Excuse Me, Is This Bullet Yours?
I noticed something yesterday while I was cleaning the store guest room. There’s a hole in the wall the size of a 20-sen coin. There’s also a perfectly circular hole torn in the curtain, and a windowpane is missing. I know, I know, there’s nothing terribly exciting in noticing these things, other than the fact that I have too much time and nothing to do. But the thing is, they’re all perfectly aligned together. I’m talking a perfectly straight line here, from the missing windowpane right up to that hole in the wall. The hole in the curtain is perfectly circular, and there are no stretch marks or tear marks anywhere. It also has a very strong, acrid smell.
I asked my mum about this when she came back from class. It’s probably nothing, I know, but that hole in the wall just came out of nowhere. No nails were nailed in, no furniture was put there, nothing. She became very curious and asked me to show it to her. She looked at it for a while and after a few moments of silence, softly said, “Hmm, must be from the bullet.”
New Feature: radio.blog
If you’ve followed my blog since the days when I had my own domain and webhost, you would have realized that I had a radio.blog at the sidebar. It was a way for my dear readers to listen to a bit of what I listen to, and perhaps they would discover a new sound that they like.
I first saw it at Priya’s site, and I was smitten with the concept. It uses Flash, the filesizes of the songs are small enough to ensure fast loading (most of the time), and you can listen to whole songs! I mean, that itself is reason enough to get my very own radio.blog up and running. But running it on blogspot and on your own site, and running it on a blog hosted at WordPress.com are two different things.
For one thing, I can’t get it to appear on a pop-up window. I suspect this has something to do with the fact that the code involves Javascript. So, for those of you wanting to listen to my playlist, I suggest to open it up to a different tab or window, and let it run in the background.
And please, DO listen to the songs on my playlist. You might find something you like. Just open up the window, and click on any of the songs in the playlist (better yet, click on the first song, and listen to all of them. 
. If it seems to skip to the next song, just choose it again.
I hope you have fun with this feature I added. Good times.
Never Too Late To Learn.
Despite the fact that I’ve already been lounging (lazing) around the house for more than a week, the trimester break only officially started two days ago. In between nursing a swollen eye and doing the housework, I’ve suddenly been given a huge amount of reading material. Three huge, thick books, with fonts so small you have to squint to make them out, and a lushly coloured, exquisitely designed magazine that’s only published four times a year. Even though I’m happy that I finally have something to read, the topic presented in these books (and magazine) is not something I’m familiar, or particularly comfortable with.
Getting The Good Stuff.
News is like chocolate. Everyone eats them, and they come in all shapes and sizes. There are the mass-produced ones, which are cheap and easily available within walking distance from where you live. They’re high in sugar and extremely sweet. They taste… decent, although you get the feeling that that’s about as far as they can go. The insane amounts of sugar the companies put in the chocolate is just to cover up the bitterness caused by all the low-quality ingredients. You feel that you can get better-tasting ones, and the truth is you can. So why are people just satisfied with such cheap fluff when they know they deserve better?
You take a trip; you go far, all in search of that rich, good-quality chocolate you know you deserve. Through all the commotion and the complaints and the bad-mouthing, you continue your search for that little bit of orgasmic goodness. You hear people talk, about how this chocolate is better than the rest, why you should stay as far away from that brand as possible, how this chocolate was produced under questionable standards of hygiene. You become confused, disoriented. You don’t know whom to believe. So many opinions, so many views.
Why do they confuse you so? All you’re looking for is one thing: the truth. You’re just looking for good chocolate. Is it so hard to get the truth?
Well, my dear friend, that seems to be the case. Everyone wants you to hear their truth. Everyone wants to be convinced that they’re correct. Everyone wants to prove the others wrong, because if others are wrong, then they’re right… right?
Isn’t that right? Can you answer that question? Come to think of it, that is a tough question indeed, a question that most people can’t answer. They’re still searching for ways to navigate through that commotion, so that they’ll be able to find that truth among other so-called truths.
All that, just to find good chocolate.
What I’ve Learnt.
How is the new year going for you? Good? Awesome? Very ‘meh’? How did you celebrate the New Year? With fireworks? With friends? By yourself? Or were you too busy studying for your finals to worry about such trivial nonsense? Well, regardless of how you chose to celebrate two-double-oh-seven, it won’t mean squat until you choose to make the most of the remaining 362 days, today included.
I’ve already made up a list of resolutions for this year. I know that many of you think it’s an exercise in futility, seeing that most of us don’t have the willpower or the drive to make our resolutions become a reality. I feel the same way too, and I’ve been in that situation many, many times. But this year will be different, I can feel it. Chalk it up to optimism, if you want to. Too much cynicism never does anyone any good. So I’m still willing to hope, and willing to work to make my resolutions more than just a list I conjured up.
