Speaking of imminent destruction two posts back, i managed to read the first two chapters of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy on my way to the office in the bus. It had also talked about imminent destruction, and protagonists heads to the bar to grab six pints of beer. As muscle relaxant. What did come across as funny was that the bartender thought Arsenal, the football team, was being spared the humiliation of having to lose the match since the world was gonna end in ten minutes. Different people, different priorities, indeed.

Digression.

I remember some years ago, when grandma was still alive, about a dinner at one of the gatherings. We were gorging ourselves with food, when grandma brought a pot of stew that had mushrooms out from the kitchen. She went like, "Ah Choon likes mushrooms, take one mushroom." in cantonese. It was technically incorrect, for i was kind of neutral to mushrooms. I took the mushroom anyway.

Anyway, a couple years later, grandma passed away. We had a funeral, curry chicken and the usual, but among the food, was a pot of the same kind of stew that had mushrooms. I remember holding the mushroom with my chopsticks, tears welling in my eyes, the memory of "Ah Choon likes mushrooms..." became searing, etching itself into my deepest recesses. The sentence suddenly became meaningful of itself, despite being technically incorrect, for no one else in the world would say that i like mushrooms, because it is technically incorrect...

Digression.

Just as suddenly that i had a two day deadline, i no longer had any deadlines. There was a change in the specifications and it seems to be delayed until the big boys and girls could get into another meeting. Not that it wasn't good, i couldn't have finish by today.

Then there was another project which was totally ludicrous. Perhaps if every company could take their funds for 'score points' projects, and divert it into a 'buy food for the poor' charity, there would be no more hunger. Um... that's assuming that the world has enough food to feed the world population and such a charity wouldn't cause inflation in the foods market. I didn't research into this, since its not likely to happen anyway.