TLBR (Too Long But Read)

Richard, this is not me going at you but do hear me out, as I have heard your cries (I cant find a suitable word for replacing the word “cries”, but please read that last sentence as positively as you can)

With all due respect…

Smoking is bad, but it is not evil. Well maybe a little bit if you think it as contributing to global warming. The smoke one inhales hazes ones perception of reality. You can say it’s pure escapism with no benefits at all. But sometimes when reality dawns at one like an oncoming wrecking ball, id say let them have their puff and get away…even just for awhile. I have nothing against smokers who understand and then accept the consequences down the line when they DO get hit by that wrecking ball. But when it does, don’t come crying. They knew what they were going for when they press their lips against that stick.

Yes, smokers are wusses if you follow my escapism theory, but its not for a non-smoker to tell them that.

Alcohol has the same effects (to some great degree) as smoking. But unlike smoking, its effects can be purged with time. It however, does not apply to those constantly under the effects of it. Ice cold milk is a different ball game altogether.

I enjoy being single, hence I was single for sometime even when I had the chance of depriving myself from that state.
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This is what I just told my mom over the phone a few minutes ago…

“mom, I don’t like what im studying”. Different people have different parents. What they tell their parents, is again up to themselves.

Somehow I can quite tie together your junk food habits with smoking habits…

Richard, this is what a lot of us have been telling you for a long time. when/if people give you shit, its not even worth your shit to be tossed back at them. not unless youre feeling scorpio-ish. But you should really heed this common saying,

“if you mess with the bull, you get the horns”

And I again quote,
“the only thing mankind has learnt from history; is that mankind doesn’t learn from history”.

Ice skating and clubbing are two completely different types of sports, but they do share common traits. Sweating for example… I had this song in my mp3 for ages, but it was only till yesterday had I learnt what the singer had been trying to say,

“im a raver not a fucking drug addict”
Clubbing doesn’t mean just drinking, or just trying to be “immoral”. There’s a whole lot more to the loud music, booze and “immoral” people. I’ve learnt more about local culture from clubbing than almost any other social outing. Clubbing with your best mates also promote bonding. Of course there are other ways of gaining the abovementioned benefits, that’s why I only do so far as to “push” you to club with me, but nothing more. (like sedate you and bring into into a club and tell bouncers not to let you out)

Of course there are inherent dangers as to going clubbing. Like you said, beware of the sluts on the dance floor. I must admit, there are some, but you are gravely mistaken if you automatically assume that all who dance in a club are sluts and whores. And you know why I say that, because Elise is neither the said types. If you disagree, that’s just you being a bigot.

Cheese and Whine sessions exist for a reason. Some of the function of friends like “hearing me out” cuts into that realm, but it is not entirely IT. If you have had enough of the French Paradox, just say “enough”. If your friend is true, they will stop as well, and then stay true.

God exists. But only in the minds of people. I know why I suffer, but its not God’s fault.

Annoying friends don’t listen to advice; they want you to be there when they make a mistake, not so you can /point and /lol, but so you can pick them up. Unless you’re their mother, don’t do it more than twice. It gets really annoying for yourself.

There is too much stigmatism attached to your typical anime shows. Such as the commonly seen oversized boobs, unnaturally cute characters and to a certain extent badly written dialogue/script; if one can see past that (which sadly I cant completely) animes are alright. Also, there is too much negative connotations and stereotypical views towards people who watch anime, let me give you a few –a) oversized, overweight and extremely obese people who eat chips off their chests, b)sex maniacs that can quite get the buzz watching normal people with their normal boobs on normal television or c) pure bred Chinese who talk, walk, act, shit and piss like anime characters because they wished they were born Japanese.

You Richard, are none of the above. But sometimes the shows you are watching reminds me (us?) of the above said. It’s quite a worrying thought to be honest.

About horror films, I still think you’re a pansy :P

Halo 3 R0xx0Rz j00 m0u53 n k3yb04rDz. I can tell you a million things where Halo has got it right, and a million more where Halo has got it wrong. But make no mistake, the no mouse policy is a “right” decision. If you want to play to “boom headshot” everyone, and if you play with only the word “win” in your mind, stick to your mouse and keyboard and pwn nubs in counter strike. Halo splitscreen, is beyond that; Halo splitscreen, is all about “playing together”, and the moust/keyboard just takes all the fun away.

Sadly, some girls are not blessed with “natural beauty”. Making-up, I see is a tool to measure how much one cares about their image. Not in a vain sense however, if a girl lacks the color, some powder maybe some eye liner enhances their looks and makes up what nature has deliberately or unintentionally deprived them of.

Girls who put on make up so thick, to stop bullets in their tracks again are a different breed on human beings.

Perfume has the same functions. Im not embarrassed to say that I use deodorant, because 99 out of 100 people would prefer my deodorant smell to my sweaty underarms smell. Some girls, HAVE that smell, and im not kidding. They shouldn’t be ashamed of it, but they shouldn’t not-do anything about it either. It turns people off.

As for the rest of your post,

“Growing old is inevitable; Growing up is a choice”.
With that I mean I whole heartedly agree with you.

The Mind Of Mann

okay, so i posted up a picture of me clad in a heavy waterproof jacket, a humoungous camping back pack, a black beanie cast against a background of verdant green with the suns rays barely penetrating the canopy above, what added to the twist was that i had an almost done with cigarette between my lips.

i left this picture overnight in friendster and in MSN and the next day i wake up to a barrage of questions like "do you smoke?" or "omg! i didnt know you smoke!" and even a well-typed "im very dissapointed" text message from some of my family members.

o.O"

it was just a cigarette...

so i picked this picture to represent me at this time of year, as it best reflects my mood right now, and i get a whole lot of messages dishing me because i added a fag to paint my mood picture.

what about my other literary works? death, blood, plague, pain, suffering, hell, brimstone and ashes... are just a few of the other very sinister words used. i chose to use those words not because they sound cool; it is because they represented me at that time. so those words dont mean a thing to you?

why dont you ask me questions like "are you okay?" or "what does that poem mean? you sound disturbed" or anything along those lines, everytime the words "death" appear in my writings... but i get dished so badly by my peers and worst my family because of one picture. i guess the saying is true, a picture speaks a thousand words. no matter how hard i try to write my feelings with words, i wouldve needed a thousand words where what i needed to do, is simply post a picture of my bleeding hand, or a mangled face on the net to get my message across-that I, Am, Suffering from Life.

to be frank and very honest, i was damned happy i had that one cigarette (which i nicked from Rick after he was nearly done with it).

for me, the torments that emancipates from within the mind are far more devastating than what a single cigarrette could ever dream of doing, that is if, its function in the world is to kill off any one person who smoked any one cigarette.

seriously. hei.

next time you see a bad picture of me, this goes to all of you, just stop and think...
"...just WHAT are you insinuating"

When She Passes, Each One She Passes...

...Goes - ahhhhh

Rapture

I thought that word was a random word for a random city from a random game.
so anyway, recently i got to get experience this random game - Bioshock, and boy i must say, this game pwns face so hard...your face gets pwnted, like "pwn!" kinda pwn. or "boom! headshot!" kinda pwn. you get the picture...

aside from the stunning graphics, physics, sounds, presentation and storyline, what really got me were its ties to the real world. and what word to better describe this "realism?"

-disturbing.

the quotes, voice recordings in this game, were hardly the standards of a "game". they were works of art.

along the lines of Shakespear and the lot... no srsly.

so there was this quote that i found most resonance with...

"In the end, what matters most to me, is me; what matters most to you, is you. it is the nature of things."

-Andrew Ryan of Rapture

Silent Requiem for the Dead

To Better...

"My, what big hands you have."
"To better hold you firm by my side"

"My, what big ears you have!"
"to better hear your heartbeat as you lay next to me"

"what big eyes you have!"
"to better see your incandecent glow"

"what a big nose you have!"
"to better smell the radiance resonating from your hair"

"My, what big lips you have"
"so your lips can easier find home"

"What big teeth you have!"
"to better chew and eat you whole...

...so that we are one"

Battle of the Ego

If you want the sun to rise from the East and set in the West, then that’s great! It’s bloody awesome when THE celestial body works in the way you want it to; But, what about the people who wants it otherwise? One can’t just “make” the sun spin the other direction, especially not when it has been doing what it is doing now for the past few millennia. Regardless of what the sun had been doing or has been, it will not change its course just because someone willed it to be. Many holy scriptures and writing all prophesized that when the sun goes the other way round, (or us going the other way round) it is a sure sign of our apocalypse.

So then, with that image now in hand, we size down its scale, to mere human proportions. Can someone change its personality, way, beliefs, ego and so forth, by just, simply “willing” it?

The answer is - obviously not.

The human mind, grows through nurture, there is no doubt about that, but before nurture could even enroot itself in a human being, nature was there all along, since the very beginnings of that person’s life.

Of course, the word “nature” is a very intangible thing, but at the same time its presence is so asserted in us that we forget that it actually even existed. This is the mistake made most by men and women alike- the human species if you like… to exclude my tendency to quantify my language. So, those who are aware of It (nature) will more or less be humbled by Its awesome force. Unless they are egotistical maniacs- which really isn’t an impossibility, because I have known people like that, in fact I was once one such a bastard. But that is not my contention for writing this post.

So nature, it is all around us; it is INSIDE us. So who better knows your nature, than yourself?

(leaving traces of my ego-manic past) – I know MY nature. And it is such. And so it is written…

“I believe that there are certain things in the world that cannot co-exist. The presence of one would mean oblivion to the other.

Let me illustrate my point with two words- “Blood type”.
Of course there are exceptions to which blood receives and which blood accepts, but the mere fact that there are exceptions to which combination, clearly demonstrates my theory.

So if two things are not compatible, they are just what they are. No matter how much you believe it, no matter how much you will it, no matter how much you WANT it,

…Some things just don’t sway your way…”

I have learnt that fact long ago. It's High time you realize the same.