Little Frolick

The aim of life is to live and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. - Henry Miller.

do you think i'll be able to vote?

the general elections are approaching here in sunny Singapore and i am highly doubtful that i'll be able to exercise my civil right to vote. I believe my neighbourhood will be a 'walk over' again, as it has been since the 1980s. We are considered PAP property and our estate has never known an opposition grassroots leader. i have considered moving to a non PAP neighbourhood just so that i'd have the experience of voting - it might make me more interested in reading about Singaporean politics and the history of each person standing for office. But as things go, i think my apathy will take over because i dont really see much point in all the effort that goes behind wheedling people out.

 

we had dinner tonight at Whatever cafe - a totally posey wosey place but i like their vegetarian food selection - i mean, everything there is vegetarian. not that fantastic but it's the only place i've found that has nice big sofas and fluffy pillows; plus yoga apparrel and oils and organic teas and cute waitresses. i guess the next place to check out would be Yogi Hub. Yum. nothing like good organic food - i can feel my stomach smiling already. i think it's time for me to go back to eating no meat; maybe the occasional fish - and to cut down on all that yucky oily fried chicken and cheese. you don't really know how much chemicals go into that dead animal on your plate - especially since no one tells you what happens on those huge farms. that poor cow could have been on the brink of having pneumonia, foot rot, or some bowel cancer - and it's been pumped up with tonnes of antibiotics and estrogen and whatnot. slice it up and fry it and serve it with more processed ingredients. ugh. it's little wonder we are such a depressed lot.

 

my young patient in my weight management class came up and gave me a little note yesterday. it read 'i love my new body. all the mothers dont think i am fat anymore'. he's only 12, and already i think the damage has been done to his poor little brain. my sister too. she's 17 and all she can think about is how chubby she is and how she isn't as thin as every other pale faced chinese stick walking around. it's awful. the amount of time they spend obsessing about weight and looks seems to unhealthy to me. the problem is society's knack of hitting us with a whole barrage of useless and terrible negative reinforcement and punishment as a form of social control and uniformity. sure, being obese leads to so many medical complications and seriously, being fat is no fun. no one wants to be fat. but over-eating and being independently incapable of regulating one's dietary intake is a disease and betrays a whole long line of serious wrongs on the part of society as a whole. the baby boomers thought us to enjoy what we have - and we've taken that a little too far; obesity is so rampant now. it's not being overweight that's the biggest problem, it's being unable to stop and to change our lifestyle that is. however, as obesity is also very much a cosmetic issue, all these negative self images and low self esteem issues crop up.

i feel very angry and sad for the young obese kids who are in the brink of getting type 2 diabetes. it's irreparable damage.

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on a happier note - gonna watch V for Vendetta again this weekend. : ) and maybe we're gonna go karaoke and partying too. yippee!

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have you read SPG's blog entry on suicide? i think she's got it all wrong. you dont kill yourself as a sign of vengeance to the government. it's not a punishment to the state that you are dealing when you jump from the 36th floor of a building. sure, someone has to come scrape you off the sidewalk, but no one really cares/ you're just a statistic. the only way you can tell society that you disapprove of the way it's going is to stand up and make a change. it's a pity that V for vendetta inspired her to think of suicide as a justful way of protesting. she's crazy. i don't really wanna be a part of this world created by the people before me - but my actions, every single one of them, supports the world i live in. which is why i feel so guilty and hypocritical all of the time. if you aren't part of the solution, you're part of the problem. all in time i suppose - then it's bye bye to all this.

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posted by: crysalis at 01:47 | link | comments |

shopping

caved in and bought that Aimee Mann album - it's good stuff, she's just always capable of churning out the prettiest conceptual albums; something i am a total sucker for.

and guess who's released another new album? my dream guy - drool. so yes that's mine too.

it's got a couple of really pretty booklets in the box as well as sheet music for Morning Yearning and a target sticker. it's a double CD album that's so wonderfully packaged. it's art, it is... moody music wrapped in pretty paper and richly printed CDs. maybe i should have got this for B instead of the Eels. Hmm. oh well.

R.E.M.s latest album also comes in a nice little box with posters - on the back of which are the lyrics of their songs. the posters are probably the only reason why i bought the album; most of their songs aren't all that different from what they've done before, and none of the tracks really stand out. i just love Stipe's plaintive and wailing voice; so i don't mind.

Disappointment and hope - such strong inspiration for music. one day i'll put out my own box set. heh. dream on. i'd love to be part of conceptualising an album, or project, or stage production. anything.

(my day job of sucking out people's secreta isn't really all that i want to do with my life)

 

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and then some.

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posted by: crysalis at 23:59 | link | comments |

i'm MELTING... MELTING!!!!!!!!!!

yet another humid day in putrifying Singapore. totally totally warm. the weather man says it's 28 degrees but i think it's cos the weather stations are atop hills and all.

 

in this house, it's probably 34 degrees and rising. ugh. humidity - well, all i can say is that i can skip the moisturiser today.

 

 

i was wondering around Best Denki - one of my favourite shopping haunts are electronic stores because i love gawking at high-fi's and home entertainment crap. I met a Teac system that is so damn attractive. tiny thing, witha mighty sound. beautiful and totally idiot-proof to use. just need to get a 17 inch flat screen to go with it and i'll be a happy little baby. i'm also terribly in love with Tivoli Audio products, call me lame or yuppy but i love it.

Yeah, how could anyone resist anything so pretty and simple and clear sounding as that? or i might just get the cute ass song book in yellow:

totally cute ass shit. makes me think about yellow submarines and silly things.

 

ah well. we'll see. a physio's pay is never enough.

 

 

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posted by: crysalis at 23:31 | link | comments |

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