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"Ennui"

Boredom: A state of emotional distress which forces an individual to watch "Days of Our Lives" in 10 reruns.

This is highly relative to how you are as a person. But somewhere in you life, you are bound to experience it.

Ennui or boredom is classified as an unpleasant, time- passing emotional state in which the individual feels an intense lack of interest in and difficulty concentrating on a current activity.

Nothing just seems to engage us, despite a profound desire for engagement.

For few people (or more), that brief period (3 - 5 days) after the last day of school, you seem to get absorbed into this spiralling blackhole of nothingness.

Eerie silence creeps up to you, but yet you are able to detect its shrill voice.

Ringing.


So you decide to occupy yourself. Maybe you open the papers to read through its headlines, hoping to read something that could possibly occupy your time for a good 15 minutes. Or you could turn on the television and surf through all 400 channels of cable TV, hoping you would stumble on one channel that is running your favourite show.

But when that hour is up, you return to your saddened state of uninterest. You take a look around the room for a few seconds and decide to slump in the chair a little. Or you might decide to lie down and hope to drift off to sleep. But Weltschmerz won't let you rest. You see, where the Sandman decides to put you to rest for the night, Weltschmerz puts you at un-rest. For him, joy is to see you suffer in silence.

And so after two hours, you decide that you won't stand for it anymore. Just like that game show, you decide to call a friend. In fact, you would give a million just to escape boredom. A rich man may own everything in the world, but when he decides that he has nothing to do anymore, can he still be happy with just material wealth?

The phone on the other end if the line rings. Once, twice, three times it rings and you hear the familiar voice of your friend. For the first time in the middle of the night you twinkle, eyes wide open. But that sudden joy is going to be toppled by a rushed sense of cheated feelings and annoyance.

You hang up the phone and go back to the bedroom. As you lie in your bed looking up at the ceiling, you wonder what everyone else in the world is doing. You have no assignments to finish up at the last minute, no meetings to prepare, no papers to study for. No Nothing.

You wish you could run away from boredom. And thats exactly what you do.


Run.

A Silver Lining

A Silver Lining
Originally uploaded by rixban

"Yay, exams are over!"

Or... that's what I might say when it really is over in 5 hours time.

I suppose what i really am doing is just finding a nice way to pre-empt the feelings that most people might have once everything is over and done with. Not that it really matters if I did state it or not.

In any case, school's finally coming to a close and we'll all be scattered over the country/ region/ world and probably won't have time to see one another. For some, well some will be stuck in the same office/ region.

The point is...

I had a really pretty picture to go along with this post. Not exactly pretty, but you have to admit it's kinda nice.

I should be studying.

But who gives a rat's ass. I feel... like there's much left to be desired.

Nevermind.



Edit:

Life. The state of being alive as human being.

And its the point of being alive and conscious of life that allows one to decide what life means to them.

Well, right now. As in at this moment. Life's full of shit. Like knee deep. That's gross.

Image has no relevance.

The Kill (Acoustic)

The Kill, acoustic set as performed by
Hobo Leto.

Jared Leto was sick that day. So they called a bum from the street to stand-in.

Lol.

The Count Censored

LOL. Sesame Street was asking for it.

Late night ride

So I have just finished closing shop for the night (not as early as i hoped it would be), locked up, and went to the main road to hail a cab with the new manager tagging along of course. And mainly because she stays at Geylang Lorong (even number). So as company policy states, "TRY to take only ONE cab. ESPECIALLY if its on the way."

So we board the cab and the driver makes his way out of the city and onto the expressway. To cut the long story short, we drop off my manager and we get caught in a jam. Yes a road jam at 1A.M. Why you ask? Because as much as me and the driver would like to get out of the lorong, the cars in front of us begin to slooow down. Why again? Its Geylang -.- The obviously male drivers were slowing down to "window shop" or browse. And allow me to slightly avert your attention to the characters you might see. Like the Singapore Zoo, Geylang is host to a diverse range of menfolk. From your typical 'dirty old man' to the 'sharp- looking man in a suit' to your... 'tourist angmoh'? And the keepers are well, the pimps and the women, nuff' said.

Now, in this part of Geylang, also known as "Little China", the "foreign talents" here are so called more good-looking and younger than the senior ones (who are situated somewheerre along Lorong/s 20+). Where we were at would be within the 'Top 10' (Lorong 1-10) range. It's amazing how vice in Singapore has a sense of hiearchy and structure. Then again it is Singapore, but i digress.

So I decide to open my big mouth and ask (for the sake of a conversation), "Uncle, your taxi got see funny things before or not?"

With a big grin, he replied, "OF COURSE!" And he laughed somemore. Taxi drivers in general always got see something 'funny', he added.

Somehow, after regaling me with his anecdotes on how when he was younger, he used to earn comission from the pimps to taxi SAM (Single, Angmoh Men) to these parts of Singapore.

And as all random conversations go, he told me of the time when he was in his twenties, he was working as a medical rep. And how he met this woman who was a decade older than him in a clinic. Apparently he was there to sell his pharmaceutical drugs to the clinic but it was this woman who clinched the deal.

When he met her again at this trade show, Uncle asked the woman, "How do you get to sell you products so fast, how do you clinch the deal?

To that, the woman replied with a smile, "I wear a skirt."

Uncle told me that this lady who was a decade older than him had this charm and confidence that attracted him to her. After that he stayed at her home for almost half a year.

Now the climax, he saw the woman with another man. *Audible gasp*. Which made him realise that if he was going to be 40, in the next two decades, the woman would be 50+. So somehow Uncle went back to the shared apartment and on purpose, argued with the woman (reasons he did not say) and he packed up his belongings and left.

As we approached the Eunos flyover, the topic shifted on how he met a lovely girl and married after knowing her for 2 months.


"DAMN REGRET!" he cursed. He barely knew the malaysian woman and he went ahead to marry her. His family's initial thought was that he had gotten her pregnant, but the wife was not to be 'blessed' with a child until 5 years later.

Uncle had found out that his wife was a self-centred, unreasonable woman. And if it was not for his 8-year old daughter, he would have signed the divorce papers long ago. Uncle's problem was that as much as he would have liked to sign the papers, he knew that custody of his daughter would have gone to his wife.

He told me, "Even my daughter at 8 years old can tell me, Papa, why don't you and mummy just breakup."

I just listened on as we were entering Upp Changi Road, crossing over to TPE. Honestly, I've ridden in many cabs during midnight and I can assure you that many drivers will speak ill of the rental company among many other gripes. But the honesty of Uncle and his tale, for once, did not cause me to fall asleep.

He explained many other things about how troublesome it was if he divorced the wife and especially the impact it would have on his daughter. But in the end he just said, "I just want to teach my daughter to grow up not hating her mother. As much as I hate my so-called wife, I shouldn't pass this down to my daughter la."

Hopefully when Uncle's daughter is a little older, family court would allow his daughter to choose who she would like to be in custody of.

He stopped the taxi at the end of the driveway leading up to my block and I paid him my fare.

Last thing I remember Uncle telling me was. "If you have a girlfriend or a wife. Or even your best friend, whether boy or girl. If there is a problem, just talk it out. There's no need to find a solution. Just talk it out and next day will be a better day."

"Thanks Uncle," I replied. "I hope you have a good Sunday outing with your daughter."

This blog needs an upgrade

I realised that over the few years of blogging, I have never improved the level of writing and content that is being written here. As a budding writer, I feel I owe it to myself to do just that. From now on, expect content that is more "world-related". And not just me and my life as it is. Content will be more thought- provoking and serious. In the world of online media such as blogs, I have the freedom of expressing my views more sincerely and more ways to make this particular site more interactive and fun for reader.

So this blog shall feature the "World" and it's issues from now on.

TA-DAA! "The World"

Well, I DID feature the world. And you (might have) thought I was serious.

The Joker says, "Why so serious?"

Hit the road Jack

Meet Jack. Well of course you've met him.

He's almost everywhere. In every story book, fable, and nursery rhyme.

He's the same Jack from Little Jack Horner, Jack and Jill, Jack and the Beanstalk, Jack the Giant Killer, Jack be nimble, Jack Frost and the Jack O' lantern etc.

Jack's can be extremely bright but he uses that wit for quick gains. Not very useful if you're planning long-term achievements.

So Jack goes through life living multiple identities or jobs (if you want to say it that way) because he can and has the capability to do so.

Jack usually manages to achieve great wealth and position by underhanded means, with at least once beautiful woman by his side. In each case, his greed and impulsiveness costs him everything and leaves him -- yet again -- a fugitive vagabond on the road. So you can pretty much add Jack-Ass to his list of aliases.


My advice, try not to be like Jack and see what you're good for in the beginning. Or you'll waste your life trying to be Jack of All Trades, Master to None.

The Dark Knight- Interrogation Scene Spoof

LOL

Happy National Day (43)

For some reason, every year it seems that Singapore is 43 years old. hmmm. Never seems to escape the 40 to 45 years range yet.

Happy NDP 08 to everyone. I know I need the happiness. -.- (Stupid work to do over the weekend)

Life as an Italian police officer and Discovery

I know it does not apply to all but who doesn't want to be a law enforcement officer in a country where (select) officers drive the Lamborghini Gallardo and wear uniforms by Armani.

Its amazing the things you learn by watching Discovery Channel/ Travel and Living for the whole day. pretty useless things (well, sometimes).


Discovery Channel- The World is just... Awesome



Astronaut 1: It never gets old huh?
Astronaut 2: Nope
Astronaut 1: It kinda make you wanna..break into song?
Astronaut 2: Yep

-I love the mountains
I love the clear blue skies
I love big bridges
I love when great whites fly
I love the whole world
And all its sights and sounds

Boom De Yada x2
Boom De Yada x2

I love the ocean
I love real dirty things
I love to go fast
I love egyptian kings
I love the whole world
and all its craziness

Boom De Yada x2
Boom De Yada x2

I love tornadoes
I love Arachnids
I love hot magma
I love the giant squids
I love the whole world
Its such a brilliant place

Boom De Yada x10-

(Light) heart-ed

(Light) heart-ed
Originally uploaded by rixban

Just a little something for the girlfriend. =)