I had a nightmare last night. I like to take note of these because the last time I had a nightmare was a year ago.

This is what happened. I was on my way to this building with Brandon Choy and Samantha Chan Xievern. The building was white on the outside and all TRON like on the inside with Black walls and coloured outlines. There were many doors. Sam told both of us to go through every door. So we did.

Each door had  a unique puzzle. Usually of pressing buttons or pressure plates on the ground. They all had beautiful effects. I felt as if I was in a videogame and that made me kind of happy.

What I did not notice was this out of place ticking of a grandfather clock. Tick Tock Tick Tock. Brandon was the first to notice it. Then, we all began to take note of it. We looked at our watches. All topsy turvy. I remember reading that you can't read in dreams from a guide of Lucid Dreaming on 9gag. So, I ignored it. And yes, you can call this a Lucid nightmare as I could control everything about my body. I felt as if I am in the dream but I could not alter anything.

After the 3rd puzzle, we ended up in this room. It was filled with Gachapons. We decided to skip the room as none of us had change. Then, the clock rang. Bong Bong Bong. Just as the clock rang, the room turned crimson red. There stood this creature, skin white, plump body and empty black eyes. He would just stand there. Brandon went up to that creature. The creature did nothing.

Then, he poked the creature. With one loud scream, he was devoured. So, I was stuck with Sam who was oddly not freaked out by what was happening. I knew it was a dream but I wanted out!

I asked Sam how to get out as she is part of the Dream and is supposed to be my ally. She told me to find a hole. So, I ran around the complex, begging for the clock to stop ticking and hoping that the clock will not strike the next hour.

It was then, I saw this tiny pothole. "Was this the hole she mentioned?" I was gonna ask then I noticed, she disappeared. I decided to jump. As I jumped, I felt warmth at the other side. I saw a meadow down the hole.

Then, I woke up. As I woke up, I saw black claws and arms dragging me down to my bed and I went back to sleep. This time, I saw the creature, right in front of me, he said, "Ah, Ah, Ah, Tsk Tsk Tsk." in a distorted creepy voice. Then, he said in the voice of a female child, "You have to sing me a song as you fall."

So, I sang. I sang a lullaby hoping to make this creepyass demon go to sleep. I fell and I fell and I landed, on my bed again.

Then, I wake up. Everything is in 2D. I shout, "F***" as loud as I can only seeing the censored words on a speech bubble. I realized I was in a comic. A freaking comic. I was so scared. I screamed as loud as I can. The scream became distorted and demonic laughter surrounded me. I scream so loud that no sound came out. Then, I woke up. In the real world, wondering what in the effing world did i dream about.
A great day to you all.. Today, I will be blogging about something that could be mildly controversial but I think I want to share it so... TOO BAD! The topic that I am gonna be writing about is as the title of this blog post dictates: "Hipsters". 

According to Wikipedia and it's multiple user-editable sources, Hipsters are described as:

 A subculture of young, recently settled urban middle class adults and older teenagers that appeared in the 1990s. The subculture is associated with independent music, a varied non-mainstream fashion sensibilityliberal or independent political views, alternative spirituality or atheism/agnosticism, and alternative lifestyles. " 

Essentially, a bunch of youths who are showing off their hormonal angst via not following popular trends or as they call it, "The Mainstream". 

I wonder what really is "The Mainstream"? From my understanding, it refers to popular trends or popular forms of music or political views. However, I have noticed that Hipsterism had already turned into a popular trend. Thus, being a hipster is being mainstream. Being normal is being hipster. I call this, "The Hipster Paradox". With paradox, I claim that all hipsters are fake and are not true to cause. They are now hypocrites. 

Another thing that makes modern hipsters hypocrites is the fact that by being different and going against "The Mainstream", they are actually allowing the mainstream to dictate their tastes in music, political views or even fashion. 

However, one does not simply hate hipsters that much. I am not really a person who likes to hate. I rather stay on neutral grounds. Now, I shall give some benefits of Hipsterism. 

Firstly, many hipsters are vegetarian due to eating meat being in the mainstream. This is actually quite good. They are unknowingly benefiting their own health and preventing the slaughter of many animals. I wish that they would be more active as a vegetarian by caring more for animals rather than just being vegetarian to sit outside of the norm. 

Next, hipsters are usually part of the richer parts of society and they provide a lot of economical benefit to hipster brands and in turn, improve the economy. 

So, from my neutral standpoint, those who wish to become hipsters can become hipsters but they should become one for the right reasons. If a hipster lifestyle is what you wish to live, I won't stop you but just remember the paradox. True hipsters are technically non-existent. All modern hipsters are technically posers :D  




*WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD* 

Hello everyone, hope everyone had a good time since the previous blog post! Recently, I have finished reading the Elfen Lied manga series. I have to say it was an exceptional experience.

Firstly, I would like to give a brief mention of the person who recommended me this literary work of art. His name is Bradley. We became friends due to being in the same Buddhist center and being in the same Buddhist class. We frequently discuss not only Buddhism but also topics like Manga and Video Games.

Now, let me explain the storyline.


Elfen Lied takes place in KamakuraJapan, focusing on a new strain of the human race, Diclonius, similar to human beings with invisible arms called vectors but different at the genetic level and notable due to physical abnormalities, particularly a pair of short horn-like protrusions, that look like cat ears to me.  Lucy, a Diclonus, is the main character of the series: Initially held in a facility built for experimentation, located off the coast of Kamakura, she manages to escape and wreak havoc, but is injured in the process, an event which causes her to develop a secondary, childlike personality known as Nyu.
Lucy is found by two locals, Kohta, who studies at the local university, and his cousin Yuka. They take her in, and become involved with the numerous, often brutal, attempts to recapture her by a Special Assault Team and a number of other Diclonius, who shift frequently from oblivious to murderous.
Then, a brief insight into the multiple main characters.

Lucy


The female lead characters of Elfen Lied, left to right: Mayu, Yuka, NyÅ«, Nana
Lucy, fifteen years old (around eighteen in the anime) and the central protagonist of the series. Lucy has vectors with a limited range of about two meters (7 ft). However, she can be swift and lethal within that range, and will use any nearby objects as high-velocity projectiles to kill at greater distances. She is also capable of stopping or deflecting most standard ammunition when she concentrates on the task.
Lucy hates humans mainly because of how she was alienated by her human peers as a child, several of whom she eventually killed after they captured a puppy which Lucy had been caring for and beat it to death in front of her. Consequently, she discounts non-diclonii, claiming they are not real people, to the point of telling Nana that she has "not killed anyone yet". She seems to lack empathy and kills without much concern as a usual first reaction, often killing on reflex. She is incredibly sadistic, severing limbs and blinding foes, leaving them to bleed to death rather than killing them outright. Despite this lack of concern for human life she will not harm Kouta, and cries and apologizes for killing his family in a fit of jealousy; she loves Kouta, but due to her actions in the past, she believes he will be content without her existence. As such, she refrains from killing in his presence, except at the series' end, when she kills an entire Special Assault Team unit in front of him. However, Lucy still is not above acts of jealously, once using her vectors to shove Yuka when she saw her holding hands with Kouta.
Kouta
Kouta  is the main male character of the series and is first introduced when he arrives in Kanagawa Prefecture to attend college, having previously arranged to stay with his cousin Yuka while at school.
Kouta enters the story when Yuka's family gives him a closed-down restaurant, the Kaeda House, as long as he maintains it, and begins living there with Yuka while going to a university. Kouta has repressed traumatic memories of witnessing the deaths of his father and sister,[6] which is later revealed to have been by Lucy's hand, who acted out of jealousy. Due in part to his loss, Kouta is sympathetic towards girls in trouble and is extremely generous and protective to the girls around him, because he can relate to them and they remind him of his late younger sister, Kanae. He also, for the most part, forgets how close he and Yuka were as kids, while Yuka still loves him.
He first met Lucy in his childhood while his family was visiting Yuka's for the summer. When he goes to the mountain to draw, Lucy had just run away from the orphanage where she killed 4 children (her first murders). In the anime, he takes with him a music box he had recently purchased which played "Lilium" and strikes up a conversation with her when she apparently likes the song from the music box. He finds her horns fascinating and gives her a hat to cover them up while in public. He asks her if they could be friends and spends time with her, taking her to the zoo, telling her that he likes to look at the "weird animals." In Lucy's hallucination, she perceives this as a reason for why he was so nice to her. He lies to her about the gender of his cousin by saying that it is a boy so she would not be upset or jealous. When she finds out that he lied to her, she stows away onto his train and kills his family. Before she goes to kill Yuka, he tackles her and yells at her to stop killing people and she flees.
His repressed memories are triggered when Lucy uses her vectors to kill over a dozen soldiers in front of him. The reunion between Kouta and Lucy is vastly different, In the Manga, Lucy apologizes and Kouta has her promise to never kill again, but Kazuma shoots at her and Kouta steps in the way to protect her. As Lucy's body begins to melt, she uses her remaining powers to put Kouta's cells back together and save him. The entire Kaede inn family arrive as do the military, and Lucy, though extremely disfigured, begins to attack them. Kouta then fulfills the promise he made to Lucy as children, and kills her. Ten years later, Kouta and Yuka are married and subsequently name their daughter Nyuu.
In the Anime, Lucy assures Kouta that she can do so in just five years, but refuses to because that would mean his death. Kouta seems to understand that something truly horrible must have happened to shape her into a cold-blooded killer and, while still stating he couldn't bring himself to actually forgive her, he openly admits that he still loves her, then they kiss and hug passionately. Sometime later, Kouta along with the "family" of Kaede house, including Nana, settles down until the music box stops, a figure appears at the front door and the grandfather clock starts ticking.
Yuka
Yuka  is Kouta's cousin, around his age, and moves in with him at the Kaede's inn. She has had feelings for Kouta since childhood, and she reacts jealously to Kouta's attention to NyÅ«. However, it is later shown that she is jealous of any girl, regardless of age, who she suspects may be close to Kouta, to the point of being irrational.
At one point he reciprocates the feelings, while Kouta and Yuka are searching for Nyu (after she escapes from the Professor's lab), they take shelter from the rain at the Sasuke Inari Shrine. While holding each other in an attempt to keep warm, Kouta apologizes for not remembering anything about the time they were together as kids, but states that he remembers that he liked her then and that he always liked her. The two then kiss, with Yuka even becoming sexually aroused, and promise to always be with each other. However, when they subsequently find Nyu, Kouta and Nyu share a long hug, and Yuka immediately becomes jealous again.
Mayu once described her as the "mother" at the inn, and Kouta as the "father". Yuka does possess a caring and mature side, and seems to be protective of both Nyū and Mayu, and later Nana. It is clear that Yuka cares for the girls deeply since she, like Kouta, is unable to turn away people who have been abandoned by their parents and society. However, in quite a few ways, she is a typical teenager, particularly when it comes to dealing with her feelings for Kouta and friendships with the girls who come to live with them.
In the last chapter she is shown rebuilding the inn with the others. Ten years later, Kouta and Yuka are married and subsequently name their daughter Nyu.
Mayu
Mayu  is a young thirteen years old homeless girl. Mayu is first introduced when she arrives at the closed-down restaurant (then inhabited by Kouta, Yuka and Nyu) to return an umbrella she found at the beach. She is homeless and lives on the beach with a stray puppy that she calls Wanta, subsisting mostly on bread crusts from a nearby bakery.
During the fight between Lucy/Nyu and Nana, Mayu is slightly injured. When she awakens in the hospital, she has them call Kouta claiming he is a relative. Kouta and Yuka, pondering as to why she didn't call her real family (and already suspecting that Mayu may be homeless), ask her to stay for dinner at the Kaeda House. Mayu, deciding that the fight between Lucy/Nyu and Nana was simply a bad dream, develops a friendship with Nyu as they bathe together, and Mayu accepts an offer to spend the night. The next morning, Kouta and Yuka discover that Mayu is gone; she has left a note thanking them for their help but stating that she does not want to be a burden on anyone.
It is revealed that Mayu had endured molestation by her stepfather before she ran away from home. Her own mother would not protect her, because she was jealous of the attention Mayu was receiving from the stepfather. Mayu ran away from home, and upon arriving at the beach, she befriended Wanta, who was also alone.
Back in the present, Mayu and Wanta return to the beach, but Wanta's original owner arrives and takes him away, while rudely turning down Mayu's request to visit him because of her dirty clothing. Mayu tries to comfort herself with the thought that Wanta will at least be able to live in a safe home with plenty of food, but later breaks down and cries. Losing her only friend, Mayu is devastated and spends the night, which is her birthday, alone, trying to shelter herself from the rain and cold, while wishing that Wanta was with still with her.
In the manga, a police officer finds her huddled in a shack, she flees and goes back to the inn. Finding Kouta, Yuka and Nyu waiting for her, who then present Mayu with a small cake from the bakery — the woman at the bakery who provides Mayu with breadcrusts had saved it for her since it was her birthday. Mayu, surprised and happy at their compassion for her, becomes overwhelmed with emotions and begins to cry, Kouta then explains that she can stay at the inn as long as she helps out cleaning. Meanwhile, Wanta is seen eagerly waiting outside, having decided that he would rather be with Mayu then with his previous owner.
The above events are different in the anime; when two police officers find Mayu in the shack, she tries to run from them, but she bumps into Kouta, Yuka and Nyu who have spent all day searching for her. After telling the police that Mayu is family (much to Mayu's surprise), they return to the Kaeda inn, where they offer to let Mayu stay with them.
When Kouta and Yuka offer to become Mayu's guardians, her mother officially transfers Mayu into their care without a second thought. In both the manga and the anime, Kouta and Yuka comment about how strange it was that her mother was so eager to abandon her own daughter and why she never notified the police that Mayu was missing. However, they decide not to ask questions. The next time Mayu is seen, she is happy and smiling. She has enrolled in a nearby school, leaving each morning in her school uniform with a smile on her face (Kouta and Yuka are amazed at how much Mayu has cheered up). Wanta, who has been given a doghouse, also chooses to stay at the inn. Mayu helps around the house with chores whenever she can, and soon comes to view Kouta and Yuka as her parents and Nyu as a sister.
Later, Mayu meets up with Nana, and the two become friends. Mayu convinces Kouta and Yuka to let Nana stay at the house as well, despite Nana's initial hostility to Nyu (whom Nana recognizes as Lucy). Nana eventually opens up to Mayu and tells her the true story of the Diclonius, Lucy/Nyu, and her vectors. Mayu does everything she can to convince Nana that Nyu is not dangerous, still refusing to believe that Nyu and Lucy could possibly be the same person.
It appears that Mayu has feelings for Bando, when Bando "died" she took up cleaning the beach.
Nana
Nana is a young Silpelit girl, born from humans infected with the Diclonius virus, who has the physical appearance of being 12–14 years old. Nana's actual age is actually about 6 years old; it is explained that Silpelits age more rapidly than humans (or a "Queen Diclonius" like Lucy). Her name, 'Nana', is Japanese for the number seven, the number by which she was called at the research facility ("Nana" is also a fairly common female name in Japan). Most Diclonius babies are euthanized at birth in sweeps of hospital maternity wards, but Nana was one of a handful kept alive for use as a test subjects and has spent her entire life in the Diclonius research facility.[11]
Nana sees Kurama as her father, whom she calls "Papa," because she needed something to keep her from going insane during the torturous experimentation, believing that she is making him proud.[7] Kurama, in turn, sees her as his own daughter and cares very much for her. In an attempt to recapture Lucy, Kurama sent out Nana to find her (diclonii can telepathically sense each other) and as a present, gives her his tie, something which Nana had always wanted, which she wears as a bow to conceal her horns. Despite orders not to engage Lucy after locating her, Nana wanted to impress Kurama so she tried to capture Lucy herself. Lucy and Nana engaged in a brutal battle, but although Nana's vectors are longer, Lucy's more powerful vectors prove decisive. Kurama, along with a group of soldiers, arrive in time to stop Lucy before she can kill Nana, but not before Lucy uses her vectors to tear off Nana's arms and legs. Although Nana survives, Director General Kakuzawa's decides that she is no longer useful and orders Kurama to kill her. Although Kurama has terminated over a dozen diclionius babies while working for the institute, he defies the Director's order - providing Nana with prosthetic limbs that she can control with her vectors (a running gag is that they often fall off) and secretly setting her free with money to survive and a promise that they will be together again one day.
Nana initially feels alone and despondent, but becomes friends with Mayu. Mayu convinces Nana to come with her to the Kaeda inn, but this initially leads to a confrontation, when Nana sees Nyu (recognizing her as Lucy) and attacks her. After running away, Mayu follows her, and Nana reveals the whole truth about the vectors, Lucy/Nyu, and Kurama. Mayu convinces her stay at the Kaeda inn, while telling Kouta and Yuka that Nana only attacked Nyu because she was cranky from being hungry, and that like Nyu, Nana has no place to go because of her horns. Despite Nana's lingering fears about Nyu (whom she believes may become Lucy again), she tries to adjust to life at the house, although she refuses to tell Kouta and Yuka anything about the Diclonii and their vectors. At one point, after an argument, Nana briefly considers leaving out of anger, but after Kouta (using some reverse psychology) asks her where she will go, Nana quickly becomes emotional and breaks down; crying in Yuka's arms, Nana admits she is scared and doesn't know what she would do if she was alone again. As Yuka hugs Nana to comfort her, Kouta gently places his hand on her head, and welcomes her into their "family."
Unlike many other Diclonii, because Kurama treated her with kindness, Nana is not homicidal or sadistic, and has never used her vectors against humans. However, her fighting skills are extraordinary (she managed to almost defeat Mariko and her clones but was stopped by Kurama's presence). She also has the exclusive ability to temporarily disable another Diclonius' vectors by having her vectors go through their pineal gland. Although her vectors are superior to Lucy's in terms of range (5 meters to Lucy's 2, 16 ft to 7 ft) and certain abilities, she lacks Lucy's sheer strength and violent nature; Nana's empathy for others does not allow her to fight with as primal vigor to kill. While physically skilled and intuitive with her vectors, she loses many fights in the series solely because of her kind nature. With her vectors, she is later able to manipulate prosthetic arms and legs, and even throw them like a "rocket punch".
Nana can be seen as the exact opposite of Lucy. While Lucy's default personality is serious and cold, Nana's is friendly and kind; Lucy's split personality "Nyu" is similar to Nana's default while Nana sometimes goes into trances and acts cold like Lucy's default personality. Nana is in the middle of the spectrum of Lucy's split personalities: she's not as mature as Lucy, but more mature than Nyu. She is in fact extremely childish due to her young age.
Nana discovers Kurama, but he shuns her away at first, clinging to a dead body of one of the Mariko clones thinking it is his daughter. The surviving clone, Barbara, shows up and fights with Nana. When she is about to kill Nana, Kurama shoots the clone in the head and regains his sanity. At the series' end, Nana and Kurama are shown together visiting a grave marked "Kurama" and Kurama holding Mariko's ashes. Nana then reveals that they are now living together. Nana asks him to take her as his wife and begins crying, questioning whether Kurama wanted to "make babies with Nana", to which Kurama smiles and responds, "Why are you saying such silly things? Nana is my...", as the scene fades.
In the anime, after Kurama dies, Nana is devastated and almost gives up all hope for the future. When Lucy and Nana meet shortly afterward, Lucy tells Nana to do what she herself cannot: to return to the Kaede House and live happily with Kouta and the others, which Nana does.
Nozomi
Nozomi is a 15-17-year-old, soft-spoken and shy friend of Yuka (who does not appear in the anime). She has a psychological bladder problem because of her father's frequent physical abuse when she was a child for wanting to become a singer. As a result, she is constantly wearing diapers. Kouta first encounters her while walking to the store (not realizing they both know Yuka), and both are embarrassed when the wind blows her skirt up to reveal the diaper she is wearing underneath. They later meet at the inn and, upon recognizing Kouta, Nozomi rushes out into the garden. Thinking herself alone, Nozomi is found by Kouta—searching after her to apologize—while she is removing the very wet diaper she was wearing. Startled, she accidentally clutches the wet diaper to her chest, soaking her clothes. She reveals her poor self-esteem to Kouta, calling herself a coward and sharing her father's comments about her to Kouta. Despairing when she hears Yuka and the others approaching, Kouta saves her further embarrassment by pushing her into a nearbyreflection pool to hide the reason for her wet clothes. This earns Kouta Nozomi's trust and friendship, and she even prevents him from getting hit by an angry Yuka shortly thereafter.
Nozomi is revealed to have a great talent for singing. However, due to her father's physically abusive treatment because of her desire to sing—in addition to her family's strong opposition toward her musical education—Nozomi has no place to study and prepare for the difficult entrance exams for her musical education. Nozomi stays often with Yuka and Kouta so that she can prepare for the entrance exam, and later moves in with them after she passes and is accepted as a student. While she is extremely embarrassed at first about her friends discovering her need to wear diapers all the time, she eventually comes to trust her friends enough that she leaves off trying to hide her diapers or even the fact that she wets them. Nana notes later that year that Nozomi was familiar enough with the occupants of Kaeda inn that she eventually took to wearing just a diaper and a shirt short enough to leave her diaper fully exposed. This shows that her self-esteem was strengthened in the presence of her friends, and that she gained confidence as she grew to trust them more. Nozomi teaches Nyuu to sing "Elfenlied".

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For now, i will keep the antagonists with me and just share my thoughts on the series itself.
Even though the series tends to have a lot of gore and nudity, it still is quite acceptable amongst the teenage audiences. There are a lot of key parts of the story which are kind of like what teenagers have to face while they are young. 
Being an outcast of society plays a massive role within this story, Lucy was outcast as she grew horns and started murdering people.  How she feels sad and angry as an outcast reflects how people on in the modern day feel that they are sad as an social outcast.
The ending for the manga made me tear up as Lucy witnesses Kohta being shot by Kurama and she loses it. She sacrifices her good side and summoned her vectors unto the world in rage and healed Kohta. As she lost control, Kohta was told to shoot her.. I freaking cried at that point as I was listening to Lillium during that part.  





Today, I received the results for an English essay that I had submitted to my teacher a month ago. I was extremely disappointed with the marks I had received.  I got a 28/30. I know, I know, it seems like it is a very good mark. Before I explain why was I disappointed despite being two marks away from a perfect score, I will explain what I had wrote.

The topic of the essay was "The Person I Admire". Naturally, I wrote about His Eminence Tsem Rinpoche.  The contents included how Rinpoche had influenced my life and a little bit on Rinpoche's history. Despite choosing a religious figure as the person I admire, I still tried to avoid talking too much about religious things as I know that teachers may be offended for some reason when writing regarding religious matters or subjects.

Firstly, I did not have any grammatical errors or spelling errors. I proofread my own essays so I would know if there were any errors. The silly thing that the teacher pointed out as an error was the following words. Regal, Emperor and Laziness. She thought that the word "Regal" was spelt with an "L" at the start and "Emperor" without an "E" at the start. Also, she thought the word
"Laziness" was spelt "Lazyness".  She probably used those words to deduct points. Tomorrow, if I see her I will give her a piece of my mind.

Secondly, I helped some of the students with their essays and taught them great ways to improve their writing skills. I also deliberately lowered the skill involved to make the essays seem more realistic. Despite that, the other students scored higher marks than me, even with obvious grammar mistakes.

Now, let's talk about the Malaysian education system as I live in Malaysia and my school is partially funded by the government. I will only be ranting about the English class in my school because I have no experience with the other subjects as I am not an expert in other subjects. I only have experiences with teaching kids in English and no other language.

First things first, I believe that my English teacher is not qualified enough to teach. My reasons are as follows. She is unable to properly pronounce certain words despite being probably english-educated. This was a pain in the neck when I had to listen to her bad pronunciation when she was giving a dictation. Next, she has an extremely weak mind and she gets angry easily. She does not enforce discipline properly and usually attempts to use a 'poor me' attitude to tackle the students and claims that she has been 'good' to us students by not scolding us. By 'good', she means that she was mostly indifferent. If she does not put us in line, she is just showing that she does not care!

Next, I would like to talk about the syllabus. We are 15-18 years old and we are still learning past and present tense. 'Nuff Said.

I would also like to point out the syllabus for English literature being weak and poorly written. I would take Twilight over the literature syllabus in my school anytime. Heard of "QWERTYUIOP" by Vivien Alcock? Neither had I. I only know about the term QWERTYUIOP when randomly watching stick animations on youtube out of boredom. Ever heard of How I Met Myself by David Hill? Neither had I. This is the only thing I dislike about New Zealand. I love and respect New Zealand as I am part of the country by blood.

Yeah, this crappy badly written cliched piece of rubbish

Why can't the education system provide books that are actually beneficial towards the budding minds of today's youth? If they are stupid enough to say that there are not many good books out there and they have to pick these shitty ones, then here is a list of classics that kids will still enjoy and would learn so much from:
  • 1984 - George Orwell
  • Animal Farm - George Orwell
  • Around the World in 80 Days - Jules Verne
  • Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne
  • Journey to The Centre of the Earth - Jules Verne (Heck, they could even show the movie in class) 
  • Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Just to let everyone know, I am not putting down ANYONE in this blog post. I personally like school. I am quite a patriot. I do not have anything against the government or my school. I am just stating my feelings and I hope that improvements will be made. Thank you.



A long time ago, there was a beast, a beast like no one has ever seen. It had the body of a cow and a snake for a tail. The most peculiar thing about this beast was that it had not one, not two but five heads. Each head was shaped like a bird's head. Each head was a different colour. One was red, one was blue, another being green, the other being yellow and last but not least, was the odd one out, the one in white. They named themselves according to the colour they are.

One would image that being born of the same body would make these birdbrains live harmoniously but they quarrel and quarrel everyday. Why you ask? It is because they all have one stomach but individual tastebuds.

Every time food is found, they fight amongst each other until one gets the food. Red, Blue, Green and Yellow always fought when it came to food but White did not.

One day, they found a carcass of an ox. Red said, "This is mine as I am the big head!" Blue replied, "Oh no you don't! The oxen be mine!" Yellow shouted, "Me first! Me first!" Green screamed random words as he was overwhelmed by excitement. White, however, stayed quiet.

As Red, Blue, Yellow and Green quarreled over the meat, White started to fall asleep.

When White woke up, he saw his brothers laying dead at his feet. They heckled and pecked till they feel into eternal sleep. The last one remaining was White. He chuckled as he said, and this was the first time he said anything, "Oh my foolish brothers! You have killed yourselves! Now, I can enjoy all of the meat I want"

He pecked and ripped the remains of his brothers and ate them. Then, he finished his ox. He trotted away as his little snake tail swayed. He felt it was a good day.
Here are some quotes I have shared on my Facebook wall and some more I thought of. Any quote that sounds like it came from someone else is either coincidental. All this quotes are just random quotes that I think that are quoteworthy and out of the top of my head. Feel free to use them, just link back here so they know where to get more!


  • The secret to happiness: Giving
  • Smile. Even if you have to force a smile, you will gradually become happier.
  • A sharp sword can't cut paper if held by a man without strength. A blunt sword can cut iron if held by a man with strength
  • The blind can see better without eyes than a man with a closed mind.
  • Time does not wait for you
  • A human mind is like a flowing river. It is never ending unless you build a dam and stop your open mindedness.
  • Do not see, Observe. Do not hear, Listen. 
  • Act, not react.
  • Do not wait till you die to help others. Help while death is smoking his cigarette.
  • The secret to sadness: Selfishness
  • When you look in the mirror and see a pontianak, tell yourself, "Wow! You look good today!"
  • It takes lesser muscles to smile than frown. But it takes even lesser to slap the guy across the face and it takes none for the guy to punch you back in return. 
  • Karma is like a wild dog. Do something stupid and it will bite you in the ass.
  • If you believe in God, that is great. If you believe in Allah, that is just dandy. But if you hurt others under the name of your deity, then you do not truly believe in them as you are doing the opposite of what they told you to do, which was to love.
  • The flame of anger can spread if not put out.

Today, I am going to be writing about Anger. How anger is a poison and how to prevent anger will be the main two topics in the post.

Firstly, I would like to mention that I am not a person who is constantly angry and if anyone is capable of making me angry, they possibly caused the coming of Satan to arrive a few millennia early. I am just kidding. However, when I was a young kid, I was normal, I did have my temper tantrums. The only one I remember though is when I wanted a bubble bath and my mother denied me of that experience. So, I got angry and began to bawl and do what normal angry little brats do. Then, she just left me outside of the store. She left me there until I was calm enough to go in. No harsh scoldings but rather an insightful truth. When you are angry, it will attract a lot of attention at first and people will tend to you but after a while, people will just distance themselves from you.  Ever since that day, any temper tantrums I had were very minor and now they have stopped completely. 

First, let me talk about how anger can be a poison. When you are angry, especially when you are a drama queen, that anger tends to ruin the day. Let's say someone cuts you off on the road and flips you the bird while doing so and they do it around 8 a.m. in the morning. You will most probably feel pissed off and hope that guy drives in a ditch. However, if you continually think about that person throughout the day then it is a sign that your anger is getting out of control. As it slowly gets out of control, it becomes a poison. You will begin to yell at others about the smallest of problems and end up making yourself look like a bad person.

Also, according to the Buddhistic law of Karma, the law of cause and effect. By being angry, you will also be creating the causes for more aggravating things to happen in the near future and you will be opening the previous negative karma from the last time you were angry. 

On a scientific level, anger can cause multiple ailments. The ailments would include:


  • Harming the liver due to secretion of catecholamine
  • Splotches on the skin
  • Hastened Aging
  • Gastric Ulcers
  • Myocardial ischemia
  • hyperthyroidism
  • Harming the Lungs
  • Damage of Immune system
(Source: http://ezinearticles.com/?Eight-Risks-of-Being-Angry&id=7372310)

Now, I will explain how to stop anger from arising. Firstly, you could take up a religion that promotes love and care. If you do not wish to participate in a religion, you can also follow the philosophical laws that promote altruism.

Another very simple way is to do this minor meditation which will relax your entire body. I will explain step by step.

Here is what you need to prepare:


  • Scented Candles
  • Sweet Smelling Incense 
  • A comfy chair
  • A pillow
  • A radio
  • An audio file about nature (Any peaceful nature sounds are fine)
  • A comfortable room 
Here is how to do the meditation:

  1. Light the candles and burn the incense
  2. Turn on the nature sounds
  3. Hug your pillow, close your eyes and sit up straight
  4. Breathe quickly for 5 breaths
  5. Breathe slowly for 5 breaths
  6. While listening to the sounds of nature, breath in and out normally
  7. Imagine that the anger and stress of the day is dispersing in the form of black dust from different parts of your body when you exhale and when you inhale, light, symbolising hope and love enters your body
  8. Start with the crown of your head
  9. Move to your shoulders and feel that you are freed from the burdens that weigh you down
  10. Let your arms rest 
  11. Let your feet rest from its busy day of walking 
  12. Breathe in and breath out 
  13. Tell yourself that you have done good today. Give yourself an applause
  14. Tell yourself that by being angry you will hurt people who love you and by not being angry you will make people love you more
  15. Congratulate yourself again on keeping your cool
  16. Stay in that state for the next 5 minutes
  17. Relax and you are done! 
So, that is pretty much it! Hope you enjoyed reading! 








When I was a little boy around the ages of 5-10, I used to love and hate balloons at the same time. I used to love it as it was like a companion which was always in a colourful mood. It used to make me feel happy.

However, I used to hate balloons because I noticed that the Balloons started to deflate and it felt as if my 'friend' was going to die. This was, of course, before I was really into Buddhism and my knowledge of impermanence was rather impaired at the time.

Thus, it was due to balloons that I learned about impermanence.

I used to cry and cry as I watched the balloons deflate. Being a child who was usually shy and anti-social, the balloons were pretty much my only constant friends, who were there when I needed them and I felt comfortable with as they were not capable of showing feelings.

 After crying, I got over it and moved on until the next balloon came along. I just toss the old balloon in the trash or wait for the maid to do it.

Then, I wondered what if I deflate one day, will people cry for a bit and then just forget about me? It kept me thinking until recently after looking at other people who died that people will just forget about you.

Now, I realise that all humans, young or old, are just like the balloons of my childhood days. Balloons that are deflating.

Till this day, I still hate balloons. I do not mind popping balloons or looking at them but I hate having balloons by my side as it reminds me of life being something that is always slowly seeping away. I know I should be embracing the truth but sometimes seeing a 'friend' wither away slowly, causes tears to flow from my eyes.

This post is not meant to be morbid and I am not a child with a twisted personality but this blog post is to let everyone know who I was since I was a child and also to let people know what I used to fear as a child.
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