Long Walk
white cat. empty swings. tree with an eye. crow trap. red taxi. vanilla soft serve ice-cream. talking parrot. church wedding.

The cosmic fossil
"When radio telescopes can pick up light from distant galaxies billions of lightyears away,they will be charting the universe as it looked in primeval times after the Big Bang. Everything we see in the sky is a cosmic fossil from thousands and millions of years ago. The only thing an astrologer can do is predict the past."
-Albert Knag
Sophie's World

Freud
last night, fell asleep reading the chapter on freud and his analysis on dreams. true enough, i began to have a dream exactly the way he said we would have it. firstly, it was inspired by the happenings the day b4 (not that i din know this). what's more, i finally understand what he means by we are much more unrepressed in our dreams, despite the fact that there are still censors. in my dream, i said something which i wldn't have said to another person in real life, cos it was an extremely mean and ungracious thing to say. i guess what teaches me what was mean and ungracious is the superego. and in a dream, superegos are very much absent and ids are taking control. no wonder we always wake up feeling that our dream are ludicrous. :P

The stranges of the strange has happened.why did a yellow rose sprout from my white rose plant?

"As little children we are tremendously inquisitive, and we wonder about everything, but as life goes on we begin to take certain things for granted even though we do not understand them. "

Stuff like this makes u queasy about eating
Willing victim was eaten while still alive
Self-confessed cannibal advertised online for a victim and a man showed up, ready to be mutilated and eaten before death

BERLIN - The advertisement on the Internet read: 'Seeking well-built man, 18-30 years old for slaughter.'

The man who answered it was killed and eaten by German computer expert Armin Meiwes, 42, described by his lawyer as a 'gentleman of the old school'.

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Yesterday, Meiwes went on trial in a case of sexually inspired cannibalism so perplexing it could make legal history. He has confessed to the gruesome episode, and is charged with 'murder for sexual satisfaction'.

It is the first case of its kind in Germany. The problem is whether such consensual killing is really murder, as cannibalism is not a crime there.

The trial began with the court hearing how horror films had fuelled his childhood fantasies of eating school friends, the BBC said.

Meiwes, a former soldier, actually received several replies to the Internet advertisement he placed two years ago. Some were hoaxes.

Another man broke off contact after Meiwes sent him photos of the specially-built killing room in his 44-room home, said a report in the Independent on Sunday.

Eventually, a well-paid Siemens microchip engineer, Bernd-Juergen Brandes, wrote back: 'I offer myself to you and will let you dine from my live body. Not butchery, dining!! Whoever REALLY wants to do it will need a REAL VICTIM!!'

He then took one day off from his job, bought a one-way train ticket and met Meiwes in his home town of Rotenburg in March 2001.

Meiwes claims that Brandes demanded to be mutilated and killed the same day, and even fasted so that his intestines were clear, according to an interview he gave to the German news magazine, Stern.

Brandes took drugs to desensitise himself to the pain, and Meiwes got a kitchen knife, and turned on his video camera. Parts of the two-hour video are expected to be shown at the trial.

Meiwes first sliced off Brandes' penis, fried it, seasoned it with salt, pepper and garlic. Then he shared it with its former owner.

Stern reported Meiwes saying the dish was 'tough and unpalatable'.

Meiwes' lawyer Harald Ermel said it took the victim nearly 10 hours to bleed to death and that he had urged Meiwes repeatedly to keep on cutting him.

Meiwes cut up the body and stored parts in his freezer. 'He believes he ate about 20kg and there was about 10kg left over,' said Mr Ermel. 'He defrosted it little by little and ate it.'

Afterwards, Meiwes searched the Internet for more victims. The Independent said four more men answered. Meiwes wrapped each one in cellophane, and labelled each of their body parts like cold cuts.

But they were only interested in role-playing, not really being killed, so Meiwes let them go.

He was arrested last December, after a tip-off from someone who had spotted another of his online ads.

The prosecution will push for a life sentence on the grounds that Meiwes is too dangerous to ever be released. -- Reuters, AFP

Life
"Life is both sad and solemn. We are let into a wonderful world, we meet one another here, greet each other, and then wander together for a brief moment. Then we lose each other and disappear as suddenly and unreasonably as we arrived."
-Alberto Knox
Sophie's World

"All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts."
-William Shakespeare
As You Like It

"Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more; it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing."
-William Shakepeare
MacBeth

why does she only wear those little pieces of clothes, with barely enuff cloth to make a...a...a...dishcloth? hmmm...maybe because modesty is not innate.

An inane piece
i stuffed it in the remote control pocket in my living room. i forgot the exact day i left it there. it has lost the original meaning which i invested it with. has it gained a new meaning? a permanent adornment to the empty pocket? perhaps i shall never forget the day when i became its owner. but perhaps that feeling is gone forever and never to come back. and yet, that was one of the more memorable moments. The Bear still looks the same, but things have changed, drastically, permanently. i still wonder if the outcome would be different if i went back and did something else. maybe not, some things are bound to begin and end, some are never meant to have a beginning. The Bear is a reminder of a wonderful piece of memory, tucked away somewhere but not forgotten. it has taken its place in the most mundane of places, yet is significant. i absent-mindedly finger it when i watch television, i tuck it further into the pocket. my pesky cousin took it out the other day and laid it face down on the table and my first instinct was just to put it back into its rightful place. it just seems so right to see it there.

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my hokkien-song-karaoke loving neighbour has taken to listening light classical music. he obviously wants his newborn baby to be Mozart instead of a hokkien pop singer. parents are strange.