Ok ok,

The Last few weeks or the last few months have been about as pleasant for me as (pick one) :

a. using a rabid porcupine to scratch my back.

b. having a head that looks exactly like a soccer ball and living in Brazil.

c. being Darth Vader about an hour before he gets the helmet and suit.

That’s because i have just met my project deadline. Its over now and completely successful. For the first time in many months now, i can breathe through my nose again. I can start writing crappy articles like this one again. For those of you thinking about the same plight that you are in, I’d say its worth it (now that its over, i can start talking like a saint). I finally got paid and now i am already contemplating of avenues to invest the money in.

I’m also thankful that my particular skill set includes writing Web applications in ASP and PHP and troubleshooting server inconsistencies. I could have been born with the skill for painting miniature Taj Mahals on bottle caps. I’m lucky and thankful for it.

I’m thankful that I can reach almost every part of my body in case I get an itch. Except for the middle of my back, which is the only place I ever get one. But I’m not going to quibble today. I’m thankful.

They say that speed kills. I am not really sure who “They” are, or what’s being killed, but if the dictum is true, then i am thankful that i have managed to hold on to dear life and not kill anyone. I will come up with a warning label for 2007.

I’m thankful that i don’t get turned on by looking at myself in the mirror. My friend Tok, can stand by the mirror touching himself for hours at an end. I am thankful i am not him. I am thankful.

I’m thankful that i’m not married or don’t have kids. Its getting freaking uneconomical to actually raise children. i would like to propose to the relevent authorities to encourage people to raise chickens instead. I should also be probably thankful that i dont’t pay tax, but somehow i always feel that my money is being absorbed by an agent in a black suit employing his cheap jedi mind tricks on me.

Life is about making choices. There is no other choice. I am thankful that i have never had to choose the wrong ones.

I’m sure there are a more things I should be thankful for, but I take all of those things for granted. And the privilege of doing so is perhaps the thing I am most thankful for.

To my fellow friends and readers, a new year brings its own set of challenges. But lets always remember the past and be thankful for the good things in life. When was the last time you thought about what you would want to be thankful about?

Cheers

ps: Joyous 2007 everyone !!!

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Ok ok,

Have a Good Year Ahead. Had a blast yesterday watching the antics of a drunk freak.

Cheers

ps:Another crappy year to waste.

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Ok ok,

Sadaam is dead.

I would like to start by wishing the people of his former administration a heart felt congratulations.

Maybe its gonna snow in Iraq tonight

Cheers

ps:Micheal Jackson is going to be a widow now that Sadaam is gone.

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Ok ok

“All of our lives are going to end. You can try to think about it, but your little minds just won’t wrap itself around will it? You get up to the point of everyone around you dying, hell some you may even get to the point of you dying, but when you get to the world, the galaxy, and the universe dying … it just stops right there doesn’t it? That’s the problem with humanity, we just couldn’t think on a big enough scale.”

Cheers

ps: Couldnt Think of anything else.

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I have writer’s block. I hate writer’s block. It always happens to me during the time periods in my life when I don’t have anything to do.

Then, just as my life is starting to get hectic, just as i start to have deadline after deadline after deadline pile on top of my head, the block becomes dislodged and I find myself furiously typing away at my keyboard, spending an hour here or two hours there frantically typing, when in reality i should be working on something else.

My worries? Well, i am so darn busy, i don’t even have time to breathe. I usually get fresh ideas for my articles while i am at work. Why not NOW when i’m staring at my word document and have nothing ELSE to do!??

This writer’s block is really making me angry. I read some of what i’d written today. I realized that i’m going to either have to rewrite or delete the article. It just doesn’t fit. The characters are too mean. The hero dies in the end. It doesn’t fit the rest of the article. That is, unless i’m able to figure out a way of making it work. (Article and character development, i suppose)

I thought of writing about how Singapore did at the DOHA games. But then again i suppose everyone already knows, and also how Singapore will do in the next games. So moving on, i thought of expressing political opinions at the recent announcement of our upcoming economic enhancement policy which will benefit the poor. But that will probably lead me downhill rather quickly.

Finally i settled on writing some thought provoking, heart wrenching article on fighting for women’s rights. But following up on the thoght process, i quickly realized i knew next to zero about them and i really didn’t care. So at this point i gave up on writing an article.

My cousin just got hitched yesterday and we had a bash over at Aloha Chalet. Even that joyous occasion doesn’t make me want to write something. I took photos to publish but now i feel that it should probably stay within the family.

I have writer’s block. I hate writer’s block. Can you stand anymore randomness? Oh well. Alright, I’m going to try to write something now.

Cheers

ps: Nitewing promised to be a guest blogger and left me dry. I have sworn eternal vengeance. There will be a backlash.

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