I turned towards the direction of the sound and saw a little girl on her bicycle, standing in a corner with her grandmother; laughing their heads off. 

"What's so funny??!?" I wondered. 

And then, they looked at each other and said in unison, 

"Ready? Set? GO!" 

And off they went, the little girl, racing with her grandmother. She, on the bicycle, and the poor grandmother on her god-given legs. 

Towards the end, the girl gave a piercing screech in the midst of wild laughter when she realised that her grandmother was overtaking her! 

Her grandmother won in the end, and the little girl, defeated once more, jokes that the race was not fair, and insisted that they race again. 

By the way, in case you were worried, the grandmother looked to be about in her late 40s or early 50s and she looked very very healthy, so no risk of heart failure there. (: 

Wait, was that a contradiction?? 

Hell, this is life. 

Life has been hell these few days, I think I'm tired. Physically and mentally. I know what I need to do, I know I can do it, but I don't have the time to do it. And yet, I have people whining they don't have enough time when they don't have any other commitments other than school. 

I wished I was that free. But no use wishing for something that will never happen. I think if I wasn't so busy, I'd probably be bored out of my mind. But . well, maybe it's not so bad to have so much time on your hands. 

Something bad happened today, and it gave me a sort of feeling that I knew I must be PMSing. My first reaction, I felt like bawling, but then, I felt a blind burning rage and then, I just felt so sad and tired and all at the same time, I felt guilty for having felt angry. 

But no, I'm still seeing red.  .  . I mean that in the ANGER form of red anyway. 

I feel like slashing someone's nose off . Maybe massacre the rest of the person while I'm at it. Shred the hands off, grate the scalp off with a cheese grater, blend the limbs in the blender.. Hmm. On hindsight, maybe I'll pull the skin off the face, mix it with silicon and make a realistic facemask. 

BUt hell, nobody would want to look like THAT. So that would probably mean the face mask won't sell. 

I'm sorry. 

Sleep deprivation brings the worst out of people. 

I nearly got knocked down by a car, while I was crossing the road.....

at the black and white stripes, otherwise known as ....

that's right. The Zebra Crossing. 

Of course, I turned back to glare at the driver. And he was staring straight through me and that was how I realised that the SBS bus had saved my life. 

Because, had there not been a bus blocking the zebra crossing junction, I would have experienced firsthand, the aerodynamics of "flying without wings". 

The idiot driver had accelerated towards the crossing, and only stopped when the bus blocked his way out. Trust me, I know for sure that he accelerated because I saw my life flash before my eyes as the idiot car surged forward, stopping where my right leg would have been had my flight instincts not kick in. Seriously, if I hadn't jumped out of the way, I'd probably have had a nice sweet reunion with the orthopedic surgeon at CGH. 

Well anyway, it was nice to know that the idiot driver had lived up to his name as a Singaporean driver. Of course, it's a crass generalisation on my part; there are many good and safe drivers out there. But as the saying goes..... it only takes one drop of ink to spoil a pot of milk. Hah Hah! Geddit geddit?  

Okay, idiots and horrible translations aside, did I ever mention that I have night blindness? Hahah! Not the kind you can avoid with citrus fruits during pregnancy like a cousin insists, but the kind that's probably caused by severe astigmatism and bright dazzling headlights. 

I abhor night driving, not just because I totally suck at it, (because I don't!) but because my already challenged sense of directions is exponentially worse at night. En route to Pasir Ris, I'd get detoured off to ECP, or the like. While it's not so bad nowadays, I can't help but wonder if night vision goggles may prove to be a quick fix out of this predicament.. or maybe I can continue praying that Lasik will one day be eligible for government subsidy. Haha! 

and I realise that i haven't concluded properly but I can feel Philippe Starck beckoning me into his eccentric world of supermonkeys. 

Let me end with an inspiring albeit totally irrelevant quote from the man himself, 

         "Nobody is obliged to be a genius but everyone is obliged to participate."