Note: Chinese New Year is less than 2 weeks away now and this being the Year of the Rat, I was looking for photos of mice that I have taken in the past that I was contemplating to use as a header montage when I remembered this old post of the 16th May 2006 that have some nice pictures of mice and which I’m re-posting below. Click here to go to the original post if you want to read the (old) comments.
I was most pleasantly surprised when I chanced upon the only sensible music video I had seen for a long time on trashy MTV and Channel V. Not that I really watch them at all as they’re getting more and more semi-pornographic which really turns me off. It was Pink’s ‘Stupid Girls’ and she reflected my sentiments exactly. She’s sick of the current scene too.
What with all the young girls aspiring to look and dress scantily like prostitutes these days from the images they get from the music videos. I really do not understand why any female would want to debase and degrade themselves to look like that to impress the guys. You are a thinking person, not an object. Duh! If that’s not stupid I really do not know how to call it, name it or label it. All these young (and not so young) girls had been brainwashed and wants branded attires only and their role models are celebrities like Paris Hilton and the slutty likes. Is it a proud feeling that the whole world has seen you having sex? The strays on our streets do that too!
Yes; guess what - they all wanna be the same! Mindlessly mimicking their favourite celebrities. Whatever happened to individuality and the ability to think for oneself? To be true to who we are and not what other people would be ‘impressed’ with who we think they think we are. Surely we are not what we dress and what we own right? You are defined by what brands you wear or use and the latest handphones? This is massive brain hemorrhage …
Look at the pictures of white mice I took at the pet shop the other day. The aimless mindless but cute and pretty looking mice. All looking exactly the same. But look closer; as I did and you’ll notice that there are amongst them one or two brown colour ones. But unlike the mice we can choose to be who we are and not mindlessly following what the adverts and media are telling us. This warrants as much serious thought as John Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men“.
Be who you are by discovering your authentic self and be free. And (unlike George) you don’t even have to kill anyone to achieve this!
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Remember, in ‘Of Mice and Men,’ Lenny did the courageous thing and saved George; it is easy to see lenny killing George, it is difficult to accept that he did the thing most of us would be terrified to do. I’ve actually had the opportunity to lecture on the apparent difficulty here, and said that I wish I’d have the strength to do as he did. A short, and unbelievably, work of reflection and strength.
don’t chinese realize that MICE and RATS are NOT the same thing?????