stolen colours

So it’s Saturday morning. Shoot me.
From fridayfive:

1. What do you most want to be remembered for?
Who I am.

2. What quotation best fits your outlook on life?
Everything will work itself out somehow. Or simplicity is beauty.

3. What single achievement are you most proud of in the past year?
*grimace* This sounds like an application essay. I haven’t made any achievements this year.

4. What about the past ten years?
Being part of the Raffles Ringers.

5. If you were asked to give a child a single piece of advice to guide them through life, what would you say?
Time will keep flowing. There’s always a path you can take, even when you think it’s all hopeless.

The notion of culling cats just because they can spread viruses is totally riduculous, especially pertaining to the SARS virus. Grr.

1. The SARS virus didn’t originate in Singapore. The only way cats can be found carrying the virus is if humans returning from China spread it to them. Who’s at fault, then???

2. So what if viruses can be spread from cats to humans to pigs to goats to birds to ? Is that any reason to get rid of them? You don’t see the cats raging at humans, do you? Why is there such discrimination? Aren’t we all living beings on this planet? Stupid pigheaded humans. (The term ‘pigheaded’ is another example of animal discrimination.)

3. Some viruses themselves aren’t deadly. It’s the immune response that nearly kills humans. So humans should go blame their immune system and not cats/pigs/chickens/cows. Hmpf.

Went relief teaching today after not having gone for ages! The timetable for today was rather relaxing, too. I took over the classes of my sister’s pri 6 teacher; one class is this extremely mischievous pri 6 class whom I took before. I like them lots because they are so full of life! And today the girls actually came up to me after the lesson to chat a bit – “are you a trainee?” etc. I think I could never be a teacher, not for primary school, at least. I don’t like the idea of discipline. It’s necessary, but it’s confining and I don’t like it. The teacher (her name is Sally) is a big fan of F4. You know how people like to put up photos in their work areas? There were 2 photos of herself and her fiance. And about 7 of F4, plus some fanclub Jerry Yan badge. Thankfully I brought along books to read and webpage content to do, so I didn’t have to spend all my time staring at them.

You’re a Kick-Ass Fairy!
**What kind of Fairy are you?** from Quizilla

Robin McKinley is wonderful. I’ve read 3 of her books in the past 4 days and I couldn’t put each one down till I’d finished it ^^;; Ah. I love retold fairy tales. Her heroines are all somewhat similar, though – intelligent, feisty women, conventionally unpretty, and with a penchant for large horses.

Went to Marine Parade Library today (but shu! didn’t see you!) and got Elizabeth Lynn’s Watchtower as well. I don’t quite like the PocketPC for reading ebooks. The direction buttons are too sensitive, which result in me skipping forward a few pages half the time whenever I just want to page down. My father refused to get the authentic screen protector, so now I’m stuck with a $10-for-three lousy specimem with air bubbles.

I find myself shuttling between the library, driving school and my tuition students’ homes nowadays. Utterly boring >.Time and Tide last night?

I wonder how rojak and shmeen can be so prolific with their blogging entries. Or maybe my life is just boring. Oh well.

My father’s decided to get a Mercedes C Class instead of the Hyundai Sonata. NONONONONONONO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I need a layout change. Suggestions?

Was reading shmeen’s entry on siblings (and she thinks she needs to diet! good grief! and weijia is eating enough for hibernation!) and I really wonder why her elder siblings like younger siblings. I’m the eldest, and I wish my younger sister didn’t exist. I don’t think I could ever be playing video games with her. She’s in sec one and so MAINSTREAM and so utterly spoilt >nice now, always helping me with computer stuff when I need it e.g. helping me to set up my PocketPC when I’m not at home, helping me to burn CDs if my CD-RW isn’t working properly etc… all very polite. (*pauses* I’m actually praising a student of The Brother School. ) I don’t have much to say to him, except for answering the occasional homework question. (I haven’t lost my touch! yippee!) It’s just that he’s in sec 4 now, which is roughly my present ‘age’ since I don’t think I changed very much in JC – so the biological age gap of 3 years is actually less than the mental age gap, if you discount the fact that females generally mature earlier than males. I know him even less than I know some of my classmates. I just wish he’d be a brother again, instead of ‘the second child in the family’.

From grey’s blog: they say that at 18, one’s character is complete. finished. i think that means set in stone. at 18, we become too old to change. we are too set in our ways.
this is a little sad. i hate to think that i’ve finished all the character-building that is to be done, and that i’ve already developed immutable opinions. i’ll keep my severe double-standards and my political views. i’m afraid i’ll think the same way at 18 and 80. (btw it’s a beautiful entry, go read it in its entirety)

When someone’s character changes, is there really a change? Or does the following happen?

1. There’s a change in the balance between the different facets of his character. Kinda like a natural toggling of the bars of the equaliser in Winamp.

2. The person chooses to display a different side of himself that he hadn’t before, for various reasons. Like having the capacity to be ruthless, as opposed to really becoming ruthless.

Not much difference between the two, but the second one is more…deliberate? And I think it’s what I’ve been doing in the recent past. (no, not becoming ruthless)

I think that our characters are set pretty early on. (okay, maybe not always at 18.) If we do appear to change, it’s just either of the above scenarios.

Actions and viewpoints are NOT synonymous with character, are they? You could have a rock star living a really decadent, extravagant lifestyle when he’s in his twenties, but who settles down with one woman and makes use of his influence to aid humanitarian causes later on in life. Is there really a change? Or does he feel the urge to make his presence felt and his voice heard, both times?

Man. What is character, actually?

Well, so I’ve gotten past the “TCP/IP not installed” problem. Now I’m facing the “TCP Error: not enough memory” error. Ach. Why can’t I just use my brainwaves and synchronise them with data on the Internet?

You are the mystery woman

Which Ultimate Beautiful Woman are You? from Quizilla

You are a wolf. Kind of a loner at times. People tend to be afraid of you, which makes you think the world’s against you. It’s not. All you need is some quality time in a social groups every once and a while.
What’s your inner animal? from Quizilla

Am taking a break from reinstalling stuff. I went to Neil Gaiman’s blog and clicked on a link to the nominations for the Mythopoeic Awards. Ted Chiang’s Stories of Your Life and Others is in the running!!!!!!!! I love that book! You must go read it; readily available in the National Library.

After an agonising two days. There’s still lots to be done, though. I have all my programmes to reload >
You’re the smirk,a frown-smile hybrid that’s a little bit cocky and usually associated with evil or arrogant,but attractive people.You probably just don’t give a damn,but it’s everyone else’s fault if you don’t because you’re too awesome to have any real faults.

What Kind of Smile are You? from Quizilla

Am now ghosting my hard disk, so I can’t do anything with my computer. Ah. The bliss of having 5 computers at home – one each for my siblings and myself, and two for my dad.

friday five
1. What brand of toothpaste do you use?
Colgate. I use a mix of the normal one and the whitening one.

2. What brand of toilet paper do you prefer?
I don’t really know.

3. What brand(s) of shoes do you wear?
Nike! Only Nike! And Bata socks. I want to own Hush Puppies someday, but they are really expensive.

4. What brand of soda do you drink?
Uhm. Anything with a ‘Lite’ or ‘Diet’ in it ^^; Diet 7-Up is sweeter than the rest, but you can only find it at Cold Storage and some of the larger branches of NTUC etc.

5. What brand of gum do you chew?
I do not.

Quizzes from shmeen’s blog:

Sheesh, another fangirl. Well, I dont blame you. How can any woman resist a sexy body, and the ruggedness that is Wolverine? Hes a loner by nature, a heavy drinker, and is plagued by memories of his past…or lack thereof. It may take time to work your way into his heart, but
when you do, he’ll do anything for his woman. Just be careful, he has a tendency to stab people in his sleep. ^_^;;

Who Is Your Ideal X-Men 2 Mate? (ladies only) from Quizilla

nuriko

Sarcastic Fushigi Yuugi character selector from Quizilla