Mirrors

My blogging frequency has drastically plummeted, I believe. And it's been a long time since I monitored the hit counter. It's late now, and yawn, I really should be sleeping.

Been watching a little bit of Olympics. Judo is the most hilarious thing I've seen in awhile. The gold medalist clinches his gold medal in a rather unorthodox manner. His opponent, a white man, was left a broken man on the other end of the mat, with his hands not on the ground but grabbing his own head tightly, caressing it. In other words, the champion's opponent, unfit for further combat, had to concede the match, while the Gold medalist walks away, trying to control his laughter. What a way to win Gold.

I tried to control my laughter, pitying the Gold medalist. He was swinging his hand up and down in such a languid manner, seems afraid of acknowledging his victory. he was like " oh crap did I win like this ? " His smile was quite priceless.

Don't shoot me if I misinterpreted anything, first time I ever watched Judo. Seems like men in cat fight to me.

Gymnastics was pretty awesome to watch. China had really a pedophile army of gymnast. They all look like kids who could swing more than monkey bars. They had really inhumane balancing abilities, they could flip in the air like a coin and never land on tails or heads but on their feet. However, one unfortunate competitor landed on her butt. Her expression was again, priceless, almost wanting to cry. Pressure, pressure. Certainly with her whole country, wait, no the whole world watching her, it was surely pressurizing. It was surely, very entertaining.

First time, again, I ever watched basketball. The contrast between USA and china was not only about colour but skill. USA dominated china, but china tried, just to no avail. Initially I was rooting for china when I first started watching, (somehow, I just had this spontaneous inclination towards china. fellow chinese?), but into the game, I realize it would be much happier rooting for the team who is surely quite certain of victory. I figured china had no chance.

Olympics is really entertaining. It's been a long time since I've watched badminton, and also, I want to watch all the stuff I never watched before.

Since tomorrow is going to be a holiday, I figured I should finally say the "Happy National day! " though it is slightly belated, but I only do good exchanges on the spot. Holidays, a big prerequisite to any form of patriotism.

I need to do my braces tomorrow, a burned afternoon.

My current plight: My math is hopeless, physics dying, and only a tiny minute ray of hope from chemistry. Will I survive?

Had a slight debate with my brother who tries to convince me about his definition of music. No doubt, classical is still higher in class and standards. Daniel Goh from my class seems to be convinced that game music is pure music. My brother tried to convince me that even the blacks or aborigines who beat drums are also performing an act of music, which in my opinion, does not count. They might be, at least to a greater extent that 'artistes' who sing pop. Granted, game music, rock, popular music or it's associates might be music, but if they are, they are defiled with impurities.

People think music is subjective, a matter of taste and preference. What you like is music, or what is pleasing to your ears is music. That is a fallacy. Anything that is not Mozart, Chopin or their 'friends' is not pure music. There is a reason why Mozart was a prodigy not Jay chou or Britney spears. The majority might not be always right, in fact more often than not, they are wrong. The reason why classical music is less widely received is because it takes a prerequisite amount of intelligence to be able to comprehend it. Research has shown that music taste has profound relation with intelligence.

This world has been plagued with all sorts of impurities. Pop, rock, techno. It's actually alright to like them, but terming them as music is expressing music itself in derogatory manners. I'm fine with it as long as people accept that there is a superior form of 'music', and the music they are listening to is impure.

Another thing which I found disturbing that there is usually an excess of noise in pop concerts, or whatever you have. Don't get me wrong, I am not insane to the extent that I attended one, but I was watching some Jay chou videos where he started singing and the cheers from the crowd grew so loud. That is fundamentally wrong, music should be listened in silence, and thus, that is enough evidence to pop isn't pure music. Anything that you can listen to, while making a lot of noise, is not music but an illusion, a drug, a subterfuge of your own imagination. Granted Jay does his fair share of "classical promotion", in his movie Secret, playing Chopin Improvisations, he performed Mozart Rondo Alla Turca and also one of Bach's' Well Tempered Clavier somewhere in rather modern style. When he 'performed' the piece Secret (time travel), the whole crowd went in roars. now, tells you a lot about the intelligence of the crowd doesn't it.

It's not a difference in culture, form of expression, it's not even an issue about art. It's a matter of perception, appreciation and intelligence. Seriously speaking.

I still do sway along to music, no matter how impure.

Everything written in my opinion, if it matters to you how I just offended the whole wide world of wrong perspectives, then go knock the wall or something while I continue enjoying Schubert's Impromptu. (which I was listening to all this while).