Love is a gift You feel happy when you send it out and see their appreciations --althought sometimes you don't-- You'll also be overjoyed when you receive one of those once in a while However, when you start demanding for it it's not a gift anymore
Actually I've been wondering this since I was around 10 probably. What is patriotism? What's its significance today?
Exactly which part are you "loyal" to when you say "I'm loyal to my country", or when someone says something negative about your country, and you start rambling away like a lunatic?
Is it the government that you love and loyal to? You know, that group of organisation you've never stopped complaining about?
Is it the education system that you've been through, currently in or that your children are in? Well, usually it sucks anyway. The only time you think it doesn't is when the government have done a good job in brainwashing the people into soulless zombies. (Sounds familiar?)
Or is it that district you've been living for xx years already, so..."bonded" to you? In which the government would eventually tear down, making you go crazy. Probably making you bitch about the government again. Haha! Yea, Maybe I understand that feeling. Like my complete reluctance to change from Windows XP to the crappy Vista. If the government had forced me to do it, then it would have been WAR man then uhh...Vista still sux lor. Ok but seriously, when I went back China early this year, I was actually kinda upset to find that the rural place where I grew up was totally replaced with concrete buildings. But then again, isn't this pretty much the same "unwillingness for change" as compared to my earlier reluctance to change to Vista? (Anw, I'm just trying to make my point. Vista still sux.)
Aside from complaining your teachers or boss, backstabbing friends or just whining at the good old society scums, you do love your family, neighbours and friends that you really care right? They are part of your country isn't it? Yea, like 0.1% of the population? Sure they mean the world to you, but if you think they somehow make up the entire country, go start taking Science & Math while I'll work on my Humanities.
Or is it simply because I wasn't born in a time of wars? Or at least haven't been through any kind of that stuff. To begin with, countries themselves made war possible. Also, if war is the thing that would keep the burning patriotism in your heart aflame, then, you know...Just fk it.
Maybe it's because my horizon is only limited to China and Singapore, both in Asia. Mr Ng said when he was in England[citation required], people would just randomly start conversations with him.
Or maybe I should make myself a learning journey trip to North Korea =)
We tend to forget the good things around us Which is an outcome of our ability to adapt
Went to watch 2012 with fei on saturday. Well the superstitious bullshit part was lesser than I was expecting, so...yea it was an ok movie.
[SPOILER]But to me, it basically is a summary of a divorced, failed writter who mocks Death for about 10 times before finally making Death pissed off and killed his ex-wife's current husband, thus uniting the writter with his family and lives happily ever after at somewhere in Africa.
Mock no. 1) Stands in a collapsing house, with big chunks of wood falling down, he left the house unscratched. 2) He drives his car at at least more than 70km/h, dodging cars and trees on the road while the earth itself is splitting apart and skyscrapers and bridges crashing down.
3) Finds out the pilot for a small plane that he just bought has died and just pushes the other guy ,who only went for a few basic flying courses, to drive that thing. Then the land disintegrates behind the plane while the plane is running on the run-way to gain speed.
4) An enormous volcano eruption caused rocks to drop from the sky like meteor, like...you know those high level nuker mage in RPG games casting their aoe spells. Then that fail writter drives a van and just dodges every freaking meteor strike. Its like WWII, except that you are driving a van, not a tank.
5) He's back on that small plane, same thing happens. Everything else is destroyed to utter chaos EXCEPT the run-way. Then, during take-off the ground starts to breakdown again RIGHT BEHIND the plane. Again.
6) Spots his random friend at the airport, thus doesn't have to wait for the flight (or in this case, dying), for his friend has a BIG plane. "Of course, it's made in Russia! >=)" says the Russian dood.
7) Emergency landing on a frozen valley. Unscathed again of course.
8) Found some guy to lead them through a secret path to the imba submarine/ship thing built to save a few thousand rich-asses from Armageddon.
9) Got stuck somewhere half-way through the secret passage. Well for him, its just "getting stuck for a brief moment" of course, for his ex's husband, it means "OH SHIT I GOT CRUSHED TO DEATH".
10) Went back to the same place he "got stuck" with again (which is now filled with water) to fix some problem. If almost dying 9 times didn't seem enough for the writter, some random guy in the movie shouted "omg! It's a one-way trip! He wouldnt have enough time to come back up!" Yea right, if he died there, then how would the 9 times of Death-mocking had counted? Of course he lives --- there's a few centimeters of air space at that place that pretty much stays there, probably caused by the sheer presence of that failed writter.
Yeeeeup! That's about 90% of the movie. If this were to be made a game, these are definitely all the 10 levels for the campaign mode. And for those pro-gamers, they'll probably die at different places 6 times PER level before they complete the game. GG.
Now for the remaining 10%:
The made-me-cringe-to-the-size-of-a-neutrino-part: Young disciple asks the Great Master some stuff and starts rambling away. The Great Master slowly pours tea into the young disciple's cup...pours somemore...until it overflows...
"Master...it's full...master! o.O" cried the young disciple.
Slowly, the Great Master ceased his crap and said, "You, young man, like this cup is too filled with things that you could not accept any ideas and knowledge from the external."
I'm pretty sure this isn't de javu, it's something that has happened for at least 3 times in different HMT Chi compre papers.
The China-USA paradox: 1) The writter and his family (Americans, duh), found there way to China and that young disciple as mentioned earlier led them to his elder brother who were only expecting their own family for him to lead them to safety to. “他们是什么人？是谁叫你们把他们带来的！？”长兄说。 “哥，你知道我不可以拒绝他们的...”弟子说道。 "*awkward tone*Uhh...Hi...Chinese people...haha....=)" said the fail writter.
2) *Marvells at 4 big ships* "Omg...just look at these things! Built in just 2 years...dam...just leave these things to the chinese..."
The Stupidity of Humanity: The imba chinese had built 4 big submarine-like ships, used to store all the animal species and a few thousand rich people who spent 10 Billion Euros for a ticket each. In other words, Noah's Arc. Now, for the third or fourth time, the genius geologist (or whatever his useless degree is) has miscalculated the final moment of doomsday. Thus, recalculating it again, realise it's as short as 30minutes. Then of course, if 2 hours of movie is not enough, shit must happen, therefore one of the Arcs are somehow damaged beyond use. So the sad (rich) souls who had paid for their tickets, could not board the Arc.
AND~~~The genius steps in, and talks about how so many people died in vain and if they don't open the gates of the remaining 3 Arcs to accept the sad/rich souls in, they would die in vain as well. With only 10 minutes on the count-down timer (note the count-down is, again, calculated by the genius, so take note of the incredibility of your sources), they've finally decided to open the gates and voila! Humanity is thus saved!
Yea right, everyone else ALREADY DIED IN VAIN, WTF ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? THE 10 BILLION EUROS!? Just FYI, your stupid Arc would have crashed, killing everyone, if not for the Death-mocker who went back to the water-filled place to solve the problem.
Note: If you don't believe me, go watch it. It's like The Adventure of Tom Sawyer (Substitute Tom with failed writter) plus whole bunch of cool CGIs (eh no, the CGIs are thankfully really good, no sarcasm here), and of course the good old stupidity of script writters + hilarious racism + cliches that makes you cringe like never before.
In conclusion, the movie leaves me with no afterthoughts whatsoever other than fatigue brought about by 2h30m of...TERBABOOM!!!, Tom Sawyer and genius geologist. But frankly, the length of the movie and the nice CGI was already worth the money. No regrets =)
Oh and by the way, what did the Mayans say anyway? The whole movie was based on nothingness since the "Great Prophecies" made by the Mayans did not even say anything about what happens when their retarded lasts-for-5000-years-calender runs out. Why didn't they make a prophecy on when their race dies? That way, their calender should be much shorter than 5000 years =)
Aditya says: *and you know what else would have happened? *when they all arrive in china *the ships would have been readied for take off *filled with china people *showing middle fingers to the stupid angmohs. -= Jack Zhang Zhe Yang =- says: *LOL Aditya says: *no one in the right of mind who has access to these things would share. *selfish mankind. -= Jack Zhang Zhe Yang =- says: *hahaha Aditya says: *that would have been a nice ending *they arrive there in the himalayas *all the doors are closed *all the rich people are waiting outside *inside the ships, all chinese people *laughing at them *fade out *end credits. *close up john cusack's stupid face *last words *"damn chinese" *then the water rushes in *epic. *i would have paid money to see that kind of ending *hahahah *the epilogue would be in the future *everyone's chinese *and they're telling tales of how the great flood came *to their little kids *the moment the discovery happened *all the countries would go to war. *over resources. *US would not have shared the secret. *with the rest of the world. *they would have started buying over resources *borrowing money from other countries *(with no intention to repay)
Oh yay! I got accepted for H3 Contemporary Physics! Feel like some tyco bastard with 1 year worth of record of inconsistent work lol.
Anw they cover 3 topics: 1) Nanoscale Physics - Quantum mechanics 2) Semiconductor Physics - Uhh some electronic stuff? 3) Biophysics - Chemistry in disguise (I got fooled by it! T.T chem sux...)
Well strictly speaking, I'm not entirely done with the application stuff, coz apparently they've sent me a letter informing that I got accepted (the good part) and also attached an application sheet asking for MY acceptance (the retarded part).
So let me summarise: I've sent a application letter plus a whole bunch of portfolio, testimonials and CCA record stuff (which bascially says "accept me pretty pleeeease with sugars on top?"). A few weeks later they replied the letter indicating that I'm accepted and requested me to accept the accepted-request offer.
Ok lame that wasn't a summary, but yea you get the point.
But to think about it, it's probably a necessary procedure (and dumb) for these kind of official stuffs. You know, coz there's a reason why it's called "official" and why these stuffs are terribly inefficient.
Like that time when my parents applied for citizenship, the same thing also happened. You know...just in case anything happens? Like if my parent goes "Oh really, our application got accepted! Well that's great! But uhh...Nah, I'm gonna stick with China, sorry man...still thanks for the offer though!" 时间停留在
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Saturday, November 21, 2009
Apparently, this phenomenon is not only restricted to China airlines. Screw you tiny/pebble-wanabes, stop tossing our stuffs around.
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Friday, November 20, 2009
Oh no! Swine flu is back!
I guess we can't be as arrogant as this picture anymore =( 时间停留在
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Friday, November 13, 2009
Greetings people! ...and farewell PW =) What do you know, I've stop blogging since the sch started and started blogging after PW ended and I totally don't see any correlations here! FK OFF PW
Wow, definitely have been a great year in 09S08, SAJC and......omg I'm typing in english. Well considering all the Cracked.com I've been reading and the big bang theory I've been watching AND no HMT (yay!), I don't have much choice do I?
Started having some inspiration/motivations for my blog...but well it all happened in the middle of the night at 2am where I couldn't fall asleep and didn't want to switch on the comp to bring in the probability of my parents catching me thinking that I've gotten up at night to play games.
Anyway, about a month ago, I stumbled upon this Wilber Pan's song called "Be with you". It sounded nice and I thought it would be really cool if someone could sing with me since its a duet song whereby half the lyrics are in english sang by one guy and the other in chinese by another guy. Until I realise........
So, first of all, did I mention that the 2 voices were BOTH male? Now, let's check out the lyrics:
[I know they wanna come and separate us but they can’t do us nothin’] The first line. The first goddammed line and its talking about Proposition no.8 already.
[You’re the one I want and I’ma continue lovin’ ‘Cause you’re considered wifey and I’m considered husband] Yea man, all the love stuff is all cool yo. No prob with that man...wait considered wifey? CONSIDERED!? WIFE!? So...its not really a she but actually a......nvm
[我要坚持到底 忽略那些冷言冷语] 我不知道两人谈恋爱为什么会有冷言冷语, either both of you are outcasts in school or...you know...(refer to above)
[And no one knows Why I’m into you ‘Cause you’ll never know What it’s like to walk in our shoes] Oh yes, I don't know why you're into him and I DEFINITELY don't want to know what it's like to walk in your shoes.
[That’s why we’ll break through And I don’t care what they say I’m gonna be with you I’m gonna be with you I wanna be with you] That's the spirit man! That's the power of love.
[Don’t want your body figure sexually] No, no you don't want his body figure sexually. No.
[You don’t need another G You can have it all in me] G for? For the rhyme...yes...of course...I mean what else could it be?
Honestly I think the song sounds pretty good, except that techno voice of Akon's sound wierd. BUT! The lyrics...sigh...I mean, is it really my fault? Sigh...guess I'm really 18 already huh?
I would say that the SA seniors had really spent some time preparing for this whole thing. The "plot", theme, games, dance moves etc.
Maybe it's because of our wonderful NH's culture, which is to dao/silent/bo chap at everything, that made me rather surprised to see the J1s taking a really short time to get very enthu about the cheers, "kingdoms" and games.
Rofl, bryan's post sibei funny, "like in changi airport", vietnam & brazilian? Well, i announce chao hsien's neighbour, a guy from korea! Woo, dam kool lor, he learnt/learning chi and jap. Heard he got c6 for chi, it's imba imo. Was actually so close to making myself go ask him if he's actually from SOUTH korea, but i thought it would turn out really stupid. Really.
Anyway, I think that's the reaction of most people when they get into a new class/school? I shall just be neutral for the time being ba. Only 2 things bothers me now, the distance and the first word of our school name.
Haha and thanks to the 5 element idea and Neriahs, SAJC campus had a small fire incident at around 5.30pm. When my "kingdom" is at the volleyball court training mass dance, the 4th floor one place started puffing out distinct smokes rofl. Thankfully it was put out soon enough. Some guy was like saying, "wah lao, they just renovate leh"
"Once a saint, always a saint." "No one is here by chance." "Balls to you."
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I guess we can't be as arrogant as this picture anymore =(