Over 20,000 were killed in the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis and now the world focus has slightly shifted to China, where the death toll is likely to reach the hundreds of thousands. Rescuers have only just arrived at the epicentre of the quake. According to research done by my colleague, the epicentre hosts some 600,000 chinese citizens. The current ( Read more... )

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The raindrop trickled down Noel's right cheek as he felt a subtle tickle from the sudden introduction of cold. The drizzle pattered gently on the lethargic figure as he waited for the bus to arrive but he was not the least concerned. He would've been, for about two weeks ago when he fell terribly ill due to a minor endemic that was proliferating ( Read more... )

A time traveller. A magician of colours. A hero that transcends time to accentuate the lost beauty of this world. It's the fantasy that i want to materialise - and so i got myself a camera ( Read more... )

The tide of sanity recedes ever so rapidly as the imminent tsunami insidiously simmers within the depths of a mangled soul. Perhaps it’s the sudden realisation that the demands of this job has decapitated my social life - that working these three different shifts have made me an unwilling hermit. The issue of subjectivity has also been raised at ( Read more... )

Benji sat on the ledge with his feet dangling two hundred feet off the ground. His legs swayed slowly from side to side like a pendulum that was giving in to inertia - his diminishing will fought a battle against hesistation; reluctance breeded by doubt; the natural resistance sparked by human instinct. The war between reason and darkness took ( Read more... )

Maybe i should balance the previous rant with a more secular and macro perspective regarding the state of the world today. I don't know why, but i love pictures of children. Sometimes i wonder if i'm paedophillic but i reckon that since i don't get a hard-on looking at the pictures, i really should be decent. Right, enough of that ( Read more... )

So, i survived 5 days in camp of my first ever ICT. It was goddamned gruelling (not!). Thing is, i'm posted to a Bionix battalion to (initially) become a platoon commander. After rectifying that i am indeed not trained in the Bionix, i was made to fill the position of Alpha Company 2IC because the previous bugger has been posted to work overseas. ( Read more... )

It's a feeling hard to pin down but to say the least, it was depressing. It feels almost inappropriate to be feeling sad over the death of someone i don't know at all and i think this perhaps illustrates how much i've gotton myself immersed with the job ( Read more... )