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July 3rd, 2009

Grave matters…

Posted by WillQ in Rambles

I know, I know… I’ll get letters.
WillQ.

July 1st, 2009

Gods Behaving Badly

Posted by WillQ in Books

Gods Behaving Badly
Marie Philips
Jun 09
As a huge fan of Neil Gaiman’s “American Gods”, this book immediately appealed to me - the ancient Greek Gods haven’t left - they’ve just downsized, becoming weaker, and more mundane, and live among us in a flat in London. Aphrodite has a phone sex hotline, Dionysus runs a club, and Artemis is a professional dog walker. When they get a house keeper, who Apollo has the hots for (by coincidence of course), things all go a bit downhill, leading to drama, the end of the world, and a (not so startling) revelation about the power of belief.
It’s all quite cleverly done, and while it certainly isn’t as dark as the Gaiman tales, it makes up for it with some very vivid characters and some awesome dialog. It’s a great summer book for beside the pool, and you don’t have to be a big fan of the ancient Gods to get into it (although it does help the irony).

July 1st, 2009

Web Site Story

Posted by WillQ in Geek

Wow.

See only me…
WillQ.

June 28th, 2009

Soon…

Posted by WillQ in Geek

All my Vampire fantasies will come true…

Because we’ll ALL be Vampires.

Fangtastic,
WillQ.

P.S. my bother would prefer this no doubt.

June 25th, 2009

OMFG…

Posted by WillQ in Tech

I want one. So bad…

Dear Santa…
WillQ.

June 20th, 2009

3.0’s company…

Posted by WillQ in Tech

The new 3.0 software for iPhonesThe perfect device just got more perfect.

As an iPhone user, I’ve been loving what the little thing does for my life. It’s sleek, it’s a great communication tool, it kicks the crap out of a BlackBerry (if you ask me), and it’s an endless source of fun and distraction thanks to the hundreds of games and apps and what not. But it’s gotten it’s fair share of criticism, primarily over a few silly little features that got left out, like searching, copying and pasting, and MMS.

Well, guess what? Now it has all those too.

The latest update (which hardly took any time at all to install) has just revitalised the iPhone with all the tools and tricks it used to get bashed for not having. And what was even better was that despite the fairly radical changes, it was all done subtly enough that it’s still perfectly familiar. Those people at Apple are so clever.

iPhone… iLike.
WillQ.

June 12th, 2009

No sleep tonight…

Posted by WillQ in Banal

Research about sleep shows lots of things.

Some of the literature says that sleeping less than 8 hours will make you less productive, more irritable, and lead to a short, horrible, ticked off life.

Some other research seems to think that getting less than 8 makes you live longer.

Never one to follow the guidelines of common sense, I tip-toe on the precipice of severe sleep deprivation by getting, on average, about 4 or so hours of sleep. It’s not great, but I get by. And besides, my inbuilt body clock seems determined to wake me up every morning at about 6am. But last night was just ludicrous.

After a pleasant dinner out, I was peer-pressured into going for some drinks down the road, but finally called it quits at midnight (keep in mind that I wake up at 4.30am), to choruses of female (and some male) protestation.

I thought I’d get to bed, but I was text messaged with continuous updates about the groups whereabouts. And when I was informed of the drunken lot meandering en-masse to Zouk, I decided to do the chivalrous thing and go to the rescue, which I did.

2 hours later, and smelling faintly of smoke, I was home.

And I got an hour of sleep. The things we do to be good people, eh?

Yawn…
WillQ.

June 2nd, 2009

All the world is a stage…

Posted by WillQ in Rambles

I always thought that when you turn the page on a writing block, you open it to a clean, fresh expanse of white, uninspired and uninfluenced by ink or lead or life. That when you reach the middle of nowhere, and turn to face another journey, you begin again on a brand new path, untamed and unknown. That when the run of the play had finished, and the stage was swept clean, and the posters torn down, and the frayed costumes stowed away into big bin liners, black as shadows in the night and as easily forgotten, the new ideas and directions and players would come streaming in from the too bright sunshine, excited and busy and full of vitality in a way that only those untouched by time and disappointment can be, to blow away the dust and start something completely new.

But I’m starting to realise that this isn’t the case.

The new page may be plain, but it’s still thin enough to catch a glimpse of the text beneath it, the slight hint of a phrase, a word backwards and mirrored but recognised, spiderweb shadows lurking beneath the surface of that clean new slate, waiting to pull at nibs and tug at the unwanted thoughts you meant to leave buried, and your unhurried and supposedly random writings seem to inexorably follow the slant and curve of the lines made before them, and those before them, and those before them, forever and ever, back to the beginning.

The brand new path is never new, and before long, what looked like uncharted underbrush gives way to a worn track, your feet falling comfortably into the impressions left by dozens of such steps made before, each in a vain attempt to move away from the very point you left, but always, always, curving back to where you, and all, began.

And sometimes, even though the stage is gone, the players different, the script only a distant echo of applause and a half forgotten memory of a curtain rising and falling to billows of dust and hard shafts of light, you find that the new play has the same words, the same scenes, the same themes, the same feelings of love, and betrayal and confusion, even if the costumes and characters are different.

And so you stop, for that briefest of moments, as your pen traces flowing darkness across the pale page, as you climb uphill (and ever so very slightly to the left) through paths thought unknown, as you tread the boards and a phrase that’s so hauntingly familiar it hurts as it bursts from your tongue like a lash of fire and elicits the same scripted response that is both expected and yet so surprising it cuts to the bone, and realise that sometimes, we are doomed to move our feet inexorably through the same steps in this long dance that is life, sometimes the lead, and sometimes the chorus line, but always in time to the beating of hearts that confuse the aches and joys of love with the fear and desperation of loneliness, and hope’s shafts of light with fear’s big black bin liner.

Take me home.
I’m tired of dancing.

Two, Three, Kick, Turn,
WillQ.

May 9th, 2009

Midomi

Posted by WillQ in iPhone

With iPhone in hand, I’ve opened up a whole world of fun and excitement thanks to the amazing aps you can get on iTunes (although we in Malaysia can’t actually get any tunes off iTunes, which is odd…). True, much like dodgy club late on a Saturday night, there’s a lot of rubbish out there, but luckily there are some true gems, such as this one - Midomi.

I’m assuming that people out there are like me, and have a terrible memory for music. Everyone has been in the situation of hearing a song on the radio, at a mall, or a club, or even in the car, and not catching the title. It’s annoying. It’s frustrating. It makes you think you’re getting… ummm, what’s that thing called… oh yeah, Alzheimer’s. And it even happens to people who work in the radio business, surrounded by music (believe me). So, this ap is great, because it will listen to 10 seconds of any song, and TELL YOU WHAT THE TITLE IS!.

You can even hum it a song, or speak a few of the lyrics. And when it figures out what the song is, it will give you a link to listen to it, and another to buy it. Funky eh?

Sing it, baby. Sing it.
WillQ.

April 16th, 2009

Thank goodness my condo has no lawn…

Posted by WillQ in Banal

Say no to bush?
WillQ.

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