10 more minutes to next lecture (skipped the last one lol), and I want to bring across something that crossed my mind while eating just now.
Was debating with giam yesterday on the definition of subtlety. I was saying that songs like 《爱你一万年》 is very crude, cos I think 爱不应该随便挂在嘴边，爱不应该有任何定义。
Then giam said, “But you like 《明明很爱你》 what!”
However, I was protesting that the latter was subtle, despite the use of ‘love’ in the lyrics (even the title!).
This morning, I recalled what giam also said, “Not everybody can understand your sarcasm.”
Then I realize why so many people sucker at songs that were so explicit, they are crude to my ears.
I must admit that I have, to a certain extent, a flair for words (in terms of literature) (and in Chinese). And cos of my sensitivity, I would prefer writings that are subtle. Even if I feel frustrated for not being able to understand it at one go, I will learn to appreciate that.
Just like people with sensitive hearing can hear very soft sounds, the loud booms hurt their ears a lot.
So words that speak out explicitly their meanings are sore to my eyes.
This is a matter of preference, i can’t blame anyone.
I mean, I understand that many people in the society are impatient; they want to get the message fast and move on. But to me, there are still some things that should take its time to be conveyed and received, ain’t so?
ya… End of 9 minutes. Gotta go into LT. Dun wanna have 80 pairs of eyes following me into the LT… lol
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After ending the previous section, I walked to the LT, saw a fren who was also walking to the LT. Problem was: Said fren didn’t take the module I was taking, and he had the same expression I had.
After a round of debate, I realized to my horror…
My mental clock was 1 hour early!
The lecture that I thought I couldn’t make it in time was just about to start!!
So I had to rush over halfway across engin to the other LT, to be 8 minutes late for the LT. haha… Better than missing it totally right??
Anyway, I wanted in the 1st place to talk about the significance of ‘明明’ in the previous section one. But no time. But now, I also got no feeling to talk about the subtlety of the phrase. haha…
I had lunch with xiong xiong just now. Very funny. Lately, he and giam has been meeting me on alternative days. And they have been updating me on each other separately; I knew giam went on a PT on Sunday and giam told me about… oh… I was wrong. She was not interested to tell me things about xiong xiong.
muahaha!!!
I am also looking forward to the day when either xiong xiong (heck! that’s so tough to type. Shall shorten him to XX) or me to take the initiative to rip each other’s head off.
Lunch just now was dominated by a debate over the mouthful of rice I left over (technically speaking, it was 2 mouthfuls, he overestimate my mouth le…). He thinks I should finish them off since it was just a mouthful. I think I should stick by my principle/rule/self-discipline to refuse to eat that. If I were to eat every mouthful that I left on the plate, I would have been a 100kg ZENOV instead of the current *erhem* petit zenov le…
haha…
Whatever.
He also got irritated by my intention to run when there was no light.
haha…
A long story starts from here. Maybe he’ll start to blog about it… hehe…
