Everybody has a certain...

Everybody has a certain song or certain songs that they will never ever tire of.

I have a few myself, yes.

Mine are usually songs I remember from my childhood. Because.

"I Love You Always Forever" by Donna Lewis has got to be one of my favourite songs of all time. I was about eight years old when I first heard it. I didn't know who sang it at the time, but I knew it was a good song.

Every time I hear it, I'm nostalgic. And it makes me want to jump and dance around the room all spastic. It suits any mood I'm in. Be it reminiscent, happy, sad, whatever. It suits my mood. It's my feel-good song, my soothing song, my wallowing song, etc. XD

I don't really know how to discuss certain feelings. So I'm sorry, the aforementioned lists are short and not comprehensive.

I had a long post about bicycles, but I deleted it because it was crap. That I don't want to post anymore.

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Gah, just watch the old video:

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Now playing: Donna Lewis - I Love You Always Forever
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When I have nothing to do...

When I have nothing to do, I tend to neglect doing anything. At all.

This will probably be an incoherent post. Because.

I went to Kinokuniya today. At KLCC. I don't like going all the way to KLCC, but I do like Kinokuniya. But not all the time because all their plastic makes me nervous.

I wrote a whole paragraph explaining the 28% discount, but deleted the whole thing because it was long and boring.

I got...

and

I can't wait to get started on them, but I have to finish "The Da Vinci Code". I am reading it again, I know. But I have to. (Finished Tolkien's "Letters From Father Christmas". Very charming.)

Because the first time, I just skimmed through to get the gist of it. Yes, and I have to reread it because I want to watch the movie. I didn't watch the movie because I wanted to read the book first. But I did a half-cocked job of it the first time, so it didn't feel right to watch the movie then.

Every time a famous painting or artist is referenced, I think of Stephen Poon and his History classes. LOL! Good times aye? Albrecht Durer looks like Chad Kroeger. Well, I think he does. That's how I remember him. Maybe it's the hair?. And yes, he was mentioned once in the book.

There was this part in the book (chapter 38) where Robert Langdon was having a conversation with his editor regarding the theories contained in his book about The Holy Grail and the reference material he used. The conversation went something like this:

Editor: But with all these books written about it, why isn't this theory more widely known?

Robert: These books can't possibly compete with centuries of established history, especially when that history is endorsed by the ultimate bestseller of all time

Editor: Don't tell me Harry Potter is actually about the Holy Grail!

Robert: I was referring to the Bible.

Haha. I LOL'ed.

I know how the book ends, though. Already read the end. But it actually doesn't spoil it for me, so it's all good. I hate suspense!

I have been having so much time on my hands, and with idle hands comes a congested mind. I will put thoughts out of my head for now. No point worrying about stuff that hasn't happened yet.

For now, I concentrate on staying sane.

I really need to fix up the blog. Starting to piss me off everytime I see it. You have time, you lazy bum! Make a new layout! Faster!

Gah, later.

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Fin.

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So, it's Thursday...

So, it's Thursday.

And the first week of break is almost over.

I must say, I was none too productive these past four days.

I couldn't even remember the days, they just meshed into one another.

This is because I am a bum.

Anyway, I have watched quite a few movies that I have failed to mention in my posts. But I can't be bothered to backtrack and fill in the blanks. So I will just push on through and mention the one we watched today.

Today was a good day. It's always a good day when the CD0901-1 (ohnoes! Rex-ification!) people get together. We went to see Disney's "A Christmas Carol". I dunno, no matter how many adaptations you see, it never gets old. I guess I enjoyed it, but it feels very inappropriate, wrong even, to be watching a Christmas movie in November. Unless its on DVD, but even then you should wait until the first of December (at least) to make it not-so-dirty.

Jim Carrey was Jim Carrey and there were parts that made me sad. Darth Vader made a cameo! Ok, no he didn't. But the Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come looked like Darth Vader. Well his shadowy form did, anyway. He molested Scrooge's dead body. Ok, no he didn't. He just ran his shadowy finger down the length of his corpse that lay under a sheet on his bed. I kid you not. Ok, it's not as dirty as I'm making it out to be.

All in all, it was alright. I enjoyed it.

And I exercised some retail therapy. Which made me feel alright. I am broke now but then again, new books make me ever so happy, you know. So it's all good.

Another Tolkien book, yes. Now, I do realise that I have one or two I have yet to finish, but it's a Christmas book!

I almost got "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy. Now, I have wanted that book for a very very long time, but I keep forgetting that I want it until I see it. And I usually see it when I'm not intending to get a book, thus not having the paper (that can be exchanged for goods or...services) to purchase it.

Yes, the decision was hard.

So, the Opportunity Cost of the Tolkien book was another other book that I have wanted for ages. But it's ok, I guess I will save up for "The God of Small Things", because I have a feeling it will be worth it. Watch this space to see how that goes.

New music is being listened to. Kill Bill has been re-watched. And ofcourse Facebook was open in another space all the while, bahahaha.

Man, I really like Facebook.

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The end.

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Walt Disney Quote

"Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious...and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths"

- Walt Disney

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The subject of death...

The subject of death is complex. It's very hard to discuss without touching on the philosophies of Life and all that, aye?

Today I am sad. Well, not just today. I have been sad for a few days. But today I realise I have been sad.

I never ever know the right words to say to someone who has just lost a loved one. I try to remind them that I'm only a phone call away, but "try" being the operative word here, because I can never seem to say it. No matter how I phrase it in my head, it seems cliche and insincere, because people always say stuff like that, y'know? And it usually only works in the movies. "I'm here if you need to talk", or "you know where to find me", etc., etc. Stuff like that is overused.

So what do I do then? I make awkward, inappropriate conversation, that's what. And then I wonder why I even called later on when I find myself talking about cats mating or other irrelevant topics.

And it usually only works in the movies.

My friend's mother passed away on Wednesday. I found out the next day, through a friend via email. But as goes such things, the truth took a while setting in. I had spoken to his mother in late August, so the news of her passing away was a shock, it was just so sudden. I couldn't concentrate, my mind was overloaded. I tried calling him, but his phone would ring and ring and he wouldn't pick up. I thought this was his way of saying he didn't want to talk to me. Then I found out today that he was back in India. Which, now that I think about it, makes sense.

So, I called him up about an hour ago and we talked for about an hour, LOL. The major topics covered were the weather, school, cats mating, and everything else in between; except what I really called to say. Which was that I was sorry for his loss and if there is a God (at times like this I try hard to believe there is), he will be kind to his mother because she was kind to others in her lifetime.

Of course I never managed to articulate all that.

So I stuck with "stay positive, you" and the lame jokes I am known to make. He said, "it's amazing how you are can still make me laugh in a situation such as this". I said something irrelevant in response.

Since his family are Hindus, there are a series of rituals they must perform. Tomorrow, he will have to go to the river with her ashes or something like that. And on the last day, he will have to be at the temple all night, his head will be shaved and all that.

He didn't say much about things, but what he did tell me was heartbreaking. His father called him saying his mother was in hospital. He flew home the next day and was with her for three days in the hospital before she passed away. He watched her dying right in from of his eyes, he said. All I could think was: how can someone go through something like that and still have the strength to go on? If it were me in that situation, I'm pretty sure the first thing I would do is melt into a heap on the floor and simply evaporate into oblivion.

I guess the only thing any of us can do is keep going. Death is just another part of Life, I guess. And time is a great healer. I don't think the sadness ever goes away, but I hear it gets easier with time.

I leave it here.

This is a depressing entry.

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A few days ago...

A few days ago, I couldn't access Country Story.

I was so sad.

It take an age loading, and then wouldn't load.

They were making updates. I'm still getting used to the changes, no complaints so far.

Below is a pikachu.

You can now buy fruit trees!

They last for seven seasons and after the first season, each season lasts for 24hours.

I've just had my first harvest, ^_^

I think I'll save the fruit and buy another cow or something.

Anyway, quick update.

That is all.

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The psychoanalysis of...

The psychoanalysis of oneself can be enlightening.

Sometimes.

Other times, it's a complete waste of time, because it fucks up your sleep. Seriously.

The past few days have been rather shitty on the friendship front. I had a huge falling out with a friend over something or another. Not going to go into details because I usually don't. But yeah.

Anyway, this incident has reminded me of things I do not want to be reminded of. I have issues. We all do. This goes without saying.

As soon as Einstein postulated his theory of the Space-time Continuum, people have debated the feasibility of time travel. With all this psychics babble came the conceptualisation of time machines. If time and space is indeed a continuous curve, then does traveling anti-clockwise around the Earth really restore one second to your life? I don't know. But the point I'm trying to make is people talk about time travel, and when they do, they often mentally make a list of all their regrets and ask each other questions like, "if you could travel back into time, what would you change, if anything?"With all this psychics babble came the conceptualisation of time machines

I answer this question differently every time, not because I have different things I would change, but because I haven't really finalised my list of regrets yet.

But if we think about it, life is a series of chain reactions; something always sets off something else. And if time travel were possible, and we all changed things in our pasts, the present wouldn't be what it is. And (i have used alot of "ands" thus far, sorry) I, for one, like the way the present is. I like having met the people I've met.

Yes, so that was my long, roundabout way of saying that I think the past should be kept in the past.

And when dealing with the past, I believe everybody has the right to their privacy. When I find out some "deep, dark secret" about someone I know, I will never bring it up in conversation with them because that's just not appropriate. I won't even allude to it, and won't let on that I know even. Why? Because it's their business and if they wanted me to know, they would have told me personally on their own terms. Yes, if they wanted me to know, they would have told me themselves. Exactly.

Anyway, it's late (early, 2am) and I have some work that needs finishing. I will end this post with pikachus of the mehndi design I made (drew?) on my hand.

This was before the paste dried. The colour is really cool, its all black and shit. Can you tell I only just took this pikachu?

And this is a pikachu of my hand when I peeled the dried paste off.

I posted two pikachus, because like guinea pigs, pikachus are social creatures and would die if they did not have company.

And I hear Hsu-Cherng saying something about this sounding alot like BS.

I have cleared my brain of all the rot that was accumulating from the self-psychoanalysis.

Now, I piss off.

The end.

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