Who am I? What am I? Where am I? Where am I headed to? I really don't know. RNFI. Really No F**king Idea. A cynic, an idealist, a person with ideas, but NATO. Am I? I really don't know. RNFI. Really No F**king Idea.

Thursday, August 14, 2008

Death and Orchard Road (not related...)

strange that emz brought it up. i've been thinking about death a lot these days: the moment just before you are about to die, the moment you die, and what's it like after you are dead. and my conclusion is... no... i don't believe in life after death.

the reason why i've been thinking about death is because i've started reading Garth Nix's "The Old Kingdom" trilogy. and death features a big part in it.

well... on a lighter note... was walking down Orchard Road just now. i've not been there for quite a while. it has changed a fair bit. not unrecognizable, but definitely different. Cats in the Cradle was playing at Indochine, Wisma. and passers-by like me who are too cheapskate to go in and get a drink at hyper-inflated prices (this happened even before the recent spate of inflation... pretty prescient of them, eh?) could just stand and watch. and sure enough, there was a huge crowd watching. though some of them were as likely to be watching the band as they were watching this Tranny. not that being a Tranny automatically draws attention. but this Tranny must have thought it was Wednesday and she/he/it was in Zouk. cos she/he/it was unleashing this entire repertoire of grossly mutilated mambo moves and hooting what she/he/it must have thought to be complimentary but to the rest of us sounded like a banshee cry.

yeesh.

and i think the Tranny made me think really weird things. like when i saw Miss Selfridge, i suddenly thought... why sell fridge? why not toasters? or ovens? or better yet, toaster ovens? washing machines do well too! why selfridge?

and if there's a Daniel Yam, perhaps we should have a Richard Potato. or William Tapoica.

hey wait... i thought of all these before encountering the Tranny...

erm....

3 Comments:

Blogger saltymiscreant said...

So you believe that we were just plopped onto earth to merely exist for a few paltry years before dying and never ever existing again?

If so, then, what's the purpose of life to you?

You really should get onto Facebook. Everything that I do is on that website - it's a lot more current than MSN or my/your blogs.

3:14 PM

 
Blogger Unknown said...

Dude...you're getting back into form! The lame jokes are coming back in force hahaha.

10:58 AM

 
Blogger 清, just 清 said...

emz,

That's what most atheists believe, and it's what makes this very short time we have in this material that much more precious. Go look up the Humanist Manifesto or transhumanism to see what keeps most atheists going. Far more substantial than empty promises of an as yet unverified and highly questionable afterlife, I think.

Rench, was it perchance an... executive transvestite?

11:54 AM

 

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