Hiatus

Unh. I guess I’m having it bad.

Perhaps I should make it imperative that I actually try and write something daily. Doesn’t matter anything. A hundred words, two hundred words. Just to make sure I don’t fall into the same slump, where it’s mucky and deep, but not uncomfortable.

This is that moment where I ask someone to give me one tight, piercing slap (preferably strong enough to send me to the heavens) so that I fall asleep and go back to the clouds.

Too long in the mud makes my socks soggy.

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So we came back from the funeral (weeks ago, go figure), which went well. I tried my best and read the prayers - a difficult task, considering that there’re parts where you would have to do it like you’re singing, and parts which read so fast that it’s also probably impossible to do with English. They last as long as two to three hours, and we did it for two nights.

Then we followed the hearse to the crematorium, and paid our last respects, and washed our hands and face with a bowl of chrysanthemum-soaked water, and left the place wearing red (tradition, apparently, for funerals for people aged a hundred and over).

Uncle Fook shot a video of it, which he put up. I still haven’t watched it. Mainly because I know I won’t take it so well.

(and if you’re actually curious, interested or just plain bored, you can watch it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ggzk-bgZ-gE)

The rest, as they say, is that drive home where life goes back to normal.

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Tomorrow will be another flight to Singapore. Two days after coming back, they’re sending me to Jakarta, where I’ll be reporting a motherboard overclocking championship. I’m surprised that such a thing actually existed.

But I’m looking forward to it more than most. Surprisingly, it’s not about Jakarta, but the actual championship.

I wonder how it’ll be like. I wonder if commentators would be present, and if they’d go; “The GD7 looking great today; he’s all in to gun for that top spot, after that overheating fall-out last year. And he’s revving it up and ho, look at him go!”

Naturally, it means that I’ll be doing a fair bit of reading about overclocking. I could hear the brain cells groaning.

To bed now, else I’ll oversleep for breakfast tomorrow.

Good night, peops.