Gone too soon..

Ever since getting back it's been one crazy day after another. While initially i was very pleased with myself that i had the foresight to choose a holiday destination that did not fall under the "affected country" label (since i had also considered places in Australia, the States, and the UK), think i soon came to regret that decision mere hours after the plane touched down at Changi as less than three hours after that i found myself in school for a staff meeting (when i could instead have been tucked in bed under LOA). It's no one's fault but mine that i was distracted by the inflight entertainment from what i had originally set out to do for the latter half of the flight (which was, of course, to sleep), and as such i only snatched less than two hours of precious shuteye before landing. By lunchtime at the staff meeting, i was already craving for the bed, but well, didn't make it there until past midnight. And so began a cycle of totally warped sleeping hours over the weekend, which has now 'stabilized', if you could call it that, to a midnight to five am sleep cycle.

Speaking of the inflight entertainment, i randomly ended up listening to the song Ben and thinking about how that probably was one of my favorite MJ songs. (In fact, i think all the songs by him that i like are generally of the slower, more minimalist variety (at least relatively speaking) like Human Nature, Man in the Mirror, Childhood, Heal the World etc) How strangely ironic that after him being somewhat in my thoughts for the first time in years, that i should arrive back to hear that he was admitted to hospital, and then dead. And while now i am semi-boycotting CNN and even BBC World because of the far-too-excessive coverage of his death at the expense of far more pertinent world events (and by that i don't mean Farrah Fawcett), as troubled as he ended up he was a very talented guy. Even though i did feel somewhat cheated in the aftermath of his death to realize that he in fact did not write some of those favorite songs when i had always thought he had (Was under the impression that Ben was written by him for his pet mouse, when in fact it was written by two other guys and was originally intended for Donny Osmond). Ah well.