Sleeping cougar

It's the moose calls that keep your ears open at two o'clock in the morning. (Not many people would be able to get this reference)

It's onemanga closing down.

Nah.

Thing is, it's pretty difficult to keep myself up at night; I sleep out of necessity not out of routine. I eat when I'm hungry, sleep when I'm tired and exercise when I feel unhealthy.

But if there really had to be one thing that keeps me up at night, it would be one of those deep trances I go into when I start thinking hard and thinking deep about things which most likely wouldn't affect my life (or the physical world, as a matter of fact) at all. It's like those KI questions you get in exams- apart from the fact that in my case, theories are derived from examples (much like how the Scientific Method works) rather than how examples are listed to support theories. (e.g. "how do you know the red I see is the red you see?" This then leads to the problems of perception etc.)

Thing is, is going into a deep trance qualified as being "up at night"? Because in that trance I'm still able to "store" all the arguments and conclusions I made into memory and yet, at the same time, I'm not quite awake. Who knows.

Old Policeman & Fireman Uniform

I'll leave this to my playwriting competition next week. *Yawns*

"Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change."
- Frank Lloyd Wright

This is the truest quote of them all. I relate to it so well. Being in Singapore and surrounded mainly by my Chinese peeps, humility has become a treasured virtue. (Not that the non-Chinese would mind someone being humble in front of them either)

But the truth is, I see no reason in being so humble. I find it utterly hypocritical and pointless, even to the point of being counter-productive. I see, in productions, at least a dozen times when someone being overly humble resulting in things going much slower than what it could have been.

Just what are you planning to do by degrading yourself in front of people who most likely aren't as good as you are?

Blend in?

Make them feel better about themselves?

Thing is, if one has to pretend that his better qualities are worthless/ non-existent around his friends, are these people really his friends? And what is the point of making another person feel better about himself if all it results in is you not being truthful to the person and the person being all self-satisfied and indulgent in the fact that his friend is an idiot like he is? If all your friend can think of is what good qualities he lack instead of what good qualities he possesses, it's the wrong mindset in the first place.

No one is absolutely stupid or talent-less. Some people just have a much lower ability in many things than others. That doesn't mean that these people ought to dwell on their worthlessness; I've seen people who truly aren't gifted in things society places a higher value on, but yet still being able to make themselves useful.

Arrogance may be loosely defined as overbearing pride; arrogance is definitely not falsely placed pride. Frank Lloyd Wright has taken the care to specify "honest" arrogance, because frankly, EVERYONE has a right to be so goddamn proud in what they do and how they do it well, even if it means irritating the shit out of everyone else.