Asinus asinum fricat

Or in other words, the jackass rubs the jackass. Describes two individuals heaping excessive praise on one another. Sound familiar? Give someone a compliment and he is all modesty, "oh it was nothing really, surely it does not compare with you and yours..." to which the appropriate response nowadays is to understate your own and exaggerate his. I was not aware of the time when modesty became a way of angling for more praise. Admit it, chances are you've done it yourself once in a while. Now funnily enough, not only do people object to your modesty, they also object to your pride. "90 for English?!! So high wan!!!" "Yes indeed, thank you." "Oh! so berlagak adi lar!" But if only you had returned praise for praise they would have continued lauding your achievements no end. Humans can be so contrary, no? But that's what makes humanity so fun...all the lovely paradoxes of social etiquette.

At last...

So I've finally created a blog I must admit, out of pure interest. I had been thinking about creating one for some time, but I found the prospect of having to update constantly somewhat daunting. This blog is subjective, which is to say it is intended mainly for myself. On the subject of its creation though, its timing can hardly be better. I am due to attend a camp hosted anually by my church (Trinity Methodist Church P.J) in oh, about 2 days time, which I expect will provide me with an ample supply of anecdotes for this blog. I would continue see, but for my lack of inspiration at the moment, and so I leave my cartesian other with nothing but promises of more to come, hopefully in the near future.