just minishorts.

Two more days to go before I close the contest period. The Pixart book is worth RM56 each, and I've got THREE (3) books to give away just to my readers. So you know what you want to do, right?

Seeing that I still have three Photobooks and I can't very well keep them for myself, I'm going to run a simpler version of the previously impossibly difficult contest.

All you have to do is to fill in the empty thought bubbles in the photo below.

The idea is for you to try to be funny, something like the following:

Just make sure that I like your creativity, and DON'T YOU BE EVIL ENOUGH TO INSULT EITHER RAKSHA OR MYSELF WHILE YOU'RE BEING NAUGHTY. But if you must be caustic, do it stylishly.

When you submit your entries, please label them as :

minishorts: —-
rakshademon: —-

The top three most interesting submissions will win one Pixart Pocket Photobook each.

The rules
Give a valid e-mail address please, and make sure you have a Malaysian address, because the free shipping only applies if you stay in Malaysia. If you're Singaporean or from elsewhere, you're free to participate, but you have to pay for your own shipping if you win it. Each winner will only take home ONE BOOK. And another thing, all submissions must arrive in this comments box by 11.59 pm, 30 September 2006. Late entries will not dilayan.

The EXTRA Rule
I had to add this on seeing that some of you guys got over-excited. YOU CAN SUBMIT A MAXIMUM OF 3 entries only. If you submit more than 3, I will only look at the first 3 comments that you submit. The rest will be absorbed into the system as a happy guest that never made it to the finalists, NO MATTER HOW GOOD the most recent comment is.

I've just decided on milestones to achieve when I reach 55.

1. I wanna own a 1 acre land, probably use 1/3 of the land to build a nice little cottage-like house, and the remaining 2/3 will have a nice garden with one or two fruit trees on it.
2. Probably buy myself a Savanna FC, which would be over 40 years old by then. Hopefully they'll still be having some usable parts for the car, otherwise I hope to be rich enough to custom manufacture whatever replaceables I'll need to put into the car.
3. One of my kids (if I do have kids) would be ready to take over my company then (if I do manage to start my own company).
4. Would have made a name for myself in the corporate sector, hopefully. You know? Just the name 'Claire Khoo' would make people go, 'Ooooh…' that kind of thing. In a good way of course. Oh I'll probably get people who'll go, 'That bitch', but whatever. Success invites haters.
5. Still be working. I've thought about it, I'll probably retire from hecticdom, but I'll still be earning some cash off royalties or maybe my company would have been self-sufficient enough to run by itself.
6. Significantly told off religious bigots in such a big way, people would recognize me for being a major pro-interreligious understanding activist. (I actually see this happening, I'm feeling more and more strongly about the need to BE TOLERANT of each other each day).
7. In doing (6) would probably be notorious in Heaven as a 'criminal not to allow past the Pearly Gates' by then… hence resulting in me having to live with the fact that after death I'd probably be roaming the earth as a lost soul.
8. Which is fine, as long as I do whatever God calls me to do when the time comes for it. Heaven or Hell? It doesn't matter. I live for His pleasure, not because I want to go to Heaven. There is a difference, you know?

I also noticed that recently when I rant and think to myself, I always stray off to wonder what God really wants for me. But yeah, I'm saying it here. I'm doing it all because I believe there's a purpose here on Earth that He wants me to fulfill, and it all fits together. But what differentiates me from you, my dear friend, is the fact that I'm not aiming for a place beside His throne. I'm just doing it because I believe it's what He requires me to do, not because I want to enter his Kingdom one day.

I keep thinking about retirement lately. Is this a sign of fatigue?