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Today's some special chinese new year day for Hokkien people. I forgot what it's called but I know it happens during the fifteen days of chinese new year and that Hokkien people have to pray on that day. My next door neighbors have a whole table set out in the front with red candles and banners and some green leaves over the door. There were a lot of fireworks going on today and earlier you could hear a lion dance going on somewhere in the neighborhood. Amy and Ah Hong and me had planned to finish off some fireworks that Ah Hong brought back from Johor but it was drizzling tonight so we just stayed in and opened a bottle of red wine.
Went downtown to Chinatown with Wan Lee. I took her to eat at the Green Hut, this cool place that Edwin once showed a bunch of us peeps from the NST office. It's really cool, with green walls where you can scribble stuff on, and really cute drink names like unrequited love and ardent love. nwayz, i got some great stuff in chinatown - a new red (guilty! red again!) top, this funky pink wraparound beachwear skirt, and a couple of caps for dirt cheap prices. And while we were there, we saw this shop selling birds and they were soooo cute! there were robins and finches and canaries and even a bunch of fluffy little yellow ducklings all cuddled up together. but it was a little sad to see them all cooped up in cages :(
Books that I read this week:
1) The Sky Is Falling by Sidney Sheldon
2) Trance State by John Case
3) Read Between the Lies by Lori Bryant Woolridge
Books that I am reading right now.
1) Moulin Rouge by Pierre La Mure
2) First Among Equals by Jeffrey Archer
I bought a Beyonce CD for my sis but when i opened it tonight i found a linkin park meteora cd inside instead. now i'd rather have the linkin park cd than beyonce but when i took it out, i realized it was broken into several pieces. Rip-off!!!
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So...
Marcus's fangs are growing out again! This has been declared a miracle since we all thought that when your fangs get chopped off, you stay that way, sort of like the ivory tusks of elephants.
But now Marcus is being a real grouch because apparently it aches a lot when fangs grow out. He was such a pain today that I finally got sick of it and told him to shut up or I'd defang him again when his fangs finally grow out properly.
He just bared his mini-fangs at me and stomped off. Hmph.
Some dude named frederick gundling is charging people money for putting them as characters in a book he's writing, sorta like a cameo in a movie or something. it costs like $125 to be a murdered senator in his book. random characters are cheaper; you can be one for $100. and some of it goes to charity so that's always a good thing.
if i wanted to be a character in a novel i wouldn't need to pay $125. I can put myself in my own novel. hahah.
Thought of the day: We are all actors on a stage but it is up to us to write our own script.
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The Rivers and the Deserts
Dreams upon the running river waters lined in silver moonlight
i finally figured out how to change the time settings on my blog to malaysian time. whew!
streams of silvery crimson blood dashing down along my arm
okay that line wasn't a suicidal line in case you were wondering, and no, it ain't homicidal either. maybe a little of both. ;P
i was suppose to hang out with ee lin and sze hui today (monday) but ee lin's dad broke his leg so she had to stick around at home to take care of him n stuff so we canceled our plans. it was good in a way because i was still feeling a little woozy from the fever.
slept til two in the afternoon and woke up feeling a thousand times better. finally shook off the post-fever depression after spending the day working on a book i've been writing and listening to utada hikaru's deep river album and after spending an hour of working out tonight. endorphins do make u happier!
the weather is SUPER hot these days. in a way it's good because i tend to get all sleepy and want to hibernate in cold weather (like a snake) but i can't help missing the gentle grey rain.

Golden sands stretched out beneath
an azure blue sky
Gleaming silvery-white
'Neath the cool moonlight
Under the clear night sky
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I AM CUUUUUUURED!!!
What are the odds that I am cured only after saturday nite is over and all my chances of partying this week are out the window?
oh well, there's always sunday nite.

Sunlight spilling over
A rushing brooke
Beneath the willow trees

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Happy Chinese New Year!!!
I am sad and sad without a cause in life.
Or more actually, I am suffering from an intensively high fever which began yesterday and continued to haunt me throughout the night and day with searing fire in my brain. Somebody kind please save me!
To find some comfort I took out my copy of Dreamstone by Glenna McReynolds and re-read the scene where Mychael was struck by fever and dragonfire the night when he, Llynya, Trig, Shay and Math returned from the underground caverns. It definitely made me feel better to know that my fever wasn't as bad as dragonfire running through your veins but reading about fire just made the heat on my forehead flare up.
It just absolutely sux that I have to be sick on a week when there are tons of things happening. The only comfort I have is that Amy and I already used up all the fireworks on Wednesday night so I didn't miss out on that.
Somebody please save me - I am burning up!
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The Meeting and Parting of Two in Life.
whether without and when into the world
shall i tell you of my journey into the world
as i seek my path running 'cross your life
and twist and turn and dip and rise
whether we ever will meet again
that is for time to determine, remains unseen
but this i tell you, if we ever meet again
'twould be the work of fate, the hand unseen.

is fate fortune's hand unseen?

Pain
is Beauty
Melancholy

I loved and love and yet loved again. And I will always love no matter when I begin.

I thought I heard someone knocking on the widow at the back of my house. It's 2:07 in the morning right now and i can't see outside but anyone outside can see me. Darn tinted windows! But my dog isn't barking and it's silent now. I knew I should have brought my blade downstairs.


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i watched matchstick men today and i noticed some similarities between alisan lohman's characters in matchstick men and her first movie, white oleander.
oops - spoilers!
1) both her characters are blondes who dye their hair black towards the end of the movie
2) the two characters have a strong bond going on with a single parent - in white oleander it was with michelle pfieffer who plays her mom and in matchstick men it was with nicholas cage who plays her dad.
3) the parents whom her character shares a strong bond with are criminals - nicholas played a conman and michelle's character was a murderer.
4) in both movies her criminal parents each used her - in w.o., michelle wanted her to provide an alibi and in m.m. she helped nic out in his big con scam.
4) she eventually gets to turns the tables on her scheming single parents in both movies.
how's that for similarities?
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year 2004 is going to be a magic year...i don't know why but i just feel that way...ever since the clock struck midnight on new year's eve...you could say that i feel it in my bones...
went to eat sushi with joy today...then went to watch that peter pan movie with jeremy sumpter in it. i didn't think i'd like it all that much but...wow!!! i practically fell in love with it!!! i think that this is probably the best peter pan movie i've ever seen (though that's probably not saying much since i didn't really like the disney ones and i can't remember much of the movie Hook except that Robin Williams was a pretty fat Peter and anyway, Jason Isaacs made a much cooler Captain Hook than whatshisname in Hook) it was so sweet, it makes me even more not want to grow up. sniff. there was this one scene in the movie when tinkerbell had died and peter pan and kids all over the world were shouting "i believe in fairies, i do, i do!" and the funny thing was that all the other little kids in the cinema started shouting "i believe in fairies, i do, i do!" too! awwwww!
the stars are out and the moon is shining tonight!!!
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It's a whole brand new year!!!
woke up on the first day of the new year with a major hangover that lasted the whole day. actually, i still feel all queasy now. still can't take any loud noises yet.
had dinner with amy, ah hong, and clarence on new year's eve, then went down to bangsar with amy and ah hong (clarence wanted to spend the stroke of midnight playing some online computer game with all his cyber nerds...i mean friends so we dropped him off at the nearest internet cafe). got to bangsar just in time for midnight and to get sprayed by millions of people in the streets with those spray cans of foam and confetti. i swear that everyone in bangsar that night lost ten years off their lives due to toxic inhalation from those spray cans. and this happens like every year on christmas and new year's. every club n pub in bangsar were charging sky-high prices that night so we drove down to sri hartamas instead and opened a bottle of chivas at cristoe, where amy and i proceeded to get merrily drunk, though nothing like last year where i got so drunk i could barely remember a thing and was robbed by this asshole of an indian snatch thief punk while my friends were trying to get me into my car (but luckily he didn't get anything of much worth since i had just blown all my cash on emporium's sky-high licquor prices). luckily, this new year's eve was a thousand times better then last year's - and i made it back home with my stuff and my memory intact.

My best new year's greeting came from kelvin who wished me "happy new year. may the flies that swarm the ass of afgan camels sting the balls of your enemy for the rest of year 2004."
yeah, baby!!!!!!!!!


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