One day in college circa mid-90’s, i turned on the radio and this evocative song by a strangely lilting (yet familiar) voice sang the words: Are you goin’ to scarborough fair? parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme Remember me to one who lives there, she once was a true love of mine i was really into this heavy metal and progressive rock thing back then (still am) and was surprised to hear that it was by Queensryche and the DJ mentioned that it was a cover of an old Simon & Garfunkel song (me and my pal Ray became fans of the band Queensryche after that, we even named our assignment…

Let’s go back a few years. I became a dad at quite a young age, younger than most of my friends and peers. I pretty much learnt about the job on my own, my own dad was never around for most of my growing up years and when he was around in my teen years, i had already grown distant from my family. But young as i was, i think was pretty prepared, i had always known what kind of dad i would be, even before i had gotten married. Digressing. First kid came some years back, she was a mature looking baby, but very sweet, everyone said she will…

Went to my first Bon Odori Festival on Saturday. I’ve reading it for years, mainly through Silencer‘s blog, so when i heard about it on the radio on Friday, i made sure i didn’t miss it this time round. Bon Odori is actually the Japanese Hungry Ghost Festival, but here in Malaysia it’s more of a cultural festival to expose all thing Japanese to Malaysians. This is the 32nd Bon Odori held in KL. We reached Matsushita Stadium quite early but already we had to park far away. The crowd there was still in but streaming in at about 4.30pm. Everyone gets a plastic fan, sponsored by various Japanese corporations.…

Studying Augustine and Thomas Aquinas (some time back) reminded me of this song which i absolutely loved some years back. Say what you want about post 70’s Elton John, but he writes great songs. Oh, it’s carnival night And they’re stringing the lights around you Hanging paper angels Painting little devils on the roof Oh the furnace wind Is a flickering of wings about your face In a cloud of incense Yea, it smells like Heaven in this place That’s not-quite-popular pop princess Mandy Moore in the vid, also featuring Elizabeth Taylor. Was never much a fan of Elton when i was growing up in the 80’s, coinciding with the…

Amacam? Okay ah? Better than the old one la. That one was supposed to be a temporary theme, but it lasted for a few years. Ouch. But anyway, i’m back to 2 columns, so that my pics can fit nicely on the post area. Don’t ask me what’s the significance of the dying trees and orange / black fruits, i’m just pretty tired of browsing WordPress themes and this is the one i like best. *** I’ve got 2 months break from my PT classes, so i’m taking time off to do the stuff i’ve left behind these few months, like reading my books, watching movies and TV shows on…

These pics were from some time back, thought of posting up on a Monday morning. Nothing like starting off the week with some productive work. We were at this Japanese food fair in One Utama a few weeks back, they had this large selection of snacks and dried food for sale, like ramen noodles (made in Hong Kong, surprisingly), loads of strangely named seaweed snacks, cute little animal biscuits and lots more. They also had cultural dances and drum presentation, and the all important Japanese tradition of nissin noodle eating competition. We bought some delicious chocolate panda biscuits (do I feel guilty about eating a biscuit shaped like an endangered…

Had some free time today so i did something i’ve been wanting to do for sometime – upgrade my blog to [tag]Wordpress[/tag] 2.5.1. There had been some problems ever since i upgraded from 1.5.2 to 2.3 (in December i think) so i decided to do it. As usual the installation went pretty smoothly, and so did the housekeeping after that. But apparently the ‘Related Post‘ plugin isn’t working in WP2.5.1. There’s a new version of it, but after installing it i still haven’t got time to get it working properly yet. Maybe tonight. While i was running [tag]FileZilla[/tag] (which i also need to upgrade) and on a roll, i decided…