Yes, this happens to be a quote from the great Kurtz in Heart Of Darkness and quite frankly, it sums up my entire week. In case you’re been wondering/hoping if i died because i have not been really active this week both on my blog and producing a video, i’m sorry to disappoint the latter bunch of you all but i have prevailed from the brink of death

Epic Battle #1

If i were to give in to my usual tendency to exaggerate, i’d say i fought tooth to tooth with Death, and yes, he does carry a scythe and look like a grim reaper (the rumors are true). We had an epic battle, swords being wielded, lightsabers swung and nerf guns shot. In the end, i succeeded and won the battle in the most unexpected way. The rubber bullet from my nerf gun hit the grim reaper’s scythe and got sliced into two, both of which went straight into his eye. This resulted in him stumbling backwards and tumbled into the boiling hot lava of Mount Doom.

Epic Battle #2

To give this story a more modern twist, it’s actually me contracting a severe case of tonsillitis which blocked up my air passage and because of Singapore’s brilliant world class health care, resulted in me ONLY getting THREE wrong diagnosis before i got admitted to the hospital where a further ONE wrong diagnosis was made before they got it spot on. Brilliant eh? That resulted in my one entire week going down the drain.

My apologies then for not coming up with a video for my youtube audience (bunch of lovely guys apart from a few), but in some sick twisted way, i managed to learn a lesson on love in this torturous (and action packed) moments with death. It’s simple and you’ve definitely heard of it before.

Always Support Your Loved One Through Thick & Thin

During the moments where the grim reaper has his scythe around my throat, and i had one of those “flashback”  moments of my entire life, what distracted him and bought me time to fire my devastatingly deadly nerf gun was my ninja hopping girlfriend who roundhouse kicked him in the back of the head/skull. Yes, in the moments where i felt like i was giving up, my family and girlfriend turned up during those short visiting hours to support me and it has to be the decisive factor in me living and my rubber bullet pushing the grim reaper into the molten hot lava of Mount Doom.

“Through sickness and in health..”

So, as you would promise your fiances on your wedding days, to be with each other through sickness and in health, you don’t have to wait until then to start practicing it and making it a habit, in fact, start now. Not only will it strengthen your relationship, but it could possibly win the person you’re wooing over too. -grins.

Yours sincerely,
Desmond L.