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Tuesday, August 21, 2007

The Rule of Parenting

Singapore's pro-confucianist teachings amongst the chinese population has lead to a fatal flaw in the upbringing of the future generations by parents whom have the twisted teachings of Confucius ingrained into them by some unknown force.

Confucianism teachs that as part of filial piety, children should respect and care for their parents. This however, has to be taken into context and not just solely based on the explicit wording. Many terms here as rather strong. Respect.

The idea of respect is such that a child obey's his/her parent's wishes. Does that include his/her parents' every unthinking and immature whim? Confucianism assumes a perfect being in society, perfect mature thinking parents, obedient children, helpful and kind citizens. These perfect beings do not exist. As such, it cannot be said that we have to follow exactly as is taught as we are not perfect beings.

Illustration: In singapore, it is a common sight and hear to see and hear parents admonishing their children for talking back and arguing their point. At a young age, children are unable to understand the importance that adults place on their flawed logic and poorly structured arguments. As they grow progressively older, they come to realise that there are certain ways one has to speak in order to not seem "Rude". One has to be lower in volume than the parent one is speaking to. One has to wait for the parent to finish screaming their flawed arguments before quietly showing their own counterpoint.

It seems that adult parents are porne to making major leaps in logic without, whatsoever, any attempts to bridge that gap. An example would be my parents thinking that just because I lock my room door, I am surfing and visiting Pornographic websites. When a child manages to take apart their simplistic arguments, and begins to point out flaws, a defensive mechanism in them pops up and the word "rude" is used to describe the child.

Yet, does not rude mean to describe a set of socially unacceptable actions? These do not only apply to a select strata of society, ie. children. Rude actions apply even to adults when dealing with one lower in status than them. For example, I do not bang open my parents' door while they are sleeping or taking a nap for the sake of asking for the reasons as to why they are sleeping. Neither do I do the same when they are on the phone when a friend is kind enough to provide a favour of a "wake-up call". Yet, it seems parents are allowed to do so without suffering the term "rude".

To the point of anger, a child is not allowed to feel or express that particular emotion whereas a parent is allowed to direct anger and it byproducts at the child at a whim. Where does "respect" go? Out the window or up my bleedin' arse?

On a personal level, I think it's starting to be pointless to stay at home to even sleep, for I can't even sleep without being rudely and abruptly woken for the most pointless of reasons on most nights. Parents no longer lack the capacity for reading and listening. Understanding has flown the coop into hell. All that's left for me is arguments which I am not allowed to support myself, interrupted sleep, dissent, and irritation. I think I'm gonna fucking stay at either downtown east's macdonalds or in school.

Fuck all this, it's not like I don't already have enough to handle without you shoving pointless irritations up my bleedin' arse.

snorfed at
11:50 PM

Somebody out there hates me. I mean look at the shit that has happened to me recently. First, I lose my wallet yesterday. Then I noticed my mp3 player was cocked up. So I requested for email assistance. Today, I follow the fucking instructions and my player fucking dies at the end of it. I cant even turn it on, can't be detected by my com, doesn't respond to the charger.

Seriously, I thought I wasn't a naughty boy. What did I do to deserve such crap? Creative had better have a good explanation for why it died and a way to fix it. Stinking buggers.

On the brighter side, I managed to do today's Chem mock prelim paper 3. Haiz, shall try to concentrate and mug for tomorrow's paper 1 and 2. Somebody HATES me.

snorfed at
9:53 PM

Thursday, August 16, 2007

Today was a really sucky day. Actually, it wasn't all that bad, just that losing my wallet was a total bummer. Kinda sucks losing your wallet. I lost my atm card, ez-link card, cash card, some 30 bucks, all the neoprints I ever took in my life (not a lot), library card, and some trash. At least I didn't lose my ic. heng arh..haha.

Damn mah fan lah! Now i have to wait for my new atm card to come in and also make a new ezlink card. Doh!

Labels: Doh, lost wallet

snorfed at
8:26 PM

Wednesday, August 08, 2007

I'm baaaack! I'm no longer that sick now. I still sound really sexy due to the stupid cough I still have, but it's all right. I have really nice tasting cough medicine. Makes me wanna drink up the whole bottle each time. Maybe I'll be a druggie and get addicted to cough medicine...

Hey! It's National Day's eve. Today was rather cool. The first time I went out with my KI class. Well, not really the class, just Lijing, yanhan, benjy, si hong and I. We went to Great World City. For those of you who are as blur as I was, GWC is a damn ulu place lah. Not say ulu like nobody's around, but ulu like IT'S SO FRICKING INACCESSIBLE! You have to like walk some distance from tiong baruh mrt stn. GWC is also where yh's mom's shop selling billabong stuff is.

Actually, GWC quite cool. The toilets have themes like Egypt and Holland and stuff. Plus the arcade there is really cheap. Haha! So we like splurged at the arcade and poofed off to the nextdoor GV for The Simpsons! Hilarious! Homer(flipping through the Bible as Grandpa is rolling on the floor seemingly possessed): "This book doesn't have any answers!" Haha!

Spiderpig song

Spiderpig, spiderpig,
Dos whatever spiderpig does.
Can he climb, on a wall?
No he can't, he's a pig.

Tomorrow's National Day. This means that 1 of my 5 day holiday has passed with me doing absolutely nothing. I'm so gonna die. Against all odds, I shall chiong and produce a pretty IS and do all my other revision.

Yay, me.

Cheers.

P.S. Happy Gaining-of-Independence Day, Singapore.

snorfed at
8:58 PM