Killing Time

Hit & Misses

1. Wario Ware - Hit. Crazy, lunatic 5-second games. You can’t help but laugh at the silliness.

2. Adrian Mole and Weapons of Mass Destruction. Undecided. It’s a bit mild as compared to the rest of Adrian Mole books. I guess you have to grow up some time.

3. The Year’s Best Fantasy, Horror and Anime Short Story Colletions (2003). Hit. I love this compilation. Difficult to find, though. We are always a year or two behind the latest compilation.

4. He’s Just Not That Into You. Hit. Bubblegum pop and hilarious. Will not be caught dead buying this book though. I borrowed this from Lavinia. Like I said, I could teach a masters degree course on this one.

5. Zen. Hit. They serve sushi with chilli padi now. Gotta be a hit.

6. Red Renoma Pumps. Priceless.

Reading this entry makes me ashamed that I go to cruel.com everyday to read stories about human follies and stupidities and laugh at them.

Simon & Sharing, rest in peace. *cry*

On Thursday May 12, 2005 Simon Ng wrote the following in his blog:

Today I missed my Japanese class again, since I have gotten a bad throat. I only went to the class once this week, so I am probably so far behind now. I will catch up in the summer tho so no worries hehe. Anyway today has been weird, at 3 some guy ringed the bell. I went down and recognized it was my sister's former boyfriend. He told me he wants to get his fishing poles back. I told him to wait downstair while I get them for him. While I was searching them, he is already in the house. He is still here right now, smoking, walking all around the house with his shoes on which btw I just washed the floor 2 days ago! Hopefully he will leave soon, oh yeah working on the jap report as we speak!

Shortly after, he was robbed and brutally stabbed to death by the man.When his sister reached home later that night, she was murdered as well. 

Lin - who was picked up at his Flushing home on Friday - told cops that he set upon Simon Ng after failing to find any money in Sharon's bedroom. Lin tied Simon Ng up and stabbed him repeatedly in the chest with a butcher knife, cops said. It was not clear how much time passed before Sharon Ng came home at 9:30 p.m. Cops said Lin pounced on her as she entered the home and stabbed her repeatedly in the neck.

In the minutes after the attack, Sharon Ng's current boyfriend called and she managed to tell him to get help. She died about an hour later at New York Hospital Medical Center of Queens.


Go to Simon's Blog and read the heartbreaking messages left by families, loved ones, friends and strangers.

 Read the full news article here.

By popular demand. For melody guide and MP3, please go to the website listed at the bottom of the lyrics.

Wish List

(NC)                    GI can't sleep well tonite?                            Ctoo full with thoughts of you                             Amwish I never have to reason why                          Dwish I never have to justify                            Emsomethings are better left unsaid          Cbut if u look into my eyesAm                                      DYou will find I have no place to run or hide

(Chords repeat)

There's a restlessness in meBegging to be let freeWish I could find the wordsWish I could ease the hurtSomethings are better left untoldAs I lay here all aloneA single flame across the skyAcross the nite

ChorusC                                      Dand I ..wish i could steal the stars for youBmkeep you safe                                     Emkeep you warm wish I could hold youCI watch you smile when you sleepAmwish u could see me in your dreamsD G                           Emtonite...I'll be your guiding lightCwish I could tell you how much you mean to me                      (how much I love you)

Can't believe it can hurt so badBut I keep it all insideWish I could shout it outWish I could tell the worldBut I couldn't find the strengthCouldn't find the way to make u understandAs I lay here all aloneWish u could hear me now

BRIDGEC                                        Dwish I could conquer my fearsC                       D                     G  Emwish i could dispel my insecuritiesC                        DI apologize.... coz (repeat c/o)

-----------------------------------------Ijah AmranIjah's Songs: www.geocities.com/ijahsongsMr Children: www.geocities.com/ijahamran

I wrote this on 14 February 2000. The date stuck to my mind because it was my first day on the new job and it was raining heavily so I could not leave the office as soon as I wanted to. Stuck in the darkened hallways with a pen and paper, it was inevitable words would spill onto those pages.

A few years later I turned the poem into a song. When I think about how I was feeling when I wrote this, the song is probably a more accurate, honest reflection of that night. Perhaps because of structure of the melody, I had no room to muck around and had to say it the way it was.

Here they are, the poem in its original form and the reworked version for the song.

I Wrote This, The Poem

I wrote this on Valentine’s Day
There is no window in my small office corner
There is no window so I can’t see what’s up
with the rest of the world
Just me and my chugging computer playing
Ripped off MP3s illegally downloaded from the Internet
And the endless ringing of the telephone

If I listen carefully I am sure I can hear
The sounds of merry laughter
as lovers walk hand in hand
And if I breathe slowly I am sure I can
Smell the heady perfume of roses as lovers
Exchange flowers and chocolate covered kisses
But I don’t listen
And I breathe like the wild tongue of fire
Swift and unforgiving
It’s just another ordinary day

I wrote this on Valentine’s Day
I don’t want to think but flashes of you keep stealing my vision
I wish I was Jewel and I had written Foolish Games for you

But there was no song about rain and heartache
that danced through my head
Only echoes of thoughts that I cannot understand

Wait, it says, and you shall see the meaning of it all
But I don’t wait and see
Just another 24 hours of breathing in and out

I wrote this on Valentine’s Day
The young girl at the corner tried to sell me overpriced flowers
It’s for your sweetheart she said and I laughed
People are dying and babies are being born
Flowers are nice but they don’t stop
people from dying
And babies from being born

I am sure if I stop laughing I can hear
someone’s heart breaking and
Someone’s eyes crying
And if I turn slowly I am sure I can see you
trying to outrun your misery
And pretend it’s just another day
But I don’t stop laughing and I don’t turn
Another day is passing

I wrote this on Valentines’ day
There’s so much to say yet words are never
Enough to say all that I want to say
I am sure if you look you can see

But I don’t know you if look

Or if you see

There is no window

I Wrote This, The Song

I wrote this on Valentine’s Day
There was no window
So I couldn’t look outside and see
What was up with the rest of the world
There was no window but I’m sure
If I’d closed my eyes
I could hear sweet nothings being whispered in the air
But I didn’t close my eyes
And I breathed like the wild tongue of fire
Swift and unforgiving

I wrote this as chocolate covered promises were made
And flowers could cure just anything
Didn’t need your reasons

I, I could hear my heart was crying
But if I’d turn I’d see

That there is life beyong being the half of one
Like this beautiful Valentine
At some point of time
I know it’s got to end
There is life beyond this jarring pain
Like this beautiful Valentine
This too, shall pass

I wrote this as rain fell gently on the ground
As lover walked by hand in hand
Everything was alright with the world
Except for the silent telephone
Reminded me that now you’re gone

I wrote this as your voice flooded my mind
But like this beautiful Valentine
This too, shall pass
We too, shall pass

My hits and misses list over the past 8 weeks. Don’t ask how I find the time.

1. Kingdom Hearts: Chains of Memories - miss. Not even close to the adrenalin rush of Kingdom Hearts. Sora is a pushover.
2. Final Fantasy Dawn of Soul and the extra game Soul of Rebirth - hit. FF series always live up to its name.
3. Zelda The Minish Cap - hit. Bloody good. The music score is too cute for words.
4. The Bergdorf Blondes - miss. I don’t get all these Park Avenue self-styled princesses. There must be more to life than preview sale at Prada and Vera Wang wedding gowns.
5. The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night - hit. Hilarious. Good reading, this one.
6. Five People You Meet in Heaven - miss. Soppy. Draggy. The Real Adventure of the Hunt Sisters - so so. Interesting storytelling style. Occassional bits of wit.
7. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim - hit. David Sedaris is crazy. I mean it. Someone should lock him up in a crazy farm somewhere.
8. Something To Be - major hit. Has Rob Thomas ever produced a bad record? I’d like to know. He’s inhuman. Too good he must be an alien.
9. Bleed Like Me - hit. Marilyn is a goddess. How can a band called ‘Garbage’ sound so good? Have you SEEN her? Love Bytes - miss. Dude, I could teach this course in university, ok? Why’d the hell did I read this garbage at the first place?
10. The Power of Corporate Kinetics - hit. Interesting concept.
11. The Boss’s Survival Guide - hit. Short and simple.
12. Get Rich Through Multi Level Marketing - hit. Essential reading to understand the industry and how it works.
13. Alexis - hit. Still a great place to unwind and enjoy a quiet dinner with a couple of good friends. The waiters are less cuter than I remember (or maybe I am older now?). Friendly nevertheless.
14. Red Chamber - hit. The tempura soba warms my soul. Now if only they can make that barrel table bigger.
15. Subway, Amcorp Mall - miss. What happened to this place? I remember the days of the Acropolis. Could hardly get a seat.
16. Eight hours of uninterrupted sleep - heavenly. When was the last time I got an eight hour sleep?