After the Big Red Celebration (less Red this year, probably due to the recession and a funeral last year), and after unchecked and largely semi-conscious acts of massive bingeing, it was as though the world withered away.

And in the darkness, I started seeing goats. Grey ones, brown ones, Disney ones, which all started head butting an oversized cardboard cut-out of the Marlboro Man. And I thought, the world’s gone to the goats. There’s nothing we can do. Like the full cycle of life, it always end and start with goats. The song of the world; the first tune, resonated and echoed among hills and canyons, was MEEEeekkkkkkk.

MEEEeekkk became the wind, that the wind made the waves, and the waves cut the rocks and turn them to sand and from the salt came life, MEEeeekkkk was the first word it says.

And then it’s the Planet of the Goats.

Such easily were we forgotten.

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I had to write that down.

Admittedly, the sole reason that I’ve been putting off blogging for so long was because I forgot how to write nonsense. Nonsense is the best thing to write. Nonsense is shaped with the whimsicality of clouds and the carelessness of freedom, and if you don’t know the therapeutic properties of utter and inconsequential nonsense, you’re either too uptight or you’re too bound to the seriousness the world demands.

Then again, too much nonsense means you’re crazy.

So, it’s after the Big Red Celebration, and the Big Damn Bingeing, and it was over and done with like an assignment you’re glad to rid off. Maybe it was because the brother isn’t here, but for all that’s worth, this year’s CNY was quiet. I welcome the newfound serenity. I detest the extra workload. Either way, I still rather dislike CNY.

Ang Pows are not incentives.

For now, classes were back on, with the holiday mood veiling over it, so it’s rather hard to see what’s going on and start focusing. The lecturers were speaking poetry behind their notes. It’s easy to fall beyond it. Sleep. Let the words wash over you.

Chap goh meh on Monday next, and hopefully the veil is taken down.