Call the Shots

I wonder who she is, because she seems to know who I am. I don’t like it, feels vulnerable.

I need some time off, to take some pretty pictures.

The Gaping Maw of Losing It

It's not that I've been avoiding you.

It's just that i've been trying to abandon a life I once had. Trying to change the scenery for my well-being. Tomorrow I venture into Singapore again, the New World.

Rest assured I still stand, as always, at the gaping maw of losing it.

Only Roaches Will Prevail

The world could well be divided into 2 kinds of people. Those who regard the future as a largely hopeless terrain which they must navigate so long as they continue living, and those who are blissfully unshaken by the prospect that life as we know it could just end at any random moment should something like, say, a huge meteorite struck the earth.

I regard that meteorite as a very real possibility, which brings into question why I am spending my days fighting bureaucracy in a lifeless office instead of pursuing an immediate whim. It would suck really bad if the meteorite struck my office with me in it, mostly because I should have been trekking the Himalayas at that point of time.

I suppose, like many people, I have beliefs that I do not have the courage to stand up for.

I belief that life is an exercise in futility, that humans are proud creatures who need to believe that their existence is of some universal significance when in fact it really isn’t, that whatever you do and achieve or not achieve, in the end, it doesn’t matter. If I really believed in those things, I would throw caution out the window and be liberated. But here I am somewhat stuck. Stuck because it is easier to live within the expectations of everybody else, because it is easier to be normal.

That's bad.

Ad Space for Rent

Petaling Jaya has 800 billboards within 97 square kilometers. This means there are about 8 billboards per square kilometer. Move in any direction for 1 km and you will find 8 different parties wanting to sell you something.

While the PJ residents committees are taking up arms over the issue, I think the city council is providing us an invaluable time-saving service by approving all these billboards. With our hectic schedule, who has the time to decide what beverage to drink, which car to purchase or what TV station to watch? When the time comes to make those choices we already know the answer because it has been subliminally implanted in our brains while we commute to work and back.

Why should the council invest in boring monotonous shrubbery to line our roads, when you could have Amber Chia selling us sunglasses, Amber Chia selling us gym memberships or Amber Chia selling us good old Malaysian grown rice. Every advertisement has a skilled design team behind it, would we rather be exposed to good design sense or ugly decorative structures? Let the billboards hide those neon plastic palm trees.

They say advertising permit money is being dubiously channeled to the council’s football club. That’s wonderful, let’s put up more billboards and improve the quality of local football at the same time.

After a Long Absence

Kehpohchiland is back! With CAPITALS!