you talk like morpheus...

I was having a discussion with R about reality and truth.


What is real? What is true? What is a fact? All these things exist on a continuum. It all depends on the time we’re currently living in, our current technology, our society, norms, culture… There is no such thing as an absolute FACT. People used to think the earth was flat. THAT was a fact. Now we say it isn’t true. The earth is ROUND. But how do we know? We are limited by our current knowledge. What we perceive as a fact now may well be rubbish in the future. Take what we see. Is it really the object we’re seeing? No. It’s just a representation made by our brains. We are not really seeing the object, we’re just seeing what our brain tells us to….


Woah…. you sound just like Morpheus. R shakes his head and laughs at me. He’s probably thinking in his head, there she goes again. I should know better than to argue crap with her……


Morpheus?

Yes! Morpheus from Matrix!


Um…I don’t really remember the movie except the blue pill and the red pill and the dodging bullets. I think I was 12 …didn’t really understand it then.


WHAT?! You gotta watch it.


And so we did. And OH. MY. GOD. (think of Janice’s voice from FRIEND’s) I do talk like Morpheus. MAN, matrix is like, so my kinda shit.

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Sailor Moon!!!

This morning, Sailor Moon was on TV! It is still as captivating and fascinating as when I was 7 years old. I used to love this show so much and fly my headbands across the room because that’s what Sailor Moon did.

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And the handsome man in the mask with the red rose. Ahh how romantic. My childhood is all coming back to me.

My favourite character though was Mars. Because she had that beautiful long black hair.Isn’t she just lovely?

Isn’t our memory fascinating? There are just about a vagillion things stored in our heads (the word vagillion comes from an Old Spice commercial - if you don’t know what it means, GOWATCH IT).  The stuff is all over our brains and when we see something or do something or even smell something, it triggers our memory and all this stuff spills out.

Take my Sailor Moon example. I never recalled myself pretending to be Sailor Moon but when I was watching the episode this morning, the memory came back to me fresh and anew! WOW. I was literally that dumb when I was a kid.

Brilliant!

One thing I never want to lose is my memory. I guess maybe that’s why I like to write, take photos and write some more. I feel safer when things are recorded down because I never know when that memory will finally pop up again. Maybe never. But if it’s recorded somewhere outside of my brain, it’s relatively accessible.

Oh one more thing….I’m thinking of a new camera! I’ve been looking online and I’ve got my eye on the Olympus Pen EPL2. Any other suggestions??

how can something so upbeat be so depressing?

I came across this song on an indie music site and absolutely fell in love with it. It is called Pumped up Kicks by the band Foster the People. 

Every morning when I head out, the sun’s shining bright and the heat has me enclosed in a tight hug. I love summer. And I plug in my earphones and just like that, I don’t give a care about the rest of the world. 

This song is so upbeat and just so perfect for summer. 

Ahh…doesn’t it sound like the start of a cheesy romantic love chick flick?

BAM!

That’s right. It’s all gone. I had to go online to read the lyrics and BAM! There went my upbeat happy song. It is so depressing!! I’m not even exactly sure what the song is entirely about…but what I make of it is this: Some kid in school, probably one with no friends and anger problems, finds a gun and you literally can see him slowly unravel and go insane and have a high school shoot-out. 

So yea, how can something so upbeat be so depressing?

I still like the song though. It is rather meaningful and deep and touches on the issue of depression. I do feel for adolescents who go through depression. I mean, they’re so young and have so much ahead of them. Yet they feel as though their world is falling apart and they have no one to turn to. So so painful. 

Robert’s got a quick hand. 
He’ll look around the room, he won’t tell you his plan. 
He’s got a rolled cigarette, hanging out his mouth he’s a cowboy kid. 
Yeah he found a six shooter gun. 
In his dads closet hidden in a box of fun things, and I don’t even know what. 
But he’s coming for you, yeah he’s coming for you. 
All the other kids with the pumped up kicks you’d better run, better run, outrun my gun. 
All the other kids with the pumped up kicks you’d better run, better run, faster than my bullet. 

Daddy works a long day. 
He be coming home late, yeah he’s coming home late. 
And he’s bringing me a surprise. 
'Cause dinner's in the kitchen and it's packed in ice. 
I’ve waited for a long time. 
Yeah the slight of my hand is now a quick pull trigger, 
I reason with my cigarette, 
And say your hair’s on fire, you must have lost your wits, yeah. 
All the other kids with the pumped up kicks you’d better run, better run, outrun my gun. 
All the other kids with the pumped up kicks you’d better run, better run, faster than my bullet. 
All the other kids with the pumped up kicks you’d better run, better run, outrun my gun. 
All the other kids with the pumped up kicks you’d better run, better run, faster than my bullet.

a slight miscalculation..

SAY WHAT? Today is the 27th? Seriously I am living one week behind. For some really weird reason, I thought it was the 21st. And I have this huge-as paper due on the 30th and I kept telling myself, Oh I got plenty of time. DAMN…guess I was wrong!!

But all shall be okay. I’m going back to Adelaide for a little break =) Even though I did not get the dates that I wanted but who cares, I mean, if I can’t be sure I’m looking at the right date anyway.






So yea, today’s just gonna be a short post because I somehow lost 7 days of my life and now I need to catch up. Quick.


K. Bye!

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"Because the human race is a non-stop race, with too many trials but no real case"

Today I had a very lazy day.

The only productive thing I did today was teaching a kid how to give advice and then telling him that “Should’s” and “Must’s” are actually terrible words because there isn’t anything that we technically SHOULD or MUST do….maybe his mother won’t be too happy. And then we went on to read this awesome book about a stick-figured dog and how broccoli actually look like trees. 

Now that I think about it, I guess that wasn’t very productive either.

So I spent the rest of my day lounging around my apartment “trying to do homework”. And then I ended up rolling around on the floor because I was experiencing hunger pangs and nobody would care to give me food. Have you ever felt so hungry but yet just could not be effin’ bothered to make even a sandwich? Well I can tell you that I have. And it’s not a good feeling. 

Anyways, I gave up on homework and food. And went on YouTube for some relief of my sufferings. I watched about a million make up gurus talking about the same things - bla bla bla. I noticed they all say “I’m not saying for everybody out there, but this is what works for me.” That’s a nice way of saying, “I’m just bullshitting but please keep watching me.” 

And yep, I kept watching.

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And if you’re wondering what’s with the weird title, it’s from a song called Nothing by The Cat Empire. They’re one of my favourite bands and I hope you’ll like them as much as I do! Click on the video for the song =)

"I'd like to offer moral support but I have questionable morals."

Some random updates:

A dear friend of mine tells us what she eats for breakfast each morning because it’s the most important meal of the day. I always thought so too until I learnt during an IQ test that the meaning of breakfast is “the first meal you eat in a day”. Nothing about it being important. Well, I had a glass of chilled wine this morning because it was so hot. I guess it was the first meal I had, so according to “IQ-test-meaning”, we can deduce that it didn’t matter too much.

Then I was eating chicken and I was eating and eating and when I went to get another piece I realized it was a chicken head I had picked up with my chopsticks. What a meal.

And then I administered a personality test on myself and boy, do I have some antisocial tendencies. What does that mean? I guess in a nice way, you could say I’m non-conforming, creative and contemporary. But in normal words, I guess it just makes me slightly crazy.

And then my boyfriend tells me some cute girl tried to hit on him at the gym. I wonder if I should be proud or is he hinting that I should join the gym? 

And then I looked through at my photos from my recent 2-day trip and realized that most of my photos were secret snapshots of people doing funny stuff around me. And then I wonder if other people do this and whether this is normal. 

And then I remember my professor once said “What’s normal? Normal’s boring.” 

So that’s my update for now. Stay tuned.