| day one of relapse |
[Sep. 7th, 2009|09:48 pm] |
one working day post-your departure i seized your territory; a fresh start but a fitting euphemism. i should be - must be, therefore - able to last another 52 weeks.
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Help me
I think I'm falling
In love with you
Are you going to let me go there by myself
That's such a lonely thing to do
-joni mitchell |
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| psychopathic success |
[Feb. 9th, 2009|02:33 pm] |
In 2005, psychologists Belinda Board and Katarina Fritzon at the University of Surrey, UK, interviewed and gave personality tests to high-level British executives and compared their profiles with those of criminal psychiatric patients at Broadmoor Hospital in the UK. They found that three out of eleven personality disorders were actually more common in managers than in the disturbed criminals:
Histrionic personality disorder: including superficial charm, insincerity, egocentricity and manipulation
Narcissistic personality disorder: including grandiosity, self-focused lack of empathy for others, exploitativeness and independence
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder: including perfectionism, excessive devotion to work, rigidity, stubbornness and dictatorial tendencies
They described the business people as successful psychopaths and the criminals as unsuccessful psychopaths.
again thanks to wikipedia |
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| guilty pleasure #760981 |
[Jan. 19th, 2009|09:57 pm] |
can't help that it's one of my favourite songs, one i belt out in my dreams, or sometimes, shower. |
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| (no subject) |
[Jan. 11th, 2009|12:35 pm] |
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不能只要快樂而不要悲傷，
不能只要豐富而不要缺乏，
不能只要喜悅而不要憤怒；
我拿什麼來換寂寞呢？
-陳昇 |
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| statelessness |
[Jan. 6th, 2009|04:21 pm] |
Statelessness in Brunei
Brunei Darussalam, a country in South East Asia, has many stateless persons domiciled there. An important note is that the number of stateless persons increase every year because Brunei does not believe in jus soli but only jus sanguinis citizenship.[10] This causes serious problems of prejudice and discrimination faced by the parents and their children especially when it comes to immigration affairs whilst traveling. Furthermore, the government of Brunei does not have any process of nationalization. After passive protests by stateless persons (who are permanent residents of Brunei but who hold an International Certificate of Identity passport not recognised by most countries) in the local newspaper, the government responded by allowing stateless persons to become citizens if they sit for a written exam on their language proficiency in Bahasa Melayu (the local language). The test focuses on composition, comprehension, local tradition of the Malay race, local culture and knowledge of the Malay race, traditional Malay poems, the Royal Malay jargan and the names of the persons currently holding high government positions in the government such as ministers. This method of initiation is not without its flaws; many people do not know the language or local Malay culture, especially since many of such stateless persons are of Chinese nationality and because many of these cultures tested on are no longer prominent.
Many who go for this exam take breaks from their work to go for tuition and private study for months just to obtain such knowledge for the exam. Those who do, end up with more local traditional knowledge than most of those people who are granted citizenship naturally by birth. Many people pass this exam but many more others fail and keep on failing after numerous tries. Furthermore, the application process takes years each time. This process has been said to serve no purpose but to deny as many people as the government can from gaining citizenship. Many PR stateless persons feel that such steps by the government are unfavorable and citizenship should be granted to them by right of their birth on Brunei soil. Such practices are in contravention of Article 7 of Convention on the Rights of the Child[11] which Brunei ratified on 26th January 1996.[12] Article 7 states the following:
1. The child shall be registered immediately after birth and shall have the right from birth to a name, the right to acquire a nationality and as far as possible, the right to know and be cared for by his or her parents.
2. States Parties shall ensure the implementation of these rights in accordance with their national law and their obligations under the relevant international instruments in this field, in particular where the child would otherwise be stateless.
illumination on the perplexing subject thanks to wikipedia. how else might one see it other than take it to imply flaws in the law of the land. |
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| (no subject) |
[Dec. 2nd, 2008|11:09 am] |
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You invaded my heart and colonised my soul!
Now you occupy my mind day and night like a foreign army!
poached from Sinfest |
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| (no subject) |
[Jun. 10th, 2008|09:30 pm] |
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a dream, wherein you don't love me anymore. a chance, the price of 4 minutes. a suspicion, a disturbing thought formed on no basis at all. i wonder if i still had the pluck to pack up, leave it all behind, and just go? |
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| possibility of happiness...extended |
[Jun. 4th, 2008|07:46 pm] |
got sick yesterday. both sense of the word. threw up 3 times at least. at work. another once when i got home. kind of amazing how much control one can have on oneself in public. have felt pretty shit on my journey home, especially the part of riding the train with crowds of sickening people, all nasties contained until you hit the one place where you know another second can't wait for you to break all inhibitions and let go, the one place where you know it's safe to do so. have been gravely concerned that co-workers would think that was due to nerves. nerves on meeting my first new client. a student suggested that, who had heard me retch. of course not. if it were that must have been some nerves! it was my lunch. self-cooked and self-packed. i had diarrhoea too. twice. so much for being self-sufficient and packing my own lunch.
i have always thought the word sorry can be often spoken too recklessly, too easily. kind of like it is being said because it seems the right thing to do, what is expected of one by society. not so much as a function of how truly remorseful one is. at best an ad hoc, superficial buffer. i can't say i have completely shifted from that. but more and more i'm starting to embrace the opposite stance that people can be quite stingy when it comes to dispensing said word. not because they are unapologetic. perhaps more because with each expression of the word you admit defeat to its recipient. and with defeat must come losing face. and the unspoken admission (again to the recipient) of the bigger need for you to placate him, hence possibly feeding his ego that he has some sort of dominance over you. nothing to do with one's feelings of apology or regret. but everything to do with the virtual sensation of being stung on the face by conceding to saying sorry (first). at least for me i find it inexcusable to refuse to say sorry to the person i care about, whom i have been made known i have inadvertently upset by my word or action. |
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| don't want another ain't gon' never be another can't nobody do what you do to me |
[May. 23rd, 2008|01:28 pm] |
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seems a rare occasion that i find myself in, an empty space in the relentless transitioning of life, in which i am able again to connect with the primitive-originality of the soul, the mother nature of myself, and all its stipulations. i do not mean by that i have not been living in keeping with whatever i have just earlier described; at least not so much as that i have consciously been living life to the hilt, occupying myself with tasks - activity quite disparate from my habitude, and more tangible thus more understandable, even when half of them could regrettably be labelled as chores - as a result of which rendering myself knackered, and in a sort of warped sense, feeling more legitly fulfilled. tiredness and laziness/dormancy/inactivity have suddenly seemed confusable, the former being overrated by the convenient disguise of the latter; and, really, simply because tiredness can, with every effortful endeavour to be a little more palatable to the collective understanding of the majority world, become even more than what it used to be. going against the grain is tiring, but i suspect having to not go against the grain can be all the more taxing. |
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| chyi yu craze pt. 2 |
[Apr. 3rd, 2008|11:04 pm] |
艺术人生 interview
tracy, you ever seen this?
c'est la vie
飛鳥與魚
this song came alive once again, because of what it might mean/have meant for herself. |
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