its a pleasant feeling when you get a surprise email from someone you havent talked to for so long. I just received an email from my jackass friend Lokesh, who's in India right now. He left for India shortly after our A's ended and neither did I get to sent him off, nor see him at Grad Nite.

so it was a real nice surprise to hear from him. seems he'll be back in singapore soon to study in the university there, so that means i'll prob get to see him in the future.

anyway, i was jus thinkin how certain lines in news articles and news reports can totally distort someone's view or opinion about such things.

for example, few days earlier, i posted this editorial piece from soccernet about the spanish league, in which at the end, the author mentioned this specific case where he was somewhere n he overheard a group of nuns talking about a soccer player's impact on the team performance n all. he ended the article sayin the league is so much on fire, even the nuns talk about football.

now, ordinary ppl would start to think that spanish nuns are also into spanish football, but wait, think about it. there r so many nuns, and that particular group of nuns could hav been like less than a percent of the nuns there r in spain. wit this article, it sends an unintentional message that all spanish nuns follow and talk about spanish soccer.

talk about how to phrase things.

it is only one of such examples. this happens especially in the media, where they convey the wrong message, but it doesnt seem to bother them much.

like i was watchin the second season of fox's 24 last night, a situation where the president was at a loss, when a terrorist was threatening to release a biological weapon in a major city. when he was facing this massive group of press, all he said was that, 'you are the media, you need to convey to the people that right now, we cannot panic, we need to remain calm and vigilant. do not send the wrong message and worry the citizens' or somethin like tt. n its v true. sometimes the press n media is so engrossed in their own Q&A scenario, they dont seem to think tt what they're broadcastin or writing can convey a wrong message, if not, somethin tt isnt completely true.

u remember the case where this girl was being attacked by a dog... n this man saved the girl. everyone was interviewin how the man rescued the girl til one reporter found out that he was a muslim and immediately changed the title of the article from 'man saves girl from dog' to 'muslim man attacks dog.'

yea its a dirty world out here. as i was talkin to a denise about jobs, i phrased my words in a way i meant it. lets get raped by the corporate world before we think about backing ourselves into a world of seclusion from it all.

okay, there's a wind advisory. dont tell me there's another tornado. wind's so freakin strong, the trees are swayin n sometimes this eerie thumping noise hits on the whole house, like there's a tiny whiny vibration. chicago, the windy city. n again, im convinced more than ever of its nickname.