Something out of nothing

Q: What happens when a few young officer cadets get commissioned by the President?

A: They go right back to a blog that has been long dead and try to revive it, because as second lieutenants of the Singapore Armed Forces, it is their duty to be responsible for the training and welfare of the men that they are in charge of.

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Okay that might be somewhat random. The question doesn't make any sense, and neither does the answer. And you might be thinking a blog isn't exactly a man. True that.

Then again we at TCS believe that everything occurs illogically, thus whether the past few paragraphs makes sense or not is immaterial.

What matters is that we're back. Back and hopefully here to stay.

Like a group of soldiers watching as the sky darkens and a heavy downpour commences, delaying their start to yet another tiring exercise. They know that the rain is back, and hopefully here to stay.

It's never easy to start posting again. You might not know it but actually I've been trying to post since Sunday - because I haven't posted for too long. I have this theory that blogging is like taking a dump.

(Please don't read on if you just had your meal.)

If you don't shit for too long, you get constipation. Same thing in blogging. Therefore it can be pointed out correctly that I am suffering from blog-stipation. Just look at how I type (granted you can't see so I can lie to you anyway) - I'm typing slowly, jerkily and wondering what comes next.

If you eat the wrong food, you get diarrhoea. Referring to my earlier posts, a dose of something nasty or amusing sets me off. I get all excited and post like I've never owned a blog before. Maybe I'd offer you a post worth ten finger-rolls of the mouse. That is bloggrea.

Quite so, yes.

Well YL and I were chatting a little, trying to see who could be inspired enough to post. He made an effort to post just there, but he didn't want to show off his new post yet so he saved as draft. That is called holding it in, or the hokkien peng would call "kek" - which suspiciously sounds like the.. thing produced from the above-mentioned metaphor.

It shows that as long as you have the determination and effort, you can always hold your crap in.

As for me, I'm bone dry of inspiration but I opened the Blogger window. And I made sure I had to type something. That's like going to the toilet and camping there, knowing that after so much constipation you just have to shit out something.

And here you are. The effort will pay off, trust me.

(This experience is similar to what I had back in SAFTI. I really could not force anything out in the excessively smelly toilets of Delta Wing but upon applying brute force and camping in the toilet, I finally did it. Even though it wasn't much it's better than nothing.)

Don't let constipation beat you. Make sure you have a healthy.. toxin-clearing habit.

Blog-stipation won't last forever. We're going to have healthy blogging habits.

Watch this space, this post will be going down, down all the way to the bottom of the page. Just like the s**t being flushed down to the bottom of the sewage.

We are back. (if Rockson can post once a year well SO CAN WE.)