Last One to Hit the Year

A year ago, I might've spent the last few days thinking and mulling about the past twelve months as a whole and slowly write out the many things that had taken place and taken hold of my time and attention somewhere along the way.

This post would probably have a longer, more elaborate and more and funky-sounding title like "The Sights and Sounds, Ups and Downs, Smiles and Frowns of Year 200X".

There would probably be a ton of photos to capture all those special moments that can only be articulated using splashes of super-macro camera shots.

A year ago, I would probably have done all that.

THIS year, things aren't too different actually. I didn't morph into a blog-hater who is now too lazy to blog and too tired to care about the blogging world. I didn't chance upon blogging enlightenment and decide that I'm suddenly to cool to continue blogging anymore. I'm still me.

But it's just that a variety of things crept up and caught me in the midst of the final month of this year. Exams, holiday trips, falling sick, planning for Watchnight Service, catching up with friends and other day-to-day life activities meant I could not sit down on the computer any longer than 2 hours a day. And two hours for me is, very little, honestly.

I want to tell you so many different things that have happened to me that I feel really deserve a mention. I want to introduce to you the long list of interesting people that had crossed my walk of life this year around. I want to show you all the thoughtful gifts that I have had the pleasure to receive from friends and family members. I want to read to you the deep, profound personal convictions and sharings inked in the letters that I have received from people who trusted me enough to let me know more than I otherwise would.

But alas, I would have to hold on to them first. Like what someone said to me recently, I don't wanna tell you everything here and later have nothing left to spill to you when I finally meet you in person. So if we do have the chance to sit down together over a glass of Teh Ais and Ayam Goreng, perhaps then you can find out more ;)

Last one to hit the year, so long 2008!

System Downtime

Unfortunately, I'm currently too sick to even be typing anything properly so there won't be any updates for the next few days. In the meantime, I have joined the masses who seem to have fallen for the year-end superbug that's been going around....

For Your Money's Worth

Story-telling brilliantly done :)

I've probably said it before that I'm too picky for my own good most of the time when it comes to enjoying a good show in the cinema. Rustling popcorn boxes catch my attention, while idiotic (yes, I dislike it that much) handphone screens lighting up around me totally destroys my attempts to immerse myself in the movie (I mean, you go to the cinema so that you can immerse yourself in the show, no?). But every now and then, I walk out of the cinema feeling like I had made a really good decision in buying the tickets.

I still honestly opine that good movies are those where you can see, hear and feel the effort put into it by the production people. Okay, so maybe we've been seeing too many animation releases lately. Dreamworks, Pixar and Disney are no doubt working very hard to woo the audiences from the global economic gloom into the cinema halls and naturally we see more and more mediocre and same-old-same-old flicks playing in the silver screens, but thankfully some good ones still manage to stand out and show everyone else how to pull off the subtle art of entertaining entertainment.

Oh yea, try to catch the 3D version if you can. There are more likely to be less people, and hence less chance for interference, haha :D

Feels Like Yesterday

Walking into the airport's airplane air passengers' before-they-take-off-into-the-air area, it almost felt very much like only yesterday that he went for his holiday (plus a bit of studying) in that popular rugby country that also gave us the Dual-Flush Toilet (yes, that apparently came from Australia).

It's sad that you didn't come back with any Australian accent, dressing or hairdo that we can make fun of but no matter, we know you got us a lot of gifts :P

Welcome back, Mr. Lee.