Philosophy (again)...

righto. so i've been doing philo stuff again. and now we're onto this french dude called descartes. it's really cool cos you see where the 'matrix' concept comes from - Descartes' dream theory. it's all quite fascinating... on how he tries to (dis)prove everything in the search for the 'absolute' truths which are best described in mathematical and other such formulas...

i would go into the whole thing about this argument of his 'first meditation' but that would drive some people nuts i guess....

then there's the second meditation. which questions the human existence... and essentially boils back down to the 'i think therefore i am' principle... and the whole thing just is to prove it. which Descartes does brilliantly i might add...

i'd better stop or i'll get myself in trouble *prepares to dodge rotten flying vegetables*... i figure if i did ramble on and on about it... then there'd be lots of people doing this... *runs screaming and throws himself out the window* or this... *bangs head against wall*

right. *climbs back in* so if you wanna find out what the whole thing's about... leave a comment (and an email add or something).

such is another day... in the diary of chris

My Favourite Song...

there's this song that i really like. not because of anything in particular... but the lyrics are just so apt (those who read the other blog'll know what i'm talking about). they aren't the most accurate, but they capture the essence of the situation and well, the say a lot. especially the 2nd verse. it only struck me how relevant it was when someone asked what i was doing in school if i had no classes on...

so i present to you... 'Wonderful' by Everclear

Verse 1:
I close my eyes when I get too sad
I think thoughts that I know are bad
Close my eyes and I count to ten
Hope it's over when I open them

I want the things that I had before
Like a Star Wars poster on my bedroom door
I wish I could count to ten
And make everything be wonderful again

I hope my mom and I hope my dad
Will figure out why they get so mad
I hear them scream, I hear them fight
They say bad words that makes me want to cry

Close my eyes when I go to bed and I
Dream of angels who make me smile
I feel better when I hear them say that
Everything will be wonderful some day

Chorus:
Promises mean everything
When you're little and the world is so big
I just don't understand how
You can smile with all those tears in your eyes
When you tell me everything is wonderful now

Na na nana........
Please don't tell me everthing is wonderful now

Verse 2:
I go to school and I run and play
I tell the kids that it's all okI have to laugh so my friends wont know
When the bell rings I just don't want to go home

Go to my room and I close my eyes
I make believe that I have a new life
I don't believe you when you say that
Everything will be wonderful some day

Chorus:
Promises mean everything
When you're little and the world is so big (so big)
I just don't understand how
You can smile with all those tears in your eyes
When you tell me everything is wonderful now

Bridge:
Na na nana........
No. No. I don't want to hear you tell me everything is wonderful now.
No. No. I don't want to hear you tell me everything is wonderful now.
I don't want to hear you say that I will understand some day
No. No. No. No.
I don't want to hear you say that you both have grown in a different way
No. No. No.No
I don't want to meet your friend
I don't want to start over again
I just want my life to be the same
Just like it used to be

Somedays, I hate everything
I hate everything
Everyone and everything

Please don't tell me everything is wonderful now.
Na na nana....

No. Please I don't want to hear you tell me everything is wonderful now...

No. Please don't tell me everything is wonderful now..
Na nana..
Everything is wonderful now...

New stuff

hey hey... got myself a laptop (finally) after all of mum's pestering. frankly it's only cos she wants to use it for something. but well, she subsidised it so... *shrug*

anyways, life's been pretty good. this semester's turning out good... stuff falling into place though i think i'm a little less focused than last semester. but we'll see... hopefully my work'll be ok. CCA wise, life's been fun (in SWAPS it always is. to me at least). had a quite a bit of difficulty churning out the publicity poster thingy for Open House. but got it done in the end. Mad props to Gene, Justina and Farah for all the help. and to justina, i've got 1 word - RESPECT. you've got amazing patience to do those posters. seriously. sorry about that 'perfectionist' thingy that day and my (in)famous 'prepares to dodge flying rotten vegetables' line. i use it all the time in msn conversation... with JH and Oddz in particular *wide grin and runs for cover to avoid rotten flying vegetables* (what did i tell you? ALL THE TIME)

p.s. looking for quotes from the movie Constantine. especially those by Gabriel.
such is a day in... the diary of chris

Song

From Green Day's Grammy winning Best Rock Album 'American Idiot'

Boulevard of Broken Dreams

I walk a lonely road
The only one that I have ever known
Don't know where it goes
But it's home to me and I walk alone

I walk this empty street
On the Boulevard of Broken Dreams
Where the city sleeps
And I'm the only one and I walk alone
I walk alone
I walk alone

I walk alone
I walk a...

My shadow's the only one that walks beside me
My shallow heart's the only thing that's beating
Sometimes I wish someone out there will find me
'Til then I walk alone

Ah-ah,ah-ah,ah-ah,aaah-ah
Ah-ah,ah-ah,ah-ah

I'm walking down the line
That divides me somewhere in my mind
On the border line of the edge and where I walk alone

Read between the lines of what's fucked up and everything's alright
Check my vital signs
To know I'm still alive and I walk alone
I walk alone

I walk alone
I walk alone
I walk a...

My shadow's the only one that walks beside me
My shallow heart's the only thing that's beating
Sometimes I wish someone out there will find me
'Till then I walk alone

Ah-ah,ah-ah,ah-ah,aaah-ah
Ah-ah,ah-ah

I walk alone
I walk a...

I walk this empty street
On the Boulevard of Broken Dreams
Where the city sleeps
And I'm the only one and I walk a...

My shadow's the only one that walks beside me
My shallow heart's the only thing that's beating
Sometimes I wish someone out there will find me'
Till then I walk alone

Blog Surfing...

right. sorry haven't kept you guys updated on what's up with me lately....

just got back from Perth, where we went for CNY break... and while i'm at it, Happy New Year to all you people out there... yes i know i'm late, but screw that...

so i've been blog surfing. can't say that what i've been reading is pretty. well, in another sense it's all just pretty... pretty depressing and thoughtful... now i'm not saying that's a bad thing... depression basically is a familiar topic and well, when you see depressed posts on blogs, you kinda learn to take it with a pinch of salt. because most of the time people just use their blogs to rant... now i'm not saying i'm not taking the depressed posts seriously. i am, really. but i'm not going to be super worried or anything...

well, enough of my incoherence. got 2 papers due soon... one for philosophy and another for Political Science. oh well, whatever lah... no point stressing myself to death...

such is a day in... the diary of Chris

bring out the confetti and streamers...

right. so i've been missing for a while. cos i've just moved house. and there's NO internet or TV... so, yes... anyway, IT'S MY BIRTHDAY!!! *cue celebrations, streamers, confetti etc*

and thanks to everyone who made it special. though i have to admit you guys did pretty badly trying to hide your intentions. but i still think it was great you did what you did... thanks loads.

and so i'm 22 now. i'm soooo getting old.

such is another day in... the diary of chris

Damn Damn Damn Damn DAMN!!!!

Grr... this sem is soooo not going well... just got my tutorial allocation results. and they ARE NOT nice. ok, it's not that i gotten rotten slots (that i can MAYBE) live with. but i only got allocated slots for 2 out of 5 modules... damn damn damn damn.... and whatever slots are left aren't that fantastic. trust me, you DON'T wanna know...

Screw balloting....

Philosophy Man...

haha. well. things have been pretty ok for me. really. i'm serious. and i've had one of the best lectures (this is going to be one FUN sem)... on the subject of... yes, you guessed it - PHILOSOPHY (*ding ding ding* "give that man a prize!")...

so anyway, yes. after today's lecture i have been trying desperately to withold asking (somewhat) stupid questions. because it will:

1. lead to everyone getting irritated with me and that would lead to...
2. get myself killed (just like that idiot Socrates)

but it just opens up SOOOO MANY interesting questions!!! and you can't help but want to ask (at the risk of getting on others' nerves of course). this is going to be one fun module...

such is a day in... the diary of chris

SC1101E and then some... PS1101E actually...

right. so today was back-to-back lectures in LT 11. Soci and Political Science. so first up, Sociology...

so what did i learn from Sociology? that there are lots of different guys (like Marx and Parsons)... who have different views (only slightly) about Structural-Functional Theory (i can't believe i'm actually revising online. WTH). some i'm wondering... why am i studying this? apparently cos SC1101 is supposed to be interesting. Let's say i'll let you guys know what it's like at the end of the sem. there's stuff about Marx and some crazy stuff in the readings about Freud. but say what you like and if you think Sociology is common sense (it partially is), sometimes the obvious things (the ones that seemingly come so naturally) are the hardest to explain because we take for granted that they're so... self explanatory.

Political Science...

well. i'd have to say political science does have it's interesting aspects. power, legitimacy and authority? there's a thought... how one leads to the next. it's something to think about (then again isn't everything worth thinking about). and that without one the other cannot exist (properly anyway).

so that was my day (in school sense at least).

such is a day... in the diary of chris

Philosophy 1101E...

so. PH1101E. 4-6 pm LT11. what have i learned in my first lecture?

1. Plato is an idiot (only someone so stupid could use his teacher Socrates as a cover of ambiguity. then again, maybe that isn't such a stupid idea... but what the hell, Plato's an idiot anyway)

2. Socrates just doesn't know when to quit. when you go around picking arguments with people just to prove to them that they're wrong... well, it's not the smartest thing to do (for a man who was apparently supposed to be extremely wise). no wonder the segment was titled - "how not to make friends AND get yourself an execution"

3. Plato and Socrates don't know the meaning of simple language. the 2 idiots go round and round, harping on the same points, and finally drawing NO conclusion whatsoever. brilliant. and they use big words too (just to sound impressive. not to mention confuse people)

4. all this stupidy makes philosophy an interesting module to take.

such is a day in... the diary of chris

And awaaaaay we go...

right. 2005. and i start school on monday. (and everyone out there is wondering like "WHAT?! didn't school start LAST Monday?!"). well, it's different in NUS (and they say SMU is supposed to be the DIFFERENT University. but not in this way right? the other way of being different is being EXTRA...bwahahahaha. *ahem*. but i digress. back to the topic)

so anyway, yes school starts for me on monday (you can stop giving me those 'you lucky bastard - you got an extra week off' looks ok?). and prior to this i admit it has NOT been a fun week. and before everyone protests... CURSES BE UPON THE NUS BIDDING SYSTEM!!!! CURSES!!!!

yes. i had to bid for my modules. ALL 5 OF THEM. so what's the big deal some say? well, i managed to get 4 pretty easily (thanks to 'protection'. bwahahahaha). but the 5th one was a bit of a problem. didn't get it till YESTERDAY.... everything else i wanted to take was either:

1. too EXPENSIVE (we use allocated credit ok? must plan ahead for future semesters)
2. doesn't fit my daily timetable (clashing lectures or worse - back to back lectures)
3. clashing exam dates (yes, we know our exam dates in advance... whoopee *sounds deflated*)

so i was panicking for a greater part of the week cos i couldn't get my last module. but now i have it. and it's MINE i tell you... ALL MINE!!!!!! bwahahahahaha... *ahem* and the best part is it only cost me 1 point.... true i never expected i'd take MKT1003 (principles of marketing), but better than nothing i suppose. could be worse. like *gasp* evolution of a global city-state *shudders*

so right. school on monday. and my only class is from 4-6. brilliant. should i just skip? (there's webcast after all...*cue groans and curses from readers*) no. i shall be a good boy *cue halo and music* and go for class even if it's for 2 bloody hours of nonsense (hey, it's PHILOSOPHY. it doesn't HAVE TO make sense) *grumble grumble*

such is the day in... the diary of chris

Life (or something like it)... the diary of Chris

hey. for all out there who wondered what happened to 'Adventures of the Writer formerly known as Chris'... let's just say it's out of circulation (I DID tell you i was shutting it down). so anyway, here's the new one - Life (or something like it) - the diary of chris. enjoy the ride...