i found a classmate's blog today. and contrary to the popular mindset, he's blog was interestingly perceptive and it just revealed a depth of character that not many ppl have, tho he seems boring enough on the surface. just goes to show the old adage (was it in hannibal rising?): "there's always something interesting about a person. if there isn't, you just aren't looking hard enough."
just scoured blogskins.com for a new blogskin but can't find a one that is nicer than this... this one is just so. perfect. everything fits. it's such a miracle that i stumbled over this one so easily. ok la must treasure it some more dowan to change. maybe i'll make one on my own as jas suggested...
but yep today wanted to reflect on a movie i watched... freedom writers. watched with ben tong and wy last fri, in a spontaneous decision. i still think what 23 would have been like... but no regrets watching this. but as usual, after watching inspiring shows of this genre (which include coach carter, akeelah and the bee etc.), my thoughts turn towards a very negative path.
nah i don't doubt that these things can happen... i give more credit to the power of inspiration than apathetic cynics out there. my pessimism is directed to a class that hardly anyone addresses... the class of people that is left alone, unseen, ignored, unheard. there are no movies about them, no stories about these people and we hardly realize they exist. expecting some forgotten reclusive poor jungle tribe in deep jungles or smth? nahhh nothing so fancy. just the mediocrity. plain ol' people you see everyday. the people who seem to have no problems. the person who walks past us that we don't bat an eye at cos they're normal. no pity, no contempt, no anger, no depression, no admiration, no respect, no glamour - no emotion. nope nothing. yup that pretty much sums up the mediocrity.
aiya but actually... i'm not sure what's my point. come to think about it, there's nothing much to be unhappy about in this situation. i've used quite a bit of derogotary terms to describe the mediocrity but maybe things aren't that bad after all. ok la lazy to think already. started with the intention of illuminating the woes of the mediocrity but as i wrote the previous para dono how come lost my train of thought and started to reflect on my negativism and get many conflicting ideas. maybe just my mental conditioning against cynicism instinctively protecting my psychology :) sounds so powerfully supernatural. like got guardian entity protecting my mind.
can u sense my confusionnn. jump from judgment to opinion from one end to the other and. mind fly everywhere. fav blog phrase. diarying can't keep up with thoughts. thoughts branch out everywhere at once. it's like an expanding tree growing in all directions. but when you write something, you've got to just stay on one branch. pursue that branch until u reach the fruit. what about the other branches? get forgotten and rot away. haiz. oh i must try just writing whatever my mind flies to one day. maybe like sit down and do it for 5 minutes and see what's the end result.
Name: Foo Guo Zhong Melvyn
Age: 19+
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Bday: 14th Nov
Email: mel_protoss@hotmail.com
i found a classmate's blog today. and contrary to the popular mindset, he's blog was interestingly perceptive and it just revealed a depth of character that not many ppl have, tho he seems boring enough on the surface. just goes to show the old adage (was it in hannibal rising?): "there's always something interesting about a person. if there isn't, you just aren't looking hard enough."
just scoured blogskins.com for a new blogskin but can't find a one that is nicer than this... this one is just so. perfect. everything fits. it's such a miracle that i stumbled over this one so easily. ok la must treasure it some more dowan to change. maybe i'll make one on my own as jas suggested...
but yep today wanted to reflect on a movie i watched... freedom writers. watched with ben tong and wy last fri, in a spontaneous decision. i still think what 23 would have been like... but no regrets watching this. but as usual, after watching inspiring shows of this genre (which include coach carter, akeelah and the bee etc.), my thoughts turn towards a very negative path.
nah i don't doubt that these things can happen... i give more credit to the power of inspiration than apathetic cynics out there. my pessimism is directed to a class that hardly anyone addresses... the class of people that is left alone, unseen, ignored, unheard. there are no movies about them, no stories about these people and we hardly realize they exist. expecting some forgotten reclusive poor jungle tribe in deep jungles or smth? nahhh nothing so fancy. just the mediocrity. plain ol' people you see everyday. the people who seem to have no problems. the person who walks past us that we don't bat an eye at cos they're normal. no pity, no contempt, no anger, no depression, no admiration, no respect, no glamour - no emotion. nope nothing. yup that pretty much sums up the mediocrity.
aiya but actually... i'm not sure what's my point. come to think about it, there's nothing much to be unhappy about in this situation. i've used quite a bit of derogotary terms to describe the mediocrity but maybe things aren't that bad after all. ok la lazy to think already. started with the intention of illuminating the woes of the mediocrity but as i wrote the previous para dono how come lost my train of thought and started to reflect on my negativism and get many conflicting ideas. maybe just my mental conditioning against cynicism instinctively protecting my psychology :) sounds so powerfully supernatural. like got guardian entity protecting my mind.
can u sense my confusionnn. jump from judgment to opinion from one end to the other and. mind fly everywhere. fav blog phrase. diarying can't keep up with thoughts. thoughts branch out everywhere at once. it's like an expanding tree growing in all directions. but when you write something, you've got to just stay on one branch. pursue that branch until u reach the fruit. what about the other branches? get forgotten and rot away. haiz. oh i must try just writing whatever my mind flies to one day. maybe like sit down and do it for 5 minutes and see what's the end result.