I pester wendy to read my blog as usual...and this is her reply.
I want to found out how my best riend have managed to accumulate another mount of "her precious" in a totally different country
but most importantly how she excel in an environment so different from the one we have shared for all these years from 13 years old..
from jap drama to appreciating american sitcoms
I am amused.
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Wednesday, May 11, 2005
ULTIMATUM!!!!
I was informed by my landlord last night that there is going to be YET another Health & Safety Check on this coming Friday...of all the 365 days...they make it on a Friday the 13th.... and the below is an extraction of roughly my conversation with my landlord...
Landlord : Oh..Sha(my name in short)...on friday...
there will be another health and safety check...
Me : Wat..this friday?...or next?
LAndlord : This friday.
Me : On the 13th?
Landlord : yes, at 11.
Me : in the morning?
Landlord : yes...
Me : Ok....I will do something about it.
(walking towards my door)
Landlord : No sha...you really have to clear up...
Becos this people are very particular...
(saying this, he demostrate by wiping
his fingers at the corridor wall and give
a hard look at his finger, pretending to be them.
Me : Ok....i get your point...
( I opened my door)
LAndlord : Sha...I am serious...you really have to do
something...this is very serious...very very serious...
(i cannot remember the exact number of "serious"
he uses altogether in his speech....)
Me : ( By this time...I have already opened my door and
get halfway into my room...i look back at him...and say)
Yah...I understand.
Landlord : (Stressing ONE MORE TIME) Sha...I am not joking...
If they are not happy with the place...
They will shut the whole house down. VERY SERIOUS.
They will close this place down!
Me : Ok...I get that. (Calmly.. I close the door and locked it)
And my heart sunk.
I cannot understand...what has the mess got to do with health and safety.
The mess is innocent. They have done nothing wrong. They dun look good...but they have a heart of gold...and had done no harm to anybody...why do they have to force me do this.
And if the health and safety inspector is going to close down this place...I believe they should have more than one reason to do it...and NOT becos there is one messy room in the building. AND...if you all really want to know...the bathroom ceiling has been leaking since i arrive one year ago...and the tap is running 24 hours a day and the landlord never repair it...the windows in Room One is smashed and not replace for a long time...and the old door downstairs is older than me...and is rotting....the garden has grasses taller than me at one point...and the carpet...look at it...it is sooo dirty I had to vacumm it 4 times and lay newsapaper on it before i dare to walk on it...the fridge was full of mould when i move in...i had to disinfect them before i use it...i never had any complains...NEVER...even when he switch off the heater thinking it is spring...to save electrical bills...and my room is freezing...when the temperature at night reach ZERO...
I SHALL CLEAR UP AND MAKE SURE IT IS CLEANER THAN WHEN I MOVE IN!!!!...I SWEAR!!!!.....anyway it is time for me to do so....for my degree show...they will have a new home...my studio...and shall never have to live in that miserable place i live in....and to make sure that even if this place were to be shut down....IT HAS GOT NOTHING TO DO WITH ME!!!...I dun want to be blame for making people homeless....and...the hoorible thing is...the landlord sound as if....if the house will close down...it is only becos of me.
As for the health and safety check...if it passes...good for everybody...and i can stay until october as planned....if not...TOO BAD!
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Landlord : Oh..Sha(my name in short)...on friday...
there will be another health and safety check...
Me : Wat..this friday?...or next?
LAndlord : This friday.
Me : On the 13th?
Landlord : yes, at 11.
Me : in the morning?
Landlord : yes...
Me : Ok....I will do something about it.
(walking towards my door)
Landlord : No sha...you really have to clear up...
Becos this people are very particular...
(saying this, he demostrate by wiping
his fingers at the corridor wall and give
a hard look at his finger, pretending to be them.
Me : Ok....i get your point...
( I opened my door)
LAndlord : Sha...I am serious...you really have to do
something...this is very serious...very very serious...
(i cannot remember the exact number of "serious"
he uses altogether in his speech....)
Me : ( By this time...I have already opened my door and
get halfway into my room...i look back at him...and say)
Yah...I understand.
Landlord : (Stressing ONE MORE TIME) Sha...I am not joking...
If they are not happy with the place...
They will shut the whole house down. VERY SERIOUS.
They will close this place down!
Me : Ok...I get that. (Calmly.. I close the door and locked it)
And my heart sunk.
I cannot understand...what has the mess got to do with health and safety.
The mess is innocent. They have done nothing wrong. They dun look good...but they have a heart of gold...and had done no harm to anybody...why do they have to force me do this.
And if the health and safety inspector is going to close down this place...I believe they should have more than one reason to do it...and NOT becos there is one messy room in the building. AND...if you all really want to know...the bathroom ceiling has been leaking since i arrive one year ago...and the tap is running 24 hours a day and the landlord never repair it...the windows in Room One is smashed and not replace for a long time...and the old door downstairs is older than me...and is rotting....the garden has grasses taller than me at one point...and the carpet...look at it...it is sooo dirty I had to vacumm it 4 times and lay newsapaper on it before i dare to walk on it...the fridge was full of mould when i move in...i had to disinfect them before i use it...i never had any complains...NEVER...even when he switch off the heater thinking it is spring...to save electrical bills...and my room is freezing...when the temperature at night reach ZERO...
I SHALL CLEAR UP AND MAKE SURE IT IS CLEANER THAN WHEN I MOVE IN!!!!...I SWEAR!!!!.....anyway it is time for me to do so....for my degree show...they will have a new home...my studio...and shall never have to live in that miserable place i live in....and to make sure that even if this place were to be shut down....IT HAS GOT NOTHING TO DO WITH ME!!!...I dun want to be blame for making people homeless....and...the hoorible thing is...the landlord sound as if....if the house will close down...it is only becos of me.
As for the health and safety check...if it passes...good for everybody...and i can stay until october as planned....if not...TOO BAD!
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The best thing...
The best thing...that is happening recently...is that I finally can enjoy the privilege to go to school at 9am and stay in school until 11pm everyday...is a 14 hours things for me...and i love it...i like to be doing something...enjoying the process...and i am doing it right now....wat more can I say...and the next best thing...is...I HAVE got internet connection NOW...becos I have become a parasite to my friends studio....sitting by the corner of his studio...feeding on his connection wires to enter the internet....this is the greatest discovery since i study in this school....that i can have 24 hours access to the school and internet...NOT officially though...I had to do it sneakily...and whenever the sercurity comes and check...I pretend that I am from the MFA....
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The logic behind the fickled mind
There is a logic to it. And as simple as you can imagine. It is simply the mind going thru the process of choosing the best...or just what is the most appropriate . However, this trial and error is not about right or wrong...but rather THIS or THAT. So if your mind hovers around THIS and THAT...THIS or THAT..this..this that this THIS... that and this...you will realise it is the This that you really want when the statistic shows that THIS is the thing that keeps coming back into your decision. And hence...a decision is made finally. As for those who can make up their mind easily and stick with it...it is either they dun have much choice.....or this kind of person dun exist.
Who is NOT fickled minded? You tell me.
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Who is NOT fickled minded? You tell me.
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This whole mess...
My mess...JM said he is sooo haunted...he got this urge to come back and clear them up for me...in fact...he already had a concrete plan on how to do it...first he said...he would fold up all the clothes....then....the newspapers by the door...THROW!...the empty bottles...THROW!....trash...THROW!!!!...I wouldn't blame him....becos another friend of mine, wendy, also LOVES to help me do "CLEARANCE"...and her kick comes from throwing away all my things...but there is a twist lately.
I have been trying to justified the reason for the existence of all my junk...why they are here..and why i keep them in the first place...and so...my degree show...will be about them.
Not sure how it is going to be like eventually...but something is already hovering in my head....and...in fact...that something had been hovering in my mind...for a long long time....
I told Wendy about this great big plan of mine about showing my mess and I was shock when she said this to me...."yah....I thought you wanted to do that long ago...isn't it?"...INDEED....that's what friends are for...they remind you of what you always wanted to do... and constantly provoke you to do it....until it is done.
And one more thing...she is coming.
Wendy said she is coming to Glasgow to see my degree show...
I wonder if that has anything to do with the fact thatI am going to show my mess...maybe she is just curious...afterall, my art...are stuff she used to throw away for me...
Or is she more interested to see how clean and empty my room is by the time she arrive....if you know what i mean...
You reading it now wendy?
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I have been trying to justified the reason for the existence of all my junk...why they are here..and why i keep them in the first place...and so...my degree show...will be about them.
Not sure how it is going to be like eventually...but something is already hovering in my head....and...in fact...that something had been hovering in my mind...for a long long time....
I told Wendy about this great big plan of mine about showing my mess and I was shock when she said this to me...."yah....I thought you wanted to do that long ago...isn't it?"...INDEED....that's what friends are for...they remind you of what you always wanted to do... and constantly provoke you to do it....until it is done.
And one more thing...she is coming.
Wendy said she is coming to Glasgow to see my degree show...
I wonder if that has anything to do with the fact thatI am going to show my mess...maybe she is just curious...afterall, my art...are stuff she used to throw away for me...
Or is she more interested to see how clean and empty my room is by the time she arrive....if you know what i mean...
You reading it now wendy?
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CAn I change my mind???
Ahh...I have been reading my previous post...and thought maybe not...
" the poor, UGLY guy was an artist who played drums, knew your name, loved messy rooms, long curly hair held in a bun with chopsticks, strappy shoes, sleeping in, fickle minded women, could change every lightbulb in the house, can ride a bicycle, and would give you space when you need it, but respect your property and would move to singapore with you or wherever you want to go....."
yah...that kind of guy I probably would have fallen in love with BUT...BUT BUT BUT...you know...sometimes when you fall in love with someone...it really doesn't matter if he plays drum or eat drumsticks...., love or hate my room...know how to or not to change a bulb....ride or falls off a bicycle....and in the end...the reasons why i have learnt to change my own lightbulb in the end is really becos...i dun want to fall for a guy just becos he changes my bulb....if you know what i mean...you noe what i mean?
SHITT!!!...I am confusing myself again....I dun noe what i want now.
I think I need help.
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" the poor, UGLY guy was an artist who played drums, knew your name, loved messy rooms, long curly hair held in a bun with chopsticks, strappy shoes, sleeping in, fickle minded women, could change every lightbulb in the house, can ride a bicycle, and would give you space when you need it, but respect your property and would move to singapore with you or wherever you want to go....."
yah...that kind of guy I probably would have fallen in love with BUT...BUT BUT BUT...you know...sometimes when you fall in love with someone...it really doesn't matter if he plays drum or eat drumsticks...., love or hate my room...know how to or not to change a bulb....ride or falls off a bicycle....and in the end...the reasons why i have learnt to change my own lightbulb in the end is really becos...i dun want to fall for a guy just becos he changes my bulb....if you know what i mean...you noe what i mean?
SHITT!!!...I am confusing myself again....I dun noe what i want now.
I think I need help.
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