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i have a new mp3 player. a new zen vision m. and i do not care whether the ipod's better or the zen sucks cause my experience with past zens has been nothing but fulfilling. plus my picture quality IS better and that matters more than a lot of other things.

i have a new wardrobe. it's pretty cool, design wise. 3 hanger racks which i've filled up. except for the pants rack... i've thrown away so many things in my room that now when i look back at what i have collected physically over the past 23 years doesnt amount to nothing much. i have books almost all of them fantasty or star wars or battle tech related. i have or had the entire micro machines star wars vehicle collection. that was until they decided to launch episodes 1,2 and 3. now i have about half the entire vehicle collection... i have a macross vs 1s veritech fighter. the millineum falcon. a whole host of battle tech cards with the last 2 functional decks being clan wolf and clan jade falcon. tons of cds with even more cd cases. empty cd cases.

i have a relic of a hi fi system that i was so proud of when i was 13. now i'm using my sister's hi fi system which is 1/10 the size and i cant throw away the relic cause my parents think that one shouldnt throw away something just because he has no more need for it. i call it the generation gap.

but here in lies a problem and one that i cant seem to solve. as mentioned above, one can roughly guess that to define no need for an item is hard. and even when an item is spoilt, redundant or obselete, one might find some unfamthomable need for it in the future. thus, my parents have the resumes of people dated back to the 1980s. i have paper clips that are so old, the boxes are yellow and rotted. i have printing paper. the super old school ones with holes at the side so the printer can "bite" the paper properly. and as for the "new" printing paper that i have, it's so "new" that it jams every printer that eats it...

the problem here is that for every cubic centimetre that i clear, my parents undoubtable have another 10 cubic metres of junk to fill it up. thus, output < lesser than input and i find myself fighting a losing battle to clear my room.

during the out process which was delayed by 2 hrs... one man walked to the chief clerk (a woman AGAIN) and said, " SAF can spend all the money to upgrade their equipment but with stupid, idiotic and lazy people running it, the best systems will be rendered ineffective."

the lady stared at him and said ," what are you trying to say?"

he glared back and said, " would you rather me tell u off here or send in an email."

the power of the reservists and a softer army.