Re-Blog

Tumblr + Wordpress + Blogger + Livejournal(?) = The world will catch fire around me and I will still be blogging.

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TED TALKS (OP INSPIRATION?) IS ON MY iPHONE YAY :D Just watched this on the bus home.
 

Its pretty unnerving. No not the video, but my mind. Profound interest, curiosity, critical thinking, was replaced by 'CAN I USE THIS FOR GP?' Die. I've been indoctrinated :(. Then again, I brushed away the thoughts and relaxed for a moment, meh. just watch and enjoy. This blog serves absolutely no academic interest anyway. (Its more like a detriment :|)

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From my old friend's blog's sidebar (which quotes from the Bible anyway):
"What good will if be for a man if he gains the world, yet forfeits his soul?"
- Matthew 16:26
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What a bad day! Well actually not really... so maybe. Its a contradictory day! (don't know how many times I contradicted/balanced my words today) And a copy-Kwang Ik day! Spoke like him and acted like him throughout sia. (And the top portion of the post is slightly inspired by his own post) Also from his blog: We build walls not to keep people out but to see who loves us enough to climb them. What?!? What?! (Attempting to copy Zheyuan's mannerism here) Meaning I need to build walls??! (N) Don't really like the idea (not even while playing RTS games, I rarely build walls except for aesthetics), EVERYBODY CAN COME IN YAY :D But then but then. It means my house gets messed up by people who keep breaking and touching my stufff!! (Metaphorical nonsense here)

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Sam Tan talked to me today in metaphors (Paraphrased a little)
Sam: Li Keen you're too idealistic. When people are firing at your doorstep. When people's guns are loaded and you're getting shelled. You're still playing diplomat.
Me: War is terrible. People die. Families are broken up. Its the most horrible thing on earth. God said 'Don't judge'
Sam: True.
YOU PROBABLY DON'T KNOW WHAT THE HELL WE WERE TALKING ABOUT. Hence, you can interpret it anyway you want.

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The mental switch.
Here's a tip that I gained from my VS Bio teacher Mr Munir: When you want to take a mental break from studying, switch to using your other brain. In other words, if you were intensively practicing mathematics until your paper looked something like this: ¡™£¢∞§¶•ªº–≠œ∑´®†¥¨ˆøπ«åß∂ƒ©˙∆˚¬…æΩ≈ç√∫ñµ≤≥÷, stop what you're doing, and read Time magazine, write a poem, sing a song, maybe read the Wiki page on Belgium; switching the use of your 'logical' right brain to the 'intuitive' left brain.

And if you have been doing Geography essays and notice that the word 'volcano' really looks like its spilling lava (just that its iron-smelling and is oozing out your fingers), attempt some mental sums, measure the time taken for you to recover from a faint after receiving a e-mail from your PW teacher, you know, normal stuff you do everyday that requires logic.

Why not extend it?
At times when you're depressed over a classmate, your grades, why not take some time to cool off doing something completely different? Take your mind off things. Watch a TV show, sketch a person, play Happy Birds or something. Remember that there's more to life. Remember that there are starving adults, missing kids, poor paraplegic.

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Thanks Yams for intro-ing (three months ago ._.)! (though you probably don't read but whatever.)
In case you have been A. living under a rock. B. living under a boulder
THIS IS JAZZ BRO/SIS. \m/ (did I post this before?)
EVERYONE SHOULD APPRECIATE ALL MUSIC. INCLUDING, DARE I SAY IT, JUSTIN BIEBER. *Cuts tongue off*