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Green, pink and white - The Stuff.
Grey- The "grey" Analogy.
Rules.
Rules are man-made, man-said, man-implemented.
Why abide to them?
Reasons:
-Consequences
(implemented by external authorities, man or nature. Gravity says "Lego blocks will fall by my law of gravity!")
-Conscience
(implemented by ourselves "It looks ugly/it is not; i stole a block from my friend to build this, am I $%^&*?")
-A sense of living life by a value system
(Paradigms built like Lego blocks continueously since young "Aha! New block! Aha! New colourful blocks i found! Aha! Let me stack them this way.. nice! No... ugly!.. This way sure fall.. no it won't it will stand! I made the right choice!)
-Implanted habits that have become fixed mindsets
(Lego blocks must be stacked upwards not dioganally or sideways "Up and up! Taller it grows! Sideways? Nah.. Other directions not nice.. upwards make it tall!! hmm... Tried something weird like this back then anyways.. it fell.. try odd directions and structure again?.. sure fall, don't take risk.. Don't waste time.. build it upwards.. sure stand.")
My rule - "The Exception Rule"
(I'm making my Lego building go up and up and up and up, it can only go up. It looks generic, like any other Lego buildings people built around me. Yet I want it different. Can it be? OK!! An exception I will make! I want it built downwards, sideways or sprial while going up at the same time! Anyway it can be rebuilt if i made mistakes! Slowly take this piece out.. dismantle my building a bit, tough... may fail.. but it be worth it yes? If I persist all the way? yea.. But I'ld be mocked at, people will say I'm different, they'll avoid me, say it's ugly though I'ld think it's an artwork I believe in and love.. Or it may turn really out ugly.. redoing's a chore.. hmm...)
Every rule can be overuled and an exception can be made if thought through carefully, NOT breaking personal belief systems and principles (which in them ironically partly consist of other/another set of rules).
Risks and prices to pay of being different are high. The Lego building may collapse while removing that small block which many years of hardwork put in gone down with the Laws of Gravity. People may jeer thinking it's ugly. You may have the most beautiful and unique Lego building in your eyes. Or the direct opposite, you may experience total failure.
Start questioning yourselves.
What do you want.
Rules are man-made. Make your own exception rule today. Be Yourself and express.
LEGO ROCKZ
:) Broke the colour code rule of this blog.. yes ah ... love it. Shall continue with a post regarding the topic "why we chose rules" after ya guys digest, burn, stir in water and drink this. yea...
let me guess...rules are meant to be broken, not to the extent of breaking personal beliefs? simply put, do what you want to do, and not what others want us to do...thanks ah nic =D!
digest? burn? stir in water? drink it? sounds like the...erm...charm or something...HAHAHA jkjk =P
but i dun get the color code rule luh? color code rule = nic rule? hahaha.
school end soon school end soon =(
wahhh...
nic.. seriously i think i need some time for me to adsorb all the stuff u had share with us in this entry..LOL ! rah read/see dao blur liao.. O.O"
but well i knw wad u always share with us is always making sense.. so give me sometime. read it one by one.. like going to sch to study like tt..LOL ! :X
White: Origin and truthful elements
Black: Tampered and untruthful elements
Grey: Situated between white and black. Some elements of truth and whereas some truths are distorted directed to a particular favor.
Being subjective, I hate to be put in the grey territory. Don’t like the feeling of being manipulated by some others’ personal interests.
Being objective, I fall in the grey territory cos’ it’s safe and diplomatic, and it’s not going to hurt…ya…I mean to hurt anyone! I’m cowardice to express my personal thought cos’ I want to be liked by all.
Subjective or objective?
Rules are created to maintain order and disciplinary behavioral patterns...to achieve harmony and conformism…so to speak. Rules are supposed to be just and impartial.
Rules made by man, subjective or objective?
Have never liked playing legos…chunks and blocks of legos take up space…. Legos have its restrictions to conform…you have to pick those with the right holes to fix on. I’m being subjective, cos’ I simply don’t like to play legos.
Unless the little ones want me to play with them. I’ll sit by to build lego tower with them…stack by stack…patiently…no complaints…totally offering my time, my presence and my attention. I’m being objective, cos’ I want the little ones to be happy. But the irony is, do they care if I’m happy playing the game? Oh, but then, isn’t being objective means there’s no Self?
How about Pictionary? A board game that resembles Charades; but with drawing on paper instead of acting out the answers. But there’s no rule says you required good drawing talents to play this game. Anyone can play. I once played Pictionary with a bunch of people from an advertising agency. My team was a band of talented artists…FA artists (Final Artwork Artists)…illustrators… (and I’m no talent…just a lame guesser) and I thought we surely win. But we lost the game! An FA artist picked a card and he showed a grin with confidence before sketching out something. There were different answers to that drawing…one said “it’s racer?”…another “it’s a sword?”….then “it’s a bird?”…each of these answers not even link to one another! Then we gave up and the answer was revealed….”It’s a Frog!”
We looked closely at the drawing, looking at it in different dimensions, trying hard to figure out this frog. Ahha! I saw the frog leg at this angle..ya..finally we were convinced it’s a frog. Why none of us understand his drawing? Isn’t a FA Artist supposed to be good in drawing? The FA artist had a choice, he was free to express his artistic talents in his sketch…be it the team understood or didn’t. Or he should abide the rules and played the game well to sketch the frog to the vivid imagination for his team to identify and won the game?
Do you want to be game in the game?
And ya, don’t believe me cos’ I’m subjective. Who says white denote truth?
Yes yes, food for thought that's all. This ain't philosophy.. itz just my train and path of thoughts.
If beauty is height for you.. go high with Lego! If beauty means thick chunky low buildings, build you Lego on a wide base then.
It's all about what we want in the end, the desired results. To conform, or reform. Choices.
Well.. i conform at times too. Many a times to be truthful.
The MOST important is that we use our head and heart.
haha..
nic
Hi Nicodemus ;)
Rules.. rules of arts..
Talking about breaking rules, I guess I'm rather expert in it. Sometimes rules breaking puts me in a very conflicting situation.
However, it's always a question of whether it's worth fighting for.
All my life, I can remember most vividly are the scenes of teachers ranting away at me. I couldn't care less cause I thought I shld make my stand. Even till now, after 6 yrs, I still have lecturers screaming at me.
I asked myself why am I always against the grain. I simply cannot see eye to eye to lots of things. Having many ppl going disagreeing my actions is throwing my mental and emotional state into great tensions. And it's always.. relentlesstly.
But I cannot reason out why I shld back out. Or rather there isn't an inch for me to choose because there is something I stand for. I got to break the vicious barrier. I can only arm myself and move forth.
At the end of the day, prove the need for rules breaking and the consequences that will bring about a positive and constructive change.
We should be non-conformist, but harmonious ppl. Such as being 'violent' through the medium of expressionism.
Well, Defiant is only a word used us when you disagree with ppl. To me, defiant = the courage to change.
Picasso's society had not started abstract at his time. So when he founded it, no one really appreciated it. However, somehow, I don't know how, Picasso's form of art was accepted by his society. And from that day onwards, more and more fantastic paintings came about. Vincent Van gogh's paintings are one of those most appreciated..
Frankly speaking, I'm not a fan of Impressionism, I really have to thank Picasso for his abstract. If not, I'll be bored to death my what I can see with my eyes and a total replica on the paintings..
Expressionism starts from somewhere(I forgot where)...many medium of arts merge out. We have to be thankful, if not, we will not have animations, films, evoking paintings, etc..
Yes.. moral of story, non-conformist. Don't be afraid to change..
This post finally make sense to me( after digesting, YES!)
But the conscience part still don't make sense to me... what have 'stealing the block from my friend' got to do with 'why do I abide to rules' ?
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Yeah guys & mlbians, jiayou for tmr! Yeahooo!.. although i cant be there cos my friend pangseh me again=( haiz lo
Sam, thx for the very serious signature, it was nice! you had a hard time to sign it very neatly for our albums rite. haha. keep it up mann!
Nic, the interactions were great, bt ii think the music was too loud tt we couldnt project our voice very loudly. heh heh~
WeiQi, you must be panicky when you couldnt do the set up properly in the beginning rite? no doubt tt we were so patience and 3 cheers for you yea?! grinz~
Some pictures I took at Sembawang Music's entrance where they displayed Mi Lu Bing's new album big poster.
http://i395.photobucket.com/albums/pp36/musiclover_rock2008/MLB_albumposter_1.jpg
http://i395.photobucket.com/albums/pp36/musiclover_rock2008/MLB_albumposter_2.jpg
http://i395.photobucket.com/albums/pp36/musiclover_rock2008/MLB_albumposter_3.jpg
http://i395.photobucket.com/albums/pp36/musiclover_rock2008/MLB_albumposter_4.jpg
waaaaa...haha. i'm here! i wanna say, well done guys, though I wasn't there to witness what happen...haha!
guess what? next friday de qian chang hui i can go le!! hooray! cos I can take off to go le~~! woohoooo! i'm so happy i could cry lorrr...yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh~~~~~~~~~
haha my father said gd lor, if they dare to ask me go back cover shift, I shall lied to them that i cannot work =X...oops! haha
milubing jia you!! cya next friday lo~~~
谢谢伟奇'开金口'帮我们完成任务~ :PP
a big thanks goes out to the nice people at warner music & mediacorp, who made things today possible. and also the two milos who helped us with the 'surprise'.
and of course, we hope nic enjoyed the celebration and had fun looking through the presents.
Happy Birthday once again! :)
Cheers!
O.. too bad I was unable to be there yesterday. But I believe it was an enjoyable day for the whole MLB Family.
I am also won't be able to attend this Friday's autograph session, cos I will be flying to Taiwan on Thursday (16th Oct) and be back on following Friday (24th Oct). Wondering will there be any gai-ban, then I can get MLB to sign on my albums? And I need to pass the gifts to MLB. I Miss MLB & MLBians too.
Hope that Cheng Shu will advance to the Top 10 of today Yes933 Long Hu Bang. I won't be home to listen, so I am unable to give any update today. But, there are sure to be others giving update here.
MLB Jia-you... Cheng Shu up up up the chart. :)
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stay real, that's the spirit.
have an early night!