Mechanised Madness

In our society, animals are surgically altered to the point where they no longer look like how they are supposed to.

This is Mr Chicken. He recently had his feathers burnt away and skin infected by ammonia produced by the feces piling up on the ground of his pen, which he has to share with about 10,000 other chickens. Ain't he pretty?
Here's Ms Cow. Her surgery includes decapitation without painkillers while conscious. What a stunt that is. It was not a difficult decision, given that she had no choice to begin with. From birth, she was already fated to a life of milk production while having her calves taken away at birth to be kept as "veal". Sounds exotic? Veal are baby calves kept in crates and fed a nutrition deficient diet in order to keep their flesh tender and white. Delicious.
This is rare. An entire school wanting their appearances to be enhanced! This school of fish are having their eyes bulged out and swim bladders ruptured. This package also includes having the guts pushed out gently. These are achieved through simple physics - change of atmospheric pressure! Traveling from their home deep under the sea to the surface in a net causes their scales to be scrapped off by rocks and coral. Their counterparts, the farmed fishes, do not have it better.
Meet Madam Sow. She's having a beautiful tattoo done on her left shoulder through the wonderful miracles of ammonia. All she can do now is to bear with the pain, just for a little while more until slaughter. Slaughter includes squealing loudly, and an intensely long journey in the back of a truck with many others just like her. Should anything happen to her, she would simply be placed on the side of the road and left to die.
On the cover of the latest make up craze in town, Mr Goose is perfect. Judging from the expression, this producer of foie gras lived a good life on a great amount of grains and fats in order to ruin his own liver just so it would grow to become a multiple of its original size.The liver would also become diseased in order to attain that powdery texture that people adore as a delicacy. This make up, simply known as Choking-On-My-Own-Vomit-From-Being-Force Fed-Every-Meal, is becoming popular amongst it's kind.
Introducing the icon, the popular Miss Turkey! Yup, the face of Thanksgiving herself. Living to a ripe old age of 5 months, Miss Turkey , also known as the True American Original, stopped eating in order to achieve this state of beauty. She did this by making herself so hefty and bulky that her legs are unable to carry her own weight and thus she is unable to reach food. What determination! She is currently under the effects of what is known as pneumonia, and this is perhaps why she is looking so radiant and youthful.
Here's how they looked like before surgery. Weird!

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34 days to complete vegetarianism, a little more to vegan-ism.

Minority Report 2

Never mind minority report, treat it as gibberish.

I've come to realise after long hours of thinking during my travels to and fro camp that it is through NOT seeing each other that friendships are strengthen. True friends survive that. :D

To friendship.

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Depression is just around the corner.

Sometimes, emotions get the better of him since all of his friends are torn away either by national duties needing to be served, tertiary education looming ahead, or work that has them slogging away.

He cannot help but feel useless, since he is not tied up with much obligations to fulfill. In which case, he yearns for time to rewind 3 months back, since it's when the island escapade was still novel.

Fate is cruel. Why bring people together, only to make them go separate ways when the links between them are so strong. Guess that's life. He cannot help but swear to himself that he will never let any of his friends slip through his fingers again, a big mistake he committed a few years back.

Why all these negative emotions? Probably due to his loss of faith in himself, since he has disappointed himself many times already. One more chance, that's all he gives himself, and that's what he'll do. This time around, he's determined to live a hard life, one that takes away many comforts and privileges, replacing with it discipline. It will be just like how his friends are living.

Let's see how it goes.

M.E.A.T.

I'm going vegetarian (starting with a cut of meat off the diet)! Signed a petition with PETA to try it out for 30 days and see for myself the effects of doing so. Why? For a myriad of reasons, like how it is actually much healthier, how your "meat" is treated with cruelty, how they are actually as intelligent as dogs, cats and chimpanzees... There are many reasons. Go do your own research and find out why people like Jack Johnson and Prince became vegetarians.

Don't worry, I am not going to the strictest vegetarian around. I would not affect others' food choices when eating out cause I would compromise and seek alternatives in eating joints :D. Also, I would stick to a "no food wastage" rule, i.e. if I did not know beforehand that a certain item contains meat and end up ordering it, I would still eat it. The animal is not going to be slaughtered for nothing, bless it's soul.

Lastly, no worries about my nutrition. You are talking about me, one of the crazier persons in this fast food nation who reads a lot into this field. I know what to eat, what not to eat and thus, I will survive this 30 days. Ends on 2 May, I'll try to update daily with how I feel and about any drastic changes to my body etc. etc.

I'm serious about this! Test of my determination too :D
Wish me luck!

Freedom Writers

Freedom Writers is one of those movies that truely deserves a 4.75/5 stars! Too bad I can only give it the ratings here.

Go watch it, it really inspires how one woman can be so determined to change a class of delinquents, and it is really heartwarming how they glued themselves together regardless of skin colour and background.

Go watch!

My Easy Silence

Cobwebs aside, I'm back.

Issues:

1. Easy Silence

This song by the Dixie Chicks (you know how much I love them) is about how the protagonist's husband (Adrian Pasdar, Natalie Maines' husband, actor of Nathan Petrelli in NBC's Heroes) provides her shelter and peace in times of turmoil after the "incident".

After watching "Shut Up And Sing", a docu-movie by the band about the same "incident", I finally understand why Martie choked up and teared in the 'live' performance of Easy Silence at the American Music Awards.



And since I have a little more time now than at BMT, I shall pick up the guitar, and this will be the first song I learn officially (not counting Jason Mraz's You And I Both that I learned during BMT using Ortega Mark Richardo Joseph's guitar).

2. Postings

Batch 01/07 of BMTC POP-ed and received our postings. For those who indicated YES in the Express Interest survey, most ended up in SISPEC, and the few left went to OCS (don't ask for my view here, I might get charged!). For those who indicated NO in the same survey, MOST combat fit personnel got posted to combat units, and a few (15) lucky personnel (what goes around comes around!!) got posted to SAF Bands! Lucky me. I believe in KARMA!

So life as a bandsman trainee is down to 7 weeks, and it is not as easy as many of you out there think it is. Sigh, just hope I don't get posted out. Stupid knee!

In any case, I am going to kickstart restart my immense interest in making music. Probably form a band, like the Dixie Chicks (2 guys, a girl, 2 guitars, and a cello/bass).

Anyway, my camp's Nee Soon Camp. 1.75 hour journey there, 1.5 hour journey back if I'm lucky. It's like school all overy again! Guess I'll survive well, since Yinglei endured Choa Chu Kang-TJC anyway.

Lastly, The Observatory's new album (A Far Cry From Here) is out, and heard bits of it at HMV yesterday, really good (as usual). Packaging's not black this time around, but RED! Packed like a parcel, it looks really good, but couldnt figure out how to open when 'inspecting' it yesterday. Got to get it soon (unless someone's kind enough? :D). Anyone wants to go for the album launch?

I'll be back, more often! :D