Me and My Quotes 1

Here are some quotes straight from me and my big mouth...

"The grass is always greener on the chemically enhanced side."

"The grass that got greener died shortly after, so they decided to conclude that it seems greener if you look at it from outside a greenhouse."

"The chicken crossed the road to prove its stereotype wrong."

"Life is more than breathing."

"Life is a bitch, go fuck it."

Mass media didn't approve of the previous quote, so they changed it to: "Life is a witch, go suck it."

"A witch also means an edible North Atlantic flatfish..."

"The best things in life are stolen."

"Don't be the best. Be better! Better always beats best, no matter how good it is."

"Awe is a logical word. Too much of it is bad (awful). Just enough of it is best (awesome)."

"Music is the celebration of sound."

"Singing is the celebration of oxygen."

"Talking is the celebration of tongue and saliva."

"Sleeping is sound, oxygen, tongue and saliva put together in a motionless celebration of life."

"Everything happens for a price... eventually."

Correction: "Everything is priced for a reason."

"Anyone can be beautiful but not everyone can afford it."

"Beauty is in the eyes of the customer."

"The customer is always right, only if he/she buys something."

"Love is nature's way of fooling us into procreation."

"You are what society tells you to be."

"Society is what the government tells it to be."

"The government is supposed to be what the people tell it to be."

"Health is the act of delaying death."

"I'd rather dream awake than live life sleeping."

"Dreams are as real as the reality of the person who made them."

"Nothing to fear but God Himself."

"Fools rush in where alcoholics fear to drive."

"Try, try, until you try dying."

"Better to give up than to give in."

"Better to shoot than reload."

"When life gets meaningless, use a dictionary."

"What is patriotism without world peace?"

"We tend to lose our mind when we find our heart."

"We are as infinite as our limitations."

"We are accidents waiting to happen."

"Humans are capable of finding organization in the most chaotic of systems."

"Humans are the masters of making their own disasters."

"Rules are meant to be broken, laws are meant to be debunked."

"There is no such thing as ignoring someone on purpose."

"The internet is the safest highway to travel in at illegal speeds."

"When life gives you artificial lemon flavoring, make lemonade."

"When life gives you real lemons, make lemon-scented detergent."

"When life gives you lots of free time, write a blog entry."

Twisted Professions

What do you wanna be when you grow up??? I wanna be a doctor, astronaut, firefighter, pilot, scientist, dentist, racer, wrestler, martial arts master, lawyer, chemist, and all that shizz.

Personally, if you asked me this question back then, I'll answer with either a window washer or a fountain maker. It's lame... I know, don't rub it in my window of a face. Forgive the pun.

It's just that... well, it's kinda cool how the squeegee works; in that it has two sides! A wet, sponge-like soaker that transports the view of your window to a mystical land of foam and lather, and the squeegee itself which somehow magically brings you back to the real world in higher definition.

As for fountain makers, I've always had an unexplainable interest in fountains when I was young. I would always wonder where the water would come from, follow the cool and mesmerizing path the water takes, and ask myself where it all ends up. I especially prefer the fountains with more complex designs and water flows. Trust my big mouth, I would stare at one of those babies for five hours on end if I were given one.

But now to the topic at hand, twisted professions... What do I mean exactly?

There's nothing wrong with having a job, especially if that job pays a lot. But when you get right down to it, jobs are just... cynical. Let's take these instances:

1. I'm a firefighter. I fight fires (DUH!). I expect more fires to strike the city if I wanna keep my job.

2. I'm an antivirus programmer. I create softwares that protect people from information-stealing, computer-crashing viruses. I hope those hackers continue to spawn new viruses for my products to sell.

3. I'm a scientist. I discover new things through tried and tested scientific methods that can be replicated. I hope people don't know much about the world for me to explain everything for them.

4. I'm a doctor. I don't have a job unless there are people who need to be treated. Thus, I hope more people would get sick for me to keep my job.

5. I'm a cremator. I burn corpses for a living (ironic, isn't it?). People need to keep dying for me to support my family. (Unfortunately, the same goes for those who work in morgues.)

6. I'm a soldier. I fight for my country. What's my purpose if there was world peace?

7. I'm a priest. I lead the people who desire to connect with God. People should continue sinning so they would keep coming back to me for forgiveness.

8. I'm a lawyer. I am assigned with the task of making a law, defending it, or deciding if it should be implemented. I assume more problems in society would require us to straighten them out with more laws.

9. I'm the president. The people appointed me to lead them since they can't lead themselves. Unrest, crime, corruption, wars, and poverty should continue ensuing for me to keep my position.

10. I'm God. I created everything and everyone. My existence, power, and origin is beyond reason. Everything unknown in the world should be blamed at me for my power to remain unquestioned and absolute.

I'm just sayin'... We're in it for the money; no questions there. We're in it to do something significant with our lives; completely reasonable. We do it 'coz everybody else is doing it; why not? We do it to support ourselves and our loved ones in a system centered on money, social standing, nationality, and laws approved by a council that may or may not represent the verdict of the population; go ahead, no one is stopping you.

Humans are twisted, and they twisted their world with them. There's more to life than jobs anyway... Just keep your intentions pure and selfless. As for the salary, you earned it. You didn't go through the flawed educational system just to earn bragging rights for making the cut. You learn something new every day, hopefully this lesson must have been freakin' obvious. Me and my big jobless mouth...

The Universal Sigh 1.

Me and my big mouth sighs... it's just one of dem days...

You look at the clock to find out it's 1:23 in the morning. Your simple joys of seeing consecutive numbers at the time of day make you smile despite the rough day ahead. Oh, the universal sigh...

You go to the dorm shower to realize you didn't bring anything so you decide to urinate in that special cubicle you've had so many memories in to make the trip worthwhile. Oh, the universal sigh...

You want to cut in your morning class due to lack of sleep and after eating breakfast, decide you're too full to sleep. So you go to class anyway, and coincidentally take a quiz. Oh, the universal sigh...

You want to sleep in your one-and-a-half-hour break but decide to blog about what happened earlier to take your mind off sleep. Oh, the universal sigh...

You realize your body needs sleep but your mind thinks otherwise... Does the mind slowly kill the body this way? Mind over matter. Oh, the universal sigh...

You realize that this blog is getting nowhere and that you're just bored as fuck to post something about your own twisted meaning of The Universal Sigh, which is actually a newspaper edition of a Radiohead album. Oh, the universal sigh...

You decide to save this draft for now and come back later with more insightful experiences other people might take interest to. Oh, the universal sigh...

... ... ... ...

You come back at 12 in the midnight after passing an online assignment 20 minutes late from the deadline hoping your instructor would still accept the assignment assuming he just came online. He just "came" online. HAHAHAHA. Oh, the universal sigh...

You recall earlier this day that your seatmate greets a fellow classmate "Happy Birthday." You didn't know about this and decide to not greet him since you think that your classmate will think you greeted him just because someone else did and not because you intentionally wanted to. Oh, the universal sigh...

You ate noodles with your friends before passing said assignment while talking about a guy, sexuality, dicks, university stereotypes, fashion, psychology, and a french way to say "fuck you." Oh, the universal sigh...

After mentioning psychology in the previous statement, you remember watching a documentary about the brain in your psychology class earlier that day. You fell asleep somewhere in the middle. Then, you realize that your brain was bored of knowing about itself. Oh, the universal sigh...

You ran out of things to sarcastically comment on for the day so you decide to universally sigh... to end a rough day in the best possible way.

Love Vs. Relationship

Me and my big mouth tackle more pressing issues, love. Love leads to relationships like a spark which gives birth to fire. But what are the risks that we put ourselves into besides getting ourselves burned if we play with fire?

People love each other for the sake of love itself. This love over time creates the relationship; that hidden place all lovers create, that forbidden space where differences relate (if you wanna put it poetically). To preserve this relationship however, both individuals give parts of their self away. Here we see love is a self-sacrifice for the benefit of both persons' growth and development.

There is that common tendency for lovers to totally forget about themselves to keep a relationship alive; giving too much without taking what one needs in order to give once more. They forget to eat, sleep, prioritize, think, decide, act, and so on. They are at the mercy of love by completely surrendering themselves for the relationship. Thus, the balance of the two is important. You always come before love.

If love was a ball of yarn that unraveled while the lovers parted to remember themselves again, the lovers can always collect the yarn by gathering it again; retracing its path to find out where it had gone wrong and why it unraveled, to start anew.

If love was a spider web woven by two spiders who took a break from spinning web, it is easily damaged. Yet if the spiders are determined enough, they would continue to spin web until the web is as strong as ever, sacrificing their strength to do so.

If love was love itself made by two people who believe in its power, they would use it to care for each other so that the sacrifice they make will be the gift they receive.

If love was a blog made by me and my big mouth, it would be useless to post... for the author has never experienced it yet. The author still has hope however that the balance between those who have loved in this world, and those who have loved and lost will serve as a reminder that love is a game... a game the human race just can't get enough of.

I'll leave you with this song from Icelandic singer, Bjork, which is a direct reference for one of the statements shown above.

Lyrics:

While you are away

My heart comes undone

Slowly unravels

In a ball of yarn

The devil collects it

With a grin

Our love

In a ball of yarn

He'll never return it

So when you come back

We'll have to make new love

Everyday Superheroes

Alrighty, the big mouth is back for more. This time I'll talk about us... being superheroes. What superpowers do you have? I, for instance, have the power to call myself a superhero. Can you?

It all started on the day when I first thought I had superpowers...

It was a cold evening when my dad wanted me to fix a loose connection at the back of our CPU. I touched the casing of the CPU and I felt a sudden spark run through my nerves. I tried touching it again, and it was the same paralyzing results. Remember the CPU casing is plastic... Oh yeah, did I mention the CPU was unplugged... (Cue dramatic music)

I told my dad about it and he tried touching it himself without feeling a thing.

My mom on the other hand felt a lighter and more manageable spark. I tried holding my mother's other hand while she held onto the CPU... and we both felt an immense jolt.

So did that mean I'm a human lightning-rod or something? Actually, I had sweaty hands and no footwear which made freakin' static electricity. Must science ruin everyone's fun?

Exhibit A, we all fly or levitate every day. Whenever we drive or get on an automobile, we get from point A to point B without our feet touching the ground.

Exhibit B, we might not exhibit physical superiority but we can do all these things in the modern world without the need for such powers. Remembering names, appointments, figures, numbers, relationships, facts, opinions, needs, wants, loved ones, religion, laws, concepts, theories, and etc. are just one aspect of that. Prioritizing, performing, planning, backtracking, analyzing, scanning, and such are another.

Exhibit C, mind over matter. The mind can push the human body to its limits without the need for kryptonite, chemical X, radioactive spider bites, gadgets, god-given powers and the like. All we need is water, shelter, and...

Exhibit D, helping others in our own little way contributes to the grand scheme of things for the common good. This makes a superhero. It may have been a common after-school moral lesson, but it works.

Exhibit E, if superheroes really existed, aren't they just a form of authority like the government and what not? They have all that power in their hands and at some degree may decide to abuse it (and become supervillains) or ignore its full potential. In the real world though, there are no chosen ones. The power is actually in everyone's hands. It just depends on if that person chooses to recognize, embrace, and share it with the world.

Exhibit F, no universal common good exists. Supervillains, from their point of view, are doing this for the good of their kind, and that in a way makes them a superhero. Furthermore, superheroes thrive on supervillains and vice versa. If that is the case, supervillains are superheroes for giving us the existence of superheroes. Therefore, everybody is a superhero...

So, in short, I'm super-bored and I wanted me as well as others to feel better about themselves in my own little way. I guess that's another way I'm a superhero. I better wrap this up before I bore you to death... I wouldn't be a superhero if I did that, would I?

The Birthday Hater

Testing... 1, 2, 3... Is the font clear? Can you read what I'm typing? My blog, my type test.

First blog, what to type, what to type? Well, it's been 16 days past my birthday FYI. I'm not bragging nor warning you about it or anything. I'm just unhappy, that's all.

Well, of course there are many reasons why one should like one's birthday:
1. It's the day you were born.
2. It's the dang day you were born..
3. Hmmm... It's the freakin' day you were born!
(I hate stating the obvious)

That reason alone is enough to satisfy most people in this world. Unfortunately, I'm not like most people...

Why is it that a person is only allotted one time to celebrate his/her being?

Can't every day be a birthday? Can't we spend as much as a birthday (optional)?
Can't we be as happy as we do in our birthdays? Can't we feel reborn every day?

I'm not saying we should hate our birthdays, nor am I saying we should hate other people who love their birthdays. I'm just implying that we should make the most of our days. Though we were born on our birthdays, we have as much reason to celebrate every day WE LIVE.

As a reference for this topic, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson's (a.k.a. Lewis Carroll) novel, "Alice in Wonderland" shows the importance of "unbirthdays." Each year we have one birthday and 364 unbirthdays! Some might think pure logic, other might have more parties, but I say, "I'm happy every day!"

So let me be the first person (hopefully) to say "Happy Unbirthday" to whosoever reads this first blog of mine, just in case it's not your birthday today.

Don't worry, more will come. For now, I'll leave you with this song from one of my fave bands, Blur.

Lyrics:

It's my birthday
No one here day
Very strange day
I think of you day
Go outside day
Sit in park day
Watch the sky day
What a pathetic day
I don't like this day
It makes me feel too small
I don't like these days
They make me feel so small