because some do feel the pain of others.

For most of us the expression 'feeling someone else's pain' is simply a way of saying we sympathise with their sadness or discomfort.
But there are some who don't just have an emotional reaction to another's agony - they feel genuine physical pain as well, researchers have found.
The finding could explain why some people are more sympathetic to other people's misery.


Psychologist Dr Stuart Derbyshire made the discovery after inviting 123 university students to watch video clips and photographs of patients and sports stars in pain.
The videos included a footballer breaking his leg, a tennis player turning over his left ankle and a patient getting an injection in the hand. All the students said that, for at least one of the images or videos, they had an 'emotional reaction' - such as feeling sad, disgusted or fearful.

But a third also claimed to feel real pain in the same part of the body as the person they were watching. Some experienced tingling or aching, others felt a heavy or stabbing pain. For some the pain was fleeting - others complained that it lasted for several seconds.
A gruesome picture of an athlete running on a racetrack with a broken leg generated the most physical pain in the students, researchers reported in the medical journal Pain.

The scientists then asked ten of these 'hypersensitive' students to repeat the experiment while their brains were being scanned with fMRI - the functional magnetic resonance imaging used in hospitals.
The results were compared with the scans from ten students who said they felt nothing while looking at the upsetting images.
Scientists found that while viewing the painful pictures, both groups showed activity in the parts of the brain that deal with emotions. However, those who said they felt physical pain showed greater activity in the parts of the brain that handle pain - suggesting that their sensations were genuine.
'Our study provides convincing evidence that a significant minority of normal subjects can share not just the emotional component of an observed injury, but also the sensory component,' said Dr Derbyshire, of the University of Birmingham.
'We think this confirms that at least some people have an actual physical reaction when observing others being injured or expressing pain.'
He noted that those who reported feeling pain also tended to say that they avoided horror movies and disturbing images on the news 'so as to avoid being in pain'.
The finding could explain ' functional pain experience', where patients complain of aches and pains, despite having no obvious disease, he said.
Scientists are puzzled why some are able to feel others' pain - and some cannot.
It has been suggested that the ability evolved millions of years ago and that the ability to feel another's physical pain encouraged our prehistoric ancestors work more closely with each other.
Almost 8million Britons live with chronic pain, especially women, while a third of patients say doctors are unable to 'inadequately control' of their pain.
Back pain costs the economy at least five million working days each year, and is the cause of half a million claimants receiving long-term incapacity benefits.


MERRY CHRISTMAS!

because i hated those posts.

now i like visiting my blog again. <3

because i view it differently.

jsh: of course the fear of the lord comes in when u see around us the power of nature. usually when i look at nature. i cant imagine that it all came about outta nothing so perfectly.

i beg to differ on the point that it "all came outta nothing so perfectly"
perfectly? hardly.

I am sure no theist would disagree that "god" was there in the beginning of time, that it was 'god' who created everything and so on and so forth.
now for that idea to be in sync with the natural history of our planet, you could in fact say that god did not in fact create humans as the first living things. and that in fact if Adam and eve DID exist, they would have to be bacteria, a microorganism. the first living things on the planet.

now would you call that the perfect most intelligent design? evidently not because here we are today. through natural selection, through evolution was this "perfection" achieved.

so i would not be in awe of god, for if it is so easy to dismiss millions of years of evolution and natural history just to automatically assume that god created humans halfway through.and that life will continue to evolve and change as time progresses.

change.. is the constant. so "perfection"? hardly.

atheism: unyielding despair
before u read this, please view the video

now this, is MY very own opinion. i am NOT speaking on behalf of all other atheist so do NOT generalize that all atheist feel the same way as i do.

i do not hold atheism as my religion. heck, the reason i am atheist is because i do not believe in religion as a whole. (contradictory or whatever, you get my drift)

i do not believe in a god, a divine being, an almighty, the creator, etc, etc. yes, i believe that this is the only life we will have, that when we die, we just die. there is nothing to greet me and nothing that awaits me. and this, according to theist, is a depressing thought and that i should probably be a sorry, miserable, suicidal person. (and will probably never write a good song)

but i tell you what. even though i know that i am a small and (probably) insignificant being compared in our vast and cold universe, these thoughts, this unyielding despair is not and will not be the foundation for my life.

i build my life on the foundation of the pursuit of happiness.
atheism does not define me and is in fact a fraction of what my life means to me.

cheers,

chuen

PSjust something i had to get of my chest. not written to perfection, but it get my point across i hope.

PPS the more i listen to that preacher in that video, the more i think he's just a load of hot air. all he is doing is repeatedly stressing on the point that there is noone to save atheist, noone to greet us, etc etc. louder. and louder.. again and again.

because the CBOX doesn't allow more than a certain amount of characters

right i'll get straight to it.


jsh: hmm. u do believe that we have a natural moral compass within us right? and that we all agree that we are to do somethings and not do somethings.
jsh: my questions is do you think that we exist on our own. OR that we are under a moral law that Somebody wants us to behave a certain way.

actually, josh, if u read my 'response post 1' thoroughly, u could most accurately come to a conclusion on where i stand on this subject. that yes, i DO believe that we as human beings exist on our own and that we are capable of choosing whether to do, think and say certain things but are also capable of choosing not to.
that yes, i do believe that we are under a moral law and that 'somebody' wants us to behave that way. but i do not believe that that 'somebody' registers as some divine power or being. i believe that this 'somebody' is actually, everybody. every single human being.
this is due to the fact that i know and believe that people operate on empathy.
that i choose not to hit someone not because i feel that god would dislike and shun my actions, probably deny me my passage to heaven and damn me to hell but because i know that what hurts me, would hurt someone too.


wh: do you really believe that all of us are born with a moral compass? Hint : Cannibalism, bullying,etc


i really do believe we are all born with a sense of empathy and i know things like cannibalism and bullying blows my arguments right out of the water but read this:

Things are different in the case of the cool and deliberate serial killer, who knows the criminality of his deeds yet continues to commit them. For neuroscientists, the iciness of the acts calls to mind the case of Phineas Gage, the Vermont railway worker who in 1848 was injured when an explosion caused a tamping iron to be driven through his prefrontal cortex. Improbably, he survived, but he exhibited stark behavioral changes—becoming detached and irreverent, though never criminal. Ever since, scientists have looked for the roots of serial murder in the brain's physical state.
extracted from "what makes us moral" TIME magazine

jsh: plus i think that no one in the world has ever obeyed their own moral law.

too open ended and undefined. unwilling to comment.

wh: abt individuals?If so,i beg to differ. Case being Jesus, Buddha,certain monks and priests of many religions. Can you say they did not obey their own moral law? if i'm on the wrong track, do explain
wh: just in case you're going to use my last sentence as a +1 to religion, this is not restricted to religious ppl. enlightenment does not have to come from religion.

wh, are u implying that enlightenment is achieved by obeying the moral law?



jsh: ok just ask yourself whether your conscience was groomed or was it already IN you. if you say the former, ive got nothing else to say. lol

i think u have the definition of former confused? because it sounds like u are dismissing the fact that one's conscience was groomed. does this mean that your conscience tells u the same thing now as it did when u were 4 or 5?
or do you mean that everyone has a conscience no matter how young and that one's conscience is not born spontaneously?






and joshua, i think i know where you're going with your arguements

correct me if I'm wrong but you feel that the "moral law" has such a broad spectrum and that if the moral law was defined by oneself, a difference in the constituents of one's moral law between two people might result in a probable disastrous result.
therefore u feel that the one way to achieve social harmony is by implementing ONE and only ONE moral law. GOD'S law.

theoretically speaking, yes. i would agree that one common moral law would be just the thing we need. but bear in mind, the factors that surround social harmony and human well being are plentiful. that is why i say theoretically.

however i do not believe that this common law should be gods law, simply because the god law operates on fear of the afterlife and divine punishment.
although this is exactly what the world needs, and i am willing to admit it..
i still believe that one day education will replace religion.



cheers,
chuen.

PS chicks name is Susan Coffey

because ZOMFG.

thanks to Lionel.

CLICK IT to get the full HD pic.

i know guys. i experienced a shortage of breath too when i saw her.

because add maths cant do as much damage as Miley Cyrus

and today i put myself through 3mins and 58 secs of pure hell. in the form of this..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aD22Mk_cfJE

miley cyrus - 7 things.

you know sometimes when u witness something like a horrible accident and u want to pull your head away but u cant?

so lemme explain how horrible it was, in the form of pictures.

curiosity

what the fuck..?

hey that rocker chick is HOT.

oh fuck me.

because my IQ beat a monkey's by single digits

this is what happened to me.

lionel sent a link

link to a Youtube video entitled "Truckers Flair"

.

..

...

....

"Truckers Flair was flagged as "inappropriate" by the Youtube community

so i was presented with two options

either

fuck off or sign up

so i signed up since sejarah paper is over.

signed up

.

. .

. . .

. . . .

“FLAIRS - TRUCKERS DELIGHT”
This video or group may contain content that is inappropriate for some users, as flagged by YouTube's user community.
Sorry, you must be 18 or over to view this video or group.

i are fucktard. i really are.

excuse me while i go entertain myself by attempting to teach a rock to speak

'Cause i STILL find her hot

cheers,

chuen

and you realise..

I'd say that life is just a dream that we chase after

its not exactly what it seems

I'd like to buy the world another shot of laughter

and buy my friends another drink.

"shot of laughter" by Sugar Ray

and I realised..

and SocialInterview.com asked me today, "what would you do before you died? (big or small)"

and i blanked.

firstly, i didn't quite understand what "before you died" meant.

ambiguity i tell you.

so I interpreted it as "what i would do in my lifetime before I die" .

now, im not going to attempt to drown my fellow readers in a sea of words for i neither have the ability to write nor the depth of thought. so this is my very blunt account of things.

Alexander III of Macedon, popularly known as Alexander the Great , was a Greek king (basileus) of Macedon who created one of the largest empirin ancient es history. Born in Pella in 356 BC, Alexander succeeded his father Philip II of Macedon to the throne in 336 BC after the King was assassinated, and died 13 years later at the age of 32. Whilst both Alexander's reign and empire were short-lived, the cultural impact of his conquests lasted for centuries. Alexander is one of the most well known figures of antiquity, and is remembered for his tactical ability, his conquests, and for spreading Greek civilization into the east.


Sir Isaac Newton FRS (4 January 1643 – 31 March 1727 [OS: 25 December 1642 – 20 March 1727]) was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, and theologian who is perceived and considered by a substantial number of scholars and the general public as one of the most influential men in history. His 1687 publication of the Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (usually called the Principia) is considered to be among the most influential books in the history of science, laying the groundwork for most of classical mechanics.

Wong Lap Beng (1929-2001) was a bus driver and every morning, he would wake up at 4am to fill up his bus with diesel and make sure the air pressure in his tyres were satisfactory. he had a wife which he loved dearly and 5 children, 3 boys and 2 girls. Every evening after dropping the last passenger of at the batu Langat bus stop, he would return home and give his wife a kiss on the cheek. his oldest daughter would then give him a back rub. dinner would be ready in 15 minutes and the whole family would be at the table. after dinner, his children would wash up and he would secretly go to his room and take out his daily earnings and put it under his mattres. 50 years later, he passed away peacefully with all his children and grandchildren around him.

3 different lives. 3 different paths taken.

what would YOU do before you died?

the 10 commandments in fantasy football

1. thou shalt not buy a liverpool defender or goalkeeper
2. thou shalt not buy a portsmouth player
3. thou shalt have Fabregas and Bent no matter what
4. thy weekly pundit is wise, listen to it
5. thou shalt not captain Berbatov, let alone buy him
6. thou shalt not have faith in thy Manchester City defenders
7. thou shalt always pray for Liverpool balloons
8. thou shalt sell Foster. NOW.
9. thou shalt have faith in Saha
10. thou shalt not use thy wildcard 10 weeks into a 38 week league. resist, my child.

any ones that should be changed msg me on that lil box at the side.

OMYGOSHH!!!!

THIS IS IT GUYS. WHAT WE WANTED. WHAT WE CRAVED. THANK HOLLYWOOD. THANK YOUR GOD. OUR PRAYERS HAVE BEEN ANSWERED.

MEGAN FOX'S LESBIAN KISS SCENE

HANG ON. ITS ABOUT TO GET HOT IN HERE.

cheers,

chuen. " wow thats the first time im hearing you drop the F-bomb!" Megan Fox

Time Will Tell. by Nancy Gibbs

Every fall the professors at Beloit College publish their Mindset List, a dictionary of all the deeply ingrained cultural references that will make no sense to the bright-eyed students of the incoming class. It's a kind of time travel, to remind us how far we've come. This year's freshmen were typically born in 1991. That means, the authors explain, they have never used a card catalog to find a book; salsa has always outsold ketchup; women have always outnumbered men in college. There has always been blue Jell-O.

In 1991 we were fighting a war in Iraq, and still are; health care needed reforming, and still does. But before despairing that some things never change, consider how much has. In 1991 the world watched a black motorist named Rodney King be beaten by L.A. cops, all of whom were acquitted; a majority of whites still disapproved of interracial marriage. Ask yourself, Would the people we were then have voted for a mixed-race President and a black First Lady?

That year, apartheid was repealed, the Soviet Union collapsed, the Dow broke 3000. The next year, the first commercial text message was sent; now there are more transmitted every day than there are people on the planet. In the time it took for toddlers to turn into teenagers, we decoded the human genome and everyone got a cell phone, an iPod, a GPS and a DVR. As the head-spinning viral video "Did You Know" informs us, the top 10 jobs in demand in 2010 did not exist six years ago, so "we're preparing kids for jobs that don't yet exist using technologies we haven't yet invented."

We have managed, rather gracefully, far more change than we predicted would come; it turns out that our past's vision of the future was not visionary enough. This is often the case: reality puts prophecy to shame. "Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote," declared Grover Cleveland in 1905. Harry Truman, in his 1950 State of the Union address to mark the midcentury, predicted that "our total national production 50 years from now will be four times as much as it is today." It turned out to be more than 33 times as large. "It will be gone by June," promised Variety in 1955 — talking about rock 'n' roll. "It will be years — not in my time — before a woman will become Prime Minister," declared Margaret Thatcher in 1969.

Leaders rely on the future as a vaccine against the present. The Soviets have put a man in space? "I believe we should go to the moon," President Kennedy announces. "I have a dream," the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. declares as the world around him burns. Maybe the promise is realized, even surpassed; maybe it keeps receding, pulling us along. "The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time," Abraham Lincoln supposedly observed. Which is true for those in charge of creating it but maybe not for the rest of us. When we pause and look back, we get to see the past's future, know how the story turned out. Did we rise to the occasion? Did we triumph? Did we blink?

The past's power comes from experience, the lessons it dares us to dismiss on the grounds that maybe things will be different this time. The future's power is born of experiment, and the endless grudge match between fear and hope. We are having a dozen simultaneous conversations right now about change: in our institutions, our culture, our treatment of the planet and of one another.

It's tempting to just stand stock-still and squeeze your eyes shut and wait for the moment to pass, or else hoard canned goods and assume the worst. This has been an awfully ugly summer of argument, and you'd be forgiven for concluding that we've lost our will to face or fix anything. We'll just dance with the devils we know, thank you. But if you look past Washington, past Wall Street, turn down the volume and go outside and walk around, you'll find the parcels of grace, of ingenuity and enterprise — people riding change like a skateboard, speeding off a ramp, twisting, flipping, somehow landing with a rush of wind and wheels — and wonder that it somehow hasn't killed us yet.

When members of the freshman class of 2027 look back at our future, what's likely to surprise them most? Will they marvel that gays were once not allowed to marry — or that they ever were? That we waited while the planet warmed, or that we acted to save it? That we protected the poor, or empowered them, or ignored them? That we lived within our means, or beyond them? We'll make our choices one day at a time, but our kids will judge our generation for what we generate, and what we leave undone.

post-per-day

well i was in KLCC today and i must say, this shop, "Boost Juice Bars" has probably THE most quirky and funny flyer/menu (i don't know what is is, it was by the cashier).

for example: this is the introduction to their selection of low -fat smoothies.


Smoothies made with fresh fruit
and good-for-you yogurt!

They’re all at least 98 percent fat free – how?
We make sure we only pick the skinniest
cows to produce our milk and yogurt.
Not only that, all of our fruit is put through
a vigorous Olivia Newton-John style workout,
complete with leg warmers and the
tenacity to 'choose life'.

they pick the skinniest cows! THE SKINNIEST.

i wonder if that applies to breast-milk.

btw, Olivia Newton-John is that babe from that "lets get physical" music video in the 80's

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spaw8bCZMHc check her out. she IS hot.

and on a little box on the side, there's this "did you know" box that says:

our exclusive TD4 (to die for) yoghurt contains live cultures and big words like streptococcus thermophilis and lactobacillus delbrueki for internal harmony.

need i say anymore?

next choice? fresh juices :

Freshly Squeezed, no added sugar!

We take the most innocent-looking
fresh fruit and veggies (especially the
ones with naturally sweet personalities
and cute little dimples),
then brutally squeeze, pulp and grind
into a delicious, vitamin packed juice.
Surprisingly this is legal to do.
Except in Gaborone, the capital of Botswana,
where the Humanity Towards Fruit Legislation
Act of 1999 was put in place to protect the
rights of innocent fruit, much to our outcry.

I wont even bother making any wisecrack jokes. anything i come up with pales in comparison to that

next, fruit crushes, basically mixed fruit juices:

Surprisingly, it’s not unheard of for
our fruit to get quite friendly with
each other when our Boosties are
looking the other way.
It always starts as an innocent
Fruit Crush, but then leads to
something more serious.
In fact, some crushes have lead
to full relationships that have
resulted in offspring – for example,
a plum and apricot just gave birth
to a “pluot”. Cooool!

that is dope. mr lemon, mrs watermelon.. please welcome your son, waterlemon. he's sour and seedy. noone will ever like him.

and on the allergy info, there's a little section that is printed in small fonts (looks like terms & conditions) but wait! here's what it says :

• the space between your eyebrows is called the glabella
• 90% of the population has an "innie" belly button
• a person who smokes a pack of cigarettes(on average) loses two teeth every two years
• a pregnant goldfish is called a twit
• in every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere
• Charlie Chaplin once entered a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest and was placed third
• no word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple
• the word "fart" comes from the old english "foertan" (meaning to break wind)
• a ducks quack doesn't echo
• a snail can sleep for three years
• all the clocks in Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20
• its impossible to lick your elbow
• triskaidekaphobia means fear of the number 13
• h
most lipsticks contain fish scales
coconuts kill about 150 people each year (that's more than sharks)
if you put a drop of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death
bats always turn left when exiting a cave
people photocopying their buttocks are the cause of 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide
more than 50% of the world's population as never made or received a telephone call
• winston churchill was born in a ladies room during a dance
• all polar bears are left handed

and lastly:

all information was correct at time of printing, or so we hope. sometimes we do make mistakes, we're human after all. Well actually it wasn't humans that put this together, it was a giant baboon wearing a little top hat. We call him Graham.

hell yeah. this is THE best flyer I've ever read. either they're taking advantage of the fact that no one reads , or they're just THAT brilliant.

oh and when i was leaving through the exit in Isetan, i accidentally stepped on some juice that this kid dropped from "Boost" (i know. the irony) and i closed the glass door behind me without looking. (I WAS IN A RUSH!)

and then i heard "THANKS" in the most sarcastic tone you will ever hear and i tell you, that really lit my day up. it was just that awkward. we both laughed and i opened the door for her. awesome. funny as hell.

signed,

chuen. =)

P.S their brekkie to go-go is awesome.

post-per-day

well folks let me introduce you to the latest hardcore workout you can ask for. this fantastic workout tones your:

• M.deltoidus (shoulder muscles)
• M.pectoralis major (chest)
• M.extensor radialis brevis (wrists)
• trapezius (back)
• M.sternocleidomastoldeus (neck)
• M.soleus (calves)
• M.extensor digitorium longus (shin muscles)

boy, thats ALOT of muscles! what kind of workout could possibly do so much for you, you ask?

bench press? weights? jogging?

NOPE

ladies and gentlemen, let me introduce to you the best workout you will ever know about..

*drumrolls*

PARALLEL PARKING

oh boy, sounds awesome huh?

its simple really, * all you have to do is work that steering wheel!

come on now, do it with me! 2 turns left! oh yeah, turn that steering wheel.

ok now 4 turns right! oh boy can you feel that burn? now 2 turns left and let go off that clutch! boy, now BREAK.

oh yeah, work those calves. now gimme another 2 left turns of that steering wheel, remember: push and pull, push and pull!

yess! now repeat this for TWO hours! **

oh boy, now look in that mirror and flex those muscles! dont they look HOT. ***

*its not that simple, i lie.

** you need a car first

***experiences may vary

signed,

jchuen. =) cheers fellas

post-per-day

is it me or does anyone have a problem with phony/plastic/fake/ugly things. and i do NOT mean brand names or dvd's. for i thrive on them and that would be shooting myself in the foot.

but what im getting to are things that are meant to resemble nature.

for instance today i spotted some fake rocks by the side of the road.
why the bleeding fuck would you want FAKE rocks?
oh what are they suppose to look better?
cause well you think u can do a better job than mother nature?
plain ol'rocks just doesn't cut it for you anymore?
you want something more than that?
taking it up a notch huh? an upgraded version of rocks.. nice.. fake rocks. you can call them focks. they rock.

WELL, FOCK YOU.

they really piss me off. its like littering in public.

only difference is. noone cleans it up.

signed
chuen

anything. THIS IS ANYTH KENGYEE

oh well, throughout the whole exam i only have ONE complaint.

why on earth cant we bring our water bottles in when every paper has an average duration of 1:55 hours?!
its horrible! plopping ur fat arse on a plastic chair in a freezing cold room for 2 hours while looking blankly at each question, waiting for divine intervention and then u breath out a sigh of disappointment and u almost faint coz your breath stinks so bad that it give you a mental block for half an hour.

WE NEED WATER.

didn't anyone read the importance of water in the nutrition chapter of biology?!

and to make matters worse, ur lips start cracking and bleeding and well eating is not as enjoyable as it used to be.

so, why. the. fuck. cant we bring our bottles in?

lets see:

1. the student might slip some exam notes beneath the plastic sheet that covers the bottle. the plastic sheet that tears immediately when even the teeniest amount of force is applied.
2. students will get distracted by their bottles. yeah i can see the sense in that. my bottle, it carries water. omg i could stare at it all day.
3. the water bottle could carry clues. yeah assuming we had no fucking clue what a cylinder looked like and that the chemical content of the water could save us from failing our chem paper.
4. we could be storing brain enhancers in our water bottles. oh wait, thats a pretty brilliant idea. (i kid, i kid)
5. we might spill our water. cause well 5 year olds do it and it just makes sense that a 17 year old would do it too. mmhmmm, 5 year olds soil themselves too. do u see me making mud pies as well? (please exclude XWei from no5)

it just defies logic.

signed,

jchuen.

twat, my mouth hurts.

the past

lol! check this out. i found this in a diskette that was dated the 6th of April 2001. when i was 9.

     20     THINGS  I  LIKE .

 

1.     Delicious   Food.

2.     Sports

3.     Games

4.     Internet

5.     English

6.     Cool  Stuff.

7.     Television

8.     Reading

9.     Exploring

10.     Drawing

11.   Imagination

12. Funny  Things

13. Super  Heroes

14.  Comics

15.  Trophy

16. Legendary  stories

17. Movies

18.HARRY  POTTER

19.Poems

20.  Colours

i kid you not. this is genuine.

 and i love it. all i can say is nothing  has changed although i don't quite understand why i put "english" as no5. I'd probably change it now with "women". ;)

and no20 colours.. seems pretty gay. i wonder what my dad would say if he saw colours on my top20 list of fave things. 

and check out what i did on that same date.

i was a pretty angry kid. can you tell?

cheers,

jc.

Dont take July away from me.

Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away
Now it looks as though they're here to stay
Oh, I believe in yesterday.

As July leaves us, it leaves us together with all our freedom and joy and throws us into the deepest darkest pit and we curse and try to find a way out... but there is no escape.

Suddenly,I'm not half the man I used to be
There's a shadow hanging over me

Oh, yesterday came suddenly. 

overstatement i know. but it pretty much illustrates the dim prospects of August and September.  FUCK YOU TRIALS.

Why she had to go I don't know she wouldn't say.

I said something wrong, now I long for yesterday.

Yesterday, love was such an easy game to play.

Now I need a place to hide away.

Oh, I believe in yesterday

"Yesterday" by the Beatles.

take a sad song and make it better. ;) 

quote

"Women who seek to be equal as men lack ambition."

response post 2

in reference to Joshua Chan Zuo Sze's post entitled "meaningless" dated 21st of June 2009.

this post posed some interesting points and I felt that writing on the cbox in his blog would not to the post justice so im going to copy some of the interesting points and offer my opinion.

from one paragraph:

But.If u think deeper, LIFE in itself can be neutralised by DEATH.

If what we do now on this earth is for NOW.

Then Life is meaningless because there is no eternal consequence to what we do.

Pleasure is meaningless.

Suffering is meaningless.

Wealth is meaningless

 

Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States. in his days in office, he succesfully abolished slavery. Lincoln left to attend the play Our American Cousin on April 14, 1865. As a lone bodyguard wandered, and Lincoln sat in his state box (Box 7) in the balcony, Booth crept up behind the President and waited for what he thought would be the funniest line of the play ("You sock-dologizing old man-trap"), hoping the laughter would muffle the noise of the gunshot. When the laughter began, Booth jumped into the box and aimed a single-shot, round-slug 0.44 caliber Derringer at his head, firing at point-blank range. abraham Lincoln died. 

could it be said that his life and all his actions were neutralized by his death?

eternal consequences? 

he had abolished slavery and today, we have the first black president in Barack Obama. 144 years later after his death. i dare you to say his life and all his achievements were meaningless and all his hardships and he had to go through to achieve that goal meaningless. i dare you.  

i feel that in this paragraph, death has been glorified terribly  till the extant where it grinds your face in the dirt. what an insult. i summarised his whole life and paid all the importance on his assasination but i do hope, that that those three words would outshine and outweigh his death and that death does not neutralize life, but rather death is a part of it.  and i shall leave it at that. 

in another paragraph.( im not going to dwell in the religious part of the post. and im not going to offer an explanation.)

 Our human wisdom has a limit.Even if you have newtons brain or whatever.

The limit is death.

All your effort in finding the answers to the questions in life will lead to more questions that are more complex.

And when you die.Selfishly ask yourself

How will your wisdom help you when you rot in the ground?

You might think you have contributed to the world.

That might be true, youve provided temporary solutions.

Well done, but the inevitable is coming.

The day when our human race will and i promise you it will happen, our extinction.

peace.

"All your effort in finding the answers to the questions in life will lead to more questions that are more complex" now why is it that it is said in such a manner that more questions is a horrible bad thing. rejoice! in the fact that there will always be another greater question awaiting us. is that not the most beautiful thing about being human? (no, love is not the most beautiful thing about being human because animals love too.) 

well i wont even bother debating the rest of the paragraph. it aint worth it.  but what strikes me as interesting was the ending sentence "The day when our human race will and i promise you it will happen, our extinction." now i know this idea was not formed based on evidence or even any thought but, i guess the bible says so.

cheers, chuen

response post

in reference to Quay Xiao Yun's post entitled "there's so much more to life than this" dated 20/06/2009. (excuse the formality, im only doing it for future references.)

right, reading her post reminded of an article in the TIMES magazine so i went to do a little digging and i found it buried under a ton of forgotten issues. it was dated the 3rd of december 2007. (i know, im quite astounded that i remembered ) the article was entitled "what makes us moral" and i thought a few of the many issues listed by xyun could be explained partially.

so I'll get straight to the point.

in one of the paragraphs,

I find myself taken aback sometimes to see how far I've come, how much i've changed & conformed to the society's unforgiving acceptance. It scares me to think that the very same girl who first stepped into Wesley Methodist is now more accepted compared to then. It wasnt that I had faked who i really was to the world, because if you really know me, you'll find that being someone I am not, to me, is harder than being ostracized by the very society whose acceptance everyone seems to crave.
i have highlighted the issue by which i am going to explain by directly quoting off the TIMES magazine.

At the Arnhem Zoo in the Netherlands, de Waal was struck by how vigorously apes enforced group norms one evening when the zookeepers were calling their chimpanzees in for dinner. The keepers' rule at Arnhem was that no chimps would eat until the entire community was present, but two adolescents grew willful, staying outside the building. The hours it took to coax them inside caused the mood in the hungry colony to turn surly. That night the keepers put the delinquents to bed in a separate area—a sort of protective custody to shield them from reprisals. But the next day the adolescents were on their own, and the troop made its feelings plain, administering a sound beating. The chastened chimps were the first to come in that evening. Animals have what de Waal calls "oughts"—rules that the group must follow—and the community enforces them.
see, humans aren't the only one's that fear being ostracized.

One of the most powerful tools for enforcing group morals is the practice of shunning. If membership in a tribe is the way you ensure yourself food, family and protection from predators, being blackballed can be a terrifying thing. Religious believers as diverse as Roman Catholics, Mennonites and Jehovah's Witnesses have practiced their own forms of shunning—though the banishments may go by names like excommunication or disfellowshipping. Clubs, social groups and fraternities expel undesirable members, and the U.S. military retains the threat of discharge as a disciplinary tool, even grading the punishment as "other than honorable" or "dishonorable," darkening the mark a former service person must carry for life.

"Human beings were small, defenseless and vulnerable to predators," says Barbara J. King, biological anthropologist at the College of William and Mary and author of Evolving God. "Avoiding banishment would be important to us."

in another paragraph,]

it's hard to continually understand why people do things and what has cause them to do something that causes pain to someone else. it is harder to continually excuse their actions and peg them as "they're only human" or "everyone is doing it". Because in all honesty, people should take responsibility for their actions. It's like saying a mass murderer should be excused from what he has done because it wasn't his fault his life was hell and his parents or the environment around him while he was still a boy conditioned him to be the person he is today. &then letting him go to do as he pleases. i know, this is a much larger scale compared to petty high school drama like "she stole my boyfriend" or "he lied to me" or "she bitched about me", but if you really look into, there's no real difference at all.

The deepest foundation on which morality is built is the phenomenon of empathy, the understanding that what hurts me would feel the same way to you. And human ego notwithstanding, it's a quality other species share.

Things are different in the case of the cool and deliberate serial killer, who knows the criminality of his deeds yet continues to commit them. For neuroscientists, the iciness of the acts calls to mind the case of Phineas Gage, the Vermont railway worker who in 1848 was injured when an explosion caused a tamping iron to be driven through his prefrontal cortex. Improbably, he survived, but he exhibited stark behavioral changes—becoming detached and irreverent, though never criminal. Ever since, scientists have looked for the roots of serial murder in the brain's physical state.

Schulman, the psychologist and author, works with delinquent adolescents at a residential treatment center in Yonkers, New York, and was struck one day by the outrage that swept through the place when the residents learned that three of the boys had mugged an elderly woman. "I wouldn't mug an old lady. That could be my grandmother," one said. Schulman asked whom it would be O.K. to mug. The boy answered, "A Chinese delivery guy." Explains Schulman: "The old lady is someone they could empathize with. The Chinese delivery guy is alien, literally and figuratively, to them."

This kind of brutal line between insiders and outsiders is evident everywhere—mobsters, say, who kill promiscuously yet go on rhapsodically about "family." But it has its most terrible expression in wars, in which the dehumanization of the outsider is essential for wholesale slaughter to occur. Volumes have been written about what goes on in the collective mind of a place like Nazi Germany or the collapsing Yugoslavia. While killers like Adolf Hitler or Slobodan Milosevic can never be put on the couch, it's possible to understand the xenophobic strings they play in their people

in another,

&if everyone has their own thoughts, everyone has their own mind and mental capability to create and mould their own existence, then who is anyone to say that what i am doing right now is wrong if it is not to me? who is anyone to say that what he is doing is wrong when it is not to him? No one has the right to enforce a belief or practice unto someone else because, it is their belief, and their practice

What does, or ought to, separate us then is our highly developed sense of morality, a primal understanding of good and bad, of right and wrong, of what it means to suffer not only our own pain—something anything with a rudimentary nervous system can do—but also the pain of others. That quality is the distilled essence of what it means to be human. Why it's an essence that so often spoils, no one can say.

Morality may be a hard concept to grasp, but we acquire it fast. A preschooler will learn that it's not all right to eat in the classroom, because the teacher says it's not. If the rule is lifted and eating is approved, the child will happily comply. But if the same teacher says it's also O.K. to push another student off a chair, the child hesitates. "He'll respond, 'No, the teacher shouldn't say that,'" says psychologist Michael Schulman, co-author of Bringing Up a Moral Child. In both cases, somebody taught the child a rule, but the rule against pushing has a stickiness about it, one that resists coming unstuck even if someone in authority countenances it. That's the difference between a matter of morality and one of mere social convention, and Schulman and others believe kids feel it innately.

&because i know that despite everything i've just typed out, I, myself fall into the same category. the society which will only continue to live in its own denial and continue to destroy itself. Because neither am i above the very people i've just scorned &unless, although highly unlikely, i manage to practice what i preach, i'll only continue to live in disgust with myself

what do u preach?

sincerely, jc.

life ain't so bad. fuck, its pretty darn awesome.

waking up at 12 in the afternoon and its raining so the sun rays are not directed straight at my groggy, sensitive eyes. plus since it was raining, it isn't too warm and i can still snuggle under the blanket. i fall asleep again and wake up an hour later and i get out of bed, open the door and see my dog, brownie snuggled right outside. i pick him up and put him on my bed and place my head on his back. we both fall asleep again.

 life aint so bad. heck, i'd say its pretty darn good.

me alex and alastair go to rock corner and pick up 3 tickets for the Manchester United match against Malaysia's XI which will take place on the 18th of July. tickets cost rm28 for students. cashier hands us the tickets.

once again,  life aint so bad. heck, i'd say its pretty darn good.

playing the air guitar to ACDC's back in black topless and jumping around like a rockstar and forgetting that im 17 and that the most important exam of my life so far is a mere 5 months away. yes,  life aint so bad. heck, i'd say its pretty darn good.

in reference to mark william's post dated the 6th of  2009. "life ain't so bad" 

so guys, chill out take a step back and a deep breathe and you'll see that life aint so bad. heck, i'd say its pretty darn good.

HAIL ME

my loyal subjects.. feast your eyes on THIS.



omfg la what the hell, the print screen is so fucking blur. what the jibaiz hellz. thiz suckzzz.

damn potong steam la.
fucking fuckerty fuckity fuck fuck fuck fuck.

chuen.

diary entry number2

2nd of July.

woke up at 1, meaning i had a blissful 13 hours of sleep. i dont know about you guys but i took my watch off when the holidays started and i've totally lost track of time. beautiful. like the ancients, i relied on the sun. too bad i spent almost every hour indoors. 

well, me and the family went to Zen in sunway pyramid for a japanese dinner and after that went over to trisha's place for poker.

i shall not dwell on this subject for too long for that was the worst poker session i have ever had. i lost 50bux. pissed me off. i didn't win a single round. every round that i won, i had to share the freaking pot. didnt win a single fucking round on my own.

GAAAH. @#$%@& 

after so, off to andrew's place where i spent the night. omygod i fucking hate writing about my life. gosh, fuck it. 

has anyone watched 17 again? or high school musical or whatever blasted disney movie that tweens live on? i have absolutely no bloody clue what the bloody hype is all about and why girls go head over heels over a prancy little prick that goes to a hair salon everyday has blue eyes, dances plays basketball and has a six pec. 

oh wait. i think i got it. 

(yes, this is how you spell six pec. not pack)

anyway,  gtg. but i will blog about this subject. soon.

because my day is far more interesting than yours.

right. 1st of june. 3rd day of our 16 day holiday. 

me and the guys went paintballing. man, this is a sport for real men. pussies, stay at home. 

i got shot up real bad. again. once again, i end up with the most shots. again. and this one really looks nasty. like fuck nasty. 

well, anyway. im just keeping a diary of what goes on in my life during the holidays. so i might post everyday.

 

the funny thing when they split us into teams was that the short were on one side and the taller ones were on the other. xw, tim, andrew, jasjeet, alastair. taller ones : jonYo, alex, meha, lionel, yau and me.  talk about luck. but the tall side still got owned. (im not gonna say tall side, because yes, we aint that tall but we are taller.)

xw: fuck man, u came over shouting "friend, friend!" and u shot me u fucking asshole!

meha: i was shouting to lionel. LOL 

well, most of it was yelling and screaming. got the adrenaline pumping real good. but its probably gonna be the a long time before i play. cost 120rm to play. -.- i know. 

chuen.