Saturday, September 29, 2007
Crowd Cheerer Chicken
Guess who I found, no less on ........ Corrine May's blog! This is so absolutroflcopter funny man! Seriously! The crowd cheerer chicken! Oh my goodness it's just amazing how little things can hit home, away from home, in strange ... really strange ways.
Honestly I was just minding my own business, having stumbled upon Corrine May's blog (didn't even know she had a blog) and reading her experience at her first live NDP parade, and lo and behold, this picture jumps out at me like a startled chicken. My goodness, Josco you are crazy. I kinda knew that all along, and I kinda knew you were doing this for NDP but ... still, to see you in the flesh, or RATHER, in the SUIT, priceless. I'd say it ain't too shabby to have been caught on Corrine May's camera aye? Good on ya mate.
It's rather exciting right now because I'm home alone! That's right. No bothersome housemates around! Everyone just up and left for the Judah leaders' retreat, leaving me to star in Home Alone 5, minus dumb buffoons tryna break in. It's so quiet and ..mm uh I think that just about describes it. And I was just mentioning last night that being a single-child prepares you for times like these, when you revel in having some time to yourself, away from everyone. Hanggo is facing the same problem at his pad, and last night he was tryna convince me to sleepover at his place. I agreed, but then we were watching random movies at David's and he was too tired he left for home alone anyway.
Right. Anyway, there's just this sense of mystery about it all, a greater sense of autonomy, stemming from the fact that there's nobody around to influence your actions and decisions, not even peer influence (no peers, no influence! ahahahah .. ha .. ha ....... :/ ok). Living away from home in itself is an act of autonomy (distinct lack of parental aura), and you do have to do things on your own, but when half your immediate community aren't around and -especially- your housemates then you just have this dark, quiet place in which you dwell. I found myself tryna live up to my own standards for housekeeping and very interestingly, I became more motivated to keep the kitchen clean and throw out the rubbish. And if you just think a bit into it you will realise why. BUT anyway, I must mention there was a steamboat gathering here on Thursday so we did a very quick spring clean (it is spring now, can't fault me there) on the dump which is our home, and so when they left for the retreat our place was looking the most respectable it has looked for a while.
On another less related note, the warmer climes have welcomed back to life many idiotic pests like moths and worse still, houseflies! I -hate- houseflies. Why won't they go live in the garden!? It's a revolt I tell ya! It's like these buggers been sleeping all winter and now they just woke up or somethin'! Today alone I must have fought like a total of 10 houseflies/moths. Gosh, I don't have any answer to this problem, but humans will still prevail. Or maybe not. I just remembered I -think- our electric fly swatter died today. Shit. If I ever do get any good at tennis, it was because of that. Houseflies move really quickly in the summertime, and they take unconventional flight paths pretty different from that of a tennis ball so, each duel with them is serious training folks.
Sigh, I pray the swatter is not spoilt! I'll go insane without it.
paN!cker lost it at 9:44 pm
Saturday, September 15, 2007
Cognitive Dissonance
When behaviour does not match the attitude, dissonance arises. You might think that saving water's essential, but that in no way means that you will be doing all you can to save water yourself. Similarly, you may realise that studying hard and doing your best is really cool and makes you feel good about yourself, goes down well with the parents, creates a future for you, but then again, remember that in no way ensures you will behave in a manner that reflects that belief.
So today, sit yourself firmly down and ask yourself what you believe in and why. Then run through all the things you have or have -not- done to keep yourself in check. I think many of us will realise we are waaaaayyy off the mark. Thanks to that little guilt trip I just made you go on, you are then supposed to chide yourself in a harsh way and proceed to reduce the dissonance in your mind by striving to do your very best to adhere to the standards you would like to see yourself adhering to, thereby keeping your positive self-image intact.
That's essentially what accountability is all about as well I realise, making a sort of public commitment to someone that will serve to prevent you going down whatever path you're not supposed to go down when you feel like going down it. Which begs the question; is God so ..uhm, intangible in our lives that though we "feel" Him and KNOW He is good to us, we cannot rely on accountability to Him to prevent us from betraying ourselves time and time again. The reaction from wanting to be accountable to God and wanting to account to our mentor/shepherd/friend is different. We actually watch ourselves more on account of our accountability partners. If God could elicit the abovementioned reactions in us, then the need for accountability partners wouldn't even arise would it?
paN!cker lost it at 2:16 pm
Thursday, September 13, 2007
In Due Time
The temperature's so warm now! It's 24 degrees indoors. AT NIGHT. What is this!? I don't even need a jacket or anything. May we all welcome spring back from its one-year hiatus. The weather's puurfect. And I prep for a physics mid-sem tomorrow. Oh I'm in a dilemma. Surfing or pilates? I'm afraid I cannot find material to write on pilates. 2000 words. Plus snapping pictures of mostly girls during pilates class under the pretext of assignment, how convincing is that?! But photoshopping photographing me surfing is something altogether different hey? Imagine me clutching my uber sleek and seksi obiang fat learner's surfboard, with rippling .... uh, waves in the backdrop. Picturesque no? But seriously to come to Australia and not get a touch of surfing chalked up IS indeed a tad gay. It's like visiting Singapore and not eating chicken rice, or going to Holland and not seeing a windmill.
Anyway, let's not digress and get back to physics. we love physics oooh physics we do we really do.
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Who's we?!?!
paN!cker lost it at 9:48 pm
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Wonder Woman
paN!cker lost it at 10:50 am
Monday, September 10, 2007
Reality - For Men
paN!cker lost it at 8:33 pm
This Is Your Life
Yesterday is a wrinkle on your forehead
Yesterday is a promise that you've broken
Don't close your eyes
Don't close your eyes
This is your life and today is all you've got now
This is your life and today is all you'll ever have
Don't close your eyes
Don't close your eyes
This is your life, are you who you wanna be?
This is your life, are you who you wanna be?
This is your life, is it everything you dreamed that it would be
When the world was younger and you had everything to lose
You had everything to lose
Yesterday is a kid in the corner
Yesterday is dead and over
This is your life, are you who you wanna be?
This is your life, are you who you wanna be?
This is your life, is it everything you dreamed that it would be
When the world was younger and you had everything to lose
Don't close your eyes, don't close your eyes
Don't close your eyes, don't close your eyes
This is your life, are you who you wanna be?
This is your life, are you who you wanna be?
This is your life, are you who you wanna be?
This is your life, are you who you wanna be?
This is your life, is it everything you dreamed that it would be
When the world was younger and you had everything to lose
You had everything to lose
don't dream it's over
paN!cker lost it at 10:16 am
Tuesday, September 04, 2007
this is the day
for the longest time immemorial i will remember this day, for the absolute outrage and later outrageous comic relief it brought. i battle the psych essay for tomorrow right now, so i shan't delve into details just now.
aversive racism.
paN!cker lost it at 10:24 pm
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