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The Earth is Flat
After I announced I was rebonding my hair, some of my friends actually expressed, quite strongly in fact, that I should NOT do it. Davienne said I have pretty curls. I want to ask : Where?
Well, it's too late now. The deed has been done!
So let's not dwell upon the state of my hair and move on to a new topic.
I was quite excited recently because my favourite author, Terry Pratchett, has just published the paperback version of his latest book from the Discworld Series. I immediately got my hands on one.
Discworld, to the uninitiated, is a fantasy world that that parodies our real world. It is flat, supported by 4 gigantic elephants, standing on top of a humongous turtle. And the turtle, happily carrying it's load, swims through space.
Don't laugh.
Before the accepted theory that earth is round, people did think that the earth is flat and was supported by 4 elephants on top of a turtle.
Now, with advanced technology, space travel and all that stuff, we come to know the earth as a sphere. We, human beings, have accepted and believe in the spherical world. Well, most of us anyway. The people of The Flat Earth Society believe that the earth is flat.
They believe in the flat world whole-heartedly. So much so that any evidence from NASA is regarded as fake and out to brainwash the masses.
Err...I'm digressing, aren't I?
Back to Discworld.
Since it is a made up world, anything possible or impossible happens in there.
The grim reaper or Death makes an appearance frequently and TALKS LIKE THIS.
But my all time favourite characters in the series would be the 3 witches.
They do not do anythings that is expected of witches.
Things like dancing naked in the moonlight, possessing a huge array of mystical symbols and knives and stirring a huge couldron with mysterious ingredients is unlikely to happen.
They do have flying broomsticks though.
What they do possess, is a whole lot of common sense.
Perhaps why I like this series so much would be the sarcastic humour, and Mr Pratchett's ability to write on something happening in the real world and make it seem totally silly in Discworld. Sometimes, I would go : Yeah, why are we doing that anyway?
And yet, the story always ends realistically, well as realistically as it can in a fantasy world. There is the "happy" ending in the sense of "good has triumph over evil" ending, but there is never a "fairy tale" ending.
I will leave you all with advice from Discworld, by one of the witches, Nanny Oog.
Nanny Ogg is an...interesting character....
Well, read the quote and see why~
Never trust a dog with orange eyebrows. (don't ask me why)
Always get the young man's name and address. (self-explanatory)
And always wear completely clean underwear everyday because you never know when you will be knocked down and killed by a runaway horse and if people found you had unsatisfactory underwear on, you'd die of shame. (errr....)
Maybe this explains why I have so much underwear. 
We are organising a BBQ this sat~
I am so excited. I love BBQs! 
eeeeks!! i'm going to sulk when I see your straight, boring UNCURLY hair on saturday.
hrmph.
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