flea: nah.. i don't ever think that far ahead. i was just citing examples. i have a rough plan of not much more than 6 hours ahead at any given point of time and that's usually only just before i hit the sack. haha..

yeah, you have. i think you should do something about it too. but do remember that it's a time to lay back and enjoy the atmosphere too and not only about trying to be productive.

last night my bro and i went to this place called the garlic restaurant (yes, they even have garlic ice cream. heavens be praised!) near the esplanade. then we made a beeline to embargo at fullerton for drinks. i had a lychee martini (shaken, and presumably stirred) and my bro decided to try out an 'ocean sea breeze' instead of his usual lychee martini. (the osb is a vodka, lemon and cranberry and raspberry juice concoction) well, i tried a few sips of it and i can tell you that the fancy name's just a load of hot air. (ahthankew.)

we checked out centro and the crowd outside was massive. pretty eventful party, it must've been. i'm glad i didn't go.. heard from denise that the music was quite bad.
yep, and so ended my night about town. short but uiltimately, sweet.

well, anyway, kudos to my man nabil for spending the whole night on a bicycle. way to go, dude.

by the way, i'm gonna get this place redesigned, since i really should. the purple and black's just way off. i can't take any more of it.

the As are over and the book-burning begins. time to start thinking about whether we're at the middle of the beginning now or at the middle of the end. it's quite frustrating that we're always at the beginning or end of something or the other. just as i'm think this is finally the end, i begin my service. when that's ending i'm beginning college. when that ends, i'm beginning work. when that ends, i'm beginning a family life. when that ends, and i'm thinking, "wow. i'm almost 50 already.. my kids are all growing up and becoming independant and i've done eve-ryt-hing i need to do for them.".. well, then i begin to die. see, we're always beginning and ending something. do we ever get to live for the moment any more?

maybe that sounds too poignant. but i make my conclusion partly from the fact that i've never spent a vacation of mine exactly the way i planned it before it began. the things i set out to do... i definitely never get through all of them. maybe i'm lazy and not determined enough but i've got enough friends who say the same. maybe i've got lazy friends. who knows?

update (on 221202)
there've been several other notable book-burning's in history. i'm come across these and the list is more or less complete with all the major ones:

.ancient china : emperor shih huang ti burned all books so that history would start anew with him. (212 BC)
.library of alexandria : 400000 scrolls including aristotle's work on comedy
.bonfire of the vanities : burning of 'lascivious and indecent books' in florence by fanatical ascetic leader savonarola in 1497. ironically he was later burned in a bonfire too.
.burning of mayan books : spaniards burned books on astronomy, history and mythology
.library of beijing : during fighting to quell the boxer rebellion in china, it erupted into flames
.nazi book-burnings: largest was in front of the university of berlin in 1933. works of einstein, hemingway and other notable jewish authors were lost. apparently, the heavens did not approve. it started to rain halfway through.
.bosnia : sarajevo library destroyed by serb gunners in 1992. 500000 volumes lost including manuscripts on serb, croat, mulim and jewish cultural history in the region

the new coldplay video (the scientist) is really fantastic. i've watched it about 20 odd times now and i still can't get enough of it. the song's really fascinating by itself, but the video just adds a new dimension to it.. really great stuff. there're plenty of thoughtful details scattered about the video like the girl taking off her seatbelt to put on her jacket just before the accident. the basketball game, the wall-hopping, the vines from the wall, the falling leaves and the car-crash emphasise that things look really different in reverse. or rather, when you look back on unfortunate events, you see them differently (from when the event was actually happening) because that's just a manifestation of what you'd really wish it was like. it's what regret is all about: wishing that things could've been different; that you were back at the start. that's what i interpret from the video. maybe i'm just speaking for myself when i say that. it's hard to tell, because i've assured myself that i don't live my life in regret and that i never will.

define irony: someday i might regret saying that.

you never know. some people have all the bad luck.