Sometimes someone who has not something better to do simply summons my attention to the fact that he has no understanding of why anyone would use a word like gingerbreadman as his alias. And I usually reply as I do now:
Because "ginger bread man" and "gingerbread man" were already taken.
:D
O.K.
Now, when the part where i try to humor you is over, I will try to explain my fascination of names of near obscure fairy tale creatures.
For example Rumpelstiltskin (or Rumpelstilzchen for you German purists). The poor chap decides to take the first babe of a daughter of a very vain miller on whose outrageous claims a very greedy king decides to lock up the daughter. And the rest of the story can be read from the Grimm's book. But what i felt was wrong was
1) The girl getting it for her father's vanity.
2) The king's outrageous greed.
and is if I hadn't already mentioned the above two enough, the fact that they ended up living a happily ever after.
But the one felt wronged the most was Rumpelstiltskin. He spares the hopeless girl a stupid death and dies one which is remarkably more so. But was he the villain?
That's where I think the new guys misinterpret the old guys. They never said he was the big bad wolf out after li'll red ridin' hood. They never said he was the villain. They never expected a horror movie to be made in his name. They, probably in all certainty (or so i may assume) never expected a thing like movies.
All the people living their happily ever-afters were the real villains, if I subscribe to the morals today's world is trying to teach me. And just because he was a handsome king and she a beautiful maiden doesn't give them the right to destroy the life of a hideous little talented man.
But in all sincerity, I'd still like to see a fair couple on-screen.
But that's just me, right?
As far as gingerbreadman goes, well he gives the best outlook on me: an escapist.
:)
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Honestly. I have no intentions of infringing in anyone's copyrights or whatever, just this one message.
This is my small homage to probably the best manga and the most likeable (and the most real) characters I've ever seen.
Maison Ikkoku
(pronounced Mezon Ikkoku for those purists out there :) )
If you don't fall in love with Rumiko Takahashi's work by the end of this, ahh... you have my sympathy.
An explanation.
Everything needs an explanation.
An explanation to why it happens, who or what causes it, what will its consequence(s) be, why it should be paid attention to, and so on.
I would like to believe that Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle was Nature's method of telling us that there is no need to play God.
Because God needs an explanation.
That's why scientists are more powerful than God.
You tell me this is written in this Holy Book and that-one predicts that, I would not believe it.
But you tell me that this University published a report that that's going to happen and that Group of Scientists affirmed it in a Peer review, I will probably take it to be true, word for word.
But I am amazed everyday of every month of every year I've lived to find out that nothing is certain. The Science of yesterday is the joke of today; the mysticism of a thousand years ago is the science of today and probably the scientists of today will be the clergy of tomorrow.
What I still find a constant amongst all of this is that humanity still survives and will hopefully do so for a couple of hundred years at least.
I was always fascinated when the wiser men said: "Change is the only constant."
And every time I open the History books or read the newspaper, a small part of me wants to believe that it isn't Deja-vu.
But the larger part knows it.
:)
An explanation to why it happens, who or what causes it, what will its consequence(s) be, why it should be paid attention to, and so on.
I would like to believe that Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle was Nature's method of telling us that there is no need to play God.
Because God needs an explanation.
That's why scientists are more powerful than God.
You tell me this is written in this Holy Book and that-one predicts that, I would not believe it.
But you tell me that this University published a report that that's going to happen and that Group of Scientists affirmed it in a Peer review, I will probably take it to be true, word for word.
But I am amazed everyday of every month of every year I've lived to find out that nothing is certain. The Science of yesterday is the joke of today; the mysticism of a thousand years ago is the science of today and probably the scientists of today will be the clergy of tomorrow.
What I still find a constant amongst all of this is that humanity still survives and will hopefully do so for a couple of hundred years at least.
I was always fascinated when the wiser men said: "Change is the only constant."
And every time I open the History books or read the newspaper, a small part of me wants to believe that it isn't Deja-vu.
But the larger part knows it.
:)
The Question...
The question that has been bugging me for the last week, given the fact that I stayed back in near isolation from Human contact for many a days (O.K., not that long), and finally managed to figure out what I did not want to do, is that who is the one more likely to be condemned for his actions:
The one who knows what he doesn't want to do, or the one who accepts he is a hypocrite and would rather like to try his hand at whatever opportunity he gets.
Three things belonging to the week gone by are worth remembering.
1) I did not apply for nor got through BAR-CAP.
2) I am mentally stable, except for the incident where I imagined I saw a dog while I generally remember seeing Human faces.
3) Aqualung makes good songs.
The rest was wishful thinking.
The one who knows what he doesn't want to do, or the one who accepts he is a hypocrite and would rather like to try his hand at whatever opportunity he gets.
Three things belonging to the week gone by are worth remembering.
1) I did not apply for nor got through BAR-CAP.
2) I am mentally stable, except for the incident where I imagined I saw a dog while I generally remember seeing Human faces.
3) Aqualung makes good songs.
The rest was wishful thinking.
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