happy people
(a short story)


"I'm way off.", sounded Max.
"It ain't you. It has got be the wind. I guess it's time Max. See you tomorrow!"

A thin boy licks his finger, and with eyes closed, raises it to feel the wind.

You have to close your eyes. It's the most essential part of it. You need to render yourself blind to see more.

Then run...running like the road he ran on was chasing him to where there'll be no ground at all. It was as if the wind from Everywhere blew the darkest of clouds to the city just so they can make him the happiest boy in all of Everywhere.

He's still a happy boy...after 24 years of embracing the wind and catching heaven's tears with his skinny little face. It's his formula for happiness in the city of weeping.

The weeping.

It has stretched beyond man's definition of horizon...in all of Everywhere.
Man knew why it happened. They, however, weren't sure how to put an end to it. Sounds weird if i may say. Man would always know how to do things. Fix things which are screwed and screw things which are fixed. For this same reason, he was, and still is, very glad to not be a man.

The rain these days doesn't make him that happy. Maybe because they taste funny. It wasn't like this a year ago. Neither was it like this a couple of years ago. But he does wonder if it tastes the same beyond man's so called horizon. He hasn't really gone to most of Everywhere. I havn't been either.

"You're begging me to tell you what's missing...everywhere in your mind it's creepin' in! in! in! in!"

Max reaches out for an old phone. "Yup! Max here."

"Hello Max." The voice elated Max even better than the rain did 10 years ago. It was time.

"I guess tomorrow came so soon."

"Not so soon Max. It's just about the right time. It's the perfect time. Everything will be beautiful, you'll see."

(to be continued)

464 days later...

...my blogspot account is still up!


...i still make no sense


...i'm having a mid-life crisis


...rafa is inching in on The FedExpress


...i'm bored at work

liNux on my iPod Nano! (^_^)

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...it is quite impossible to permanently render your iPod unusable in the process, BUT you must backup your Apple iPod firmware. backing-up will be a no-brainer as you are provided with an option to do so along the installation process..if you fail to backup for some reason unknown to man, download updater here

...if in the process, you loose all your data (lalalas/pix/vids), reboot your iPod to Apple then reload your data from there using iTunes...i did try loading them within iPodLinux but to no avail

...if the installation constantly fails..do try again..you will first feel pain with the loss of your data..but you will eventually be numb..NO PAIN, NO GAIN!

...last but not the least, ENJOY! just try to feel it..linux on your iPod..ahhhhh, it's bliss man(jamaican)..the momentary (lasting for about 10 secs) joy is unimaginable..incomprehensible..after which you would want it uninstalled coz you can't play games while listening to good music..seriously, it's cool! kudos to the developers! Merci! Gracias! Salamat!