i got my first taste of music companionship after i bought my creativeZEN just one month back. before that, i rely on intellectual preoccupations like staring into the thin air, secretly reading other people's wanbao (cos it's TABLOID man!!), closing my eyes to establish contact with the outer space or just simply, not doing anything in particular. i will never get use to those scholarly companionship again after i found something called mp3.

a usually long and droning journey to school becomes all too easy with music. an insipid walk home becomes too short all of a sudden. a jog downstairs doesn't feel that exhausting anymore. an irritating wait for latecoming friends induces joy rather than rile. and i can't seem to hear very well nowadays.

music, in every sense, has become an essential.