Where's the love song? To set us free

My last time dreaming in 2004 and i was doing cross country back in NYGH. Jogging steadily next to Mindy while pushing an NTUC trolley (somehow that was the requirement - to push a trolley), i was surprisingly a pretty good runner. The route we had to follow led us to the woods, where we were to run across a lake. One by one, the girls ran, balancing clumsily on the bricks floating on the surface of the water. I stepped on those bricks too. I remember being annoyed in my dream. "I was doing good on land, now my momentum will be all screwed up cos of these stupid, unstable bricks." Everyone sent water splashing about with each step. Slowly, people started falling into the water because they didn't land in the middle of the bricks. Soon enough i fell into the lake with Mindy, and we were swimming with alligators and slimy snakes in the water. The usually creepy reptiles were strangely not scary at all in my dream. They seemed like cartoon versions, bright green and funny.

The year hasn't really been a good one, on a personal level. High points include Bangkok with the girlies, and i'm trying to think of more at this very instant but there doesn't seem to be any others.

From a global perspective, 2004 is ending on a catastrophic note. I suppose i need not elaborate further. Everyone can tune in to CNA.

Have yourself a better 2005. *cheers*

Red Eye Express

You Know You're a Pothead When...

You think the song "Truckin'" by the Grateful Dead should replace the national anthem. Your music collection is worth more than your vehicle. Your bong is taller than your dog. It takes you more than 30 minutes to roll a joint. You set your wedding date for 4/20. You take off April 20th every year and treat it as a holiday. You spent your last bit of money to score some herbs and don't have enough gas money to get home but you don't care. You start every sentence with - uhhh!. You intentionally roll seeds in your joints on independence day so you can hear the popping because you don't have money to buy fireworks. You eat at Taco Bell more than 8 times a week. You wear sunglasses at night, and see better. You go to the corner store and the clerk automatically tosses a pack of rolling papers on the counter. Your pot tray is fuller than your refrigerator. Your bong gets washed more than your dishes. You sell your car for gas money You are the only tobacco smoker in the room and you look at the cigarette in the ashtray and ask, "Is that my cigarette?" You're eating something on your way home thinking about what you're gonna eat when you get home! Every cylinderical object you see, turns into plans on a new smoking device.... Just to be religous, you observe 4:20 in every time zone. Someone has ever come up to you on the street and said "Hi" and you said "Yep." You thought the ebola virus was a type of weed. You think being stoned to death would be a damn good way to go out. You have ever smoked pot before 8 o'clock in the morning. You actually get these jokes and pass them on to other pothead friends.

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Wicked Game

We almost always end up in an arcade because Special K has this irrepressible need for some goal-scoring action and almost always, when some stranger boy inserts a coin and "Challenger Comes" flashes on our screen, i cringe.

According to him, there's a way for the opponents to guarantee a goal when they "hold the power then shoot" (i assume that means the player shoots when it's at full power) and he hates it when the challenger tries that on him. It's almost as good as playing cheat. Like, why can't we do the good ol' tackle, dribble, pass, shoot (not always abusing the full power option), score?

What follows is always the sulking and complaining about how these boys regard, or rather, disregard the sport.

As loserish at it sounds, i've been playing a lot of internet reversi. (Yeah i'm a sucker for these old school games. Snakes & Ladders, girlies? =p) And while i try to counter a black with my white, my opponents are always obsessed with getting the corners. Of course technically speaking there's nothing wrong with doing that, those who snatch the corners usually win the game. And i'm so sick of these people spoiling my game and plotting to win by just getting the corners. That's not reversi as i know it. That's some stupid chope the corner game.

I suppose i'm too damn honest and that's not how people play their games. I suppose they can walk all over others with their strategies and tactics and feel damn proud of themselves. And winning a match by trying to break someone's leg twice instead of playing the game with integrity and professional ethics intact is not something to brag about! Okay i just needed to get that outta my system. Hoo!

Ain't That A Shame

I saw some dollface trio covering Jewel's "You Were Meant For Me" on MTV one night and then the other day while surfing radio channels i heard "I'll Stand By You" not by the Pretenders. It got me very upset because no one can cover those songs except me!!!

Okay, maybe i can't cover those songs when even Stefanie Sun made a mess out of "Sometimes Love Just Ain't Enough" when she's supposedly Singapore's songbird and who am i? Surely not any bird.

But i'm sure you can identify with that feeling of rage when a song you love so much that it hurt got stolen/raped/destroyed by someone else who didn't do it justice. Like who are they to take your song -- your song which you loved day in day out, sang aloud, in your head, in the bathroom, 24/7 -- and screw it up and make 15-year-olds (who pardon them, missed out on the golden age when the beautiful song was released by the original band) associate them with your song instead of the original artiste.

Me: Yeah "I'll Stand By You"! Such a lovely song!

Idiot: I like it too! By Girls Aloud right...

Me: *gets a knife and in a swift motion sticks it into Idiot's ear*

Although this isn't the first time such musical tragedy happened, (think Britney Spears "I Love Rock n' Roll", Avril Lavinge "Chop Suey" and "Knocking On Heaven's Door", Westlife "Fly Me To The Moon") and it won't be the last we'll hear, i just can't live to see how much worse it'll get.

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