Julya Oui's Blog, page 7

Did you say you wanted a pet?

First of all find out how long is their average lifespan?
Think about how you will be able to accommodate them in your life.
Whether you can bring this pet along with you wherever you go or even if you leave the country.
You know this pet will be closely attached to you once you keep it.
If you feed it, shelter it, play with it and love it some kind of bond develops.
Leaving them behind after months or years of care is not an option.
If you still decide to get one, go adopt one.
The moment you buy one you encourage someone else to smuggle them, breed them or trade them for profit.
These pets will be carted from one country to another, one town to another, one enclosed cage to another until they find a home with a buyer. If not, they sometimes waste away and die a miserable death in their own feces in the same cage they were brought in.
Still, you want one.
Great, go ahead and adopt one or pick one from the street.
It's all fun and games to have pets to keep you company and make you laugh at their silly antics but remember, they grow old too.
Some pets reach 20 human years and some less.
They may fall sick. Loose their teeth. Succumb to diseases. Get bedridden and are unable to carry on basic functions.
Will you still want to clean up their vomit and poop everyday?
Will you still want to embrace them even if they begin to smell really bad?
Will you set money aside for their expanses at the vet?
Will you come home and be with them as part of your daily routine?
Even if you go broke, get a divorce, get entangled with upsetting emotional and psychological politics you will still have to care for your pets as though they are your children.
In fact, they are your children. Just not human ones.
You may think you're doing the animals a favor when you rescue them.
But is your decision based on compassion or a noble thought that you are doing something great?
After weighing all these responsibilities and you still feel that you can go ahead and love them anyway, then go spread your love.
Ultimately, it's not about you, it's about them.

Release

If you can...
don't buy them,
don't keep them,
don't take them,
don't trade them,
don't harm them,
don't abuse them,
don't make them,
don't break them,
don't waste them,
don't leave them,
don't throw them,
don't tie them,
don't deny them,
don't scare them,
don't hurt them,
don't rob therm,
just
set them free
and let yourself go.

You're nothing but an Onomatopoeic

waking up stupid
waking up with a duh
and an ehh

bring it on dummy
bring it like an uhh
and a meh

ain't gonna get any better
ain't gonna get any supper
with all the bah

the heart won't stop
the heart won't listen
even if you blah

run along you moron
run along in slow motion
and trip on a boo hoo

lost in a locked room
lost in a grid system
and all you know is goo goo

if time doesn't exist
if time is in a bottle
that you drank and burp

there goes the neighborhood
there goes the tumbling down
to your careless slurp

down the rabbit hole
down the hobbit home
excuse yourself and go uh huh

up in the air it shoots
up in the empty room
echoing to the sound of emm hmm

now you sleep an idiot
now you sleep away in silence
yes you, dingbat, psst, psst

what's the point nincompoop
what's the area code lamebrain
yes you, the imbecile, tsk tsk

Cherry Blossoms for the Year of the Snake 2013

stage 2 of acrylic on canvas

Cherry Blossoms for the Year of the Snake 2013

stage 1 of acrylic on canvas

Blue visions

The blue is alwaysin your eyes that wander tonever ending truth

An art of Expression

Behold, you are,Withhold, you're not.

Cthulhu

Stage 1 - rough sketch

Find your Rhythm

Dreams & Imaginings

One of my dreams a while ago. It came back to me when I had a very strange dizzy spell yesterday. Chucking out most of what I had after lunch, especially my precious vegetable juice. From then on the dizzy spell lasted throughout the night until this morning. There was a distant rolling thunder last night and it showered a little but I couldn't help noticing how odd it was to have it going on for hours, if not the whole night. Of course, this led to my wondering if the spaceships have arrived in my hometown.

I was still a little woozy this morning but I managed to continue my daily routine of cycling around the lakes. In fact, I felt better cycling around then when I sat down to have my capati and teh O kurang manis. Since the entire town was enveloped with mist, quite unusually, I cycled around the lakes again the second time.

What struck me most about today is the extreme silence and absence of people. But since it is a public holiday probably everyone disappeared off for a long weekend vacation.

The illustration below was a dream I had. I was some kind of person in charge of getting everyone into pods to prepare them for their stasis. They each were allowed a baggage, which they placed at the feet and cramp into the pods that was a little too small. While overseeing the entire drill I had a very bad feeling that all this was not good at all. I remember there was a huge pillar and the pods were laid at the side of a very wide street. While some have gone into their pods others were still chatting and hanging around with their music and singing just waiting to go in.

Thus, are my dreams and imaginings.