Inscribed On Tombstone:
Born: New Year's Eve, 1983
Location: SkateTown
Occupation: Incorrigible Slacker Real Occupation: Media Student
Herein lies a...
Die-hard romantic
Tireless advice-giver
Certified gun-nut
Lazy-ass whore
Loyalist to a fault
Parody-lover
Electronic Entertainment Enthusiast
Football Fanatic
Conspiracy-theorist Crackpot
Wordsmith
Unrealistic idealist
Self-righteous moralist
Born individualist
Former atheist
Penchant for the melodramatic
Sentimentalist
Quotable Quotes
"Soon the reason is gone, and all that is left is the feeling itself..."
- Anonymous
"The thrill is in the hunt."
- Myself
"Even the strongest have their moments of fatigue."
- Nietzsche
"Fortune favours the bold."
- Virgil
"It is but a shadow and a flicker that you love..."
- Aragorn
"Beneath this mask is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof."
- V
"I have dreamed a dream... but now that dream has gone from me."
- Morpheus
"God does not play dice."
- Einstein
"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded."
- Academician Prokhor Zhakarov
"When you kill one, it is a tragedy. When you kill ten million, it is a statistic."
- Stalin
"In one dimension I find existence, in two I find life, but in three, I find freedom."
- Foreman Domai
"You see, people believe what the media tells them to believe. And I tell the media what to believe."
- Kane
"Optimists and pessimists die the same way. Optimists just live differently."
- Shimon Peres
"Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!"
- David G. Farragut
"You know you are in love, when you see the world in her eyes, and her eyes everywhere in the world."
- David Levesque
"Music... the language to stir the hearts of men."
- Shakespeare
"A man always finds it hard to accept he has lost a woman's love, no matter how badly he may have treated her."
- Sherlock Holmes
"He who attacks where his enemy does not know how to defend, will be victorious."
- Sun Tzu
"Without purpose, we would not exist."
- Agent Smith
"I know guys like you, you can do any terrifying thing you're ordered to do... but you have to do it running."
- Carl
"History has been one long series of conspiracies... the successful ones, we call governments."
- Stanton Dowd
"The empires of the future are the empires of the mind."
- Winston Churchill
"One thing is true of all governments... the most reliable records are tax records."
- Eric Finch
"When a guy sleeps around, he's a player. When a girl does, she's a slut."
- Sean
"A person is smart. People are dumb, stupid & panicky, and you know it."
- K.
Song 'O The Moment
Thursday, November 30, 2006
A mere whisker is all that separates the living from being a bloody stain on the sidewalk.
Walking back to the office with colleagues, food in one hand and drink in the other, somebody points out a bulging haversack lying smack in the middle of the road, looking incongrously out of place.
Lorry speeds past, barely missing the bag.
Pick-up track hits the bag at high speed, skidding out of control and heading IN OUR DIRECTION. Driver jams on brakes, my knees go numb and speed of reflexes = 0.
The pick-up screeches to a halt barely 2 feet away, the offending bag still stuck under the front left wheel.
If that pickup hadn't stopped, I wouldn't have had the presence of mind to move my pinkie, never mind dive out of the way.
The world once again takes a turn for the surreal.
The sun feels good on my face.
Even the water tastes sweeter.
People need dramatic examples to shake them out of apathy.
Yikes. According to Statcounter's new Google Earth service, not only do I have hits from places like California, New York, Sweden, France and the U.K., but, get this: off the coast of Nigeria in the South Atlantic.
That's right, some mofo accessed this page from a floating boat somewhere in the South Atlantic. Or maybe it was a plane, but that's still scary.
Talk about a globalised world.
On another unrelated note, Burger King in Thailand is great because not only they have a plethora of burgers for you to choose from (in Singapore it'd be, can I have the whopper/rendang double/mushroom swiss? in Thailand you even have veggie burgers, and I swear from appearances they are indistinguishable), but you also get to choose mini hash browns instead of fries or onion rings.
Ok back to work.
Later.
Runnin' away, you can't pretend...
11:11 AM
Monday, November 06, 2006
Tens, if not hundreds of banana leaf boats floating away on the serene waters, each bearing the sputtering flame of a single wax candle set amidst flowers, coins, incense, etc...
It's times like these that make you truly stop and smell the roses, so to speak.
The bearer closes his/her eyes and makes a wish, before setting the little boat adrift on the currents, to be carried whither and thither. It's somehow so much more meaningful than tossing coins in a fountain and hoping to win the lottery.
The candle signifies the strength of the wish being made, and the longer the bearer keeps looking at it, the better.
The festival has special meaning for those engaged in courtship, as the releasing of a Krathong signifies a couple's wish to be true lovers. It's rather enchanting to see many couples sit together and smile at each other as they release their own little wish onto the lake...
Tens, if not hundreds of banana leaf boats floating away on the serene waters, each bearing the sputtering flame of a single wax candle set amidst flowers, coins, incense, etc...
The festival has special meaning for those engaged in courtship, as the releasing of a Krathong signifies a couple's wish to be true lovers. It's rather enchanting to see many couples sit together and smile at each other as they release their own little wish onto the lake...
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