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Saturday, August 08, 2009
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Sunday, March 01, 2009
Future Blues
Now im sec 4, 16. A point in time when I actually start thinking about my future. I ｓｔｉｌｌ ｈａｖｅ ｎｏ ｉｄｅａ ｗｈａｔ ｃａｒｅｅｒ I want to pursue, what degree I want to have in university, or even what subjects I am going to pick up in Junior College. People really need to have a direction in life, an area that they are very interested in, that drives their lives and their dreams. That pursuit is what i lack and desire.
Monday, November 10, 2008
Books
I finished the Mayor of Casterbridge. Rather draggy, mostly because of the extensive descriptions of countryside and architecture. Being really lazy at home, playing Halo and watching movies. I must start mugging and exercising and spending my time more fruitfully, lest I waste another holiday. Lots of books to read but cannot get started(Dorian Gray is half done, Fountainhead, Gulliver's travels, Farewell to Arms, Sophie's World, biographies for english). Oh yes, must do hol. homework.
Literally Literary was quite fun despite the disappointing turnout. Must hold again next year. I wish I could act in more roles, but i guess i can only blame my poor acting. Can't open up in front of others and display extreme emotions I do not feel. Must work on acting and writing. Discussed with John the sterility of creative writing scene in Lit class. Anyway I need a portfolio.
Band is irritating as i keep experiencing chest pains. hrrmmph...they get worst, maybe i need to see a doctor.
Obama won. But I don't see the point of this big post-racial hoohah. Obama sure is a good orator and actor and politician, but he has not proved his worth. Objectively speaking, a McCain victory would have been more directly advantageous to us as he supports asian free trade, while Obama is more interior-focused and protective. Also, it would be more accurate to say that George Bush helped to seal the democratic victory by losing much of his republican base with his poor administration. Obama also won 95% of african american votes and 60% of other minorities like hispanics and asians. I find it ironic and hypocritical that no one bats an eyelid at the pure bias of the African Americans. If all the white Americans voted McCain, the rest of the world and the media would be screaming RACISM! at America. Until race is entirely not an issue anymore in politics, I would not say America is post-racial. Also, we must be aware that some states like Alabama and Mississippi in which racial discrimination and anti-civil rights movement sentiments were the stringest during the 60s still show a significant slant against obama, with 60% voting McCain. This is especially obvious when compared against the smaller margins when the Senate elections were held, during which the Democrat senators for these states were white.
Installing the ancient ASUS laptop with Linux after a spyware/virus/adware attack crippled it. Excited at the prospects of using a new OS and GUI. I plan to buy some ram for the other HP compaq laptop and hopefully it will be much faster. Need to clear some space in the hard drive too. Pity it is almost impossible to install new graphics cards because of the stupid and lousy Intel integrated chipset.
Plan to attend the popular bookfest at suntec. Need to go with some friends but not sure if anyone's interested. I need to buy warren buffett and obama's biography's for next year's ERP.
Thought of some ideas for some sketches but too lazy to flesh out. Great to be posting again. Bye! =)
Literally Literary was quite fun despite the disappointing turnout. Must hold again next year. I wish I could act in more roles, but i guess i can only blame my poor acting. Can't open up in front of others and display extreme emotions I do not feel. Must work on acting and writing. Discussed with John the sterility of creative writing scene in Lit class. Anyway I need a portfolio.
Band is irritating as i keep experiencing chest pains. hrrmmph...they get worst, maybe i need to see a doctor.
Obama won. But I don't see the point of this big post-racial hoohah. Obama sure is a good orator and actor and politician, but he has not proved his worth. Objectively speaking, a McCain victory would have been more directly advantageous to us as he supports asian free trade, while Obama is more interior-focused and protective. Also, it would be more accurate to say that George Bush helped to seal the democratic victory by losing much of his republican base with his poor administration. Obama also won 95% of african american votes and 60% of other minorities like hispanics and asians. I find it ironic and hypocritical that no one bats an eyelid at the pure bias of the African Americans. If all the white Americans voted McCain, the rest of the world and the media would be screaming RACISM! at America. Until race is entirely not an issue anymore in politics, I would not say America is post-racial. Also, we must be aware that some states like Alabama and Mississippi in which racial discrimination and anti-civil rights movement sentiments were the stringest during the 60s still show a significant slant against obama, with 60% voting McCain. This is especially obvious when compared against the smaller margins when the Senate elections were held, during which the Democrat senators for these states were white.
Installing the ancient ASUS laptop with Linux after a spyware/virus/adware attack crippled it. Excited at the prospects of using a new OS and GUI. I plan to buy some ram for the other HP compaq laptop and hopefully it will be much faster. Need to clear some space in the hard drive too. Pity it is almost impossible to install new graphics cards because of the stupid and lousy Intel integrated chipset.
Plan to attend the popular bookfest at suntec. Need to go with some friends but not sure if anyone's interested. I need to buy warren buffett and obama's biography's for next year's ERP.
Thought of some ideas for some sketches but too lazy to flesh out. Great to be posting again. Bye! =)
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Friday, September 26, 2008
My Country by Dorothea McKellar
Since we are on the topic of Australia, here is a poem very representative of that country and continent, in fact it is my favourite on that subject(not that I have read many). Notice its simple language but strong sense of rhythm, beat, and musicality - what the Aussies call 'Bush Poetry'. The poet was residing in London at the time of writing, so the first stanza is describing British lands. She was feeling rather homesick, I guess, funny how people can only describe or appreciate their country best when away from it.
My Country
My Country
by Dorothea McKellar
a poem about Australia
The love of field and coppice,
Of green and shaded lanes,
Of ordered woods and gardens
Is running in your veins.
Strong love of grey-blue distance,
Brown streams and soft, dim skies -
I know but cannot share it,
My love is otherwise.
I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of rugged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror –
The wide brown land for me!
The stark white ring-barked forests,
All tragic to the moon,
The sapphire-misted mountains,
The hot gold hush of noon,
Green tangle of the brushes
Where lithe lianas coil,
And orchids deck the tree-tops,
And ferns the warm dark soil.
Core of my heart, my country!
Her pitiless blue sky,
When, sick at heart, around us
We see the cattle die –
But then the grey clouds gather,
And we can bless again
The drumming of an army,
The steady soaking rain.
Core of my heart, my country!
Land of the rainbow gold,
For flood and fire and famine
She pays us back threefold.
Over the thirsty paddocks,
Watch, after many days,
The filmy veil of greenness
That thickens as we gaze.
An opal-hearted country,
A wilful, lavish land –
All you who have not loved her,
You will not understand –
Though earth holds many splendours,
Wherever I may die,
I know to what brown country
My homing thoughts will fly.
Of green and shaded lanes,
Of ordered woods and gardens
Is running in your veins.
Strong love of grey-blue distance,
Brown streams and soft, dim skies -
I know but cannot share it,
My love is otherwise.
I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of rugged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror –
The wide brown land for me!
The stark white ring-barked forests,
All tragic to the moon,
The sapphire-misted mountains,
The hot gold hush of noon,
Green tangle of the brushes
Where lithe lianas coil,
And orchids deck the tree-tops,
And ferns the warm dark soil.
Core of my heart, my country!
Her pitiless blue sky,
When, sick at heart, around us
We see the cattle die –
But then the grey clouds gather,
And we can bless again
The drumming of an army,
The steady soaking rain.
Core of my heart, my country!
Land of the rainbow gold,
For flood and fire and famine
She pays us back threefold.
Over the thirsty paddocks,
Watch, after many days,
The filmy veil of greenness
That thickens as we gaze.
An opal-hearted country,
A wilful, lavish land –
All you who have not loved her,
You will not understand –
Though earth holds many splendours,
Wherever I may die,
I know to what brown country
My homing thoughts will fly.
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Australia
The recent Lit trip to Australia was Fabulous with a capital "F". We stayed in Perth for 2 days and spent the remainder(4 days) of the trip in Albany, a small town of 30000 south of perth. We met so many wonderful people who are absolutely committed and completely passionate when it comes to literature. I have gone to Australia previously but never have I truly got to know real Australians or get to immerse myself in there culture and history. I could go ranting on and on about the similarities of Australian and Singapore society and culture and people literature weather blahdi blahdi blah... but here are just some highlights of the trip:
- Bought a ridiculously cheap copy of the Complete Shakespearean works at 30 OZs(Aussies) but left it behind in a hotel in perth
- Bought 5 more books at very good prices(eg. War and Peace at around 7 Sing dollars)
- Whale Watching - fantastic, they were huge and they were mating
- Sightseeing at the Gap, and the Natural Bridge(cannot be described easily, you must see my photos to get a picture, but to experience the complete majesty and awe of witnessing wide foamy cream-like sea water smash and splash into a 10-story plus chasm heft into a cliff facing the antarctic ocean, you must be there)
- Pub Crawl - basically 300 people walk from pub to pub at 9-12 in the night stopping at each pub to recite their own or other people's literature and having a hell of a lot of fun(there were numerous attempts at trying to get a sip of alcohol, which would have succeeded without the adults around)
- Sprung Writers Festival - the atmosphere was brilliant, very cozy(there were about a 100 or 200 people there each day, jeson said it felt more like a book club, but everyone was so friendly and treated us very nicely), there so many COOL people and it felt more like a party or a club than a serious writing festival, although we learnt lots.
- The fantastic people we met
Integration!
I found an online integrator! Its at http://integrals.wolfram.com/index.jsp if you want to cheat with your maths homework.
Sunday, September 07, 2008
I am confident that my blog has now sunk into oblivion and no one is reading it anymore. Well that makes this space a little more private and tranquil. But obviously i cannot keep it away from all prying eyes. After the Wee shu min thing(her blog was even password-protected), everyone knows better than to post radical stuff up.
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