Sunday, December 3rd, 2006
It’s incredible what lessons life has to offer. As I traverse through the many streets in my journey to Life’s End, I have many a time come to often stark and unimaginable truths of life, all of which would embed themselves in the facets of my memory. Just three months off in the city of eternal traffic jams, and I’ve learned so much about the ‘real’ world, albeit often through the hard way, like how the Monash chicken rice can be in the running for the worst-tasting substance in the solar system.
I have also found out that guitars are expensive. Throw in an amplifier, a couple of effect peds, stompboxes, cables, batteries and whatnot, I’d be well on my way to d Grazeland to join d moo-moos in munchin d grass.
Contrary to popular belief, the worst drivers do not hail from big cities like KL. The bulk of the pack comes from smaller towns like Ipoh, etc. Of course there are the occasional exceptions, for example teh ah peks in heavily modified rolling objects, more particularly the exhaust system with cute flashy lights and even cuter ‘wings’ and other strange protrusions/attachments/vinyls from/to/on the larger part of what appears to be a car. All of which will rest twisted and broken in a pile of mangled steel pretty soon after due to inability of said species to control the gas pedal (read: all or nothing).
So I sit here, one hand typing, the other holding the 3 gigavolt Vengeance-Mosquito-Zapping Eliminator Series A575 with the latest No-SquitoTech system Flower Power Premium version 6 variant C release 4.5 beta 0.2c service pack 4b mosquito’s nemesis bat Bruce, and I’m thinking, why did God create mosquitoes? I guess the same question applies to us; are we here just to survive until the incidental meteorite comes and pancakes everything on earth? Or until a big ass volcano spews forth enough lava to empty the inner earth and gravity sucks down the surface and we all become hamburgers. Pass me the barbeque sauce please. So Maslow the Dude said that the highest level in this ‘hierarchised’ needs is self-actualisation which really means discovering your life’s purpose. What if I work hard and reach there to discover my purpose is to mow the lawn. Scary right…
