One year Odyssey…

I just realized that few days ago (November 15) marks the first year anniversary of this blog! Holy F***! It has been one year? A year ago I was bored and sitting in front of my computer while starting this blog. Now…I’m still bored and sitting in front of my computer writing this post…some shit never change

Anyway, thank you to all those who viewed this blog (all 126,214 of them) and those who left comments, I appreciate it, it kept me ‘blogger sane’ because then I know somebody actually read what I wrote (especially during the early months of blogging).

When I started this blog, it wasn’t my intention to make it a big thing or anything….wasn’t really all that into the so called blogging community….but I have softened a little bit…..I like to thank those who, to my surprise, actually bothered to link this blog - my family, my friends, some people that I’m not that close with but actually come here once in a while, some I’ve exchanged comments online with and some that I don’t even know…..ok, maybe the last one got bored and removed the link to my page but yeah I remember his URL pops up once in a while in my referrers stats :-P

The story so far…

I was planning to write an overview on the posts I made since last year but I remember that I pretty much wrote about it in my previous post. So I’m just gonna copy and paste it here:

Some of my earlier post were more personal like the one I wrote about my story idea or the recurring dreams. Even the post about Battlefield and WWE were also personal. I think I should do those personal posts more often rather than being preoccupied by movies. My friend even called my site a movie blog. WTF

I also remember how at the beginning, I said to myself that I’m not going to talk about politics. Blah! I guess I failed in keeping up with that promise. Another promise that I sort of broke was the one that I stated in my About page.

…post about things that interest me…..anything that’s part of the Pop culture that I find necessary to post about (no I’m not going to talk about Paris Hilton and Britney Spears, you can find that somewhere else)

On second thought, I did not break that promise because I did not talk about them. I just posted their pictures

Recently, I made few posts on my country Brunei. I just thought that I needed to write something related to Brunei or maybe it’s just another way to balance out all those movie related post.

I’ve also noticed how I began to write more episodic posts (eg Part 1, part 2). Several reasons; either the original idea of the post was too long or I was just lazy to finish the post and hold it off for later. Examples of this can be found here, here and here.

Oh and one more thing, I realized that I have only reviewed one book. Man, I haven’t read any novels for a long time. I’ll try posting a review of books that I have read. (fiction or non fiction).

I wrote that back in March and I have little to add to it except for few things I did since March like:

• I made several pranks on this blog like my april fools joke and rick rolling people
• Made some education related post like this one about the Arts and another about studying
• ‘Live blogging’: for both the opening and closing ceremony of the Beijing Olympics
• And of course, my journey to UK and the random things goin there

In a way, I think I’ve pretty much made a wide range of posts (from a serious one to a really totally random post).

So what’s coming up?

This is what I’m planning and hopefully get done.

• Finish my ‘Trylobyte Odyssey Portal’ page that I was planning to finish by November 15 lol (more on this later)
• Restructure my ‘Top Post’ page. It’s outdated now.
• Publish this post that I’ve been thinking about in the past few days
• Hopefully adding more links in my links bar/blogroll.

If you’re interested in some random statistic facts about my blog then click ‘More’ at the bottom of this post. In the meantime I’ll leave you with Coldplay’s ‘Lovers in Japan’. No reason….just felt like putting up a video at the end of this post hehe

Look who is back with a really random post

I haven’t been blogging for few days (ok make that for a month!!) but here I am now! I’m back! I’m not going to write a long account in paragraphs of what has been going on so far, instead, I’m just going to dump few random things in this post that would hopefully give you some idea. So here we go…

Random Quotes

“Konichiwa”
- Some white dude greeting me with a smile while I was walking down the streets. Oh what the hell, I said Konichiwa back to him lol.

“The only good thing about London is getting out of it”
- Some elderly Taxi Driver at Canterbury who also turned out to be one of the owners of the Taxi service itself.

“Get the fucking the books. Or even better just photocopy it. Just pretend that you didn’t hear that from me” 
-A lecturer who looked like Moby (there’s another one who looked like Bill Gates)

“Cheers mate”
- I’m probably the only one who says “thank you” instead of cheers around here.

“Sorry housemates, I was really drunk last night. I will clean this in the morning”
- A note posted on the door of one of the bathrooms (good thing there’s three bathrooms). Btw, he never cleaned it LOL the cleaner did.

Friend:         Basar jua susu atu
Me:              Kan tekluar bah
Friend:         Sini susu2 saja bah Baie
- A conversation we had in malay while passing a voluptuous woman. We said it out loud and nobody understands it. Of course we didn’t stare coz that would be obvious.

“Urang Brunai kah tu?”
- a phrase we always say whenever we see:
a) dark skinned person b) a girl wearing ‘tudong be-design2′  c) Mua urang brunai lah

Random dude:               Are you Malaysian?
Us:                              No, we’re Bruneians
Random dude:              oooo……*short nod*
*Silence* Random dude stare somewhere else
Us:                              Are you Malaysian?
Random dude:              No, I’m Bruneian
Us:                              OOooooOOO [*thinking* mcm nada bah urang ani]
- Us meeting one Bruneian (there’s a whole bunch of them in Canterbury)

“Iatah bah”
- me randomly saying a Malay Bruneian word when talking to an Italian girl

“bah apa karang malam? Crash? Crash rumah urang”
- The phrase we always say when we’re bored (almost every night in the first few weeks). Usual target? The UBDians

“Salnviger?” (Salt & Vinegar?), “minus?” (Mayonnaise?)
- Barely audible staff at the local Kebab shop (really funny cool guys though) 

“GOLIMAR!! KILLA KILAR KILLAR!”
- nuff said

Random Lessons we learned

- Shopping is fun…..until you multiply the amount by three. 20 pounds kau blanja? Duit brunei brapa tu? Hehe

- Making lots of friends is nice….until they nominate you for Society president and you don’t know shit!

- Taking a hot shower is great….until you step outside and remember that it’s below 10 degrees. Baik tah ku mcm urang putih inda mandi

- Asian night sounds fun….until you find out that it should’ve been called “South Asian” night.

- Going to a halal restaurant is a relief…..until you find out they also serve Bacon burger….ok that’s fine, the chicken is halal….until you find out that they cook in the same kitchen and stuff…tapi iya ckp halal kalau d tanya so…..di halal uleh ya, iya tanggung dusa

- Walking around campus at night can be boring…..until you meet some drunk ass white dude making a fool of themselves…just the right entertainment we need.

- Staring at hot girls is ok….until you almost accidentally hit a pole Sapa kan tegantuk tiang tu ah?! *coughsiSafcough*

- Buying stuff and cooking together is a good idea….until you find out only two know how to cook and the rest were hopeless

- It’s really easy to make fun of vegetarians…until you find out that she also has a black belt in karate

- Going to the library is a good idea….until you find out how big the library is and you don’t know where to start

- Baju lawa2….harganya LAGI TAH lawa2 Haha

Moving To UK

I’m moving to another country….again. My flight is next week if things go as planned. Am I excited or nervous? Both, ofcourse…you always have mixed feelings when you confront with something new, its normal, which is why I’m a bit annoyed when people ask that question.

“are you excited?”
“a bit”
“Are you nervous?”
“a bit”
“you don’t have any feelings about it?”
“I do, I have a mixed feeling about it that’s all”
“something wrong?”
“no”
“then why the mixed feeling? That means something wrong”
“What’s wrong with having mixed feelings?”
“Nuthin but are you more excited or are you more nervous?”
“I don’t know. I guess it’s equal. Equally mixed feelings, that’s the right word I think “

PS: Anybody from Canterbury or have been there at least?

My ‘attempt’ (if you can call it that) at giving study tips…

“How do you become smart and get good grades? What do you do?” I got asked that question by my mom’s friend, whose child isn’t doing well in school, few days ago. I seriously don’t know how to answer that question. I said that you must have a passion for studying But honestly, I only said that just for the sake of having an answer. 

Now that question haunted me again days ago when I was invited, along with several of my former classmates and seniors, back to my former secondary school to give advise on the current Sixth Form students who are doing their A levels (Find out more about it here, here and here).  I think some of the students that I met are reading this because I gave them my email and they would probably see my blog address besides my nick on MSN Messenger. So I like to say Hi and Welcome! to those you who are reading this.

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Birds and the Bees

So I saw an episode of this Sitcom called ‘My Wife and Kids’ starring Damon Wayans. I don’t regularly watch the show but I do enjoy every episodes that I’ve catched. Anyway, the main plot of that episode was about Damon Wayans’ son being forced to learn about parenting (after impregnating his girlfriend) through this weird task involving a baloon as a double for a baby. The secondary plot was about his youngest daughter asking her mom about where do babies come from (the birds and the bees) and she told her about how men puts his ’seeds’ into a girl’s belly. Later on she asked her little boyfriend to put pumpkin seeds into her belly button so she can be pregnant LOL. So clearly the theme of the episode was Sex and that whole episode was like sex education sitcom style.

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Unrated edition

I just found this site where you can find out the rating of your blog (R, Pg-13 or G). I decided to test it out and got this:

OnePlusYou Quizzes and Widgets

Haha!! And how did I get the rating? According to the site, I wrote (well at least on the first page of this blog):

shit (4x)

ass (3x)

dick (2x)

crap (1x)

ROFL!! OK~  What can I say..I guess that’s how I talk and it makes me laugh that the test gave me a R Rating for words like ‘Shit’ and ‘Crap‘. Yeah, those words are inappropriate, I agree but it’s not bad as ‘F***‘. See, I always censor the F word in my blog. I know some people don’t apply any type of levels for these words and for them Shit and F*** are treated equally (as in “they’re all bad words, not one is more worse than the other!”).

You know what, I want to talk about offensive/inappropriate language. Not going to be a balanced essay type of thing showcasing the bright side and downside of such language. No no no, screw that! If you want to read those type of stuff, you can find it elsewhere. This is just my random thoughts on personal experience with using this type of language.

Click more for the rest of the post. Some people might not want to read stuff filled with swear words so I hid it. At least it’s not password protected (Pfft~ password protected post~ I hate those things. Why bother posting if you don’t want to share it).

Random short post

I’ve only posted 5 posts on the month of May. I’ve been busy last month with few things such as…my brother’s wedding!! So yeah, big stuff with lots of ceremonies and events. Any wedding photos?? I’ll try to put it up here later.

Anyway, the thing is that hopefully I’ll be able to post more this month.

At the Cinema..

Something funny happened when we tried to catch Iron Man in the cinema. It was a combination of a silly mistake by the ticket counter girl (she pressed the wrong button and showed us seats for the wrong movie) and us being on a rush (we got there to find out that the screening just started so might as well just catch it now). So we got into the cinema, not double checking our tickets, and sat there while enjoying the trailers for Wall E and Hancock. Then the Disney Logo showed up….Iron Man is Disney?!!….checked the tickets and LMAO!! NARNIA!! Haha…we left the cinema laughing our ass off while several families with their kids were looking at us in a WTF? manner. We went to counter and told them about what happened and they escorted us to the right cinema. First time such thing happened to me Hehe.

So I started to think about any other memorable cinema experiences. This has nothing to do with whether I liked the movie that were shown but more into the stuff that happened when I watch a movie that makes that day memorable. Here we go:

End of Days (1999)
Location: The cinema at Glorieta, the Philippines

- As the movie was starting, a fight broke out somewhere on the front rows. The movie was stopped for a moment and the lights came up. The audience were cheering and laughing as the guys who were fighting got kicked out by the security guards. I didn’t know exactly what actually caused the fight, some say they were fighting over seats while some say over a girl. Either way, it was stupid.

- When one of the bad guy from movie said, “she’s gonna f*** you Christine, gonna f*** you!!”, I was smiling. See, I’m used to watching those R rated violent movie when I was a kid on TV or video/VCD. But when it comes to cinema, I’m usually taken to these movies that are considered ’safe’. So being a 10 year old watching a movie in a cinema with a character saying the F word made me feel ‘cool’. But I found out later that the version I saw in the cinema was an edited PG-13 one. At least they didn’t edit out the F word  

Batman Begins (2005)
Location: Cineleisure at Orchard, Singapore

- While we were waiting for the cinema to open, I notice that almost everyone was looking at me and giggling. Later I realised that I was wearing a black Superman T-Shirt. LOL So there I was in the premiere of a Batman movie wearing a Superman t-shirt. (Note: Just for fun, I’m planning to wear the same black Superman T-shirt when I watch Dark Knight later)

- Before the cinema opened, my friend told me that he was hungry and decided to go down over Burger King to order something to munch. Bringing outside food to the theatre is prohibited so we had to sneak it into the cinema. So preferably you order something small to munch. But here’s the dumbass thing, he came back with a whopper, a drink, chips and some other stuff. Basically, a meal plus extra stuff. How the hell you’re gonna sneak those in?! He was like ‘oh yeah! no outside food, I forgot! Shit! umm..shit! I was hungry!‘. He ended up tucking the food under his shirt. It was hilarious because he was being really obvious and he walked towards the ticket guy awkwardly. The ticket guy obviously knew he was hiding something but just couldn’t be bothered. I think he gave a slight smile I think.

- When Gordon showed Batman the Joker card at the end of the movie, my friend and I said ‘The Joker!’ out loud at the same time. People were looking at us with a ‘well duh!’ look.

- After the movie ended, my friend told me that he was annoyed at the fact that Batman can fly in the movie. I burst out ‘he wasn’t flying! He was gliding!‘. People gave us funny looks and smiled. Embarassing.

Fun with Dick & Jane (2005)
Location: Great World City & Cineleisure at Orchard, Singapore

I saw this movie twice in the theatre; I thought the movie was ’meh’ on my first viewing and enjoyed it on second viewing. The reason? The audience I saw the movie with.

- A girl invited me to watch the movie with her friends and she’s paying the tickets. Hey it’s free, what the heck I’ll come. The thing was that she chose the wrong time, before midday (around 10- 11 o’clock) on Sunday. The cinema was empty because most people are still sleeping, it’s Lazy Sunday morning!!. Only two rows were filled and this guy in front of me annoyed all of us. He was this fat Chinese guy who laughed out loud at scenes that weren’t meant to be funny. WTF!

- The next week, my cousin came to Singapore for a holiday and she wanted to catch a movie there. My brother decided to pick ”Fun with Dick and Jane”. I didn’t want to see it again but who cares, my cousin is paying for all the tickets (see, I’m cheap). Went there with a packed audience and it was a blast. People laughing at the right times and just the fact that you get a different atmosphere when watching a movie with more audience. It actually made the movie funnier.

‘Jangan Pandang Belakang’ (2007)
Location: The Mall, Brunei

First of all, here’s some background or ‘ingredients’:

• It’s at the Mall cineplex, the most popular cinema in my place.
• It’s an Asian horror movie – we’re suckers for horror movies especially Asian horror
• It’s a Malay movie – attracts the masses who are lazy to read Malay subtitles in English movies

So you end up with me sitting in a packed cinema mostly filled by local non-average cinemagoers (you know, the average people who probably don’t go to cinema often). What do you get? The most memorable cinema viewing experience for me in positive and negative way.

- Before the movie starts, a bunch of teenagers at the front rows were making lots of noise. The guys occassionally scared their girlfriends so they could scream out loud (reminded me of that episode of Mr.Bean). This went on for several times early on the movie which annoyed the shit out of all of us in the theatre. We all went from simply ’ssshhh!’ to insults! :lol: They eventually shut up.

- You know how there are folks who have to explain the story plots to his/her clueless friends while you are watching the movie.There was a guy sitting behind me that did this to his friend but the funny thing was that he got the facts wrong!! For example, in the middle of the movie he pointed out to his friend that the heroine was the dead girl’s best friend. NO!! She was her sister!! wait, her twin sister!! Played by the same actress! We knew that from the beginning!! And there are other plot points that he got wrong too. What a smart ass! Haha! Maybe he was intentionally fooling around with his friend but I doubt it.

- A family sat in front of us including a little girl (probably 3-4 years old). I thought,”wow!! She’s watching a horror film in the cinema at that age!” I didn’t really care about it, it’s her parent’s responsibility not mine. Who knows, maybe the little girl likes horror movies. Anyway, here’s the funny thing, whenever something scary shows up on screen, all the family members decided to ‘protect’ her (eg. the dad closes her ears, the mom closes her eyes, the sister grabbed her arm to comfort her, etc) Why bother bringing her then! Haha! It was funny and cute at the same time. The little girl actually behaved quite well; she did not cry or whine or anything, she just sat there and watched the movie silently. Maybe she was just terrified and speechless.

- The cameo appearance by a Malaysian actor, Jalaluddin Hassan just brought the house down. His short cameo drew unintentional laughs from us. He’s like, how should I say, the William Shatner of Malaysia. So you get the idea, that charismatic over the top presence

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Of course there are more but they are minor things such as the old guy snoring beside me during a midnight screening of Transformers (Coincidently, he snored during the scene where Megan Fox’s character’s criminal past was revealed. I rolled my eyes during that scene because it was a cheap characterization hahah yeah, snoring is indeed the right response) or the time after the Disney’s Hercules movie ended, we stayed at the theatre till they show the movie again coz we missed the first half of the movie. 

I support the Arts :-)

Several things that led me into writing this post:

• I watched a recent episode of LOST and it showed, through flashbacks, how one character, John Locke, struggled with an identity crisis when he was young. He wanted to be a hunter and loves sports, cars and boxing. But what he didn’t realize was that he was trying to be someone he’s not. The idea of “who you are” vs “who you want to be” intrigued me.
• I listened to a news over my local radio about a musical performance by school band held recently in one of the local college. Kinda cool to see how nowadays students in my country are getting more opportunity with doing music in schools.
• A conversation I had with an old friend about school. Actually, it was more like listening (reading actually, it’s a chat through MSN) to him releasing feelings he hid had during high school. It was all ’this sucked and that sucked, that girl was hot and that guy was an asshole, that subjects sucked but that one was good, etc 

All that led me here; writing about Arts education (music, arts, drama, etc). My stance? I strongly support the Arts being part of the education. First of all, I want to make it clear that I’m not what people consider the Artsy guy. If you were to place me in one of those cliche student type, it would be the more academic inclined group (or a nerd lol).

So if you’re more of an academic person then why the hell would you give a damn about Arts programs in school.

The obvious reason is that I pity those who have talents in the Arts but feel wasted when they are forced to face academic subjects. I have a lot of friends who just give up with studying and take pride when they fail a test. One of my academic leaning friend called them ‘gila’ or ‘palui’ (crazy or stupid respectively) but I see them as simply expressing their frustration (or maybe I’m wrong and they really are bunch of dumbasses). But that very same group of people are musically talented and funny as hell (they could be great actors). Another friend of mine told me once how his mom wanted him to go to the local university but he didn’t want to. His reason? “Blajar lagi tu!!” (I’ll have to study again!!). What he really wants to do is take a course in cooking and become a chef (he’s actually good at cooking). So I think a greater emphasis on the Arts education could help these students. Although I don’t expect to see subjects like music be compulsory in local schools in the next few years, I like how schools are opening up to it with students having more opportunity in showcasing their musical talents.

So is that your only reason Trylobyte? Don’t tell me you support Arts because you feel sorry for the other people who didn’t get good grades as you?

Ok, that is not my only reason. My other reason, more of a personal reason, is that I have a soft spot for the Arts. Like I already mentioned, I would be categorised in the the more academic inclined group aka nerd. But i don’t believe in those lame labelling type. I believe we all have that nerdy, artsy and more ‘physical active’ side within ourself but it’s just that some sides are more dominant than the other. This brings back to that scene from the latest episode of LOST that I mentioned in the beginning where Locke refused to believe that he has that nerdy ’science camp’ side to him.

I have a soft spot for the Arts because I sorta admit that, not trying to brag myself, I do have some talents or interest in  the Arts rather than the usual academic stuff. I don’t know how to read musical notes but I like of musical scores (especially movie soundtrack scores). I’m not a great artist but I do enjoy drawing comics (i used to do that a lot in school. I remember planning to scan and upload those comics here but some of them are offensive so nevermind hehe). I’m not an actor yet I don’t realize that I do ‘acting’ when I make jokes to people.

Let’s start with visual art. I like drawing when I was a kid because it had something to do with the way you can create your own world. If you want a whale with dragon wings then you get a whale with dragon wings!! I remember decorating the walls at my bedroom by pasting the drawings I made. I won a bronze medal for an artwork back in kindergarten in Japan (although I can’t remember exactly what I drew lol). I remember finding my Elementary school art class to be fun. That’s right, just because I like studying doesn’t mean that I find academic classes to be fun! Haha! Music classes that I took at some schools I’ve been to were fun as well. Although I didn’t really prioritize music class over geography or science but I never detest it. I remember knowing how to play recorder and showed off to my friends by playing the Star Wars theme song on the keyboard hehe. Sadly, I forgot how to play those instruments

Then there was the Drama class. I remember when I first arrived at that international school in Singapore, I was terrified with sight of ‘Drama’ as a compulsory subject. WTF! I’m cool with music and art but Drama?! That’s gay. Yeah, that’s what I thought, “that’s gay!”. But it turned out to be probably the most fun class I ever had. Middle school drama class was what I called ‘the only time in school where you can get silly’ . It’s escapism at its best as you get to act in different characters. I’ve played roles ranging from Batman to an evil drug dealer I didn’t continue taking Drama at High School because by that level it gets more serious and stuff. I never intended to pursue an acting career or anything LOL. My english teacher asked me once after my friend and I acted as Arthur and Zaphod respectively from Hitchhiker’s Guide to Galaxy, “Have you ever consider a career on television” I answered ‘no’ ofcourse

So you want more schools to adapt or at least opening up to Arts education because you had fun with it. Not everyone will have as much fun as you with these types of classes. Some students are just academic type and nothing more. I guess you’re just bragging yourself.

Some students are seen to be just academic types and nothing more because they were never given a chance to do something else. They may not try to pursue a career in the Arts but I think it’s good if they could try to tap another side of themselves. That’s like saying Physical education shouldn’t be taught because some people are just ‘not the PE type’. Again, referring back to that episode of Lost, the idea of ‘who you are’ and ‘who you want to be’

You know, if you didn’t go to schools that provide Arts classes, you wouldn’t be saying these stuff on your blog

Yeah, I know hehe. But the fact is that I’ve experienced it and enjoyed it. I assume that others would enjoy it too and probably discover that they have some hidden talents or interest in it. Hell, they could find it a life changing experience, who knows!!

But public schools are already crowded with subjects

Then incorporate elements of Arts into available subject if it’s possible. I mean, I had dancing as part of module in my elementary school PE class. How’s that! Geography and art? of course! Where did you think I got my excellent colour shading skills hehe (inside joke, sorry). Some can be easy like drama and English class while some can be difficult like incorporating History and Music Imagine learning about Napoleon’s retreat from Russia while the 1812 Overture playing full blast volume.  Maths and music?? Maths and Art could work I think.

But..But…

But what?! ok enough questions. Just go home.

I can’t

Why not?

I’m your subconscious. You’re not really talking to anybody.

Oh…I need friends don’t I

No shit!

Case of Blogging

Few days ago, my former teacher sent me this link. It was a blog created by a student in my former school dedicated to juicy gossip on teachers and students. ROFL!! I couldn’t resist clicking the link. Sure, I wouldn’t even know the names that will probably get mentioned (you think I know all my juniors?). But what the hell, I was curious so decided to check it out. ROFLMAO!!! I was too late because apparently she deleted her posts and replaced it with an apology:

i apologise if my blog was hurting you guys. i dont have any intention to do any harm, im sorry. i was just bloging, i wrote what i saw and heard, what i observed. well, thats blogging.

LOL I like how she said it. Basically, it’s another way of saying, “hey, it wasn’t my fault. It’s called blogging”

Then my former teacher starts talking about how blog can be harmful to you. He pointed out that blog that caused alot of ‘Hu Har!’ few months ago when the author posted how she would rather die than going to the local university. Yeah I remember that blog, a lot of students from that university got really pissed off and I don’t blame them. Those students in the local university worked so hard only to read what this blogger has to say who, not only bad mouthed their university but the blogger herself hasn’t even gone to a university yet!!

I’ve talked about the sensitivity of blogging to my friends before (right around the time when some Singaporeans got sent to prison for racial post on their blog and all that anti-government blogs that caused a stir on Malaysian politics). Actually, I used to talk about it a lot till the point that one of my friend actually remembers it. She messaged me through MSN recently and said, “you’re blogging now?!! I thought you’re an anti-blogger?!!” :LOL: I guess she misunderstood all of my ‘blog can sometimes be dangerous‘ talk. I used to be a blog lurker and I still do. I love reading other blogs more than I write in my own Hehe. Occasionally, I browse through random blogs and read stuff ranging from a girl thinking about the nature of God to a guy who saved a kitten from being tortured by stupid young kids.

Here’s my stance on Blogging. Blogging, just like any other piece of writing you do or anything you say, comes from you. Therefore, it’s your opinion and it’s your responsibility. So don’t go “hey, it’s blogging. Not my fault“. Do I think about what I’m about to write? Yes. There are cases where I edit sentences on my post due to fear of misinterpretation. I remember saying to myself when I start this blog back in November last year, ‘No politics. No religion.’ Sadly, I couldn’t resist sometimes LOL. So if I’ve unintentionally offended anybody then I apologise.