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have you ever opened your MSN, and suddenly someone’s nickname or caption caught your eye? well, i was pretty much impressed, by one of my friend’s - ”Seeking perfection is part and parcel of Life’s imperfection”. i don’t know where he ripped this off from, but it is so true it gives me shivers.

i mean, who purposely seeks out imperfection? i think, most people would want the best of everything, perfection. how is perfection measured and what borders between imperfection? it’s all up to the individual if you ask me.

well, there are times when you will find perfection. other times, you will learn to live with the imperfection and in time, it will become perfect. so don’t sweat the small stuff. after all, as the quote above states, it’s part and parcel of Life. so true…

sometimes i wake up in the mornings, hoping Neo would be there to offer me the ‘pill’. at least i get to choose an exciting day, if i’m feeling up to it or pick the sedate life when i feel like shit.

i sometimes play this game when i’m bored. try it the next time you’re on a bus, train or just bumming around sipping your latte.

what you need for this game is a good people-watching place and your God-given pair of eyes. pick someone out in a crowd and stare and the person intently. focus and try your best to get the person to look in your general direction or look at you, silently. no gesturing and no talking. pretend you’ve got Jedi powers.

if the person does not turn to your general direction, single out another subject, then wash, rinse and repeat the above paragraph. the best part is when the person actually catches you staring at them. disclaimer: please don’t look too creepy or come on as a mass murderer, when you do this. don’t say i didn’t warn you.

when they catch you staring at them, a couple of things can happen.

a) basically they get uncomfortable and quickly avert their eyes and pretend they didn’t see you.

b) they may stare back until, either one gives up or till someone initiates the next level of ‘contact’

c) smile and wave AND/OR approach you - this is the next level of contact

d) walkover and give you a slap - usually if the ’starer’ is a guy and the ’staree’ is a lady. especially, if you were drolling while sizing up her cup size and what-not. please don’t do this blatantly, guys. discrete is good.

there are of course, grey areas in between like the boyfriend/husband or girlfriend/wife walking over and giving you a piece of their mind, for messing with their significant other. so try not to let it escalate this far. if you are unsure, then refer to the ‘don’t be creepy advice’.

it’s not exactly a fun game, but it keeps my occupied post your experience here.

don’t you just love receiving gifts? well, this weekend has turned out to be an early christmas for my newly formed team and I. at first, i was skeptical of the new team’s performance. we have 2 members aged 15 and ranging to 25. a bunch of mismatched rag-tag individuals, if i may say so. the team captain, thiru, was down with the flu and so i took over the reigns as vice captain.

wonders of wonders, we played three friendly’s against more experienced teams and we won. how’s that for a surprise? we saw a few jaws drop that day. i casually told my team manager, that we now officially are, a ‘team’. we then took the Millennium Series 2005 version 5.1 test for all marshalls. this bit was a little disappointing though and i would find out the results on Sunday.

moving on to Sunday (yesterday), we gathered again at Bukit Jalil for a photoshoot-session for some articles. we had a huge surprise coming. the team manager called us all around for some pow-wow. not unusual actually, but then he told us to meet him by his Toyota Unser. cut to the chase, we are now proudly sponsored from top-to-toe by System X (http://www.systemx.com/). they are also the main sponsors for Team Avalanche, currently ranking third in the world behind Dynasty and XSV. we each received merchandize valued at over RM1,000. talk about an early christmas eh so we had an excellent photoshoot session in full gear after that. the bad bit of news came in later. out of the seven, who took the test, only 3 members passed and they were all backs. our mid and front players failed. so, round 2 grilling for those, who failed while thiru and i consulted on how to go about improving the team.

i wonder, if i will get a shot at paintball stardom in the near future. wish me luck. my jersey, pants, t-shirt, gloves, harness and cap, courtesy of System X are now proudly hanging in my room. go me..yeah

Parental Warning: Contains gratuitious photos of smooching! thought i’d safeguard my butt from any legal actions.

What Kind of Kisser Are You?

Link: http://www.blogthings.com/whatkindofkisserareyouquiz/

my ‘kiss’ results:

i took a quick test yesterday for my IQ and found that, i maybe a caveman!! haha. here are the results, based on a few categories:

Your IQ Is 100

Your Logical Intelligence is Average
Your Verbal Intelligence is Exceptional
Your Mathematical Intelligence is Genius
Your General Knowledge is Below Average

Linked: http://www.blogthings.com/quickanddirtyiqtest/Quick

i think i’ll go get my club now, and hunt me a wife and some eats. oonga-boonga!

today’s topic revolves around my genre of books. fantasy. i hope this appeals to other fantasy aficionados like me.

i was making myself a cup of coffee in the office and suddenly, i had this burning question. the elves described by tolkien in his books (Lord of the Rings and his other works), are similar in height and built to humans. tolkien can be likened to, the father of fantasy, as his literature includes descriptive information of the different races such as dwarves, elves, hobbits and so forth.

here comes the catch. how come santa’s elves are short in stature then? a lot of movies and some books, describe them having child-like physique. this is not the only instance of elves being described as smaller than humans. books written by other authors, such as enid blyton, margaret weis and tracy hickman and a handful more, follow this school of thought.

from what i understand, many authors, relied on tolkien’s description of the races, but still there are differences. how did this come about? it is puzzling me to no end. i don’t think there were distinctions in the elf race, other than the sea elves and land-dwelling elves. the difference in built, is too pronounced and i wonder how this came about. can anyone elaborate or clarify on this?

“in life, there is one certainty. change”. people change. the environment changes. times are changing. trends are changing. even my blog title and feel, has changed *hint hint*. yet somehow, the general populace, manages to adapt and keep up with this rat-race called life.

so what has changed in my life, since i was born into this world. much, i must say. the physical aspect is of course undeniable. from a skinny, thanks to whooping cough sickness, to fat lil’ kid to a yo-yo state until now. emotionally, i was said to be a cheerful kid then turned to an emo teen (happens to most anyone, i gather) and now i am just me. a mixture of emotions, moulded by my upbringing and surroundings. things around me have also changed, or perhaps my perception of things have changed. people i surround myself with, have also changed. sometimes for the better. sometimes for the worse.

it’s sometimes confusing to keep up with all these changes. sorting things out and trying to make sense of chaos. some of us cope better than the rest, while some just breakdown and end up in mental institutions. what’s the secret to coping better than the rest? do you have some ritual you go through to manage these changes better? care to share with us your mantra, music album, yoga positions, breathing techniques? hope this will benefit some of the readers here.

 

Let the tagging begin, thanks to Mhay: http://adreamcatcher.blogspot.com/2005/06/power-of-music.html

Total volume of music files on my computer: It’s hard to say because I usually back-up my files on CD’s, but I would estimate it at around 8 Gigs.

Last CD i got, not bought (thanks to Kym and Yuen Chi): Glay - Heavy Gauge

Sorry I couldn’t find th exact image of the CD cover. Must be region specific, but I did dig up this site: http://www.projectj.net/glay.htm

Song’s playing right now: Not on the computer, but in my head. Been so for the past few days. It’s James Taylor’s Fire and Rain.

Some clue to the lyrics:

Woke up yesterday morning, they let me know you were gone, Suzanne the plans they made, put an end to you. Woke up this morning and I wrote down this song, still I can’t remember, who to send it to.

Songs I listen to a lot and it matters to me:

Anything by the Goo Goo Dolls - love them to death. i had a short blog on one in particlar, it was ‘Iris’ featured in the movie City of Angels.

Linkin Park - selected tracks

Avril Lavigne - selected tracks

Smashing Pumpkins - selected tracks

Three Doors Down - selected tracks

Coldplay - most of it

Ludacris - man, hip-hop is my kinda pick me up music and the list goes on…i think the reason being, i actually listen to most genre of music and have bits here and there. wonder if this reflects on my personal choices in life

I don’t have many blog buddies. Seeing how Blue Angel has decided to retire (briefly, i hope), I am passing this to Enjee: http://enjeez.blog.com

good morning people. first of all, i would like to thank Mr. James Taylor, for his wonderful rendition of Fire and Rain. nothing like waking up to a nice tune in your head.

alrightee then, on with today’s blogbuster (did anyone get the pun? sorry, i suck at subtleties). there was a drilling question, annoying right, just before i drifted into deep slumber. how do you define an attraction as opposed to being interested with another individual? i guess you could say, i slept on that question and woke up with no answers in sight. however, i have tried rationalizing, in my own capacity, what it feels to be attracted to someone. so here goes:

attraction/attracted: i seem to notice minute things about the other person. their clothes, their hair, their smile, their voice, their moods et cetera. basically, it’s the small and big things about a person, which makes them unique as an individual. sometimes, the attraction can be just on the surface and sometimes it can be, more than skin-deep. i admit, there have been times i was attracted to people for their persona and charisma. you know, the “something about mary” factor. hormones? pheromones? guess i will never know. *touchwood* i haven’t crossed the boundaries into obsession…yet, but i have come close to the grey area in between. so what did i do about it? well, i told the person face to face. i think she was a bit shocked, but I saved the situtation, thankfully to good communication skills. we’re still good friends, which is why i’ve mentioned before. being good friends is just a step away.

interested: when i am interested in a person, it could be for a whole lot of reasons. maybe i am just curious or maybe it’s due to attraction (refer to the paragraph above). sometimes, people are so unique that it’s like refreshing drink after a long period of thirst. you can’t help but to wonder, and this really pushes my ‘interested’ button. i wonder at times, if i would do well as a person analyst? yes-no? it’s like a small kid with a new toy and the act of systematically taking it apart to see what makes it tick. i wanna know what makes them tick too, i.e. how some of them can see the rainbow in the most troubled times. life is sometimes beautiful and amazing. la vita e-bella.

i have still, not understood the actual distinction between attraction and the feeling of being interested in someone. can someone help me out before i blow a fuse up in my head? oh, another question just popped in my mind (here we go again). would you be more inclined to seek relationship with a person, whom you are a) attracted to b) interested in?

so many questions, yet so little answers. life’s like that, i guess. cest la vie