Pre-Holiday Weekend

For the past 3 days, I have, luckily, more ups than downs...

Both Dear and I had been busy busy... fortunately, my $$$ for my vacation job finally had arrived, and we went to have a GOOD meal @ Suki Sushi in town on Thursday... but FIRST, we went to HMV Heeren, where I had made a prior reservation for the Pretty Woman VCD; when I had secretly collected and paid for the VCD, I saw Dear asking the sales assistant to look for the VCD for her hehe; lucky I made my move earlier, or else no surprise... We went on for our sushi and then I proceeded back for Band Practice...

Today, Galvin and I had to explain the 'girl's eating of the dosa' question... guess we did pretty ok... after that, we went to print and submit our one page proposal for our project. TAbaoed lunch for myself and dear, then went to SP to eat my lunch; Dear borrowed so many audio CDs from the library hehe... reached Quest a bit late, then proceeded to go thru the choice piece again... today they had some IT workshop and wadever, so attendance was not that good... brushed up on the ending part, and I had to run over here and there to familiarise the percussion parts; the timpanis, the crash cymbal, the gong, the chimes... left at 6-ish and went to meet Dear at IMM for shopping; had dinner then went to Giant, and Dear's mom came soon after... Besides food stuff, Dear also got a nice blouse =) Watched American Idol at Dear's room later on before heading for home....

I have been fascinated by Bourdieu's concept of symbolic violence and social reproduction of inequality. It does make sense to see the world as NOT changing very much, that inequality is being perpetuated consistently, that there is in fact regularity in the world. All this, according to Bourdieu, is due to the transmission of capital (cultural, linguistic, economic) from one genearation to the next. So if the parents are rich, so will the kids. The feeling of being trapped in a state of helplessness sometimes make ppl blame themselves for the state that they are in, that they are the cause of their inertia; this is Bourdieu's symbolic violence. Violence in the sense that ppl, because of this rhetorical mindset, commits themselves to their fate and enacts the resulting 'violence' onto themselves... which i feel do summarise sometimes how i feel ahah... dunno how to point out examples right now, but I'm not very proactive when it comes to matters concerning myself, cos I am too lazy to think hehe... ok enuff of blabbering

Signing off....... in self-defence, we say the things that are right to us because they are right for us - Christopher Stroud; is that human nature?..........
RC