a 151 bus with aircon + why blog
Friday, August 19, 2005 (2:50 PM)
a 151 bus with aircon? yes, and i mean "a" by the way it is meant to interprete. there seems to be only one airconditioned bus number 151 running in a day and it reaches my stop at around 845, reaches nus at around 950. it has been proven. there's a fixed timing for the airconditioned bus to run and the only day i can catch it is on thursday when my lecture begins at 10am!
that is why i've tried to slot my classes at 8am in the morning because if i leave for school any other time of the day, the afternoon heat + un-airconditioned bus + me sitting at the same seat for over an hour is going to dehydrate me faster than you can say "woah!"
i heard an interesting story today about alan sokal. before i tell you what it is about, try comprehending this passage (not by sokal):
If one examines structuralist socialism, one is faced with a choice: either reject feminism or conclude that the State is elitist. Neocultural deconstructive theory holds that the goal of the reader is social comment. Thus, the characteristic theme of Abian's essay on the textual paradigm of narrative is a pretextual paradox.
able to make any sense of it? to be honest, the above is a chunk of meaningless texts. not because i don't understand a freak thing but it is a randomly generated text and this is the kind of thing that social text publishes! alan sokal (a physicist) was so pissed off at the way people write things that are incomprehensible that he decided to take revenge by writing in "their language". he submitted a meaningless article consisting of really big words and it got published! following that, he announced on his website that the article was a hoax. it proves that, post modernists doesn't know what they are writing or publishing! imagine that article was reviewed by many scholars and editors before publishing and no one found out that it was a bag of crap.
check this out: http://www.elsewhere.org/cgi-bin/postmodern/ this page generates meaningless texts that look "awesome" because it's not comprehensible. and you can try to google alan sokal, i'm sure you can find those articles that he submitted.
next, if you're expecting something, no, i'm not telling why i blog but i'm wondering why people blog? of course i have a justifiable reason for doing this but i guess most people do this to update friends of their lives probably - by subjecting themselves to public scrutiny. and that's exactly what is needed but at the same time, something that i pretty much detest. i've decided after all that, 'hey, this really isn't my kind of thing' so i guess this could be the last entry you'll see of here. i'll remove this altogether in probably 2 weeks time so for those who added my link, may i apologise that you'll have to remove it again.
since i'm not going to do this anymore, might as well write more for this last entry. i detest singaporean supervisors especially in the construction industry because i've seen accounts of these people taking advantage and bullying the foreign workers. i shan't say in detail, partly because i'm lazy but these superiors think they are well above the foreign workers and play God (first and last entry i'll be using caps). freak ass shit - pardon my limited vocab - but these are the kinds of people who ought to rot in hell, not free thinkers! i'm not condemning all superiors, only those who do this kind of thing and you know who you are. be prepared for a tough time in hell. with that, i've said my peace...