On Full Moon's Day...

5 thousand years of chinese astrology couldn't go wrong... the full moon on the 8th lunar month will always be the brightest full moon of the year. Chinese culture has traditionally been closely related to the moon as the Chinese calendar IS based on the cycles of the moon. For generations, the Chinese people have been farming and holding their annual festivals based on the lunar calendar and it has not let us down.

Tonight is especially special as the full moon is at its best. So bright, so serene yet it reflects upon us a sense of sorrow and melancholy. I do not know about you but I am certainly feeling a little melancholiac right now.

I was about to download the attachment on my email which is a copy of the assignment that we are suppose to hand up today and i was in charge of doing the final editing. Unfortunately, before i clicked on the link to download the file, as though the moon beckons people to get out of their dorms and get a break from their busy lives to experience its magnificence, the whole campus suffered from a blackout. Only the emergency lights that were fully charged all this while kicked in to action and dimly illuminated the corridors, the staircase and the toilets.

Annoyed i packed up my notebook as i was in my friends room and i asked them whether they want to go out for mamak or just to have a stroll around the hostel area to soak up the atmosphere of this special night. Their answer was a resounding NO as they prepared their beds and bunked in. I can barely tell what they were doing on their beds with the dim moonlight coming in from the windows that were now opened wide to let the cool breeze of the night come in.

Feeling a little let down, i climbed up the stairs to my room to keep my notebook and lock it up in the closet just in case of theft as the incidents of theft are really high in the past month. I took along only my room keys that were attached to the bicycle lock keys and my handphone and off i went down again to get a bike ride and soak up the view of the full moon just like what i have always done without fail as a little kid. Back then i went out of the house with a lantern of course but since i do not have one with me at the time, my bicycle would suffice. I cycled around at a relaxed pace feeling the breeze blowing on my face and taking deep breaths of this cool and refreshing air while making phone calls at the same time. Number after number i dialed and all of them refused to join me in my 'cycle as you enjoy the night'.

This lack of friends during such a great time to kick back and chat makes me feel the emptiness of this place again all of a sudden. Just as the moon's serene light shines upon my gaze, i feel the serene melancholy of being without friends that would join me to do something crazy just to feel young and alive again. The human atmosphere here is almost as though every person for him/herself. As i cycle past other people who are taking walks because they couldn't sleep like me, i gazed at them trying to make out who they were, looking at their blurred out faces in the dark. It was as though i was dead and all i could see were faceless people walking around. The only thing that reaffirms that i wasn't dead was the fact that the other people also looked back at me trying to make out who i was just as i was doing the same to them.

The fun of cycling alone in the darkness only illuminated by the moonlight quickly fizzled as there were no one to share the joy with. So is my main reason of feeling sorrow in this place where not only god, but men forsake.

I locked back my bike at its place and i ascended the same stairs tat greet me every week and every day as i come back to this place of grief, sorrow, frustration and bitterness. Although life's experiences are suppose to make us better and not bitter, how can i be better when everyone else here is bitter?

Blog Taggers

It seems tagging is quite rampart or should i say, widespread in the blogging scene these days. I guess the term "Tag" came from the children's playground game of "Tag" where you chase down someone and touch him/her and say "TAG!! You're it!" and run off to avoid being chased down by the "Tagged" person to be tagged again to be "it". Thus the idea of tagging stems from. But i don't quite get the idea of "Tagging" your blogger friends as they can't run off somewhere to avoid getting tagged and you don't get the adrenaline rush of hunting down your prey to "tag" him/her so that he/she can be "it".

This children's game is especially good to build muscles, balance, stamina , hand eye coordination, judgement of distance and the hunters instinct but tagging bloggers who cant run away from you takes away the fun of sharpening that hunters instinct and getting the adrenaline rush.

Thus I personally do not see the point of tagging people besides being something like e-mail spam such as friendship messages, sad imaginary sobers who will get a cent for every email forwarded, or some ghastly story that ends with a threat of death, impotency or something lame like that to get people to feel that it will not hurt to forward these spam mails. Tags are about the same. Spam email is the worlds no. 1 loss of internet productivity. NOT viruses or malicious worms. The people who forward spam themselves are as terrible as a virus in your Windows. I believe tags are just going to be the no. 1 loss of productivity for bloggers pretty soon.

Since Huay Phing INSISTED that I do her tag, then i shall right here, right now. Initially i just planned to ignore those wee wang wang that she told me yesterday night but just now I saw a 1.5 m long biawak which reminded me of the old days where some one used to call some one biawak or was it cicak... Eh?? I'm not really sure about that la... But nevermind lets get down to business.

Tag : 5 things.....

5 Things In My Bag

1. Notes

2. File

3. Pencil Case that i have been using since form 2

4. Panadol

5. Drifting VCD tat my coursemate just returned me

5 Things in My Head

1. Lab Report

2. I wanna bathe...

3. Stop the loss of internet productivity

4. The weather is so hot! I wanna eat a whole tub of ice cream!!

5. Assignments

5 Words That I Frequently Use

1. Shit!

2. Fuck!

3. Nani?/Teme!/Kisama!

4. Pang Sai/Pui

5. Huh?

5 Recent SMSes Received

1. Chee Hou

2. Way Fern

3. Kelvin

4. Wai Yung

5. Phei Hwa

5 Recent Things I Just Did

1. Went for class

2. Ate Lunch

3. Help Kelvin pass up lab report

4. Pang Sai

5. Drink Water

5 Things In My Wardrobe

1. T-Shirts

2. Pants/Shorts & Briefs

3. Medicine & Band Aid

4. FOOD!!!! e.g Instant Mee (Maggi+Indomee+Ibumee) Milo, Old Town White Coffee

5. Bed Sheet

5 Things I Just Ate

1. Rice

2. Heh Koh Bak (mantis prawn in Hokkien)

3. Chicken

4. Kah Nah Chai (some name of vege in Hokkien)

5. Chai Poh Fried Egg (Fried egg with preserved Vege Hokkien style)

5 People I'm Tagging

NONE!!! If I tag more people, it will cause even more people to lose productivity. Let this thread END HERE.