Quotes & Misquotes
For many years we have been hearing so many inspirational quotes from the great philosophers and thinkers and majority have been inspired by their sayings - some even to the extent of their lives being changed.
However, as my age progresses, I realized that some of these quotes are just wrong, befitting only for the naive minds. That is why I have always hated philosophers - they just dump a sentence and expect you to grasp the meaning within.
To me they are the most irresponsible beings in the world because they do not offer practical solutions. All they do is to dump you a sentence and if you get it, they do a good deed and if you don't, you are just not wise enough and it's not their fault. Blame yourself for being not intelligent enough to understand.
Let thy words be few - Ecclesiastes 5:2 from
Words of WisdomThis is just a polite way of saying 'please shut up'. It is as good as telling a fat kid that he is not fat. He is just not as thin as the common people.
Children should be seen and not heard - unknown source
And so why is it when a child is just borne out of a mother's womb, the doctor has to give her a few slaps on the buttock cheeks to ensure that she cries? A child is deprived of a normal childhood if he or she is not allowed to speak. It is an irony that when a child is young, he is not allowed to speak. And when he is grown up, he refuses to speak up. By the way, we have a medical term for children who are only seen and not heard. We call it autism.
Seek further up and thou shall find glory - heard it's from the bible
This is one very suggestive quote from the bible of all places. Only 0.000001% of the population will understand the true meaning of this saying. This minority are the holy ones. The majority - people like you and me, the horny ones, will have another meaning for it. The full sentence should be 'Seek further up the skirt and thou shall find glory'.
Reach for the sky because even if you can't, you will reach the clouds - unknown
Yah right. Obviously this smart alec here have not heard of this before - The higher you climb, the harder you fall. So, which one is correct?
Believe in me and thou shall go to heaven - all religions
Apparently all the religions state that if you believe in me you will go to heaven and if you don't you will go to hell. With so many religions around and one can only believe in one religion, it will be safe to say that either everyone will go to heaven or everyone will go to hell.
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? - Vincent van Gogh
If so life would be a breeze you idiot. Do you have any idea how many people in this world wish that they don't need to attempt anything to achieve something? It has nothing to do with courage. It has got to do with having no choice. I am sure if given a choice, many would have preferred to do nothing at all.
Success is only sweet when one has toiled buckets of sweat and hard work - unknown
There are such things called fatigue and dehydration you know. And they all lead to death. Congratuations on your death.
Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes - James A. Froude
Not everyone gets a 2nd chance you know. Trying saying this to your boss after you have committed a mistake that has led to your dismissal.
Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need - Voltaire
When I work i get bored. When I work I get stressed and smoke. When I work I need to get away from it all. Voltaire, you are a liar.
Signs that you are growing (or going to grow) fat
1) You are getting lesser personal space when you are sharing seats on the public transport.
2) You get cravings every now and then and you never fail to satisfy them regardless the hours.
3) Friends who have not met you a long time goes,"wah..so long never see liao..you ar..." and they are too polite to complete the sentence.
4) Your shirts are getting shorter. And you blame the washing machine.
5) Your friends remark,"Still eat ar?" when you recommend finding a place to eat.
6) Your family pointed to a photo taken long time ago and say things like you used to be thin in the past.
7) People remark that you used to run faster in the past.
8) You need more time to zip up your pants now.
9) You inhale more air when you zip up your pants.
10) The 'Adidas' brand on the T-Shirt are getting clearer with each word being stretched.
11) Your friends push you some brochures regarding gym or yoga classes.
12) You dare not weigh yourself.
I have all the above symptoms. Time to buy a skipping rope.
The Forbidden Movie
I have been so busy that I have nearly forgotten about the existence of this blog. I apologise yet again for the lack of updates.
I watched 2 movies over the last weekend The Forbidden Kingdom and Definitely Maybe. While Definitely Maybe is one which I will highly recommend, the Forbidden Kingdom should be banned in cinemas and not cheat us of our hard-earned money.
I will not talk much about the story of both movies here as they can be obtained easily on the web. For Definitely Maybe, if you like the movie Love Actually, you will definitely fall in love with Definitely Maybe as well. They are by the same producer. The little girl (Abigail Breslin) in this movie is so cute and perhaps too witty and intelligent for her age. I suspect my future daughter will be the same as well because of her genes.
Definitely Maybe is heart-warming and a delight to watch. The flow of the movie is nice and keeps you in suspense as the daughter tries to figure out who her mother is through the bed-time story which her Dad is telling her towards the end. And of course not forgetting this eye-candy Isla Fisher who possess this x-factor of me wanting to pamper her. It was until later when I learnt that she's already married. To Borat of all people.
This movie Definitely Maybe earns a high 7.5/10 in my list.
Watching Forbidden Kingdom is like watching a painful re-run of Chronicles of Narnia once more. The only difference is the magic wardrobe has been replaced by a magic rod (supposely the weapon used by Sun Wu Kong) and the chosen one is an American teenager rather than a couple of stupid little kids.
I always thought that the chosen ones are always the more glam ones - think Keanu Reeves in the Matrix. However in this forbidden movie, the chosen one is Michael Angarano, who just happens to have such a loser face. And he is also a loser in the movie who is a Chinese Kung-fu franatic who always gets bullied in the school by the school bullies.
This is the 1st time in recent years that I was so tempted to walk out of the cinema mid-way through the show. The only reason I stayed was because I have paid a weekend ticket price for this movie.
Jet-Li and Jackie Chan couldn't save this movie with a poor plot with their martial arts. The setting of this movie is in ancient China and I was astonished to see that everyone can speak English. Even the Great Jade Emperor of the heavenly Skies is conversing in English to all his subjects. Sun-Wu Kong would have gotten an A1 in our O level English as well.
I was certainly expecting more with the combination of both Jet Li and Jackie Chan, however it seems that they are playing second fiddle to Michael Angarano in terms of casting. Given such a plot and story, I honestly doubt that any actors would be able to save this bad movie.
Ratings: 3/10 (1 pt for the aircon, 1 pt for the comfortable chair and 1 pt for Liu-Yi fei)
Yes, its that bad.
