You're beautiful, it's true

You're Beautiful
~ James Blunt

My life is brilliant.
My love is pure.
I saw an angel.
Of that I'm sure.
She smiled at me on the subway.
She was with another man.
But I won't lose no sleep on that,
'Cause I've got a plan.

You're beautiful. You're beautiful.
You're beautiful, it's true.
I saw you face in a crowded place,
And I don't know what to do,
'Cause I'll never be with you.

Yeah, she caught my eye,
As we walked on by.
She could see from my face that I was,
F**king high,
And I don't think that I'll see her again,
But we shared a moment that will last till the end.

You're beautiful. You're beautiful.
You're beautiful, it's true.
I saw you face in a crowded place,
And I don't know what to do,
'Cause I'll never be with you.
You're beautiful. You're beautiful.
You're beautiful, it's true.
There must be an angel with a smile on her face,
When she thought up that I should be with you.
But it's time to face the truth,
I will never be with you.

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This is the most overplayed song on the radiowaves and pubs at the moment. When the resident band plays this song, all women start swooning and all men sing along. The part that gets the crowded going:

"...You're beautiful. You're beautiful.
You're beautiful, it's true..."

Everybody goes crazy over this part of the chorus. Me? I will be sitting at my corner of the bar smiling to myself.

"Why so?" You asked.

Twirl these few sentences around your tongue.. You might understand after me when you digest them:

"I am doing it for myself. It's for you. Trust me."
"Honestly, I am not lying..."

I would never trust anyone who spews the above sentences. I see no need for strong emphasis on their "honourable" character. The extra attention the words "trust me" and "honestly" gives the readings that he/she is trying too hard to prove a point to his/her advantage.

Would any honest man in the right frame of mind tell a woman:
"You are beautiful." three times and seal it with a "It's true"?

I guess all women likes to be told that they are beautiful. It makes them feel great to be compared to angels. But do yourself a favour, listen to the rest of the lyrics.

The next time you feel like singing along to this song, give it some thought. It's about a drunken loser eyeing a stranger's girlfriend or wife in the subway, probably lustily.

You're beautiful.. *hic* You are beautiful..*hic* You are beautiful.. it's true...  ¶


12:15 by aberwyn 8 comments

The Perfect Program.

It was The Perfect Program. I thought it was a masterpiece.

I designed it to learn from the patterns as it evolved. Different parts would grow and die at different times. Yet it was to stay in perfect equilibrium always. Death was to provide sustenance to growth, to die. Just like the Oroborus. Neverending loop. Thus I would be entertained by this play whose curtains will never close.

"Too free?" Some chided me.

"Maybe.." I replied.

"I have time. In fact I have all eternity to perfect this program." I laughed.

Of course, as with all stories, something has to go wrong... somewhere.. sometime..

I was sipping some freshly brewed coffee when I noticed something was wrong with the program. The size of the subroutine which I named, Lizard, seemed to have quadrupled in size and was still growing at an alarming rate.

I made a hasty mistake then. In alarm, I deleted the subroutine without thinking how the balance of The Program will be affected. Trust me when I say I had to almost rewrite the whole program from scratch due to this stupid mistake. Anyway, it took me a long time before I managed to code The Program back to balance.

How did I balance The Program again? Simple. I learned from this program too you know. All I did was to write a new subroutine to replace Lizard. However I added a new twist to it. I wrote in an Aggression code to the subroutine that with keep it's own size in check. It was fun watching this new subroutine grow in size and having that one line of code reducing it to manageable proportion. LOL.

Anyway, soon after, I went for a long holiday with the family. What do you mean by asking whether I have a family??? Of course I have! Not mentioning it doesn't mean I don't ya? Remember that.

Ok, back to the story.

First thing I did when I came back was to check on my pet project. To my horror, history repeated itself. The Lizard replacement, which I named Ape, has grown bigger and meaner that Lizard had!! Not only that, it seemed to have mutated and had somehow learnt to use the Aggression code against other subroutines! Some of the other subroutines have been reduced so much in size that I had to shift them to a hidden folder to hide them from the reaches of Ape.

Of cos, me being L33t and all, came up with a bright spark of an gem of an idea. Instead of being the n00b I was when I deleted Lizard, I wrote a new program called The Black Plague that reduced the size of Ape dramatically within seconds!

Pwned! LOLOLOL!!!

Anyway, soon I came to realise Ape was becoming a stupid virus that left a fingerprint everywhere on my Perfect Program, destroying when it feels like, assimilate at other times. It was going all out to destroy my Masterpiece!!!

I took offense and wrote a few programs to fight it. Some , like Influenza v1.0 were successful. Others like AIDS were a total waste of time. As time goes by the stupid Ape mutated so much that all the different patches to Influenza version 1 failed to work.

I am now working on a totally new version of Influenza. It's version too. I have already done a beta test on the subroutine Bird. It is working as it is supposed to be. Soon, Influenza v2.0 will be released on Ape. Man.. trying to keep The Perfect Program balanced is hard work. Maybe I should start charging people monthly subs like MMORPGs...  ¶


13:54 by aberwyn 2 comments