'She very alert one.'
I am at my mum's office as usual, when suddenly a lot of her colleagues came in. There was a lot of weirdness involved as I didn't know this bunch of people as well as I know my mum's bunch of friends, and amongst this bunch of people there's supposedly a beauty.
My mum, knowing me, MSN-ed me:
Be careful when you ogle at her, she very alert one.
I had a omg-wtf moment because I wasn't ogling at her at all!!!111!!! I was playing Runescape and as everybody knows, Runescape > Women.
My mum is so cute.(:
Guitar concert yesterday was another blast as all school-based based in schools are, and D was like holding onto a certain gem's hand. It was quite touching and we were all moved to tears...
..of laughter as he tried to explain to us that he wasn't holding her hand at all, hoping that the weight of his words could pull wool over almost the whole class' eyes, and at least 2 video-recordings. Airpic.
I do think I was a bit overboard last night though, the emcees were saying stuff like 'Please refrain from cheering too loudly as it may affect the performers', and I was like 'Performers, am I affecting your performance?' or something along those lines. Yea I know, it was a spur of the moment thing, and quite stupid in retrospect but I was quite riled because the emcee didn't:
1) specify whether it's a positive or negative impact
2) define 'too loudly'
and I never liked to listen to people anyway, and I saw that as an infringement of our rights to express our solidarity to the performer on stage, otherwise known as our classmate.
Of course, there were again the enthusiastic people who kept trying to shush the cheerers down, but they were largely ignored. And WL reminded me to shout bravo, and I forgot to thank her for the reminder :c but I shouted bravo and there were echoes and people shouting other random like-minded words.
I kinda turned things into a fiasco, but I think that's what I paid 5 bucks for and I don't think it affected the rest of the audience(that much).
And when the principal was walking out of the auditorium, she was looking around, probably trying to find out where the source of my voice was coming from and hence identifying me. I hid behind a friend by like shrivelling up in my chair and I hope that was successful. Another alert one.
Here's a quote:
Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, and the small minds discuss people. - Eleanor Roosevelt
I get tired hearing people talk about other people who do not directly affect the spearker's life. Let's say that I met a swindler who went around swindling. He didn't attempt to swindle me, but I was watching him swindle other people. Then I discuss this swindler with my friend, and the conversation revolves around the swindler:
Why he so like that?
Must be no morals.
Why no morals leh?
Must be bad family upbringing.
So how?
Don't know.
I am very disappointed in such people.
Can't he get a life?
And stuff like that. People actually discuss about people and not what these people represent. The moral decay part grazes the surface of issues: Singapore's moral degradation, but the aforementioned conversation falls short of a deeper discussion of Singapore's society as it is.
Why do people enjoy talking about people? Is it the only topic at hand? And does discussing 'ideas' make us seem more sophisticated than the rest who are still 'stuck at' discussing people and issues? Who defines what? Isn't Eleanor Roosevelt also, in a way, discussing people when she made that quote? Isn't she trying to discriminate between the supposed great minds and the average ones? By saying that people who discuss people have 'small minds', isn't she in a way reflecting the fact that she also has a small mind?
What is her point in making that quote then, if she's not trying to self-suan? I just find discussions on humans boring, especially if these discussed humans do not directly revolve in my life or the speaker's. Why would I care about a random person who
1) doesn't evoke any feelings from me
2) doesn't directly affect a friend's life.
It's boring hearing people judge the moral values of other people. I judge people by their level of interestingness. If you're interesting, you're good. If you're not, you're boring and you should go away before I fall asleep due to your droning. This probably means that I'd always top the charts in my judgment, and you won't.
Yawns. I am bored. I am going to sleep now. CHMA here I come.
-- 5/15/2010 01:51:00 AM
