- Bring me to life -

When was the last time you climbed to the roof of a 6-storey building and dangled your feet over the edge with no protective barrier whatsoever? And for those of you who actually have, what if the part of the roof you had to cross before getting to the edge shifted beneath your feet as you made your way there? Of course, it would have been a lot better if the Sub-warden's little minion hadn't come and chased us away, but living life on the edge was still exhilarating (for lack of a more expressive word) for all its 15 minutes' worth.

Sometimes all it takes is one little action, one simple event, to conquer your fears, the fears which perhaps dissipated into the forgotten realms a long way back but which you never dared revisit.

The trouble that ensued in Springfield had been brewing for ages, but the authorities' stranglehold on monetary policy was finally broken as an astute monopolist embarassed the Central Bank, which ran out of reserves. Efforts to raise the reserve ratio and prevent a bank run proved futile as Jonathan Montgomery Burns Ng (eeeexccccelllent!!) began an ostentatious bath in bank notes.

Lesson learnt tonight: Being nice merely serves to delay the inevitable, so for the greater good of everyone (read: oneself and solely oneself), it'd be wiser to resolve things early. Get things over and done with already.