"I decided early that I would never take a life. Right around the time that I decided I wanted to live. It wasn't an arbitrary decision. And it was more than moral. It's about identity. As long as you can choose that, choose who you are...you can choose to call yourself sane." --Batman Super Special 05.

My dad has two small tortoises he keeps in his bathroom. He has recently taken to buying $1 of mudskippers as live food for the tortoises. A few days ago, he bought one bag full of them. This morning, there was only one mudskipper left. It was swimming very tiredly, but still trying to escape, trying to survive.

By afternoon, it was gone.

I felt extreme pity for the poor fish. And the quote by Batman came instantly into my mind. Survival is harsh. But is that just what life is about?

I bought a book--book, not graphic novel--an anthology of stories written by authors inspired by Neil Gaiman's creation of Morpheus. Cost me $15. Heh. Outta cash now. I'm going to buy the whole DVD set of Masked Rider Ryuki Episodes 1 to 50, and the Ryuki movie. Trying to negotiate the prices with a few people.

Called up 6 franchises of TS Group. Weird. They've got the more recent version of Masked Rider 555, but not Ryuki, which was produced in 2002. Grr...

But yeah...life. Batman. Gonna have to talk to him again soon...tonight, most probably, since I'll have to ask him to do a little bit of travelling with me...