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Atypical observer. Strikingly unconventional. Avid thinker, reader and writer.

I believe in the power of one and prefer not to live by the status quo. I cherish the freedom of expression. I adore the ability to write, speak and perform. I hope to one day be able to conquer math and achieve world peace.

I believe in taking risks, because it is how most great things were, and will be, achieved.


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Sunday, June 26, 2011

Shifting...

After being on Xanga for four years, I'm now moving here:

 

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Do check it out. More fun & updates to come!

 


Friday, June 24, 2011

Misdiagnosed nausea

Barney tired of the world too. Sobriety was far too much to handle.

 

"He was a young man full of ideas that were simple, black and white. He liked to talk big about the coming revolution, about the church negro who was all show and no action, who was doing nothing for the 'cause'... a word spoken one too many times, worked into one too many speeches, until it had lost all meaning; until it was just a word, a shortcut, a litmus test for picking sides." 

- Attica Locke (Black Water Rising)

 

Locke says it so well. Often, people/dogmatic cowards use religion as an excuse for their behavior. They twist it, manipulate its principles, violate its provisions - as and when it suits or aids them.

And then there are those who just pray and talk, but take no tangible action. Nothing changes. Everything remains the same. It's not that I doubt the power of prayer, but one must do his part (Jesus made that clear).


There are two responses to this: disgust or enchantment. 

The first is from the experienced and jaded, who've come across such instances one too many times. The second is from the shallow man, bathed in naivete and false ideas.

 

It is tragic to note that the conman, the skilled cover-up, the glib talker always wins. Majority buy into the lies because they are that desperate for new hope.

The world is full of shit. No wonder even Barney's found wasted on the street.

 


Sunday, June 19, 2011

A-freeing

I&#8217;d cry too.

Image of the week! I'd cry too. Ronald McDonald honestly looks like the devil.

 

"Quitting swearing is as hard as quitting smoking... Well y'know what they say. Don't be a quitter."

I came up with this two days ago. Epic truth yo (well I think it's epic lah).

 

Bottom line: do what makes you happy.

My morbid rationale allows for that, because what's the use of buffeting yourself with paranoia and over-caution for every action you take? It'd be so ironic if, in the midst of doing all that and feeling like an ascetic saint, you get hit by a truck or attacked by a bunch of monkeys.

 

Far out I know, but fact is, if you don't risk it you don't make it. One must be liberated from the confines of safety and restraint in order to truly live.

Liberation requires willpower. Especially for those so ensconced in their sterile bubble: they need a kick in the rear to pop it (the bubble, not their rear end) and break free.

There comes a certain point and situation where we must realize the need to let go and stop punishing ourselves.



Sunday, June 12, 2011

Daaaaamnn son.

 

I just watched an episode of Criminal Minds. I've always liked that show. Its deviant spin of the tale always gives me a twisted enjoyment. Although my mind is sometimes addled at the end of a grueling episode, I feel that the show discusses and portrays certain aspects that we don't come across in everyday life: things such as hardcore cult practices that mutilate people in the name of religion, or where a stealthy fella in a catsuit lives under your bed for a whole month without your slightest knowledge.

Scary shit, mystifying shit, wits-scrambling shit.

 

Anyway, my point wasn't to pay accolades to the series (although I must say it well deserves it), but that after seeing a psychopath hit a man on the head with a loaded metal pole, I feel inclined to do the same to my brother.

He's been having a two-week holiday - today's the last, thank goodness - and I find it very maddening. He wakes up, lounges about complaining about hunger and sinus problems, with eyes glued to his laptop in pursuit of those damned online virtual games.

He does nothing to aid his physical condition until my softer side relents and makes me head to the kitchen, prepare some food and leave it on the table. Every time after doing that, I resent my kindness.

I hate helping people who refuse to help themselves.

 

It is said in Jeffrey Archer's Paths of Glory that "no one can exempt themselves from their conscience."

Then have these people who deny themselves their own effort not have a conscience? Or is it so blurred and destroyed by the countless times well-meaning souls stepped forward to help them, after succumbing to their wretched whinging?

I believe it's the latter. 

People with disheveled consciences are, in effect, rather pathetic. Their mind perishes in its absence.

 

P.S. I still cling on to my belief  fact that the younger siblings are always the spoiled ones, however much the parents deny it. You're only allowed to argue the theory if and only if you're an older/eldest sibling. 



Friday, June 10, 2011

Possibly unhinged, definitely hormonal

 

How can a person be composed of both insufficient self-esteem and defensive ego?

I still cling on to the fantasy that I may go to a faraway land and assume a new identity. I dream.




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