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Author's Note: Whereverabouts

A month long gone. So many things have happened. Everything has a reason as I believe. Backpacking throughout the United Kingdom, with only my dreams in tow, and my hopeful feet to tread. My most ambitious project had begun. For now, I'll just keep writing what I need to, unless I fall. And were I to perish unexpectedly due to the perils of uncertainty, then I shall be happy, because I have found cure to my own resident evil.

O: Day Six

Much has happened. Including me and my life. Left homeless for a day and all.

O: Day Two III

Never have I been so tittilated and grossed out watching women weightlifters from Poland.

O: Day Two II

Basketball. USA against France. Was Ronny Turiaf really their tallest French player? France needed more big men.

O: Day Two

Andy Murray on the move. Retribution after Wimbledon? I think not.

O: Day One IV

Good lord, Leryn Franco is so gorgeous she makes my javelin stand to the tip. Paraguay should be my next travel destination.

O: Day One III

Final minutes of day one. Team GB disappoints at cycling. The 'Dream Team' just wasn't dreamy enough. Nice golden win for Kazakhstan. Michael Phelps, on the other hand, places no medal since a long time ago. Bad start. Maybe he should indeed retire after this while he still has that value.

O: Day One II

Women's swimming. The fluidity in their strokes is phenomenal. 

Indestructible

Sometimes I want to clean my life for the hell of it, the thrill of responsibility. Sometimes I clobber myself to thinking I needed to do something for a future, a worthwhile life, a legacy to leave behind. Sometimes I groom myself emotionally and physically for a day, and for what? Six hours later, drenched wet, going home empty-handed, and another illusion of having done a socially-acceptable lifestyle. That I prove to others I have no sociopathic tendencies. That I am ordinary, that I mingle for the sake of mingling. Because life is like that, ever so clingy to worldly favours. One's self is never enough, they say. Some say that no one man is an island. I beg to differ, some are indeed islands. Islands that form an archipelago, albeit independently, forming tight bonds of respect and honour, and they are all better off that way. Loneliness has no factor in this. The islands are by no means exclusive but invitational.

O: Day One

Day after the opening. First day. The flies are still making rounds, making ruckuses, although invisible. The skies are bright blue, wonderful, with scattered clouds looming over. 

O: Opening XVIII

The cauldron looks wicked. Might I get myself one of those from IKEA or somewhere. Now it's moving steadily vertically into a huge row of incense candles.

O: Opening XVII

Welcome to London, he says.  Round of my applause goes to Danny Boyle, who helped develop this staggering production. Time to sleep.

O: Opening XVI

I could sleep now, and wake up early. Do a long run or something. But the blaring noises from the distance still resonate within my walls. There's that urge to switch the channel, but who knows what's going to happen. It might be monumental, might not be. Or maybe I should just rest then. Fuck it.

O: Opening XV

The ground is shaking and the fireworks banging.... at the comforts of my home.

O: Opening XIV

Bikers with wings, Come Together... not bad.

O: Opening XIII

Thank you, Sir Chris Hoy, for taking screen time off the 10-second walk of my Philippines.

O: Opening XII

The celebration in Hyde Park is a bit out of place, but whatever floats their boat.

O: Opening XI

Finally, athletes. 

O: Olympics X

Butoh? Nice touch on the Emeli Sandé background.

O: Opening IX

The inventor of the worldwide web, huh? I've always figured it was Al Gore, but I'm not sure if there's a clear distinction in definition between the worldwide web and the Internet. I suck at history. Off to Wikipedia then!