Likes and Dislikes

嫌いです!
A list of my dislikes:
1) Consumerism/ Materialism
2) Post-modern texts i.e. The English Patient
3) Hypocrisy/ Lies
4) Elitist notions
5) Mathematics i.e. Calculus, Logarithms and Indices, Trigonometry, etc
6) Sluts i.e. Paris Hilton, XX, etc
7) Noise i.e. Barking dogs, 155mm Howitzers firing, mischievous children, etc
8) Coercion i.e. Army/Reservist/IPPT, so claimed ‘social etiquette’ and ‘ethics’
9) Callousness
10) Pompousness i.e. think ‘belittle my status’
11) Sweating especially after showering
12) Beggars/ Hookers i.e. most of them are of the same social class unworthy of compassion
13) Confusion i.e. moral, mental, etc
14) Stinginess
15) Conservative Mentality i.e. my father
16) Over-Prudence
17) Cowardice
18) Rigid Teaching Methods
19) Complicity
20) Over-zealous religious faiths
21) Gendered visions
22) False Accusations
23) Corruption/ Double Standards
24) Aggression
25) Manipulation
26) Over-Reachers
27) Complicity
28) Rationalising emotions
29) Cruelty/ Humiliation
30) False sense of Eurocentric/Racial supremacy
31) Unnaturalness i.e. fake accents, wannabes, pornography, etc
32) Things left hanging i.e. MediaCorp drama series, this list


…Somehow I can’t seem to finish compiling the list. There are just too many things I dislike in my world to completely list down in one sitting. Well, and since it seems like I can’t really alter the majority of things in the list, I should just stop whining about how bad this bloody messed up world is. It is bad enough as it is, without having me to specify to myself what really irks me.

I suppose my lists of ‘likes’ would be far simpler to state. Fast cars, faster girls. Sex, power, money and love. Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens. Hmmm…actually, that isn’t really the case although I admit I might have acquired some quite weird tastes….

好きです！
A list of my likes:
1) Passion i.e. what Amos would term ‘feeling’
2) Sweating girls
3) Piano Ballads i.e. Moonlight Sonata, 梁祝 (with violin accompaniment), Memory
4) Sonnets
5) Gothic and Erotic Texts i.e. Dracula, Jane Eyre
6) Oriental stuff i.e. BoA
7) Demure women i.e. Jap teacher
8) Language and Linguistics i.e. writing, grammar, oration, etc
9) Graphs and Charts
10) Exploration/ Adventure
11) Extravagance
12) Grandiose
13) Beauty/ Harmony i.e. surroundings, faces, etc
14) FreedOm
15) Risk taking
16) Open-mindedness
17) Mental Stimulation i.e. challenges, fantasizing, etc
18) Detachment
19) Genderless perspectives i.e. Masculine = human, Feminine also = human
20) Truth/ Straight forwardness
21) Empathy in Justice (one big oxymoron)
22) Devotion to inner strength as faith i.e. Convent girls
23) Optimism
24) Romanticism
25) Responsibility and Discipline
26) Love i.e. as in making it and as in its abstract form
27) Drink and the state of euphoria it brings not amounting to drunkenness i.e. Brandy, Whiskey, Burbon, Rum (any dark coloured liquors)
28) Travelling i.e. to foreign countries or just a bus ride to nowhere
29) Honesty
30) Penmanship
31) Courage i.e. moral, in picking up girls, etc
32) Expansion i.e. my assets, mental faculties, this list.

Apparently, the second list ends on the same note as the first. That is, there is still room for more items. Am I here to conclude prematurely that the world is not as bad as I’ve thought it to be now? Given such distinct likes and dislikes, it only seems appropriate that I avoid my dislikes and pursue my likes. Perhaps then, I’ll have a better critique of the world in general and happiness would become a more integral part of me. Problem is…how often do I have the opportunity to chase my dreams? Sweating girls, demure women and Love…they happen to be part of my ‘likes’ but remain as entities in reality.

Brothers, do we share similar interests and disinterest?