i am the walrus

i actually planned on having iamthewalrus.wordpress.com but to my surprise, someone else had already taken up their name for a blog. haha how popular can that song be?

actually i think, very popular.

been mugging at home lately, it isn’t very condusive, but i guess it’s really up to me whether i’m able to focus or not. distractions are just external disturbances which one can easily ignore, as long as one is disciplined enough. today is my 4th day studying at home and it seems better now.

during my course of intense revision, i have come across many terminologies and concepts which i find very interesting. i never knew, also, that geopolitics can be that intriguing. (i was thinking of the right word to describe the subject). sooo.. yes, it is. and i am very glad that i took up this module.

o’tuathail is a very famous professor/geopolitician/writer and he has come up with many interesting articles and journals with regards to this subject. my professor, grundy-warr is also incredibly intelligent and has conducted many fieldwork and completed journal articles especially in the context of southeast asian landscapes. i love it. his work on the mekong river especially was stunning.

i’m just thinking… during the course of my study… how minute my world is. my world revolves around my family, my boyfriend, my friends (pri, sec, jc, uni, soka, etc.)… and i do travel.. maybe once or twice a year with my family to places that i don’t have a say in.. and the purpose of our trip would be for leisure and recreation. on the other hand, my professors probably have met people from many parts of the world, whom he has impacted and undeniably.. people from these places who have left a deep impression in him. he goes to places to STUDY and conduct research – hopefully to bring about a better place by exposing the truths, while i go to these places to bring about more economic revenue by shopping, eating, and sleeping. (i think sleeping costs a lot. one night could cost up to US$100+++)

i dont just want to be the walrus, nor the eggman.

i want to be someone who can do things like that.. to help.. to change (for the better).. to connect.. to create exposures… to educate.. and to facilitate..

this sounds like a dream i’ve been having since i was younger.

there is a saying that goes – ‘if you want to change the world, u have to first change yourself’. i don’t quite believe and agree with this quote. you can always change the world, and in the midst of doing so, learn things about yourself which you never would’ve known, which later translates to enriching of oneself, thus changing. or it could be… after the entire process… then a person changes. it does not necessarily mean that if you want to do something for the world, you have to first change yourself. (absurd saying. haha. no offense but it doesn’t make sense to me unless someone else can explain it to me clearly why this is so)

OKAY! enough ramblings for now. i have wasted about 1.5 hours thinking about how i can be a better person and what i want to do in the future, but my conclusion is, give me more time. i have an idea. but the specificity of it has not be finalised happy mugging!

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I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together.
See how they run like pigs from a gun, see how they fly.
I’m crying.

Sitting on a cornflake, waiting for the van to come.
Corporation tee-shirt, stupid bloody tuesday.
Man, you been a naughty boy, you let your face grow long.
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.
I am the walrus, goo goo g’joob.

Mister city policeman sitting
Pretty little policemen in a row.
See how they fly like lucy in the sky, see how they run.
I’m crying, i’m crying.
I’m crying, i’m crying.

Yellow matter custard, dripping from a dead dog’s eye.
Crabalocker fishwife, pornographic priestess,
Boy, you been a naughty girl you let your knickers down.
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.
I am the walrus, goo goo g’joob.

Sitting in an english garden waiting for the sun.
If the sun don’t come, you get a tan
From standing in the english rain.
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.
I am the walrus, goo goo g’joob g’goo goo g’joob.

Expert textpert choking smokers,
Don’t you thing the joker laughs at you?
See how they smile like pigs in a sty,
See how they snied.
I’m crying.

Semolina pilchard, climbing up the eiffel tower.
Elementary penguin singing hari krishna.
Man, you should have seen them kicking edgar allan poe.
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.
I am the walrus, goo goo g’joob g’goo goo g’joob.
Goo goo g’joob g’goo goo g’joob g’goo.