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I couldn’t really recall this dream in its entirety as everything was rather fast moving and chaotic.

I was making a trip to somewhere on a flying chair. It was something like chair lift, the one you sat on before you jump off the slope to ski?

I was with a friend and we were flying passed bridges, rivers, fields, caves, tunnels, etc with refreshing wind caressing our faces. It was really wild and fun. The scenery was breathtakingly beautiful. Then we passed by a canal occupied by small gondolas.

There were many, many small gondolas moving in unison towards one direction. Since the gondolas were very small, it could only occupy one man each. They were very skinny men dressed in traditional Vietnamese costume, the áo dài and were all wearing straw conical hat, Nón lá as well. Their áo dài were exclusively in shades of blue or red, no other colors. They were not paddling. Their mini gondolas were making way on their own rather swiftly.

I chuckled at the sight as I remember the scene in Pirates of the Caribbean whereby there were many single occupant boats moving towards one direction to the Death Valley.

Then, my friend warned me not to laugh at the dead people as it would stir their souls into unrest. The warning came too late. As soon as he finished warning me, I felt one of the men grabbed my right leg. We were almost thrown off our chair lift. The grip was strong and he didn’t want to let go.

My friend then told me to shout in order to frighten the dead soul so he could let me go. I shouted once but he could  not hear me. Then, I shouted the second time, “OI!!!” at the top of my voice.

I woke up, startled by my own scream. I was glad it was merely a dream.

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Last night, I had another dream about fish again. Many, many fishes in a few series of dreams.

This time round, a friend asked me for feng shui advice and I told her to get a bowl of 8 black colored goldfish. It’s good to ward off evil spirits (I don’t know how true this is, it was said like that in the dream). As we were busy preparing the big and round crystal bowl used for the goldfish, I saw another aquarium nearby. There was an arowana inside. I remember we used to rear arowana at home many years ago.

The aquarium was the same aquarium in my house many years ago, except I remember that the aquarium was leaking. I asked if this was the same aquarium found in our house, somebody answered me yes. Then, I walked closer to the aquarium to find that, it was used upside down. Miraculously, the water did not spill out. There was a slight gap on the right hand side of the aquarium functioned as the entrance to feed the giant fish.

I saw two “fishes” swimming in the tank with the ferocious looking arowana. In my heart, I pitied the poor fishes which would be the next meal for the arowana. I took a closer look. Those two “fishes” were not fishes at all! They were actually miniature human swimming frantically in the water. They didn’t appear to be drowning. They swam as if they have gills.

I wanted to save the two miniature humans as the arowana suddenly started to chase its dinner. The two small humans were kicking the arowana like crazy. That didn’t deter the arowana from going after them, in fact, it angered the arowana even more. I couldn’t imagine the horror so I closed my eyes and prayed that I was only dreaming. I could hear splashes of water which then led to a loud sound of bones snapping and crushing. I could tell that, it was the human’s back bone snapped into two. I almost threw up in my own mouth.

I chided the owner for such barbaric act and frantically looked for a pump. I went on to pump up all the water from the aquarium in order to save the remaining mini human and let the arowana die. Before the water was all pumped out, the arowana looked increasingly helpless and dying a slow death. I didn’t feel relief whatsoever. I was indifferent.

Sometime last week, I dreamed that I was in the water of shallow seashore. The water was crystal clear and clean. I was hopping from one stone to another then accidentally stepped into the water. I stepped into a leopard skinned sting ray. Damn geli! Then, I was told that it’s good luck to step on a sting ray. But you could only step on it once and not twice. Otherwise you would die. So, I was careful not to step on sting ray again. Then, my family members were also going to the sea and I told them to be careful and not to step on the stingray twice or else, they would die.

Some weird dreams, huh?

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Got this from Javapot who owns a lovely blog on delicious home made bentos, recipes and all things nice! Isn’t it everyone’s wish to always have a cup of hot caffeine laden goodness with best company and watch the days go by.

Well, this award requested seven things about the recipient.. so here goes… (since it’s called “kreative”, I guess I am going to list something on the creative side of me.. well, I’ll try.)

List of seven “kreative” things about myself

1. Creative blogger, huh? I think I owe my creativity to my dreams. I have always been a dreamer. I dreamed a lot when I was in primary/secondary school till college. Since I started my permanent job way back in 2000, I haven’t been having a lot of dreams till.. say, 7 years later, 2007. I wonder why people dream. Subconscious worries? Suppressed needs? LOL! I wish my dreams can be translated into some creative writing? Maybe a short movie script? Fat chance.*

2.  I blog to keep a piece of my life and share it with people I care. It’s never about money. It’s never about fame. I do get a few friends from here for which I remain grateful. Sometimes, I just want to quit blogging because it’s getting a little crowded in here. But thanks to readers like you for encouraging words and keep me motivated.

3. I rather talk to a cat than to be stuck in a meaningless and boring conversation with a fellow human.. and speaking about pets, I always wanted a dog and named him Murphy (after Robocop’s human name – I was so damn impressed by the movie when I was little).

4. Once, I hand painted 30+ Christmas cards using water color as gifts for my church mates and friends. That time, I wished I had a camera to take pics of the 30+ cards. They were all from different sizes, designs, etc. Not one is the same!

5. I am very bad at taking pictures of people. Somehow, I just could not master portraits. Speaking of which, I am getting rather rusty now for not picking up my camera… I am super LAZY!

6. When I was involved in a church many years ago, I wanted to be a missionary. Somehow, college life woke me up. I am not sure if this is a good thing.

7.  I want to learn oil painting. When I was 15, my art teacher said my techniques were good enough to do oil painting. He wanted to give me classes but then, he migrated to the USA. I think when I really have nothing to do (i.e. not feeling lazy), I would pick this up as a hobby.

*By the way, I had a short dream on Saturday. I dreamed that I was going for my form 6 exams (I did A levels in real life, though) and we were supposed to bring our own animal to dissect for the subject Biology. Instead of the usual white mouse, frog or cockroach, I brought 7 little yellow chickens. On my way to the lab, to my horror, 5 chickens out of 7 suffocated and died! I was frantic and scout around for replacement. I was fortunate enough that the lab was situated near a village. I was relieved to be able to see a few chickens roaming around freely. Then I saw two great specimens – one small little yellow chicken and a slightly bigger chick in orange hue. I ran after them. The two chickens ran back to their pens. When I got to their pens, I saw mother hens protecting their respective offsprings. They looked somewhat mutated – they have elongated, rectangular bodies. When I was about to catch the two little buggers, a man came to stop me and said, I could not take those chicks away. I asked him why? He said, these two are celebrity chickens! I was shocked and asked again, what did he mean by that?

“They have facebook profiles! They are called Nie and Amie!”

My jaw dropped. Then I woke up. And for the record, I don’t even play the ^lame games (Farmville/Barn Buddy) on facebook.

^ I mean the game is lame, not the people playing it, okay?

Well, for those who are interested in this meme, please feel free to do so and remember to put your link here! I would like to read them! Have fun!

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Petty Crimes

When I was away with my family in Penang to pay final respects to our late uncle, the other family members who were left at home were in for a nasty surprise. My third aunt was having tummy upset the whole night so she didn’t get a good sleep. When she was awake at 3 am to go to the loo, she heard knocking sounds just outside our balcony.

Curious, she peeped through the curtains and saw a man wearing white cap, was opening my dad’s old car’s bonnet! Alarmed, she tried to wake up my first aunt but she just couldn’t wake up. Then, she went to call my sister and her husband. By then, my first aunt already groggily woke up and went to have a look outside and started knocking on the gate at the balcony. The noise scared the thief off. Sister tried to call 999 but she got some voice mail instead. When my uncle came, the thief was already long gone. My dad’s car small side window was broken.

Incidentally, our colleague who lives a few blocks away from our house mentioned that, the same early morning, batteries were stolen from three cars in my neighborhood! Due to the price hike next month!

Just two weekends ago, when we were in Shanghai, our neighbor saw another neighbour’s car window was broken into and alerted the police. The police came and knocked on the owner’s door and rang the door alarm. Nobody in the house woke up except the entire neighborhood! My mom said, if that house were on fire, they would turn into BBQ!

I wonder why these are called “petty” crimes? A crime is still a crime.

My life is tied to the camera

I had a dream the other day. I was with my brother in Penang, attending my uncle’s funeral (which by the way, is real). Then, since we were bored, we went for a walkabout in Penang when I chanced upon a lovely scenery of the snow capped mountains filled with alpine trees. I was hurrying my brother to hand me my camera left on the fields. When he passed me the camera bag, I took out the camera and started to snap away. The problem was it wasn’t my camera. The dial was on the other side, I couldn’t seem to find the shutter button and it was plasticky and dark blue in color. I was alarmed!

I searched all over the bag and found it wasn’t my bag! Where is my 50mm and SB600 flash? I frantically rummaged the bag and found two bottles of eye drop. Since I couldn’t make out the faded name on the bottles, I looked for other things that could lead me to the owner. Then I found a clinic receipt stating some European guy’s name. Haha. I couldn’t remember the surname though. It’s something like Joachim Entahmacammananakeja. Then I went to make a phone call to the clinic to find out his address while lamenting to my aunts that, I might lost my camera for good. I was saying, “Ai si liao!” (I want to die in hokkien) then, I woke up.

I never knew the camera has so much importance in my life until this dream!

Ants and the Tea Lady

I find that whenever the tea lady (the tikus!) is not around, there won’t be any ants. There was once, she was absent for the whole week, another tea lady took over her job. She left the pantry spick and span! No sign of ants whatsoever. But the moment Tikus came back, the ants will follow suit. Is it because her blood is sweet? (She has diabetes).

MJ: This is it

People – please go and watch this movie! It’s freaking awesome ! And it’s close to having watch the man himself on stage! It’s unfortunate that he had to leave this world without performing this one last concert. If you follow the King of Pop’s concerts on tv closely, he never failed to impress. He’s the King of Entertainer of all times. Rest in peace, MJ.

Meeting up old friends

A friend I haven’t seen in 22 years came to visit Kuala Lumpur. She had migrated to USA for more than 10 years. I was quite excited to meet up with her actually and also some other primary school classmates. It was an awkward meeting at first. Eventually, after a few gulps of Choya Honey Umeshu, we began to talk about traveling, jokes and life. It was good to catch up after so long. So, people, now you know the tricks when meeting very old friends – please include some alcohol and go with the flow.

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I was on the bus with some family members and other people whom I not known. We were traveling to the crocodile farm. Upon reaching the place, suddenly the bus driver stepped on an emergency brake and sent everybody in the bus flipping all over the place, except for my family members whom I held on tight. Without warning, the bus fell off a cliff heading towards the crocodile farm at 90 degrees and rolled over a few times before hitting a stop.

The bus doing a 90 degrees drop

Miraculously, nobody was hurt. Apparently, this is the only way buses can enter the crocodile farm. We were welcomed with open arms by owners of the farm. From the waterfall to the river, we could see crocodiles the sizes of bolsters were swimming along the water current. We were somewhat not afraid of what we saw.

Shooting the rapids along the crocodile infested river

Then, the owners ushered us to a very long boat with its hull looking somewhat like the built of Noah’s ark but without the roof. We were shooting rapids in the very long board, going against the waterfall current. Everybody was wet. It was a fun ride. I kept warning people to lay low to avoid falling into the crocodile infested river. Also, to avoid the crocodiles that were jumping out of the river and above our heads. When we reached the destination, we got off the boat to get to our place of rest.

A platform surrounded by crocs

To my horror, the place of was just a nicely decorated, slightly alleviated platform on the river! Before we could prepare ourselves, the owners suddenly shouted and asked us to pretend to sleep and ignore the crocodiles if they go up the platform. If we do not heed his advice, we would be attacked or eaten alive. It was then the crocodile climbed over a child and came for me. I quickly pretended to sleep and the crocodile opened its mouth and sunk its teeth between my left armpit and back.

I know.. the croc here looked like giant lizard.. and I wish I am THAT slim

I could feel the teeth sinking into my flesh. I didn’t even budge. I tried not to make any noises and remained as dead as a log. I even tried to pace my heart beat slower. The croc was still gnawing on my back for a few more minutes before letting go. I heaved a sigh of relief when the crocodile went back to the river.

I was furious. The owners of the crocodile farm should not put us in such dangerous situation. I was about to write a strongly worded complaint letter to the management, then I woke up.

LOL!! The dreams just got weirder and weirder.

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