At this point of time, this joker, Jiefeng, also know as Intercept Wind, was at his Woodlands HDB in his room listening to 933 and writing his blog/short story. This point of time: 20 Jun 2005, 10.17pm. He is laughing and feeling quite please with himself. Laughing because he thinks the story he writes is damn cock. Feeling quite please because he is finally almost finish with the story.

Actually, he has thought of lots of small and interesting scenes to be put into his story. One of the scenarios is that he wants to tell Lan Yu through MSN that though he's 'God', creator, writer or whatever, he's a slacker. In fact, he's so slack that Lan Yu's world only consists of Lan Yu, the things in her room, and lastly, her room. Lan Yu walks to the door and hesitates. Eventually she summons enough courage and opens the door. Emptiness, darkness, nothing. The living room she was familiar with isn't there...

Aaaaahhhhhh!

Jiefeng thinks that this scene would describe his personality pretty well. However he can't think of how to continue from there, so in the end he has no choice but to use the current 'see his blog' ending. Still, he thinks that the scene is quite good, if only he can include it in the story somehow. Add some 'parallel universes' element, perhaps?

Anyway, he's still laughing at his own cock story, though he feels a bit guilty also. Maybe he's a bit too mean to put Lan Yu through so much torment, since she's his HC 'junior' after all. Well, too bad he can't think of a happier ending.

Finally, he's going to end the story here, so as not to bore his reader to death, if they were not bore to death already. After he clicks the 'Publish Entry' button, he decides to go kitchen to get a drink. However, when he opens the door of his air-conditioned room, he can't believe his eyes. Outside his room, where the living room supposed to be, there is...

Emptiness, darkness, nothing.

Block Rain?? Lan yu was surprised. This is not the nickname she used normally. Normally she use Blue Feather. Block Rain. A nickname given to her by her JC GP teacher. She can still remember the day, when she introduced herself as Lan Yu on the very first GP lesson. The teacher suddenly smiled and replied, "Block Rain ah?" Lan Yu was stunned and puzzled for a few seconds before she realised that it's her name's direct translation. An innovative nickname, but it sucks.

"Who are you? How do you know my nick? This nick."

"Who I am is not important. Let me ask you a question. Do you find something strange in your world? Like... me appearing in your dreams, you don't remember your life, or sometimes, time seems to stop?"

"What the heck are you talking about??" Lan Yu is getting more and more uneasy about this funny guy, this guy who comes out of nowhere.

"Can you guess why?" The boy smiles. Even though Lan Yu can't see him, somehow she knows he's smiling. "You are nothing but my figment of my imagination. You, and the world around you."

"Who do you think you're? God? I don't believe you."

"You've read Sophie's World  before, don't you? You should know George Berkeley."

Of course Lan Yu has read Sophie's World  before. She loves to read novels, and Sophie's World  is one of the more well-known novels presently. However, some may argue that it's actually a philosophy textbook in disguise, hence the name Sophie's World. Anyway, having the exceptional ability of photographic memory, Lan Yu had the whole 'textbook' memorised. As a result, George Berkeley is no stranger to her. He was an Irish philosopher who lived from 1685 to 1753. He was the first who questioned the reality of the material world. He argued that even though you can see the table, feel the table, it doesn't mean that the table exist. The image and the feeling of the table you saw and felt may be nothing more than a thought, a mental illusion. In short, he denied that existence of the material world beyond the human mind. It's the central idea of stories like Matrix and Sophie's World.

Actually in Lan Yu's opinion, Sophie's World  is more than a philosophy textbook, it's a work of a creative genius! The story is about a girl named Sophie, who is actually a fictional character in a book written by Hilde's father in the real world. When Sophie learnt from Alberto that their world is simply created by Hilde's father, they tried to escape into the real world. They almost succeed in the end. After Lan Yu finished the book, she thought it's quite ironical for Sophie to escape into the real world, since both her world and Hilde (and her father's)'s world are both created by Jostein Gaader. At that time, she was also wondering maybe the world as she knows it may be created by someone else.

Then it strikes a chord. What if...

"How do I know you are not a figment of my imagination instead? Or some joker from the net?" Lan Yu cannot believe, refused to believe.

"Will you take the Red pill or the Blue pill?"

Lan Yu senses that at another part of the world, or another world, this joker is laughing at her. He knew what her answer will be long before she answers. "Red."

"Red, the truth. Haha, as expected, or should I say, as I've written?" Lan Yu is very miserable now. This guy is having fun, at her expense.

"Go to this website, and you'll know the truth.
http://spaces.msn.com/members/fengyanfengyu/

It's my blog =)"

(To be continued...)

The setting of the story is present day, 2005 as I write this, or whatever era is it when you read this, Singapore. Anyway, it doesn't matter. The main character of this story is a girl, 165cm, shoulder length hair, looks a bit bookish with her specs but otherwise not bad looking. An ordinary girl in all aspects.

Her name is Goh Lan Yu, 吴蓝羽.

Currently her 'occupation' is student. NTU business year 1 student to be exact. She graduated from HwaChong and St Nicolas Secondary. Being the last batch of students to graduate from HwaChong Junior College, she was both glad and sad. Glad because she graduated just in time to be considered a 高中生. Sad because her beloved school has changed its name to something unbelievably stupid - 华侨中学. But no matter what, she is still extremely proud of her school. Anyway, it has been more than a year, she has long since put this issue out of her mind. She has more important things to worry about than this.

(Did I say the setting of this story is whatever time you read this? You must be wondering that if you read this in 2006, or 2007, or 2008 etc, how can there be anyone who graduated from HC just before it change name in 2004 and still be in year 1 in, say, 2008?? Did she da bao? The answer is no. Her IQ is 149, and that means she's extrordinarily smart. Why then? Well as I said, it doesn't matter. There's no answer to every questions in the universe. Please read on.)

Lan Yu has just finished her special sem exam on HP101: An Introduction to Psychology. By right she should be going out with friends and enjoying herself. Yet recently she feels that there's something wrong with her brain. Sometimes she feels that time has suddenly fast forward a great deal or just paused suddenly.

Take for example, just a minute ago, while she was typing her blog, she felt that world has paused for about 3 seconds. She messages her friends on msn (some in China), but none of them say they feel anything different.

Then it seems to her that she's suffering from dissociative amnesia. A term she learnt from her psychology lessons, meaning memory loss caused be extensive psychological stress. She doesn't remember anything from her St Nicks or Hwa Chong days other than the fact that she graduated from there. In fact, she can't really remember anything before yesterday. She just knows that she had taken a psychology exam a few days ago and she felt strange. It is as if she is jus... there, recently. But then she doesn't really care about it. Maybe her illness is better termed as dissociative fugue.

However, what worries her most is that, for most of the nights these days, she keep dreaming of a boy, about the same age as her, maybe slightly older, trying desparately to tell her something. Although in her dreams she tried very hard to understand what he's saying, she just can't. What he says is all rubbish.

And wierdest thing is, sometimes, when she's chatting on msn, she receives messages from the boy. The boy whose msn is not in her address book. The boy in her dreams!

(How did she know the msg is from the boy in her dreams? I've no idea, although the boy only put the picture of Kakashi as his display picture, she just knows.)

And in this very moment, just a few minutes after she finished asking her friends about the world stopping phenomenon, she hears the familiar tone of a new incoming message:

"Hello Block Rain!"

(To be continued...)