Comments on: Lessons in the Duality of Reality http://quaintly.net/2008/05/17/lessons-in-the-duality-of-reality/ Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:08:20 +0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Simon Seow http://quaintly.net/2008/05/17/lessons-in-the-duality-of-reality/comment-page-2/#comment-180212 Simon Seow Tue, 20 May 2008 05:10:35 +0000 http://quaintly.net/2008/05/17/lessons-in-the-duality-of-reality/#comment-180212 OMG. Still having sleep disorder ah. You should relax girl. Try to do some yoga. OMG. Still having sleep disorder ah. You should relax girl. Try to do some yoga.

]]> By: Charlie http://quaintly.net/2008/05/17/lessons-in-the-duality-of-reality/comment-page-2/#comment-180180 Charlie Tue, 20 May 2008 03:18:25 +0000 http://quaintly.net/2008/05/17/lessons-in-the-duality-of-reality/#comment-180180 Nyuk, Pinkpau: You bring up a good point. You're right, no human can be expected to be happy all the time. Afterall, humans are reflective creatures, which makes us melancholic or upset even though we logically know that we actually have it pretty good. You're also correct in saying that pessimism can be a way of protecting oneself from, eg, disappointment. Fair points and well said. I hope you know I didn't mean that you were purposely trying to ridicule people, just that that is what people who have it worse than you, may be feeling. I guess what I'm trying to say is, generally speaking, although you may be unhappy now or whatever (seeing that your post seems slightly on the bitter side), I hope it's just a transient thing, you have a lot to be happy for. As for your actual post, what can we say, c'est la vie. There will be friends who you like but also for convenience -to hang out with when you're bored, to listen to you, to help you out, etc. We all do it to some degree or another. Sometimes we will put on a smile, and be nice to someone even if we don't like them so much, because we need to finish a group project together. Sometimes, it's just nice to be nice to someone you might not actually like so much. Showing exactly how we feel about other people all the time, is neither very useful and quite detrimental to world peace and work efficiency. Backstabbing is a different story though. The friends who are true, the ones who like you and who you like just because, those are rare and precious. Lemonade when you're expecting lemons is nice. Don't feel as if you don't deserve it though. You do. Oh God, I sound patronizing now. Or like, a Hallmark card. They tell me you should treat the cause of your insomnia, not your insomnia (by means of pills- which are addictive). As in, if you can't sleep, maybe it's cause your worried/ depressed/ stressed/ in pain?? or maybe you just don't have good sleeping habits (using your bed for other things than sleep, napping during the day, have irregular sleep times, exercise or drink just before bed, have a room that is too hot/cold/noisy/bright, etc). Try yoga or light exercise several hours before bed to release sleep-aphilic endorphins. Now I sound like a doctor. Lol. Bet I bet you know that all already. P.S: I'm trolling your blog cuz I'm bored and I know people who are always 'stalking' your blog so I decided to join in the fun. Please don't hold them responsible for any evil things I may happen to say. Nyuk, Pinkpau: You bring up a good point. You’re right, no human can be expected to be happy all the time. Afterall, humans are reflective creatures, which makes us melancholic or upset even though we logically know that we actually have it pretty good. You’re also correct in saying that pessimism can be a way of protecting oneself from, eg, disappointment. Fair points and well said. I hope you know I didn’t mean that you were purposely trying to ridicule people, just that that is what people who have it worse than you, may be feeling. I guess what I’m trying to say is, generally speaking, although you may be unhappy now or whatever (seeing that your post seems slightly on the bitter side), I hope it’s just a transient thing, you have a lot to be happy for.

As for your actual post, what can we say, c’est la vie. There will be friends who you like but also for convenience -to hang out with when you’re bored, to listen to you, to help you out, etc. We all do it to some degree or another. Sometimes we will put on a smile, and be nice to someone even if we don’t like them so much, because we need to finish a group project together. Sometimes, it’s just nice to be nice to someone you might not actually like so much. Showing exactly how we feel about other people all the time, is neither very useful and quite detrimental to world peace and work efficiency. Backstabbing is a different story though. The friends who are true, the ones who like you and who you like just because, those are rare and precious.

Lemonade when you’re expecting lemons is nice. Don’t feel as if you don’t deserve it though. You do. Oh God, I sound patronizing now. Or like, a Hallmark card.

They tell me you should treat the cause of your insomnia, not your insomnia (by means of pills- which are addictive). As in, if you can’t sleep, maybe it’s cause your worried/ depressed/ stressed/ in pain?? or maybe you just don’t have good sleeping habits (using your bed for other things than sleep, napping during the day, have irregular sleep times, exercise or drink just before bed, have a room that is too hot/cold/noisy/bright, etc). Try yoga or light exercise several hours before bed to release sleep-aphilic endorphins. Now I sound like a doctor. Lol. Bet I bet you know that all already.

P.S: I’m trolling your blog cuz I’m bored and I know people who are always ’stalking’ your blog so I decided to join in the fun. Please don’t hold them responsible for any evil things I may happen to say.

]]> By: pinkpau http://quaintly.net/2008/05/17/lessons-in-the-duality-of-reality/comment-page-2/#comment-180154 pinkpau Tue, 20 May 2008 01:51:57 +0000 http://quaintly.net/2008/05/17/lessons-in-the-duality-of-reality/#comment-180154 azhan : thank you! :) haha no lah i dont have THAT many readers! i have just enough :) smartypants : haha thank you smartypants! kai chi : did eric lee really say that about my speech!! yeah i made a very big mistake with my speech topic. i predicted that would happen but thought it was unlikely to come true. haih! nevermind lah :) making it to the finals was good enough for me. friendship comes cheap, but the best friendship always comes for free :) rachel : will do :D thank you so much! sam : what a great question; no one's ever asked me that before! how does it feel like to be me... thrilled, giggly, intense, mood-swingy, lazy, happy :) tamtim : haih you see i ended up buying and delivering the cake to myself wtf. but i thank you muchly for the island creamery ice cream! there is now half of a cake left beside me. how ah? jeff : aww come on :) it's nothing that great. if people can take the time to leave me comments, surely i can take the time to reply them! voon : by being emoe!! haha azhan : fortunately, i have been forced not to take any pills. i dont think it would be very good (or effective in the long run) for me wannabe economist : i just read your post :) it's a great article. haha! i should learn to write like you therealanon : haih! if i see you on msn we shall talk about it !! =( ap : you sleep during assembly in sleeping position??? hahahahaha oh man. your entire comment just made my day. haha thank you for being such a cool person :D iamthewitch : but the problem with sleeping pills is tht they can be addictive, right? :\ and i've been having weird sleeping patterns since i was 10 years old. that probably means my habits wont be going away anytime soon. so i guess it's best not to take any medication and try my very darn best to force myself to sleep and wake at proper hours :) martian does a very good job with forcing me.. haha. azhan : thank you! :) haha no lah i dont have THAT many readers! i have just enough :)

smartypants : haha thank you smartypants!

kai chi : did eric lee really say that about my speech!! yeah i made a very big mistake with my speech topic. i predicted that would happen but thought it was unlikely to come true. haih! nevermind lah :) making it to the finals was good enough for me. friendship comes cheap, but the best friendship always comes for free :)

rachel : will do :D thank you so much!

sam : what a great question; no one’s ever asked me that before! how does it feel like to be me… thrilled, giggly, intense, mood-swingy, lazy, happy :)

tamtim : haih you see i ended up buying and delivering the cake to myself wtf. but i thank you muchly for the island creamery ice cream! there is now half of a cake left beside me. how ah?

jeff : aww come on :) it’s nothing that great. if people can take the time to leave me comments, surely i can take the time to reply them!

voon : by being emoe!! haha

azhan : fortunately, i have been forced not to take any pills. i dont think it would be very good (or effective in the long run) for me

wannabe economist : i just read your post :) it’s a great article. haha! i should learn to write like you

therealanon : haih! if i see you on msn we shall talk about it !! =(

ap : you sleep during assembly in sleeping position??? hahahahaha oh man. your entire comment just made my day. haha thank you for being such a cool person :D

iamthewitch : but the problem with sleeping pills is tht they can be addictive, right? :\ and i’ve been having weird sleeping patterns since i was 10 years old. that probably means my habits wont be going away anytime soon. so i guess it’s best not to take any medication and try my very darn best to force myself to sleep and wake at proper hours :) martian does a very good job with forcing me.. haha.

]]> By: iamthewitch http://quaintly.net/2008/05/17/lessons-in-the-duality-of-reality/comment-page-2/#comment-180148 iamthewitch Tue, 20 May 2008 01:33:25 +0000 http://quaintly.net/2008/05/17/lessons-in-the-duality-of-reality/#comment-180148 I'm sorry to hear about your pessimism and insomnia. At some point, I believe everyone goes through this insomniac stage in life. And I have this friend who has the exact same symptoms like yours, who couldn't sleep unless after being awake for extremely long hours. Somehow, he also resorted to sleeping pills so I guess he had no other ways that could help. All I would say is, I hope you would get out of this insomniac life soon, whatever it takes! Even if sleeping pills help, I'm sure you'd know to discontinue immediately once your sleeping patterns are correct. :) Also, I think it's much better to have principle and friends, than to be the last one standing, but ALONE. :) I’m sorry to hear about your pessimism and insomnia. At some point, I believe everyone goes through this insomniac stage in life. And I have this friend who has the exact same symptoms like yours, who couldn’t sleep unless after being awake for extremely long hours. Somehow, he also resorted to sleeping pills so I guess he had no other ways that could help. All I would say is, I hope you would get out of this insomniac life soon, whatever it takes! Even if sleeping pills help, I’m sure you’d know to discontinue immediately once your sleeping patterns are correct. :) Also, I think it’s much better to have principle and friends, than to be the last one standing, but ALONE. :)

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