Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Linda Perry - In My Dreams

Everything's worthwhile
In my dreams I ran a thousand miles
And everybody worshiped me
In my dreams
Hate meant just to smile
And the pain never bothered me
I want everything
Everything I want
There's no room to turn me upside down
In my dreams
I built my own empire
With no color and no creed
In my dreams
I think I had to find
All the things that weren't complete
I want everything
Everything I want
There's no room to turn me
Upside down
I want everything, everything I want
Yeah, yeah
There's no time to turn me upside down.
I want everything, Everything I want
There's no room to turn me upside down
I want everything
Everything I want
Yeah, yeah
There's no room to turn me upside
Yeah yeah yeah, ohh...
I want everything
Everything I want
There's no room to turn me upside down
In my dreams
I ran a thousand miles
And everybody worshiped me

Saturday, August 16, 2008

4 Non Blondes - What's Up? (Live)

Everyone should know this song!

Friday, August 15, 2008

What A Different Crowd

I recently went to Splendour in the Grass at Byron Bay and although there weren't many bands that I knew and liked, I have to say I discovered a lot of new bands and thoroughly enjoyed myself. One of the main reasons for this is just the crowds at splendour. At one point, I was so deep in the crowd for one of the shows and it was so packed that I got really light headed. I was scared shitless that I might have fainted and gotten trampled so I rushed out. The good thing was while rushing out, people saw that I was obviously in distress and helped me out. Something like that has never happened to me back home. If anyone ever sees anyone else in trouble, nobody bothers to help them. I just thought that was something really different about the Australian people.

The second awesome thing that happened to me was when this bunch of guys started getting rowdy and having fun. They were pushing me around a little but I didn't mind too much. I mean, you're in a festival, it's obvious that you won't have as much personal space as normal. All right, the awesome thing was that one of the guys saw that they were pushing into me a lot and told his friends to just go a little further away. When it got a lot more squished, he maintained his distance from me while ensuring that people to the side and the front wouldn't push me. I still get amazed when people act like decent human beings. You'd think that everyone should behave decently but they don't. It gave me some hope in humanity, that people were willing to help perfect strangers for no reason beyond just helping someone else out.

Kudos to you guys, if you happen to stumble upon my blog while searching for splendour stuff. I'll buy you a beer next year.

Thursday, August 14, 2008

All Right, That's Enough Now

All right, I'm openly admitting that I've been feeling pretty shitty over the last couple of weeks. I seem to be in this perpetual state of depression and I don't know what the hell I should do about it. It's getting pretty hard to post how I really feel on this blog, just due to the fact that a lot of people I know read it and it's not like I want all of you to worry but the whole purpose of this blog was as an outlet so, if this or even future posts sound a little depressing just bear with it for awhile.

On a happier note, I snatched a laboratory project researching the effects of brain modulation on sound sources. Yes, I is geek.

Anyway, I've made countless mistakes in my short lifespan, most of them happening since I left Singapore and started on my own. I knew that I'd make mistakes, I just didn't know that I'd make so many with things that really mattered to me. I thought I knew what I was doing, rather, I thought I knew how to handle situations but obviously I was too young and too stubborn to realise the hole I was digging myself into.

I guess I've gotten slightly wiser since then. Slightly, nah, not really. I don't know if there's any way to make things right again. I'll probably just have to suck it up and move on. Admitting that there have been losses and that you can't win the overall war is a very painful and terrible thing to realise but I should probably stop dwelling on the past and look towards allowing those wounds to finally heal over.

You know before I used to blame it on other things. It was the way I grew up, it was my culture, my age, my whatever but now I know that it was all me. I did those things. I was too chicken shit to do what I really wanted and have ended up here at this point.

It's all right though, I know the depression will go away soon and I know this sounds like a big "oh god I wanna slash my wrists wails" post but it really isn't. Just thinking about the big what-ifs and the things that really mattered, that's all.

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

I'm Not Blind

And I'm not a kentang. Kentang is what Singaporeans call other Singaporeans who glorify Western culture to our own. I do not glorify the Western culture and at the same time, I do not glorify my own. I have walked the streets of both countries, schooled in both, worked in both, lived in both, loved in both. Only my sister is here, the rest of my family is dispersed around the world. Why am I telling you all of this?

I had a discussion with a fellow Singaporean about job prospects in Singapore. He claimed that Singaporeans who do not prefer their own home country do not "keep it real". When I asked him to explain himself, he just waved it off, claiming that I did not understand and that I was blind to what Singapore could offer me. I found all of his arguments ridiculous, whenever faced with a counter argument he has dismissive and unable to come back with a valid response.

I was going to go on a tirade of my views and observations. Unfortunately, I am too chicken shit to do it publicly. Then again, I guess I have said enough for you to form your own opinion.

Tuesday, August 05, 2008

Welcome to 1984 - Two decades too late

It's starting to annoy me, this constant surveillance. What's the point of having so much video footage of people anyway? Our safety, so they say. There's cameras being installed in my workplace. I recently came from a music festival in Byron Bay and apparently cameras were being used to follow people on the streets. The whole feel of the place was completely different to what it was a year ago. Cameras are to be installed on every street in Australia.

It's getting to the point where I do not feel safe walking along the streets or even in my own workplace. I do not like to entertain the idea that somebody is watching my every move. I do not like to think that people are being watched all the time. Is it really for our safety that our privacy is almost being abolished? Is it really just because we need protecting? Will it really stop the killing or the drug dealers or whatever?

It's true power to take away a man's freedom and have him thank you for it.