My encounter with Mr. Virgin

Ok, this was my dream for today. Quirky I'd say.

I was at a beach resort that kinda thing. Sipping away our coconuts out of the whole in tiny straws not forgetting the lil umbrellas. Playing the day away. I was there as my dad had a friend who was throwing a party. Invitee's dress code? Sandals, jandals and a whole lotta love handles (I threw this part in to make it more interesting)

So yeah, white sand, lotsa drinks and a whole lotta fun in the sun. And there was this river leading to the sea just where we were partying. I swear I remember seeing salmons jumping out and in, up and down from the river leading to the sea, just like how they do when mating in the natural world by swimming upstream to do their stuff and die there. So a whole generation cycle dies and a whole new generation will spruce. Ok, I got carried away with that, enough of the salmons and back to the unusual dream.

So there were a lot of important people around. But one which stood out to me was this guy who was dressed 'beachy' or 'islandy' with em' floral printed shirts, a pair of shorts and a drink in the hand. And it was none other than Sir Richard Branson! Oh man, this is one dude I look highly upon as he's my idol in many many ways. So yeah, so there he was. And there I was. In my dream I didn't take it a big deal that he was there. Everyone was just having a ball without the whole status, class, big shot, big kahuna kinda discrimination.

Don't ask me why? But I was jumping across the river and it looked exactly like a huge uncovered drain (for those who are from Malaysia, there isn't any need for imagining too hard here, it's called a monsoon drain!). Where was I? Ok, so there I was jumping across the ditch and barely just making it a few times. And Richard Branson took a look at what I was doing and he yelled out to me

"hey, I bet I could do that as well!".

And along came all the doubts from his friends saying the following

"c'mon Richard, we know you like to challenge and push yourself to the limits, but you don't have to prove yourself with this".

And another person exclaimed

"Yea, you've been up in thousands of feet in a hot air balloon, what's this gonna prove?"

And Richard went

"I bet I could jump this ditch better than this kid here."

And so there I was, just silent and all cool about things. Without a fear and least to say, there wasn't any hint of intimidation at all. But being me, I knew this guy can put his money on where his mouth is and just to make things a little bit interesting, I said "Ok, how about some wager on this challenge sir?" And Richard said

"Hell! Why not? Just for a kicks of it, what do you have in mind lad?

And so I replied ...

"how about a flight to Malaysia, Mr. Virgin?"

And so we then took turns to jump across... and the story goes on... la di da and la di da. Of course, this being my dream, I won the challenge! Everybody was clapping, chanting, cheering and sounding... and so did my alarm clock. And I woke up all alert about my weird dream and surprisingly enough, I had remembered bit and pieces of it clearly till now after 8 hours of work, it's still fresh from the freezer. Just as I was driving to work, I was just thinking what has this dream of mine got to spell out for my day. What I make out of it and was it a sign from someone, somewhere? Don't mind me, I like to intepret my dreams and try and make out what hints and answers is there for me to decode. And in the case of this dream I had, I had found and gathered enough details to sum up in one word.

'Homesick!'

Yes indeed, homesick enough to dream of such a well laid out story of Sir Richard Branson challenging me into a wager for a flight and which he owns an airline company. Now, if you guys are actually paying attention to my story full heartedly, you'd asked me the following

"David, how come you did not bet for a can of cola?"

Yea! In your dreams is what I'd say!

Absence makes the mind go numb

Yes yes, I hear ye! This is the second attempt in blogging. Unfortunately the first did not turn out due to the countless problems with publishing it.

So, it has been a while since I had blogged about something which was eventful, interesting and worthy of a mention. So here goes.

I shall try and sum up all that had happened ever since my moonlight fishing expedition. Was just a month ago. But it is just sheer frustration after typing out what was starting off as a short summary and ended up a comprehension. And what has blogger got to award their dear user? Unfruitful publishing and that went wrong. So you must understand Jonesey, I tried. Full stop. And i would like to apologize to lamers out there such as Jay that there wasn't anything worth looking at here. Thank you for stopping by though, hope you enjoyed your stay though considering you had fun with the tagboard.

1) Got myself a job in a security firm, dealing in alarms and monitoring of home and commercial. To cut the story short on what I do. I have given myself a title/position. Customer relationship representative. Sounds neat innit? C'mon, you know I'm good in customer relationship management.

2) Travelling 80 km everyday back and forth. Thank God, the hours are just minutes shy away from the peak hour traffic. If not I'd be a sad sad man. I'd probably break my left leg from over-exhaustion from pressing and releasing the clutch. Though I have an insurance cover but that is not the way I'd like to break a leg. I rather break it doing silly, extreme and what tough guys are made of. Such as skiing, snowboarding, heck I wouldn't even mind breaking a leg from falling of a staircase. But not from stepping on the clutches that drives your lazy ass around.

3) Been on the net very often playing Warcraft 3, frozen throne and it has grown some roots around me whenever I sit myself down after dinner.

4) Been brushing up a lot on my telephone ettiquette lately just dealing with the copious amount of phone calls I have to make. Wopuldn't be surprised if I start to establish my own mix of accent. As much of you guys out there would know, I s**k in conversing through the wire. So this is sort of a good training ground for me.

5) Have not been working out much, but I have been sweating my load off. How does that work? Without the slightest hint of effort at all. Anyone who would like to slim down and sweat it out. Ask me! *consultation fees apply*

6) Been officially a satisfied and believer in internet shopping. Officially a proud ebayer. Got a pair of shades all the way from the states. Took 13 days of anxious and worrisome waiting. But well worth the savings. On the 12th day of my wait, I decided to message the seller regarding what had happened with the transaction across the pacific ocean and guess what? Murphy struck again. On the 13th day, it had arrived.

7) Mission bay jazz fest was really nice and soothing to the soul. Just that the parking for an event such as that just doesn't make it worth your travel and time really. Never had I seen such great enthusiasm of people going to great lengths just to attend a jazz festival and park up 2-3 kilometers of uphill residential parking. Note to myself: Bring your own poison and head in early next year.

8) Been thinking and has interesting talks regarding business and how to save, invest, and make some money. The bling bling and the ka ching ching makes me think think.

9) Have finally watched a 'revengeful' kind movie which could easily match the blood spewing, heart stabbing movie Payback by Mel Gibson. And it's titled 'Man on fire' starring Denzel. That's the way movies should be without the essence of forgiveness and remorse whatsoever whether he or she is a good guy or hero. That's more realistic in my opinion.

10) Missing cny celebrations but it this time around, my mom made a makeshift 'yee sang' for the reunion dinner and it sure did hit the spot. The spot that took two years to uncover.

Ok, though there should be some topics and issues which is worth a link. But at this very moment, I couldn't be arsed doing so.