So it's back to the land of the living. I just spent the weekend with some friends making some decorations for a prom-like event, and I am telling you, after learning how to make paper flowers, I am also learning how to hate them. You have to struggle with the darned things to make them bloom properly!

Aside from that aggravation, we aren't going to get anything else from this event's organizers aside from a booth inside. I'm like, uh-huh... But here's the story from my point of view anyway.

One group decided that they'd like to have a party, of sorts, similar to the one they had last year. So they tapped my group to be the Logistics Committee, i.e., we're in charge of decorations and stuff like that. In exchange for which they'll let us have a booth for free in the event. Next question was whether our entrance could be waived or discounted; the answer was a flat no.

We were willing to do the work for them, and we get a free booth in exchange, but what the heck was that? Maybe that's the reason we couldn't get any more volunteers than the usual good hearted people to do the work! We get a booth so what? That's not a viable trade off, when we have to pay the entrance fee to get inside there to man the booth they so lovingly gave us for free!

What I'm getting at is that they should consider a more visible and more practical, in the volunteers' point of view, exchange for their efforts. Nothing is free in this world anymore, except the air that we breathe. I hesitate to say water since one buys water nowadays. There are even oxygen bars cropping up!

I won't get into the hassle with the location; that's not my call anymore. I'll let the Execs work it out among themselves. Then again, I saw the venue, and it was perfect... for a small to medium sized gathering of friends as welll as for us who were going to decorate it. ^____^ ain't I evil?

Then again, I always am.

Case in point, when we were making the (blasted) flowers -- I hesitate to say roses, never mind that that's what they're supposed to be since what we're coming up are just some of the different species of flowers -- one of the guys just hummed a song/sang one line of a particular song that I, among others, have hated since it was released. It's one of those, trying to be cute, insolent, toilet humor, songs. I told this guy who hummed/sang just a line that "I hurt people who sing that in my presence." or something along those lines. When the others asked what song that was, I waited for him to sing it, but he didn't and the topic was dropped.

It's only now that I thought of how I didn't consider how good his reflexes were or how bad mine were, in the event that it did actually happen. But barring that, I was quite sure of what I was going to do. I was going to lunge at him with my trusty toy (people who know me know what I'm talking about, but for other people, suffice it to say that it can be lethal any way you cut it) and probably cut his skin, either on his face or neck. But I'm kinda wary about the neck, the jugular and all that. It's difficult to get blood off clothes, you know.

Wonder what a shrink'll say about this...

I even imagined how it would feel to have my hand around his neck and squeezing it until he turned blue, but not until he expired. That's important.

Then there's this something... I'm not supposed to know anything about it, but they were talking about it when I was in the room and so I have a slight inkling what it's about. Nevertheless, I can't say anything about it but I just can't help it so I'm writing it here. After all, this is what a blog is for, right?

hehehe ^___^;;

I just realized that there are a number of movies that I wanna see... well, those already officially released in cd anyway... I just saw the movie Hero with a friend, and man, was it ever so COOL!! It's definitely a movie I can stand to see again and again... maybe not everyday in a week, but about twice a month is good. The colors were great, really vibrant and alive. Kudos to the cinematographer and the other people involved in the color schemes. Then there's the settings -- I liked the desert and the mountains, all those golden yellows and browns with the people in white. Great contrast.

I've always liked the Hong Kong style of movies, the martial arts anyway, so it was a treat to see this movie. I liked their moves, reminds me of the times when I would borrow tapes of all the martial arts movies the video house had at a time. Seems to me I still am a kid at heart.