A Wet Walk Home
Sloshed my way home from Tiong Bahru Plaza.
It was raining cats and dogs, but I sloshed home just fine anyway.
Had a minor epiphany on the way home. Actually, all I thought was...
Because I am here, I must go on. Because I live, I must make my own path.
It looks very ordinary, I know. Nothing special. But it actually means more than it appears to be.
It's amazing how many people I know who lose sight of this. I myself have lost sight of it from time to time. Clinging pitifully to our own delusions, hanging on to hopeful fantasies, picturing a beautiful afterlife where we would be rewarded for our suffering.
That last part is dumb you know. Why do we need to invent delusions to cling to? Because we are in an undesirable situation(s). So it is a means of coping with the situation. Then why should we need those illusions to begin with, when we have it in us the ability to change the situation we are in? Or at least, attempt to change it.
Because we are here, here and now, and we have the power to choose.
A failure to choose is also a choice. If you never do not begin, you will never succeed. As long as the moment of failure has not arrived, it has not been made a reality, and there is still some leeway for change. However, of course, the window of opportunity becomes smaller and far more difficult to exploit the more we wait as time slips by. Eventually it will close, and things become inevitable at that point.
Why moan and groan about a bad situation? Think of a way to get out, and do it. Why hold bitterness about how life is unfair? Life is unfair, so work with it. If you can't beat them, join them. Figure out a way to make the system to work for you, if you cannot figure out a way to do away with it (and even then, you have to replace the system with something else anyway. can you honestly say you won't repeat history?).
I can't say that I can live up to this philosophy perfectly. I am but a flawed human being. I try, but I have my moments of weakness. I lapse into despair, and embrace foolish hopes. I don't need an afterlife, living in this one is trial enough, and a challenge to make fulfilling. I don't need an afterlife that will make me live some more, until the end of time, if there is an end. I think when I'm dead, I would prefer to stay dead. Period. Full stop. No continuations, kthxbye.
Am I rejecting religiosity? Perhaps. My view that religion is a man-made construct hasn't dimmed in the least. There might be a God, but I don't quite trust the systems in which belief is supposed to be structured. Call me a cynic, but seriously, some things just don't wash. It makes no logical sense. Heck, even writers can come up with better scenarios that don't contradict each other while still maintaining the same spirit.
Fiction has to make sense, reality doesn't. And we live in a reality that half the time doesn't make sense, because humans are such illogical, paradoxical creatures that it is a miracle in itself that we haven't quite managed to spontaneously cause the destruction of of our own species...yet. We're getting to it though.
On a far less gloomy note, I watched the third Resident Evil movie today. Which was why I was walking home from Tiong Bahru Plaza in the first place. Yup.
Pros:
- Millia Jovovich is still hot. And still kicks ass. What can I say, she's one of the few Caucasian women that actually turn me on.
- The zombies look real. As in, they actually resemble how zombies should look like. Yay realism. XD
- Big firestorm incinerating all those damn birds. Buuuuurn, all buuuuurn. XDDD
- Attack of the Clones! -cough- I just had to say it. XD
- All major male leads are dead. Woo! My misandry rearing its ugly head again. XD
- Wesker is theeeeere!! Sunglasses of doom FTW. XD Ok, so not all male leads are dead. Just the ones on the side of the good guys. XD
- Nice kukri action. I love close combat. Not enough explosions though.
- They left it open for another movie. Umbrella Strikes Back? XDD
Cons:
- Not enough explosions. More pyrotechnics needed.
- Milla Jovovich doesn't get to kick enough ass. More martial action needed.
- Not scary enough. First movie freaked me out because of the claustrophobia it evoked in me. Second movie's scare point was the lickers in the cathedral, all dark and gothic and what not. Here, the only closed in areas was the lab descent, and there weren't any zombies, just one fugly Tyrant at the end. Booooring.
- Not enough wisecracks. First and second movie had more smartassery lines. Here, there were only two moments I liked best. One, when Alice (Jovovich) was talking to the White Queen (aka the AI of the lab, akin to the Red Queen from the first movie). Second was when Alice was facing the Tyrant monster in a very familiar setting (you need to watch it to understand what I mean), and I laughed out loud when an old trick came into play to do in the freak. "You are the future" indeed! Lesson learned: When in doubt, chop into little bits. XD
- The need for heterosexuality sickens me. The movie could do just fine without any romance whatsoever. But nooo, they had to insert Carlos x Alice just for the heck of it. Luckily Carlos doesn't make it. At least he went out with a bang though. Literally. XD
- Needs more Wesker. And they need a better actor for Wesker. Not coldly calculating enough. I want my Wesker emotionless, manipulative, and a sadistic asshole of a mastermind. This version leaked too many emotions past the mask. The glasses are there for a reason!
Ok that's mostly what I can think of offhand for now. There was no real plot to the movie, mindless action with some semblance of witticism, a pretense to greatness but falling far short...but I enjoyed it. Like in the DOA movie, I went in expecting girls kicking ass in skimpy outfits, and I got exactly what I wanted there, no more and no less. Here, I went in expecting to see Millia Jovovich kick ass, and I got more or less what I expected to see. Never mind that it's all really shallow, I was entertained, and that's all that matters sometimes. No point overthinking it.
I loled at the ending though. "I'll be visiting you soon...with some friends." XDDD Friends indeed. So many replicas. XD Attack of the Clones! Literally! Woohoo!
...I think I came when I envisioned a whole army of her and just her. XD
How many more bad Stars Wars movie taglines can I parody in this context? Let's check it out!
1) The Viral Menace! (duh)
2) Attack of the Clones! (needs no change XD)
3) Revenge of the Alice(s) (he..hehe...hehehe...see 2...XD)
4) A New Life (for the group of survivors yo, Alaska and what not XD)
5) Umbrella Strikes Back! (with Wesker at the helm, you know it will come XD)
6) Return of the Zombies (because the franchise refuses to die XD)
Yay for broken senses of humor. It's so not funny. XD
Needs moar yuri too. I wanna slash Claire with Alice... >_>
XD
You know that would rock. XD
Ok, getting some rest now. Throat hurts. Mrr.
It was raining cats and dogs, but I sloshed home just fine anyway.
Had a minor epiphany on the way home. Actually, all I thought was...
Because I am here, I must go on. Because I live, I must make my own path.
It looks very ordinary, I know. Nothing special. But it actually means more than it appears to be.
It's amazing how many people I know who lose sight of this. I myself have lost sight of it from time to time. Clinging pitifully to our own delusions, hanging on to hopeful fantasies, picturing a beautiful afterlife where we would be rewarded for our suffering.
That last part is dumb you know. Why do we need to invent delusions to cling to? Because we are in an undesirable situation(s). So it is a means of coping with the situation. Then why should we need those illusions to begin with, when we have it in us the ability to change the situation we are in? Or at least, attempt to change it.
Because we are here, here and now, and we have the power to choose.
A failure to choose is also a choice. If you never do not begin, you will never succeed. As long as the moment of failure has not arrived, it has not been made a reality, and there is still some leeway for change. However, of course, the window of opportunity becomes smaller and far more difficult to exploit the more we wait as time slips by. Eventually it will close, and things become inevitable at that point.
Why moan and groan about a bad situation? Think of a way to get out, and do it. Why hold bitterness about how life is unfair? Life is unfair, so work with it. If you can't beat them, join them. Figure out a way to make the system to work for you, if you cannot figure out a way to do away with it (and even then, you have to replace the system with something else anyway. can you honestly say you won't repeat history?).
I can't say that I can live up to this philosophy perfectly. I am but a flawed human being. I try, but I have my moments of weakness. I lapse into despair, and embrace foolish hopes. I don't need an afterlife, living in this one is trial enough, and a challenge to make fulfilling. I don't need an afterlife that will make me live some more, until the end of time, if there is an end. I think when I'm dead, I would prefer to stay dead. Period. Full stop. No continuations, kthxbye.
Am I rejecting religiosity? Perhaps. My view that religion is a man-made construct hasn't dimmed in the least. There might be a God, but I don't quite trust the systems in which belief is supposed to be structured. Call me a cynic, but seriously, some things just don't wash. It makes no logical sense. Heck, even writers can come up with better scenarios that don't contradict each other while still maintaining the same spirit.
Fiction has to make sense, reality doesn't. And we live in a reality that half the time doesn't make sense, because humans are such illogical, paradoxical creatures that it is a miracle in itself that we haven't quite managed to spontaneously cause the destruction of of our own species...yet. We're getting to it though.
On a far less gloomy note, I watched the third Resident Evil movie today. Which was why I was walking home from Tiong Bahru Plaza in the first place. Yup.
Pros:
- Millia Jovovich is still hot. And still kicks ass. What can I say, she's one of the few Caucasian women that actually turn me on.
- The zombies look real. As in, they actually resemble how zombies should look like. Yay realism. XD
- Big firestorm incinerating all those damn birds. Buuuuurn, all buuuuurn. XDDD
- Attack of the Clones! -cough- I just had to say it. XD
- All major male leads are dead. Woo! My misandry rearing its ugly head again. XD
- Wesker is theeeeere!! Sunglasses of doom FTW. XD Ok, so not all male leads are dead. Just the ones on the side of the good guys. XD
- Nice kukri action. I love close combat. Not enough explosions though.
- They left it open for another movie. Umbrella Strikes Back? XDD
Cons:
- Not enough explosions. More pyrotechnics needed.
- Milla Jovovich doesn't get to kick enough ass. More martial action needed.
- Not scary enough. First movie freaked me out because of the claustrophobia it evoked in me. Second movie's scare point was the lickers in the cathedral, all dark and gothic and what not. Here, the only closed in areas was the lab descent, and there weren't any zombies, just one fugly Tyrant at the end. Booooring.
- Not enough wisecracks. First and second movie had more smartassery lines. Here, there were only two moments I liked best. One, when Alice (Jovovich) was talking to the White Queen (aka the AI of the lab, akin to the Red Queen from the first movie). Second was when Alice was facing the Tyrant monster in a very familiar setting (you need to watch it to understand what I mean), and I laughed out loud when an old trick came into play to do in the freak. "You are the future" indeed! Lesson learned: When in doubt, chop into little bits. XD
- The need for heterosexuality sickens me. The movie could do just fine without any romance whatsoever. But nooo, they had to insert Carlos x Alice just for the heck of it. Luckily Carlos doesn't make it. At least he went out with a bang though. Literally. XD
- Needs more Wesker. And they need a better actor for Wesker. Not coldly calculating enough. I want my Wesker emotionless, manipulative, and a sadistic asshole of a mastermind. This version leaked too many emotions past the mask. The glasses are there for a reason!
Ok that's mostly what I can think of offhand for now. There was no real plot to the movie, mindless action with some semblance of witticism, a pretense to greatness but falling far short...but I enjoyed it. Like in the DOA movie, I went in expecting girls kicking ass in skimpy outfits, and I got exactly what I wanted there, no more and no less. Here, I went in expecting to see Millia Jovovich kick ass, and I got more or less what I expected to see. Never mind that it's all really shallow, I was entertained, and that's all that matters sometimes. No point overthinking it.
I loled at the ending though. "I'll be visiting you soon...with some friends." XDDD Friends indeed. So many replicas. XD Attack of the Clones! Literally! Woohoo!
...I think I came when I envisioned a whole army of her and just her. XD
How many more bad Stars Wars movie taglines can I parody in this context? Let's check it out!
1) The Viral Menace! (duh)
2) Attack of the Clones! (needs no change XD)
3) Revenge of the Alice(s) (he..hehe...hehehe...see 2...XD)
4) A New Life (for the group of survivors yo, Alaska and what not XD)
5) Umbrella Strikes Back! (with Wesker at the helm, you know it will come XD)
6) Return of the Zombies (because the franchise refuses to die XD)
Yay for broken senses of humor. It's so not funny. XD
Needs moar yuri too. I wanna slash Claire with Alice... >_>
XD
You know that would rock. XD
Ok, getting some rest now. Throat hurts. Mrr.