okay now, after some minor emotional/physical obstacles during my down-time,
it's back to my "detached observer of the world" persona...
surprisingly, i don't think i've missed much in the few days i was "off".
cause this was what i observed in the past week:

• on my way to work one day, when i saw one man in his 30s playing an xbox console-not that there's anything wrong with it- but while he was playing, he was also carrying his toddler...("...release the controller and put the child down carefully, sir! good. now, tell us where and what you have done to her real parents...")
  
  
• in the mrt back from work, saw 2 boys playing with lego bricks -again,nothing amiss there- that weremade to resemble guns.heck, if not for the multi-colored bricks, i could have sworn it was an ak-47 stuck in the kid's pants. is this what kids nowadays are learning to do? by the time they're 12, they'll be making real bombs from scratch...(okay so i'm over-reacting)
  
  
• at the giant hypermarket one night, i noticed this bearded guy wearing a turban and prayer robe(jubah).i'm not one who judges people by their looks,ever. but besides all that he's wearing, i also noticed that underneath the robe, he was wearing army motif pants.if he was wearing that in walmart in the usa,
  people would think that osama was popping by to do groceries. thus, leading to him being tackled to the floor by supermarket security...*OOF!* *thud*
  

and lastly, in june, friends have what i call "summer fever". one can't stop singing the "friends in need" song. another seems to be more talkative than usual. all this incessant babbling is making me feel mentally drained. as in, i feel like stoning more often than usual.*stones* see, i told u so... *stones* i think i need more-*stones*-rest *stones*...