A.P.P.L.E

Do you still remember the good old days back during childhood time? Tell me, those of you who were born in the 80s or earlier…what was your favorite pass time? I believe that most kids cannot resist the swing sets available in the playground.

I loved the swing so much until Dad went to get one (plastic one, of course) for me and my sister. During free time, we would love to sit there and swing ourselves. You can see satisfaction and happiness on our faces. Other than going to the playground, my favorite past time is cycling. I could cycle around the neighbourhood in the early evening and didn’t want to take my dinner. My late grandma would then sit outside the house and fed me dinner.

That was my childhood. Until I started my secondary school life, that’s when I had fun more in front of the computer. However, I still find those days memorable.

Childhood of kids today is full of video games, computers and many high tech gadgets. Wonder if they know how to ride a bicycle or not.

What a big difference…

Do you have any physical scar on your body? I have a few. I’m not a good racer, I guess that’s because when I was a little kid, I always fell down on the rough road when I played racing with the other kids and wounded my knees. Scars are hence made. Phobia of falling down, I don’t like to run.

There are 2 scars which I can hardly forget. One was the result of being mischievous by playing with pen knife. I cut myself accidentally when I was using a cutter, how careless and silly. We should have bought some safety cutters by then. I cut my left thumb! Take a close look at the photo above, you still can observe the big long scar. That time I was still in Primary 1 and that was how I stopped sucking my thumb! (Yes, I had to suck my left thumb or else I couldn’t fall asleep) That was such a great pain, having several sleepless night with a sore thumb.

Another scar is on my right hand. I was disobedient and Dad used rotten to beat the chair. Unfortunately, I left my hand on the arm of the chair and I was beaten.  The skin “split” straight away and blood came out.  Crying like hell, but I still get scolded for that.  Luckily Mom was there for me.  This is also an incident happened when I was around my Primary school days. That’s why I am really afraid of Dad. I fear things for a reason.

Do you have any experience as such?

A scene at the bus stop. It was approximately 6.30 in the evening. A rather old man, in his ragged cloth, walking towards the bus stop with a plastic bag. He sat down once he approached the bus stop, carefully placed his plastic bag on the ground, like it contained treasures that worth a thousand billion dollars.

It’s just a small papaya, some dried mushrooms and other small stuff inside the plastic bag. He treasured them more than anything else like gold. He could still give a stranger passer by a smile. This plastic bag full of food, might be his only food for his next meals.

People always say don’t judge a book from its cover. Don’t mind what this old man has done in his past, his current condition is so much of a misfortune, comparing to anyone of us here, reading this story.  A man of his age should be relaxing at home, waiting for the return of his children, not walking in the street in ragged clothes. Read more…

Do you still remember the rabbit that lives in the Moon with Chang’e? This rabbit is either referred as the Jade Rabbit (玉兔) or Moon Rabbit. Its job is to pound a new elixir of immortal for Chang’e. There are some stories behind this tale. One story stated that this rabbit is a transformation of the son (not blood related to Wu Gang) of Wu Gang’s wife. After the incident, Wu Gang’s wife felt sorry and ordered her sons to fly up to the Moon to accompany Wu Gang, and one of them transformed into a rabbit.

Another version of this tale related to the story of Chang’e and HouYi. It is said that out of curiosity, Chang’e took the magical pill without HouYi, her husband’s knowledge. However, Chang’e accidentally swallowed the pill…HouYi quickly threw Chang’e’s pet - the Jade Rabbit, towards her, so that it could accompany her, making her less lonely wherever she went. And that is how the Jade Rabbit end up in the Moon pounding a new elixir of immortal for her.

The Japanese also have such a rabbit tale, instead, the Moon Rabbit is pounding mochi - a Japanese cake.

Whatever tales behind, it is amazingly cool that the moon surface looks like a rabbit pounding something… haha..

L [link removed] was having his last snack [link removed], when out of the blue, Jigoku Shoujo appeared in front of him. You might think this is strange, but in Eiichiro Oda’s world such crazy things happen all of the time.

Our genius hero L knew exactly what to do — eliminates Kira who used the Death Note, but our genius hero had no idea of the appearance of Jigoku Shoujo.

Seeking help for this dilemma, our hero headed to his powerful Tabletop, hoping to search for an answer. While doing his research, he found something that caught his attention — each of them was more interesting than the next.

The first was mooncake. The second was doughnut. The third was cakes of all kind of flavors. As we all know L loves sweet stuff.

“Oh…cakesssssss!” he exclaimed.
“I don’t think you can have that in Hell,”Jigoku Shoujo answered.
“Hey..I’ve forgotten my task! Why are you here?”
“Could you spare me some eye shadow, so that I can do a make up like yours?”

L was speechless….

You might think this is strange, but when you got tagged such things happen all the time.

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Baring Broken’s reminder in mind, I tried to reply Nafa’s tag. In order to post a polite reply and also to avoid viral links…the above is a made-up stories based on anime characters, and all links are within my blog. So, the tag ends here.

The following is the instruction of this tag:

1. Copy the unfinished story below into your post box.2. Fill in the blanks to finish the story. For most of the blanks use a blogger’s name, a trait, a post title, and a blog title — get creative.

Finish each sentence in an unexpected way. You can find plenty of links to spark your imagination at the A-Z directory. * link removed*

3. Link the text you added back to the blog or blogger you’re referencing.

4. Be creative. Change the words or storyline as you wish in order to fit in the links you like.

5. When you’re done, leave a link with the title to your version of the story in the comment box below.

Here is the story template:
Title: _______________________________

Here is the story template:

Title: _______________________________

_____ was _____ , when out of the blue _____. You might think this is strange, but in _____ such things happen all of the time.

Our brave and quirky hero knew exactly what to do — _____, but our brave and quirky hero had no _____.

Seeking help for this dilemma, our hero headed down the road to _____.
The road passed three creatures — each of them was more interesting than the next.

The first was _____. The second was _____. The third was _____. Our brave and quirky hero ran the rest of the way, and when he got there, he got another surprise!
“_____!” our hero exclaimed.

“_____,” _____answered.
“I was _____, when out of the blue _____.” our brave and quirky hero said, knees shaking. “Could you spare _____ ?”

And so it passed that _____ gave our brave and quirky hero _____ AND _____ and all was well.

You might think this is strange, but in _____ such things happen all the time.

I think I’m getting creative to link to posts from a blogger (that’s myself). I’m trying to get as close as possible to those ‘rules’..however..no tags. And hope you like my anime craps..

Updated on 18th October 2007