thisguy

everybody look what's going down...

• najib's been named in the altantuya trial

• hamas matyrs "mickey mouse"

• glasgow airport is attacked

• two carbombs found in london

all this while brown's administration is barely a few days old, princess diana's memorial, gay pride and wimbledon going on - and it's also a few days before the anniversary of the 070705 bombings.

it's a mad world.

i've given up figuring things out. instead, for the most selfish of reasons, i hope these events don't escalate - and cause delays to my flights back this thursday...

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my journal entry on during the bombings two years ago :

it's 11.12 am, thursday morning 7 July. explosions in central london reported on the news everywhere, around 10am. Sky news being the first with updates.

affected places so far are Russell Square (Tavistock square!) where a bus was blown up.

many more (as yet, no confirmation whether related or not) explosions heard in the underground tube network. the underground is now closed while rescuers salvage for survivors.

general confusion, but no panic. cabinet ministers have issued statement but do not report fatalities yet. eye witness reports say many bloody and injured. nothing conclusive about fatalities.

info above was obtained from television news reports. i wandered outside of houghton street and walked to a shop with televisions on the display windows. many people were crowded around it, trying to sift for information.

everything is well organised, police and medical services already working like clockwork. sirens all around and choppers in the sky.

stay tuned for more updates.

not going to make inferences, but today IS the G8 summit.

nothing further to add, so far me and my sister are ok and have texted my parents. mobile lines are now shut.

wow. has it really been 2 weeks since i've been back to homesoil?
it's flown by yet recalling the span of it is quite a challenge - i seem to have squeezed alot into it.

first off - and most recently - the paranoia.

my house was burgled on thursday night while i was out on the usual tomfoolery with colleagues in our usual drinking hole. possibly (but not quite) the worst experience of the year. they took quite a bit. my mom's 30 year old engagement ring, my shisha pipe, my 4 day old canon g7 (refer to the picture, a few posts back) and cash as well as my dad's digital and video camera. a whole load of other stuff too - some of which didn't make sense at all - why take a 3-pin adapter?? no one was hurt though and i'm thankful for that - but i keep dreading that they'll come back- for my guitars or any of the other shit my family's worked hard to earn just so they can steal in the most cowardly of manners.

since then, we've been quite traumatised. i've been particularly paranoid. but with good reason - about 30 mins ago (2.30am) a neighbour rang and told us that the water pipe in our garden had burst - we checked and someone had left it switched on at full blast.

my mom didn't water the plants today, no one - no one in my house touched it.

o_o

i've got a 1.5 meter steel rod next to my bed now. if any of those mother f*ckers want a piece of it, they're welcome to it.

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too pissed off and tired of my own paranoia to write about the phuket trip, drunken misadventures and how sweet it is to be back home.

some other time then.