Second entry
Inspiration strikes
Leave your leaves at the door but feel free to trudge that mud all over the floor.
Heaven calls but you only answer to Hell.
Kodos may only exist in a world where war is a craft.
Planets called Xena have Gabrielle as their moons.
Why do we compare the ones we love to fishes in the ocean?
Insanity's Vice
The grip on sanity is very subjective, infact do you know that people who we consider insane might consider us the same. That's a fact indeed. They must wonder why our senses are so dulled and unaware of what they see and hear. Who knows but one of them may be the Christ Reborn on the planet. He might have been sent here to save us all. But what do people do to the ones that proclaim wildly? We lock them up and declare them insane or just outright ignore them.
Raincheck Terra
I proclaim a raincheck on our planet. Are we all as "sane" as we think we are? Is there something more sinister making us behave the way we do? Are humans really that dense? So many questions that only a raincheck can do. The surest way to do so however, is to let everyone do it themselves. Just check on yourself, do you think we should be so passive bout the things around us? What if the war in the middle east ends the world the very next day? Do you guys not think about that? I don't want to cause needless worry, but are you sure that what I'm talking about is needless to begin with?
Lifeblood of the planet
What if I told you the oil drillers were lying? If oil wasn't made up of the creatures that died millions of years ago and buried under the crust. I personally say it's all bullshit, if animals died, the meat is decomposed in a matter of weeks by bacteria. The bones crumble to dust way before the earth covers itself in another layer of land. So where does oil come from? I say it's the blood of our dearest planet. It's very much alive and I think it's trying to speak to us. It's telling us to stop draining it of it's blood, which I believe is oil. How can we say that just because oil is made up of hydrocarbons, it's made up of dead animals and plants? Our bodies were born of this planet, so how did we come about?
Ravings of Sanity
What if I told you the opposite, that we were made up of our planet. And oil perhaps is the basic building block that sustains the so called "life" of our planet? Without oil, who knows what might happen? Perhaps the planet might lose it's magnetic field, perhaps it'd suddenly lose half it's gravity or maybe the internal heat of the planet would eventually subside? Whatever that is, it's going to happen in our lifetime. And when it does, let's just say maybe it has already warned us beforehand. I'm going to waste anyone's time by telling you guys to stop. But I consider all who read this, warned of the impending possiblities of our silly endeavours. Alauz Out.
Idiots of today, Geniuses of tomorrow
Saturday, August 26, 2006
Timetripping
Time
It's passing by my mind at a pace I never thought possible, which is my pace. I've always thought time waited for no man. Ironically it's man that invented time, thus I don't know the truth behind that statement. Time was not time until man came along and started quantifying it. Mayflies never knew they lived twenty four hours, turtles never knew they were living hundreds of years. What's a year to a turtle when it's got such a long life? Then again you look at the mayfly, to it one minute is precious beyond comprehension. So what's time to you guys?
My Pace
So what did I mean by time moving at my pace? What I meant was that right now, time is moving a super comfortable pace and to me, it seems that 24 hours is stretched to 36 hours. My perception of time is slowly adjusting. I feel like I had a full 12 hours rest but I've only slept for 8. When I do my tasks, I find that I complete them in half the time I used to and when I play or relax, I always find that I've more time left over than I might have expected. In a way, I feel like I'm taking things slow and easy, but time seems to be taking it slower and easier. It's a good thing, for I feel like time's happy being my partner and all.
Read my Past
If you had read one of my past posts, you'd have realized that I said that time was man's one true love. What if time fell in love with man? What would that be like? Haha, well what I'm feeling right now kind of feels like the result. Perhaps I am a lucky guy after all, then again I may just be growing some temporal apathy. Either way, it's going to be difficult to overwhelm my senses at the present time.
Living Large
So why the heck am I writing my blog instead of going out to abuse my new found sense of time? Hehe, it's hard to explain but I like to mould my thoughts into written words rather than going out and "wasting" time. Perhaps that's a partial explaination of what's happening around me. I don't have much wasted time anymore. Even if I do waste some, it's kind of insignifcant compared to the time I'm saving. Why I woke up today and I thought it was sunday already. But actually it's saturday.
Japanaradio
Listen to Japanaradio. Support it, and they thank you from the bottom of their hearts. Hahaha, oh well I felt guilty listening to them for free for so long. But hey, if you guys like anime music, you should tune in now and then. Lots of time, time is our friend. Alauz Out.
Idiots of today, Geniuses of tomorrow
Time
It's passing by my mind at a pace I never thought possible, which is my pace. I've always thought time waited for no man. Ironically it's man that invented time, thus I don't know the truth behind that statement. Time was not time until man came along and started quantifying it. Mayflies never knew they lived twenty four hours, turtles never knew they were living hundreds of years. What's a year to a turtle when it's got such a long life? Then again you look at the mayfly, to it one minute is precious beyond comprehension. So what's time to you guys?
My Pace
So what did I mean by time moving at my pace? What I meant was that right now, time is moving a super comfortable pace and to me, it seems that 24 hours is stretched to 36 hours. My perception of time is slowly adjusting. I feel like I had a full 12 hours rest but I've only slept for 8. When I do my tasks, I find that I complete them in half the time I used to and when I play or relax, I always find that I've more time left over than I might have expected. In a way, I feel like I'm taking things slow and easy, but time seems to be taking it slower and easier. It's a good thing, for I feel like time's happy being my partner and all.
Read my Past
If you had read one of my past posts, you'd have realized that I said that time was man's one true love. What if time fell in love with man? What would that be like? Haha, well what I'm feeling right now kind of feels like the result. Perhaps I am a lucky guy after all, then again I may just be growing some temporal apathy. Either way, it's going to be difficult to overwhelm my senses at the present time.
Living Large
So why the heck am I writing my blog instead of going out to abuse my new found sense of time? Hehe, it's hard to explain but I like to mould my thoughts into written words rather than going out and "wasting" time. Perhaps that's a partial explaination of what's happening around me. I don't have much wasted time anymore. Even if I do waste some, it's kind of insignifcant compared to the time I'm saving. Why I woke up today and I thought it was sunday already. But actually it's saturday.
Japanaradio
Listen to Japanaradio. Support it, and they thank you from the bottom of their hearts. Hahaha, oh well I felt guilty listening to them for free for so long. But hey, if you guys like anime music, you should tune in now and then. Lots of time, time is our friend. Alauz Out.
Idiots of today, Geniuses of tomorrow
Friday, August 25, 2006
Indie Music, Change, The Apocalypse
Music
Oh yeah, sweet music. Seriously speaking, I never really had a favourite genre until last year. I found out that yeah I like alternative music. Not crappy noise that has no meaning but good music with a feel good factor. Listening to "All Time Low" by Jasey Rae right now as I write this paragraph if that's some indication of the type of artists I enjoy listening to for the past 1 year.
Preferences
Oh yeah I also love the setup "Love Psychedelico". Perhaps it the little japanese culture infused into me while I was still learning Judo. I kinda fell in love the way english and japanese fall over each other. Somehow the mixed chinese and english songs by mandy, coco lee or the other chinese singers never quite hit the fusion melody of japanese and english songs. It's sad and perhaps a little disturbing to me but I love fusion music. You think that it's kind of ironic? Well I don't think so, technically speaking mixed language music is not considered mainstream because of the speech barrier to many. Anyways I consider it alternative anyways.
How mixed is mixed?
Well, I consider a song with compositions of at least a quarter of ONE language and the rest of ONE other langauge, qualifies as a official mixed song. It's a little hard to gauge but here's a simple trick. Pick a song with 2 languages that you can speak, then listen to the song and listen for complete sentences or half sentences. A properly fusioned song will make proper sense to you. At least you'd be able to understand it and feel that the grammer in both languages are both fulfiled at the same time. For the japanese mixes I've been listening to, the language mixes very well and I can understand the lyrics along with the full feeling put behind the song. Chinese mixes face a heavy problem as intonation plays a heavy part on the feel and melody of the song and meaning of chinese, thus it never truly mixes into perfect fusion with english.
Exceptions, there always are!
But however, I've also heard chinese and japanese mixed songs. These are heavenly to listen to because both languages merges together so perfectly it's unbelievable. But then again that is also because the artist is very good in both . I love fusion, alternative and especially alternative fusions between 2 languages I understand. Songs mixed in English, Chinese, Cantonese, Japanese and it'd be fantastic if I can listen to more of such music in the near future.
Patience or Initiative?
Sometimes I feel that I should be patient and wait for the world to change around me. Then again sometimes I feel that sitting around waiting for people to get ready for change is a bloody waste of time. I am truly torn all the time. I know people need time to change and accept new facts, especially about life and the appreciation of it. But on the other hand, people use that as an excuse to stagnate. I push for change by changing myself as example, I change the way I do things, the way I think, my whole life is turned upside down. Scary but my spirit, attitude and desire to change stays the constant. What's the point of changing if after the change you become a rock and never change after that?
Flexibility?
I hate the fact that to be flexible means you have to be inflexible, the fact that I need to constantly push myself to stop routinizing things and do things using a different method. It's a routine in itself which is ironic, isn't it? So what does this make me??? A rock that's constantly changing shape on the outside but I'd forever be a rock on the inside. A person whose purpose in life is constantly enact change around him but sadly he's constantly changing everything else about himself except the fact that he has to be that bringer of change. How does one enact change in others? He's got to have passion, lead by example, benefit the people around him. But that's a FIXED way of changing others, so I've experimented different ways of achieving this goal.
Methods of an Anarchist
I've concocted a mixture of methods used by people to enact change. There's reverse psychology, standard psychology, shock treatment, awe treatment, forceful enactment. That's what I've been able to discover so far. To affect change around me however, there's one way that always works but it isn't very pleasant or good for my personal reputation. It's the shock treatment coupled with forceful enactment.
Efficiency
It's brutally effective and never fails, but it's also the method with the most negativity. Obviously not a good choice if you want to continue enacting change. But it is an extremely effective method to enact one GIANT act of change to the people you have influence over if your content with enacting ONE change and nothing else after that single change. Of course the person enacting this change must be in a position of certain power or social influence otherwise it wouldn't work.
Acts of Brutality
And one example famous in Chinese history of one such act would be the Emperor Qin's change of people's way of life by abolishing over a hundred different forms of writing and consolidating it into a single written language. It's a change that would NEVER happen if you left it to conventional diplomacy or psychology. It had to be done with FORCE and punishment of DEATH to successfully enact. Back then, nobody can even understand why would he do something so "fool-hardy" as to destroy hundreds or even more than a thousand years of written history. If you were there you would think he's mad, crazy, unreasonable and a downright criminal. But nearly two thousand years later, we see the benefits of what he's done. Because of him, the Chinese culture is connected and more united than let's say, Europe.
Evil to be Good
If let's say Europe had a ruler a thousand years ago who conquered every corner of Europe. And he decreed there'd only be French as the official written language. Then he destroys all written language written in every other language. Impossible you say? It was done in China thousands of years ago, even before the first monarchs were present in Europe. But imagine how different the world would be? The predominant language would be French instead of English. Infact English was a culmulation of the many different languages in Europe. Would it be good for Europe to have a common written language? I'm sure it would have facilitated things to no end and they would be a much stronger force to be reckoned with right now. Now they decided to come up with a common currency but that's nothing compared to a common language.
Powerhouses
It's safe to say that Europe would have been another China and it's potential would have been limitless. I'd say that economically it'd be stronger than America, infact we might not know if America would be discovered because of the major changes in history if their languages were unified. Infact I foresee a different past where the Europeans pushing back the Mongol hordes and Gengis Khan. With a common language, the Europeans might have had a horde that could rival Gengis himself. It'd be a bitter fight and not some one sided slaughter. The key would be communications. I say that an army consisting of men who all speak or write the same language is much more mobile and powerful than an army made of foreign alliances with language barrier and dependent on translators.
Back to the topic
Oh yeah on the topic about how to enact change, people need to understand a fact that the world changes even if they do not. If you slowly sink into a routine now, your going to be rudely awakened one day when your routine no longer fits like a glove into your life. Things like world politics may not seem important to you. But tell that to the poor souls in the World Trade Center when the terrorists decided that they can't take being ignored by the public anymore. God rest their souls. So please wake up and realize that politics affect us whether we like it or not. And it affects us so deeply that it can mess relations with your neighbors living next door, the cashier serving you your food, the terrorist trying to blow up your embassy, your future wife or even the job your working in right now.
For the Good of Mankind
What I strive to do is constantly bring wake up calls to the people who willfully put themselves into a numbing stupor that they call their "social circle". By shocking my lecturers out of a job, I jolt their perception of the power that students have over their lives. By defying orders and yet staying out of persecution from the "system" in NS, I've also woken up the people involved. I send the message, the world is changing and you better clean up your act or there's going to be more people like me who cause trouble and cannot be punished due to your flawed "system". There's no such thing as a "system" whose rules fit thru the ages and never needs to change. As time changes, culture changes, systems collapse and new systems are set up again, to be torn down. It's a natural cycle of the world, no immortality for anything.
Universe speaking to your soul
Can you not hear what the very fabric of the universe is trying to tell you? Each and everyone of us has a connection to each other and also the universe as a whole. The whole concept you might think I'm ripping out of "Star Wars" but I'm not. In the world, everyone is linked to one another. You cannot hurt another without hurting yourself. You cannot help another without helping yourself. Man has come up with so many explainations for this connection we have with one another. I do however believe there's a conciousness present in this bond we have with one another. Infact I believe this bond doesn't just encompass humans alone. But all things, earth, plants, water and animals.
Bonds we share
Thru the bonds I sense the constant desire to "settle down" into stagnation. In order for us to survive I know that we cannot afford to do that. Once we do, there's no turning back and the human race will be doomed into extinction faster than you know. With the amount of technology we have right now, we very well can end our existance right now if we do not continue to grow, adapt, evolve into better beings. We cannot afford to be complacent with our progress thus far and strive to greater things. God as we all know it, constantly strives to test us by allowing our stagnant nature to start wars. Wars in any language you imagine, is the work of God as we know it. He wills it to happen and it will. But it has come to a point where a war where using all our resources we have available is no longer an option. If we do, then armageddon will truly arrive right here, right now.
War
War is good for us, we all know that. Because of war, many technologies were further developed to gain an advantage over others. This has led to better automobiles, planes, ships, communications and other facilitators of our lives. Even with all these achievements, I'm sure God wants us to move bravely forward and develop other aspects of our technologies. But now with biological, nuclear, chemical weapons of mass destruction. God truly tests us on what aspects we need to concentrate on developing. Will it be transportation, artillery, ranged capabilities, communications, information gathering, tactics, spirit, protection equipment or perhaps something new. Wars have always brought out the best in mankind.
Action or Words
I've also realized that war has brought us the very tool that helps prevent it in the first place. Diplomacy and psychology. Mind games can be a powerful weapon in it's own right, anyone of you reading thus far should understand. What I do on an everyday basis would be meaningless to everyone of you, unless war comes. War can come in many forms, take example the Cold War. It's deadly enough but the casualties aren't always obvious. What do you think? I'm saying that a war is being fought right here, right now. And we're all just oblivious to it because we aren't taking notice of anything happening around me. We're fighting for our survial nonetheless, if you're rather uninformed.
Save the world
The war we're having right now, is the war of self-destruction. We're depleting our resources at a rate far faster than we're able to replace them. We're destroying morality, by lowering our standards on what's right and what's wrong. We're slowly bringing dictatorship like power to our leaders, which was the total opposite of what we fought to become. We're fighting a war of preserving our planet. Do we want to wake up one day and find out, there's no more clean water, air and land? Do we want to wake up and work mindlessly like zombies for our little lives while being oblivious to the plight of others? Do we want to wake up to an announcement that tomorrow would be the last day everyone will be alive, just because we couldn't be bothered to put an effort to change?
Change
For the last time, if you merely skipped to the end. The message is Change, wake up from that rigid stupor which is your life's routine. Take a look around you, observe the suffering of the others less fortunate. Learn to put yourselves into other people's shoes. Don't keep poisoning the planet like as if the planet owes you. Learn one new thing everyday, be it a single fact or a new name. You'd thank me one day. Trust in us, trust your fellow human. Alauz Out.
Idiots of today, Geniuses of tomorrow
Music
Oh yeah, sweet music. Seriously speaking, I never really had a favourite genre until last year. I found out that yeah I like alternative music. Not crappy noise that has no meaning but good music with a feel good factor. Listening to "All Time Low" by Jasey Rae right now as I write this paragraph if that's some indication of the type of artists I enjoy listening to for the past 1 year.
Preferences
Oh yeah I also love the setup "Love Psychedelico". Perhaps it the little japanese culture infused into me while I was still learning Judo. I kinda fell in love the way english and japanese fall over each other. Somehow the mixed chinese and english songs by mandy, coco lee or the other chinese singers never quite hit the fusion melody of japanese and english songs. It's sad and perhaps a little disturbing to me but I love fusion music. You think that it's kind of ironic? Well I don't think so, technically speaking mixed language music is not considered mainstream because of the speech barrier to many. Anyways I consider it alternative anyways.
How mixed is mixed?
Well, I consider a song with compositions of at least a quarter of ONE language and the rest of ONE other langauge, qualifies as a official mixed song. It's a little hard to gauge but here's a simple trick. Pick a song with 2 languages that you can speak, then listen to the song and listen for complete sentences or half sentences. A properly fusioned song will make proper sense to you. At least you'd be able to understand it and feel that the grammer in both languages are both fulfiled at the same time. For the japanese mixes I've been listening to, the language mixes very well and I can understand the lyrics along with the full feeling put behind the song. Chinese mixes face a heavy problem as intonation plays a heavy part on the feel and melody of the song and meaning of chinese, thus it never truly mixes into perfect fusion with english.
Exceptions, there always are!
But however, I've also heard chinese and japanese mixed songs. These are heavenly to listen to because both languages merges together so perfectly it's unbelievable. But then again that is also because the artist is very good in both . I love fusion, alternative and especially alternative fusions between 2 languages I understand. Songs mixed in English, Chinese, Cantonese, Japanese and it'd be fantastic if I can listen to more of such music in the near future.
Patience or Initiative?
Sometimes I feel that I should be patient and wait for the world to change around me. Then again sometimes I feel that sitting around waiting for people to get ready for change is a bloody waste of time. I am truly torn all the time. I know people need time to change and accept new facts, especially about life and the appreciation of it. But on the other hand, people use that as an excuse to stagnate. I push for change by changing myself as example, I change the way I do things, the way I think, my whole life is turned upside down. Scary but my spirit, attitude and desire to change stays the constant. What's the point of changing if after the change you become a rock and never change after that?
Flexibility?
I hate the fact that to be flexible means you have to be inflexible, the fact that I need to constantly push myself to stop routinizing things and do things using a different method. It's a routine in itself which is ironic, isn't it? So what does this make me??? A rock that's constantly changing shape on the outside but I'd forever be a rock on the inside. A person whose purpose in life is constantly enact change around him but sadly he's constantly changing everything else about himself except the fact that he has to be that bringer of change. How does one enact change in others? He's got to have passion, lead by example, benefit the people around him. But that's a FIXED way of changing others, so I've experimented different ways of achieving this goal.
Methods of an Anarchist
I've concocted a mixture of methods used by people to enact change. There's reverse psychology, standard psychology, shock treatment, awe treatment, forceful enactment. That's what I've been able to discover so far. To affect change around me however, there's one way that always works but it isn't very pleasant or good for my personal reputation. It's the shock treatment coupled with forceful enactment.
Efficiency
It's brutally effective and never fails, but it's also the method with the most negativity. Obviously not a good choice if you want to continue enacting change. But it is an extremely effective method to enact one GIANT act of change to the people you have influence over if your content with enacting ONE change and nothing else after that single change. Of course the person enacting this change must be in a position of certain power or social influence otherwise it wouldn't work.
Acts of Brutality
And one example famous in Chinese history of one such act would be the Emperor Qin's change of people's way of life by abolishing over a hundred different forms of writing and consolidating it into a single written language. It's a change that would NEVER happen if you left it to conventional diplomacy or psychology. It had to be done with FORCE and punishment of DEATH to successfully enact. Back then, nobody can even understand why would he do something so "fool-hardy" as to destroy hundreds or even more than a thousand years of written history. If you were there you would think he's mad, crazy, unreasonable and a downright criminal. But nearly two thousand years later, we see the benefits of what he's done. Because of him, the Chinese culture is connected and more united than let's say, Europe.
Evil to be Good
If let's say Europe had a ruler a thousand years ago who conquered every corner of Europe. And he decreed there'd only be French as the official written language. Then he destroys all written language written in every other language. Impossible you say? It was done in China thousands of years ago, even before the first monarchs were present in Europe. But imagine how different the world would be? The predominant language would be French instead of English. Infact English was a culmulation of the many different languages in Europe. Would it be good for Europe to have a common written language? I'm sure it would have facilitated things to no end and they would be a much stronger force to be reckoned with right now. Now they decided to come up with a common currency but that's nothing compared to a common language.
Powerhouses
It's safe to say that Europe would have been another China and it's potential would have been limitless. I'd say that economically it'd be stronger than America, infact we might not know if America would be discovered because of the major changes in history if their languages were unified. Infact I foresee a different past where the Europeans pushing back the Mongol hordes and Gengis Khan. With a common language, the Europeans might have had a horde that could rival Gengis himself. It'd be a bitter fight and not some one sided slaughter. The key would be communications. I say that an army consisting of men who all speak or write the same language is much more mobile and powerful than an army made of foreign alliances with language barrier and dependent on translators.
Back to the topic
Oh yeah on the topic about how to enact change, people need to understand a fact that the world changes even if they do not. If you slowly sink into a routine now, your going to be rudely awakened one day when your routine no longer fits like a glove into your life. Things like world politics may not seem important to you. But tell that to the poor souls in the World Trade Center when the terrorists decided that they can't take being ignored by the public anymore. God rest their souls. So please wake up and realize that politics affect us whether we like it or not. And it affects us so deeply that it can mess relations with your neighbors living next door, the cashier serving you your food, the terrorist trying to blow up your embassy, your future wife or even the job your working in right now.
For the Good of Mankind
What I strive to do is constantly bring wake up calls to the people who willfully put themselves into a numbing stupor that they call their "social circle". By shocking my lecturers out of a job, I jolt their perception of the power that students have over their lives. By defying orders and yet staying out of persecution from the "system" in NS, I've also woken up the people involved. I send the message, the world is changing and you better clean up your act or there's going to be more people like me who cause trouble and cannot be punished due to your flawed "system". There's no such thing as a "system" whose rules fit thru the ages and never needs to change. As time changes, culture changes, systems collapse and new systems are set up again, to be torn down. It's a natural cycle of the world, no immortality for anything.
Universe speaking to your soul
Can you not hear what the very fabric of the universe is trying to tell you? Each and everyone of us has a connection to each other and also the universe as a whole. The whole concept you might think I'm ripping out of "Star Wars" but I'm not. In the world, everyone is linked to one another. You cannot hurt another without hurting yourself. You cannot help another without helping yourself. Man has come up with so many explainations for this connection we have with one another. I do however believe there's a conciousness present in this bond we have with one another. Infact I believe this bond doesn't just encompass humans alone. But all things, earth, plants, water and animals.
Bonds we share
Thru the bonds I sense the constant desire to "settle down" into stagnation. In order for us to survive I know that we cannot afford to do that. Once we do, there's no turning back and the human race will be doomed into extinction faster than you know. With the amount of technology we have right now, we very well can end our existance right now if we do not continue to grow, adapt, evolve into better beings. We cannot afford to be complacent with our progress thus far and strive to greater things. God as we all know it, constantly strives to test us by allowing our stagnant nature to start wars. Wars in any language you imagine, is the work of God as we know it. He wills it to happen and it will. But it has come to a point where a war where using all our resources we have available is no longer an option. If we do, then armageddon will truly arrive right here, right now.
War
War is good for us, we all know that. Because of war, many technologies were further developed to gain an advantage over others. This has led to better automobiles, planes, ships, communications and other facilitators of our lives. Even with all these achievements, I'm sure God wants us to move bravely forward and develop other aspects of our technologies. But now with biological, nuclear, chemical weapons of mass destruction. God truly tests us on what aspects we need to concentrate on developing. Will it be transportation, artillery, ranged capabilities, communications, information gathering, tactics, spirit, protection equipment or perhaps something new. Wars have always brought out the best in mankind.
Action or Words
I've also realized that war has brought us the very tool that helps prevent it in the first place. Diplomacy and psychology. Mind games can be a powerful weapon in it's own right, anyone of you reading thus far should understand. What I do on an everyday basis would be meaningless to everyone of you, unless war comes. War can come in many forms, take example the Cold War. It's deadly enough but the casualties aren't always obvious. What do you think? I'm saying that a war is being fought right here, right now. And we're all just oblivious to it because we aren't taking notice of anything happening around me. We're fighting for our survial nonetheless, if you're rather uninformed.
Save the world
The war we're having right now, is the war of self-destruction. We're depleting our resources at a rate far faster than we're able to replace them. We're destroying morality, by lowering our standards on what's right and what's wrong. We're slowly bringing dictatorship like power to our leaders, which was the total opposite of what we fought to become. We're fighting a war of preserving our planet. Do we want to wake up one day and find out, there's no more clean water, air and land? Do we want to wake up and work mindlessly like zombies for our little lives while being oblivious to the plight of others? Do we want to wake up to an announcement that tomorrow would be the last day everyone will be alive, just because we couldn't be bothered to put an effort to change?
Change
For the last time, if you merely skipped to the end. The message is Change, wake up from that rigid stupor which is your life's routine. Take a look around you, observe the suffering of the others less fortunate. Learn to put yourselves into other people's shoes. Don't keep poisoning the planet like as if the planet owes you. Learn one new thing everyday, be it a single fact or a new name. You'd thank me one day. Trust in us, trust your fellow human. Alauz Out.
Idiots of today, Geniuses of tomorrow
Thursday, August 24, 2006
Connections
Old Networks
They say old flames die hard, well for one thing I don't really think it's the right way to say it. I say old flames become old friends. If your me that is. I try not to think of an old flame as someone merely loved and lost. But rather someone whose been thru part of my life and kinda realized that we weren't meant to be together. Well, we may not be meant to be together as lovers surely, but that doesn't mean we cannot be good friends. Sure, we didn't like each other's little flaws or maybe even big flaws. But the fact we got together in the first place, means we've got enough attraction to remain good friends.
Your Kidding Me
I kid you not, for one of the most common fact I've overheard from my camp mates is :"What? My Ex? You crazy ah! I never want to speak to her again!". Well, maybe this lies in the fact that I tend to do things alittle more "weirdly". A few of the gals I dated are now my friends. Well not BEST friends mind you, that'd be just "weird" haha, but just regular friends. I don't get the "dump your ex forever" kind of rule. Well, maybe it's just my weird way of thought. Perhaps it's just the way I learnt about how the world works.
Enough!
I had enough of this crap! I need someone to tell me why people end up forever hating each other. Why do they break off something as precious as friendship? A relationship may seem eternal, but more often than not it ends in tragedy. A friendship however is a bond that can grow into something so strong, it can trancend almost anything. If you can't be lovers, whose to say you won't be good friends that'd share the pains, troubles and hardship without all that emotional baggage in tow.
Friends for LIFE!
Love your friends, cherish them. Do not take them for granted for you never know when you'd lose them. Damn I'm getting so emo... Please don't mind me, I'm alittle unstable today because I just happened to remember at the fact that I suck at relationships. I'd love to be a great friend, somehow though, I suck at being a lover. Perhaps it's just me, I'm just not cut out to be one. I'm going to relegate myself to being just a good friend to all those around me. At the very least I can do that. Whose got time to be lonely if your with your friends? I sound like some emo dude, I'm not really an emo guy FYI. Alauz Out.
Idiots of today, Geniuses of tomorrow
Old Networks
They say old flames die hard, well for one thing I don't really think it's the right way to say it. I say old flames become old friends. If your me that is. I try not to think of an old flame as someone merely loved and lost. But rather someone whose been thru part of my life and kinda realized that we weren't meant to be together. Well, we may not be meant to be together as lovers surely, but that doesn't mean we cannot be good friends. Sure, we didn't like each other's little flaws or maybe even big flaws. But the fact we got together in the first place, means we've got enough attraction to remain good friends.
Your Kidding Me
I kid you not, for one of the most common fact I've overheard from my camp mates is :"What? My Ex? You crazy ah! I never want to speak to her again!". Well, maybe this lies in the fact that I tend to do things alittle more "weirdly". A few of the gals I dated are now my friends. Well not BEST friends mind you, that'd be just "weird" haha, but just regular friends. I don't get the "dump your ex forever" kind of rule. Well, maybe it's just my weird way of thought. Perhaps it's just the way I learnt about how the world works.
Enough!
I had enough of this crap! I need someone to tell me why people end up forever hating each other. Why do they break off something as precious as friendship? A relationship may seem eternal, but more often than not it ends in tragedy. A friendship however is a bond that can grow into something so strong, it can trancend almost anything. If you can't be lovers, whose to say you won't be good friends that'd share the pains, troubles and hardship without all that emotional baggage in tow.
Friends for LIFE!
Love your friends, cherish them. Do not take them for granted for you never know when you'd lose them. Damn I'm getting so emo... Please don't mind me, I'm alittle unstable today because I just happened to remember at the fact that I suck at relationships. I'd love to be a great friend, somehow though, I suck at being a lover. Perhaps it's just me, I'm just not cut out to be one. I'm going to relegate myself to being just a good friend to all those around me. At the very least I can do that. Whose got time to be lonely if your with your friends? I sound like some emo dude, I'm not really an emo guy FYI. Alauz Out.
Idiots of today, Geniuses of tomorrow
Wednesday, August 23, 2006
Small World
Singapore is tiny
Oh yeah, our country is so small. Well it's not even a speck on the world map, but hey we're still surviving somehow. About today, I had an interview today with guess who? HBO asia. Yeah, but why the heck would they be hiring? Well I applied for a temp job, haha. But it's interesting, I get to read movie reviews and make witty one-liners. It's a pity they only need a temp for two to three months. I guess it's the nature of the job, they don't expect someone to work their ass off, correcting the mistakes of others. But hey, It's an opportunity I couldn't let up.
Career Love
Oh yeah I do have a plan for my career, I am really interested in media. Well for now, I'm interested in any kind of media. Be it, print, internet, TV or even radio. I'm up for anything and anything at all. Oh yeah did I mention my interviewer was from my Alma Mater? He's ex-josephian, oh yeah! From the old campus too! He doesn't look that old though, perhaps he just kept himself in mint condition. Hopefully I get the job, because seriously speaking, it'd help tons if I had more experience than just "Khabal" and "EA Games" if I really wanted to break into my desired industry.
Desired
Industry, what industry you say? Well I'm sure I'd do well in games and stuff, but my true love is writing. Well yeah, writing is kinda huge. You can literally write about anything under the sun. But that's why I love it, my interests in games only come because games cover almost anything under the sun. While games are sort of interactive, what could be more interactive than writing? Like right now I'm enjoying every moment of writing this blog. Heh, you'd never guess it but yeah I'm enjoying myself while I dump my thoughts and dreams here.
Dumping Grounds
Oh yeah! The dumping grounds is right here. You get to receive all the good in with the bad. With a great many things happening around me, what better thing to do than to "write" it all down? Words serve as memories, some may say pictures may do that as well. But you can't tell a story with a picture alone. You can show ten thousand people one picture and you can get back ten thousand different interpretations. But with a well written story, you portray just one interpretation of it. So as you can see, it's so much clearer when people are on more common ground.
Movies vs Novels
Why is it that movies never quite turn out to be as entertaining as the novels we read. Well, not all novels are good, that I'd have to admit. But seriously speaking, good novels almost never translate into good movies. What's lacking? For one thing, the movies are usually only two to three hours long. A good book can engage a person from anywhere between one day to a full month or more for some slower individuals. Thus the biggest difference is the pace of the story. Sure the pace of the story looks set upon the author, but there's a big difference between a pace in a movie and a pace in a book.
Novels
A novel's biggest advantage of pace is that the reader can set it. Anyone reading a novel can experience what I call "dual pacing" You can get carried away by the story's pace BUT at a comfortable reading pace. So your feeling the thrill of the story at your mind's comfortable input zone. It's something only one other media has achieved. What is that you ask? Well it's actually RPG video games. Well one perfect example is the Final Fantasy VII game OR Metal Gear Solid series. They both put you into a "Role" of the hero of the story. And the story plays out more or less in a linear fashion. Sure they may have "side-quests" or "alternate" endings. One thing they cannot change is the Linear progression from place to place. Thus a novel of sorts is born.
Games vs Novels
So which is more engaging? Personally, I'd say books are more engaging. Games are limited, books have open ended chapters. Games has not reached a level of immersion that a book has over me. If I read a good book, I can be engrossed totally into it, to the point the world seems to have changed along with the book. But a game has never put me into that level of immersion yet. That is a good thing, because if a guy can't discern what's real and not real if he's in a game. You'd have the replay of "The Matrix". And that's just going to cause so many problems.
Movies vs Novels vs Games
So what do movies have that novels and games lack? An actual portrayal of the protagonist's emotions. Sure the words would describe in heavy detail all the emotions and the expressions and all. But a picture tells a thousand words, they cannot match watching a grown man crying over a heavy loss. In a split second, more meaning is conveyed over the poetry of motion than an entire catalogue of words. That's why movies and books constantly exist and never replace one another. But the heavy debates come onto games.
Games?
Yeah games. The immersion level of games are getting more and more intense. Some military organizations around the world have been using video simluations to train their troops. I just call it a legitimate way to play games to train yourself. There are many genre of games, thus I consider it a media all on its own. You cannot begin to imagine the sheer vastness of the possibilities of tapping into this media. If you wanted to target young children with a tendency to be trigger happy, why not advertise on a game like Half-Life 2 or even Halo 3? Infact you cannot phantom the immense impact your brand will have on the kids.
Advertising on GAMES?!
Yeah I'm talking about the future. When games officially become accepted socially as a form of media, you'd see that what I'm talking about now is going to be so true. Why can I say this? Let's just say I've had a little help from "someone above". Yeah, so how is this world of games advertising going to be like? I'm thinking that the big game companies are going to drastically earn more profit. Think ten to twenty times more profit than what they are earning now. And it's all due to the fact that their production cost of their games are going to be heavily cut down by advertising dollars.
Crazy Profits!
Yeah imagine if advertisers paid game companies to insert their brand with an image suitable to their branding into a popular game? It would be crazy. First thing, it'd not only be exposing their brand constantly to their target audience. But it'd also have a positive impact on their branding because their audience are going to be enjoying themselves on the games and when they run past a billboard in the game with the brand name, they'd go "hey I think I've seen this brand in real life!" And Viola, you have instant brand recognition and if the advertisement was placed strategically, it can only boost sales.
Brand Sabotage
Oh yeah there's also counter strategy I'm sure companies going to employ in this new market. It's called brand sabotage. What the rivial company can do is ask the games company to put their rival's brand into the game. Just a playful example would be Sony Enterprise's rival wanted them to look bad. So they ask the game developer of let's say, a FPS game called Urban Combat to make Sony the game's evil mastermind's organization. They can write a disclaimer that all names therein are used ficticiously and not meant to have any relation to actual events. BUT less than one in ten people actually read the disclaimer. Thus you have a beauty of a sabotage weapon.
Silliness
Oh yeah you may just go ah that's just silly! But games are never truly just games. Take sports for an instance, it's just a game. But look at the seriousness that it's being conducted? Oh a guy cheats in a video game and he wins the competition. You might think that's nothing. But a guy cheats in a sporting arena and wins the competition. You're going to send him to jail. But hey, look at it in essence. Sports is only a game, or so we say. It goes much deeper than that. Video games aren't just a game to many, and it's time that people start realizing that fact. Infact, when the game "Counter-strike" was at it's peak of it's popularity here in Singapore. One guy actually stabbed another person in a L.A.N. Shop because he was "stabbed" in the game. It's not silly, you've seen football fans kill each other over the game we call "football". You're going to see people dying because of the video game revolution.
Brutality
It's going to be savage and brutal. The players of this new genre of media are slowly becoming icons in their own right. I foresee a future where nerds, geeks would be transformed into the world's superstars that would even be more popular than music stars, soccer players or even movie stars. This brutal game that ravages the minds is only going to get bloodier and in it's aftermath. A whole new outlook on games will rapidly develop to accomodate the sheer speed of the changes gaming will no doubt bring to us. Alauz Out.
Idiots of today, Geniuses of tomorrow
Singapore is tiny
Oh yeah, our country is so small. Well it's not even a speck on the world map, but hey we're still surviving somehow. About today, I had an interview today with guess who? HBO asia. Yeah, but why the heck would they be hiring? Well I applied for a temp job, haha. But it's interesting, I get to read movie reviews and make witty one-liners. It's a pity they only need a temp for two to three months. I guess it's the nature of the job, they don't expect someone to work their ass off, correcting the mistakes of others. But hey, It's an opportunity I couldn't let up.
Career Love
Oh yeah I do have a plan for my career, I am really interested in media. Well for now, I'm interested in any kind of media. Be it, print, internet, TV or even radio. I'm up for anything and anything at all. Oh yeah did I mention my interviewer was from my Alma Mater? He's ex-josephian, oh yeah! From the old campus too! He doesn't look that old though, perhaps he just kept himself in mint condition. Hopefully I get the job, because seriously speaking, it'd help tons if I had more experience than just "Khabal" and "EA Games" if I really wanted to break into my desired industry.
Desired
Industry, what industry you say? Well I'm sure I'd do well in games and stuff, but my true love is writing. Well yeah, writing is kinda huge. You can literally write about anything under the sun. But that's why I love it, my interests in games only come because games cover almost anything under the sun. While games are sort of interactive, what could be more interactive than writing? Like right now I'm enjoying every moment of writing this blog. Heh, you'd never guess it but yeah I'm enjoying myself while I dump my thoughts and dreams here.
Dumping Grounds
Oh yeah! The dumping grounds is right here. You get to receive all the good in with the bad. With a great many things happening around me, what better thing to do than to "write" it all down? Words serve as memories, some may say pictures may do that as well. But you can't tell a story with a picture alone. You can show ten thousand people one picture and you can get back ten thousand different interpretations. But with a well written story, you portray just one interpretation of it. So as you can see, it's so much clearer when people are on more common ground.
Movies vs Novels
Why is it that movies never quite turn out to be as entertaining as the novels we read. Well, not all novels are good, that I'd have to admit. But seriously speaking, good novels almost never translate into good movies. What's lacking? For one thing, the movies are usually only two to three hours long. A good book can engage a person from anywhere between one day to a full month or more for some slower individuals. Thus the biggest difference is the pace of the story. Sure the pace of the story looks set upon the author, but there's a big difference between a pace in a movie and a pace in a book.
Novels
A novel's biggest advantage of pace is that the reader can set it. Anyone reading a novel can experience what I call "dual pacing" You can get carried away by the story's pace BUT at a comfortable reading pace. So your feeling the thrill of the story at your mind's comfortable input zone. It's something only one other media has achieved. What is that you ask? Well it's actually RPG video games. Well one perfect example is the Final Fantasy VII game OR Metal Gear Solid series. They both put you into a "Role" of the hero of the story. And the story plays out more or less in a linear fashion. Sure they may have "side-quests" or "alternate" endings. One thing they cannot change is the Linear progression from place to place. Thus a novel of sorts is born.
Games vs Novels
So which is more engaging? Personally, I'd say books are more engaging. Games are limited, books have open ended chapters. Games has not reached a level of immersion that a book has over me. If I read a good book, I can be engrossed totally into it, to the point the world seems to have changed along with the book. But a game has never put me into that level of immersion yet. That is a good thing, because if a guy can't discern what's real and not real if he's in a game. You'd have the replay of "The Matrix". And that's just going to cause so many problems.
Movies vs Novels vs Games
So what do movies have that novels and games lack? An actual portrayal of the protagonist's emotions. Sure the words would describe in heavy detail all the emotions and the expressions and all. But a picture tells a thousand words, they cannot match watching a grown man crying over a heavy loss. In a split second, more meaning is conveyed over the poetry of motion than an entire catalogue of words. That's why movies and books constantly exist and never replace one another. But the heavy debates come onto games.
Games?
Yeah games. The immersion level of games are getting more and more intense. Some military organizations around the world have been using video simluations to train their troops. I just call it a legitimate way to play games to train yourself. There are many genre of games, thus I consider it a media all on its own. You cannot begin to imagine the sheer vastness of the possibilities of tapping into this media. If you wanted to target young children with a tendency to be trigger happy, why not advertise on a game like Half-Life 2 or even Halo 3? Infact you cannot phantom the immense impact your brand will have on the kids.
Advertising on GAMES?!
Yeah I'm talking about the future. When games officially become accepted socially as a form of media, you'd see that what I'm talking about now is going to be so true. Why can I say this? Let's just say I've had a little help from "someone above". Yeah, so how is this world of games advertising going to be like? I'm thinking that the big game companies are going to drastically earn more profit. Think ten to twenty times more profit than what they are earning now. And it's all due to the fact that their production cost of their games are going to be heavily cut down by advertising dollars.
Crazy Profits!
Yeah imagine if advertisers paid game companies to insert their brand with an image suitable to their branding into a popular game? It would be crazy. First thing, it'd not only be exposing their brand constantly to their target audience. But it'd also have a positive impact on their branding because their audience are going to be enjoying themselves on the games and when they run past a billboard in the game with the brand name, they'd go "hey I think I've seen this brand in real life!" And Viola, you have instant brand recognition and if the advertisement was placed strategically, it can only boost sales.
Brand Sabotage
Oh yeah there's also counter strategy I'm sure companies going to employ in this new market. It's called brand sabotage. What the rivial company can do is ask the games company to put their rival's brand into the game. Just a playful example would be Sony Enterprise's rival wanted them to look bad. So they ask the game developer of let's say, a FPS game called Urban Combat to make Sony the game's evil mastermind's organization. They can write a disclaimer that all names therein are used ficticiously and not meant to have any relation to actual events. BUT less than one in ten people actually read the disclaimer. Thus you have a beauty of a sabotage weapon.
Silliness
Oh yeah you may just go ah that's just silly! But games are never truly just games. Take sports for an instance, it's just a game. But look at the seriousness that it's being conducted? Oh a guy cheats in a video game and he wins the competition. You might think that's nothing. But a guy cheats in a sporting arena and wins the competition. You're going to send him to jail. But hey, look at it in essence. Sports is only a game, or so we say. It goes much deeper than that. Video games aren't just a game to many, and it's time that people start realizing that fact. Infact, when the game "Counter-strike" was at it's peak of it's popularity here in Singapore. One guy actually stabbed another person in a L.A.N. Shop because he was "stabbed" in the game. It's not silly, you've seen football fans kill each other over the game we call "football". You're going to see people dying because of the video game revolution.
Brutality
It's going to be savage and brutal. The players of this new genre of media are slowly becoming icons in their own right. I foresee a future where nerds, geeks would be transformed into the world's superstars that would even be more popular than music stars, soccer players or even movie stars. This brutal game that ravages the minds is only going to get bloodier and in it's aftermath. A whole new outlook on games will rapidly develop to accomodate the sheer speed of the changes gaming will no doubt bring to us. Alauz Out.
Idiots of today, Geniuses of tomorrow
Monday, August 21, 2006
Viola
Dreams Come True
Literally. It has come to my attention that my dreams on Friday night, about getting 2 interview requests, having an interview today and confirming another interview tomorrow and Weds. Has just come true to fruition. It's freaking me out even after all these years. It's disconcerting every freaking time it happens and some people say it'd stop when your out of your puberty. Well I waited and waited. And waited but to no avail. It keeps happening, now it seems my visions are concentrated on the short term rather than the long term ones.
Long term vs Short term
Back when I was younger, it was easier to accept the visions because I knew that it would be a while before they happened and I had time to kind of "prepare" myself for the eventuality. But now the visions are so sudden and they are intense and charged with emotion. It's as if something is directing me towards a goal. And it's using visions to kind of control the direction I'm supposed to take.
The Cycle
And this cycle of vision and me following them, either wittingly or unwittingly. It's something I've always been afraid to go against. It's as if I know that there's a heavy consequence that comes from breaking the vision chain. Somehow, I know that something very bad will happen if I don't go with the visions. It's like playing with the future, the past and the present. If I change something, everything gets altered and who knows what might happen?
Breaking the cycle
Should I try to break the cycle? This is a question I ask myself all the time, even when I'm deeply engrossed with gaming, TV or anything. I keep wondering what will happen if I don't go thru with my dreams. Will it end everything? Or the world? Or the universe? Am I part of something larger? Is it divine, demonic? Does it even matter what source my visions are coming from. What matters is that I'm not doing anything against my conscience in my dreams, so I go with the flow for now.
Questions
What if one day I dream of doing something totally against my conscience? If I were to see myself doing something like, making countless people jobless, making countless people suffer, making countless people die. If I see that in my visions, would I be able to stop myself from doing so? I don't know. Sometimes I worry, but if my visions are merely visions from a future that I personally chose my steps. Then I shouldn't worry, as I always had a clear conscience. But I do worry, what if my visions aren't my own. How can one tell the difference? No one can be sure.
Wonderment
I wonder everyday, if I had been a good person. And yeah I also kinda helped 2 tourists find their way from China town to Orchard Rd. Hehe, never thought that I'd go back to helping total strangers, but hey I don't know why I decided to go out of my way to help them. But it felt good. It's nice to know my heart's not iced up after so long. No quote today, my mind's all blown away.
Idiots of today, Geniuses of tomorrow
Dreams Come True
Literally. It has come to my attention that my dreams on Friday night, about getting 2 interview requests, having an interview today and confirming another interview tomorrow and Weds. Has just come true to fruition. It's freaking me out even after all these years. It's disconcerting every freaking time it happens and some people say it'd stop when your out of your puberty. Well I waited and waited. And waited but to no avail. It keeps happening, now it seems my visions are concentrated on the short term rather than the long term ones.
Long term vs Short term
Back when I was younger, it was easier to accept the visions because I knew that it would be a while before they happened and I had time to kind of "prepare" myself for the eventuality. But now the visions are so sudden and they are intense and charged with emotion. It's as if something is directing me towards a goal. And it's using visions to kind of control the direction I'm supposed to take.
The Cycle
And this cycle of vision and me following them, either wittingly or unwittingly. It's something I've always been afraid to go against. It's as if I know that there's a heavy consequence that comes from breaking the vision chain. Somehow, I know that something very bad will happen if I don't go with the visions. It's like playing with the future, the past and the present. If I change something, everything gets altered and who knows what might happen?
Breaking the cycle
Should I try to break the cycle? This is a question I ask myself all the time, even when I'm deeply engrossed with gaming, TV or anything. I keep wondering what will happen if I don't go thru with my dreams. Will it end everything? Or the world? Or the universe? Am I part of something larger? Is it divine, demonic? Does it even matter what source my visions are coming from. What matters is that I'm not doing anything against my conscience in my dreams, so I go with the flow for now.
Questions
What if one day I dream of doing something totally against my conscience? If I were to see myself doing something like, making countless people jobless, making countless people suffer, making countless people die. If I see that in my visions, would I be able to stop myself from doing so? I don't know. Sometimes I worry, but if my visions are merely visions from a future that I personally chose my steps. Then I shouldn't worry, as I always had a clear conscience. But I do worry, what if my visions aren't my own. How can one tell the difference? No one can be sure.
Wonderment
I wonder everyday, if I had been a good person. And yeah I also kinda helped 2 tourists find their way from China town to Orchard Rd. Hehe, never thought that I'd go back to helping total strangers, but hey I don't know why I decided to go out of my way to help them. But it felt good. It's nice to know my heart's not iced up after so long. No quote today, my mind's all blown away.
Idiots of today, Geniuses of tomorrow
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