"There's no shame in dying" Said the judge in the tear jerker My Sister's Keeper. This has got to do with our ego, our built in system, and how we’re bought up. And of course, the environment that swallowed us whole. I believe we’re 30% genetically determined, and 70% set by the surroundings. This is because humans are super adaptive, and we are all chameleons in our own rights. The machines which we own, are very powerful. Even we treat it like shit, we don’t exercise, eat junk every day, you can still bet on a 30-40 years of life in them. You see, the bodies we own adapt to however we treat it. Whether we abuse it or love it as much as we love the vices around us, the body never complains. Well, it does, but many of us chose to ignore it. The big belly, the blackish lips, the coughs – they don’t stop a lot of people from binging or smoking their favourite sticks.
We’re abusing our bodies. All of us are. Technology and the collective advancements of the world, have made us take a lot of things for granted, and the way we look at food, for example. The relationship with food has somewhat shifted from being the fundamental need to provide the fuel for the body, to a very sick need to satisfy the inner soul, the ‘cravings’ within. No. It’s not right. I have never reached this size before. and it's painful. I feel disgusted. It's a bad feeling. Inside perhaps im rotting inside. 40 is not acceptable. It's time to change. The healthy way of living awaits. Time to take kontrol of my life and prepare myself to live longer.
I think it’s all about expectations management. Parents. And of course the schools. No. they didn’t prepare the kids for the battlefields out there. The emotional stress. The wicked bosses. The dog eats dog world. The lick the clients’ boots. I think the expectations on parents have changed too. You not only have to feed them well, make sure they mix with the right company, feed them emotionally, inject them with values.. and then the schools are suppose to teach them to be analytical. To learn how to say what is right, what is wrong. But yet to be open enough to listen to new ideas. You might not agree to gay culture, but you, should be a global citizen and try to understand why they do what they do. I think it’s very sad that some of us live in this bubble of ours. This bubble blinds us when we fight to see. The more we try to see, the less we see.
Too many of us are too arrogant, too comfortable with ourselves, our heads are too big. Too ignorant, too irrespective. Too illogical. It’s time to change the world. And like what MJ said – it all starts with the man in the mirror. But we know it’s stupid to try to convert everyone. The economy needs illogical consumers. The schools need lousy students ( aka me ). Companies need to refresh themselves firing weaker links. My mum always says, if everybody is smart, who would sweep the floors ? ( shooting at me ) The world is fair. If given a second chance, don’t you fuck it up.
So what have I been up to. LMF Concert. Got a new digital pen. Got a new lcd. Another 2Gb ram. Wireframes. UX. UI. E-commerce. $30 cab ride. Late night run. An analysis of the game, reset the rules, reposition the pawns, redraw the strategies. It’s the end of the year. Prepare the resolution for 2010, boys and girls. And be prepared to break them. A little visit back to NUS Biz school’s canteen. At the same spot I sat for many weeks, rushing my web projects. And there I was again.
Stay logical. Stay young.
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