Jaywalker II

to cut the crap, Atlas sided with the wrong side and was punished by zeus, who had him hold Gaia and the heavens apart. while more rightly portrayed as holding 2 spheres apart, it is quite common to find the foamer titan portrayed as holding a huge globe, the earth. more like getting pinned down by it, because its just massive. leaving aside the squabble on whether greeks always thought the earth to be flat or had discovered that it was a sphere through observation of ships from the horizon, one would indeed wonder what supported atlas as he supported earth and heaven. if i did not remember wrongly, Plato answered it in the Republic as being a huge celestial tortoise, supported by another celestial tortoise below, and another below, and all the way down to infinity and the Creator's intention.

i was reminded of this poor titan as i was crossing the road. more like jaywalking the road. since drinking from the chalice that was Dangerous Living, i have not looked back. dangerous living is fun and i always look for ways to regress towards infinite fun. so now i also jaywalk when there are vehicles on the road and when they travel fast too. one particular red vios had to ebrake just so that i would still live to cross the road again. that begs the question on why i crossed the road, but thats for another time. because it was fun. and the driver, a woman in her 30s was shocked. her face was white as sheets, i saw it from across the illegally tinted glass.

just minutes later i was at another crossing, near my place, where normally, nobody, save a few losers, ever bothered about the traffic light. it was pointless anyway, since the traffic light was meant for buses going into the interchange. and buses are not despatched very minute anyway, especially from this mininode. but at that very moment there was a whole mix of people waiting on the little island for the green man to flash. ns boys, ahsohs, ah lians, ah bengs, heartlanders, banglas. peculiar. i was being a man and interested to not let down my jaywalker credentials so i took 1 step out on the road. and i could feel all the puny little eyeballs staring at my figure from behind. then i took another step for mankind and i was 1/3 across the lane.

and then someone shouted, "小弟!", and i had to turn around and see who called out. it was this lauchio with a chariot and she had just done her shopping at the nearby ntuc. not typically verbose when alone with strangers, i just rose my eyebrow in bewilderment and hoped that she would explain why she was calling me, and not someone else.

gesticulating wildly, she mouthed the words "MaTa". and instantaneously without comprehending what she meant i stepped back on the curb. and then a white car with lights passed by and this puny spfsgt stared daggers through me. phew. this is what i call civic mindedness. if not i would have just gg-ed on the spot.

im quite glad that she was there to warn me. the foreigners there all pretended that they were watching an eclipse or looking for chewing gum on the ground. this incident changed completely the way i look at lauzhabors. they are no longer the pests that block my way, but fellow singaporeans who have helped me and will receive my help. i promise.

but jaywalking is still fun.

alliance ftw

C1 Thursday 2 December 2010
C2 Friday 3 December 2010
B2 Monday 9 December 2010
A1 Tuesday 6 December 2010
A2 Wednesday 7 December 2010
B1 Thursday 8 December 2010

jaywalker's guide to life

give way to me, or kill me.

that's the new cool, when one cant be the biggest steamroller around. living life is about living on the edge. and not mattering enough in death inasmuch as in life, so the steamrollers try to avoid the orgy of lawsuits that will accompany the insignificant death.

today i walked in front of a fastmoving car but didnt get hit. it felt great, so im trying it again soon.

rock on.

reckless

缺乏娱乐

i am real bored now. theres really nothing much i enjoy doing. im sick of reading and theres nothing nice on tv. and i can only watch that much youtube before the icky feeling of the lousy headphones get to me. woe be me. i need entertainment.

700

my brother flew back already. and ive only 1 last week of freedom if i dont extend my mc come wednesday. monday going back to handoverstore before going out for ord lunch. LOL. not my ord. but soon it will be mine ord lunch.

Om

this drilling is frustrating me. and making my mc very unpleasant. my tv speakers and my laptop headphone just arent good enough to resist the destructive interference without causing permanent deafness. its times like this when i think abou getting noise cancellation headphones, but they are expensive, hardly do the job anyway and my neighbors hacking is expected for only 2 more weeks. ONLY.

this is the second instance of the suffering. i will recommend everyone to refrain from buying ugly terrace houses, especially those built during the construction boom. the materials and workmanship are so poor, after a heavy rain or two the whole place floods, or the electricity trips up and owners with spare cash will start rebuilding. and many owners seem to have plenty of spare cash, judging from the number in my estate who have built an additional floor in addition to extending the BUA all round. some have even built garish mini swimming pools in their gardens. which are completely pointless because they are only 3-4m across.

it sucks to feel the drilling from below you. the whole ground just shakes. and the sound of the drilling just resonates through the minicaverns all over the house. when it gets really bad its like the drilling comes from within the skull.

need to meditate.