Pre-exam Ramblings

Location: The Towers...

aWwwwWWwwwwwwWWWWww!!!!

I'm SO DEAD.

See you on the other side...

*Sigh*

Ramblings...

Location: Mon Lib.

Ok, So I didn't totally crash and burn in the last exam (which was last thurs, PRL paper) but rest assured, I'm so gona fail in these papers in the coming thursday.

Anyways, I think I made a wrong move by bringing up the topic that I actually HAVE a few guy friends in Monash. I don't know what other parents will think but to my parents, apparently when I told them that I knew this Kit guy, who's a friends that's kind enough to teach me French (or so he said, over dinner last Saturday, they got the impression that I'm getting tricked into this huge global syndicate which only target young 20 year old uni students living away from home like me.

I just couldnt get over the fact that until today, they still expect me to ONLY mix with girls... like 5 years of secondary education in a girls' school hadn't scar me enough.

*sigh*

I might as well move in with Maria's nun friends from The Sound of Music. Maybe then they'll be at peace.

well, that about concludes how I spent my time last week. Oh, I left out the part where I watched Scrubs season 1 to season 5 in 2 days, again.

Fun times.

And, I learnt that I might make a wrong move. Now that I finally decided to put my family in the backseat. long story short, I miss Pipi. I actually dreamt of walking him in the morning. Home sweet home.


p/s: I miss Xsocam!! can't seem to connect since yesterday night...
WHY?!!!!!!

Can't Keep MY Eyes Off of You...

Location: SF~

whoa... this like the first time I blog in SF.

anyhoo... my heart just melt with I heard this song.

speaking of which, there's something fishy going on here.

either Haffiz's impaired taste in music has improved tremendously or he's been possessed by some devil with BADDD musical sense all these while...

anyhow, here's the clip. Damien Rice's The Blower's Daughter from the movie Closer...




darn, now I have to start worry about my INT...

Butterfly Effect in real life.

Location: Library.. again.

Hehe.. yup. This means that I haven't started studying... YET.

anyhoo, been intrigued by the whole incarceration theory. The relation to asylums and Foucault. Those are in jail have him to thank for... I'll comment more on it after I've acquired more info on this issue k?

So, here's a Real Life Butterfly Effect.

Chaos theory incarceration

In Colorado, a debate over illegal immigrants has led to the re-emergence of leasing prisoners for work. This is not a good thing.

http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/sasha_abramsky/2007/03/chaos_theory.html


I never knew something so small can lead to such a big repercussion, short term and long term wise.

And so Stalin's legacy lives on...

Location: Library, MU

The condo's connection went down again. *sigh* It poured soooo heavily yesterday, when I looked out from my 12th floor unit, all I saw was blurrrr. totally cannot even see Monash, or the construction site right across the road from my condo.

I was supposed to be studying.. but no surprise here.. I'm so relaxed now while the exam's tomorrow. THIS is not a good sign.. I felt like I barely studied, which is because I rarely studied.

I'm so gona fall flat tomorrow.

Anyways, here's something in the headlines yesterday that caught my eye.

I don't think there's any explaination needed for this. I am just amazed that this news even got out of the country.


KREMLIN RULES

It Isn’t Magic: Putin Opponents Are Made to Vanish From TV

By CLIFFORD J. LEVY

Critics of the government, and of Vladimir V. Putin, have been placed on a roster of individuals barred from TV news and political talk shows.

The topic was about media freedom and this sparked the whole issue...

MOSCOW — On a talk show last fall, a prominent political analyst named Mikhail G. Delyagin had some tart words about Vladimir V. Putin. When the program was later televised, Mr. Delyagin was not.

Not only were his remarks cut — he was also digitally erased from the show, like a disgraced comrade airbrushed from an old Soviet photo. (The technicians may have worked a bit hastily, leaving his disembodied legs in one shot.)


Some memorable quotes

#"Senior government officials deny the existence of a stop list, saying that people hostile to the Kremlin do not appear on TV simply because their views are not newsworthy".#

# "All the major national and regional networks are now owned by the government or its allies. And since the presidential election in March, neither Mr. Putin nor Mr. Medvedev has indicated any interest in loosening the reins.

“Our television is very often criticized,” Mr. Medvedev said in April. “They say it is boring, it is pro-government, it is too oriented towards the positions of state agencies, of those in power.”#

Sounds familiar?

So folks, when you're messing with the Big Boys, prepare to get burnt...