SHIELD, BE GOOD. I'LL SEE YOU WHEN I GET BACK. IF YOU'RE EATING YOU CAN STAY. IF NOT SORRY I'LL HAVE TO GIVE YOU AWAY ): Nevertheless I'm buying Elric when I get back so the two of you can hang out like in Sad Giant's Shield :D
Excerpt from Men in White:
"Lim Hock Siew, who headed the Fajar defence fund, remembered Lee (Kuan Yew) advising him how to phrase circulars to potential contributors to avoid being held in contempt of court as the matter was sub-judice. More significantly, Lee clinched the services of D N Pritt, a queen's counsel in England reputed for his espousal of socialist causes.
Amazingly, Pritt got the charges quashed in two and a half days in a packed courtroom before Justice F A Chua without the defense being called. The page one headline in The Straits Times on August 26 proclaimed: "Tremendous victory for freedom of speech."
...'Lee had saved Fajar. All my friends in Fajar, they'd all been saved by Lee. He was a great hero.' "
"Lim Hock Siew, who headed the Fajar defence fund, remembered Lee (Kuan Yew) advising him how to phrase circulars to potential contributors to avoid being held in contempt of court as the matter was sub-judice. More significantly, Lee clinched the services of D N Pritt, a queen's counsel in England reputed for his espousal of socialist causes.
Amazingly, Pritt got the charges quashed in two and a half days in a packed courtroom before Justice F A Chua without the defense being called. The page one headline in The Straits Times on August 26 proclaimed: "Tremendous victory for freedom of speech."
...'Lee had saved Fajar. All my friends in Fajar, they'd all been saved by Lee. He was a great hero.' "
This is the first time in my life I've actually heard someone talk shit about me. I'm pretty sure people have trash talked me behind my back but I'm usually oblivious enough that it slips over my head. There is a bird on my window now and I told it to not even think about coming in. Anyway. It irks me to no end that there are people who would make assumptions and say bad things about you even before they know you. What is that? What is that? I usually assume everyone is all right till they prove me wrong.
And while I don't have the deepest sympathy for this person, I do understand the phase in her life she's going through ( a friend's girlfriend, for the record ) and I know how fucked up things can be because I went through it too. But even in that darkest time I never ... I dunno, talked shit about the girls my ex talked to.
I don't really know how to deal with this. Now that I'm more in touch w my feminine side a part of me really wants to go and wreak havoc on my friend's facebook wall, because once a flamer and spammer, always one. But another part of me doesn't want to worsen things; let them stew in their own vile exchanges, and take Joel's advice and stay the hell out.
I'll probably do the latter, though it pains me as always to keep quiet and sit back in the shadows. But I guess I'm also learning that success doesn't always come to the one who charges forth with sword swinging. Sometimes it's the quiet ones who win. I hope to learn to easily make that distinction soon.
Is this compromising, though?
P.S. Love the tatt,![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif)
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And while I don't have the deepest sympathy for this person, I do understand the phase in her life she's going through ( a friend's girlfriend, for the record ) and I know how fucked up things can be because I went through it too. But even in that darkest time I never ... I dunno, talked shit about the girls my ex talked to.
I don't really know how to deal with this. Now that I'm more in touch w my feminine side a part of me really wants to go and wreak havoc on my friend's facebook wall, because once a flamer and spammer, always one. But another part of me doesn't want to worsen things; let them stew in their own vile exchanges, and take Joel's advice and stay the hell out.
I'll probably do the latter, though it pains me as always to keep quiet and sit back in the shadows. But I guess I'm also learning that success doesn't always come to the one who charges forth with sword swinging. Sometimes it's the quiet ones who win. I hope to learn to easily make that distinction soon.
Is this compromising, though?
P.S. Love the tatt,
juxtaposedrosesFors says:
she had someone who loved her, but because of all her past experiences she couldn't believe that here was a real prince charming, a knight in shining armour ready to save her from herself no matter the cost
and so she threw brambles and spells at him, to see if he would break
a real knight wouldn't break
you've crossed the line, says:
where did u get that
Fors says:
but knights are human
i wrote it
lol
you've crossed the line, says:
omg
thank u
she had someone who loved her, but because of all her past experiences she couldn't believe that here was a real prince charming, a knight in shining armour ready to save her from herself no matter the cost
and so she threw brambles and spells at him, to see if he would break
a real knight wouldn't break
you've crossed the line, says:
where did u get that
Fors says:
but knights are human
i wrote it
lol
you've crossed the line, says:
omg
thank u
I know what makes me different. I know what makes me exceptional. Call it pompous self delusion if you will, but this is what I see.
Hemingway said that all great writers have a built-in, shockproof shit detector. I always thought mine worked, but I think it's more refined now. It works better.
Point of the matter is, I HAVE it. And I'm removing that stupid cliched line from my script because it's out of character and it niggles at me SO MUCH.
How do you separate the ones who can really write from the ones who can write well because they're english educated and are pretty decent with the language? You need to be GOOD with english first, to write. You can write brilliant rhythmic poetry but poor grammar and wrong use of words really throws people off. I know it does that to me. Then, if your grasp of the english language is good, does it mean you can write?
No, because to be great you need flair. You need style. It's like wearing a hat. Some people wear it. Some people put feathers in it and really wear it. I... I think I'm on my way to that, wearing a hat. Mine would have raptor teeth.
You can score an A in your english class at school if your english is good. You can write ok compositions, you don't make grammar mistakes or spelling mistakes. But where is your moxie? Where is your mojo? I'm just gloating now. lol. Yeah, so you write well. But you're no writer.
One day, sirs and ma'ams, I'm gonna be right up there with you.
Hemingway said that all great writers have a built-in, shockproof shit detector. I always thought mine worked, but I think it's more refined now. It works better.
Point of the matter is, I HAVE it. And I'm removing that stupid cliched line from my script because it's out of character and it niggles at me SO MUCH.
How do you separate the ones who can really write from the ones who can write well because they're english educated and are pretty decent with the language? You need to be GOOD with english first, to write. You can write brilliant rhythmic poetry but poor grammar and wrong use of words really throws people off. I know it does that to me. Then, if your grasp of the english language is good, does it mean you can write?
No, because to be great you need flair. You need style. It's like wearing a hat. Some people wear it. Some people put feathers in it and really wear it. I... I think I'm on my way to that, wearing a hat. Mine would have raptor teeth.
You can score an A in your english class at school if your english is good. You can write ok compositions, you don't make grammar mistakes or spelling mistakes. But where is your moxie? Where is your mojo? I'm just gloating now. lol. Yeah, so you write well. But you're no writer.
One day, sirs and ma'ams, I'm gonna be right up there with you.
I read, with some surprise, that in 2008 the population of Singapore was nearly 1/3 foreign - 25% short-term foreigners on assorted permits, 7% permanent resident. I imagine that recent retrenchments have dented this somewhat, but this is a fraction that has been increasing and seems likely to do so (if anything, the Singapore government has now experienced the joys of being able to export unemployment).
Looking in my tea leaves, this is the future of Singapore. The government believes that its fiscally conservative policies are unpopular but constitute the reasons for Singapore's growth. It isn't likely to surrender further political control, but it does believe it will suffice to slowly resemble a welfare state (hence higher taxes and spending. Still well below West European levels, though) - the cynicism of Singapore's political ideology lends itself well to believing that people don't actually want freedom of speech, what they actually want is cheaper cars and housing.
In the past the government has chosen to remind Singaporeans of their greater interest in government austerity (only in Singapore do politicians get apparent success out of lecturing their electorate. Must be a cultural thing), but the higher and higher percentage of temporary immigrants creates another possibility. And that is: fund a welfare state based on income tax revenues generated by temporary foreign workers. Singaporeans receive steadily higher subsidies and the brain drain hopefully halts. Strict political and cultural control means that distinctions between locals and foreigners remain largely invisible. Any institutional problems that may arise are resolved quickly by mass revocation of work permits.
Dubai sells oil; Singapore sells real incomes that are higher relative to the region.
This is in a sense self-perpetuating as a strategy. Retrenching in a recession and employing in a bubble means that the worst excesses of either are eliminated; this stability of course comes at the cost of countries to which the unemployed return to. That such economic cycles tend to be global means that, relative to other nations, Singapore will enjoy unusually stable politics and economic growth - no incoherent populist spending and panic a la Kuala Lumpur circa 2008, for instance. This reinforces differences in regional real incomes.
Looking in my tea leaves, this is the future of Singapore. The government believes that its fiscally conservative policies are unpopular but constitute the reasons for Singapore's growth. It isn't likely to surrender further political control, but it does believe it will suffice to slowly resemble a welfare state (hence higher taxes and spending. Still well below West European levels, though) - the cynicism of Singapore's political ideology lends itself well to believing that people don't actually want freedom of speech, what they actually want is cheaper cars and housing.
In the past the government has chosen to remind Singaporeans of their greater interest in government austerity (only in Singapore do politicians get apparent success out of lecturing their electorate. Must be a cultural thing), but the higher and higher percentage of temporary immigrants creates another possibility. And that is: fund a welfare state based on income tax revenues generated by temporary foreign workers. Singaporeans receive steadily higher subsidies and the brain drain hopefully halts. Strict political and cultural control means that distinctions between locals and foreigners remain largely invisible. Any institutional problems that may arise are resolved quickly by mass revocation of work permits.
Dubai sells oil; Singapore sells real incomes that are higher relative to the region.
This is in a sense self-perpetuating as a strategy. Retrenching in a recession and employing in a bubble means that the worst excesses of either are eliminated; this stability of course comes at the cost of countries to which the unemployed return to. That such economic cycles tend to be global means that, relative to other nations, Singapore will enjoy unusually stable politics and economic growth - no incoherent populist spending and panic a la Kuala Lumpur circa 2008, for instance. This reinforces differences in regional real incomes.