Random

It's sad to hurt the ones you love, especially if it's not on purpose.

On another note, I just found out. Scarborough Fair is NOT a love song or anything like that. It's more like a twisted love song? Haha..or rather, more like a jilted lover who finally has the chance of making his/her former true love regret that move.

I'm very random now yeah?

Scarborough Fair

BOTH

Are you going to Scarborough Fair?
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme,
Remember me to one who lives there,
For she once was a true love of mine.

MAN

Tell her to make me a cambric shirt,
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme,
Without any seam nor needlework,
And then she'll be a true love of mine.

Tell her to wash it in yonder dry well,
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme,
Which never sprung water nor rain ever fell,
And then she'll be a true love of mine.

Tell her to dry it on yonder thorn,
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme,
Which never bore blossom since Adam was born,
And then she'll be a true love of mine.

Ask her to do me this courtesy,
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme,
And ask for a like favour from me,
And then she'll be a true love of mine.

BOTH

Have you been to Scarborough Fair?
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme,
Remember me from one who lives there,
For he once was a true love of mine.

WOMAN

Ask him to find me an acre of land,
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme,
Between the salt water and the sea-sand,
For then he'll be a true love of mine.

Ask him to plough it with a lamb's horn,
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme,
And sow it all over with one peppercorn,
For then he'll be a true love of mine.

Ask him to reap it with a sickle of leather,
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme,
And gather it up with a rope made of heather,
For then he'll be a true love of mine.

When he has done and finished his work,
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme,
Ask him to come for his cambric shirt,
For then he'll be a true love of mine.

BOTH

If you say that you can't, then I shall reply,
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme,
Oh, Let me know that at least you will try,
Or you'll never be a true love of mine.

Love imposes impossible tasks,
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme,
But none more than any heart would ask,
I must know you're a true love of mine.


Finally, Random is the daughter of Arthur Dent. Random Frequent Flyer Dent, to be exact. And there's totally no link between this post and characters from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Engineer Bob

Going through the third book of the Dark Tower series. It's called The Waste Lands, and is inspired by the T.S. Elliot poem, The Waste Land.

I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

In the book, the boy Jake goes insane [hey, not his fault..it's due to a timeline split paradox] and writes a wonderful poem that is symbolic and et cetera et cetera.

Blaine is a pain
and that is the truth.
Choo-choo, choo-choo
Choo-choo, choo-choo, choo-choo
And that is the truth.

And surprisingly, he got an A for that.
Anyway, in Jake's when and where, he gets hold of a children's book about Charlie the Choo-choo. A supposedly alive train that talks with its driver who's called Engineer Bob.

Ok, at least Engineer Bob was there as long as Charlie was in commision. Only stopped when the company "retired" the old locomotive.

The engineer in charge yesterday was no Engineer Bob. 3 times the train from Bandar Tasik Selatan was cancelled. And why?

Let me tell you why I wasted 45 minutes waiting for a train in the midst of a haze brought on by kind neighbours.

The engineer in charge was overseas.

Most probably on holiday.

Self-declared holiday?

Not sure.

And that is the truth.

Return me the 45 minutes of my life wasted. Or recompense me.

Compensation for a portion of life doesn't come cheap.

Currently?

Just finished rereading book 2 of Stephen King's Dark Tower series. It's titled The Drawing of the Three. Excellent. [Not to be confused with the series The 3 who slashed, or the parody, The 3 who were slashed. Mangoku!]
Some books just get better when you reread them. Maybe it sheds light on things that you didn't notice before. Or offers a new perspective.
And this series definitely counts as one of those books.
What do you expect from the Magnum Opus of Stephen King, writer extraordinairre?
Another is the Bible.
What do you expect from the Magnum Opus of God, creator extraordinairre?
Hehe..
All the best to all who are having lab tests and CAs in NUS.
All the best to those having exams in Kelantan.
Hope you all can finish mugging in time.
Don't sleep too late nocturnal..hehe..

Gambatte!