hey everyone!

I see that our blog is full of botaknews... which is a whole lot of fun definitely... but everything requires a balance, some nonsense here and there, some serious stuff here and there... ever since this new blog came along, i think i have not posted any meaningful entries as yet. And since i feel like typing something now, i shall capitalise on that feeling and type away! haha... Oh by the way on behalf of the botakgang let me wish dillion a happy birthday, and thanks for inviting us to your house!

People write / blog for many reasons. Some to relief stress, some to show off their pictures to the world, some for money, and some just for the sake of entertainment. (I love the entertainment part, courtesy of our creative members of the botak blog) For me, I like to write about stories. I love stories, from ancient folklore to sci fi action. Anything that constitues to a story is worth anyone's time. So let me tell you a story which i have read...

it starts with the classic opening. a man loved a woman, and they were going to be married. But on their wedding day, misfortune struck. the woman was being chased by a madman, and after running for a while in the woods, she got bitten by a poisonous snake. it goes without saying that she died, of course. I mean it was a poisonous snake, and at that time they had no anti venom what-so-ever to cure such things. The man, being heartbroken, remained withdrawn inside his own invisible wall of self pity and grief......

Now as the story goes, he met a vagabond one day, who told him that maybe things can be salvaged, yes... salvaged, but at a price, a condition. The man jumped on the opportunity, and the vagabond opened a portal to the house of a pretty and young lady. She told him that his wife was now in HADES, (in line with greek mythology), but no mortal man could enter hades and come out alive, unless he struck a bargin with her, bargin being: she will not take him when his time comes, and the bargin lasts for eternity. The man went ahead and struck the deal, and off he went to the gates of Hades, to look for Hades himself.

Having met the king of the realm of the dead himself, and having caused so much trouble, Hades promised to let the wife go, but only if the man could walk all the way out of hades, whole 100 leagues, without ever having to look back. She will then rejoin the man once they are back on earth. So at first, he walked, with only the sound of his own footsteps, and the beating of his heart to accompany him. Slowly, it began to dawn on him that perhaps he was the butt of Hade's joke, and it was just a plan to stop him from creating any more trouble. With that thought, and with just half a league to go, he turned around angrily, only to find his wife just a shadow behind him, and the shadow, with outstretched arms and longing glances, faded into the darkness. He had lost her forever.......

for those of you who are still following the story, now the man actually withdrew into his mindless solitude, playing with his harp for days in the woods. Then one day, a warning came to him that a bunch of wild women were approaching his location, and it is unwise to continue to stay in the woods, for these wild women were dangerous (imagine judith michelle and rita). But he disregarded the warning, and stayed. When the wild women came, rather unfortunately i would say, he was treated as food, and was torn apart by them. actually that is rather comical, but i shan't spoil the story here..... haha...

So like i was saying, he was torn to pieces, his head being flung into the ocean, floating. But remember his bargin with the girl? She shall not claim him when his time came, and so, the man could not die. his head was alive, and he cried day and night, salty tears mingling with the salt from the sea. Some say the cries of the name of his wife can still be heard. Legend has it that his head was placed in a sacred temple, watched over by generations of secret custodians....

now that the story has ended, why on earth did i write this here for? I will answer that with another question...

What will you do for love???

Mian (not emo don't worry)