eudaimon

the week i wallowed in a sea of calm boredom, with nary much real stuff to do. saved from the monotony by Arion's dolphin, in the form of Plato's The Republic. hahas. i like the book a lot, although I think Socrates relies too much on analogies, and some analogies are clearly bad. how he reaches the conclusion that the soul is immortal makes me foam.

he rightly points out that philosophers are useless or dangerous, because either they think too much of a simplistic world of pure and honest individuals or they are just pretentious bastards. his republic will never work and surely degenerate, because he demands too much of his phulakes, or Guardians, requiring they be good fighters and good philosophers. quite hard. and his foamer ideas also dont work because there is no way to test the 'heavenly metals' in a person. not paying them is a joke, and no matter how much Reason a person has, his Ambition and Desire will also have some say in his life.

math (reason) appeal less to a common man than sex, after all, as thrasymachus rightly pointed out. sex affects everything and as homer mentioned, even zeus forgot the plan he thought of all night when he saw the silhouette of hera in the glow of the moonlight.

eugenics has gained much ground, although we do not expose the flawed babies as he suggest. meritocracy is in fact what contributes to his aristocracy and all. his revolutionary idea of breaking up the family unit and allowing all the returning winners to fuck all they please to produce the fittest young is a bit too extreme to seriously implement. social upheavel requires dissenssion in the ruling class, but for such serious displacement of the social order, much more is required.

else time, i read FHM Asian Edition. some special edition thingy. Ann Wu and Stacy Chou are HOTT HOTT HOTT man! taiwan is the bomb place. "boys liked to spank my butt when i was in school". "my friends call me papaya tree because i am slim but my top is heavy". but the quote that struck me most was "sex is about releasing the heat. making love is that and emotions". wow. cheem sia.

booked out on monday to buy foam cutter. i was foaming. ooc really can anyhow book out and do shit.

went to send zhenan off. met him at pp, went to his hostel and then to the airport. after almost 5 years in sgpore, i think he might forever not return. thats not a bad thing, for both singapore and him. there is one less prc and i dont see much that singapore has to offer. at least he neednt the servitude to which me and my 'brothers in arms' have been subjected.

its a close of a chapter, really. i consider myself lucky to have ever known well a chink as him, that not all chinks are one monolithic whole of a bastardic community bent on cheating the world. in china, honesty is one funny word. so is generosity. hehe. glad he isnt much like that.

anyways his people liberation army, victoria edition sent him off. aaron teoh also got off pass to send him off. aslc is one fun place lol. loves it lots.

tomorrow book in, sian. kena attached to guard room. hope it isnt fucked up. cannot sleep from dusk to dawn and dawn to dusk anymore. haiz. but neverminds, got tv and internet. yays.