Going once, going twice, SOLD!

Actually I'm going to Genting Highlands in Pahang in just less than 12 hours and I've haven't slept or packed my bags yet! Guess the procrastination bug really did bit me bad... XD

I'm going together with my mom, brother and sister's families, and I'm going to have fun! I don't think I could blog normally unless there's an internet cafe up there that offers cheap internet access. I've heard rumours that they charge up to RM20 per hour! Well, if it's true, expect the next few blog posts to be sent through cellphone e-mail... My poor fingers... XD

Treasure life...

Voyage 2 - The Essential World Beat Collection
(EMI Recorded Music Asia Pacific + Warner Strategic Marketing | 2002)

Return To Innocence by Enigma (short version)
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Love - Devotion
Feeling - Emotion
Love - Devotion
Feeling - Emotion

Don't be afraid to be weak
Don't be too proud to be strong
Just look into your heart my friend
That will be the return to yourself
The return to innocence

If you want, then start to laugh
If you must, then start to cry
Be yourself, don't hide
Just believe in destiny

Don't care what people say
Just follow your own way
Don't give up and lose the chance
To return to innocence

That's not the beginning of the end
That's the return to yourself
The return to innocence
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I remember when I was about 11 or 12 years old, I felt this strange sensation when I heard this song on a Singapore TV station. Maybe it was from a commercial, a movie or the video clip but I can't be sure where I heard it from. What I'm sure is that I was so spiritually relaxed and calmed that it left an imprint in my mind until today.

I played it on the VCD player for the umpteenth time in the row and I had finally realized the meaning of the song after a quick google, it made me realized that I knew there was something special about the song even though I was too young to comprehend the vague lyrics, it was somehow connected to my view on my life!

One of the video clips that was included when Enigma's DVD video clip collection was released in January 2004 is Return To Innocence. One of the reviews mentioned that the story of Return To Innocence was about a man's life in reverse compacted into a 4 minute clip. It starts off with him being old and he gets younger towards the end of the clip. Now, if the song made me think so hard, the video clip would even boggle my mind... Now I really want to watch the clip. NOW. Eheheh... too bad there's none available for download except for those in peer-to-peer programs like Kazaa and eMule, which I detest using.

Call me crazy but I believe in reincarnation, life after life. We get to live one lifetime as a human but some simply squander it away. There's so many things I've yet to experienced in the world, so many places to go to, so many things to do, so many things to learn. I've not only experienced happiness but pain, sadness and grief. Instead of them being an obstacle, I've felt that I've been motivated and determined to life my life to the max. Life is wonderful, treasure it.

I still remember that Mr. Pong once told us that one of his favourite songs is Lucky by Britney Spears. I don't know if anybody else had heard of the song before but I sure have. Mr Pong, I dedicate this song to you. Your murderers have been caught by the police and may you rest in peace.

Lucky by Britney Spears
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This is a story about a girl named Lucky...

Early morning,
she wakes up
Knock, knock, knock
on the door
It's time for makeup,
perfect smile
It's you they're waiting for
They go...
"Isn't she lovely, this
Hollywood girl?"

CHORUS
And they say...
She's so lucky, she's a star
But she cry, cry, cries in her
lonely heart, thinking
If there's nothing missing
in my life
Then why do these tears come at
night?

Lost in an image (image),
in a dream
But there's no one there to
wake her up
And the world is spinning, and
she keeps on winning,

But tell me what happens when
it stops?
They go...
"Isn't she lovely, this
Hollywood girl?"

CHORUS

"Best actress, and the
winner is...Lucky!"
"I'm Roger Johnson for Pop
News standing outside the
arena waiting for Lucky!"
"Oh, my God...here
she comes!"

Isn't she lucky, this
Hollywood girl?
She is so lucky, but why does
she cry?
If there is nothing missing in
her life
Why do tears come at night?

CHORUS-repeat
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Just some lyrics...

Voyage 2 - The Essential World Beat Collection
(EMI Recorded Music Asia Pacific + Warner Strategic Marketing | 2002)

Punjab by Karunesh
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aao huzoor tumko, sitaron mein le chalo
dil jhoom jaaye aise, bahaaron mein le chaloon ,
aao huzoor tumko sitaron mein le chalo
dil jhoom jaaye aise, huzoor aao,
(aaaa, aaaa.....)
hai re mere, daatia javaan...
babul tere, ginane lejaania aye...
hai re mere, daadia javaan...
nahelate jo teri laado noeeee,
(chittiyan chittiyan.....)
babul tere..
(nehelate...)
pi jo teri laa(do) 'tiyan jab miya , des tod diya
(chittiyan chittiyan.....)
pi jo teri laado (ginane lejaania aye) noeeee.....
hai re mere , daadia javaan...
babul tere, ginane lejaania aye...
hai re mere , daadia javaan...
nahelate jo teri laado (ginane lejaania) noeeee,
(chittiyan chittiyan.....)
babul tere..
(nehelate...)
pi jo teri laado 'tiyan jab miya , des tod diya
(chittiyan chittiyan.....)
pi jo teri laado (ginane lejaania aye)noeeee.....
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Lyrics credit to Hamsa.

I decided to post the lyrics to this song here, since it's hard to find sites with lyrics to this song...

From what I gathered, this song starts off with Hindi but the most of the rest are in Punjabi. It's about the grief of a daughter who's getting married and it's an old Punjabi folk song. The music is amazing, it sounds more like a "remix" song when the tunes are actually originally created by Karunesh. Karunesh (meaning "compassion" in Sanskrit) is a German man originally named Bruno Reuter. You've got to hear it for yourself...

Wacky past few days...

And I thought I was doing my fish a favour, but the greedy fella ruined it all for me... It turns out he's a rock-eater. He bit the rocks that I bought on Wednesday to improve his surroundings and tried to chew it! XD Now I wonder what else I could do with a bag of white rocks worth 50 sen, hm...

Before the history paper was about to start on Thursday morning, some of the guys were shouting "si ka zhua!", which literally means "four-legged-snake" or lizard in Hokkien. I thought they were fooling around and ignored them. It wasn't until the guy sitting beside me pointed to the bottom of my chair that I noticed something was wrong. I looked around and couldn't see anything! So imagine the surprise I got when a 3-inch orangy-brown lizard jumped onto my left leg and hugged it! XD So I shook it and the lizard fell on the floor unhurt. I waved my hand in front of the lizard to shoo him away but it wasn't working, instead he climbed onto the leg of my chair and looked about to hop into my bag! He later came down and I accidentally scared him by shifting my foot. Although he ran, and he did ran fast, he ran in the wrong direction and now was heading towards the girls at the back of the class!

I sat there at the front of the class, observing the girls and guys freak out at the lizard while the teacher stood stupidly at one corner of the classroom. Fearing that he could get squished by a stupid student, and that the paper was about to start in the next 5 minutes, I walked to the back coolly and calmly and scooped the lizard up! It seemed that he was not going down without a fight and wriggled out from my hands and onto another student's desk! Shrieks were heard from the students as I managed to transpot him from the desk to the balcony outside the classroom. I think everybody sighed with relief after that... XD

The immature kid said to me that I had got my hands dirty with germs and bacteria but I shrugged him off more than I had shrugged the lizard when he hugged my legs... heh... The words also came from the same immature twat who suggested him and me lure a pair of baby birds out from their nest in the ceiling of the classroom with a bait. He then told me to catch the birds before they hit the ground and go "splat". I got fumed and flamed him in Hokkien with a dash of insults. XD

After the paper was over, I tried to search for the lizard, maybe thinking about keeping him as a pet but he was already gone... Oh well, another creature encountered. :)

These 4 pics show a spring-cleaning session in my class on May 3, 2004. The pics were part of a Moral Studies project and I wanted to scan them before I hand it in... I'm in the top-left one, second from right...