Cake

From formerly well-known blogger Calm One, one of his posts:

I'm reading a book after dinner at canteen 1 when I notice a flickering light from the next table, like someone lighting a cigarette.

It turns out that a girl is lighting the 2 candles on a cake, while her boyfriend looks on.

I suspect that that cake is too big for the couple.

When the candles are lit, the girl sings "happy birthday", while her boyfriend looks on.

He blows out the flames.

The girl removes the candles, cuts a piece from the cake, and serves the boyfriend. Then she walks away.

She comes back with a styrofoam food box, and packs the remainder of the cake into the box, while her boyfriend eats the cake.

From where I'm sitting, I can only observe the boyfriend's face. He doesn't look happy at all.

They leave the canteen after they are both done.

Happy birthday.

The words we often say without meaning.

Happy birthday.

The words we often write without thinking.

Happy birthday.

The words we often sing without feeling.

Happy birthday.

Empty words.

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My father asked me what birthday cake I wanted, to which I once again gave a noncommital "Anything", the same "Anything" I throw out whenever my parents ask me what fruit I want, what do I want for lunch, for dinner, what do I want for the computer, for snacks, for my birthday. Anything. Hoping it wouldn't be another bunch of SW novels I liked 2 years ago or terrible pirated games (I was pleasantly surprised when I got new speakers, new keyboard, and new DVD drive).

Should I be happy about turning seventeen? If you've been sensitive to the egregious amounts of nostalgia I've pumped out in my last few posts, then you'd know I think it a lot more appropriate to do away with those candles and erect little plastic tombstones on top of my cake instead.

Fuck that. Projects in the pipeline:
Finishing Lunge Clan Movie
A fresh pick of model essays for my English teacher back in secondary school
More short stories and plays on my own initiative
Last GunZ movie compilation I'll ever make (Really)
Lay down more framework for Autistic Sniper and epic game crossover ideas
One more GunZ frag movie (This one will be good! Honest)
Entering contests regarding film, machinima, writing....

More exercise plus some yoga, hopefully. Parkour can wait till next year when I'm fitter.

I was going to make progress on the compilation today, and then go out to Coffee Bean to get Jiasai to serve me a cappuchino in an apron. Instead I set up a blog containing the posting results for our graduating batch of yesteryear. Nostalgia working again. Tomorrow I have to make myself work on the tests and quizzes and school projects coming up...