-idea. Gender/sex is not the issue here. That doesn't mean I treat female strangers like crap. Like I said, the society is too socialised for me to do anything about it, so I just stick around and follow what everyone else does.

I think I'm starting to type gibberish now haha... I'll edit and do a re-post when I align my thoughts properly. Continuing on, before I lose my current train of thoughts.

Seriously, I feel it's seriously not easy being a member of the male species in society today. Ok, I hear you ladies, it's not easy being a women either, but let me finish my rant first ok? The other parts can come in later =)

I bet most, if not all women think that all men have watched porn at least once in their lives, and that the male species is driven more by natural instincts than by emotions. Well, I can't confirm with you on this one, maybe it's really 90% true or what, but I hope that women don't judge men based on criterias such as this, because I truly believe that there are people out there who do not belong to the above category.

I believe that anyone in this world has the right to express their emotions, be it a man or a woman. Then again, like I said, society is too socialised to realise this. If you're a man and you show too much emotions, people would say: "Get a grip on yourself!". People feel this is a show of weakness, but I beg to differ. Maybe that's why the average lifespan of a man is usually shorter than that of a woman, because we simply keep our problems to ourselves. Even yours-truly here has to rely on trusty blogspot.com to rant and release some hot air hahaha.....

Maybe that's why they always say "A woman's best weapon is her tears".

The aim of the above post was not to women-bash or whatsoever. It's just my rant and my message to women out there. Please don't set double standards when you are defining the term "Girl power" or "Equal rights for women" in your head. Of course we aren't expecting you to be bra-burning, slogan chanting activists, but please spare a thought for the men who are trying their hardest to be nice to you all.

Please lah, if he requests to go dutch during dinner, forgets to hold the door or pull the chair, that doesn't make him any less a man. That's just the voice of a socialised world ringing in your head.