As part of a project for my visual arts (a mandatory module unfortunately) course, I had to go out and look for a public sculpture in the local area, and write on it. Initially I was pretty much tempted to head to a museum but it seems the museums here never show anything of true worth, so instead I settled for trying to search for a public sculpture, or pictures of them, and then find out if there were any interesting ones I could write on. I settled upon this particular picture above of a glass flower. The photograph was kindly taken and shared on Flickr by chooyutshing, and I first thought it would be a small sculpture. I was dead wrong.

Owing to my shitty Internets I was unable to post about this last night when I had my dream. I was going through some academic studies and had to take a nap in between, though I only intended for a short rest. I was just too tired. Of course, it resulted in R.E.M. sleep and a dream, which means it was a pretty good nap…if not for the dream itself.

Earlier this evening, at around 7:50 – 7:55 PM local time, my good friend of about 9 years since I knew him on the basketball court, has passed away at the age of just 23. I was with him and his family, along with other friends, throughout the afternoon, till he finally left us. It was a very sad time.

It’s been five days since Obama took the seat, picked the pen, and put his name down. What has the world got in store?

To be frank: a long road of suffering, hardship, envy, pity, inevitability, sadness, strength, and soul.

We are where we are today because we didn’t care about the environment. Our economy is based on taking natural resources to fuel growth; when those resources run out, the world will collapse. We are currently blowing up a huge bubble ever bigger, getting ever nearer to bursting. And when that happens, we will start fighting for what little resources we have left.

I had originally intended, long before the time period now, to write up this article, but never really got down to it. It was, in large part, due to my incompetence at writing anything worthy of note nowadays, as well as the lack of possible research, and knowledge therefore, in such an area. Yet recently, I have been given inspiration as well from this post by ID Sojourner, and therefore I bring to you a broader consensus of what society is like nowadays, at least, in my humble opinion.

Allow me to express the fact that this will be a long post. If you wish to read this article for the usual otaku-related stuff and similar images, you can skip this right now. I know of quite a few folks who have expressed their reluctance to read articles beyond their comprehension attention span, and therefore I must warn you ahead that this article is meant for those with an expressive interest (or might have it) in reading what I have to say thoroughly.
 

Again, all the thoughts of this post are my own after what I have read in my elementary college courses as well as what I gather from observing people around the world, writing in their blogs, speaking with them via the Internet, and the like. Truthfully, the sample data is thus subjected to much debate, but I rather have some data to work with and debate its accuracy, than nothing to work with at all and spout potent rubbish. This essay is entirely something that represents my opinion of society today, and the ills that we ourselves have created, and inflicted upon ourselves.

Lastly, I try wherever I can to quote credible sources from whence I get my knowledge and information. It is not wise at all to link to Wikipedia, but it does serve as a good place to be linked to direct, quantifiable and justifiable sources of knowledge. Of course, the accuracy of information and data is almost always subject to controversial and constant scrutiny, but to embark on a fruitless journey of deciding whether all the information that we process through our subjective and frail minds on an objective basis is something like looking for the pot at the end of the rainbow. Hence, I believe I have said enough, and let us move on to the main topic.

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