yatta!

Now I know where Hiro Nakamura got his "Yatta!".




lol

tread softly

He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven

Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

- William Butler Yeats, 1899.

What a great way to celebrate the 100th post of this blog... I first heard about this poem while I was watching 'Equilibrium' (some kickass show with great gun-tana fighting) a year or two ago. I really liked it but never thought about searching for it. After watching the film again, I went on and googled some lines of the poem and found it.

What a beautiful piece.

I have this strange feeling

Somehow, I find myself very much interested in matters concerning investment, properties, financial planning, etc... I don't know whether this interest is short term or it may even leads to a bright future. I don't know but I will definitely seek for answers.

If it is the latter, it means that I have made a terrible terrible choice to stay at where I am right now because I somehow don't see myself as a man of science(or rather "MAN OF SCIENCE!!"). Maybe I don't see the bigger picture yet. I don't want to rush into conclusions about myself and then having to rectify that in the future. I guess we will just wait. And see...

And so the truck ran over the boy and he died. The end.

so...what am I?

I am moving away from the usual trickery that I used to do. Things like card magic, sleight of hands, blah blah blah are starting to bore through my skulls. Not that I have mastered them but I really wish to expand my talents beyond what is the 'mean' of this area.

I'm hoping to be able to experiment more in areas of mentalism where the unexplainable could happen. Things like, thought reading, psychokinesis, achieving great feats through methods of suggestions and psychological subtleties and so much more. The danger in this is that people who don't understand the nature of this work will start be disillusioned about this mysterious realm of mentalism. People will start to think that I'm in league with the Devil, Satan, Hilly-Billy, Cowboy BeBop, the Fantastic Four or even Sylar!

Anyway, if anyone ever come up to me and ask me about how I achieve my effects or whether I'm psychic or anything, I will say this: "The effects are achieved through suggestions and psychological subtleties which influenced your actions into allowing these effects to be achieved."

So, there you have it!

Some things that certain people just won't get

There are some things that only a few people will ever 'get'. I don't mean 'get' as in physical possession of material things but I mean "get" as in understanding and being able to do something.

There are many things that I could never 'get':

1. Spit-and-Shine
Okay, I've just spent the past ONE hour trying to shine my black leather shoes the 'hardcore' way with wax, spit and cloth. Dang, is it tough as heck. I just can't get it right. Sheesh... It still looked so dull without much shine; although it did help in covering the scuff-marks at the tip of my right shoe.

2. Clowning
Yes, I know. I can be very silly at times with my outrageous behaviour but if you put me in front and told me to entertain a bunch of people with my meaningless banter, it wouldn't be very funny. As all the ELS member would have know after today, I would seem a lot more pretentious and being so 'full of it'.

3. Stuff
*Insert some controversial things that I shouldn't speak about unless I would like to be flogged in the public.*

Umm.. yeah.. flogged. Public.

TV

I don't watch much TV.

No, really. Instead of watching TV, I would tart around the PC. Some of you may have known about my strange little 'obsession' with this TV show called "House", which features this ridiculously sarcastic doctor. Well, I still like the show a lot but there's a NEW show on TV that really interests me. It's... HEROES.

It's about this bunch of dudes, each of them with different superpowers(or genetic mutation as the show calls them; for eg, flight, teleportation, invincibility, etc... etc...) destined to save the world. Well, as far as I know, it's a whole load of drama. In the first episode, there's this one artist that has the power of premonition, which allows him to paint pictures of the future(aka predicting the future) when he's high(great moral values, I know..) and he painted a picture of a nuke exploding in downtown New York. He was saying, "He must be stopped... he must be stopped..." after he OD-ed.

What an awesome scene.

Then there's also this Japanese dude who can bend space-time continuum, which allows him to teleport to ANYWHERE. Yes, he 'accidentally' teleported into the Ladies' lavatory. The next day, on one of his usual monotonous trip to work on the Japanese bullet train, he kept on thinking about his power. He stared into a poster of New York City and wished that he was there. He closed his eyes and BAM! He appeared in the middle of Madison Square(I think). Fantastic.

It's REALLY REALLY GOOD!

Catch it on Astro, Star World, Channel 70, on Wednesday from 9:00 to 10:00.

any vets in the house

Saw something really strange this morning that really grossed me out. I(my mom actually) found the HEAD of a KITTEN on the walkway. It was detached from it's body with blood stains all over the walkway. As if the front of the kitten's head literally popped out of it's skull. You can see the muscle strands of the kitten's head sticking out from the back. To make things worse, the other parts left are the intestines and ONE miserable hind leg with the rest of the body is MISSING. So, I kick-start my day with a miserable sight of a kitten's head, intestines, a hind leg and a mess of a blood stain.

There could be a few possibilities on what might have caused this strange... happening:

1. It was in a fight with another cat much bigger than it.
2. A dog sneaked into the house and 'stumbled' upon the kitten.
3. A monitor lizard; wait; A REALLY BIG monitor lizard that sneaked through the front gate.
4. An owl? Unlikely but mother nature can be pretty mean at times.
5. A hobo(homeless dude) that broke into my house compound and found 'supper'.
6. A zombie outbreak. Unlikely as well, since I'm moaning and groaning right now with an insatiable hunger for BBBBBRRRAAAIIINNNNSSSSSS.
7. WORST CASE SCENARIO: One of us Woons woke up in the middle of the night and sleep-walked our way into having a kitten in one of our mouths.

If any of you have ANY idea on how this would happen, don't hesitate to post in the comments. The more outrageous it is, the better.

from Mother Teresa...

...with love.

People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered;
Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind,
people may accuse you of selfish ulterior motives;
Be kind anyway.

If you are successful,
you will win some false friends and some true enemies;
Succeed anyway.

If you are honest and frank,
people may cheat you;
Be honest and frank anyway.

What you spend years building,
someone could destroy overnight.
Build anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness,
they may be jealous;
Be happy anyway.

The good you do today,
people will often forget tomorrow;
Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have,
and it may never be enough;
Give the best you've got anyway.

You see, in the final analysis
it is between you and God;
it was never between you and them anyway.

hawt magic

Some of you may have gotten sick of my doing magic for the past 2-3 years. Heck, even I got sick of myself doing the same things over and over again. So, I'm going to do something different by putting some hawt hawt magic videos up on youtube.com for everyone to see. These are BRAND NEW stuff that I personally have not shown to anyone. Well, besides Daniel, who just saw it last night when he came over to my place.

For all of you technical dudes out there, I recorded these with a Nokia N73 and to be very honest, I'm very surprised with the quality of the video. I will be turning off sound for all my videos unless they require me to talk.

Oh, by the way, please rate my videos! Thanks!





Yay! I'm now a YouTube superstar!

....right.

Grandpa's Aces

*ogles at David Copperfield's mad skillz*

for the house fans

Can you believe that this guy's a Brit?!

Fantastic.

weener waggin

One of the things that really irks me is that how people sometimes talk down on each other in front of others just to show how he/she is a better/smarter/hotter than the other and the other person just won't give in. That can be described as weener wagging. As it usually happens to guys with excessive testosterones and/or the inability to know when their "Alpha Male"-ness(who the heck believes in that?) is stepping on other people's toes. People will feel insulted, ashamed and generally disheartened.

I have caught myself to be inadvertently guilty of this as well and as part of my New Year's Resolution, I want to get rid of that. Completely.

No point arguing over something that benefits no one besides slapping each other around with overly pretentious egos. It's just, well, rubbish.

mmm.... stress... yummy

After a one and a half months break, I kinda forgot how stress taste like.

It's yummy, I tell you.


Yummy.