Verbatim Thoughts

pure unfiltered shiz

Months and months..

Months and months slowly went away.. And sometimes I think it's time to stop, and think back to the first step I took. Am I already at the destination I visioned myself to be? Am I happy? Do I want to keep continuing this?

But sometimes I feel we ask ourselves too many questions that we don't continue. We don't move on. We dwell on the anxiety - did we do things right?

Or is it that embracing uncertainty and risk is too scary?

Do it fast and do it now

You hear it every now and then about how internet is shortening our attention span. I just realized today that it's not only the attention span, but basically everything we do is now expected to be done in a shorter time span.

You know what some of them say - if you see something that you like while window-shopping, but you're unsure whether you should buy it, you should refrain from buying on the spot and give it time until the next day. If until the next day the stuff that you want still haunts your mind - then you better get it. Or something like that.

Nowadays, with the ever increasing popularity of group buying coupons, we are even more pressed for time to decide whether we should buy the mouth-watering deal. All the group buying sites have the ticking countdown, employing one of the time-honoured traditions of advertising: urgency. We've seen this advertising tactic almost all our lives. Only what we saw was a tad different. "Last day!" "Special price only for today!" and so on and so forth. Right now it's shifted a bit: "Special price only for 2 hours, 28 minutes, and 3 seconds... 2 seconds... 1 second......"

Nowadays, whenever I see a group buying coupon that's interesting (but may not be necessary), I just left the web page open, then went browsing away or reading or doing something off the computer. After some time (maybe about half an hour), I'll revisit the page and rethink the purchase. No more sleeping on it, or stuff like that.

I wonder if, going forward, this will mean that people will also expect other people doing things as fast as possible, and create an almost impossible target. No more "by the end of this week" deadline. Maybe "by the end of this day" deadline. Hell, maybe it will be "by the end of this second" for all I know.

Toto's "I'll Be Over You"

I know the lyrics to I'll Be Over You go like this..

As soon as my heart stops breaking
Anticipating
As soon as forever is through
I'll be over you

But the first time I heard the song without knowing the lyrics, to me it goes like this:

As soon as my heart stops breaking
and dissipating

Goes well too, right? And IMO flows better than "anticipating"..

Feeling Good

I have an inkling that many people donate to Japan victims to feel good for themselves. The question is whether the victims will ever feel good at all.

I myself chose to donate directly to Red Cross Japan via Google's Japan Earthquake Crisis Response page. I don't want my donation to go through too many hands, and perhaps not reaching the victims at all.

Come join me. Every little bit counts. The smallest donation you can donate is JPY 100, which is equivalent to only 1.6 SGD/1.2 USD/10870 IDR. And it can be done online seamlessly (my donation only took 2 minutes at best).

Let's help them, and not help ourselves.

Comfort Uniform

A few days ago I teased my boyfriend for having a "uniform". He always goes out wearing a T-shirt, often with funny graphics, paired with a pair of knee-length pants and a pair of sandals. But then I realized that I also have a uniform - a long girly top (I seldom wear T-shirts out) paired with long jeans and a pair of flats. We both may have different styles, but we both take comfort in wearing clothes we're comfortable in.

Pushy People

I'm not intending to explore the negative connotation of "pushy". Truth is, I really appreciate people who push me. I am grateful to have friends that recognize what I'm good at and then push me to do something about it. As I once said before: to have friends who believe in you even when you yourself don't - is a luxury.

I'm not going to name names - I think they know who they are. Thank you.