Of death & of orphans

Moments ago, I got an SMS from 2nd ex-gf.


Ex: Salam. Ady...ari2 org gtau x abah da xde?

Me: Dh gtau dh aritu..nape tiba2 je bangkitkn topik ni?

Ex: Smlm mak lak xde. Da jd ank yatim piatu

Me: Innalillah...skrg dok mana?

Ex: Arau umah nenek...


al-fatihah....

Feeling sad for her. Her twin sis is in Bangalore for a short course until July; she couldn't make it back in time. Both her late parents were ill; her dad had a heart condition, her mum breast cancer. Their deaths were relatively close: her father passed away in January. One can imagine how devastating it must be to lose one parent after the other in such a short space of time.

I don't really have much to say, actually. I'm just sharing this in hope that anyone who reads this would say a word of prayer for this family. This, I hope, would also remind us of Allah s.w.t the Almighty and bring us closer to Him.

Thank you for your time.

Of water tanks & of "service with a smile"

For the past few days couple of days I've been stuck at home during the day because some parts of my house needed to be replaced and touched up. FYI, this house is older than yours truly so one can certainly imagine the condition of it.

This time, some areas of the ceiling needed patching up (lest we suffer from leakage when it rains) and my dad has (thankfully) commissioned some professionals to handle the case. Then there's also the replacement of the God-knows-how-old water tank. No description of the water tank is necessary; I will include a tell-tale picture later on. Apparently my dad had intended for this operation to take place sooner, but the fact that no one is around the house during the day kind of got in the way. So what better opportunity than the time that the prodigal son is at home during his semester break? Bleh.

The men came yesterday to have a look and clarify what needed to be done, what items we would need to buy and so on. After looking at the ceiling from inside the house (which includes the nasty rupture line in the bathroom ceiling) and from on top of the house, they decided that they couldn't start work immediately due to the rain clouds that had gathered in the sky and left. However, they did drop by a few hours later to store the items needed for their work.

Today, they speedily patched up the ceiling, removed the old water tank (making a loud ruckus while they were at it) and fixed up the new one from 10am to 3pm. And all the while I was at the table fighting as Aragorn, hacking and slashing away Sauron's minions in EA's The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. And after all the work's done (and the One Ring destroyed), here is what's left:

Now that I think about it, I can hardly believe we've been using water stored in THAT tank. Damn....

And as we can see here, the by-products of the whole operation. I bet the cats would have something to say about that.

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Earlier tonight, I rode my bike over to a nearby hypermarket (hint: its name starts with a 'T', theme color set = red, blue and white) to get some packs of soya bean, green tea and winter melon tea for the family. I loaded my basket with everything I intended to purchase and proceeded to one of the express lanes (supposedly 10 items or less). My turn eventually came.

Me: *nods and smiles at the cashier*

Cashier (a boy named "James"): *eyes fixated on the items, hands occupied with scanning and bagging each item*

Me: *visibly shocked by this lack of both eye contact and verbal interaction*

Cashier: *continues scanning and bagging*

Me: *waits expectantly for (at least) a "Good evening sir" which never came*

Cashier: *finished bagging the last item, turns the cash register screen to show amount to be paid without looking at the customers*

Me: *pays*

Cashier: *returns change and receipt, then starts scanning and bagging next customer's items WITHOUT A WORD*

Wow....talk about bonding with customers.

Phew, that was a long long post. If you have read all the way, I thank you for your patience (and subsequently applaud you for your diligence) :-D


Useless yet interesting info #1: The Guiness World Book of Records (Gamers Edition) record holder for the longest ever game title belongs to "The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-Earth II: The Rise of the Witch-King"

Of insomniacs & of anxiety [epilogue]

Finally, I managed to get some sleep yesterday!

I guess the body was too tired that the mind had to give in eventually, which spells the end of insomniac me. But here I am, staying up past my (relatively flexible) bedtime again the very next day. Guess some people just never learn huh? :-D

I never got to find out what caused the anxiety that costed me two nights of sleep. Guess I never will.

And...she finally picked up the phone for the first time in over a week! This would sound lame to most people, but gosh! I felt my world brighten up when she said "hello". She's fine, perhaps a wee bit occupied with her time at home. We talked for about 20 minutes; my best 20 minutes of today. Credit well spent. :-D

God, I miss her... (*^_^*)

Could that be the reason I was anxious for the past few days?

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Of insomniacs & of anxiety

Somehow, I find myself still awake at this hour.

Tried to do some more work; the mind can't focus. Tried to play games instead; got tired of them before I could finish. Tried to watch ASTRO; there's nothing good to watch.

My eyes tire, its lids are ready to close, but the brain refuses to co-operate. Something's bothering me, but I don't know what.

Damn I hate it when I don't know what's going on with myself.

Bleh.


PS: Happy birthday to my friends Devin & Tqah :-)

Of intros & of acquaintance

So yeah, here the latest in my series of blogs.

I don't do introductions (hehehe) because I'd rather people get to know me through my writings. But then again, the majority of the audience of this blog (if not all) would be people who know me anyway, so I guess no harm done there.

For those of you who don't know me: yeah, I am that kind of guy.

Erm, for this blog, expect incessant ramblings coming from my highly warped mind, or else from my equally volatile feelings. This may bore some, but then again this is probably the most straightforward you'll get me to be, so why not? Often I don't speak my mind; I'm accustomed to watching things take their natural course.

Which is why I love music. When I listen to a song with lyrics that I can appreciate and connect to, I feel better. And music gives me words when I don't know how to say what I want to say. But in the end, I don't say them anyway.

Which is why she remained clueless for the past 2 years :-)

So apart from ramblings and rantings (and anything else along those lines), I'll most likely post song lyrics that I feel are interesting.

So there you have it: first post. Thanks for reading thus far, hope to see you again soon :-)