Miss my baby nephew

My baby nephew has been gone for more than a week to visit his grandmother (the other grandmother) and won’t be back until the weekend.

When he’s around, i don’t bother much about him, but now that he’s gone for so long, his absence is really.. felt. Gosh i miss him so much.

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Of appearing offline and quotes

Msn/Pidgin is being mildly irritating. I’m not appearing as online to my contacts. Didn’t seem to be a problem a couple days back since one of my contacts did send me messages.

Oh well..

Quotes from Battlestar Galactica

Doctor, “We’re going to lose him unless we can stop that bleeding. Get me an ABG, CVC and CoEd and get set up for a rapid sequence incubation.” [I might get some of the words wrong, absolutely no idea what he's rambling about]
Colonel, “Is he going to make it?“
Doctor, “How should i know, i’m not a psychic. Now get the hell out of here.“

I like that doctor.

Quote from The Ugly Truth

“They [females] say they want true love, but all they want is a checklist. Is he perfect? Is he handsome? Is he a doctor? If you men fit the criteria, don’t kid yourselves. They’re not sleeping with you. They’re sleeping with a carefully calculated set of venal choices. Money over substance. Looks over soul. Polish over principals. No gesture, no matter how real or romantic will ever compensate for a really impressive list of credentials.”

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Of the ages

I have a cousin who keeps saying that she is at an age where alot of her friends were getting married and in her words, “stress”. It’s not the first time i’ve heard of this line of conversation, various friends from different um.. era.. says the same thing.

Maybe it’s because i’m some sort of a weirdo, i’ve never minded getting wedding invitations. It’s always some form of gathering for me, thus far. Anyway, it could be that i keep few friends to begin with. I’m more stressed by not getting wedding invitations. Coz it means i’m leaving that particular age to enter into another age.

With the convenience of facebook, i would say i’m in an age of baby photographs. People would pin up photographs of babies and my friends and acquaintances would comment, “Aww, so cute.”. Which in turn would appear in my feed, bringing my attention to the baby photographs.

I shall keep my sinister, cynical, slytherinous comments regarding baby photographs to myself. Slytherinous.. all hail eponymity from Harry Potter, i invented a new word.

Anyway..

Here’s a screenshot of a baby photo which i particularly liked.

Anyway..

I think that so long as we are getting wedding invitations, it’s still a pretty spiffy cool thing. It’s so much better than when one’s in an age where you attend one funeral after another, seeing your friends going like candles, flickering and snuffing out one by one. Slowly, agonizingly waiting for your own turn.

So anyway, i have this idea. If i’m one of the first to go, then i won’t have to go through that age right?

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Finally, my turn

Couple months ago, with too much time on his hands, LB decided to look for some activity to do, besides gaming and reading that is. He decided to pick up photography.

Searching online, he found a thread in a forum where someone was organizing a photo shoot. The shoot was getting several photographers and several others to be models.

The highly anti-social LB quickly become enamoured with socializing and got round to hanging out with this groupie, drinking in the companionship like it was some drug. With this groupie, we would organize a photo shoot, and then hang out later for drinks or movies or something.

Anyway, among this groupie, there’s a rather sweet looking girl whom LB felt rather attracted to. He hit upon an idea and told the rest of the groupie that he would suggest going for a movie. Then everyone would wait for the girl to agree to the movie before saying that they were busy that day. Pretty clever of me huh.

Alas, that was the first of the many dates to come.

Anyway, last night, LB gave the girl a call to ask her to marry him. The girl hesitates and says she needed time to think it over.

She called LB today, and OMG !! I’m getting married !!

But of course, i must remind my readers that I have neither a camera nor am any good with photography. The whole story is utterly fictional and imaginary; the love story came to me during my run just now and i improvised as i typed it out.

The thing peculiar about this love story is that whenever i imagine myself falling in love, it always begins with some kind of regular non-dating activity. Hmm.. i wonder why this is so.

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Reviews of movies

Hadn’t been gaming much for the last couple weeks. Spent most of my time watching serials and movies. I’m not going to review every single piece though.

Among the shows i’ve watched, there’s Defendor. It’s a movie about a superhero. Though it’s not your typical superhero movies. The protagonist is a mentally ill guy who takes on a superhero persona called Defendor; and gets beat up coz he’s really just a regular guy. Defendor is truly a gem. A must watch, i would say.

Then there’s Shutter Island. Somewhere in the middle of the show, i manage to guess that the protagonist was mentally ill. The rest of the show turns out to be a long wait for the revelation of my correct guess. I think the show was a tad bit too predictable.

Terminator Salvation was quite a turn off. I particularly hated the bit where Marcus volunteered to donate his heart to John Conner. It raised quite a bit of ethics debate with myself.

Considering that Marcus was perfectly healthy, was Kate ethical to perform the heart transplant? Was John ethical to accept the heart transplant?

Then again, in free and democratic ideals, the fact that Marcus was voluntary and informed makes the whole affair quite ethical even if i’m severely aggrieved by seeing such a choice being made in the movie.

Ok, so much for now.

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What day is today?

I came across this status on facebook which went like, “I thought today was gym day, but the coach had more appeal.”. So i was thinking like, oo.. saucy. I know gym coaches tend to have pretty buff bodies and it might turn out that a girl has more interest in the gym coach than the training regime.

And then i read the comments, and people were asking if there were couches in the gym. I was puzzled and all; i mean like, what has couches got to do with gym coaches.

Then i read the status again and i was like “Oh..”

What she really wrote was “I thought today was gym day, but the couch had more appeal.”. Gosh, the things that goes through my mind to make me read what i read..

Anyway, technically, even if the coach took over the training regime, it would still be considered a gym day, no? But that’s pretty out of point, lol.

Oh well.. it’s been weeks since i ran. Today is running day. Now is the running hour. Ta.

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Two minutes with LB

I don’t get it. How do you people put t-shirts on. I’m always getting them inside out or backwards front; it’s such a difficult task.

Oh well..

I always thought that you can tell what a person is like by learning about the Tv programmes that he/she watches. So anyway, the only stuff i watch on Tv these days is Just for Laughs every Tuesday and the midnight hours boob enlargement advertisements.

Yeah, how pathetic can one get..

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19th April, Monday

I’m now reading Watership Down by Richard Adams. The book is about anthropomorphic rabbits. They migrated from their old warren and are now looking for does (female rabbits) so that their newly established warren wouldn’t eventually die out.

The one thing that puzzled me was when the rabbits say they want to chew on pellets. I began wondering what pellets are. So i did a search on dietary habits of rabbits and found that rabbits had two kinds of poo. Hard droppings and “soft black viscous pellets” which they um.. eat.

Well.. i didn’t know rabbits eat their own poo..

Anyway..

In Chicago, several of the characters would at one point demand for their exit music before leaving the stage. The band would play his/her theme music with several other people coming out to sing his/her theme music.

There a character who is supposed to be ignored by everybody else all the time. Anyway, he too demands for his exit music, but to conform to his character, the band ignores him and the silence that succeed his demands remains unbroken.

The delivery was exquisite, and the audience realizing what the silence meant, burst into laughter.

And i was thinking, the director is quite brilliant. I think that planning for such humorous scenes requires quite abit of foresight.

Alas, it is my own lack of such foresight that i lament. I never know if and when anything i blog is going to be funny to anyone else. The only times i know that i’ve written anything funny is when the couple of readers who care enough to feedback to me, tell me that i’ve written something funny or something that they like.

In a way, this deters me from writing my manuscript. I don’t think i’m quite capable of making any humorous writing. Sure, procrastination plays a big role. But it’s not the only factor that hinders my manuscript.

Anyway, i’ll just blog here what i had in mind. The story is based on Beauty and the Beast. In some versions, the household items becomes animated and comes to life, in other versions, the staff in the beast’s household turns into household items.

My story would be using the later; people turning into animated household items.

Anyway, the story revolves around the point of view of an animated pot and an animated kettle called Mr Black. My own pun on the adage, “the pot calling the kettle black”. Anyway, given that the Beast was bad tempered, the Beast accidentally smashes an animated plate.

Fearing for their lives, the pot and kettle leaves the castle/mansion. After some adventures (possibly to visit family members), they received news that Belle was going to lift the curse and all animated household items would turn back into human beings. That is, if they were in the castle/mansion when the curse was lifted.

So pot and kettle journeys back to the castle/mansion. The ending is still undecided.

Pretty spiffy story huh? :P

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Of Chicago

I turned a groupie down for Chicago musical. But another person said she was looking for people to go for the same musical with, and i figured that i should establish myself as a possible future candidate for dates concerning theatrical productions; then again, how could i refuse my part-time girlfriend. Though i think i’ll relegate to oblivion once more, when her boyfriend becomes less busy.

Anyway, i’m glad i went for Chicago. Absolutely loved it. I like it alot more than Cats (Though Cats had more impressive dancing i think). It was funnier, and at least i understood most of what they were singing. And if you are going for Chicago, you’ll be in for a nice treat. One of the guys actually sang in soprano range.

Watch out for Roxie during the court trail part. She’s wearing Velma’s silver shoes and her moves were copied from Velma’s earlier moves.

I wanna go for Wicked *pouts* *puppy eyes*

Ok, so much for now.

Memory cue for myself: manuscript

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