Trying to stop time

It has been somewhat a tradition for my extended family to gather back in the place we all call home around this time of the year. And gosh, how i awaited times like these... But as i look back on these few years.. i realize how much times have changed. They used to come back the moment the school holidays start... but recently.. maybe only a week before Christmas..




Oh how i remember playing around the almost limitless confines of my gradma's house.. though the "playing" has progressed from ice and water to football to PS1 or even cards... Sadly though.. we seem to be skipping the whole "playing" part these days.. it seems as though we are getting too old.. What seemed like pretty parallel lives diverge and drift further as we find our own ways in life..

Much to the contrary, our relationships never seem to grow distant.. It has come to the point where we are so comfortable with each other that we just click no matter how much time stands between our meetings.. We practically grew up together.. and that's something i'm so thankful about..


I'm scared. Scared to think that someday we might not be able to meet up again.. scared to find that someday our paths will take us so far that they may never intersect again.. Scared.. to lose this gift... At this point of time, it feels like i'm on a ride that i never want to end..



Well, i think we would all go through a point in time like this.. I just felt like posting what i was feeling at the moment...

Etched in my memories... Christmas 2008

Defying Inertia

It has been some time since i last blogged and though I'm trying to blog as often as i can, i can never get over this blogger's inertia... (a more scientific term for laziness)

Inertia : the tendency to resist a change in motion

Yup.. just can't seem to get myself to blog... Its like a disease.. But anyway, here I am.. trying to keep my posts regular... So what's new i hear u ask.. well this holidays I've been pretty lazy ( i know its not new but just play along ok? ) .. haven't touched any of my books since that fateful Friday... On the bright side though, i haven't been a complete slob bumming around as well... i just came back from Young Writer's Camp!!!

Honestly, i really had a good time there. It was really something new and i don't regret going at all. Hmmm.. when u picture a writer's camp, what do you envision?? A camp full of bespectacled kids ranting about the latest books around?? Well i took it a step further - bepectacled, ranting, latest books, but most of all... playing lotsa word games (scrabble anyone??no? how about boggle? ) !!

But gosh... was I way off target.. they were just really cool guys who were just passionate about writing.... And in place of word games we actually simulated publishing our very own newspaper!! A whole new peek into journalism!! Well it was really cool to meet all these people who view writing like you do.. and our OWN NEWSPAPER??!! wow.. my group's paper was called The Toiletpaper!!

yup, proud toiletpaperian!! it was a totally new thing and i even got to interview this security guard nearby and who knew he had such a good story to tell!! But if i had to pick one thing that i loved the most about the camp, i guess it would be the people. They were just cool people.. even the editors and Uncle John the housemaster of Harvest Haven...

One of the best parts of the camp apart from the trip to Gua kandu ( you can read about that in arnan's blog The Next Chapter though the link doesn't really work) was the Writer's Slam... What on earth is that??!! that was my reaction too... Well, it was basically a time where we could just go up and read any piece of work wev'e written and the rest of us would give comments...
Kinda the ultimate torture for all writers out there huh? But i guess in a cool community like we have it was more of an encouragement.. Though i didnt go up, it was really cool to just listen to these people... 14 year olds at levels i'm not even close to... it can be intimidating.. but i guess to me i feel more inspired to write like these guys do...

Anyway.. to avoid writing "wordy" posts.. ive decided to end this post shortly..
Just some things to keep u looking at my post!! Try counting the number of times i said 'cool' and post it in my chatbox.. yea it was on purpose.. not really my style to repeat words but i noticed a trend while i was typing and instead of cracking my head for synonyms i tried this instead... yay!!

To end... this is just some of the taglines we used for our Toiletpaper Paper!!

• Cheap yet Indispensible
• News today, Used tomorrow
• We get dirty but we get the job done

Some other suggestions

• Swish and Swash
• Keep in case you have the urge

Thats all!!

coolkajsebsncoolasoinsdoodoasadoosdhoascooloasjdosjooosojdoocoooa
looolsollcoolcoclcllcccoooclcolcooloclllcooclcoooclcolcocclcolcoclcoolcoolo
cloooclcoocolcocoolloooclocccooclolcolcoollocollccoocoollocoocolcoccoolc

Just to make things interesting.. cool!~!

Massacre!!!

The atmosphere of the crime scene was suffocating... You could still feel the sticky traces of the heinous crime lingering in the air... Words were not merely enough... Nothing... i mean nothing could describe the horror... How could this have happened?? Who could have done such an unimaginable and detestable act?? Why? WHY??!!

Theories, theories and theories!! That was all the out of sorts self-employed group of investigators could conjure... But theories aren't good enough to calm the raging curiosities when you have such a long list of casualties.... The faces of the victims are still etched in my mind...

.....

Mr green beetle...
Mr small dragonfly...
Mr and Mrs wasp like insect..
Mr cousin-of- wasp like insect..
and sadly.. Mr fly too... All gone.. missing from where they were last seen... most likely..
*gasps* ... EATEN!!!


yup, those are the faces of my beloved bugs... dead they may be... but to me.. they had a life of their own.. *sniff*sniff* Now.. they have left their community of insects in my form 6 collection... And it really is getting a little lonelier...

These murders (I know they're already dead but what else can i classify it =P).. could have been prevented if i had only read the signs of this serial killer... The disappearance of Mr armor like bug and Mr bee like fly who were recent additions to my lil community of insects were warning signs of a catastrophe waiting to happen.. but i didn't let my mind wander that far...
if only i had......

The suspects... Mafia boss... Mr Rogue rat... wanted for food theft and rubbish ransacking amongst others...
Also fitting the profile would be Leonard the lizard and his boys.... after all, this is what they were famous for - insect murders... Investigations are still being carried out at this point though there aren't any clear leads as of yet... If only Miss really-green grasshopper could still talk... she could have been an excellent witness.. despite citing only small nibble marks on her abdomen... being dead proved too much of a hurdle... ( I know.. like duh!!)

As of now.. my community of insects are being kept in a safe house ( more like big plastic container ) despite producing a rather foul odor in there..... as a measure of safekeeping... We are truly at a lost and sadly mourn our missing friends...

WANTED
For those with information on the following suspects please contact me.
10 sen reward for any information about their whereabouts leading to capture.

* The story above was written based on a true story*

Sorry for such a late post... had connection problems with my internet and such... hope u enjoy... sad though....

After a long wait...

Its been say.. more than a month since my last post over in Lil Green Men.. and well i thought that i should finally update my blog!! ( its about time...)
With a new blog and all.. i'm kinda excited *rubs hands together* After all.. it is my first real post..
Now, to the real thing.... well I've just had my exams and i'm glad to say i did reasonably well!! yay!! *basks in the applause* Actually im pretty satisfied coz i finally managed to get an A for maths though i could have done better if i had avoided some i-wouldn't-be-timothy- if- didn't kinda mistakes... in plain terms.. silly mistakes... but then again.. there wasn't a question that i didn't know how to do.. so that's a good thing rite? Anyway.. PA proved to be tricky.. and i only scraped through by the skin of my gums... But overall.. i'm satisfied!! Ill have to work harder for next year though...

Well, after months of work.. you know what?? My group won the shell-Nst young inventors competition!!! weeeeee!! That was kinda cool.. haha.. it was a great time.. we were staying at Ancasa hotel a "miserable" hotel according to my teammate ( think 4 star).. with buffet serving every night!! Gosh you should have seen the cakes.... anyway it was a good experience not because we won.. but because even i was convinced....i have to admit.. i started off as a sceptic.. but now.. i'm a total believer!! The solar cooker works!!! the perfect, portable, low-cost cooker made from discarded materials!!( yup, u guessed right.. that was from my script) ...neways.. dont wanna bore u with this.. you can read it in tuesdays NST paper (4 nov 08) .. cheh.. sounds so perasan.. if you skim through the papers you will come across my picture.. i looked retarded.. as always... on second thought .. don't skim through it...

Anyway.. i just finished my MUET exam this afternoon... I don't expect a 6.. but i'm satisfied i guess.. after it was all over, i had to wait about an hour more for my dad... he was invigilating elsewhere.. hmmmm.. somehow i decided to kill my time by trying to catch some bugs in school for my bio project...i don't know how but i ended up wandering around like a lost puppy... luckily though i saw these two gorgeous butterflies fluttering near the library... I was on a mission.. equipped (or shall i say ill-equipped) with a few platic bags and err.. a makeshift net... (think plastic bag mounted on a twig) i set off.. swinging wildly with my plastic bags i hoped i'd get lucky... unfortunately... many people.. "happened" to pass by.. and i ended up looking like a fool.. ( just great) ( it looks pretty ridiculous) .. so i just gritted my teeth through all the humiliation thinking that if i persevere i might .. just might catch one... and i'll be the one laughing at the end of the day... and you know what... after all my troubles... after all the sniggers i heard... i FINALLY.............

gave up..... yup u read right... no fairy tale this time... i managed to touch the butterflies a few times until they decided it was too dangerous to stay there anymore.. so they just flew higher...
i could have sworn they were mocking me... catch me if u can they seemed to say....

Oh well.. i did manage to catch a small bumblebee (fascinating)!! Life goes on...

Born Again!!!!

Gone with the old .. and in with the new...
After 9 posts and 38 comments...
I have finally decided to transfer my blog from friendster to blogspot...
I already miss my old one but anyway.. From Breadcrumbs to Lil Green man..
Now i give you... *drum roll* .. Life as I see it!!

Hope to have a happy time blogging.. (at least regularly)
For those who like to reminisce ... http://timothykwan.blog.friendster.com/
Until next time...