title: Buddha
date: Monday, November 23, 2009
the Buddha was realistic and objective. he says, with regard to life and the enjoyment of sense-pleasures, that one should clearly understand three things
- attraction of enjoyment
- evil consequence or danger or unsatifactoriness, and
- freedom or liberation
when you see a pleasant, charming and beautiful person, you like him, you are attracted, you enjoy seeing that person again and again, you derive pleasure and satisfaction from that person. this is enjoyment. it is a fact of experience. but this enjoyment is not permanent, just as that person and all his attractions are not permanent either. when the situation changes, when you cannot see that person, when you are deprived of this enjoyment, you become sad, you may become unreasonable and unbalanced, you may even behave foolishly. this is the evil, unsatisfactory and dangerous side of the picture. this, too, is a fact of experience. now if you have no attachment to the person, if you are completely detached, that is freedom, liberation. these three things are true with regard to all enjoyment in life.
well said, Buddha. well said. maybe i should take up this philosophy.
Labels: boys, brain food, eyecandy, louiza speaks, muse
title: don't you shiver
date: Friday, April 17, 2009
daddy's doing some disgusting aircon cleaning thing in the toilet. so i'm too scared to bathe yet. the floor's so black.
so i'm massaging my feet at the mo. i have work soon. gotta get ready. FASTERRR DADDY.
going to see THANA and SELVAM.
last night talked to thana before sleeping.
i slept late. watched harry potter 5. with a BIG bag of chips that i finished. i hate the movie. spoils the book. ah wells.
when i heard the name k u g a, i got reminded of a lion. was never able to really decipher my reasoning to that relation. always thought maybe cos there's a character in lion king named k u g a. i don't know, but the lion king's the strongest reason i could think of. and that in itself is weak.
BUT,
guess what i just came across on the net by coincidence.
Noun
cougar - Felis concolor, mountain lion, puma, catamount, panther, painter
wow. coincidence or not.
Labels: 13 o'clock, Angela Ferilli, blood ties, brain food, daddy, eyecandy, No Reservations
title: Angela
date: Saturday, February 28, 2009
- consumers will begin to feel more of the effects of the downturn in the middle and end of the year...
- retail stores need help fast for rents etc cos if consumption decreases significantly, other sectors like f&b, media and advertising will be affected too.
suddenly i kinda feel like going to ikea.
Labels: brain food, news
title: past the confusion! (:
date: Thursday, February 26, 2009
i want to try the shine yogurt...
and today the Turkish plane crashed...
- sri lanka seems to be acting like a unilateral power... it's like ignoring international calls for ceasefire, and continuing to squash the LTTE. but its actually working. except that there are thousands of civilians in the middle.... =/
- zomg... nokia is retrenching.
- opec is so manipulative...
UPDATE: 9 dead from crash...
- so cute.. china's going shopping in europe... trying to inject money into the global economy. how sweet.
i just got a shock of my life. about something from facebook.
on myspace too.
never mind. i'm better than that. (:
ironically, i've been looking for this for the past one plus year. with this deep curiosity. but now that i've found it so randomly, now that i've finally come across what i've been looking for, i'm actually rather repulsed. or make that VERY.
haha. i'm so happy with myself.
okay back to the news.
oh and i need to urgently have a desperate housewives marathon of last season. cos i didnt watch the whole season when it was showing last year. i was studying for As. and now they've just started airing the latest season on channel 5. i wna catch up!!! i think i need an off day soon to just hibernate at home and watch.
okay! done with news! now i'm going to get a cookie, then i better sleep. got work tomorrow! ciao~
sometimes when you wish for something and you finally get it, you may realize you don't really want it.
anyway, today was ash wed and i went mass with vicente. and also, had another junkfest with parents just now while watching tv.
Labels: blood ties, brain food, daddy, Dirty $exy Money, fallacy, God, news
title: yesterday's news
date: Wednesday, February 25, 2009
- finance industry cutting back on entertainment budgets usually used to close deals with clients.
- ASEAN is anti-protectionism
Labels: brain food, news
title: the comfortable life
date: Tuesday, February 24, 2009
just had an ultimate intense junk food fest with vicente.would have lasted longer but that boy fell asleep whilst we were watching a movie. then i decided to stop and massage my feet while reading news.
so yeah thats what i'm doing now. and here's the pickups for today... if you're bothered that is.
- Black Saturday is Australia's disastrous Feb 7 where wildfires killed more than 200 people.
- top criminals escape from greek jails... repeatedly. haha.
- provincial government is distributing like 30 000 rifles to villagers. to help fight against religious fundamentalists. that's scary. is that even wise? crazy people might just go around killing whoever they hate.
- malaysia is most likely to face unemployment and recession this year. exports also have plunged.. in december, it contracted by nearly 15%.
Labels: blood ties, brain food, Dirty $exy Money, louiza speaks, news
title: cute and cuddly
date: Friday, February 06, 2009
- during AFC, govt slashed CPF contributions by 10%
- i think debates in parliaments are actually quite fun...
- i feel like going to the total def thing. (not elaborating here) but it'll be so cute!
crazy talk thank you to you. - omg this is super cute. german troops are going to france to make friends with the french troops! and it'll be like the first time since WWII. so cute right! and this is to like enhanch friendship between the two countries since the Franco-German brigade was set up. and guess when it was set up. 1989! haha. im such a history freak.
- malfeasance - misconduct, especially by public official
fyi, all the stuff i write in bullets are the stuff i write whilst reading the news. it's like that for every post. (:
okay well. now i'm just sitting in my dining room having coffee and thinking about recent events.
yesterday was a weird day. weird in a sense, doesnt feel like it existed. in a sense, didnt feel like a DAY
maybe cos the night following the morning, i didnt sleep a wink. thanks to a certain girl. but hey, apart from being traumatized, (YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO TELL PEOPLE WHY I WAS TRAUMATIZED UNDERSTAND!) it was really nice. what's nicer was the morning though.
without sleeping, i went over to tpjc to do a favour for miss quek. (love love!) then spent the whole morning and early afternoon with rudy.
needless to say, by the time i got home, i was effing sleepy. i practically just floated through the rest of the day. then slept early, and didnt read news. so it felt like a half-day to me. not a real day.
well at least i had my sleep, and i'm all better today. (: even managed to study the news. see! *points upwards.
anyways, i realize that i have a VERY low sex drive. yes, unbelievable i know. you people are probably going like "oh then why you have delilah and blahblahblah." but seriously, hahaha. it's actually true and the CONTRAST has come to light very recently. hmmmmsss..... hahahahah.
yeah i think i wont die without sex. and for a reason only elfy and rudy knows, i am actually scared of vaginal penetration. (pardon the crudeness. haha) and no, it's not cos i'm scared of getting pregnant again. i'm scared of sex toys and the finger. hahahaha. can't believe i'm saying all this. but yeah. they dont give out sperm.
want to know something random? i haven't had sex for at least 1 and a half years now.
but, i can't live without what elfy tells me malays call the manja-ing. to me, its just the cute and cuddlies! awww. hahaha. means hugs and kisses. and snuggles and curls and patting. (not petting k. patting. like pat pat on my head kind. and ruffle my hair)
yeah well i'm weird that way.
ah wells enough of the sex talk.
with all the university options coming in, i'm actually hoping my immigration gets cleared before aug or sept... then i can do my uni in the states... that would be nice.
that greek guy is hot but pity all the english he speaks is "hey baby".
Labels: ALEXANDER VII, boys, brain food, Dirty $exy Money, elfie, eyecandy, Knights Ridge, louiza speaks, news, the aftermath, the boy
title: shamrocks are green
date: Monday, February 02, 2009
ONE: NOoooo!!!!!!
like me for me. the spoiltness and irritatingness. because, i appreciate.
TWO: taxis
i get it, the economy is bad. i've been reading the news regularly of late, and yes, taxis are experiencing significant declines in demand. and i sympathize with them. yes, the global economic contraction is affecting all sectors. BUT, i don't see how the situation can improve with dishonesty.
i understand that the economy is bad, but i dont see why drivers should try to cheat their way for a few more bucks. it just makes the taxi industry look bad, and further discourage commuters from patronizing taxis.
the past two days, i took taxis like 4 times. and 3 times, i got exploited. they took longer routes, and even waited for the meter charge to increase, even though we've stopped at the destination already, before stopping the meter.
i'm not a selfish money-minded person. most of the time, i let drivers keep the change. but i think, honesty is always important. ESPECIALLY during this period of economical crisis. ambiguous financial deals played a great role in causing the crisis. uncertainty and the lack of transparency. we have to start being honest, so that the foundations of business can be strong and reliable. then maybe such disasters can be avoided.
so yeah. taxi companies may not be as big as financial institutions like Lehman Brothers or what.. but it's a start. if SMEs are all going to cheat and exploit where they can, collectively, it's going to be a problem for the service sector; which is also suffering badly from the global recession.
think about it.
THREE: my day
i had a great day. with family, and with an awesome bunch of stpatricians. cheers~
liverpool won chelsea.
Labels: ALEXANDER VII, blood ties, brain food, daddy, eyecandy, futball, grey's anatomy, louiza speaks, news, silver, the boy
title: box of crayons
date: Sunday, February 01, 2009
- Jobs Credit scheme - centrepiece of this year's budget
- panacea - ultimate cure (greek)
- Lehman Brothers Holdings
- N and S Korea are starting to threaten each other.
- JIMMY CHOO IS MALAYSIAN?!?!?!?!?!?!
- in my opinion, malay is too communal for its own good.
- i am productive, i dont like to waste time, and my mind can't keep thinking if i'm doing the right thing at the moment.
- manufacturing sector of sg threatened. svs sect also.
yup. studying. and i have taken into stride reading logic again. sweet.
and i shall not name the person that said this to me today.
"30 000 dollars is nothing."
Labels: ALEXANDER VII, blood ties, brain food, news, the aftermath
title: it has begun. (the spread of the handbook)
date: Sunday, November 16, 2008
entitled The Hogwarts Handbook, i have converted my philosophy book that i admitted to Cambridge into an Ebook format. decided that i have kept eager readers waiting for too long.
and vivian darling is the first to receive it.
do i have any takers?
p.s. if you dont know that i'm talking about, refer to my lj.
Labels: brain food, hogwarts, vivian
title: a circle has no beginning
date: Saturday, September 06, 2008
which came first? the phoenix or the flame?
neither.
because a circle has no beginning.
Labels: brain food, hogwarts, wordsmagicallyspun
title: multiple dejavu
date: Friday, September 05, 2008
damn secs ago i just had multitudes of de ja vu moments. wow. okay anyway, news again.
usa politics is amusing.
oh how intellectual and supposedly rational these candidates are, having gone through harvard at least once.
but yet, they're smart enough to be SO emotive in garnering their support.
i wonder, is it just in usa? or does it happen all around the world in politics?
they brilliantly conjure such lucid phrases. wow.
"so help me god"
Labels: brain food, news, wordsmagicallyspun
title: the democrats
date: Thursday, September 04, 2008
according to missquek, the democrats are very economy-inclined.
i need to improve on my US politics.
Labels: brain food
title: the cold war updates
date:
US is going round ex-ussr states offering aid.
ussr, i mean russia has just secured an ally. nicaragua.
just some historical info, courtesy of muah, nicara doesnt really like US. hahasz. they had some feud and nica brought it up to the IJC. they won the case, but the US as usual decided that they were above IJC and did not want to face the consequences.
so ya. now russia has nica on its side.
and me thinks the US is only into the ex-ussr states cos of oil, apart from their fight against communism.
Labels: brain food, news
title: geylang
date:
before i forget, i should say this first.
daddy randomly bought me a beatles shirt. hahahs. how random. yet nice. thank you. *takes a bow~
k next.
today i intended to wake at 8am to do math.
but i didnt.
i think i'm slacking too much.
am i?
i mean sept hols, i should be studying right?
but then also, i feel like i should give myself a break, before term starts, and i sprint towards the exam of my life.
and its not like i'm totally mentally stagnant. i do a considerable amount of work everyday.
just doesnt feel as stress as during term. i spose thats why i feel slack.
no stress.
yet.
anyways, i woke at 2.
today is Eating Day
i cant blog long if i want to wake by 6.30 to be at missquek's house by 9. so sorry about the lack in particularity.
vicente was bugging me to wake since 1.
i only got up at 2.
got dragged to walk to central to buy lunch. apparently we were the only two at home, cos the whole world went out without us, including del. hahas.
so we bought this HUGE box of fried rice.
watched ugly betty at the same time eating. i ate a HELL lot. till i was damn full.
it was firstly very hot, then it began to rain.
then around 4, i went to bathe.
vicente went to tm to meet daddy and del. i got ready to meet elfy.
he picked me at 5.30, sorry i kept u waiting, i couldnt decide on the footwear. lolsz... so technically i was early. i was just standing at my door.
the hawker centre we ate at at eunos, was crowded as everyone wanted to break fast.
this HOT emo dude sat on the same table as ours with his family.
and he fed his younger sisters.
and i just.... STARED..... while elfy sniggered at my dumbinity.
and i ate too. and was even more full, added from lunch.
anyways, it started raining.
trained to paya lebar.
BAZAAR.
damn huge.
DAMN INTERESTING.
elfy = pro malay culturist.
seriously. it was amazingly interesting. like excursion. LOL.
sorry if i blanked out periodically, i was just intellectually provoked in the philosophical sector of my mind. felt like i was in philo class. hahasz.
and elfy is REALLY pro ohkayy. like ahem president of the malay cultural soc in SJI. so i was learning from a pro.
so yeah. excursion. learning journey. whatever the hell u'd call it, it was fun.
like i said, no time. i gotta sleep. but really A LOT of shit happened. but i guess the lessons i learnt will all just be in my mind (as always) for now.
i saw a lot of mats though! hahahsz. some quite hot actually! hahas.
trained to bedok, and took 17 cos i wanted to.
and home.
thanks elfy for the awesome day. i wanna go back there ok? when its more crowded. i wna experience the whole MALAY CROWD thing. ahahszx.
went home, and ate an orange.
did u know, louiza takes 1 hour to eat one orange?
DONT even ask why.
pilates.
bathe.
now here.
to maq, re: orion
ahahs. no worries, u didnt bring up any BAD memories. nothing bad, nothing significant too. just a fragment of a memory.
i'd rather not remember so clearly, but u know, my memory doesnt allow me to forget. hahasz.
orion.
martin liked to watch stars. he taught me what an orion's belt was. and everywhere we went he'll be like pointing up and asking me to look. and i wouldnt bother at first. till he kept tugging at me to look.
hahasz.
yeah so,
Orion's Belt. (:
Daniel Radcliffe
He said this today.
Daniel, who is currently single, also revealed he has no interest in finding a girlfriend because he is too busy.
He added to Details magazine: 'Most of my friends have been girls, and I see how they are with their boyfriends and I think, I couldn't do that. I just don't have the time.'
u know what,
i feel the same way too.
Labels: ALEXANDER VII, blood ties, brain food, Dirty $exy Money, elfie, eyecandy, hogwarts, jujubee, memory, news
title: singapore is like so much better
date: Tuesday, September 02, 2008
malaysian politics suck. i think the politicians are so unprofessional and juvenile.
and i'm just judging from the stupid racial lines they so exaggeratedly play up.
makes me kinda appreciate singapore's politics.
seriously whats with calling chinese ungrateful squatters?
are u that childish.
in comparison, i'm now thinking of Mr Lee's awesome national rally. it was my first time watching it, cos my philo teacher told me my current affairs suck. (hence the surge in news on this blog)
it felt like an econs lecture. seriously so cool! but it was damn interesting. never thought it'd be interesting. at all.
times like these, i wonder at how i'd do as a lawyer.
okkk wth. i'm deviating.
the point is, malaysia politics sucks big time.
i believe that perfect politics is not politics. but singapore's is hell better.
Labels: brain food, news
title: bye georgia
date: Saturday, August 30, 2008
ok. georgia has cut ties with ussr.
i mean russia
And is going to have a meeting with ex-soviet states to discuss about recognising south ossetia.
wow.
britain is telling europe to cut dependency on russia for oil
russia says "dont worry no matter what troubles, we will still provide energy. we are responsible leaders"
wow. bitchy.
Labels: brain food, news
title: i am not alone
date: Friday, August 29, 2008
i thought i was paranoid. and a bit too much on the extreme, when i relate the georgia conflict to the cold war.
the only "official" evidence i've had so far was a mere mention on the papers about how there is a hint of the cold war in the whole shebang.
so i just googled, "cold war georgia"
and omg. there were like 3940 000 results.
I am not alone. rah rah.
i so love history.
Labels: brain food, news
title: the communist bloc
date:
omg. china is supporting USSR.
i mean russia.
sounds familiar?
Labels: brain food, news
title: the headache's back?
date:
USSR i mean Russia has recognised the separatist states of georgia.
and now, US wants to cut off nuclear cooperation with USSR.
and the Allies! are back.
france US are all threatening sanctions.
but USSR is not giving a shit.
i mean, russia.
dont u just love cold war?
p.s. today's Louiza's Appreciation Day was a success. so one day down, now what's left is Louiza's Bad Girl Day.
that is if i feel confident about As.
Labels: ALEXANDER VII, brain food, news, the aftermath
