Wednesday, September 27, 2006

smile...

what's there reli to smile abt these days? honestly things didn't work out the way they shd hv yet somehow someway i feel like i m clingin on to the edge of a cliff. Waiting for the inevitable to engulf me. Strength reli draining out of me as the days count down to this one test we all live for before we reli see the "real" world. It happened once, two yrs ago for some 3 for me. Yet what do i get out of all this?

I myself am unsure. Hai, they say to be the best, yet wat does it mean to be? I'm down. Can't deny that. But why smile? When you know u can't do much rite? Wells this aint no cry for despair or some wail for pity or telling this whole world tat me am givin up rite now! I'm just basically hangin on to nothin i guess for now becoz reli what hv i shown? what worth do i hv rite now? A camera, a voice? Geeez...

What am i holding to right now? What am I looking towards that wants me to go on? Once I thought I knew it. NOw it all seems blurred. Let me break it down abit. It seems like the only one to make this family proud lies in me. Speaking abt track record for instance. BUt look at the fam i'm in? Hv i not said enough abt em? BUt wat can i do? Run away? Dun face the day? Drown my sorrow away by watchin cartooons all day?

The root of the prob? I wonder and I wonder and i guess I know wat the prob reli is. Haiz. Wells things gotta take a turn now. I will not just sit here and wait for mths to fake a smile again. Coz after all the only smile i'd like to see is my fam's and not me.

Smile. If only I could just take my mind off this things. Or just pop some pills to make me forget but keep that which are impt. Hahas. Probably shd stop living in a dream and start waking up to live the dream. Its just a mth away. Wat m I doin? Wat is my aim? Wat is the plan?

For the first time i've never heard such an honest plea by you to tell me to hang on. Yet I am barely hangin on. Look through my eyes and tell me if i can? Hai. smile...

i guess no matter wat life throws to me, just gotta make use of it...

Saturday, September 23, 2006

wats up cabbie's?

manz boy did i hv sort of a rough day! not sayin it was entirely bad but reli the in betweens reli irked to the point i really wanna sit down here gather my thoughts and critically expound my experience with some of the greatest companies you can ever get!

wells imagine this, you wanna rush frm orchard to marsiling and u wait in line at the taxi stand for 10min, get a cab, tell the cabby, "er...Uncle marsiling 20 min?"

He answers and say's, "20min???(laughs cheekily) 20 min ar? Which way you want ar boy?"
Before i could say anythin he decides for me...

"Take CTE, SLE, exit to wdlands avenue 2...surely the fastest one. NOt much traffic light as well."

Hearing that u'd say "thank God i got a cabby who understands my need now."

Well let me explain this situation. Firstly this is the moment of silence/turning pt(probably 3secs) whr ur cab ride would be a pleasant one or one whr u hv to act like u know nuts abt religion, politics and singapore and agree and act as if the cabby reli does know's his stuff. (no offence cabbies but reli its true rite?)

TO put it simply there are this few cabbies that exist:
1. Those that just drive
2. Those that ask you what is the meaning of life
3. Those that lament how difficult it is to live in singapore
4. Those that talk abt politics
5. Those who bug you abt ur beliefs....
6. And those reli bad mood drivers who look like watever u do is an insult to him and the biggest mistake was takin a cab with him!(this i agree, total mistake)...


and the list can go on...

How i wish mine was the first driver....

BUT NO....

The cab driver had to ask after that grace period...

"What's the rush boy?".... and there it began my 25min ordeal!
(mind u i said 20min...)

Frm questions abt my faith,the basis of my beliefs and dat hmmmm its all abt the power all this groups have and that christians create strife becoz they think that only they go to heaven and everyone is condemned to hell!

boy was tat a conversation, well not really more like a lecture and in summarry he wanted to say,boy u better not be like those dogmatic conservatives and open up to the world and see tat all paths lead to heaven!!!

wells i tried to reason but it din work. he felt i was challenging his thoughts, i said one thing he was able to counter with another and couldnt see wat i was drivin at yet i saw wat he was driving at. so i just resigned to filtering his thoughts and constantly said agree to tat which i agreed upon and just nodded to tat which i din reli agree and just looked like i was listening to him to those tat were kinda illogical...the irony was that he argued man is logical but some of his arguments were illogical? but wells it his perception and i just left him with this thought. Well in the end of the day yea all paths go to heaven. And we are responsible for our own actions and are answerable to our perception of who God is. SO yea it all depends where u go rite?

ok i'm not some jerk who disregards the "hospitality" of a cabbie k? I'm happy he took me on this ride. That he was friendly. Had a lovely smile. And yea provoke my grasp of knowledge...and....

yea imagine, it was the perfect day. perfect moment. Flag a cab and there he goes lamenting. U reach ur destination all bleahx and loaded with sometimes redundant stuff. As in why cant cabbies just keep their eyes on the road drive silently and just stick to their task of gettin us as quick as possible to our destination. If i was anal to the cabbie today i would hv said man i'd pay less coz u took longer than 20 min i asked for and i think u could hv driven faster. BUt oh wells. Shant grumble too much becoz tat aint the crux of this pertainin prob i hv with cabbies here.

besides their conversations which will reli kill me to plug in earphones and zone out to lala land...the reason of this outburst was becoz of one appalling act that i myself cant kp to myself any longer. Coz dat was the last straw. Imagine this situation, u were cycling or walkin down the pavement and u saw this guy on a wheelchair. He flags for a cab. The cab slows down and stops. Wells not for him! BUt the guy further down the road. My reaction was like. WAT THE!!! THe cabbie actually missed the guy in the wheelchair???

While consolidatin my thoughts i wondered if the cabby was too lazy to get out of his car and help him into his cab? Good thing i was rushin and zooming past. ANd that i din get ur no. and complained right away. but i guess the worse thing i did was not to stop and pei tat guy till a cab came for him...gosh...

cabbies...the irony was that i watched on the news abt improving things for the handicap...and i see dat...oh manz...

so wats the lesson? i reli dun noe hahas....i noe i could hv done somethin to at least do some justice for that guy. BUt in my heart i was like prayin the nxt empty cab better stop. oh wells.

cabs...cant live without em...cant live with em...they're there when u dun need em and not there when u dont...and only good service comes if u pay more and u just listen to their ramblings.

and yes i noe this are all weightless arguements or claims. But hey...i bet there are ppl out there with pretty similar experiences...and boy do i hv more than wat i've just written here...

so wats up cabbies? Just remember I am payin for you! And u can bark all u like but hey, i can choose not to pay coz if u din fulfill it ur not worth it and u better learn dat i'm no floormat! and dat the ppl who ride with u are not some ppl u can just exploit ok? gosh cabbies...wake up ur idea seriously.

Tuesday, September 19, 2006

manz cant believe i just gave up...
i did...
half way through and all i had to do was close my eyes and think
5mins later i wake up realising i did nothin...

there it goes...hai...
wells...

ladadidum...

I had a dream!
Where all man will dream no more!
And Man will live such peaceful lives!
Where Man can accept whoever whenever!
I had a dream!
And that's all it will be,
Just a dream!

What is man that he kills his own brother?
Loves one another's wives, children and mistresses.
What is man that he prides on his beliefs?
Going to extremes refuting tolerance and understanding
Relying on assumptions and embracing ignorance!

What is man that he adorns wealth?
Scorns the poor and exploits the weak.
That at the presence of suffering he doesn't weep!
But rests on it as it satisfies his needs!

What is man that he holds the reins of life?
Killing in the name of mercy
Murdering to cover the guilt of promiscuity!
And the shame of having a retard baby!

What is man that he proclaims his own superiority?
Justifying the erradication of a race
In the name of cleansing!
Defaming one's beliefs for freedom of expression
And holding the world at ransom for unequal treatment!

What is man that he is his own fear?

It's a pity that man breaks his word!
Many men have promised a better world!
Yet what we see is a degeneration of the species!
Children are less filial, parents are less caring.
Families are breaking
And what are the governments debating?

The brains are there!
Knowledge is everywhere!
Yet who is the one who misuses it?
Misinteprets it?
Abuses it?
Exploits it?

In our little havens in our own corners of habitation
Rarely do we take a peak at the happenings out there
Cowering in our oh so comfortable lives
Hoping and wishing nothing creeps in
Letting the forces of life dictate

Therefore what is man?

A creature? an animal? a being?
A clump of billions of electrons, protons
Atoms and molecules subjected to the universal forces?

Sometimes we look at man wondering,
What is goin on in his mind?
And yet we say nothing...

But at the end of the day,
AS long as its not me
LIfe never felt better...
HOw we wish so...
So say we all...


Wells it was out of the blue. I guess of all the things happening ard the world right now what kind of a voice do we really need now? Peace? Unity? Many tried, many died trying, yet many more will still fight on. Sadly the many are a few and soon the few nothing more than a vapour on an ever shrinking puddle.

Have dreamers and fighters become obselete? That now conformers and followers populate the world? Ones who blindly follow without any hold on their lives. They go far, they work real hard. But is it a smile they will attain? Wells we shall see...

We shall see in the year 2020 that in 14 yrs time will we be smiling at one another or wish we had never killed each other...

man in a mad world...but how much of truth do this words hold when we ourselves are deceived by our own ideas of this mad world....

gary jules-mad world


frm donnie darko st...

Thursday, September 14, 2006

random thoughts....

*note if the following words look familiar to you, and the scenarios that may be described appear as if you saw it on some movie, well its coincidental or shd i say, probably out of the million other websites in the world there'd be one who might be sayin exactly the same thing as i am right now?

technicalities and grammar mistakes aside and let me just regurgitate wats been goin through this head of mine.*


There is this famous line commonly used that i guess probably earned itself a cliche. The line, "What if this life we're living is all a bad dream? And that the moment we wake up, whatever happened in this life are just all imprints of the subconscious mind. Cluttered up in a mass of gray matter."

Its funny, the many different ideas we take life for. Some think tat its all pre-determined, pre-destined and fated, others think its just one cycle of a couple of other cycles and probably the most absurd is that we are just like any other matter in this place, a complicated mass of electrons, protons and neutrons being subjected to electrons, protons and neutrons.( well there my be more absurd ideas but this is as absurd as i can think of)

But what is my take of this life I'm living?

routine? insanity? illusive? deluded?

hmmmm makes me wonder. sometimes i guess we think too much of the negatives tat we forget abt the positives in life. and sometimes the positives are outweighed dat we shove em aside.

but can we categorise everything as negative and positive? not everything is black and white? not everything is logical? not everythin is dollars and cents? not everything has to be red, yellow, black and white. A combination of all this factors i guess make up life? or does it?

do we wanna believe in time travel? whr we can go through vortexes in time and travel to tat exact moment, exact hr and remove all the dark and scary experiences or relieve those moments again and enhance them? Kinda funny if only changing that occurs under the condition of ceteris paribus! Coz newton's law of action and reaction trancends beyond motion alone and forces. but i guess we r too smart for our own good living in the fantasy whr anythin we want is perfect. But i think there's an irony. We can expect a world with no mistakes whr everything follows, yet even the smartest of all humans aren't perfect therefore how can a perfect fantasy exist? I guess in our heads...

fear. afraid to face that which we don't want to see. A truth maybe, that would destroy us from within. Therefore we have a defensive mechanism called pride! And yea we hate to admit that we have it. Right?

love. a feeling, a passing feeling nowadays. a loose word for a loose world today. Since that day I've never uttered it to anyone anymore. Not dat i dun believe in it, but its more than tat word dat i wanna believe in.

heart. the last time i told someone to guard their heart, i left mine opened and tat person took a knife and jabbed at it. Boy does it hurt. And the night someone talked to me abt it... gosh was a memory stirred.

damage report, wells its halfway pt, tired out frm over-regurgitation.

wells reli i din reli wanna come to pt actually, its just tat somehow i find myself whr i am and dats always nxt to you. And oh how wonderful it is when i hear the sound of ur name and i rejoice knowing u noe my name too...

mad world...now i noe why its mad...probably we shd all bury our heads in sand and probably the world will be a better place...

speaking of freedom, i think christianity shdn't be one whr we are constrained by rules. Coz come on its sad yet ironic that we shd be free from the ways of the world yet we behave much worse than the world. Yes we are suppose to be different but it doesnt mean wearing white hoods and goin ard with a hammer and judging em and sentencing and condemning them becoz of who they are. Damn it tats the only reason that stumbles me in this faith. That we go abt sayin i'm more righteous than you so you get out of my face pagan! or we say eeew wat kind of a life is dat, its so stumbling. and like she doesnt deserve my attention becoz she has never changed for the better. Wells i'd contradict mysefl if i say ur wrong and i'm right....geez...

mad world...mad ppl...mad lives...

Sunday, September 10, 2006

lesss than 24hrs....

right now i m just feeling so lost...lost in my own fears....i fear of freezing up in the first papers tomolo...holding the pen and gettting a blanked out mind...hai compounded with a screwed up family...now dad's gone my two bros are running wild...well one just did on the night he flew...he flew off too! with the dvd player my dads laptop and 2dvd's rented under my name! and knowing his track record...if he don't return it tonite...i hv this feeling i m gonna explode already...coz reli this 2 wks i shdnt be bothered by such things...shd just be focusing on getting wat i want...after all its not wat i love to do...and i hate to hear tat teacher of mine to put me down time and time again....its just another few more hrs...and i feel reli horrible...reli....so dun blame me if i look fierce tomolo and look like i wanna kill somebody...becoz honestly i've reli wanted to kill someone...hai...there goes a commandment broken....


cant seem to write straight now i realised...would my gp suffer? would my econs expressions not work tomolo? rahhhhh!!!!!!!


am sippin a cup of horlicks now...hoping it'll just get rid of this feeling...


*pwerteng linginan...so much reli going on....or is it....

hai...i noe dats wat u reli wanna say rite now....

hai.....
its suppose to relieve right?
hai...
its a release of breathe...
hai...
its a sign of something not right...
hai...
here i go again....
hai...


FOCUS DAMN YOU!!!! Sounding like some wussie!!! cmon u've been through many things b4...why let urself down again and again...u seem to give courage to others why not use some for urself...get it frm ur source u fool!!! and why sigh huh?...dun be pathetic...reli...FOCUS...u'll get through this S**T

still playin this song...lets call it the pre-prelim song...hai...

Friday, September 08, 2006

lingin...

was actually finding a song frm my roots... somehow stumbled upon this guy's blog. (http://ed.blog-city.com)

en-route to the song i was suppose to get. but i heard this song playing. its in cebuano which is my dad's native dialect!. oh wells aside frm tat. its just another nice song. its called lingin by aggressive audio. anyway abt the lyrics... dun ask me yet wat it means. in the process. sheesh embarrassed to say dat although i'm flesh and blood filipino to the core, i dun carry tat "so made fun of accent we all are identified for" shd i be happy or wat? oh wells realised dat songs are playin in my head...

got this chinese one, wuding, then got this tagalog one ang hu ling el bimbo and now this one...

verse 1
ang among balay.... lingin
ang among atop......lingin
ang among bintana...lingin
ang among pultahan..lingin
ang among kwarto....lingin
ang among bong bong..lingin
ang among hagdanan
oooo..

refrain:
pwerting lingina
ha..ha..ha..
ha..ha..ha..
ha..oo

verse 2

ang among lamisa....lingin
ang among bangku....lingin
ang among aparador..lingin
ang among lantay....lingin
ang among kabinit...lingin
ang among takori....lingin
ang among kutsilyo
oooo.

(repeat refrain)

chorus:
ang among chorus
lingin lang gihapon
kay wala nay laing lyrics
lingin lang gihapon
kay ang atong kinabuhi lingin

verse 3

ang akong ulo.....lingin
ang akong mata....lingin
ang akong ilong...lingin
ang akong baba....lingin
ang akong dughan..lingin
ang akong pusod...lingin
ang akong periko
oooo.

(repeat refrain)
(repeat chorus)
(instrumenta)
(repeat chorus)
kay akong kinabuhi lingin
kitang tanan sa kalibutan lingin


yea woke up this mornin to a rattled home. knowing its not the home it was a few mths ago. bros runnning wild. me, losing out i guess. distractin my mind with things i'm not suppose to do. like rite now lar. sighs. its difficult to just talk to ppl abt such stuff. i dunnoe why. fear i guess? i noe its sappy but oh wells i noe they'll just hear me out i guess. but yea it wont make me better i suppose....

wells i checked up the meanin of lingin...it means cylcle i guess...wells according to some online dictionary...yea...anyway i reli wanna just write somethin explicit with no holds barred rite now....but wats the pt...just gets me worked up i guess...better use those brain cells elsewhr...yea muggin econs....

its just a cycle i guess...just gotta go on i guess...n yea shd block out all those negative words manz...only the horse noes who i'm talkin abt. thnx alot teacher.

and dad...yea i noe probably all ur hopes are on me to make this gumapon name big in the world rite? maybe not in the way u want it dad right now. with wat i m doin dat is. i noe i'm drainin away ur salary but i try not to... and i noe i cant kp a promise now to tell u tat i'll make sure u'll grow old with a smile on ur face and a restaurant to manage and cook in. i guess its just a duty to u rite? hai....

just like u said...the world looks so glum now...i'm so glum rite now...n u tell me ppl can let u down...even u dad...i dunnnoe wat i m talkin abt...but its this pre-exam jitters. haiz....with a big sigh k....

now everyone who wanna sigh...lets do it together...in 1! 2! 3! sighs.....

ppl dun care if u had the time of ur life, ppl will care if u made use of that time to make something out of ur life, dun qn it, dun let it bring u down, just pick ur pieces and go on, its unpredictable but in the end no matter wat they say, they will bring u down, but u will never touch the ground even if the world mocks and scorns at u even those whom u thought would stand by you, noe this, that there is still one tat holds you. and i guess with love and strength for each new day, there will be a way. put ur mind to it...

hai...i guess i realised one thing on teachers day...there are those who will hold u all the way...some who just hold u by the thread and some who'll just throw u a life vest and drop u in the middle of the ocean...i guess no matter which category u come frm....i'll remember u.....