2 things

Hello, my name is Bao.

I like fishes:














and I like to read:

Nerd-iology

I've recently been transfixed with a little worm that vanquishes its foes by, to quote, "vocabulizing" them. Yes, it's Bookworm Adventure Deluxe by Popcap.

You play a little worm called Lex that, using an arsenal packed with lexicons, attempts to save this little creature called Cassandra. Lingustic heroism never seemed any more sexy.

Anyway the game is pretty fun, and you can surprise your opponents:


Aha!! Gotcha!

The amount of damage that you inflict onto your opponents is directly proportional to the length of the word that you conjugate. So while the word "Aha" is catchy and will knock him off-guard, it deals only about half a heart of damage.

But try using this word which I managed to fish out the other day:


When our powers combine..

I think I just sent him up to outer space.

This game rocks but its price tag is ridiculous. US$30 for an electronic scrabble and animated RPG crossover registers as an outcast in my cost-value analysis. I'd rather get Medivial 2: Total War. I've been holding off that for a long time.

Stop

I was reading Salman Rushdie's Shame and came across a passage:

What's the opposite of shame? What's left when sharam is substracted? That's obvious: shamelessness.

And I stood on the train, looking across the blank faces and wondered, what then, is the absence of innocence?

My guess?

Knowledge.

The very thing that expelled Adam and Eve from the Biblical Garden for opening their eyes, looking at Earth in its truthful state and realizing their nakedness. He dropped the apple as he had to find something to wear.

How many a times do we wish that there are things we know not of, truths we later hoped we didn't hear, admitting that not knowing is better than having a full grasp of the in's and out's.

When was it that you last wished you had put up your hand and said, "Please don't tell me anymore, I don't want to know."

"Please. Stop."