A Nimrod By Any Other Name

The sun has yet to rise at Stansted Airport.
They confiscate my bottle of Australian root beer
and make me remove my Vans
and my Klepper ski-jacket
and my Zimstern Pedalo beanie
and my iPod
and my loose change.
The T.V. screens in the departure lounge
beam the scrolling headlines about the hanging
of Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikrit.
President George Walker Bush
has called the lynching a "milestone",
because a) someone told him to do so
and b) because he's not the one
who has to cart the bodybags on and off the planes.

That's The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz

Oscar is two-and-three-quarters.
His cousin, Mikey, is about a year-or-so older.
They sit, together on the sofa,
utterly transfixed by a film made almost 70 years ago.
A film which transfixed their parents
and their grandparents
and their great-grandparents before them.
MGM's 'The Wizard Of Oz' is, quite simply put,
the greatest motion picture ever made. Bar none.
And this from a man who hates musicals. With a passion.
That switch from monochrome
to technicolour
will never ever be surpassed.
I remember being the only kid at school
who wanted to be The Tin Man.
He was made of metal, carried a fireman's axe
and could blow hot steam from the top of his head.
You didn't get that with either The Scarecrow or The Lion.
Scarecrows I'd seen in fields.
Lions I'd seen in zoos and on nature programmes.
But a Tin Man? I'd never encountered a a Tin Man before.
Not in Banbury.
He was the one for me.
Afterall, who needs brains or courage when you can have a heart?
Buddy Ebsen, the actor originally cast as The Tin Man
had a near-fatal reaction to the aluminum dust used in the make-up.
He had to be replaced by the actor Jack Haley,
and the make-up had to be switched to an aluminium paste.
Ironically, Jack Haley ended-up dying of a heart attack.
That happened in 1979.
In Los Angeles, California.
He was 80 years old.
Which is considerably older than young Oscar. Or his cousin Mikey.
Despite persistent rumours to the contrary,
no stagehands
or munchkins were harmed during the course of filming.

back on track?

well. is been a long time since i 'really' blog. so much to say, but so little time n space for me to write. anyway lets juz do a quick n simple review of myself for the these 2 months. erm actually nothing much happened. oh ya i forgot to blog bout the camp i went. RCS DRRO camp. well talk bout tat next time cuz it will takes time to explain everything. then, last month was quite a stressful n bad month for me. things happened.... but then im trying my best to get rid of those stuff. n also Anonymous!! u better watch out! lol. mid term...pretty bad. haiz. here is a funny topic, friday... declared as pillow talk day. lmao! guys only la. for sure we will order 50 spring rolls!! i said 50!! should try 100 next time. hehe. td (tower defence) fever is back again ever since we left malacca. hehe. n not to forget dota. but then my unit is having sum problem wit the router so sumtimes i might not be able to get access to the internet. once again sec skul fear is back too. rumors!!! haiseh! really sien wit it. looks like history is repeating itself. yesterday i went to a bbq party at alan's house (my senior/sifu XD). it was fun. believe it onot me n janice were the only beta student there lol. lucky for me cuz i know most of the ppl there but not her. pity her lo. sitting there alone watch tv. n for those who was tried to call or sms me last nite but no respond from me, im sorry cuz i lend my hp to janice. she having sum problem wit her hp. well tis is was i wanna say for tonite la. here i would like to wish every1 merry xmas n happy new year. hope u guys get wat u wan during xmas =). cross your fingers for snow in malaysia! n wenjean 'get well soon' lol. n take care every1. hope to c all the monkeys tomoro nite at susu's house n till then, bb. peace out.

For Life... Not Just For Christmas

i know it sounds foolish
and is woefully after-the-fact,
but if I'd said
you could have a cat for x-mas
would you still have packed your things and left?

car crash

For once I want to be the car crash
Not always just the traffic jam
Hit me hard enough to wake me
And lead me wild to your dark roads

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reanimating........................

time

anonymous - i really hav no idea who u r. n u r watching me .. but who? not much ppl know i hav tis blog. cmon plz dun play wit me like tis, not tat i dun wanna play wit u juz tat i dun hav the time n mood to play wit u right now. things happened. n i need time to 'revive'. hope u can understand n thanks for caring. but if u really do care bout me plz tell me who r u. so there will be less problem for me to solve. k? for all my frens in mmu.... im sorry. i know tat im different from the past. i dun talk much wit u guys nowdays. sorry tat i cheated u guys. not tat i wanna cheat but is better for me to cheat...wat im talking x.x .... nvm, if u guys really wan me to explain juz give me a call or nudge. i will explain. i juz need time. k? i know u guys care for me. juz give me more time n i will be back to normal. peace..