Twilight Ghost's Life

Electric Dreams

Went to Paramatta Westfield yesterday and spent the day with Bella, Josie, Arvs and Amali.
Arvs, Jos and Ama decided to meet each other at 11.00 am, I arrived at 2.00 pm because I needed more sleep for having stayed up all night ('till morning) to use the Internet. (I get free Internet from 1.00 am to 7.00 am). I ended up sleeping 5.00 in the morning that day.
Bella arrived at 3.30 because she worked from morning to 2.30 pm and it takes an hour drive from where she works (Penrith) to Parra.

I spent so much money yesterday. I bought some stuffs from the Chemist in Penrith, then 4 books at Dymocks, a stuff toy set from one of those cute stores Hello Kitty and Dear Daniel (which reminded me of Spike and Dru because of the red and black clothes they were wearing) and a daily planner from Grace Bros. Not to mention those foods (lunch and an ice cream) and 4 bottles of water I've purchased.
When I withdrew money and checked my balance I found out I spent more than $200.
I was carrying the stuff I bought all day, when I got home my hands and fingers really hurt. Not just a little, a lot. I could feel it when I tried to sleep.
Anyway, I didn't mind spending the money. I haven't been getting out much so the money is just sitting there and piling up (as Josie puts it). Sooner or later I have to get a job and I just couldn't sit around, so might as well enjoy life now while I'm not working and still dependent on my parents especially while they still see fit giving me money.
But of course, I wouldn't mind just staying at home and going out just once in a while. It is better to have money in the bank. I think I should start saving.

Life is great right now. I could spend so much time doing things that I like. Working on my website, posting and reading comments on my favourite messageboards, buying CD's. watching or renting movies, watching TV/cable, playing the piano, listening to CD's, taking a long bath and many more.

I didn't expect to enjoy my time yesterday that I did. It's great seeing everyone again. We ate, we shop, we laughed, we looked at pictures, we took photo, we did so much.
When we were having lunch, there was this guy approaching and then Arvs said it was his brother, at first I thought he was joking but then I realise he was telling the truth. His brother's friend is sitting just behind us. It was a coincidence as well as we were joking that the next time we meet each other again Bella should bring her bestfriend Anita, Arvin should bring his brother and sister and Josie should bring her bestfriend Esver.
Then minutes later we saw Arv's brother briefly, an hour later Josie got a call from Esver so we met her at Dymocks. It was like our joke (in a way) is coming true. All we needed was Anita. Ohhhhhhhhh where is Anita??? I can't wait to see her. Anita is sooooooooooooooooo funny =)
Maybe if we had stayed 'till the next day (hiding in the toilets at night), maybe Anita mysteriously would have appeared.
I mean think about it, if minutes later Arvs brother appeared, then an hour later it was Esver, a day later could have been Anita?

Anyway, we had a great day. For a while the three of us, Amali, Bella and I was separated from Arvs, Jos and Esver. We bought ice cream while the other three went to accompany Esver while she eat her dinner.
Actually, we came up with a funny idea while we were eating ice cream. We heard an announcement about someone looking for someone. Then we thought we could go to the information desk and ask the lady to announce that we lost our friend Arvin. We would tell her, for Arvin to meet us near the Indian place in the food court. His description would be dark, Igorot, dark FS and short woolo. No just kidding, the description would only be dark.
When we finally went to the information desk, the lady just told us that she would only page or announce it if the one lost is a child.
Then we thought there's nothing we could do, if only we knew, we would have pretended that Arvin was our little nephew or something.

After that, we went to where the other three is at. Esver just finished her dinner then after that we finally went home. The weather was so hot yesterday. I think it was suppose to be the hottest for this week. The six of us caught the train. Amali is on another platform because her train is travelling the other way. Mariebel is suppose to be on another platform as well because she lives nearer to Amali than any of us, but she left her car in Penrith so she had to catch the train with us.
We told Arvin how we saw this sign in Blacktown that says 'Wolo' which is almost his 'nick' name (another inside joke). Mariebel and I was then waiting to see the sign, when the train finally made it to Blacktown we've discovered that the sign was gone. Then we saw this guy carrying the sign on his way to the lift, then we laughed. I thought it was yet another coincidence that Mariebel would decide to catch the train that day, when the sign was on.

The three muskeeters, Josie, Arvs and Esver got off to fight yet another battle at their favourite mountain in Druitt, No- just kidding. They did got off at Mt Druitt just to go home no battle whatsoever. Which left only me and Bella on the train. We then have to get off at St Mary's because the train does not go all the way to Penrith. We had to catch another train for the remaining destination. We then came up with the master/slave joke that we thought was so funny.
Later at Penrith, Bella and I talked for a while. Then she had to go home and I had to go to Penrith Mall to withdraw money and pass some time.

I then have to wait for another bus, which is the 'move zone' bus. Westbus recently introduced this "move zone" bus, where the bus don't go to its usual route. I'll tell more about this later on. The bus driver that night was young and good looking and he was so nice to me. He talked to me for a while when I got on then when I got off he talked a bit again. And he was looking at me with his eyes that it seems like it is trying to be gentle or something.
BUS DRIVERS!!! another story to tell. I have so many tale I could tell about bus drivers. So many experience both good and bad.

I'm trying to pass the time because I didn't want to go home while my dad is still awake. He has been bugging me with these lost keys in our house. I'm a bit pissed off, at first he blame my brother maybe he mistakenly took it home with him (my bro lives with my mum) when he last visited, then now he thought I'm the one who lost it. I don't think so.
When I got home, the lost key is already there. I could only guess my dad found it somewhere only he would know. It was he who lost it all along. Then, today he put a really big key chain on the key. Maybe so he wouldn't lose it again.

.................... Part 2 ....................

I just had a call from my brother. He is coming at 8.00 pm. It's becoming his routine to visit on Fridays and stay 'till Sunday.
He told me to get ready so when he arrives we'll go to Blockbuster to rent and return videos. I think he will stay the night (probably 'till Sunday) so we could watch movies.

I can't believe it's been a week again. Exactly a week ago, he came in the afternoon, we watched those movies that I taped. An 80's movie called Electric Dreams and another recent movie called Lip Service.

Lip Service was enjoyable. I'll recommend it. It is a Canadian TV movie with Kari Wuhrer (from Sliders).

The other movie I taped was Electric Dreams. It was a popular movie in the 80's probably a first of its kind. It is where the song of the same title came from. The song goes "We'll always be together, however far it seems, we'll always be together, together in electric dreams". Sounds familiar ??????
Anyway, it stars Virginia Madsen who I thought has an uncanny resemblance of Gillian Anderson. If you've seen Virginia Madsen in the movie Candy Man, she really looked like Scully (Miss Anderson in X-Files).
In this Electric Dreams movie however, she is a bit younger. The movie is about a computer who falls in love with a girl and became a friend/enemy to a guy. You probably think it sounds corny already but if you watch it, you can't help but sympathise with the machine in the end. Feeling emotions toward an object (a non-living thing) is one of those magic a movie could do.
This is one of those movies with moral to the story. It makes you realise the real definition of being a human being, the reality of love, the possible destruction of humanity with technology and so much more.
Nowadays, we have movies with the same morals such as Artificial Intelligence and Bicentennial Man, but back in the 80's it was this movie. So, I though it is probably the first of this kind of movies.

In that movie there were a few scenes where the computer screen was turning/turned off. Then after the movie finished and the credits rolled up, our TV just turned off by itself. And I didn't think anything of it, 'cause I'm still used to seeing screens turning off from the movie. Then it took time for me to realise we had no electricity, there was a black out.
I then thought maybe it has something to do with bushfires or something. We waited for about an hour for the electricity to come back.
Do you know how boring it is without electricity? There was nothing to do. We can't listen to the radio or play CD's, we can't watch TV or play videos, we can't turn on the computer and I can't play my piano keyboard, and on top of it all it was so hot because there was no air conditioning. Some of our phones are not even working because of it. All of a sudden you realise how dependent you really are on electricity.

So, all I did was lie down on the couch and wait for the electricity to come back, it was so hot that day too. I began to fall asleep, because I was so bored and I knew if I did fall asleep I would forget how bored and hot I was. The electricity came back but only for a few minutes (30 min) and there was a black out again.
We waited again for the electricity to come back. Then another hour later the lights came back, you hear the sound of appliances coming back to life and electric clocks starts to blink. Electricity is here again and it's been a week since it came back. Let's hope it stays like this forever. Men!!! we live in an electric dream.