October 3rd, 2008
I think many would agree that the things we own directly or indirectly say things about us. While I wouldn’t imply that all of us are inevitably shallow and doomed to be materialistic, I would still like to think that the things we own, whether material or not, do in fact, define us to a certain extent. Even if you don’t care about what others think of you in your ratty clothes, that’s still a pretty accurate definition of you, no?
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September 26th, 2008
Airports, no matter how many awards they’ve won or how clean and slick they claim to be, are inherently messy and chaotic places. I think someone once said that if god had wanted us to fly, he would have made it easier to go to the airport. Have you realised that no matter where you’re flying to, your boarding gate is always the opposite side of the airport from where you are? Or how even if you’re the first one out of the plane (cattle class that is), your bags are always the last to appear on the belt?
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September 19th, 2008
There’s a big gap between theory and experience. For example, reading recipes (or watching cooking shows) doesn’t mean you will be able to cook. Understanding the physics of swimming would probably not prepare you for the aches in your legs after the 20th lap (or for me, just 5).
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September 12th, 2008
While it’s true that no man is an island, I don’t know if man is specially designed to live in crowded cities, jostling for space on the escalators, in the trains, in the shops. Most of us would get by fine enough just by tuning out other human activity around us and continuing on our way. Which is probably the reason why we get people seemingly unaware that they are cluster-fucking up the human flow by standing right in front of the escalator trying to decide where to have dinner.
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