Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Prepare For Awesomeness!

Rock and metal is rotting my brain, seriously. I now have a memory capacity of a goldfish… Rock and metal is rotting my… oh, never mind!

Kungfupanda

Just a few hours away from being sent off back to the frontline. Of all my most desirable lifetime wishes (money, fancy rides, cool gadgets, sexy chicks, etc), He has somehow found ways to heed THIS one. Yes, I did lament about my choice of Sumatera Barat over N9 but I did not imagine they would actually CANCEL the trip at the very last minute. To say I wasn’t pissed would be blasphemous. What not; I had to burn my flight ticket to KL, reluctantly drop my title as a millionaire (though riffling through all the ‘big-ass’ rupiah notes is self-empowering, muahahaha…), etc. Come to think of it, this is expected as I see things weren’t as planned out as supposed to, prior to the trip. Letih… Oh, go watch Kung Fu Panda, and enjoy the laughs, hehe. Hilarious ultimate showdown! On the other side, something really weirded me out
yesterday.

Yes, I’ve been familiar with the term ‘lucid dream’ ever since my friend enlightened me on this years back. You all can google it for yourself to learn more, kinda malas to lecture here. Vivid and episodic dreams are always amusing, but I had attempted to gain full control over them. So far it’s never been 100%. There are various methods to initiate vivid dreams that I know of; basically trying to make yourself as uncomfortable as possible before going to sleep. To actually reach a lucid stage is never easy. One time, I did managed to ‘fly’ around places but it still felt like there’s strings attached (Note – gotta listen to Morpheus more, Free Your Mind). Haven’t done this for quite awhile now.

But that’s not the point here.

Recently, I had a dream about my aunt’s friend, S. She’s a very pretty petite girl with prominent Eurasian features even though she’s pure bred Chinese. Her striking good looks can really turn heads everywhere, but she’s quite short, less than 5 foot I presume. I rarely converse with her or anyone else really, and I don’t really know her all that well. Last time I saw her she had a bun in the oven and had just given birth to a baby girl a year ago, good for her. Anyway back to my dream, I was at home when I heard that my aunt was calling to come visit, bringing her along too. This is not unusual. Fast forwarded and there she was standing at the living room right there. It was her obviously but I was shocked me to see her now looking like an old hag with wrinkly face and morbidly bigger built. Her face visibly expressed rage as she pointed at me, yammering inaudible babble. The dream abruptly ended. Eventually, I mentioned the dream to my mom. She looked at me oddly, and told me the story. She said that S had recently been diagnosed with presence of cancerous cell in her thyroid nodes, and had to have radioactive iodine therapy (is this correct?) to purge the thing. She also has had two separate operations to remove the nodes. I was quite stunned too by this. Is this some form of precognition or is it a sign of things to come, a sign of bad things? I rather let fate decides.

This is just my gnarly experience to share with you all and is by no means a justification for the paranormal or supernatural, hehe. I myself have always perceived dreams as our subconscious manifestations of our innermost feelings. If you doubt the credibility of this tale, well, just mellow out. ‘Far’fetched seems much closer than you think…

Friday, June 6, 2008

Easy There Tiger...

In less than a week and it’s gonna be culture shock and
vulnerable to cholera in Sumatera Barat. Kanasai! Kinda regretted opting for
that forsaken place for our early sem project. With all the fuss I’ve been hearing
about, I really wish to make it back in one piece. That would be nice… Paranoia
is never pleasant.

‘Braking’ News

Fuel price increases yet again!

The fuel price hike dilemma is undoubtedly at the tip of everyone’s tongue all over Malaysia this couple of days. If you listen carefully, you can indistinctly hear the noise of all humanoid bipeds around you moping, and sulking in sync. If you haven’t already known, the current rate for
the fossil juice is RM2.69 per liter at time of writing, and is predicted to rise up to RM 4 soon. Our gomen will certainly have more than angry people in their hands to handle after that move. The way I see it, there’s good and bad in this (good news, you ask grumblingly?). Let me lay it down for y’all. The bad news; driving AIN’T that cheap anymore, duh. Now, imagine there’s a petrol chuggin’ Evo parked on your front porch. In fact, that’s what happening right now, kinda (a poor relative comparison, tell me that). For the good news; there’s significantly less car on the road. Less car on the road equals MORE parking spaces for our ‘mischievous’ nocturnal activities, wohoo! But we won’t be going out more often from then on anyway . But hey, that’s just me.

Anyway, get over it. Moving on… Another Movie Review!

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(Enjoy this pic and be grateful, as I scoured the heaven and earth of cyberspace to get ahold of it.)

The Bridge.

Stumbled upon this gem while browsing through Liveleak. Wait, do not mistake this film for an architectural feature on the Golden Gate itself (no numbers, figures, structural overview or that sorta crap). This poignant documentary seeks to illuminate the tales and dispositions behind the numerous tragic suicides by jumping off the famed modern marvel, the Golden Gate in San Francisco. It is stated that the 1937 built suspension bridge is most famous for ‘bridge jumpers’ with at least two dozen who had ultimately chosen to end their lives there in the span of 2004. Conveyed through a collage of interviews with the victims’ closest friends and relatives, the stories of the ‘bridge jumpers’ are elaborated with gloomy details of their struggles with depression, substance abuse and mental illness, prior to their untimely end. Many are drawn
towards its enigmatic beauty and its sheer size, which would seem to fulfill their final desire to conclude their bleak existence in a monumental feat.

What actually stood out from this film is how the filmmakers obtained most of the actual suicide footages. They actually set up cameras all around the structure, filming the bridge at all times, of all weather conditions across the year 2004. This while observing for possible jumpers, which eventually brings up the questionable motives of the filmmakers themselves. Could they have done more to alter the fate of any of victims? Are the producers actually hoping for more jumpers for the sake of better commercial success? Come to think of it, death is the basis for the movie’s prevalence at the first place anyway. Hmm…