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Sunday, May 25, 2008

こころおどるきおく a cheerful memory


a picture that took half my breath away. thanks to john for putting up that facebook challenge...

nothing makes me gush more than looking at a childhood memory that was so long ago, it might have been crushed by the decade-over of other memories.

this girl's name is penny and she's trying to pry open a skull to get some jewel inside. might be familiar to some of you.

for all those decades, i can actually remember: this was the first time i learnt the word "pry". it was a storybook of the cartoon (with pictures) for kids. some images really stay with you for a lifetime... when i did that Walt Disney cartoon quiz on facebook and saw the picture of the mice it sort of went through my eyes to my brain and all the way down to my SINO-ATRIAL node. haha i dont know how better to express that. maybe a phrase in spirited away's theme song: "こころおどるゆめ"... in this case it'd be こころおどるきおく - a memory which makes my heart frolick :)

yes, i'm downloading it now. taking longer than i can wait. i realize there are many more things that would grasp my heart and crush my lungs in the same way... a smell, a place, a toy, a song... the smell of churros, a tuckshop, a white spaceship with 8 windows, and the Song of the South.

Tuesday, May 06, 2008

sometimes its good to have a little deprivation.

to make u realize that its actually a blessing to have the things you'd normally just look past and take for granted. taiwan wasn't so bad, but the 10 days in the camp where the main cp was set up was enough to induce some homesick sentiments. cuz for all the joy of not needing to go outfield, the bunk was nothing more than just shelter and bathwater.

i think for that case outfield might have offered a better experience. not some half-f experience.

the r&r was ok but contrary to hearsay, Kaohsiung is not really that much more than Dou Liu. the liuho night market stretches a mere street. i could say sg's pasarmalam does better. but anyway of course it was an eye opener. and their Dream Mall owns vivocity big time haha... 10 hectares of mall with an amusement park on the roof.

roc is over. just one more- clmlrlsls - remove the ls - and then ORD is more than a whiff away~