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  • Reunion Dinner ??? 2001-12-27 09:36:42 Had a farewell dinner for Seng Wee (going of to Ebgland to study)which also served as a farewell dinner of some sort.

    Can't remember the last time i had dinner with all the uncles and aunties.
    So i was rather surprised that Yanxuan is rather grown up now (ard primary 5-6, i presume)and i couldnt' even regconise her! Last time i saw her..she was still a toddler and even more surprising..they had their second child already and she was as old as i last saw Yanxuan.

    Dinner was at OCBC's executive room..33 stories high..very the posh ne !!

    Wearing jeans and sandal...i suddenly realise that they might not let me in but anyway...they did. Saw Seng Howe's GF for the first time..she looked ..well..kinda mature (ahem) but i didn't dat that of course. Anyway she looked pretty nice and they looked the perfect couple ( reminded me that its time for me to get one...boo.~~).

    Dinner was ..well...splendid ..with Sharks' fin, Crab and gravy , yam soup , some fish and peking duck amongst the expensive spread (which costs $500 in total ..ard $50 per head !! )

    Well, my uncles and elder cousins started conversing in Hokkien as usual and i pretended to know what they are talking..as usual. The onli time i got into the conversation was about my school work, IA and yes, my flu. I was coughing all the way...embarassingly so.

    Dinner ended swiftly and that was one of the best meals i had for a long long time (have to date back to secondary 1 ..when i was in china ..the last time i had such good food )
     
  • A day in the life of a Vampire 2001-12-27 00:38:49

    Had 2 dreams today. The first one was me going for an exam without preparing. It was nothing short of horrible...i remmebered nothing of what i was supoosed to know and before the exam...i was pondering wtr to just give up and save myself the agony of painfully continuing on the exam.

    The next dream ....which i had when i woke up at ard 6 and went st backt o sleep...was a lot more interesting...

    This was a dream i'll never forget but just to be completely sure..i'll write it down. I had dream of Vampires before but never as one myself so this dream in a way kicks ass!! This journal is meant for my own records but if you happened to peek in here...i must tell you that this dream was 100% relistic...nothing really out of this world happened. I was thinking and doing things as i would in reali life coz it seemed like real life.
    It was so realistic i was thinking of things all along ..it wasn't always like that in my other dreams..Other dreams were simply movies starring yours truly. I was thinking of wtr i would tell anyone ...the consequences of living on blood, eternity and so on..In simple terms ...i was really a vampire in my dreams. verything here is as it happned ..nothing extra was added in to make it more dramatic although several stuff were left out due to memory loss. I suspect this has got to do with the new nick i've been using : FangBoY


    It started when I was in a class. More like my insurance class than a Uni class. It was strange coz i didn regconise any of those people other than Andrew and he was with his girlfren.
    it was approaching lunch time and we had to write an essay ( i didn know what or why we had to do it ) and the first to finish can go straight for lunch. I was the first to finish so there i went ..straight out.not waiting for any of tose guys.. It was strange..i'm usually lot more sociable than that in my insurance classes in real life..i knew almost all of them and went out for lunch as a bunch but somehow iwas a loner in this dream and since Andrew was probably lunching with his GF,..i went alone.

    I didn't go for lunch. I didn't know where i'm going...what i was going to do. I was in daze. That was when i realise i had been bitten. I didn't know how it happened or who had bitten me..i was sufferiing from some kind of memery loss it seems. It seems that thing happened before class. I walked down a slop of some kind...saw a deserted basktball court and walked pass it and saw them. 3 very beautiful girls and a guy were sitting around this very dark place (seemed like its under a bridge of some kind..couldn't remember). Their lips were drl of blood and thats when i reliase one of them was biting the guy. i knew what was happening but i couldn't care. To a normal person..it would be suicide but i alked right between 2 of the other girls without a care in the world. One of them grabbed me by the arm and smiled fiendishly at me. I think i gave a dazed look..thats all. She then proceed to....until i smiled back at her.
    The other shouted something like " wait.. Alice , he's already.."
    Alice looked a little stunned. Her expression was strange..a litle sad. I dunno wtr thats because she's lost her lunch or because she felt sorry for me.
    " Hey, do you want to know what blood tastes like. " She then raise her forearm in front of me...inviting me to have a bite.
    It was strange she assumed i've never tasted blood before but in the dream i didn think so much. I was thinking : hey i've to nothing to lose..she looked great!
    It was a gentle bite..but blood rushed into my throat like it's been poured from a pail. I would havechked normally but somehow it seemed normal and well..even in a dream..i could taste that its BLOOD...def BLOOD. It wasn't great or anything ..rather ..it was like Milk. Plain but satisfying.

    We didn't talked anymore and i carried on walking..this time with more conviction. I walked into a building. guy bumped into me and laughed

    [ memory loss ]

    I was in a toilet., pulling something from my teeth. I seemed like floss and i was pulling it from my teeth. It was a piece of fat..or lard...i didn know. It was then i came to terms that i have become a Vampire. I didn't feel sad at all..in fact a little happy...the words "....eternal life ..cursed life >>>" kept echoing in my head and i tried to shake it off. I recalled on what has happened. It seemed those girls didn realise i was one of them and the fact that i was bitten by another made it seem that right now..many of mykind are now stalking on the streets.

    ( memory loss again....but a lot of things happened]

    my mind of in a daze again and i went into the Ladies (toilet). There seemed to be no reasoj whatsoeevre for me to do it other than i didn care anymore.(somehow i kknew no one was inside) I sat in on of the cubicles and laid there...for a few minutes..my mind blank...the time was pass lunch time but i didn't care.

    Afer a long time i decided its time to go back. I went back to the building where i had my lessons. In the life i saw Andrew (why was he the onli person i know i my dream. ??) alone. He was visibly shocked..." what happend to you ? " My reaction was : did he know something?
    He continued " Your mouth..its bleeding". The lift stopped at the level where our class was. I shot back "None of ur business." Just that...damn ..i've become rude.
    He was still rather concerned and thats was when i did the unthinkable..i flashed my teeth at him. He stumbled out of the lift..shocked..the doors closed and the life went god-sped up to the higest level (200 odd levels..i think....). A hotel scene greeted me. Very posh indeed. There were people everywhere.

    { a few things happened again but i didn remember.but i remembered i saw Anne}

    The next thing i know i was heading back to class...the teachers (there were 2 ) didn seem annoyed. He handed me my marked esay and remarked why it was so short....blah blah ...Next lesson was :how to floss ur teeth..it's ridiculpus but hey its just a dream. we have to pair up and see each othe floss our teeth. I think i saw Paul Scholes from man United..ridiculous again. My partner was desperately tecahing me the corect method flossing..on my own teeth..that was when i realise my fangs will show onli if wi ant it to. At the other corner..i saw Andrew whispering to his GF and looking in my direction once a while. My thoughts were: no one will believe him anyway.


    (something else happened before i woke up but heck..the dream was interesting enuff just based on what i remember)But i really wished i could remember more
    Come to think of it...it was daytime all the while :)
     
  • Character analysis of Vash 2001-12-26 12:19:28 ==========================================
    Quote from http://www.hanashika.com/trigun/vash.html
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    In the first few chapters/episodes, especially, Vash comes across as a rather silly, flaky character. He likes to drink, guzzles doughnuts like mad, has a rather pronounced weakness for a pretty face, and at times comes across as goofily melodramatic. It's no wonder that Meryl didn't want to believe his identity at first, even after it was pretty much hammered home, blatantly outright said that the ditzy blonde she and her kouhai Milly keep running into is the Vash the Stampede.
    However, the longer you follow the series, it becomes obvious that Vash isn't all fluff and happiness and light. In episode five (the first story of the first volume of the manga), he hints of something grim in his past, refusing to meekly be captured by the citizens of Inepril City: "I understand your situation, but ... until the day I meet him again ... I can't stop moving." And then later, he defeats the male half of the Nebraska Family, he proves that, whatever else he may be, his reputation as a gunman is well-earned.

    There was a poll once on the Trigun ML, asking the members who they thought the "most tragic" character of Trigun was. For me, it was a tossup between either Vash or Wolfwood - and in the end, I decided it was Vash, especially if I were to think of how the anime ended.

    Here is a man who, though not human, loves humanity and is determined to protect it from his brother. He's a man who idolized and adored the woman who raised him, whom he promised to love her forever, only to lose her - to have one of the two most important people in his life killed by the other. He's one of the most misunderstood people on the entire planet (and how many people can boast that dubious honor?), feared and hated by millions as a dangerous killer, even though he's sworn to never kill and lives by the philosophy "Love and Peace!" Both of the crimes he's most infamous for - the destruction of July and the Fifth Moon - were basically incidents where he was manipulated into unleashing his power by his brother.

    In the anime, in order to save Meryl and Milly, Vash is forced to break that one promise he has kept to Rem for so long: he kills Legato. And the consequences of that are quite obvious - at this point, Vash has been hit with Brado's death, Wolfwood's death, Midvalley's death, and the realization that his confrontation with Knives is drawing ever closer. He's been beaten and tossed around from Midvalley's music, and was almost forced into using the Angel Arm again. However, none of these are as horrible for him as the actual act of taking another person's life - for someone who advocates not fighting to begin with, having his hand forced to kill Legato must has been horrifying for him.

    Vash the Stampede is someone the entire world is against, but he still manages to show a smiling face. But, as Wolfwood said, "It's like you're hurting like crazy inside, and smiling to hide it." He's a pacifist at heart, but a practical one - he'll fight if he needs to, to protect those who aren't able to defend themselves, and avoids killing like the plague. He has an affinity with children (though most of the time, when he befriends them, they usually end up beating him up ^^*), and though he's got his undeniably silly moments, he's a real sweetheart.

    Someone said that Vash is one of the few anime heroes these days who is truly likeable - I agree with that. He's certainly not the first one with a sad and layered past; nor is he the first who takes the "I only fight because I have to" routine. There are other heroes who also play the clown and the philosopher by turns - but Vash comes across as a truly nice guy, i.m.o. For the first few episodes, he comes across as a shallow flake, but as the series progresses, he shows he's definitely not what he first seems to be. He truly believes in his ideals, and holds fast to them, even in the face of adversaries like the Gung-Ho Guns and random bounty hunters.

    You could say that Vash is a "hero" in the sense that the word has come to mean - a noble, strong person who, despite all his troubles, remains human and caring at heart.


     
  • Trigun 2001-12-26 09:09:40 Finally finished the last episode of Trigun. This is a very different Anime from those i had already watched. The character Vash the Stampede is not like those egoistic, overly self-assured, bashful main characters that i have become used to. He's a character that i truly sympahtise with. For the first time, i couldnt' stand the sight of people dying onli because i knew how much it would hurt him. And he's just an anime character for goodness sake!! It is an anime that has really touched my heart. Vash is the kinda of guy i truly admire. He would endure all sorts of abuse and humilation (stripping and barking like a dog) so as to protect those around him without hurting anyone in the process. Even as he struggles to uphold his belief, he is constantly reminded by the deaths around him that it is not always possible to save someone without killing. Whilst many would call him a wimp...i'd say he's just a normal human being. He's afraid of loneliness and emotional like the rest of us. I could go on and on.


    " Kill the spiders...to save the butterflies..."

    Yet he chooses to hide the pain from others by putting on a smile and acting goofy.

    Howver the ending is kinda disappointing..very little effort is made to develop the character of Knives and there are plenty of loopholes here and there. Otherwise, i rank this anime among the likes of Rurouni Kenshin and Berserk in terms of drama and action. It certaintly touched my heart.

    "Even if you have made a wrong step..if you turn around..you can still see the future..."

    Trigun contains one of the best songs i have heard on anime..sang by Rem who instills the belief ( that on one has the right to take the life of another) in Vash. Its a beautiful lullaby.

    Soundlife (translated)
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    So... On the first evening
    From somewhere pebbles
    Drop upon the world

    So... On the second evening
    The children of the pebbles
    Join hands and write waltzes
    Sound life

    So... On the third evening
    The children of the waltzes
    Make waves upon the land

    So... On the fourth evening
    The children of the waves
    Send spray upon the shore
    Sound life

    So... On the fifth evening
    Many, many fragments
    Rain down upon the world

    So... On the sixth evening
    The signal beckons
    The travellers together
    Sound life

    So... On the seventh evening
    A weightless boat
    Sails into the sky

    So... On the eighth morning
    From somewhere songs
    Carry to my ear
    Sound life

    Now, come
    In a brand new sky
    Echoes the suite that recorded everything
    Sound life
    Sound life

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  • Sunday is Soccer day 2001-12-23 01:11:57

    Didn't Join Zhiwei and gang for soccer as i onli have my orange shoes available. They play on muddy fields and i didn't my orange shoes to turn brown.

    Joined my army frens instead since they play on cleaner surfaces ( the court). Got my old touch back despite a flu. I was banging in goals like never before. Now i know what it feels like to be on form...everytime i life my leg to shoot, i had the sight of the bal alrady in the net and that kind of confidence is priceless. However it was onli a matter of time before i start missing again. :) Because i was wearing an orange t shirt as well ...kelvin ( or was it Jude) who joked that i was playing for Holland and all that crap. Mark was saying while Owen was the Golden boy..i'm the Orange boy.( hey its not very often that i score so mnay goals ..heheh)..Jude was at his best again..couldn't remmeber the number of times he sliced thru the defence like a hot knive thru butter. Micheal kenna 2 hot shots on his groin..i think he was thankful that at least he wasn't on the receiving end of Jude's shot..or else his 'eggs" would most certainly crack.

    My orange shoes are defintely bringing me luck..most of my teams goals were either scored or created by me. Ok enuff of bragging.
    We stopped early altough i feel i can go on.


    My headache got worse ( due to the flu) when i reach home....i suspect Fajing had spread them to me during the CBLC dinner..oh well...i always seem to catch those nasty flu bugs.

    Spend the rest of the day sleeping....need to get rid of the damn flu
    and wake up in time for the crucial match between Liverpool and Arsenal.

     
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