i saw this on nad's blog and decided to copy it.
sorry nads.

Fond memories for those who born in the 70s and 80s.

1. You grew up watching He-man, MASK, Transformers, Silver Hawk and Mickey Mouse. Not to forget, Ninja turtles, My little Pony and Smurfs too.

i did some of these. i remember when cartoons didnt all come from japan. and were BETTER.

2. You grew up brushing your teeth with a mug in Primary school during recess time. You together with all your classmates beside you, will brush your teeth with a coloured mug. The teachers said you must brush each side 10 times too.

no i didn't. i remember the school dentist though. i always insisted she mispronounced my name.
and she gave me free toothbrushes, too.

3. You know what SBC stands for.

yep. singapore broadcasting company. i dont remember watching it though.

4. You pay 40 cents for Chocolate or Strawberry MILK every week in class.

fuck no. i got a dollar a day. i spent most of it on food. rice with 1 fried egg and a packet drink. everyday.

5. You watch a very popular Malay dubbed Japanese drama on RTM1 about schoolgirls who possess powerful skills in volleyball called Meoro Attack.

nno, no idea at all. i watched ultraman in malay though. for the fight scenes.

6. You find your friends with pagers and handphone cool in Secondary school.

nah. i was kinda weird. oh and i missed the whole pager era.

7. SBS buses used to be non-airconditioned. The bus seats are made of wood and the cushion is red. The big red bell gives a loud BEEP! when pressed. There are colourful tickets for TIBS buses. The conductor will check for tickets by using a machine which punches a hole in the ticket.

nope. i remember the buses, bbut im not THAT old. i used the farecard thingy.

8. Envelopes given to us to donate to Sharity Elephant every Children's Day.

yep. and i never gave. im a bloody scrooge.

9. You've probably read Young Generation magazine. You know who's Vinny the little vampire and Acai the constable.

read before. not often though. couldn't afford it. i borrowed a lot of bookworm gang though. who remembers that?

10. You were there when they first introduced MRT here. You went for the first ride with your parents and you would kneel on the seat to see the scenery.

nope. though i remember kneeling on the seats to look out. funny though, i only did so in tunnels. when there was nothing to see.

11. Movie tickets used to cost only $3.50. &@%#$*@#$^*!@#&^$

ehh i never paid for movies so i wouldn't know. i remember only watching movies 1 or 2 times a year though.

12. Gals are fascinated by Strawberry Short Cake and Barbie Dolls.

i only remembber torturing my sis'd barbie dolls.
i used to perform mock autopsies on them.

13. You learn to laugh like The Count in Sesame Street.

yes i did. i think i still can. maybe i should, eh?

14. You longed to buy tibits called Kaka (20 cents per pack), and Ding Dang (50 cents per box), that had a toy in it and it changes every week not forgetting the 15 cents animal crackers and the ring pop, where the lollipop is the diamond on the ring.

nope. only maybe 1 or 2 times? i remember i was crazy over the chilied tapioca chips though.

15. You watched TV2 (also known as Channel 10) cartoons because Channel 5 never had enough cartoons for you.

funny enough, no. i had too much homework etc. and most times i preferred the playground.

16. Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, The Three Investigators, Famous Five and Secret Seven are probably the thickest story books you ever thought you have read. Even Sweet Valley High and Malory Towers.

i read those, yes. but they were far from thickest. i read thesauruses at 5. or before, i cant remember. 3-4 maybe?

17. KFC used to be a high class restaurant that serve food in plates and let you use metal forks and knives.

yah i rmb. my mum even did an advert campaign for them too.

18. The most vulgar thing you said was asshole and idiot and THE MOST EXTREME WAS 'super white'...you just couldn't bring yourself to say the hokkien relative.

nope. i said stupid and idiot.

19. Catching was the IN thing and twist as the magic word.

yeah it was. i wasn't always sluggish and pudgy.

20. Your English workbooks was made of some damn poor quality paper that was smooth and yellow.

yes. and all my worksheets too.

21. CDIS were your bestfriend

nope. no idea.

22. The only computer lessons in school involved funny pixellised characters in 16 colours walking about trying to teach you maths.

nope. i had stupid chinese lessons on the computer too. never learned any from them, nor had any fun.

23. Waterbottles were slinged around your neck and a must everywhere you go.

yep. and i beat up kids with them, too.

24. Boys loved to play soccer with small plastic balls in the basketball court.

funny, i didn't.

25. Ting-ting, five stones, chapteh, hentam bola and zero point were all the rage with the girls and boys too...

nope.

26. Science was fun with the balsam and the angsana being the most important plants of our lives, guppies and swordtail being the most important fishes.

no i hated science. too easy.

27. Who can forget Ahmad, Bala, Sumei and John, eternalized in our minds from the textbooks. Even Mr Wally & Mr. Yakki. What abt Miss Lala??? And Zaki and Tini in Malay Textbooks

yes, i remember. seems kinda pc now. in every group of friends there ALWAYS is exactly 1 chinese, 1 malay, 1 indian and 1 angmoh.

28. We carry out experiments of our own to get yourself badges for being a Young Zoologist/Botanist etc.

yes i did. i dont know why.

29. Every Children's day and National day you either get pins or pens with 'Happy Children's Day 1993' or dumb files with 'Happy National Day 1994'.

yes. waste of my fucking time lol.

30. In Primary six you had to play buddy for the younger kids like big sister and brother.

yeah i remember. i ditched my buddy.

31. We wear BM2000, BATA, or Pallas shoes.

yep. bata. with that white scrub powder all over it too.

32. Your form teacher taught you Maths, Science and English.

think so. wouldn't swear to it tho.

33. The worksheets were made of brown rough paper of poor quality.

yep. i remember they were bloody thick tho.

34. You went to school in slippers and a raincoat when it rained, and you find a dry spot in the school to sit down, dry your feet, and wear your dry and warm socks and shoes.

no i took the schoolbus. hehe. SUCKERS

35. School dismissal time was normally around 1 pm.

yeah. what happened?

36. There would be spelling tests and mental sums to do almost everyday.

yeah, and i got them perfect everytime.

37. Your friends considered you lucky and rich if your parents gave you $3 or more for pocket money everyday.

well i got 1, so...

38. You see Wee Kim Wee's face in the school hall.

nope. shook his hand once as a kid though.

39. You freak out when the teacher tells you to line up according to height and hold hands with the corresponding boy or girl

no i just didn't. wasn't very obedient. i remember calling my teacher a nutter to her face once.

40. Boys like to catch fighting spiders.

yes. all the time.

41. Collecting and battling erasers was a pastime for boys.

yep. only had 1 or 2 though.

42. Autograph books were loaded with "Best Wishes", "Forget Me Not", and small poems like "Bird fly high, hard to catch.Friend like you, hard to forget".

never touched those. honest. i was about as socially in as the plaque.

43. Class monitors and prefects loved to say "You talk somemore, I write your name ah!"

yep. i grabbed their "name writing" books. and tore them up.

44. There were at least 40 people in one class.

yeah around there.

45. Large, colourful schoolbags were carried, some with handles that could be extended allowing the bags to be dragged.

i had those trolley bags in primary 4 and thought they were bloody cool.

46. You brought every single book to school, even though there was one thing called the timetable.

nope. i still remember it was bloody heavy though. 5kg school bag. fuck.

We're coming back- cock sparrer

We're coming back, we're coming back
We're coming back to you
We're never gonna go away again
Hold on a little longer, try a little harder
'Til we're arm in arm together to the end

deathlike sickly black streaks of rain
bloody bloody, black as bile.
eyes tear acid drops
freezing knot wrenches and twists
sweet kiss sucking me dry
eyes haunt me
set the world ablaze
cruel bite and loving bite
angels drop bombs into bottles
hard and green
sweetest touch i'll ever know
angel wings turn me black.
black cancer bones
eat me please

Tears in heaven- By a man much wiser than i am.

Would you know my name
If I saw you in heaven
Will it be the same
If I saw you in heaven
I must be strong, and carry on
Cause I know I don't belong
Here in heaven

oh dear satan.
whenever i feel down.
whenever i feel trouble.
i think of you.
how you always open my eyes.
how you bring ease to my heart.
how you bring light into my life.

oh dear satan.
you swat off all the evil ones from my life.
those who bring me pain and sorrow.
those who lie to me.
those who do not appreciate my presence.
you show me truth,
you show me the light.

hail satan.
i love you, sweet satan.

Scarlet Dream- Sigh

I am the Sun, I am the Moon
I'm living in the Scarlet Dream
Born in heaven and raised in hell
I'm wandering in the Scarlet Dream

you know who i think i look like?














yup. a young ozzy.
i think its the hair that does it. we got similar hair.

another look at ozzy...










Hand of Doom-Black Sabbath
Whatcha gonna do?
Times caught up with you
Now you wait your turn
You know theres no return

you know what?
its very surprising to find out that singapore has never had membership in the british commonwealth.
small wonder that people here are more american than anything.
especially the dumbasses that spell everything with american spelling.
its programme. not program.
anyone who spells it program deserves a pogrom.
heh.

Come as you are- Nirvana

Come
Doused in mud
Soaked in bleach
As I want you to be
As a trend
A a friend
As a known memory.

short story i wrote.
i'm HORRIBLE with fiction. so i'm ashamed of it as a hole.
but... whatever the fuck.

It was yet another grey, humdrum day at Auschwitz-Birkenau. (1) Another grey dreary day for camp medical officer Josef Mengele. He sauntered up and down at the wrought iron gates, impatiently awaiting the first batch of jews to reach the camp. Jews? Nay. Vermin. It would do a great injustice to history if we portray our dear Josef as viewing them as merely jewish people. To our dear Josef they were not simply jews. They were utermensch. (2) Vermin. Filth. Unworthy of an existence, so as to speak.

The doctor stood up with anticipation as he saw a plume of smoke arising from the distance. It could only be another overstuffed cattle-car (3), packed to the brim with jews being euphemistically “resettled in the east”. (4)
He let slip a secret smile. What treasures would come along his personal silk road today? Maybe another set of twins for him to dissect? A pet dwarf, perhaps for him to lead around on a leash? Josef curled his lips in pleasure at the very thought.

It was hot in the cattle-car. The writhing throng of humanity seized 20-year old Hans Goldmann like a tar pit trap, even as he fought for a breath of fresh air. When would they reach the “east” they were being resettled to? And as the train stopped, Hans felt the metaphorical noose around his neck being loosened. Finally, he could get off the viselike deathtrap that was the train.

Auschwitz made a poor host for young Hans. Rather, it was a nightmare. Muddy puddles spangled the ice-caked road and the air was befouled with the rank of some odour. An odour that crept with the smoke from the chimneys in the background. Black, angry plumes of smoke hung around Auschwitz, ever belching from its smokestacks. They were an ever-present reminder of the true nature of Auschwitz (5), something our poor Hans was presently unaware of.

As the train arrived, Josef thrust his chest out in stoic pride, a display of strength and security in his position. The Schultstaffel (6) was the pride of Herr Hitler’s thousand year reich. The metaphorical crème de la crème of the entire Aryan race. He strode forth with an air of authority, riding crop (7) firmly brandished in hand.

The jews got off the train in a flurry of movement, eager for the rejuvenating elixir we know simply as air. They were then ushered into Indian file, much like would be done to lambs sent to slaughter

A branding iron of trepidation and fear seared the hearts of the jews as they pondered their future. What fate awaited them? Would they be torn from their families? Would they be sent to labour camps? Would they even live to midnight? Hans could conceal his emotion no more. He girded his metaphorical loins and summoned up a much-required shot of courage. “Where are we? What’s going to us?” Hans gave an audacious shout, one that could have crumbled the rock of Gibraltar. (8) “Whatever happened to the east? We’re nowhere near there.”

The crowd of jews gasped at this display of unrestrained defiance. Never in the past few years had the authority of a Nazi been questioned in this manner. The will of the Nazi party was the will of the Führer and also of the entire Aryan race. To question that could only mean an early death. Or worse. Indubitably, the scars etched by krystallnacht (9) still ran raw in the jewish psyche.

Dr. Mengele strode over, angry at this affront to his authority.
“Who are you? You will be punished for this!”
He then stopped, eyes wide in shock. He ran his eyes over the boy’s fine Germanic features. Indeed, the self-professed expert on heredity would have considered Hans a fine specimen of the Aryan race. That is, of course, had Hans not been in the camp.
“Why are you here? You are Aryan. You are not a filthy jew. Why are you in this camp?”


With that Hans replied, bristling with fury at this slur on his heritage.
“I am Hans Goldmann. My mother is a jew. But how does that matter? We are all proud, loyal Germans. Both my grandfathers fought in the Wehrmacht (10) in the Great War. (11) Did yours?”
Hans spat on the ground angrily, eyebrows furrowed in black rage.

Dr. Mengele smirked in sheer contempt.
“Blood traitor. Greedy jewish profiteer (12). Filthy crossbred scum. Dare you question the purity of my veins?”

The proud doctor smiled with the air of a shark leering at his prey.

“Impertinent, are we? Well I suppose this is what you get from your accursed jew blood, Goldmann. It will not matter much. I hope your fellow jews enjoy our new camp sausages.”

Hans’s eyes widened as he realized the meaning of that little speech. His knees gave way along with the broken hymen that was his spirit.

“Take him away!” And with those words Hans was led to his doom. We can but hope he is in a better place than the wretched hellhole that was Auschwitz.

Herr Mengele lit a pipe of the very finest tobacco. The blue-tinged smoke made lazy circles around his head. He chuckled to himself.

“Arbeit macht fleisch” (13)

Footnotes

1. Aushchwitz-Birkenau was a famous Nazi concentration camp during WW2. It was one of the bigger ones.

2. Utermensch is a term used in Nazi eugenics meaning “under-men” it referred to races that were judged as undeserving of life. This term included jews and gypsies, amongst others.

3. Cattle cars were used for transporting animals, but for economical reasons they were instead used by the Nazis to transport people to concentration camps.

4. This was a lie told to jews being deported to ensure their cooperation.

5. Though Auschwitz also held prisoners of war, it was primarily known as a liquidation camp for people the Nazis intended to kill.

6. The SS was a Nazi paramilitary organization that was selected from those who were considered most dedicated Nazis, as well as racially pure Aryans.

7. These were often associated with the aristocracy and culture as horse-riding was by then largely confined to the rich.

8. The rock of Gibraltar is known for being impregnable, and has become known as a metaphor for stability and strength.

9. A Nazi pogrom where many jewish businesses and synagogues were destroyed. Jews were also arrested and deported to concentration camps or killed.

10. German for army. It also more formally refers to the german army between 1935-1945, though not in this context.

11. World War 1. This term was commonly used until the end of World War 2.

12. One of the accusations leveled at jews by the Nazi party. This was especially poisonous considering that germany was still recovering from the great depression

13. Arbeit Macht Frei was a slogan commonly placed at gates to concentration camps, it means work will make you free. Arbeit Macht Fleisch is a pun on that; meaning work will makes you flesh. It is an indication that Hans was made into sausages to feed the other prisoners.

Negative Creep- Nirvana

I'm a negative creep.
I'm a negative creep.
I'm a negative creep.
and I'm stoned!