Thursday, December 29, 2005

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Wednesday, December 28, 2005

Convo on msn.

me: 0m9z mu( - ph34r!
him: wtf? cant read? change font
me: huh, it is 13375p34k
him: stop that you use a normal font
me: omgz much fear

Some people don't get 13375p34k.

Sunday, December 25, 2005

Is DNA alive?

It seems like it is just a chemical that cannot do anything on its own. You put the crystal there, and it stays there until something happens to it. It only assumes an identity when it is implanted in the correct place. It seems like a specialised cog in a machine. The machine cannot work without the cog, and the cog is nothing without the machine. The machine acquires some identity from that cog, but the cog is a cog on its own.

So what actually gives something a life? Or an identity? What separates one being from another? Are two chairs of the same model exactly the same? What about the cells that are separated after the fusion of the gamete? Do they each have an identity? What about each red blood cell? Are they identical?

If you can physically map out the position and velocity and type of every particle in a person's body (i noe its impossible, but if) and produce an exact copy of it onto another place, would that person think he is the "original" person or the produced person?

Does the identity of a person depend on his own memories or the memories of the people around him concerning him? As a solipcist i suppose i'd take my identity as the former. The thing is that every time i sleep, i forget who i am and i live as a different person. For that instant somehow i just "know" what everything in the dream world is, who each person is, what their names us what they do beofre etc. I forget who the person i am is when i am awake. So have "I" become a different person?

Apperently the person that "I" am in the dream has different memories from me. "I" have no connection whatsoever with "me" here. What makes both of "us" "me"? Or rather, all of "us", each time I fall asleep and dream?

"I" am the person who can sense and think. "I" can feel my environment. "I" think that "I" exist. That is who "I" am. Even if you have my memories, you are not me. Even if I lose all my memories, I am still me. I am not Yak Xin Yang. Xin Yang is my name. I am "me".
i think everyone is the same as me. i am normal. average. just that the stat points and skill points are distributed differently.

Saturday, December 17, 2005

Through fables and many other tales (like xi1 you2 ji4)that we have read and heard throughout our lives, it is undeniable that people admire those who are able to resist temptations through sheer determination. However, it seems to have progressed to an extent that people who cannot resist temptations are despised by others.

I think human by nature would sucuumb to all temptations if not for education and conditioning. Being able to resist it should not be seen as something natural, instead something artificial. This conditioned behaviour allows the society to be stable. If everyone just go around robbing and raping and stuff, humans would go extinct. Education plays a very important part of maintaining social stability. So, this conditioning makes the human race more powerful as a whole. However, there is no way for us to judge whether this conditioning is actually good or not for an individual. All we know is that without this conditioning, the world would be in chaos. Therefore, people are encouraged to remain conditioned. This is done by spiritually rewarding those who are able to remain conditioned, with words like moral, good, noble etc. People who do not are despised and looked down upon.

On the more individual level, we can see why. Generally people who are "moral" treat the people who surround them better, and generally make them feel better than those who are not. You probably don't want a friend who would steal your things. When you see someone giving his seat up for an old lady you feel better because you see that the meek are taken care of. You also don't feel good when you know that someone else is cheating and he got better grades. The list goes on. Society expects each individual to obey the moral codes of conduct, because the constituents stand to lose if an individual doesn't. So the originally jagged stone gets polished and it eventually fits in well.

However, this process isn't fast enough. Education speeds up the process by punishing the people who do wrong and rewarding those who do right. This is much more efficient, but there are elements of brainwashing. They make people despise those who do not conform. Those who find it harder to resist temptations become wrong and immoral. In certain cases it seems that it really isn't worth the effort to condemn those people, because they don't do any harm.

That is why i don't see any reason why we should condemn those who surf porn.
Now I come to wonder. Have you noticed that the chinese department just love to use the word "roots" and "5000 years of history and culture" to persuade us not to abandon chinese? Somehow, even if pupils still don't love chinese, they would somehow feel guilty to abandon chinese. After, it contains their roots. But is that really such an important thing?

Or have you heard your teachers say that it is really sad for people to abandon chinese, because then they would have no identity. They try to identify themselves with the caucasians, yet the caucasians would never identify themselves with the english-speaking chinese. To them, that is tragic.

It seems that these statements seem to have risen more through passion than logic. If you think about it, one doesn't really need any connection to his roots. Orphans live pretty fine. So do the children from mixed heritage background. Do they have roots? Well they do, but to them their roots isn't so clearly defined. So is that tragic? No? So perhaps being unable to find one's roots isn't as tragic as choosing not to identify with one? I cannot see the logic in that.

It is weird that just because you have yellow skin, it means you would have to identify with the events that happened to people with yellow skin. Well of course it is nice to identify with a person just by looking at the exterior, but that is quite superficial isn't it?

I admit that the chinese culture have great things. It is natural for people to have experienced great things to want to share it with the others. However, in my opinion, that should not be forced. After failing to convince people that chinese is great, they try to brainwash people into thinking that abandoning chinese is bad. It's like saying, "Would you like to try this? It is great! No? You suck!"

There only seem to be pragmatic reasons(ie, opportunities in china, your chances of getting into a good school etc.). i really don't think that there are any altruistic reasons for focing people to study chinese when they know in their bones they hate it. As one senior said, "They put us through years of hell studying chinese and they expect us to like it."

Well of course that is his opinion. I personally don't hate chinese. However, i don't like the way they brainwash people into thinking that people who don't study their mother tongue plainly suck. Our comprehensions, cloze passages and summaries are full of essays trying to convince us to embrace chinese. Well, the language they use is good, but the reasoning is still faulty. Someone give me an altruistic reason to study chinese if i hate it please.
I remember i heard this from friend.

"You know, the Christians are the only people who aggressively promote their religion."
"Really?"
"Ok, let me put it this way. Have you ever heard a malay ask, 'Hey would you like to come to my mosque?' "

Tuesday, December 13, 2005

Why do fish have fins? Because you do not call it a fish if it doesn't have fins.

Why do justice always prevail? Because the party that prevails is always justified.
"Oh hubby, hubby, why do you have such huge ____ ?"
"All the better to _____ you my dear."