my list of top ten anime

ok so far there aren't 10 yet and in no particular order. i'll update with more later, not like anybody is gonna read this anyway...

1) ghost in the shell
2) cowboy bebop
3) mononoke hime
4) samurai champloo

i realize that they are all main stream but heck, they are good...
the reason why i'm listing this is because i was asked what was my favourite anime was and all i could say was ghost in the shell. this is kinda embarrassing as i haven't been watching anime in a while...

what should i do?

should i really find a new job? or do i really just need more interesting hobbies?

my job isn't that bad but its in the way of me doing some things. i might just quit for a year, do what i really want to do and then try to get the job back. will that work? i don't know.

i have a remarkably short attention span which means i can actually try lots of hobbies in one year. in the end, i will still think about whether i should have quit my job and gone studying in australia. i should actually just create a list of things i want to do, prioritize it, rank it on possibility, figure out who i can do most of it with and then set about realizing the top 10 in the list.

best romantic comedy ever

When Harry met Sally

i love the circumstance and story
i love that it took them 12 years to realize that they were right for each other
i love that it hints of destiny where u least expect it
i love the dialog
i love meg ryan's fake orgasm and the lady ordering what she's having scene
i love billy crystal's lines
i love the soundtrack
i love re-watching this and laughing at the technology back in those days

vow of the heavenly legion

like a cancer you ravaged your mother
uncontrollably consumed remorseless
then like a virus you spread to worlds
infecting devouring all relentless
tis regretful that you heed us not
that we who were before you now rise
enraged to restore the divine balance
for we are the scourge from the heavens
that we are cure to the plague that is man

man's ode to the sun

long have you watched us from above
since the time origin we worshiped you
while we nursed growing tenacity in our hearts
soon we shall know your essence divine
and harness your greatness to fuel our lust
so that we may one day live amongst your kind
and thereafter yonder forth we shall surpass

wouldn't it be cool...

i wanted this blog to be like a pensieve in the harry potter books/movies. where you extract a stream of memory/thought and put it in a bowl (a pensieve) and watch it. analyze it. and then later bottle it up, store it away, to revisit next time. so, most of what you read are just that, my thoughts, put in words. but this is not enough. wouldn't it be cool if there was an usb3.0 port on my head, where i can just upload my thoughts via wire (or maybe even bluetooth, and possibly get hacked...). and my thoughts would go into this itunes like program or some mac like video editing app, where i can edit, review and post. that would be awesome.

and i'm really lazy. at office the other day, we were talking about putting up a posting board for the group to post ideas or announcements and i thought, where is this going? apparently, the posts will get translated into text onto a website and announcements on the website will get printed and posted onto the board. so i thought, thats a waste of time, couldn't we just have a running display of the website instead of the posting board? we could have a monitor running off a low power pc in the hallway, showing slides. and again, i'm lazy, so i thought why bother even posting stuff to the website or reading the website, just send the posts via email to a daemon which automatically sorts, organizes and posts it for you and then have it collate and send a weekly newsletter of all the posts while at the same time, displaying this all on the monitor by the hallway. that, i think, would be neat.

in a funk lately

i'm suddenly in the poetry mode lately, bad poetry that is. i have no clue how poetry should be written or when to rhyme. i just write what i think and feel about a subject and then edit it to make it sound prolific to the audience/readers. that is actually so pathetic on so many levels. #1 nobody understands the crap i usually write in simple english, #2 they sure as hell won't understand it any better in jazzed up english, #3 and i only think its jazzed up english, for everyone else its just incoherent strings of rarely used words, #4 but who am i kidding, nobody knows about this blog and i'm just talking to myself while thinking there is an audience that cares... up next another poem i've been toying with in my head.

the truth

we lie because we are lame
because the heart so full of wanting
but our abilities so simple and lacking
so we breach the divide by lying
on lies upon lies ever since
till such is lost the one truth
the purpose for our being and
the question of where we are going

offshore account? or offshore non-profit company?

will this make a good way to send money abroad?
create a company in another country (limited), open a bank account for that company and "buy" services via credit card. Money goes to that "business" and it goes into the bank account.
will it get taxed? is there a way for the company to not pay taxes abroad?
dunno la, just a thought.

Things to look out for

o3bnetworks.com - company that offers broadband to african region using low orbit satellites instead of landlines or standard geostationary satellites. Cheaper solution. Worth reading on.
kwedit.com - online credit for children for their virtual purchases... sounds atrocious but apparently makes quite a profitable business... worth looking into.