June 11, 2006

  • SUPER-REUBEN RETURNS ~ June 2006

    You're listening to Pure Dream, composed performed and arranged by Reuben Wong (midi form w/o vocals)
    Scheduled for complete release in arranged form end of June06

    I dreamed a dream about you,
    Holding you close to my side…
    Is it just another dream?
    You gave me wings..
    So that I could fly unto a hope you bring,
    Was it meant to be a Dream? 

    I fought so hard just to realize, that in my heart I go on
    to cry.
    For I know that my dream, that this hope may simply die.

     So let me, Dream this hope I sing
    To smile to the joy you bring
    To walk you until the end
    I’d do anything..
    For you I’ll stand by your side today,
    For each and every other day
    I’ll never leave you nor forget,
    Why I feel this way.

    I dreamed a dream about you
    Though it may never come true
    I’ll still dream this dream of you

    Woohoo, I cant believe the last update I had was like 2 months ago!
    Why so? I'm not too sure myself. While I've been busy with so many things,
    I'm not quite sure what I've totally been busy with!
    And perhaps the first thing I would like to remind, record and tell myself is this...
    That I was supposed to fail my Electromagnetism Paper...
    But I didn't.
    Others call this mercy, chance or luck. I call this, God's Grace

    Just before the examination results were released,
    The one thing going through my mind is... I wonder how much more my CAP would drop.
    Thankfully, or rather miraculously, I believe my CAP went up!
    My dear girlfriend was also hysterical realizing that she passed her SSA2202!
    Well, the stakes were tough for her... but I knew she'd pull through.
    Now she's working while I'm slacking...
    But I think I have the right to slack! It's going to be the last 3 months break I'll ever have!

    Ok after so much time had passed, I actually tried to organize what to blog for today.
    In the end, whatever I reminded myself to do, just vanished from my low RAM brain.
    What I will do though is talk briefly about stuff that's been happening in my life.
    Be it in romance, leisure, politics, music or even gaming...
    The past months had been a really good time.
    Something like BMT. When you're in it, it sucks.. but looking back, everything's good

    Reuba-ka-dabra!

    Yeah! With the advances in Information Technology, the internet is truely all you need.
    In the past, my interest for Magic goes as far as
    glancing at the bottom of the deck, shuffling it,
    and looking for the card ontop of the glanced card to "magically" predict the chosen card.
    Ah, but with the power of the Internet... and a debit card...
    I have mastered almost everything about Card magic and Street Magic.
    YES IT COSTS. And its not cheap...
    But the knowledge of knowing how the hell David Blaine makes the number
    u think of appear on your stomache, or how he makes the card you choose
    appear behind the window... or... everything Blaine and Angle does...
    Makes me a very very happy and satisfied guy.

    And while I've ripped and wasted almost 2 whole decks,
    Used decks of cards till they're dirty and soft...
    I have yet to really gone to the streets to try it out!
    At the end of it, I realize that Magic is truely an Art.
    There is careful planning, psychology, and acting involved.
    And the slower and more mysterious it seems, the better the audience's reaction.
    Magic is truely beautiful.
    And making such tricks, sleights, moves...
    Is truely remarkable.

    The Da-pian-chi Code

    A long time ago, A book by Dan Brown gained popular critism.
    Some called it a revolutionary book that revealed untold truths.
    Well I've already been past that phase..
    And while I've read books, read academic journals and have done my research...
    By now everyone would probably know what really happened at the Nicea Council,
    Or who Pierre Plantard was and his role for hoaxing the Priory of Sion...
    Or what the Opus Dei was really about...
    Or that if Brown's stuff was right, then Leonardo da Vinci would be 400 plus years old.
    Or that the Gnostic Gospels were written 400 years after Jesus's ressurection
    Or that... its just paintings damn it!
    Or simply... that Brown's plot is really not real.

    While most academic scholars know the truth,
    I was disturbed that there actually are people who are taken in by the Movie!
    Thankfully, the Straits Time's article today shed some light to those who bother to read.
    In that sense, the article "Breaking the Da Vinci Code" was a nice turn to the hype.
    It seems that the public loves to hear stuff like this,
    yet they fail to ask more, question more, and ponder about it more.
    Well not to create any wierd debate about this,
     but Page 25 on the Sunday Times 11 June 2006 is a must read for those who doubt.

    Intelligent Design VS Darwinism

    I wonder, do people actually believe that we evolved from Apes?
    Or that Natural Selection actually paved the way for us mankind?
    I used to hear that we came from Apes or monkeys...
    And that we "evolved" from them in a process called Natural Selection.
    Well, while I've already long gone passed this stage of debates and made my stand,
    I find the Darwinism Theory a bit too small for such a big issue.
    Somehow, various loopholes about the evolution theory exist...
    And further investigation only supports the idea of Intellident Design.

    While traditional scientist agree that the evolution theory can explain organisms,
    There are actually many many scientists all over the world who see a different picture!
    Personally I dont have to be a top scientist to ask myself a few questions.
    Perhaps the most convincing thing that supports Intelligent design in my little brain,
    is the fact that once I rolled a dice and someone asked me what's the chance I get a 6?
    I replied saying, "1 in 6 of course. That's randomness and probability!"
    The old man replied, "1 in 6 yes! in absolute nothingness!"
    But he didnt stop there, he continued...
    "But what is the probability that YOU are seated HERE, rolling a dice that's red,
    And talking to my an old man aged 72 years old, wearing this green shirt and so on?"
    I replied, " well I dont know! 1 over infinity? that's undefined?"
    He smiled and walked away.

    It seemed to dawn on me that he has a point.
    The constants in the Physics I do, or in the entire Science we do...
    If the number of just one of these constants were off by 0.0000000000000001,
    Life would not exist.
    Or in another perspective, the intrisit details of our human body is soooo detailed,
    it makes sense to think there is an intelligent designer governing this!
    while this may seem like a lame way to explain something we all dont understand,
    There are many other factors involved too!
    Strobel Lee wrote the book "The case for a Creator"
    And that's where I could roughly tell why Einstein became a Christian before his death.

    Gaming and Driving a Car

    I totally support Gaming. Though I probably will not let my children play them too much.
    There had always been a growing debate about Gaming.
    The traditional Parent thinks its a waste of time, not productive and all...
    While the modern youth would realize the plus points of gaming.
    While I cannot probably tell what gaming had done for those killings in the US,
    I can certainly verify that the exposure to gaming can influence and affect our lives.

    I play all sorts of games, and with the right teachings from my parents,
    I have the capacity to decipher what's morally upright and wrong.
    From an era of Mario, Sonic and Mickey mouse,
    I probably had the correct level of exposure to gaming, to lead a normal life.
    Yet on another side of the world, there's prob a kid who's not eating/sleeping/bathing,
    because of an MMORPG he or she is playing.
    As for me, gaming built a sensitive side in me, Thanks to Final Fatasy VI.
    And later games made me acknowledge the huge stroryline, music and directing involved.
    It made me appreciate RPG games as an art.
    That was perhaps why Final Fantasy appealed to me more than Street fighter II.
    Well for one.. it was the first game to make me cry.

    Games like that can get people emotionally attached.
    I dont deny that I used to hope that my future wife would be Rinoa Heartily,
    Or that I could wield a Keyblade and cast Magic.
    These fantasy worlds allow my mind to escape away to a holiday.
    In that respect, I think Games like that are similar to Books.
    The only difference is, in the game, you can SEE, HEAR and EXPERIENCE.

    The Young of Today in Singapore

    It is worrying.. when in the past, my childhood was playing police and theif, and Chapteh..
    and when in the present, children are just on their computers the whole day.
    I did that too though but perhaps at a much later age...
    when the revealation of the internet was at its prime.
    Yet it is actually saddening to think that, as a country progresses...
    The youths of tomorrow have a pressing and pressuring aim to meet...
    To meet the standards of present day parents, and the standards the society sets.

    I remembered doing a general Paper about this issue about childhood and all.
    And it seems to spell danger to many kids these days.
    My childhood was supa vibrant. It's almost like a supersmash boxoffice movie.
    but with a never seen before cast.
    My parents sent me to many schools to learn too many things.
    On the other hand they'd bring me places to see and shopping centres in Singapore too.
    There had been so many pictures of me, small and tiny, smiling from ear to ear.
    I can be sure then, that my childhood was totally awesome.
    I can only hope that, the youths of tomorrow could have the same experience.


    Love is all around me.

    I'm in Love. Always had been, and still going on strong.
    It seems like a flash when i realized the things my girlfriend had done for me.
    I think she's the only girl that had seen all my bad habits and flaws.
    Technically and logically, she should think of me as a F grade or something.
    Thankfully she's nothing like the others.
    It is indeed rare to find someone you can talk to freely, and feel so comfortable with.
    While I had the experience with other girls previously,
    I think I have the right to say that my dear's awesome.

    Now that she's working, meeting her aint as easy as it was.
    And because she's working now, I begin to see why working couples have a tough time.
    Seeing her work so hard, and slog the whole day, made me appreciate my holidays more.
    Sadly, my mum thinks otherwise and just wants me to gain work experience.
    On the other hand, I've got loads of things to finish but she thinks its all rubbish.
    It's rather sad though, that my mum cant support me in doing the things I like.
    Or rather, she only lends her support when I'm doing the things she likes.
    And it doesnt help when she just cant understand why I find it so
    important to finish my piano piece before being interupted by her
    rumbling about drinking 8 cups of water.

    Yet, she's been a great mum to me.
    My dad's done an awesome job too.*we share my mum's raging fire, so that's half for me*
    But seriously, I realized that I wouldnt be the way I am now, if not for them.
    While sometimes I am stubborn to her unsupported claims on herbal stuff and stuff,
    I know that deep down, she's scolding me like shit cause she loves me that much.
    There's so much Love in the world, yet people dont seem to notice it much.
    There is a human tendency influenced by the media and society that seem to mask these thigns from our very blind eyes.
    I think its about time, we appreciate the people around us and just say a few words.
    For me, I'm going to tell my mum "Thank you" tomorrow.
    Cant tell her in the face cause... paiseh. wahahaha