haven't blogged in quite a while, don't know why, perhaps i just felt sick of collating my thoughts and making them sound normal. been suffering these terrible headaches for some time now (the worst was the night before brit modern period) but it's been reduced to mild pressures, nonetheless i sense i'm still tired and some weird circuitry within me refuses to let up on the reading despite knowing i ought to take a rest and knowing (after a checkup today) that my right eye has increased by 75 degrees... what is IT with me anyway. can't stop reading. after brit mp i hiked over to the central library for goodness' sakes, and took home 5 thick tomes... haha well happiness is curling up in bed with a book and knowing that i can sleep in late tomorrow.

today i got my influenza and meningitis vaccinations done for my US trip, amazing how two pinpricks in both shoulders can make you feel sleepy and thirsty and trollish, by which i mean some huge thing with oversized arms. went to watch the incredibles with my family after that, and boy is it funny! i feel the movie's quite well done with very real human reactions and gestures (except all that superstuff, you know our lives are too drearily dull and don't include all that), and jack-jack's so cute!! haha. though violet's powers are probably the best.

last night we came home from a long weekend at KL... last minute sorta trip but rather fulfilling... the day before we left i booked our accommodation online, yeah, THAT kind of last minute. well the accommodation turned out to be pleasantly surprising, perfect in every way (if you're not the fussy sort, demanding four-poster beds and renaissance art thingies) and i was extremely comfortable, we even had the disney channel and star movies (which we don't get at home). went shopping till we dropped (literally. my legs were screaming) and came to this unanimous agreement that in kl the shopping malls may be fearsomely huge but the toilets are so damnably small and are all of the infernal squat variety, meaning that m'sians must have very strong legs (to squat with), either that or they hold it all in during shopping and only release in the spaciousness of home. seriously... they even charge 30 sen for eensty cubicles that stink and all that... i just end up washing my hands to make it worth the cents. bah. sorry for my unhygienic rant on lavatories of the kl variety.

ooooh.... speaking of which, my bro and i invested in a whoopie cushion... it's totally hilarious... a different tone of fart every time! the first time daniel sat on it joshua fell down with laughter... i think i prefer the whoopie cushion fart... loud and long but odourless. HAHA.. XD oh, and we also opened the Xbox today, shoulda seen joshy's face! he couldn't believe it! it's christmas come early to our house in the shape of halo 2 limited edition.

yes... well, anyway. it's december already, how time flies! so many things have happened that i never imagined would have, things done TO me and things done BY me and things THOUGHT by me in the course of the entire year. worth it, all these perspectives changed, a little wiser about people, a bit more cynical (and j-j-j-jajaded) and therefore clinging ever tighter to the only solid institutions in life: family and God, yes, nothing else is stable or trustworthy, always watch your back for the snikt of unsheathed claws. and still, and still. made closer friends with more girls this year, how surprising. it seems i've shifted the loyalty of the thought that guys make better friends than girls. i change my philosophy after experiences this year... stuff that's made me disappointed in other people as well as myself. hmmm. suffice it to say that i'm so, so glad that at night when i can't sleep for nuts and my head is pounding fit to burst (with cartoonish birdies wielding mallets and thumping my temples spasmodically) i can crawl into my parents' laps and seek comfort... don't know what i'd do without them, seriously. i admit i'm still young and immature that way. can't be helped, i'm savouring every moment i have with these two (though they sometimes have SUCH shrill voices) until i gotta leave...

only 22 days left to flying off day! meanwhile, call me up for coffee and buy me a book voucher if you want to make me contentedly happy, like a warm puppy, for awhile. oh, and get some of the holiday cheer here!