* raindrops *

wow... after one year's hiatus...

anw i'm just leaving this quote which i saw on my social work lecture notes a while ago..

"Our youths love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for their elders and love to chatter in places of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their housholds. They no longer rise when their elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up their food, and tyrannize their teachers."

well... sounds like a typical lecture teachers'd give their students eh?? well, guess again. it's actually written by Socrates (you know, that ancient philosopher) in 400 B.C!!! Wahahahaha!!! couldn't keep the tears of laughter trickling down my cheeks when i saw this, although i have no idea why it struck me as so funny all of a sudden.

guess we ppl haven't changed so much after all these years, after all...

Calvin and Hobbes

Got quite caught up with Calvin and Hobbes recently.

Sometimes Calvin really reminds me of myself.. except that he's way smarter than me.

And Billy. Well, no one really talks to me about Billy. They just look at me and smile. What can you say about our Billy? He's all up in the air and - well, he's our Billy, that's all.

But there was something else to say about our Billy that I hadn't realised, and it was this. He was good at something.

-- Jackie Elliot, Billy Elliot

i wish i was, too.

Which Band Should You Be In? by couplandesque
Your Name
Band Name	Pearl Jam
Role	Vocalist
Trademark	Crazy Hairdo
Love Interest	Your Next-Door Neighbour
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Remember
Christina Rossetti

Remember me when I am gone away,
Gone far away into the silent land;
When you can no more hold me by the hand,
Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay.
Remember me when no more day by day
You tell me of our future that you planned:
Only remember me; you understand
It will be late to counsel then or pray.
Yet if you should forget me for a while
And afterwards remember, do not grieve:
For if the darkness and corruption leave
A vestige of the thoughts that once I had,
Better by far you should forget and smile
Than that you should remember and be sad.

ok.. i know i've not been updating my blog for quite a while.. but now i've (finally) found something (worthwhile) to post on my blog.. a loooong quote, this time, hope it doesn't bore anybody out.. so.. comments.. on my tagboard k? thanks.


Reality is under constant review. Twenty-three centuries ago, Aristotle believed that the heart must be the source of mental life because of its dynamic action and its warmth. The function of the brain, he thought, was to cool the blood. He built his cosmology on the belief that the Earth stands motionless at the centre of the universe, a fixed point about which the sun and the moon and the stars revolve. Aristotle was wrong on every count, but his erroneous beliefs - the product of intuition and illusion - served him well enough. And though we now know immeasurably more than Aristotle about the workings of the human body and the structure of the cosmos, we should not delude ourselves by thinking that we have arrived at some privileged end-point of intellectual evolution.

We still live by intuitions and illusions, especially when our thoughts turn inwards. The bright, intangible qualities of subjective experieice have yet to be reconciled with the dark substance of the brain, but that space behind the face is still lit by the mind's eye. Irresistibly, we still see the vision of minds in the light of other people's eyes. Cosmologies come and go, but if this illusion begins to fade then so does the observer.


Into the Silent Land
Paul Broks

hmm. below are some lyrics from this song i picked up recently. funny, i used to find the song stupid.. and the lyrics ridiculously absurd.. but now they don't seem so lousy anymore.. in fact i can actually relate to them. hmm.. they may sound like crap at first glance.. but.. read properly? haha. beats me.

In the Shadows
The Rasmus

No sleep
No sleep until I'm done with finding the answer
Won't stop
Won't stop before I find the cure for this cancer

Sometimes I feel like going down, I'm so disconnected
Somehow I know that I am haunted to be wanted

I've been watching, I've been waiting
In the shadows for my time
I've been searching, I've been living
For tomorrows all my life

They say that I must learn to kill before I can feel safe
But I, I'd rather kill myself than turn into their slave

Sometimes I feel that I should go and play with the thunder
Somehow I just don't wanna stay and wait for a wonder

I've been watching, I've been waiting
In the shadows for my time
I've been searching, I've been living
For tomorrows all my life

Lately, I've been walking, walking in circles
Watching, waiting for something
Feel me, touch me, heal me
Come take me higher

I've been watching, I've been waiting
In the shadows for my time
I've been searching, I've been living
For tomorrows all my life

Ive been watching,
Ive been waiting,
Ive been searching,
Ive been living,
for tomorrows....

In the shadows....

In the shadows.....

Ive been waiting.............

If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain.
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.

Emily Dickinson

Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net which was thrown into the sea and gathered fish of every kind; when it was full, men drew it ashore and sat down and sorted the good into vessels but threw away the bad. So it will be at the close of the age. The angels will come out and separate the evil from the righteous, and throw them into the furnace of fire; there men will weep and gnash their teeth.
Matthew 13:47-50

omg look at what i found on the net..

2 definitions of nannygoat

nannygoat

1. another accepted form of a Goatee

I'm trying to gro my Nannygoat back out


2. an unwanted hair on a woman's face - more coarse than peach fuzz - which often appears suddenly, even overnight. nannygoats feel like "beard hairs" and are usually plucked at one's earliest convenience!

I feel a hard little nannygoat sprouting on my chin and it's driving me crazy; must pluck asap!


laugh people, laugh.

I grant thee some verses of bad poetry -
- I'm sure you'll enjoy them..

Who knows what the future will hold
just like a fisherman out to sea
who does not know the
come and go of
the tides.
So i set myself afloat
to follow the push of the waves and
the sway of the winds
lest i end up somewhere
anywhere, alive.

'Well -' The car turned slowly; Johnny could see the moon through it. 'You know those games where this ball runs up and bounces around and ends up in a slot at the bottom?'

'Pinball machines?'

'Is that what they're called now?'

'I think so.'

'Oh. Right.' The Alderman nodded. 'Well... when you're bouncing around from pin to pin, it is probably very difficult to know that outside the game there's a room and outside the room there's a town and outside the town there's a country and outside the country there's a world and outside the world there's a billion trillion stars and that's only the start of it... but it's there, d'you see? Once you know about it, you can stop worrying about the slot at the bottom. And you might bounce around a good deal longer.'

'I'll try to remember that.'


From Johnny and the Dead
by Terry Pratchett

Your Existing Situation
Seeks to express the need for identification in a sensitive and intimate atmosphere where esthetic or emotional delicacy can be protected and nurtured.


Your Stress Sources
Wishes to be independent, unhampered, and free from any limitation or restriction, other than those which she imposes of herself or by her own choice and decision.


Your Restrained Characteristics
Demanding and particular in her relations with her partner or those close to her. but careful to avoid open conflict since this might reduce her prospects of realizing her hopes and ideas.
Unhappy at the resistance she feels whenever she tries to assert herself. Indignant and resentful because of these setbacks, but gives way apathetically and makes whatever adjustments are necessary so that she can have peace and quiet.




Your Desired Objective
Wants contentment, physical ease, and the absence of conflict. Needs security and clings to it so as not to have to suffer loneliness or separation.


Your Actual Problem
Seeks security and a position in which she will no longer be troubled by demands being made on him.

yoyo ppl