GentlyWeeping

A day in the Life


LSD!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Went to watch the Singapore-Lebanon world cup qualifier on Wednesday, pretty cool match I must say. Not watched a live match since the 2005 Singapore cup final and was starting forget the whole atmosphere and thrill from watching two teams battling out in front of me.

Singapore foorball has to be a very adequate expression of Singaporean culture I must say, what is Singaporean culture then (can it even be defined)probably not but i would like to say that what you see in Football matches probably reflects some elements of our culture.
Example, the fact that we can never be satisfied. we were up 2 goals and yet we were complaining, i was no exception of course. 2 goals where got enough? watching bloody Khairu Amri strolling in an offside position was super frustrating. This probably reflects our whole competitive, cut throat culture we have here, nothing is ever enough, always need to get the best and latest of everything. Of course I am generalising but I would like to suggest that one cannot deny this element of our culture.
The fact that we openly curse and swear at the players during the matches probably also reflects this whole opressive atmosphere we are in, we always seem constrained in our ability to speak our mind. Usually this happens in the whole concept of respect, and the whole frustration of it all seems to express itself during football matches where we are somewhat free from authoritative structures.
OF course one may say that I am probably reading too much into everything, but since whatever we do is guided by our cultural environment i would think its a pretty adequate argument

Was queueing up to pay for this loaf of bread at 7 eleven just now.
And do you know that whole stack of condoms at the cashier which noone ever seems to buy...
Have you ever wondered how people actually buy those stuff, let me enlighten you.
Well as you know i was queueing to pay for my bread, minding my own business, when all a sudden the guy in front just reached over to that whole stack of you know what, and quickly handed it over to the cashier. It was damn fast, over in a flash, like a snake striking at some unlucky ku ku.
I was like, did i just see what i just saw, haha and just as quickly it went into the hands of the cashier, upon return it went straight into his pocket in under a second.
Of course i was like wth man, but i exercised audience tact and tried to give the most stoned face i could muster.
But wth, whats wrong with buying condoms that you need to do it so quickly and discretely like its some thing you can;t be caught with.
Personally i don't agree with the use of such contraceptives but i'm like good for you man, at least you are responsible and safe don;t need to be so paiseh lah

Feeling really crappy these few days, totally lost all motivation to do anything remotely related to school. I blame it on all those damn post modernist thinkers and their damn relativist theories, influencing my mind with all that relatiist crap, waking me up from seemingly blissful ignorant life.

HA was reading the news again seems like the perenial ku ku chiao of singapore got himself arrested again. I dunno wat the hell is he trying to prove, that he is some hero, trying to model/pass himself as some freedom fighter.? Come on man, i know u can probably get some sympathisers from some hypocrytical western democratic koos koos but can u please wake up ur idea, this is singapore, who the fuck hell cares whether u march or protest or sell ur newspaper, all they care as long they got some food on the table and nobody go disturb them the government still ok la passable. Pls go do something constructive for once like take care of ur children and find some better way to change society rather than keep getting ur ass thrown in jail or made bankrupt which really serves no purpose at all......

like i said feeling crappy

Another 203 tutorial, getting a little worried about the whole tutorial thing. Yes i guess you could say there is no right answer in sociology, but the fact that we, a class of relative newbies to sociology were running the tutorial without a guide was rather worrying. I mean what if our theories though they may sound possible and logical are in fact just spurious assumptions made by us. Furthermore the whole thing about how the Maghibri and Genoese did their business was also i guess really besides the main point we were supposed to be discussing, which was basically how cultural beliefs could lead to different forms of social organisation.
I think even my theory on hindsight looks rather doubtful cause for one is too simplistic, and needs probably someone to like check it out. Cause premodern societies also had formal institutions, Jewish laws for one. Well there is a case that may support my point namely that any community can never be entirely Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft, but i think its just too simple to say something like that.
Homo Economicus manifests oneself within the constraints of that one individual's culture. Yet consideration has to be made for the possibility of the individual being deviant and not following his cultural norm.