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At *ungodly hours in the morning, *Prof Scandalous text messages me: What did Nietzsche say about Kant's Categorical imperatives? Thankfully, with *Philo Chic's help, I managed: I think it would have to do with the Genealogy of Morals. Kant's CI assumes morality is great and wishes to impose it on others. Nietzsche would say that these so called good maxims are Christian ethics, used to help the weak feel better about themselves. Morality is an illusion and we must not affirm ourselves with what is conventionally good or bad. Three hours before that, the Prof texted me this: My wife tells me that brown men are the in-thing. What does she mean? My reply: Sorry, sir. I have no idea.
Dear friends, I have new plans that just might involve you. If you are a reader of the *Damsel Blog, kindly send an email to suphing@nus.edu.sg before Oct 27, 2005. Just specify 'Hi, I read you!' at the subject column. You don't even have to write anything in the content section of the email. You could be a fellow blogging friend like *Sheer, *S, *Fongky, *Jules, *Dilettante and *Kenn; closest friends *Ling and *Lene; anonymous readers like *guyacrossthestreet or *activist; or stalkers/admirers/suitors... if the latter category exists. JUST SEND ME THAT EMAIL. I promise I won't bite or scratch. Neither is this a cheap ploy to find out if my closest friends are keeping up with the blog. I promise I've got something up my sleeve. Sending worldwideweb Love, the Oriental Damsel
debating the Chinese vs the Japanese *Gallant and I had a long conversation yesterday about his anti-Japanese sentiments, brought on by PM Koizumi's visit to the Yasukuni war shrine. I could not understand, how he, being by default Chinese can bear such hatred towards a war well over and towards people of a generation gone by despite not being in the war and is not suffering from the effects of the Japanese and WWII. He would have undoubtedly be one of the people protesting in front of China's Japanese embassy if he were back home, and fought a war with the Japanese if he were called upon. Gentle, forgiving and respectful in all other aspects, I could not understand why *Gallant bore so much hate. Being a political figure, I understand that Koizumi should be more sensitive with regards to the visit of the war shrine. Nonetheless, why penalize him for acting on his instincts and for him wanting to pay respects to his generals and soldiers? Koizumi explained in a press briefing that this visit serves as a reminder the war and brutality between Japan and China should never happen again. Why can't *Gallant get that the war between China and Japan will never happen again? "The German chancellor kneeled down in front of the Jews to beg forgiveness. Japan's PM offered a half hearted apology," remarked *Gallant "The comfort women were offered a compensation... if only they would sign an agreement that says they volunteered to be comfort women in the first place." *Gallant then equated the generals of the Japan war with Hitler, saying that more people were killed in the war with Japan. He gave many more examples which only served to convince me of his hatred rather than an exact cause of a reason to hate the Japanese (or the PM/Government, which is *easier to dislike, I'll admit). I wonder to which extent China's governmental propaganda is doing this to *Gallant. Personally, however undiplomatic Koizumi's visit may be, these feelings of Chinese nationalism gone out of hand are dangerous. It is the same for any country, let alone a big, nuclear giant. Then again, I don't want to say that I am right (*Gallant was much more convincing than I last night) and I have to learn more about this first. It's far too many times he's called me an idealist (in fact, two emails in a row this morning from different people). Ultimately, I'm still unchanged and doubt I will be swayed. There's a universal truth challenged, for instance between 'good' and 'bad', and 'live' and 'kill'. In the case of our debate, it is a matter of 'love' (accepting and tolerating) and 'hate'. .::. Dear, Honestly, I never wanted to tell you or to discuss all these with you. It'?s way too disgusting and unsuitable for you. I am glad that you are not troubled by hatred brought by history. It is not easy to carry that burden. But things happened and there is no way to just pretend as if it never happened. Someone's got to know and make sure the people in http://www.kimsoft.com/kr-japan.htm http://www.comfort-women.org/v2/index.html http://www.technologyartist.com/unit_731/ http://www.ww2pacific.com/unit731.html I am sorry if I have made you uncomfortable while discussing this with you. Love you! .::. I need to first say that I'm a lot tougher than I look. =I Here are some of the pictures:
The mass, live graves
Execution, guillotine style
Unborn fetus
Human experiments (I guess this picture and the next he links to the Nazis)
Death Camp
*Winky can never ask me to lunch without some drama. This just came in the sms: If you want to have lunch give me a shout. If you want to have lunch I'll be there no doubt. If you want to have lunch I'll try not to be too much of a lout. To refrain from being a pain, of that I'll be staunch. So do let me have an inkling, if you want to have lunch... One word: Absinthe I'm busy with my essay today. Pity. =(
You Are A: Kitten!  Cute as can be, kittens are playful, mischevious, and ever-curious. Like you, kittens hate getting wet. Kittens are often loving, but are known to scratch or bite when annoyed. Whether it is your gentle purr or your disarming appearance, you make a wonderful kitten.You were almost a: Chipmunk or a Squirrel You are least like a: Duck or a TurtleWhat Cute Animal Are You? Things have obviously not been going well. First, there were problems trying to get assignments done. Deadlines were piling up without me knowing, and the exams seem like a mere few days away. There were awful tell-tale signs as my skin was looking dull, always on a bad hair day and my eyes of a raccoon/panda like feature. I was breaking out with pimples as well and have dark scars that I fear looking into the mirror. At this point, even concealer couldn't do much to help. Coupled with bad mood swings and an aching body, I was deadly depressed. I even tried retail therapy and spent some cash on skin products, facial and hair cut (almost joined a yoga club too) but to no avail. I needed sleep, desperately. Thankfully, yesterday took on a delightful turn in events. First, the whole class was given a whole one week extension for the Rousseau Paper (thanks *Prof Gere... you're too sweet) and I *celebrated by going out for lunch with a few classmates. This finally gave me a chance to know them a little better (honest to goodness, I'm not very sociable in class) and they shared their tight schedules that seemed worse than mine! Yet, they were calm (and darn brainy... they're honours year students, kay) and asked me to chill (*heh). Now, this might be silly for you to hear, but the key was to break down the papers and to not spend so much time on them. My classmates told me I was silly to spend so much time researching and writing. Even if I claim to be slower, etc, I shouldn't be spending so much time on them! Rather, try spacing out with maybe two papers at a go... and always to readings. =P Gosh, this is good advice coming to me after three years in NUS. Erm, okay, maybe it didn't take this long for me to hear it but I coped just fine with my schedule (admittedly with yelling and hair pulling) last three years. I was stubborn and now, will try the alternative because it clearly sounds better. So, more relaxed breakdown of assignments, extension deadline and a promise to start revisions earlier (exams are about five weeks away). Coupled with the fact that there are no more union activities, no more dance classes (although I still do have aerobics class on Monday), no more curricular activities and things are just peachy with the boyfriend: I HAVE NO MORE EXCUSES This semester, I have no reason to not do well. I won't promise to be a spectacular student, but I must aim to do better because all the silly excuses are now gone. Of course, I still need to work very hard. Very hard indeed. Yet, there must be time to sleep. I need it (and my awful skin needs it) for at least 6 hours of sleep a day (I've been getting by on less than 4 hours), exercise at least on every alternate days (I've not seen the gym or the park or the yoga mat for quite a while) and a little bit of R&R, whatever I define that to be. *Grin. That's a promise. |
