The Them
But I'll fight what I can. I won't conform.
"Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts." - Aristotle
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Ladies and Gentlemen, I've seem to have dragged myself into a predicament. Well, it isn't a predicament per se but still it would definitely needs a reassesment on what I would consider wise, and unwise and predicaments like these aren't entirely unavoidable, that's for damn sure. I knew it, I knew it, and I say again, I knew it. It was, to me, as inevitable as nightfall.
The solution is simple though; abstinence from what (who) intoxicates me in this particular manner.
I should have known better, I really, really should have.
It's like already tearing a ligament, and still join the "Fittest man on Earth" competition.
It's like going on that drive (knowing that the next petrol station is like 40 kilometers away) when running on empty.
It's like satisfying that whiskey craving when your diabetic.
It's like wearing that singlet when you have a hairy (as fuck!) armpit (and B.O.).
It's like falling in love knowing that you've falling into the abyss.
So this is Looooofy now. His predicament has left him in a world of pain (and when it get's cold, it hurts his nails to even cough), his stuck in the middle of no where (no petrol, no station and no one in sight), he's breaking down (slowly, limb by limb, having to sacrifice a hand or a leg just to feel the sugar rush of a whiskey coke slide down his throat like a kid on a slide, that rainy day), he's keeping away from everyone (it's either he fucks off where he won't be judged or stays long enough for him to get smelled) and he's floating, somewhere between the gutter and the stars (because that's what falling for someone does to you sometimes).
Against my better judgement, I face reality with my afro and my smile, reality in my right hand, options in my left, I clapped my hands to the beat of the song I wanted to hear but what I heard was something I hate (like raggaeton!) but I guess, I have to roll with it, don't I?
Or do I?
Do I leave this place (za-ze-bab, Gasoleee-na za-ze-bab, Gasoleee-na) or do I stay here and just dance to this awful music (Excuse me, Bartender. One more drink. Could you make it strong cause I don't need to think).
Hand me my coat and my hat, please. I'll take my leave. It's not that I don't like this place, on the contrary, I do, but I would love to be here as much as I would love to be in the spine of a book. Being stuck in an unrelenting avalanche leaves you with motion sickness if you house an inability to roll with it, as my Mooks T-Shirt proclaims.
I'll see you in the next life when we're both cats.
It's new! It's fresh! And it's bound to sell like hotcakes to the insatiable parents, leaders of this vulture society!
*drum roll*
It's Human Genetic Engineering!
*rowdy cheers from the crowd*
Ladies and Gentlemen, we are proud to introduce this profound step in Technology. Now, you won't have to worry about how your kids will turn out! Now, you can plan for it!
*crowd goes WILD*
Now, ladies and gentlemen, settle down. I hope you don't have the tendecy to be fickle because you can only fuck up this kid's life once. And from the get go! HAHA
*crowd laughs obediently*
Think about it, ladies and gentlemen, get that girl, get that white kid, get that big dick, get rid of that misfit, get that 6/6 eye sight, get that straight hair, get that fake genes.
*The crowd ponders, seemingly, as a distinct smile is seen on all their faces*
What is God, ladies and gentlemen? Who is God? I have the answer right here and I'll tell you myself.
Sign these papers, and YOU ARE GOD, ladies and gentlemen!
*the roof, the roof, the roof is on fire!*
I was unimpressed. I raised my hand. I went unnoticed for 7 minutes. "God" pointed to me and asked, "Yes, kind, Sir? How could I be of service to you?".
"Well, you could, so kindly, just address a few queries, to rest my doubts", I smiled, tipped my hat and clear my throat.
"Shoot!", with brimming confidence, he said.
What apt words he chose.
"Indeed. Sir, we could choose to have changes made to us, but we might also be making the choice for our children if the changes are carried through to the germline. Do we have that right, and how far should we take our ability?" asked I, noticing the face of "God" change, His perpetual smile giving in to gravity. "Conversely, is it responsible and ethically acceptable to leave the potentials of our children to the chance effects of the "genetic lottery", if we obtain the technological capacity to make positive changes?", I continued. no stopping me now. At the corner of my eye, I noticed men in suits whispering into their translucent mouth pieces, and listening hard to the "voices" in their heads. Die by the gun, i decided. "If genetic engineering became the way of the future, would people whose parents could not afford to genetically 'modify' them while still in an embryo, have a chance of achieving with high standards compared to the people who were 'modified' to be perfect?", I was having a ball. "God" was sweating. The crowd started to get rowdy, but not in the way that they were earlier. Someone just shouted some racist remark my way. I just smiled. People. Hah!
Just to shut everyone up, I farted. It was a long, good one. I bet there would have been green mist emitted from my ass, had anyone looked hard enough. Take that, bitches!
"Sir, is it ethical to experiment on embryos that have yet to be born? And have you even considered how would genetic engineering be used to revolutionize warfare? And who decides which changes will be made?" I asked. I waited for a response.
"Well............are you a journalist? From which paper do you come from?" asked "God".
"No, I'm not a journalist. Even if I was, this isn't job related. I'm just a concerened citizen. Citizen of humanity. Could you please answer my last question, Sir : Who decides which changes will be made?", I posted again. "God" hesistated to response.
It was time.
"Very well", I said, taking a device out of my hand, "I'll answer the question for you". I raised that device to my chest level, which is above the shoulder for most people, and pushed the button while I said "I decide, mother fucker", and I smiled, my oh, so sweet, smiled that has landed me in bed several times before.
"God" looked scared. He had his arms to his head, thinking that I was going to blow that place up. He must have thought that I was a suicide bomber. Psycho. As soon as he realized that I was probably some deluded activist and that I didn't blow up the place to bits, he called on the gaurds on me.
"Get that freak out of here!", he shouted.
I carried on smiling as the gaurds threw me out. I got my ass kicked around abit, a few punches here and there, before they threw me to the ground. I got up, smiled, and thanked them for their kind hospitality.
I got into the car and got the fuck out of there. At around the time I was thanking the gaurds, "God" received a call from the headquaters of his operation. It was his Boss, who I can only imagine be called "Bigger God", detailing some bad news.
"Steve, our main labratory was just bombed. We are thinking terrorists but it could very well be activists or the Pagan society, whatever. They left a message. It read 'If you can play God, so can I'."
"It was signed 'Looooofy Looooofy Loo' "
We've all talked alot about it in the last year. Exchanging views, opinions and even forecasts and purviews. The emotions, the excitement, the well wishes.
For the past half year, all we've been doing is crawl towards the date. Always seemingly at the back of my head, all I've done for the past couple of months has been in preparation to the date.
The date.
The date.
Funny how a mere odd sequence of numbers could take control of ones' life so drastically. It's like owning a Lamboghini.
So the inevitable is approaching. 2 weeks from today, on the 19th, I'll board that plane, strap in, seats upright, food tray docked, no smoking, no electronic devices, no arab extremists, no explosives, no sharp objects, , no bombs, no mentioning the word bomb, no praying to Allah, no claustophobia, tea not coffee, wine not juice, fish not chicken, yes I'll have the papers, could I have a blanket, maybe an extra pillow?, 8 hours later, the temperature in Melbourne is 2 degrees celsius.
This was coming, always was. It's like Armageddon. The end of what we know. Away from this vulture society and this disgustingly elites education system. Where I won't be judged. Anywhere, but dear old Singapore.
To my friends and loved ones,
This past 22 years of my life has been a roller coaster ride, among other things (see: party, fucking ball, 22 year LSD trip, story, adventure, lesson, jail sentence) and I would not have been Looooofy have I not met you. All of you have been my mother, my father, my brother, my sister, my mentors, my martyrs, my God, my religion, my ultimate belief, my saviours, my heroes, my keepers and my angels and to thank you in words would be unjust.
It's as ineffable as me.
I wish, in a pocket friends kind of way, that I could pack each and every one of you into an island the size of a palm, and whiz you away with me. Together, we will begin to rule and educate misplaced souls and corrupted minds and lay the guideline to humanity.
But realistically, only I have been given this opportunity to leave this "democratic" state for democracy.
19th of June, I will drop a tear, not because I am sad to leave (on the contrary!), but to show you all how much I appreciate your existence.
Three cheers to Looooofy!
Life is not about where you end up. Life is about who you've met along the way.
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Blogging to me, or so it has repeatedly presented itself to me, has always been a one night stand (not that I've ever had a one night stand so I'm merely emulating the morning after) - an extremely short affair. The kind of one night stands that you have after 6 years of sexual abstinence which would inevitably result in a one minute stand rather than a one night stand, unless of course you have been practicing tantric sex religiously during your sexual abstinence.
I come here, I create a blog spot, and I REALLY create a blog spot meaning I consider my nick and put effort in choosing the colours of my page and the what nots most over zealous virgin bloggers do when they create a new blog spot, and the blog would only be home to one miserable entry. Some might argue that it was merely half an entry, even.
But this time? No...This time it's different. I mean, I've always wanted a blog. No like how a kid always wanted a pet but more in the sense that, I've always considered this to be a productive way of putting forth certain sentiments. To express rather than to stifle. See but the thing always was my lack of time, not effort. So then I decide to go old school. The classic journal. Me bestest mate. But me and journals, sheesh!, that's another issue.
I love writing, I really do. I mean, I guess if I don't by now, I would have to come to love it because for those who don't already know, I intend to be a writer (of sorts). But the thing is with me and journals, why we never work out, is...
I hate my handwriting...
I despise it, I really do. It makes me feel like puking. It's grostesque, it's repulsive, it's simply disgusting. I leave myself in awe (like a depressive "oh, what the fuck?" kind of awe. Like if you were to walk in on your husband of 15 years going down on his gay lover, awe) when I TRY to read what I've just wrote. I would seriously give Robert Langdon a run for his money had I simply wrote "I killed the mother fucker! It was me! I'm as guilty as the fat guy who farted in the lift! It was ME! Looooofy!" on plain canvas.
It's bad, it really is...
My absolute loathe towards my handwriting has taught everything I wrote, and I mean everything, to have an adverse affect on me. Thank God (gods, diety, Oh Supreme One, Hugh Hefner) that poets didn't have handwriting as hideous as mine for the most beautiful of poems would fall obscure to the aesthetic eyes of appreciators. So I can't stand my journal. I hate it.
The writer who hates his own handwriting. That's fresh, innit? What's next? A cat that doesn't like the taste of it's own ass? What will the world come to?
So this time, I've pledged, to be different. To be vigorous and integrous to this blog.
Behold!
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