hello everybody...

let me tell you about the wonderful people i have met on the island of Tekong...

argh...

so we're having physical training in the hall...
which... incidentally... is indoors...

now keep that point in mind... it's important...

so anyway... we're all bored and wanting to be someplace else... when this guy turns around and says to me (in all earnestness... bless him...)

"Why doesn't it rain indoors?"

and all i can do is drop my jaws and focus my eyeballs on him...
gape in shock...

good grief...

where on earth do these people come from...? why is it that in my close to nineteen years on this planet i have never ever met anyone like this...

but there's worse...

so another day... i'm heading for the loo...
and there's another guy in front of me...

he then suddenly and dramatically stops short of the entrance and looks down...

so i look around to see what on earth was that for... and i see a sign saying "watch your step"...

now here's a moment where i pause and think to myself... undoubtedly for not the first time...

where on earth do these people come from...? why is it that in my close to nineteen years on this planet i have never ever met anyone like this...

and it get's worse...
it always does...

so as i'm washing my hands in the washroom the idiot turns to me...
and (argh) he starts talking to me...

"I saw the sign there saying 'watch you step', so i looked down to see if there was a trap! But nothing there!"

whereby i just lose track of what's he saying from shock...
and just smile and scramble madly out of the loo...

argh...

moving on to other stuff...

which for tonight will be a short quote...
but profound...
i like it...

"Which of the two powers, love or music, is able to lift man to the sublimest heights? It is a great question, but it seems to me that one might answer it thus: love cannot express the idea of music, which music may give an idea of love. Why separate the one from the other? They are the two wings of the soul."
- Hector Berlioz (1803-69). French composer.