Monday, December 05, 2005

Rare transitory moments...



As every passing day grows into yesterday, I feel better thinking about tomorrow, It's as if I'm getting closer to a strange and unfamiliar place I somehow need to be at. It's uncomfortable because I know where I'm going and when, but I know it's because I've never been quite more desperate than now.

As I turn older, it seems I'm being forced by some unknown invisible power to be more of a conformist every day, really ironic since I still laugh at the merest mention of the social sanctions imposed upon us to become accepted members of our so called "society". Where is the wisdom and courage required to step outside the norm now? For all one knows there mightn't be any wisdom in taking such a stand but I persist in being the same old, because if you change, almost everything leading you to this time and place, in your life, transforms into irrelevancy.

Maybe we should come out of this facade already, this illusion that our life becomes, because at the end it still looks curiously unfinished.

Has anyone ever come across unpretentious beauty? When is the nature of your joy purely dependant on feeling loved? But to even analyse this nature is to lose hold of it, despite its physicality. Any love affair which comes to happen spasmodically results in a detached, civilized, agreeable and undemanding process seemingly occupying more energy than time. It's understood my time can never completely be my own but my heart most certainly can. The past misdemeanours are liberated, all this simply for justifying self-sufficiency as well as a smaller regard for sentiment. I realize it's only the imminence of loss which reveals most things for what they are. For me these were, at best only a solace, at worst a trivial squandering of time and energy.

For me this was important to do, it's understanding, relation or portrayed meaning, as unimportant. There's a lot on the surface to dig past and getting through probably not worth any person's time or effort.

Merry Christmas everyone.

Thursday, December 01, 2005

Racial Issues, Skirmish and That Person.


One thing I'm really glad about is that December is finally here. Apart from sitting for four disastrous exams, turning 22, losing all my cousins to India and another less than perfect ending, it's pretty safe to say November hasn't been an ideal month. There are times when the months promise so much and the coming months even more but then those promises are sometimes forgotten and you start wondering about the remaining ones...

Anyway that time will tell, but one thing I already know is I sometimes feel a little dissapointed in a few of my fellow asians. What is this obsession about turning white or becoming white? It's ok for everyone to have their preferences in terms of their partners but having a preference in turning into a completely different race is absurd. What is wrong in being an asian? Anyone who is should be really proud culturally or historically and seriously if you do dream about turning white, brown, grey or freaking red, you're fucked up with acceptance issues, go see a shrink.

Last night I stayed over at Vuong's place because this morning we went to play skirmish (paint ball). There were thirteen of us and even though it took like hours to get there, it was f*****g worth it. $80 and 600 paintballs later we realized we had to this again. From forest maps to open fields with barrels and messed up cars it really was awesome. I have seventeen bruise marks on my body including one on my cheek...Damn you Joe! Everybody was bruised and battered by the time it finished and I got a few head shots, no I didnt get anyone on the head or anywhere for that matter, but they did get mine, so all in all it was pretty painful. The marks from a dark red have gone to blackie black, ummm maybe that's a sign of healing!

That person...now that I've reached here and the time has come to write about it, I feel very hesitant, the end is always the end, there should be no beginnings after endings, what's in my past is always forgotten without meanings or memories, then, why does this one stay...then...but...maybe will continue some other time when the heart is more obidient, more willing to listen...

The longing we hide...

 You feel the press of these walls all night, Each moment stolen, always out of sight. In rooms where only shadows can see, An unconditional...