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Monday, July 29, 2019
Blindspots
What a ‘khaiatus’ it has been. Didn’t think I’d ever end up valuing a platform like this as much as I used to, especially since I got so busy with student council, studies and all the social shenanigans (and later on lack thereof) from uni’s year 1-2 onwards. But... I know it’s pretty much a shitty excuse. The reality is.. I’ve been very much ashamed and disappointed in myself and how much my outlook has deteriorated from what I think used to be the most desirable mentality to possess while going through life day by day. Seems like the moment you think you fully understand how to go about leading your life, that’s when curveballs fuck you up in every possible way it can. The moment you think you’re good at what you’re doing and that you’re always right, you’re fucked. I once suggested that the omnipotence of negative forces will always lurk around the corner. Why did I not expect it to overwhelm me ever again? The old me would’ve clearly given me shit if he knew what I’d eventually become. But it is what it is.
It really has been a sin to stop practising what I’ve been preaching to myself (and even others wtf) all those years back. Self-proclaimed life lessons that’s been compiled throughout my journey in managing fucked up expectations and outcomes throughout my adolescence. All pushed aside, just like that. Ignored, left behind to collect dust. That said, the belief that there is serendipity in retrospect may never be truer than now. See, I really really told me so.
I for one, have never felt so much like a prodigal son, having squandered away whatever I felt I would be having for life, forgetting that the idea of limitations and scarcity will exist no matter what. Things do run dry, goods will depreciate, if not fully diminish. So here’s to going back to the old drawing board, the haven in which I sought refuge constantly in the past. Time to resuscitate these dead and dormant braincells and fully utilise them. Always good to know there’s still a place where my return isn’t scorned but instead welcomed with open arms. A place where all I need is a rational mind. And myself.
Time to start clawing my way back to where I’ve always ought to be. Simply because it is imperative to hook onto and ride the waves of ‘resilience’ now, more than ever. To be fair, I’ve already gotten a good start. Since it’s hit me that I used to grow up thinking that I am and will always be the best version of myself whenever I have nothing to lose. Has it not been how I’ve continuously been going through life up till this recent phase? With absolutely nothing served on a silver platter? Lifelines are a burden. You don’t need lifebuoys if you know how to swim. Dependence essentially crippled, if not murdered me. And right now, there’s no longer anything important to lose. So fuck blindspots, iz time to say hello to this bout of back-to-back revelations with open arms. \(._.)/
Sunday, January 1, 2017Worthy.Holy shit. The time-travelling occurring here is pretty atrocious. trolol. But I guess I'll continue returning the moment I feel like I'm on the brink illiteracy. Happy fucken new year! :^) Saturday, May 23, 2015
Wanted.
Exams supposedly ended 5 days ago. (Yes I am ignoring the existence of stats reexamination next week.) And when I got home I immediately realized the meaninglessness of my life once again. I guess once we all stop dwelling in our progress towards any form of achievement, the feeling of being lost inevitably resurfaces.
Now what? Should I continue dwelling in the meaninglessness of my life? Well I would go on holiday, but I overcame the idea that now's just not the time. Managed to instead cherish the idea of its potentiality pretty thoroughly tho hahahah. Just hoping the suspense of finally being able to experience all the carefreeness in the world and the satisfaction of having just kicked life in balls eventually turns into reality. But in the meantime, I will settle with my luck of having a brain already injected with some form of temporary 'tolerance' serum that's been preventing the coagulation of impatient thoughts. We be waitin all day err day..
On the other hand, I've met so many people who can't wait to be on their way to fulfill the need of either a well-deserved getaway, or some trip dedicated to their desire to find out who they really are through solitude. And as much as I respect such audacity, some come home with plates, emptier than they were before. "Maybe it's time to stop asking questions and start searching for answers.", they all said. Unfortunately, I've seen how answers have apparently, only led to more questions... and frustration. And it is this frustration that I REALLY question.
Is it really that hard to understand the idea that you need to learn when to constantly go after something new in your life, and when to just wait for the right fucking moment? Because honestly..... I don't see many people who abruptly stray away from the path they're in, ultimately land themselves in an environment they've been dreaming of their entire lives, right off the bat. ._.
I. love. how. people. get. angry. after. confusing. themselves. lol.
I mean, if you are capable of dreaming big and you have this crazy imagination of how your life is gonna turn out by changing whatever it is you're doing now, well, then don't give up, and turn it into your reality man. I genuinely support you. But if you're gonna get frustrated the moment you start venturing into this whole dimension that none of us have ever seen just because everything doesn't make sense even after awhile and you end up doubting your new entire persona, then may I suggest you get the fuck out of your own whirlpool and stop going all apeshit..?
Because at the end of the day, it is alarming to know that there're people who try really hard to accomplish what is beyond them and in turn neglect what they can do with the opportunities that's been handed to them on a silver platter. Why do these people NOT SEE, that having the ability to adapt and make full use of what they already have, can eventually lead to something more than what is expected of it..? How special must your accomplishment really be, in order for you to be truly satisfied?
Of course.... we all have differing definitions of what exactly is 'beyond us'. And we all do not define 'opportunities' in the same manner because it can be ambiguous, the certainty of how something will eventually become useful/useless, in the long run. But I guess, such is the magnificence, of our intertwined understanding of each other's aspirations in life.
A year down, (hopefully only) 2 more to go.
Egg-citing.
Tuesday, April 21, 2015Pareto improvement.
Do people really have to suffer up to a certain extent before they learn a valuable lesson? Are we really incapable of reaching a point in our lives where we are able to automatically comprehend the potential lessons that would surface and bring us enlightenment, should a particular event occur. I am convinced critical thinking would possibly make suffering obsolete in some instances. If we could just, actually think carefully, and make use of the abundance of bad historical decisions that exist around us, to our advantage. And don't give me that "not everyone can do that" bullshit. You're right. And wrong. Everyone can, albeit eventually, do that. I've seen it, and I am impressed by the few who had taken full advantage of their ability to gradually attain this thought process.
I'm still pretty much adamant on the idea that there really is a more effective way to grasp life's lessons without having to go through a bad patch yourself. There're so many people living around you. What a waste it would be, if you prefer not to free-ride and instead expend unnecessary time and energy towards undergoing something perceivably bad, yet highly preventable.
Hahahahahhahaha to be honest, after rereading that whole chunk above, I almost convinced myself I am a selfish prick, making use of another person's impoverishment to my advantage. But let's stop and think, and then reveal to ourselves where true selfishness lies. The dude hasn't got much to lose now, and you have something to gain from that, haven't you? If I may add, I believe in being an opportunist, ESPECIALLY when I am able to prevent another person from being worse off, whilst becoming better, off of him.
Wait a minute.. am I suggesting a shift towards Pareto Optimality in life..?? #kwakwa
But really.. Isn't that the end goal we should all reach out for? WE ARE DEFINITELY STILL FAR OFF THE SCALE. There're no bullshit assumptions limiting us to only two goods. Our graphs ain't pathetically 2-dimensional.. Nobody ever said the goods in our market were limited to the tangible ones.. SO LET'S TRADE BARBARICALLY WHY DONT WE?
Ok, ok. Fine..
I really want to admit that there has been an ever-increasing interest in my study of economics in school, at this point.. But I'm afraid if I do that now I would've possibly challenged myself to do well for that subject in 15 days time. Hardly anybody ever admits, in the open, that they really enjoy whatever it is they're learning in school! It's preposterous! And is taboo!
And you know what else is, apparently, taboo..? Ending a post abruptly.
Thursday, April 16, 2015Pursuit from happiness.People talk about lowering expectations, in order to prevent suffering from a huge disappointment later on. I hear this every now and then from the people around me. Yet I hardly see them 'suffer' from the 'side effects' of having such a mindset. What the fuck do I mean..?? I'm talking about lowering expectations on all, real, aspects in life instead of just lowering it to prevent sadness or disappointment. While drawing out a mind map to help me remember how to prevent, if not control and regulate a sudden bout of negative feelings, the SOPs I've conjured up have inevitably diffused through its extremely thin-layered bubble and onto the rest of the categories. My feelings end up being incredibly short-lived. I'd laugh at a joke and get over it. If it's good enough I'd use its context, personalize it and then share it in my notorious monotonous voice. (Apparently the skill of sharing a joke happily and with much expression is still pretty incomprehensible to me) It's getting tougher and tougher to satisfy a prolonged happiness in me. I am constantly appeased with whatever goes on around me. People tend to assume immediately, when they read what I've written above, that I seem like a sad person. I am not, because the value of grief is very minute to me. The next rational thing to do would be to put aside sadness and do something about it. The thought of being able to spring myself up from concrete rubble overwhelms true sadness. Neither am I truly happy, because I'd soon realize life will still have its negative forces constantly reigning down upon me as I try to scrape through this life, decade by decade. The thought of that overwhelms true happiness. (Of course, this applies only to me, some people struggle way more, and some, way less.) "Sounds like a really mundane way of leading life Khai." Maybe it is to you, because you've wrongfully portrayed me as a really dull person. Surprisingly my life is eventful enough to my liking. I've just stopped dwelling in the realm of extreme, fluctuated feelings. I know they're there, but why travel so far up and down the y-axis when in all honestly, you already know what's there, and we're all headed towards the end of the x-axis? Perhaps..... I'm still waiting for the right time i.e. when negative forces lose its omnipotence against me. But in the meantime, "I would have to say that if I were to find bliss in this world, it would be in my own mind. My imagination is the source of any and all happiness I may ever hope to actualize, simply because its capacity is infinite. In my mind, I can achieve anything and everything; pontificate my ideas, compose arbitrary melodies, write novels that will never be published. My Kingdom of Imagination is a vast haven, a refuge, and when the external world fails me (as it recurrently does), a necessary retreat." (I apologize for the cheesy aforementioned, feelings vs life-timeline graph analogy on behalf of Econs and Math.) Which reminds me................. Tuesday, April 14, 2015An increasing foresight is proportional to suffering.If it's untrue, maybe you haven't suffered enough. Well................. Hi. 3 more weeks to my first exam in idk how fucking long. Shit's getting real. I am appalled by the amount of time I've put into this nonsense and the non-corresponding amount of knowledge I've managed to retain in my brain. Its capacity is mediocre at best and that in itself is a burden to my life during this phase. Whenever I study at home though, and subconsciously catch a glimpse of my environment and the people living in it, I feel like I need to make a drastic change happen in the near future. It is tiring to maintain this drive towards that goal and yet I feel I do not deserve to feel this tired, it's been less than a year of hard work. This whole staying resilient thing is harder than I've expected but I MUST comprehend its dynamics lest I end up being the contradicting outcome to whatever I've constantly been preaching to myself in my very own mind. I abhor the idea that the potentiality of the latter occurring is still unsurprisingly large, at this juncture. Simply because it is detrimental to my forthcoming and whoever it is that's gonna remain in that perception of what life would eventually be like. I wonder, and then I wander even further until I realize what I really want is for the current wondering to stop. This phase. Near future. This juncture. Forthcoming. & Current. Is it not vehemently present ^, the incoherence of the timeline I have expressed via my thought process, in reflecting what I have otherwise perceived to be smooth sailing? Started this post off-the-cuff, trying to adopt some sense of chronology. Guess I fucked up. Thursday, January 1, 2015When darkness turns to light, 2014 ends tonight.I've had the luxury of overspilling some of my stupidity from 2014 to 2015. How do we summarize the entire year in a single post? Something is bound to get undocumented, and the ones documented would be done in an arguably improper way. (I don't know about you but that sounds like an agenda which'll lead to half-fucked outcomes. Taking me years to realise lol.) But...... I guess I'm not obliged to make readers (or even my future self) feel and extreme sense of vividness of my very own memories. So....... ya. Academics: 2014, you fucking got me into an institution so I could resume with my studies and then you kicked me right out. Thank God (for the lack of a better expression) I'm still allowed to sit for my first year exams (because UOL is a separate entity from SIM). Why is it so tough to stay in school...? This 'punishment' seems pretty harsh whenever I consider comparing myself to a handful of other people around me. Let's just say, after having met them and their stories, they've helped me conclude that they do not deserve a spot. (I constantly fail to sense even a single ounce of their 'hustle') But I guess it's how things go in this world, and if different kinds of obstacles unfairly present themselves to us lot, who're aiming towards the same destination, we'll just have to learn to accept our luck (or lack thereof). Fuck me. Opportunities are scarce and while I cling on to this chance of doing a fairly good first year exam, I'll continue to pay the price for my naiveté back in JC. i.e. my thumbs are sucked nearly dry, but they should be able to last for the rest of my life. (Y) City Venture 2014: To the CV committee, you guys made me feel alive during the few short months we had to work towards a common goal. I've utterly forgotten how it feels like to be constantly alert when you're heavily involved in the progression of conducting an event and spearheading plans towards success. Considering the amount of gratitude I've compiled over time, to show to these people, I ironically ran out of ways to put more words together after a few Instagram captions towards the comm. (Am just gonna assume they know how appreciative I truly am for their existence.) Work: Also very grateful that TCK's never been an issue for me. Despite the constant change in TCK colleagues, I'd always be motivated enough to adapt to the atmosphere. The people there made it way easier. Best part-time and full-time job eva! Well I guess these 3 above were really what pushed me and ensured my momentum literally stayed on during the past year. Pity there's only so much I could think of saying right now. I mean look at my momentum now. Every para only diminishes in size lol. Brain.. Going.. Obsolete.. Soon. K. Luvvit. Bai. Tuesday, September 9, 2014The self-centered are useless.Growing sick and tired of people around me who wear me down. We all suffer from wear and tear too, don't we? I've always made the mistake of assuming whoever I meet in my life would prove to be significant to me in a way or another somewhere down the line. Oh how wrong I've actually been. There's a reason the word exception was invented. They fucking exist. To question a friendship, now that's something we don't see everyday. But damage control, is damage control. They've gained more from me than I have from them (which apparently has been zilch). Someone has to cut the cord, why not I take the initiative to do so (like I always have)? I loathe the self-centered. They are useless. And as long as I don't fully become what I hate, I'm sure it's just me working towards some form of balance in terms of value-addedness. I hope these people eventually realize the chaos they're making in the world. I may not be religious, but I'm human enough to realize you're a detriment to society. The afterlife may matter to you, still doesn't mean you can deliberately fuck things up in the current life. Stop your juvenile tantrum and wake the fuck up. Monday, April 21, 2014Lemonalogy."What would you do if you learnt I had cancer?"
"I'd tell you at least one joke every single day."
Sometimes the unimaginable knocks at your door. Chill guys, I don't have cancer and nobody I'm close to has cancer. (Or at least not that I know of at this point.) But isn't it scary..? That word. 'Unimaginable'. (Well cancer is scary too of course..) Point is, wouldn't life be way easier if you knew what irreversible 'unimaginables' you'd be receiving later on in life, the moment you were born? Everyone would lead their lives way differently from the start. Wouldn't that equate to fully utilizing precious life? Let's say such a time comes, that you're unlucky enough. How do you fathom an unimaginable piece of information that has been given to you with the snap of a finger? The unexpected can really hit you hard. Perhaps expecting negativity could negate some of that shock, but not all of it. Besides, how do you actually expect the unimaginable anyway? On another note though, as much as knowing how real the possibility of a bad thing occurring to us is, we all still live our lives normally amidst the stories we hear. We tend to pay more intricate detail with our lives and what we ought to do with it only when our body becomes a more apparent ticking time bomb. It appears that there is a need, to be instilled with the idea that we are seriously dying, before we actually live. ._. We're all just programmed to take real action only after learning things the hard way. Is this then what they truly mean by making lemonades when life throws lemons at you? That before thou receives lemons, thou shall sit idly by, use computer and waste time reading this post? Or is this a new way of saying, 'when life throws rocks at you, you start making lemonades'? Because a rock to the face would make a great wake up call that's for sure. (Ok I swear no more lemon analogy.) Wednesday, April 16, 2014Geronimo.Stand up, hook it up, shuffle to the door. Jump right out by the count of four ya. Friday, April 11, 2014Be scissors.How do you know when to stray away from the status quo? How do you weigh opportunities that pass by without knowing the full potential outcome of each and every one of them? Don't we deserve to analyse before we succumb to that one choice? Everyone prefers calculated risks to leaps of faith. Right? Or am I the only one who thinks that? I... love how this post portrays my lack of confidence in my decision making, while the previous post summarizes my strong belief on choosing whatever the fuck I want because that decision will still land me somewhere good in life no matter what, sooner or later. It's one thing to decide as a third party, and another to experience the burden of opting for a choice, directly. The level of adrenalin that affects you is not negligible. All I can say is, it's been awhile since I fought for whatever I wanted (I.e my dreams).. simply because I've found it appalling to fight for something with such low probabilities of occurring or becoming true. That has been my stand and it resulted in my subconsciously becoming more content with life's puny lemons. But when you lay low for too long, you start to feel that something's missing. Puny lemons just aren't good enough in the long run anymore. You have to start making plunges to attain what you deem will make you happiest. Bearing in mind of course that if it doesn't play out, you'll just end up hurting yourself. I'm pretty sure anyone that's put in this same contentious position wouldn't just, sit back and dwell in low expectations and cheap contentment forfuckingever? There's no thrill to compensate for the adrenalin and curiosity that one compiles in waiting. Meh. 'Curiosity kills cats', they say, and human beings apparently were undeserving of even a slight mention in that phrase. So.... We must've been doing something right! Yes? I am assuming we thrive when we indulge in our quest for answers that lie beyond a sea of choices here. Do back me up lol. But if you don't, I get it... There has been suggestions that leaps of faith kinda = suicide.. Therefore we deserve to hesitate before turning a knob, don't we? We deserve to wait and see if the doors may just go away after awhile, or if there's a better door out there that arises in future. We'll all wait.. but.. this would be only up to the point where our minds get restless and begin sending surges of 'budge-you-motherfucker-or-we're-all-fucked-for-eternity..' This turmoil plagued with having the need to do the right thing at the right time would easily bug the fuck out of anybody. Everything seems really routine until a row of unopened doors present themselves to you. All we can do at such short notice is shiver and over time, warm our minds to once again reason with logic. We are weak in dealing with the uncalled for. We shiver like Tourette's patients. And such seizures.. would cease for sure, the moment we manage to become seizers. Holy fucking mother of irony. Saturday, January 4, 2014Fuck lemons.The only belief I've knowingly surrendered myself to thus far would be.. That whatever route you take or is thrown into will have its widespread repercussions and that your job is to evoke the good and segregate them from the bad, no matter what you feel the outcome might be. It appears to be the only form of idea I'm convinced anyone is capable of fathoming and controlling. When peripheral walls seem to shift and draw closer, perhaps it is a change that helps you see clearly with regards to whatever's left of a narrow road, even though you cannot deny the possibility of it crushing you (or it mightn't afterall!). All you need to do is to eradicate whatever scintilla of claustrophobia you've been harboring, and then perhaps it will prove to be the easiest way to seek relief as you claw your way out of catastrophes. Fuck lemons. Throw me disasters. Tuesday, December 31, 2013When darkness turns to light, 2013 ends tonight.Never knew it'd be this bad. 2 posts in the space of one year. What a way to represent how fast a year had gone by. Here goes nothing. I guess 2013 would be the epitome of what-ifs for me. Questions, questions.. and more questions. And throughout all that, one thing that's practically remained constant was the fact that there wasn't an answer to every goddamned uncertainty that throws itself upon whichever paths we took or are about to take in our lives. I've learnt that knowing more usually results in an expansion in the realm of the unknown. And it is the capacity to be able to live with the interminable nature of change, that ironically keeps my sanity. I remember stumbling upon a, "Would your life make a good film?" Honestly....? I think it'd receive at least a 4 outta 5 this time round. Lol @ 20 motherfucking 13. 20 motherfucking 13 marked a year of change, even though it was a continuation of my pseudo-unexpected gap year. (I've always had a hunch I'd be right where I am this year. You know.. as way of consoling myself.) Here're a few cliches; got a much stable part time job, which then became my full time one, met people I may or may have not met before and reestablished ties/rapport via conversations and common interests which didn't seem very plausible initially/after a fucking long hiatus from one another, and rediscovered a whole new level of tolerance, i.e. the fact that shit doesn't go your way and there's a way to find validity in such outcomes (by simply acknowledging the presence of evil in the world.. and no I do not believe in fate or that thing called destiny. I also love to exaggerate and am also incoherent whenever sarcastic). Started smoking, got into car accident as a passenger (obviously survived), lost two phones and just to sum things up even quicker, practically wasted money at places I'd never considered previously. And this calls for that 'prejudice' post-it on the unreachable spot on my back. Here's to being even more open-minded than ever about every single thing that's been going on around me, or to me. (Note how I slot that sentence in at the right time.) To being a prick to pricks and to unleash a wave of intolerance onto the intolerant souls that inevitably intertwine while they dwell on this gravitational, massive rock we all call home. Here's to giving the benefit of the doubt to oppositions I've always thought was clearly the dark side. And swallowing the fuck out of anything wrong that was happening. And lastly, here's to wanting to be back at square one. 2014 will be a beast. And perhaps by now, I may seem to have come across as somewhat distraught and reasonably drunk. But I assure you the perception of a mute platform can undeniably let the reader see and interpret a text only in a way they want to. I am okay. Just a little turned off by my euthanasia-deserving passion to return to this space regularly throughout 2013. If you may feel better, go ahead and imagine myself saying all the above verbally to you and a mutual friend at the outdoors of a pub, with a half-filled tower placed precisely in the middle of our round table and fluctuated surface levels of our aligned mugs. Condensed water trickling off the table onto my unlucky foot. And of course, a black ashtray filled with sticks the length of it's filters. The thought of summarizing the year always exhausts me. But I suppose some would argue for the therapeutic entities it possesses, if done right. Nonetheless, shall leave you with something I found online recently. Think it fills a vacuum called 'jadedness'. 'Monotony exhausts the life out of passion. The sparkles are ironed out by the repetitive work. Even if the work involves everyday being different, if everyday is similarly different, all works out to be similar. Naivety and fervent belief may go hand in hand but they will eventually burn.' To the upcoming bullshit in 2014, come at me bruhh. Tuesday, November 5, 2013A tempt.Here's to my very first post this year. Been trying to get back to regenerating some brain cells the past couple of weeks and I tink tis da best way ah know how. There's so much to talk about but with crossroads in my brain right now, I prolly should just keep this simple, short and sweet. I suppose a relatively good way to briefly summarize what's been going on in my life this year would be, "I still fail in all aspects of my life." Lol. And if you're planning to, you actually don't have to persuade me off this mentality because I know I'm not being pessimistic here, just realistic. Its not like I don't give a fuck about life. O_O I just love acknowledging the fact that things just either don't go your way all the time, or takes a really long time to eventually do so. Nonetheless, the road to a degree seems a step closer. What can I say? Another year is ending! Besides, what I've lost academically during these gap years I've been able to compensate with, I would say better financial stability and a fair share of general knowledge picked up from mere conversations or other unexpected sources. And to be fair to myself, these might somehow help once I become a student again? Here's some positivity.. I'm still aware of my indefinite hunger pangs to be a student again. 4 years is an atrociously long wait and I'd be making an understatement if I said I'm feeling bored of this. They say the definition of boredom would be the desire for desires. ._. And I'm pretty sure I've lost my sights before on what I truly want during the past couple of years. Setbacks do exist, don't they? And they shall stay temporary. So........ There you go. Life right now. Being thrown back and forth as we very slowly move forward.. Peace. ._.V Tuesday, December 18, 2012I told me so.Sorry you seemed to like what I managed to change, and didn't like what I couldn't change. My loss. Stumbled upon a.. "Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power." Sure, a good guide in avoiding suffering. Provided you can define what is controllable and what is not. Once you mix them up, say hi to black holes sucking you from within. Was trying to end this chapter the moment it started. But there was delay, because hope was implanted at some point. It was convincing. Was. Now, chapter ends, because it is true when they say, 'there's no hope for the hopeless, and even less hope for the hopeful'. See. I told me so. Wednesday, December 5, 2012Perhaps, just another revelation.Isn't it always surprising when the people you'd least expect, manages to define you, even more accurately than you ever could yourself? We've lived a portion of our lives having moments where we find ourselves sit, and just try to subconsciously define ourselves as a person. Moments of identity crises, if you will. It may be easy to notice when a phase like this begins (the urge to frequently define one's self), but it's always harder to know when to end it. Simply because coming to a conclusion, or a perfect definition of YOUR own liking, is an arduous task. 'Something' is always missing because as imperfect as we all are, we'd like to see ourselves to be as flawless as possible. And like an unsolved math question, it can be frustrating when you are near the solution, but never there. A God damned asymptote that will never touch its axis - that's what this is. Sometimes people help you along the way and say shit about you/raise awareness on how you are to them as a person. And among these, you can still decide to either ignore, or at the very most, take with a pinch of salt. But when heads are struck with a solid nail, you can only beg....... to differ with your own conscience, and you will succumb to this definition which has been presented to you. The impact will be monstrous. You will know it when you feel it. And whether you like it or not, when you inevitably start to perceive 'a pinch of salt' as a solid 'nail to the head' instead, you kneel, and you just accept what you are.. Tuesday, November 13, 2012Two sides to a coin. Inside, outside.
I've always undeniably harbored the thought that many would see one particular thing, in many different ways. We all have our own interpretation/misinterpretation of one particular thing. A normal friendship could be seen as one-sided to a person, absolutely perfect to the other, and yet courtship by third parties. We've always let our minds think about things the way we want them to turn out. And it shocks me how people are caught off guard the moment they realize.. oh shit... there's been a clash in everyone's portrayal of the situation.
Then we doubt, and we question how someone else doesn't see things the same way we did. But more often than not, we'd never question how WE didn't see things the same way THEY did. This is simply innate. Everyone struggles to come to consensus. And I guess the solution would be to acquire a sudden influx of selflessness. Attaining selflessness is.. always easier said than done, but we'll try won't we, fellow neanderthal? We shall selflessly make compromise! As of late, my poor judgement leads me to think I at times, am being taken for granted. Reason being I may have over-showered concern over people who hasn't reciprocated, been reciprocating or will ever reciprocate in the near future. But hey, iz ok.. 'Giving is better than receiving' right..? This year I have learnt that the phrase has been and will always be nothing short of bullshit. We humans are inherently fucked up and will undeniably do things for a cause. How fucked up you are.. is directly proportionate to how unreasonably high your demands are towards your targeted reward. Be fucked up. And be proud. It is only human. But whether it is humane.. is for you to decide. It is not very hard to believe that receiving, (unfortunately?) makes a pretty damn good motivation, to continually give even more. Because you'd know what you've been doing hasn't been for naught. There is a prize after paying the price. Just how things are meant to turn out. It's fucking convenient, isn't it? But let's say over a long period you've decided you'd give, and you give, and you give, and you give, and you give... and never ever receive.. there's an arguable term for this. It is called infatuation. And in the long run it will wear you down, for obvious reasons. Which is why, over the course of this recent 'infatuation' experience, the very last thing I have given is.. well.. up. Thursday, September 27, 2012Out-comes and ex... pectation.And in my battle against uncertainty, we both lost. We lost the minute we both became certain. Monday, September 17, 2012We fight back.Here's a situation. Throw us a contentious problem that would last for at least a few months, for us to ponder our god damned wits over. Or, throw us right smack into the heart of dilemmas where whichever way you choose to go, would give you the feeling that it may be better sometimes to just stay put in square one. And as if it is not already arduous enough, throw.. maybe, just for the fun of it.. the must and the need and the imperative to eventually find that one, ideal solution amongst the sea of difficult choices. Because what would problems be without solution, right? A nightmare, maybe? A black hole? An incomplete se Basically something that'll make you itch just a little, and yet enough to have possibly murdered some of them OCD patients. An incomplete se An incomplete se An incomplete se An incomplete se An incomplete se Okay I'll s Maybe what I'm trying to say is.. most of us would've easily been able to arrive at that point where we make a convincing decision, and become reasonably certain things will end up in the way we expect them to. And yet time flies, only with the intention of blurring the feasibility of our prior expectations. Before we know it, we start harboring the impression that so long as our end solution remains intangible and unachieved, anything can still fucking happen. It is fucked up, the amount of assurance we (attempt to) thrust upon ourselves at different times, only to act as an impetus to religiously leech onto the path we have chosen right from the very start. We must not resist the notion, that the basis of this stasis, will always consist the need to persist. Uncertainty will always be brutal. And to overcome it we must.. fight back. Tuesday, August 28, 2012Stumble, only but upon.Here's one (I found on the floor when I lost my grip).
When we experience a hint of luxury more often than not we will make a bid for sustenance. But once we fail, we start yearning instead, for sustenance. We've sustained the want/need to sustain, not the ability to, sustain. And then the option of giving up what we could live without pops, only but up. We learn to yield. We have at times, wrongfully, yet inevitably, sustained yielding.
Reality slaps hard, in the face. And yet we can, but only, sustain yielding. Saturday, August 25, 2012Paint full summary.Summary is crucial, isn't it? (Pardon my long posts.) It's where you fucking reflect. It's where you squeeze the whole sequence of all things that're currently all jumbled up, right smack into one tight mind-map, in an order as chronological as possible. Then naturally as you reflect, feelings start to appear in a fugue of optimism (towards what you foresee in the future) and pessimism (towards the potentiality of failure, reappearing never-endingly in your life despite the better preparations, realistic expectations even.). Mistakes fucking happen. And when you summarise mistakes, it is usually, overwhelming. So then I guess, feeling overwhelmed is the climax in this orchestra. I remember talking about the comparison conspiracy - incredible (not credible) self-theory I proclaimed I came up with - some time ago. Where whenever you feel like you've lost the world, just compare yourself to others that have probably lost two worlds, and just as they managed to regain one of them back, in the process, just lost another three ( I exaggerate but I hope you get the point.). Thing is, no matter how shit you feel, there will always be someone who has the entitlement to feel worse than you. And for the sake of being considerate/sensitive, you DO NOT show blatantly that you feel worse than a person who is obviously doing worse off than you. It is not impossible to suffer in silence. And I'm not saying I've conquered the world, but I've done it most of my life (suffer in silence), and I don't feel like it's a superficial front/facade I'm putting on when I smile and laugh and give a fuck about life. It is genuine happiness whenever I am around friends. I forget problems. I fucking move on. (Or show that I am trying to.) Not indulge in pain and make it seem like I'm stuck forfuckingeversoohGodpleasehelpmeI'mstucktotheground.. And oh. One day, when you finally move on. Please control your happiness. Once again, be considerate to the people who are still genuinely trying to feel better and have been overtaken by your sudden ability to regain puzzle pieces to your jigsaw. Maybe up till today, 'humility' still isn't a characteristic others get easily turned on by, but imo, what I know is, showboating/boasting happiness is just, simply, disgusting after awhile. So stop. And if by now, you still insist that I blogged this out because I'm just a jealous fuck desperate for your/other's happiness then well, my friend, you're missing out on the whole point here. Wake the fuck up. Soccer later. Therapy. Monday, August 13, 2012Serendipity in retrospect.Who would've thought that the person who'd cheer me up a little this afternoon would be.. myself? Yes. But only this time it's myself in retrospect. Was browsin' through fb out of boredom and saw a wall post from a friend, whom I gave advice to when she was feeling like life is shit. She actually posted what I typed to her.. And wtf, now that I'm feeling more dull than excited, reading my own advice just kinda made me feel a little better. What sorcery. Serendipity in retrospect, indeed. \m/ "You know, that in the midst of all these feeling-pissed-off-with-life and all, you ought to take a step away, look through how things eventually ended up like that and try to undo it. If it can't be undone, then you know that ultimately, there's only one thing to do. And that's to make do with whatever you've got and make sure it doesn't get worse. You might prolly think ,"But I've got nothing.", then that's where you're wrong because if I ask you now.. "Is there anything else that could make your life worse?" You know that the answer to that will always be yes. So now you know you have something. Don't you dare lose it." The future me, when stumbling upon this post again, will be hungry for more. But I shall now claim that he shan't dwell in retrospect for too long. It kills. Thursday, August 9, 2012Wait, weight, whatever.Someone get me out of this. Friday, August 3, 2012Miserable at best.These words were never easier for me to say, or her, to second guess. And I guess, that I can live without you but, without you, I'd be miserable at best. Wednesday, July 25, 2012If money is bad then it doesn't matter which side of the coin is better. It shouldn't even have been made.What if one day you woke up. Notice that you are a victim of a despicable crime. There're witnesses to back you up. So you're certain of who did what to you. And you remember the suspect. And you know the suspect. And you decide to give him a chance to turn himself in. But he doesn't. And when you're done waiting and cannot take it anymore. You confront him. It is a despicable act. Life changing definitely. You cannot forgive someone of doing something so foolish. Especially if its someone whom you've had thrust your trust upon for years. A chance was given for him to plead guilty. But he did not take that chance. He has to pay for not realizing his mistakes. For the stab wound on your back. For all the nice facade he's been showcasing to everyone. Behind this mask is a fucking culprit. Oh, where is the justice. Time to unmask this villain and let come to light what ought to be brought, to light. Period. What if one day you woke up. Noticed you're being accused of a despicable crime. There're witnesses to go against you. You only have a sorry ass excuse of, "I swear I don't remember this happening." And you really, really don't. But everything is pointing towards the direction that the crime is true. And for a few days prior to this realization that you might actually, really be a suspect, you haven't a single clue someone's been expecting you to turn yourself in. To admit to your mistakes. To acknowledge that you know you're in the wrong. Everyone talks to you and asks you to give it up. This act.. And plead guilty. But no matter how you want to.. you cannot bring yourself to plead guilty. Because you.. apparently have got a sorry ass excuse of... "I swear I don't remember this happening." And you really, from the bottom of whatever heart you have left, really don't remember any of this happening. Period. I don't know if it matters which story you read first. Go ahead and read the second one first, then the first one, second. We shouldn't even be in the courtroom in the first place. The difference between a victim and an absolute victim. The former has fewer rights. The latter ought to have more. Here's your gavel. Your jury. What's my offence this time? You're not a judge, but if you're gonna judge this, well, sentence me to another life. - Paramore Thursday, July 19, 2012When the larger portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.When all that is relevant doesn't make sense or is unfortunately, never enough. We seek what is beyond what we thought was the end. My venture into the realm of irrelevance has always been fleeting. As if I have no control over it. A risk, a gamble. Whatever you call it, the point is to never make a bet that you know you will instantly lose. But lose over time? Now, that is something I'll only start to realize later on. The potential of success, succeeds, albeit in blinding me from the potential of failure. The future looks bleak when even the now is starting to look worse than the past. But if a seemingly irrelevant bet will show me what is truth. Then it is a good bet. One that I probably would've eventually made, no matter what. But, fuck. How do you close Pandora's box? Speaking of the seemingly irrelevant, indulge.
So sentimental. Not sentimental no.
Monday, July 9, 2012I used to be smarter.It's crazy how I can stumble upon a random blog, love reading almost every post typed in that space, and then realize the stranger has been alive in this world, for only as long as... well, I have. Kinda makes you muse over how wide the intellectual gap can stretch between two random people of the same age. I mean, how do you feed a child with so much desire to achieve more and more knowledge. I know education bored the fuck out of me in Secondary school. And that probably set the benchmark on how smart I'd eventually (want to) be/am. I simply was more interested in things that fun would bring. Oh, Naiveté. Whatever. If there is such a thing as an inferiority scale, I'm saying that mine sky-rocketed upon the 3rd post I had read. At an age where I'd rant about a useless outing that had temporarily made my day, others blog about how they are appalled at the capriciousness of the society they live in. Clicked on 'Archives', hoping that the earlier posts would be less intellectually-crafted, only to find out they are equally as interesting, if not even more so. What a Benjamin Douchébag Button. Monday, June 25, 2012Tonight.When there're more than one sad story in a night, one could only wonder, how many more there are in the world tonight. Here's to the people who has inevitably accepted defeat, and yet still falter at the very thought of the current situation they're in in their lives. Reality, is reality. You cannot escape truth. You can only alter what it is to be, I strongly believe, tonight. I'd try my best to remind friends that these are only particular moments in a lifespan. I'd like to remind them of their current age. I'd like to remind them that there are better things in store. I'd like to remind them of much bitter things, in store. I'd like to remind them there are reasons the words "limit" and "constraints" were invented. I'd like to remind them that no matter what, they'd have still made the very same choice that they had made in that point in time, even if it has led to their downfall tonight. When failing has brought you down, know that at least you have tried, and that not even trying in the first place, would mean absolute failure. Having experienced no failure however, does not necessarily equate to having success. Unless of course, you define your success, based on the lack of failure. My point is, there is a fence where people can stand on and just because the wind blows at one direction for a short time towards any side, it does not mean you are heading towards it, for your feet, are still perched tonight. Sidetracks, sidetracks. We all need a process of digesting the shock of failure, the abrupt end to happiness and what has kept us going for days, weeks, months and et cetera. Music, sights, friends, other stories of fail that would make you feel better. I'd personally pick music. And I'd pick the one from the All American Rejects. They are an awesome band simply for mentioning how, when darkness turns to light, it ends tonight. Friday, June 22, 2012Things make days. Today, this one made mine hahahaha. I only like buff girls. All others, please head to the gym.Meh. Back to mundane shit. |
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