We’re probably at the brink of a new era; the type we promised ourselves.

So it was like a fleeting dream, somewhat unbelievable, somewhat astounding, but overall it is like the stuff reality mostly shun but decidedly brings it back so that we know it exists.

I have to admit; I’ve been spending these past weeks feeling that I’ve been deliberately stepping away from the country’s elections. I feel that I have no place in it. I say this because I don’t have a political agenda (or a stance, or even a thought) and because I’m not able to vote, and somewhat that amounts to ignorance. Or avoidance, however you may put it.

I go through it like an unsupportive spectator would a tennis match, ooh and ahh-ing when the shots are thrown forth and backwards and at the end I’ll cheer the winner, only that all the while I didn’t really care less whatever the game’s all about. State Championship or Nationwide League?

I feel bad, but that’s honesty for you. I should probably grow up.

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The Princess Snail, Katatsumuri O-hime-sama, celebrated her 21st birthday on the 5th of March. Happy Birthday, Ji Lin!

It was a nice party. It started late and I was both hungry and wary that people would decide to throw me into the pool because my birthday was two days prior to hers. There were catering food and some barbeque, but I didn’t manage to stay long enough to get myself more than two sausages and one chicken wing off the stove.

I went around to talk to a few classmates, and found that most of them have a lot of stories to tell. All I could tell them is that I’m bored with work and the most eventful thing was probably the short stint in which I was indirect PR to Victor Gu's political blog(he lost by a huge margin, and I’m not feeling guilty).

Which is true, really, because all I’ve been mostly doing (currently) is type a whole bunch of letters and e-mails and trying to manage a charity blog with limited resources. I get a lot of free times, and these times I devote to watching Avatar:_The_Last_Airbender online. No one even cared; they knew I have nothing to do until the boss gives me. They only give me e-mails they feel too meddlesome to type. I feel almost content.

Give. Me. Work.

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I’ve spotted myself a few target books.

One of them is The Sandman: Book of Dreams, edited by Neil Gaiman and Ed Kramer, which is an anthology of short stories based on Gaiman’s Sandman comic book series.

Tempting, but I’ve not read a single Sandman issue, and I don’t even know what it’s about.

Secondly is Eoin Colfer’s Airman.

The price of the book is steep; bout RM50+, so I might just wait for a cheaper version or ignore it completely until the next Artemis Fowl book comes out, which is August this year under the title Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox.

Thirdly, the Old Kingdom trilogy by Garth Nix, which comes in a 3-book set for about 70 bucks the last I checked (bout 20 bucks cheaper compared to buying the books separately). I’ve been meaning to get my hands on it, but the 3-book set seems to disappear whenever I go to the bookstore with money in hand.

And lastly, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Waterson, which is RM600 and I might just dream about it when I sleep.

Lately, I find myself in a story deprived state.

I’m re-reading the Artemis Fowl series on the train (because it’s such an easy read, best when you’re exhausted and wouldn’t want to get dully lost between the deep convulsive lines of most works), and sometimes I pick up my anthology of H.P Lovecraftand try to read a story or two. I’m turning into quite a fan. Now I’m even visiting sites such as lolthulhu.com

Nothing better than getting a pic that reads:

(Pic from lolthulhu.com)

"That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may die."