Putting a name to it. Is it trends?

It stirs up the public and they stare involuntarily. Hello, Hot, Who and their ensuing drivel; I ought to restrain myself from placing the irons of judgement on any one (and any) thing, but there are few things more sorry or more stirring of the soul than helplessness. Fish on the line, we all are to varying ( Read more... )

It has been two months. Liberation - a tremendous whooshing feeling, an Icarus sensation the minute he took to the skies; liberation insidious, liberation unintended. Unexpected freedom, boundless; like a currency one knows not what to do with it after the temporal toying with ideas.

Much of my mathematical abilities have decomposed, degraded, worn ( Read more... )

How do bestsellers come about? A book that hooks the imagination or the herd mentality? Or a potent mixture of both?

This afternoon I glimpsed a Northlight School girl and her tiny sister trudging across the road with the green light blazing. No car in sight, but still. Would she be holding her hand in Death?

I fear breaking rules when crossing the ( Read more... )

Outdoor smokers are the cruellest people in probably the entirety of humanity. Not only do they interpret interior self-mutilation as pleasure but forcibly impart their doctrine to everyone else, the student on the street behind them holding her breath, the old lady on the shores of Heaven pushed yet closer. Mass murderers. The only thing worse ( Read more... )

Today, I resolved not to lose my temper in front of my mother.  It is just about the most uphill task, and one I always fail umpteen times. This promise, perhaps, is one of the tiny hill-bumps on the Life Graph which are those hours of inspired moments, which are as quickly dissolved in the aftermath of an 'inspirational' book (none of those self- ( Read more... )

The doctor suspects a mild fracture following last Friday's fall from the stairs while filming for the pre-university seminar. I am actually quite amazed, since this would mean I have spent the last seven days hobbling around the whole of the school campus with a serious injury attached to my ankle. Nothing has worsened it, internally. I cannot say ( Read more... )

Expectations for next week: The SSEF, a prestigious science fair that by a surprising twist of fate my project was selected to compete in. My teacher-mentor turns out more excited by the prospect of my attendance than I am, although I try to mask it beyond that of 'oh it's just lovely. Yes I am an extremely fortunate person!' by adding a bright ( Read more... )

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

This world needs more beautiful minds. It needs eloquent, golden tongues, it needs dancers and singers who stay true to the meaning of their profession, and not the mediocre ones that strike poses at any camera, requiring the ( Read more... )

CNY fireworks are the perfect soundtrack to Korean War revision. And UN peacekeeping and collective security.

This should have been here two days ago when it came to me, but alas, the lack of internet access in Malaysia. I wonder how can my grandparents live without this constant stream of information except the one from the morning papers? It is ( Read more... )

Abuse strikes me as an extremely tragic thing. A rope around her powerless neck; figuratively. And it doesn't have to be flowing blood and deep cuts that always move the heart. Dark bruises have the same effect. So why did nature gave power to one gender instead of two? (No, lionesses don't actually count, but lazy asses do, of varying species.) I' ( Read more... )