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Just wanted to write about the fine for non-displaying of parking coupon on a Sunday wee-hour morning, which the following Monday is a make-up public holiday.

Not sure if many people had been affected by this, but considering the fact that the following day is a public holiday, I thought that a motorist should not be penalised for not displaying coupon.  As a matter of fact, it's quite ridiculous for having such a "7am - 10pm" free parking rule.  Logically speaking, the actual day of free parking starts at 0000hrs on Sundays and ends 2359hrs; so any penalty should come in only after 2359hrs.

I guess I have to write this to bring to their attention before more people are penalised.

Another week coming to an end and most things have been done pretty well.

Things look pretty ok on the mainstream now, just that the book digging I have to go through over the weekend.

Waiting for dearie now in the open, while hoping the perspiration-flavoured top I have will be dry in due course as I wasn't amply-prepared to bring something fresh from my vehicle after the morning run.  Hence, I had to rely on this top to keep me properly covered since I'm not doing any runs int he park this evening.

Weather seem good enough for another round, but I guess I'll keep the evening to spend with dearie.  She certainly sounded like she had a busy day; all of us deserve a good dinner tonight.

I have another 0.5 day to go tomorrow but that's not too bad a thing for me.  Dearie can have a good rest so after that, we can have the afternoon together.

Woke up at 5am and commenced my routine workout.  As I had finished early and fresh, hence, I’ve decided to make my way here so that I can have some personal time before work takes those time away from me.

I had just learnt about the death of Ricky Hui one of the Hong Kong comedians of the 1980s - 1990s along with his two brothers, namely, the Hui Brothers.  Death is really inevitable, but at least he had lived till a pretty decent age.

That triggered my mind to read about some notable deaths.  Many of these have lived up to a pretty old age, but again, there are some people whom I’ve not heard / read about that had passed on as early as 32 years old.

Sometimes, I had wondered why the very talented people had passed on so young, and some of the cases were due to SUDS, which I learnt from a documentary show “Unnatural” hosted by Darren Lim.  Could it be their exceptional talent that they have reached their maximum “exposure” that it’s time to be called home, or like my mum says, that they’re too good till the gods are jealous? 

I’m not sure if I had written something on this before, but this had been something on my mind for awhile, and since I might have left off on this topic sometime back, I thought, it would be a good idea to go deeper into my thoughts on this subject.

I saw an old friend, Pheng Leong, whom I had not met for many years, with his Facebook profile showing a well-composed shot that was definitely done through dSLR.  There was a contact number shown and I had taken it down, and suddenly, it flashed to a scene where I’m driving through Punggol, a road that had not been fully developed into a public lot.  Dearie and I were trying to find out way out of this vegetation which seemed a little thicker than expected.  While finding our way, it seemed we have reached a place which looked unfamiliar, and I decided to debus and scout the area by foot, with dearie following me.

There was a cave-like landmark which was beside a shady vegetation where some clearance could be seen.  I spotted some foreign labourers there, which one of them tried being funny and approached dearie.  In defence, I had swung my torchlight and hit him on the head while we made our escape; more of these people could be seen in that shady vegetation and it caught their attention as we made our escape.

It was one pretty dangerous situation that, thankfully to God, had never occured in reality.

That was when I had awoken.  4:54am read the clock.  Thank God it was only a dream.

Another long weekend and it's coming to the last day of this short holiday.

It's almost time to turn in after doing some work.  Might be going exploring later since I've acquired a higher capacity memory card just during the evening.

Dearie is sound asleep, but since after watching Paranormal Activity 3 yesterday, she had been pretty fearful of those "demonic presence" as featured in that show.  Had managed to catch the prequel of this series, Part 2 on video just now and it was also, the same kind of fear.

Oh well, the presence of demons sure appeared so real in those shows.  They are around, just that many of us do not have the same encounter as them.  Or should I say, there are many, but unspoken.  Not just being a superstition or "western folklore", but whatever's potrayed in the movie does have some facts somehow.

Ok, time to rest for now.  Continue again tomorrow on this topic since I've started it.

Here comes another month.

I've just done some reshuffling in my room, hoping that I can make something comfortable out of the makeshift workstation while linking back to my good old 23 incher LCD through my Macbook.

Still not the best but further improvements can still be done.

I'll be moving out to mainstream soon.  Had been a little troubled about the delays on MUP payment which a substantial sum had not been received.  Hope there will be some news today and it'll be settled soonest.