My family went to people's park hawker centre for lunch cos my mom needed to go to the tour agency nearby to pay the money for our holiday. the actual paying of money was quite straightforward, nothing to say there. i do, however, want to comment a bit about the lunch experience. there was this yong tau foo stall there, and the queue was the longest i've ever seen for a hawker center stall. it literally stretched the entire breadth of the hawker center and then some, and even after we had finished our meal it did not seem to be any shorter than it was. it got me thinking about the prevalence of herd mentality in people. according to my mom, that yong tau foo stall was extremely basic; you had no choice of wat pieces of yong tau foo you wanted, you had no choice of whether to have it soup or dry (it's always soup), and you had no choice of whether to have it with rice or some other staple (it's always bee hoon). isnt one of the draws of yong tau foo being able to choose which pieces you wanted? and to top it all off, not more than 10m away was another yong tau foo stall with the traditional flexibility. is the yong tau foo really that heavenly, or are people just compelled to think that way after seeing such a long queue? it brings into question a lot of comsumer stereotypes and assumptions, like how people always assume that older brands are better even after there has been a shift of management, or that handmade goods are always better than mass-produced versions. there are many instances where these assumptions simply do not stand, but people just stick to them anyways. just goes to show once again how logically fallible we humans are. maybe a loss of logical reasoning is the trade-off for emotional and sentimental attachment.
i got accepted as an ogl! well, the whole application process was honestly more or less a formality with lionel, seeing as how he's my classmate and also an overall laxing dude anyway, but at least now i know that the teachers have officially recognised my application.
do my eyes deceive me? or is it true that slowly but surely the broken bridge is being rebuilt again? in any case, just say the word and i'll do everything in my power to chip in.
bon voyage to everyone going for YLTC tomorrow! :)
i was randomly surfing the net when i came across this url linking to the urbandictionary.com definition of PTH, and it was a joke. apparently, PTH once went on tour with DragonForce, and all the definitions were either pro-PTH-anti-DF or pro-DF-anti-PTH. to make things worst, some anti-PTH people actually said that PTH was EMO. wth man, since when were they emo? people who cant appreciate the tempo shifts might call it unstructured or something and i could just brush it off as people who cant appreciate prog, but where the hell did EMO come from? they are most definitely NOT emo. personally, having been a fan of both DF and PTH at some point of time, i have to say that i prefer PTH over DF anyday. DF has fast guitar, sure, but it seems so pointless. for most of their songs they play two verses, then go into a 5 min guitar duel, then into the final verse. PTH songs have way more coordination between the different instruments, not to mention Rody Walker has a much better vocal range than ZP Theart AND can scream and death growl extremely well to boot. to all those who think PTH is trash, i dont blame you cos prog (or more specifically, PTH-style music) is quite an acquired taste. BUT if you hate PTH cos you think they're emo, then you need to actually listen to some emocore before calling anything "emo" the moment you hear death growls.
on another music-related note, The Human Abstract sounds interesting. maybe these next few days i'll youtube a few of their songs. but for now, here's one i just found, called "Vela, Together We Await The Storm". for most metal songs with piano intro/outros, i find it a bit hard to get used to, but for this song the intro somehow flows quite well into the song.
