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what i strongly believe will never be.

let's have some GP like post, shall we (on a more personal note ofc)?

i hate being tied down to things (typical sagittarius/ophiuchus; well i'm stuck in between so it depends). well tied down to things like rules, jobs and well more. zooming down to jobs, not that i hate it but i'm really not good when it comes down to office jobs. i do my job efficiently, that is good. but the atmosphere of the whole job is suffocating. actually it's the same with school. or rather, the entire society i guess? i mean the entire society does discriminate, whether positively or negatively; by race, talent, wealth, gender, sexuality and just name it, you get it. i mean even in studies we'd get discriminated, like if you have better results, you can get yourself into better courses (or so people say better). and even in subjects, majority of the people probably still believes that studying the arts (humanities, arts, social science etc) would not bring you any future. or maybe that's just singapore's stand i guess. i wouldn't say that the arts is the best, of course there are negative parts about it, like how much more you'd need to do in order to get something because there isnt a fixed answer in it (now you get why i'm an art student? because i'm not bounded by answers and can smoke my way through my papers). also from singapore's point of view like the government, of course they'd want more people with more technical skills since we're still a fairly young country, but isn't it time to start developing the cultures and arts? here are singaporeans complaining about how foreigners are 'destroying' our culture, but really does singapore really have a culture? sure we do have our different ethnic cultures, but as a whole country? well yes we have a kampong spirit (like long long time ago), but are you sure that it's only foreigners that are destroying it? singaporeans (esp the younger generations) are not caring about anyone, thus the 'not in my backyard' syndrome. it's not like i'm not a patriotic citizen. i love singapore because i am born here, that i cannot deny. however, how the people are discriminating so much in this country makes me cringe.

when i'm in taiwan (yes that's recently), i felt really at ease because the citizens there are really nice. you can easily strike up a conversation with them even if it's the first time you've met them . the people from shops would immediately attend to you if you needed help (instead of staring at you as if you are going to commit theft). even in the night markets, people do not push. even scooters would wait and slowly trudge along with the human flow (very unlike my experience in chinatown during CNY where you have to literally punch a person to continue walking). in my opinion, singapore is lacking very much on what humanity is about. and not the subject humanity but how much a human people are.

in singapore, many are tied down by work, everyone walks in a really fast pace. "every minute lost is money lost," or so many people say. but why can't people stop for awhile and see the world around them? the greenery (well pretty much artificial in singapore but still), the sky, the whatever-that's-left animals (on the streets like stray cats because you know they are adorbs because THEY ARE) and just spend your time. i do not get the concept of money. if there wasnt something such as money, would the world would still be as fast paced? i would like a small plot of land and just live off eating whatever vegetables i can harvest. and maybe trade some for other stuffs with people. yes that is very ... ancient, but dont you think that people then were probably happier?

of course the current world is awesome, i mean who can live without the internet or a smart phone right now? however even babies are addicted to them and that isnt good. the reason why i'm really an otaku is because in this state i'm probably very far away from being tied down to the real world (thus me literally hiding under a rock). i love books because they teleport me to a place i've never seen before, somewhere where everything is much slow-paced, somewhere that the impossible is possible. however, books are a form of art. so why isn't art being treated well in this country i wonder. fiction books are valuable resources because a person can only live once, their time is limited. whatever they can experience would be limited too. however with books, one can experience things like you have multiple lives. like historical books would transport you to the past where you werent born; geography books would bring you into the center of the earth; fictional books lets you see a world where you would never be able to see; non-fictional books would let you go into the lives of the authors and live in their shoes.

sometimes, being tied down to reality just hinders what you can see.

Labels: oh hi I'm riko, rants

day after day, i take pictures. i do stupid things. things like eavesdropping. i develop films in that pitch-black darkness. i make a profit on people's feelings, when all the while, i'm hiding my own.

"it's nothing"

jeslyn // riko // kailing ♡
major in psychology and sociology ☆ infp
i'm a writer, want-to-be photographer. into japan, in terms of fashion, music, bands, culture, language and anime/managa. also an avid fujoshi and support the cause of love is equal.
sarcastic and closed in. prefer a book or video game over going outside. i have a hobby of collecting mangas and having deep talks (philosophical topics) with my dad. i can be an intellectually engaging partner, or totally just rubbish.

currently playing: playing with dolls / alice mare ost

what i strongly believe will never be.

let's have some GP like post, shall we (on a more personal note ofc)?

i hate being tied down to things (typical sagittarius/ophiuchus; well i'm stuck in between so it depends). well tied down to things like rules, jobs and well more. zooming down to jobs, not that i hate it but i'm really not good when it comes down to office jobs. i do my job efficiently, that is good. but the atmosphere of the whole job is suffocating. actually it's the same with school. or rather, the entire society i guess? i mean the entire society does discriminate, whether positively or negatively; by race, talent, wealth, gender, sexuality and just name it, you get it. i mean even in studies we'd get discriminated, like if you have better results, you can get yourself into better courses (or so people say better). and even in subjects, majority of the people probably still believes that studying the arts (humanities, arts, social science etc) would not bring you any future. or maybe that's just singapore's stand i guess. i wouldn't say that the arts is the best, of course there are negative parts about it, like how much more you'd need to do in order to get something because there isnt a fixed answer in it (now you get why i'm an art student? because i'm not bounded by answers and can smoke my way through my papers). also from singapore's point of view like the government, of course they'd want more people with more technical skills since we're still a fairly young country, but isn't it time to start developing the cultures and arts? here are singaporeans complaining about how foreigners are 'destroying' our culture, but really does singapore really have a culture? sure we do have our different ethnic cultures, but as a whole country? well yes we have a kampong spirit (like long long time ago), but are you sure that it's only foreigners that are destroying it? singaporeans (esp the younger generations) are not caring about anyone, thus the 'not in my backyard' syndrome. it's not like i'm not a patriotic citizen. i love singapore because i am born here, that i cannot deny. however, how the people are discriminating so much in this country makes me cringe.

when i'm in taiwan (yes that's recently), i felt really at ease because the citizens there are really nice. you can easily strike up a conversation with them even if it's the first time you've met them . the people from shops would immediately attend to you if you needed help (instead of staring at you as if you are going to commit theft). even in the night markets, people do not push. even scooters would wait and slowly trudge along with the human flow (very unlike my experience in chinatown during CNY where you have to literally punch a person to continue walking). in my opinion, singapore is lacking very much on what humanity is about. and not the subject humanity but how much a human people are.

in singapore, many are tied down by work, everyone walks in a really fast pace. "every minute lost is money lost," or so many people say. but why can't people stop for awhile and see the world around them? the greenery (well pretty much artificial in singapore but still), the sky, the whatever-that's-left animals (on the streets like stray cats because you know they are adorbs because THEY ARE) and just spend your time. i do not get the concept of money. if there wasnt something such as money, would the world would still be as fast paced? i would like a small plot of land and just live off eating whatever vegetables i can harvest. and maybe trade some for other stuffs with people. yes that is very ... ancient, but dont you think that people then were probably happier?

of course the current world is awesome, i mean who can live without the internet or a smart phone right now? however even babies are addicted to them and that isnt good. the reason why i'm really an otaku is because in this state i'm probably very far away from being tied down to the real world (thus me literally hiding under a rock). i love books because they teleport me to a place i've never seen before, somewhere where everything is much slow-paced, somewhere that the impossible is possible. however, books are a form of art. so why isn't art being treated well in this country i wonder. fiction books are valuable resources because a person can only live once, their time is limited. whatever they can experience would be limited too. however with books, one can experience things like you have multiple lives. like historical books would transport you to the past where you werent born; geography books would bring you into the center of the earth; fictional books lets you see a world where you would never be able to see; non-fictional books would let you go into the lives of the authors and live in their shoes.

sometimes, being tied down to reality just hinders what you can see.

Labels: oh hi I'm riko, rants

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