Thoughts/18

- Some people trade freedom in exchange for wealth. Whenever I can I do exactly the opposite.

- A a young boy I was such a failure with girls that, when overcome by frustration I finally decided to masturbate, I found it hard even to seduce my hand.

- You are reluctant to use a muzzle and then you train him like a Gestapo dog? That way you are not only caging his mouth, but his whole soul!

- Yeah, sure, making decisions is easy...when they are not your own.

- Some say that a reasonable dose of stress is good for one's health. However, while they're saying it they shiver, stutter and wriggle in a dreadful way.

Thoughts, rounding up!/17

With these thirteen new thoughts we reach a total of one hundred.

- It's mathematics man. If you spend too much time worrying about how you live you won't have a lot left to enjoy your life.

- Growing up? No way! I prefer dying like this than living like that.

- Sometimes I feel like a hermit lost in the midst of a crowd.

- Surrounded by so much mediocrity...and not  even being able to take advantage of it.

- If you really want to feel alive sometimes you have to make a mess.

Jumble of thoughts/16

- I don't have much time to plan my future, I'm pretty busy dealing with my present.

- I don't give a damn about the money I squander, it's for the time I waste that I can't forgive myself.  

- Or, on a similar note: if you have enough money but you don't have time...suddenly money becomes worthless.

- "Only details"...did you just say only details? But that's exactly what counts. Without details we all look alike.

- Being cheated by a talented genius is alright, by an ordinary bastard is not!

Barrage of thoughts/15

Photo by gwilmore (CC)

- Inverse proportionality: if the perception of living a good life is big, worries about when and how one will die will be small.

- Asian cuisine: if you find ginger disgusting it will always be like that, but if you don't give up on coriander sooner or later you'll like it.

- Self-deception: relishing the conviction that if a little belly is still bulging after a few months of exercise then some mighty abdominals must necessarily be pushing up from below is actually very nice.

- Only one financial condition can be more upsetting than poverty: shown-off wealth.

- Nowadays fascism has lost most of its old party connotations, being reduced to the rank of a simple, politically transversal attitude: a mix of bullying, cowardice and other more or less unpleasant ingredients.

- Inconsistencies: that type of woman that looks at you as if you had tried to rape her just because you smiled at her and a few seconds later is staring with Cinderella-like eyes at a baboon who is squeezing her boobs.

- I've never really been a fan of communism, nonetheless there are a few rich people who I don't like at all.

- It takes so little to achieve success, but this doesn't mean that it's easy at all! If one has more than that little needed it actually becomes quite complicated.

- If anger, frustration, irritation, envy or jealousy get the upper hand, before it's too late give vent to them with a pen and a sheet of paper.

- How many battles can you lose before the whole war can be considered compromised? 

Read more thoughts here.

Slanting thoughts/14

Singapore skyscrapers, by Fabio

- You're saying that I am not good at selling myself. Maybe you're right, but I don't think so: I only dislike some of those personal marketing techniques. 

- There are a lot of things I did that I am ashamed of. One of them is pretending not to recognize someone for reasons that might seem obvious but are not obvious at all. The fact that they did the same with me doesn't comfort me by one bit.

- Can you picture those women who stay with a man just because he's rich? I don't blame them, of course, at most you could say that they are not so romantic. Those men though...we should only hope that they are not too jealous.

- One should write when he has something to say, not just to remind the world that he exists. 

- Most of those people who would never disturb you when you are writing an sms, eating, talking with someone or on the phone, will surprisingly think that you have nothing to do if you are reading, which is possibly the noblest among those activities.

Read more thoughts here

Time killing thoughts/13

Photo by Brandon Christopher Warren (CC)

- Between fake open mindedness and genuine backwardness I have no doubt: much better the latter.

- Listen, it's very simple: I look like a loser because I AM a loser. For your standards and values, at least, I definitely am...

- Modestly - and recklessly - speaking, I think that I am one of the most free persons that I know. Only a few of my vices enslave me and they are, after all, things of little importance.

- You're on a train, comfortable, warm, the illusion of belonging might last forever. Then you arrive to your destination and the idea of having to get off tears you away from your seat like the hand of a giant. It's an alien place, its language and culture unknown, you haven't booked a room, you don't have any information, everything has to be found out...only one certainty: for the nth time you're back into the game.

- Everybody, at least once in his life, has felt like a Robert Deniro in the movie "Casino"...taken for a ride by some Sharon Stone...

Read more thoughts here

Pastime thoughts/12

Photo by Kevin Eddy (CC)

- The cowl doesn't make the monk, it's true...but it can disguise a fake one very well indeed.

- After much thinking I finally got it: you're in an open relationship when your bedroom door has come off its hinges.

- Being ordinary is not a fault...provided that one doesn't make a fool of himself by trying his best to appear an outstanding person.

- Fortunately I'm continuously reminded by others of how sad my condition as a single is: in fact when I am alone I never think about it.

- Some people must think that having fun is an evil act. They always seem to need some kind of excuse to get involved: charity events, theme concerts, demonstrations, web based initiatives, pseudo-political activities. I might be immature, vain, a careless selfish, but I don't need a pretext to have some fun without sense of guilt.

Read more thoughts here

Scattered thoughts/11

Photo "Thinking?" by galo/* (CC)

- Being content with one's common life is still better than putting up with it.

- When you are in an alien place you shouldn't turn yourself into a problem: you never know how people could decide to solve you.

- Sometimes it feels like you're left with the fishbone of your heart.

- You are in Asia, sitting at some restaurant, looking at the local customers who are interacting with the waiter: there's something elusive, a cultural nuance, a linguistic detail, a custom difference. You think about it and all of a sudden you realize what it is: since you can remember you have always asked for your food, you've never really ordered it.

- I've often been saved by my ability to fill voids with enthusiasm.

You can find more thoughts here.

P.S. This year I haven't published any Christmas post. Last year though, I've written three on the topic. You can read them here.

Random thoughts/10

A gondola in Venice, by Fabio

- Pride is a problem, not a virtue: one needs to solve it, not boast about it.

- If one goes to Venice and only notices the odor of the stagnant water he doesn't have to worry about his sense of smell: it's working fine! He might need to see an eye specialist though.

- In order to gauge a person's stinginess level the rate of loyalty to consumerism is not a good indicator, the income/expenses ratio is much better. Between one who earns 100 and spends 100, and another one who earns 1000 and spends 200, who is the stingier?

- Some handphones and laptops are great electronic devices. As conversation topics, though, they are quite dull. Using them is much better than spending time talking about them.

- Single=solitary=alone=sad...this sequence of equations is largely overrated. If one wants to know what real sadness is, he just needs to look carefully at some couples' lives.

For more thoughts click here

Think and think and think/9

Asleep

"Mine is not insomnia, it's just a little carelessness: sometimes I start to daydream and I forget to fall asleep."

"The language section of my brain must have a limited capacity: when a Thai word sneaks in a Chinese one slips out."

"Did you ask since when? I've always been nostalgic! When I was born I cried because I already missed my mum's womb."

"When they ask me what my job is I say that I'm a freelance...then I think to myself: 'very free...and little lance'"

"After having born shyness for so many years, would you be able to point out something good about it?"

For more thoughts click here

Thinking in Kuala Lumpur/8

"The dry season in Kuala Lumpur is that time of the year when it rains a little less than in the rainy season..."

"...or maybe KL has got 365 dry seasons, each one of them just a few hours long."

"If the girls in Kuala Lumpur were as bold as the gays any average straight guy would feel like a superstar."

"'Chef's recommendations', 'Anytime favorites', 'Thirst quenchers', 'Sweet surrenders'...are some of the results of the unofficial contest for the restaurant with the most original menu in town."

"Bukit Bintang in Kuala Lumpur is the only place in the world where the ratio pimps:hookers is greater than 1."

Click here for more thoughts

Photo: covered passageway in Little India, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. By Fabio

Sitting and thinking/7

"Dismissing it as 'mere fiction' is a big mistake: literature can represent reality at its worst."

Your duties and other people's rights...the other way around is just too easy."

"Damned gym: it makes me become like Hulk...I don't mean muscular, I mean green..."

"The Italian community in Bangkok consists of a fair number of chefs and restaurant owners, a few businessmen (food & beverage, fashion and mechanical sectors), some retirees, a bunch of exchange students and others. The latter is one of my various names: Fabio P. Others..."

"Endure? Yes. Content myself? I can't."

Click here for other thoughts

Photo "Thinking", by Fabio 

Mumble Mumble/6

"Does living a sensible life make sense?"

"Humans are among the earth most inhuman beings: they never want to understand, yet they always want to be understood." (William Stabile)

"Immaturity is not such a bad flaw."

"A lie is alright, faking it all is not."

"Spending time by oneself can be an addictive habit."

Click here for other thoughts

Photo: thinking, by Fabio

Thinking with words/5

"Some people would stay with anyone, just to stay with someone."

"If being beautiful is everything that matters to a woman she will turn her beauty into a reason to scorn her."

"A serious person is not one who never laughs."

"I tell you just in case nobody did it before: when you bite the little ring that pierces your lip the faces you make are not cool at all.

"No permanent jobs, insurances or pension schemes. Recklessness is the best safety net one could use."

"Your sentence is good if you repeat it and like it and then write it and read it and like it again, as if the one who thought it were not you but someone else."

Click here for other thoughts

Photo "Thinking", by Fabio

Thinking/4

"Decadence can be interesting...if observed from the outside."

"More and more newspapers will charge for their online editions...millions of bloggers say thanks for the favor!"

"Drama 2.0: my mum has joined a social network. I've always thought that I was her adored son but I've just been demoted to the rank of mere friend!"

"When it comes to red wine one just needs to buy a bottle...a good reason to open it will present itself soon."

"In the right spot, with the proper soundtrack and after a couple of drinks...Bangkok can become a sort of psychedelic dream..."


"I'm not the materialistic type, but if it wasn't for the money...I'd rather not go through some of that rubbish..." 

Click here for other thoughts 

Photo "Thinking is timeless" by Papyrarri (CC), from flickr

Thoughts/3

"Some days it feels like you've just scraped it through..."

"Few men can become as merciless as an average woman - if she wants to - can be. And with such ease!"

"Traveling for work is not really traveling...it's just another type of long distance commuting."

Click here for other thoughts

Photo of a pensive man in Georgetown, Penang, Malaysia, by Fabio.

More thoughts/2

"We have to take it as it is: the heart has its reasons which reason does not know...but sometimes the heart can be such an ass!" 

"Pride, shyness and jealousy: what a deadly mix. The heart swells up, compressing the lungs, until one is not able to breathe anymore."

"I'm gonna kick your butt until you'll have to change pants size!"
  
"If someone thinks that a fashion event is fun...he must have never had fun in his life..."

Click here for other thoughts

Photo of a pensive man in Kashgar-Xinjiang, China, by Fabio Pulito

Thoughts

"I would be one of those adults who behave like an insecure teenager...if I were not already an insecure teenager..."

"Somebody said that women are dreamy, fanciful, emotional, while men are coolheaded, matter-of-fact, resolute. What a gross blunder: it's the other way around."

"Some days it would just be better to wake up the next morning."

Click here for other thoughts

Photo "Thinking RFID" by Jacob Bøtter (CC), from flickr