- 2002-08-05 23:06:42 Watch carefully - this is how you kill a god. ~ Lady Eboshi
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thrown against the sky
2002-08-05 02:13:17
I'm so pissed - my room has been converted into a freaking storeroom while I was away in Australia. I didn't mind too much when I came back, because I slept in my sister's room. But today I couldn't find some really important mini DV tapes which I have to return TODAY to a couple of friends, and I simply can't find the bag I put them in. My mom assures me that she's seen them "somewhere around", but she can't remember where either.
All the stuff in my room doesn't only make it hard to look for things - it also makes it insanely hard to clean. My room is just beside the highway, so I get alot of dust - and I can't squeeze the vacuum cleaner through all that junk to clean.
I wish the women in my family weren't such packrats, myself included. I wish we could just throw stuff away without the dreaded what-if-we-need-it-later syndrome.
It sucks, not being able to see your own floor. -
*cue X-Files theme music*
2002-08-03 23:09:27
I think I saw a UFO yesterday. I was travelling on one of those flyover highways, watching the Singapore Air Force practice their stunts for the National Day Parade, when I saw a funny little thing, following one of the copters. For lack of a better description, it had the shape of a sperm, with a sinuous tail that was wriggling furiously. It was dark in colour, and longer than the human arm. There was more detail on the thing, but I couldn't see what it was. At first I thought that the helicopter was trailing it on a cable, but after looking straight at it for a couple of moments, I realised that the helicopter was now going north (in relation to me) while that wriggly thing went eastward. I stared at it until the car was too far from the object to make it out.
I tried to show my mom, but she was looking distractedly out the other window. It was not a hallucination, or a trick of the light - it looked very solid, and I actually had time to do a double-take and STUDY it before it got too far away to make out details.
I thought it might be a ROD, but RODs look... um, rod-like.
(http://www.roswellrods.com/pre.html)
I'm not overly concerned, and I am not going to dedicate my entire life to finding out what it was, but it WAS a strange sight. And then there's the part of me that yells, WHAT THE HECK WAS THAT? -
Meiji Yan Yan : with frosted sesame!
2002-08-03 11:19:37
A FedEx guy (a rather cute Malay boy, I might add), arrived at my door with a package yesterday. He didn't knock, but my mom and I noticed the cats acting weird. It's like they have a special sixth sense for strangers at the door. It's pretty useful, especially since we haven't got a doorbell. If all the cats start creeping about with their bodies plastered to the floor while staring at the door, someone is about to knock. It's proven to be a good way to catch voyeurs too - we once caught a pervert neighbour peeking into our house through the window.
Anyway, back to the Handsome Malay Boy with the box. He had brought me Kyburg's care package! After signing for it, I opened it up. Unfortunately, because I was in a hurry to leave to meet Bart, I could only rifle through half the things in the box. I found a handy little harmonica, which when blown, made my black cat's ears swivel about quite frantically as she stood stock still and stared at me. I also found assorted funky bandaids. There are even tattoo bandaids, which I have never before seen. I put on a Star Wars plaster which had motifs of Storm Troopers and Boba Fett. Mm, my faves! There's nothing like
My mother made me open the box of cane and maple candy. "They're milk sweets," she pronounced, after her first bite.
"No, it says here they're made of cane syrup-"
"Milk candy."
"OK."
And then there's the 9/11 documentary I wrote about wanting to watch in my journal. Kyburg emailed me shortly after reading that entry saying she would send me a copy. In fact, she sent me stuff based on what she read in my journal. Like, I complained about lactose intolerance in one of my entries, and she sent me Lactaid. :-)
Other stuff in the box: assorted teas and hot chocolate mixes, a cinnamon scented thingy to put a hot mug on. When I opened the box, the smell of cinnamon wafted out the box. Mm...
Also in there: a couple of Yan Yan cups *grin* and a very novel message maker that prints out letters on strips of bubble gum. I think I like this contraband contraption the best! I wonder if Kyburg knows that Singapore doesn't sell bubble gum because it's illegal. I'm going black market with this thing! Woohoo!
There are also strings of glittery costume necklaces which my mom slipped on and did a little jiggle to show me. The only thing I can't figure out is a little orange styrofoam ball with the number 76 on it. Maybe it's a toy for the cats? It'd be perfect for them - it's light enough to skitter over the floor if they bat it, and noisy enough to make them want to follow it. Hm... -
2002-08-01 00:23:57
Mmm.... bubble wrap....
*Ami's eyes roll back into her head*
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