Yet another post wherein the title describes the overall theme of the post itself.

I have always been the kind of person who upon hearing about something, wishes to find out more should I find it interesting, relevant, or both. I'm not an obsessive researcher, but I will read one or two articles about the subject matter in order to create a fully formed picture about the subject itself. This has been accentuated recently, what with Anna being an excellent researcher herself, and more often than not will know more than me about certain things, and link me to said information.

(By the way, god bless the internet.)

As a result, I know stuff about stuff. A vague sentence, I know, but that brings me to today's talk.

I cannot understand the idea of people simply subscribing to an idea because someone or something has told them, without forming their own opinions by doing said research. A prime example of this is Friday - in Ecosystems, AK (I'm doing the initial thing again) was looking through CNN and came across the 'One Year On' article about Obama. She then decided to comment to SS, (who, if you have read this blog before, know I despise) about how he hasn't 'done anything'.

Right.

So, you've clearly been reading the news regularly. You have clearly formed your own opinion rather than that of the uninformed public. You have clearly been completely ignorant of several things, including the fact he passed a massive health bill, is allowing HIV positive people back into his country for the first time in 22 years, ending military gay policy, and giving same sex unions/marriages more benefits?

What sickens me is when I told this ot her and mentioned this to her she looked at me as if I was a moron. As if I had any right to tell her, a straight 7 student, what this man who had supposedly done nothing had really done. As if I was speaking bullshit. Then, she shrugs and shakes her head with such self righteous entitlement it sickens me, and tells me she'd never heard anything about that.

Christ almighty.

In other news, gig at Tanglin was awesome. It is incredibly intimidating when your girlfriend's father turns out to be the guy organising the thing, especially when he does your soundcheck, but we were the best band there. Honestly. I'm not trying to be arrogant, but we certainly the most entertaining band there. And I am happy for that.





God damn I love these pictures.

Spent most of this weekend with Anna. Now most of you don't have to be smart to figure out how much we care about each other, (unless you'd never heard of anything about that) and skies be praised I'm happy. Honestly, it's been about two months and we're still very much in love. She completes me in a way that is both cliche and cheesy, but just makes sense.

Now if only all this friggin' work wasn't getting in the way of being together. Urgh.

'Till tomorrow

Indi