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Why I blog...

Why do I blog?

Well... honestly it was Nadia that sort of inspired me to do it. She had a blog and I thought it was cool to have a blog too. I love writing and I was badly in need of a way to express myself. I was in a relationship where communication was a problem. I had so much to say and no one I could really share it ALL with. A blog just seemed like a good avenue to focus my energies and to maybe somehow say all the things I wanted to say to no one in particular.

Of course the blog was also diarist in nature for the most part. In my blog I talked about where I went and what I did whilst I was there . It also contained excerpts of my life. Be it pictures, lyrics or even music videos. Just stuff that mattered to me for some reason or another.

So what started out as my refuge from my daily existence evolved into an online journal..and now it has become just a toy. Where I write stuff, rave about Agnes and give my point of view on anything that catches my eye.

So why do I blog?

answer: No idea. But I will keep on doing it. I guess blogging is more fun when you can bitch about stuff. Negativity is always a good source of inspiration . Agnes is so perfect makes blogging almost redundant. So much so I have to be an ass just to have material to blog.

Get off that butt!

Been thinking...
Not that it is a surprise to anyone.
That I think. Happens to be that I think alot.
I am a thinker. I think, but I do not always do what I think.
Some wise ass once said,'I think, therefore I am'.
No idea what that has to do with anything else I am saying here.

Anyway the point of this pointless tirade is that I have after much consideration (nearly 1/2 an hour!!!) decided to make some changes to my lifestyle.

1. Spend less time in front of my PC. I spend most of my idle hours in front of my pc when I am not at work and when I am not with my sugar-plum, honey-bun,sweetie pie AGNES. I spend it reading other blogs and all the other sites linked on the right. I think if I just do what has to be done and then log off I would find I have lots of time for lots of the other stuff I want to do and complain that I do not have the time to pursue.
2. Make an effort to work out/jog at least once a week. A healthy body begets a healthy mind. Or is it the other way around? Anyway one should make the effort to look and feel better.
3. I just did up my planted tank again! So it is looking great. Best that it has been in a while. The problem is complacency tends to set in after a few weeks. I start to change the water irregularly, neglect to prune the plants and conveniently forget to clear the debris that forms a layer at the bottom. Soon algae starts to overcome the flora and I have to get rid of it. The tank starts to smell and look awful. So I have got to at least take a few minutes a day to do tank maintainance.
4. Communion. Daily. Do it.
5. Read the Bible more regularly.
6. Check Sunny under the hood at least once a week. Check battery water, oil levels, radiator fluids, coolants etc. And not having to wait until something goes wrong to do something about it.
7. Make a vain attempt to eat healthy. Agnes is right,I should be careful what I put into my body.
8. Get a job that I love. I do not really enjoy what I am doing now. It is just a job to me. A way to keep the income flow..well...flowing. My calling in life is to serve others. Especially the young. And that is what I should do. And while I am pursuing that, get some formal training in the relevant fields.
9. Take up courses in things that interest me. Get involved in the community. Love nature, animals and taking photographs. Might as well put these interests to good use. Take a photography course for example. Or go on overseas trekking expeditions. Stuff like that.
10. An old favourite: Learn to play the guitar.
11. Another old favourite: Clean my room.
12. Be nicer to Agnes. Seems like I tend to vent my frustrations at stuff other people do on my poor darling. Agnes is an innocent victim.Ok, maybe a not-so-innocent victim. But the fact remains I should separate my problems from her and not make her an easy target for my conflicts at work or at home. She tries her very best to understand me and my train of thought. Not that it is ever easy to understand.
13. Marry Agnes. Have lots of kids. Live in a big house on a hill. Milk cows all day.
14. Just thought I throw in the previous entry just for kicks.
15. Love my family more. Seems that I do not spend as much time with them as I used to. I just do my own thing everyday. It has become almost a routine to head straight to my room once I get home each day. And I only come out of my if I have to go to the loo or eat my dinner.
16. Get my smile back.
17. Let go of my anger.Let go of my hate. Let go of my disappointments. Life is good now. Act like it.
18. Keep my friends close.
19. My enemies even more so.
20. Become King of the World!!!

Camou News Update

Camou has been making good progress lately. He was even able to run and play with other dogs/cats/people. But today I came back from work and found him walking around on 3 legs! Not 4 legs...3 legs. Seems he has suffered a relapse of his back problem. I am still trying to figure out what happened to cause it to act up again. Was it my dad again. He tends to be overly-zealous when handling animals. Does not know his own strength as he likes to say. Only problem is he isn't all that strong.
Or was it one of the cats? He has a love hate thing with some the cats. Was he attacked and did that cause the problem?
Or was it just Camou being himself and running around like a mad dog(literally) and hitting into furniture and stuff.
If he doesn't improve then maybe we will take him to go see Dr Yeo in afew days time.

*sniff*

To Picanto..or not to Picanto..

Me been thinking about a new car after all the troubles I have been getting lately with Sunny. It is not that Sunny is a bad car by any means. Sunny is old. Nearly 13 years old in human years. A grandfather in car years. So there is bound to be wear and tear in a car as long in tooth(if cars did have teeth). But Sunny has a a true and trusty friend all these years. But I know I have to let him go gracefully sooner rather than later. In a blaze of glory so to speak...

thoughts and thinks

• It is just me but have the mindset of women in Singapore changed or is it just the younger ones? There was a time when if there was a seat next to a man on a bus, the women would he hesitant to take it. It all probably had to do with being perceived as 'cheap', 'easy' or the ever present danger of being molested/raped! So for the journey the seat would be empty until a man or tiredness set in whichever came first. I dunno if my view is correct on this but surely sitting next to a man does not make you cheap/a potential molest victim! So why the hesitance? But at least recently (me not been taking public transport in a while you see) I seem to notice that not all women perceive men as sex fiends. Some actually have no qualms about sitting next to one.
• Politically Incorrect entry: On the way to meet Agnes today I saw this really fat lady sitting on a seat at one of the bus stops. She was really, really fat! I think she has trouble standing let alone moving around. Anyway the point of my talking about it here is to say that I can't stand people who just take no care of themselves. I mean if you some condition that makes you bloated and makes you gain weight although you eat like a bird, that is one thing. But looking at that woman (presuming here, since I do not know her personally) she does not really care about how she appears. I guess she thinks it is perfectly alright to be obese and unhealthy. Who cares if you one day die of some heart disease or some affliction in connection with your excess body weight? I mean I appreciate 'fleshiness' in a woman but what I saw was ridiculous. And I do not get when people say 'some people are meant to be fat', 'I can't help it' and other such crap. If you do something about it you can look like everyone else!
• Just love the Marigold banana milk ad campaign. Reason: There is this, dare I say it, sexy cow with a crown made of bananas. So adorable it is (Yoda-speak again??). Best of all it dances! What more can one ask for, a cow, a banana crown, and a dance. Makes me want to rush out to the mamak stall and buy a carton of Marigold Banana Milk right now. Anyway I do love banana milk. My second most favourite flavour after the good old favourite, chocolate.
• Watched Madagascar. After waiting so long to catch it, it was kind of a let down. After Shrek and Finding Nemo I was expecting something in a similar vein. Something kids and adults could both enjoy. But Madagascar was crap. Visually spectacular, but the story and characters were as flat as a pizza. Not the clever and funny film I was expecting. rating: 2 zebra poos out of 5.
• Movies I want to catch when they come out: Batman Begins, Mr & Mrs Smith, War of the Worlds (although the trailer did nothing for me),
• I hate cover versions of songs. Especially cover versions of classic songs. Most of them anyway. Although once in a blue moon a cover version may come along that does justice to the original or surpasses it even, those are few and far between. The main culprits are these boy bands/girl bands/struggling artistes/has-beens that see such songs as a meal ticket to fame as they are easy recognisable and bound to get some airplay. Another crime against humanity are Techno versions of songs. And people actually pay to listen to such crap. And a local radio station even makes such 'music' a mainstay of its playlist. Go figure. People who desecrate great classic songs should be shot. Make that tied up, covered in honey and made to lie naked on a red ant mound to die a sloooww...paaaaainful death. Of course I am always open to suggestions to methods to make these suckers pay.
• Went to the Marry Brown's at Changi Airport T2 yesterday. Let me just say that Marry Browns is my favourite fried chicken. I do not mind the drive into JB or wherever in Malaysia to get my fill of it. So I was happy that Marry Brown's had finally come to our shores! I was raring to get down there and feast on their chicken. So down we went to T2. To be honest though, the food did not even taste like the chicken I have come to love and know. Worst of all the service was kinda sucky. The lady who attended to us was 'blur'. Kept mixing up the orders and stuff. But given that it is a newly opened stall the taste and bad service is forgivable.
• Hasli been trying to get me to watch Phua Chu Kang-the musical with him and Faezah. I have been adamant not to go. I think it is classless crap, 3 million budget or not. I mean PCK is bad enough on the small screen let alone as a musical on stage. The sitcom has already passed its sell-by date. It is stale and the jokes corny. Anyway you can rest assured the VCD, DVD and television special will be out in time. So I will just wait and see. No way I am gonna spend my hard earned cash on crap like PCK-the musical.
  
  

you have 2 cows..

was looking for stuff on the Marigold Banana Milk Cow but this turned up so it is reproduced here in full from mrbrown.com:

Politics lesson with the cow.

FEUDALISM: You have two cows. Your lord takes some of the milk.



PURE SOCIALISM: You have two cows. The government takes them and puts them in a barn with everyone else's cows. You have to take care of all the cows. The government gives you as much milk as you need.



BUREAUCRATIC SOCIALISM: You have two cows. The government takes them and puts them in a barn with everyone else's cows. They are cared for by ex-chicken farmers. You have to take care of the chickens the government took from the chicken farmers. The government gives you as much milk and as many eggs as the regulations say you should need.



FASCISM: You have two cows. The government takes both, hires you to take care of them, and sells you the milk.



PURE COMMUNISM: You have two cows. Your neighbors help you take care of them, and you all share the milk.



RUSSIAN COMMUNISM: You have two cows. You have to take care of them, but the government takes all the milk.



DICTATORSHIP: You have two cows. The government takes both and shoots you.



SINGAPOREAN DEMOCRACY: You have two cows. The government fines you for keeping two unlicensed farm animals in an apartment.



MILITARIANISM: You have two cows. The government takes both and drafts you.



PURE DEMOCRACY: You have two cows. Your neighbors decide who gets the milk.



REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY: You have two cows. Your neighbors pick someone to tell you who gets the milk.



AMERICAN DEMOCRACY: The government promises to give you two cows if you vote for it. After the election, the president is impeached for speculating in cow futures. The press dubs the affair "Cowgate".



BRITISH DEMOCRACY: You have two cows. You feed them sheeps' brains and they go mad. The government doesn't do anything.



BUREAUCRACY: You have two cows. At first the government regulates what you can feed them and when you can milk them. Then it pays you not to milk them. After that it takes both, shoots one, milks the other and pours the milk down the drain. Then it requires you to fill out forms accounting for the missing cows..



ANARCHY: You have two cows. Either you sell the milk at a fair price or your neighbors try to kill you and take the cows.



CAPITALISM: You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull.



HONG KONG CAPITALISM: You have two cows. You sell three of them to your publicly - listed company, using letters of credit opened by your brother - in - law at the bank, then execute a debt/equity swap with associated general offer so that you get all four cows back, with a tax deduction for keeping five cows. The milk rights of six cows are transferred via a Panamanian intermediary to a Cayman Islands company secretly owned by the majority shareholder, who sells the rights to all seven cows' milk back to the listed company. The annual report says that the company owns eight cows, with an option on one more. Meanwhile, you kill the two cows because the feng shui is bad.



ENVIRONMENTALISM: You have two cows. The government bans you from milking or killing them.



FEMINISM: You have two cows. They get married and adopt a veal calf.



TOTALITARIANISM: You have two cows. The government takes them and denies they ever existed. Milk is banned.



COUNTER CULTURE: Wow, dude, there's like... these two cows, man. You got to have some of this milk.



SURREALISM: You have two giraffes. The government requires you to take harmonica lessons.



LIBERTARIANISM: You have two cows. One has actually read the constitution, believes in it, and has some really good ideas about government. The cow runs for office, and while most people agree that the cow is the best candidate, nobody except the other cow votes for her because they think it would be "throwing their vote away."

song of the moment...

Running to Stand Still

And so she woke up
Woke up from where she was
Lying still
Said I gotta do something
About where we're going

Step on a steam train
Step out of the driving rain, maybe
Run from the darkness in the night
Singing ha, ah la la la de day
Ah la la la de day
Ah la la de day

Sweet the sin
Bitter taste in my mouth
I see seven towers
But I only see one way out

You got to cry without weeping
Talk without speaking
Scream without raising your voice

You know I took the poison
From the poison stream
Then I floated out of here
Singing...ha la la la de day
Ha la la la de day
Ha la la de day

She runs through the streets
With her eyes painted red
Under black belly of cloud in the rain
In through a doorway she brings me
White gold and pearls stolen from the sea
She is raging
She is raging
And the storm blows up in her eyes
She will...

Suffer the needle chill
She's running to stand...

Still.