#RandomThoughts
It kinda sucks that the only sure way to get a song that's stuck in your brain out is to replace it with a different song that gets stuck in your brain.
#RandomThoughts
What excuse can we come up with today to sit in lawn chairs eating snacks and drinking beverages in a park while staring up at the sky?
From 2010 to 2017, there was a thing called #AseanCitizen that we Aseans started as a grassroots movement. We were all bloggers from across, well, #ASEAN or South-East Asia.
Some of us joined together to produce one of the best multi-authored regional blogs. We talked about our cultures, write about what makes the region awesome. As well as, try to address the oftentimes silly and sometimes heated debates.
It's all gone now. Forgotten. The blogs dead or offline. We all grew up, got busy with our personal lives, and moved on separately. And the important reason? We lost interest in it as we started to see ASEAN was, is, and will never be for the grassroots.
That was the end of what was once a vibrant grassroot ASEAN Citizens effort. We did it all voluntarily. Without a single recognition from the top-down organisation that is ASEAN.
But today? ASEAN is still a top-down organisation. They kept trying to get the grassroots involved, but they are always failing. Why? Because it is a top-down organisation, as simple as that. They will never understand until they shift their mindset and approach to bottom-up.
(P.S I want to restart this grassroots movement, but I just no longer have the spark. Give me a very good reason why I should give it another chance. Or, at least, guide the new generation.)
In 1990, some people drove dust buster shaped vehicles, and everyone just pretended it was normal.
In 2024, many people pilot overpowered enormous monstrosities to haul a cargo of exactly one toddler and a gallon sized thermos of heavily creamed and sugared coffee, and everyone just pretends it's normal.
Were you too forced to have a Bar Mitzvah (or Bat Mitzvah) party and had to invite a bunch of kids you barely knew so that you could fill out a "friends" table?
And then you had to take turns dancing with half of them too even though you were socially awkward and physically clumsy as Hell?
Kind of amazing that we have recent popular literature which mentions a star and assumes it is a permanent fixture in the sky, when that star might explode within our lifetime. 🤯
Of course we also have star charts from the middle ages that show stars that can't be found in the sky today. 🤷🤔
#RandomThoughts
Does anyone ever use "ass" any more to refer to the braying, four legged, pack animal? Or have the once slang definitions become the primary definitions?
World is falling apart, most of the shit you love is too problematic to be cool anymore, your country is held hostage by fascists, you're not sure you made many good decisions in life, you're getting old, and now they're remaking The Crow and Road House.
But also, you're not living on the edge of poverty, in an abusive relationship, hated for your gender, or being bombed and murdered. So what the fuck are you complaining about? Am I right? This guy gets it. #randomthoughts