could i be as excited..

as these people are about their president, as proud and as inspired as these people are about their chief executive, and as hopeful and as unified in purpose with their leader? one day, i hope, i too will live long enough to see that dream...



in the meantime, i am particularly drawn to these lines in his inaugural speech, "To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history"...."but because we the people have remained faithful to the ideals of our forebears, and true to our founding documents"..."bigger than the sum of our individual ambitions; greater than all the differences of birth or wealth or faction"..."What the cynics fail to understand is that the ground has shifted beneath them — that the stale political arguments that have consumed us for so long no longer apply"..oh hell, i am just overwhelmed with the whole speech..

on the other side of the world, a new chapter in history is definitely being written..For the world has changed, but are we, on our side of the world, ready to write our own history?..

jai ho...aiyoh..

never thought i would be moving my head to this beat but it is so infectious...and i hear the movie is really good too...good enough to have swept away the Golden Globes..maybe even good enough for an Oscar..(they won 8 oscars actually !!! wah liao..)




just have a look at the dance number at the end of this movie and tell me you dont feel like you are also part of that ensemble, swinging your hips away..



here's another of that annoyingly infectious number that keeps playing in my head...



if you have to get up and do a dance number to it, here's one with lyrics to get u going..hehe



i guess hollywood will never be the same again after being hit by this song and dance number..

is this a sign of the times...?

after a brief spurt of furious activities, business seems to have suddenly quieten down. and it's not just my own but the surrounding commercial entities here appear to have lost their usual zing..the kopi-tiams are not so crowded, the char koay teow lady has decided to take an early CNY break, the indian newspaper vendor has shifted some where else and i now find easy parking suddenly when previously i have had to play hide and seek (as in quickly step on the accelerator to stake my claim) to get a parking lot...

i see more people going to the pharmacies as compared to clinics, even the road-side medicine man appears to be doing brisk business, i see longer queues at the hypermarket with people pilling up on essential foodies only. strange but despite the cheaper petrol prices, i dont see the usual heavy traffic at the stations and i dont know if i am just imagining it but long hair seems to have come back in fashion this week. and chinese new year is but a couple of weeks away and still the mood is not quite like in previous years...

oh dear...time i stock up on instant noodles...

they say a picture....

paints a thousand words..


picture taken off malaysia-today article : http://mt.m2day.org/2008/content/view/16692/84/

but this picture also says that I AM...

1) really bored too
2) yawning away this new year more so than before
3) physically tired and in need of more sleep/rest/play whatever, other than work
4) the weird one in a sea of humanity ?
5) hungry and could eat a horse..(after trying so hard to diet..)
6) hoping we could be more color-blind
7) different and yet the same as you and him and her and them too
8) standing here with everyone, with all the same aspirations and hopes for our nation
9) feeling your concerns too as you watch me "yawn" my days away..
10) actually just as human too at the end of the day...

well, maybe the picture did not quite exactly give me a thousand words to chatter about, but it says enough i guess about my present state of mind..hehe

err...new year oredi meh?

wow...the past year really flew by so fast..so much so that i cannot really recall what i have been doing the past 12 months...except just work, work and work and here on the first day of the new year, i am again at work, ouch... i left my last year's new year resolutions 3 weeks into the month, so i guess, this year there wont be any..although i sure do wish i could take a long holiday somewhere..some time this year..hopefully. koh samui sounds very enticing..

i am also missing out on a number of family gatherings only because i cannot get away from work...haih..sad..and when i do get that occasional time off, people i know are not available..and i end up walking the malls, sipping coffee at starbucks, watching the world go by, working out at the gym without seeing any noticeable difference in my body, etc..etc..etc.....so, am i describing your life too ??..if so, maybe we should meet..haha

at the end of the day, i suppose like everyone else..i too will try to have a happy new year...hmmm..

wow...it's x'mas party there too...?

had one of my other worldly dreams again last night. seemed like there was a big big fancy christmas-like party going on..except most of the people i saw there were once with us but have since moved on, if you know what i mean..the scene was very much like the ending part of the titanic movie..people cheering, smiling..welcoming me to their party and yes, i did feel like jack dawson (or was it rose who was being welcomed [in the movie at the end, i meant]..hmm, nvm) for that tiny moment..

of course, dad was there, and i saw grandpa and grandma dancing a slow waltz..and everyone was just watching, cheering and clapping them on..i pulled up a chair and just sat there for a long time watching them dance and felt so so full of love for them..dad appeared like he was mulling over something, then walking around as though searching for someone and was kinda quiet..i guess he was just being his usual self. the rest of the people i could not really focus my eyes on except somehow knowing that they were not of the physical type. for a very fleeting moment, i thought i also saw someone who wasn't supposed to be there and i suppose because of that, i just very quickly erased it from my mind and when i woke up this morning, i could not remember who that person was...oh dear....this is really disturbing.....maybe i need to revisit this party to see who this person is clearly..

i think i am getting quite used to these other worldly visitations that i get now and then. i am no longer frightened of these visits. in fact, i kinda look forward to them, sometimes just for entertainment, at other times because i miss grandpa and grandma and i just want to feel close to them. perhaps, one night, i shall have a close enough encounter with someone outside of my family circles and bring back some incontrovertible evidence..and then maybe i'd know for sure that i have not just been dreaming dreams...

for now..it's an earthly x'mas season as usual for me..

aiyoh...another one..??

err..i was referring to my latest love..hehe

the LG KP500 a.k.a the cookie phone...well, i decided to hold off on the toyota mark x until the pricing for that one becomes more reasonable..and i gotta buy me a x'mas present anyway...and i just happened to be walking by a phone shop the other day and this thing caught my eye..and i just could not resist it...

i think, in a way, it looks much nicer than the iphone although i must admit the functions are somewhat limited by the installed programs and i haven't come across any downloadable softwares to use..BUT for the things that it does, it's quite sufficient. i get decent pictures with the camera, decent music and video playing, and the phone menu is quite straight forward actually..and the best thing is the price. i got it for rm 899-00..i think it's the best value for money phone out there..you'd be doing yourself a nice favour by getting one. the picture here should tempt you sufficiently to rush out there and grab one for yourself this xmas..!!