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After being missing in
action for almost 3 months, I have finally settled down enough and
squeeze out some time to make a long overdue entry in this blog of
mine. It's good to be writing again. Looking back at all this time
that I have been away from this website, it almost seemed like I
have hardly done anything at all! My holidays came and went, we
moved house. Christmas, the two new years, starting work as an
intern, oops, gotta call it by the proper local name - house
officer. I guess the most significant change of all would have to
be the latter. But I will tell you all about it some other time,
when I have a bit more time than now. Today is a good day, and so
was yesterday. I managed to have the afternoon off and I happily
spent it online trying to retrieve my website files from the yahoo
server (lost all my data through a most unfortunate accidental
hard disk reformat. yet another long story). I have archived all
the entries of the last few months of 2004 as it would probably be
most appropriate to start off my re-emergence into the blogging
world with a fresh page. The original plan was for a major website
revision but given my time constraints and more importantly my
lack of motivation to learn more advanced HTML skills, this is the
next best thing.
Bloody hell. Just when I'm comfortably seated in front of my PC
(newly assembled and includes multiple free headache-inducing
problems to boot), I have to suffer a mental block. Completely
amnesiac about the events in the past few months which I am hoping
to recount now. Ok, let's try. I reached Singapore in December.
Spent the 1st month or so moving house, which I am sad to say is
still incomplete at this moment, another fine demonstration of our
family's amazing capacity to drag things on forever. This moving
house business, despite all the headache it brings, should be a
good thing actually. Why? Because right now I actually have my own
room! Gasp! Horror! Is that possible? I mean, yeah sure I have my
own room for the past 6 years while in Melbourne, but this is
Singapore that we're talking about leh! No longer will I have to
sleep together in one room with my other 4 family members! Yeah!
Hurray for privacy! Hurray for air-conditioned comfort! Hurray for
being able to do naughty things without other people knowing (I
mean staying up late to play games, not what you thought you
pervert)! Not bad, not bad at all. I should be a very happy man
indeed. It's good to have my own space. Making a too big a deal
over my room eh? Maybe, but its 1148pm and I'm laden with a heavy
sleep debt and another day of pain starts in 7 hours time so I
think the least I'm entitled to is to rattle off nonsense can?
Plus it's my blog anyway so I write whatever comes to my mind. Or
whatever my fingers like to type, since my brain is hardly ever
functional thesedays. Just being a trained drone to carry out
orders from the higher powers.
Anyway. So. Oh, I know what to write. Since I got home, I've also
busted close to 200 bucks on toys. Actually I mean I've spent a
most justified amount of money on re-acquiring a piece, no make it
2 pieces of my childhood. I've bought the macross transformable
veritech fighter! Two of it actually. It is so cool man. Think I
spent the first couple of days just playing around with it
transforming it from veritech fighter mode to gerwalk mode to
battroid mode and vice versa. There is just no end to the joy that
this simple process can bring. Ahhhh.... When people find out that
I bought these toys/figurines, they think that oh I must have
bought it in terms of collecting and displaying it in a dust-proof
cabinet with spot lights showing off. Sorry, nothing can be
further from the truth. They are TOYS dammit. And toys are meant
to be played! Doh! Who the hell cares about collector items and
all that crap. I just wanna get my paws on it and glide it around
through the air while making jet engine noises and engage in
role/fantasy play! Call me childish or whatever but this is what I
truly enjoy doing.
Now my Optimus Prime can call in air support when he needs it.
They make a great pair. Or triplet, if I put 2 of my veritech
fighter together with Prime. Good old Optimus Prime.. which
reminds me... I haven't played with him since I got back from
Melbourne!
Ok, its 12midnight now and I'm definitely going bonkers (as
evident by my increasingly weird topics). I really hope to be able
to write more, especially of my housemanship experiences thus far,
and also to restart the comic, or maybe draw a new one. But
creativity is dependent on a well-rested mind and that is a state
that eludes me pretty much nowadays. |
