Holidend.

They say inspiration comes with the witching hour.

But with the echoes of twelve fading away, I find myself inexplicably tongue-tied. Again.

Perhaps this list will do the trick.

Stuff I did in the past two months.

1. I learnt that every room has four corners. And brooms alone don’t work.
2. I learnt that dead dingos in Australia aren’t so hot.
3. I learnt what progressive rock means, and have sampled their music.
4. I learnt that having long hair wasn’t such a great idea after all. (Took five minutes to disengage my mp3’s – technically my sister’s – earphones form my hair. Lord knows how it happened, but it did)
5. I also learnt that having short hair wasn’t so hot either. Literally and figuratively.
6. I learnt that Astro has three main movie channels – 40, 41 and 42 – and they do lots of replays.
7. I learnt that most reality TV shows suck big time. Topping the list is that brand new ‘Tommy Lee goes to College’ series. How fake can you get?
8. I learnt that jumping rope wasn’t as easy as it looks.
9. I learnt just how difficult it is to walk when your brain refuses to tell your legs what to do.
10. I learnt despair and depression.
11. I learnt how to use a wheelchair properly. (Which basically meant sneaking off with it when everyone wasn’t looking)
12. I have amassed a great amount of random facts while browsing through Wikipedia. Among these include:

Culinary – Cajun, Cordon Bleu, ragouts, hollandaise sauces, vermicelli, dirty rice, chilli con carne, Australian meat pie, and cornbread. Of course, I still have no idea how to prepare these. At least I know what they are now.
Entertainment – Bassists, Bass guitar, heavy metal, Christian metal, Death Metal, J-metal, K-metal, Pop metal, Fusion Metal, Marilyn Monroe, Johnny Depp, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, B-Grade movies, MPAA movie ratings, Worst movies in film history, Emmy, Grammy and Rotten Tomato awards; Dave Ferell, Will Ferell, Colonel Sanders, the Presidents of the United States of America.*
Biological – Digitalis minima, carpal tunnel syndrome
Random – medieval torture methods, ancient weapons, standard firearms (most of which are featured in the various Counter-Strike games), Pig Latin, Magic: the Gathering, Burger King, Casinos in Malaysia (only one), Scientology, genital piercings.
*an actual band

13. I learnt that Ju Li looks exactly the same. Three years, too. Man.
14. I learnt that Saturday lunches are fun.
15. I learnt that it takes about 45 minutes to take the KTM from my house to IMU, and would cost in excess of six dollars a day.
16. I confirmed the existence of divine intervention.
17. I promptly forgot the rest of this list.

But that’s enough, anyway. Maybe if you mail me, I’d tell you about how I pulled a slug from my sink, thinking it was a strand of veg, and how it burst in my fingers.

Or maybe not.

Till then.

(Later I checked and found out that the witching hour meant throwing in the moon at it’s fullest. And since this was the fifteenth day of the lunar calendar month, this was the new moon – totally the opposite. Oh well.)