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Vanity Fair

Alas B's and G's I have not died as the lack of new posts seems to suggest. I've just been away enjoying Chinese new year so much! Whoever doesn't love the smell of fresh crisp notes (nevermind the packaging)and of course meeting up with relatives , steamboat-ing and the best of them all mahjong-ing ;)

Anyway apart from living a hedonistic lifestyle, I have been actively broadening the horizons of my mind through reading. Quote Of The Day : The library is your best friend The latest being the classic Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray. No, not the magazine Vanity Fair. In addition to increasing my range of vocabulary the novel teaches a fair bit about life as well...

All the world used her ill, said this young misanthropist, and we may be pretty certain that persons whom all the world treats ill deserve entirely the treatment they get. The world is a looking glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it , and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it , and it is a jolly kind companion ; and so let all young persons take their choice.

The best of women ( I have heard my grandmother say) are hypocrites. We don't know how much they hide from us: how watchful they are when they seem most artless and confidential: how often those frank smiles, which they wear so easily, are traps to cajole or elude or disarm- I don't mean your mere coquettes, but your domestic models, and paragons of female virtue. Who has not seen a woman hide the dulness of a stupid husband, or coax the fury of a savage one? We accept this amiable slavishness, and praise a woman for it; we call this pretty treachery truth.

It must have often crossed Miss Crawley's mind that nobody does anything for nothing. If she measured her own feeling towards the world , she must have been pretty well able to gauge those of the world towards herself; and perhaps she reflected, that it is the ordinary lot of people to have no friends if they themselves care for nobody.

As an observer of human nature, I regularly frequent St George's, Hanover Square, during the genteel marriage season; and though I have never seen the bridegroom's male friends give way to tears, or the beadles and officiating clergy any way affected , yet it is not at all uncommon to see women who are not in the least concerned in the operations going on- old ladies who are long past marrying, stout middle-aged females with plenty of sons and daughters, let alone young pretty creatures in pink bonnets, who are on their promotion , and may naturally take an interest in the ceremony- I say it is quite common to see the women present piping, sobbing, sniffling , hiding their little faces in their little useless pocket-handkerchiefs; and heaving, old and young with emotion.


Ah! Vanitas Vanitatum! Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or having it, is satisfied?- Come children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.


p.s this post is dedicated to Amanda who only reads my blog when she has absolutely nothing else in the world to do

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Coldplay, Chris Martin and ermm Coldcuts?

hey B's and G's,
Recently, to my surprise, my whole family is pretty much in love with Coldplay! As a result of having all the time in the world to myself, I've gathered some random but rather interesting sayings of Chris Martin :)

On speaking your mind.
“I just still think that whether you’re a plumber or popstar, you should say what you believe in. It’s just that you know a lot of plumbers don’t get interviewed.”

On going all environmently- friendly.
“I would love to have a tour where- which you could power – I don’t know but if there’s some way of making the floor sensitive to energy so that if people jump up and down and stuff like that it charges the whole ( Concert I guess) so if you’re playing badly and the crowd is not into it, the power just cuts off and you have to finish so it’s their way of saying you’re terrible.”

Interview with some guy
(needless to say the interviewer is the one asking the questions and Chris Martin is the one answering)
Best thing in London?
Chicks
Worst thing in London?
Bands
What is marmite?
Terrible. No no no no , its great.
What are coldplay’s favourite coldcuts?
What’s that....I like breast of tofu.

On song-writing
Does song writing come easily to you, is it a gift?
Yeah it comes easily but it doesn’t necessarily come good.

On Coldplay
“We reached a point where we thought we can’t get much bigger so we have to try and get better.”

Oh gosh don't you just love the man already!!

youknowyouloveme

F is for the Fanatics

Fabulous morning to my dearest B's and G's!
Recently, my dad showed me this article which is really thought- provoking on terrorism. Here goes....

A German's view on APR*

A man, whose family was German aristocracy pior to WW2, owned a number of large industries and estates. When asked how many German people were true Nazis, the answer he gave can guide our atitude toward fanaticism.

'Very few people were true Nazis,' he said,'but many enjoyed the return of German pride, and many more were too busy to care. I was one of those who thought the Nazis were a bunch of fools. So, the majority sat back and let it all happen. Then, before we knew it, they owned us, and we had lost control, and the end of the world had come. My family lost everything. I ended up in a concentration camp and the allies destroyed my factories.'

We are told again and again by 'experts' and 'talking heads' that APR* is the religion of peace, and that the vast majority of it's believers just want to live in peace. Although this unqualified assertion may be true, it is entirely irrelevant. It is meaningless stuff, meant to make us feel better, and meant to somehow diminish the spectra of fanatics ramapaging across the globe in the name of APR*.

The hard quatifiable fact is that the peaceful majority , the 'silent majority', is cowed and extraneous.
Communist Russia was comprised of Russians who just wanted to live in peace, yet the Russian Communists were responsible for the murder of abnobut 20 million people. The peaceful majority were irrelevant.
China's huge population was peaceful as well, but Chinese communists managed to kill a staggering 70 million people.
The average Japanese individual prior to WW2 was not a warmongering sadist. Yet Japan murdered and slaughtered its way across SEA in an orgy of killing that included the systematic murder of 12 million Chinese civillians.

History lessons are often incredibly simple and blunt, yet for all our powers of reason, we often miss the most basic and umcomplicated of points : Peace- loving citizens have been made irrelevant by their silence and social/ political apathy.
As for the rest of us who watch it all unfold, we must pay attention to the only group that counts; the fanatics who threaten our way of life.
* A Particular Religion

The author of this email is said to be Dr. Emanuel Tanay, a well-known and well- respected psychiatrist.

youknowyouloveme

Boys and Girls.

Hey there B's and G's,

Pleasant morning to all of you. Here's a little riddle.

SO the girl wants the boy without the boys to know, but the girls know because she told them so. BUT then a girl told the boys , because the boys forced her to say so. THEN the boys told a girl they knew and she told the girl. THE boy was then upset at how the girl knew from a girl and while all this was happening a girl sat watching and a boy lived not knowing.

gossipgirl is back;)

youknowyouloveme

With My Own Two Hands

How's life all you B's and G's?
Recently, I stayed over at Yu Lin's house and she played this song for me on the guitar, it's off the soundtrack of the movie Curious George and it's called with my own two hands :)

I can change the world
With my own two hands
Make a better place
With my own two hands
Make a kinder place
With my own two hands
With my own
With my own two hands
I can make peace on earth
With my own two hands
I can clean up the earth
With my own two hands
I can reach out to you
With my own two hands
With my own
With my own two hands

Im gonna make it a brighter place
Im gonna make it a safer place
Im gonna help the human race
With my own
With my own two hands

I can hold you
With my own two hands
I can comfort you
With my own two hands
But you got to use
Use your own two hands
Use your own
Use your own two hands

With our own
With our own two hands
With my own
With my own two hands

youknowyouloveme

I'm a big kid now

Hello there all you gorgeous B's and G's,
Something amazing struck me last night while reflecting on an entire day of hardwork at Bedok Green Secondary School. An image of Holmer Simpson getting his epiphany suddenly jumps to mind. LOL
I was just telling someone on msn how proud I was of myself for actually completing a job, despite it just being a one day camp, due to my previous job experiences which left me emotionally very damaged and very fearful of working( Not entirely the fault of mine or others).
And this is it- as people we are always learning something new and always growing. There's a tendency to assume that just because we've lived a certain number of years as residents of planet earth, we have reached a point of perfection.
There are certain circumstances which we may not like to go through but either way, we are growing, day by day and step by step.
Along the way, we're definitely bound to make mistakes and hurt ourselves or perhaps even others, but just to encourage everyone out there, keep going at life, keep learning , keep growing- you can do it! :)
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