Hanged

You are the Hanged Man

Self-sacrifice, Sacrifice, Devotion, Bound.

With the Hanged man there is often a sense of fatalism, waiting for something to happen. Or a fear of
loss from a situation, rather than gain.

The Hanged Man is perhaps the most fascinating card in the deck. It reflects the story of Odin who offered himself as a sacrifice in order to gain knowledge. Hanging from the world tree, wounded by a spear, given no bread or mead, he hung for nine days. On the last day, he saw on the ground runes that had fallen from the tree, understood their meaning, and, coming down, scooped them up for his own. All knowledge is to be found in these runes.

The Hanged Man, in similar fashion, is a card about suspension, not life or death. It signifies selflessness, sacrifice and prophecy. You make yourself vulnerable and in doing so, gain illumination. You see the world differently, with almost mystical insights.

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Game Corner Complete!

It just gets better and better, this morning I came to my desk only to find the PS3 and Wii being assembled at my cubicle as well as coming with a bunch of games for review! Shiok man!

MInutes below I penned this, the colleagues were trying out Wii Sports which involved using the cool little Wii-mote to play a game of tennis. Basically the Wii is motion-based, so in the tennis game, you need only to swing you controller to mimic the serving and smashes typical in a game of tennis. Of course, there are other sports like Boxing and Bowling to fully iilustrate the abilities of the Wii-mote.

Cannot wait for this Bleach game to come out, apparently players are to use the Wii-mote to swing their various Zanpaktous on-screen. Imagine playing as Ichigo with his massive sword! It will be great fun.

Now for Wii, I am utterly hooked on Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess which I think will keep me busy for a very long time, knowing how a completionist I am with Japanese RPGs.



Then there's Resistance: Fall of Man on the PS3, typical shooter title which if it comes to comparisons, I would really prefer Gears of War on the Xbox 360 although Resistance is FPS while Gears is a third-person shooter.

My desk now is absolutely cluttered with wires and cables and I desperately need something to organise them, or it will soon become like the gaming corner while I was at GameAxis, it was an utter mess back then, no matter how the editor and I cleaned and tidied the place up.

Back to Zelda for me now!

Congratulations Susan and Sean

Ok ok I know it's a little late but yesterday was a stoner after what happened on Saturday afternoon through to the wee hours of Sunday morning. The gist of it all was that Susan and Sean are now legally binded together as Man and Teh Wife, the Tuan dan Puan Phua (man, the last two syllables were a tongue twister). The entire hoopla happened at The Regent hotel at Orchard Road where the couple solemnised their marriage in front of a small gathering of family and friends in the hotel bar.

The mood was casual but the groom was visibly not, haha, I can relate to that. And if I am not wrong, perhaps moments before he could even be wondering, "What am I getting myself into?" It's natural, but I digress.

The bride was stunning of course and with her two months of intense dieting that fortunately did not result in another Andrea / Pierre debacle, she better be. Her flat stomach said it all, so here am I, the fat slob slouching over my PC typing this is sooo aspiring to go on a diet too - after receiving none too savory comments about my expanding waist-line.

Anyhow, the traditional dinner followed as well as the obligatory late-coming of the guests. Eight course dinner it was, followed by some rambunctious Yam Seng from the never say old (aka jiak buay tua) Moonie gang who is only to happy to marry off one of our Moony to a deserving and utterly nice guy in Mr. Sean Phua.

Hey Sue and Sean (although according to a certain Labia Lee, you may never read this), have a good honeymoon and come back with the goods, no lah, I don't mean kids, just make sure you buy back souveniers for me. The Mona Lisa painting at the Lourve would be good for starters, not some "My Friend Went All The Way To Paris and All She Got For Me Is This Stupid T-Shirt" kind of stuff, ok?

Hahaha!