differences.

just wanted to share some happy penguins.

yanzi's newest blogpost was amazing and i just wanted to share it:

A beautiful point in Singapore politics, made by one wise man (George Yeo) and pointed out by another (Chen Show Mao): "To be a human being is to be different. The whole logic and driving force of biological life is diversification. An imposed unity is a false unity; it’s a contradiction in terms." Mr Chen Show Mao also said in the same speech "..differences are not divisions. It is the intolerance of differences that will be divisive. "

the translated chinese version was even more amazing:

"人人生而不同。生物生命的整个逻辑体系和推动力在于多样化。强加的统一是虚假的统一；是一种自相矛盾的说法。”

“差异并不是分歧，不可调和的差异才将最终导致分裂。”


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on a side note, had an awesome night yesterday yuenling kennethkoh lance gordon and fangjing. we saw sengwah and thyeboon at the gelato shop in chijmes and i can only say... singapore's really small. haha.

drank my whole month's worth of alcohol and felt much better somewhat after feeling so shitty for so long. 借酒消愁-ing. think at this rate i'd probably need to get drunk by the end of this year.

and rr's facility was OMG. i can't believe kennethkoh's working in such an awesome place! and haha the perks of being an edb officer - i get to visit many many places. :D which always somehow makes me reconsider being an engineer. after all, sciences and math have always been my strengths, not gp, not english, not history, not social studies. oh gosh, i might have taken up a wrong job after all.

anyway, horrible things aside, i'm glad for all my dearest friends :) at the kind of society we all live in, the only thing other than God that can really keep me living is the people in my life. phew.

 + guaishou's! :D