Sunday, May 07, 2006

Funny things happen all the time. I didn’t know ol’ Dubya had it in him.

I realize something about this school year. For the first time in a long time, it no longer seems as if I’m over-committed. For the first time in years, the work seems manageable again. Everything seems to fall neatly into place now. However, I still can’t keep up, mainly because I’m a slacker of the highest order. I don’t do work, and yet I still feel tired. It’s getting ridiculous. Everyday, I wake up telling myself that I’m going to finish a shit-load of work by nightfall. In the end, I just end up wandering the oddly beautiful ever-changing wastelands of the net. And playing DotA.

Recent events have really inspired me to start writing frequently again. I haven’t really written anything in months. And there are so many ideas now. Cambodia really inspired me. The sights, the people and the history. Plus, I just finished Warren Ellis’s Transmetropolitan. Amazing comic.
Writing comics seems like great fun. You don’t need to bother with superfluous words and paragraph long descriptions. The readers don’t mind most of the time. Hell, you barely need to describe anything… Just leave it to the artist.

I dislike the fact that I have to watch what I say online. But I do it anyway because… well you know why.

Something disturbed me some days ago. What really freaked me out was that it happened thrice. I mentioned the large number of reports of violent activities and terrorist threats bubbling around on news channels and three times, three times, people just stared at me and told me that it was business as usual. Which, of course it is. But still! The gravity of this never really struck me until that day. We live in a world on the brink of disaster. And yet, we’re not worried. That’s pretty scary when you think about it. Surely, these are the end times.