Rhythm Emotion

You could write a whole essay about the important things in life, but the most important things are also often the simplest ones- they only really need one line for their meaning to be understood.

It's a mysterious blessing that we can go to sleep with questions and doubts in our heads, then wake up the next morning and find that everything has straightened out. When we're in confusion, it's like hundreds of lines are written on our hearts- the lies we tell ourselves complicate something that is very simple, adding unnecessary justifications and qualifications to our thoughts.

But if you manage to face who you are and what you really want, then all you'll have etched on your heart are a few simple lines. They'll tell you the most important things you need to know. They'll be all you ever truly need.

Lie down and listen. Think about nothing in particular. That one heartbeat is all you need to hear for you to be sure.


"Your inability is mortifying." Hmmm. I should work on this and make it a really caustic retort. But anyway.

The word 'then' isn't dead, but I sure am having a hard time using it somehow. I'm also not sure about my use of ' - ' (M dash). I sure wish someone could alleviate my confusion on this, or AMELIORATE the situation. But anyway.


I know who I am. I'm just a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude... Well okay, I guess I know more now, at least. Ralph Waldo Emerson has a very succinct quote for this: "What you are comes to you." Just like in the movies, climactic experiences bring out what we are deep inside. Unlike the movies, this often involves a lot more screwing up.

I know what I want. I want, I want, I want, and I want. Work work.
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Note to self: Write about 'all the good ones' in the next post.

Oh The Postmordernity!!!

"That's when I realized that the parable of the perfumes is really about being open-minded."

[...]

This is why perfumes are rather like people.

You know that there are some types you instantly take to, but the heart of a fragrance takes some time to appear, so never judge it by the bottle or the first spritz.

..."- Ignatius Low, Straits Times

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On the way back from RT, I decided I would write yet another line or two in honor of my passing.

The tallest tales, too timid even in their highest praise, could tell not of the splendor of my might or the art of my stroke, for upon my coming to the battlefield, even the defeated receive glory enough to salve their wounded pride.

Postnote: Too long.

Edit: Upon my coming to the field, both victory and defeat become glorious.


...Must...play...must validate.. self-worth.


Must abstain from using self-deprecatory quips to camouflage insufferable self-obsession...

Must pass IPPT.


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This is, the story of, Jimmy, the pervert, the man with the wandering hands, wandering hands, wandering hands...

It don't mean a thing if it ain't got swing.