Hi guys!

It's time for me to write something again. In order to keep this blog alive, we each have to play our part in updating something, sometimes. Even (our water girl) Sida!!! haha you are welcomed to write some rubbish here too! Just get the password from Du. Having said that, I'll start the revival of this blog by writing an entry.

I really like stories. Especially folk-lores, ancient myths. Things ranging from the Irish Leprechauns (bet you didn't know Leprechauns were from Ireland now did you...Guinness sucks) to the Japanese spirits (less sadako). Nordic myths of Odin one eyed, to the now familiar Greek heroes like Hercules and Herra. They never fail to fascinate me.

And having read quite a bit about these stuff, I realise that all stories share something in common. All Characters eventually fulfill their destinies, and whether we like it or not, their lives will have to be governed by how the story goes. Cain will ultimately kill Abel. Loki will always be chained to the stones, with the serpent dripping venom on his face, no matter how he tried to escape. Robin Goodfellow will always pour the love potion into the wrong pair of eyes, regardless of how things unfolded before.

So you see, characters' lives are always determined by the end of the story, their final destination being pre-set. Ok all these sound a little stupid, like "what the hell has a bunch of story characters got to do with our lives? This is stupid..."

Not if you see yourself as a character in a story.

Ok i'm not saying we should all picture ourselves as prince charming or snow white in a perfect setting. Life is never as such, never will be for most. All i'm trying to say is, are our lives pre-written? I believe so.

"Mak-tub". We will never understand the full extent of that word, unless you are a true blue Arab, but loosely translated, it means "so it is written".

To the cynics/realist out there, destiny itself is just a plain, lame term invented by common folks, for explaining why things unfold the way they do. That's because the common folks know no better, and can't explain things thru science and logic. Life is just a set of choices, with x probablity, governed by equations of epic proportions.

You know, the cynics may probably be right. However, I'll rather live in a world where Destiny exists. That way, people will try to work towards their destiny. It gives them hope, and dreams, that somewhere written amongst the stars, they are all destined for greater things. It is this dream which keeps us alive. This is probably why Neil Gaiman made Destiny the eldest of the 7 Endless. There can be no dream without destiny, and without dream, there can be no death, for there isn't even life to begin with.

Ok those are my thoughts. Hopefully this will spark off some entries in the blog.

"Mak-tub"
Mian