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Youngest kid of six with an inferiority and black sheep complex, but determined that God saves not just his soul to heaven but the remainder of his manic-depressive life, so others won't say he became a Christian and remained a jerk.


MAIN THEMES

On identity
i won't be transparent before i'm opaque. and you'll get to know me starting from the small things: who my favourite bands are. what kind of movies i like. who are my heroes.

On Christianity
I’m convinced that when confronted with sincere, real love, the Jesus factor will become obvious. But let’s not plant the cross before we carry it. I’m not trying to con you.

On dreams
Some dreams are meant to be achieved. I know that. But maybe other dreams are meant to drive us, privately. Never known to anyone but ourselves.


OTHER THEMES

On melancholy
It is a sadness that, when choosing between crying and sighing, will choose sighing. I'd almost say that melancholy is being sad about sadness itself.

On memory and nostalgia
It saddens me when life moves forward and people decide that certain things are worth forgetting.

On language
I've learnt that the word irregardless is filed as a non-standard word in the English language. That's a lexicographer's way of saying it's not a real word.

On politics
Crowds are fickle things. So when we stand in the thousands and cry against the present government, do we know who we're actually crying for?

On society
People always want the best for themselves. But I want to sometimes take second or third or fourth best, just so that the loser down the road doesn't always have to come in last. It must feel like shit to always come in last.

On growing old
Leasehold property make me feel sad. It doesn't matter how old the family photos are that you put on your wall. It's your family but it's not really your wall.

On philosophy
I ask you, if God loves everyone, and if God is also incapable of loving evil, how can there be such a thing as an evil man?

On a daily basis
One line quips, like this.


CHAT





Wednesday, November 03, 2004
LIVERPOOL'S EUROPEAN NIGHT OUT

As a liverpool fan, i blog very little about them. maybe because my site is green.

but i want to blog about them today. i am so proud of my team. i'm so proud of the way they picked themselves up from the disaster of losing djibril cisse to two broken bones and being sidelined for the rest of the season with... what... going to the heart of La Coruna, the deathbed of so many european giants (juve, ac milan, real madrid, man utd, bayern) and not just taking a point but beating deportivo 1-0!

this tells me something about resilience and rising above dire situations. i always think that if my love for football is not gonna be physical and health-improving, then it better be inspiring and character developing. not just entertaining. so i have seen something in this liverpool team that - perhaps is too early to call, or perhaps isn't - that amidst inconsistency, there's an ability to find a spark of magic from someone, igor biscan or not - that i think is worth emulating. when push comes to shove, deliver.

so i'm really proud of them. i credit a lot of this victory to rafa benitez's knowledge of the spanish game but the boys had to run out and win it. and they did. i'm so proud to be a liverpool fan today. i think nights like this are the basis on which we'll build a new european legacy.

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