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Tools of A System

A machinery moves in an automated system. It runs like a clock, in fact, it is trying to beat the clock to produce faster and faster. Churning out goods at a rapid rate to meet the demand from the suppliers.

The employees working in an Multi National Corporation (MNC) are just tools of a machinery system. They are delegated specific functions in their respective departments. They work around the clock, the employees in the USA are working in the day while the employees in India work while they are asleep. Everything is part of a big automated system that ensures profitability of the stock holders.

Everyone is becoming part of the system, each one of us contribute to a bigger objective. Tall buildings dominate the landscape while workers scurry like ants on the ground level. CEOs play golf while entertaining prospective clients. Money is the bottomline. If it brings in profits, we will start production of the goods and services to the masses.

We are just dispensable tools of a system. You can be fired and replaced anytime. Unless, unless… you decide to control the system and stop running in the race like everyone else.

Averal Lim is a Business Undergraduate who examines the consequences of economy on the people that traps them in an invisible race for a “greater being”.

Want To Be A Star?

by | | World

Picture of Gackt, a famous Japanese Singer

Humans sell everything and anything nowadays. As long you have the money, you can get anything (superficial). Human Products is a term i invented for the rising number of “artists” who are marketed by record labels into an “image” that people would “purchase”. It can also mean selling of one’s body (in a sick and twisted way).

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The Spiral

by | | FlashFiction

The spiral down and down the endless stairs
Circling into oblivion, into eternity
The marble white steps guide the way
Into the dark abyss of the soul

Her crystal heels tread on the steps carefully
One missed step, and all will crumble down
It was her alone, walking down the stairwells
Towards the answer in her heart

Her fragile crystal heel broke into two pieces
She fell deeper and deeper into the void
An endless pit of darkness with no end
The hellish nightmare has began

Round and Round

by | | Drawings

Where Has My Heart Gone?

by | | World

He took a scissors and cut the veins towards her heart and threw it into a deep hole that no one could find.

There are no sadness in her eyes, they are just moving tear drops that don’t feel a thing

She looks at the world spinning around her while she sits still.

Waiting, waiting for the day that her heart can be found.

Willie And I – Prawn Fishing

by | | Random

Prawns with satay sticks being shoved up their asses and grilled alive.

I finally finished my exams today after a crazy two week rush to devour the books in my stomach. yum yum. Now that it is over and done with i went with Willie to go prawn fishing! During the first time round, he drove all the way to Jurong and the place was closed. Undetered, we decided to try again at Marina South. We managed to find the place after ending up in east coast and the GPS system was misleading him instead of guiding him. “Turn Left, Turn Left” … then we were like “Where got left ?!”. “Do a U-Turn”… and we didn’t see any u-turns x_X

After a gruesome ride and many wrong routes we ended up at the place. It was a very dark narrow road into the place. There was no lights. Guess what? It is closed too! So we went to two places without avail. The prawn fishing addiction is unbearable, we just have to hook up some prawns and BBQ them alive!!

I guess we are going to try again next time at Westlake. ( i didn’t know the name really meant that there were fishing lakes in the area ) Just hope that the place is not closed AGAIN!

Will update with more photos in my future entries, my camera is gathering rust in the cupboard.