LOVE, Kloudiia

Fancy getting married to a comic character that has caused you to lose sleep over him/her? Maybe ROM can erect a new counter catering to this specific group of fanatic fans who would like to go an extra mile and legalise their love relationship with a fictional character.

If people can live fictional lives in another virtual world, then why can’t they bring such a concept to this real world that they exist in?

I say, this is truly getting crazy. Yes, those Japanese who are petitioning for marriage with a fictional comic character to be legalised in their country is, to me, too far-fetched.

Now, you see this girl and your heart starts beating madly. You feel as if the whole world has stopped spinning for you, and now it’s your moment to let her know your feelings. It’s as if you can hear the music playing in the background, and your body feels light as a feather. You are now floating on cloud nine.

All of a sudden, the music stops. The silence is deadening, and the drastic change brings you back to reality in a sharp way.

You realise one missing piece from the whole jigsaw – you don’t know how to show your interest for her!

I found one more reason to read the newspapers. Not in a speed-reading fashion, but to slowly savour what the reporter/journalist had painstakingly thought through, wrote and edited maybe a dozen times for an article to be published.

News reporting is no longer mere paragraphs of bare facts. Now, columns and reviews are peppered with refreshing descriptions, lively anecdotes and apt metaphors that are at times self-deprecating and/or sarcistic and beautifully-structured sentences that speak of much creativitiy in this modern era of journalism.

Many, many, many years ago, I attended a block party. What’s a block party, you may ask. It’s a party organised by the community committee, if that’s what they’re called, that invites the surrounding residents to gather and have a fun time at the void deck of a block. Hence a block party.

My neighbourhood just had one today, few blocks away from where I am staying. A month ago mini half A4 size posters have been plastered on strategic locations promoting this event. That’s how I recalled the one and only block party I attended long, long time ago.

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

                                               ~ Jim Rohn

OCBC had a promotion. If you successfully applied for their credit card, you get a FREE BREE Passport Holder. I thought the gift looked pretty in the brochure, so I goaded Stuart to get it. He did, and we got a letter to redeem the gift.

I was looking at the location to collect the gift – Joo Seng Warehouse. Where is this place? On a second look, the letter reads 3 Upper Aljunied Link. Ok, this is an industrial area.

I was tapping my feet impatiently, berating myself for having missed that bus and as a result missed the train that just but departed with me staring at it. If only I were a piece of paper…

And because of that, I had to wait for the next train, which was supposing to be alright, except that the waiting time was an awful 10 minutes. I mean, 10 minutes! Gosh! In Hong Kong, that would translate to like, 6.5 trains, taking an average waiting time of 1.5 minutes for one train. And with such a super efficient train run service the people were still seen dashing for the train doors just say something, doesn’t it?

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

                                                                  ~ Lao Tzu

As our government shines the spotlight on increasing the nation’s birthrate, focus has also begun to move backwards on the production line – singles. 

Hence, dating agencies are back in the limelight, dishing out horror stories of how clueless men and lordly women behaved badly when dates weren’t to their expectations. Talk shows are coming out to find out why singles are delaying plans to get married, or not even having one.