Saudade.

Eurythmics - When Tomorrow Comes

Information Society - Peace & Love Inc. (HD Official Video)

Electronic - "For You" (Official Music Video)

Shall I go sit by the sea and watch the waves and the passing ships?

A touch of melancholy.

I feel a tinge of sadness when I visited Parkway Parade yesterday.

Rainy morning. 26.5 degrees.

CAMOUFLAGE - Love is a shield - 1989

It was 35 degrees on Tuesday!

Nice rainy morning.

Enough of Facebook for today.

The idiocy of people online.. I know why I am become less engaged and more detached day by day.

John Foxx And The Maths - A Man And A Woman

John Foxx And The Maths - Walk

Wang Chung Hypnotize Me

I like this old song from the late eighties. It is a sweet, little pop gem.

The weekend is upon us! Wheeeeeeeeeee!

A new dawn.

To disengage. Solitude.

I am slowly realigning my objectives and my focus.

The weekend was too short. Oh well.

Love is patience, patience is love, meaningless now.

I need solitude.

The weekend was too short!

There are certain places that I don't visit anymore, they bring back sad memories.

Thinking of old times.

I seem to be able to remember more of my dreams these days.

It is July. The year has flown by swiftly.

Brexit

I am not a British citizen nor resident of the British isles. This morning, on the radio, a reporter from the BBC was trying to get a soundbite from the folks at Brompton bikes. And it came out not in the way the reporter imagined. The Brompton bikes folks actually said that the Brexit had weakened the pound and business will increase!

Meanwhile, Abe has a massive headache. Abenomics is based on a devalued yen. Now, the yen has become a safe haven for funds and the yen has strengthened, thus weakening Japanese exports and Japanese manufacturing.

I guess there is unintended comedy in the midst of the Brexit maelstrom.

As in all crisis, there are always opportunities, be it shares, commodities or bonds or even... sales! Yes, buy British!

Deathtrap

I finished another two dungeons in Deathtrap. The game has gotten a fair bit more challenging now.

It is a tower defence and action RPG hybrid. I recommend it. It is tremendous fun.

I should not wait till late. I will plan to trip to France or Germany for the next year now!

Don't push me around because you will regret. I don't respond to threats. Things can be settled in a friendly, adult way, by talking. Threats are just childish.

Front Line Assembly - Shifting Through the Lens (Extended Version)

VNV Nation - Darkangel

Depeche Mode - Happiest Girl

Depeche Mode ☆ Sea of Sin

Point Of View - Little Planet (Spice Remix)

POINT OF VIEW IT CANNOT BE

FIT Notes - Organic 002

Decoded Feedback - Phoenix (official video)

DECODED FEEDBACK - Atlantis

Decoded Feedback - Another Loss (Official Music Video)

Conjure One ~ Places That Don't Exist

Lush reunion live Oslo Hackney, London April 11 2016 - full show composi...

I saw them in concert in 1996. Here they are, performing for the first time in twenty years.

Stellaris - Full Ost (2 hours)

TOMMY PAGE - A Shoulder To Cry On [Original Music Video]

I love this old song.

SIG SG 552 Commando

SCAR -H with X-25 Drum

Mecha

Ink and liquid watercolours. Drawing from 2014.

Mecha

Ink and liquid watercolours. Drawing from 2014.

Wheeeeeeeeeee!

Relegation 2015-2016

I was looking at  my prediction for the 2015-2016 season relegation candidates 2015-2016. I got Aston Villa and Norwich City (Newly promoted) right. Sunderland did not go down, Newcastle did. That's interesting. 2/3.

I will make my next prediction later. Haha.

Desert Tech MDR Bullpup Rifle

Depeche Mode - Nothing's Impossible

OMD - So In Love (HQ)

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Universal

Electricity (Live 1981) - OMD

God module - art

Hooverphonic - This Strange Effect

Hooverphonic - Club Montepulciano

Club Montepulciano - Hooverphonic Live with Orchestra

goldfrapp - pilots [on a star]

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Walking On The Milky Way

Buying games on Steam.

Talented? No, not me. I have seen others who are much more but have not taken this path. That rules the genetic aspect out for me. Environmental factors? Again, not encouraging, not supported and always doubted, then again, that is the same for a great many people. However, what I do have is more free time. Much of it is in my hands. How much and what I can do.

I have worked hard.

Marsheaux - Leave In Silence

Some people are incredibly nice. I enjoy talking to them.

Oh well. Life is like that.

When they are wrong and it is clear and evident, they will still insist on being right. Such is the way of the elderly. It is not a wonder why many do not deserve the respect that they think should be accorded to them for they are just as capable of the same follies as people of any age. Not merely in an Asian society is this state of affairs prevalent, it is present everywhere.

The Chemical Brothers - Star Guitar

DEPECHE MODE - WORLD IN MY EYES EXTENDED TELAM PROJECT MIX

The Treasures of the World exhibition was a lot more interesting than that modern art exhibition at the National Gallery.

Daybehavior - City Lights

Front Line Assembly - Everything Must Perish

Depeche Mode - In Your Room (Remastered Video)

Monday!

The exhibition on modern art was alright, not particularly interesting though. Forgettable.

Time flies. The weekend is almost over.

Real Life - Send Me An Angel

wheeeee!

Monday! A new week ahead! New things! New plans to be made as well!

Love conquers all? Nope. It doesn't happen.

The weekend seems too short despite a Good Friday.

I will go draw and think in the afternoon!

Imperative Reaction- Scorpio

freedom.

De/vision Dress me when I bleed

John Foxx & Louis Gordon - Drive

Try to forget (Radio Forg Edit) - De/Vision

Time to go travel. New perspectives. New mind.

In about two months' time, I shall venture.

I guess I waited for a year, forlornly.

I remember buying mochi at Bugis+. It brings back a smile.

Some paths are meant to be walked alone, in life, sometimes, one cannot expect the support of the closest and the dearest. It is a lonely path to be traversed. The realisation after much experience is sobering but not unexpected.

Leningrad cowboys - Those were the days

Leningrad Cowboys - Those Were The Days (TV - Sweden - 1995)

I have always liked this old Mary Hopkins song. It was based on an old traditional Russian folk song. Here, the Finnish group, the Leningrad Cowboys, perform their version of it.

I had used to sing it when I was a child.

"Remember how we laughed away the hours

And dreamed of all the great things we could do"

"Then the busy years went rushing by us

We lost our starry notions on the way"

I had once thought of writing a children's book with her.

The weekend is over! That was fast! It was far too short.

It's almost time! Whee!

Somewhat productive but could have been more.

Time to restart my running.

Depeche Mode- "World in My Eyes" HQ + Lyrics

depeche mode - higher love (1993)

Some progress made.

Monday! Ugh.

The weekend is too short! It is almost over!

I need sleep!

I need to finish a few things at work today. Then, I will go home and sleep for a bit before venturing out to draw.

I am not sure if I want to play boardgames today. The distance to the venue is daunting. And I can't take the train there. It will have to be a bus or taxi. Tampines is more accessible than West Coast Road.

Orkestra Obsolete play Blue Monday using 1930s instruments - BBC Arts

Sleepy.

Immaterial now.

It was not to be.

Not very productive today. Ugh.

It was evident from the beginning. I should have taken that trip that I had wanted for a few years now. My idealism had softened me and blinded me.

Front Line Assembly - Millennium [OFFICIAL VIDEO]

I remember that we had planned to watch the stars at the Science Centre, go for rides at the Universal Studios, and go for picnics with a basket of wine and cheese. Somehow, in the hustle and bustle of things, the days had passed and we had not ever made time for them. Like the impermanence of falling raindrops, these little plans were swiftly swept away.

The Frozen Autumn - This Time

THE FROZEN AUTUMN - SIDEREAL SOLITUDE (Official Videoclip)

The Frozen Autumn - There's No Time To Recall

Faith & Disease - Louise

A cover of Clan of Xymox's classic by Faith and Disease.

faith and the muse - scars flown proud (live).VOB

Faith And The Muse - Shattered In Aspect [Live]by luikidark.avi

A quiet day.

I shall plan what I will do this weekend as well besides planning work.

Monday. Ugh.

A fair bit was accomplished today! Hurrah!

There is an interesting article on Spize in the papers today. Apparently, the Spize at River Valley Road had predated that of Simpang Bedok.

And I only discovered that there is a Spize in River Valley Road about a year or so ago.

I had dreamt of walking in the lobby of a grand hotel with its cafés and restaurants at dawn. The golden brass fittings, the high ceilings and vast windows continue to linger in my mind.

I need to plan the week ahead.

I wish the weekend were longer. After work, I was at the library at Bukit Panjang and then I was at Wheelock Place and Ngee Ann City.

And that was it, Saturday was gone.

Faith and the Muse ~ Scars Flown Proud

Funker Vogt-Gunman

God Module Skeptical (Lyrics)

Negative Format - Translucent

Pet Shop Boys - Love etc.

Quiet morning. I can get a lot done at work.

At least, my taxes are filed.

Saint Etienne - Stormtrooper In Drag

An interesting and rather nice cover of a Gary Numan song.

Friday!

Grim Dawn. Still persisting.

I just bought Tank Battle: 1944 on Steam. Woo!

wheeee!

Oh well, that did not work out. Thus, there will be a lot of work to be done. At least, I got a lot done on my side.

An exercise in frustration. Old software. Doh. Twelve year old software.

Diskettes successfully copied to a hard disk! Yay!

Invigorated earlier. Now, time to rest.

So far so good.

"Time to drop the seventh veil and let some madness wander in."

"Sredni Vashtar", Faith & the Muse

Keeping my fingers crossed.

Back at work. Loading up a diskette for the first time in many years.

I had thought we would grow old together. It was not to be. I was wrong. It is immaterial now.

Deleted Scene from "Batman v Superman” Starring Jimmy Kimmel

I should retire soon and rest earlier. I have much to do tomorrow.

I remember that she wanted to plant a flower in my garden. Sadly, we never did make it back to the nursery to buy seeds.

Down with a bad throat and fever.

Feeling out of sorts.

I shall have to go see a doctor later this morning.

I dreamed of her last night.

Not feeling well.

Grim Dawn, not bad at all. Not as polish and smooth as Victor Vran though.

It is within striking distance! Whee!

Grim Dawn has been launched! Yay!

Now, I need a floppy disk drive.

Virtual machine installed

Windows XP virtual machine running fine. Where do you want to go today?

Sadly, it is for work, not for games. Haha. I can think of games that I would play. Hmm. Maybe I will try a virtual machine for Linux and Windows Vista at home.

I don't want a dual boot at this point.

When one dreams, one is embarking on a journey...

So sad. Never did make it back to eat the blue ice-cream at Tanglin Mall...

I need to apply for a new food licence.

Killing termites will cost me $1700+

Quit

Ingress. I had a strategy that involves generating JARVIS viruses and AXA shields with my numerous MUFG capsules. Sadly, it is deemed too powerful and the production rates have been slowed to 1/10 or maybe 1/100 of the original rates. The strategy and buildup had taken a few months implement. Now, it is impossible. The hardwork had come to nought though I did enjoy several weeks of success.

This is where I quit the game for good. I was semi-retired anyway.

The setback was temporary. I was drawing at Oriole afterwards and thinking.

Disappointed.

Annoyed.

The future is now.

My dear friends, I am back to playing boardgames and wargames. It has been a hiatus of many years!

Kuoby is fixated today. I wonder why.

A realignment. A complete realignment.

Faith And The Muse - Shattered In Aspect

I remember that in Table Manners, there once sat the visage of an angel.

Kiethevez - One World For The Next

XCOM 2 has been tremendously fun.

A part of the emergency has been settled. Now, I must look at the other aspect, will it involve spending a large sum of money?

It is almost time! Wheeeeeeeeee!

The weekend has been too short! I need more time!

It is time to pull out my Funker Vogt CDs, it has been a while.

Marnie - Wolves (Official Video)

Marnie - Hearts On Fire (Official Video)

Marnie - The Hunter (Official Video)

Ladytron - Ghosts [Official Music Video]

At least, Saturday was fruitful. Part of the major issue was solved. My heavy heart is gone. Now comes the next challenge. I will find out on Monday.

The weekend is too short! I want to draw more and browse too. In an eyeblink, it is late night!

At least, the weekend is here. Heh.

Four days of trying to resolve an issue and it is still not resolved despite the numerous solutions that I came up with. More issues kept popping up.

If only.

I am frustrated.

Recently, I was near the Greek restaurant that we had meant to go. Sadly, we never did make it there.

I remember when we went to the airshow together, I was very touched. I will be going again on Friday.

I have always felt protective. I feel for her and I want to hug her and protect her from hurt.

In an eyeblink, the long Chinese New Year weekend is over. Another weekend is upon us now.

I had talked of visiting the lighthouse at the other end of Singapore but we never did make it there. Neither did we make the Bird Park nor Il Lido. As I drew, the memories having spoken about them came back.

The weekend is upon us! Whee!

Chinese New Year again. Ugh. All those tiresome visits.

At least, I don't have to do much visiting anymore. I think this would be a great quiet period to get a lot of reading done.

Memories flooded into my mind unbidden as I walked down the streets, the joy and the laughter of those times.

I have some ideas that I would like to render today. I must and will do it.

I need a quiet place with a bit table. I need a few hours.

I also want to be far from the maddening crowd.

Adrift, alone in an ocean of faceless people. The impermanence of the seemingly strong bindings, the ever wandering caravels, sailing to ever distant ports of call...

I haven't eaten dinners on Fridays and Saturdays for a while.

As I strode in the moonlit paths, traversing the dim forests of the shadowlands, I glimpsed the silhouettes of giants, the shifting distant forms. I trudged toward the misty, forlorn island, where it would be, where it was. History, the present and the future had become one. I revisited the places I had been, the heights I had once scaled and of the windswept vistas I had the fortune of once savouring.

It is but a dream.

A wave of sadness has swept over me. Oh well.

More rain! It has been scorching hot for the last few days! 33 degrees!

I do wonder.

On Monday night, I dreamed again. Oh well.

I saw a 1.2m long monitor lizard climbing a tree when I went for a run earlier. I realise a number of people who walked by did not see it, they have eyes but they do not see.

Things will never be the same again.

It was like a dream.

Hmm, I did not read much.

I think I will spend a lot of my weekend reading.

It looks like a trip to Upper Thomson Road tomorrow. Heh. Hopefully, it will not be as hot as yesterday.

Unfinished drawing

I have a half-finished drawing of a few housing blocks in Tampines. It does not look as if I will ever finish this piece now. I think I will transform it into a science fiction piece, an imaginary cityscape.

Goodness, how fast time has passed. It is four!

A walk in the light drizzle from Bishan brings back memories.

I have started using Hotmail some time back. Gmail seems to be encumbered with too many things, it loads slowly, very slowly.

Today, I will probably visit Bishan for a short bit. Some travelling today. First, I need to get office work done.

Yesterday was half day of travel. It was hot, very hot with strong, relentless sunshine.

This is shaping up to be a busy day of work, travel and more.

New directions, a re-ordering of priorities and more.