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i’ve never imagined the pictures of that life

tears
x-japan

doko ni yukebaii anata to hanarete
ima wa sugisatta toki ni toikakete
nagasugita yoru ni tabidachi wo yume mita
ikoku no sora mitsumete kodoku wo dakishimeta
nagareru namida wo toki no kaze ni kasanete
owaranai anata no toiki wo kanjite

dry your tears with love
dry your tears with love

loneliness your silent whisper
fills a river of tears
through the night
memory you never let me cry
and you, you never said goodbye
sometimes our tears blinded the love
we lost our dreams along the way
but i never thought you’d trade your soul to the fates
never thought you’d leave me alone

time through the rain has set me free
sands of time will keep your memory
love everlasting fades away
alive within your beatless heart
dry your tears with love
dry your tears with love

nagareru namida wo toki no kaze ni kasanete
owaranai kanashimi wo aoi bara ni kaete
dry your tears with love
dry your tears with love
nagareru namida wo toki no kaze ni kasanete
owaranai anata wo toiki wo kanjite
dry your tears with love
dry your tears with love
dry your tears with love
dry your tears with love

if you could have told me everything
you would have found what love is
if you could have told me what was on your mind
i would have shown you the way
someday i’m gonna be older than you
i’ve never thought beyond that time
i’ve never imagined the pictures of that life
for now i will try to live for you and for me
i will try to live with love, with dreams,
and forever with tears

it is unwise for people in love to get married

me: please please please PLEASE give me capital punishment
me: *turns question paper over*
question paper: *no capital punishment*
me: ;_;

so i wrote this one and went on marriage-bashing spree, as usual (y) i hope i do get a score higher than last year’s promos where i did a similar question but i don’t think that’s possible because last year my command of English was stronger and also my points were less fluffier and that question was different and allowed more development. and since i effectively kicked myself in the groin for paper2 this time round (i might actually score higher on essay than on compre wth) my gp is essentially ggxxbbq.

whee right now my mom is seated beside my youngest brother with a cane while he writes because his handwriting is atrocious. well it’ll do him good because MY handwriting, believe it or not, used to be atrocious and then my mom started whipping me for it. i am thankful for that, of course.

来ぬ人の嘆きに星は落ちて

today not too bad only had to wait 10 patients to see the doctor. wtf stupid inhaler cost 55 bucks and i had to pay 79 in total for all the medicine. wouldn’t have gone to the doctor’s except now is a period too crucial for me to stay sick.

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見も知らぬ私を私が見ていた

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shawn: wanna go anywheres
shawn: in le november
shawn: rofl malaysia
shawn: let’s get some funkeh beach resort
shawn: i’ll bring my games
me: lol okay sounds great
shawn: and lots of condoms
me: … what the hell for
shawn: to catch fish

LOL.

nigel: wah i’m damn scared for gp la
whine whine complain lament etc
nigel: if you have a good day A is possible
me: ya which is how screwed up
nigel: just hope and pray la
nigel: oh yeah you’re AGNOSTIC
me: -_-

nigel: see you on monday
nigel: if you don’t see me
nigel: pls call my hse
me: HAHAHA
nigel: i might be asleep
nigel: k
nigel: thx

how the mighty have fallen

The death penalty has no place in an enlightened society. Discuss.

As the platitudinous saying goes, ‘an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth’ – it is this very premise on which the death penalty was designated; that the most vicious and cruel of crimes deserve the most severe punishment and hence the death penalty is justified as the only punishment fit for capital crimes. However, with the advancement of societies, the death penalty has been abolished. The term ‘enlightened society’ should be defined as a society in which the members have received education (especially moral education) and thus are fully capable of passing morally correct and fair judgments. With capital punishment abolished in an increasing number of countries, it seems that the death penalty is no longer a required component of the social institution. It is the contention of this essay to discuss the points and views for and against the death penalty and its relevance in the world today.

The earliest human legal systems were based on lex talionis, or the ‘law of retribution’, which includes ‘a life for a life’ amongst its precepts. Proponents of the death penalty can argue that capital crimes deserve capital punishments, essentially because the death penalty is the harshest form of punishment available for one who inflicts undeserved evil upon others, especially in the case of premeditated murders. To mete out anything lesser than the death penalty would seem to indicate that the life of the victim is less valuable than that of the offender. Hence, following the retribution rationale, it is only right the same harm or pain intended by the offender himself, so that the criminal pays his debt to society.

However, it is often impractical or impossible for the harm to be duplicated in punishment. In some crimes, victims suffer not only physical harm but also emotional trauma and mental distress; does this not mean, in accordance with lex talionis, that the offender should be subjected to all of these different levels of pain he has caused? If this is so, we would have to rape the rapist and torture the torturer – something which is morally wrong. Similarly, then, is it not wrong to kill the killer? Should we employ the retributive principle in our modern enlightened societies, we will be descending to the same level as the criminals whose deeds we despise, furthermore, there can be no morally tolerable punishment we can inflict upon cold-blooded killers. Hence, alternative methods of punishment such as life-long incarceration should be implemented in place of the death penalty. In modern society, retribution requires proportionality and not equivalence between crime and punishment and hence the punishment for the most severe crimes need not inflict the same harm.

More often than not, the families of victims seek justice and demand death of the offender. The only way for them to gain peace of mind and assuage their sorrow is to kill the offender; hence, the death penalty is a necessary restitution for victims and families. Victims’ rights movement have even pushed for families of murder victims and survivors to make personal statements at hearings for murder cases and for family members of murder victims to witness the offender’s execution in several states in America.

With this, the death penalty is turned into a form of vengeance against crime offenders, and this cannot be a justification for the death penalty. The death penalty, then, does no more than to sanctify the victim’s and his or her family’s desire to derive satisfaction from inflicting hurt upon the offender. However, the sorrow and pain of loss cannot be alleviated merely by the execution of the offender – after all, killing the person who killed a loved one cannot bring the loved one back. Family members of murder victims often do not experience any relief or release that they expect to feel at executions, and any gratification is temporary. The emotional lacuna and the sense of loss cannot be filled by giving the offender the end that he supposedly deserves and what they truly need is emotional support and counseling to help them move on with life. Therefore, the death penalty is pointless in an enlightened society where family members should not seek vengeance against offenders.

One argument commonly cited by fervid advocates of the death penalty is that it has a deterrent effect. The threat of execution deters capital crimes effectively and hence lowers the chances of offenders committing such crimes. This claim, however, has no evidence to support its cause. American states that impose the death penalty do not have significantly lower homicide rates than states which do not have death penalty and states that abolish it do not see any increase in homicide rate. Most murderers are oblivious to the deterrent effect as most murders, as studies have shown, are committed in a fit of blind rage or under influence of drugs or alcohol. Under such circumstances, the consequences of their actions are not taken into account and hence there is no deterrent effect whatsoever. The death penalty is also put in place to stop the offender from repeating his crimes – this is done by killing the offender so that there is zero chance of him committing the crime again. This effect can be achieved by life-long imprisonment and reformative education – in an enlightened society, the best method of punishment should not involve taking away of lives.

Today, many modern enlightened societies perceive the death penalty as barbaric and immoral. The abolition of the death penalty in many countries reflects a paradigm shift; societies no longer condone the death penalty and the law of retribution is obsolete. An argument for death penalty is that by infringing on another’s right to life, a murderer forfeits his own right to life in the same way that rights to property are forfeited. Capital punishment supposedly respects the worth of the victim’s life and hence requires an equal punishment to be inflicted.

The abolition of the death penalty in many societies is due to a change in societal mindset – people believe that all life is sacrosanct and should be protected at all costs, hence, there is no longer a need for the death penalty. Many are able to see that life-term incarceration similarly incapacitates a murderer – which is what an execution hopes to achieve – and yet respects the criminal’s right to life, and hence this punishment agreed upon by the consensus of the society would prove fairer than the age-old doctrine of ‘a life for a life’.

In conclusion, the concept of lex talionis upon which the death penalty predicates has proven to be a fallacy. It is even hypocritical to its own cause and no longer serves any function in enlightened societies of today. Hence, rather than continue with this deeply entrenched social institution simply because of centuries of practice, society should abolish the death penalty in favour of more humane and morally acceptable forms of punishment.

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i have absolutely NO IDEA which orifice i pulled this one out from; i don’t keep essays in my ass. how i am going to produce another essay like that for tomorrow and for GP at A level is seriously beyond me but i really want an A1 for GP ARGH.

nostalgia

primary 5/6 classmate yilin suddenly ambushed me on msn a few days ago and asked me which kindergarten i was from and then proceeded to send me this picture LOL. apparently not only were we kindergarten classmates we were also neighbours living in adjacent blocks and our mothers know each other :0

ten thousand points for whoever recognises me. actually it’s not that hard la i haven’t changed -_-

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re: revelations

jeff: i crashed my com after installing keygen
me: what keygen o.o
jeff: don’t want to say
jeff: it’s embarrassing
me: :0
jeff: … bejeweled2 ahahaha
me: ahahaha
sheujie: what’s bejeweled?
jeff and me: AHAHAHAHAHA
my air rifle junior, chris: Pluto demands a recount
LOL. okay recount is a shooting term so nvm. anyway he’s planning to move from air rifle to pistol and was asking me for advice but hmm what am i to say anything at all :/

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yong suh hae

re: remember, they do Engrish
sng: got tons of people walking around
me: lolol
me: omg you mean you’re at the fair right now?
sng: YES
sng: no one coming la
sng: my project is cheem to the extreme
sng: the title fricking scary
me: o_o
sng: transient expression of mutant and wild type forms of alpha synuclein in a dopaminergic and non-dopaminergic cell line affects their cell viabilities (teomawtfoasindandclatcv)

re: teomawtfoasindandclatcv ftl
sng: and is peer evaluation
me: eh nice trick to keep yourself free
sng: whch means people walk around
sng: and give stickers to the one they think is gosu
me: oh.
sng: obviously not mine, cos they can’t understand
sng: so i ggxx
me: you can go around and peddle!
sng: i’m sure
sng: we stuck our stickers on our own thingum duh

i wonder if sng remembered to do his nightly ritual of purging to keep the darkness of Engrish at bay ahahaha after all he did stuff his gpbull into his bag.

okay it looks like i might actually finish mugging for prelims even if not as in-depth as i want it to be. so long as i stay up till 3am everyday i should be able to pass prelims decent :D

yong suh hae ya man hae yo

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the closer you get to the light

i was so close to the light but i stopped and looked back, and then i was consumed by the darkness.
this is it. i’m all burnt out.
the greater your shadow becomes.