Why Would I Write

  • Eye Have Got My I On You

    Yesterday, I welcomed my second nephew into the world. While my sister didn’t start flooding her social media feed with pictures of the kid, she did share some photos with us on WhatsApp. She did the same thing when she had her first child. Trust me when I say she’s not the only one who does this. I’m at the age where people around my age are having kids of their own and it’s something I would have been oblivious to if it wasn’t for my Facebook feed filling up with pictures of babies.

    I’m not complaining and it’s not a bad thing. I have no qualms with what kind of photos people want to post up. If I don’t like it, I just ignore it or block it, no biggie. It’s just interesting to know that in today’s day and age, kids are digitally imprinted the day they are born.
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  • Humpty Dumpty

    Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
    Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
    All the king’s horses and all the king’s men
    Couldn’t put Humpty together again.

    The other day, I was driving home from work and for some reason the nursery rhyme popped into my head. For no good reason. Anyway, there it stayed, stuck for a bit. I thought about the lyrics and then realized that nowhere in the rhyme does it ever mention Humpty Dumpty being an egg. So how come every children’s book I’ve seen with the rhyme has an accompanying illustration of an anthropomorphic egg?

    Why would an egg have a name? Why would an egg need to be put together again? Why was the egg talked about as though it was a living thing? These questions flooded my mind, so I decided to look it up. Thanks to the very detailed Wikipedia article I learnt a few things:

  • Humpty Dumpty was said to be an egg when the rhyme was told as a riddle.
  • Humpty Dumpty has also been illustrated as a human boy before.
  • “humpty dumpty” was also eighteenth-century reduplicative slang for a short and clumsy person.
  • There are multiple variations of the Humpty Dumpty rhyme, the most common one being the one I posted.
  • The character has also been referenced many times in pop culture and literary works.

    • Anyway, I guess the mystery is kinda solved. I won’t ever have to think about the strange egg again.

  • Each drag’s a drop of blood, a grain, a minute of my life

    Today I want to write about one of the most influential bands to me. The Used. There’s not much to say about these guys, just four dudes who wrote and played rad music. I got to know about them thanks to a friend introducing to me to ‘The Taste of Ink’ and ‘Buried Myself Alive’. I was hooked from the start. I listened to them nonstop. ‘Buried Myself Alive’ became one of my favorite songs of all time. I don’t think I’ve ever skipped the track before whenever it came on my playlist. Listening to The Used’s earlier stuff brings me back in time. Back to college, when life was careless and free.

    It was a great time for music.
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