Amendments to the Constitution

Usually i dun bother with parliamentary debates, but this one, blogged by mollymeek, is ridiculous.

Totally disagree with this amendment. The segregation of the powers of the state, i.e. legislative, judiciary and the adminstrative, is sacred. While the parliamentary system on this red dot already combines the legislative and adminstrative function of the state, further erosion should be and must be prevented.

And through this "debate", the dark side of the our system of government is sadly exposed.

Not good.

KL trip

Went up the North-South highway to KL over last weekend with my colleagues and bosses.

Spend most of the time shopping with my female colleagues. The most event part of the trip was to play the roller coaster at B. Times Square. Damn huge shopping complex. Also went to see Putrajaya. That's the beauty of having large lands... colossal mosque and office buildings.

Then something ridiculous happened to me. My heart moved for a female colleague. Been almost 5 years since i had such a feeling. Everything about her looks cute to me. Was it my biological clock? or my long time no use hormones? or just a simple infatuation?

There's the wise saying before... "Don't eat and shit in the same place" . But is this an excuse for myself?

The One Koan

Reinterpreting Koans the modern way.

Old Koans, New Koans, One Koan - by Jan Chozen Bays, Sensei

At all ends.
One way.
Bulls.

A secondary school friend's wedding

Got invited to the above mentioned which is happening today evening. (7/7/07).

Been donkey years since i last saw my secondary school friends, which is probably the last wedding in last Dec.

Dunno who else is invited and dunno who in the world am i sitting with. But i'm going anyway. Coz i'm curious to know how this batch of secondary school friends are doing now.

Would we be taking a photo together later on, ie. during the customary walkaround. But then again, these photos rarely get sent back to the participants and will probabaly grow fungus in a photo album somewhere until their future kids search them out.

Anyway, how much angbao should i give ? hmm...

see how bah.


[Post note - 9-7-07]

The Singaporean Style Wedding SOP is as per follows. :

Guests are late. Start late. Powerpoint of photos of couple from young to courtship. First Wedding processsion. Eat first course after march through. Speech
More eating. ROM/Fetching bride video. Eat. Yam seng. Eat. Saying of gratitudes. Photo taking tour. Eat. Shake hand. Go back.

Most couples in singapore start their life this way bah... the "singapore way"?

But no matter how any guest finds it, the couple will still be the happiest pair in the whole ballroom.

Congra's my secondary school friend. Cheers.)

History and Memories

An interesting review on a local director's production, Invisible City. Not really on the movie of course, but the response elicited from the reviewer.

Let me quote what i found interesting :

" that as material things get demolished and destroyed, what's left are the memories of what once were. And when memories fade, become faulty, not get recorded in some medium as evidence of its existence, what then? "

" What I enjoyed about Invisible City, are the moments where it inevitably made you think, about existentialism, about memories, about immortality. The quest of some to want to leave their own mark in the vast world we live in, to make that drop of proclamation - "I was here!" - heard. "

" Do we need artifacts to convince us of something, of time capsules, buried treasures that need to be dug out, something to hold and feel, versus something more abstract, like memories, experiences, that are more difficult to preserve. "

" What makes history? I think history is made up of emotions. Emotions that are universal, emotions each of us are capable of feeling, that Invisible City is able to elicit. "

So what is left behind when we die? Should we even bother? Why do movies portray people having flashbacks when they are dying?

All we have with us always are our memories but then even memories fade away. Are we complete without memories? But then again is a memory completely yours to savour when it gets its input from the surrounding and others? Then shouldn't we be sharing as much as possible with others?

For one who is forever in an emotion barren land, do i have a history? or even a future?

I dun really like to remember my Past, or rather most of it coz it's pretty useless to me most of the time. So that would leave me with the Present and Future. If you can't be bother to predict the Future, then only Present is left. But if i'm not always in Present most of the time, then how?

What the heck have i been doing? Do i even bother?