Lillian lies to avoid awkward questions
Looks to the sky for intervention
But she can't avoid judgemental compassion
In the void

She puts on her face, makes it a brave one
Gets herself a seat on an interstate greyhound
When everything's gone at least you've got nothing
That holds on

She curls herself up, rests her head on the window
Sees her face in the trees suspended in limbo
When everything's gone at least you've got nothing
That holds on

You're a stranger in a country town
The kids all stare, the cars slow down
You didn't think you'd be so dumb
To just grab a hold of whatever came along

Houses slip by, the clouds are so low
The sky doesn't cover, it swallows


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"10415001G 220c"
"Clock Chip"
"32K Ram"
"Thurs 1.22pm"
"Serial address = 00"
"The next s-"

Repeat.

As you might have guessed, this was flashing on the LED display of the train carriage I was in, seemed to be stuck in a restart loop. So I was staring at that constant sequence for the entire 1 hour trip on the way to tuition on Saturday. Yeah, so bo liao that I had to copy it down. Cannot is it.

Even better, on the way back on the train again, someone decided to be funny and screw around with the doors (stopping them from closing?). That was the first time I actually heard a train driver get pissed off. He actually half-shouted in a pretty angry tone at the offender to "Leave the doors alone!". We actually ended up stopping at each stop for about 2 minutes longer just because of that. Anyway, by the time we got to the third stop, I think the train driver was pretty ticked off by then, and consequently apologised to everyone in the train that they would stop at this station and wait for the police to arrive. I believe it was just scare tactics, but you really should have heard the chorus of "omg", "fuck" and groans that followed that... However, 10 minutes later we moved off without any further interruption. And my parents were angry.

They had just gone for the Watoto concert I mentioned earlier, and had been waiting at the station for an extra... However long the delay was altogether. I missed it due to tuition, boo. Apparently it was very good. I think Kylie's brother and some of Kylie's people went for it too...? Oh well.

I had two kids and an adult stay at our house though, I don't think many people could say that haha. It was pretty interesting, especially with the "aunty" the girls we were hosting were assigned. Turns out she was a volunteer worker for the Watoto foundation in Uganda, and she actually seemed quite well educated and travelled. Her story was pretty interesting, but I won't go into it here... Had to really hear it from her anyway.

And then we had some guest speaker at our church today was an old friend of my father. Who we had home for lunch. With my family/this church community... It's probably not going to just be lunch. Include dinner and breakfast for increased accuracy.

Anyway, as you can see I've had quite a busy week, but at least I got stuff done. Went shopping for formal stuff on Friday evening... I think I should pretty much be covered for it now. I think I've spent relatively little on this formal that others have though... Well, we shall see how it goes. One more week~.

Good night.

Nothing that holds on.


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