When you were here before
Couldn't look you in the eye
You're just like an angel
Your skin makes me cry
You float like a feather
In a beautiful world
I wish I was special
You're so fucking special
But I 'm a creep
I 'm a weirdo
What the hell am I doing here?
I don't belong here
I don't care if it hurts
I want to have control
I want a perfect body
I want a perfect soul
I want you to notice
When I'm not around
You're so fucking special
I wish I was special
But I'm a creep
I'm a weirdo
What the hell am I doing here?
I don't belong here
She's running out again
She's running out
She run, run, run run
Run
Whatever makes you happy
Whatever you want
You're so fucking special
I wish I was special
But I'm a creep
I'm a weirdo
What the hell am I doing here?
I don't belong here
I don't belong here.
Saturday 21 August 2010
Monday 26 July 2010
The end is nigh
If sport falls apart, the world as we know it falls apart. Say goodbye to values, morals and everything in between because sports are the only form of pure competition that exists now.
Florian Mayer cheated when he knew Lampard's goal was in but played on anyway; the spotlight was not on in him as he got away with it. Suarez cheated when he boxed away Asamoah Gyan's shot, the spotlight was on him because he got caught.
And now even Lance Armstrong, the man who overcame cancer to win a thousand-km bicycle race and is arguably the world's most inspirational sportsperson, could be caught cheating.
Some facts on Massa's case of overwhelming magnanimity; one, the race engineer said sorry after Massa let Alonso pass, and two, the graphics showed clearly that Massa was not on full throttle after coming out of the corner, allowing Alonso to pass easily, three, Alonso was heard saying 'this is ridiculous' after Massa leads him for 2-3 laps after a pitstop.
Post race:
Q: Then Fernando got past you. Was that your decision to let him past?
Felipe Massa: Yeah, definitely.
Q: Yes, definitely?
FM: (No verbal answer)
Cheats kill sport. And the end is nigh.
Florian Mayer cheated when he knew Lampard's goal was in but played on anyway; the spotlight was not on in him as he got away with it. Suarez cheated when he boxed away Asamoah Gyan's shot, the spotlight was on him because he got caught.
And now even Lance Armstrong, the man who overcame cancer to win a thousand-km bicycle race and is arguably the world's most inspirational sportsperson, could be caught cheating.
Some facts on Massa's case of overwhelming magnanimity; one, the race engineer said sorry after Massa let Alonso pass, and two, the graphics showed clearly that Massa was not on full throttle after coming out of the corner, allowing Alonso to pass easily, three, Alonso was heard saying 'this is ridiculous' after Massa leads him for 2-3 laps after a pitstop.
Post race:
Q: Then Fernando got past you. Was that your decision to let him past?
Felipe Massa: Yeah, definitely.
Q: Yes, definitely?
FM: (No verbal answer)
Cheats kill sport. And the end is nigh.
Monday 17 May 2010
Living
So here we are living lives of anonymity and insignificance. And there they are looking at us from the outside in and dreaming of living our lives.
Thursday 6 May 2010
A page that changed a standpoint
Why the world needs nuclear weapons.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/214248
And I'm still waiting for George Puthucheary's obituary - 'An Atheist's Heaven'.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/214248
And I'm still waiting for George Puthucheary's obituary - 'An Atheist's Heaven'.
Thoughts at the moment
Remembering how we all had different ways of saying "Deutshce" at RBC Dexia.
How I am stuck in the middle-class trap of not being smart enough to excel at anything, and being smart enough to be considered above-average.
How I am stuck in the middle-class trap of not being smart enough to excel at anything, and being smart enough to be considered above-average.
One thing to read this year
Learn from mistakes and take ideas. Copying is under-rated.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/11/30/the_fp_top_100_global_thinkers?page=full
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/11/30/the_fp_top_100_global_thinkers?page=full
Tuesday 13 April 2010
OMFG Book the men
Somehow, there are people who believe that girls who dump their babies have all had immaculate conceptions.
If the law has no provision to hold the father responsible in baby dumping cases, don't charge anyone.
If the law has no provision to hold the father responsible in baby dumping cases, don't charge anyone.
Tuesday 23 March 2010
Cervical cancer vaccines: A step forward, maybe
It is good news that cervical cancer vaccinations are now provided for free by the government.
The only hope is that certain quarters do not equate this with a licence for promiscuity, an equation that only those with ignorant minds could make. Those that make these particular inferences will gladly ignore all the good that the decision in question will bring, in the defence of often antiquated moral high grounds.
Having this initiative approved would hopefully help drown out the voices against sound ideas. For example, in the interest of saving lives, the baby hatch idea remains a viable, if not desirable, first step.
To further extrapolate an argument in favour of rationalism versus blind conservatism, perhaps personal rights and dignity should eventually defeat outdated moral policing. Which would bring the end of television news showing footage of raids at massage parlours and hotel rooms where often only the masseuses and female companions are on film.
The only hope is that certain quarters do not equate this with a licence for promiscuity, an equation that only those with ignorant minds could make. Those that make these particular inferences will gladly ignore all the good that the decision in question will bring, in the defence of often antiquated moral high grounds.
Having this initiative approved would hopefully help drown out the voices against sound ideas. For example, in the interest of saving lives, the baby hatch idea remains a viable, if not desirable, first step.
To further extrapolate an argument in favour of rationalism versus blind conservatism, perhaps personal rights and dignity should eventually defeat outdated moral policing. Which would bring the end of television news showing footage of raids at massage parlours and hotel rooms where often only the masseuses and female companions are on film.
Saturday 27 February 2010
The Persian
Slowly, I begin to feel.
"The Persian"
Perfectly formed
In lack of none
It frowns in despair
At natural faults
Notice the shine
Wafting embers of want
And the eyes that see
Near it comes
In hidden paths
With scents of Eve
Expecting touch
Do and fall
With those who need
And hurt at once
Until in time
It needs more
"The Persian"
Perfectly formed
In lack of none
It frowns in despair
At natural faults
Notice the shine
Wafting embers of want
And the eyes that see
Near it comes
In hidden paths
With scents of Eve
Expecting touch
Do and fall
With those who need
And hurt at once
Until in time
It needs more
Thursday 21 January 2010
Tuesday 12 January 2010
Bertrand Russell and Christianity
"There are a great many ways in which, at the present moment, the church, by its insistence upon what it chooses to call morality, inflicts upon all sorts of people undeserved and unnecessary suffering."
Betrand Russell, 1927
Why I Am Not A Christian
Betrand Russell, 1927
Why I Am Not A Christian
Tuesday 5 January 2010
Les Misérables Lite: A posit on a solution
Q: A man escapes from jail one year into his ten-year sentence. He lives on a new name, starts a business, gives to charity and is a good citizen for 8 years after. You find him and know what he did. Should you report him?
To judge or not to? How do we balance a respect for the judicial system and the inherent human virtue to not judge your fellow man?
In respecting the judicial system, it follows that we respect that society has assigned the task of judging to the learned, as the case may be; judges in courts of law. A jury of peers is the closest we get to community-agreed judgement.
As the judicial system is one that is separated clearly and is independent, all acts of judging are reserved for the few, and all consequences of a judgment are assigned and dealt with by the executive; another independent institution.
For the commoner, to report the man would be to take over from the independent societal institutions. The argument is bounded by this, therefore making the man's crime*, his subsequent actions and his character utterly irrelevant.
A: No.
*In respecting the judicial system, it suffices to say that he was given a fair trial. A common contradiction while claiming to respect the judiciary is to pass a second judgment based on the severity of the man's crime, which is subjective.
To judge or not to? How do we balance a respect for the judicial system and the inherent human virtue to not judge your fellow man?
In respecting the judicial system, it follows that we respect that society has assigned the task of judging to the learned, as the case may be; judges in courts of law. A jury of peers is the closest we get to community-agreed judgement.
As the judicial system is one that is separated clearly and is independent, all acts of judging are reserved for the few, and all consequences of a judgment are assigned and dealt with by the executive; another independent institution.
For the commoner, to report the man would be to take over from the independent societal institutions. The argument is bounded by this, therefore making the man's crime*, his subsequent actions and his character utterly irrelevant.
A: No.
*In respecting the judicial system, it suffices to say that he was given a fair trial. A common contradiction while claiming to respect the judiciary is to pass a second judgment based on the severity of the man's crime, which is subjective.
Friday 1 January 2010
Acatalepsy
Incomprehensibility of things; the doctrine held by the ancient Skeptic philosophers, that human knowledge never amounts to certainty, but only to probability.
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