Things At Random

After just wrapping up a stint at Cisco, and being $600 richer..how do I celebrate? By coming down with a fever, and its usual accomplices...Simply great. That was two days ago. I'm much better now, just lugging around a super blocked nose and a very unreliable larynx.

I was about to blog about the very fun trip I had with a few of my friends to THE ZOO! But I don't have most of the photos with me right now. So when I get them, you'll get them too.

I am expecting those army people to send me the dreadful letter of enlistment any time soon since they have already assigned me to the Fat Squad, after postponing for months. Oh, and even this classification is under furthur review. I cannot believe it. Just one operation and such a brou ha ha. Fat or Fit, I don't care..Just don't waste my precious time.

Damn it!! I now know which character passed on in the latest Harry Potter book. No thanks to Sister #1. A little late, I know..I just did not get the time to start the book proper..Apparently, that character's name is pretty popular in Yoga classes held in California Fitness. Grrr....However, I am not gonna be a party-pooper and spoil it for those who are probably still slower than me. It pays to be nice sometimes you know......

The Calling

Have you ever felt so upset, till your heart feels heavy and your eyes well with tears, quite not ready to fall but hanging on till you blink...

Have you ever felt the suffering of a stranger, or a person living on another side of the planet...

You want to help them so much because you feel their pain, not physically but spiritually...

After many incidences, and this particular episode of Oprah I watched today, I had this rush in me which made me think that this is what I should do. Oprah was reviewing her past episodes and there was this one where she went to South Africa to visit innocent victims of the HIV virus. There was a female patient who was 29 years of age and Oprah wanted the patient's daughter, Esona, to visit her as part of her Christmas Kindness Programme. They were separated for 2 weeks. When Oprah asked the hospital staff whether the patient was given any anti-virus, they promptly replied that they didn't have any and it was against government policy to do so. Upon hearing that, Oprah covered her face with one palm and wept. She kept reiterating in shock, "You don't have anti-virus?...You don't have anti-virus?...". My heart sank as she did that. When I saw the woman on the bed, her face sunken in deep to her bone and her daughter standing by her side with a tiara on her head, a gift from Oprah I assume, my eyes immediately brimmed with tears. Oprah asked Esona whether she would see her mother home soon, the young girl paused and then said, "I don't know...". She very well knew what was going on and sensed that she was never going to see her mother again. Heartbreaking. The mother passed on 3 months later. Esona's strong heart enabled her to brave her dear mother's death. Now, Esona is doing well in a boarding school, healthy and happy.

Not just this once. Many a times, I look at the many faces of the poor and children starving to death, or bedridden with illness on TV and I have this urge to just weep and weep my heart out because I feel their suffering. But of course I can't. I still want to help them. I don't know how to. Maybe I am still not as mature to handle it properly, maybe this is not the right time. But I know for sure that I will serve these people in need.

Thank God none of my family members were present at that moment, else I'd be ridiculed for crying. They always do that..whenever something sad happens on TV at home, they immediately look around for signs of tears on our faces and go "Aiyeeaaa, you're crying ah......".

Being compassionate does not mean you're a wimp, it does not mean you're a doormat. It does mean that you're able to feel for others, you're able to reach out to people spiritually. Doesn't this make living life much more worthwhile?

I know that this might come as a revelation to many of you who know me. Please don't judge me.

Lo And Behold...

He starts the engine
GGGRRRRR
"Turn left when you are ready."

Drives on for 50 metres or so.

"STOP!!!!!" *bangs palm on dashboard really hard!!!*

Steps on brake equally hard!!

Checks for safety and carries on.

"Have you had your breakfast?"

Wide-eyed, he replied.."Errmm, no not yet sir"

"You have to have something before the test, if not no strength when driving."

That was the exact moment where he felt at ease. Everything went smoothly after that, easy as pie. (Other than the car hitting the kerb once during vertical parking)

After waiting with abated breath, he emerged a victor after exiting the Tester's Office. With a wide smile stuck on his face, he proceeded to apply for his hard-earned driver's license.

He is none other than yours truly...

I Like To Move It Move It...

Madagascar was hilarious! Although I don't wanna sound like I'm copying Sister #1, but I loved Melman too!! His hyperchondriac and neurotic character reminds me of Ross from Friends. That's why David Schwimmer is just the guy for that. (Probably why the casting director chose him right, duh..) And he reminds me of myself sometimes. Anyways, the lemur King Julien sounded alot Indian or Irish, but of course when Ali G voiced the character. Okay, I won't be anymore of a spoiler for those who have not watched it.

Physically fit...Physically fit...Physically Physically Physically fit...

Shoo bop shoo wadda wadda yippity boom da boom

Over the week, I did a movie marathon kinda thing . Watched Grease. We go together like ramma lamma lamma ka dinga da dinga dong.. Also did American Pie and American Wedding. (Apparently, it's the version I couldn't see in theatres. How kinky.) It's hilarious!! The Incredibles is pretty good too. Quite funny. I have yet to complete Chicago. Come on babe, why don't we paint the town? *snaps fingers twice* And all that Jazz... Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle too. I watched abit of The Good Girl yesterday. Hmm..maybe I'll continue now...oh wait, should I go with Chicago instead?

The Final Countdown

This is it...Another one and a half months more to my driving test!! Wish me luck!!!

On a less serious note, I have to say that there's nothing left to do online anymore. Not that I have just realised it, but there's seriously nothing to do! Gone are the days doing things like playing games, or chatting with people every night. Even Friendster seems passe. I used to come online with a purpose, and aim..an idea to achieve something. Now, I don't even think of switching on the com that often. And even when any of my sisters are done using the com, I don't intercept quickly, trying to have my time on the com. We had to verbally book our time for usage then! One of us would go something like this, "Who wanna uuuuusse??", followed by two voices competing with "ME, ME, ME ,MEEE!!". However, nowadays, to the contrary, Who wanna use is more of a rhetoric statement where we know that nobody is gonna say anything back. It's quite funny actually.

"Every exit is an entry somewhere else."-Tom Stoppard

National Disgrace

I was watching some programme on Vasantham Central a few days back and during the show, the SMS display thing was on, you know when people can send two-dollars-a-message type of messages on air. Yah, so I was trying my best to divide my attention on the show and the SMSes, you know, just to see what kind of pathetic messages people were wasting their money on ($2 a freaking msg!!!). My brain went searching for expletives when I read the following conversation:

(The names of the senders were changed, not really to protect their identities but mainly because I forgot and couldn't care much...)

A: Eh B, can call me now?

and after a couple of other plain meaningless messages...

B: I busy now lah.

And I went...what the hell??! Why would ANYone in the right mind want to share such a conversation, if you call that one, on national TV?? And for that matter, spend two bloody freaking dollars a message!!! Couldn't they have just SMSed each other normally?? They both would have saved over a dollar each! I still cannot get over how silly these two morons were (are)..God help them.

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Yah, just don't go where those two ninkampoops received their education.