why so black and lonely?

I’ve finally placed my order. This is my 3rd pre-order of Potter series, and I’ve been doing it since Order of the Phoenix. It’s not really about being afraid not to get it when it’s published, but more to be able to enjoy the special price, discount, and added gifts. This time, they promise me Potter mugs and no additional GST-hike.

One needs to look around at bookstores to compare prices, and pre-orders at the one which offers the cheapest price. This time I don’t have the time to do extensive research. I just compare the one nearest my office with the bookstore where I have privilege card. It’s ironic that my privilege card can’t guarantee me for discount or other so-called privileges on Potter 7.

Let’s just wait till 21 July, and I plan to savour it just like what I did with the previous 6 books. Take it one page at a time, and try to enjoy it as long as I can. If only we can sip a book.

I’ve made up my mind that I want to be working in a place or room that overlooks the outside world. Anything with a view. I find it more relaxing and it helps a lot to just look at cars or people passing by whenever everything is trying to make you asphyxiated.

In the end, all you can do is remembering all the things that make you start it in the very first place; and at the same time, hoping that it outweighs everything that you’re facing now.

You can’t get your peace of mind by smashing someone’s face to the wall and throw away their mobile phones.

Try take a deep breath. Do it repeatedly.

If it’s not working either, then maybe it’s time to stop caring.

Sometimes when I say "I don’t care", what I really mean is the exact opposite of it.

On another note, it really brought a smile to my face knowing that a good friend stays true to herself after all these years. Displaying the same personality like the one that I knew of since the very beginning. And it’s just from one email out of nowhere. How refreshing.

I saw the latest trailer for Transformers: The Movie while watching Pirates 3. And I came out from the building smiling thinking about Optimus Prime and his Autobots. The trailer is even better than the teaser with Beagle 2.

No Jack Sparrow? No, he’s just plain boring.

My earliest memory on TF was from their Panini Sticker Book back in 1986 or 1987. Then, Panini Sticker Book was the "in" thing among us little kids who only knew about wasting our pocket money on packs and packs of the sticker. I had two books, TF and another one was about airplanes (if you live in the same timeline as I do, you may remember that it’s the one with space shuttle on the cover).

The stickers were sold in bookstores, and it really hurt my pocket considering there were about 5 bookstores which were within 5-minute walk from my home. I still remembered that purplish colour on each pack, and the urge to splurge on buying one box of it.

Fast forward 20 years later, and the robots are back to either protect or destroy us. And they’re totally different from my Panini book. Megatron doesn’t transform to pistol again it seems. I still have no idea what he transforms into, but I must say that he’s the scariest of the lot. Optimus Prime still transforms into a truck, but then this new version already follows to the taste of the pimp-my-ride generation. Notice the additional fire design on his body.

In overall, the robot design is totally different than the ones in my Panini. No more square-ish robots. No more cute Bumblebee. All are replaced with menacing, pointy robots, ready to battle it out on Earth.

Best movie of the 2007? I certainly hope so.

After all is said and done, there’s no denying that I’ve completed another full circle. Nothing felt special about it. It’s just another day crossed out when I’d rather think or do something else. I’m not the right person to answer if the recently completed circle means something for me or others around me. All I know is that I come out with bruises.

Another circle is already waiting to be started. So I’ll just go blindly about it, just like what I’ve been doing all this time with the same wish all over again; to come out at the end of it with less bruises than before.

And as the good Captain Picard himself likes to say…"ENGAGE!"