Its amazing how life likes to bite you in your pelvic area then sends you to the proverbial 6-star hospital.

In the age of gobalization, communication is merely a touch of a button away. Cellphones, satellites, 3G technology, voicemail, videocalls, webcams. We manage to interconnect the whole world through digital breakthroughs, no matter the distance, no matter the location. 

Sadly, this doesn't substitute the euphoria one experiences with actual physical contact. We spill our hearts over artifical machines while in the back of our mind, we wonder what the opposite party truly feels about things. Without the actual witnessing of a person's expression, genuine or misguided, everything just feels artificial.
Relationships become artifical. Then friendship sort of just doesn't feel the same

In addition, digital technology leaves the mind with much to obsess about. If messages can be sent so easily, why doesn't he/she talk to me more often. Why do all online conversations bites the dust, leading aimlessly in no direction. Why can't we truly express ourselves online?

In the age of communication, its ironic that we can still feel so disconnected with one another.

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Exclamation_popcorn reflected on life at 12:05 AM

Socialmoth

This made me feel better... though it was a little hard to make sense of it


I suffer from neverending taunts and critical comments from my friends and family

 
They think they are helping you and they think are more worthless than they make you feel. When my family do that I've started swallowing my pride and just crying but not saying anything. Then when I've calmed down I explain that it is the way they hurt me when they say 'x' that hurts me and I don't understand what they are trying to do. Its not an easy process and its not quick, but things start to get better. Sometimes on days when you don't just want to cry you could try pointing out that they are more polite to total strangers and that if they were so rude to stramgers then someone probably would have punched them in the face by now. That goes down like a lead balloon. But it helps.
-Anonymous
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Exclamation_popcorn reflected on life at 12:03 AM

We live in an intellectual wasteland. Thats right, Malaysia might be a brewing pot of ethnicities and cultures (though not always in harmony) but theres little doubt that our society has hit the intellectual slump.

Its been years (2 years in fact since i left JIS) since i've had a midly intellectually related topic.

Thank god for philosophy 101 where there were actual exchanges of wit and actual discussions. But besides that, my mind has been in a camatose state, suffering from cranial bleeding fron all the nonsense i hear everyday (sorry guys, buy you know we only talk crap all the time). This has been exemplified by my onsensical posts of recent years comapred to my older posts (which can be read here).

Hopefully more articulate debates when i reach the states.

Malaysia's 'do what i'm told' mentality doesn't carry them very far. We know little of politics, of philosophy, of theology, of concepts.. the list goes on. Instead, we indulge our brains in matters of food, money, games and well, more food. However, that is hardly our fault, for our national education style has brought about such impact. We fail to inspire the mind of articulate thinking, only mindless memorization and repitition of scientific knowledge (something that has little worth since anyone can do the same thing by referencing a book). Ask anyone of them on their perspective on contreversial issues such as gay marriages and civil rights, abortion, stem cell research, government involvement and privacy issues and you'll get a narrow minded reply (something along the lines of " Eww.... fetuses... or Yuck Gays..."). In other cases, you get an endless recital of religious passges in support of their argument (when in fact, using any religious text for many of these cases is a weak argument in iteself since people can always argue about the credibility of the religious text itself, which is a whole different issue; and the fact that people will always intepret religious texts in many different ways).

Though everyone already has their opinions and mindset fixed and are unlikely to change them from such discussion (unless we repeatedly slam a sledgehammer into their vacant skulls......erm..... metaphorically of course....), theres still nothing wrong with a healthy (heated/nonheated) debate.

I do, however, apologize for the generalization as i know there are people who are very intelectually adept in issues of importance.

So someone, challenge me so i can cream your conservative asses!

Addendum: Oh, and discussion of topics such as robot rights, botanical genocide, civil union for crocodiles are also welcome.

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Exclamation_popcorn reflected on life at 9:12 PM

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Exclamation_popcorn reflected on life at 11:43 AM

Good News, Bad News

Bad News: I'm getting OLD!! I'm starting to really enjoy reading news....

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Exclamation_popcorn reflected on life at 11:37 AM

Asian Pride

Sometimes, It just feels great being Asian.... (though not necessarily related to the reason below)

and also... the hottest people in the world... are the product of this ( <---- )

that's right...I'm talking about EURASIANS/AMERASIANS

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Exclamation_popcorn reflected on life at 12:47 AM

The Whole families in today...
i'm geared up for humiliation, critical comments, inquiring questions and maybe a laptop or two

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Exclamation_popcorn reflected on life at 9:40 AM

With 2 years of college going by and two more ahead (at Ohio)
i've grown to hate a substantial amount of things

1. Overdemanding bosses
2. Underqualified, useless (totally useless) lecturers
3. Laundry (where the fuck did all my socks go??)
4. Stuck-up, socially awkward AUP students who think that they're so 'cool' with their 'superior' english when i really know they're all going to crash and burn at the states cuz they have the social capacity of a mental 8year old midget.
5. Sleepig at 5am, waking up at 7am
6. The week before finals where everyone crams
7. Rain
8. All the blocked material and software that the EBB bastards have imposed on us
9. 3.50rm per hour wage
10. Cybercafes
11. Ugly couples
12. The bastard who uses cold water at the hot shower stall.
13. Dinner coupons
14. Charging us money to use the swimming pool!
15. THE LACK OF TENNIS COURTS at INTI

but on a more positive note, visa, application and tickets are all settled. Now all i need to do is get my ass over there.

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Exclamation_popcorn reflected on life at 1:00 PM