An Angsty Saizou Fic...

Ah. I found it rather hard to imagine there would be a angsty saizou fic around. But it can be found here.

I actually like it quite a bit. haha...who wouldn't? Saizou's adorable!

Walloon...

J looked it up on dictionary.com.

Walloon1. One of a French-speaking people of Celtic descent inhabiting southern and southeast Belgium and adjacent regions of France.
2. The dialect of French spoken by this people.

*enlightened*

The Phobia List...

Saw this site at Dude's blog. Heh. Found it pretty interesting.

I guess Cinderella has Novercaphobia- Fear of your step-mother
A few other interesting ones are:

Arachibutyrophobia- Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth
(so scary... =_=)
Walloonphobia- Fear of the Walloons
(What on earth are Walloons?)
Syngenesophobia- Fear of relatives
(They are pretty scary sometimes ya?)
Peladophobia- Fear of bald people
(Ian Gordon anyone?)
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia- Fear of long words
(I'm scared of the word itself!)
Geniophobia- Fear of chins
(lol! I would suggest growing a beard)
Dextrophobia- Fear of objects at the right side of the body
(This is weird.....let's take object A for example. If said object is taken to the left side of the body, would the person still be afraid of object A?)

Feeling Voyeuristic?

The Urban Dream Capsule.

In a world where privacy is vanishing see whats in-store. Sealed into a shop window for a fortnight, four intrepid
art-stronauts will transfer their entire lives to the high street in a 24 hours a day, non-stop incubation event.

Without a curtain in sight, watch them eat, wash, cook, sleep and entertain..No one would have thought that life could be so interesting. Find out what its like to go beyond the pane barrier and speak to them each day by phone, fax, email or web site, the addresses and numbers are on the windows.

And we can see them now in Singapore. Performing for the first time in Asia, The Urban Dream Capsule will be in cityhall for 15 days. It should be pretty interesting. heh. =)
Coz Starhub's one of the sponser, you can gain access to them via e-mail or fax at this website.

Almost Equal Rights??

Gay Marriage: The Arguments and the Motives

I think I had a discussion with J over the icq over the issue of same sex marriages quite a long time back. I was undecided then but gradually found myself drifting towards the proponent camp.

As in the case of Brown Vs Board of Education, the movement against same sex marriages is another case of discrimination and segregation. In my opinion, religious stuff aside, it’s a civil rights issue.

Another article in the Economist: The case for gay marriage also talked about the issue of civil rights.

Mr Bush says that he is acting to protect “the most fundamental institution of civilisation” from what he sees as “activist judges” who in Massachusetts early this month confirmed an earlier ruling that banning gay marriage is contrary to their state constitution.

Why should two consenting loving adults be denied this "most fundamental institution of civilisation"? Why should they settle for "almost-equal rights"?

Lousy internet connection....

=_= ah...the agony of having extremely pathetic internet connection...coz of the multiple log ins and outs, i can't log on to icq anymore...

oh what i would give to have a stable connection...T_T

Corn Muffins...

I have a craving for corn muffins...

J mentioned Aunt Jemima's buttermilk waffles...I linked that to Kenny Roger's corn muffins. T_T

corn muffins....
buttermilk waffles....
cheesecake muffins....
strawberry cheesecake ice-cream....

the list goes on...

ah. suffering... =_=

Censorship??

Channel 2 Japan -Total Anonymity

I think I heard bout this website quite a long while back. Can't really remember how I came upon it. Just found it rather fascinating...
Some say that it's become a magnet for the malcontents of Japan, who'll announce their intentions on the website before committing the crimes. On any given day you can read messages about users' schemes to assault their bosses, murder their teachers or blow up a neighborhood kindergarten. Most are just hot air but a few actually carried out the acts they talked about in the website. The reason that it's so open's coz there's total anonymity in the website. Users does not even have a username. But the website's not just a site for the ravings of weirdos...

The bulletin board wasn't meant to be a soapbox for deranged malcontents but rather a rare haven for Japanese to discuss normally taboo subjects, like the yakuza, the royal family and discrimination against Koreans—topics the mainstream media either sanitizes or simply won't touch. "The Emperor is a war criminal. How is it that we haven't yet done away with the Imperial system?" asks an outspoken visitor to the history page. "In Japan, the press has had a monopoly over information," says Tomofumi Akiyama, a lawyer who specializes in multimedia law. "The Internet has opened the door for everyone to gather and transmit information."

Another interesting fact to consider would be the effect the website have on journalism in Japan.
Interview with Nishimura

"We once could only get information through mass media filters, such as newspaper companies or TV stations. We could send a letter with some kind of information disclosure to a newspaper, but whether they would pick it up in the papers depended on the editor's decisions. It can be said that only the information convenient to the media was reported.

However, there is a lot of interesting news that the mass media won't pick up. Let's say there is a person who wants to tell certain information, and then he posts it on Channel 2. If the news is really interesting, there should be people who are intrigued by it, then they will respond to it, getting more attention. It's the users who decide the value of the news on Channel 2.

There have been quite a few stories that the mass media picked up (from Channel 2) that became big stories. At the same time, Channel 2 has a role as an ombudsman, investigating mass media's reports. For example, some people objected to touching stories that TV stations reported, like "a female high school student started a social welfare business as a CEO," and "a brain-damaged boy developed an unusual talent, publishing books and poetry." They proved that mass media could make a mistake."

I think this website's rather interesting eh? Too bad i can't understand Japanese...
-_-

State Assisted Suicide??

Florida executes man who wanted death sentence

Anyways, this guy, he’s pretty twisted... Strangled a fellow prisoner to force the state of Florida to execute him. Granted, the fellow prisoner in question was no saint either. -_- Ah...I’m not an opponent of capital punishment but still...

"Death penalty opponents said executing Blackwell would send a dangerous message to all prisoners serving life sentences.
"The message goes out to every lifer in the state," said Abe Bonowitz, executive director of Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty. "If you don't like your life in prison, kill a prison worker or kill a fellow inmate and the state will assist in your suicide."

The issue of capital punishment is always such a controversial one. Is it better to be executed? Or to spend the rest of one’s life rotting in prison? I honestly don’t know which would be a more useful deterrent.

Shopping!!

got myself a pair of pink shoes!
oh...and some office clothes. -_- so expensive...

Wants!
-a new bag!
-FCUK t-shirt!
-Coolmax white kendo gi
-a pair of new kote

no means in sight of getting anything....T_T

Bushido??

I'll have to admit it was the word Bushido that first caught my attention. But the parallels made by the author about the Iraqis and the Samurais who refused to change with the times really made me think about the meaning of "Bushido" and how people interpret it.

"Meanwhile, when the five Japanese hostages were finally released, what awaited them at home was harsh criticism, instead of a warm reception. What moved the critics to bash them seems to be the belief that the freed hostages sympathized more with their captives rather than with the United States or the Japanese government.

What was the case with ``The Last Samurai''? Capt. Algren, who was captured by Japanese militants, not only sympathized but assimilated with them. He even worked out a war plan and attacked the Japanese government army together with his captives. What he did was much more outrageous than the case of the Japanese hostages in Iraq.

But Japanese audiences cheered and applauded the hero, despite his behavior. How erratic and arbitrary human sentiments can be."

I just find it all so ironic about the way people can so easily change their feelings about a single ideal in different situations. Indeed…human sentiments can be so erratic and arbitrary. -_-

worried

why am i always regretting my decisions after i made them? now i really don't want to do honours anymore. is there ANY way at all for me to file for graduation? ahhh...fuck it lah. -_-

ah. no point antagonizing bout it here. going to e-mail the office to ask bout it now.

PISSED!!

my dog pissed on my bed....AGAIN....>_<

i once told a friend that it'll be a cold day in hell before i'll allow toby back into my room (after the first time he pissed on my bed).
well...wat can i say? Old Nick must be dancing in winterwonderland now. -_-

test test

this should be fun... *leaves paw print*