some funny stuff i found at a website that i can't rmb the url of! eep.

something occured to me a few weeks back. it was something i've read before last year, heard many times before on the telly, and finally something that was mentioned in a recent movie.

now before you get your hopes up about what astounding nugget of information i am about to produce here, i should probably say that many people would have thought about this certain, SOMETHING, that i'm being unneccesarily mysterious about before in their lives.

i am speaking about the peculiar, ingenious, most extraordinary phenomenon of a predator ensnaring its prey by means of bewitching it and practically hypnotising it into an enrapturing entrancement. the prey in this case almost loses all its senses, only feeling the unshakeable desire to stare into its predator's eyes (where applicable) and if possible, arrange itself neatly on a dinner platter with roasted veggies to be presented to the widening mouth of the aforementioned ravenous creature. of course this isn't a laughing matter, as the consequences are terrifying. this form of dazzling one's prey, such that it is near to throwing itself prostrate at your feet begging you to kill it, is truly fearsome.

i first heard this on Animal Planet (of course). on screen was a rabbit directly facing a snake, not a big one or terribly frightening one, just a normal old rabbit-gobbling snake. and the narrator mentioned something about the rabbit being "bewitched" by the snake's eyes, and how it was mesmerised into paralysis, simply standing there watching the future cause of its untimely end without a single twitch. a bit of an easy meal i would think for the serpent, kinda like fast food except that burgers and fries don't stare at you from behind the counter.

and then i came across this.... i don't know what to call it, phenomenon? method?....i shall settle with "thingamajig".... in Twilight. edward cullen (aka Predator) tells bella (aka Prey) that he is the perfect predator and that everything about him draws her in. his eyes, his voice, his looks, his smell even. everything about him makes her want to be near him, and then it would just be a simple matter of choosing where to take a bite out of. and best of all, she would so dearly love for him to do so, even at the expense of her life.

?!?!?!??!?!

does this not scare you!??!?!?!

does it not make you fear everything that attracts you now!??!?!

what if, at the end of every dangling carrot, there is a yawning black mouth with hideously sharp teeth and tremendously bad breath waiting to swallow you??!?!

that, by the way, was a metaphor.

should we not be afraid of predators hypnotising our minds and making us blithely turn off our innate alarm sensors or worse, WANT to be eaten/taken advantage of/robbed/injured/mugged/etc etc??!?!?

what if people perfected this thingamajig (or even this CRAFT) and used it for ends that i can't even think of!??!?!

i fear to take even a single step down this path of imagination. in fact, i might even pause and hesitate, before doing an about-turn and retracing my steps.

it's insane!!!!!! there could be millions of conspiracy theories if you consider it. well maybe not, i don't know, i was just trying to add to the overall sense of panic and chaos.

ah what the hell, i shall leave this now to steam in the juices of my imagination and ponder upon this matter further.

i must admit that i am a person with a rather critical eye, i rarely see any people, male or female, that i find good-looking or beautiful. so at the times that i DO think someone approaching perfection in outward appearances, i find it a big enough event to post on the ol' blog.

so who is this extraordinary being i speak of, the one so well-endowed in the looks department?

he is none other than........ RAFAEL NADAL.

i've already established that he is my current fave tennis player, ever since he appeared many seasons ago and overthrew federer in one of the early matches of his inspiring career.

and i've probably already mentioned in passing that i found his looks exotic and attractive.

but when i watched his match against murray in abu dhabi (unfortunately he lost to that clown), i was once again bowled over by his near-perfection. his is a rare blend of fine features AND great body, extremely totally overwhelmingly hard to find in the modern world or any world at any point in history in fact.

with the fear of sounding tremendously superficial and overly indulgent, i shall include a description of nadal, which does not capture the extent of his great looks at all.

nadal has wavy tousled locks, very dashingly held back with that warrior headband of his. and he has fantastically deep-set eyes, squinty but not too much so, which gives him that Clint Eastwood charisma. it goes with his image as the Spanish conquistador, dangerous, lethal and fierce. then we move down to that subtle trace of a stubble around his chin, perfect in its near-absence because noone likes a scruffy looking fella or a santa claus lookalike with scraps of dinner entrapped in a full-grown bush underneath. and of course there's the body, artistically sculpted almost. killingly proportionate, with long legs but not so that he looks like a newborn giraffe. most guys have long torsos unfortunately, but nadal's is an amazing proportion that only few other guys like Rain and Jerry Yan have. nadal also has the right muscle bulk, which is truly hard to find. many guys are either too scrawny or overdo the gym training and protein shake-drinking. his bulk is even nicer than cristiano ronaldo's, who's just a tiny bit too lean. nadal has AMAZING biceps plus triceps, and sinewy forearms and lower legs. and on the few occasions he lifts up his shirt to wipe away the sweat off his forehead, everyone in the tennis-watching arena holds their breath when they catch sight of the abs of course. well actually the last time i saw his abs they weren't great six packs but still very defined so i shall conclude, in my absolutely biased perspective, that he has since then trained hard and improved his abdominal muscles. he has the perfect broadness of shoulder, not too broad like a swimmer's, which can taper drastically to a tiny waist that gives a literally "V" torso that's a bit repulsive (namely Phelps). nadal's neck muscles are defined too, and his thighs, from the look of his fitted berms/capris, look suitably slim and proportioned for his calves and hips. and he has a great skin colour, tanned which matches his red indian looks perfectly, unlike some tanned westerners who look burnt. and from a particular image of him walking back to the base line from the net, i could tell with my eleventh sense that he has great back muscles too, an area most people forget to work on when in the gym. and to add to the overall effect, there's his predatory glares and glances, insanely extreme grip on the racket that gives him a aesthetically superior swing, athletic efficient effortless movements on court that make him look super duper strong and fit, and an iron strength of mind that has turned the tide in many a set that he was down.