Friday, December 17, 2010
Michael Jackson, Dota, and what guys do in Midvalley
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Reboot a.k.a back from the dead?
In leaves no step had trodden black,
Saturday, January 9, 2010
i'm so lazy to update
She knew that the boy was sincere and would keep his word regardless of anything.
“Okay, I believe in miracles, but can I at least know a name I can call you by?”
The boy looked at his wristwatch quickly. Hayley hadn’t noticed a watch on his hand before. He had probably conjured it only just. “Woah! Look at the time! I’ve really got to go my dear, I’ll see you tomorrow? Yes, I’m coming tomorrow as well.”
Hayley wasn’t buying his act, he knew she was trying not to answer her. “Where are you going?”
“Uhhh...—National Miracle Makers’ Association meeting...”He said lamely.
“There’s an association of miracle makers?” She said, interrogating him.
“Yeah...I think...” Hayley raised an eyebrow. “I hope...?” Said the boy. Hayley didn’t even blink. “I wish...?” He said, “I’ll make one on my way then.”
He snapped his hands together and said, “Anyway, you can walk back to the hospital on you own right? Or do you want me to call a cab?”
“Uhh... I’m sure I can make my way back to the hospital.” Of course, she also had to deal with her 9kg battery and her weak heart.
“Don’t worry about your heart and that battery of yours. Good bye then!” Without another word, he melted into the darkness of dusk. It was already 7:35 p.m. She had been out of her room for a long time. The nurses were probably worried sick. But that’s what happens when you follow a stranger who claims he can give you a heart. Thought Hayley.
She made her way to the hospital as fast as she could. She had obviously missed some medication and check ups she was supposed to have but she felt fine.
At the hospital, no one seemed to notice that she had been gone from her room all. The staff were as they were, nodding and some smiling at Hayley when they saw her. She went up to a middle-aged nurse. “Siti, did anything happen while I was gone?”
“Happen? Nothing’s happened, and what do you mean while you were gone?”
“Nothing,” Hayley said quickly. “Didn’t know what I was saying.”
The nurse gave her a small smile. “You’re probably just tired dear. Go get some rest.”
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
If anyone read the posts before...this is a continuation.
Hayley giggled. A miracle maker that looked 14 and said that he was 565 and claimed that was a young age was rather comical. “You’re really 565?”
“Give or take three years, ten months and nineteen point nine three seconds.”
“So have you travelled a lot during all those years?”
The boy raised two palms signalling for her to stop. “What’s with all the questions? None of the people I’ve performed miracles for have ever been this chatty.”
“You don’t have to answer them. If you don’t want to, I mean.”
“No, I don’t mind answering them. I’m just curious about why you’re asking so many questions.”
“You mean no one’s ever asked you these questions before?”
“Duh, it’s not as if I talk to everyone I see. I hardly communicate with other people, mostly because I don’t want the word of me being a miracle maker spreading around. Or maybe it’s because I’m not that sociable...” He paused to scratch his head. “In fact you’re probably the only person I’ve spoken to this past five years. I do most of my work secretly.”
“Why don’t you want people to know you’re a miracle maker?” Hayley asked.
“Think about it, if word got out that I’m some sort of weirdo with the ability to perform miracles, they’d probably try to hunt me down don’t you think? It could be for selfish reasons or maybe selfless reasons but I’d still be hunted. And I don’t like being hunted, most of them are greedy, selfish people anyway.”
Hayley decided not to ask him more questions. He put his hands around the back of his head and reclined on the bench. He seemed almost asleep.
The boy sighed. “I have actually.”
“Have what?”
“Travelled a lot all those years. Practically the whole world.”
“Wow, that’s something. I’ve only travelled around Malaysia.”
“Probably better anyway. Not all the places I visited were pleasant.”
Hayley decided to sit down after all. “I wouldn’t mind as long as I get to see some nice places.”
The boy looked at her. “Would you really? You think you could handle all those war-torn ravaged lands? Those dark islands which are deserted except for a few deserted people resorting to cannibalism? All those deserts with people struggling to survive the day?” He shook his head. “No, not even if you had your heart. No normal person could take all those and live. Miracle makers can never be hurt physically, and it’s a good thing too.”
Hayley stayed silent. It was obvious that the boy had been through many places which had clearly terrified him. “Okay... Let’s focus on the cheerful places.”
The boy laughed. “I’ve been to some nice places. The countries in Europe are nice, most of them anyway. I’ve been to Australia a couple of years back, had to help a family with heat stroke.”
“Do you ever travel around just for fun?” Asked Hayley.
“I do travel for fun. But I also do work while on my travels. If I don’t travel for fun, I wouldn’t be travelling at all! Get what I mean? I don’t travel because I have to it’s because I want to.”
Hayley sighed. “Some day, if I get my heart, I’ll travel around and visit some nice places.”
“Hold on, did I hear an ‘if’ in that sentence? I’m going to give you your heart indefinitely. My miracles don’t have ‘ifs’ in them, they work without fail.” Said the boy. As if to prove his point, he made a small wave of his hand towards the ground where Hayley’s feet were. Immediately, small seedlings began sprouting from the ground. Those seedlings grew taller and flowers began blooming from the buds.
Finally, they stopped growing, and the final result was beautiful to behold. It was a garden of different flowers, all living and healthy and in full bloom. There were sunflowers, hibiscus’, roses, carnations, orchids and so many more including some Hayley had never seen before.
“Assume this as a promise.” Said the boy softly, gesturing at the flowers.
Hayley had never seen any flowers that were quite as beautiful or colourful before. She touched the petal of a flower she couldn’t really identify. It was red, a very bright, fiery red which seemed to give out a warmth that made it feel as if it were really on fire.
Monday, December 21, 2009
The air at the park was refreshing. Hayley had spent a long time in the hospital where the air had distinct scent of medicine. It was great to smell the air around the park for a change.
The boy wasn’t enjoying it as much, after all he was the one lugging her 9kg battery that was needed to power her mechanical heart. “Now I know why you’re so thin.” The boy said as he struggled to carry the battery properly. “It’s from carrying this heavy, metal thingamajiggy!”
“No, I’m thin because of the frequent infections I’ve been having. I have to be fed fluids instead of real food. I really miss my mom’s cooking... And what’s a thingamajiggy?”
“It’s a...thingy. So you miss real food?”
“Of course.”
“So what sort of food do you miss?”
“Hmmm...I miss all sorts of food. Any sort of food.”
“Does that include maggot cheese, duck liver or bull’s penis? They are food.”
“Okay, nothing that freaky. Just plain old Malaysian food. I miss KFC especially!”
The boy raised an eyebrow. “You have a mechanical heart, and the food you miss the most is KFC? Well...that’s--awkward. I mean it is high in cholesterol and everything.”
“Just because I have a mechanical heart doesn’t mean I have to think of veggie everyday.” Hayley said.
The boy signalled Hayley to stop. He was tired already, but Hayley felt great. She didn’t notice that they had walked around the park twice.
The boy placed the battery steadily and sank into a bench. The bench hadn’t been there two seconds before.
“So, do you miss any food?” Hayley asked.
“Okay, why are we talking about food?”
Hayley shrugged. “Maybe because I miss eating?”
“You’ll get to eat plenty after you get your heart.”
Hayley didn’t feel like sitting down so she circled the bench the boy was sitting on. She felt too energetic.
“I do miss certain foods actually.” Said the boy.
“Oh really? What sort of food? Maggot cheese?”
The boy shook his head. “Malaysia has some fine food. Maybe I’ll stick around here for awhile. I forgot how nasi lemak tastes like. I spent the last three years eating raw fish at an Eskimo village somewhere near Siberia. You wouldn’t believe what cold raw fish tastes like after you have it for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Dim sum would make a great difference.”
“So how old are you exactly? You talk as if you’re ancient.”
The boy frowned in thought. He counted his fingers. “I’m quite young. I’m around 565 years old.”
Saturday, December 19, 2009
SO LONG WEEE
“What do you mean you’re going to give me a heart?” Hayley asked the strange boy.
“I mean I’m going to give you a real heart, not that mechanical thingamajiggy that you have inside you now.” Said the miracle maker.
“How’re you going to do that?” She asked.
“I don’t know. Not yet anyway.”
“So you don’t know how you’re going to perform this miracle?”
The boy felt a little irritated. Hayley was correct, he still did not know how to give her a heart. He couldn’t just make it appear out of thin air; even he had limitations to his abilities. “I don’t know yet. There’s a difference. I’m still thinking about how to get you a heart.”
The boy sighed. “Let’s go for a walk. There’s a nice park nearby right?”
Hayley shook her head. “I can’t go out today. I feel tired.” It was true, she felt quite tired. “Anyway, I might get some sort of infection from outside.”
“You’ll feel better once you’re walking. And when you’re with me you don’t have to worry about viruses or infections and stuff like that. You’ll have to worry about things far dangerous than that actually.” Said the boy.
“I don’t know if I should be worried or relieved about what you just said,” She sighed. “Fine, I’ll go. But don’t blame me if I black out or something.”
The boy was already opening the door. “Don’t worry, you won’t.” He said cheerfully. However, discreetly he said, “I hope.”
Thursday, December 17, 2009
First post, (partay time?? :)
Tells the tale of a person who can do the incredible..and a person who needs the incredible done to survive.
It had hurt ever since she was young. Hayley had only been two when she had suffered from end-stage heart failure, but she had survived the illness. However, after 11 years, her heart could take it no longer. Hayley’s heart was failing, and she needed a new one, fast. To support her failing heart, she had been hooked up with a device, commonly known as a mechanical heart, which aided her heart’s functions. But the machine could only last for two years, and time was running out. Already a year had gone by, and still she had not received a suitable heart.
*
Today was September 29. It had been a year since Hayley had been implanted with the mechanical heart. She had only a year to go left. Time was running out.
Hayley sat on her hospital bed, tired from the day’s events. She had attended a press conference on her condition. There she had broken down. Tears streamed down her eyes as she pleaded, “How much longer do I have to wait for a heart?” She said to the people present at the press conference. She did not know what else to say. She had been disappointed many a time by different heart donors who were either of a different blood type or heart size. She knew it was not the fault of anyone, but she just felt so hopeless.
*
It was around
“How much?” Asked the boy. The man smiled wickedly and said, “RM 3.50.” The price was obviously much more than it should have been, but the boy just fished out four RM1 notes and put it on a pile of newspapers.
“Keep the change.” Said the boy, and he walked off just like that with the paper.
When the boy was out of his sight, the man selling newspapers laughed at the foolish boy. “Sucker.” He said outloud. He looked at the spot where the teenager had left the money...only to discover it wasn’t there anymore. “What the...?” He turned his gaze towards where the boy had walked off and sweared loudly.
*
It was the boy who laughed this time. “Sucker.” Said the boy. The man had tried to cheat him of his money, and he had been so happy with his success that he had not even bothered to pocket the money immediately. Not that it would have made much difference anyway, whether he had pocketed it or not. The boy could still have taken it.
You see, this boy was special. He had a gift of performing miracles. He could do the impossible, he could return sight to a blind man if he wanted to, even bring rain to a drought-stricken wasteland. However he does not do it everyday. He does his work secretly, perhaps curing a poor farmer’s herd of sheep of some deadly sickness, or even stopping a small village from being invaded by warlords. After all, no one wants too much attention.
To tell his story or his origin would be too long and would probably take a year and a half. He only looks fourteen and acts fourteen but he is far, far older than fourteen. He seldom uses a name because few know him.
He walked along a deserted park at around
Rarely had he felt the feeling of hot tears in his eyes. He allowed one to flow down his cheek before getting a grip on himself. “Seems this young lass needs a miracle.” He said to himself and grinned. “Well then, she’ll get the best there is.”
*
“How are you feeling today Hayley?” Asked one of the nurses. There were two nurses doing a daily check on her. The nurses and doctors were all kind toward her and Hayley was grateful for that.
Hayley felt tired and sickly despite having a night’s sleep. “You have a visitor today.” Said one of the nurses.
“Who is it? Is it my parents?” She asked the nurse. Hayley’s parents visited her almost everyday without fail, they desperately wanted to be with their daughter every second but they had jobs to be taken care of.
“No. He’s a handsome boy.”
Hayley thought hard to see if she knew any handsome boys. “Fikri?”
“No, someone else. I’ll send him in now, shall I?” Said the nurse, and she left without another word.
An instant later, a boy stood at Hayley’s room door. He knocked and let himself in. “Hello there. My gosh you look thin!” The boy had a shocked look on his face.
Hayley just stared at him. She had never met the boy before. Was he in the wrong room?
The boy regained himself and put on a smile. “Sorry, but you do look grossly thin. I’m sure that can be cured.”
Hayley just stared at the boy, too surprised to say anything. The boy frowned. “Well aren’t you going to say anything? Oh, wait, are you to weak to talk?”
“I’m sorry but have I met you before?” She said, proving him wrong.
“Of course not. You’re too young to know me. I haven’t been in
Hayley just stared awkwardly at the stranger. She was sure she had never met him before in her entire life, and he himself had said so too. So what was he doing in her room with flowers and searching for a vase?
“This will do nicely.” Said the stranger as he reached under her bed and pulled out a pretty little vase with little flowers on it. Hayley could have sworn that vase hadn’t been there before too.
Hayley pushed the button to call the nurse.
“Oh, that won’t work. At least not for now, so we can have a little privacy.”
What was this stranger talking about? The nurse would always appear just seconds after she presses the button. However, a few minutes past but no nurse appeared.
She frowned. “Okay, how’d you do that?”
“Simple. I’m a miracle maker.”
Hayley got the wrong idea. “Oh, are you some sort of magician someone hired?”
The boy rolled his eyes. “Do I look like some sort of ridiculous magician who wears a coat with dozens of hidden pockets and pulls rabbits out of someone’s armpit?”
Hayley didn’t think that saying all those words in a single breath to be even possible. It took a magician to do that.
“Although, magician has a nice ring to it, I prefer miracle maker. Or if you would like, you could think of the miracle I’m about to do for you as a magic trick.”
“Okayyyy...” Hayley wondered whether if she was hallucinating about the boy.
The boy shook his head. “No, you’re not hallucinating.”
“That’s what you would say even if you were some sort of hallucination.” She retorted at him.
The boy snorted. “No, if I were a product of some crazed part of your brain I’d be a twenty-foot tall beast with razor sharp claws able to rip you to shreds. Oh, I’d also be incapable of speech, being twenty feet tall and all that...”
Hayley stopped thinking of the boy as a hallucination. No hallucination could be this annoying. “Right... You still haven’t told me who you are.”
“I already told you, I’m a miracle maker.”
Hayley frowned at the boy. “Could you be a little bit more specific than that?”
“I’ve already told you I’m a miracle maker, I don’t use names because not that many people know me to use it that often. What else have I left out? Nothing. Nothing you need to know of course.”
Hayley groaned in frustration. She couldn’t believe she was arguing with a crazy teen who claimed he was a miracle maker. “Look, I—” She stopped suddenly, feeling pain at her chest. She fell back to the bed clutching herself.
The pain was agonizing and she reached out to call the nurse. Then she remembered that the button wouldn’t work.
Strangely, the pain began to disappear. As the last of the pain seem to disappear all together she looked up to see the face of the Malay boy. His face seemed deadly serious. “I didn’t know it was this serious.” He said solemnly.
“How..—how did the pain disappear?”
“I told you before, I’m a miracle maker.”
“Don’t be silly, nobody can make miracles happen.”
The boy cracked his knuckles anticipately as if taking what she just said as a challenge. “Why do you think I’m here? Just to drop by? I’m here to perform a miracle. I’m here to give you your heart.”
continued next post. :) if u even bothered to read it at all...-.-