Is that your final answer?

I think there is saying somewhere that goes something like this: some of life's major decisions are made on the spur of the moment, and take only an instant to decide.

well, looks like i'm heading back home to (the claustrophic, congested, noisy, kai-su, tiny-island-in-the-middle-of-nowhere) Singapore after i graduate. time to join the singapore rat-race with flowerger, kinky nomad and the rest of the wollongong gang.

oh yah. wishing you guys a Happy Chinese New Year. may your ang-baos always be full and your gambling rivals lose money! *grins* :D

P.S:
1. the never-ending story is still waiting for anyone to continue. the post is below, so pls click on the link to read the latest update. :p
2. cheers to the Addicks who drew with Chelsea! let the mighty Jose Mourinho falter and fear!
3. cheers also to Man Utd who won narrowly with Liverpool. Kudos to a Reds masterly defence!

In memory of our departed loved ones...

This song is dedicated to those who have missed their departed loved ones. as friends, we will always be there for each other thru the good and bad times. do not mourn for those who die fulfilling their destinies. they have given much to us, and we can repay them by living our lives to the fullest and their memory in our hearts.

One Sweet Day by Boyz II Men
Sorry I never told you
All I wanted to say
And now it's too late to hold you
'Cause you've flown away
So far away

Never had I imagined
Living without your smile
Feeling and knowing you hear me
It keeps me alive
Alive

And I know you're shining down on me from Heaven
Like so many friends we've lost along the way
And I know eventually we'll be together
One sweet day

Darling, I never showed you
Assumed you'd always be there
I took your presence for granted
But I always cared
And I miss the love we shared

And I know you're shining down on me from Heaven
Like so many friends we've lost along the way
And I know eventually we'll be together
One sweet day

Although the sun will never shine the same
I'll always look to a brighter day
Lord I know when I lay me down to sleep
You will always listen as I pray

And I know you're shining down on me from Heaven
Like so many friends we've lost along the way
And I know eventually we'll be together
One sweet day

And I know you're shining down on me from Heaven
Like so many friends we've lost along the way
And I know eventually we'll be together
One sweet day

Sorry I never told you
All I wanted to say

P.S: *control tower, control tower, this is SQ-WLLG (short for wollongong >.<) taking off, permission to use the run-way* flowerger and the rest fly plane sia. today suppose to go chinatown to look look see see. but everyone is tired, so the gathering's off. i'm still feeling ok and i might still head out with my oliphant, depending if she has recovered from her flu. *grins* the advantages of youth, i suppose. :D

The Never-Ending Story Comic Strip?!

At the request of flowerger (please click on the picture for a closer view >.<). lol... what a pity the comic strip generator doesn't have colour. as our dear friend, john kwok, would say ,"aye, this is nonsense lah. cancel lah arh, cancel. cancellation." :D

any other requests? *grins*

The Never-Ending Story Part Two

So far, the response to the pilot episode has been pretty good (drawing viewership of abt 10 comments >.<). thus, (by the powers invested in me as the story director >.<) i have decided to continue along with the story. i think you can tell who had contributed by reading each section (i.e. gay-ness by flowerger *cough cough*, pink stuff by pinkys etc etc >.<). lol... anyway, the story so far is as follows:

its was a warm and sunny day. adam was out with his girlfriend, adeline, walking his dog, bones. then suddenly, adam turned to adeline and said..."honey i have been keeping this from you for a while that...well its not you. i met someone...he is real nice. we get along very well. and we are moving in together soon."

teary-eyed, adeline embraces adam and whispers,"i know. thats why i poisoned your breakfast." "what?! nnoo... how could you do this to me, you witch?!" adam croaks out as he slumps to the floor. sensing the death of his master, bones gave a mournful howl and as if on cue, a flock of ravens filled the air...

and right on cue he wakes up with no recollection of the last 10 mintues. straightening his horribly crumpled shirt (dying can do that to your clothes), he continues "don't you ever wonder how strange it is that our names both start with 'a'?"

"you stupid man!" adeline screeches, "you are suppose to die! stupid poison! i bought it for $98.00 on ebay and it doesn't work! now i have to iron your bloody shirt!" in her fit of fustration, she whips out a pocketknife and slashes wildly at him. unbeknown to her, ... ...

came adam's boyfriend, everett. he grab the knife from adeline and stab her instead, many times. "take this woman. how dare you do this to my adam." little known to everett, adeline has magical powers that she cannot be hurt from the stabbing of knives. both of them get into physical fight. adam nursing his wounds relax one corner and watch the fight.

"whoa there!" came a shout. everett and adeline paused in the middle of their fight, turning in the direction of the yell. someone dressed in red, blue and lots of black lines, swooped down. that someone is... ...spiderman! "this is your neighbourhood friendly spiderman. now then, what seems to be the problem?" spiderman asks as he stands crossed-arms, in between the awe-struck pair... ...

spidey to adeline "told you not many times not to date that loser. why can't you listen to me for once??" spidey fuming mad kick everett in the stomach and gave adam a tight slap on the face. "now adeline let kor take you home. its time you embrace this power of yours and join me. we can become the spider siblings." adeline took her kor's hand and went home with him.

and along came the PINK SUPERGIRL, wearing four shades of pink on her cape, her outside underwear, her boots with deadly pointed heels, and pink hair!! Shouted Pinky Supergirl, "You moronic good-for-noting-spider!! You said you loved me!!! U!! U!!!" She flashes her pink powers and pinkinised everybody - no one was spared. they died due to rude shock of bright pinky power....

however, the huge ironic hand of fate struck once again. When Adeline stabbed adam, she unknowingly transferred a tiny bit of her immune-to-stab-wounds power to adam. Jolted by the sudden pink power, both powers combined and mutated to enhance adam's normal body. He becomes... ...the new Pink Power Ranger! Adam rushes to everett's side, weeping as his lover drew his last breath ,"I shall avenge, my darling, I promise you!" filled with calm resolve, he takes to the sky, scattering the ravens that had flocked earlier, and finds... ...

and the story marches on (dragging along everyone in its wake >.<). continue, anyone? lol...

Its alive! Its ALIVE!! ITS ALIVE!!!

It worked!!! the letter actually worked! Woohoo! for the first time in days, i get to see the sun! yippee!

*cast eyes heaven-ward* dear Weather God sir, thank you ssoo much for reading my letter and granting my/our pleas. to show my gratitude, i shall offer my undying loyalty and service as your priest and spread the word of your existence. *kowtows* in addition, i shall build an altar and offer a sacrifice of dinner for you tonight. once again, a thousand thanks, Weather God sir.

hhmm... maybe next time i shall offer a blood sacrifice in the form of a nice plump virgin (as all legends and myths go >.<). *looks around* flowerger, you up for it? or maybe you, pinkys? joking. *grins* :D

A Letter to the Weather God

Dear Weather God sir,

First and foremost, let me tell you how important you are, in our pitiful lives. during the course of history, you have seen our attempts in self-extinction and self-destruction. you have also seen our achievements and glories. empires rose and fell under your glaze. throughout all, you have granted us the proper conditions and environments for us to flourish (and breed like rabbits >.<). without your favour, we would have surely died and the word 'homo-sapiens' might not be invented.

next, let me ask you this: are you out of your freakin' mind?! it has been gloomy and rainy for the past week! what the hell are you doing?! are you slacking off somewhere and letting your assistant do your job? (becoz if thats true, your assistant is doing one hell of a bad-ass-job and you better get your ass to completing your responsiblities!) or are you currently training your eventual replacement/successor? (if so, i think its time you step in and stop the on-job-training!) darn it, sir. let us see some sun, please? on behalf on all singaporeans and all that is good and holy, please please, give us some sun. i swear you are trying to hint to me that i need to bring an umbrella to work (since each time i knock off, there is always rain, be it a drizzle or a shower >.<). furthermore, various parts of asia are suffering under sudden cold spells. australia is always on the verge of a perpetual drought. if i may be so bold to suggest, sir: let australia have our rain for the time being and divert the cold spells to Down Under. whole species are dying from the summer heat wave in Oz and i'm sure they would welcome some relief, of which we are only too glad to give them in exchange for some sunshine.

in conclusion, i sincerely urge you to consider my suggestion and hear my/our pleas. we really really need some sun. if you do not give us some sun soon, singapore would soon turn into a country of lethargic, shivering kia-su people who would form massive queues for jumpers and umbrellas. we won't want that to happen now, would we? oh wait, it has already happen (at least for the 'kia-su' and 'massive queues' part >.<).

yours truly,
a desperate-for-some-sun blogger

*looks out from the window* darn it, the rain hasn't stop. letter not effective. *crushes letter, throws it over shoulder* (-.-) haiz... maybe i should try a rain-stopping dance. hhmm... >.<

The Never-Ending Story Part One

Have you guys ever played the game 'Continue the Story'? this is how its basically played: somebody starts off by writing the first few lines of a story (like 'danny was out with his girlfriend, walking his dog.') then someone else takes over by writing his/her lines of a story (like 'suddenly gozilla appears!' >.<) it could be one or three sentences, just as long as its not one humongous big paragraph. -.-

i was wondering if i should try it out on blogger. i could write the starting few lines of a story and you guys could continue from there via comments. lol... will be interesting to see where the story goes, based on our combined imginations. :D

here is the pilot episode (hence, depending on 'audience ratings', i might discard this idea >.<):
its was a warm and sunny day. adam was out with his girlfriend, adeline, walking his dog, bones. then suddenly, adam turned to adeline and says,"... ...
(pls continue from here, lol... >.<)

And the Icy Blade is deflected by the Shield of Reasoning...

through the warnings and persuasion of my oliphant, i have deleted my previous post. i DO admit that it was unworthy of me and i shouldn't have done it. i'm truly sorry for those who felt offended and i offer a thousand apologies.

on a happier note, i finally got a pair of new shoes. the previous light-brown ones had been worn out in a shockingly short space of time. think its becoz of the way i walk. i tend to put my heels down first as i walk (or also known as 'digging' for those who have been in the army or uniform groups before). blame it on my 4 years in the National Cadet Corps (Sea) and my 2.5 years in the army lah. haiz... after so much marching and drilling, i can't help but 'dig' as i walk (this aspect of my walking has helped me gone through quite a number of shoes). :p in addition, it appears that my previous pair had a 'hollow' rubber sole (as opposed to a 'solid' rubber sole >.<). so once the bottom layer was worned out, it was just a matter of time before i have a hole at the heel portion. sighz...

in addition, i have also bought three shirts with my oliphant at the Topman store at Suntec. yep, me and my second self went shopping! lol... we initally went shopping yesterday at orchard, but couldn't find anything to my satisfaction. got kinda depressed at the end, coz i was all ready to shop and buy my stuff for CNY (plus i needed new shoes before my feet decided to sulk and rebel on me with all the walking in the rain and puddles -.-). so this shopping trip at suntec was fruitful and i'm all happy with my new stuff. Woohoo! lol...

P.S: to my oliphant, thanks for putting up with my moodiness that day. *hugz and muacks!* hee... :D

The First Post of Twenty-Oh-Six

My first post of 2006. my feelings currently? melancholy. deep, slow sadness, weary and languorous. i can't explain why.

perhaps (and most probably >.<) its becoz i stayed up till 12am (or was it 11.30pm? can't remember), reading 'American Gods' and being the 'day-bird' that i am, i didn't get my normal intake of sleep. its quite a good book, although it somehow takes up alot of my brain juice to keep up with the story.

or perhaps its becoz on the way to work, i saw the multitude of kids/teenagers on the way to their first day of school. i thought back to my secondary school days and i thought of the ease and comfort i felt at that period of my life. did i really feel that way? i can't be sure. have i ever felt out of place before? i dunnoe.

or maybe its becoz i had the strangest dream (last night? or was it the night before? i can't remember -.-). i dreamt of someone dressed in a white and brown robe, and with a gentle command, "soft", cause a ring (with diagonal lines along its band and with an open end) to rise and catch it with his (or her? can't remember) palm facing down. in that same dream, i dreamt of another monk-like person, sitting and meditating on a concrete perch, and below was a square pool of water. i remember the former someone (who commanded the ring to rise and catch it with a palm facing down) telling me that the latter someone (who is meditating on the perch) is training. as i approach, i see an image/illusion being cast onto the square pool below. an image not unlike the art of an austrailan aboriginal, with black and different shades of brown, coupled with thick outlines of white. and somehow, in that dream, i understood why he was training when the former someone said,"now you know why he trains".

or perchance its becoz i found out that i can't go to caffeine addict's house gathering on wed, becoz its my father's birthday and i have to go for a family dinner to celebrate. its disappointing, to say the least. i was looking forward to seeing her, my oliphant and the rest of the wollongong gang.

sigh... such tumultuous and conflicting mix of emotions. 2006. what a way to start the new year. then again, i never believe that the start of a new year would symbolise and represent what the new year would become. neither do i believe in new year resolutions for i live my life as it is, take events as they come, and make my decisions when needed. i'm not making sense, am i?