So Hot... But Must Continue to GANBATE!!!!!

So warm la lately. today went to church, the temperature was at a blazing 37 degrees. shiiiiattes.... anyhooo... there was this article in the church bulletine that made me want to laugh. "Colours and Their Meanings".

as far as i know, God made all the colours in the world. why the heck would colours suddenly have meanings? today's featured colour was black... can you guess what they wrote? i wanted to take the author by the neck and point out to him that priests wear black cassocks, nuns have black habits, most people in the world have black hair! and there the author goes talking about how the colour black is evil and all that crap. sigh! leading poor innocent believers into thinking they have to burn all their black clothes (my parents included... sigh!).

today, i'll be debating on the insanity of these people and their stupid interpretations of colour... black... it's not an evil colour depicting the devil. it's a nice colour, showing the yin and yang of life... i have never believed that colours represent any evil at all. in the colour spectrum, there's such a wide spread! so are these people trying to tell me that for every wavelength of light there is, it has a meaning? if so, good luck in making up the meanings.

ok, i'll put this to you. the colour white. in some cultures, it symbolises purity, innocence, cleanliness and the good stuff. in others, it's a colour worn during periods of mourning. for example, chinese would kill you if you wore a white wedding cheongsam to your tea ceremony. in the ang moh's context, a bride in white is a picture of perfection.

red... this colour, for chinese, is a wonderful colour. worn during CNY, weddings, births, any celebration! but then the ang moh's think otherwise. you see, red, to the ang mohs, may mean a variety of things. for some, rage, others, sensuality, war. mars is red, and the greeks regarded him as the God of War... so, which should we believe?

black is indiscrete. it blends in beautifully with everything. the europeans were fascinated with our ebony hair, dark dark eyes... in that way, are we evil? the africans were thought to be lower than whites, why? because their skin was black? see! this is all due to the point of view of others. black was a scary colour once upon a time! imagine a place where the dark was full of the unknown? i don't blame our ancestors to be wary of the colour, but i doesn't give any reason for shunning it!

black is just a colour... it holds no meanings to me. it's the people wearing the colour that make it something. just as some consider red and black to be sexy, it's all the individuals wearing the colour that makes it mean something...