Taking random stabs

Good god, 'I not stupid too' is soooo melodrama. I don't know. I heard people sobbing, blowing noses in the theatre. I'm rather clueless. It is a bit over the top man.... what was Jack Neo thinking? Someone died in the show. NOt only that, he died in a melodramatic fall, with one of those touching hospital scenes.... I liked 'I not stupid". What the hell happened to the sequel? It is like watching one of the channel 8 dramas compressed in 2 hours on a big screen.... I do really want to be kind to our local cinema scene, but, oh... I can't do it.

I am so thankful I'm graduating soon. For one thing, Chunhui, you're absolutely right, University students love theoretical stuff. I don't hate it, sometimes, theories are so interesting, they fracture things we take for granted and give great insights. BUT, I'm so sick of all the talking, arguing. It is all quite pointlessly circular-going-nowhere. And it is scary the way people go on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on about such stuff. I don't know, I actually find it more and more revolting at level 3 modules, when theories get thrown all over the place. Sometimes "a cigar is just a cigar". Sometimes, there is nothing deep behind, things just are like that. I wonder if people can become numbed and blinded by theories. So that the world becomes an analytical object to be mentally dissected. How much spontaneity and direct, impulsive responses get killed in process of rigorous theorizing? Sometimes, unmediated experience is far richer than any theoretical approach. I'm so tired of always writing essays, looking at books, analysing theories... Complaining aside, I really think that there is something lacking in my learning experiences. It seems a little too lope-sided. I think alot of the richest experiences shape not just what you think, it becomes a part of you.. It permeates one's being, not just work your brain. Personally, the most enriching experiences for me are more spiritual than mental. Often, I wonder if philosophers are not failed spiritual thinkers. When pondering on questions about 'being' and meaning of existence,maybe religious experience can give one experience of flying above the confines of mental rationality. And this is perhaps, the very leap beyond mental frameworks and rationality that 'thinkers' cannot jump beyond. Afterall, thinking is only one way of experiencing the world. Maybe alot of pple adhere to the dictum ' I think therefore I am." I wonder if it is not: "I think, feel, love, breathe, drink, sing, hear, move, dream, hope and I am."