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my dear marlena cheer up okae, i have had those days before too. im
sure your boy-boy is busy with his studies thats why got no time to
talk. since you're skipping we might as well go hang out n' chill, how
about asking zakk & nkf dude to the beach for some sun. im looking
far too pale nowadays, need abit of tanning. if their schedule dont
match can always take mc one rite :p
btw, thanks & hellow to lee jen for signing the guestbook. regarding the
joining, well, you join in our convo by replying to the comments thingy
directly. you can be sure that we check the comments every single time
we log in.
blessed union of souls sings "light in your eyes"
agape, sleeping with ghosts

SIGH!!!!!
My throat hurts like hell!
The rest of the evening sucks.
My significant other is busy when I have something serious to talk to him.
TV programmes sucks except for U-571 on Channel i just now.
School work still not done yet.
Decided to skip classes next week cuz of tiredness and incomplete assignments.
My classmate still in hospital and he's being pessimistic about his life. (He has a heart condition).
He's thinking of ending his life.
I don't know what to do.
Wonder whether my significant other still has any feelings left for me.
Whatever.
Favourite song on Perfect 10 right now.
Felt soooooo sad.
Oh no.......one of those nights again! I hate myself!
S.I.G.H
Song: Unwell (matchbox 20)

Marlena

i had a terrifying dream/vision last night. everyone who knows me well
enough would know that i fear nothing & no else except God. so last night,
i had felt fear.
"what would happen to me if there was one day when i could no longer
tell the difference between evil and good."
agape, sleeping with ghosts

THE ORIGINAL MESSAGE WAS SOMETHING LIKE THIS
if one day i could stop sleeping.......
but i decided to make restituition after certain enlightment.
sorry for the insensitivity and hurt that i might have caused.
im sorry.
agape, sleeping with ghosts

PAST..
primary 1 form teacher's name.. mrs teo
last word you said.. byebye
last song you sang.. streets of philidephia

PRESENT..
what's in your cd player.. bruce springsteen sings streets of philidephia
what colour socks are you wearing.. black
what's under your bed.. nothing
what time did you wake up today.. twelve-thirty noon

FUTURE..
where do you want to go.. Used Books Cafe at Manhanttan, NYC
where are you going to live.. emerald hill, singapore
how many kids do you want.. the mrs will decide
what kind of car will you have.. jaguar

CURRENT..
current mood.. insomnia-hyper-insomnia
current music.. mayday sings "i love you bo mang"
current taste.. plain water
current hair.. messed-up
current clothes.. t-shirt n' shorts
current smell.. my palm
current desktop picture.. the moon
current book.. lexus and the olive tree
color of toenails.. off-white
current hate..nothing matters

You..
What does your (nick)name mean.. dead-dead-dead-dead
How old are you mentally (as in are you mature?).. seven
Describe yourself in 5 words.. evil-cunning-fast-small-endless
What are your worst qualities.. procrastination-laziness
How long does it take you get ready in the morning.. 40minutes

Sleep..
Sleep.. i love it
Do you dream at night?.. yesh-yesh
Do you remember your dreams?.. yesh-yesh
What time do you wake up on weekends?.. you tell me
Do you sleep with one pillow or two?.. one
School.. a good place to sleep
do you like school?.. no, but miss it
Why/why not?.. monotonous
What's your fave subject?.. english
Most hated subject?.. maths
Do you have a fave teacher?.. miss lim, my english teacher
Ever had a crush on a teacher?.. are we allowed to????

Friends..
Do you have heaps of friends?..yesh, heaps
Do you have a best friend?.. yesh-yesh
Do you have more guy friends or more girl friends?.. mostly girls
Do you ever get annoyed at any friend?.. yesh-yesh why not
Have you ever stolen a friend's boyfriend/girlfriend?.. never, scared of retribution

Family..
Do you like your parents?.. yesh, at times
Ever run away from home?.. no
Ever thought about it?.. no
Do you have any siblings?.. an elder brother
Do you feel your parents spoil you?.. yesh but until i was seventeen
Do you not get along with any of your family?.. no
Do you have big family get togethers ever?.. no, my is all broken up n' dancing

Relationships..
Do you have a boyfriend/girlfriend?.. nil by mouth
How long have you been together?.. nil by mouth
Ever done something stupid to them?.. should have but cant remember what
Have you ever experienced unrequited love?.. most of the time
Do you find it romantic or hurtful?.. romantic

Morals..
Stolen?.. yesh-yesh
Shoplifted?.. yesh-yesh
Gotten into a fight?.. yesh-yesh
Are you more innocent or guilty?.. depends
Have you ever had to look after someone who was a drug addict?.. yesh-yesh
Are you racist?.. give me a chance n' i'd kill off every KKK member
Are you discriminatory to anyone?.. to KKK members n' animal abusers
Do you have an open or closed mind to other people's beliefs and
feelings?.. open with respect

Music..
What's your fave style of music?.. wadever
Do you play an instrument?.. musically spastic
Do you sing?.. to myself
What's your fave band?.. jimmy eat world - mayday
Why?.. the secret lies in the lyrics
Name 3 CDs that you've bought in the last month.. do pple still buy cds????
Why did you buy them?.. do pple still buy cds????
Are you funny or serious?.. neither, just deadpan
Creative or not?.. depends
Are you outgoing or shy?.. hopelessly shy
Are you lazy or active?.. lazy-lazy-lazy-lazy
Have you ever been hyperactive?.. yesh, always
Are you a naturally hyperactive person?.. yesh, always

Looks..
Are you happy with the way you look?.. yesh, i thank God everyday
What would you change?.. God wouldn't like that
Do you wear makeup regulary?.. i dont think so
Do you have a large wardrobe?.. pitiful wardrobe

Embarrassing moments..
Your all time most embarrassing moment?.. farted loudly in a room
Ever snorted a drink out your nose?.. how do you do that??? teach me
Ever giggled like an idiot?.. do i look like a prissy chick to you????
Ever embarrassed yourself and pretended nothing happened?.. yesh, always
Ever tripped in front of someone you liked?.. nope
Ever said something really stupid?.. yesh, always
Ever fallen off a bed?.. nope
Ever sleepwalked?.. nope
Ever sleeptalked?.. yesh becos im hyper

run this questionaire on yourself and let the whole world know about you
agape, sleeping with ghosts

heyhey! Went to L's house as she is giving free maths tuition to erna now. The bus ride to her place is a killer! Can't stand it! And the tuition lasted for 3 and a half hours! Can't you believe it??!! I think erna's and rebecca's (L's little sis) brains are fried! I almost fell asleep through the session....
Then, went for dinner with zakk, sleeping with ghosts and michelle at newton circus. We had a nice spread with cockles, stingray and all. Zakk and Michelle wouldn't touch the cockles cuz they said it looks yucky. So, it was up to me and sleeping with ghosts to finish them.....which we really don't mind at all!!! We love cockles!!! Hehehehehehe!
I wonder how NKF Dude is coping with his reservist. Hope he's all right and comes back in one piece! Oh ya, FM, if you are reading this, I've ordered Jaga Jazzist for you. It's under your name. So, you know the routine ar....six to eight weeks time.
Will try to do my schoolwork later. I've just realised that i need to finish them by wednesday.
I think i better get cracking now............

P.S So, Matt, r we going or not next week??
Song: Should I Stay (Dreamz FM)
Marlena

its meaningful when someone says "sleep can wait until i die" but its
different when you actually try it. might be going shopping with erny later,
need to get some stuff to prepare for next week. then will meet up with
zakk for dinner when she finishes work at nine-ish.
just last week, i was complaining about the financial dire straits that i
was plunging into but now, i seem to have develop quite a few income
streams suddenly out-of-the blue. God has came through as He always
had. and from that experience ive also learned to be very much frugal
in my spending habits. things for BooksInc. will be ongoing as usual with
me looking for the financing but i dont think i'd be able to get it before
fm comes back from his holls'. so FM if you're reading this, yesh, i'd
most probably fail in getting the financing before you come back but that
doesn't mean im giving up.
mayday sings "innocence"
agape, sleeping with ghosts

when a great band covers a great old song, its equally moving.
and yesh mayday's lyrics albiet hokkien are equally moving coupled
with intricate meaning.
"if we were to collide, let me be the one to burst into flames."
"everywhichaway, you're as beautiful as the rain."
"tomorrow comes to take me away."
thanks to erny n' peizhen for listening.......
U2 sings "unchained melody"
agape, sleeping with ghosts

this is a record-breaker, have been awake for slightly over 38 hours
already. and its all for the sake to see how long i could endure fatigue.
might never try this again because i seem to be assailed by hallucinations.
went down to the tuition agency at GoldenMile Complex (a very dodgy
place) and hope to get assignments soon. the best thing from this
tuition agency is that their rate are the highest that ive heard in a
long while. their minimum rate is $180 - $250 and the requirements
are similar to other assignments that i had taken before.
i bumped into keng pei & marina separately today. keng pei caught me
in the train but pity that i was getting off or else could have catch up abit.
saw marina at the bookstore, and managed to talk abit before i decided
that i need to come back home to rest.
i had bumped into kevin n' fennie while eating at orchard towers the day
before. have been bumping into kevin quite frequently nowadays so kevin
are you stalking or what????
was glad to see hirman, my brother also.
agape, sleeping with ghosts

i wrote this back on 10th june recently:
"i wont be ignored, i’ll still set up BooksInc., rage it into a HEGEMONY,
gobble up Bor#ers, spit out Ki$o, and we’ll cross the bridge when it comes."
for any doubters, it still applies.
agape, sleeping with ghosts

crap, just spilled chocolate milk on my desk, soaking everything within range. now
all my notes & books have chocolate milk stains. damn, the hazards of drinking
while working on your desk. and i wasted a good half bottle of the chocolate milk.
as cliche as it can get, this is like no use crying over spilt milk,
"the impossible is possible tonight,
believe in me as i believe in you tonight."
smashing pumpkins' sings "tonight, tonight"
agape, sleeping with ghosts

tonight, tonight "smashing pumpkins"
time is never time at all, you can never ever leave, without leaving a piece
of youth, and our lives are forever changed, we will never be the same. the
more you change the less you feel, believe, believe in me, believe that life
can change, that you're not stuck in vain. we're not the same, we're
different tonight, tonight, so bright, tonight, and you know you're never
sure, but you're sure you could be right. if you held yourself up to the light,
and the embers never fade in your city. by the lake, the place where you
were born, believe, believe in me, believe, in the resolute urgency of now.
and if you believe there's not a chance tonight, tonight, so bright, tonight,
we'll crucify the insincere tonight, we'll make things right, we'll feel it all
tonight, we'll find a way to offer up the night tonight, the impossible is
possible tonight, believe in me as i believe in you tonight.
agape, sleeping with ghosts

will be going down to the tuition agency tomorrow instead, today just want
to stay at home and rot away. dad is supposed to come down tomorrow
evening to pick up some boxes which had been packed-up already but not
sure whether i'd have the energy to carry through (a lame excuse for being
lazy).
fyi, when it comes to moving stuff, its always me who need to do all the stuff
that requires carrying. so if dad comes down to pick up the boxes, i'd have to
move it to the car then take the journey to toa payoh, and then continue to
carry it all to his place. and after all the moving is done, ive to take the mrt
home myself.
the weather has been kinda of rainy for the past two days which is nice but
i really hate the cold shower. nkf dude is now having "fun" at his reservist, marlena
is working the closing shift while zakk is opening but i think she's catching a
movie with michelle n' a few others later. jo should be working the closing
shift if im not mistaken.
yesterday evening some shitty stuff happened, and i hate it when im implicated
for no F%%King good reason. if my friend is reading this, he's better off dead
for betraying us for a mere $200. dont even think of going home and cheryl was
crying like mad yesterday. son of a bastardized dog.
agape, sleeping with ghosts

Felt like shit today. Had stomach flu.....arghhhh. Thank god it's better now. Rearrange the furnitures in my room. Put up a "pin up" memo board above my desk with the help of my stepdad. Due to a slight mismeasurement, bits of the wall plaster came off while drilling the memo board to the wall. Now there's a hideous hole in my bedroom wall about the size of a two chupa chups lollipops. But all is well as i managed to cover it up with something. Got a really antique radio courtesy of my mum. It is so antique that i had never seen or heard the brand name before. Luckily, it still work out fine. Listening to perfect 10 on it right now.
Sleeping with ghosts, do you really have to work on a magazine now?? I am not deterring you from doing it but i think you need to rest and concentrate on the more important things first. Oh ya, glad that you like the link. I found it cool!
Zakk, miss you. Sorry i couldn't make it to work today. I'll see you soon, alright??
NKF Dude, have fun and have a good tan while serving your reservist. Come back soon!

Here's something for everyone and anyone who is in love or is falling in love.
Love is like a lump of gold,
Hard to get, and hard to hold.
Of all the guys I've ever met,
You're the one I can't forget.
I do believe that God above,
Created you for me to love.
He chose you from all the rest,
Because he knew I would love you best.

Song: Out of Time (Blur)
Marlena

oh yesh, nearly forgot to mention something but i'll working on publishing
a home-made DIY zine again. it will contain most or all of my ramblings in
this blog-space but now in a 'magazine' format. reasons im doing this zine
is because i want to sleep lesser, kill off abit of that sponataneous energy
in me, take my mind off those frustrations, and also to further spread the
word & ongoings of BooksInc.
yesh, i'll be using this zine to shamelessly promote & spread the word of us
wanting to set up a bookstore called BooksInc.
now must crack my head to find a name for the zine, any suggestions????
i used to publish a zine called ChewyStickyGum......
oh yesh, woe of all woes, i have eyebags
for the first time in my 25th year of living.
agape, sleeping with ghosts

thanks to marlena for putting up the new link afterhours literati cafe it seems to
be very interesting for those who are into all the literary stuff.
thanks to everyone who have put up with so much of my nonsense thus far
agape, sleeping with ghosts

Yellow
look at the stars look how they shine for you
and everything you do
yeah they were all yellow
i came along i wrote a song for you
and all the things you do
yeah it was called yellow so then i took my turn
oh what a thing to've done and it was all yellow
your skin oh yeah
your skin and bones
turn into something beautiful
and you know
you know i love you so
you know i love you so
i swam across i jumped across for you
oh what a thing to do you were all yellow
i drew a line i drew a line for you
oh what a thing to do you were all yellow
your skin oh yeah
your skin and bones
turn into something beautiful
and you know
for you i bleed myself dry
for you i bleed myself dry
and it's true look how they shine for you
look how they shine for you
look how they shine for
look how they shine for you
look how they shine for you
look how they shine
look at the stars
look how they shine for you
and all the things that you do
agape, sleeping with ghosts

Just finished printing out my cover letters and resumes and sending them to various established organisations. Who knows I might get lucky and end up with a new job! Keeping my fingers crossed!
FM, it's really good to hear from you again! Miss your "crap" and your "shitstirring"! Hahahaha. I will order for you the cd if it's listed in the system. Hopefully, i will not forget to do it. Anyway, L is doing just fine. Still as loud as the paging system.....hehehe. And still full of swearing and cursing. She's gonna kill me if she knows about this! But i'm sure she knows that i meant no harm. She's giving tuition to Erna if everything goes as planned this Saturday.
Marlena

thank you to edleweiss for signing the GB and also for the faith in
us. am glad to hear from you again, sorry the last time i did not
managed to help out for your birthday bash.
and NKF Dude you've been "countered" by keng pei, she says she
dont deserve to be called "smart alec". i think we should call her
smart girl because she's really very smart and nice too. she left her
comments in your entry which you said she is a smart alec, so go check
it out. btw, NKF Dude, i shall sing to you, "here we go again, the same
old shit again" or do you prefer me singing "purple light in the valley".
have fun at your 6-days reservist.

agape, sleeping with ghosts

shouting in hokkien: "lim lau pei" and im not swearing but rather it is
a form of expressing my happiness. i had a pretty good day today, a very
lucky one, in fact but i shall not reveal why.
Went down to Sunny Bookshop in the afternoon and found out that they no
longer buy 2nd hand books anymore, so ended up selling my stuff at Books
Galore instead. the uncle there quite "brother-brother" with me one but when
it comes down to biz, he gave me terrible prices for the books that i sold to him.
its definitely not easy to sell 2nd books nowadays not even when my books are
in mint condition. i'll try to sort out the details for selling books on this blog-site,
so hope to see it up soon.
looks like i'd very busy in the next few weeks, with moving house to wanting to
sell books via this Blog to sourcing for the financing for BooksInc. of course. this
should keep me busy for quite a while.
was glad to see FM(smoke the holy herb) leaving his comments. am glad that he's
still safe n' sound, and still getting eternally high. wish i was travelling with him too,
2 weeks in thailand and 5 weeks in europe, he's having the time of his life.
agape, sleeping with ghosts

all the things you said to me today,
changed my perspective in every way
these things come to mean so much to me
into my faith you and your baby
it's out there if you want me i'll be here it's out there
i'll be dreaming my dreams with you
and there's no other place that i'd lay down my face
im dreaming my dreams with you
it's out there, if you want me, i'll be here
i'll be dreaming my dreams with you
and there's no other place that i'd lay down my face
i''ll be dreaming my dreams with you
cranberries' "dreaming my dreams"

..................i forgot to mention something. ive decided to sell books
via this blog-site. from our contacts with the suppliers, we will be
selling Fiction/Literature books in our BooksInc. store, and thus, i thought
why dont i start selling some through this blog.
it will NOT be a sophisticated e-retailer thingys but rather like an e-bay kinda
of thing. we'll display pictures & synopsis of the particular title, and if you're
intersted just leave us your request in the comments thingy or in the guestbook
or send us an email, and we fix up the details for the delivery & payment.
so watch this space soon, i'll try to get this bookselling thingy up as soon
as possible. hopefully, this will serve as an "experience" for us prior
BooksInc. bookstore is set up.
oh yeah, you all can be assured that the prices will be the LOWEST among all
the bookstores around, and the books are FIRST-HAND, not used books.
agape, sleeping with ghosts

just finished eating my dinner and the time now is actually 2:15am in the
morning. had went to sleep at seven(pm), woke up at 11:30(pm), all this
becasue i had not slept since yesterday.
after my last blog at three-ish in the morning yestersday, i went insomnia
all the way till seven(pm) today. was out early in the morning, and managed
to do something extremely dangerous today. will not say what but marlena/nkf dude/
zakk would not want me to do it again but..............
am going out to relax abit with marlena tomorrow, and after she goes for her classes
in the evening, i will meet up with zakk. will be reading abit later and then grabbing
some more sleep hours. just like what keng pei said to me today, the cause of my
frequent migraines is due to my lack of sleep. shall take her advice, well at least
for tonight.
agape, sleeping with ghosts

waaahhhhhhhhhhh.....................i am so damn damn damn damn TIRED! I feel as if my limbs are going to fall apart anytime now. Life is soooooo tiring. Opened my mailbox when i reached home and the bills just keep pouring in. Ate my dinner and had a short nap before FRIENDS was on. Then, continued watching Smallville and Alias. Suffered headaches along the way...dunno why.
Met sleeping with ghosts earlier this afternoon. He performed a dangerous act today which i hope he will not repeat again! Talked to him again thru messenger just now and we agreed to meet later to chill out together. Want to get our minds off the serious stuff for a while and think of pretty pink and blue thoughts. Then, it will be back to reality where i have to attend my class in the evening.
I cant last any longer now. Badly need a goodnight rest now. Just wish someone could give me a really good massage right now.
Song: All I Need (Matchbox 20)
Marlena

crap-crap-crap-crap was trying to blog just now until my comp hanged,
and everything went into limbo land. this was what i had tried to blogged
just now, well more or less from my on-n-off memory:
went down just now to get 3 cans of cold coffee from the vending machine
downstairs. the weather was really cool and thought of taking a walk but
then realised how dodgy the neighbourhood, and so took a raincheck. i
used to take late night walks around my old neighbourhood in toa payoh,
and that place just seemed safer. i am glad that im moving back to that
place soon, at the end of this month.
was doing my laundry at 3-ish in the morning, i got weird habits. the washing
machine is damn pissy, it is not automatic so everytime i need to manually
flick the switch between the wash-drain-spin cycles. it is a drag when im
dead tired and still need to do the laundry. when you live alone, no regular
laundry means no clean clothes for you to wear, and there's no way i could
walk around naked. i wished i was Chewbacca then no need to do laundry.
i hope to meet up with zakk & marlena & nkf dude tomorrow, even if it means going
down to their workplace to look for them. have to give them face-to-face
updates of my placs for BooksInc. the plans are too private so i cant air them
here. am glad to hear the zakk's uncle is doing better, will try to visit him soon.
he is a man that imparted knowledge to me, and i respect people that gives me
knowledge.
was worried about survival again and also brooding over BooksInc. financing. but
im trying to work something out but then it'll be very risky on my part. if successful,
it should prove to be very helpful for BooksInc. and also increase the capitalisation
assests of BooksInc.
heard that some unsavoury stuff had happened at my old work place, a manager
quit, and he's quite a good friend of mine. i really wished that place will go to
the dogs. the people that run the place should also be screwed, screwed,
screwed, and screwed some more. no one can understand the anguish unless
it has bitten you so dont give me crap that i should live-and-let-live. i tried that
but each time, the people there just got more shitheaded. everyone said that
i sold my soul to working there but in the end, all i got was ungrateful shit. i dont
take shit and so im just bidding my time.
on to a brighter topic:
im going to move soon so who wants to volunteer to help me to pack. please
give me a call but then you might not be able to get me becos they are going
to cut the line soon. this is what happens when im so dry in $$$$.
whoever that wants to help me pack can leave your instructions in the comments
thingy if im proved to be un-reachable by my mobile. im pretty glad that im moving
back to toa payoh, at least the washing machine is automatic, and i can cook there.
agape, sleeping with ghosts

this is another one of the quizzes, i believe that Marlena has taken them,
and the results are found in the comments thingy. and yeah, my search
for who is "drizzle" is still on. at least, i know it is not Jo, just asked her.


What's your usual [mood]?

agape, sleeping with ghosts

feeling better already but now im so piqued by who is the person that
goes by the nick of "drizzling summer" or "drizzling spring" or just
"drizzling". im very sure it is one and the same person using 3 different
nicks but who ARE YOU.......?
anyway here are some quizzes for you all to mindF$$K yourself.


Which [Finding Nemo] characters are you?


Which [Smallville] Characters are you?

now im both a slacker turtle & a hot girl
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at times like these when i dont feel so bright & cherrio, i'd like
to thank the girl for writing this,
i found that if i could find the energy then, i could find the determination
to keep on going, i learned that your mind can amaze your body, if
you just keep telling yourself, i can do it, i can do it, and i can do it.
it works to a certain extent when im this down. shall get some sleep
now, its three-ish, an early sunday morning..............i feel like shit.
agape, sleeping with ghosts

It was a MADHOUSE at work today!!! And I mean it, literally!!!!! Heard that sales was very good with the launch of the new Harry Potter & the Order of Phoenix book and the storewide discount. There's even this kid who managed to finish reading the WHOLE book of the new Harry Potter! Wow! He must had been in the store since morning.
Wore the wizard hat at work and few of my colleagues commented that it looked good on me! hehehehehe.......I'm flattered! All in all, it was a very hectic, fun and crazy day all roll in one! I'm not even that tired at all. (Erm....well....I only worked for 7 hours today...hehehe.)
FM is away now. Gonna miss him and I still feel really really bad for breaking my promise of sending him off at the very last minute. Well, I'm sure he's enjoying himself as we speak.
HEYYYYYY!!!!! Just watched the news on Channelnews Asia just now. Guess what????!!!!!! They did a coverage of the launch of Harry Potter book worldwide and my workplace was featured too!!!! A couple of my colleagues and managers were caught on camera while they were working! Hahahaha!!!! The crowd in the store even countdown to the official launch timing which is 7.01am! Everything was caught on tape!!!!!! No wonder most of my colleagues said that I miss the fun in the morning cuz I only started work at 5pm today. Nonetheless, it was still a memorable day for me.
Alright. This is where I stop for now.
Cya! Have fun!
Marlena

Hi! How's everyone doing?? Fine?? Good! Sleeping with ghosts, thanks for working sooo hard for the last two weeks or so. In fact, let me say this again.....I'm really happy that all of us put effort into BooksInc, no matter how little the contribution is. It still matters to me. Met an ex-colleague, Dean, at work today.....Sigh.....
Hey, I also wanna tell sleeping with ghosts that I'm really alright now. It's just that when you lament on the past, it just gets to you sometimes. But I'm ok now. No worries.
Hmmmm.......nothing else to say now. So, here's some pointless things that I just feel like writing and telling you guys about them.
My favourite singers/bands: Creed, Matchbox 20, Sarah McLachlan and Jewel.
My favourite songs: Good Enough by Sarah McLachlan and Sacrifice by Creed.
My favourite books: Catch 22 by Joseph Heller, The Odyssey by Homer, Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel and Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
My favourite authors: Too many to mention.
My favourite TV shows: Felicity, Gilmore Girls, Alias, Scrubs and American Family.
My favourite celebrities: Alexis Bledel, Scott Speedman, Sandra Bullock and Bradley Cooper.
My favourite drinks: Black coffee and ice lemon tea.
My most favourite food: Pasta! with lotsa creamy cheessseeeeeeee!!!!!
My favourite phrase: Take Care! Have Fun!
Ok....enough of this stupid, silly information that are not relevant at all.
Take care! Have fun!
Current song: Walking Away (Craig David)
Marlena

woah, didn't knew that that was such a long blog. anyway
i had forgotten one very important thing which is related to
the affairs of BooksInc. to my fellow team mates, i need your
help to monitor something if you are doing cashiering or info
duties. you may know that the hughly popular Oprah's Book
Club is back again in the States. and when she makes a
recommendation, the book would immediately turn into an
overnight bestseller, and not to mention sensation too.
Her current selection is a classic, John Steinbeck's East of Eden.
Can you all monitor if there is unusual number of customers asking
for this particualr title???? i need to know whether Oprah's pick
will affect the buying psyche of the locals & expats. i figure that
the latter will be buying more but i hope the locals respond too.
if it shows positive results, then i think next time we could use Oprah's
pick as a promotion & merch marker for us.
and yes, i had read Stienbeck's "Of Mice and Men". a very moving
story of brotherly love and making a choice of it when reality bites
agape, sleeping with ghosts

at last i feel very much rested now after clocking a few more hours
of sleep earlier in the evening. the day before was an extremely
tired one, got home at around 3-ish in the morning, and only dropping
to bed at around five. woke up at the usual timing today at around
eleven but had to go run an errand in town. it was a very tiring errand
but nonetheless truly rewarding.
i have finished working the Income Statement and the numbers dont look
too good going by my best projections. im not joking when i say that we
need to sell more than 200 books (assuming tradepaper format) per day,
and hopefully more during the weekends & seasonal months. of course,
have to factor in that a sale of a hardcover would roughly equal to the
sale of 2 paperbacks.
like i said i had learned a lot from zakk's uncle yesterday, and he has given
me quite a few ideas for maximizing sales per square feet. it might slightly
deviate our focus a little bit but then, he said that at the onstart of the biz,
sales is more important so that the biz will not encounter cashflow problems.
He says we should seek middle ground at the start, and then from there,
at step at a time, strengthen our focus of what we want BooksInc. to be.
He had also strongly recommended Paragon as a good location even when
rental might be a bit stiff for the lower levels. come to think of it, he does
have a few qualifying points there. and yes, my estimates for the biz-related
costs have been quite spot-on, and in some cases might be even lower than
what i had forecasted.
i should be able to work out the Blanace Sheet today. it another start of a
non-sleep zone for me. will have to run another errand on next tuesday &
wednesday. oh yesh, one more thing, my dad says that i could move over
to Toa Payoh anytime i want. the room is already prepared so it seems its
time to start packing. anyone wants to volunteer to help to pack???? i got
lotsa & lotsa of books to pack. the last time i moved - which was just slightly
a year ago - i had 30 medium-size boxes of books. this time round, i think
im going to have 50 boxes of books.
btw, thanks to nicole for signing the GB, and yesh, we will miss you when you
leave for Brisbane. when yo get back, must come to the store and buy books
from us.
this will be about all, will blog more later after i had completed some work. im
listening to my dad's cd, The Definitive Simon and Garfunkel
simon and garfunkel sings "cecilia"
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im back.......but will blog more later. just wanted to add that i had
learned a lot about doing business from this very nice uncle, zakk's
uncle to be precise, the day before.
jimmy eat world sings "call it in the air"
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Good Afternoon! Feeling very tired today but I guess I still have to go to work later. Anyway, I met up with my best friend, Faizal, from high school yesterday. It was great to see him again. He wanted to treat me and another friend to dinner as soon as we can fix a date to meet together. Yum! Yum!
We laughed over at all the silly things that we did back then and the photos that we had taken. It was nice. All the good memories.....as well as the bad ones flooded back in our minds. Overall, it was good to see and talk to him again after a long time.
Current Song: Going Under (Evanescence)
mArLeNa

I'm depressed. I'm sad............
Love you, m.s.k.l
Current Song: Cry (Kym Marsh)
Marlena

**pointless update**

Since Felicity is over now, I'm so into Gilmore Girls! I do like Gilmore Girls since they started but I became more interested in the show when they introduced a new cast, Jess! He's soooooooooooooooooooo cute!!!!!! Hehehehe! Now, I have Alexis Bledel and Milo Ventimiglia's wallpaper on my desktop!
Music: Where you lead, I will follow you (Gilmore Girls theme song)
Marlena

NKF Dude, sorry to hear that L gave you hell earlier this afternoon. Sigh......I guess we are always caught in between when it comes to L and sleeping with ghosts. What to do, right?? They are our friends after all.
Sleeping with ghosts, please do get some SLEEP!!!! I'm warning you.....If you don't, I'm going to put some sleeping pills in your drinks and put you to bed! Hahahahaha........
Zakk, I'm really sorry I couldn't make it for the chalet. Bear with me, k?? Do enjoy yourself there. But don't drink....
Miss you guys. Btw, if I'm not wrong, I heard that one of the members of Good Charlotte used to work in Borders in Maryland! He said it's a place full of dust! Hehehehe.....
Current song: Seven Nation Army (White Stripes)
Marlena

im so tired now, was going through the financials with my fren
eariler, and my eyes are popping out already. i have also worked
out the all-important Sales Forecast, which either looks very
"doctored" or very confusing. from here, i guess working out the
income statement & balance sheet should be more or less easy.
but im still unsure about the cashflow statement.
tomorrow evening, zakk & i will be paying her uncle a visit at
his chalet. our chat should be centred on the biz-related
costs, but if he talks about the financing then that would be
a bonus. but before that, i'll be going down to the church in
the afternoon to look for Dad, need to have some serious
discussion with him. now, im off to buy dinner. yes, i haven't
eat yet nor have i have slept very much either. in the last 48hrs,
i only got 3 hrs of shut-eye. will blog later.
song: jimmy eat world's "call it in the air"
agape, sleeping with ghosts

some smart alec told me she knew bout the blog in front of lettuce and i got hell from lettuce
NKF dude

I know it's a tough period for us right now. But hey, don't let one problem bogged you down. There will be more to come and we overcome it.......together. I know that all of us hardly have the time to meet up lately but don't worry, sleeping with ghosts, you can always pick up the phone and call us. And all of us will meet up soon, k? I promise.
When there is love, there is life - Mahatma Gandhi.
Current song: Girl From Mars (Ash) - This song keeps playing in my mind ever since FM played it over the air at work.
Marlena

its 7:30-ish in the morning and still haven't slept. couldn't get
to sleep because was worried about the financing for BooksInc.
at times, i have to wonder aloud, how the hell am i going to
source for $400K???? and after going through the numbers
for BooksInc.'s expenditure for projections of 1-month, 3-months,
6-months, im think im going to develop heart-burn. i'll post the
expenditure numbers later in the day, once i have recovered
from the initial shock. i hope to get the Sales Forecast done
today, and maybe from there work on the Projected Income
Statement & Balance Sheet & Cashflow Statement.
i know im going to have a lot of difficulty working out the
sales forecast & cashflow statement. feel like kicking myself
for not paying enough attention during my accountancy classes.
And guess what, there is a fickle passing rain shower happening
now.
sighz.......still so many things undone for BooksInc., but must
perservere. and not to mention my very-soon-to-be-running-
low finances. i really have to mindf#@k myself in order to get
through this ordeal. im going to mindf$#k myself that i can get
the $400K. im going to mindf%%K myself that i can handle
all this. believe me when i say that this kind of living is tougher
than working at where i used to work. at least at that place,
friends were there daily, always at hand. now, ive my team
members but somehow, because i dont see them daily and
that does affects me.
it has been a long time since i felt this sort of pressure. but i
trust in Him to get me through.
agape, sleeping with ghosts

hello ........ zakk here.

sleeping with ghosts, Do me a favor & make up your mind
what you want to address me by in the blogg & stick by it. tx. marlena & u
have been actively writing in the blogg whilst e rest of us are slacking, so i
decided to log on on check out what's happening in the blogg. interesting stuff.
sleeping with ghosts bearing his heart out yep. that's it, that's all i have to say.
i leave you with 8 lines below. till then....

in the garden of good & evil,
sounds medieval.
i don't know right from wrong,
forlonged.
the world makes me weirder,
sometimes even madder.
what' will I Do,
i haven't a clue, U?


All the time in the world,
that is till i turn Blue.

Zakk

was browsing through the BookPage website and read this interview
on Michel Faber, author of The Crimson and the Petal. and this was
what he had to say about his aversion to telephone conversations.
"Telephones are evil because they encourage you to imagine that
you're having a real conversation, when really you're hearing
disembodied noises coming out of a plastic doodad."
agape, sleeping with ghosts

it is now 7:05am in the morning, and it is just about to rain cats
and dogs now. the skies are very very gloomy looking. ive not
slept a single bit yet since yesterday and now, im pretty pleased
with myself because i have just completed working out the numbers
for BooksInc. capital expenditure & staff expenditure. It is now all
nicely done in an Excel spreadsheet. will continue working on the
operating expenditure, rental expenditure, inventory expenditure,
and also sales forecast + breakeven analysis when i wake up
later in the afternoon. Marlena just messaged me saying that she's afraid that her
brolly will get blown away by the strong winds. Anyway, later towards
the early evening, i'll be meeting audrey to update her on the workings
for BooksInc.
agape, sleeping with ghosts

ho no ho no ho no........to FAROKH,
it is time that you stop listening to Goldfrap, and boycott them forever.
burn all their CDs because im now watching another MTV of theirs, the
song is "Train". and a very hedonistic video too
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take this test.......

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my favourite reads thus far in my 25th year of living.......
jeanette winterson's "written on the body"
haruki murakami's "the elephant vanishes"
douglas coupland's "all families are psychotic"
stephen dobyns's "eating naked"
jostein gaarder's "the solitaire mystery"
john steinbeck's "of mice and men"
sylvia plath's "the bell jar"
jostein gaarder's "the christmas mystery"
helene hanff's "Q's legacy"
ted hughes's "difficulties of a bridegroom"
gordon west's "by bus to the sahara"
upton sinclair's "the jungle"
eric schlosser's "fast food nation"
jostein gaarder's "through the glass darkly"
sylvia plath's "johnny panic and the bible of dreams"
everything by roald dahl
j d salinger's "catcher in the rye"
jeanette winterson's "oranges are not the only fruit"
fynn's "mister god, this is anna"
j d salinger's "nine stories"
everything by p l travers
soh sheng aik's "pop philosophy"
colin cheong's "tangerine"
jostein gaarder's "sophie's world"
adrain tan's "teenage textbook"
adrain tan's "tennage workbook"
douglas coupland's "miss wyoming"
anne fadiman's "ex libris"
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oooohhhhh, playstation i want to play too. seems like a mellowish
night, with insomnia kicking, there's no way i can go to sleep. this
is like fading into myself, hanging on to the bits & pieces of what i
had lived. just caught the french show, Amelie on TV earlier, and it
was good. a show with a happy ending is always good. mellowish,
mellowish, mellowish, and im playing a very mellow song on a loop
too. im biting my fingernails again, if this continues on, i dont think
im going to have any nails left. im still working out the numbers for
BooksInc., really wished i had paid more attention during my accounting
& finance classes in the poly. or i could wish for a professional to
help me out but then that would be dreaming..............
at this moment now, reading list are thomas friedman's "lexus and the
olive tree", naomi klein's "no logo", and al ries's "focus".
song: Mazzy Star's " Fade Into You"
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Yep. I do have class on that day. So, i dun tink i can make it for the getaway. But, I'll reconfirm with you guys again when nearer to date. Chill, thanks for the suggestions, ya. Miss ya.

Had a pre-Father's Day dinner today and I am sooooo full right now. Feel very happy even though my whole family members couldn't be here to celebrate Father's Day together. And i had submitted my assignment today. It feels great to have more than half of the workload done. Now, i'm going to play the playstation with my sister for some relaxation. She bought the sequel to the first Harry Potter game which is the "Harry Potter & the Chamber of Secrets." Hahahaha! We are going to nail Lord Voldermort again!!!!!

Current song: Save Me....!!! (Remy Zero)
Marlena

to my fellow team members, could all of you confirm whether you'd
be able to attend the chalet getaway on this coming wednesday,
the one that zakk's uncle had organised?
if you're working maybe you could swap your shift to the morning,
so that we could go down in the evening. for marlena, i believe that
you are having classes, is it?
and yes read the guestbook, though i do not know who was the
person that signed it. Are you able to identify this person through
his/her email addy, phrozenchill@hotmail.com
of course, a great thanks to him/her that signed the GB, ive taken
your suggestion to add in the Booker Prize link. how could i have
forgotten adding this link, i had added Orange but not Booker????
thanks for the encouragement, we need it & appreciate it
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norah jones, "come away with me"
come away with me in the night
come away with me
and i will write you a song

i want to walk with you
on a cloudy day
in the fields where the yellow grass grows
knee-high
so won't you try to come

come away with me
and i'll never stop loving you

so all i ask is for you
to come away with me in the night
come away with me

this is a partial excerpt of the norah jones song, a song that i really like.
i remember that there used to be a giant TV screen outside the wall facade
where Zara is now. and they used to play this "come away with me"
music video at the screen. whenever i walked past and saw the video,
it felt very surreal. for a moment, i'd smile and know that life is good,
no matter what happens.
going on, this song is also for her. but then i dont think she will ever know it. am working so hard to to make sure we can work this out somehow but she will never realise it. maybe she doesn't want this relationship anymore
agape, sleeping with ghosts

right about now, erny, michelle, jo & leticia are at Subway having
supper after finishing work. while im here thinking, thinking, and thinking.
btw, audrey just called me that on this coming wednesday, her uncle has
invited us to his chalet, so that we could speak to him about the biz.
i dont think he will talk about the financing but rather on his experience
in biz, which i think is good. at least, he knows how much a POS cash
register will cost us. so i hope the whole team can attend this chalet
getaway.
i had also asked audrey to fix up a meeting between us and Elim Chew,
owner of 77th Street because there are a lot of things that we can ask
her. especially the part on biz costs in the setting up period.
agape, sleeping with ghosts

im having big big headaches with working out the financial plans
for BooksInc. so many figures, so much expenditure, so much
forecast, and so little time. i had just message a bunch of my
friends to inform them the Blog is up, and i hope that you all will
leave your comments or write in the guestbook. and now back
to staring at the numbers or should i say that the numbers are
staring at me.
agape, sleeping with ghosts

Nice song....I like "Good Enough" ever since it was played on Felicity a while back. Very good song.
Jo, thanks for helping us on the blog. We really appreciate it.

Current song:Forgive by Rebecca Lynn Howard
Marlena

Sarah McLachlan's Good Enough
Hey your glass is empty, it's a hell of a long way home.
why dont you let me take you it's no good to go alone.
i never would have opened up but you seemed so real
to me. after all the bullshit i've heard it's refreshing not
to see. i dont have to pretend. she doesn't expect it
from me. so dont tell me i haven't been good to you.
dont tell me i haven't been there for you. just tell why
nothing is good enough. Hey little girl would you like
some candy. your momma said that its ok. the door is
open come on outside. no i can't come out today. it's
not the wind that cracked your shoulder & threw you
to the ground. who's there that makes you so afraid
you're shaken to the bone. you know i dont understand
you deserve so much more than this. So dont tell me why
he's never been good to you. dont tell me why he's never
been there for you. dont you know that why is simply not good
enough. so just let me try & i will be good to you. just let
me try & i will be there for you. i'll show you why you're
so much more than good enough...

i like this song a lot from long time back.......
agape, sleeping with ghosts

thank you Jo, for helping us to put up the "moving words" thingy
at the Internet Explorer taskbar. It looks wonderful thanks, im
sure my fellow team members will say the same too.
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By the way, i wonder what happened to my other team bloggers?? Zakk, NKF Dude and FM, if you are reading this, please don't be shy and post something on the blog, k? Take care guys and i'll join you in dreamland soon.
Marlena

"the sky lit up"
my ex-girl said that writers are a funny breed. standing under it, the spiteful
sky lit up. shooting my mouth off, i say its no holy fire. the night evolves into
drifters' eyes that devours. the moon watches the steps i tread. walkin' on
these streets, fiddling with the craze juju beads in my left hand, i say these
streets have no names.
turning the corner, i see you are the one with the cigs. and white trails so
seductive, clings onto you. and slowly dances away from you too. please
dont say that the weed will make me swell. i just wanna be small. moving
away, i headed for the train station. no moonlight. but the sky lit up again.
i looked at my juju beads. threw them up against the backlit sky. hopin'
they'd form a unison square in mid-flight. and that was the last i saw of them.
some time into the night, i reached the station. boarded the train. that will
bring me on right.
sitting on the orange seats. i see no one except the playful air. gazing out
from the train, i saw the lit-up sky again. facing away, i said i'll be dreaming
my dreams. the music fades. then, an angel sat beside me. her eyes were
painfully bright. casting no shadows, she told me its time to get off the train.
and so, into my writing faith i enter. writing has never left me nor has i ever
gave up on it. we do make quite a pair. even if it doesn't move nine cloud
mountains nor dries up the seven deadly seas. i will keep on writing.
and i continue to walk down the streets of no names. above the tree-line.
below the jagged rockface. strangers beside me. and they say i will rise
to the occasion. spreading it killingly silent. hush. i say writers are a funny breed.

i wrote this prose back in 2000, been a long time.
agape, sleeping with ghosts

today today has been a slow day, dont feel too good,
feels like a migraine attack coming on again.
today today i spent the whole day thinking of a very serious issue.
today today i spent part of the day working on this Blog.
today today i spent part of the day working on BooksInc. stuff.
just now, i went to 7-Eleven to get some snacks, and i saw something unusual.
it was around 1 plus in the morning so the neighbourhood was like deserted.
and while walking pass the fruit stall, i saw bunches of semi-ripe bananas
hanging on the racks fixed outside their store. The fruit stall is already close
but then they have a "al-fresco" hanging rack to display their fruits.
and low & behold, i saw bunchs of bananas hanging there gaily.
so dont tell anyone, but i stunned 2 bunches...... :0
i promise i'll give 1 bunch to my landlord tomorrow morning.
agape, sleeping with ghosts

A friend of mine, Faizal, came up with this poem originally and i amended it to this....

the bright moon and sparkling stars illumines the dark sky tonight...
i wonder how you are...
whether you are safe and sound...
i will be thinking of you...
goodnight to you.

Marlena

Can't sleep tonite. Enjoyed class this evening but the essays just keep coming in. Thinking of staying up late and work on them later. My lecturer asked us to watch Matrix Reloaded or How to Lose a Guy in 10 days and study the scenes. One of my new classmates, Roy, sent me an SMS after the class and asked whether i'm interested to watch the movie with him and few of our classmates. I don't know what to say cuz my colleagues did mentioned that they want to watch the movie too.....
Anyway, thought of taking medical leave for work tomorrow as i need to pay the national library a visit to do some research. Matt is going there to do some research for his assignments too. Haven't told him about my plans for work tomorrow but i'm sure he don't mind if i tag along with him to the library.God. I'm feeling very stressed out right now. I also have this uneasy feeling which doesn't seem to go away. I feel as though my days at my workplace will soon be over. I dunno why.....just feel that way. Maybe I took a lot of annual leave, off-in-lieu and stuff this month but hey, i'm entitled to that. I don't think they will fire me based on that, right?? Sigh...................
Anyway, here's a poem that is written by Zakk. She sent it to me through SMS and i think i should put it on the blog.
- the colour green, its not what it seems
it lives, it breeds,
it nourishes, its something we eat
the colour green, imagination brings it to extremes.

Marlena

this excerpt is from this book that im reading now, "Lexus and the Olive Tree" by Thomas Friedman

~Let's look at this in detail. The 3 democratizations lowered the barriers
to entry because with a single personal computer, credit card, phone line,
modem, colour printer, Internet link, Web site, and Federal Express delivery
account, anyone could sit in the basement and start his or her own
publishing house, retail outlet, catalogue business, global design or
consulting firm, newspaper, advertising agency, distribution business,
brokerage firm, gambling casino, video store, bank, bookstore,
auto sales market, or clothing showroom. And it could be done overnight
at very low cost, and the company could become a global competitor by the
next morning. You could be living in a block with 3 bookstores -
Barnes & Noble, Crown Books and Borders - and practically overnight
you could be giving them all a run for their money by creating
"Borderless Books" in cyberspace by the name of Amazon.com.
Amazon.com was created out of the democratization of technology
(home computers for all), the democratization of finance (credit cards for all)
and the democratization of information (the Internet for all) to become not
just a neighbourhood bookstore tailored to the specific buying habits of a
community, but a 24-hour bookstore, where you can shop anytime and
the whole store is dedicated to you.~

agape, sleeping with ghosts

this is Kosheen's "Hide You"
if you were in my heart, i surely would not break you.
if you were beside me, then my love will take you.
i keep you in safety forever, protect you.
i will hide you, away from the world you rejected.
i will hide you, i will hide you.

agape, sleeping with ghosts

"in the last temptation, the girl asked the devil to jump first instead."
"she said: "You go first (with a smile)." "
im so distracted nowadays. i need help. Hide me.

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Wisdom Begins In Wonder
- Socrates

Marlena

KUDOS to Jo and Kenny (sleeping with ghosts) for doing a good job on the blog. It looks better and interesting now. Ken, try to get a better colour tone...don't get me wrong. The colour on the blog looks better now but if you can get more vibrant colours, that would be good! And as for the pictures gallery, can we just display any photos or should it be copyright or taken by ourselves or something? All in all, nice job done guys! I like it!

Time flies fast at work today. Received a big stalk of sunflower from a friend of mine, L , for no apparent reason. I was so surprised and it just made my day. Since i was in a good mood, i bought a book (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) for my 12-year-old sister, Erna. She is reading Chapter 12 now as we speak.......what a fast reader.
I'm still stuck with the damn school essays.......can't even get through the introduction part. DAMN. Honestly, i'm more interested working on this blog than working on my essays. Hehehehe.........

Had a short phone conversation with Matt just now. Feels good to be able to have a talk with him after a few days. Don't know why but i have this kind of happy, light, tingling feeling in me after hanging up. Maybe it's because i didn't get to talk and joke around with him for quite a while. Told him about this blog and had asked him to take a look at it. Also, bought a gift for him and i hope he will like it.
Overall, feels great and energised but still doen't feel like doing my essays.......

Mum resigned again today because of some conflict at work so she's jobless now. Told her not to worry too much and asked her to pay more attention to Erna instead, whom by the way, has become more mischievious and stubborn.
Tomorrow is my off day but i need to go for class in the evening.......sigh. Tomorrow's lesson will be "writing for the screen". Hope my lecturer will let us watch a show or something which he promised he will do as part of the lesson.

I guess i'll stop here now. Will continue tomorrow..............maybe.

Bye, have fun!


Marlena

ooi ooi ooi ooi........

Jo & i made quite a bit of changes today, she did more on the technical side while i was fiddling
around with the color scheme & font type/size.
If you all think the color is un-suitable we can always change it again , no problem.

i hope the Blog is working better now, though we still have quite a bits of things to add & change to it.

sleeping with ghosts

i'm jo here, i've added some links to the blog.... for the contact, u guys can add links to ur e-mail addy too.... for the gallery, u can upload pics n stuff.... i haven learn how to put the pics on the blog itself yet.... there's some problem with the comment thing as u can see, but i'll try to solve the problem... if there's anything u guys wanna change or add, just me me know....

Extended Late Night Runnings..........

a crusade, a baptism of fire, a road without end,
a faith unbroken, a line crossed, a dream missed,
a light shines, a creed, a logo divided, we see, we let go,
a possession damned, a stained past, an intrusion,
a colour braided, a fault deepens, a crack appears,
with words plagiarized, with senses neutered,
a killing, a pain un-removed, a Spirit of the Trinity,
a rape muffled, a silent cry, a junta amassed,
a readiness negated, a political suicide, a society
an uprising for rebellion, i might never be able to run away again,
a loneliness restored, a pretence needed, a breath exhaled,
i wont be ignored, i’ll still set up BooksInc., rage it into a hegemony,
gobble up Bor#ers, spit out Ki$o, and we’ll cross the bridge when it comes.

sleeping with ghosts

late night runnings, nearing 2am............

i still want to set up a bookstore and we will call it "BooksInc."

sleeping with ghosts

ooi ooi ooi ooi.........

For your information, i had enlisted Jo to help us with the workings of this Blog becos Marlena & me had a hard time figuring it out today. Jo will help us as when she could becos she's juggling both work & studies, a punishing schedule nonetheless.

So i hope that all of you could extend your thanks to her, for helping us.
And in order to help us, she need to have Administrator status which means that she needs to have both User ID & Password. i have given it to her so that she can work on the Blog.

For her information, i'd run through the nicks that we all have for our own names.
Marlena = Erny
Zakk = Audrey
NKF Dude = Kevin
FM = Farokh
sleeping with ghosts = kenny

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testing 4 5 6

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i have just spent the whole afternoon at Marlena's place trying to figure out how to make this a better Blog. Have successfully inserted the Comments thingy so it works now, but it is slightly complicated so we have to teach it to all of you first.

Oh yeah please answer to the email invitation in your own email account. It is to facilitate the team members sign-up so that we can have individual name posting.

agape, sleeping with ghosts & Marlena

well well well
i am back
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NKF dude

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i wont be ignored.......i want to set up a bookstore and it's called BooksInc.

sleeping with ghosts

avarice, avarice, avarice, avarice, avarice, avarice, avarice, avarice, avarice, avarice, avarice, avarice, avarice, avarice, avarice, avarice, avarice, avarice, avarice, avarice, avarice, avarice, avarice, avarice, avarice, avarice, avarice, avarice, avarice, avarice, avarice, avarice, avarice, avarice, avarice, avarice, avarice, avarice, avarice, avarice, avarice, avarice, avarice, avarice, avarice, avarice, avarice, avarice, avarice, avarice, avarice, avarice, avarice, avarice, this is one word that is swirling in my mind now.

Avarice is defined as “Extreme Greed for Riches”

Is it one of the seven deadly sins????

agape, sleeping with ghosts

ooi ooi ooi ooi……….

Some bad news for me though not killer yet. As usual, i had screwed up my calculations for my paycheck, and i had got $250.00 instead of the $500 plus that i thought i’d be getting. So this is going to be really crazy, how the hell am i going to survive but then i will survive, i always do. God is here for me and He is testing me. i see it as a test because i believe in Him. i guess now i should take a very pro-active approach to look for other sources of income (tuitioning or selling my books to the 2nd bookstore)

i hope the audition for a local documentary show is still on. This is something that my good friend, Gracie had told me about. There was an audition on Saturday but was too sick & weak to get out of the house. If i managed to clinch a role, Gracie was saying the payroll would be around $40 - $50 per day. That is good considering the state that i am in now.

i did not managed to make good my promise of trying to get the 1st 50K before the 8th of June so im sorry but im still working on it.

If this was last time when i wasn’t so “fierce”, i’d say “This is Life Sucks Die”. But now, i am a “fierce” boy so nothing can stumble me. And i trust in God as fiercely as i had the first day when i accepted him as my Saviour.

And why am i using the word “fierce”???? Well, this had to do with a movie that i had watched some time back. It was about car-racing and the supporting actor was telling the lead that in order to win the race & in life, he had to be “fiercer” than the car. Meaning he mustn’t allow the car to take control of him but rather he must be fierce enough to take control of it and wield it to his own will. So in life, one must be fierce enough, fiercer than anyone else to win the race.

agape, sleeping with ghosts

oooohhhhhh..........
im feeling so much better today, no more breaking out in cold sweat, no more running 37.4 C temperature, though i still feel a bit woozy.
The day started nice, watched a WWII documentary on the dictator Mussolini on National Geographic while loungin' in the bed. It rained and glad it did cos it's so damn hot for the past few weeks.
Today, i shall summon all my strength to continue working on the business of BooksInc. i must work out a list of what are the things to be completed, and then fix an appointment with Marlena to go to her place to work on "beautifying" this Blog.
i had wanted to go down to her place yesterday but was so harrassed by my migraine attacks that i couldn't get out of bed. Somehow, i think my migraine attacks are getting worst, and getting more frequent too.

agape, sleeping with ghosts

HALO!! Haven't been blogging for 2 days now. Exams is over and it's back to assignments now. Sat for my marketing paper last thursday and thank god that i've almost all the answers to the questions. Quite positive that i can get a credit for that paper....keeping my fingers crossed!

Earlier today, i went to my younger sis's school to attend the "meet the parents" session. As my parents couldn't make it due to work, i had to come to replace them. Had to have my temperature checked still when i arrived at the school with my sis although singapore has been taken off the WHO's list of SARS-affected countries. It seems that singapore is not being complacent and still practise precautionary measures. Anyway, moving on......met a few of my old teachers at my sis's school. (she's in the same primary school as i was in 10 years ago.) They asked how my father is doing now as he used to work there, my studies and blah, blah, blah. Overall, it's good to be back in my old primary school....bring back fond memories.
I hope "sleeping with ghosts" is feeling better now. Heard that he hasn't been feeling too well since yesterday. Hey, if you are reading this, just wanna tell you that erna is disappointed that you couln't come over. hehehe.....just take better care of yourself and hope to see you around.
To my other friend, FM, your trip to Italy is drawing near. Have fun and enjoy yourself to the fullest! Don't forget to come back. We will miss you.
I was pretty pissed off with my sis for managing to break into my user's password for the pc just now. She's becoming out-of-control lately. Sigh........now i know how difficult it is to handle a child....seriously. I was soooo disappointed when i found out about her first big lie to me a couple of days ago and today, she managed to break into my user's id secretly. She was never like this before. At times, i wonder where do i go wrong? I gave her love, care, guidance and attention as much as i possibly can....maybe...maybe it's just not enough. Or maybe this is part of her growing up.....Sigh. Whatever.
Anyway, gotta go back to my assignments now as i have one due this tuesday and another one this coming saturday. Hope i could finish them on time or else i'll lose marks for late submission. So...i'll c u guys again soon. Keep reading......
Marlena

uuuhhhhhh........

dont feel so well today, have been breaking out in cold sweat the whole day, and feeling sleepy all the time. this is not good. im like totally soak in sweat whether im sleeping or typing now.
will go down to the supermarket later to buy FRUITS, i think i need to eat lotsa of fruits.

sleeping with ghosts

Hello to all, hello to all, hello to all…….
It has been a very tiring day for me or at least, this is how im feeling right now.
Had met my pastor this afternoon as scheduled for my Catechism class, and also to discuss about the financing plans for BooksInc. The discussion had its bumps & knocks but it ended on an overall positive note. My pastor highlighted some stuff that we should be working on, like making prototypes of our advertising flyers, feedback forms, corporate folder, press kits, etc.

My pastor will help us to identify the potential lenders & make the initial introduction once we’ve completed everything, and bundle it into a presentation package. So i hope everyone will gear up for the presentation once we are done with everything.
Today i guess it was mentally draining for me but ultimately fruitful.

i’ll be working out a list of To-Do-Things to get us on schedule, so the next 2 weeks will be like crazy. Next thing, is that i’d want to thank my own team members for being so accommodating towards me for so long. Thanks to NKF Dude for helping to get the daily sales & customer database, thanks to Marlena for this Blog & also the bestseller report, thanks to Zakk for being a listening ear & trusting me, and thanks to FM for everything everything everything thus far. And of course, thanks for the laughter that you all had shared with me.

ive given this BooksInc. Blog addy to Michelle C so she would soon see what we’ve been up to. What the rest of you can do is to pass this Blog addy around to your close friends so that they can get familiarize with us. It is some sort like a word-of-mouth advertising for our BooksInc. brand name. Afterall, we’re trying to set up a Boutique Bookstore that specializes in the Fiction/Literature genre.

We’ll soon put up a Comments column so that visitors to BooksInc. can give their two cents too. Pictures of us will be up soon too.

agape, sleeping with ghosts.

I'm back again! Well, well, what should i talk about today?? It's 00:22am right now in singapore. Weather has been terrible lately. It is so hot and humid. Do you know that in India, the temperature is about 43 degrees??!!! And about 160 people (if I'm not wrong) had died from dehydration there!! Yup, it's more terrible there so don't complain you singaporeans out there..hehehehe.

I've just finished watching an old show on TV just now. It's called "Dracula 2000". I'm sure a lot of you out there had seen the movie right?? Talking about movies, my friends watched "Bruce Almighty" in the cinema this evening. I hope they had a GOOD laugh and enjoy themselves while watching it. I heard it's a fabulous show starring Jim Carrey as the leading actor. Too bad I can't join them because I have to go for my part-time course after work. Exams is coming soon. In fact, it's two days more....WAH! TWO DAYS! What am I doing??!! I should be revising my school work right now! *panic*

I have five new colleagues at work today. They are still in training so I think they will only be completely ready to be on the shopfloor next week. Hmmm.....hope our workload will be lighter and hope there will not be shortage of manpower again.
By the way, Harry Potter's fifth book will be out on 21st June! I'm sure you guys had heard of it! Can't wait to read it. I've read the first four books and now, I'm wondering what will the adventure be this time. If you are not sure of the new title, it's called "Harry Potter and The Order of Phoenix". At my workplace, all staff have to wear the Harry Potter's T-shirts which are given to us by a local distributor in conjunction with the launch of the new Harry Potter book. If you still didn't know, I work in a bookstore. That's the reason why we have to wear the T-shirts and it's not for sale. Sorry.........

Marlena

hello... zakk here. just testing how this works. take care.

all e time in e world,
till i turn blue.
zakk

Let me tell you about a gentleman I once knew who, although he was of pleasing appearance and modest behaviour, and also a very capable warrior, was not so outstanding as regards any of these qualities that there were not to be found by many who were his equal and even better. However, as luck would have it, a certain lady fell very deeply in love with him. She saw that he felt the same way and as her love grew day by day, there not being any way for them to speak to each other, she revealed her sentiments to another lady, who she hoped would be of service to her in this affair. Now this lady neither in rank nor beauty was a whit inferior to the first; and it came about that when she heard the young man (whom she had never seen) spoken of so affectionately, and came to realise that the other woman, whom she knew was extremely discreet and intelligent, loved him beyond words, she straight away began to imagine that he must be the most handsome, the wisest, the most discreet of men, and, in short, the man most worthy of her love in the world. So, never having set eyes on him, she fell in love with him so passionately that she set out to win him not for her friend but for herself. And in this, she succeeded with little effort, for indeed she was a woman more to be wooed than to do the wooing.
And now listen to the splendid sequel: not long afterward it happened that a letter that she had written to her lover fell into the hands of another woman of comparable rank, charm and beauty; and since she, like most women, was curious and eager to learn secrets, she opened the letter and read it. Realising that it was written from the depths of passion, in the most loving and ardent terms, she was at first moved with compassion, for she knew very well from whom the letter came and to whom it was addressed; then, however, such was the power of the words she read, turning them over in her mind and considering what kind of man it must be who had been able to arouse such great love, she at once began to fall in love with him herself; and the letter without doubt far more effective than if the young man had written it to her. And just as it sometimes happens that the poison prepared for a prince kills the one who tastes his food, so that poor woman, in her greediness, drank the love potion prepared for another. What more is there to say? The affair was no secret, and things so developed that many women besides, partly to spite the others and partly to follow their example, put every care and effort into winning this man's love, squabbling over it for a while as boys do for cherries.
- BALDASSARE CASTIGLIONE,
THE BOOK OF THE COURTIER,
Translated by George Bull.


Marlena