catcher in the rye
Jay mumbling Chou has this new album called November Chopin. I haven't heard it yet, in fact I didn't give 2 hoots about his songs since I can't remember. To tell you the truth, I don't think I was ever half as crazy as about 25 million of those people out there pretending to be able to make out what he sang without looking at the actual lyrics itself. What caught my attention, rendering it worthy for me to actually type this, is the name of the album. I wouldn't mind spending the entire day standing at the CD rack of that album at HMV or tower records pretending to be working there just to laugh my ass off whenever some fanatic fan comes in and goes gaga over it shouting "november chop-pin!" If you recall, I once wrote something about Chopin, some brief history and one of my favourite pieces by him. I do recall how annoyed I was whenever someone says his name wrong. Making people aware of how Chopin is said, that's probably the best thing that album would do.
While we're at Chopin and piano music. There's this recent hype about that pianist who defaulted NS whose name I can't even remember. What's the deal with that? What I don't understand is why so many people are so pissed off at him just because he got away with NS with a fine. So he only didn't come back to Singapore where his parents are for like what a million years? Big deal. Seriously, who the fuck cares and why? So he didn't attend national service, good for him, really. I'd be damn glad if I can not do national service. I'm sick of all the bullshit people say to justify their doing national service as not a waste of time. As fullfilling as NS is to some, it's cantankerous fuck shit to most. Many of those that claim to actually enjoy national service are probably the phoniest bastards wherever they go. The kind that smiles at you and laughs at your not funny jokes and making some very not funny jokes themselves. If NS is that good and gives you that much of a satisfaction, why is it that everyone looks forward to ORD. People talk bull about how much pride they take in their nationality when doing NS and how much we all whine about having to do it but always end up doing it anyway and appearing happy. That's the phoniest fuck shit I ever heard.
If you ask me, I'd be a lot more pissed off with those that are doing NS but doing nothing! They get paid to do nothing! I don't consider reporting sick and getting a 2 day MC about 2 times a week work. Because unlike NTI in which everything is always different and always better than before, in which you get paid for psychoing people into joining that bane of a company so you can profit from their membership, I believe work needs to actually be done. You have to actually do something to even consider it work.
The only reason people whine and still do it is because we have no choice. Unlike the dude who's been in the UK studying since he was 12, we're here right now. We can't run away. And that bull about how his parents should be partly responsible for letting their son stay overseas and pursue his music career and not return to serve his due term for the country. Seems to me like his parents are damn right. How many successful musicians are there that are actually from singapore? I don't know but I'm pretty damn sure it's very very very very much lesser than the whole bunch of guys you see roaming the streets, whether they were, are or will be in NS. And for fuck's sake he's been there since he was 12!!
Think about it. You send you child somewhere overseas when he was 12 to study music and when he turns 18, you get a damn letter telling you to bring your son back, put his studies on hold, send him to a camp somewhere to do a shit load of physical activity in preparation for a pseudo war we know will probably not happen since seriously, nobody fights anymore, it's always negotiation after negotiation, so much that it's boring me. So he spends 2 years or so doing combat training and what not and I don't know, breaks a finger, a limb or 2. Or maybe he just sprains his finger, or a ligament tear in his finger or something like that, I don't know, but you get the idea, maybe he dies. Then what? He can't play the piano anymore or he can't play as well anymore. Maybe he'd end up like another one of those jocks on the streets. Then what? So you're saying that for the country, you would do that after spending 6 years worth of cash on his specialised education overseas, you'd risk all that and bring him back to serve the country? Get real.
If I have a child, I'd bring my wife to UK or something a few weeks or so before she's about to go in labour and stay there and have a hell lot of fun until the kid is born. The kid gets a UK passport and I raise him here in Singapore. Sure I wouldn't have all the perks and stuff and his education would probably cost quite a bit more than all the other kids around. But he wouldn't know that and he probably wouldn't be feeling the pinch. What he does get to do is laugh his ass off while he goes off to college at while his peers get stuck in NS for 2 years. Then he graduates and becomes their boss. Now that's cool, seriously.
While we're at Chopin and piano music. There's this recent hype about that pianist who defaulted NS whose name I can't even remember. What's the deal with that? What I don't understand is why so many people are so pissed off at him just because he got away with NS with a fine. So he only didn't come back to Singapore where his parents are for like what a million years? Big deal. Seriously, who the fuck cares and why? So he didn't attend national service, good for him, really. I'd be damn glad if I can not do national service. I'm sick of all the bullshit people say to justify their doing national service as not a waste of time. As fullfilling as NS is to some, it's cantankerous fuck shit to most. Many of those that claim to actually enjoy national service are probably the phoniest bastards wherever they go. The kind that smiles at you and laughs at your not funny jokes and making some very not funny jokes themselves. If NS is that good and gives you that much of a satisfaction, why is it that everyone looks forward to ORD. People talk bull about how much pride they take in their nationality when doing NS and how much we all whine about having to do it but always end up doing it anyway and appearing happy. That's the phoniest fuck shit I ever heard.
If you ask me, I'd be a lot more pissed off with those that are doing NS but doing nothing! They get paid to do nothing! I don't consider reporting sick and getting a 2 day MC about 2 times a week work. Because unlike NTI in which everything is always different and always better than before, in which you get paid for psychoing people into joining that bane of a company so you can profit from their membership, I believe work needs to actually be done. You have to actually do something to even consider it work.
The only reason people whine and still do it is because we have no choice. Unlike the dude who's been in the UK studying since he was 12, we're here right now. We can't run away. And that bull about how his parents should be partly responsible for letting their son stay overseas and pursue his music career and not return to serve his due term for the country. Seems to me like his parents are damn right. How many successful musicians are there that are actually from singapore? I don't know but I'm pretty damn sure it's very very very very much lesser than the whole bunch of guys you see roaming the streets, whether they were, are or will be in NS. And for fuck's sake he's been there since he was 12!!
Think about it. You send you child somewhere overseas when he was 12 to study music and when he turns 18, you get a damn letter telling you to bring your son back, put his studies on hold, send him to a camp somewhere to do a shit load of physical activity in preparation for a pseudo war we know will probably not happen since seriously, nobody fights anymore, it's always negotiation after negotiation, so much that it's boring me. So he spends 2 years or so doing combat training and what not and I don't know, breaks a finger, a limb or 2. Or maybe he just sprains his finger, or a ligament tear in his finger or something like that, I don't know, but you get the idea, maybe he dies. Then what? He can't play the piano anymore or he can't play as well anymore. Maybe he'd end up like another one of those jocks on the streets. Then what? So you're saying that for the country, you would do that after spending 6 years worth of cash on his specialised education overseas, you'd risk all that and bring him back to serve the country? Get real.
If I have a child, I'd bring my wife to UK or something a few weeks or so before she's about to go in labour and stay there and have a hell lot of fun until the kid is born. The kid gets a UK passport and I raise him here in Singapore. Sure I wouldn't have all the perks and stuff and his education would probably cost quite a bit more than all the other kids around. But he wouldn't know that and he probably wouldn't be feeling the pinch. What he does get to do is laugh his ass off while he goes off to college at while his peers get stuck in NS for 2 years. Then he graduates and becomes their boss. Now that's cool, seriously.
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