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  • Power and Determination

    Power and determination are not compatible together in the real world.

    As long as an individual has power then he or she could do whatever he or she wants. I disagree with this statement. Having power does not mean an individual can do whatever he or she wants. In the real world, we are living in the human society. Some people are naturally born to become a leader having lots of influences in the society because of networks. These networks are not built in an instant. It requires certain amount of the time to build up; in which it requires several decade and generational efforts to accumulate these foundations. Being able to connect with someone who is influential, is getting the influence on that person’s power. And this would require an individual to invest specific amount of the time to connect with the powerful people. The individual could not be truly autonomous. This is because he or she needs to become the version of the self being able to fit into the powerful people’s perfection as a means of being fit in.

    Being able to connect with the powerful people, or becoming the powerful person. There is a possibility, not requires competences. Being able to fit in the powerful community or the person’s vision, is the concept of being assimilate into the community. The powerful people has the right to define the standard culture.

    Therefore, desire being a powerful power, or getting to become powerful person to connect with the powerful individual. It is not equal to self-determination.

    Determination, is an individual could truly manifest oneself, without regarding what the others’ preconceived notion of the perfection. This is more likely to be the role of artist. Albeit this will enrich an individual intellectual freedom, this also is part of suffering cause the general public culture won’t appreciate. This act of deliberation could potentially challenge the standard culture, that would facilitate a new wave of innovation such as counter culture, awakening innate human soul, stretching the boundary of humanity.

  • It is better not to fall in love with your favorite writers

    It is dangerous to fall in love in the early age. There is a risk of fearing being belong to someone for forever; and this would restrict an individual freedom; he or she might have to relinquish his or her life goal. Of course, this also has to do with an individual whether he or she could manage a way to achieve his or her life goal while having settle down with a life partner.

    It is the same as being a life of artistry, embracing the concept of not totally belong. The idea of belonging is a sense of comfort, living with hegemonic culture to fit in the propaganda. This is comfortable, not challenging the cultural discourse, simply not to think too much. Even though I can feel there is a comfortableness wanting to belong, my brain still could not buy this kind of shit. This is because there are so many intellectual and cultural colors appearing on my not perceiving the one way of thinking. The psychologies would diagnose this as cultural homeless symptom.

    This is the same thing as some of readers or academics saying their favorite authors. It is an intellectual trap. Falling in love with an author’s works, is getting brainwashed by the propaganda. When you fall in love, you would invest lots of energy trying to defend the relationship that you have invested. The eagerness wanting to defend that value, indicating the emotional values, not with the straight logical reasons. It is great to see Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Jane Austen, George Orwell, and the other famous writers. Yes, they have contributed the greatness for our human race.

    But, we should not continue to get haunted by the past term. It is important to steal their works like an artist. Then, looking forward to write something that comes from your singularity.

  • The remoteness and infinite thinkings

    Standing on the sand, I vividly thought about the past and dream. What would you like to dream tonight? This is a question that I would constantly doubt on my mind, in order to expand my imagination, imaging the things are missing. Am I a surreal writer? Maybe not, because I am not a person affiliated the concept of label. Label is unsophisticated, time would change everything therefore label could not maintain its consistency to define an individual singularity.

    Breathing the sea salt water, hearing the ocean sea wave, witnessing the people indolently walked on the sand, touching the scatter wind under the velvet blue sky, the sun was shining on my brown skin.

    I now have an idea for a new writing prompt that my mind has been preparing the plots. I need to use action to make things happen. Actions speak louder than words. I need to concern how to use writing to humanise the spirit of image, maybe providing more details that would make the scene to make more real.

    I also need to expand my imagination on reading different books.

    I have ordered a new literature written by a Malaysian author. I also know which book I should read next, Andrea Hirata’s The Rainbow Troops.

  • Why Asians do not like each other?

    Seeing white people get along well with each other.

    Seeing black people get along well with each other.

    Seeing Asian people do not get along well each other.

    I ask myself why Asian people do not like each other. I remember I was 21. I was at the in the band in the party house. Playing in the band, boosted my social networks. The Japanese students visited in our party house. Of course, it was awesome that the girls would cook some food for us while introducing their culture. Then, I was packing my electronic piano, seeing a Japanese student chatting very friendly with my bandmate. My bandmate said hi to me. And then suddenly, the weird thing happened, that Japanese student was becoming upset. Maybe, because my yellow skin could get along with the white guy then stirring up the jealousy. This is a very strange thing; and the memory of this is still live on my mind.

    The second thing happened, regarding on the question of why Asian people do not like each other. There is a company that I used to serve for providing the service becoming a mediator; and more than just a mediator that I was developing the business project. The boss did not know how to speak English. I was engaging in the business project with the clients. The clients are Indonesians. We were chatting very well, getting the project to almost completion. But the boss was not happy, because I was getting along with the clients very well. I thought maybe my dark skin that transcends my identity to become part of south East Asian- Pan Asian movement. That I could connect with this part of the world very well.

    The third thing happened regarding on Asian people do not like each other. I was working on the project steady, reporting to my family for what I have been working on. Even though my results are not good, I could provide the strong statements connecting with the executive. My relatives were upset my behaviors. One of the relatives who I used to think I can be close with that he obtained a prestigious US degree. I thought, as long as I can provide a great intellectual insight then we can achieve a better successful consequence. In turn out, he would cut me off for every single opportunity. I have been doubting, why Asian family relative needs to hurt each other, in order to display the Asian culture of depressive ancient tale drama, that ancient princes need to kill each other in order to claim the Emperor seat.

    Above these phenomenon I can think of , in theory, the Asian people do not like each other because…

    The Asian society always has strong discipline for children that they need to be competitive, achieving materialistic success. The soul immerse more on materialism; and that the segregation of the oneself, more likely happy. Because collective human interaction is the part of human nature of instinct. Survival comes from the will of the community bonding on each other.

    The past of colonial culture always imposed on the Asian people. British colonial imperialist culture had established the concept of indirect rule, establishing the voice of the minority who is more like them, ruling their community. This position became incasing competitive during the British empire. This culture gradually evolve to become western academic institutional admission. Asian children need to competitive to go to Harvard and Oxford, determining who is smart enough to go there. This culture is increasing toxic for children coming from Asian family, even though the strong discipline of the education can build a good foundation, it would erode the children human nature the right to be oneself. The constant pressure on the competition will eventually result in jealousy for the future generation, which more likely leading to an individual to commit radical act and bad mental health.

    I advocate letting the kid to be oneself, is the right to be self-determination.

    1. The Restart-up Writer

      I have decided to restart a new blog site, paying 60 Canadian dollar, launching the unknown website. It was Benjamin Franklin documentary movie has inspired me to become a writer again.

      I have been constantly pushing myself to read books; participate in business activities. Then, I gradually forget about writing. I therefore decide to pay 60 Canadian dollar as a means of reminding I need to write more in order to organize my thought clearly. And this, I can feel proud I use 60 Canadian dollar to buy cheeseburgeres.com

      I used to have a blog website. This was few years when I was a student in the postgraduate program in London. I had a lot of fun with it. Then, suddenly the blog writing activity has disappear in my life. Perhaps, I could not focus on writing due to covid and identity crisis. Needless to say, it is easier for an individual to have pretext not to bear a responsibility that he or she suppose to comprise in his or her life goal.

      What does it mean to become a restart-up writer?

      Becoming a restart-up writer is the same as to create another start up company from 0-1. Start up companies has more potential to fail. It is the same as immature writers could not maintain the consistency to write, then the spirit of writing gradually fade away from his or her life. At least, the disciplinary mind-set will still remember the concept of consistency, then an individual could become a restart-up writer.

      There are people might ask me what I would like to write?

      The laziest reply that I would say, I do not know. It is perfectly to be lazy. This is because the most difficult jobs should give the laziest people to do, that they could find the easiest way to achieve the project; that individual must have a sexy brain. Writing is an act of reflection, is impossible to use definite intellectual reason to force the ideas out. It needs to follow the flow of reflection as a means of impressing the white page, deflecting the sensational words, impressing the readers, letting them to decide whether they would give a fuck or not.

      Of course, the act of reading is the foundation of everything. Absorbing the mass sentences and the sound of words, constitute the wildest imagination. It feels like the first bite of Cheeseburger while listening Beethoven’s symphony.

      When I write every single English word, is the message, reminding me to first time I realise my first favor homework to which is English essay. Albeit it is suck to work in China lacking a differences, I will still make my way to the place where I can read and write all the time.

      The elder I get, the more I realise I need to write more.