Take The Cake Day/Twelfth Night/Get On The Computer Day/Turn Up The Heat Day/Bird Day
2006-01-05 @ 10:00 p.m.

Did not get my hair cut by the Tekong barbers, as there were too many new enlistees waiting. Instead, my platoon sergeant shaved my head personally, and did a pretty damn good job, considering he was working with a very blunt electric shaver. Have started reading Coelho's The Pilgrimage, and it's intriguing stuff. Treads a fine line between orthodox Catholicism and mysticism, but Coelho's not exactly the most mainstream of Catholics, as he's made clear before in interviews. The Pilgrimage and The Alchemist echo each other, although the former's naturally a lot more personal, being a record of Coelho's pilgrimage along the Road to Santiago. It's easy to see why Coelho's a wildly popular author. His writing offers a redemptive hope to people trapped by their relentlessly modern lives. Should finish the book by tomorrow night, then I'll bring in either Baudelaire or Rimbaud on Sunday night. I can feel my French slipping away bit by bit! Haha...