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Thursday, June 28, 2007

Schadenfreude

I happened to read Cheyenne's recent entry. Heehee. I'm totally imagining a rat running into the room and getting lost amongst the piles of rubbish everywhere. It's like Rat Heaven in there. Seriously. Though I wish I were still there. I'll be laughing my head off on the bed.

Now that's a disturbing image.

It's Schadenfreude. A German word meaning 'pleasure taken from someone else's misfortune'. Although I'm not THAT sadistic, it would be pretty funny seeing Melissa and Cheyenne huddled on the red armchair strewn with clothes and jackets, and shrieking at the top of their lungs. Heehee.

Now that also explains why I laugh at horror movies, or while sitting on some death defying ride at the amusement parks. Basically, when people scream, I laugh. When Jaya and Nina ran screaming out of the studio upon seeing a small lizard, I laughed and even snapped a picture of it with my mobile. Always needed a word to describe such behavioural tendencies and schadenfreude [from one of Avenue Q's songs] cuts it.



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