Of the Misty Runway and the Dust Covered Sports Car
when did today begin?well it goes back to christmas night..when me and my sister decided not to sleep at all..and so we did..stayed up and watched television throughout the night..which is one of the greatest achievements of taiwanese television..good quality shows 24/7..unlike singapore..after 1am the television forces you to go to bed...yes and thats the reality of things here in singapore..boring and dead..anyway..so we stayed up all night until my aunt woke up at 4am to make breakfast..kinda weird to have breakfast at 4am though but anyway..then we did a last minute check of the stuff we brought with ourselves and at last..we locked the front door and took the lift to the basement to drive to the airport..the day has finally come..the day when i meet my life...again...once every year i get to run away..i get to live in a dreamworld for a week or two in taiwan..hoping that maybe i can be unleashed from life..but i know deep in my heart the day of departure will soon arrive..and that i'll have to wake up and smell the air of death again...like jiaying said yesterday...she dreads the days to come..especially next year..who doesnt really..im hoping now that im a working man and not having to worry about my schoolwork..whether a small mistake in an exam will cost me to lose the rest of my life..or will i die in NS..anywayz..so we finally reached basement two and as i dragged the luggage through the basement i saw that red sports car there...its been there since the last time i came..which was more than a year ago..and my aunt told me that the owner of that car went overseas and its been awhile since she saw him..he's probably dead anyway...killed overseas or drifting on some unnamed island..whatever it is..the car gathered a whole lot of dust..in fact if i jump onto the surface of the car my aunt will probably take a week or two to find me..it gathered a thick layer of dust..so i thought if the owner is really dead then it'll still be around when i come back next year right?so i went to my aunt's car and tore out a piece of tissue..wrote my initials on the windshield of the car and ran away..hopefully that guy's family wont drive the car away before i come back...anywayz..the journey to the airport was a long one..i was already starting to miss taiwan...the delicious food and the nice people..oh gosh..and i have to wait a full year before i can eat those and meet them again?the thought went past me like the trees speeding pass our car..the morning highway was pretty empty and my uncle sped down the highway at full speed...he was trying to cheer us up by telling us his personal comparison of the population of singapore and china..he said that if every single chinese in china were to spit in singapore it will create a flood serious enough to drown all singaporeans...i guess i was too tired then..i was laughing my head off..got to the airport and we said our farewells..sad though..but we will meet again soon..hope they have a safe trip to alaska next may..at 710am me and my sis boarded the plane and soon after it took off...back...back to reality i thought...what an end to a wonderful holiday!!i thought sarcastically..as the plane drove slowly down the runway i saw through the side windows..a thick fog was gathering at the end of the runway right before our plane turned the corner..another plane took off before us and soon it disappeared into the mist and was gone..other than shapes and shadows of distant buildings nothing could be seen..our plane braked into position and soon it powered up and i was ready to live my home..soon the mist grew closer and closer and we were consumed by it soon after...i pictured my plane being consumed by the mist..as the plane runs through the mist it breaks apart due to the eddy winds then covers back up again behind the tracks of the plane..which made me think...if that plane represents me..whats the point of life?you position yourself at one end of the runway...you see your problem ahead of you...you are scared that you might do something wrong and crash..but with courage you charge towards that fear and doubt..after all the best way to conquer your fear is to face it innit?well then if fear is like a mist...you run through it and it consumes you?it swallows you up?life eats you in?what are you going to do?what are you going to do?everything's blurry and misty..what's my goal?where did i start?everything became blurry...as i rose above the clouds i stared out in despair as the cities grew smaller and smaller..eventually disappearing the white cotton like clouds..on the left the clouds consumed all that was below..but on the right where i was sitting...cloudless sky stretched from my window all the way into the horizon...as in someone cut through the infinite sky leaving behind a clear and distinctive line called the horizon..it was pretty awesome..:)bye taiwan..see you in a year...

QUOTES OF THE DAY:
Roy,'Look, Doc, I spent last Tuesday watching fibers on my carpet, and the whole time I was watching my carpet, I was worrying that I, I might vomit! And the whole time, I was thinking, "I'm a grown man! I should know what goes on in my head!" and the more I thought about it, the more I realized that I should just blow my brains out, and end it all! But then I thought, well, if I thought more about blowing my brains out, I started worrying about what that was going to do to my damn carpet! Okay, so, that was a GOOD day, Doc! And I just want you to give me some pills and let me get on with my life! '

Roy,'To some money is like a foreign film without subtitles.'

Angela,'She said you were a bad guy. You don't seem like a bad guy.'
Roy,'That's what makes me so good at it.'
---'Matchstick Men'(2003)

Song of the Moment---My Stupid Mouth by John Mayer