<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><rss xmlns:atom='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' version='2.0'><channel><atom:id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305329397599097738</atom:id><lastBuildDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:31:12 +0000</lastBuildDate><title>You'll Always Be Mine</title><description></description><link>http://elniniyo.blogspot.com/</link><managingEditor>noreply@blogger.com (Kanaghavel)</managingEditor><generator>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>41</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305329397599097738.post-3178383821095720730</guid><pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:03:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-11-22T21:31:12.213+08:00</atom:updated><title>My Girlfriend</title><description>My girlfriend, the one girl who makes my heart race to hyper speed. Just a girl I met so randomly yet she influenced me more than any other person in my life. Honestly I'm not a guy who can attract girls easily(like i need to tell this to all of you &gt;.&lt;), but somehow or rather I manage to capture a girl who's so amazingly beautiful :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I always wished to have an oriental girl as my gf, I don't know why this is, may be because I've got some genes from my mom's ancestry. The one problem I had though was always language barriers. Chinese girls (most common orientals in Malaysia), most of them at least  prefers guys who can speak some dilect of Chinese. Korean and Japanese girls ost of the time can only speak Korean or Japanese. What a luck I got when I met a girl who was Japanese and Korean mix who lives in Canada. Oriental girl you speaks good english, and I met her while I was still in Malaysia. Lady luck was definitely smiling at me that day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She has the same interest I have with games, anime and manga, planes, tv shows, movies, music(altho we can differ in taste), food and many more things. I didn't know all this when I first met her, all I knew than was that she was amazing to talk to. Hours fly by like minutes when I'm with her and our convos hardly ever run dry. We always have something to talk about or debate about haha altho sometimes we do have to think  little longer to come up with things to talk about. Soon after that I knew how kind and caring she is to the feelings of others. She never tries to put people in their places by speaking rudely or harshly, unlike me &gt;.&lt; Everything about her sparkled and shined so bright. How was I suppose to refrain from falling for her? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She has her down times too just like any other person but when that happens, it's my job to pull her back up. I will do anything to pull her back up too :) I miss her sparking shine even if it's gone for 1 minute. She thanks me for making her bounce back, but it's me who needs to thank her for letting that ray of light shine through her again. The light that turned my dark and hopeless existence to breath life again. There only one way to say how  feel for her, "I Love You!!".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Every person in this planet willhave some sad and bad parts in their life and so does my gf. 1 year into our relationship, I find out she has leukemia. Man those were the darkest days of my life, what I wouldn't do safe her from it. I prayed hard and long for god to not take the one precious part of my life. I really don't know what I'd do if lost her, she's so important to me like how my own life is to me. She soon recovered from her relapse though, I couldn't have been more relieved. I wanted her to always be happy in her life, but there are times when this numb skull of mine never thinks thing through and I hurt her. I never mean to do those things, but it happened quite a few times. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I never did anything very bad though, most of the times I just happen to give her an avenue for misunderstandings. After sometime I realized this kinda things are bound to happen, we're not the same person to know what exactly each other are thinking and we're bound to have  petty arguments. What happens after those arguements are what I'm most happy about our relationship. No matter what, we do end up understanding and accepting each others mistakes and put an end to it an a peaceful manner.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My girlfriend, I think of her as a special gift from god to me and to earth. She has so many talents and she's good at almost anything she does. Some guys look for girls who can take care of their homes and cook for them. Some guys look for girl who can sing and dance well and entertain them. Some guys looks for a girl who can reduce their burdens. Some guys want a girl who can satisfy them sexually. Some guys want girls who can help them challenge their minds. Well guess what, my gf is all that and a whole LOT more :D&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If there was one thing more valueable to me than my own life, it's my gf. I'd do anything for her, although sometimes she has to try persuading me but in the end I know she can make me do anything. If there is something she can't make me do, than no one can. My life is useless without you hun. I'll walk through hell for you, that line is from a song but it's true,I would. You're my everything and I love you so soo sooooooo much! I'm sure we'll have a good like together so many many years to come.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sorry guys if i got too mushy there :P This is the last installment of the 10 topics have initially listed as the top 10 parts in my life. Beyond any doubt this is also the most important part of my life. It has been 8 months since I put this list up. Pardon me, if i took too long. Have fun with the new look of my blog. Take care, live your life with love...Peace out&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5305329397599097738-3178383821095720730?l=elniniyo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://elniniyo.blogspot.com/2009/11/my-girlfriend.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Kanaghavel)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305329397599097738.post-7011039178478083124</guid><pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:25:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-11-16T21:51:50.848+08:00</atom:updated><title>Anime and Manga</title><description>Anime and Manga are now one of my biggest past time. Some may even &lt;br /&gt;call me and anime otaku but I seriously doubt I’m that fanatic.&lt;br /&gt;It all started when I started reading Hong Kong comics which were &lt;br /&gt;translated to Malay during my school days. Then one of my friend &lt;br /&gt;started moving into another interesting comic which was still new &lt;br /&gt;in the Malaysian market called Dragon Ball or in Malay “Mutiara &lt;br /&gt;Naga”. At this time I had no idea what Manga and Anime was, in fact &lt;br /&gt;I didn’t know dragon ball has an animated series. We used to save &lt;br /&gt;money and buy the comic every month. For a long time the only &lt;br /&gt;Japanese Manga I knew was dragon ball and another “less interesting” &lt;br /&gt;Doremon. I preferred watching Doremon rather than reading it. As &lt;br /&gt;far as I’m concerned I don’t consider non oriental made comics or &lt;br /&gt;cartoons as Manga or Anime :P.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When the Dragon Ball series came to an end I had forgotten totally &lt;br /&gt;about anime and Manga until I started University. I had a housemate &lt;br /&gt;who was also my primary and high school mate called Cheong Sei How. &lt;br /&gt;He introduced me to this fascinating new anime called “Naruto” some &lt;br /&gt;6 years ago, we used to download the anime every week to watch the &lt;br /&gt;show. Then I felt it was not enough as once a week was too slow and &lt;br /&gt;started exploring other anime series such as shaman king, hunter x &lt;br /&gt;hunter, Fullmetal Alchemist, Samurai X, One Piece and a few more. &lt;br /&gt;Then I found out one of my course mates in university was called the &lt;br /&gt;the “Anime King” he had downloaded practically every half decent &lt;br /&gt;anime we’re ever heard off. So I used to borrow many burned VCDs &lt;br /&gt;from him and watch it in my apartment. He became my personal Anime &lt;br /&gt;supplier.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After I was done with most of my favorite anime I had to settle &lt;br /&gt;with downloading new episode every week, slowly I got really bored &lt;br /&gt;of downloading.I stopped downloading and started buying the DVD &lt;br /&gt;compilations that were sold in CD shops every 3 months. As time &lt;br /&gt;passed I never sourced for new Series and just went on watching &lt;br /&gt;Naruto. I introduced Naruto to my cousin and he also got into and &lt;br /&gt;he got heavily into anime and he started reading the latest episode &lt;br /&gt;in Manga while watching anime and I followed suit. He introduced &lt;br /&gt;more Anime/Manga to me such as Bleach, D-Grayman and such.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then I used to talk to my gf about anime and she introduced things &lt;br /&gt;anime like Monsters, Gants and a pretty interesting one called &lt;br /&gt;Futari Ecchi. Futari Ecchi is definitely the anime that has given &lt;br /&gt;me the most knowledge for use in the real life. If you want to know &lt;br /&gt;what I mean, you google it up :D. It’sgood stuff, you won’t regret &lt;br /&gt;it LOL.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here the list of the TOP 10 anime I like&lt;br /&gt;1. Naruto&lt;br /&gt;2. Dragon Ball&lt;br /&gt;3. Samurai X (Kenshin)&lt;br /&gt;4. D Grayman&lt;br /&gt;5. Bleach&lt;br /&gt;6. Futari Ecchi&lt;br /&gt;7. Full Metal Alchemist&lt;br /&gt;8. Gantz&lt;br /&gt;9. Inuyasha&lt;br /&gt;10. Shaman King&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hope you guys would enjoy these anime when you get around to &lt;br /&gt;watching it. Have fun guys, peace out. Time to go celebrate my &lt;br /&gt;birthday :)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5305329397599097738-7011039178478083124?l=elniniyo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://elniniyo.blogspot.com/2009/11/anime-and-manga.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Kanaghavel)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305329397599097738.post-7376189724527626049</guid><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 05:03:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-08-25T13:04:15.830+08:00</atom:updated><title>Sense of Achievement</title><description>What makes all the pain and torture of life worth it?&lt;br /&gt;To me, the biggest joy comes when I’m able to complete &lt;br /&gt;a task that's challenging. This is probably one of the&lt;br /&gt;main reasons why I like programming so much. It's not&lt;br /&gt;easy to create a program that works well, and when I&lt;br /&gt;finally get it, it feels soooo good. Makes me feel like a &lt;br /&gt;creator of something that actually works lol.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The sense of achievement can come from the simplest &lt;br /&gt;things and provide you with the greatest confidence.&lt;br /&gt;Just a simple skill with a football would give a person&lt;br /&gt;a well needed confidence to a play a football. A guy &lt;br /&gt;can get one of the greatest confidence when he can &lt;br /&gt;make the girl he adores fall in love with him. When I &lt;br /&gt;was younger making something from my building &lt;br /&gt;block was something that made me so happy, it would&lt;br /&gt;be a decoration in my house for days haha.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The thing about sense of achievement is, the more&lt;br /&gt;difficult the task at hand the greater we feel when we&lt;br /&gt;complete it. I've not had much share of this feeling &lt;br /&gt;because there are not many difficult things that i'm&lt;br /&gt;very passionate about. Most of my sense joy comes from&lt;br /&gt;gaming and football. The thing about gaming is, anyone&lt;br /&gt;can do it if they spent enough time on it, so it's just a&lt;br /&gt;time for success thingy since all you do is just sit in one&lt;br /&gt;place clicking your mouse. Not difficult at all. Football&lt;br /&gt;gives me a lot of joy though. I love it when i'm the &lt;br /&gt;main player in a team that everyone looks up to. Even&lt;br /&gt;better if we win the match or tournament.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What gives me the most joy is having my gf. She's so &lt;br /&gt;amazing sometimes i feel like having a dream, kinda&lt;br /&gt;hard to believe that i'm her bf haha. It's a big challenge&lt;br /&gt;for us though to keep it going but neither of us are gonna &lt;br /&gt;give up. So, guys and gal don't shy away from a challenge.&lt;br /&gt;If it's difficult, remember that if your get it done, it &lt;br /&gt;might be a highlight of your life. Cheers till next time.&lt;br /&gt;Peace out ^_^&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5305329397599097738-7376189724527626049?l=elniniyo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://elniniyo.blogspot.com/2009/08/sense-of-achievement.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Kanaghavel)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305329397599097738.post-8765740254823902005</guid><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 07:26:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-07-22T15:29:25.813+08:00</atom:updated><title>Games I like</title><description>When I was 5 my parents bought me this building block toy &lt;br /&gt;called “Lacy”, I doubt many of you will know what this thing &lt;br /&gt;is. The most unique and popular block in this set is a “H”, &lt;br /&gt;those who have played it should remember it now. That was &lt;br /&gt;like my favourite toy my entire childhood. I used to build all &lt;br /&gt;kinds of things, even making things that are not in the building &lt;br /&gt;guide book.  It really helped my analytical skills because of the &lt;br /&gt;different angels I had to think to get what I wanted done. That &lt;br /&gt;was practically the first thinking game I got into.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then when I was 7, two of my cousins who were already &lt;br /&gt;working by then got me two fascinating games. The first one &lt;br /&gt;was Monopoly and the other was a Chess set. Monopoly was &lt;br /&gt;such a fun game to play with the family, every time my &lt;br /&gt;cousins came around I’d whip out the monopoly set and we’ll &lt;br /&gt;sit in a corner laughing, shouting and having so much fun hehe. &lt;br /&gt;But the game that really captivated me was Chess. The first &lt;br /&gt;day I got it, mom thought me all the rules and we had a test &lt;br /&gt;game, guess what? I beat her in the first game! Lol. From then &lt;br /&gt;onwards I was really fixated in chess. I joined the school chess &lt;br /&gt;club and soon started representing the school on tournaments. &lt;br /&gt;A couple of my uncles were supposedly good in chess; every &lt;br /&gt;time I see them I’ll bug them to have a game with me. Even &lt;br /&gt;if I lost every game I every played with them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My skill in Chess rapidly improved in the next two years, I&lt;br /&gt;became one of the top players in school and I only couldn’t &lt;br /&gt;beat one uncle by the time I was 10. This improvement kept &lt;br /&gt;increasing till I even represented my University in a prestigious &lt;br /&gt;International tournament, and I even mange to play a game &lt;br /&gt;with a Chinese Grandmaster and get a “Draw” out of it. Now, &lt;br /&gt;no one in my extended family can beat me in chess, but I’m &lt;br /&gt;definitely not the best either. I still get pawned in tournaments &lt;br /&gt;with good players.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When I was about 12, my friends and I started playing another &lt;br /&gt;board game called “Risk”. This game was like nothing I’ve &lt;br /&gt;ever seen before. It was like a computer game on a board :P &lt;br /&gt;Strategies, alliances, manipulation, armies, territories....wow &lt;br /&gt;the whole package!! This game took over the monopoly &lt;br /&gt;sessions i used to have with cousin. Now days every chance &lt;br /&gt;we get, we’ll play Risk instead.  Around the same time, I got &lt;br /&gt;into computer games also. Played games like Command and &lt;br /&gt;Conquer, Xcom Apocalypse, Heroes of Might and Magic, &lt;br /&gt;Diablo, War Hammer, War Craft, Counter Strike and a bunch&lt;br /&gt;more. The games I like the most are the RTS games, more &lt;br /&gt;thinking to do then blind hack and slash. I think it really &lt;br /&gt;improves analytical skills and thinking out of the box and not &lt;br /&gt;to mention the other knowledge we get like history and &lt;br /&gt;cultures.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Even my favourite sport has the element of thinking and making&lt;br /&gt;split second decisions to be a good player. I think most sports &lt;br /&gt;have this element though, like tennis, American football, hockey &lt;br /&gt;and a lot more. In my case it’s football (soccer), of course you &lt;br /&gt;can get through this game with pure brute force, but when you &lt;br /&gt;incorporate some thinking into your game it makes you stand &lt;br /&gt;out. Knowing when to pass, when to move forward, when to&lt;br /&gt;move back and when to shoot according to your teams formation &lt;br /&gt;is really important to ensure a good strategy to win a game. &lt;br /&gt;Games like these makes it less boring and a lot more fun. If you &lt;br /&gt;think about it, our whole life is a thinking game, if you don’t &lt;br /&gt;think through life you won’t get very far. So think before you do &lt;br /&gt;things, think before you say things, think before you do anything. &lt;br /&gt;That’s it for this post, hope you all enjoyed it and see ya’ll in the &lt;br /&gt;next one. Peace out ^_^&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5305329397599097738-8765740254823902005?l=elniniyo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://elniniyo.blogspot.com/2009/07/games-i-like.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Kanaghavel)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305329397599097738.post-5535954871449935449</guid><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 07:02:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-07-20T15:10:56.011+08:00</atom:updated><title>Supernatural (End)</title><description>Angels, Demons and Aliens :P&lt;br /&gt;Talk about the mother of mysteries. Well at the end of the last&lt;br /&gt;post I gave a sneak preview of this entry and said i’ll talk about&lt;br /&gt;angels and demons, as how I view it. In my opinion demons are&lt;br /&gt;no more than other living creatures that live among us. If this is&lt;br /&gt;true then why can’t we see them you may ask. Well cause it’s &lt;br /&gt;how they are? Haha I know it’s like what the heck am I saying. &lt;br /&gt;Seriously don’t take my word for any of this. I’m just speculating&lt;br /&gt;I think demons are just other creatures in another frequency&lt;br /&gt;living on the same planet or are aliens that come from a different &lt;br /&gt;planet whom are in a different wavelength from our presence.&lt;br /&gt;Why are they here and why do they torment our souls? Like I’ve&lt;br /&gt;said before, our soul are from an inexhaustible energy source. &lt;br /&gt;Demons may have found a way to tap this energy source to feed &lt;br /&gt;their technology or their lives, which is why they hold on to the &lt;br /&gt;souls that they find wondering around. These souls are made to &lt;br /&gt;carry out their biddings to capture more human souls who are &lt;br /&gt;still in a host body.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now then, who are the angels? Well, like i said in the first post&lt;br /&gt;the god(the mighty energy) has a task to balance everything.&lt;br /&gt;So, naturally the forces of the demon have the force of angels &lt;br /&gt;to be aware of. The Angels might be from the same race as the &lt;br /&gt;demons who dislike the way the demons take advantage of &lt;br /&gt;other lives (Think Autobot and Deceptacons LOL). It all comes &lt;br /&gt;down now to who are these guys? They may be in this planet &lt;br /&gt;way before humans were here, just invisible to our eyes and&lt;br /&gt;only showing themselves when they want themselves to be &lt;br /&gt;seen or they might be travelling aliens finding new source of &lt;br /&gt;energy. Another theory is that they are from a parallel&lt;br /&gt;dimension who found a way to travel between life plains.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dimensions, there is a theory that there is more than just one&lt;br /&gt; universe around, what i’m inclined to believe that might be &lt;br /&gt;true. This is because i believe everything will have to come in &lt;br /&gt;pair since everything needs a balance in power. If there is our&lt;br /&gt;dimension then there must be another to balance the &lt;br /&gt;equilibrium. So there might be more than 2 also, there might be &lt;br /&gt;four or eight or a lot more. Well this just means we have to not&lt;br /&gt;only look to space but also total realities. I know I’m taking my&lt;br /&gt;theories too far lol. So i think i better stop now hahaha. So guys&lt;br /&gt;that’s it for my supernatural post the next in line is “games&lt;br /&gt;that need thinking”.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5305329397599097738-5535954871449935449?l=elniniyo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://elniniyo.blogspot.com/2009/07/supernatural-end.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Kanaghavel)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305329397599097738.post-2020150221263211713</guid><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 14:53:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-06-28T23:07:42.995+08:00</atom:updated><title>The Supernatural (Part 1)</title><description>The meaning of supernatural is a power that seems to defy&lt;br /&gt;or go beyond thenatural forces as we know it. This topic has&lt;br /&gt;captivated me for a long long time. I have to say i have&lt;br /&gt;experienced super natural things, I can't explain these things.&lt;br /&gt;Well if i have enough space in this entry i will share a some&lt;br /&gt;of my experiences. Before I start, supernatural is not only&lt;br /&gt;ghosts and demons and stuff. Here a list of things I think goes&lt;br /&gt;under supernatural, things human science can't answer:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;                -     God&lt;br /&gt;                -     Life (Soul)&lt;br /&gt;                -     Ghosts&lt;br /&gt;                -     Angels / Demons&lt;br /&gt;                -     Aliens&lt;br /&gt;                -     Phycics and Predictions&lt;br /&gt;                -     Dimensions&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These are the things I can think of now, but I’m sure there are&lt;br /&gt;more. May be all these things are linked together in a science&lt;br /&gt;not yet known to man or just the science we have now is not&lt;br /&gt;even right. This would explain why these things are not&lt;br /&gt;considered natural.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;First off, God. One of the most controversial topic in the&lt;br /&gt;history of mankind. his topic is only controversial because&lt;br /&gt;mankind added something called religion into it. Regardless&lt;br /&gt;of which religion there is no doubt that there is a force which&lt;br /&gt;we deem the creator. So, who is this god? Who is our creator?&lt;br /&gt;It’s strange then I think about it, if we’re created by god, who&lt;br /&gt;created god? Well I have a theory about this though. I think&lt;br /&gt;god is no other then an energy source, god has no life(It’s&lt;br /&gt;immortal/ Inexhaustible energy), has no thought but has a way&lt;br /&gt;to balance out equilibrium of the universe. If something goes&lt;br /&gt;to the extreme in one end of the universe, this energy source&lt;br /&gt;will correct it by sending the same about of extreme force to&lt;br /&gt;balance it. We’re all created in the image of the energy like&lt;br /&gt;what the bible says because in every one of us there is an&lt;br /&gt;inexhaustible power source, which is life/soul. Before you go&lt;br /&gt;bashing in my ideas, I’m not asking you to believe what I say&lt;br /&gt;or accept my theories. This is just my speculation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So now the discussion leads us to Life/Soul. I think the soul&lt;br /&gt;that is somehow transmitted to us when we’re new embryo’s,&lt;br /&gt;a tiny little piece of energy from the creator force. This energy&lt;br /&gt;might be from this world (Earth), or it may be from space, or&lt;br /&gt;from previous souls that had to leave their body due to death.&lt;br /&gt;For some reason we all feel there is more then just our body&lt;br /&gt;in us, don’t we? It feels like you’re more than the physical&lt;br /&gt;presence you have. If this is not true, why do we have burial&lt;br /&gt;ceremonies for millennia’s? This thing we feel, I think is the&lt;br /&gt;soul or our life force that will not extinguish at the end of our&lt;br /&gt;physical presence. So what happens to us when we die, you&lt;br /&gt;may ask. Well some of us may go back to rejoin the great force,&lt;br /&gt;some of us may linger on to find another host, some of us may&lt;br /&gt;still have unfinished business (ghosts) and some of us may be&lt;br /&gt;enslaved by a bigger force of energy that does not allow us to&lt;br /&gt;pass.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now comes the topic of ghosts. Life as human is a competitive&lt;br /&gt;one, so much so we all have to take care of ourselves, our family&lt;br /&gt;and our loved ones. Some of us adopt great desires, may be an&lt;br /&gt;ambition or great love towards another soul. These feelings make&lt;br /&gt;our soul become unstable until we attain our goals. What happens&lt;br /&gt;when we lose our host body due to death before we can attain our&lt;br /&gt;goals? Our souls remain unstable and in an unstable condition we&lt;br /&gt;are not able to move on. Most of the time the feeling we carry isn’t&lt;br /&gt;enough to destabilize oursoul, but some people can really be&lt;br /&gt;obsessive towards some things and their souls are left behind.&lt;br /&gt;Some of you may say, this is all a big piece of bullshit, there is no&lt;br /&gt;such things as ghosts. Well believe what you want to, I’ve had my&lt;br /&gt;share of experiences to believe otherwise. People who know me&lt;br /&gt;may have heard of my experiences, but I don't feeling like going&lt;br /&gt;into details about them at the moment, There are also souls who&lt;br /&gt;are trapped not because their unstable, but because a stronger force&lt;br /&gt;is holding them back. These are the things I call demons, and the&lt;br /&gt;next part i'll cover on this faul energies and their rivals, the angels.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This post kinda got out of hand and became way too lon for one&lt;br /&gt;post. So, I guess i'll keep the rest for another installment of "The&lt;br /&gt;Supernatural". I hope you had a nice read, not aksing you to belive&lt;br /&gt;them, these are jsut my thoughts and theories.&lt;br /&gt;Peace out till next time guys.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5305329397599097738-2020150221263211713?l=elniniyo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://elniniyo.blogspot.com/2009/06/supernatural-part-1.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Kanaghavel)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305329397599097738.post-3172692401010554370</guid><pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 10:33:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-05-26T19:11:54.969+08:00</atom:updated><title>Information Technology</title><description>First off, I'm sorry it took such a long time to post this installment&lt;br /&gt;of the blog. I was busy with other things but now i'm back ^^&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Although i'm studying IT and seem so into these things, this was&lt;br /&gt;not what i had planned for my life in the younger days. I wanted&lt;br /&gt;to be an aeronautical engineer, but life had other plans for me :)&lt;br /&gt;Aeronautical engineering fell off the pages because of circumstances.&lt;br /&gt;May be i'll get into that part some other time, now I'll concentrate&lt;br /&gt;on IT.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The fascination of computers started for me with computer games.&lt;br /&gt;I used to be one of those young boys who'd exchange games CDs&lt;br /&gt;with friends and go crazy on it. Go to school the next day and brag&lt;br /&gt;about what we have accomplished.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the early 1990s computers had a few problems but the one&lt;br /&gt;that effected young gamers the most is the lack of hard disk space.&lt;br /&gt;We can only play one game(good strategy game) at a time because&lt;br /&gt;the computer would only have space for one installation at a time.&lt;br /&gt;So, what happens when you want to play another game? We'll&lt;br /&gt;have to uninstall the older game and install the new one. This&lt;br /&gt;process screws with the windows and it causes a lot of problems.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Due to this I had to learn how to fix problems with the computers.&lt;br /&gt;Mostly, what I'd do is format the computer and reinstall the windows.&lt;br /&gt;Later we found out this was also not good for the hard disk, so we&lt;br /&gt;found out other ways to fix these computers. As time passed, we&lt;br /&gt;were pretty decent with troubleshooting computer problems.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, when my aeronautical engineering plans failed, I picked to do&lt;br /&gt;something I was familiar with, which I thought was the safest path&lt;br /&gt;to take. What I didn't know was, IT isn't repairing computers &gt;.&lt;&lt;br /&gt;The cause I took was more about creating the software in the pc&lt;br /&gt;rather then learning how a computer works physically.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nevertheless, this proposition still attracted me. When i went to&lt;br /&gt;my first programming class, it was so alien to me. As the course&lt;br /&gt;went by, I loved programming. It's not something easy to do,&lt;br /&gt;especially the more advance parts. Let me put into perspective&lt;br /&gt;how hard it is to do programming, for some of you this may not&lt;br /&gt;be hard at all. Lets say someone gives you a law book and asks&lt;br /&gt;you to know every angle of the law book. Then lets say every&lt;br /&gt;one of the law in there has a unique shape and limitations. Now,&lt;br /&gt;using all the resources there, they ask you to build a building&lt;br /&gt;for a specific reason using the least amount of resources. That's&lt;br /&gt;the only comparison i can think of right now, i hope you guys&lt;br /&gt;understand that, lol.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;IT tho is not all about programming, there is database,&lt;br /&gt;networking, data mining, security, games creation and quite a&lt;br /&gt;few more. It's not something easy to do but i hope i'd be able&lt;br /&gt;to sustain my interest in this field and make a career out of it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks for reading guys :) till next time peace out&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5305329397599097738-3172692401010554370?l=elniniyo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://elniniyo.blogspot.com/2009/05/information-technology.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Kanaghavel)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305329397599097738.post-6239115929392370866</guid><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:59:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-03-25T01:59:24.143+08:00</atom:updated><title>Unconditional Love</title><description>Love....such an illusive word. What is love? Is it just&lt;br /&gt;a creation of man or is it the way we're meant to be?&lt;br /&gt;I don't know what love is, but seeing many people's life&lt;br /&gt;and how they have gone about it, I think I have a general&lt;br /&gt;idea on how to be happy in my love life. There is no such&lt;br /&gt;thing as constant happiness, there is no smooth sailing&lt;br /&gt;forever, there is pain and there is gain.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In my case I had a bad first experience with love, things&lt;br /&gt;didn't turnout perfect no manner how much I wanted it to.&lt;br /&gt;This was because me and my ex were not in the same wavelength,&lt;br /&gt;for you to be with someone in a long term relationship,&lt;br /&gt;you must know what they want and they must know what you&lt;br /&gt;want and both must be willing or able to give them the&lt;br /&gt;things they desire. Love is just happiness you get from&lt;br /&gt;mutual convenience at the beginning, without this feeling&lt;br /&gt;there is no attraction and there is no infatuation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some people find having someone pretty is convenient for&lt;br /&gt;them because they like to think they are able to get someone&lt;br /&gt;like that, for others they one someone who can help them&lt;br /&gt;with their deepest problems, some want someone their family&lt;br /&gt;see fit and so many more. There is only one thing in common&lt;br /&gt;to all of these, magnitude of the benefit you get out of&lt;br /&gt;the other person, different people place more importance&lt;br /&gt;in different things.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, how does infatuation/attraction turn into true love?&lt;br /&gt;True love is basically you love the person so much, you&lt;br /&gt;appreciate all the thing they have done for you and you&lt;br /&gt;want to reciprocate by doing the best things for them. I&lt;br /&gt;actually never believed anyone can be so appreciative of&lt;br /&gt;a person till I met my gf. Although she might not realize&lt;br /&gt;it, she changed the tide of my life, she made be lose my&lt;br /&gt;worst habits and give me some good habits to follow. You&lt;br /&gt;may say anyone could have done this, well not for me. I&lt;br /&gt;am stubborn, i want to do what i want to do, I want to&lt;br /&gt;have fun without worrying what people think of me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My gf made me realize how self destructive that is. She&lt;br /&gt;was the only one able to put some sense into my head. I&lt;br /&gt;honestly have to say, at first what I saw in her was how&lt;br /&gt;pretty she was and how nice it was to talk to her. The&lt;br /&gt;rest only came later, i wanted to make her very happy for&lt;br /&gt;being with me as I thought she deserves someone with&lt;br /&gt;better looks then me. I told myself I have to make myself&lt;br /&gt;worth her time. Later I realized everyone has their bad&lt;br /&gt;sides and they can really get to you, but by this time I&lt;br /&gt;willing to do anything for her for what she has done for&lt;br /&gt;me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think this is what they call unconditional love, just&lt;br /&gt;like the love I have for my mom. She made me who I am and&lt;br /&gt;without her and my dad I won't be here. So, logically as&lt;br /&gt;long as I want to live they have my love, actually even&lt;br /&gt;if I hated my life now, I'd still love them because mom&lt;br /&gt;especially gave everything she had for me. There is no&lt;br /&gt;one who can tell me, it's not worth for my to help my mom&lt;br /&gt;when she's in trouble or when she's in difficulties. No&lt;br /&gt;matter what she does, the love for her will be there.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's the same love I have for my gf, as what I am now is&lt;br /&gt;what I am after I met her and I’m so happy i chose this&lt;br /&gt;path. So, no matter what my gf does I'll love her, even&lt;br /&gt;if this leads to her leaving me. I won't know what to do&lt;br /&gt;if I had to pick sides between my mom and my gf. There is&lt;br /&gt;also another similarity i see with the two of them, both&lt;br /&gt;of them have no way of replacing me. I am just as important&lt;br /&gt;to them as they are important to me, and that makes me&lt;br /&gt;happy. There are 3 people who i deem fit for my love, my&lt;br /&gt;mom, my gf and myself. These are the three unconditional&lt;br /&gt;loves in my life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'd do anything for any of my unconditional loves except&lt;br /&gt;for stop loving them or killing myself. Well that's it for&lt;br /&gt;this time, just have a few final words.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I love you MOM! thank you for everything you've done for me&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I love you Kanami, my honey ^_^. For being there for me&lt;br /&gt;despite all my faults.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Alright, see ya'll till next time, peace out ^_^&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5305329397599097738-6239115929392370866?l=elniniyo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://elniniyo.blogspot.com/2009/03/unconditional-love.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Kanaghavel)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305329397599097738.post-7590197105312351387</guid><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 20:02:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-03-21T04:03:10.461+08:00</atom:updated><title>Football in My Life</title><description>Football, the game of the planet no sport has been played more&lt;br /&gt;widely and more frequently then this game on earth. It's also&lt;br /&gt;the one game I'd live and die for if i was given a chance, just&lt;br /&gt;too bad I wasn't born to Ian Rush or Jurgen Klinsmann. It all&lt;br /&gt;started with my dad buying me a ball, there was an open field&lt;br /&gt;right opposite my house where all the kids used to come and play&lt;br /&gt;at 5:30 in the evening and I'll be usually there by 5 with my&lt;br /&gt;ball kicking around waiting for friends.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If one of them see me on the field, they will go round up like&lt;br /&gt;4 or 5 kids from around the area and come join me on the field.&lt;br /&gt;When the 6 of us play more kids will see us and join us, there&lt;br /&gt;were about a total of 10-14 kids in my area who'd be waiting&lt;br /&gt;for the 5:30 kick-off and would be cursing the rain if it showed&lt;br /&gt;it's face. They they hated having to go tuition during that&lt;br /&gt;time on some days. This is where my passion for football bloom,&lt;br /&gt;even my dad, back then about 45yo you'd join us and play.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He'd usually be the goal keeper, but never misses the chance&lt;br /&gt;to take free kicks and penalties. If he was taking it, no kid&lt;br /&gt;would dare be the goal keeper LOL. His kick was like a missle&lt;br /&gt;launcher, seeing my dad play soon older kids started joining&lt;br /&gt;us. Wow it was such a challenge playing with them, but I loved&lt;br /&gt;it, I learned so much from them. As for being a fan of club&lt;br /&gt;sides, it was the golden age of the malaysian league, unlike&lt;br /&gt;the mess they call a league now. I was a supporter of the red&lt;br /&gt;giants, Selangor F.C and I always love to watch Selangor play&lt;br /&gt;Singapore. Yes singapore back then was int he malaysian league.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Players like K.Senbagamaran and Azman Adnan were real idols to&lt;br /&gt;me. As time passed, Singapore left the Malaysian league to set&lt;br /&gt;up their own league, which is a lot better then the malaysian&lt;br /&gt;league now. The interest I had in the Malaysian league slowly&lt;br /&gt;dwindled. Then I moved my attention to the world cup and Euro.&lt;br /&gt;in Euro 1990, I was a big fan of West Germany, with my fav&lt;br /&gt;player of all time so far(Gerrard and Torres will over throw&lt;br /&gt;him soon) leading the German attack, Jurgen Klinsman. Rightly&lt;br /&gt;so, West Germany won the world cup that year beating Argentina&lt;br /&gt;in the final.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This world cup though open my eyes to sooo many talented players&lt;br /&gt;with the likes of Diego Maradona, Roberto Baggio, Paulo Maldini,&lt;br /&gt;Davor Suker, Paul Gascoigne and Marco Van Basten. I watch them&lt;br /&gt;play every single game and tried to copy their moves on my front&lt;br /&gt;yard. Guess what, it really helped ever since then I just kept&lt;br /&gt;getting better and better in football and before I knew it, I&lt;br /&gt;made the school team. The teacher(coach) told me I'm skinny and&lt;br /&gt;I need to put on some weight, I still got a few game experience&lt;br /&gt;under my belt though.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Between that time and the next world cup, I had already become&lt;br /&gt;an important player in my school team and had played football&lt;br /&gt;every evening in the field if it wans't raining. The 1994 world&lt;br /&gt;cup was also an amazing experience and I was still supporting&lt;br /&gt;Germany since Klinsman was still there. I've not seen another&lt;br /&gt;player in the world cup who scores as many goals as him. He&lt;br /&gt;scored in nearly every game germany played, such and awesome&lt;br /&gt;player. By this time though, I was already a Liverpool fan and&lt;br /&gt;I was pretty sad that England did not qualify, I really wanted&lt;br /&gt;to see Robbie Fowler and Steve McManaman playing for England&lt;br /&gt;in the world cup.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This world cup was a lot more of a leanring experience then the&lt;br /&gt;last one because now I knew a lot more things about football&lt;br /&gt;and had a betetr control of the ball then before. This is when&lt;br /&gt;I started perfecting my dribbling skills, I could take on 3 to&lt;br /&gt;4 players at a time when I was playing for my school then. I was&lt;br /&gt;not the hero of the school team, although I provided a lot to&lt;br /&gt;the school main strikers who were twins. They were awesome too,&lt;br /&gt;I had so much confidence in they goal poaching ability that I&lt;br /&gt;wouldn't shoot if I had the chance to pass to them even if I&lt;br /&gt;had a clear shot. I was afraid i'd miss and I was sure they'd&lt;br /&gt;never miss.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I still kept on playing every evening and become better and&lt;br /&gt;better but second year in secondary school I decided to stop&lt;br /&gt;playing for school because I didn't like the coach who kept&lt;br /&gt;complaining that I was too thin although by then I was already&lt;br /&gt;a good player. I was probably the 4/5th best player in my year&lt;br /&gt;in school in the attacking/midfield position. Since then I only&lt;br /&gt;played in inter class tournerments and school sports day. I&lt;br /&gt;had also become a hardcore Liverpool fan and started practicing&lt;br /&gt;complicated skills at home in the evenings.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When I got to university, football was also something I did every&lt;br /&gt;evening. I had a football star status in Uni, it was the peak&lt;br /&gt;of my form, till I injured my ligerment and never fully recovered&lt;br /&gt;back to the same form again. Still not too bad though, before&lt;br /&gt;I could aim a cone on the goal post from the middle of the field&lt;br /&gt;without missing it, that accuracy wasn't there anymore. I still&lt;br /&gt;played for my uni and a club called Bear Hill United in the MMU&lt;br /&gt;league. Those were fun times, now days I'm more into indoor&lt;br /&gt;football(futsal). I am the lynchpin of my futsal team, the mvp.&lt;br /&gt;haha I wish I was born to Jurgen Klinsmann, with the passion I&lt;br /&gt;had and his training, I would have be playing by the side of&lt;br /&gt;Torres and Gerrard hunting for the Champions League and Premier&lt;br /&gt;League titles.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Liverpool is at the a point where it's argueably in the best&lt;br /&gt;form of any team in the world. Trashing the two biggest clubs&lt;br /&gt;in the world Real Madrid and Manchester United. Now, they have&lt;br /&gt;been drawn against Chealsea in the champions league, how I wish&lt;br /&gt;i could terrorize them with torres and gerrard. I don't have the&lt;br /&gt;skill I need for that, so I'm giving all my heart to you guys&lt;br /&gt;to bring back the European champions league to Anfield for the&lt;br /&gt;6th time!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That's if for this entry, c ya'll. Peace out ^_^&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5305329397599097738-7590197105312351387?l=elniniyo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://elniniyo.blogspot.com/2009/03/football-in-my-life.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Kanaghavel)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305329397599097738.post-572375618458856186</guid><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 17:51:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-03-18T02:19:16.364+08:00</atom:updated><title>Fantasies with sword and magic</title><description>Every since I was a little boy, I was never really a fan of books.&lt;br /&gt;I was always the boy meddling with his building block making&lt;br /&gt;everything from Aeroplanes to Windmills. When I went to my first&lt;br /&gt;year in school, I saw a friend reading a kids story book with&lt;br /&gt;pictures and story(King Author). I didn't read though, I just&lt;br /&gt;flipped through the pages to see the pictures and make out the&lt;br /&gt;story but the more i see the pictures the more I wanted to read it&lt;br /&gt;so one day I borrowed the King Author and the Roundtable Knights&lt;br /&gt;book from the library to read.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I read the first few pages it was really exiting, but something&lt;br /&gt;just deflected my attention from it. This time it were the lone wolf&lt;br /&gt;game books, I saw my friends playing it and writing down their&lt;br /&gt;stats and battles, I was so intrigued. I wanted one of those books&lt;br /&gt;so bad. One day when we passed by the book shop I persuaded my mom&lt;br /&gt;to get me the book, mom thought it was some kinda story book or&lt;br /&gt;something and would be good. I went back home and immediately&lt;br /&gt;tried to make sense of the whole thing reading the instructions&lt;br /&gt;and everything, i didn't get it lol.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The next day I went to school and asked my friend how to play and&lt;br /&gt;he thought me. Since then my whole attention was on the game book&lt;br /&gt;and i'll play the whole day long. It was the most fun I had at&lt;br /&gt;that time. The game book made my interest in Medieval battle with&lt;br /&gt;sword and magic flourish. After i was done with my book I exchanged&lt;br /&gt;it with my friend's book and so on, ended up finishing quite a few books.&lt;br /&gt;Then at one point there were no more game books, but by this&lt;br /&gt;time I understood all these medeival stories and things. I found&lt;br /&gt;my old unreturned King Author book LOL(yeah never returned it &gt;.&lt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I took my time to read that book and it was the best book I've&lt;br /&gt;read, the honour, the skills, the magic, the knights and the weapons.&lt;br /&gt;I loved it, so many of the things I created were named Excalibur&lt;br /&gt;hahaha. Everything from a sword drawing to a hand craved ice cream&lt;br /&gt;stick. From then on I never read any stories that didn't involve&lt;br /&gt;magic and adventure and swords. Some of the other books I read were&lt;br /&gt;a local folk lore called "Hang Tuah", Treasure Islands, Sinbad and a few&lt;br /&gt;more(younger days).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not only did I like the novels, when I got my computer, even games&lt;br /&gt;were only those with sword and magic (except a few like X-Com).&lt;br /&gt;I always wanted to be a knight or an adventurer saving the damsel&lt;br /&gt;in distress hahaha. After years and years of Swords and Magic, I&lt;br /&gt;found the best book ever written, The Lord of the Rings!! This was&lt;br /&gt;what my whole life of reading swords and magic was meant for LOL.&lt;br /&gt;The best book ever, I became a fanatic and soon after the movies&lt;br /&gt;were released. Most fantastic movies ever made, I wished I was&lt;br /&gt;one of the Riders of Rohan, the mounted warriors from the West&lt;br /&gt;Fold.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then after that it was Harry Potter, although it was not as good&lt;br /&gt;as Lord of The Rings Harry Potter was full of adventure and magic.&lt;br /&gt;I loved these books too and I read all of them. How I wished life&lt;br /&gt;could be all about training with swords and magic, protecting your&lt;br /&gt;kingdom/family/friends from harm, saving a beautiful maiden and&lt;br /&gt;make her fall in love with you and live happily ever after haha.&lt;br /&gt;If only life was as interesting, this is one of the reasons why&lt;br /&gt;MMORPG attracted me, it was an alternate life where you can really&lt;br /&gt;become a Legend, a warrior people respect and enemies fear.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As much as the interest in Swords and Magic improved me and messed&lt;br /&gt;me up. Thanks to my interest in it, I found my maiden, the most&lt;br /&gt;beautiful girl I've ever known and now she is my gf and I'm definitely&lt;br /&gt;going to make her my wife and hopefully live happily ever after&lt;br /&gt;(haha is this even possible in this world?) Doesn't matter, I'd&lt;br /&gt;be her knight when she's in need and i'll weave magic and make her&lt;br /&gt;happy when she's sad. I'll hunt for a better living for us to enjoy&lt;br /&gt;life to the fullest. Honour and Courage has been me all my life and&lt;br /&gt;i'll never change it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That's it for my episode 2. More to come soon, peace out guys ^_^&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PS: Riders of Rohan Music...I love the part from 2:25 - 3:20 have&lt;br /&gt;a listen ^^&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5305329397599097738-572375618458856186?l=elniniyo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://elniniyo.blogspot.com/2009/03/sowrd-and-magic.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Kanaghavel)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305329397599097738.post-4024637847623991510</guid><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:07:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-03-13T01:13:52.815+08:00</atom:updated><title>Amazing Love Songs and the rest of my favourites</title><description>It's time for the first of my 10 episode blog entry folks.&lt;br /&gt;I was actually suppose to do this post like 24hours ago,&lt;br /&gt;but while I was halfway into typing out the entry the&lt;br /&gt;electricity went off and I didn't safe my narration. I got&lt;br /&gt;so pissed after the power went of and lost all my mood to&lt;br /&gt;do this entry then haha. I keep my promises though, so&lt;br /&gt;here my entry on&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Amazing Love Songs and the rest of my favourites"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A couple of months back I was listing all my favourite&lt;br /&gt;songs to my gf. My gf realized something and told me that&lt;br /&gt;it seem like I like a lot of love songs. On that day I&lt;br /&gt;realized how true she was. I don't care what people say&lt;br /&gt;but love songs are awesome, from the oldies to the latest&lt;br /&gt;ones.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When I listen to old love songs I just feel like grabing&lt;br /&gt;my gf and having a slow dance with her. The love in my&lt;br /&gt;heart boil and overflows haha. Here are a few of my&lt;br /&gt;favourite old love songs:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;LOVE                                                  - Nat King Cole&lt;br /&gt;Put Your Head On My Shoulder     - Paul Anka&lt;br /&gt;The Way You Look Tonight            - Frank Sinatra&lt;br /&gt;Unchained Melody                           - Righteous Brothers&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wow, how timeless these songs are...they never fail to&lt;br /&gt;spark the love inside me up. Can't help but to sing along&lt;br /&gt;to it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Old love songs are not the only once I love though. The&lt;br /&gt;love songs that have been coming out lately are amazing&lt;br /&gt;too and i have no doubt these songs will never leave my&lt;br /&gt;list of favourites for a long long time. Here are some of&lt;br /&gt;those songs:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Boston                                       - Augustana&lt;br /&gt;I'm Yours                                 - Jason Mraz&lt;br /&gt;Love Bug                                  - Jonas Brothers&lt;br /&gt;Everything                               - Michael Buble&lt;br /&gt;Hey There Delilah                  - Plain White T's&lt;br /&gt;1,2,3,4                                      - Plain White T's&lt;br /&gt;A Walk Through Hell             - Say Anything&lt;br /&gt;Always Be My Baby               - David Cook&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Listening to these songs just makes me want to pick up&lt;br /&gt;a guitar and start writing a song to dedicate to my lovely&lt;br /&gt;girlfriend. I've written a few but I don't think it's close&lt;br /&gt;to any of these songs. Still made my gf really happy though&lt;br /&gt;^_^&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There was also a time when love songs rules the air and&lt;br /&gt;trends. This was during the age of the boybands, no one&lt;br /&gt;can deny that it's the love songs they wrote that made them&lt;br /&gt;a force to be reconed with. I loved those boy bands, call&lt;br /&gt;me gay or emo all you want. I just felt the some songs they&lt;br /&gt;wrote were amazing. Here are a few of those:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All I Have To Give                                     - Backstreet Boys&lt;br /&gt;Show Me The Meaning Of Being Lonely - Backstreet Boys&lt;br /&gt;I'll Never Break Your Heart                     - Backstreet Boys&lt;br /&gt;As Long As You Love Me                          - Backstreet Boys&lt;br /&gt;Back Here                                                    - BB Mak&lt;br /&gt;Words                                                           - Boyzone&lt;br /&gt;Baby Can I Hold You Tonight                   - Boyzone&lt;br /&gt;No Matter What                                         - Boyzone&lt;br /&gt;This I Promise You                                    - N'Sync&lt;br /&gt;God Must Have Spent A Little More Time On You - N'Sync&lt;br /&gt;I Drive Myself Crazy                                 - N'Sync&lt;br /&gt;My Love                                                      - Westlife&lt;br /&gt;Flying Without Wings                               - Westlife&lt;br /&gt;World Of Our Own                                    - Westlife&lt;br /&gt;Swear It All Over Again                            - Westlife&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This was truly one of the golden ages of the music industry.&lt;br /&gt;Then there are also other songs which are not in those lists&lt;br /&gt;I listen before but without doubt touches my heart everytime&lt;br /&gt;I listen to them. Here are some of those:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wouldn't It Be Nice                                        - Beach Boys&lt;br /&gt;Have You Ever Really Loved A Woman     - Bryan Adams&lt;br /&gt;I Do It For You                                               - Bryan Adams&lt;br /&gt;You Took My Heart Away                            - MLTR&lt;br /&gt;I'm Leaving On A Jet Plane                          - Jewel&lt;br /&gt;You and Me                                                     - Lifehouse&lt;br /&gt;Here Without You                                         - 3 Doors Down&lt;br /&gt;Way Back Into Love               - Hugh Grant &amp;amp; Haley Bennett&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I guess that's quite a bit of songs I have there. Now it's&lt;br /&gt;time for me to give my due respect to all the other songs&lt;br /&gt;that has definately inspired me and pumped me up. The list&lt;br /&gt;of songs which are some of my all time favourites:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;               &lt;br /&gt;Im No Superman                - Scrubs Theme Song           &lt;br /&gt;Semi Charmed Life            - Third Eye Blind            &lt;br /&gt;Wonder Wall                       - Oasis&lt;br /&gt;Through The Glass            - Stoned Sour                        &lt;br /&gt;Follow Me                           - Uncle Kracker               &lt;br /&gt;I'm Just A Kid                    - Simple Plan       &lt;br /&gt;Mungkin Nanti                   - PETERPAN   &lt;br /&gt;Drive                                    - Incubus   &lt;br /&gt;All The Small Thing           - Blink 182&lt;br /&gt;Hey Jude                             - Beatles&lt;br /&gt;No Rain                               - Blind Melon&lt;br /&gt;Viva La Vida                       - Coldplay&lt;br /&gt;The Sceince of Selling Yourself Short    - Less then Jake&lt;br /&gt;Heaven                                - Los Lonely Boys&lt;br /&gt;Smells Like Team Spirit   - Nirvana&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now no one can say I'm just all emo...I like these songs&lt;br /&gt;too haha. Some may still be love songs tho lol..&lt;br /&gt;but hey I can't help it :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    "Live live with love or don't live at all"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hope you enjoyed this post. Catch you guys with my next post&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Peace out ^_^&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5305329397599097738-4024637847623991510?l=elniniyo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://elniniyo.blogspot.com/2009/03/amazing-love-songs-and-rest-of-my.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Kanaghavel)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305329397599097738.post-7723295009781186942</guid><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:59:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-03-11T02:30:17.127+08:00</atom:updated><title>Top 10 Things in My Life</title><description>This past week has been one of the most clueless&lt;br /&gt;week I've had in a long time. My mind drifting&lt;br /&gt;everywhere and yet I don't have anything physical&lt;br /&gt;to do. I've exhausted or overdone or unable to do&lt;br /&gt;all the things I have interest in.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I've been pretty much messing around with Java&lt;br /&gt;programming the entire week till I'm kinda tired&lt;br /&gt;of it for now. So, I decided I'm going to write&lt;br /&gt;a blog entry. Since I think I'm unable to get my&lt;br /&gt;hands on any of my interests, I made up my mind&lt;br /&gt;to write about them instead.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I sat down and thought about the 10 things that's&lt;br /&gt;been the most in my mind the past week (except 1).&lt;br /&gt;In this entry I'm just going to list them out and&lt;br /&gt;for the next 10 entries to come, I'll elaborate&lt;br /&gt;further on my interests.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Top 10 things I love in life that I'm going&lt;br /&gt;to write about in the coming weeks are:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1.  Amazing Love Songs and the rest of my favourites&lt;br /&gt;2.  Fantasies with sword and magic&lt;br /&gt;3.  Football&lt;br /&gt;4.  Unconditinal Love&lt;br /&gt;5.  Information Technology&lt;br /&gt;6.  The Supernatural&lt;br /&gt;7.  Games that require thinking&lt;br /&gt;8.  Sense of achievement&lt;br /&gt;9.  Anime&lt;br /&gt;10. My Girlfriend&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now when I read back on all the interests that I've&lt;br /&gt;placed there, I really think I have quite a bit to&lt;br /&gt;write about each of it. I can honestly say these are&lt;br /&gt;the things that make me really happy or really curious.&lt;br /&gt;If I hadn't experienced even one of this things, I'd&lt;br /&gt;be a very very different person from who I am now.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So people, I hope you'll come and read about this&lt;br /&gt;things i'm going to write about in the coming weeks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Till next time :) Peace Out&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5305329397599097738-7723295009781186942?l=elniniyo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://elniniyo.blogspot.com/2009/03/top-10-things-in-my-life.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Kanaghavel)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305329397599097738.post-8500450342982690186</guid><pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:58:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-02-25T23:59:29.863+08:00</atom:updated><title>Sorry if I've hurt anyone</title><description>Sensitivity, what's the meaning of a sensitive person?&lt;br /&gt;Girl apparently like guys who are sensitive, I thought&lt;br /&gt;I was someone sensitive but lately I did something&lt;br /&gt;without really thinking of it much and made an important&lt;br /&gt;person to me angry. So, am I not sensitive? I think I do&lt;br /&gt;feel what others feel when I put myself in their shoes&lt;br /&gt;but sometimes, the way you think is different from how&lt;br /&gt;the other person thinks. This part complicates the control&lt;br /&gt;over the things you say.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The way we perceive things are different, things that are&lt;br /&gt;silly to one person can be really serious to the other.&lt;br /&gt;The person who is saying these things sure do know that&lt;br /&gt;it's something sensitive to the other person but, in their&lt;br /&gt;own personality it's not something very serious and they&lt;br /&gt;tend to drift when telling a joke or putting up a scenario.&lt;br /&gt;This accidentally triggers the feeling of the other and&lt;br /&gt;makes the whole situation go gloom.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My question is, how do we control this? I have always been&lt;br /&gt;someone who grabs on very good opportunity I see to make&lt;br /&gt;a joke. I enjoy when I see other people happy around me and&lt;br /&gt;there is no happier person then a person who is laughing&lt;br /&gt;full heartedly. Jokes have a habit of being bad if the timing&lt;br /&gt;isn't right too. Usually jokes must appear as if it was a&lt;br /&gt;sudden revelation to have the maximum effect. In order to&lt;br /&gt;do that, we have to say it out fast. This though is one of&lt;br /&gt;my biggest problems in this scenario. Once I say it out, only&lt;br /&gt;then I realize if I had said something wrong and by that time&lt;br /&gt;I’ve already made someone sad or angry.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I do usually know what not to make jokes off but some topics&lt;br /&gt;are generally quite trivial, some may find it amusing and&lt;br /&gt;others may not. Like the topic of homosexuality, for people&lt;br /&gt;who are very straight, the thought of two people of the same&lt;br /&gt;sex having a love affair might just be funny if rightly put.&lt;br /&gt;But, to the homosexual people it's not funny, in fact it's&lt;br /&gt;really bad to do that in front of them so we don't say such&lt;br /&gt;things around them. Then there are people who sympathize&lt;br /&gt;with homosexuality, and they to get angry about it. But why&lt;br /&gt;when people can make jokes of races, can't people make jokes&lt;br /&gt;of sexual orientation? When a Indian person is made a joke&lt;br /&gt;of, they can either take it was good fun or they can take it&lt;br /&gt;as an insult. The same goes to anyone i think.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Honestly I do joke about gay people and I also joke about&lt;br /&gt;Indian people and I also joke about fat people and skinny&lt;br /&gt;people. But none of this mean I’m judging them, I am still&lt;br /&gt;friends with gay people, I’m half Indian, I also have fat&lt;br /&gt;friends who are close and I’m probably the skinniest person&lt;br /&gt;you might have met. Jokes are stupid, jokes are insults and&lt;br /&gt;jokes are loved. How many jokes do you know what doesn’t&lt;br /&gt;put someone else down or something else down or at least&lt;br /&gt;puts the joker himself down?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now this is the irony, girls like funny guys and sensitive&lt;br /&gt;guys. Whoa, how does that get along? It only does if things&lt;br /&gt;are not taken seriously when it's a joke. I think all I’m&lt;br /&gt;doing here is defending my actions and I know what I’m saying&lt;br /&gt;is not entirely right also. Some people have had bad experiences&lt;br /&gt;with things other have not and can’t possibly take these things&lt;br /&gt;lightly.  I’m sorry for that, I really am and I didn’t mean it&lt;br /&gt;at all&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We have to choose our jokes when we say it depending on our&lt;br /&gt;surroundings. I do choose them, but sometimes things slip out&lt;br /&gt;without us realizing. I hate this line "nobody is perfect", it&lt;br /&gt;gives an easy excuse of everything wrong you do but I can't&lt;br /&gt;find any other way to plead my case. People should not be&lt;br /&gt;judgemental to others depending on the jokes they make. I think&lt;br /&gt;that's a very big mistake. Although sometimes this jokers&lt;br /&gt;really are freaking creep.s&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is kind of a controversial post for me because it does in&lt;br /&gt;a way make me look bad. But, this is me and the once who want&lt;br /&gt;to judge me, go ahead. Bash me into the ground in your head as&lt;br /&gt;hard as you want. I just want to say, behind the jokes i make&lt;br /&gt;I’m really not that bad. Don't judge me so easily ^_^&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;peace out&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5305329397599097738-8500450342982690186?l=elniniyo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://elniniyo.blogspot.com/2009/02/sorry-if-ive-hurt-anyone.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Kanaghavel)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305329397599097738.post-5458854126359076089</guid><pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 05:20:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-02-13T14:09:49.123+08:00</atom:updated><title>My views in Cohabitation</title><description>Q: Do you think living with your significant other before marriage&lt;br /&gt;is a good idea?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I decided to make this post after reading my gf's view on it. My&lt;br /&gt;veiws aren't totally opposing hers but there are little differences.&lt;br /&gt;The times have changed a lot. Cohabitation has become a huge&lt;br /&gt;trend among youngsters these days especially in western countries.&lt;br /&gt;It's true that cohabitation screwed up a lot of good relationships&lt;br /&gt;but now we have to ask "Why?". Would it have been different if&lt;br /&gt;they got marriedstraight instead?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Before I get into answering that question, lets dive into the depths&lt;br /&gt;of living togather. Have you ever had a close cousin or relative&lt;br /&gt; living with you? Someone you really like as family. I've had that&lt;br /&gt;experience, infact I was the one who went to live with my cousin&lt;br /&gt;for easier travelling. Prior to living with them you only know the&lt;br /&gt;tip of the iceberg, just 20% of the big picture I'd say. My cousin&lt;br /&gt;and I were pretty close, we had same interests and similar habits&lt;br /&gt;so we thought it would be great since neither of us have brothers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At first it was great, truly fun i'd say but as time passed we had&lt;br /&gt;slight clashes of interests. Say things like, downloading too much&lt;br /&gt;when the other wanted to play online games or staying up later&lt;br /&gt;and keeping the light on cause the other needed to do something&lt;br /&gt;or who cleans the room. We sorted that out though, i'm sure there&lt;br /&gt;are more things that we do find uneasy when we are sharing. It's&lt;br /&gt;simple, this is because human beings have a natural instinct of&lt;br /&gt;thinking of themselves more then others.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think the same goes to cohabitation, without the label of "family".&lt;br /&gt;You can't divorce your cousin can you? The most you can do is&lt;br /&gt;whack the shitout of each other and don't talk for a few years. Haha&lt;br /&gt;don't worry I never did that to my cousin. My cousin and I just&lt;br /&gt;made sure we took care of each others back and shared the likes&lt;br /&gt;and dislikes, work things out, compromise. That's how it should&lt;br /&gt;be during cohabitation also, infact that how it should be in a married&lt;br /&gt;life or when you share your life with anyone, including your parent,&lt;br /&gt;siblings, kids, cousins or your wife.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The reason why cohabitation failure rate so high is due to the lack&lt;br /&gt;of effort and commitment. Like my gf said in her view "it's all or&lt;br /&gt;nothing", you either give it all and try to make it work or jsut give&lt;br /&gt;up because you can't take your bf farting all the time lol. Just try&lt;br /&gt;stuffing a wine bottle cork into him or something hahaha. Anyway,&lt;br /&gt;when you go into cohabitation, don't think you have a choice of&lt;br /&gt;letting go. Cohabitation shouldn't happen as a tester, it should&lt;br /&gt;happen as something to prove your commitment with. Not just&lt;br /&gt;commitment to the relationship, but the commitment to life togather.&lt;br /&gt;There is a limit to anything though, i'm not going to take it if my gf&lt;br /&gt;lazes around the house whole day boozing while I put effort on&lt;br /&gt;cleaning and washing and paying the bills. Play your role and hope&lt;br /&gt;your partner does the same, although some habits may still linger&lt;br /&gt; on, try to make a compromise, communication is important, he&lt;br /&gt;might change because he loves you that much. If he can't may be,&lt;br /&gt;you try to see if you can accept this little bad for all the good he&lt;br /&gt;provides. Think if you would leave if you were married to him.&lt;br /&gt;If you don't, I don't think you gave him a proper chance. This&lt;br /&gt;also goes tot he guy, don't think you're no in it jsut because I keep&lt;br /&gt;saying "him"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All in all cohabitation isn't where you test your partner, it's where&lt;br /&gt;you test your own effort and commitment and see if it fits with&lt;br /&gt;the effort and commitment your partner has. Cohabitation though&lt;br /&gt;wasn't part of my plans in life, infact after seeing the stats I decided&lt;br /&gt;it's jsut not good at all. But I do see good in it now and also the&lt;br /&gt;plans i've put togather now works best, if I were to live with my gf.&lt;br /&gt;If you believe enough in your partners, you don't have to have a&lt;br /&gt;"tester period", that's only when you're matured enough to know&lt;br /&gt;if he's what you truly want. That is why more marriages without&lt;br /&gt;cohabitation works and also that added "commitment"that comes&lt;br /&gt;with the wedding.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finally my view on it, I think it's a good idea and an opportunity&lt;br /&gt;to prove your true worth to your partner and not to test your&lt;br /&gt;partner. If you go in with that mentality and keep going even&lt;br /&gt;after you get married, soon the statistics of cohabitation with&lt;br /&gt;change for the better.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Live is beautiful only for those who see the beauty, keep your&lt;br /&gt;heads high and your spirits higher and soon you'll be able to fly.&lt;br /&gt;Peace out ^_^&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5305329397599097738-5458854126359076089?l=elniniyo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://elniniyo.blogspot.com/2009/02/my-views-in-cohabitation.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Kanaghavel)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305329397599097738.post-4197773729294782112</guid><pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 06:48:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-02-08T14:48:48.379+08:00</atom:updated><title>Thaipusam in Batu Caves, Malaysia</title><description>The day when I truely pray is back again. I'm not&lt;br /&gt;a religious guy, but on Thaipusam day the faith&lt;br /&gt;on the external power just amplifies in me. I think&lt;br /&gt;the reason this happens is because everything I vow&lt;br /&gt;for on this day actually happens. I don't know if&lt;br /&gt;it's coincedence or really the power of the hidden&lt;br /&gt;entity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Before I dive further into my stories, I'll tell&lt;br /&gt;you the legend behind this mind boggling festival&lt;br /&gt;that's celebrated in Batu Caves, Malaysia grander&lt;br /&gt;then anywhere else in the world. This legend is&lt;br /&gt;based on Lord Skanda who is one of the many forms&lt;br /&gt;of Lord Murugan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As the story goes, long ago there was a battle&lt;br /&gt;between two factions of powerful beings who were&lt;br /&gt;the Devas and the Asuras. As their war grew in time&lt;br /&gt;the Asuras were overwhelming the Devas in the battle&lt;br /&gt;field. With no where to go, the Deva turn to prayer&lt;br /&gt;and asked the Lord Shiva (Known to be the most&lt;br /&gt;powerful entity) for help. The Devas requested form&lt;br /&gt;Lord Shiva a powerful and heroic leader who can pave&lt;br /&gt;the way for thier victory against the Asuras.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Devas surrendered themselves completely and prayed&lt;br /&gt;to Lord Shiva. Lord Shiva was impressed and granted&lt;br /&gt;thier wish, from his own power of Shakti he created&lt;br /&gt;a mighty worrior in the form of Lord Murugan/Skanda.&lt;br /&gt;Lord Murugan took over the leadership of Devas and&lt;br /&gt;defeted Asura forces. Thaipusam is the festival that&lt;br /&gt;celebrates the birthday of Lord Murugan, the youngest&lt;br /&gt;son of the great Lord Shiva and his other half, Parvati.&lt;br /&gt;This day was also the day Parvati gave Lord Murugan his&lt;br /&gt;most powerful weapon "The Vel"(A powerful lance/ spear)&lt;br /&gt;so that Murugan can vanquish a powerful evil demon named&lt;br /&gt;Soorapadman. Murugan can be classified as the Tamil god&lt;br /&gt;of war.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My experiences with Thaipusam day is nothing short of&lt;br /&gt;extrodinaty. Despite the crazy tsunami of men in Batu&lt;br /&gt;Caves, I never miss going to watch the "kavadi" and I&lt;br /&gt;never give up on vowing for something I really want. I&lt;br /&gt;am not the kinda guy who pays for everything I need. In&lt;br /&gt;fact I think praying for things you always is not good.&lt;br /&gt;I believe we should only turn to prayer when the task&lt;br /&gt;at hand is very difficult. So, the vows I make during&lt;br /&gt;thaipusam are really important in my life, something&lt;br /&gt;that I have to have or something that has to happen for&lt;br /&gt;me and I'm already trying my level best to do it or I&lt;br /&gt;have no control over it. That might sound complicated&lt;br /&gt;but you'll know more about the vows when I tell you&lt;br /&gt;what i've wish for in the past.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Before we go into that i'd like to tell you all how we&lt;br /&gt;celebrate Thaipusam in Batu Caves. Here goes. The day&lt;br /&gt;before thaipusam, there will be  a procession from Sri&lt;br /&gt;Mahamariamman Tample in Kulala Lumpur heading towards&lt;br /&gt;Batu Caves. This is a walk tens of thousands hindu&lt;br /&gt;devotees in malaysia take part in. The distance covered&lt;br /&gt;is 15 kilometers, which is not very far but we usually&lt;br /&gt;do it barefoot and the walk usually starts early in the&lt;br /&gt;morning in the range of 12am - 6am. At the end of the&lt;br /&gt;walk we climb a flight of 272 steps into a marvelous cave&lt;br /&gt;where the statue of lord murugan sits.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After the procession arrives in Batu Caves the real&lt;br /&gt;celebration starts. People start flooding the holy place&lt;br /&gt;from all over the world to pray or to watch the "Kavadi's"&lt;br /&gt;The Kavadi is a physical burden through which the devotees&lt;br /&gt;implore for help from the God Murugan. Generally people&lt;br /&gt;take a vow to offer a kavadi to the Lord for purpose of&lt;br /&gt;tiding over or averting a great calamity. Carrying a&lt;br /&gt;Kavadi is not a simple thing to do, through preparations&lt;br /&gt;must be made before one can take such a holy journey.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Devotees prepare for the celebration by cleansing themselves&lt;br /&gt;through prayer and fasting. Kavadi-bearers have to perform&lt;br /&gt;elaborate ceremonies at the time of assuming the kavadi and&lt;br /&gt;at the time of offering it to Lord Murugan. The kavadi-bearer&lt;br /&gt;observes celibacy and take only pure, Satvik food, once a&lt;br /&gt;day, while continuously thinking of God. These Preparation&lt;br /&gt;are performed to allow the spirit of god overwhelm you and&lt;br /&gt;in turn slightly ease the burden you're about to perform.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the day of the festival, devotees will shave their heads&lt;br /&gt;undertake a pilgrimage along a set route while engaging in&lt;br /&gt;various acts of devotion, notably carrying various types of&lt;br /&gt;kavadi (burdens). At its simplest this may entail carrying&lt;br /&gt;a pot of milk, but mortification of the flesh by piercing&lt;br /&gt;the skin, tongue or cheeks with vel skewers is also common.&lt;br /&gt;As for me, I've only carried a pot of milk and shaved my&lt;br /&gt;head. Although it isn't much compared to what others do, I&lt;br /&gt;truely believe it has helped me. For everytime the vow I&lt;br /&gt;make, comes true.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When I was 15 I vowed for a good result in my goverment exam&lt;br /&gt;and I did achieve it. At 17 I made another vow for another&lt;br /&gt;exam and I also did well. The most important vow I've made&lt;br /&gt;in my life thus far was the third one. It was a time of great&lt;br /&gt;peril, the love of my life was diagnosed with leukemia. I had&lt;br /&gt;no other options but to seek for help from a higher power and&lt;br /&gt;guess what? My gf recovered and is healty now. Every year&lt;br /&gt;with or without making a vow, I walk with the procession and&lt;br /&gt;I go to the temple to pray. The years I make a vow is slightly&lt;br /&gt;different, I either carry a pot of milk and shave my head&lt;br /&gt;bald or jsut shave my head bald.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thaipusam is a sight to behold, like nothing anyone can&lt;br /&gt;expereience anywhere else. I have to agree even going to watch&lt;br /&gt;is a burden as you get sandwiched, stamped on your foot and&lt;br /&gt;suffer constant lack of fresh air to breath in. But, I really&lt;br /&gt;think if you can take it, you'll have to go experience it&lt;br /&gt;someday. It's simply amazing :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That's it for this entry, hope you guys will try to check it&lt;br /&gt;out one day. Peace out&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5305329397599097738-4197773729294782112?l=elniniyo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://elniniyo.blogspot.com/2009/02/thaipusam-in-batu-caves-malaysia.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Kanaghavel)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305329397599097738.post-7192017244209201658</guid><pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 04:10:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-02-06T13:41:27.607+08:00</atom:updated><title>The tragedy and the miracle worker (Part 3)</title><description>The next morning I woke up and I dind't realize&lt;br /&gt;that had a sore leg. I don't have a bed frame in&lt;br /&gt;my room, my matress is on the floor. This means&lt;br /&gt;it's a lot more effort waking up in the morning.&lt;br /&gt;On that day I placed my right leg down and tried&lt;br /&gt;pulling myself up, it hurt like hell &gt;.&lt; I groaned&lt;br /&gt;and fell back on to my bed... I had to lay in bed&lt;br /&gt;till I could collect my strength pull myself up&lt;br /&gt;with my left leg.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I got off bed hopped on one leg and want to wash&lt;br /&gt;up. So freaking troublesome jumping everywhere on&lt;br /&gt;one foot. As I was going downstairs, mom said the&lt;br /&gt;neighbours offered to take me to this chinese&lt;br /&gt;medicine man(Shensei). I was like..."huh? the doc&lt;br /&gt;asked me not to stress my right leg till the 10th"&lt;br /&gt;and my mom said, "Nevermind, Sharon(my neighbour)&lt;br /&gt;says this guy is really good...lets see what he&lt;br /&gt;can do". I thought to myself...if he can get things&lt;br /&gt;better, I can talk to my gf again &gt;.&lt; and i said&lt;br /&gt;ok.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After breakfast, mom went out and called the&lt;br /&gt;neighbours and they said they'll take me to the&lt;br /&gt;shensei right now. So I got ready and headed&lt;br /&gt;out, climbed onto his car and went to this&lt;br /&gt;shensei's place. The place was like a chinese&lt;br /&gt;village with big taoist temples a quite a few&lt;br /&gt;medicine man practice center. Everytime I saw one&lt;br /&gt;I went...ahh is it this one? and Eddie(neighbour)&lt;br /&gt;says "nah not this one, the one we're going to&lt;br /&gt;is the sifu(master)" haha. Then Sharon says "This&lt;br /&gt;guys treatments are painful you know?", unnessasarily&lt;br /&gt;making me scared T.T&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finally we got to the place, it was practically a&lt;br /&gt;house. There were old women cleaning vegetable in&lt;br /&gt;front of the house, little kids jumping and playing&lt;br /&gt;with thier toys and dogs roaming around the front&lt;br /&gt;yard. There was this tiny board infront of the house&lt;br /&gt;with chinese characters and a cell phone number.&lt;br /&gt;Eddie took out his cell phone and called the number.&lt;br /&gt;After the call Eddie says, The shensei is on the way.&lt;br /&gt;In my mind, i thought the shensei is gonna be a old&lt;br /&gt;guy with greay facial hair. But that was not to be&lt;br /&gt;true.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;About 2 minutes later, a guy came riding on his&lt;br /&gt;motorcycle and Eddie say "There, that's the guy".&lt;br /&gt;What I say was a young man whow as around his 30s&lt;br /&gt;with his hair slickly combed back with some hair gel.&lt;br /&gt;I was surprised, "Wow that's the shensei?" and Eddie&lt;br /&gt;replies "Ya ya that's him". As the shensei walks by&lt;br /&gt;the show us to the door and we follow behind him.&lt;br /&gt;He asked the kids to move away and asked me to sit&lt;br /&gt;on this rattan sofa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After a while he came back out carrying a small box.&lt;br /&gt;Sat on the floor and asked me what was wrong. I told&lt;br /&gt;him the doctor told me i have a ligerment tear. He&lt;br /&gt;said "ok" and took off the huge bandage on my leg.&lt;br /&gt;he had no mercy what so ever!!! He was treating me&lt;br /&gt;as if nothing was wrong &gt;.&lt; it hurt like a bitch =.="&lt;br /&gt;Then he said something to sharon in cantonese, and&lt;br /&gt;sharon said "He says something on your ankle is not&lt;br /&gt;in place". The next thing I know he's pressing the&lt;br /&gt;place that hurt the most and twisting my leg left and&lt;br /&gt;right...even thinking of it make me feel the pain T.T&lt;br /&gt;Then he says, stand up now and put your leg down.&lt;br /&gt;I did it and it was much less of a pain, I was wondering&lt;br /&gt;if it was because my leg is better now or just because&lt;br /&gt;he just caused my troumendous pain and this pain was&lt;br /&gt;nothing compared to what he did...haha.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nevertheless it felt better and I told him&lt;br /&gt;"Ya, sekarang kurang sakit" (Yeah it hurts lass now)&lt;br /&gt;Then he takes this traslucent yellow paper, put some&lt;br /&gt;dung coloured herb on it and placed it on my ankle.&lt;br /&gt;Don't worry though, It didn't smell like dung,&lt;br /&gt;it smelled fine like herbs haha. He bandaged my leg&lt;br /&gt;without the support thingy I had before and asked me&lt;br /&gt;to try walking again. Now I could walk ok o.O, I was&lt;br /&gt;like "whoah!, talk about a miracle" O.o After that&lt;br /&gt;he takes that same kinda herb he put on my leg, rolls&lt;br /&gt;it into tiny circles and asked me to take it twice a&lt;br /&gt;day for two days and i'll be fine.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He charged us Rm30 and sent us back home, I thanked&lt;br /&gt;him and left. Can you imagine? I paid nearly Rm2000&lt;br /&gt;in the hospital that said I'd need 12 days to walk and&lt;br /&gt;this guy charged me RM30 and got me wlkaing immediately!!&lt;br /&gt;What the heck do those doctors learn?!! &gt;.&lt; ask them&lt;br /&gt;all to go learn chinese medicine...lol. Anyway, since&lt;br /&gt;then my walking got a lot better although I can't kick&lt;br /&gt;yet. The miracle man saved me!! Yatta!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, guys and girls...next time you get an injury...&lt;br /&gt;go see the shensei!! not the doctor!!....&lt;br /&gt;Honestly i don't know if that's good advice LOL but&lt;br /&gt;this guy surely was the hero of the day haha.&lt;br /&gt;That's it for "The tragedy and the miracle worker"&lt;br /&gt;trilogy. Hope it gave you some insight...c ya guy&lt;br /&gt;=Peace out=&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5305329397599097738-7192017244209201658?l=elniniyo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://elniniyo.blogspot.com/2009/02/tragedy-and-miracle-worker-part-3.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Kanaghavel)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305329397599097738.post-6038415762928890472</guid><pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 00:02:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-02-05T09:08:52.011+08:00</atom:updated><title>The tragedy and the miracle worker (Part 2)</title><description>Despite having the injury, I didn't feel too much pain when&lt;br /&gt;I walked. I took sometime to rest at the futsal court lobby&lt;br /&gt;area with a ice pack on my foot and decided to take a 30mins&lt;br /&gt;drive home. The pain was evident when I was driving but I&lt;br /&gt; guess my hunger was taking over my pain at that time. As I&lt;br /&gt;was reaching home, I took a short detour to the chinese&lt;br /&gt;restorant nearby to make a take away order for fried rice.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I sat down there alone listening to my ipod waiting for my&lt;br /&gt;food and the girl in the restorant brought some chinese tea&lt;br /&gt;on the house. She sat on the table and asked me what&lt;br /&gt;happened to my leg and why I was limping a little and I&lt;br /&gt;told her what happened. Soon, the food was ready, I paid&lt;br /&gt;and left. From there it was less then a 5 mins drive back&lt;br /&gt;home.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I got out of the car and struggled to carry all the stuff I had&lt;br /&gt;in the car with me into the house. Laptop bag on my back,&lt;br /&gt;futsal shoes and sock on one hand, my drity clothing bag on&lt;br /&gt;the other hand, my wallet and cell phone some how squeesed&lt;br /&gt;in since i had no pockets on my pants and added to it the&lt;br /&gt;fried rice i just bought. I had to carry all this and still close&lt;br /&gt;the car door and open the gate to get into my house with a&lt;br /&gt;hurting leg lol. I still managed to get till the front door and&lt;br /&gt;my mom let me in.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As soon as I got it i jsut left everything near the stairs and&lt;br /&gt;took my fried rice into the kitchen and layed it on a silver&lt;br /&gt;plate, grabed a bottle of cold iced water, walked into the&lt;br /&gt;living room, carshed on my sofa and started stuffing myself&lt;br /&gt;while watching TV. The pain on my foot didn't even phase&lt;br /&gt;me at that moment. After eating two peoples worth of fried&lt;br /&gt;rice, I cleaned my plate and came abck to the sofa to rest and&lt;br /&gt;continue the show on the TV. Only then I realized my sister&lt;br /&gt;and an eye patch on her right eye and that she went for a&lt;br /&gt;surgery to remove a swelling below her right eye. A minor&lt;br /&gt;surgery. I continued watching TV after a couple of questions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When the show was over I was going to head to the bath to&lt;br /&gt;clean up. The pain on my ankle acted up &gt;.&lt;, I coulnd't put&lt;br /&gt;too much weight on my foot. So I limped badly to my room&lt;br /&gt;and straight got into the shower. I took my bath and changed&lt;br /&gt;with some difficulty and crashed into my bed to get some rest.&lt;br /&gt;Took out my notebook and played Xenogear on the bed &gt;.&lt;&lt;br /&gt;After awhile i got tired of it, turned off the notebook and stood&lt;br /&gt;up. The pain was excruciating , I knew somehting must be &lt;br /&gt;done about it. I limped back down stairs mostly jumping on&lt;br /&gt;one leg and asked my mom to put some deep heat on it and&lt;br /&gt;wrap my leg up. Damn....the deepheat wraped on my leg was&lt;br /&gt;even more painful then the pain itself hahaha.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With that I went back into my room and I slept, a really&lt;br /&gt;uncomfortable sleep &gt;.&lt; In the morning, i coulnd't stand up!!&lt;br /&gt;Any weight on my right foot would trigger into a frensy of&lt;br /&gt;super pain!! So I just layed back on bed, my dad came into the&lt;br /&gt;room and asked..."What happened to your leg?" and I replied&lt;br /&gt;"Futsal injury". Then the shouting and cursing started and it&lt;br /&gt;ended with a "You're not going to go for futsal anymore?!!"&lt;br /&gt;I was thinking "Yeah that's right, with this injury i'm definately&lt;br /&gt;not going for futsal for at least 3/4 months" &gt;.&lt; After some&lt;br /&gt;yanking and scolding, he walked way and i continued laying&lt;br /&gt;on my bed sleepily. Then he came back to the room and asked&lt;br /&gt;"What time are you coming to the office?!!" and i replied&lt;br /&gt;"I can't even walk now" &gt;.&lt; He got pissed and left for work.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After a few hours i finally manage to collect some strength to&lt;br /&gt;get off the bed and hop down to the living room down stairs&lt;br /&gt;on one leg. About 30 mins into it, I get a call from my mom&lt;br /&gt;"Be ready at 12, we're going to the hospital". So at 11 I started&lt;br /&gt;getting ready and as planned, mom came over at 12 and we&lt;br /&gt;took a drive to the hospital. When we got there I hopped to a&lt;br /&gt;chair and sat down till waiting for my mom to park her car. When&lt;br /&gt;she got back I passed my ID and Insurance card and she rent to&lt;br /&gt;register me and the counter. Soon came a bangladeshi man pushing&lt;br /&gt;a wheelchair, I climb on it and the guy pushed me straight to&lt;br /&gt;the Sports Injury specialist room.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I went in and the docter asked me what happened and i explained.&lt;br /&gt;The he started putting pressure into some parts of my ankle to&lt;br /&gt;see where it hurts and what not. Then he says, it looks like a&lt;br /&gt;ligerment tear and it's definately not a fracture (which i already&lt;br /&gt;knew) but I'll have to get an xray just to be sure. He told me&lt;br /&gt;he'll have to admit me into the hospital to keep me under check.&lt;br /&gt;He put a support thingy on my leg, bandaged it up sent be back to&lt;br /&gt;the admin people to ward me. I had to wait for almost 3 hour to&lt;br /&gt;get into the room allocated, talk about slow &gt;.&lt; As soon as I got&lt;br /&gt;into the room I asked my mom to send a message to my girlfriend&lt;br /&gt;on MSN, I didn't want her to worry why I was missing. =.=" So there&lt;br /&gt;I was in this lonely room.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was to rest in bed until the doctor says i'm free to go.I lasted&lt;br /&gt;in the hospital about a day and the half. Food sucked big time,&lt;br /&gt;luckily it was a single room with Astro on the TV and I also had&lt;br /&gt;my laptop, without internet tho. I spent most of the time playing&lt;br /&gt;Xenogear, watching football and movies on TV. The doctor came into&lt;br /&gt;the room the next day and sent me to the xray room. After the xray&lt;br /&gt;I was rolled back into the depressing room for more rounds of&lt;br /&gt;xenogear, then the doctor came in and told me I'm ok and it will&lt;br /&gt;just take time to heal and there is no need for surgery. I was&lt;br /&gt;thinking, "what?! you were thinking about surgery!!, oh man thank&lt;br /&gt;god" He also told me I have medical leave till the 10th of February&lt;br /&gt;and that's when I'll be allow to put pressure on my foot.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The next day I got discharged from the hospital and was given cruches&lt;br /&gt;to walk. With that I came back home desparately wanting to go online&lt;br /&gt;to explain things to my gf on what was going on. That's not going to&lt;br /&gt;happen because there is no internet at home yet, Telecoms SUCK!!!&lt;br /&gt;I wasn't allowed to go to the office either with these cruches since,&lt;br /&gt;I'll need to walk up 3 floors to get into the office. The whole day&lt;br /&gt;passed by on Xenogear again and eventually I got tired and slept the&lt;br /&gt;night through. to be continued....&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5305329397599097738-6038415762928890472?l=elniniyo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://elniniyo.blogspot.com/2009/02/tragedy-and-miracle-worker-part-2.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Kanaghavel)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305329397599097738.post-5634722529740863096</guid><pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 23:27:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-02-04T07:29:23.598+08:00</atom:updated><title>The tragedy and the miracle worker (Part 1)</title><description>The day started well, I had to renew my driving license&lt;br /&gt;which was already expired for 3 months and I didn't realize.&lt;br /&gt;Good thing no policeman stopped me during that period.&lt;br /&gt;Since I didn't have valid license I followed mom to the&lt;br /&gt;office. She had a few things to do before she could take&lt;br /&gt;me to renew my license. So, I sat there and had another&lt;br /&gt;good time chatting with my gf.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As soon as she was ready we went to the post office to&lt;br /&gt;renew my license. It all went smooth i had an option of&lt;br /&gt;renewing it for a term of 5 year which cost RM30 a year.&lt;br /&gt;Since i didn't have any intention of being in Malaysia&lt;br /&gt;two years from then. I renewed the license only for 2&lt;br /&gt;years, paid RM60 and they printed a new license immediately.&lt;br /&gt;I have to say it was the fastest transaction with the&lt;br /&gt;government I’ve had in my life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When I got back to the office after that, I continued&lt;br /&gt;chatting with my girl friend for a bit before my dad&lt;br /&gt;sent me on a chore. As I was driving to the place my dad&lt;br /&gt;directed me to go, I called up my cousin to ask him if&lt;br /&gt;there was futsal on that day as we planned earlier and I&lt;br /&gt;confirmed with him that I’ll be going.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After I got my stuff done I went back online and continued&lt;br /&gt;chatting with my gf. This is a norm for us, we chat for&lt;br /&gt;hours everyday lol. Since it’s a distance relationship the&lt;br /&gt;constant communication is really essential. As usual the&lt;br /&gt;chat carried till mid afternoon for me and early morning&lt;br /&gt;for her. Man I suck keeping her up like that so often. T.T&lt;br /&gt;I can’t help it because there is no other time we’re free&lt;br /&gt;to talk.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After convincing her to go get so rest I headed back home&lt;br /&gt;and got ready for futsal. The day was pretty normal for me&lt;br /&gt;but I had no idea what was in store for me later that day.&lt;br /&gt;After everything was set I drove down to the futsal court,&lt;br /&gt;and at 5 we started playing. The teams looked pretty&lt;br /&gt;balanced at first especially with Nickholas on my side,&lt;br /&gt;Nick has always been a good midfield holder and with me&lt;br /&gt;running around all over the court I thought it would be&lt;br /&gt;good enough.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The opponents though later I realized, had all runners.&lt;br /&gt;A group of people who work tirelessly, and the only one&lt;br /&gt;doing that in my team was me. Nickholas hasn’t got used&lt;br /&gt;to the Malaysian weather yet since coming back from UK&lt;br /&gt;and obviously has had too much ciggies back in UK. He&lt;br /&gt;got tired fast and I had to push extra hard to keep things&lt;br /&gt;close in score. I realized i’ve found my shooting power again&lt;br /&gt;after a long absence without it. I was happy with my&lt;br /&gt;performance but i couldn’t say the same with my team.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I ended up running up to attack and also running back&lt;br /&gt;down doing the covering and blocking. Then after 45 mins&lt;br /&gt;into the game came my turning point. The ball dropped free&lt;br /&gt;right in between Chandra and me. I can see Chandra running&lt;br /&gt;towards the ball winding up a huge strike on it, at the back&lt;br /&gt;of my head I was thinking “The way he’s shaped he’s going to&lt;br /&gt; balloon this shot” but nevertheless I didn’t want to take the&lt;br /&gt;chance and decided to put my feet across the ball to block it.&lt;br /&gt;Hoping he would realize there is no chance of him scoring this&lt;br /&gt;and try a different way but I forgot, Chandra doesn’t really&lt;br /&gt;think much when he’s playing football &gt;.&lt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The full took a full winded shot on the ball together with my&lt;br /&gt;Leg and in that moment I knew this was going to hurt.&lt;br /&gt;Rightly so, the pain stung thru my nerves and fell holding my&lt;br /&gt;ankle. I got up pretty fast as usual, because I always think&lt;br /&gt;pain is just part of football and if you want to be good at it&lt;br /&gt;you must not fear pain. I knew I couldn’t continue running&lt;br /&gt;for at least a little while so I opted to play goal keeper till&lt;br /&gt;I could move comfortably again. It never happened, after&lt;br /&gt;a few minutes I knew the injury was serious but I just&lt;br /&gt;didn’t know how serious just yet. To be continued....&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5305329397599097738-5634722529740863096?l=elniniyo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://elniniyo.blogspot.com/2009/02/tragedy-and-miracle-worker-part-1.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Kanaghavel)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305329397599097738.post-7986456504804902832</guid><pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 01:23:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-01-21T15:42:22.703+08:00</atom:updated><title>Chinese New Year</title><description>Chinese New Year,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This coming year will be the year of the Ox,&lt;br /&gt;that seriously is the last thing in my mind when I think of&lt;br /&gt;this period though. Chinese new year for me is about meeting&lt;br /&gt;my cousins and relatives. The part of my family I only see&lt;br /&gt;once or twice in a year (unless something like a wedding happens).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have a tough time communicating with quite a few of them,&lt;br /&gt;but even with the lack of communication I feel very accepted&lt;br /&gt;when I go back for chinese new year. I don't speak neither&lt;br /&gt;Mandarin nor Hokkien and some of my relatives can't speak&lt;br /&gt;english. When they are in a group talking I try to comprehend&lt;br /&gt;what they say since I do understand a little bit of hokkein and&lt;br /&gt;mandarin but my efforts always end up futile half way through&lt;br /&gt;the convo haha (too many unknown words).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nevertheless they are such warm people, I do feel the love when&lt;br /&gt;I'm with them which makes me never ever want to miss my&lt;br /&gt;chinese new year reunion dinner ^^. I also get to eat every two&lt;br /&gt;hours...haha yeah it's cool like that!! The sweetest part of the deal&lt;br /&gt;has to definately be the "Ang Pow", who else gives you money in&lt;br /&gt;a small red packets without expecting anything back? :P&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's the time when family is more important then anything else,&lt;br /&gt;and it's the time when we meet new family members. Cousins who&lt;br /&gt;bring thier bf/gf to the chinese new year reunion usually end up&lt;br /&gt;married a few years down the road. It's kind of a platform to&lt;br /&gt;introduce your choice to the family. Hahaha, my aunties are already&lt;br /&gt;asking me where is my girlfriends....grrrr. I'm not ready to get&lt;br /&gt;married yet hahaha. It's also amazing to see how fast the neices&lt;br /&gt;and nephews grow when you see them only onces a year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I can't wait to go to the family reunion this year. This year it's in my&lt;br /&gt;uncles house all the way in Johor Bharu and my dad says we might&lt;br /&gt;not make the trip there....argh....come on man...it's just once a year.&lt;br /&gt;I'll somehow try to make it there despite my dad's decision though.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mandarin orenges, dried pork slices, and a massive dinner and metting&lt;br /&gt;loved ones....why would i ever miss that :D&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;enjoy people ^_^ Happy chinese new year&lt;br /&gt;peace out&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5305329397599097738-7986456504804902832?l=elniniyo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://elniniyo.blogspot.com/2009/01/chinese-new-year.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Kanaghavel)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305329397599097738.post-791222689479634737</guid><pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:27:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-01-09T23:15:50.656+08:00</atom:updated><title>As It Unfolds (Part 3)</title><description>Sometimes problems in a relationship is not because&lt;br /&gt;of you or your partner but because it's fate. This time my&lt;br /&gt;gf told me that the doctor suspects that her leukemia was&lt;br /&gt;re-emerging (not too sure about the time, my memory is&lt;br /&gt;failing me =.="). At that point my gf and I were sitting in&lt;br /&gt;a ingame town talking and making up after testing times&lt;br /&gt;or at leastI was trying to.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She had other things in mind which were far more serious.&lt;br /&gt;She might need to go get admitted for medication to her&lt;br /&gt;leukemia. After things were more certain later she told&lt;br /&gt;me about what she had to and told me that it may take&lt;br /&gt;months. I wasn't even close to thinking about how i'll be&lt;br /&gt;when i'm separate with her. All i wanted is for my girl to&lt;br /&gt;come back out of this test healthy as she was before. I told&lt;br /&gt;her i'd wait for her recovery no matter how long it took.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When she left for her treatment, I didn't spend a day&lt;br /&gt;without praying. I'm not much of a praying guy though,&lt;br /&gt;this made my mom curious. By now i've already told my&lt;br /&gt;mom about this wonderful girl I met online and mom was&lt;br /&gt;happy for me because she could see the difference my gf&lt;br /&gt;has made in my life. A few weeks into it, i finally broke&lt;br /&gt;it to my mom that my gf was in the hospital and stuff.&lt;br /&gt;She told me that I have to be strong for her and pray for&lt;br /&gt;her recovery, not like i wans't doing it already. I even&lt;br /&gt;made a vow to dedicate my walk with the anual thaipusam&lt;br /&gt;chariot to the recovery of my gf and vowed to bald myself&lt;br /&gt;as a homage to god for what he was to do for me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hours became days, days became weeks and weeks became&lt;br /&gt;months. There was no one day that I didn't think about my&lt;br /&gt;love who was suffering in the hospital. I missed her sooo&lt;br /&gt;much, at that moment i just knew life without her would be&lt;br /&gt;a life with no meaning for me. True that i have everyone&lt;br /&gt;else, parents, sister, friends ,cousins and all but no&lt;br /&gt;one as special as the person who's in the hospital now&lt;br /&gt;wishing I was waiting for her. She made my day brighter&lt;br /&gt;and my nights more peaceful, she motivated me in more ways&lt;br /&gt;then one.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This was a really sad and testing time for me, I was bored&lt;br /&gt;after spending hours talking to her before. The game we&lt;br /&gt;were playing didn't seem as fun as when she was there. I&lt;br /&gt;tried to find alternate souces to keep myself busy and&lt;br /&gt;entertained. Such as chatting online, messing with my&lt;br /&gt;facebook account and playing football every evening. I sent&lt;br /&gt;her loads of emails as i told her i would, so that she can&lt;br /&gt;read once she have the chance. Everyday i'd open my email&lt;br /&gt;hoping to see "My Love" on the sender column. Everytime&lt;br /&gt;I see a new mail coming in, i get exited and hopeful.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finally after about 1 months or 2 months of waiting I get&lt;br /&gt;a message from her. I wish I had kept those messages safe&lt;br /&gt;for me to recall what it said. Nevertheless it was one of&lt;br /&gt;the best moments in my life, i felt so releaved that it was&lt;br /&gt;like someone gave me back my life :) I love my gf so much&lt;br /&gt;I just can't think of any other girl in her place. Waiting&lt;br /&gt;for a loved one to contact you after having such a sickness&lt;br /&gt;was like nothing i've ever felt in life. I was so thankful&lt;br /&gt;to god or whatever force that helped my gf and I through it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That's it for this stage of my relationship....more to come&lt;br /&gt;next time.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5305329397599097738-791222689479634737?l=elniniyo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://elniniyo.blogspot.com/2009/01/as-it-unfolds-part-3.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Kanaghavel)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305329397599097738.post-3545708541963135374</guid><pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2009 02:44:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-01-05T11:46:47.294+08:00</atom:updated><title>As it Unfolds (Part 2)</title><description>As every relationship goes further, problems are inevitable and&lt;br /&gt;this relationship was no different. The first time I got agitated&lt;br /&gt;was when a so called friend J met my girlfriend after I got her&lt;br /&gt;into the same guild as me. He started getting really close to my&lt;br /&gt;gf when i wasn't around. At first i didn't think much of it, trust is&lt;br /&gt;a key component of love, without trust there is only bound to be&lt;br /&gt;misery.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As J started getting closer to my gf, i realized something was&lt;br /&gt;really wrong, he wasn't acting like a normal friend at all. At this&lt;br /&gt;moment i confronted my gf and told her that J is thinking of&lt;br /&gt;something more then just friendship and she have to be aware&lt;br /&gt;of it. My gf thought i got him misunderstood, so i confronted&lt;br /&gt;J myself. He tells me, he likes my gf and he says sorry....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was like WTF man..... I was so pissed at him and i don't know&lt;br /&gt;if what i said after that was right. I told him, i trust my gf and&lt;br /&gt;let the best man win. I told him you can try as much as you want&lt;br /&gt;but i trust my gf and nothing is gonna take her away from me.&lt;br /&gt;This triggered him to venture into his ambitions with more&lt;br /&gt;freedom. I wish i hadn't said that to him, it's not because i was&lt;br /&gt;scared my gf might leave me but to save my gf from unnecessary&lt;br /&gt;problems.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As things got more serious, J  said things he shouldn't have and&lt;br /&gt;manipulated words i said and reported it to my gf. Problems&lt;br /&gt;started between me and my gf. Such cheap skate tricks with&lt;br /&gt;no dignity what so ever. From that point on, I was so angry with&lt;br /&gt;J i'd have broken his face if i ever met him in real.  Meanwhile,&lt;br /&gt;my gf was having problems that i wasn't aware off.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She was developing a long dormant sickness she was carrying&lt;br /&gt;which might have been something i caused also. She has had&lt;br /&gt;leukemia when she was younger and the cancer was beginning&lt;br /&gt;manifest again without us realizing. She staying awake for me&lt;br /&gt;on odd hours because of our massive time difference may&lt;br /&gt;have caused it to reappear.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By this time J's tricks were uncovered by me and put forth to&lt;br /&gt;my gf with some proof. My girlfriends finally saw how J was.&lt;br /&gt;Less then a fortnight after he was sidelined by my gf he was&lt;br /&gt;after another girl &gt;.&lt;" So much for "i really love her i had to&lt;br /&gt;take a chance although she's your gf". Now when i think of him&lt;br /&gt;I just get disgusted.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finally the first hurdle of out relationship was over and done with.&lt;br /&gt;But not long after the second one will arise...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5305329397599097738-3545708541963135374?l=elniniyo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://elniniyo.blogspot.com/2009/01/confused-and-crippled-part-2.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Kanaghavel)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305329397599097738.post-7423777657842033335</guid><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 12:35:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-01-04T13:17:05.453+08:00</atom:updated><title>As it Unfolds (Part 1)</title><description>I don't think many people reads this blog, but I think i'm&lt;br /&gt;finally going to post something quite personal to me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;About 2+ years ago I just shifted to my new house in Klang.&lt;br /&gt;After screwing up my studies in MMU because of too much&lt;br /&gt;gaming, I started working for my dad. This didn't last though,&lt;br /&gt;my dad and I  just couldn't work together, petty quarrels&lt;br /&gt;every time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since it was not working out, I seriously thought of giving&lt;br /&gt;my brains another chance of proving itself. I know i'm not&lt;br /&gt;stupid and the people around me also know I'm not stupid&lt;br /&gt;but my indulgence in certain things go out of control, like&lt;br /&gt;games. At that moment I told myself i'm going to quit online&lt;br /&gt;gaming after 1 last spell on it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I looked for the best RO server i could find and started playing.&lt;br /&gt;I got pretty strong and all and joined a good guild and made&lt;br /&gt;some great friends. Above all, one person stood out, one person&lt;br /&gt;who would change me for life. It's funny how it all started, I saw&lt;br /&gt;this little avatar girl standing in a cross junction with an in game&lt;br /&gt;nick name "Kana". I couldn't help but to message her and say&lt;br /&gt;"hey your nick is my real name"... that's when it all started. We&lt;br /&gt;talked a lot after that, just as friends.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As time passed, i knew her more and more and i felt this magnetic&lt;br /&gt;attraction towards her. So, what the hell I started making a move&lt;br /&gt;on her not knowing what i'm getting into. Thing turn out superb&lt;br /&gt;though, she was a dream come true. We got ever so close and i&lt;br /&gt;care and love her as if she was my wife. Everything was going so&lt;br /&gt;fine, i made all kinds of plans with her. She was in Canada, I was in&lt;br /&gt;Malaysia. Just her being there for me motivated me, I made sure i&lt;br /&gt;did well in my exams. She is a brilliant girl, who gives her all into&lt;br /&gt;studies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was so in love, there is no words to describe.......&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5305329397599097738-7423777657842033335?l=elniniyo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://elniniyo.blogspot.com/2009/01/confused-and-crippled-part-1.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Kanaghavel)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305329397599097738.post-7699865299275174077</guid><pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2008 05:01:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-12-26T14:20:07.129+08:00</atom:updated><title>Limitations of views</title><description>What happens when you see something and believe it's the real thing&lt;br /&gt;but it's not really how it actually is? Since that is the only thing you&lt;br /&gt;can see, you wouldn't know what was better because that's as good&lt;br /&gt;as it gets for you. Lets say you had an eyesight that was different from&lt;br /&gt;everyone else, lets say yours is more dull then everyone else's. Would&lt;br /&gt;you think the world is not beautiful or would you say it's beautiful&lt;br /&gt;because you're never seen anything better? as in "this is as good as it&lt;br /&gt;gets" and 1+1 can never become 10. I don't know how this thought&lt;br /&gt;was triggered in my biological processor but it's really making me&lt;br /&gt;think. What if what I see and the best I can get isn't really the best&lt;br /&gt;thing. I won't notice that i'm having something less because i'm not&lt;br /&gt;capable of experiencing better things. When i look at it this way, i&lt;br /&gt;think the person with the dull eyes won't really think the world is not&lt;br /&gt;beautiful unless that person is really creative and can really think out&lt;br /&gt;of the box. It may just be fantasy though, but imagine someone like&lt;br /&gt;that manages to bring that world they think is more beautiful. Now&lt;br /&gt;the questions arises if aesthetics are comparisons or static facts? I&lt;br /&gt;don't know&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All i know is if the person thinks it's not beautiful with a dull eyesight,&lt;br /&gt;it's actually really good and it means that person has a really good&lt;br /&gt;imagination. People who can see things they can't see are geniuses ,&lt;br /&gt;can you imagine a material form which is not gas, not liquid and not&lt;br /&gt;solid. Can you come up with an idea of a material which was not any&lt;br /&gt;of those? Only a person who can do that will think the world is not&lt;br /&gt;beautiful with a dull eyesight because they can think of things that&lt;br /&gt;doesn't exist in their world. I can conclude with this that, what your&lt;br /&gt;think is nice is nice and what you think is not nice is not nice.&lt;br /&gt;Everything we think is just a state of our mind. As simple as that.&lt;br /&gt;When the brain thinks that, then there is no stopping them, as far&lt;br /&gt;as they are concerned, what they think they know is what they know&lt;br /&gt;and they are not losing out on anything because they don't know&lt;br /&gt;what's better.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's really strange to think about it, may be what you think is good&lt;br /&gt;isn't really the best. If we keep trying to get better then what we can&lt;br /&gt;get, we might just become crazy and weird. So it's not entirely&lt;br /&gt;healthy to do so. The end of this is.... just be happy with who you&lt;br /&gt;are, because if you're happy and you are that the best state you can&lt;br /&gt;be in then you have no worries. You're happy and that's the bottom&lt;br /&gt;line....because elniniyo said so :P&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5305329397599097738-7699865299275174077?l=elniniyo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://elniniyo.blogspot.com/2008/12/limitations-of-views.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Kanaghavel)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305329397599097738.post-6406818162924371684</guid><pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 07:08:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-19T15:11:06.181+08:00</atom:updated><title>Across the sea (modified) :D</title><description>You are '19 year old girl who lives in America'&lt;br /&gt;You heard me on msn&lt;br /&gt;A couple year ago and you wanted to know&lt;br /&gt;All about me, and my hobbies,&lt;br /&gt;My favorite food and my birthday&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why are you so far away from me?&lt;br /&gt;I need help and you're way across the sea&lt;br /&gt;I could never touch you - I think it would be wrong&lt;br /&gt;I've got your email&lt;br /&gt;You've got my song&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don't see beautiful girls like this where i come from - so fragile,so refined&lt;br /&gt;So I dream and I scream&lt;br /&gt;my heart then falls to little pieces every time&lt;br /&gt;I wonder what clothes you wear to school&lt;br /&gt;I wonder how you decorate your room&lt;br /&gt;I wonder how you touch yourself&lt;br /&gt;and curse myself for being across the sea&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why are you so far away from me?&lt;br /&gt;I need help and you're way across the sea&lt;br /&gt;I could never touch you - I think it would be wrong&lt;br /&gt;I've got your email&lt;br /&gt;You've got my song&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At 23 I shaved my head and tried to be holy&lt;br /&gt;I thought the perfect girl would like me if i did&lt;br /&gt;You see mom, I'm a good grown boy&lt;br /&gt;It's all your fault, momma&lt;br /&gt;It's all your fault&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Goddamn, this business is really lame&lt;br /&gt;I gotta live on an island to find the juice&lt;br /&gt;So you send me&lt;br /&gt;Your love&lt;br /&gt;from all around the world&lt;br /&gt;As if I could live on words and dreams and a million screams&lt;br /&gt;Oh, how I need a hand in mine to feel.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why are you so far away from me?&lt;br /&gt;Why are you so far away from me?&lt;br /&gt;I could never touch you - I think it would be wrong&lt;br /&gt;I've got your email&lt;br /&gt;You've got my song&lt;br /&gt;I've got your email&lt;br /&gt;You've got my song&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5305329397599097738-6406818162924371684?l=elniniyo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://elniniyo.blogspot.com/2008/11/across-sea-modified-d.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Kanaghavel)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5305329397599097738.post-7072610763860946099</guid><pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 03:09:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-13T12:52:06.240+08:00</atom:updated><title>25 years and counting</title><description>"It feels like only yesterday we got of high school", says one of my high school mate. We're turning 25 this year, yeah quarter of a century gone in a blink of an eye. I want to review my life at this milestone and see what I've got. Hmmm lets see.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I've had a pretty good life in comparison to billions of other people, I'm happy for that. I've never had a problem of ever having to suffer from starvation or untended sickness. My parent have given me all that a kid need to grow up healthy, I love them so much for that despite their slip ups and sheer stupidity sometimes but hey, all of us have our moments. How many children can say, my dad bought me a car, paid for my education(even all the extensions &gt;.&lt;), got me all my favorite food when i wanted it, offered me their business to take over, mom has always been there for me, accepted my gf :P and they are still doing so much for me. My annoying little sister who loves me and in turn so do I. I just wish she'll also have a good life.    &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I thank god for no serious sicknesses, no bad accidents(except for the few bones i've broken &gt;.&lt;),  for giving me the chance to meet my  "100% perfect girl" hehe, for giving me a decent brain for thinking and giving me some talent with the football :D  The biggest happiness I have in my life now is my lovely! lovely! girlfriend. All I've ever wished for my girl to be like, she is. She's beautiful, she's loving, she's smart, she's mesmerizing, she's crazy and logical at the same time lol, she's funny, she's aware and most of all...she LOVES me!!  I can truly say she's the biggest thing I have in life.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My friends! Crazy guys, pretty girls, nerds(like me), football hunks, stupid fellas, blabber mouths and cousins. I'm so thankful to them to, they make life so much better and make me feel I'm not some lonely guy on the street.   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My pets ^_^....Jimmy the always sleepy golden retriever, Pinky the one that always bites my footwear and my car number plates grrrrrr, the late "Wishbone" i miss him so much T.T, Anjali the cute little hamster in the corner and her friend she has the "love hate" relationship with...she's new I forgot her name &gt;.&lt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My uncle's and aunties, what a big help they have been to me. The took me in when I needed a place to stay and study, treated me like their own son :) I'm sooo thankful to them. They surely made a difference to me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wow, I didn't know I had much much in life. Some made my life good, some made it more challenging but I'm thankful to all of them for they made me who I am now. I know there are a lot more influences to list out but that would made a list as long as my 25 years.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I love who I am now, I love my parents, I love my sister and most of all I love my "100% perfect girl". Like what Haruki Murakami tried to say in one of his stories "I don't know why she's my 100% perfect girl but I know she's my 100% perfect girl"(I think lol). The one who I was to spend the rest of my days with.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Peace out guys ^_^&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5305329397599097738-7072610763860946099?l=elniniyo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://elniniyo.blogspot.com/2008/11/25-years-and-counting.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Kanaghavel)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item></channel></rss>