"Oh, we're sinking like stones,
All that we fought for,
All those places we've gone,All of us are done for."Don't Panic (2000) by Coldplay
First order of business; my apologies for being AFK for so damn long, but this isn't the first time really.The majority of my time was spent on research work for my in-progress fantasy novel and if you're familiar with the genre, you'd know that world-building requires a tonne of research in order to make a whole alternate universe sound and look plausible. As of now, I have about half of the first chapter finished - but I'll need to run it through a couple of editors before I'm ready to show it to anyone else (I am a bit grammatically impaired, you see - Phoebe, or anyone who reads my blog can attest to that).
Another thing that caught my attention in the previous week was this manga called Kodomo no Jikan by Kaworu Watashiya. I am reasonably sure about doing a review on it soon, because it is by far one of the best mangas I've ever read. In the meantime, try not to poke into my psyche too much if you actually know what that manga is about.
Before I get into today's post, I just want to say this about the new GI Joe movie: ICE DOES NOT SINK IN WATER, YOU FAIL PHYSICS FOREVER. That is all. Oh yeah, if you ever want to have the seats around you in a cineplex to be vacant, just pretend to cough really badly for about a minute. I did that before the flick started and the guys to my left and right immediately moved away. That's one good thing to have come out of the current H1N1 epidemic; everyone's all panicky and shit. And it seems like everyone's donning some sort of mask these days (and the recent haze attack makes it even more pertinent to do so). Anyone know where I can get a black one? I want it to match my very emo wardrobe.
Two weeks ago on Monday, part of my house was submerged underwater, which has never happened before in all the 22 years I've lived in it. What's even more amazing was that it took only one hour for it to get from roadside puddles to indoor pond. I got home at 12:00 pm and when my grandfather woke me up at 1:00 pm from my afternoon siesta, the shoreline have migrated into my living room. Talk about flash floods.
The worst that ever happened was back when I was 7 years old, and even then, the water stayed outside. I remember having to use a two chairs to get to my school bus without getting my shoes wet - y'know, stand on one, move the free chair forward, then hop onto that and repeat.
Of course, the rainstorm wasn't any harder than the ones we had before so it's really quite bewildering why it would flood this time. One popular theory that has been making its rounds about the area was that a nearby construction project was to be blamed for filling in a mini stretch of marshland behind the field.
The DAP guy (notice the rocket in his cap?) who came around telling everyone that this is all the government's fault.
While I was wading about the place, I spotted a snake-like animal writhing across the road. I'm reasonably competent when it came to basic zoology so identifying one of my favourite food wasn't at all a problem. It's an unagi! Alright, it wasn't exactly the species of eel the Japanese use for the dish, but it's the generic term for freshwater eel anyway.
"My homeland has expanded! Now we shall take over the world and make women shriek in fear at the sight of us!"
It rained pretty damn heavily last Wednesday too and my area got flooded again, except this time, the water managed to stop rising at my doorstep. An inch more and it would have been Waterworld all over again. I wish the city council would do something about it soon; deepen the monsoon drains or fix the construction site or something.
Right, that's that. A short update of my life. The next post won't take as long, I hope. I've been wanting to blog about Beve's visit to Malacca 3 weeks ago. Anyone who's curious about how she looks like, stick around and see for yourself :P.
Must learn how to build arks,
k0k s3n w4i
11 comments:
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YOU TAKE FUGLY PICS OF PEOPLE
stop lying i didn't meet u or even go to malacca *struggles to keep calm* this set of lies is quite infuriating
"My homeland has expanded! Now we shall take over the world and make women shriek in fear at the sight of us!"
XD reminds me of the G-Force trailer when a human picked up the guinea pig and he exclaimed, "what should I do?! what should i do!?" and the others are like, "POOP IN HIS HAND!!! POOP IN HIS HAND!!!"
why would ppl be curious as to how beve looks like, anyone with enough curiosity could have entered my blog last time and checked out a pic
this is one short and packed with info post.
1)i've heard of that manga..i'll try to catch it if possible.
2)i never knew that you have a pond in ur living room.
3)my new house is away from flash flood zone, how nice.
4)the opposition party is turning into an opportunist.it's not nice to see someone desperate trying to get your vote by saying bad things about others.
oh my, i feel like a pedophile now
i'm (not so)proud to say that i've read till chapter 51.
woooooo welcome to the flooded-houses club!!
bet u're gonna say lots of (at least 1 - 3) nasty things about me.
dammit ! forgot what i wanted to say about the actual post. this would require rereading. .....
Did you say you live somewhere called BUKIT Baru??
hahaha..d ur family went to claim the RM200 after the last flood??
beve: people can't be bothered to go through the mountain of nonsense that is ur blog to get to a few pictures -.- actually, I was going to say lots of nice stuff about you, but you're fast changing my mind =d
Inn Shan: it makes you feel like a pedophile in a nice way. okay, that sounds really wrong. politicians are like that. I'm not any more annoyed by it than I am annoyed by the fact that dogs lick their own balls.
Anonymous: there's nothing to be ashamed of either. it's a capital piece of writing, and more people should check it out, my gf's quite into it too.
Jen: you too?! when? let's have a pool party sometime! y'know, like when our houses actually have pools!
Ven: yes, I did. it's neither on a hill nor new.
sinye: they are giving out money?!! how and where?!
har, your family didn't know about it? hahahaha..
it was on 30july, 10.30pm at wu seng temple. ali rustam came but i didn't bother much and went back home.
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