Ok so my new year entry is...9 days overdue. Go me. I suppose I have to get the inevitable out of the way first...

OMG HAPPY 2009!!!

*cue the jumping around in paper hats and tootling of paper horns*

Okay, party's over. So what's shakin' during this new year, pussycats? Here's what has been for this particular kitty:
( Hit the jump for when claws meet the drapes. )

So exhausted.

But so happy.

I wish I could write down everything, blow by blow, detail by detail so I don't forget this day. But unfortunately fatigue from being on my feet nearly 12 hours takes its toll, so here's what was so awesome about the (first ever!) Singapore Toy and Comic Convention, in 6 neat points:

1. After much dithering and a little ( Read more... )

A Saturday, specifically. A Saturday afternoon.

Dim sum and crowded fairs. Toys and free green ice cream. Salt and chocolate biscuits with overly sweet milk tea. Meandering marathon walks and flea markets. Melon Lava shirts and overpriced plastic rings.

All in an afternoon's work. :3

I would watch Iron Man again in a heartbeat. It so rocked. .o.

Slight disagreement with the implied paradigm that technology in the hands of responsible people (AKA America and its allies) = good, technology in the hands of irresponsible destructive groups (AKA anything Middle Eastern and counter to western politics and ideals) = bad.

But I'm just ( Read more... )

What is this incredible lightness in my heart?

It's freedom, hard earned and hard won.

Tonight, I celebrate.

*Incomprehensible, inarticulate cry of true, pure joy.*

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In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. - 1 Thessalonians 5:18

Yes. I have so much to be thankful for right now. And even if things don't ( Read more... )

This is going to sound crazy but I love the smell of mosquito coil. My room absolutely reeks of it and I love it. The thought that somewhere in the space around me, mosquitoes are keeling over by the dozens also makes me very happy. It is, indeed, the sweet scent of victory. Man 1, Nature 0 ( Read more... )

Well, a whole day pretty much of doing not much is slowly drawing to a close. This is going to come round and bite me in the ass soon, I'm sure of it. More of teh nothings to follow shortly.

Edit:
Hm. So there's the F1 Night Race coming soon....but since we're all out to create the ultimate new race for the tourist types, why hasn't anyone thought ( Read more... )

Yesterday was a day of weird Japanese soupy pastas, even weirder salty ice creams, long car rides to far flung places, endless paperwork and 
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