Percakapan Aneh

3:21 PM me: pat pat bagaimanakah kabarmu? hahahah

  ud lama g liat / ngomong

3:22 PM pat: papapapaaaatt

3:23 PM me: hahahaha

 pat: malah manggil nama sndr

  mama

  hahaha

 me: apaan coba panggil2 nama sendiri...

 pat: apa kabar you

 me: kabar i baik lah

  baru selesai semua tugas2 penting i

 pat: kabar i baik jg

  cuma aga malas i

 me: sementara ini i bisa istirahat haha

 pat: wah

  asik dong you

 me: hahahahha jangan malas lah you

3:24 PM tugas final mana pulak boleh malas..betul tak..

  yah asik lah... tapi minggu depan pun i kena work i punya ass off lagi

 pat: zoo bad

3:25 PM tapi paling sedikit you tidak usah kerja kat christmas

  apa sih

  ini bahasa ga jelas

  hahaha

 me: hahahah tak lah

  ini bahasa anak muda lah

  macam kita2 inilah, you tau

  hahahahaha

3:26 PM pat: yooohoooo

  knapa ga dateng pestanya riaaa

 me: ah itu, hari itu i masih sibuk lah..

  tugas tugas i baru selesai kemarin lah...

  seronok kah pestanya?

 pat: kaki i bedarah2 cos of that pest hahahha

3:27 PM me: i yakin pasti seronok lah ya...

 pat: lmyn bererti

  lol

 me: hah serius???? you buat apa dalam itu pesta?

 pat: bukan i lah

 me: you kick semua orang kah?

 pat: oh

 me: ah, i tau

 pat: bedarah cos kaki i terlalu besar lah buat sepatu i

  zzz...

 me: i kena masukkan ini conversation ke dalam blog i lah..

  terlalu aneh lah ini hahaha..

3:30 PM pat: TIZAAAAAKKKK

  MALU MALUKAN SAYA

3:31 PM me: hahahahaha

3:32 PM tak usah malu lah... memang you punya reputasi sebagai orang aneh kan..

  (i juga, actually...)

3:33 PM pat: huaaa

3:34 PM kamu jgn drag i ke zalam your type

 me: apa ini!!!?? maksud you apa my tipe??!!

  tipe tipe i ini sama lah dengan tipe you!

3:35 PM you jangan tipu tipu i lah soal tipe tipe!

 pat: asssishhshahf

 me: hahahaha itu mantra kah?

  pengusir setan bandel macam i? ;p

3:36 PM pat: iyaah

  benar

  hgawiheauehfaiuehf

  you gila ya

  ngapain di rumah

  arkitektur bikin orang gila

  ck ck ck

 me: belajar lah... i kena improve i punya bahasa perancis..

3:37 PM i totally ignore i punya pe-er waktu i buat tugas arsitektur hahaha

  arsitektur itu, memanglah membuat orang gila.. macam kalau sedang dimabuk cinta lah hahaha... gila yang nikmat ;p

 pat: iiiishhhhhh

3:38 PM tidak mabuk cinta

  so how your bahasa prancis

 me: hahaha bolehlah... kalau untuk ngeceng saja cukuplah hahaha

  ngeceng = ngelamun sambil cengengesan ;p

 pat: buat ngmg cepet2 hahahah

3:39 PM me: hahaha...

  hey ok ok, i kena teruskan kerja i punya pe-er lah..

  you pun, banyak pekerjaan kan?

 pat: banyak sekali ni

  tapi malah karaoke westlife

  perlu ganti roommate

 me: ...... i punya screw a bit loose lah!

  salam i buat erlin ahhahahahaha

3:40 PM dan selamat berkaraoke lah hahaha

  ah, i maksud, you punya screw a bit loose hahaha

 pat: walaw

  suddenly talk screw screw

  bikin takut

  hahaha

  oka okya

 me: hahaha

On Gays

"In more than 70 countries, same sex relationships are illegal. In 9 countries, the penalty is death."

- 50 Facts That Should Change The World, Jessica Williams

Have always wondered whether gays are gays by Nature or nurture.. Which I think for me is a big deal because as a Christian I'm supposed to believe that being  gay is a sin (As it is, I don't have any opinion on it now and am still researching further) Well, if the tendency to be gay is innate, inborn in some humans and then the creator of those humans declare that THEY are wrong... that's a pretty screwed-up system.. That said, some gay Christians believe that being gay AND struggling against their tendencies is a worthy enough calling. (Might not seem to make sense, but maybe it's kinda the same way that normal guys don't just go and touch every girl they find attractive and this very self control, against something which is a natural, inborn tendency, makes them nobler members of society. )

Coming across the article by Jessica Williams, though, made me think. If you can find gays in Iran, in countries where it really is not just frowned upon but viewed as despicable.. then maybe it is Nature after all.. because the society itself does not nurture people to be gay, and if anything, it discourages it - with a  death penalty, no less - and you can still find gays.. Well... Who'd wanna be gay for the heck of it, for experimentation, for fun etc if one gets punished so much by it? So the logical conclusion is that gay people, at least some, don't have a choice regarding their sexual orientation.

Oh well. I wonder. Through all the "researching" I've done, there are actually quite a lot of stands regarding this amongst Christian communities. Some argue that the Bible does not actually say homosexuality is wrong, but was interpreted that way. Some are sure that homosexuality is a sin. Some separates homosexual acts of immorality and homosexuals faithful to one partner just like in a marriage....

Oh well....

"It's better to be black than gay because when you're black you don't have to tell your mother."

- Charles Peirce

"Why is it that as a society, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?"

- Ernest Gaines

The Sacrednes of School

D: "Looking back at the last three years worrying so much definitely wasn't necessary.. Architecture's so much easier than we think at uni.."

Me: "You know the definitive point where I just stopped worrying about architecture school? It's when we went to watch "We Will Rock You" at the eve of submission ;p It just totally destroyed the sacredness of submission hahaha... to good effect ;p "

D: "Ye.. tho it didn't seem like it at the time.. I think it was the best idea we had! "

Me: "Tho technically it wasn't an idea.. but I just forgot when exactly was submission when we booked the thing..."

D: "Idea.. mistake.. same thing.."

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Until I was in secondary school, and even early in junior college, school was somewhat "sacred".. Skipping school was a big occasion, and I probably got the same kick out of it as other adrenaline-pumping activities.. Wonder if it's just in my family, because my parents conditioned my that skipping school is bad from early on... Or whether it's generally like that when we were young? To be fair, my parents just didn't want me to be a bad example for my brothers, and when I was in Singapore without them, they allowed me to skip when I was just fed up with classes.. (I was thinking things like, "What's the point of being smart if I have to do the same amount of school work as other people?" Yeah.. arrogant nerd to the max.. )

University.. is a different matter altogether.. To come to school because I want it and because I love it is a great feeling, but consequently when I don't feel like it, well.. no school for that day hehehe... That aside, being in archi there's just a culture of almost everyone skipping class as submission is nearing.. 

Wonder if it's a dangerous mentality if now for me skipping class is really no big deal.. 

Mom (to youngest bro) : "We just came from this activity that your sis organised, ArchiTours.. It was nice.. you know, you should get involved in more activities outside school, it will be good for you.."

Youngest bro: "Yeah mom, in fact, I'm involved in this activity called Prom Nite.."

Mom: "Oh? Prom nite? What is that?"

Youngest bro: "Uhm, you can just ask sis.. but it requires me to go with a girl..."

Mom: "?????"

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Me: "Whoa, so you're here and he's in your home country?"

A: "Yeah.. and I just get used to life without him, you know.. even though we're in a relationship.. but then I'll go back, and meet him, and again tell myself, "I want this..I want this relationship.."

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"We are each our own devil, and we make this world our Hell."

- Oscar Wilde

"If you're going through Hell, keep going."

- Winston Churchill

After running the first day of ArchiTours in which there were a monumental number of glitches and obstacles,

Me: "Oh man...Hufh...I think I just used up my quota of bad luck for the next ten years..."

J: "Hate to tell you this, but there's no such thing as a quota for bad luck.."

Me: "Shucks...I guess you're right..."

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ZF: "You know about Tsinghua university in Beijing?"

Me: "Yeah, why?"

ZF: "My friend is from there, and he told me, in Tsinghua, because people are so busy and don't really take care of themselves, the females look like males, and the males don't look like human beings..."

Me: "Whoa...."

(I have yet to clarify this with other Chinese friends..)

Am officially in deep shit. Let's see how the week unfolds and hopefully I'm in one piece by the end of it.

Amen.

Hittin' On Girls..

Was taking the MRT to Chinatown today to meet up with a building manager for ArchiTours ( http://www.archifest.sg/index.php/humanity/event/architours/tour/ ) *no harm in a bit of advertising ;p * and was just sitting 2 seats away from an office lady when this French guy came in.. The compartment was kinda empty so I was able to hear their conversation...

Suspicious-looking French Guy: *to office lady* "Hi, you're going to work?" *knew right away that he was French due to the cutely accented English...*

Office Lady: "Uhm...ya.."

SFG: "Yeah me too... I work in Tanjong Pagar, you know... bla bla bla..."

*SFG proceeded with the small talk, and OL was kinda confused but still answering..and then..*

SFG: "May I know what is your name?"

OL: "Crystal"

SFG: "Hi Crystal.. nice to meet you.. do you think we can meet again?"

OL: "Uhm... sorry but I'm not good at making friends..." *weird answer! which shows the lady was bloody nervous..*

SFG: "Oh, it's ok.... But you know, we only live once..."

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At this point I had to go down from the MRT...but it was bizarre! Who uses pick-up lines like "We only live once"... Especially since the guy was French, I expected something better hahaha...

It makes me think of the difference between Asian and Western culture again... I kind of pity the lady actually, it was clear she was very uncomfortable, and in my head I was like, "Whoa dude.. you're doing irreparrable damage there...Easy, man..."

Wonder if it's just a coincidence that in French, the phrase "hitting on" someone means sleeping with them hahaha... Well, just wondering.... 

500 Days of Summer, and The One

"The girl of my dreams... has.. you know....big boobs...and like sports better, and be a little hotter..and has a slightly different hairstyle... but Robin.. she's better than the girl of my dreams.. she's real.."

- Paul, 500 days of Summer

*A pretty funny movie - granted it's romantic comedy - where the main character is an architect wannabe that wants to be an architect... and the movie portrays quite well someone who is fascinated with buildings hahaha.. I think that is reason enough to watch it!*

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And below, a short excerpt of the interview with the director:

Cinematical: There's a terrific scene in the film where a character says, "just because someone likes the same thing that another person likes, it doesn't mean that they're your soul mate." For you, what is it that you think these two people really share or what connects them that either the audience will recognize, or at least Joseph Gordon-Levitt's character responds so strongly to?

Webb: Well, I think that they're both young, they're both single, they're in this work environment where they spend a lot of time with each other, and when you mix that together and they're both attractive people, what else is going to happen? Romance grows from that, from proximity, and he may construe these things as destiny or fate or whatever, but the truth is, I suppose, that it's not uncommon for people to have similar interests, and how much you weigh that is really up to you. My feeling is that Tom reads too much into it.

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The movie plays with the concept of "The One".. Something that I'm still pretty sure I don't believe in..  Maybe "The One" doesn't mean your soulmate, someone destined to be with you, not even someone that has so many similar interests with you.. "The One" just means someone you really really really want... you want them so much you can't see anyone else beside them, and that's when they become "The One".... Haaaa.... I'm still pretty good at being pseudo-profound, after all hahahaha....

On Hell and Pigs..

Me: "I just read a book today, The Gargoyle, and inside there's this Icelandic character that talks about Icelandic Hell...and the concept is that Hell is bloody cold.. It just struck me as pretty cool.. Maybe if you've spent your whole life in bloody cold weather then a hot hell doesn't seem so scary after all hahaha..."

D: "Surely the whole heat thing in Hell is allegorical.. so yeah.. guess wherever you consider your worst nightmare should be hell.. It's also permanently dark for Icelanders, cuz a friend who went to norway said he became very depressed there because it's so dark.. Maybe it's the same in Iceland.."

Me: "If there's a hell what would yours be like?"

D: "Good question.."

Me: "Mine..hmm... without books at all, no musical instrument, no way of entertaining myself.. I'd go nuts with boredom, except I can't go nuts because it's hell.."

D: "and maybe there should be a permanently empty fridge.."

Me: "Just to torment me further... ok I guess it is the common idea of hell.."

D: "Have you ever seen those videos of pigs in pig sheds?"

Me: "Just photos, and read about it.why?"

D: "They have no stimulation at all cuz they're in the same pen all their life and they just go insane from boredom.."

Me: "WHOA REALLY???"

D: "They start chewing on the metal bars to get some sort of stimulation...."

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Most enlightening conversation I had today... Am just thankful I don't believe in the Buddhist concept of karma because right now I would be dreading being born as a farmed pig in my next life huhuhu..