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Saturday, May 20, 2006
the army has taught me how to ingeniously and succinctly combine 3 languages into a short, simple and effective phrase. well technically the last one isn't really a language, but for classification purposes it'll do as one.
"fuck 你 leh!!"such profundity. oh and another one.
"just 吃 lor!!"the deft way in which english, mandarin, and singlish are all woven intricately together effortlessly astounds me. the seamless transition from one tongue to the next as the sharp syllables clang against each other resound in a cosmic shattering of our prior understanding of what it means to speak properly.
i am surrounded by caricatures of life, from things that remind me vaguely of mudskippers to other things that resemble trolls greatly. each stuck in its own little swirl of consciousness, believing itself to be right. when really, their levels of logic descend to unimaginable depths. i used to think that academic intellect didn't equate to common sense, but then yongquan reminded me that higher levels of education do indeed train the mind with greater rigour at each new step.
you know the chinese phrase about the frog at the bottom of the well? quite an apt metaphor this time, i think. figuratively and literally.
mike just took up your time at
1:12 am
th time!