Having cold weather hives now, in germany. best gift from santa wtf, thank you a lot. I must have been a very good boy this year.
Hallo, guten tag! Ich bin in switzerland right now! using the hotels free computer hahaha. their internet is all in german but I can still manage to find my way heh heh. their keyboard is quite weird also and i had a hard time finding the exclamation and @ signs lol. anyhoo, i think i will only be able to upload photos when i get back to sg.
this is how it looks like roughly, except that its covered in snow now haha. I love this place so much, its so much more warmer and emits the heartwarming feeling. unlike berlin which is biting cold, wet and dark.
anyway, kids get dragged by parents on sleighs here on the rich and thick snow! sometimes I just feel like hopping on haha.
the pigeons are fatter, porn magazines are everywhere, singapores one is damn fail no full nudity lol. and construction workers are mostly europeans! haha singapore just imports road sweepers from overseas cause we are just too spoilt.
the atmosphere here is just too liberal and i feel damn unconstricted like loads of bricks have been removed from my brains. people can just whip out their muscial instruments and play them on the train. pets are allowed everywhere. people eat on the train. grafitti is a national past time. such stark difference from the place that i came from, with such an authoritarian and paternalistic govt.
so i guess ill enjoy more of this romantic atmosphere and indulge myself while i still can. this is just a short update hahaha. tata. ciao. see zou then!
berlin is so cold and it snows like shit!
charlie checkpoint, bradenburg gate, berlin wall....ahh so nice.
I will be away for 17 days(refer to post below), dunno if will update or not.
However I have uploaded old archives from my old blog! Haha, my writing used to be full of literary techniques and puns back then. All because I had been reading avidly and emulating my favourite authors :) However, I sounded a tad irritating when I was 16!
My favourite posts will be:
Marriages and happy endings
judgement day, end of the world is tomolo
Prodigal parties and pleasant panties (pantries)
Ridiculous results
I'm going to Europe tomorrow! No,actually, it's in a few hours time! Yes!!! In case you're wondering, I'm not impersonating anyone. *sniggers*
Anyway, I have done a lot in order to prepare myself for my Europe trip haha. I wake up everyday at 3pm Singapore time (8am Czech time) so that I won't get jetlag when I go there!
Here's what I'm going to do on the airplane to reinforce the Asian stereotype:
1) put on my 3 inches thick glasses and practise algebra
2) burst into tears and break into hives when they serve me spaghetti instead of rice
3) showcase my karate moves by breaking wooden planks into two
Anyway, I'm just crapping. This will be the places that I will be going.
Prague, czech republic
Prague. If the capital of the world is selected based on beauty and aesthetic instead of economical and political reasons, prague definitely deserves the name instead of Paris and New York! Look at the well-protected middle-ages architecture! Gothic, renaissance, romanticism, baroque! You name it, they've got it. Prague castle is one of the largest castle in the world!
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| Berlin |
This place is full of history! From the Jewish massacre to the division of Germany and the symbol of east-west schism between communism and capitalism, Berlin wall!
Beautiful!
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| Koblenz,Germany |
I'll be having a white christmas at this place! I feel damn lucky! One of the best christmas in my pathetic little life! HAHA.
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| Fussen, Germany |
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| Zurich, Switzerland |
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| Berne,switzerland |
I'm eggcited! Have a happy holidays hohoho. See you next time!
The good wife's guide. Dummy's guide to being a good wife. lol.
Hmm I wonder how modern females, equality fighters or staunch feminists will react to this. Ahh, men, dont you miss the good old days? :P
今天用中文打。最能表达我内心深处的感受。
这个世界充满名利物慾誘惑，很容易就会陷下去，然后被吞噬进血盆大口里。我不是圣人，常常也会被人或物威迫利诱。在这个浑浊的现代社会，诱惑常常对不经意的你招手，你要怎么才能出淤泥而不染呢?
幸好有时候有朋友或好心人士拉我一把要不然一定会后悔莫及的，然后跌进无底深渊。有时候面对自己是最恐怖的事情。
1800: "i'll ask the owl to send a letter to you"
1970: "I'll talk to you when I see you"
1990: "I'll call you"
2000: "I'll email you"
2005: "Can I text you?"
2010: "Alright, facebook or text?"
2100: "I'll send you a telepathic message"
2100:"I'll teleport to where you are now,baby"
Technology is so stylo milo. Back then, people calculated using hands, then some smart china guy invented abacus. Then a smart angmoh guy invented calculator. And now we have quantum computers that can decode impossible numbers to save man from his lazy tendencies
We used to pass messages to each other in class discreetly by throwing paperballs, avoiding getting caught by the menacing teacher with a fearful aura, but to no avail. Now we just hide our phones in our pockets and msg by our magnificent sense of touch. Writing diaries was meant for private consumption, in a distant past. Porn came in the format of papers and then came moving pictures that maximized satisfaction.
Research requires one to rot a hella vu la way at cold and stale libraries and then came the dot.coms
Research requires one to rot a hella vu la way at cold and stale libraries and then came the dot.coms
I was asking my mum who is 50 years old how people met during the 1970s without cell phones. She said they just agreed on a timing and place and meet. But what if something suddenly held up? What if a road accident happens? You get held up for nothing........
Anyway I was considering the possibilities of teleporters. Think of satellites, they can transmit messages and images from one end of the Earth to the other end.
"But only waves can be transmitted! Particles can't be! Humans are made up of Particles!!!???"
Bet you learnt that from Charlie and the chocolate of factory, didn't you. Maybe maybe particles can be deconstructed and then constructed again in a distant far away land?
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Since when did caucasian girls represent beauty and asian girls are just dismissed as....plain?
Is it because Caucasian girls have sharper nose, protruding lips, deep-set talking eyes and better jawlines? Or the big, volumised hair complete with an impeccable sense of fashion? Admit it guys, it's because they have bigger nehnehs to squish your face in.
Going back to the root of the problem, it's because Western culture has a much stronger global impact than other cultures and media conglomerates undeniably comes from the west, toying with our perceptions and such.
To me, caucasian beauties are overrated (although still beautiful) and they cannot achieve the kind of look that asian girls can. The gentleness, frailty, ice cold and innocent look.
Since when did horse-face Lucy and slut Bai ling represent the whole of Chinese race? We should start importing fresh faces now to uphold our reputation!
Sorry Lucy Liu, I still like your role in Charlie's Angels and your wicked sense of humor!
Ok, back to caucasian women. Sometimes I just wonder why people like Angelina Jolie, Sandra Bullock and Megan Fox dominate the lists of "Hottest Women" by men magazines.
Bold and pretty features yes but too strong and explicit for my liking. Heavy features make one look masculine, not to mention sausage-like lips.
Even worse, I dont get what's the deal with Sex bomb a.k.a Megan fox
Man, is there even a tinge of femininity left in her(pun intended)? She looks like a transvestite to me. Or is she the younger version of plastic queen Janice Dickinson
See the uncanny resemblance? Now, which guy of the right mind would like to screw people like this? People who are blind perhaps.
If you would like me to describe Caucasian beauty in a literary way with analogy, I would like to think that Caucasians represent the element fire. They are bold and dazzling and certainly burn with confidence. They instill fear in those who hear their name. But after all that burning, what's left is just dust and ashes.
Asian Women, or East-Asian women rather, would represent the element water. They are quiet and gentle and do not yearn to get noticed, they hide in insignificant places and appear to be transparent. They taste plain but are essential to life.
To quote Memoirs of a geisha
Water changes shape and flows around things, and finds the secret path no one else has thought about - the tiny hole through the roof or the bottom of a box There's no doubt it's the most versatile of the Five Elements. It can wash away Earth, it can put out Fire, it can wear a piece of Metal down and sweep it away. Even Wood, which is it's natural complement, can't survive without being nurtured by water.Asian beauties are implicit and require time to discover and the taste to appreciate beauties requires time to nurture. Caucasian beauties are love at first sight but Asian beauties require time to appreciate but once you do, it's everlasting.
Asian women are like fine french wine, the longer you brew and taste, the more fragrant they get. Or maybe Tsuke Sushi, the more you chew, the tastier they get.
Just look at Liu Yi fei (刘亦菲). Those delicateness and Porcelain skin. One would definitely not associate her with evil. Slightly perky and small nose. Beautiful but not overwhelming and threatening. Gentle is the word. One would expect her to speak like the wind, soft and wispy.
Hebe tian (田馥甄). Cold ice queen, indifferent to the world. broody like a philosopher, complete with an independent attitude. I like!
And caucasians certainly can't sport the pan-cute look better than Asian girls.
Some random Japanese celebrity, Rainie Yang (杨丞琳) and Ayumi Hamasaki (滨崎步) . And to prove my point, here's a little snippet of scientific evidence.
The Mongoloid skull, whether Chinese or Japanese, has been rather more neotenized than the Caucasoid or European."[30] "The female skull, it will be noted, is more pedomorphic in all human populations than the male skull."[30] "Mongoloid races are explained in terms of being the most extreme pedomorphic humans."[31] "The intuition that advanced human development was pedomorphic rather than recapitulationary and accelerated was disturbing to many Eurocentric nineteenth century anthropologists."[32] "If juvenilization was the characteristic for advanced status, then it was clear that the Mongoloid races were more deeply fetalized in most respects and thus capable of the greatest development.Neotenized and Pedomorphic means retaining childhood features when you have already reached adulthood. This explains why asians tend to have the least body hair and why we age the slowest. And in evolution terms, it is considered better.
A potential correlate of beauty is pedomorphy, which is the retention in adults of child-like traits. For instance, women have facial features that are closer to those of children than men, and more feminine women have facial features that are even closer to those of children. Thus, it may be proposed that pedomorphy is a correlate of beauty.---taken from a site about beauty science.which is why madonna looks like this in her 50s while Maggie Cheung ( 张曼玉 ) is still radiant
Ok to be fair to Madonna, she didnt put makeup while Maggie has. And also Maggie's photo is taken in a studio.
This is the classic National Geographic photo of the same afghan woman(caucasian). She's 13 on the left and 20 plus or 30 plus on the right. shocking doesnt it? I thought she was a full-grown adult(left pic).
But in the end it all boils down to personal preferences doesnt it? Both races are beautiful in their own way but to me, Asian women wins cause of their femininity and gentleness.
But then again, I'm making over-generalizations. You have to factor in the individual as well! If you have crappy genes, nothing will salvage the situation!
Just look at Nina Dobrev
A caucasian with softer features and the "water" quality. Perfect.
You can watch the Final Act on www.veoh.com, it loads very fast although u need to download something.
Finally, Naraku is dead. I have been waiting for 10 years. I have been cheated over and over again during the series that Naraku is dead. I was thinking 这个死老妖怪很长气hor? (translation: this old demon's breath very long hor?)
I finished all 26 episodes of the Final Act in two days. Pro or not? haha.
The anime finally finished after a long run of 10 years. I enjoyed it alot during childhood but nah, not now. I wish that I watched the ending when I was in secondary school though.
I mean I prefer implicit stuff now, the themes and "moral of the story" in Inuyasha is too blatant and the moralistic lines are very "in your face". I guess that's the downside of being trained in literature?
Inuyasha is very asian-themed, the story is set between the Heian Era where chinese influence was very strong and Sengoku Japan. All those elements of buddhism, shintoism and allegories about concepts of asian mysticism. Karma,demons and reincarnation etc. I'll say that perhaps I will be able to appreciate it more if I was younger, back in those days when I was in an all-chinese school. I feel that the landscape of my mind has changed now, being exposed to years of English and western education. I can't think fully with a chinese mind anymore?
Nevertheless, I still like how the characters struggle for identity and fight against discrimination. Lots of scenes are dedicated to revealing the discrimination against demons and half-demons. Half-demons are the most tragic as humans fear/loathe them and full demons look down on them and dismiss them as weaklings.
Like most asian films, Inuyasha also focuses a lot on the psychological development of the characters. Inuyasha and Kagome had to overcome their innermost fears and normally illusions are set up to deceive them. Kikyo and Inuyasha also had to solve the deceit and overcome the misunderstanding set up by Naraku fifty years ago when he posed as Inuyasha and set out to harm Kikyo.
One of the part, sibling rivalry between sesshomaru and Inuyasha, I can relate to it well lol.
Anyway I would like to think that the most tragic character of all is Kikyo. Fooled and killed by Naraku and revived fifty years later to an undead body.
Kikyo
Kikyo reminds me of Xiao Long Nu from Return of the Condor Heroes. The pale delicateness. Those despair and loneliness in the eyes....cold and indifferent to the contaminated world.
Warning:Spoilers Ahead!
From the beginning of the movie, I was thinking if reference is made to the Holocaust. A professor who majored in Muggle Studies and in defence of their bloodline is captured by Voldemort and then killed.
Later throughout the movie, it is evident already. There are recurring elements that reflect one of the major theme is revealing the horrors of ethnic cleansing like those of the Jewish massacre. Muggle families need to register their particulars and secret agents are always on the run to catch those with "inferior blood". Propaganda is always printed and widely distributed by the Magic Ministry(which fell into the hands of the evil) to further condemn and smear the names of those with non-magical blood.
Totalitarianism and Subversion also ring a bell at points of time. When the ministry is infiltrated by death eaters and Voldermort's team, truth is often distorted, oppressive measures got in place, "dissents" like harry potter has to be captured and "inferior blood" has to be cleansed. Voldermort would remind one of Adolf Hitler or Josef Stalin. Dictatorship.
Dolores Umbridge is a conservative education worker and would tweak the education system according to her agenda by hook or by crook and she ends up working with the dark forces. She is a power hungry bitch.
The movie also seem to hint that sacrifices need to be made for the greater good. To achieve the end, sacrifices are inevitable and necessary. When the Order of the Phoenix has to escort Harry to the safe place, Hedwig and Mad-Eye Moody died as a result of protecting Harry. Dobby is also killed when he attempts to save Harry and gang when they are captured and held as hostages in the Malfoy Manor.
If you ask me what the movie smell of, I'll think that it smell of death. Death is imminent throughout the movie and Ron is afraid that Death will be upon his family and guards by the radio continuously and hopes that the names of his beloved ones wont be broadcast. He gets into a fight with Harry later and told Harry that he could never put himself in his shoes because his parents are already dead.
Harry Potter, Ron and Hermoine also have to isolate themselves from the rest to seek the hocruxes in a bid to destroy Lord Voldermort. Loneliness bears the "death" smell too, dont you think?
<----end of analysis---->
Overall the movie is not bad, very theme heavy and matured, unlike the first few books. I like!
The visual effects are good, the pace is mid-fast and culminated in a final exciting battle which leaves craving for the audiences!
The development of the story is also different from the previous books as most of them are set in Hogwarts and this time they have to go on a quest to find the hocruxes in order to destroy Voldermort instead of spending their final year in school.
And walao I caught the movie during thurs morning and the cinema was full of JC students! Liberation from last A level paper perhaps?
Harry Potter, Ron and Hermoine also have to isolate themselves from the rest to seek the hocruxes in a bid to destroy Lord Voldermort. Loneliness bears the "death" smell too, dont you think?
<----end of analysis---->
Overall the movie is not bad, very theme heavy and matured, unlike the first few books. I like!
The visual effects are good, the pace is mid-fast and culminated in a final exciting battle which leaves craving for the audiences!
The development of the story is also different from the previous books as most of them are set in Hogwarts and this time they have to go on a quest to find the hocruxes in order to destroy Voldermort instead of spending their final year in school.
And walao I caught the movie during thurs morning and the cinema was full of JC students! Liberation from last A level paper perhaps?
Since I'm going to watch harry potter tml...
Drew this 3 years ago when I was 15 years old when I had my own domain. Everything is original except for the cloud and and brushes.
I wanted to be a comic artist back then but I guess I didn't have the resolve. oh well. Watch this space.
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