Recently, the Royal Spanish Academy caused a big hoo-hah
when it decided to axe two letters out of the Spanish alphabets
Sadly, ch and ll will be gone.
It won't budge no matter
how badly people protest.

"Let's retire spelling,
the terror of all beings from the cradle,"
Gabriel Garcia Marque commented.
He admitted that his please were little more than
"bottles flung to the sea in the hope that
they would one day come to the god of all words"

:(

I like tomato, you like tomahto.

Hamlet:
Slanders, sir; for the satirical rogue says here that old men
have grey beards, that their faces are wrinkled, their eyes purging
thick amber and plum-tree gum, and that they have a plentiful
lack of wit, together with most weak hams; all which, sir, though
I most powerfully and potently believe, yet I hold it not honesty
to have it thus set down, for yourself, sir, shall grow old as I am, if
like a crab you could go backward.

Polonius:
[Aside] Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.

"All mankind is of one author, and is one volume;
when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of hte bppk;
but translated into a better language;
and every chapter must be so translated...
As therefore the bell that rings to a sermon,
calls not upon the preacher only,
but upon the congregation to come:
so this bell calls us all...
No man is an island, entire of itself...
any man's death diminishes me,
because I am involved in mankind;
and therefore never send to know for whom
the bell tolls; it tools for thee."

-In the words of poet, preacher John Donne
(Meditations XVII)

To rule people with power, to constrain them with the law,
people will behave but have no self-conscious.

To rule people with ethics, and constrain them with li,
people will have self-consciousness.

And as the saying goes,
Singapore is a fine city.
We can't seem to live as moral,m mindful citizens
without the constantly being bound by legislation.
How pathetic.

#1 Me saying that we all have different needs,
saying that you are introverted,
you are alright with staying at home,
but I'm extroverted,
I have high social needs,
simply isn't the same as,
according to you,
"I have more friends than you have."
So what I'm saying does not constitute a personal attack
according to what you said.
It simply means you have less need to socialise I do.
IT'S PLAIN OBVIOUS THAT YOU ARE THE ONE WITH ISSUES ABOUT YOURSELF HERE
AND IRRATIONAL IN INTERPRETING EVERYTHING
THAT' I'VE GOT TO SAY.
Obviously I can't win you in your irrational argument
where you could simply put words into my mouth
whichever way you like
and have your entire alliance back you up.
Heard of a Freudian slip?
YOu've just revealed to me that you're a screwed up asshole.

#2 I wasn't the one who's picking a fight here.
I am the one who's receiving $110 per week
as compared to your $120 per week when you were a student.
So while I was arguing for an increase,
you simply used your $120 per week to
say that I am not entitled to one
based on EQUALITY.
Now,
I think you either have a really warped sense of logic
or YOU ARE SIMPLY REALLY TRYING TO PICK A FIGHT.
Hey, look who's the unreasonable one here.
After saying so much,
you turned around and said
"I simply do not like your tone of voice"
C'mon, if don't like my tone,
get straight to the point,
don't argue like some whiny girlfriend who brought up every single trivial matters,
and avoided the main thing that got her fed up.
Then, again, you don't know enough to judge
and you simply lack the credibility to.
Though you're 24,
you still sounded like a really immature teenager
with severely displaced angst.
Or to put it simply a JERK
trying to pick a fight.

#3 I did not do any form of personal attacks at all.
When I said you do not care enough for mom,
you do not really seem to listen to her,
you aren't there for her,
you got really defensive aboput it
and view it as a form a personal attack.
I was just describing your behaviour
and wasn't labeling you,
according to what you said
"an unfilial son".
And you got really upset and start using personal attacks on me.
You said
"Could you first try to speak proper english before you start arguing with me?"
When I get really worked up over something
I'd tremble thus
affecting my ability to speak fluently.
Anyway back to the main topic,
getting so defensive over something goes to show that
you feel guilty over that issue.
C'mon if you wanna fight like a kid
and start throwing personal attacks,
I could.
I could have said
your dressing sense is like shit
and always seem to me like you're gay.
But, no, I didn't insult you in anyway
but instead you were the one who began your acidic remarks.
YOu work very hard,
you are very stressed and upset over something,
I could understand.
But yesterday you are simply too much.
Self-righteousness is a sin.



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I don't believe that just because you're older than me,
you get my respect and
you get to judge me.
C'mon.
Who's the one who's always ignoring her
and totally don't even show any forms of visible communiciations with her
other than
"please wake me up at 6, thank you."
let along say,
exhibit signs of concerns for her.

And by the way money does not make up for time and effort
invested in a r/s.
You're only in her life in the monetary sense, your presence is largely invisible.
I told her I could do the same thing as you
and she broke down.
So, look at how good your method of compensation is doing.

Self-reflection is the first thing that you guys should do before
you judge.
Respect has to be earned through actions
not big talk
mind you.

Too busy and having no time are not valid excuses.
It just goes to show how low she is on your list of priorities.
I know I can't beat you guys with your superficial "family union".
Wish I could knock some sense into you guys
before you all turn into cocky jerks
who always assume you are right.
Till then, I've totally lost my respect for you guys.

I can't stand it when people who know nothing
simply stand around and judge you for whatever you've done.
The frustration that built up in me
caused me to raise my voice,
but no,
they don't see it.
All they see is a one-off incident
that somehow suddenly
triggered them to do acts of "justice."
I absolutely hate it when people
whom I've no respect for
judge me.
Tell me
what have you done for this family so far?
Tell me
you've treated her with just as much respect I did when you totally ignored her
when she tried speaking to you.
Tell me that you've listened to her worries
and tried helping her cope with the issues she's facing.
Tell me that provided her with the company
and listening earn when she needed one.
Tell me that you've been the one
who's been caring for her
when our dad was mostly MIA.
Simply, tell me you're not an asshole.

So, no, you do not get to judge me
when I get emotional when I'm talking to her.

I'm tired of trying hard to be around and caring for her in place of our diysfunctional dad.
She's been trying to tie me to her apron strings,
always opposing whatever ideas I may have -
in fact her reply is so swift and predictable
that you could call it a reflex action.
Every single thing I do
is scrutinized and criticised by her.
You don't live in the same room as her,
so you don't know what it's like so, no, you don't get to judge.
You don't stay by her side long enough
to experience her verbal abuse such as
"Why are you so useless?"
"Why are you so stupid",
"Anyone with make up would look pretty
just like how you did in the picture".
So, no, you don't have to tolerate her constant assault
at your self esteem
so you don't get to judge me if I raise my voice at her.
You don't need to listen to her incessant nagging
and you don't need to be her regular dustbin
so, no, you don't experience the same thing as I do.

What I'm trying to say is,
you don't get to judge me
and act like you're trying to protect her,
when you simply do not care about her at all.
So I don't know why you're standing around
and barking like a stupid bitch
when your actions fail to show that you really care about her at all.

You do not go with her on visits to her sister in the IMH.
You do not listen to her worries about granddad and try to help her solve her issues.
You're simply not there for her.
You're not the life buoy she has been clinging onto to make her life meaningful.

YOU SIMPLY DO NOT KNOW ANYTHING.
AND PRIMARILY YOU ARE NOT EVEN QUALIFIED TO JUDGE.
PLEASE REFLECT ON YOURSELF BEFORE YOU MAKE A FOOL OUT OF YOURSELF ASSHOLE.

"I speak from the grave for a good reason:
I can thence speak freely."

"Talk only about the thing which interests you for the moment.
Drop it the moment its interest threatens to pale,
and turn your talk upon the new and more interesting thing
that has intruded itself into your mind meantime."

"... a tall, lean, skinny, yellow, toothless,
bald-headed, rat-eyed, professional liar and scoundrel."

"The mightiest disaster which has ever befallen this country.
The people had desired money before his day,
but he taught them to fall down and worship it."

"The enemy numbered six hundred, including women and children -
and we abolished them utterly,
leaving not even a baby alive to cry
for its dead mother."

"I can call back the prairie. its loneliness and peace,
and a vast hawk hanging motionless in the sky,
with his wings spread wide
and the blue of the vault showing through the fringe of their end feathers..."

"It is one of the mysteries of our nature
that a man, all unprepared, can receive a thunderstroke like that and live."

"What is it all for?"

Wishlist
Item #1
Waterless washing machine by Xeros
Uses stain-absorbin nylon beads; one cup of water needed only;
reduces water consumption by 90%

Item #2
Plastic Bottle Boat
floats on plastic bottles

Item #3
Martin Jetpack
Fly like a starwars character for 30mins;
absolute childhood fantasy meets reality

Item #4
Antro Electric Car
Runs on electricity; 3 seater;
two cars can be combined and transformed to double up its seating capacity;
like a tranformer character, so cool!

Item #5
Terrafugia Transition
Car may transform into a jet whenever she likes;
another transformer too.

Enough said, I'm saving up for a terrafugia jet now.
Love. X

We took a test for an hour at the start of our four hour seminar.
You took straight after the test,
while the rest of us stayed on for the remaining of the lesson.
You told one of us you've a meeting to tend to.
Next thing we know,
you said you're doing your project on your own.
You only informed one of us
and merely made your own choice on what to research on
w/o our group's consensus.
And while we were having lessons,
you're doing our group project research
on your own wish.
I can't help wondering,
are you NUTS?
I could help you check into rehab.
Or maybe you're just too self-centred.
For your information,
the world doesn't revolves around you,
in case you haven't noticed for the first twenty years of your life.

One end you have Nutty, selfish people.
On the other, you have Lazy, not-so-bright people
whom you spend more time being their teacher than project counterpart.

Aiyoyo
Lyddat how 2 find FYP project mates!

That's what friends are for :)

I've never ever felt so demotivated before.
A serious lack in line of sight between performance and outcome.
Sometimes I feel like I'm going round in circles.
Extra input, decimated output.
Swimming in my pool of unrealised fantasies.
And drowning in my own self-fabricated morass of emotional fatigue arising from
fruitless hard work.

Why did I allow my last sem's gpa to dent my pride
and set off a series of mindless self-doubts?
My struggle to prove my intellectual worth to myself
is ironically leading to premature apoptosis of my much needed brain cells
due to the self-inflicted, numbing stress.
It's like hitting yourself on your head
and crying out in pain.

Everything that happens to us, even the bad,
is part of us. Took me a long time to realise that.
Doesn't mean they define who we are; we get to decide that.
-Sara Sidle, C.S.I

He reminded me of you today.
Just wanna say thanks for being one of the sweetest guy
and hope you're doing fine!