came across this during one of my random surfs. i love elliot erwitt’s attitude, and i can totally relate to his answers.

i almost always do things with no special reason or purpose; i don’t plan for the future, i simply just do what i feel to do. and from my experience, it seems that most people (my parents, especially) have a hard time comprehending this.

some of my fave quotes: I just do what I do, without thinking too much.

I really don’t try to look for reasons for everything. I think it’s a mistake to look for a motivation for everything. You just go out and do what you do. Don’t think too much about it, because it takes the spontaneity out of everything.

throughout the interview, you can see that he has been repeating the same thing many, many times, albeit in different ways.

i doubt he was trying to be delibrately difficult or obnoxious like what some of the commenters in the above site have said. sometimes, we really really have no idea why we are doing what we are doing; the only thing that we know is that we just want to do it.

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Tags: life, thoughts

something came over me as i was looking at these pictures over at cuteoverload.com.

i don’t know how exactly to describe it, but it was kind of like tenderness, warmth, and cynicism all mixed together.

looking those pictures of the interaction between two species of animals who are in a human-defined predator-prey relationship somehow makes me feel that wild animals, and nature as a whole, have been grossly misunderstood by a lot of us.

yes, wild they may be, and brutal they may be, but as far as i know, animals do not frivolously or recklessly kill other animals for reasons other than to feed or defend themselves. or maybe they do, i don’t know. but i haven’t yet heard of any species of animal that goes on a killing spree for either its own amusement or for some other kind of warped reason that only they themselves can comprehend.

maybe i am romanticising or even anthropomorphising the wild… but sometimes it does seem that nature and her wild animals can be more humane than us humans.

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now that my immersion kids have gone home, i am now teaching the “regular” kids – students who are currently living and attending schools in singapore.

some of them have lived in singapore for a few years, and i still haven’t really gotten used to hearing korean children speaking english with a singaporean accent (with bits of singlish thrown in). after living for 2 years in korea, i’m more used to hearing them speak in american-accented english. hur.

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Tags: thoughts, work