The strange incident of the cat in the night time

A cat named Gung, short for Gung-ho, rampaged a quiet home in Ang Mo Kio and scared the living daylights of 3 of its residents last night. Gung managed to escape unscathed by jumping out of the 8th floor of the HDB flat.

It landed on the ledge on the 5th floor with a disgusting 'thud' and slided down further. It then fell right into a tree making a series of 'swishing' that sounds like blood spurting out. On inspection, Gung kept its little gung-ho life with a minor heart attack and a few broken bones.

At around 3:30am, the Brother returned home and to his utter dismay, the cat jumped out of the forest of plants outside the house and cling on to gate. Gung then squeezed through into the house. Brother was so stunned his legs were shaking. He then called Godbrother(who stays on the 5th floor) up to help him check the cat out and also to comfort him of his stricken heart.

In the meantime, Gung went to the bedroom and trampled over the Sister's face and left her with a swollen eye, minor scratches and an even more stricken heart. By now, most of the family was up. The Maid was especially shell shocked.

"I think it's ghos. Scary. The cat yellow colour can see. But black colour so dark. Like ghos."

And unfortunately, the Sister was still not spared of her predicament. She went into the toilet to check her wounds not knowing that Gung was hiding inside. As soon as she starts to close the door, Gung rushed out and brushed against her legs. It then ran out into the living room where the Elder Sister, Brother and Godbrother were trying to make sense of what just went on. Gung, with its expert jumping skills leaped onto the chair, then the fish tank then television and landed on the window ledge.

After nearly 5 minutes of comtemplation, Gung was still pacing on the window ledge. By now, the family has settled down and started to take out their camera phones to take pictures of the incredible animal. Suddenly, without any warning, the cat disappeared out of the window. The next thing that was heard was "thud" and "swish, swish, swosh".

The 4 siblings decided to check out the dead body of Gung but found it hanging for dear life on a tree. At first, everyone thought it was dead but the courageous cat was still alive after using up a couple of its nine lives.

a good year

i remember telling andrew last year that "i got a feeling that 2006 will be a good year". and he told me to say "2006 will be a good year" so i don't leave a backdoor about happiness for myself. and true enough, this year has been one of the best i ever had. well den it probably aint that fabulous, with a fair share of tears, frustration, loss, insecurity. and there are still unresolved issues. but thru it all, i see myself growing up and learning and most imptly receiving love. and so i realise how impt it is to start of with hope. things arent gg to be out of the world and most likely not gg to be according to plan. but what the hell, we might as well smile into the new year rather than gg into it feeling uncertain.

sometimes in our rush to get what we want in life, we forgot how blessed we all are actually.

i know i love to lament how tough the media industry is. and have little confidence to earn a keep in future. and i wun deny that i am nervous abt PI. am i gg to be up to the job?

but urghhhh WAKE UP SHI TING!! it's gg to be bad if you think it is gg to be bad. 2007 WILL be another good year!

Bali's sun

I'm glad we missed the storm.

Of bus rides

just great tt my tuition kids decided to move all the way to east coast. so today i had to travel from ntu all the way there. boy was it a pain. the trip there (plus various hiccups along the way) took me 2 hours. i din know spore was that big.

and i took another 1.5 hours to go home on bus 13. and i finally decided that i really love bus rides. the longer the better. i like the feeling of not really knowing what route the bus is taking(cos i'm a known direction idiot) and yet at the back of my mind i know that i will reach my destination nonetheless. but then i dun really look at the surroundings, i'm jus so immersed in my book and music. and occasionally peeking at who's sitting beside me or who is crossing the road outside. i'm basically in my own world as the bus trops on slowly but surely. so motivated. with so much drive. and yet with so much humility. the world is running so fast sometimes the bus rides, despite its bumpiness, makes me feel so at ease. and the other passengers minding our own little business in our own little space and yet we all share the same ride along the same route. i like the routine picking up and dropping off and going on. it's so...how shd i put it...so calming?

but of cos i wished there were more space in between the seats so i dun get such terrible backaches at the end of it. bah.

The Godbrother

'The gang' was at mac's yesterday n i was teaching my bro his econs. And my godbro was as usual constantly suaned by the rest. it's jus funnie to look at how bad it is and laugh along cos he cant do anything about it. but i love him lar. he's a great kid. we talked on our way back and he told me about school and how much he is struggling with poly. den he randomly said:

“前途一片黑暗”

It makes my stomach feel uneasy the way he meant every word of it. well, he din used to be so down. i remember him telling me a few years back that "i'm not stupid, i'm not slow, i'm just lazy." but that spirit seems to diminish gradually. and it's nt too bad tt he made it to poly and even if he din do too well now, it definitely does not mean tt his future is down the drain. but on the other hand, i understand wat he's talking about. we all make the mistake of pondering too much about what will future bring or not bring. and we definitely wun know wat's going to happen and that fear of not knowing scares people and makes people lose even more confidence about the future.

well, i duno how to comfort him. cos i know i'm probably going to say something that doesnt really matter anyways. but he makes me think of how much the education system here leaves little hope for people who arent too bright. he says he go into class feeling nervous and come out of it feeling depressed, not knowing what is going on. if he had went in with a more optimistic mentality, he could haf learnt more. but it's nt easy to just say 'i wan to make things work' and 'poof!' you suddenly feel all confident.

i wan to tell him that everything will be fine. i see people in sabah nt having a great education but they live like they really love their life and their surroundings. i guess the culture here pushes people to one corner. so it's really easier said than done. and i hate to see him feel like everything is so bleak. i for one occasionally make the mistake of staring at the darkness and uncertainty ahead and feeling like crap myself. and i'm in a uni for goodness sake's, much less someone struggling in poly.

orh well.

country roads, take me home

as the song plays on the stereo in the packed taxi, it seems to give an idea of how the 7 day bagpacking trip is going to be like. it's gg back to the bare basics. the simple things in life. i've never felt so happy for such a long time looking at the beautiful beautiful things and hanging around beautiful beautiful people. it's like going back home.

addiction: satisfied.

























(erhem, ignore the hysterical looking hair)