ears.

i remember how li-vern's mother had advised her family (which was basically alex, li-vern's stepdad, and li-vern) to go for some sort of aqua-cleansing process (i can't remember what it's called anymore). part 1 involved sucking up all the wax and dirt from your eat; part 2 was a bit trickier...a tube would be stuck up your anus and water would fill it up, and then be subsequently sucked out. now, any normal person would probably have questioned the logic behind it. but i quite liked the idea of the first part of the wellness programme.

i have this obsession with keeping my ears clean. i think it started when i was a boy in new york...one day, i stuck a pencil tip up my ear and then something small, yet brown, came out. it was as if i'd found buried treasure. years later, my father even encouraged me more by purchasing gargantuam amounts of cotton buds whenever i'd visit him overseas. and i'd use them. we all know that it's not safe to place cotton buds into the aural cavity. but i do it, and i scrub that bud around, oblivious to the risk. i'm still alive today, and not hard of hearing (not yet, anyway) so i suppose that it's not that bad.

these days, i've found more things to do to occupy my time. cotton buds don't excite me as much as when i was 10. but every now and then, i pop one in, for old time's sake. call it a bad habit, if you will, but everyone has to indulge themselves once in a while. it's just comforting.

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why do they call a lazy susan...a lazy susan? nobody really knows. a lazy susan is better known as a dumbwaiter in england. why's it called a dumbwaiter? your guess is as good as mine.

anyway, the API (air pollution index) seems to be stable. here's TMS' partial artistic impression of giant fans erected around kl:

it seems so surreal, yet grounded in reality.

and here's the first (outdated) intro for the infiltrator3. i'll be posting up the first infiltrator movie (think of it as an amateur 5 minute spy movie with very stylish filming techniques) once i grab it off TMS.

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fat spies die easily. avenge me!

which bond would win an arm wrestling match against ethan hunt?