eh ya hey ya eh yo
long days in heaven, short days in hell. earth days are ok, for the frog in the well
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gained in mistranslation
kalamata olives. named after a greek city. but in indonesian, kala is the beast that eats the sun and the moon, a metaphor for time itself, and mata means the eye.
i’m gonna eat the eyes of time right now. yummeh.
“ต้นร้ายปลายดี”
—dtohn raai bplaai dee. all’s well that ends well.
white swan, black swan
the rational person acts based on what he knows. he is unimaginative and, in many ways, he pays for it. it is not enough to be rational. one must know that he sees but little, and thus in his plans must he consider all those things that he cannot and does not see.
it is tragic that the unimaginative rational is so arrogant in his own intelligence that he cannot understand the ideas of him who understands the nature and the flaws of rationality.
“After perusing a few pages, it became clear that this was a Chinese government propaganda piece, and it seemed out of place with the bookstore’s very mainstream wares. I asked the owner why he had decided to carry such a biased book and whether he had any that presented other sides of the Tibet issue. After looking at the book he replied that he had not ordered it. He then went to his computer and checked past book orders, and concluded that neither he nor any of his employees had ordered it, and that the store did not even do business with the book’s distributor… I later found that other bookstores in the area had unordered copies of this and other Chinese government-produced books on their shelves, apparently surreptitiously placed there by Chinese officials hoping that these cheaply priced volumes would be purchased by Australian readers, who would be converted to the Chinese position regarding Tibet.”
—History as Propaganda: Tibetan Exiles versus the People’s Republic of China, by John Powers. Amazon link here.
“ความสุข!”
—khwaam sook. happiness! phom mii khwaam sook. i am happy!
Nothing But The Truth (2008)
| Alan: | A man can live a good life, be honorable, give to charity, but in the end, the number of people who come to his funeral is generally dependent on the weather. |
| Rachel: | What? I'm sorry. I'm not following. |
| Alan: | The weather has changed, Rachel. I'm sorry, but it has. That's the truth. In the old days, this would have been a lot easier to fight. The public would have called you a hero. But I don't know, somewhere along the line, the press... the press stopped being the white knight, and started being the dragon. That's the way people see it. You want to know why no paper in this country, including your own, has continued covering your story? |
| Rachel: | Why don't you tell me? |
| Alan: | Because your 48-hour news cycle dried up months ago. I mean, look at you, Rachel. You look like shit. Your kid is growing up without you- |
| Rachel: | Don't bring Timmy into this. It's not fair. Okay? I'm a good mother. |
| Alan: | Fair? Fuck fair! Look, you may not want to bring your son into this, but I do. You want to know why? |
| Rachel: | Why? |
| Alan: | Because I'm defending Rachel Armstrong, not a principle. |
| Rachel: | A man leaves his family to go to jail to protect a principle, and they name a holiday after him. A man leaves his children to go fight in a war, and they erect a monument to him. A woman does the same thing, and she's a monster. If we back down, what are we saying, Albert? "Trust reporters as long as they're not mothers, because they'll crack." The truth is, if I had known that writing this fucking story would have separated me from Timmy, then maybe I wouldn't have done it. But here we are. The story's been published, and the path has been chosen, and there's no way back, and in the end, my son will be fine. You know, Ray is a great father, and Timmy's gonna be okay, but that will not be the case with my source. My source will be publicly saddled with the death of Erica Van Doren, and that, I promise you, will mean the destruction of the person we're talking about, and that, Alan, that is not fair. |
| Alan: | Why? I mean, your source knew full well the ramifications of speaking to you. |
| Rachel: | My source didn't know what they were doing when I got the information. |
possible theses
What is History: Life, the Universe and Everything
What is History: Nationing and Unnationing the Nation
Dragon: The Lee Kuan Yew Story (he knows kungfu)
To Catch a Tartar II: On the Indefinability of the Nation
The Tartar Apprehended: On the Definability of the Nation
Fashion, Make-up and Magazines: Womanity in Singapore
The Vegetarian Agenda: Environmentalism vs. the Body Politic
Witches and Bitches: Radical Religion and the Hijacking of the State (haha)
Indonesia and Singapore: Best Friends Forever (dunno why this is here)
Money, Sand and War: Popular Perceptions of Burmese Relations with Singapore
Thaksin Shinawatra: An Account of the Swashbuckling Adventures of a Travelling Politician in Southeast Asia (i like this best, i think)
Highlanders: The Assam Region and Why Southeast Asia Does Not Exist
From Babies to Crazies: Why Our Political Leaders Are Completely Off Their F*ing Rockers (where i trace the childhoods of politicians who amuse me)
no thanks to a super popular tv series some time ago, this guy is now popularly perceived as the most bullied deity of all time
