Monday, November 17, 2008

Countenance!

Thank you, Isa.

1. What’s your ambition?

Change the world in my image.

2. Who is more important to you? Friends or boy/girlfriend?

They're interchangeable, but friends last longer.

3. How often do you think of committing suicide?

Once, in contemplation of how gravely it would affect the world.

4. Do you think you have enough confidence?

Could use a little more, absolutely.

5. How many babies you want?

One

6. Favorite perfume/fragrance?

Burberry London

7. What is your goal for this year?

Get in a spread of conditionals, read more, higher tolerance, better body, fun

8. Do you believe in eternal love?

It's not feasible.

9. What's a perfect girlfriend/boyfriend like to u? (List 10)

Assertive
Intelligent
Driven
Beautiful
Extrovert
Innovative
Very Physical
Funny
Liberal
A Geek

10.What feeling do you love most?

That sense of peace and godliness after a marathon

11. What is your bad habit?

A little cold
Drinks too much
Hubris

12. Is there anything you wanna tell the people who hate you?

I'm better than you.

13. Do you cherish every single friendship of yours?

Not as much as I should.

14. What do you hate most in others?

Ignorance and cherishing it.

15. What do you crave for the most currently?

Independence. A drink. Sex.

16. What features/quirks do you find totally sexy on a guy/girl?

Fearless, intoxicating extroversion.

17. Describe the person who tagged you in 7 words.

Fascinating spiky-haired liberal musician/poet in fucking California.

18.What have you done to yourself to make yourself happy?

Bought a laptop.

19. What will you become in another 10 years to come?

Possibly an undefeated barrister/QC with a massive flat in Soho

20. Whats your guilty pleasure? (something you usually wouldnt admit out loud)

I'm a technophile.

Instructions
Remove one question from above and add in your personal question.
Make a total of 20 questions and tag 8 people.
List them out at the end of the post.

Amani
Tats
Dex
Char
Manjuli
Pia
Yvonne
Flory

Friday, November 14, 2008

Laugh!

Speaking of comedy, comedy is umbilically linked with tragedy. You can hardly set the two apart. The faces of human expression, this schizoid bastard son of prose and theater, have for centuries kept us rapt with laughter and tears. Indeed, in every great tragedy, there is volumes of comedy, and every comedy when looked at from a certain perspective is morbidly tragic. Schadenfreude, as it is, forms the basis for this two-headed monstrosity. As people, we take both great pleasure and despair in the suffering of our fellow man. It's natural. You see a morbidly obese child trip and roll off the hillside like a bouncing ball of red pudding: comedy gold. But what about its well-being? Is it hurt? God, maybe it broke its neck. Oh, gee, oh well. Often, the funniest works find their inspiration in a deep-seated hatred towards something that's roiling inside us: a person, an ideal, a gender, or a god - anything. Which is why the greatest comedies often have a darker side, a little itch on the side of hilarity that's perhaps saying there's more under the gleaming, hilarious surface. Something darker, perhaps more insidious. Comedy is subversive, and tragedy moving. But there's no disparity. It's all really just the different faces of the same Alzheimer-ridden chimera.

Sunday, November 2, 2008

Shambling!

If the dead someday get fed up with simmering six feet under and rise to roam through the night, I wonder if some of them could be persuaded to become a part of the house keeping industry. From my point of view, they've already started spring cleaning flats and houses across town. There was this lady cleaning my home once every two weeks. Man, she gave me the willies, so I'd often wondered if she slept in a bed like the rest of us or if she returned every night to her cozy crypt. She didn't really say much either. On the other hand, she is cross-eyed, so you can never tell if she's looking at you or watching the old tumble drier. Maybe it just isn't happy with the way society treats ghoulish, cross-eyed house keepers. Life is full of weird mysteries.