Family

Family is the basic unit of society. Imagine a pyramid. The bottom layer is family, the top is society. When family ceases to exist, so does society. I don't mean the disappearance of the whole society or denial of its existence. I mean family as a function. When the foundation of a building is weakened, the whole structure shudders and sways as easily as a sea of reeds in the wind. Thus, in the same way, when a family loses its cohesion emotionally, society morphs. Whether it evolves into another shape, or diminishes and crumbles over time, nobody truly knows.

You, across me, in the train.

And, just for that brief moment, a connection between our eyes, like an infrared data transfer. When your eyes glanced elsewhere, the connection was severed. But, within that split second, I looked right into your heart.

You're confident, though time management isn't your forte. Easily contented, you are successful simply because you know you want to. You believe each gender has its own specific set of rules to be followed and roles to be played.

I'm fairly confident arts is part of your life, be it performing or visual. Perhaps you had dance training before. You aren't athletic and though you feel you're fat, you still respect and love your body the way it is.

You dare to take risks, but only those you're comfortable with, and given much thought beforehand. You get cautious when people enter your personal space. You go more by feelings and intuition than by facts and figures. You have a knack for learning, but whether you're good at is a different matter altogether.

You have yet to fully mould your personality but you know you're unique. Optimistic, and easy going, though you get swayed easily by what your group of friends tell you. If you're trying on a clothing article, and your friend says it looks good, you'll buy it near-immediately.

You treasure loyalty.

Future.

Floating in space.

Actually, it's not really floating. It's more like drifting. Slowly drifting in which ever direction gravity is pulling you. The strongest gravitational field, that is.

And you can tell by the way I'm writing this, that it's meant to be written as a dialogue. Just close your eyes and listen to my voice. Okay, wait, don't close your eyes cause you wouldn't be able to read what I'm writing if you do so. Just, breathe in and breathe out gently and steadily and let peace fill your heart.

Welcome to my tail. (This is meant to be read literally and not grammatically so who cares if it's tail or tale) And look! That's earth. *points* Small ball of green and blue. Now we zoom in, and... plummet straight down!

That didn't really hurt that much did it? And lookey lookey, what do we have here?!

A guy. In the middle of a cross-road. Perhaps he fell just like what we did too. I mean, no sane person would just lie crumpled up in a heap in the middle of the desert in the middle of a cross-road right.

But a desert is just so so so depressing. Let's give him more uhm motivation. *snaps* There ya go. A red brick road leading west, with a scarecrow and a lion. wait. wrong setting sorry. *snaps* (a gentle breeze blows through and an oasis appears right beside the dude who's still in a stupor). A free oasis, complete with a nice watering hole that provides free-flow healthy hot spring, as well as a fully functioning coconut tree. Buy yours now and get ten coconuts free! :D

Ah, finally. I ran out of enough commercials already. Our male lead finally awakes! (no response from the guy). *thunders* our male lead finally AWAKES! (still no response) Sigh. The hard way then. Apples would be so much gentler but the last time I did that to a guy named newton. Oh wells. *coconut drops on the guy and he awakes*


Wha? Where am I? Ooooh. *A huge neon sign near the crossroads reads 'Future'* My head hurts. Hmm. How did I end up here? One minute I was in my bed thinking about my future and now I'm in the middle of a desert?! But deserts don't have neon signs. Or wow. Hot springs! Got mud bath somemore.

*a rumble of thunder sounds off in the distance behind* Darn. Guess I have to choose which path to choose soon. *thunder rumbles louder* and very soon. sigh.

*looks to the right* Hmm. A pen on the floor, amidst sheets of paper. Cemented path. But it doesn't really seem to head off anywhere. It just goes straight and then disappears into a thick forest of uncertainty. Though the forest seems to be full of vibrant colors, where one knows not what lurks behind every trunk, beside every branch, beneath every root.

*looks straight* well, this is interesting. Two mountains and a valley. A valley flowing of coffee. The mountain peaks seem to have something on it. Outposts maybe? But one seems to be on fire, and the other seems frozen. *starts dancing around the coconut tree to kate perry's hot n cold* And beyond the mountains, skyscrapers in the distance. Fireworks, civilization and more.

*looks left* a child sits in the middle of the path. Disheveled, holding a teddy that has seen better days. She sits amidst dust and sand, in a torn and tattered dress, and looks at me with such sadness in her eyes, it pains to look away. She vanishes and reappears on a swing a distance away. Holding on to her teddy, and her minute hand grasps the handle of the swing oh so precariously, she peers upwards and smiles sadly towards the rainbow in the sky.


And with that haunting image of the sad smile, we slowly zoom out till we're floating, no, drifting in space. Till the next time. :)

Love or lust. If, if, if only my thoughts were righteous and just.

Warriors thump their spears upon the ground to the same beat and rhythm in same tempo. Others clang their fiery swords against their shields adorned with bright sparkling crystals and rubies and gems of every kind.

A loud maniacal laugh that strikes pure fear resounds from behind and the warriors part to reveal a ball of fire, with horns and a tail. Could this be a lion roaring through the streets or a thief cometh in the still of the night?

Above, black crows screech and come to rest on branches. Perhaps an ominous sign of evident impending doom. Oh that God would strike me dead. I flinch as a bolt of lightning strikes a tree in front of me. Perhaps it's a burning bush, a sign from the Most High. The tree burns to a crisp and fizzles out, leaving a few scorched crows in its place.

Where is your god, the ball of fire taunts, as its warriors slowly trudge forward, thumping and clanging, their grim symphony resounding all through the valley. Darkness looms. Wait, not darkness. Shadows. Yes, shadows. Dancing shadows that flit from tree to tree. Souls who are screaming in eternal damnation, their shadows yell and whoop and clamor for mine, with outstretched hands of black mist.

I fall to my knees. No, no, I must resist. I cannot give up the fight. But the spirit is willing and the body is weak. A thin line that borders between love and lust. If, if, if only my thoughts were righteous and just. Then a wisp of smoke captures my attention and when it has settled, a gun appears. Gleaming, it beckons to me with a wink. Come end your misery my good friend. Why suffer and be in such a torturous state of mind? But Ii must endure. Fight and die or flee to fight another day? Love or lust, if, if, if only my thoughts were righteous and just.

i detest my blogskin

I totally detest my blogskin.
I think any uhm new options that I want to instill on my blog would have to wait till
either when the mood comes
or when I ORD.
whichever comes first.

Till then, just bear with my blogskin okay.

Thanks.

The future

This is probably a bit too late since the year has already begun, but I predict the future will be the age of wireless supremacy.

I know, some of you will think but it already is wireless. We have wireless networks in schools, homes, and public areas. We use it for a whole range of purposes.

And I'm not debating that fact. But, I personally think wireless will rise to a whole new level, and at a cheaper one too.

For example, you just had a long day at work, and can't wait to go home and enjoy a good bath. Why wait till you reach home till switch on the heater? Simply send a text to your home number with a special code, and voila! A nice soothing and warm bath the second you reach home.

Or, you already preset your fish feeder to feed your fish (duh!) at a certain time each day, but today has been such a stressful day and you want to relax and watch your fish eat. Just log in to your control panel through remote access online, or through some web portal, change the timing to immediate, and simply watch via live streaming through the wireless camera in your home your wireless fish feeder feeding your wireless fish. (I just couldn't resist the wireless fish pun)

Perhaps you're a busy student bustling with numerous projects, and you realize you can't make it in time for dinner. Your parents are one of those who strive to keep up with technology, but simply can't understand sms lingo, and their memory isn't so good. Just send an sms to a certain number that will display a 'Will Not Be Back For Dinner - Son' message on the wireless whiteboard. You can even specify for it to be flashed three times, coupled with a notification sound, and make it a sticky, which means your parents can't delete it 'accidentally'.

That's the future I picture, and I bet it'll come really soon.

Note: I went to google the products mentioned before, and they can be found, thus the following links. I'm not saying such products isn't impossible, but rather that they gain more popularity among us.

Wireless Whiteboards

Automatic Fish Feeder

Aka Fest

Heart-thumping bass, ear-catching renditions of songs, flashing lights, catcalls, beat-boxing and a dj would be anything but normal descriptions of an acapella performance.

Indeed, AKA Fest was anything but normal. Featuring seven local acapella groups, AKA A Capella VI, returned after an 8 year hiatus. It was worth every minute of the 3 hour long vocal festival.

At times, the human voice seems limited by range and power; hampered by shortcomings and creativity that would make it such a great tool in life. AKA proved me wrong.

To express the eye opening experience in words is simply an impassable task. How can I describe the wondrous voices that sang notes, accompanied chords, beat boxed, mimicked instruments?

While I dare say that there were occasional dry moments where the emcee's joke fell flatter than any vocalist, and a group or two might need to work on not talking within themselves but to the audience while introducing their members, and several songs didn't really shine through, the exposure as well as highlighting the range of vocals definitely made it worthwhile.

I definitely look forward to their next performance, though three to four songs per group seems a tad too little. I wouldn't mind paying more for more songs, and hopefully more groups. :)

as the children play.

shards of rain
glistened pleasant pain
aunty frowning in disdain
as the children play.


the sun that shines
onto black and white zebra lines
at the coffee shop the uncle dines
as the children play.


bright beams the moon
and the world will end sometimes soon
maybe before noon
as the children play.

Joke

A man came home drunk at four in the morning, and his wife was all over him, yelling at him, crying because she thought he was with another woman.

"No, honey, I swear, I was at this bar, and it was so fancy that even the urinals were made of GOLD!"

She said she didn't believe him, so she called the bar.

"Hello," she said, "I just want to ask one question. My husband claims to have spent the night at your bar and I have one question; are your urinals covered in gold?"

To which she heard the bartender say, "Hey, Clarence, I think we found the guy who pissed in your saxophone!"