Apples and tomatoes, Brain Meltdown.

MI LYFE ... 14th May. Maybe. Just Be.

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    Greetings you sexy thing. This entry is late i think, and i shld really be doing my chem tutorial... explains why im doing this at all.. :) If u read my previous entry, i asked people who read it to tell me, and one week later, its a grand total of ten people. I don't suppose that's incredibly impressive... but im humongously flattered anyway..
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    Lessee... what's been happening since my last entry. Lots i think. Not much even remotely scandalous (like i would publish that), but stuff like my seminar presentation (on homosexual marriages -scandalous? dats up to you). I had intentions of putting up a summary of it here so that'll follow.... Most recently though, my brain's gone for a shut down. re-haul. renovations? tearing down some walls, adding carpet, hopefully a nifty new skylight... Its still closed up though, and the mess its in.....ahhhhh

    With reference to the past few entries, there's this guy i keep mentioning, whom i cant seem to make up my mind about. Its so daft. Analogy: Saw a luscious-like Red fruit from afar, thinking its an apple, gets tempted (ooh! biblical allusions!). Eventually, like a long long time later, Luscious Red fruit falls, and picking it up, still thinking its an apple, examines it to find out its actually a tomato (so much for lofty-symbolic allusions..). However, for some inexplicable reason, still convinced its an apple, such that when taking a bite and encountering soft jelly centre (as tomatoes are wont to have), comes to the conclusion that the apple is rotten.

I thought that up in the shower just now. :) (note: i don't normally like apples. they get cottony. hate that. horrid feeling in mouth.)
Oh i feel so dead. When i said my brain shut down, i was serious. The past week was full of important deadlines that i happily mucked up, Consecutively. This includes my uni application, this major essay thing, and my all-impt seminar presentation. All in all, 30+% of my english grade, and the course of the rest of my education/career/life. Talk about precarious situations. I can hardly believe i survived, relatively unscathed, and in case u haven't realised, im still woozy, i.e., soft in the head, wonky, etc. etc.. Thank goodness there aren't any more major things happening soon.... Unless you count the exams. In 2 weeks. oh nooooooooo.........

I want to get a tattoo. Would be damn cool. Could take a photo of it and scan it here for all to see. *Kinky*. haha. desiccated thoughts. cut cut slash slash. dried shrivelled drop plop.

I have a new friend. Who's an old friend. Yep. We knew each other in rgs, same class, etc., went out for lunch once, but definitely weren't anything close to being close. Recently, read up on her incredible homepage, and realised she's alot like me. Nice sort of revelation that was... Interesting too is that she says she got her idea for writing an online journal from these weekly things i regurgitate. Warm fuzzy glow inside me now... But this isn't a journal i think...not exactly anyway, it didn't start out as one, seems to be morphing into one though... I still don't know what to call each page. Entry? Update? Page/thingy/the one before the one after this one......(?)

My new friend (her name is Poach btw...no that's not her Real name, but it might as well be, eh poach? :] ), just today, mailed me ideas about web rings... I already have this Goddess web ring thingy on Mangocentral, which doesn't actually work yet, since the ring people (whoever dey are) haven't added my site in. Its in some queue... Heck. I like the idea of a Goddess ring, even though im hard pressed to explain why my site has anything to do with it... Signed my guestbook? you'll remember: "There are only two types of women: Goddesses and Doormats." -Picasso. I like that quote. The webrings i was looking through just now were mostly about writing...online journals/poetry/prose/etc.... And its tempting to join them, 'cept it feels ever so slightly pretentious. Especially the ones about writing. I wouldn't advertise this as anything remotely qualified as prose bar the fact that it doesn't qualify as poetry either and so.... uh . ANyway, the only one i wld join has this rule that you have to update the site at least twice a week. so much for that!

Welp. i went around reading some of the sites in the journal web ring, and they're interesting stuff. Likely, its just voyeurism at its politest, but if well written, its some enjoyable reading. Also, i think, i need to renovate my blinking eye page. Ahhh... oh and if u've noticed a recent lack of graphics on my pages, its a result of a sudden realisation that i've already used up half of my 6MB of webspace, and until i get myself another address for some extra space, im being frugal. However, i thought it might be nice to put in a photo of my class here in sydney. This was taken on a thursday morning, during bio tutorial, and true to the sleep-in effect of rainy mornings, 4 people are missing.

. Im somewhere in the middle, the guy on the far left is Iswar, my pet cow, from India. Rich idiot who knows far too much about biology. cant be good for him. also a fun person to waste time during maths with. Great source of bad jokes, lovely sense of humour. Second from left is Joyce, from Macau, wears nothing but blue...some syndrome... On top is Albert in the red tee, and below him is Bambang in the blue, both from Indonesia, and both quiet, don't know them well. Bambang's now back in Indonesia. Homesickness can be a terrible thing. The other guy on top is Assaf, an Israeli with far far too much hair. Also a free spirit. He's the guy who took off to travel the world without telling his parents. Those of us still stuck in Singapore might have gotten a jolt of claustrophobia... i know i did. Alright. now the 3 cheo babes on the right are the people i hang out with nowadays...all from Indonesia, Yuly (in red), Sari (blue) and Sandy (striped). Three essential people, my omnipresent support group. The pale apparition in the middle is my tutor, Eileen, phD, wrote our textbook, painfully patient, likes our class, obviously disillusioned. :)

So much for that then! Now i'll put up some details from my seminar on homosexual marriages. Bear in mind i picked/chose/came up with the topic, under the umbrella topic of 'cultural values'. Righto. here goes:

HOMOSEXUAL MARRIAGES. -the gist of my seminar presentation.

. Historically: Lots of instances of gay marriages in the past, e.g. Egypt - tombs found that were made for 2 men to 'cohabit'. Drawings on walls of 2 men in close sexual relations. Fun note: apparently these two men shared the title of Head Manicurists in the palace of the King. In China - fujian province, homosexual marriages occurred like conventional marriages, ceremonies et al, even a new word was invented for such unions. you know the 'li' part of the chinese word for male? you replace that with 'nu', the character for female. Too lazy to draw it out, forgive me.

Presently: Gay marriage is legal in many nordic countries. First to legalise it was Denmark (1989), followed by Norway, Greenland, Sweden, Hungary, Iceland, Hawaii and the Netherlands (1998). Most of the laws covering homosexual unions in these countries don't cover adoption rights, etc., and most are only as strong as de facto relationships (domestic partnership laws, etc.). Marriage as a legal union provides tons of benefits, >400 in Hawaii alone. Its an issue of equal rights, discrimination on the basis of gender.

Facts: Studies on children brought up by gay parents indicate no apparent harm/disadvantage/etc. Another fact is that convicted criminals, incl. child molesters, are legally allowed to raise children. This is slightly shonky. So far, the only strong argument against homosexual unions is that of morality. Personal beliefs, religious codes of conduct, etc. However, in unreligious countries (i.e., Not Malaysia, Israel, etc.), the law is separate from the church, and consequently, religious and personal beliefs shldnt affect legal proceedings. E.g, inter-racial marriages in the States were banned on the basis of personal beliefs.

Yup. This is just the slap-dash gist of it... Something to mull over maybe. You might want to note that most gay activists blame homophobia for the argument against equal homosexual rights. That has some truth in it.

Righto. I'll be flying back somewhere between 12/june and end of july. Requests for souvenirs/presents/banned products shld be sent in before the 2nd of June. I have exams. hrm. the force of the fact hasn't quite struck me yet. Slacking slacking... going shopping tomorrow!! Hahahahhahahahaha...

Having a brain in continual 'DND' mode is quite blissful.. i don't have to deal with reality, like. To you reading this, I hope life's treating you good. If u're free, write me something, anything, tell me your thoughts. Vindicate my voyeurism. *grin* Click here, and just keep typing.....
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Links of the week:

@ On Gay Marriage: Gay Marriage: The Arguments and the Motives
Lesbian and Gay Marriage Through History and Culture
@ Poach's Page

@ Very New Homepages: Qiwei's Boredom Breeding Place (otherwise known as Kree)
Darren's..um...nothing much as yet. :)

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