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♥ meddling with the grand plan. snip, snip.
★ maybe-marble
Oberon Theatre

"i think it's a mistake to lose one's sense of death, even one's fear of death. isn't death the boundary we need? doesn't it give a precious texture to life, a sense of definition? you have to ask yourself whether anything you do in this life would have beauty and meaning without the knowledge you carry a final line, a border or limit."

- white noise, don delillo

★ yuki-chan
Oberon Theatre

yuki pic

★ of the devil's party
Oberon Theatre

"we were the children of innocent consumerism and the inheritors of the freedoms won by our seditious elders in the late sixties. we had a free, superior and somewhat lazy education. we weren't much restrained by morality or religion. music, dancing and conscienceless fucking were our totems. we boasted that we were the freest there'd ever been."

- intimacy, hanif kureishi

★ everybody's doing it baby!
the village voice rotten tomatoes om improvement mOmentOm yOga camper iD magazine ontological-hysteric theatre mazzy star green plastic radiohead official radiohead tour de france lance armstrong sex and the city baylene feminist sf and fantasy atheist quotes go fug yourself buy cheap marie claire! ted design*sponge unstudio 2modern

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★ the propellerheads
"when i was a kid i used to pray every night for a new bicycle. then i realised that the lord doesn't work that way so i stole one and asked him to forgive me."

★ nada, nada, nada
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★ thanks
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Have WoW Sex!
Thursday, November 30, 2006 @ 9:32 PM
OMG, this is fucking hilarious... Only thing is, both Amos and I play it... Hahaha.

Wednesday, November 22, 2006 @ 10:50 AM
Book updates: Amos and I ploughing our way through kiddie fantasy. I've just finished Eragon, Amos is onto Eldest. Currently reading Jonathan Stroud's Bartimaeus Trilogy. And of course DWJ whenever a new book pops up. Amos still can't get over that I don't fancy Raymond E Feist's grand Empire and Magician series. Hmmm. I'm not a big fan of traditional fantasy apart from Tolkein, which Amos hates. He observes that those who don't read fantasy would like Tolkein, similar to those who don't watch Chinese films, would like Ang Lee and slow-mo stylised kung fu fighting.

Anyway, we did catch Bond last night and it was pretty good, only because it wasn't a Bond movie. Gone were cheesy names, "shaken not stirred" quotes, the BMWs, chest hair. This Bond gets to drive a Ford, doesn't give a damn about his martinis and pretty much makes fun of himself and other Bonds:

M: I knew it was too early to promote you.
James Bond: Well, I understand double-ohs have a very short life expectancy. So your mistake will be short-lived.

Poke!
Tuesday, November 21, 2006 @ 12:07 PM
Yes, I DO work... *grunt* Couple of niceties to check out:

Can art be criticised on ethical grounds? Are we sometimes too forgiving towards art?

Jesus Loves You by Miss Izzy. Crude but funny. Maybe they're just sexually-deprived? When we take a step back and look at ourselves, we are rather irrational people huh?

that and nothing else
Friday, November 17, 2006 @ 11:34 AM
It was roughly 2 years ago that I fled daddy's-choice of a career for me, for the Arts. I interned at STPI for a measely sum of money for a couple of months before starting work at Sculpture Square, where I learned plenty but also that people were terribly shortchanged on happiness. Hehe. Nothing's changed much here, "bigger" and "museum" hasn't had much impact on my career except that I had my 24 hours of fame yesterday in the Life! section. Tee Hehe. Not bad for someone who didn't really know what to do with her life.

Words of Wisdom (WoW) Hahaha:

(1) Fear & Passion - There was certainly lots of fear leaving a nice sorta cushy job with 3 months bonus for the uncertain iffy arts scene. Fought with the parents. Cried so much. But really, what is life if we don't pursue our passions, what we love? In a way, I find it totally amazing that some can continue working in jobs that they hate and find boring. I think I'm quite proud of what I've achieved in the last 2 years. Have no fear, have lots of passion! Take the leap! Be brave!

(2) Hmmm... oh nothing to do with the job but Amos and I were having our usual conversations and was telling him about something I read. Minimise evil first. Then do good. Interesting huh? We've been ingrained with the idea of "doing good" since we were kids. Do charity work, donate money etc etc. But "minimising evil" is as or more important than simply "doing good". No they're not the same thing.

(3) Anyway, the BOSS had a major flare-up today. I'm refusing to do my appraisal. Hehe. NUS or civil service has this awful grading system and I refuse to be graded. I mean, come on, some people just suck ass and don't do any work and are in higher management. What the hell. Well, she's not mad at me about the appraisal. I don't think she's even mad at me or my colleague. She's just mad in general and so happened my colleague and I went in for a meeting and she went crazy. I just sat there, slighly detached. It's interesting huh, our human species. I feel like listening to Cartman's bitch song just to cheer me up. :) Loving-Kindness... People disappoint me too often. I disappoint myself too much as well. But just another interesting day went by. Cause and effect. My colleague got pretty upset and he in turn will take it out on ... ... ... and continue to feel upset, sad, angry etc. And it goes on. We don't necessarily see the effects of our words and actions immediately, but take care, watch your thoughts; your words and actions will follow.

Turn Your Ideas
Saturday, November 11, 2006 @ 12:23 PM
This is brilliant...

Friday, November 03, 2006 @ 1:45 PM
Oh... Something to think about...

I'm going to start a present-free, shopping-free Christmas campaign this year. :) More details coming soon!

blue pill:red pill
Thursday, November 02, 2006 @ 5:45 PM
Amos and I had a fantastic dinner conversation last night. A whole bunch of stuff but the one that I could remember was Dawkins' quote on what comfort was.

At the end of the interview, the interviewer asks Dawkins what gets him through the night. He replies,

“The same things as gets most people through the night. Love of human fellowship, love of nature, love of art, love of the world, love of life […] Everything that everybody else has …”

Reporter than asks if he’s comfortable with that. And he replies,

” I am comfortable with that, but even if I wasn’t, it wouldn’t change what I believe, because I don’t believe that we’re put here to be comfortable.”

He asked me how I would change the education system - I said more subjects in primary school (I studied 7 subjects including history, geography and science when I was in Primary 1 in an international school), a solidification of fundamental concepts and foundational stuff in lower secondary, an introduction of philosophy and critical thinking in upper secondary, more philosophy, critical thinking, current affairs in college and then in university etc etc.

Then he said, then everyone would be as unhappy as I am. Haha. I mean, why think about the world or the meaning of life, when I'm ignorant and happy with my little life. So anyway, I said, since we've crossed over, we can't go back to being ignorant. And I think I would be happier and would have to accept the fact of not being that comfortable and knowing that I'm nearer to truth, rather than being ignorant and happy. That might work too, but sorry, since we've crossed over, there's no turning back. You gotta deal with it.