kony 2012

i watched the first 2 minutes of the video and then proceeded to click on random parts of the video to try to get a rough jist of what it was all about. basically, its just another awareness video by a group called the invisible children (am i right? i don't know, i can't be bothered to go search). they want to make someone famous because he has abducted children and forced them to kill their own family members


i find this video exactly like all the other videos on racism or natural disasters or abuse. they're all the same. someone on earth puts it up, it goes viral, people start talking about it for days and start flaunting their compassion all over the damn place. but the end is always the same, people go back to their lives and never speak of it again. ever heard of false sympathy? you pretend to feel sympathy for others so you look good.

for example, when singaporeans watch videos of whites being racist to the coloured, they get so worked up and angry. then you go home and see them practicing the same thing back in your own country. how many times have you heard complaints of certain smells when they sit next to a bangladeshi worker on the mrt train. or how these people look down on construction workers from china. the irony of it all.

so please, i refuse to listen to anyone ramble on and on about kony 2012 because it is all just false sympathy and they will forget about it in a maximum of 2 weeks.

if you really want to make a change and do something about the issue then you should donate or volunteer. or go to another country where real help is needed- like cambodia

do not just ramble on incessantly about something you honestly do not even care about. it is pointless.

if anyone even wants to make a change in the world, they should start with themselves first

One of the most amazing songs ever
it gets you thinking








dustin kensrue you are another lyrical genius


i had really bad goosebumps especially at the end where charlie chaplin gives his speech



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my greatest fears

1. parent's disappointment
2. failure
3. looks
4. the supernatural

IM BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!
panda is warmly welcoming me back into the land of blogging hahahaha


i am terribly sorry for the lack of updates- i was having my term exams....and i was really stressed up studying for it


but here's what happened this week

1. I LOST 2 KG. HOLY SHIT
2. I went for death cab for cutie's concert
3. my exams ended on the day of the concert and it was AMAZING
4. my mom's coming back in 9 days!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 before i get started on the concert (which is, undoubtedly, the best fucking concert i have ever attended my ENTIRE LIFE)
i have to tell you how i got the tickets anyway.

so on the day i found out death cab was coming to singapore i was telling zhengyong how much i'd die to catch them live
-pardon my fan girl moment-
and i was intended to wake up and get the early bird tickets since they are usually cheaper
and i was just rambling on and on about how much i love them

my death cab fad sorta died down after that cuz ticket sales would only begin after a while i think
so since i already intended to get the tickets on the day itself
i didn't really bother about waking up early to be kiasu and all and grab the first few tickets but ya
so i wanted to sleep in on that morning

but GUESS WHAT??????

so i was sleeping like a log in my room when suddenly i felt this wet thing on my forehead so i decided that i was being rudely awakened by my dog or something but then i pryed open my eyes to see my boyfriend looking down at me waving something at my face. (i had to squint my eyes because i am severely shortsighted, and it didnt occur to me at all to put my spectacles on)

so when it finally occurred to me that it was the concert tickets, like THE concert tickets i was overwhelmed

SO SWEET RIGHT????????????????!!!!!!!!!!!


so ya okay
back to the concert


have i mentioned how AMAZING ben gibbard was?!?!??!

so anyway
i started listening to death cab when i was 13.
the first song i ever heard by them was photobooth
but my favourite song by them is what sarah said
so when i came across the setlist on twitter, i was pretty bummed because what sarah said wasn't on it.... :(


but yeah, i was still looking forward to the whole concert

so the concert started off with ben gibbard (who obviously lost a whole bag of weight), bouncing along to a lack of colour. Which was amazing. The next song was i will possess your heart, if i remember correctly.

Throughout the whole concert, there was this idiotic couple standing right in front of us.

Look, i even took a photo of them



 

there, those 2 idiots right smack in your faces.

Those morons were making out THE ENTIRE NIGHT. NON STOP. they didnt even take a break
Whites......... -______________-

he was grinding her to SOUL MEETS BODY. HAHAHAHAHHAHH
i should have taken a video.....


anyway,

halfway during the concert, after long division (was it? i really can't remember), ben gibbard walks over to the keyboard

i'm like..... no....can it be?????? PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE

THIS AMAZING MELODY STARTS PLAYING AND I FEEL LIKE I JUST HAD A FULL BODY ORGASM.

WHAT....SARAH.....SAID........HOOOOOLLLLYYYYY SHIIIIIITTTTTT (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
SCCCRRREEEEEAAAAAAAAMMMM

everyone was singing to what sarah said
the lyrics are beautiful
ben gibbard is a lyrical genius

so their encore set was pretty fucking amazing..

marching bands of manhatten
transatlanticism
meet me on the equinox
another song which i can't remember, unfortunately

i was screaming throughout the WHOLE CONCERT
and i have a pretty bad sore throat now (my friends can testify to this)

i really wish their merch looked nicer though

but their best songs were what sarah said, marching bands of manhatten, transatlanticism, you are a tourist, in my opinion.

i took a video of what sarah said but it got cut off halfway, some security dude rudely shone some laser onto my dslr... -_-

i was really sad for a little while last year when i found out ben gibbard broke up with zooey deschanel...i was like.....theres no hope left for us mere mortals.......WHO WILL WATCH US DIE?????


but ya these are pictures of the after concert..and me waiting for zhengyong to bathe so i can bathe next. there are some pictures of him with a towel around his neck. hahahah

okay thats all!!!!
what a lengthy post!
i'm off to bed now it is 5.27 in the morning

my mom just left for toronto for 3 weeks to help my auntie out because she has cancer and her husband is disabled. then shes going to go hongkong a few days after she comes back i think. then shes going to go to north korea (i don't know how i don't know why but ya)

-kicks and wails around-
i'm going to throw a huge tantrum simply because i miss my mother :(

i hope she will be safe i will be praying for her everyday

i do not foresee myself surviving this year. i feel myself slowly evolving into some sort of machine (as if everything around me isn't mechanical enough), this metamorphosis does have its perks though

i am constantly trying to channel my tremendous levels of stress into positive work attitudes- they are channeled to outputs of laziness and anger instead. i feel as if i am unable to even vent this raging sea of emotions

i feel like i am confined in an enclosed box, just big enough for my body, and given just a straw to breathe. i am still surviving but i'd rather just give up and die without the straw. no one cares about the stupid straw. let me sleep

i give up so easily