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Have you watched “Unleashed”? The one with Jet Li?

If you have, you’ll know that there’s a beautiful, haunting track right at the end. No, you won’t find it on the soundtracks of both “Danny the Dog” (UK?) and “Unleashed”. Soundtrack(s), btw, done by Massive Attack (and done bloody well, too).

That last track as the credits roll? It’s called “Aftersun”, and it’s by Dot Allison. More info here.

I went crazy over that track for some time, and am now rediscovering why. Thank god for P2P.

The general malaise persists at the workplace. It’s been this way for some days now, and the gloom is not helped by the incessant rain. It started like the clouds overhead this morning, before rumour bloomed into a fullblown deluge of ill-feeling and general out-of-sort-ness.

Which didn’t help my awful headache today. And that easy complication was solved by a dose of ponstan which, I have been told, is now illegal in Malaysia. Really? My banged-up knee troubled me while I contemplated, for the nth time, upgrading my computer. All of that while sipping coffee and apparently waiting for the day cloned cat kitties start taking charge of the situation and begin Human Eradication Plan 001.
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Just seconds before a person suffers from an embolism, I wonder if they hear the bubbles in their brains go “pop”. Speaking of which, another gratuitous form of ‘popping’ for those with the requisite disposition here; no, it’s not safe for work.

So the last settlers have left the Gaza strip. BBC radio aired a reporter almost going berserk while following the very last israeli to leave, commentating like it was a race against the finish — but for who? The BBC’s already saying that the pull out’s in Ariel Sharon’s benefit though I wonder how. He’s too wily a fox to be caught conceding space to Palestinians without retaliation. Or maybe the advantage of the pullout’s precisely that he’s now rid himself of far flung areas, in which exerting control away from the home ground has proven to be difficult.

I’m not a sympathizer, but I wonder how the Jews must feel: however they’ve gained their land, they are now losing it, this time an enforced exile perpetrated by their very own people. Pretty ironic; God scattered them for their pride, and now the veritable (and confused) voice of God has pushed them out from land the settlers have claimed as their own.

You could almost feel the build-up of trapped gas.