life's a joke ainnit?

A guy goes to four of his best friends and asks them, "do you have some change?". What do you think their answer was? Is it too hard to tell? I'm sure that you'll answer the same thing they did, won't you?

The first friend answered, "In times of recession my dear friend, it is often necessary to sever all hindrances". The second answered, "A friend in need, is a pest indeed.". The third, after over-hearing the former asking the latter, decides that it was his cue to turn heels and he made himself scarce. The fourth however, was a little kinder, he asked the friend who wanted the money, "how much would you need?". Five months after borrowing the money from his fourth friend, the guy ended running up loan of which it was fifty times the amount borrowed from his "friend".

Not quite the ending you were hoping for were you? Were you maybe, in your mind, thinking that they would give the guy some spare change and that you would say "Yeah! That was what I would have done too."? What if I told you now that the guy wanted spare change of 500,000.00 (ringgit, dollars, pounds, rupiah...choose one you know of) would you then, still think the same way? Would you then still be as altruistic as you were when we started this sordid story?

Those "friends" of his, were(in order of appearance): a business man, a cynic, a mole and a loan shark. Now that you know the guy's unsavory taste in friends, will you leave him be just like his friends did? Discrimination against a person because of his/her race is considered racist, discrimination against a person because of their gender is considered sexist and discrimination against a person because of their social status is, however, considered as envy. A man eats and drinks with someone of high social standing gets ignored by his clique. Similarly, a man who dines and lavishes in the company of ruffians, he too will be shunned out of the rather esoteric community of his narrow minded friends. I can relate to the guy's many hardships, for, I have experienced the same treatment from my "friends"; if you may. That's why he will never be alone, for, he shall have me as a friend when and where he has none.

Will you do the same and accept someone for who they truly are, like I do?
Or do you reject them, go out of your way to see make them suffer?
Will you be his friend, like I do?
Or will you hate him just because others do, which do you prefer?

Don't you know I had a dream last night,
In it, I was by your side,
Keeping you safe, warm and from fright,
Being with you, made many a day bright.

Now, you've upped and left,
Now, there's nothing I've left,
You insisted that you were right,
Now, the taxi's waiting for you on the road to the right.

If I could take back all I've said,
I would, but, pity that it's already been said,
Words you see, can easily pierce even the most tender of hearts,
And words, you'll find, like those are usually from the speaker's heart.

Every time I tried to tell you,
The words just came out wrong,
So, I'll have to say I love you,
In a song.

never tried to write a poem before, the above is just an experiment to gauge just how appalling my poem-writting can truly be.

a day in the life of me...

A day in my life could be summarized as hectic, chaotic, infuriating, atrocious, monotonous and filled to the brim with hundreds of people who do not appreciate me; to a certain degree, that is. Take today for example, it all started at the front gate when Mr Bobz requested that I round up all prefects for a meeting in our school's hall. What did I get in the end of it was a strained calf (I don't mean the young of cow) and in the end, the only good outcome was that it opened up opportunity for me to get straight to taking pictures of some cool volleyball action.

Anyhow, lets not make this post all about my playing truant, but rather, a recap of what happened in school today. First up, got my name written down by a prefect for being half a minute late...I swear, they are getting more efficient each passing day. then, as you may know, I got picked to rouse up the lot of prefects. Third, I was updated on a list of project(s) by the relevant teachers and most of them have the same deadlines i.e. 20th of March 2009. That's about all I guess, but, that is about all that I can think of at this point in time. If I missed anything out, I hope you'll surely pardon.

little thing called life...

It's supposed to be "good friday", but, I don't really know why it's called such. Just so you know, "good friday" is also known as Holy Friday, Great Friday or Black Friday. Black Friday and Holy Friday I kinda understand, however, I see nothing Great in the Friday that Jesus was crucified. Why though was he crucified, why did everyone want him dead when we all claim to love him, believe in him, trust in him and yet desert him when he was sentenced to such a gruesom death, and why do we suddenly turn to him in times of trouble? Aren't we then amounting to hypocrites?

Do we take after Judas Iscariot, who betrayed Jesus to the romans or do we take after Jesus, who taught us all to forgive those who trespass against us and pray for those who prosecuted us. More often than none, you'll find that most of us who claim that we love god, do not practice what we preach.

In the end, it's not what we make ourselves out to be in the future that is important. Rather, what we do to get there. If we get fame and fortune but attain it through means worthy of being termed Judas-like, then, you're not really worth a dime arent ye? However, if you are as selfless and kind as Jesus was...lets just say that even if you arent big in this world, you'll be big in god's eyes.

dreamin' again

          D      D/C#  D/B   D    G    D
Don’t you know I had a dream last night that you were here with me
D     D/C#  D/B     D      Em   A
Lying by my side so soft and warm
      D        D/C#      D/B    D     G    D
And we talked a while and shared a smile, and then we shared the dawn
    Bm    F#m  Em7    A
But when I woke up, oh my dream, it was gone

         D      D/C#  D/B   D    G    D
Don’t you know I had a dream last night that you were here with me
D     D/C#  D/B     D      Em   A
Lyin’ by my side so soft and warm
       D        D/C#       D/B D     G           D
And you said you thought it over, you said that you were coming home
    Bm    F#m  Em7    A
But when I woke up, oh my dream, it was gone

(D G D)

           Em7    A               D       D/C# D/B   D    
I’m not the same, can you blame me, is it hard to understand
          Em7    A               D        D/C#    D/B   D  Em7 A
I can’t forget, you can’t change me, I am not that kind of man

         D      D/C#  D/B   D    G             D
Don’t you know I had a dream last night and everything was still
D        D/C# D/B   D      Em   A
You were by side so soft and warm
     D            D/C#    D/B  D G   D
And I dreamed that we were lovers, In the lemon scented rain
    Bm   F#m     Em7    A
But when I woke up, oh I found that again

    D     C      D
I had been dreamin’ Dreamin’ again
    D     C        D    C  D
I had been dreamin’ Dreamin’ again

Jim Croce - Age

Ive been up and down and around and round and back again
Ive been so many places I cant remember where or when
And my only boss was the clock on the wall and my only friend
Never really was a friend at all

Ive traded love for pennies, sold my soul for less
Lost my ideals in that long tunnel of time
Ive turned inside out and around about and back and then
Found myself right back where I started again

Once I had myself a million, now Ive only got a dime
The diffrence dont seem quite as bad today
With a nickel or a million, I was searching all the time
For something that I never lost or left behind

Ive traded love for pennies, sold my soul for less
Lost my ideals in that long tunnel of time
Ive turned inside out and around about and back and then
Found myself right back where I started again

And now Im in my second circle and Im headin for the top
Ive learned a lot of things along the way
Ill be careful while Im climbin cause it hurts a lot to drop
When your down nobody gives a damn anyway

Ive traded love for pennies, sold my soul for less
Lost my ideals in that long tunnel of time
Ive turned inside out and around about and back and then
Found myself right back where I started again

simple...

It's officially Monday again...I receive a sms from an inconsiderate ingrate. The time at which the sms was sent will make anyones blood boil. She had the gall to send me a message at 11 PM, asking demanding me to give her all the photos I have of our school's event...who will be awake at a god forsaken time like that, I ASK YOU!!

Lets get back to the original point of me updating my blog at this god forsaken time. Yesterday was the drama competition...some of us were superb, while others were...well, lets just leave it at that. I've somehow got a feeling that I'm actually missing something, something important...OH, we clinched second place!!

Thats about all that I can blog with my mind's current capacity...imagine being awoken by an sms at 11PM! I'm sure you'd be grumpy too, not to mention groggy and unable to think properly let alone construct a grammatically correct sentence...*gotta remind myself not to end my blog entries so abruptly next time*