Born in the wrong era? No. There is no wrong era.

:)two reality checks.

was surfing the web for movies to consider renting in future.
heard a fly at my ear so i swept my hand at it.
felt a sharp pain at my finger. turned out to be a bee.
saw the sting in my finger.
i'd been stung.

plucked out the sting. headed downstairs for elder advice. heh. elders were clueless. panic ensued. lina presses my finger. ah kong gives me miracle medicine(which wasn't actually appropriate). ah ma frets. i say "why not go doc?". they agree and get ready to leave.

then. i feel faint. vision starts to blur.
blur gets worse. i head to chair to sit. i sit.
no improvement. heavier breathing. eyes wanna close but i don't close them.
lina says i look yellow. felt like vommiting a bit.

i tell lina to call pama, so she calls and passes me phone.
i explain the situation to them, then they tell me they'll be back in abt 10 mins.
i start to feel better. my vision clears and i breathed easier, didn't feel so light headed too.
ah ma was ready to go so we head out to get a cab.

cabs were hard to get and eventually pama reaches back. so we head for doc. i tell them not to kan cheong.

reach the doc.
mama asks for a flu vaccine(for herself). haha!
then says i got stung.
we then got in line. only 1 person before us.
go see doc.

doc says first sting no allergy no prob. usually the case.
but allergies may develop from next sting onwards. allergies like bad swelling of hand, swelling of lungs, and, the fatal one, swelling of throat. can be from bee or wasp or whatever, so gotta be careful.

mama asks what to do in that case.
doc says go hospital quick. or may die.
they possibly will use a "pen"(or so i recall him saying so)-thingy.
some little injection device. jab into thigh and gives a dose of adrenalin(i think. he got mention adrenaline la. that i'm sure)

me: "oh...like in the rock issit?"
doc: "the rock that one is nonsense. you jab into your heart u die."(very matter-of-factly)
me: "haha!"

:) simple painkillers and anti-inflammatory pills end the whole adventure...along with a mushroom swiss meal upsize. haha!

the two reality checks?

1. Life is fragile: if God wanted me dead, He could do it easily. like by a bee. and i'd be dead...in like....now.

2. Movies are fake: duh.

hsing joo told me about boulderactive finals today so i went down with her and ks to see the competition at plaza sing outside there.
heh.
it has ignited my passion for the sport again.
:)
i wanna train and take part in a competition someday.

during the bbq at the retreat the other day we played blind mice at mslee's place the playground.
haha, like i very long nver play le, that day i very happy to get to play blind mice. i was also pleased with my performance on the playground that day. heh. proud hor?
we had like 8 ppl on the playground. and it was really small. haha, didn't even know if it could take out combined weight, just chiong onto it.
so much so that half way through the game we realised that one part of the playground was spoiling le. then cannot climb there le. :(
ah, but i amazed even myself with the way i manoeuvred when i was desperate.
it's things like that that make me think that i have talent in climbing.

then thinking that i have talent,
i watch a competition,
i look back at my secondary skool life,
i look back at my junior college life,
and i regret.
it might have been me up there at the finals.
if i had trained, would my talent have brought me that far?
isn't it a waste that i've done nothing so far about climbing?
i wonder if i could have lived my life differently.
i wonder if i should have lived my life differently.
i wonder why i didn't live my life differently.

and then i remember that God decides what's best.

haha.
a statement made yesterday.
the context: i don't like dairy products.
the content: "you're so lactose-intolerant!"
the consequence: laughter and a suan that's gonna stick around for some time...
heh. :)

singaporeans are weak.
weaklings.

something burns and there's fire.
throw coal into fire and it heats up.
eventually it may even catch fire.
take the coal out of the fire and you'll have hot coal.
take burning coal out of the fire and you'll have burning coal.
put lotsa hot coal together and you'll have a barbecue.
put lotsa burning coal together and u get a bonfire.
put a piece of hot coal among cold pieces of coal though, and you get something more complicated. the hot coal cools down and the cold coal heats up.
now if you put burning coal instead, it'll keep burning and more pieces around it will heat up.

righto.
and that's reality.
live with it chump.

i.e.
10 movie characters that i wanna be

1. maximus from the gladiator
2. frank lucas from american gangster
3. al capone from the untouchables
4. sweeney todd from sweeney todd
5. jason bourne from the bourne trilogy
6. darth vader from the star wars trilogy
7. yoda from the star wars trilogy
8. rainman from rainman
9. aragon from the lotr trilogy
10. the terminator from the terminator series

xian told me about the wonders of mgs3.

i played this the least of the 3 games i've tried cos it didn't appeal to me as much.
there was the lack of the radar and the fact that there were all sorts of camos around on the net that i didn't particularly like.
i want my game to be sufficient, all as it is(and ever will be) on the dvd.
i don't want to download the rest of the game.
so after i completed it the first time round, i wasn't too keen to go about playing it again..
not like 1 or 2 where i could play the game a few times over, stop for a while, then come back a while later and play them again.
yup. mgs3 would have been left just like that.

then xian came along. that changed everything.

he tells me that that weird green froggy(whose existence i could never explain) appears in every new area and needs to be shot at least once everywhere to obtain the stealth camo.
he tells me that there's a mystical beast that needs to be caught(alive) and re-caught(alive) using mouse traps to obtain the infinte ammo camo.
he tells me that you can give the fear a stomachache(and subsequently kill him) by simply feeding him rotten or poisonous food.
he tells me that glowcap mushrooms can conduct electricity and that they can be used to make the battle against volgin alot easier.
he tells me that you can get the end's rifle and camo by simply holding him up 3 times.

he tells me that all this(and more) can be found in the mgs3 guidebook...which i am going to buy very soon.

well, that settles at least one day of my 11 days of april. heh.
now all i need to do is get that book.

hello baby, it seems i'm back.
it's good to see you.
let's hope i'm staying.