the brief history of the dead.

Many african societies divide humans into three categories: those still alive on the earth, the sasha and the zamani.
The recently departed whose time on earth overlapped with people still here are the sasha, the living-dead.
They are not wholly dead, for they still live in the memories of the living, who can call them to mind, create their likeness in art, and bring them to life in anecdote.
When the last person to know an ancestor dies, that ancestor leaves the sasha for the zamani, the dead. As generalized ancestors, the zamani are not forgotten but revered. Many... can be recalled by name.
But they are not living-dead.
There is a difference.

"island in the sun"

Hip hip
Hip hip
Hip hip
Hip hip

When you're on a holiday
You can't find the words to say
All the things that come to you
And I wanna feel it too

On an island in the sun
We'll be playing and having fun
And it makes me feel so fine
I can't control my brain

Hip hip
Hip hip

When you're on a golden sea
You don't need no memory
Just a place to call your own
As we drift into the zone

On an island in the sun
We'll be playing and having fun
And it makes me feel so fine
I can't control my brain

We'll run away together
We'll spend some time forever
We'll never feel bad anymore

Hip hip
Hip hip
Hip hip

On an island in the sun
We'll be playing and having fun
And it makes me feel so fine
I can't control my brain

We'll run away together
We'll spend some time forever
We'll never feel bad anymore

Hip hip

We'll never feel bad anymore
No no
We'll never feel bad anymore
No no
No no
No no

makes me high on a rainy sat evenin'. haha.

thinkin' wonderwall.

so. yea i finally went out with yunnie. it was a nice afternoon spent. i really wld miss her when she leaves for uk in 12 days. take care babe =)

take a chance with me.

hullo.
yea. ive been pretty lazy for the last couple of months. my table's in a mess. my comp is like frikin slow nw. defragmentations unheard of. everthg is out of place. so many thgs had happened in the last 4 mths. the worldcup has been sponsering my newly attained psp n clothes =) so many of my female frends has become attached. save for a few spinsters-to-be. heh. my bridgin course has finally come to an end. all the late into the night upstaking, 4am reveille, tons of stores, tiresome maintenance, boring lectures, comets, boats. n save for the many xtras ive served. for a month of sats i havent been returning home. due to a careless me. nw the posting awaits me. i am hoping to get into survey. then its back to a 10 wks course. bt more or less im getting into a ops coy. either alpha/bravo/boat in seletar camp.

nt too bad. time has been passing pretty fast. my short stint in the army is gonna be over soon. albeit its still like 15 more mths before i ord. well at least i got 4 days of break before my postin on wed. my stupid eye keeps hurting. while washing the comet on fri, zap(frikin' strong liquid used to remove grease) accidentally went into my eye. duh its fucking pain. bt ive washed it down with plenty of water alr. supposed to go for a YEP lunch today as several of them are leavin for overseas studies soon. just my luck la. hopefully it gets better tmr n by monday i can party again =)