Space!

It is pretty funny how one feels when one is looking right up at a clear sky with a blank mind.Thoughts come and go,and it's never certain what it might be.It is pretty funny because any thought(especially the ones you get when you first started daydreaming),will just linger there for a while,hanging,leaving trails of breadcrumbs for you to follow,and just when you decide to tail it unconsciously,it leaves you bewildered,without a target in mind.It is as if the idea placed in your mind has been,rather conveniently if I might say so,whisked away by an unseen force,perhaps by a gentle breeze,passing wisps of clouds,or maybe it's just because you've been yanked out of your non-activity by a nicely executed wedgie courtesy of your friendly neighbourhood prankster.

Well...uhh..I'd keep the idea of clouds and breezes if I were you just for its air of serenity?,which can be kinda related and cushioned with the next few lines(I certainly do hope so :/ ).

Anyway,when one looks at the sky,it usually brings the same things to mind.You know,clouds,yeahh,peaceful,whoo!,heaven,whoaahhh..and yeah..spaceeeee..



Ahh ..Space,the final frontier..as often heard said by Captain James T.Kirk of the starship Enterprise.Nicely chosen words,spot on,even more so resounding,due to its seemingly simplistic delivery,yet,you know how bold it is.

Some personal details.I live in my parents' house.It's a nice double storey semi-detached house,not too big,is enough for the needs of my family,and most importantly,it's comfortable to live in.It's about 2500 sq feet..I guess.My personal space.

I don't know about you,but in the part of the country I live in,its.....uhh..Google time.Ahh.It comprises an area of 131,587 sq km (50,806 sq mi), extending 748 km (465 mi) SSE-NNW and 322 km (200 mi) ENE-WSW.To give another figure,lets say Australia.There,it has a total area of 7,686,850 sq km (2,967,909 sq mi).Well the site says that Australia is slightly smaller than the United States.Still..the figure looks big huh?All the numbers!

Well..I guess some might be wondering why the heck am I spewing out boring numbers and all.Just trying to help you picture the whole enormity of the world we live in.



Well anyway,the equitorial diameter of the Earth (distance from one side of the Earth to the other at the equator) is about 7,926 miles.And there's more..the surface area of the Earth is about 510,000000 sq km.

Next~The minimum distance of the Sun from the Earth is apparently..146 millions km!(91 million miles!) And that's a line!

Well I'm sure everyone has heard of how fast light can move,speed of light wheee.Light travels at a velocity of 300000km per second(about 186232 miles per second).So it takes just a freaking 8 minutes plus for light to cover that distance all the way to the sun!

Yet,our humble Earth and sun are part of the solar system,which is just another solar system found in our galaxy which the scientists call the Milky Way..I can't remember but I think I've read that when the telescope gazers look at their contraption,our galaxy looks..milky?I have no idea whether they are hungry or thirsty at that moment but well,I guess it should look like that seriously.Anyway..it's said that our galaxy contains at least 200 billion stars(suns)......chew up the figures.And guess what.The Milky Way Galaxy is about 150,000 light-years across.Light-years.Yes light-years you read that right.The distance light travels in a year.For 300,000km a second..that's..explosive.

There are untold amounts of galaxies,just so you know.And..the nearest one to our galaxy,Andromeda,is 2.3 million light-years away.

Wheeee.


Anyway,which brings us back to the topic(or seemingly non-topic).It is indeed stupefyingly fascinating how in the magnificent scheme of things in which we are but a..what?Speck of dust's dust's dust's dusts' dusts's?Okay multiply that as many times you wish.Just how vast can space be?

Back to Earth(sorry stupid pun) it is indeed stupefyingly fascinating pondering upon how our lives revolve,the time,effort,blood,sweat,watever emotions,feelings.Going through all these each and every day in our lives until the day we pass on to another sense of existence(or non-existence,watever your beliefs are).I do not know about you,but for me,its good that I put a brake to things right now while writing this post.

Unbound possibilities.Well alot of people do say things like,"Aliens are out there!".UFOs E.T. and all have been ingrained in popular culture.Fascinating things,stories,theories,even those which are fabricated.Makes good reading(seriously in need of citation).Well I guess it's better compared to being so closed-up enough to think that we are the only ones around in this whole friggin super-duper-hyper gargantuan space we exist in!

So let us all become budding astronomers and expand the way we view our world.Well of course I meant it as a matter of perspective.But oh well you could try it literally.Who knows,maybe if you just look often enough,with pitch-perfect timing and bags of drugs enough to put you to sleep forever,you might justtt be able to catch that exact moment in time where the light,from God knows how far away,makes contact with your telescope lens.(We see something because light reflects from that something,go figure. :) ) There!You have your glimpse of some good old cavemen eating grub by the fire!Well,I just hope that the next moment you blink and look up at the sky,you won't be seeing a bunch of crazily-evolved beings aiming other-worldly big-fat laser guns at you from their oh-so-grand spaceships.All in a days work. ;D

P.S (Jittery exam fears have busted up Jason's brains and he certainly does cling desperately in the hopes that the last few sentences will become reality..somehow.)

Heaven(Estrella)

Talking bout heaven~
For ordinary,ordinary people.
I can be your angel.
Suicidal,suicidal notions.
I can be your angel.

You come running,you come running,
I'm nearby.
Don't you worry I will never turn my back.
Tonight I sing my heart out.
Tonight I sing my heart..

Talking bout heaven~
For ordinary,ordinary people.
I can be your angel.

You come running,you come running,
I'm nearby.
Don't you worry I will never turn my back.
Tonight I sing my heart out.
Tonight I sing my heart..

Talking bout heaven~
For ordinary,ordinary people.
I can be your angel.
Suicidal,suicidal notions.
I can be your angel.

P.S. Talking bout heaven indeed..great song fuh. :)

Of Spongebop and Balls

WAT THE HECK?!

Of course..the scenes were taken and edited from here and there I vouch for that since I've seen some of those episodes before.Song's by ACDC by the way.And before anybody forms any funny ideas in their heads,the song is just about fancy ballroom dances for goodness sake.Seriously! :P

A nice Sunday in September

Place:Shopping complex.

Yep I had an appointment to hang out with some good old friends from my hometown today.The moment I woke up,I felt cold.It was a quaint morning.Chilly.Yet it's vaguely pleasing,in a manner of speaking.Contradictory, I suppose.But I guess that's just how I felt at that time.Well..it did rain heavily a couple of hours ago.And yeah,the way the blanket wraps one up in times like these..ahh magic incarnate.Perhaps you can also see it the other way.Wrapping oneself from a world full of wonders..yeah great stuff to gaze upon well enough to make oneself shout 'sanguine!' and throw aside the covers.


Alas,I could only reach for my handphone and press the snooze button. :/ Will is weak. :)

Well to give myself credit,I did manage to wake up the next time Jon Bon Jovi and co were blaring something about having a nice day into my ears. :D

Fast forward *whirrr*

I managed to get into a taxi right before it escapes me.I was lucky.As always,when I'm alone that is,I got myself onto the front seat.Not that I'm exactly the kind of person who likes to initiate a conversation with taxi drivers.But,it does feel better to be at the front.It's nice to wish that the taxi driver doesn't feel like just another driver.And yeah I suppose it makes it better to put them at ease and loosen their tongues.The driver started humming a familiar traditional tune. "Salam sejahtera..~". A festive season.And for a moment,I was thinking, "Good for him.Cut other matters aside,what's not to like when the time comes for one to be together again with one's family in the spirit of festivities."

The journey was short.Both of us had no change.He was kind enough to let me purchase a piece of bread and pay what's due to him.RM4.40.Good going,by far one of the slowest taxi meters I've ever seen for this distance.Things seem to be picking up for the day.

Later on I find myself sitting on a bench,waiting.A friend is supposed to be arriving in the incoming train,where I would hop in and meet him at the front carriage as well.The train has erratic behavioural changes,you know..mood swings and the like.No I'm not mentioning about ancient chuggy klutzo trains with the occasional huff-puff complete with soot.Instead,it escapes my comprehension why this particular train seems to take forever to arrive..ALL THE TIME.This train certainly has not the letter P in its name. @_O

Precisely the reason why I find myself rushing into the front carriage when it arrived.No no I'm not letting this one escape.I throwed a glance around and nope..no Samuel.Before I even managed to scan the seats,there came a familiar figure with a bit of hurry in pace.There goes the dudes and what the hecks.I knew that he's actually arriving at this same station correct,but only just knew that it's on a different line with a different train.Oh well the door beeps before closing.Brownie points.

We arrived at the place.The phone sang a simple tune."Got it!" was the message from Gooi.Another plus + for the Sunday.Tickets for proper seats in the cinema = no neck breaking. :)
All right let's see what exactly is District 9 about.


Well I'll start with the non-spoilers basic idea about this movie.Alien Mothership comes to Earth.Alien Mothership hovers above a city which is not Washington,not Paris or even Moscow for the matter,not Beijing,and not Kuala Lumpur as well.Alien Mothership stays there until humans lose patience and gives in to curiosity and inquisitiveness.Alien Mothership happens to house a million-plus malnourished denizens.Alien Mothership emptied by humans with aliens relocated to an area.

And so we find that the aliens happen to be an unruly lot.Stealing stuff,no table manners,and they also do not look as cute as E.T. or the alien from the Stephen Chow movie as well.Humans at large get annoyed due to these reasons(well maybe you can cut the cute part..or not??)and gets back by calling them prawns,sealing off the area pumping up security,exploiting aliens through the abuse of cat food..well the aliens have their rights thrown down the drain basically.Simply speaking the welcome mat was pulled just when the aliens above it start gnawing at it.

That's the gist of the movie.And I'm not saying it is bad.It is good.Seriously,it gives a lot of room for thought.A lot of questions remain unanswered,muted too and there are many themes that one can relate to with many of the things which are happening around us.It is strikingly similar to the events in the not so distant apartheid.And also,it provides an insightful and meaningful look at human nature in a whole.From the moment the alien mothership arrives,see the curiosity,the initial compassion,then see what happens eventually,the lack of a wont to seek a mutual understanding given the aliens misgivings."They burn us with a match,we put them into an incinerator".Of course they are those who differ in this mentality which the movie hints subtly,and see what happens.And cat food..that seriously got me as I chuckled to myself.Nice.

Well that said the non-spoilers are enough reasons why I found the movie enjoyable *hint-hint*.A plus to the flawed main character we see too,though at times I find him a bit out of place at certain scenes.For the rest of the movie..well see and judge yourself. :) Though I do have a bone to pick with the many unintentionally unanswered questions..defies logic haha.

Well the day was mostly like the movie.Since this post is about the movie nway right.Great day,only flaw being the nauseating feeling I felt for awhile after coming out from the cinema due to the bad fish i ate earlier bleurgh.Of course,like the movie,only the substance mattered in the end. :) Great having you guys out after awhile!Until then~

P.S. Thanx Guo Zheng for the nudge for an update it's funny and nice to see you there haha.

Lost in Oblivion

Nope,this is not 1 of those self-absorbed rantings of mine yah yah count yourself lucky for now.But do cross your fingers..because..I'll be back *tries to imitate Arnie's voice*.Just kidding. :P But yeah..IT did kinda put me in a state of forgetfulness..not wanting to wake up from it all dat kinda feeling..err yeah that was slightly exaggerated but then it is not far from the truth.IT is that seriously absorbing.





And IT was the game titled The Elder Scrolls IV:Oblivion.

Pause.

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Still pausing.

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Veryy long pause.

Pause.

The pause is going to end soon.

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Pause *hic* I promise.

Pause.It's gona end.

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Reaaal soon.Pause.

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PauseEearrrrrggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!

(At this juncture Jason has been suddenly lifted up by the Hand of God and hurtled up into the upper reaches of the stratosphere pass an uncountable amount of planets through a gazillion number of universes hitting back Earth don't bother asking how,as molecularly precise as ideal-able at the moment when anybody who actually bothers to see the whole entire incident has just but blinked for a second time.All for making the last few seconds the most excruciating in one's life ever,even for a deaf/dead/dull being,by being the most annoying asshole in the entire list of the Intergalactic Registered,Unregistered,Forgotten,Purposely Forgotten and Squatting?? Civilian's list.For a few seconds.)

Well nway sorry bout that.This post has been stinking way too long as a draft for the past 2 and a half months!

Yep you got it!And IT was the game titled The Elder Scrolls IV:Oblivion!


And soeaaarghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

(And so our pitiable poster has been sent off on another trip,this time for being tops in lameness.The repeated intro coupled with the picture just crashed the delicate balance.)

P.S. Honestly speaking,it's a really good game nway.

Full Moon

Full Moon

Full moon,
Moonful,
Mournful,
Still I stood.
Gazing deeply.
The unbeknownst.
Tra-la la la la..swoosh.
Still I stood.
I
One word
Agripped.
Still I stood.
Against a backdrop.
Fluid Silver Motioning Silhoutte-y Beam.
Where is the goodness?
Still I stood.
My kind of feeling.
On an empty canvas.
Bordered with rigidity.
Still I stood.
Drifting in the forests,
My path is illuminated
Dazed but confused.
Oh Titan of Hyperion!Theai!
Whither I stand?

Recap

Well..if I hadn't stopped myself to just think for a moment,I would have nearly forgotten bout this.

It's been a year plus,around 1 year n 2 months since I've started typing out some of the stuff that I so happen to type out when I stare at the emptiness I see whenever I clicked on 'New Post'.

Yeah fast forward to now and I now have..40ish posts in my blog!



Umm yeah I do admit that I am at fault when it comes to posting some stuff which is really simply stupifying.

And yeah I am also at fault for being a usually(veryy subjective though I guess it's all against one in this matter arghh I can feel the piercing ALWAYS coming from wherever it came from!) latent blogger who seems not to care much about the upkeep of my blog.

But what I can say is,I DO try my best to come up with interesting ways to put forth some of the things I decided to share with the masses..trying to make things fun now n then(with some lapses of monotonous ramblings in between please don't shoot me!).

And I seriously do not know how many people actually drop by to read my blog,for I did not really share my address with many of my friends..only told a few of them personally bout its existence.So it's really nice to know that some of my other friends managed to link up somehow.And yeah to those out there whom I do not know of personally who happen to be passing by,thanks for the visit/s really appreciate it.

Yeah I would like to reiterate what I mentioned in my first posting.Any comments/opinions/criticisms are welcome so that I can learn more in the process to come up with better ideas and better ways to present it too.It would be nice to learn of other views too from other perspectives.

Once again I would like to sincerely thank all those who've come and gone here and there now and then to visit my humble blog.I plainly do not care to put any counters or whatever to count your numbers,but yeah,I hope that I can come up with more interesting postings in the future for all those who happen to be here,no matter the amount.

Here's a toast from me for a resolution of sorts(though I detest resolutions).More postings FTW!

(Delayed the posting of this post for so long =_=")