Appearance

The way people judge people has become based on the way people look.

I refuse to shave
and do not wish to look good anymore
at this point of time.

I have been observing the actions and reactions of different peoples in various situations. And from my observations together with past experiences, I can say that guys and girls with good looks tend to be more "accepted" among people- both peers and strangers. On the other hand, unfortunate ones who belong to the other side of the scale when it comes to outward appearances are usually being rejected, discriminated and marginalized somehow. They are always either the last choice or at least come after the good-looking ones.

Popularity, big personality, good looks, sense of humour, etc.
These are what I find what the crowd go for.
However are these virtues that contribute to true beauty?
Our values, thoughts and perspectives have degraded to such shallowness,
that we are no longer able to appreciate inner beauty.
Indeed, man look at the outside.

Yes, we need to look at the inside too, but we always do it after looking at the outside.

Why do people show favour on handsome guys and pretty girls?
Why are people not showing the same treatment towards everybody?

mana boleh?

I failed. I failed. I failed my driving test. Yes, for both motorcycle and car.

Failing for motorcycle is fine with me la, I agree that I am not very good at it.
But failing in driving the car is simply unacceptable. The parking tests were peanuts to me and I passed every element. How can I fail on the road? I have been driving for some time already and I take pride in my skills. I can drive well, yes I can!
How can I fail??!

This is the reward of righteousness- You don't pass without paying the bribe.

One thing in common between Confidence and Expectation is this,
They lead to Disappointment.
Joel Yap (21/7/09)

Anyway, I don't need a licence to drive people crazy. Some people are already deliberately avoiding and ignoring me liao, and I don't understand just what did I do. What makes this worse is that I cannot do anything about it at all.

Cari Pasal

Someone THOUGHT I had my driver's licence already, which proves that he/she didn't know, he/she assumed. Which I believe, further proves that he/she didn't care.

But that someone recently tried to lecture me.


Breaking the law? Driving illegally??

Let me tell you this: A driver's licence does not serve as an immunity to illegal driving.
Let me ask you this: Tell me, frankly, do you not drive above the speed limit?? Now, are you not breaking the law as well?

Pot calling the kettle black.



If you didn't care then, you shouldn't cari pasal now.

Don't cari pasal.

Question

Answer the following question:

How do you motivate a person with no purpose?

Leave your answers in the comments section, please.
Person with the best answer wins a prize.

Double Kill!

I broke stuff in school today, twice- first in the Physics laboratory then Chemistry.
Why am I so careless?? No one in class has ever broken a single piece of glass except for me. And today is not the first day, I already broke a beaker during my first Chemistry practical. So I hold the record, three times in a row!
Hahaha....

Then a thought came to mind as I was daydreaming just as I always do, in school. The beakers that I broke did not lie on the ground forever, the floor was cleaned up and the glass fragments and shatters were picked up and swept away. There was someone to clean up the mess, be it myself- the culprit or other people. Somebody cared enough to help after the accident occurred. Should nothing be done at all and the pieces of glass were left all over the ground, someone could get hurt. When somebody gets hurt, the situation is now said to have become more complicated. Accident leading to accidents.

This is also quite true in life. When something bad happens to you and a friend comes along to help, when you screw up and someone is there to clean up the mess, when you have a need and the need is met, you feel safe and you can live freely because you don't have to worry too much. However, in contrast, when you do something wrong and no one wants to correct you, when you are in deep trouble and nobody gives a damn, when you are in situations that are so bad that you desperately do not know how to live in them and your closest ones forsake you, you become helpless. When you are left alone to fend for yourself because you are no longer of value as you probably were before. You wonder, "Since when did people become so hostile and ignorant?" You turn to loved ones but they turn away. You turn to them for help but they turn a deaf ear on you. You do not understand the way things are and why are the way things are are how the way things are.

In your desperation you try every method to make things better but you only end up in failure. Everytime you ask for something, rejection is what you get and hostility is what you face.
You pause and you breathe, and you start to think, "Surely something good still exist." You try to convince yourself that there is a glimpse of hope, but you find yourself in a dilemma. Everything is hopeless? Not everything is hopeless?

Don't give up? Or move on? Moving on sounds like giving up and giving in.
It is normal to have good days and bad days, everybody has to go through them and experience bad days too.

I am a bad person with much bad experiences experiencing my worst days so far in a bad condition, currently I am having a bad time.

Beakers were broken in the hands of a broken person.
Joel Yap

Expiry Date

Every object has a fixed amount of time
before it rots, after which there it goes
Every human too has a limited time
to live, to breathe, and to coexist
This is the blatant truth, a harsh reality:
Everybody needs to die, nothing is eternal
I know that the truth hurts, I don't like it either
But nothing lasts forever, everything expires

You don't know when's your deadline
The day you fade away
You don't know how much longer
Can you live to play and play
So stop dreaming like a child
Wake up and live your numbered days

Refrigerators, dry conditions
Salt and vinegar, reducing agents
Various methods to delay Expiration
But nothing lasts forever, everything expires

Time is running out, time is running out
Time is running out, everything expires

© Joel Yap

Hostility

Planet Earth is full of humans

Homo sapiens though live together

are however against each other.

Downright scumbags act as upright people;

Relationships are forgotten

once advantages are unavailable;

Poor helpless ones become forsaken,

left with nothing but disappointment.

Pathetic losers claim that life is beautiful

so

Think before you speak;

Look me in the eye

and tell me:

What's so good about this world?

People hurting people

Everyday, in every way possible.

Why is there no love at all?

Ignorance, indifference,

Petulance is so prevalent.

Neither empathy nor sympathy

Only apathy is commonly practised

Planet Earth is full of humans

© Joel Yap

Gone are the feelings once so sweet
Now I am left alone to bleed
You have never been this mean
Where are your promises to me?