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Tuesday, May 31, 2005
i can't stand idiots who walk right into your path when you're at the mrt rushing for time. people who expect you to move aside for them and walk straight into you knowingly. try that on the road, bitches! i mean, understandably (since it has happened to me before) it's really dumb when both people keep sidestepping each other. but c'mon. a little basic courtesy.
anyway. just made a really stupid mistake yesterday. getting dangerously close to repeating history and becoming a living example of the adage that "we never learn from our mistakes." shall not expound more.
am very pleased to see that channel5 did not censor out the "andrew just told me he thinks he might be gay" bit in desperate housewives. then again, i think they were forced to because it wouldn't make sense at all to just brusquely chop off that last little bit and have bree storm in and rex stare at her and then peugeot commercial. (speaking of which, i preferred the desert one where they fried the eggs on the car. the new one about shame is just huh-inducing.) it would have been a bigger travesty not to include the camp hennesy bit at all. so ah well. guess they had to make some sacrifices. shall have to get the DVD to see how this alternative, so to speak, storyline develops.
and. i also learnt never to drink oil. rather disastrous and unpretty consequences that haunt you. especially when you drink coffee the next morning with creamy fresh milk. yurgh!
ooh. i was also quoted in bold on digital life last tuesday! haha. it was in this article on famous local bloggers, and i had this semi-snipe at xiaxue, etc. depending on the way you read it. hrrm didn't really like the way i was quoted i sounded like some idiot in it, i feel. haha. ("in a sense"? what on earth possessed me to use that phrase as though it was the new "basically" that rafflesians so love to use)
"Bloggers are real-life examples of people who've made it big, from zero to hero in a sense. They were nobodies and got big entirely through their blogs." - Michael Q.uilindo, 18, on why it's natural for popular bloggers to be idolised.hohoho maybe she'll read it and blog about it and bitch about me and my counter will explode with numbers. (and so will my tagboard with blind devotees sucked into her maelstrom whirlpool of i am xiaxue hear me roar cos i'm all that with my self-obsession and narcissism and bitchiness. ah, another similarity with her besides my obsession with photoshopping pictures of self. which is about all there is, especially the disparity in visitor figures.)
oh well - also had a very rude shock when i tried out a whole, full SAT practice test. looks like i really underestimated it and overestimated myself. crap, there's only a few more days to go and i doubt i can cram that much stuff in. i listened to people who aced it and got scores over 1500, forgetting to take into account that they were geniuses with mental faculties much more developed than my own. ah well. shall be happy with results about 1450. urgh and that's not even including the stupid new-fangled essay. the sample essays scoring 6 are so pompous and.. ugh! interestingly, i scored higher for the math section than the critical reading section.
clearleh, my england is not that powerderful as i thot it waz. anyway. is sitting on the fence ever the best position? what an interesting question. was tempted to do that for the commontest, but the potential ambiguity and convolutedness of arguments that threatened to confuse deterred me from picking it up. but now that i think about it, it really isn't that hard. the people who came up with the simplistic argument that the question is a paradox, and that if one were to answer yes he would be contradicting himself since by that unwavering affirmation he'd not be sitting on the fence and agreeing with the question, were wrong.
you see, the key lies in the word "ever". "ever" is not "forever", "ever" doesn't imply that it is the be all and end all, but rather that such a possibility even exists to begin with. so if and when there is just one instance that sitting on the fence is the best position, then i guess the answer to this would be a resounding yes. quite a simple question to answer!
that said, how can sitting on the fence even be desirable? consider the negative implications of having Bush-esque bullies telling you that you are "either with us, or against us". or metaphorically, having a painful ass when your conscience pricks you for not taking a firm stand. you also can't hide behind anything and are the easiest target for attacks. right smack in the middle of the fray and conflict. and sitting high up there. oh hohoho. you're finished, babe.
however, as pompous-6-upon-6-mark scoring bitch in SAT sample essay said, looking at MY personal life we can see yada yada yada.. it would seem that sitting on the fence has its benefits here. in the bigger picture, i'm sitting firmly on the fence. with both my feet firmly planted on either side. i have 2 choices to make. and unlike robert frost's assertions, way does not really lead onto way, but rather way leads on to room. and you can just as easily walk in and out of the 2 rooms presented to you. either way, you'd have plenty of company. albeit one being severely less populated. everyday, i hop, skip, and jump into either of these rooms either in my interactions with people or in my furtive thoughts from fertile imagination. these dalliances happen all the time. and really, no one censures me because i am like kevin bacon in
hollow man when i do that. if i were transparent in my actions and not literally to people- oh how they'd hate me. for how could anyone get the best out of both worlds, having their cake and eating it, as well as everyone else's cake?
in the smaller picture, and in a not so general but rather more focussed and specific sense, i also have 2 very clear choices to make. reminiscent of myself about 3 years ago. but well i guess this time the fence is much lower. both sides can see each other, i have to bend my legs because it's that low. and it helps me to make the decision of which room to enter, for the time being. when one side pulls me over that is when it all begins. but they've got to muster enough strength, both sides are very attractive indeed. no fence really needed here. sitting on the fence is fine cos it's almost not there to begin with!
i guess this is where it matters. how high the fence is. if it's low you can easily get on and get off. so it doesn't really make a difference. or matter. if it's a high fence. you're best off sitting on the fence for as long as you can. you don't want to plunge irreversibly back to certain death. once you're on one side you can never get to the other even if you wanted to.
to end off this really long post - daisy was quite the success it didn't appear to be at the start of it all. turnout was fine in the end, acting was
topping, everyone thought the set was
capital, and programmes was very much well-received, although total donations were
up a gum tree, (which mrs butler thought was a good thing hoho) at a paltry grandtotal of $209.15. which is about a fifth of the $1000 we put into the printing. i was rather pissed off at the cheapo singaporean nature shining in all its ugly glory when i had this group of 4 juvenile boys coming to the counter and asking for 4 booklets after putting a $2 note on the table. hey, i know the sign said 50cent minimum donation but- grr. these are the pennypinchers who'll be the future leaders of our amazing country. now i know why we have CPF. ah well. not my concern anyway, monetary-wise. as long as everyone appreciated the effort put into it. all in all, a very big
jubilate! for everyone. i've learnt to be appreciative of the importance of behindthescenes work, after being extensively immersed in it. and getting to know more people better was a plus point as well. guess dick, daniel, douglas and duncan will be proud of daisy. but as for d... not really. sigh.
(i really like this picture)
very suggestive. maxine as the dominatrix and jo being the. uh. incongruous treasurer. haha.
mike just took up your time at
11:13 pm
th time!
