just because

i *have* to post something here today, because it's Feb 29, 2012 (a once in 4-year day if you reeeally have to know).

what do i say, what do i say?

i have nothing to say, i have nothing to say!

well, actually i do, i always do, but the thought of having to construct whole sentences that make sense is too daunting. i'm at that stage in my life where i'm just. too. layzee. to. urm. whatever.

oh, did you know that i have eight wedding invites for this year alone? yes EIGHT. don't get me wrong -- it's not that i'm not happy for my friends who are settling down, but you know what i'm implying. with the escalating cost of wedding banquets, an invite naturally places a financial burden on the invitees (yes, me and the rest of us who are going through the economy slump AND have vacation plans :D). so please understand why i'm going solo although you invited my other half who doesn't really know you at all. and i sincerely still want to be there for you, even if you have not contacted me since we left school 15 years ago (yes, one of those). and yes, i can get a bit grumpy at the quality of food, especially at *that* price tag. ok, sorry about the rant. i feel guilty cos i know the special day means a lot to the couples. i'm not upset at any one in particular.

just the collective group of you. haha!

btw i'm semi active again on twitter. almost abandoned it for good as i couldn't deal with the information overload, but gonna give it another shot. uh oh. this is gonna be another complaint (the husby is right, i do complain a lot! :D). i have this friend whose tweets flood my homepage by RT-ing (that's retweet for you non-twitterers, i.e. quoting someone else's status verbatim) everything her friends say. like "hello" and "good morning". and other nonsense that are so not RT material. this explains why she has 11,000+ tweets when she just joined twitter less than half a year ago. no, i can't unfollow her, due to certain "social pressure", if you catch my drift. yes, i succumb to that sometimes.

ok, i shall limit myself to two complaints.

i've been watching this TV show called Community (now in it's third season - i'm a slow adopter). and it's HI to the LARIOUS! it's an awesome cast and scenes and i haven't literally LOLed so much in a long time watching a TV show (even movies for that matter)), not even with HIMYM or TBBT or Modern Family (all of which i still love uninhibitedly). oh here's a pic of the cast (the only pic i have for this blog post):

last one before i ciao, (maybe you can click on this link to leave this blog) check out Caleb Wilde's blog. i've been following him for a while now and i enjoy his writing. he writes mostly on more sombre topics like death, not just because he's a sixth generation funeral director. his writing about dealing with death and loss, theological thoughts, and his vocation as mission, offers a rare insight into a world we rarely and reluctantly tread, and is worthy reading.

happy leap day!

*hops away*

i don't usually remember my dreams, but this one that i had this morning was kinda vivid.

i dreamed that i was caught in a earthquake, but instead of running away from the collapsing buildings around me, i hung around, wanted to go back up one of the building to look for my iphone.. hahaha.. it's not what you think -- what i really wanted to do was to call my dad and see if he was all right. he was with me earlier in the dream but somewhere along the line my mom and i went out own way.. we got into a lift when suddenly we were floating in zero gravity.. i think i felt my stomach physically turning. i looked up and somehow saw the sky and the lift was kinda falling apart but it didn't and miraculously, it actually stopped at the ground floor.. then i got out of the building and saw that the buildings around me falling apart.. i don't think the grounds was shaking though. and i remember thinking, it's the end of the world. and i said a short prayer. i saw big chunks of concrete falling from above in slow motion and crashing to the ground, but missing me by quite a bit.. i was quite scared and yet i was compelled to go back into one of the buildings to look for my phone..

and i jolted up by my alarm clock. the end.

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if i were my blog, i'd probably battling with the questions of whether i the blogger love me the blog. if it isn't apparent, i'm going through the writing slump again. which might kinda reflect the state of my mental acuity: that nearing mush. i haven't been reading so much so that i have no idea where the last two books i was attempting to finish are. they are somewhere in some bags methinks. no idea.

anyway, i just read another blogger's tip for blogging: blog anyway. so here i am, blogging anyway. mm maybe i can share a couple of my resolutions for this year. i was past that stage of making resolutions to the stage of adamantly not making resolutions and it's come a full circle, i am making resolutions again. life's like that.

What has been will be again,
what has been done will be done again;
there is nothing new under the sun.
10 Is there anything of which one can say,
“Look! This is something new”?
It was here already, long ago;
it was here before our time.
Ecclesiates 1:9&10

two resos at the top of my head:

1. i want to learn to speak and read Chinese. time to break the mental resistance. i hope to hook up with one teacher some time this year, but knowing my knack for procrastination, any time NEXT year is fine too.

2. i want to minimize iPhone fiddling time when in a conversation. i often find it hard to focus when people talk, but i've gotta try!

kthnkbai4now.