Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Due to my current unemployed status, I've been pretty much free and have started on a book by Freud. Although his writing can get rather technical and dry, his analysis of human behaviour is intriguing and I would say accurate. Decided to grab a few quotes off his book, some would agree with him about it. Human relationships as a whole can really be a messy and difficult. Sweet but bitter.
Take the way people in general behave towards one another emotionally. According to Schopenhauer's allegory of the hedgehogs seeking warmth, no one can bear the intimacy of too close contact with another human being......
On the evidence of psychoanalysis, almost every close emotional relationship of any duration between two people includes a sediment of negative, hostile emotions that escapes perception only because repressed. It is less veiled when partners quarrel, or when subordinates grumble about their superiors... Closely related peoples feel a mutual revulsion, Englishmen constantly insult Scots, the Spaniard despises the Portuguese. That greater differences result in virtually unbridgeable aversions has ceased to surprise us.
In the unveiled emergence of aversions to and revulsions against close others we recognise the expression of a self-love, a narcissism.....unmistakably, however, such human behaviour implies a readiness to hate, an aggressiveness whose roots are unknown and that one would be inclined to characterize as elemental.
Self-love fins bounds only in love of others, love of objects.... in the development of mankind as a whole, only love has had effect as a civilizing factor in the sense of a turning away from egoism towards altruism. And that applies both to sexual love of a woman, with all the compulsions that flow from it in terms of apring what the woman loved, and to that desexualized, sublimated homosexual love of the other man, which has to do with working together.
If you can get the essence of what Freud and I'm driving at, you'll know what I mean.
Posted by jieyi at 10:37 PM
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Friday, May 23, 2008
'But you know, my dear,' said Poirot gently, 'people are never like what you remember them. You make them, as the years go by, more and more the way you wish them to be, and as you think you remember them. If you want to remember them as agreeable and gay and handsome, you make them far more so than they actually were.' -- Hercule Poirot, Third GirlYeah, I kinda agree with that. Sometimes, we remember people as who they USED to be and not who they are right now. Memories stay with us, while everything else changes.
Posted by jieyi at 12:23 PM
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Thursday, May 22, 2008
MAN YOO WON!
It was a heart-stopping moment when hero Ronaldo had to stop for a moment only to hit Cech's hand during the penalty shoot-out. At that moment, from hero, he became zero. I was thinking,"How could he ever miss that shot? All was lost!" And as you know, the old adage goes, "The ball is always round". JT missed his shot too! Honestly speaking, I love JT. Personally, I've ranked him to be top 3 most cute looking footballers. (Okay, I don't need comments about who's TRULY cute looking) I could see the devastated look he had in his eyes, crest-fallen and upset. It kinda broke my heart a little, but from then on, I knew Man Yoo's going to take the cup!
Man of the match: Nemanja Vidic. Yes, it's him! He was absolutely a terror at the backline. He closes in on his opponents, leaving them with little space to shoot, not to mention to breathe. Clearing balls at every opportunity, he thoroughly worked himself out and contributed much to the tight fortress held at the backline.
Not to mention Giggs and Scholes who definitely have repaid the trust good old Fergie and United fans have given them all these years. LOVE THEM!
MAN YOO DEVILS - DOUBLE TROUBLE!
Posted by jieyi at 10:45 AM
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Thursday, May 15, 2008
Les miserables!I'm currently doing an internship at (*))&^**( some place (not to convenient to reveal) and it's totally not what I'm expecting, very unfortunately.
I loathe working at Tanjong Pagar for one because it's just like a horrifying concrete jungle with automatons all dressed up in suits and smart pants. For all the glitz and glamour that this place is supposed to be endowed with, it is very much an impersonal spot to be in. The buildings surely look tall and magnificent, sometimes so tall that it's totally impossible for me to even identify which is what. But underneath the facade, people just slog in little enclosed office space, behind their desktop (just like me right now!) in a continuous monotonous rhythm.
The journey back to the heartlands has never been this relaxing. From fast paced modernity to leisurely walking across the void decks, a stark contrast and a moment of returning back to humanity.
I can't bear to relish the thought of working here for the next ten years of my life. Seriously, maybe I'll consider working as a fruit seller in the neighbourhood market.