I'll be picking up Jeet Kun Do classes from next month onwards. Looking forward to it! And as a tribute, here's a flash video of the founder of JKD.
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Learning Lessons The Hard Way
It sucks not to have the instant gratification of letting it rip when one is pissed off.
It sucks even more to have to suck it in, and watch, and not have the pleasure of fucking someone over, especially if he is unrepentant and is too arrogant to even KNOW that he's made a mistake.
I look forward to next week, and hope wait will make the next meeting much MORE satisfying.
Damn I need to work off the aggression. Looking at this gym to take JKD and MMA classes. Anyone?
It sucks even more to have to suck it in, and watch, and not have the pleasure of fucking someone over, especially if he is unrepentant and is too arrogant to even KNOW that he's made a mistake.
I look forward to next week, and hope wait will make the next meeting much MORE satisfying.
Damn I need to work off the aggression. Looking at this gym to take JKD and MMA classes. Anyone?
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
And They Say We Have Issues
Growing up with music like this, who's the wild child now dad?
If you can't hear the lyrics, you can read it on the youtube page here.
If you can't hear the lyrics, you can read it on the youtube page here.
Friday, February 06, 2009
Dating Violence Awareness Week 2009
From Jaywalk's Blog. This program will be running from the 7th to 14th February and the launch is this Saturday at Tampines Mall. So show some love aye
I don't like men who abuse women. No. Belay that. I fucking HATE men who abuse women. I, too have had friends who were abused to the point where they lost all self-esteem and were nothing but empty shells. I have had friends who had the courage to break away and find themselves again.
For those of you who want to find out more, go to http://www.chooselovenotabuse.com/
For those of you who are in an abusive relationship, walk away. There is help. You are brave, and you are worthy by yourself.
A call out to the rest of me friends, spread the word. You'll never know when someone near you may just need that helping hand out of the hell they're in.
I don't like men who abuse women. No. Belay that. I fucking HATE men who abuse women. I, too have had friends who were abused to the point where they lost all self-esteem and were nothing but empty shells. I have had friends who had the courage to break away and find themselves again.
For those of you who want to find out more, go to http://www.chooselovenotabuse.com/
For those of you who are in an abusive relationship, walk away. There is help. You are brave, and you are worthy by yourself.
A call out to the rest of me friends, spread the word. You'll never know when someone near you may just need that helping hand out of the hell they're in.
Wednesday, February 04, 2009
And I Quote, On Anger
Again taken from the same book, White Night, by Jim Butcher.
"'Anger is just anger. It isn't good. It isn't bad. It just is. What you do with it is what matters. It's like anything else. You can use it to build or to destroy. You just have to make the choice.'
"'Constructive anger,' (she) said, her voice dripping with sarcasm.
"'Also known as passion,' (he) said quietly. 'Passion has overthrown tyrants, and freed prisoners and slaves. Passion has brought justice where there was savagery. Passion has created freedom where there was nothing but fear. Passion has helped souls rise from the ashes of their horrible lives and build something better, stronger, more beautiful.'
"'In point of fact," (he) said quietly. "that kind of thing really doesn't get done without passion. Anger is one of the things that can help build it - IF it's controlled."
"'If you really believed that," (she) said, 'you'd not be having any anger-control issues.'
"'Because I'm perfect?' (he) asked her, and snorted. 'A lot of men go a lifetime without ever figuring out how to control anger. I've been doing it longer than some, but I don't kid myself that I'm a saint.' I shruggged. 'A lot of things I see make me angry. It's one of the reasons I decided to spend my life doing something about it.'
"'Because you're so noble,' she purred, which dripped even more sacarsm...
"'Because I'd rather use that anger to smash the things that hurt people than let it use me,' (he) said. 'Talk at my subconscious all you want. But I'd be careful about trying to feed my inner Hulk, if I were you. You might end up making me that much better a person, once I beat it down. Who knows, you might make me into a saint. Or as close to one as I could get, anyway.'"
"'Anger is just anger. It isn't good. It isn't bad. It just is. What you do with it is what matters. It's like anything else. You can use it to build or to destroy. You just have to make the choice.'
"'Constructive anger,' (she) said, her voice dripping with sarcasm.
"'Also known as passion,' (he) said quietly. 'Passion has overthrown tyrants, and freed prisoners and slaves. Passion has brought justice where there was savagery. Passion has created freedom where there was nothing but fear. Passion has helped souls rise from the ashes of their horrible lives and build something better, stronger, more beautiful.'
"'In point of fact," (he) said quietly. "that kind of thing really doesn't get done without passion. Anger is one of the things that can help build it - IF it's controlled."
"'If you really believed that," (she) said, 'you'd not be having any anger-control issues.'
"'Because I'm perfect?' (he) asked her, and snorted. 'A lot of men go a lifetime without ever figuring out how to control anger. I've been doing it longer than some, but I don't kid myself that I'm a saint.' I shruggged. 'A lot of things I see make me angry. It's one of the reasons I decided to spend my life doing something about it.'
"'Because you're so noble,' she purred, which dripped even more sacarsm...
"'Because I'd rather use that anger to smash the things that hurt people than let it use me,' (he) said. 'Talk at my subconscious all you want. But I'd be careful about trying to feed my inner Hulk, if I were you. You might end up making me that much better a person, once I beat it down. Who knows, you might make me into a saint. Or as close to one as I could get, anyway.'"
And I Quote... On Pain
Taken from White Night, by Jim Butcher
"What we hadn't known about, back then, was pain.
"Sure, we'd faced some things as children that a lot of kids, don't.... We still hadn't learned, though, that growing up is all about getting hurt. And then getting over it. You hurt. You recover. You move on. Odds are pretty good you're just going to get hurt again. But each time, you learn something.
"Each time, you come of it a little stronger, and at some point you realize that there are more flavours of pain than coffee. There's the little empty pain of leaving something behind - graduating, taking the next step forward, walking out of something familiar, and safe into the unknown.
"There's the big, whirling pain of life upending all your plans and expectations. There's the sharp little pains of failure, and the more obscure aches of successes that didn't give you what you thought they would. There are the vicious, stabbing pains of hopes being torn up. The sweet little pains of finding others, giving them your love, and taking joy in their life as they grow and learn. There's the steady pain of empathy that you shrug off so you can stand beside a wounded friend and help them bear their burdens.
"And if you're very, very lucky, there are a very few blazing hot little pains you feel when you realize that you are standing in a moment of utter perfection, an instant of triumph, or happiness, or mirth which at the same time cannot possibly last - and yet will remain with you for life.
"Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don't feel it.
"Pain is part of life. Sometimes it's a big part, and sometimes it isn't, but either way, it's part of the big puzzle, the deep music, the great game. Pain does two things:
It teaches you, tells you that you're alive. The it passes away, and leaves you changed.
"It leaves you wiser, sometimes. Sometimes it leaves you stronger. Either way, pain leaves its mark, and everything important that will ever happen to you in life is going to involve it in one degree or another."
"What we hadn't known about, back then, was pain.
"Sure, we'd faced some things as children that a lot of kids, don't.... We still hadn't learned, though, that growing up is all about getting hurt. And then getting over it. You hurt. You recover. You move on. Odds are pretty good you're just going to get hurt again. But each time, you learn something.
"Each time, you come of it a little stronger, and at some point you realize that there are more flavours of pain than coffee. There's the little empty pain of leaving something behind - graduating, taking the next step forward, walking out of something familiar, and safe into the unknown.
"There's the big, whirling pain of life upending all your plans and expectations. There's the sharp little pains of failure, and the more obscure aches of successes that didn't give you what you thought they would. There are the vicious, stabbing pains of hopes being torn up. The sweet little pains of finding others, giving them your love, and taking joy in their life as they grow and learn. There's the steady pain of empathy that you shrug off so you can stand beside a wounded friend and help them bear their burdens.
"And if you're very, very lucky, there are a very few blazing hot little pains you feel when you realize that you are standing in a moment of utter perfection, an instant of triumph, or happiness, or mirth which at the same time cannot possibly last - and yet will remain with you for life.
"Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don't feel it.
"Pain is part of life. Sometimes it's a big part, and sometimes it isn't, but either way, it's part of the big puzzle, the deep music, the great game. Pain does two things:
It teaches you, tells you that you're alive. The it passes away, and leaves you changed.
"It leaves you wiser, sometimes. Sometimes it leaves you stronger. Either way, pain leaves its mark, and everything important that will ever happen to you in life is going to involve it in one degree or another."
Thursday, January 29, 2009
This Happens So Often It's Scary...
A timely reminder for us to remove the log in our own eyes before we attempt to pluck the speck from our brother's.
And to always examine ourselves for double standards
And to always examine ourselves for double standards
Monday, January 19, 2009
Understatement
The new understated catchphrase, "Want to touch water?"
It does not fully encapsulate the sheer mind numbing horror, the heart pounding, balls shrinking terror that is the bungee jump
It does not fully encapsulate the sheer mind numbing horror, the heart pounding, balls shrinking terror that is the bungee jump
Sunday, November 30, 2008
Dirty Love
It was months ago when I heard this phrase from my pastor. (yes, assholes. I go to church. Live with it)
"Love is a dirty, stinky thing. It's not the lovely, sweet beautiful, clean thing that you see on movies and in books."
Now I was never a romantic. I don't ever believe in "happily ever after" but what he said gave another aspect to it.
He went on, it's because of love, that the mothers and fathers take care of their babies. Believe me, even the cutest baby's shit is not roses. It is heartbreaking, when you lecture and discipline your kid over and over again. It is humiliating when you stand next to him in front of the discipline master's office.
When you love your fellow man, you go out into the field, and serve, it is hot, sweaty, uncomfortable, irritating but you keep at it, because of love.
When you have a girlfriend or a wife, you get pissed off, there are days where you have flaming rows. but that night, if your significant other gets drunk, you'll clean the pee and the vomit off him or her, and tuck her into bed. It hurts, it is painful, it is smelly, it is irritating, and a whole host of unpleasant and downright disgusting sensations and feelings.
But we presevere because of love. In in that, is a new, sublime beauty more than that in the romance novels.
"Love is a dirty, stinky thing. It's not the lovely, sweet beautiful, clean thing that you see on movies and in books."
Now I was never a romantic. I don't ever believe in "happily ever after" but what he said gave another aspect to it.
He went on, it's because of love, that the mothers and fathers take care of their babies. Believe me, even the cutest baby's shit is not roses. It is heartbreaking, when you lecture and discipline your kid over and over again. It is humiliating when you stand next to him in front of the discipline master's office.
When you love your fellow man, you go out into the field, and serve, it is hot, sweaty, uncomfortable, irritating but you keep at it, because of love.
When you have a girlfriend or a wife, you get pissed off, there are days where you have flaming rows. but that night, if your significant other gets drunk, you'll clean the pee and the vomit off him or her, and tuck her into bed. It hurts, it is painful, it is smelly, it is irritating, and a whole host of unpleasant and downright disgusting sensations and feelings.
But we presevere because of love. In in that, is a new, sublime beauty more than that in the romance novels.
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Definition: Nice Guy
Alright, this I need to understand. For the sake of MANkind, 
when women and girls say that they want a NICE guy, what EXACTLY are they looking for?
My English teacher has said that the word nice is an ambiguous word. Much like OK, or can lah or mai hiam. Nice, can mean everything from something short of the devil incarnate, to Mahadma Ghandi the Second.
And since nobody has ever asked this before, I'm gonna do it. Ladies and, well, girls,
You now have your essay topic. Now fire away. You have the right to remain silent, and anything you say and use can and will be used in the court of the sexes.
I, as well as about half the human race, await your enlightening response.
when women and girls say that they want a NICE guy, what EXACTLY are they looking for?My English teacher has said that the word nice is an ambiguous word. Much like OK, or can lah or mai hiam. Nice, can mean everything from something short of the devil incarnate, to Mahadma Ghandi the Second.
And since nobody has ever asked this before, I'm gonna do it. Ladies and, well, girls,
DEFINE NICE GUY.
You now have your essay topic. Now fire away. You have the right to remain silent, and anything you say and use can and will be used in the court of the sexes.
I, as well as about half the human race, await your enlightening response.
Friday, September 05, 2008
Good advice from Bleach
Thanks B! Sometimes stories tell life better than life itself.
"Live well, age well, bald well, and die after me. and if possible, die laughing." - Father to son in Bleach.
Is this what all parents want of their kids?
"Live well, age well, bald well, and die after me. and if possible, die laughing." - Father to son in Bleach.
Is this what all parents want of their kids?
Thursday, August 07, 2008
Friday, July 25, 2008
A Gentle Reminder
Sometimes, we do need a reminder. A kick in the arse as it is. And therefore, from One of the Great Orators of Our Time:
Winston Churchill, the one we call the British Bulldog.
Other quotes can be found here.
"Never give in -- never, never, never,
never, in nothing great or small, large or petty,
never give in except to convictions
of honour and good sense.
Never yield to force;
never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy."
Winston Churchill, the one we call the British Bulldog.
Other quotes can be found here.
Monday, July 14, 2008
Justifications, Reasons, and Why The Gahmen Needs A New Publicist
Keeping up with my usual reading of daily affairs via Jean's Blog, this thought occured to me.
Funny how come there is a justification for increasing prices, but there's also a justification for keeping employees' salaries at the same level. Now if both justifications are justified... where's does the money from this increase go to?
And that is why, all too often, I ask the question why in the world the powers-that-be, for all the extra money that they're getting, are not getting better publicists (read. story-tellers).
I mean come on, you'd think that for all the money in the world, you should be able to get some of the best spin doctors in the world to make people not only give you money, but do it willingly, unreservedly, and maybe even take their children's lunch money and hand it over reverently.
But then again, ,maybe we, the sheep-tizens of this nation, just ain't worth the trouble and the money and the time.
Funny how come there is a justification for increasing prices, but there's also a justification for keeping employees' salaries at the same level. Now if both justifications are justified... where's does the money from this increase go to?
And that is why, all too often, I ask the question why in the world the powers-that-be, for all the extra money that they're getting, are not getting better publicists (read. story-tellers).
I mean come on, you'd think that for all the money in the world, you should be able to get some of the best spin doctors in the world to make people not only give you money, but do it willingly, unreservedly, and maybe even take their children's lunch money and hand it over reverently.
But then again, ,maybe we, the sheep-tizens of this nation, just ain't worth the trouble and the money and the time.
Friday, July 11, 2008
Sweet Love
Yeap. So I got a Significant Other.
Proof that Yours Truly does have a heart, and it's not just focused on alcohol, partying, and sex.
Oh wait...
Proof that Yours Truly does have a heart, and it's not just focused on alcohol, partying, and sex.
Oh wait...
Saturday, June 21, 2008
Monday, June 09, 2008
The Sweet Irony
You know how the gah-men has been pushing for clean and green Singapore.
You see how we try to reduce emissions by making it expensive for the average joe to drive.
You see ERP gantries going up to regulate traffic flow so that cars are clustered in other smaller roads less able to manage the flow and then those roads get blocked with gantries as well.
Yet taxes are reducing so it's "easier" to own a car, but harder to actually use it.
And here's an interesting point. Why the FUCK is it that for all the bloody clean and greenness, more environmentally friendly cars don't have a reduction in tax, but an INCREASE.
Something here doesn't fit. Can you see it?
You see how we try to reduce emissions by making it expensive for the average joe to drive.
You see ERP gantries going up to regulate traffic flow so that cars are clustered in other smaller roads less able to manage the flow and then those roads get blocked with gantries as well.
Yet taxes are reducing so it's "easier" to own a car, but harder to actually use it.
And here's an interesting point. Why the FUCK is it that for all the bloody clean and greenness, more environmentally friendly cars don't have a reduction in tax, but an INCREASE.
Something here doesn't fit. Can you see it?
Thursday, June 05, 2008
Mad Talented Kid
More evidence that Life is not fair. But some times, the unfairness result in things of beauty.
Monday, June 02, 2008
Tagged By JasChocolate
What disappoints you the most?
Me
Where will you go if someone sponsors you a tour ticket?
South America
What’s your favorite thing to do?
Sex, Dance, Drink, Watching People and testing myself. In that order.
Do you think money can buy happiness?
Money facilitates happiness.
If you can have one dream to come true, what would it be?
That my Burmese friends are here in Singapore. It's a different junta, but at least this one works.
Do you believe you can survive without money?
Sure. Time to dig into my gold reserve.
What are you afraid to lose the most?
My mind and my heart.
If you win $1 million, what would you do?
1/4 to church. 1/4 to family. 1/4 to myself and 1/4 in reserve for investment.
What color represents you the most?
White
List out 3 good points of the person who tagged you?
Nice claws, innocent, I THINK she reads.
What makes you happy?
Lots of things. When in doubt, gimme money.
What type of person do you hate the most?
Stupid people, and idiots who can't drive.
Where do you see yourself 10 years down the road?
Retired, but working
If you could have a superpower, what would it be?
Reading People's Minds.
What do you think is the most important thing in your life?
My Way
Any childhood memories you’ll like to re-live?
nope
What makes you cry?
selfless acts of beauty
What is your least favourite animal?
Mosquitoes, and stupid people
What is one thing your friends probably don’t know about you?
Whatever it is, it shall remain unknown.
Tagging: YOU. You read it, now you do it. And leave a comment afterwards so I have something to read.
Me
Where will you go if someone sponsors you a tour ticket?
South America
What’s your favorite thing to do?
Sex, Dance, Drink, Watching People and testing myself. In that order.
Do you think money can buy happiness?
Money facilitates happiness.
If you can have one dream to come true, what would it be?
That my Burmese friends are here in Singapore. It's a different junta, but at least this one works.
Do you believe you can survive without money?
Sure. Time to dig into my gold reserve.
What are you afraid to lose the most?
My mind and my heart.
If you win $1 million, what would you do?
1/4 to church. 1/4 to family. 1/4 to myself and 1/4 in reserve for investment.
What color represents you the most?
White
List out 3 good points of the person who tagged you?
Nice claws, innocent, I THINK she reads.
What makes you happy?
Lots of things. When in doubt, gimme money.
What type of person do you hate the most?
Stupid people, and idiots who can't drive.
Where do you see yourself 10 years down the road?
Retired, but working
If you could have a superpower, what would it be?
Reading People's Minds.
What do you think is the most important thing in your life?
My Way
Any childhood memories you’ll like to re-live?
nope
What makes you cry?
selfless acts of beauty
What is your least favourite animal?
Mosquitoes, and stupid people
What is one thing your friends probably don’t know about you?
Whatever it is, it shall remain unknown.
Tagging: YOU. You read it, now you do it. And leave a comment afterwards so I have something to read.
The Last Word on The Vuestar Saga
Since there's no cure to stupidity, I have this to say.
WHEN GOOGLE PAYS, I PAY.
Thus endeth the lesson. Amen.
WHEN GOOGLE PAYS, I PAY.
Thus endeth the lesson. Amen.
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