The Pianist - Piano-ing Out
|3:59 AM
Just read the lamest article in the latest Sunday Times today, particularly pages 8-9 of the news section and NO by news I am not referring to the LIFE section.
Well, the article title says it all, “Pianist NS dues – 28 years later”. Its about this pianist M Tan who defaulted on his NS duties 28 years ago, by running off to some part of England and to study at the Royal College Of Music (yaya, its supposed to be damn prestigious). In rough hokkien terms, he “zhao2 lor3” or “ran away” when it was his turn to “serve the nation’.
28 years later (which is this year), he decides to return to our little red dot to see his mother, ‘reconnect with the local music scene’ and judge the biennial National Piano and Violin competition. Naturally, he would be stopped at the customs and served a letter to attend a court hearing on his offences and naturally, serve any punishments that our government has to dish out to him as he still refuses to give up his Singaporean nationality either for pride, honour, glory, patriotism or just plain convenience. This, we will never know. All citizens and in fact many non-citizens who know the tough stance that the government has taken on the conscription policy here and would definitely feel that he “hong4 gan3 liao” (hokkien term for dead meat, although literal translation means sodomisation). But guess what? The term of the punishments is only a BLOODY FINE of SGD$5000! THIS IS PEANUTS to most, if not all social classes here. To our supposedly WORLD FAMOUS PIANIST, this would probably translate to PEANUT SHELLS? or even lower, PHELGEM (from eating too many peanuts). BLOODY LAME! LAME CHICKEN SHIT! (Do note I had to curb a severe temptation to showcase my wonderful Hokkien vocabulary of Famous and Not-So-Famous Vulgarities).
2.5 years was how long we had to serve. (Currently, the conscription term is reduced 2 years). 5000 dollars for 2.5 years of my life, which are not entirely wasted, but not entirely productive either. Even working as a toilet cleaner who earns around 500-700 dollars can pay off that amount in less than 10 months. SERIOUSLY, what the F*** is this man? On one hand, there are people high up there in the political ladder constantly humming the importance of national service, national duties and military defense and here you are letting someone who went AWOL for 28 years to just get off the hook by paying 5k? WHAT the F*** again for those who have to serve detention barracks for going missing for a few hours when in service or for lamer things like repeated offences of smoking in non-yellow boxes and 5k for 28 years? This would also indirectly saying that its OKAY to run off to any other country to escape from this dreaded 2 years of your manly years, provided YOU RUN OFF LONG ENOUGH, don’t let me catch you after anywhere less than 20 years after you have ran off! FUNKY LOGIC ah?
There will definitely be some of you that claim that he is afterall some world renowned pianist with international recognition and has contributed to the Singapore in his own ways. Seriously, as a typical army specialist would say, WAKE UP YER BLOODY IDEA F***ING RECURIT! By making yet another lamer comment like that, it is equivalent to diminishing the contributions of far greater people who have served their term of conscriptions. What constitutes a “good enough” contribution to Singapore so that you are immune from serving the conscription term? Do seemingly lesser jobs like toilet cleaning and road sweeping not count towards as contributing to the country? Here is one suggestion then, every guy turning 18, prepare 5 thousand dollars, run off to some god knows where place and don’t come back until you have called back here and gained sufficient political clout or “satisfactory contributions”. If you don’t get that kind of “recognition” don’t ever come back! Simple? Afterall, its only 5k worth of peanuts, how hard is that?
For goodness sake, the conscription system is bad enough with so many bloody white horses galloping around. By white horses here we are referring to people who once again are seemingly large “contributors” to the nation and can take on slacker roles in the armed forces like clerks, which are usually reserved for people who are injured or have innate health problems. One wonderful example and personal experience of mine was during my Basic Military Training recourse or BMT ACT 2 for short. (I suffered a skull fracture in my ACT 1, went on MC and had to re-do it. SEE! FOR NORMAL people with “lesser contributions” WE WILL NEVER LET U OFF!) During that BMT ACT 2, I was surrounded by people with various forms of injury sustained during the army, fractured shoulders, knees, ankles, heart problems etc. One particular and very spectacular and even glowing example of white horse was a NATIONAL TEAM SWIMMER by the name of M C*h*a*y was there too! He was excused from every bloody thing and interestingly, even SWIMMING! HOW FUNKY IS THAT? On one hand you are arresting people for chao4 geng1 (pretence or faking of injury or sickness to avoid training) and on another hand you are handing out official SLACK slips to people who are so fit they will put your PE teacher to shame. LAME once again.
To end off this long and very LAME entry, I would say that this is the real reason for the declining standards of soldiers here. The HUGE problem of double standards is ridiculous. Just remember one thing from here, political clout or “contributions” can get you a long way or get you YOUR WAY. Its time to start teaching all your sons and younger brothers the official way to chao4 geng1 properly, ie. Pick up PIANO and prepare 5K to escape conscription. Sounds good eh?
PISS OFF F***ers!
Da Neo - Lamed
Music : Faye Wong - 暗湧
moo.
Daneo.
-got milk?-
Life : Everthing but Good
|10:19 AM
被爱的女人
在镜子前面
我是个被爱的女人
他就在门外
这个周末我可以依赖在他的胸怀
在情人面前
我还是单身的女人
爱若缺了缘分
我想我只能用情至深但不能太认真
为什么被爱 有时却觉得悲哀
为什么我还是害怕一个人醒来
为什么相爱 日子却仍然空白
为什么你走不到我的未来
让爱固定下来
我不会永远青春可爱
我的美丽要你的温柔
帮我保留下来
让受固定下来
我和你不要不要分开
我不要爱一再一再彩排
我不是每次失恋后
都能重新再来
Very sad lyrics for those who understand, particularly the following few lines. Below is an attempted translation, which obviously is rather rough and overall not very good. Lah! (See my engrish sucks ...)
为什么被爱 有时却觉得悲哀
Why do I feel sad when I am in love?
为什么我还是害怕一个人醒来
Why do I feel afraid when I wake up alone?
为什么相爱 日子却仍然空白
Why do you love and still feel so empty?
为什么你走不到我的未来
Why can’t I see you in my future?
How often do you feel this way about your relationships with anybody? (Not necessarily have to be romantic relationships. )
How often do you feel that you know the person enough and you are always shocked somehow, someday?(both positively and negatively)
How often do you feel that you hope for so much and live in your preconceived and idealized wonderland where everything is perfect and out of no where, that unforeseen BOMB appears and rips you to bits?
How often does anticipation and regard lead to disappointment and disgust?
How often you wake up from your dreams in tears and you have absolutely no idea why?
How often do you wake up and feel like screaming but nothing comes out of your dry scratchy throat?
How often do feel you don’t know a person at all despite sharing a portion of your life (maybe a huge portion of your life) for a large part of your living years?
How often do you not see a person in your future?
How often do you sit there, alone, thinking and wondering, where do we go from here and how are you going to resolve this shit when it is something that you absolutely have no control over?
How often do you have to resolve issues that are seemingly absolutely none of your business and yet you know you HAVE to stir the smelly shit and breathe the pungent aroma at the same time knowing you have to wonderously change shit into gold?
Ever heard of the Chinese saying? 纸是包不住火? Or, “paper can never contain a burning flame”.
How often do you understand this and yet you sincerely hope that you can be the paper that never burns and hold on, contain, shield and protect despite the scalding tongues constantly licking at you, all over?
Lost, misguided and drained.
This cow may never walk home.
Da Neo – Pensive
Music : 潘嘉丽 - 被爱的女人
moo.
Daneo.
-got milk?-
|6:03 AM
Alanis Morissette - Ironic
An old man turned ninety-eight
He won the lottery and died the next day
It's a black fly in your Chardonnay
It's a death row pardon two minutes too late
And isn't it ironic...dontcha think
It's like rain on your wedding dayI
t's a free ride when you've already paid
It's the good advice that you just didn't take
Who would've thought...it figures
Mr. Play It Safe was afraid to fly
He packed his suitcase and kissed his kids goodbye
He waited his whole damn life to take that flight
And as the plane crashed down he thought
"Well isn't this nice..."
And isn't it ironic... dontcha think I
It's like rain on your wedding day
It's a free ride when you've already paid
It's the good advice that you just didn't take
Who would've thought...it figures
Well life has a funny way of sneaking up on you
When you think everything's okay and everything's going right
And life has a funny way of helping you out when
You think everything's gone wrong and everything blows up
In your face
A traffic jam when you're already late
A no-smoking sign on your cigarette break
It's like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife
It's meeting the man of my dreamsAnd then meeting his beautiful wife
And isn't it ironic...dontcha think
A little too ironic...and yeah I really do think...
It's like rain on your wedding day
It's a free ride when you've already paid
It's the good advice that you just didn't take
Who would've thought...it figures
Life has a funny way of sneaking up on you
Life has a funny, funny way of helping you out
Helping you out
___________________________________________________________________
Its like mugging
for 14 days straight and
F***ing up your paper
Its like liking a song
when u had it for 48 months
and u only start listening it today
Its like rain while hanging out your laundry
Its like finishing your rice
and finding a fly
stuck to the bottom of the f***ing plate
Its like typing a lame blog article
on your exam day
And isn't it ironic... dontcha think
Da Neo
Mood - Cranky
Music - Alanis Morissette - Ironic (Acoustic) ---> (DUH! What else?)
moo.
Daneo.
-got milk?-
OH My GOD!!!!!!!
|4:55 AM
Am recently cursed.
Truly!
Not kidding
Shall list the spectacular events one by one...
1) Sprained my ankle (1st in my life) - Monday 2 weeks ago (Still aching now)
2) Phone broke down - Monday 1 week ago
3) Burner broke down - Wednesday 1 week ago (Pending repair)
4) Phone broke down again - Friday 1 week ago (Finally fixed)
5) IPOD detected by windows but not ITUNES!!!!! - NOW and pending resolution
KNNBCCB
WHEN WILL THIS F***ING END?
Da Neo
Mood - Pissed! DAMN PISSED!
Music : 石欣卉 - 不要说抱歉
___________________________________________________________________
ipod + itunes prob fixed.
Software and a lot of settings problems. Wondered how they arose when they seemed to be working fine just a few days ago.
Well, i realised i may have over-reacted.
But,
Music = my life
IPOD = music
U probably see the link now.
Forgive your drama king here.
Shall not need to be killed today.
Thanks yall who participated in one way or another in this minor afternoon drama.
~Peace~
Da Neo
Mood - Relieved
Music : The Corrs - Spancil Hill
Time : 1422 (as we all see, its a short 2.5 hour movie directed and starred by yours truly and da ipod, lets keep it that way and NO SEQUELS PLEASE!)
moo.
Daneo.
-got milk?-
