Random Rumination

Today's lunch topic was: Gurkhas, Spartans, Eyeballs & Freak Accidents

1. Gurkhas
Chiron said that Vishal is a Gurkha. I was surprised, cuz I always thought Gurkhas are occupations. I thought they are just foreigners our dear PAP buys in to fight for us in times of war. How embarassing. That was before my smarter colleagues enlightened me.

I was so intrigued by the Gurkhas. Because, they are apparently born naturally warlike and aggressive in battle, and to possess qualities like courage, loyalty, self sufficiency, physical strength, resilience, orderliness, hard working, fighting tenacity and military strategy. (Wikipedia, 2007)

Doesn't that sound absolutely familiar? I was so excited cuz they sounded just like the SPAR-TANSssssssss!! Its so intriguing! To think the that IS such a race of people in the modern world. It makes me feel like they're not like, normal common folk, us. They were really born with a purpose. They're like out of this world of messiness, confusion and weakness.

I don't know. I am just very intrigued by it. Audrey said that there's this area in Singapore that the PAP has specially set aside for the Gurkhas. There is everything they need in there, and we normal Singaporeans are not allowed anywhere near it. The flats in the Gurkha area has NO lifts. I bet no matter how big the area is, they have no buses or bicycles or skatescooters either. Must make use of every chance to TRAIN UP their WARLIKE bodies mah!! You think what? Lazy fatty bums like us meh?

Oh, then we went on to discuss SPARTANS.

2. Spartans
When we watched 300, Peter told me that Sparta existed only in comic books. NO! They existed in HISTORY BOOKS TOO!

Apparently, the movie was a sanitised version of the real Greece-Sparta vs Persia war. Audrey watched a documentary on Sparta, and you know how they get a woman to marry them?

Oh, I read up on Sparta too after lunch. Spartan women are trained to fight just as well as their male counterparts, and they have the same power too, unlike women in other parts of the world at their time. Husbands allow their wives to bring lovers home because they know the importance of 'breeding' good genes for their race. How cool is that?

Oh ya, how to get a woman to marry them. HAHAaa... its quite funny though disrespectful. If a man sees a women he fancies & wants to marry, he will go up to her, GRAB HER and try to rape her. If the woman is strong enough to fight away from him, she has the right to reject his marriage proposal. BUT BUT BUT if he manages to rape the girl, the girl has to marry him. Like that hor, if the girl also likes the guy but he doesn't know it, means she has to pretend to be raped in order to marry him ah? hahaha.. so funny.

These new races I found out about, is the highlight of my day! :D

Like too long for a post hor, I think I will talk about eyeballs & freak accidents another time den... *yawn..