Lust
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 He said he was afraid of getting closer,

she said she was afraid to trust.

But their words did not matter,

for they were soon consumed with lust.


Judgement
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People who know me very well will know that I believe in being non-judgemental. I realized something just a while ago, I don't know how significant it is but it explains quite a bit about my behaviour and my fear of relationships.

I know that I have a slight self-esteem issue, particularly that of feeling that I'm not worthy of another person's time and concern. Yet, I am wholly confident about myself and know that I wouldn't be shaken by the words of others.

What I really am afraid of, or rather what I dislike, is having to deal with the judgement and expectations of others. In some way or another, everyone judges and holds expectations of one another. When someone I care about starts caring for me, I get stressed. Especially when they have some sort of expectation and having to try to not disappoint them is expending energy. I would love to do whatever I want, but sometimes we can't just do that because it would mean being selfish to the other party.

I detest it when people tell me, " you're awesome, don't ever change", or " I thought you were better than that", or "wow, I never expected that from you". It doesn't affect me internally, but it makes me sort of dislike the person chiefly because of the sort of mentality that they harbor.

I have a solution. Actually, it's more of like, I realized what it is I'm looking for. Until the day I meet somebody who shares my  ideas and beliefs, I'll be a lonely person.


Self-esteem
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The more I read up about psychology, the more intrigued I am, partly because how much I feel that I can relate to it. Lately I've been really confused about why I do what I do, which is to distance myself from forming emotionally-intimate relationships with others. I don't usually have the drive to research into all these though, I kinda chanced upon all these while reading about limerence.

I've picked out several texts from several pages and quoted them below. I feel that it states exactly what I feel about life in general, which is great because I've actually reasoned it out in my head before learning about it.

"Self-esteem is a term used in psychology to reflect a person's overall evaluation or appraisal of his or her own worth"
"
Nathaniel Branden in 1969 briefly defined self-esteem as "...the experience of being competent to cope with the basic challenges of life and being worthy of happiness"."
"Those with "true" self-esteem who valued themselves and believed wholly in their own competence and worth would have no need to resort to violence or indeed have any need to believe in their superiority or to prove their superiority." - Self-esteem, Wiki


"Most people have a need for a stable self-respect and self-esteem. Maslow noted two versions of esteem needs, a lower one and a higher one. The lower one is the need for the respect of others, the need for status, recognition, fame, prestige, and attention. The higher one is the need for self-respect, the need for strength, competence, mastery, self-confidence, independence and freedom. The latter one ranks higher because it rests more on inner competence won through experience. Deprivation of these needs can lead to an inferiority complex, weakness and helplessness." - Maslow's hierachy of needs, Wiki


I know that my low self-esteem keeps me from achieving quite a number of things sometimes. I feel that it is one of the factors as to why I'm afraid of relationships. I reason that although i have a high inner self-esteem and know that I am worthy of happiness, I have a low self-esteem around people. I believe that I'm not worthy of attention and love of others, and the happiness that results from interpersonal relationships. The funny thing is, I don't have the "lower version of esteem needs" very much. I believe that the needs for freedom and individuality outweighs the needs for acceptance and community. I believe that happiness is intrinsic, and maybe that's why I think I am contented being alone.

"Common traits amongst people who have reached self-actualization are:

  • They embrace reality and facts rather than denying truth.
  • They are spontaneous.
  • They are interested in solving problems.
  • They are accepting of themselves and others and lack prejudice." - Self-actualization, Wiki
When i read this, I was surprised that it is exactly how I live my life now. Although I wouldn't actually say I have achieved it, because change is constant. If everyone in the world lived without prejudice, there would never be wars. I only value certain people's opinions, I know it is a very favouristic thing to do but I do trust my judgement and I keep an open mind about everything. I hardly dislike many people mainly because I don't judge, expect or stereotype.

"The Buddha described Nirvāna as the perfect peace of the state of mind that is free from craving, anger and other afflicting states (kilesas). It is also the "end of the world"; there is no identity left, and no boundaries for the mind. The subject is at peace with the world, has compassion for all and gives up obsessions and fixations. This peace is achieved when the existing volitional formations are pacified, and the conditions for the production of new ones are eradicated. In Nirvāṇa the root causes of craving and aversion have been extinguished, so that one is no longer subject to human suffering (Pali: dukkha) or further rebirth in Samsāra." - Nirvana, Wiki

Despite all these, I don't actually want to live a life of loneliness. In me there is a hopeful person that believes that I will one day meet someone who understands me, not just because I explain, but because he/she knows it already. One day.

Pretty much sums up how I feel
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"Numb"

- Portishead

Unable so lost
I can't find my way
Been searching, but I have never seen
A turning, a turning from deceit

Cos the child roses like
Try to reveal what I could feel

I can't understand myself anymore
But I m still feeling lonely
Feeling so unholy

Cos the child roses like
Try to reveal what I could feel
But this loneliness
It just won't leave me alone

I'm fooling somebody
A faithless path to roam
Deceiving to breath this secretly
This silence, a silence I can't bear

Cos the child roses like
Try to reveal what I could feel
And this loneliness
It just won't leave me alone
And this loneliness,
It just won't leave me alone, ohh no

A lady of war

A lady of war


Swearing makes it hurt less.
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Yes, swearing makes it hurt less and it's scientifically proven.

It's true, being a cynic ruins things. I hope not to jeopardize my life in the future. Why do I have to be this way? Do I really have to change to be able to live life? Perhaps one day when I achieve self-actualization, I'll know.

"The romantics call it a love story. The cynics say it's a tragedy."

What the fuck. I don't wish for my life to be full of tragedies. I have to risk having my feelings hurt. I gotta start somewhere. The thing is, how do we know for sure? Is it worth being a fool?

There are infinite questions to which has no definite answer. I'm screwed. (that's what she said)

I'm in love!
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No, not with someone else, but with DUBSTEPPA! I'm glad to have found a place that plays d&b and dubstep. Blu jazz cafe, j'aime le dubstep. I can't wait to be there when a dj frrom UK is spinning. Hoping very much to meet more people with a love for dubstep so we could play pingpong and get lost in the woods with bewildered eyes. Haha cheers.
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Cynic
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I've always known it. Despite my happy and smiling exterior, i'm a cynic by nature. I don't believe in God, i don't believe there's heaven, i think selflessness is non-existent and true love is fiction. The only thing that drives and motivates a human being is greed. The question harboring in my mind now is: When is it time to be happy?

Watching House and Sex & the City made me realize that there is a time to stop being a cynic. I know, i'm trying. Everything is better when we're an optimist. Our relationships with others become stronger, opportunities will find their way to us and most importantly, we can learn to truly enjoy life.


I'm hungry now but i'm too darn lazy to eat so i'm just gonna sleep with it..
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Oh! it's 3:33AM now as i type this. I kinda like it when i look at the clock and it's 5:55 or something like that. Only thing that's keeping me up is my head bobbing to the beats of awesome, sick dubstep tunes. But first i gotta talk about yesterday which was a nais day.

We finally went to the vegetarian indian cuisine restaurant in little india, and boy, was i blown off by the look of the restaurant. It's well decorated with nais antique-looking carved wooden partitions between the seats; little beautifully carved peacocks; large artworks mounted on the wall with pop-ups. Like seriously, who doesn't love pop-ups. I was impressed just by the looks of the restaurant already. It was yellow-lighted, which gives the place a dimness about it which is bordering between comfortable-cosy and dark. It worked well for me, i don't really like bright lights anyway.

Their service was great and the food was BRILLIANT. We opted for buffet so that we could satisfy our deepest indian cuisine cravings. I took a sample of everything there, and surprisingly that was all i could eat. Weak stuff. I loved that i could eat everything they served without fretting," can i eat that....or not?".

Dinner was followed by L4D2. Yeah, suck it up bitches. L4D2 is the shiiiiyyyyyeettttt! Zombie-blasting gratification.

Perfect day for a teenager. Okay i really need to go to bed now. I'm kinda spacing out and typing nonsensical words here and there, making it a need to proofread. Uhmm..what else. I'm craving for masala thosai now. The one at jalan kayu is great. I hate walking through little india cus they look at girls like they're a piece of meat....that they wanna chop into bite-size pieces and curry. *shudders*

Some things are better kept to ourselves....secrets that we protect to protect others.

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Megan Fox's Twin Brother?
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Alice in Wonderland was wonderful! The storyline to me was really sweet and cute, while the graphics and everything just blew me away. In a nutshell, the movie was pretty amazing. Props to Tim Burton and the whole team! Although i think some Tim Burton fans may have been disappointed (not me) due to the lack of dark or macabre elements which he normally incoporates into his films.

I am currently addicted to frozen yoghurt.

And i realized that nothing in the world is a better repellent than body odour.

I came across a picture of this male model while browsing online articles...



Doesn't he look so much like Megan Fox?

Yum. I swear, he looks so much more like her than Zac Efron does. It's not just the eye colour, it's also the jawline and probably the nose. <3
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Ola! So i'm gonna catch Alice in Wonderland (2010) tomorrow!! I've looked up some reviews on the 3D version of it, most of them said it's good and interesting, while there's one that disliked the 3D effects. It said that focusing was an issue due to the varying fields of depth, and it resulted in a post-movie dizziness. I remember watching a short film in 3D, and it made my eyes ache even though it probably only lasted half an hour. So i'm a bit worried about that. I didn't see any other complaints about there, so i figure that it should be tolerable.

My holidays are getting a little more eventful now, i'm glad. Looking forward to the training sessions with the horses in Singapore Polo Club!

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