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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!
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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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His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass
Friday, June 29, 2007 @ 3:25 PM

Ooooohhhhh... Finally! Lyra and Iorek brought to life!!! So exciting... Amos and I can't wait. My movie event of the year! Gonna start re-reading my books... =)


Bleargh
Wednesday, June 27, 2007 @ 8:47 PM
Save me! From self-righteous parents that is. They've been nagging at me to get married. Twice already in the last 5 days. Amos stays over most weekends and apparently, it's sinful and irresponsible. I say, 30 is the new 25 dad. And wahlau I really don't know what to say about a God that keep tabs on people's sex lives, oops there pre-marital sex, hell. Anal sex, hell. Masturbation, hell. Porn, hell. Sex with same gender, hell. Sex with animals, hell. Didn't clean yourself after sex, hell. Used contraception, hell. On the pill, hell. Abortion, hell. Morning-after pill, hell. Whatever lah. Sin, hell, roast me, fry me, dip me into barbecue sauce. Like the fuck I care. Sorry, in a foul mood. I should seriously consider moving out. And I thought my parents quite modern already. What's up with this??? Gawd, I sound like an angsty teenager. Bleargh.

Mac PC - PC's Revenge
@ 12:26 PM

Muahaha. Yea Macs do suck for games. I'm running on 5fps... =(


Landschaft
Monday, June 25, 2007 @ 8:54 PM
So Ben and I finally get to go home together... after working in the same building for the past 2 months plus. So anyhow, we got to talking about being honest with Christians. Basically, you have to be quite rude and it pains me to be rude. So that's why I was proud of what I did, when I could honestly tell Colin that I think God is bullshit, not in those exact words though. It helps that he's an old friend that's quite understanding. But yes, Ben calls it my rite of passage. Yay! I've passed. So I told him that he's got to do the same thing in order to pass his rites. He has to tell a Christian 3 simple things. (1) That you don't believe in God or religion (2) Announce quite firmly that you're an atheist (3) Tell the Christian that you're sad he/she believes in God.

Haha, being terribly bohliao. But anyway, I'm quite sick talking about God or non-Godness. Sex would be a lighter subject. I think I should focus on being a good person. I've been terribly angsty these past few months and I like to be calmer, clearer and more centred. I realised last week that I probably don't qualify for mid-year bonuses. This SUCKS!!! I felt quite depressed. I was thinking of doing a nice nua weekend trip. Bleh.

let's waste time...
@ 5:44 PM

I was thought of. I think the loveliest thing in the world is to be thought of.

=====
We'll do it all
Everything
On our own

We don't need
Anything
Or anyone

If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?

I don't quite know
How to say
How I feel

Those three words
Are said too much
They're not enough

If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?

Forget what we're told
Before we get too old
Show me a garden that's bursting into life

Let's waste time
Chasing cars
Around our heads

I need your grace
To remind me
To find my own

If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?

Forget what we're told
Before we get too old
Show me a garden that's bursting into life

All that I am
All that I ever was
Is here in your perfect eyes, they're all I can see

I don't know where
Confused about how as well
Just know that these things will never change for us at all

If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?


Transformers
Sunday, June 24, 2007 @ 8:40 PM

OMG OMG OMG... Can't wait... Watching this coming Thursday. =) I don't like Michael Bay though... Eek.


Wednesday, June 20, 2007 @ 1:26 AM
It was almost liberating. But anyway, Colin and I were msning and we started talking about religion. So yep, after my spew, he said that he was sad that I didn't believe in God. And I replied, oh well, I'm sad that you believe in God. Hehe. So yep. My first ever rebuttal to a Christian! Haha. But he's very nice lah and quite open. So he was not offended by it. Think he found it funny even.

Britain's Got Talent - Connie
Monday, June 18, 2007 @ 5:13 PM

I did cry a teeny bit! Heavenly!


Sunday, June 17, 2007 @ 2:38 PM
We've forgotten to be honest. We've forgotten to speak the truth. So when someone is honest, we're disgusted, shocked and we say, how could he/she? But deep in our hearts, we know.

@ 12:09 PM
After watching a TED talk by James D Watson, co-founder of DNA and original director of the Human Genome Project, I did a little digging on this wrinkly old man, whose favourite past-time is bird watching. Hmm. In his long career, he has said a couple of controversial stuff, some of which are pretty similar to Peter Singer and quite Gattaca-like. You decide, stupid or genius or just honest:

(1) "He is a strong proponent of genetically modified crops, holding that the benefits far outweigh any plausible environmental dangers, and that many of the arguments against genetically modified crops are unscientific or irrational. His views on these matters are covered in some depth in his book DNA: The Secret of Life (2003), particularly in chapter 6."

(2) That "really stupid" bottom 10% of people should be aborted before birth. [I don't trust Wiki on this so I googled more and what Watson supposedly said was that stupidity was a disease and that if ever the gene for stupidity was identified, it should eliminated.]

(3) All girls should be genetically engineered to be pretty. [Again it's Wiki, so... but apparently he did say this. Don't agree with this cause beauty is quite relative.]

(4) That is the gene for homosexuality be discovered, mother should be given the choice to abort it. [He was apparently misquoted on this. Dawkins claims that Watson said that a mother should have the choice to abort the child if she discovers it is straight or gay.]

(5) "Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you're not going to hire them." [Hence, the beauty gene... Well... I am very un-PC so I shall refrain from comment.]

(6) He has also been attacked for justifying anti-semitism, for advocating that certain racial, religious and ethnic groups' "numbers should be restricted", for claiming that blacks are genetically lazy and for advocating the infanticide of handicapped newborns.

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So yep, he is quite a colourful character eh.

Sunday, June 10, 2007 @ 10:32 PM
I need to go on a diet and stop shopping. And stop judging as well. I mean, what kind of God punishes you for not washing your hands a certain no of times after you take a poop? Not mentioning its a waste of water and paper towels. That one, I really don't get. The first time I saw her washing her hands obssessively, I was quite shocked. I thought she had OCD and went straight to my colleague's cubicle to share what I saw. She said it was a religous thing and I was like oh yah... that's why the squatting toilets are like so damn wet lah. Well, maybe I should be a little more tolerant but maybe not. When will it ever stop?

What if I said that my religion only allows me to work 4 hours a day, 4 days a week and if they fired me, it would be against my right to practise my type of religion. Or that my religion dictates that I can only wear jeans to work? That's still harmless but where do we draw the line? What if I have to say Fuck You to every person I meet if not God would send me straight to hell? Or that this plot of land was where the Goddess Kitty descended and therefore belongs to me. I will kill anyone within this land, who doesn't believe in the Goddess Kitty. When do we stop? When do we say its not okay? When do we start screaming, this is bloody bullshit? Looking at the state of worldly affairs, I guess its never. A belief should be questioned, by the very nature of it.

Thursday, June 07, 2007 @ 11:07 PM
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Desert Island List
Wednesday, June 06, 2007 @ 10:58 PM
I'm currently obssessed with lists. So I'm going to start a whole series of posts on lists. We'll start with the Desert Island List. The rules are: 10 items.

(1) Nike drifit shorts
(2) Nike drifit teeshirt
[they last forever!]
(3) Lots of rope
(4) Parang
(5) Fishing rod
(6) Net or spear
(7) Tent
(8) Kerosene/oil lamp
(9) Sandals
(10) Backpack

Other stuff that I thought I would need - sleeping bag, swimsuit, torchlight and batteries, matches, drinking water, radio, jacuzzi, speedboat, weekly supply of food (hah!), Narumi bone china, Tiffany candlesticks, Harrods raincoat etc.

@ 10:34 PM
I can't believe I'm aching from playing Nintendo Wii. You know your business has made it when you have a recreation area in your office consisting of a plasma TV and Nintendo Wii. Or you want to make it seem like you've made it, in the case of Amos and the Webpuppies. Hehe. So yep, I popped over to Amos' office yesterday to check out the Wii. Wee! It's damn fun lah. And what a workout! The drawback is that you tend to workout only one side of your body. But the Wii is amazing. Yay to Nintendo!!! They're definitely in the forefront of gaming.

Monday, June 04, 2007 @ 11:53 PM
My ultimate wish-list for the Writers Festival:

(1) Richard Dawkins
(2) Carl Sagan (dead though)
(3) Philip Pullman
(4) China Mieville
(5) Umberto Eco
(6) Noam Chomsky
(7) Ursula K LeGuin
(8) Diana Wynne Jones
(9) David Almond
(10) Charlie Kaufman (for screenplays)
(11) Andrew Kevin Walker (for screenplays)
(12) Chuck Palahniuk
(13) JRR Tolkein (very dead, ok I'll stop adding dead people)
(14) Margaret Atwood
(15) Elfride Jelinek
(16) Dan Brown (just for the kicks)
(17) Michael de Larrabeiti

Added 6th June
(18) Peter Singer
(19) Jonathan Lethem

Do not judge a yogi by its...
@ 11:14 PM
(1) Size - Yogis come in all shapes and sizes. In fact, most yogis don't look buffed up or super fit. Most of us are unassuming, with pot bellies, saggy arms. We're fat, skinny, tall and short. I've met this round portly Indian lady who can flip into headstands and inversions effortlessly. In her punjabi suit somemore.

(2) Clothes - Yogis wear all sorts of clothes to class. The aunties come in unflattering shorts and baggy tshirts. The younger ones in lycra pants and matching tops. Some come in teeny weeny tights and bra tops. But don't judge a yogi by their clothes. Someone in matching expensive lycra may have as tight a spine as her/his ass. And the aunties in baggy tees fall gracefully in forward bends.

(3) Age - Yogis come in all ages. The wonderful thing about yoga is that it is for everyone. Unlike, other sports or hobbies which have a limited age span, you can practise yoga till you die. Hehe. So yep, younger doesn't mean better in yoga. In fact, experience counts a lot and a mature mind helps with a more holistic and balanced practice. I've seen old men in splits and old women in headstands. And the younger ones struggle with balances. Nothing is impossible. The body is a wonderful thing and yoga helps you to discover its full range in motion. I am continually amazed by what my body can do and how it's intimately connected with my mind.

Namaste!