ambivert: a sunday afternoon
j1 life is so sickening. lectures lectures tutorials tutorials homework homework tests tests exams exams. basically that sums up everything we do. and what's the point of doing all these? so that we get a good foundation for our future careers and stuff. not being too pessimistic, but i still have to say, Le Sux (ernest's awesome tagline).
anyway, here's something that has been bothering me whenever i have nothing important to think about. its pretty pointless-philosophy, but nonetheless it keeps you sound as an intelligent human. its about the present.
we always think that we're living in the present, but the moment of present is so infinitely short-lived and non-existent that it seems that its not the present anytime. what does that mean? for example, you are now reading THIS WORD. but a fleeting instant later you realise that the "present moment" you spent reading "THIS WORD" is gone. it just went into the past.
we've all been experiencing this transition infinitely since birth. looking at the big picture, you realise that life is just something of your memory, and the present moment is just an illusion. and then there comes unanswerable questions, like "if the present moment is infitely short and non-existent, why are we here at 16/17 years of age instead of 70 years of age?" and "are we real at all, because when the "me" of the last moment disappeared into the past, he ceased to exist and got replaced by "me" of this present moment. and soon the "present me" will cease to exist too."
these questions make no sense, because they arent questions at all. for questions to exist, there must be a way to answer them. but the only answer that you can find is "its just liddat lah."
i dont understand what im bothered about too. so at the end of the day i get bothered about something that... is not anything at all.
[end of nonsensical part]
here's an interesting (but hideously unfortunate) article brought to my attention by my mom.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/cpress/20070120/
ca_pr_on_od/oddity_cellphone_lightning
Malaysian student killed by lightning while using cellphone
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) - A Malaysian student was killed by lightning as she answered her cellphone in Malaysia's Borneo island state Sarawak, a news report said Saturday.
Chai Ming Hui, 23, was taking refuge under an umbrella with two others when her phone rang during a thunderstorm Thursday, the New Straits Times newspaper reported. She answered it and was struck by lightning, causing severe burns, the paper added.
She died minutes later after being taken to the main hospital in Kuching, Sarawak's state capital, the report said.
Her friends were only slightly hurt, it said.
Officials at the Sarawak Hospital were not immediately available for comment.
... and i thought i was suay enough. she was sharing the umbrella with TWO friends, and the lightning hit her so accurately that both of them were only slightly injured. can you get any more suay than that? she died just because she used a handphone.
monsoon season these few days. so people, never answer your phones when its raining. dont even sms. you might just be the next suay person.
PS: dota players might think of it as thundergod's wrath. get linken le la.
anyway, here's something that has been bothering me whenever i have nothing important to think about. its pretty pointless-philosophy, but nonetheless it keeps you sound as an intelligent human. its about the present.
we always think that we're living in the present, but the moment of present is so infinitely short-lived and non-existent that it seems that its not the present anytime. what does that mean? for example, you are now reading THIS WORD. but a fleeting instant later you realise that the "present moment" you spent reading "THIS WORD" is gone. it just went into the past.
we've all been experiencing this transition infinitely since birth. looking at the big picture, you realise that life is just something of your memory, and the present moment is just an illusion. and then there comes unanswerable questions, like "if the present moment is infitely short and non-existent, why are we here at 16/17 years of age instead of 70 years of age?" and "are we real at all, because when the "me" of the last moment disappeared into the past, he ceased to exist and got replaced by "me" of this present moment. and soon the "present me" will cease to exist too."
these questions make no sense, because they arent questions at all. for questions to exist, there must be a way to answer them. but the only answer that you can find is "its just liddat lah."
i dont understand what im bothered about too. so at the end of the day i get bothered about something that... is not anything at all.
[end of nonsensical part]
here's an interesting (but hideously unfortunate) article brought to my attention by my mom.
***
http://news.yahoo.com/s/cpress/20070120/
ca_pr_on_od/oddity_cellphone_lightning
Malaysian student killed by lightning while using cellphone
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) - A Malaysian student was killed by lightning as she answered her cellphone in Malaysia's Borneo island state Sarawak, a news report said Saturday.
Chai Ming Hui, 23, was taking refuge under an umbrella with two others when her phone rang during a thunderstorm Thursday, the New Straits Times newspaper reported. She answered it and was struck by lightning, causing severe burns, the paper added.
She died minutes later after being taken to the main hospital in Kuching, Sarawak's state capital, the report said.
Her friends were only slightly hurt, it said.
Officials at the Sarawak Hospital were not immediately available for comment.
***
... and i thought i was suay enough. she was sharing the umbrella with TWO friends, and the lightning hit her so accurately that both of them were only slightly injured. can you get any more suay than that? she died just because she used a handphone.
monsoon season these few days. so people, never answer your phones when its raining. dont even sms. you might just be the next suay person.
PS: dota players might think of it as thundergod's wrath. get linken le la.
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