We're at this stage in life where we reminisce too much of our near past, worry too much about our near future, are
too clueless about everything that can, will, may happen to us, think we know alot, think we don't know anything,
am confident about the wrong things, take pride in wasting time away, want too much but want to do too little.
Ohwell.
Wednesday, April 02, 2008
Half Life
Today is one of those days where you sit around and try not to think of anything important, want to waste the day away talking about things that don't matter, watch time fly, sing songs whose lyrics don't make any sense, try to count stars in the day, but fail because things get into your mind as much as you don't want them to, much as you want to block them out, now isn't this a really long sentence you always loath, too bad for you then.
There wasn't lessons today because it was Campaigning day in NJ and we skipped the talks because it's highly worth skipping. We stayed in class to talk nonsense, watch time fly, sing senseless songs like the gagugigupiong song, tried to count stars in the day. We played cards, and aeroplane chess, chinese checquers (not a typo, it was spelled like that on the board) and we sat around and wasted time because it's a goodday. Till the teacher came in and told us our classroom isn't the hall and took down our names so we're probably down for detention (like some other 19741298641965413 people in the college will be, oh well).
Later in the day, I continued reading Half Life by some Shelly Jackson or Sheily Jackson or something like that. It's an Awesome book that's damn interesting. There was this part saying a human head can stay conscious for 13 seconds after it's decapitated. And that the ancient Chinese at executions cut the criminal's head off, bring it to his body so it can see his own body there, and supposedly feel remorseful for whatever stupid crimes he committed. Then the part on Mike, a chicken which survived four and a half years headless.
Plus, the book uses pretty metaphors that get stuck to your head, like neighbouring moons with diverse orbits.
Actually the whole book is about one of the Siamese twins considering whether or not to cut her other half off because her twin has been in coma for 15 years, and she feels like she's carrying a dead weight around. The way it talks about the whole thing is fascinating, with Venn diagrams and the whole idea of Siamese twins being a result of radioactive explosion. That's why half-life, cute pun isn't it.
Anyway, ideas started getting into my head, and I got confused over nothing (how do you get confused over nothing?) and then I wished I had just stayed in bed and then attend detention anyway.
I don't know why it should matter, why I bother, why it feels like a uh stump. I don't know why I looked at red railings and try to make them green, try to look like I'm not looking, why I can't just sit still and not breathe. I don't know why, when the railings disappeared, I only realised I wasn't breathing when I'm already out of breath.
I don't know why when I walk past you I try to drown you among people. Try to look for green railings among the only red ones instead. Then when I lose sight of everything else, when I thought I saw something green, that says GO instead of STOP, I can't remember what it was I was charging at. And before I can recall, it's red railings everywhere, again.
My. I forgot about the promise about not acting cheem. Please take it I didn't say anything, whether you want to understand it or not.
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Tags >
mel > LOL. You how loud? HAHA. And I don't see what you mean ._. So what if you just realised the tagboard is a Shoutbox?
2359hrs > I didn't make any joke with Mdm Khoo about electrons. ._. She was the one confusing us saying "the electron behaves as a wave when no one's looking but when you're observing it, it behaves like a particle" and expect us to believe it makes sense. ._.
laimeng > I didn't walk off. ._. Is you tui hou. LOL. And I had to walk back to fend zhen zi off you. ._. HA.
fiona > Ogay. Next Monday then! :D Where's NDC?
Plaits (NOT) > I WILL believe it's an April's Fool joke if not because I watched you do the pull-ups myself. And Sheralyn counted together with me so I can't say I don't trust my Maths. :) Fine, reFERee. I'll do corrections 10 times, SP's great student.
Referee Referee Referee Referee Referee Referee Referee Referee Referee Referee
WS > ._. You still blog? Ogay. Are ghosts waves or particles then. ._. Lol. May you be less ghostly everyday.
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I know I said I'll post pictures. Soon larh, when Barney is dead or something. :)
7:19:00 PM because I say so
There wasn't lessons today because it was Campaigning day in NJ and we skipped the talks because it's highly worth skipping. We stayed in class to talk nonsense, watch time fly, sing senseless songs like the gagugigupiong song, tried to count stars in the day. We played cards, and aeroplane chess, chinese checquers (not a typo, it was spelled like that on the board) and we sat around and wasted time because it's a goodday. Till the teacher came in and told us our classroom isn't the hall and took down our names so we're probably down for detention (like some other 19741298641965413 people in the college will be, oh well).
Later in the day, I continued reading Half Life by some Shelly Jackson or Sheily Jackson or something like that. It's an Awesome book that's damn interesting. There was this part saying a human head can stay conscious for 13 seconds after it's decapitated. And that the ancient Chinese at executions cut the criminal's head off, bring it to his body so it can see his own body there, and supposedly feel remorseful for whatever stupid crimes he committed. Then the part on Mike, a chicken which survived four and a half years headless.
Plus, the book uses pretty metaphors that get stuck to your head, like neighbouring moons with diverse orbits.
Actually the whole book is about one of the Siamese twins considering whether or not to cut her other half off because her twin has been in coma for 15 years, and she feels like she's carrying a dead weight around. The way it talks about the whole thing is fascinating, with Venn diagrams and the whole idea of Siamese twins being a result of radioactive explosion. That's why half-life, cute pun isn't it.
Anyway, ideas started getting into my head, and I got confused over nothing (how do you get confused over nothing?) and then I wished I had just stayed in bed and then attend detention anyway.
I don't know why it should matter, why I bother, why it feels like a uh stump. I don't know why I looked at red railings and try to make them green, try to look like I'm not looking, why I can't just sit still and not breathe. I don't know why, when the railings disappeared, I only realised I wasn't breathing when I'm already out of breath.
I don't know why when I walk past you I try to drown you among people. Try to look for green railings among the only red ones instead. Then when I lose sight of everything else, when I thought I saw something green, that says GO instead of STOP, I can't remember what it was I was charging at. And before I can recall, it's red railings everywhere, again.
My. I forgot about the promise about not acting cheem. Please take it I didn't say anything, whether you want to understand it or not.
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Tags >
mel > LOL. You how loud? HAHA. And I don't see what you mean ._. So what if you just realised the tagboard is a Shoutbox?
2359hrs > I didn't make any joke with Mdm Khoo about electrons. ._. She was the one confusing us saying "the electron behaves as a wave when no one's looking but when you're observing it, it behaves like a particle" and expect us to believe it makes sense. ._.
laimeng > I didn't walk off. ._. Is you tui hou. LOL. And I had to walk back to fend zhen zi off you. ._. HA.
fiona > Ogay. Next Monday then! :D Where's NDC?
Plaits (NOT) > I WILL believe it's an April's Fool joke if not because I watched you do the pull-ups myself. And Sheralyn counted together with me so I can't say I don't trust my Maths. :) Fine, reFERee. I'll do corrections 10 times, SP's great student.
Referee Referee Referee Referee Referee Referee Referee Referee Referee Referee
WS > ._. You still blog? Ogay. Are ghosts waves or particles then. ._. Lol. May you be less ghostly everyday.
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I know I said I'll post pictures. Soon larh, when Barney is dead or something. :)
7:19:00 PM because I say so