Ssb

Addicted to ssb

But that's ok because that's a pretty cool way for 2 gaymers to spend their time together <3

War

More quotes on the great war;

‘Why, they’ve only just quit over in Turkey,’ said Abe. ‘And in Morocco—‘‘That’s different. This western-front business couldn’t be done again, not for a long time. The young men think they could do it but they couldn’t. They could fight the first Marne again but not this. This took religion and years of plenty and tremendous sureties and the exact relation that existed between the classes. The Russians and Italians weren’t any good on this front. You had to have a whole-souled sentimental equipment going back further than you could remember. You had to remember Christmas, and postcards of the Crown Prince and his fiancée, and little cafés in Valence and beer gardens in Unter den Linden and weddings at the mairie, and going to the Derby, and your grandfather’s whiskers.’‘General Grant invented this kind of battle at Petersburg in sixtyfive.’‘No, he didn’t—he just invented mass butchery. This kind of battle was invented by Lewis Carroll and Jules Verne and whoever wrote Undine, and country deacons bowling and marraines in Marseilles and girls seduced in the back lanes of Wurtemburg and Westphalia. Why, this was a love battle—there was a century of middle-class love spent here. This was the last love battle.’

-F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night Chapter XIII, page 85

Work

1 week down and I've almost seen everything!

I'm happy and blessed to have such an awesome and supportive team! They make work a lot more pleasant than it could be :)

CS:GO

i have a new man crush named sean gares

Farewell

Had hwa ro today with friends!

A lot of people are moving away to different places:

Eileen going to Sydney,

Ka-Seng going to San Francisco

Emma going (back) to Taipei, and

Tricia going (back again) to Tokyo!

We surely are growing up and going places but when I was young I had never imagined that this would be such a common thing !

As Eileen said, 'good luck to everyone' and I wish everyone the best on all their journeys!

July 1914

- Alston, the weekend west aug 9-10, 2014

Quote

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.

- Churchill

100

It's been 100 years since the Great War started.

And we are still trying to figure shit out from that time

Good

Even good intentions can have bad consequences

Imagination

The grand Budapest hotel is an amazing film! 

Amazing sound track!

Legend

Separation anxiety :O

Only a fool would believe in legends

Yet legends exist because you believe in them

Berlin

GG 50,000 refugees per day entering Berlin.

Not including corpses such as children who had frozen to death

#reasonswhywarisstupid

Wiki

Got lost in Wikipedia again.

There goes my sleep!

Democracy

Riley also notes that in contrast, fascists denounced liberal democracy for not being a true democracy but in fact being un-democratic because from the fascist perspective, elections and parliaments are unable to represent the interests of the nation because it lumps together individuals who have little in common into geographical districts to vote for an array of parties to represent them that results in little unanimity in terms of interests, projects, or intentions, and that liberal democracy's multi-party elections merely serve as a means to legitimize elite rule without addressing the interests of the general will of the nation.

WFC

7 years of knowing these fabulous boys!

Coolest guys ever! Except when they're taking the piss :(

Envelopes

Places that sell gift cards without accompanying envelopes shouldn't sell gift cards!

The fact that it's a gift card is bad enough they can't even provide a nice way to present it :(

Relay

Relay for life was on Saturday!

I had awesome fun for the time was there & I'm super proud of my team for the effort they put in!

My foot still hurting though! But it was worth it!

My bracelet (halfway in, I managed to get more beads later on!)

edit: fucked up the publish, this is 2 weeks old.

Humankind

Is your outlook for the next 50 years of humankind a positive or negative one? Will the average human still be suffering? Why? 

Croce

All history is 'contemporary history', declared Croce,^ meaning that history consists essentially in seeing the past through the eyes of the present and in the light of its problems, and that the main work of the historian is not to record , but to evaluate; for, if he does not evaluate, how can he know what is worth recording?

^: The context of this celebrated aphorism is as follows: 'The practical requirements which underlie every historical judgement give to all history the character of "contemporary history", because, however remote in time events thus recounted may seem to be, the history in reality refers to present needs and present situations wherein those events vibrate' (B. Croce, History as the Story of Liberty, Engl. transl. 1941, p. 19). 

Nam

Me: 'dad have you ever seen anyone get shot?'

Dad: 'no'

-'not even during the war?'

-'I lived in the city..'

-'oh no shit. Saigon was the last place to fall..'

(Fail sago moments that no one really cares about)

Swanny

Today I drank a brownes light iced coffee

I am now paying for it by sitting on the toilet. 

Literally need to get my shit together

APOLOGIES

i feel like i owe this blog an apology, because it's been with me for so long and it seems like i've neglected it for the last few (probably more) months.

*checks latest post*

wow i posted in january? well before that was september..

so what's been going on in my life since then:

october:
celebrated ness' bday and met SVD whilst she was yacking hahahahahahahha
also bought pokemon x (probably also why i stopped blogging)

nov:
went to thailand again; saw buakaw, trained at a gym there, ran away from cops w thuy LOL
went to STEREO #twodays; survived.

dec:
family went on holiday so i think i just worked a lot. also farewell'd tricia because she's in japan learning how to dj bake. SHE'S GONNA BE BAKEWELL #1 BAKER!
i also remember x-mas eve because my phone was in merv's pocket and he got thrown into a swimming pool

jan:
i think i just ate a lot of food, but that's no different from every other month :|
and i probably just played a lot of games, i'm not too sure, i think my family were still on holiday so i was just working plenty. probably explains the post about wanting to buy someone something (rofl)

feb:
best month so far because this is when chainsmokers - #SELFIE was released
also, i joined GENESIS bentley! yay! (i can do a muscle up on the olympic rings now!)
and then, i saw bruno mars :)

mar:
2nd best month! because after bruno mars, i went to FMF! (FIRST TIME SEEING HARDWELL AND DADA AND ALL THE OTHER GOOD ARTISTS I SAW! BEST DAY EVER!)
also, ma baby boy cousin quang from deutschland came with his parents to visit; my parents ended up buying us tickets to KL to accompany tri for ASOT/FMF ASIA + i made ness+eric come too! we had HEAPS OF FUN! and i ate a lot of food again.
i think that's also when i had my quarter life crisis LOL, because i turned 25 last week :(
since but these last few weeks have been going pretty slow, which is cool, because i'm spending a lot of my time with people i love doing things i enjoy;

like playing on trampolines, eating good food and apparently, we're still partying hard :)

thanks blog, i hope i see you again soon and not like 6 months like this time!

Rules

What do you buy someone who only wants your time?