Confessional Body Profession is a good name for a band

I'm in the Central Library now and I just saw a hot babe pass me by!!!!!!

She's using the printers now!!!

And it's freakin' embarassing to say so with the library computers at such a big noticeable font!!!!




But seriously, there are many hot babes in NUS. You can take the whole recess break to find them all and not reach the last.

Yeah recess week is over. It's back to school and I'm here in the library bloggin so that I do not have to switch on the computer at home. Not spending time on the home computer = having more time on the guitar = much higher chances of me learning the fine art of shredding melodically and with that elusive FEEL in 100 years.

Hell this week we have some fuckin' digusting post over at Chang's. Please, we do not need to know how your flush your toilet at home in a bid to follow the government's "environmentally friendly message" which is lawfully regulated by the fuckin' meter outside all our houses. Things like "flush" until the water in the toilet bowl, turns from yellowy to a colour which u think u can live with it."

and

"The best way, i figured, is to slowly pour the pail water onto the sides of the toilet bowl, and let the pail water slowly flow into the middle puddle. The water in the toilet bowl will mix better and u achieve the final state faster."

Oh Gawd.... No, we Don't Need to know how you flush your toilet at home!!! Hahahaha.

Actually, this brings to mind a discussion on the same topic I had with a few friends. Thomas, if u ever read my blog, please relay the message to Indran that I just mentioned him in my blog.

Well I have long been brainwashed by the whole Sociology shit in school, now I can't start a fucking sentence without using the fucking word "social". This infringes on my self-identity as a lax bummer in school!

But anyway, there was this guy by the name of W.H. Ball I think, he said something very clever and intelligent I've decided to use it in all my fucked-up essays.

He said like, the more private and personal a form of behaviour, the more norms there would be to regulate this area of behaviour, and the more extensive the occurences of deviance behaviour in this area.

Our dear friend Indran, from the Literature department, had difficulty understanding it. So I brought in an analogy that was undoubtedly close to all our hearts.

"You see Indran, toilet business is a very, very personal thing. When you close the door and pull down your pants and sit on the bowl, it's almost akin to a private self-reflection session that is aided by the fact that you are going to release a great deal of burden which will help you achieve feather-weight nirvana."

"Thing is, when you close the door, no one knows what exactly you're doing in there. What we do is that we make a clever guess when you were clutching your stomach earlier, and imagine what you'd be doing inside the toilet. We assume that you'll be doing your business while sitting on the toilet bowl."

"But you see, we do not know how you are doing the perceived business you're doing behind those closed doors. The mass media plants the image of a person taking crap, that is, a person with his upper clothes on and his trousers down, and, sitting on the toilet bowl, with the seat up, and reading newspapers. We see this image all around, in movies, cartoons, internet comics, children's storybooks and all."

"This image is the Normal Toilet-Behaviour Ideology, that we all think of immediately when we say someone has gone to crap. What this image does is to actually reinforce a way of doing relief business that is presented as natural. It is presented to us as a Norm. Hell you wouldn't squat on the toilet bowl and meditate, would you? Right?"

"But people do squat on the toilet bowl. You see those signs that NUS students write, as well as those that the government put up all over our toilets, to tell us not to shit all over the place? When you slap a fine over people caught doing otherwise, that becomes a restricting norm, which we call a more. Yeah, more is a norm that is enforced on a person to get him to follow a particular behaviour."

(I'm sorry I left the girls out on this one, but I assure you you wouldn't wish to be part of this paper.)

"Because no one knows what is going on behind those closed doors, we construct social norms and mores to regulate the behaviour that goes on inside. This is the regulation of behaviour in private spheres of personal activity. This is to ensure that the toilet bowl will be decent for us to use in the future."

"But these norms are only useful when your deviant behaviour comes to public scrutiny. If you paste all your organic currency all around the toilet while doing business transactions, but do a freakin' good job of cleaning it all up before you leave the toilet, your deviant behaviour has become unnoticed. Also, your behaviour is so damn private and personal that only you will know what you did for the rest of your life, no one really knows what you actually did behind those closed doors."

"The experience of toilet behaviour is freakin' much more extensive than you'd ever expect. Some people actually prefer to squat on the toilet bowl, some people prefer to wash their hands before they enter the deal, some people don't - you see, the deviant behaviour is really very extensive,

that's why people want to impose so many rules on this form of behaviour."

Yeah like some people actually enjoy flushing the toilet in new and innovative ways.

And these people could have gone away with it. Because it is a very very very private and personal form of behaviour that no one knows, there will always be that strong, hard and fast rule on how to flush the toilet: to turn the handle or to push the button.

And, when I start ranting about how fuckin' disgusting it is, I am enforcing a social norm here. To enforce a social norm is not limited to those in power only; everyday, we are enforcing social norms everywhere. Like I just did.

And all this would not have happened, if someone had not brought his private behaviour to light of public scrutiny.

And saved me a post to leave my blog post count at a nice 86.

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Aight a quick update I'm listening to Asian Kung-Fu Generation. I've been hearing this band name for a long time but only now that I start visiting websites :D

I found out, veyr quickly, that this band was just fucking emo and punk lah. The kind of stuff you'd hear the angmoh bands play these days.

Kinda reminds me of the kind of music Vertical Rush plays.

Thing is, while I profess to hate emo and punk music, I find myself accepting Asian Kung-Fu Generation. I really think it is the novelty of the whole foreign language thing, in Japanese. Like I really dig Sex Machineguns but am only ok with Hammerfall.

I've got the foreign bow-down mentality!!