For Salieri - once beauty has been identified - mediocrity is anything that is less. Mediocrity, the ordinary, sets off the remarkable, and the remarkable, the achieved, exposes everything that is lesser. Beauty declares what can be, and, by its rarity, makes the contrast: the fact that most of our dealings are on a lower plateau. Most of us accept ( Read more... )

kanashii keshiki ga itsumo ichiban kirei ni
kokoro no fukaku ni nokoru no wa doushite

To Failure ( Read more... )

coldplay is going to be in osaka aug 9!
the ticket is also $145, lol. siiigh.

the new JSTOR is so pretty! *wibbles* go check it out, even if you don't normally use JSTOR. =)

“I am writing nothing and can write nothing,” he said, while accepting the Shakespeare Prize, in 1970. “I don’t know why. It’s a very bad feeling, I know that, but I must say I want more than anything else to fill up a blank page again, and to feel that strange thing happen, birth through fingertips.” He added, “When you can’t write, you feel you’ ( Read more... )

1 Nov 2007
Straits Times
Sexy women are a distraction, says PAS leader
Malaysia's Muslim men are suffering sleepless nights and cannot pray properly because their thoughts are distracted by a growing number of women who wear sexy clothes ( Read more... )

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/13/world/asia/13briefs-names.htmlRead more... )

每一个女生的生命里，都有着这样一个男孩子。他不属于爱情，也不是自己的男朋友。可是，在离自己最近的距离内，一定有他的位置。看见漂亮的东西，会忍不住给他看。听到好听的歌，会忍不住从自己的MP3里拷下来给他。看见漂亮的笔记本，也会忍不住买两本另一本给他用，尽管他不会喜欢粉红色的草莓。在想哭的时候，第一个会发短信给他。在和男朋友吵架的时候，第一个会找他。尽管不知道什么时候，他会从自己生命里消失掉，成为另一个女孩子的王子，而那个女孩也会因为他变成公主。可是，在他还是呆在离自己最近的距离内的时光里，每一个女孩子，都是在用尽力气，消耗着他和他带来的一切。

// 是，他迟久得从自己的生命里消失掉。
而你当时会怎么做呢？//

-其实我也知道，你所说的谢谢你，是谢谢我离开了你的世界。 ( Read more... )

The Mind/Brain/Behavior secondary field is up!! 
Which leads me to ask myself the question. MBB or VES(Visual and Environmental Studies)?

VES - fun, highly artsy - an awesome break from science and psets, I can't draw and am a complete amateur in the area (but ooh animation ooh video/film!), will stretch me differently, more likely than not ( Read more... )