Reckless Ice Cream Soda...

Ah... refreshing. It's been awhile since I had ice cream soda. I love ice cream soda but I don't really go for carbonated drinks. But I don't just go for any ice cream soda, it has to be F&N Ice Cream Soda, cause it's colourless. I just have an obsession with things that are white and pure, like for instance Vanilla Ice Cream. Which would be a surprise for those who know me long enough because I used to wear nothing but Black...

The reason for me to suddenly break into the carbonated drinking habit was because I was tired, or perhaps "recklessly" tired .

Why recklessly tired ? Well, cause Ive been cleaning my room rather recklessly and I've realised that it's been awhile since I've done this much cleaning in one setting. Actually I have, but this room is bigger than the one I used to live in so yea, it's double the recklessness.

To tell you the truth I'm not even sure if the word "reckless" is suitable for this situation but I'm feeling rather reckless today, hence the reckless usage of said word.

Everything was done rather recklessly as I recklessly woke up and took my reckless shower and as I brushed my reckless rebellious teeth. Put on my reckless Star wars T-shirt and went to Sunway to have a recklessly made canai with my not so reckless friend. We then headed to my recklessly new house to check out the items that needed to be bought and went to Sunway pyramid to recklessly browse for the items. I had to stop and think for while if my bed was a King size or a Queen as I was too reckless to check the measurements. In which then I recklessly told myself I'll be back another day to buy the bedsheets together with the pillows.

Headed back home and started cleaning my bedroom and recklessly shifting the furniture around. " this was a really reckless day.. " I thought to myself. Funny then that I realised that the day would have been different had I gone to Pavilion today. Absent would be these feelings of recklessness, until I come back to Sunway.

And I thought to myself again, if only I could drive. Oh the joy of driving , recklessly. Lights would've been recklessly run through, drivers recklessly scolded. Look out Sunway, there's a reckless driver on the loose! But alas, those reckless dreams will have to pass, till they let this boy gets his driver's licence, only then will his recklessness be made to last.. haha..

This boy took the bus to his Taipan home. He ran as it was raining recklessly, changed his clothes and sat, recklessly releasing those reckless thoughts from his head.

Till then, God bless.

Deathsss... part 2

It is official, all my fishes are dead...

Let's have a recap.

The first died because I overfed it.

The second dies casue it got stuck in the plastic tree.

Now, the C.O.D ( Cause of death) for the last 2 fishes is still in debate but so far, I have to leads.

Cause no. 1: The water

We all know how unhealthy and unclean our water is, even our drinking water, mind you Im not as stupid as to put my fish into distilled water or boiled water, I just gave them water, at least filtered drinking water.

I washed the aquarium once every 3 days and fed them once a day. There were occasions where I skipped a day( Sunday0 but they are always alright even after that. i have discussed this with others and they've agreed it's alright if the fishes missed a meal or 2.

One think that didn't cross my mind was the chlorin content of our drinking water.. Could it be too much, to an extent that it killed my fishes?

But I've had them for a few months now and if they were to die because of this they would've months ago.

Which leads me to my next cause...

Cause no. 2 : Natural causes aka. Age

When I bpught the fish, the shop assistant told me that the lifespan for these fishes were 6 months. Of course, common sense will tell you they were ot newly born fish so they must've been at least a few months old, and by sseing the time I've had them, I am assuming they could've been 4 months old.

In other words, I bought these fishes in their autumn years.

Which only made sense that they died seeing they've lived a full life.

But, there's always...

Cause no. 3: A Crime of Passion (Spanish accent needed)

Alehandro and Maria grew up in different tanks, their families though the same breed were at war with each other ( Don't ask me how). I was their luck that they were brought to the same shop, sold to the same person (me) and kept in the same tank alongside Marcel (Surviving fish after the first one died).

Marcel still grieving his late wife Christina was often comforted by Maria. Alehandro being the gentleman that he is wasn't jealous at all, knowing and believing that their love for each other was stronger.

Having felt the love and care of another woman,Marcel began to fall for Maria. He confessed his feelings to Maria in which she politely rejected as she knew he was still hurt from his lost and he has a troubled mind.

Marcel driven mad by jealousy decided to take things into his own hands. While everyone was away for the weekend, he called Alehandro out for a chat, into the woods he said, we need to talk . Alehandro was late that day, he was spendng his time with maria that he forgot his appointment with Marcel.

"Madre Dios, Marcel must really be mad" and he quickly rushed off to their rendezvous.

H reached their place of meeting, but Marcel was not in sight.

Suddenyly he felt a strong blow to his head, the cruel sting of jealousy has finally found it's victim. And out of the shadows came Marcel, rock in hand, gloating at his success.

" Now, she will be mine..."

lifting Alehandro's corpse, he stuck it between the trees to make it look like an accident and he then went back to tell Maria of the news.

Maria grieving as she was did not shed a tear. Funny, he thought, looks like their love wasn't strong afterall.

The next day, Marcel wore his best clothes and went over to Maria's.

the door a was opened, someone had broken in, but if it was so, the locks would've been broken, who else could it be?

He searched frantically for Maria but she was no where.

Then he saw her, lying lifeless on the floor. She must've killed herself knowing she could never live without the love of her life, Alehandro.

Strickened with regret, Marcel banged himself againts the glass wall,

" How could I have done this" he asked himself. Again and again he drove himself to the glass wall.

With his last breath he reached out for Maria... " Forgive me...."



Yup, It's definitely Cause no. 3

Death...ssss

There have been too much deaths recently, and I don't just mean the deaths of famous stars...

It came as a shock to me when I found out the Dean of Studies in TOA, Ms. Veronica Ho, has passed away due to an illness. The nature of the illness itself is of course,not important and I find no reason to reveal such information to everyone else.

I was never really close to her, I've never even talked to her. All I know is that she's the Dean of Studies and that she makes an appearance every now and then. So when I heard of the news , I basically shrugged it off and continued living my life.

It was only today, when my students asked me of her death, that I felt the impact of her absence in our lives. I acme back to the office, and my colleague asked me,

" So, Darren, you going tonight?"

" Going , where?"

"Veron's funeral.."

" I can't, I have Marriage Course....."

Halfway through to explaining my reason, I realised how selfish had I become. There it was , the last chance for me to see her, and I was going to the Marriage Course.

It was really ironic, the fact that I was talking to a friend of mine about her just last week, we were talking about her well being and health. I as usual, being the heartless man that I am, couldn't care less, but she said she was sad, that Veron might not have the chance to be saved. And when I mean saved I don't mean, rescue from danger save, but to be saved in Jesus Christ saved. Which when come to think of it, is rescue from danger save...

I was ready to leave God's work purpose for me, for my own needs and wants. How could I have been so selfish.

It is not easy being a Christian, as I was discussing with another friend of mine just yesterday, to leave everything that we have, and to follow Jesus, is always easier said than done.

Death comes to us all, one way or another, it happens...

But death just seems to be coming too often these days... This would be the 4th funeral I'm going to this year.

I'm running out of things to say now, evrything is o jumbled up in this head of mine...

sigh...

I just suck at goodbyes...

Flush Away

I went to the gallery, cause that's where we'll have our annual gift exchange. I was holding a bag and so was she, a paper bag of course... It looks suspicious.

" Here you go Darren, you have a responsibility now. Make sure it doesn't die"

I handed her the book, and took the paper bag from her hand. What living thing?

" Now you have to feed them once a day and pour out the water once every 3 days but not the whole thing, just half of it, then you'd have to pour in water again..."

Wait..wait wait... them? How many are they, and what are they?

Fishes.. 2 of 'em.

I walked back up to my office, removed the fish and put it in the aquarium she got me.. Nice, now I have living things to take care of. You can't mess this up Darren, this will be the proof of how responsible you can be.

Just to be clear I asked her again..

" 3 small pallets per fish..."

3 ? that's soo little, I know these guys are small and all, but 3 is just starving them, I took a pinch and scattered the on the surface, seeing the fishes scurry for food is just fun for me. Yes, grow big and strong... Be fruitful and multiply!!!

oh, it's 1.30pm, lunch time.

I went down to Ming Tien, had my lunch, went back up to check on my fishes.

Aww, look, one of them is doing a trick. He or she is playing dead...

The other one was swimming frantically. What will you do if the lifeless body of your friend was floating beside you, stomach up?

AH, crap, I just killed it...

Took it out, the lifeless body looking at me. Was hoping that at any moemnt it would jump up agian, sorta like a joke.

" You've been Punked, my new owner..muahahaha!"

It didn't happen, Ashton Kutcher was nowhere to be seen. It still wasn't breathing.

I let it go. Flush.

I just flushed my first fish.

23

Hmm... What can I say... Here I am a year older than I was.. last year, man that sounds weird.. haha

So what's new about Darren C. Edward? What has changed since last year? Was I any different? If you have been reading my blog for the past 3 years, well, yea, perhaps there has been some changes in my life, minor ones and some major ones...

For this particular year, there's been too many changes, to me of course. Since my last birthday , I am now a Junior lecturer, was a tutor back then, so yea, life's a bit different right now. My journey of self improvements has been really interesting for me. In my quest of searching God and myself, I have encountered obstacles and even unforgettably joyous occasions.

I cannot help but acknowledge God for all the good things He has done for me even including the bad ones. I feel as though I've grown so much more than I have these past few years and I cannot really express how grateful I am to Him for that.

Since last year, I've been talking about my true purpose in life and all. It's seems rather difficult for most people to find their true purpose in life, or like some might call it, their vocation in life. But there are some who find it rather easily, good for them. I find myself falling in the 1st category. For quite some time now my friends have been asking me to well, find a different job, look for other opportunities someplace else, and I myself have been contemplating furthering my studies in the US.

I am proud to announce that yes I have found my calling, or rather my vocation in life. I will announce this when everything is in black and white, though some of you may already know what it is. I urge those who do to please keep it to yourselves till I announce it myself. Not like I'm selfish or anything, that's just how I roll baby.. haha...

Well how did I celebrate my birthday?

I woke up feeling fresh but sort of tired since I slept really late the previous night. Went to college. Turned on my facebook account and started replying all the birthday wishes from my friends. God bless them. Went to Sunway Pyramid to check out the price of Tuxedo for Bard, came back and marked my students' works. Finished work. Went to have Bah Kut Teh with both Victor and Tracy. Went to Prayer Meeting. After that went to Snowflake and enjoyed their specialty. Then ended the night with Ganja Burger Special with Tim and Garry...

That's how my birthday was. I wish I could've typed in more things, exciting things, like, today is my birthday and I stopped a robbery.. Now that would be cool, but no, my birthday was plain and simple.

Was chatting with a friend of mine and he asked me what're my plans for the night, I told him I had non and he asked why not ask the gang out to some kinda activity. My reply was simple. Why should I, it would be ridiculous for me to organise something just to celebrate my own birthday.. Nah, a simple one will do. When you come to think about it, you'd be the only person excited about your birthday since to everyone else, it's just yet another day.

So that's it for my 23rd birthday. Like I mentioned in facebook, I am now and older man, but am I a better man? I believe God has made me so, I believe so.

Till then. God Bless!

BTW: here's my previous posts for my previous birthdays:

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Yeap, I officially have a Tumblr account.

I have decided I will still keep my Blogspot, there are just some things that Tumblr cannot provide, so yea, I'll keep both, though I have decide to compartmentalise my blogs.

Gothallica:Noir will be for Art, Movies, Music. Basically things that I enjoy and have an opinion on, and yes, that includes comic books and TV Series.

Boleh-wood will be for everything else

That's it for now, God Bless!

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