Morning filler

Since this thing has been making its rounds on the net and I'm a diehard music fanatic, here goes:

instructions.
1. put your music player on shuffle.
2. press forward for each question.
3. use the song title as the answer to the question even if it doesn't make sense. NO CHEATING!
4. tag 10 people to play this game too.

how are you feeling today?
Smashing Pumpkins - Frail and Bedazzled
Hey, scraped knees and groggy from insomnia. What do you expect?

will you get far in life?
Radiohead - Sail to the Moon
Well, the moon's quite far...

how do your friends see you?
Placebo - 20th Century Boy (T-rex cover)
"Friends say it's fine, friends say it's good, Everybody says it's just like rock'n roll. I move like a cat, charge like a ram, sting like a bee, Babe I wanna be your man." - yeah riiiiight.

will you get married?
Oasis - She's Electric
"She's electric, she's got a family full of eccentrics."
"Coz I'll be you and you'll be me/There's lots and lots for us to see/There's lots and lots for us to do/She is electric, can I be electric too?"
Sounds like a yes to me! Yay!

what is your best friend's theme song?
Foo Fighters - Walking After You
This song reminds me of one of my best friends when I was in secondary school, cause he liked Foo Fighters quite alot. He migrated to Australia.

what is the story of your life?
Al Green - Lean on Me
Nahhhhh wrong song.

what was high school like?
The Darkness - Growing on Me
Nopes, not relevant either.

how can you get ahead in life?
Gabrielle - Rise
"Now I'm ready to rise again"? Nah I'm not an optimist.

what is the best thing about your friends?
Dodgy - Water Under The Bridge
The close friends of mine are a forgiving bunch, whatever nasty things I did, it sounds like it's water under the bridge by now. Hopefully at least.

what is in store for you this weekend?
Cake - Guitar
Nopes, I don't think I'm ready to touch the guitar again so soon. Just feeling so lazy lately.

what song describes you?
The Cranberries - Just My Imagination
My life is just my imagination. Pretty creepy come to think of it. Is whatever life we're living just an imagination? I can't tell.

describe your grandparents...?
Manic Street Preachers - Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky
Yeah, they're dead.

how is your life going?
Placebo - Special K
No, I'm not high on drugs.

how does the world see you?
Radiohead - Packt Like Sardines in a Crush
Huh?

will you have a happy life?
Radiohead - Like Spinning Plates
Huh again?

do your friends really think of you?
Arctic Monkeys - From the Ritz to the Rubble
"Last night these two bouncers/And one of em's alright/The other one's the scary one/His way or no way, totalitarian/He's got no time for you/Looking or breathing/How he dosen’t want you to/So step out the queue/He makes examples of you"
I'm not welcome. :(

do people secretly lust after you?
Robbie Williams - Road to Mandalay
"There's nothing left for you to give/The truth is all that you're left with/Twenty paces then at dawn/We will die and be reborn"
Probably not.

can you make yourself happy?
Toploader - Dancing in the Moonlight
No I don't dance to make myself happy.

what should you do with your life?
Yellowcard - Breathing
Nice advice. Think I'll just sit in a corner... and continue breathing.

will you ever have children?
Kings of Convenience - I'd Rather Dance With You
That's a no I think.

Damn the haze

gonococcus's method of diplomacy to solve the haze issue:

Nuke 1 Indonesian city for every year of haze.


Too tired and too irritated by the haze to put in a proper entry today.

Bahhhhhhhhh

This day is one day I do NOT want to remember about. So, I refuse to blog about it. It's good that I'm groggy from yet another bout of sleeplessness, so everything takes on an artificially-surreal tone. But it's real dude. Real life friends, online friends, school scheduling, schoolwork, man I dunno what to make out of all the flurry today.

I'm trying not to remember today. Seeya tomorrow.

Hedgehog's Dilemma

"If a hedgehog wants to give his warmth to other hedgehogs, the closer he approaches, the more they injure each other. It's the same with some people. Because he is frightened by the aches in his heart, he now seems so cowardly." — Ritsuko Akagi (Neon Genesis Evangelion)

On one hand, I wish that people care about how I am.

But on the other hand, I really don't want them to know if there's anything wrong, because the people who care about me would feel hurt, yeah? And I'd feel hell of guilty for making them feel that way and for troubling them.

I just wish that the people who know me can understand.

Roadkill

THIS ENTRY CONTAINS GORY IMAGES OF DEATH AND INJURY. VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED.

Now that I've got the disclaimer settled, here goes.

The forest is a very intimidating place. You'll never know when a monkey leaps out from nowhere and makes you swerve the van away in panic, and the passenger suffers serious brain injury. Yeah, it has happened before. Right in the place where I bicycle regularly.



Looks intimidating huh? Just like a scene from Anaconda or Predator or Apocalypse Now.

And deep in the recesses of the evil jungle, this is what I saw. Death. Complete with flies and the stench of rotting flesh.



Roadkill. I don't even know what animal it was. I don't feel any pity for dead animals from the wild. Hey, it's a free market, that's what the ecosystem is. Tigers maul goats. Lions chew on deer. What makes human beings any different? Nothing. We're part of the ecosystem dude, no need to feel guilt.

Hmm, I feel weak today, can't really hit the high speeds for as long or as easily as I usually do in recent times. Sign of fatigue? I dunno. I'm supposed to be more fit these days, considering how my resting heart rate has plummeted lately to the 60s.

Was on my back via Bishan Park, and then, something nasty happened. Actually it's not such a big deal, so here it goes:


Remember those Ngage advertisements? OK. So it's corny. So sue me.

But anyway, curb at a narrow angle + high speed + smooth tyres = not a good idea. And thus, I reluctantly joined the list of roadkill.



Was lying on the floor sandwiched between my bike and the floor, and propping myself up push-up position to keep my knees away from the floor while I waited for the strain in my calf to subside. It's not a comfortable situation to be in, I swear. Then I got up, looked at my knee. Aww. My beautiful toned thighs and calves!



Awwwww. My beautiful saddle is scuffed! Thankfully it doesn't cost much. The quick-release skewers were slightly scuffed but I don't really mind.



So I calmly washed my wounds with the water I have from my bottle and let the water drip onto the floor. I then calmly mounted the bike and rode back slowly. Yay. gonococcus has a very high pain tolerance. And being in the know of first aid, he managed to stay cool and calm all along. And as for all insane cyclists, gonococcus was more concerned about the damage to the bike rather than his body. Hey, bikes don't heal by themselves!

And when I reached home, Dad came to know of it and he gave me a look of slight concern and asked, "How is the bike?". It's confirmed. He shares the same passion for bicycles.

Living in bubbles

Urgh. I feel like living in a bubble. So much of my social life is on the Internet, which is pretty freaky. FREAKY.

Freaky like the STOMP Ghost tour that I have the honour of joining! Exclusive! Only 20 places and I'm invited! It's times like that where I guess, living in a bubble has paid off.

Gee I really need to reduce the amount of time I spend on that forums, because leaning on a crutch for too long isn't good rehabilitation. I need to get my real-life social-life back on track again. Real-life social-life, that's a mouthful. I swear, I'm going to limit the amount I post there. I'm just going to keep my daily average posts to 40, no more, no less. Me no post count whore.

And oh did I say? I have a new addiction to add on to the list, right below 'coffee', 'STOMP', 'music', 'blog surfing' and etc.
It's Prison Break. It started off on a slow start, but episode 3 onwards are really great. You'd realise how intertwined the plots are and how clever the escape plan is. The characterisation is excellent, everyone's so human, you really feel for them. No kidding. I just can't wait to finish watching it! Good stuff.

It's doubly fun when you rig the audio up to the hifi and hear every clang and gunshot and shout in high-quality audio. Watched 3 episodes at a go today, that's how good it is.

Quiet day on STOMP forums, except for the Ghost tour thread. All the better for me, cause I had homework to concentrate on, and my last write-up is finally done! Yay. Tired. Hoping to fit in a bike ride tomorrow to unwind.

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Happy?
Sad?

I don't even know what I feel like now!

Nope, nothing to blog about today. Go away.