i didn't do it

everyone seems amused at what they are seeing.

no, not really. i did this, not this.

"do you want a sister?"

"NO!"

"why not?"

"i don't want!"

maybe i should have said yes.

not any usual night

it's good to be different once in a while. or unusual.

my usual self is not a caffeine consumer. for some reason, i decided to have white coffee with god-mum tonight. at least i didn't lose myself by eating ice cream with little god-sis as well.

i guess i wasn't alone being unusual. after the drink i drove to a petrol kiosk to have my tyre pressure checked. things seem normal until tyre no.3... i suddenly realised that the high-tech digital appliance was not inflating my tyre - but deflating it.

trust not the computer. i had the problem corrected at the neighbouring kiosk with an old analog device. and i'm home safely.

the incident has been reported to the relevant personnel.

(it's like) driving on ice

it was a rather uneventful rainy day, so i decided to go out for a midnight drive.

it didn't stay that way for too long. i thought it would be a smooth drive all the way until i found myself in an unexpected jam. along the fast lane, quite a number of cars had crashed into each other or into the road barrier.

i myself had been in this situation twice before. thankfully, i got out of both intact. it is really not nice when the car goes for a spin - literally.

« rewind

putting my photoshop and sound engineering knowledge to good use:

1. recently, me and my mum dug into our old photo albums - particularly of me and my brother while we were not yet grown-ups. there was no such thing as digital cameras back then, and i thought it would be nice to have digital copies of those pictures. we chose the nice ones and had them scanned.

once inside the computer, i used what i learned about photoshop and got to work - restoring images to their original vibrancy, removed red-eyes, cleaned scratches and improved skin textures.

these pictures bring back fond memories. i particularly like the one where i sit on the bed with my late grandpa.

it appears that my brother managed to keep his distinct looks from birth until today. i failed.


2. mum found 3 cassette tapes. put them in the cassette player and played them back. she had a few good laughs. dad asked me to record them into a CD.

should i do it the easy way, or the hard way?

being very fussy about sound recording - and not wanting to waste all those years of training and experience - i did it the hard way. which involves plugging the cassette player to the computer, cleaning the play head, listening, recording, trimming, amplifying, listening, EQ-ing, listening, noise reduction-ing, and listening.

all that made me realise more and more what a little rascal i was. it seems little brother wasn't that bad (or was it because the recorder only caught me in action?) all i hear about him were either "awww...-ey" stuff or singing old songs really nicely.

anyway, now i believe more than anything that little brother is born with musical talents. and i am born to mess around with recordings (and subsequently with pictures and video).

swift flight

time seems to be moving swiftly but this one being can't help being still.

it's not that the world has left him behind. he is keeping up, or at least, he appears to be.

i wonder what he is waiting for. he is not happy where he is now. many stopped by to ask him why he is still there. he should have left that spot many months ago.

why? life can be cruel. people can be cruel. someone can be cruel. someone was cruel. someone caused great harm and is now enjoying life without even thinking of the consequences.

it's sad to know that sometimes, someone's bliss is at the expense of another's pain. the greed of one person can cause many others to suffer. as long as there are such people around, nobody will be spared from this pain.

of course, we can be sure that this pain will come to pass, and he will once again be in sync with the world around him.