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There was a fight in the mall today. I broke it up. Rewind a bit, maybe seven years, back before Xueling was born, and there was a memorable occasion when I was at ION Orchard, and a guy started...
Satellite 30 in The irresistible urge to rant, riff and ramble
The unhappiest are those for whom the brightly burning flame of will outstrips the limitations of their mortal vessel. The unluckiest are those for whom the flame of will never burns at all, le...
Short one: Photoshop in The irresistible Urge To Play with Light
Caffeine and I will be doing photoshoots regularly for a while; mostly, she'l be doing the modelling and the post processing. Post processing? Do I ever post? Well.... I probably should. Comp...
Flash Fiction: Monsters in The Irresistible Urge to Write
"Come on, boy." I raised the baton in front of me, willing power into the lure nimbus. The beast turned to look at me, nostrils flaring, taloned fingers flexing. Turned to look at me, away fro...
Everything you need, right here. in The irresistible Urge To Play with Light
Recently, there's been a spate of fundamentalist outbursts in my country; last year there was a woman who called the police on a cosplayer whom she felt was showing too much skin, and then there ...
Clean Cut (flash fiction) in The Irresistible Urge to Write
"I wasn't expecting you back so soon." I lean down to the fire and stir the coals, flaring an orange light out into the room. "I take it things didn't work out." "You knew this would happen?" Yo...
Sample; Cruise in The Irresistible Urge to Write
Three hours later, and the lights of Hull were receding in the winter fog off the stern of the ferry, and I was up on the deck in the frigid North Sea air. The deck was empty except for a few sm...
Shopping in The irresistible urge to rant, riff and ramble
Caffeine: I'm going to order the yukata^ from this shop. They haven't replied but I don't think they'll supply an obi^^, just an informal sash. Me: Are you ok with the sash? Caffeine: No. Me: ...
OP: How do you become addicted to gambling? Me: You lose, and think it's just bad luck. You win, and attribute it to your skill, thus putting the good and bad into two different ledgers that y...
Randomly in The irresistible urge to rant, riff and ramble
"I've written more eloquence than you've had brainfarts." ~~Me, while feeling grumpy.
Go _away_, Murphy in The irresistible urge to rant, riff and ramble
Every year I find out a new way in which things can go horribly wrong, and the only reason it hasn't become critical was because I was incredibly lucky in the middle of my bad luck.
As usual, we only made it down for the Sunday, due to TKD commitments and some minor surgery on my part (the doctor assures me it's probably not a tumour). Somehow, we managed to get my props com...
Not many people know that there is a Space Gundam series from Korea, which used the animation of the Macross Breast fighter (later fortunately renamed the Valkyrie) as a magical giant robot. So...
And now my arm hurts in The irresistible urge to rant, riff and ramble
As Caffeine is looking at this pic intently Me: What are you doing? Caffeine: Trying to improve my makeup. Me: To look better, or to look more like Dante? Caffeine: More like Dante. Me: Th...
New photographic habits in The irresistible Urge To Play with Light
Since coming back from Port Dickson, I've been experimenting. First, I've been shooting at lower and lower light levels, Fig 1 with some unexpected outcomes Fig 2 But after I calibrate (a...
That's a new one in The irresistible urge to rant, riff and ramble
Xueling: I cannot eat junk food. Me: Yes. Xueling: If I eat junk food my body will do bad things. Me: .... Me: Ok, no junk food ever.
Ouchies in The irresistible urge to rant, riff and ramble
If you think men have no empathy, you’ve never seen how a roomful of lads react when a total stranger takes one to the nads.
Lockstep in The irresistible urge to rant, riff and ramble
What fundamentalists fear the most is twofold, mirror aspects of the same thing: That good and bad is determined, not by proclamations from a bully pulpit, but by the choices each of us make ac...
Funtasy in The irresistible urge to rant, riff and ramble
Escapism into fiction may be what eases the pain of life, but it is what you bring back with you out of these worlds that never were that gives you the strength to make the pain stop
Batterman in The irresistible urge to rant, riff and ramble
The reason, I realise, why a lot of Batman fans you see online are jerks is simple: They are self-selected. See, assume that comic readers are heterogenous. There will be people who like Batman...
I've said it before and I'll say it again, a dozen times, a hundred times, a thousand times to different people in different contexts, and it will be no less true each and every time: What kind...
Gonna get a big surprise in The irresistible urge to rant, riff and ramble
Xueling lost my old Grumpy Bear sometime back. The following conversation ensued: Me: Where's my rain bear? Xueling: shrug I never lose it. Did you look in the woods? Me: What woods? Xueling...
Father's Day (cont'd) in The irresistible urge to rant, riff and ramble
But I'll tell you this: I still hate kids. Well, actually, I don't. I'm generally ok with kids, but I hate the concept of "kids", and most specifically I hate the way adults treat them. But th...
Father's Day in The irresistible urge to rant, riff and ramble
Dresden: Do you remember? The first time you saw her? The first time she looked at you? Do you remember that change? That shift, when the universe suddenly tilted? Do you remember looking at her ...
I've been away for a while. First, you see, there was the planning for an astronomy field trip, and then there was the field trip itself, in a place with dubious internet... but we got through al...
