The Day The Music Died

I did the most bimbotic thing ever. After another one of my adventures out to the shore during low tide yesterday, I dumped my cargo pants straight into the washing machine when I got home as I didn't wanna get sand and dirt all over the apartment. My iPod, in one of the many pockets of that darn pair of pants, DROWNED TO DEATH. Sad but true.

Please take a few moments to mourn the passing of my best friend, iPod Nano 4GB. It was a wedding gift from my brother Andrew, and will be sorely missed. Like in all good hero-sure-die movies, I shall no longer speak of the tragic and dumbass way it died, but of how it lived. It has been my constant companion, especially on those quiet and lonely pre-dawn walks on Changi Beach, the long trips out to Sungei Buloh or Kranji and back, or just when I needed music to take me to another place, another plane. My little highway star.

I guess in the end, nothing else matters. After all, who wants to live forever...

It's time to say goodbye, and go our separate ways. Worlds apart now, my Nano finds its way up the stairway to iPod heaven.

"Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend
somewhere along in the bitterness
and I would have stayed up with you all night
had I known how to save a life."

It seems only apt that I should dedicate a song to commemorate the life and death of my Nano...

Hush now don't you cry
Wipe away the teardrop from your eye
You're lying safe in bed
It was all a bad dream
Spinning in your head
Your mind tricked you to feel the pain
Of someone close to you leaving the game of life
So here it is, another chance
Wide awake you face the day
Your dream is over... or has it just begun?

There's a place I like to hide
A doorway that I run through in the night
Relax child, you were there
But only didn't realize it and you were scared
It's a place where you will learn
To face your fears, retrace the years
And ride the whims of your mind
Commanding in another world
Suddenly, you hear and see
This magic new dimension

If you open your mind for me
You won't rely on open eyes to see
The walls you built within
Come tumbling down, and a new world will begin
Living twice at once you learn
You're safe from pain in the dream domain
A soul set free to fly
A round trip journey in your head
Master of illusion, can you realize
Your dream's alive, you can be the guide but...

I - will be watching over you
I - am gonna help you see it through
I - will protect you in the night
I - am smiling next to you... in silent lucidity

- Queensryche -