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Wrote the previous entry while talking to few poeple over MSN and published it without looking at it. Only read it again the next day and realized that the last paragraph was pretty incoherent. Whatever.
Picture this. You walk into a shop selling a selection of products claiming to improve your hair texture and what not. You look around comparing prices and description on the bottles. The salesperson walks up to you and introduces a few popular ones and takes one off the shelf, opens the cover and lets your smell it. It smells good, you buy it.
Dude smell good is not equals to works well. Don’t you realize how the product smells has no relation whatsoever to its so claimed effect printed on the container? Yes if you buying perfume I got nothing to say. And then the salesgirl goes on to take a small portion of it and rubs it on your wrist so let you feel the texture and how soothing it is and doesn’t irritate you skin. Okay so you assume the same for your hair. Well done. Consumer idiotism 101.
Yes the lead actress in the above play is my sis. Just that she didn’t buy the stuff. Cause it smells nice, feels good on the wrist but was too expensive.
Owing to a very good friend of mine, I just finished two books he lent me. Ender’s Game and Ender’s Shadow. It has been a long time since I last read any book exceeding a hundred pages without pictures. And I enjoyed every bit of despite being no fan of fiction.
I finished the first book during my four day holiday at Redang and the second one in barely a day. I only put down the second book twice. Once to the toilet and the second time when I finished it. The second book was definitely worth the read ten times as much, not that the first was any less than compelling.
The most fascinating part of the books was how disturbing the characters were. The brutality and inhumanness they displayed in response to their hostile environment. The amount of logical deduction they were capable of. And mostly how manipulative their minds were.
Although I do not profess to be a saint as I have had my fair share of evildoings and selfish thoughts, they seem really trivial in comparison and I would think I have never come close to being manipulative. Some people choose not to be manipulative but for me it seems like my brain is incapable to forming ways to go about doing just that. Not street smart enough maybe.
I know it sounds wrong to say I wish I were manipulative but being that seems to encompass the ability to see the bigger picture and therefore being able to make choices better, which naturally makes you a selfish person. Who in the right mind would make an informed choice thats not beneficial to yourself. Which only means to say altruistic people may not be so intellectually inclined then but thats no important. Being able to manipulate people does not mean you do not have a choice to not exert influence over them. I just want to be able to see more than what others see. Then again, when I have that ability I probably would be wishing for the bliss of having less thoughts in my gray matter and not having to always be double guessing people and their motives.
The human mind is a terrible thing to waste.
