想你

这几晚都睡得不好。
脑子里的影子，其中有你。
偶而会很想要联络一下，问声：“最近还好吗？”
但也许遗憾也是一种回味。
在睡不着觉的夜晚上，至少还会有你。

Past Times

I used to lie down
and enjoy doing nothing
but watch the fan spin.

Coffee and love.

Her favourite kind of coffee is the type at the kopitiam, with enough milk, and enough sugar... well, generally sweet enough, and milky enough. She likes the smell, or aroma, and the lingering taste in her mouth, or the robust lingering taste in her mouth. She knows they say that true coffee drinkers like their expressos properly. but maybe nobody has showed her how. her second favourite kind of coffee is cafe latte at the higher class kopitiams with angmohmias. which are generally milky enough, and she'll have to make it sweet enough too, by adding the sugar syrup, which can be difficult.

She thinks that if it's true when they say that love is like a cup of coffee (yes, people say that) then it's cute that she likes it the way she likes it, even if it's not really the way it's supposed to be liked.

I thought you belonged to me.

Saw the pyramids along the Nile,
Watched the sun rise on a tropic isle...
Just remember darling,
All the while you belonged to me...

Kid

Everybody was concerned about Kid when he was young. He used to sit there, harmlessly, lonelily.
Eventually, luckily, everything straightened out alright.
Kid wanted me to tell you that he believes in you.
Take care.

Got milk?

It's not a nice feeling to be hungry at night and long for a long tall glass of milk. It is a nice feeling to drink cold milk from a simple clean glass. It is a nice feeling to see the remains of the milk of trickling back down into the glass as you gulp the last gulp.

Aye, of the simple pleasures in life.
Still, it's not a nice feeling to be hungry at night and long for a long tall glass of milk.

The past...

The past bloomed and withered.
The present is blooming and withering.
The future shall bloom and wither.

The Panic Kingdom Report - The Lizard Envoys

Everybody should already know that spiders are envoys of the panic kingdom. What you might not know yet, though, is that house lizards are also agents of the Panic Kingdom. This news can perhaps surprise you, but now you better think twice before you secretly or not secretly curse the cackling again. It has not yet been cracked, the cackling code, but it is quite almost certain that the lizards' chirps are meant to either discuss your anxiety level with one another, or to report to their superiors.
It is understood however, that the lizards are definitely of higher rank than the common spiders, either because they are bigger, or that they have fewer limbs, or that they can cackle, often quite loudly. It is suspected that some lizards report directly to the Panic King and Panic Queen themselves. In sum, the house lizards are quite important figures in the Panic Kingdom. (That is why sometimes even their commonest calls have the power to startle you.)

Name: Common House Lizards, The. Envoys of the Panic Kingdom. Or Common House Geckos, The. (There are basically 3 subtypes: The Common House Gecko (Hemidactylus frenatus; being the commonest), The Flat-Tailed Gecko (Cosymbotes platyurus), and The Four-clawed Gecko (Gehyra mutilata)).
Sex: Both. Girl lizards are usually agents of the Panic Queen, and boy lizards are subordinates of the Panic King.
Age: Eggs up. Quite unknown how old they can get because magical nature.
Place of origin: The Panic Kingdom.
Attributes: Usually silent (except for occasional cackles), responsible and competent (quite workaholic actually), generally a depressed bunch of beings, can be rather anxious. Temperament ranges from mild to bad mannered, as of in any bunch of beings. Some reportedly suffer from symptoms of anxiety or personality disorders.
Rank/Position: Varies. Ranks range from low to high. It is firmly established that their rank is higher than that of the common house spiders. It is suspected that promotion is dependent on when they autotomize (“self-cut"). This is taken to be an indication of power-up in terms of anxiety endured or managed. The higher ranking the lizard is, the higher the number of times it must have practiced autotomy.
Basic physical description: All 3 subtypes have a head, 4 limbs (with 5 digits each except for the Four-claw Gecko who has only 4 clawed digits on its fore feet), and perhaps a tail, or at least something like where a tail could be. They are lizard in color. They have cool tongues. They walk on walls. Nocturnal.
The Common House Gecko: Its tail is oval in cross-section, with a longitudinal series of spiky tubercles.
Flat-tailed Gecko: It has a fringe of skin along the sides of the body and tail. The tail is flat in comparison with the Common House Gecko’s, and serrated along the edge. The fingers are half-webbed.
Four-clawed Gecko: Tail is neither spiked nor serrated. The juveniles tend to have pink or gold spots which disappear as they mature. It appears to have slightly translucent skin.
Basic job description: They are somewhat monitors and monitresses of the panic levels of the persons living in their vicinity. They just watch, and feed occasionally. They report the situation to their superiors, who might be other lizards, or basically other agents whose identities cannot yet be revealed for reasons that cannot yet be revealed.
1) They’ll give reports on you. Good report is like, “this fella is responsive to anxiety, he is quite anxious enough, he copes well.” Bad report is like, “this fella is crazy about anxiety, and embraces a nervous lifestyle, doesn’t cope” or “this fella is not responsive to anxiety, he is too calm.” Cumulative bad reports might piss off their superiors, or worse, the Panic Royalty, thus attracting attention to you, i.e. asking for major trouble.
2) They’ll send for the spiders to cause you panic. Just to see how you panic.
3) They’ll make you panic. (When the spiders are lazy or not powerful enough, or just for fun, or to punish you.)
4) They’ll afflict you with depression, anxiety disorders, personality disorders, but usually only symptoms of. (Usually to punish you.) Most commonly afflicted is the panic attack.
(Disorders are afflicted:
a. If it is deemed that you are really a sucker for anxiety (displayed over a prolonged period of time).
b. When you’re desperately unlucky.
c. Usually by Panic King or Queen. It is suspected that being afflicted with especially anxiety disorders is quite equivalent to knighting you as one of their human envoys.)
Possible repercussions of pissing off the Lizard Envoys of the Panic Kingdom:
1) They will give you a bad report.
2) They will punish you.
Precautions to take to prevent from inspiring a bad report:
1) Always be cool.
2) But not too cool.
3) Don’t be rude to lizards.

FAQ: I hate or am scared of lizards, how do I get rid of them without pissing them off?
A: Lizard phobia is a form of anxiety disorder that the lizard envoys brandish. It is afflicted on you because you are vulnerable, or they are just making fun of you, or whatever reasons. Demonstrate competence and calmness when you are trying to get rid of them. Systematically do what a non-lizard-phobic person would do, and you’ll pass the test, and either the phobia will leave you, or its severity will lessen.

(Should you have more information on the lizard envoys of the Panic Kingdom or on the Panic Kingdom itself that you would like to share, eg. sightings, understandings, conversations, please send to meekfreak@gmail.com, subject title, "The Panic Kingdom (lizard envoy or whatever) report.")

And so it is.

And so it was, on a quiet night, I looked at the sky. It seemed like noisy thoughts fought to flood my mind the whole time. Both restlessly and tiredly, I ignored them all. I thought not to try to understand because I felt too bored of them. Looking at the sky, I couldn't think of anything - anything to distract me, or anything to think about besides the miscellaneous troubles.

So, I tried to relax, by making sense out of the clouds' shapes, you know, how we used to do that as kids, and kiddy pasttimes are supposed to be relaxing... At first, I saw something like a horse, then I lost it, then the clouds must have thought I was boring and left. Then, there were just stars, and I couldn't think of anything again.

So, I tried to relax again, by looking for Orion in the stars, because I remembered since when I was quite a kid, I'll spot the Orion, and be happy (you know, back then, a book introduced us). At first, I thought I saw his belt, but he must have went out without his belt, and I had missed my friend. And then, I couldn't think of anything again.

So, I tried to relax again, I thought I'll just stare at the stars and watch how they twinkle. That should be simple enough. At first, I was taken by how they really twinkle. Then, I thought, wow, they really look like diamonds in the sky. Then, I thought, eh, some of those small ones might be satellites, which by the way, is a super nasty revelation, especially on star gazing occasions. And then, I couldn't think of anything again.

So, with miscellaneous troubles fighting at the back of my head, restlessly and tiredly, I gave up and went to bed. I couldn't think of anything anymore, and so it was goodnight.

(And so, that's why I haven't been writing anything. 23 May)

Elephant Parade

Tonight, an invisible parade of elephants line up. There are big elephants, small elephants, pink, brown, white and grey ones too. Invisibly pink, invisibly brown, invisibly white and invisibly grey, that is. Of course, there are also who are invisibly purple, green and blue... Some of them are lady elephants, some are boy elephants, some are in love. Some of them glow and some have shiny star-like-opal eyes. Some have little elephants beside them, some have little elephants within their bellies. Some have tasks of fine bone china, some have their bodies of clean white feathers. One has his body covered with dirty white feathers though. Some elephants are of baby blue towel. One of which has a baby pink earring on one side. Some elephants are of emerald green bottle glass, some are of emeralds. Some are of gold and some are of silver...
They greet each and every other maybe like long lost friends, but maybe not, but definitely eagerly and happily. They have to be rather quiet, so they whisper their hellos in a way invisible elephants have to whisper sometimes.

sept 17. 2004.