Mental Toys: July 2004

Quote of the day - 28 July 2004

"I have nothing to say. (10 seconds later) I have nothing to say. (10 seconds later) I have nothing to say. (10 seconds later) I have nothing to say. (10 seconds later) I have nothing to say. (10 seconds later) I have nothing to say. (10 seconds later) I have nothing to say. (10 seconds later) I have nothing to say. (10 seconds later) I have nothing to say. (10 seconds later) I have nothing to say. (10 seconds later) I have nothing to say. "
- Bright One -

Discussing.

There are two types of people. I mean, there are many types of people, but I'd just like to talk about two.

a) The type who feels disappointed with many things.
b) The type who feels disappointed with many things but fights on anyway.

Fight - Fight doesn't mean just living life day by day hoping that things will change. Fight means, fight. To strive to change things, to better things, to overcome things, to break through things.

Things - Things don't necessarily mean physical objects. Can be situations.

There are two types of people. I mean, there are many types of people, but I'd just like to talk about two.

a) The type who feels disappointed with many things.
b) The type who feels disappointed with many things but fights on anyway.

Comic Adultery

I read the other day that Halle Berry won't be reprising her role as Storm in X-Men 3 because her role will not be expanded. That's fine.

Then I read that Bryan Singer ditched the directing job for X-Men 3. Apparently he and the X-Men production crew signed to make Superman Returns.

Now, Bryan Singer happens to be one of my favorite directors, and as much as I like The Usual Suspects... The X-Men series, particularly X2, is one of my favorite movies of all time (If you're starting to think that I'm an idiot, pick a fight.) And as much as I respect the Man of Steel, I just can't imagine X-Men with a different director.

I was saying to a friend, Fox can hire Quentin Tarantino, or raise Kurosawa from the dead. But they're just not Bryan Singer.

Ditching him. Bryan Singer For him.

Quote of the day - July 27 2004

"Fairy tales don't tell us that dragons exist... Fairy tales tell us that dragons can be beaten..."

-Some quote by some guy in Neil Gaiman's Coraline-

A Good Student?

Here is a list of attributes a good student should have. I just made them up.
This is based on thousands and thousands of years of social construction and an unlimited range of discourses on education systems and perceptions.

1. Handsome. Wait. That's not true.
2. Hardworking
3. Dilligent
4. Respectful to lecturers/teachers/mentor/someone who gives you knowledge on a consistent basis.
5. Male
6. Teachable
7. Intelligent

Anyway. The two pictures below was taken during some lecturer's lecture this morning. Based on the above list of a what constitutes a good student, lets see how well students today generally fare.

a. This is a box of milk. b. This is an egg sandwich

1. Handsome. Yes, well, the cafeteria charges a handsome fee for little things. Don't ask for elaboration.
2. Hardworking. Yes. Well, no.
3. Dilligent. Yes. We were being practical. We were aware that without a source of energy, we wouldn't be able to last through the lecture.
4. Respectful to lecturers/teachers/mentor/someone who gives you knowledge on a consistent basis. Yes, very often, whenever we can, we offer to share our food.
5. Male. No, because it was a female eating that sandwich. So this shows that women can receive higher education as well.
6. Teachable. Yes. We've been taught that food gives us energy. It's not a social construct. Its a biological need.
7. Intelligent. Yes, because we have mastered the art of multi-tasking. Breakfast, lecture and note-taking all at the same time. Teachers should be proud of our practical intelligence.

So, since it is a "yes" for 5 out of the above 7 traits of a good student. I suppose it is safe to say that students of this modern generation ain't too far off from being pretty good students.

If you happen to be some lecturer reading this. No, your lectures ain't boring. It's just that between food and notes, the point is food keeps us biologically alive.... so yeah. hahahaha.

Timidity

"For God did not give me a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love & of self-discipline." 2 Timothy 1:7

The thing that strikes me the most about the above verse is that love is ranked alongside power and self-discipline, and that love is not associated with timidity at all.

Love can be that of courage, nobility and fierceness.

Not timidity.

Quote of the day - 26 July 2004

"You're my straw in my can of Nescafe."

- Szen -

This is what I'll do every now and then. Post things that people say that captures my attention. It can be brilliant quotes, lame quotes, or just every day quotes. Though by and large I look for quotes about Love. Love. Love. Love. Love. Love.

Q & A Tid-Bit

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SõbRìQûÉT (12:52 AM) :
there's something wrong with your pics
did you make all of them blurry on purpose?

Je])i (12:52 AM) :
yuppers

SõbRìQûÉT (12:53 AM) :
oh

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Haha.

For whatever reason, I have this thing about blurring pictures.

Of course I've yet to master it. But it wouldn't be fun if there's nothing to learn right?

Academic Tantrum

I have 6 books, 4 readers, and a number of prescribed text to read for the next 4 months.

If you cannot grasp the immense stupidity from the above statement...

what I'm trying to say is,

Whoever needs to go through 6 books, 4 readers and a number of prescribed texts in 4 months is in actual fact undergoing a "Nerdifying and Geekifying Process", where students allow their social life to be converted into geekifying sessions.

Tick. Tock.

Here's something anyone who reads this blog should know.

When I watched Big Fish earlier this year, I was so captured by one of Ed Bloom's quote I quoted him to every single person I've come across.

"They say when you meet the love of your life, time stops, and that's true."

Realize that in the above picture of Ed Bloom meeting Sandra Templeton, it looks as though time was flying when He found her. Well.

I suppose what i'm trying to say is that it works both ways.
Time stops and at the same time, time flies. It just depends on how you want to look at it.

As for me. I prefer to see that time stops. Because when time flies, everything looks blur as the picture above demonstrates.

They say when you meet the love of your life, time stops, and that's true.

Review : Spider-man 2

This bloody web-slinger is very cool.

The thing about Spidermans 1 & 2 is that both of the movies are very cool.
This is one of the better sequels in recent years. The only other good sequel I can think of is X2.
Well, I haven't watched Kill Bill : Volume 2 yet.

What's so cool about the movie?
Well. It's got this really cool line. Doctor Otto Octavious told Peter Parker, "love should never be a secret. If you store something as complicated as love up inside, you could go sick."

Oh well. Me and love. "Always this obsession with love..." (Moulin Rouge0

Anyway, back to the review.
Cool visual effects. Puts the Matrix to shame.
Cool lines.
And the swinging is just epicy.

Actually, the whole reason why I'm posting this post is not really to review the movie.
It's to tell you that "love should never be a secret. If you store something as complicated as love up inside, you could go sick."

Yeah. That's the whole point of this post.

She made me do all this.

This woman is Puah Sze Ning.

This female happens to be in most of my classes and after months and months of listening to her ramble and yak away about her blog (visit it, by the way. It's located at www.szen.frens.net) I decided to entertain her by buiding this block of blog.

She disagrees with my choice of colors though.

Notice how I distorted her face.

Wish I could do it in real life.

Tantrum

Phone bill came today.

It wasn't a pleasant sight to see.

The Force of Ten Thousand Nuclear Bombs

The thing about love is.

Its not always very exciting.

Contrary to what most people believe, it doesn’t always come rushing at your face down your throat through your spine and make your hair stand up straight in a sudden moment of extraordinarily outrageous miraculous event of realization that you’re in love with someone.

It doesn’t always slash into your stomach like a gutter gutting out every little ounce of gut you’ve got with the force of ten thousand nuclear bombs.

Technically speaking, none of us have an idea what the force of ten thousand nuclear bombs is.

Theoretically speaking, when a nuclear bomb is set off, what will happen to our physical bodies is that we will vaporize almost immediately. So there’s this possibility that we don’t feel a thing at all when a nuke goes off.

So maybe falling in love is like the force of ten thousand nuclear bombs setting off at the same time.

Because the thing about love is.

You might not feel a thing.

It can just subtly wash over you.

And it can just subtly pass you by.

The thing about love is.

We don’t know a thing about what love is.

Genesis

In the beginning,

Someone logged on to blogspot.com, signed up, and set this blog up with this pre-made template.

In the beginning,

Someone decided that this will be a blog where he can share his toys with everyone else.
The toys we play with in our heads.

Tales
Tantrums
and other Tid-Bits

and maybe one or two other things

In the beginning,

Someone wanted you to read this post
and
hopes that you will visit this blog again and again

to share your mental toys with him
just as he shared his with you.

Thursday, July 29, 2004

Quote of the day - 28 July 2004

Wednesday, July 28, 2004

Discussing.

Comic Adultery

Quote of the day - July 27 2004

A Good Student?

Monday, July 26, 2004

Timidity

Quote of the day - 26 July 2004

Q & A Tid-Bit

Academic Tantrum

Tick. Tock.

Sunday, July 25, 2004

Review : Spider-man 2

She made me do all this.

Saturday, July 24, 2004

Tantrum

The Force of Ten Thousand Nuclear Bombs

Genesis

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