no more

Please stop the music,
it's getting too much to bear
Forget the fairy tale,
I've chosen to be a non-believer
Leave me be,
As I've reached the end

the Sally & Lyla affair

It's Sunday evening, Oasis is in town, and the sky's been wet since morning. Are you sure this is not Manchester?

Let's do an age check. Some guys are in their early 20s with their City kit on. What's their first Oasis song? Anything from Standing album? Are they here just to follow the hype or just to headbang to anything loud? Do they even know that City is shite?

Welcome to the Gallagher temple where we all come hoping that we could become a rock n' roll star for just one night, and the gods return the worship with incredulous look like they don't give a single damn about it.

I'm referring to our heavenly Liam, of course.

Come in, feel free to scream along, the mass is in full session now.

Liam shows off his new skill of biting the tambourine, and balancing it on his head. What an amazing talent! And Noel really shows us who's the ringleader of the band, even though he keeps thanking us and taking the mickey out of those coming with Scotland flag.

There's no question which songs get the most response from the audience. At least the girl next to me seems to buy the ticket only for Wonderwall. But the highlight must be when all of us loudly lamented why Sally can wait.

Then it's over. The gods return to where they belong, and we are back to be merely mortal. Back to our own shit life serenaded by Blue Moon.

Those bloody Gallaghers and their City..

Setlist:
1. Fuckin' In The Bushes
2. Rock 'n' Roll Star
3. Lyla
4. The Shock of The Lightning
5. Cigarettes & Alcohol
6. To Be Where There's Life
7. Waiting For The Rapture
8. The Masterplan
9. Songbird
10. Slide Away
11. Morning Glory
12. The Importance of Being Idle
13. I'm Outta Time
14. Wonderwall
15. Supersonic
16. Don't Look Back In Anger
17. Falling Down
18. Champagne Supernova
19. I Am The Walrus

puzzled happiness

a piece of white space is laid out in front of me
one by one, each piece of the puzzle assembles itself from the past
i can almost see the whole picture now
it's a big, grinning, happy face
it's funny how it looks like mine

manage

I looked at my business card and wondered why there should be a "manager" stated there. It was more confusing as I felt that I wasn't that good in managing.

I'm not doing particularly well in managing my life, let alone people or stuffs at my workplace.

Things became more obvious recently when the stuff given back to me was more the result of doing it for the sake of doing it, rather than learn to do it and evolve from there.

I know this is the first time you're doing it. But, you're supposed to think while doing it! All of those explanations and examples surely should lead you somewhere, right?

Mistakes were expected and I'm totally fine with it. But, the failure in grasping the whole concept and thinking outside of the instruction really left me exasperated.

Either I was that bad in explaining so you failed to see the whole big picture, or you're just loving Nike that much.

Let me take look at that business card one more time.

on laughing matter

I just finished watching Ben Stiller's The Heartbreak Kid on HBO. It's a movie that I've been eyeing ever since its trailer made me laugh so hard. Unfortunately, its DVD never made it to my nearest VideoEzy. So, HBO it is.

Anyway, hours after watching the movie, I realized that I really laughed outloud. It got me thinking of the last time I did that. I was kinda shocked to know that it was a long while back.

Is it really difficult now to laugh silly for ourselves?

I would think that it has everything to do with the situation we're all in now. Every time I open the newspaper or read online, it's always the same thing about people losing job or getting pay cut, and how number for a certain company or country is getting worse. It's making life even more depressing and difficult.

Amidst the gloom, the box office revenue tracker in America reported that movie income this year is actually increasing. A sign that more and more people try to get a quick solace from all of the stressing stuffs.

I know that for some people it's a luxury now to go to the movie to get the quick fix. But you can always find comforting things from anywhere.

It could be a quiet dinner moment alone with your spouse, a giggle from your baby, chatting with friends about nothing in particular, or in my case getting a chance to keep in touch with my elementary school friends and reminisce about things that happened 20 years ago in our lives.

It's strange that you can't help but smile now at things that made your knees weak two decades ago. But if it puts a smile to your face, and make your 9-to-5 bearable a bit longer, then do it and do that even more.

While a flicker of light at the end of the tunnel isn't too much to ask. There's no harm in keeping our hopes up.

May we all be safe and keep uploading those old pictures online!

totally

I've made it known clearly
You've provided your response
Let's not make it over the line
We won't visit the same road anymore

I totally understand