Random Posts of a Guy (RPG)

- CLOSED -

2009-07-13T20:41:00.001+08:00

Yeah. My blog is now officially closed. But feel free to read the old posts =\
Currently working on something else =)

SAF Day! And I have clerk duty =\

2009-07-01T19:23:00.002+08:00

It's SAF day today!
Supposed to have some parade in the morning but due to the rain, we had a wet-weather ceremony xD
Then we were provided breakfast.. everyone except the OCS cadets MUAHAHA.. Somehow we just can't help laughing at them =x

And... It's HALF DAY TODAY!! Wheee....
How nice, and I have duty today -.-"

Supposedly Joshua's duty, but on monday, he swapped with me.
My off on monday, his on tuesday, and somehow I had duty on monday (i forgot! =x)
So to avoid running back at 3pm for duty, I asked Joshua to swap with me.. and his is on Wednesday.
At that point I am still unaware of SAF day and the subsequent half day =o

So yeah, I sort of traded the extra 7hrs at home for a whole afternoon and evening.
What a good trade.. And yet another empirical evidence why I shouldn't enter the business world.. I'll just be killed in an instant haha xD

RIP MJ.

2009-06-26T21:43:00.002+08:00

Michael Jackson.
1958 - 2009.

Sad news. I loved some of his songs and definitely his slick moves. I bet his "moonwalk" will go down in the history of music and dance. No doubt about it...

You know what's the weirdest thing about humans?
We all find random reasons to hate and flame someone, but when he/she dies or leaves the world, everyone mentions only the good things about him/her.
Its wierd huh, human nature..

Hate while alive, Love after death.

Duty reflections

2009-06-23T22:11:00.004+08:00

Few things I learnt:
1) The staff lounge sofas, though they look nice and comfy to sleep on, they are not!
the arm rest part (where your head lies on when u attempt to lie on the sofa) is inclined downwards. hence throughout my sleep, i had to make a conscious effort to tilt inwards to fight against gravity. GAH.

result == 3hrs of sleep or so in total + midnight reading of Java book == sleepy;

2)Zam is damn cute/funny when he's sleepy and half awake.
When I asked him what we gonna have for breakfast.
He said: "No breakfast. If you wanted to eat, you should have went off to the cookhouse before we opened up the building at 6.30am".
And I was about to ask "But how I leave the locked up building when you have the key and you're sleeping?", but then he fell asleep again.

result == empty stomach + silent laughter;

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Today helped out with the navy event the whole day.
And I got a new appointment!

I am now teh "PRESENTER DIRECTOR"! Phear me!!! Rawr..
My scope:
-> Click powerpoints. HAHAHA
-> Provide smooth transitions between the changing of screens from one laptop to the other
-> Play the background music before the overseas delegate arrive and stop when they sit down

Man, its one tough job indeed. I definitely deserve such a powerful and high-ranking sounding appointment like "PRESENTER DIRECTOR". Hehe.

The lonesome night of a SAS Duty Clerk

2009-06-22T19:25:00.005+08:00

Alright. It's my first SAS Duty Clerk duty today. First time I gonna stay in since I got posted out of Delta Wing line as a Private (PTE).

Did all the routine stuff liao, now resting, so went to the Staff Lounge to use the computer while my other partner (non-OOC), the Orderly Enlistee slacked in the Duty Room with 2 other enlistees who stayed behind (one has foot infection, cant walk home. other one accompanying. so nice of him)
Password doesn't work. What the heck.
No choice, go down to first floor and use the computers at Student's Lounge.
No lights. What the heck.
I'm like currently using a computer in PITCH DARKNESS. ALONE.
Normally I would freak out. But what the heck, its my only Internet access point -.-"

So here I am, using the computer in the DARK. I can't believe it. I can barely see the silhouette of my hand when I stretch it out (and its only because of the light from the computer screen).

Bah, enough of my current situation...
I noticed something peculiar yesterday. Apparently quite a few females, including JC classmates like Vannessa, around me have dizzy spells. I was thinking it might be because of me (lol jk), until my sister got it too. Then I had to go and fetch her from the MRT station. Ran there and killed my knees (I have knee inflammation and I haven't ran for nearly 2 mths haha), assisted her to the nearest taxi stand and helped her hobble the rest of the way home to bed to rest. Tiring sia, maybe because I slack too much for too long liao >.<

Event #1:

Dragonica Party on 27th.
E2Max@TheCathay.
3pm ~ 7pm

Event #2:
(Ex) Dota clan outing
27th.
Dinner at Chomp Chomp.
Initially supposed to be last week, but got rescheduled (till an unknown date... up till now)

Event #3:
Dragonica Movie Outing
27th. 12pm.

Event #4:
Family dinner! My mum just dropped it on me after I agreed to go for the Dragonica (DGN) movie outing. But its in the afternoon so till then it was ok.. Until these 2 Facebook notices. Aaah...

Dang 27th is such a popular date.
1) DGN movie outing
2) family dinner
3) DGN party
4) (ex) dota clan outing

Aaargh.. decisions decisions =(
I could try to manage my time and rush around, but then, some timings just clash.
And damn I wish I have a "Manta Style".

Okays, gtg prowl again. Ciao.

Edit:
I'm back! After like 10min haha..
I got the new password from the 2 other people who stayed back. Whee, now I can use the computer without being in the pitch dark room alone xD

Funniest Movie Experience. Ever.

2009-06-20T23:20:00.002+08:00

Decided to gather at WQ's house at 4.30pm after he's free, so Justin, Sin Chin and me decided to catch a movie in the afternoon around 1~2pm before going.

Bought 3 tickets of "Hannah Montana: The Movie" for 2pm at Tampines Mall GV.

But SC was late! Gah.. So Justin and me waited and waited.. When SC came, it was 2.15pm already. Hoping that the advertisements haven't ended yet, we rushed up to the 2nd floor (Theatre 6 is 2nd floor of Tamp GV).

I was leading the trio, and I ran towards the entrance, with the number 6.

There were 2 doors, left and right.

Since we came from the left, I looked at the hall layout to locate our seats so we can get seated ASAP.

And we did, we rushed down to our seats.

Thank god the advertisements were still playing.

And it continued playing...

And playing...

And we were like "Wah siao liao, the advertisements nowadays so long sia, 33min then finally starting".

And then the movie started...

With the title "I love you, man".

HOLY SHIT. Lol...

Ah well, we just sat through and watched it anyway. It was a good and funny show.

On the way out, we checked the hall number.

Guess what? Halls 5 and 6 are next to each other.

Hall 5 was the left entrance, Hall 6 was the right entrance.

Holy shit. I thought the hall had 2 entrances, like most other cinema halls...

No wonder we were wondering why the ticket seller said "Hannah Montana" had only the center seats for the 5th row from the front when there were like 4 blank rows behind us throughout the whole advertisement and movie screening. Lol. It was so damn funny that we laughed about it all the way to WQ's house >.<

SAS

2009-06-15T18:03:00.002+08:00

Yup. Currently posted to SAS (SAF Advanced School) temporarily, where they train CPTs and MAJs to further up their ranks. Apparently Joshua and me got posted there at a lull period where they are no batches/classes, so its pretty slack according to them... And it is.

We only helped clean up and arrange 2 rooms today, the rest of the time was sleeping and reading of books. Lunch break is no longer 20minutes long and we even went to the library xD

Guess what's the best part. It's supposedly 8am-5pm. But today we were told to book out at 4.30pm. Lol.. And the lao jiao (experienced people) there say its common. Haha.. I think we both are going to enjoy our stay in SAS until our posting out from SAFTI MI. Lol.

Posting...

2009-06-13T00:11:00.003+08:00

Got 1.5hrs worth of notice from LTA Faizal to pack up everything and move off to SAFTI-MI HQ HR department to report for our posting.

In the end, I had to book out with a backpack and a whole thrash bag filled-to-the-brim worth of OCS items.. Imagine a green santa with a huge white bag going home.

Here's the supposed timeline of what happens to OOCs:

1) Hang around in wingline and help out

2) Posted to HQ HR department where they decide where you go temporarily

3) Posted to temporary place within SAFTI-MI to help out

4) When it is decided on whether you are going to recourse or not, you will then either stay on till your recourse or be posted out of SAFTI-MI respectively.

Apparently we'll get our temporary postings on Monday only, though we heard out of the 5 of us, 3 will become the School Sergeant Major's runners.. The crap? He need so many runners for what? One carry his stick, one carry his beret, one carry umbrella for him ar? >.<

Life of an OOC

2009-06-10T22:03:00.003+08:00

The difference between the life of a cadet and an OOC is seriously heaven and earth.

Just having spent 3 days of my NS life as an official OOC, I could see the vast difference.

- You get treated with more respect and they are more willing to acknowledge your existence.

- There is less regimentation.

- Your workload is much lesser.

-You get to see the fun side of everyone (while they're not in front of cadets) and many other funny stuff.

- You get to go anywhere you want, unless you're needed to help out to do something.

- You have freedom over when you eat and what you eat, same goes for your sleeping hours and resting periods.

Seriously, the list goes on and on...

And the only drawbacks are "pride of becoming an officer" and lower pay.

Then again, ranks sell for around S$1 in the SAF shops xD

Dragonica Pre-OBT is OUT!

2009-06-07T08:14:00.002+08:00

Yeshh.. It is out.

Pre-OBT launch

Fire it Up!

Host:	Dragonica
Type:	Causes - Rally
Network:	Global

Start Time:	Thursday, June 4, 2009 at 5:00pm
End Time:	Thursday, June 25, 2009 at 9:00am
Location:	Dragonica

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=89260742301&ref=nf

Find out more at:

http://dragonica.iahgames.com/

Join me and add me in game ^^

Ign: SozoS

OOC

2009-06-06T16:00:00.004+08:00

Condition:

1x Patella tendinitis (some knee cap inflammation or "Jumper's knee")

1x Back Strain

Medication:

1/12 ATT B

2/12 OOC from OCS

Hm.. I wonder where I will get posted to.. I heard some OOC people become clerk, others become medics or even RP... And of course, some chose to re-course. Will I re-course? Er.. Currently, no. Until I find some motivation to do so =\

Btw, here's some info about my knee..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patellar_tendinitis

My new girlfriend!

2009-05-31T12:35:00.002+08:00

I just got hitched people. Have a look at my girlfriend =)

Haha.. No la, that's my ah ma. Pretty right? ^^

Went out with my family yesterday for dinner at PS TCC.

Wanted and promised to treat my ah ma to a good meal with my OCS pay since I got in.. But then she had some eye operation, so it got delayed till today lor.. Oh well.

Apparently she likes to eat the bread there A LOT. Haha..

New trend?

2009-05-24T14:49:00.002+08:00

Overheard a couple talking at Vivocity yesterday.

They're about 20+ ~ 30+ years old. The guy is apparently apologising to the girl for maligning her due to some miscommunication.

(Paraphrased and translated from chinese)

Guy: "I love you I love you I love you I love you..."

Girl: "You know why I angry not. Its not that I cannot forgive you. Its that I hate it when people malign (yuan wang) me..."

Guy: "I know. That's why I love you what.. You always touch me.."

Girl: "I know.. but this time you really did it lor.."

Guy: "Okay okay, I'm sorry. I love you okay.."

Girl: "Okay. I want you to apologise on MSN."
Guy: "Okok.."

Girl: "And also apologise on Facebook"

Guy: "Huh? Why Facebook?"

Then the rest I didn't really catch.. But, new trend huh. LOL..

Belated birthday celebration =\

2009-05-03T00:20:00.002+08:00

Had a super postponed birthday celebration for my sis. Like 2wks late >.<

Wanted to treat her bday meal with my OCS pay on her bday but i was sort of running late for booking in.. The next week, she went MIA. So it dragged till this week =.="

Had no idea what to get for her bday so I consulted friend.

Went to Minibits and got her a necklace with a mini crown ring with small pink "crystals" in it.

Had a nice long chat. Never had one like that since months =\

One quote she seemed to stick close to (which her friend told her):
"A smart girl always leaves before being left"

It refers to her episodes of BFs when we were talking about it and I asked who initiated all the breakups.

Sheesh. Some quote her stupid friend taught her.

An Interest in Interest.

2009-05-01T22:55:00.010+08:00

Discussed my one of my long held belief with my parents today.

It was regarding interest rates and how to minimise amount of money used to purchase an item, especially big ticket items like a house or a car.

Theory:

Instead of buying them by installments, save up enough and buy them in a 1-off payment.

Pros:

-> Pay a total of less money

-> Reduce the hassle of installment paying and fear of not being able to pay the next installment

-> You will probably "finish paying" earlier than if you bought by installment

Cons:

-> Will not have the item until you have saved enough

How does it work? Lemme illustrate with some figures:

[Note: The following are simply figures to explain my idea, not real figures]

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Assume the money are in real terms (i.e. taking into account of inflation),

Item to purchase: A 5-room HDB flat

Price (NOW): S$60,000

Price (20 years later): S$140,000

[Assuming property prices rise, which is quite common, at an average rate of S$4,000 per year. Furthermore, SG being small and densely populated, property prices increase rather quickly]

Installment Plan: (20 years) S$10,000/yr or around S$833/mth

Total amount paid (by installment over 20 years): S$200,000

Amount put aside to buy the item in 1-off payment: S$10,000/yr or around S$833/mth

Time taken to save enough to buy in 1-off payment: 10 years

[Price (10 years later): S$60,000 + 10x S$4,000 = S$100,000]

Total amount paid (by 1-off payment): S$100,000

Amount saved: S$100,000

Time saved: 10years

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Of course, the example may not be reflective of the real world, but that's the gist of the idea. Save time, save money, just endure without it for a while.

Some things that my parents put forward (they disagree with my theory and say it was childish, naive thinking =\):

-> Random events

Like suddenly 5million people decided to come to SG to stay, hence ramping the prices up by a heck lot in a short moment. In that case, payment by installment will be cheaper as the rate is already fixed while the payment by 1-off is dependent on the price at the point of purchase.

-> Amount of interest paid in total is less than the amount of appreciation of item

For example, in total, you pay S$40,000 in interest over the years. However, after you have paid finish, the item had appreciated by S$50,000, hence you have "profited" S$10,000. Meanwhile, the payment by 1-off may end up paying more than by installment due to the unexpected increase in value of the item.

To discuss about the above argument, there are some things to be squared-off.

First off, what's the use of interest rates? They are to ensure that the seller does not lose out, if not profit, from the buyer after the buyer has completed paying back everything. This means that the total amount paid by the buyer should be equal, if not more, than the price of the item in the future. Hence, the seller will only lose out if there is an unexpected increase in price of the item after the installment rates have been agreed upon.

Secondly, in the above example, it has been assumed that the interest rate is more than the appreciation of the house. If not, HDB will be "losing" by selling the house at that installment rate.

Thirdly, just to clarify matters, it is a fact that people who buy HDB on installments realise they pay up to 2~3 times the actual price in total after they finish their installments. For example, they buy a 5-room at S$50,000 with installment. After clearing their installment, they have effectively paid a total of S$150,000. This is a real life example. So er, even if my example may not be perfect but it is sort of realistic, in the way that the total payable is insanely high.

Also, the installment rate is decided when you buy the house at S$60,000. So you have to follow up the plan till you pay finish all the installments. Meanwhile, the price will likely to be always lower than the final total amount paid, so 1-off payment will allow you to get the item faster, given that you save/pay at the same rate.

Okay, now to touch on the points put forward by my parents:

1) Random events are beyond our control and hence can hardly be considered as an arguing factor against/for the theory

2) My parents are very very sure that property prices will definitely rise faster than the amount of interest rate payable, hence it will definitely be more expensive to save and buy in a 1-off upayment. Sure, I agree that unexpected appreciation of item is the only factor that will probably upset the theory. However, the whole point of interest rate is to ensure that the seller does not lose out, or even gain, in the transaction. So, the difference between the interest rate payable and the appreciation should be negligible if not having more interest rate than appreciation. Furthermore, it is foolish to simply assume that property prices will always rise at rates that are quicker than the interest rate. Just take a look at the property prices in US. It is FALLING. Of course SG has less space and rising population, but still, one cannot simply assume prices will rise forever, just like the case of the US property bubble.

Regarding the disadvantage of not having the item till you can save up enough to buy in 1 shot. There's a "shortcut". Borrow from your parents/relatives to chalk up enough to buy in a single payment first. Then pay them back at the rate you would have saved to buy it previously. That way, you would get the item cheaper (since it hasn't appreciated yet) and immediately. While whoever lent you the money will get a nice interest rate (after all, the person will get S$100,000 in 10years for lending S$60,000 now, which is around 6.7% annual interest. Neat huh).

Hence, I still believe that my theory will hold.. Anyone got comments on it? What do you guys think?

What if Delta Wing was a DotA hero?

2009-04-25T16:58:00.004+08:00

Haven't been blogging in a long while. Or at least it felt a long while (It felt like months have past). Oh well..

So, what if Delta Wing was a DotA hero?

It would definitely would be Anti-mage or Nerubian Assasin.

Why?

Anti-mage

-> Mana Break

Nerubian Assasin

-> Mana Burn

Famous DotA quote (or more like character speak): "Time is mana".

You get my drift..

Given the same training syllabus, our wing always have lesser admin time, later book-out times. It's not making sense. It's not like I hate or loathe the training (in fact I like certain stuff I'm doing/learning there), but the free time we have is seriously not making sense. Sierra wing booked out today at 8am, we booked at at 3pm? Last week we booked out at 4pm+. What happened to 5day/5.5day week, whichever it is following.. And on public holidays, we don't book out the night before, we book out the late morning or early afternoon of the public holiday itself. What kind of public holiday is that? -.-"

To top it off, every single book-out we have so far, we have tons of reflections and precis (some lesson textbook) to read and memorise before book-in. I mean even if we don't do anything but study 24hrs (seriously only 24hrs after minus-ing travelling, meal times, etc), we will barely be able to finish it due to fatigue (you know.. Econs.. Decreasing rate of returns). So what happens to book-out? What happened to the family time? What happened to the socialising time? What happened to the leisure time? It's as good as staying in camp with the exception of better food and lodging. Zzz..

Delta.

2009-04-11T10:42:00.001+08:00

We come from many places,
All across the land,
Of many different races
Together hand in hand.

United we stand
Divided we fall;
Ready to serve our nation's call

[Chorus]
We come from OCS,
We are the very best
Leading with dignity and pride
Wherever we go
We will always know
Our spirit lives forever more

Loyalty to country,
is what we all believe.
To lead, excel and overcome
is what we must achieve.

Forever strong and valiant,
we'll give our lives and more,
never ceasing to serve Singapore.

[Chorus]

Back to Camp

2009-03-22T11:43:00.002+08:00

Going back to camp tmr liao.. OCS it is huh.
Managed to finish a new C++ job for $50 in 2hrs yesterday lol..
I wish NUS c++ assignments are this easy. I wish. Haha

Don't feel like typing much nowadays.. Maybe its the "going back to camp liao mode" =\

Dragonball Evolution

2009-03-21T21:16:00.002+08:00

Ang moh goku wins. The visual effects were great. But the ki channelling looks lame >.<

Feel like watching/reading Dragonball because of the movie =\

DHS Chalet + DSTA Scholarship

2009-03-20T18:14:00.002+08:00

Had DSTA scholarship round 1 interview at 12.40pm on Thursday, then rushed to meet WQ, Justin and Jun Kiak at Costa Sands Burger King for lunch at 2pm. After that we checked in and slacked till people started coming..

We then played poker, barbecue, mahjong, mahjong, mahjong, mahjong, then check out.. Half way through my first mahjong game, I got a phonecall from DSTA saying I got through and I have a 2nd round of interview the next day at 1.45pm. Wth.. Oh well.. We also had midnight captain's ball. It was quite retarded.. Everything was so dark and everyone's silhouette looked the same. Rofl.. But it was fun XD

In the end, I slept for like only 2~3hours.. Then I rushed home to wash up and change before rushing for the 2nd round of interview.. Yu Hui said its a group discussion and I'll totally die if I don't have any kind of information. That freaked me out so much I actually tried to read up on defence news during that short 30minutes I spent at home..

Guess what? It wasn't even a proper interview. It was more of a situation test... that lasted 4 hours -.-" But I find it pretty fun though. Hehe.

C++ Mastermind v1.0

2009-03-18T18:19:00.002+08:00

Whee.. Finally finished coding a personal project - C++ Mastermind.

Ever seen a text-based Mastermind game on Command Prompt/MS DOS?

(Bet you havent.)

Ever wanna play it?

(Don't think you'll be super excited to, either =\)

Anyway, just download it and test it out for me =P

Steps:

1) Go to:

http://www.freewebs.com/sozos/junkyard.htm

2) Click the last link and download!

or..

1) Just download from here:

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?jnnzwyzqqot

P.S. Read the "READ ME" >.<

Race to Which Mountain?

2009-03-17T17:58:00.003+08:00

Pretty good show. Always liked shows where people have extraordinary powers, makes you have fantasies (not in the sexual way la -.-), only that in this one they ain't human. Oh well.

Pokemon?

2009-03-13T22:36:00.002+08:00

Saw some kiddo wearing a pokemon shirt and it reminded me of one of the songs we edited during our Cougar skit..

Pokemon Theme Song (Original)

I wanna be the very best
Like no one ever was
To catch them is my real test
To train them is my cause
I will travel across the land
Searching far and wide
Each Pokemon to understand
The power that's inside

Chorus
Pokemon!
Got to catch them all "Echo: It's you and me"
I know it's my destiny
Pokemon!
Ooh, you're my best friend
In a world we must defend
Pokemon!
Our hearts so true
Our courage will pull us through
You teach me and I'll teach you
Pokemon
Gotta catch 'em all!
Gotta catch 'em all!
Pokemon!

IPPT (Pokemon edited)

I wanna be the very best
Like no one ever was
To pull up is my real test
To jump far is my cause
I will run across the island (<-- refering to Tekong)
Training two point four (2.4)
Every station I come to face
The problem that's inside

Chorus
SBJ!
Gonna jump damn far! "Echo: It's 216"
I know it's my destiny
Pull up bar!
Ooh, you are not my friend
Its so hard to do just 6
Shuttle run!
Gonna turn round fast
Why can't I get 6 points from you?
Don't forget there's sit-up and there's
two point four (2.4)
Gotta train 'em all!
Gotta train 'em all!
IPPT!

POP Loh...?

2009-03-12T11:57:00.004+08:00

POP-ed yesterday and spent the whole day sleeping away to make up for the 1hour of sleep I had before the 24km route march and the immediate Passing Out Parade right after.

The 24km route march was pretty interesting.

Before we commenced the march off, I asked a Gryphon sergeant..

Me: "Hey sergeant, what's in the field pack? How come you all managed to fit everything inside your field pack without having it bulging?"

Serg: "Er.. The standard 10pack items less the store items, which means only 6 packs lor."

Me: "Really? I thought we had to carry our whole cupboard items along as we ain't going back to our bunks after the march..."

Serg: "Eh? Since when? We left our non-6 packs items at the company office. Anyway our office is just over there what.." *Points to G Coy*

Me: "Wah.. So welfare ar.."
Serg: "Welfare? Where got.. Its standard la."

Me: "....." *walks away*

And its true! Most of us got pissed at the marching pace and the "OMG GOT PUDDLE LETS DODGE IT, and end up making the others behind halt" of the companies in front leading. No wonder we keep hearing from our commanders that Cougar always buay tahan 24km march. I heard the previous batches overtook all the companies in front and even ended at the end point like 10min before the next company marched in -.-"

Towards the last 2 checkpoints everyone were like walking zombies (me at least >.<). I was like just moving forward. My head was blank from lack of sleep and I was just using my eyes and legs to follow the field pack of the guy in front of me. Not to mention our more-than-extra-weight field packs causing numbness to both my shoulders, which ended up with me using my hands to carry the weight off my shoulder throughout the march.

And oh, it was fun too. We had karaoke sessions at the back of our platoon. It was like KTV Mobile or Human IPod, whatever name you prefer. We spammed singing songs we can remember lyrics of off our heads and everyone who knew will just join in. It was the only method that was able to keep me awake and turn off zombie mode XD

After the march was the parade which was quite lame as well, because there was one part at the start where we rest for like 1hr before we march into the parade square and scam our parents that we just finished our route march, and we're doing our cooling down exercises now before we start the parade proper. And guess what, we were camping just behind the trees whereby we can see through and see our parents sitting. Oh well.

So.. I'm no longer a recruit, neither are my fellow coy mates. We're all privates. Now what? Posting to another unit after a block leave of around 10days. Why don't I feel anything, unlike everyone else who is like "OMG POP LOH POP LOH POP LOHHHHHHHHHHH..."

Maybe I'm weird =\

Decisions Decisions...

2009-03-08T12:02:00.003+08:00

A levels are over. What to apply to now?

So many options.. Bah.

Scholarship choices:

-> PSC

-> NIS

Courses:
-> NUS Double Degree Applied Math/Comp Sci

-> NUS Math

-> NUS Comp Sci

-> NUS Comp Eng

Which ones?? Aaaah...

Zeh A level results Zare Outz

2009-03-06T20:21:00.006+08:00

Got my company pictures liao ^^

[If you are looking for me, I'm not wearing specs >.<]

Cougar Coy Formal Shot

(I'm somewhere near the center right side on the 2nd standing row)

Cougar Platoon 3 Formal Shot

(I'm at the center on the last row)

Cougar Platoon 3 Informal Shot

(I'm on the left side "twisting my hips!" the way I'm supposed to do BCCT XD)

Also got my company tee. Yay!

[Shirt Front - An intricate logo on the left chest]

[Shirt Back - A claw with our motto "Everyday, Stronger, Better, Faster. Cougar"]

[Shirt Logo - 2 cat heads flanking "C", in between "Cougar" and "Stronger.Better.Faster. "]

The shirt logo actually quite nice la.. But the sewing screw it up I think.. The cat heads quite cool but the words cant see properly one.. Bloody hell.

Ah btw, something that you all non-Cougars don't have on your LBVs...

A cougar badge and a name tag:

It currently stinks like mad cos I haven't washed it and it's been through rain/sweat/soil etc for the past 2months. We had to put our surname behind for our name tags. I wanted "Pika Choo" but my buddy and section mates say that's too childish so I changed to "Ha Choo". Kinda regret now. Who cares about childishness when you're in the army XD

Today was the release of A level results, everyone gets to book out earlier including those not taking A levels (lucky bastards!). Bookout-ed on Fri when everyone else I know book out on Thurs night.. $%^&*(*&^%

Results ain't stellar but within expectations, enough said =\

Guess I gonna spend the rest of my bookout time thinking what to apply etc.. Bleh..

Toilet Paper?

2009-02-27T23:03:00.004+08:00

Had a bad diarrhoea on one of the days when we went outfield.

It was horrible.

There was no toilet paper and I forgot to bring tissue paper.

While I eased myself, there were bugs and flies roaming around me.

When I was done, I looked for alternative toilet paper sources..

Hm..

Leaves?

Wth, no. They're all muddy.

Dropped white tape from previous markings?

Am I sick? How old are those already...

Twigs?

Am I getting desperate? -.-

Then I searched my LBV for anything I could use...

RCK (Rifle Cleaning Kit) Cloth?

Eh.. If I use then I'll be carrying it with me throughout. Eww..

Wash with water from waterbag/bottle?

Eh how the.. I'm not some gymnast.. And it seems gross.

Suddenly I saw the light...

Thank you 2LT Anshul and you being insistent on us bringing WRITING MATERIALS everywhere we go. Now I fully appreciate your intentions. It was meant to be our makeshift toilet paper in times like these (Or at least thats what I used rofl) I tore out all the blank pages and wiped my butt >.<

Sirens everywhere.

2009-02-21T16:00:00.002+08:00

"When the whistle blow, sirens everywhere."

Not true for Cougar.

The fire siren rings for nothing. For long periods of time.

We don't get ringing in our ears due to gunshot during live range.

We get them from hearing the spoilt fire siren ring for over an hour.

And it happened twice already.

If somehow a real fire breaks out, we're all dead.

We no longer respond to the fire siren like we are supposed to lol.

My ear still can faintly hear the ringing sound till now... SIAN ARH!

The Giant Blisterified Rat of Tekong

2009-02-07T12:33:00.003+08:00

Yes its true.

There exists a giant rat in Tekong.

Its around 1.7m+ in height.

And it happens to be me.

On the first day of book-in, I wiped clean the whole biscuit tin of food I brought in.

By the 3rd day, my section ran out of food. The only survivor (Wei Jie) was forced to ration out around 3 miserable packs of biscuits per day. I was so hungry I had nightmares =\

By the 5th day, my platoon ran out of food.

I had to resort to eating strepsils and stuff like that, not because I was sick or whatever, but because I was too hungry >.<

About blisters.. I hate them so much. SOOOOO much.

Just from SOC I kanna 4 burst blisters. Usually can do swing trainer and pull-ups. With the blisters, I can only cross half the swing trainer before the pain overwhelms me and my pull-ups drop by half or more -.-"

While my blisters are on the way to recovery, I had another SOC and they broke again, then I failed SOC #$%^&*(

Ninja.

2009-01-31T10:16:00.003+08:00

During one of the nights in camp I had to get out of my bunk after lights out to do smth (basically eat and then brush up cos i'm so hungry, as usual). Then my buddy is like "OMG don't suicidal. Get caught = die". Then I'm like "I'll ninja there." And I did.

It totally reminds me of the last day of field camp...

At the wee hours in the morning, a few of our rifles were taken (either stealthily or by force) by our sergeants. Fearing confinement and all the shit (for me I was pissed cos we were told there was going to be a dawn attack and I wanna rambo them with the rifle and blanks), 3 of us - my buddy, another bunkmate called Wei Jie, and me, decided to steal back our rifles.

Before the field camp we were told about rifle stealing and we asked if we can steal our sergeants' rifles, they said ok, as long as we can find it. Hence, we started our movement, at 5.30am when its still dark. We applied all the tactical shit we learnt and crept all the way down to their tents. The prowlers and sentries on duty (fellow recruits) didn't even notice us rofl. Once I even had problem locating my buddy to pass down a message (I was the "front scout" cos I was like the most experienced amongst the 3 of us, I knew all the stuff they taught on the first teaching =\).

When we reached their tent, we peeked in and looked around for shiny objects (our blank attachments on our rifles were silvery). I saw one but when I was about to peek closer, I realised the sergeant was sleeping on that object, and he was turning around. Basket. So we continued searching.. Just then, the alarm clock rang. WTH.. Siao liao, then we retreated and fell back.

All the while, Wei Jie was damn funny.. My buddy and me doing all the tactical shit so as to avoid detection, then Wei Jie WALKED openly on the open road. Rofl.. Then he even dragged his feet, causing all the sandy sound. Bah.

Anyway, feeling pissed at failing to get back our rifles, and feeling useless during the dawn attack, we decided to contribute in our own way - set up a early warning system so the rest can be prepared and choing at the first sight of enemy.

The plan:

- I set up a solo listening/observation post some 50m from the sergeant's tent. When I see people carrying weapon walking towards us, I'll cover the lightstick on the tree I'm hiding behind.

- Seeing that, Wei Jie hiding halfway to our harboring (ie camp) site will cover his lighstick

- Then my buddy Justin will sound off to the rest (ask them wake up etc) and choing down to attack or smth lol

It sounded damn cool and good and we carried it out. But on second thoughts it was quite funny and stupid lol..

Anyway, I camped there till the sun came out and I was caught by a sergeant -.-"

No more concealment by the dark, and the trees at our campsite are all lik 15cm in width. So even if I was proning and stuff, they could see me from 100m away. Rofl.. And Justin told me Wei Jie was sleeping while I was keeping a lookout. Basket.. Lol.

Looking back I think it was quite dumb.. But a very interesting and funny experience haha.. Ninja skills put to the test, though we failed XD

Happy CNY!

2009-01-26T21:26:00.002+08:00

First day of CNY.

Went to visit relatives and get ang baos (i.e. red packets), aka pai nian...

This year was quite interesting. 2 things happened.

1) First blood

On the way out of our house to our first destination, we bumped into our neighbour living 4 floors below. We greeted her happy CNY, and then she gave us ang baos. On the spot. No cue. LOL. Unexpected first blood.

2) Taxi?

Before we left our grandpa's house to our grandma's house, my sis made an argument that we should take the cab. When asked who will foot the crazy bill, she said "Use ang bao money la! Kor (i.e. brother, i.e. me) and me split lor. You see ar.. We pay like $8 each, you all (refering to parents) fill up the remaining few bucks. Then we go there earlier, we catch those people visiting ah ma (i.e. grandma) before they leave, then we get back more than $10++. Its a great investment!"

Rofl. Best argument she ever given in her entire life that I've heard.

Tagged by Hakeym

2009-01-24T11:36:00.002+08:00

Lol this is so retardedly funny. Its like fill in the blanks and you end up with a retarded message XD

Dear Qian,

I don’t really know how to tell you this, but I’ll join the monastery. I think I realised it when I quoted Santa in your camping car and I saw you sit on my avocado plant. I’m sure you’re frostbitten enough to understand how awful I’ve felt.. I’m returning your ring to you, but I’ll keep the oil stocks as a memory. You should also know that I never will forget our friendship. Greetings to your frog Leonard.

Love,

Davin

P/S: You’re so lifeless, Smelly Armpits Hakeym.

RULES:
#1 Do the “Letter MEME”.
#2 Tag no less than 5 other people, and leave them a comment, informing them that they have been tagged.
#3 Copy the “How-to” Letter Meme, and finish your Journal entry. How you do the Letter Meme:
Dear(the last person who text you), I don’t really know how to tell you this, but __1__. I think I realised it when/on __2__3__ and I saw you __4__5(1)/5(2)__. I’m sure you’re __6__ enough to understand __7__.. I’m returning __8__ to you, but I’ll keep __9__ as a memory. You should also know that I __10__11__. __12_.Love,(your name).P/S: You’re so lifeless, __13__ (the name of person who tagged you).

1. What’s the colour of your shirt?
Blue - Our romance is over
Red - Our affair is over
White - I’ll join the monastery
Black - I dislike you
Green - Our horoscope doesn’t match
Grey - You’re a pervert
Yellow - I’m selling myself
Pink - Your nostrils are insulting
Brown - The mafia wants you
No shirt - You’re a loser
Other - I’m in love with your sister

2. Which is your birth month?
January - That night
February - Last year
March - When your dwarf bit me
April - When I tripped on sesame seeds
May - First of May
June - When you put cuffs on me
July - When I threw up
August - When I saw the shrunken head
September - When we skinny dipped
October - When I quoted Santa
November - When your dog ran amok
December - When I changed tennis shoes

3. Which food do you prefer?
Tacos - In your apartment
Pizza - In your camping car
Pasta - Outside of Chicago
Hamburgers - Under the bus
Salad - As you ate enchilada
Chicken - In your closet
Kebab - With Paris Hilton
Fish - In women’s clothing
Sandwiches - At the Hare Krishna graduation
Lasagna - At the mental hospital
Hot dog - Under a state of trance
None of the above - With George Bush and his wife

4. What’s the colour of your socks?
Yellow - Hit on
Red - Insult
Black - Ignore
Blue - Knock out
Purple - Pour syrup on
White - Carve your initials into
Grey - Pull the clothes off
Brown - Put leeches on
Orange - Castrate
Pink - Pull the toupee off
Barefoot - Sit on
Other - Drive out

5. Boys: What’s the colour of your undergarment? Girls: You have 2 parts(1) What is the colour of your bra(2) What is the colour of your panty?
Black - My best friend
White - My father
Grey - Bill Clinton
Brown - My fart balloon
Purple - My mustard soufflé
Red - Donald Duck
Blue - My avocado plant
Yellow - My penpal in Ghana
Orange - My Kid Rock-collection
Pink - Manchester United’s goalkeeper
Beige - My John F. Kennedy-statue
Other (please state) - The crazy monk

6. What do you prefer to watch on TV?
Scrubs - ManO.C. - Emotional
One Tree Hill - Open
Heroes - Frostbitten
Lost - HighHighHouse
Simpsons - Cowardly
The news - Masochistic
Family Guy - Senile
Top Model - Middle-class
None of the above - Ashamed

7. Your mood right now?
Happy - How awful I’ve felt
Sad - How boring you are
Bored - That Santa doesn’t exist
Angry - That your pimples are at the last stage
Depressed - That we’re cousins
Excited - That there is no solution to this
Nervous - The middle-east
Worried - That your Honda sucks
Pathetic - That I did a sex-change
Ashamed - That I’m allergic to your hamster
Cuddly - That I get turned on by garbage men
Over joyous - That I’m open
Other - That Extreme Home Makeover sucks

8. What’s the colour of your walls in your bedroom?
White - Your ring
Yellow - Your love letters
Red - Your Darth Vader-poster
Black - Your tame stone
Blue - The couch cushions
Green - The pictures from LA
Orange - Your false teeth
Brown - Your contact book
Grey - Our matching snoopy-bibs
Purple - Your old lottery coupons
Pink - How awful I’ve felt
Other - Your memories from the military service

9. The first letter of your first name?
A/B - Your photo
C/D - The oil stocks
E/F - Your neighbour Martin
G/H - My virginity
I/J - The results of your blood-sample
K/L - Your left ear
M/N - Your suicide note
O/P - My common sense
Q/R - Your mom
S/T - Your collection of butterflies
U/V - Your criminal record
W/X - David’s tricot outfits
Y/Z - Your grades from college

10. The last letter in your last name?
A/B - Always thought of
C/D - Never will forget
E/F - Always wanted to break
G/H - Never openly mocked
I/J - Always have felt dirty before
K/L - Will tell the authorities about
M/N - Told in my confession today about
O/P - Was interviewed by the Times about
Q/R - Told my psychiatrist about
S/T - Get sick when I think of
U/V - Always will try to forget
W/X - Am better off without
Y/Z - Never liked

11. What do you prefer to drink?
Water - Our friendship
Beer - Senility
Soft drinks - A new life as a clone
Soda - The incarnation as an eskimo
Milk - The apartment building
Wine - Cocaine abuse
Cider - A passionate interest for mice
Juice - Oprah Winfrey imitations
Mineral water - Embarrassing rash
Hot chocolate - Eggplant-fetishism
Whisky - To ruin the second world war
Other - To hate the Boston Celtics

12. To which country would you prefer to go on a vacation?
Thailand - Warm regards
USA - Best regards
England - Good luck on your short-term leave from jail
Spain - Go and drown yourself
China - Disgusting regards
Germany - With ease
Japan - Go burn
Greece - Your everlasting enemy
Australia - Greetings to your frog Leonard
Egypt - Get away now
France - In pain
Other - Greetings to your freaky family

13. What is your favourite activity when hanging out with mates?
Gathering for drinks – Ugly pig
Football – Silly duck
Shopping – Kisser
Indulging for food – Cranky banana
Movies – Smelly Armpits
Snacks – Horny wolf
Snooker – Tiny stuff
Bowling – Sexy grandmother
Outdoor activities – Vain pot
Having a long talk – Nose picker
Taking pictures – Dumb person
Other – Burn yourself

Persons who have to do this:
1) Gorden
2) Qian
3) Winston
4) Fawwaz
5) My sis

Field Camp Loh.

2009-01-24T00:55:00.002+08:00

Yup. Field Camp just ended.

6 days of no bathing, brushing teeth, washing face. 5 days of no shitting (gave up on the last day lol)

Perma hungry. Perma thirsty. Perma tired. Perma camo on.

Been eating both my and my buddy's combat rations almost everyday cos he has no appetite and i'm perma hungry.. I spend half the time (literally) in field camp eating whenever i'm awake. I took snacks from everyone who would spare haha.. Best meal still had to be the KFC on the 2nd last night. All thanks to BMTC Sch 1 being in the festive mood. Heh.

High points:

Battle courses

Where they test us on the combat skills and techniques through a simulated battle route and objective). I don't know why but I can pick up, understand the rationale and memorise the drills and techniques just on the first teaching during lectures. But apparently a lot of people around me are struggling with basic routine stuff =\

Can drinks in Accessory packs

The best thing ever in field camp. Seriously, whatever you do, try to gather so many as you can and avoid trading them away lol.

Low points:

Tekan

Well, obviously.

High kneel

Out in the field camp, whenever we're not walking or moving, we have to stay in "High Kneel" position, where one of ur knees is on the ground while ur other foot stabilises you. Both legs have to form 90degrees. Try it on grass, you can probably last a good 10 minute easily. Try it on rocky sandy area like our camping (ie harbouring) site, and you'll cry.

Overall reflections:

I still feel the same about "Things will come, its just how you react to them that will determine the outcome". Some people really buay tahan all the crap we're all getting and break down mentally. Others start f**king each other for every single small thing, and it kinda gets on my nerves seeing everyone doing it to each other when we're all in this together.

Another thing that I always believed in also cropped up - "Everyone makes mistakes, give them chances". Since we're been tekaned and f**ked by our sergeants and sirs, almost everyone gets all pumped and flared up. When one person screws up something, no matter how small, everyone else will f**k him. I mean c'mon la, no one's perfect. Not everyone's born a perfect soldier. Even the OC made minor mistakes during the field camp. There was once when Platoon 2 was being scolded very badly by their PC because one guy screwed up. It resulted in the whole platoon hating him, even his buddy turned his back on him. I was like WTF LA! YOUR buddy and YOU turn your back on him. Well apparently, not only I felt like that. Their PC felt the same way and he got f**ked soon after.

The past 6 days (ignoring the previous week which we were confined before the field camp) have been pretty meaningful. Learnt quite a lot of stuff. Though physical fitness wise, probably would have deproved due to lack of PT, but our mental fitness definitely improved. For those who are afraid of the field camp, I got 2 things to share:
1) Dont worry, I heard most Coys slack off. Their field camps are like picnics, unlike ours.

2) You'll get shit anyway, just adapt and face it. Take it on like a man.

P.S. In NS, f**k means screwing him over like scolding and abusing him mentally via verbal and/or physical methods.

You love guns? Wait till you enter the army.

2009-01-11T00:00:00.003+08:00

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To all CS and action-movie lovers out there,

Sure, its cool to shoot and stuff. You might even imitate characters and run around with guns, hiding behind pillars, etc. But once you get into the army and lug around a weapon (at least 4kg, depending on what kind of weapon you get. But in BMT you are only assigned the SAR21).

You cannot (you're supposed to, just don't get caught):

- drop it

- dirty it

- leave it unattended

- aim at things with your weapon (not even the bird sitting on the ledge)

- cock your weapon unless you're told to do so

- fire unless you're told to do so

You'll soon find that having a weapon is a chore than fun... At least until you get to shoot.

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Sorry. Just ranting about the extra load I have to lug around and take care of =\

The going gets tough.

2009-01-10T01:52:00.004+08:00

Cougar is starting to show the siao side liao.. So far, it has been quite slack in comparison. The first 2 weeks were the "adjustment weeks", then the week after there was a COC Parade (Change-O-Command) and our sergeants were mostly involved, so we were quite slack. The true meaning of Cougar has just begun, apparently =\

Today was book-out day but out of my platoon 3 of 50 people, 21 tio confined.

Most were confined till 10pm (instead of 6pm) for failing the Show Parade (attire check in lame man term). While some were confined till 6pm the next day for losing their Jockey Caps, etc. My heart nearly popped out when one of the PC was reading out the people who would get confined. Siao siao, dont play play liao... The confinement has started man..

Some daily stats

Average hours of sleep a day: 5 (6 if I'm lucky)

Number of push-ups a day: At least 100 (during PT we do up to 150 push-ups in a shot, thanks to LT S M)

OTOT Training (Own Time Own Target): Everyday, for my Platoon at least (there was one night where we did over 200 jumping jets, 80 push-ups, 40 crunches, 200 Buddha Claps, 80 Flutter Kicks, and many other siao exercises)

Admin time (Time to brush up, bath, wash stuff, call, etc): 1minute ~ 45minutes (average was about 15minutes, the 45minute one was once off)

People who suffered from Flu, Cough, Sore Throat from Cougar, out of 170: Almost all

People who reported sick today: Over 50 (the company ran out of ATT B, ie light duty, tags, LOL)

We got scolded for not enduring and blah blah blah, so from now on, we can no longer report sick for flu, cough and sore throat supposedly. Can only report for stuff like fever, vomitting, diarrhoea, and other serious stuff like heads rolling on the floor, etc. Haha..

Ok la, the training itself is tough, but I think its worth it. If you put in the effort that is. If you do...

"Tough Training + Effort = Rewards" (in terms of a stronger you)

At least that's my philosophy. It's been working out quite well so far. In less than 1month, the number of pull-ups I could do increased by 5 =\

Another army philosophy I stand by is that "You'll always get shit no matter what, it all depends how you react to it. React positively, treat it as a training and you'll feel fine. Whine and complain and you'll find it torturous." Wah, suddenly so philosophical hor? No la, army too boring, only work body out, my brain like go on holiday liddat. I scared after 2 years I cannot study anymore >.<

The only thing I can't tahan (and loathe) is anything to do with load. Like running with the LBV (light battle vest), field pack, etc. I'd rather run twice the distance without any weights on me man.. Maybe its because my build is "cute-size" (quoting PTI Sunny, who always replaces "small" by "cute-size" haha).

Seen many friends enlist between 06/01/09 to 07/01/09. I even saw Justin and Terence cut hair. They're both in Taurus. Lucky sia, at least they got someone they know. When I entered Cougar, I didn't know anyone, had to make friends from scratch >.<

Anyway, I had a good chat with Justin after I booked out and reached home, via the phone. Told him some stuff he should look out for, compared Taurus with Cougar (then again, its his first 2 weeks..), answered some of his doubts, clarified some terms he's unsure of, etc. Was good. Always liked to chat with good old friends, but hardly had time since I was enlisted =(

DHS Homecoming 2009 + Section Outing!

2009-01-02T22:19:00.003+08:00

Went to DHS's Homecoming 2009 today in the morning. Mis-timed and left my home late, ended up sitting at the upper gallery as the seats ran out. The performance was quite good and funny in fact. Wen Quan's drum performance is 10/10. Too bad he didn't tell me in advance he's gonna do that funny stunt (where he faked an accident of him throwing one of his drumsticks all the way to the back of the stage, and then pull out 2 more spare from his pants, stretching out his hands and giving the audience a wierd ass smirk XD)

After that, we (Justin, WQ and me) went to Cineleisure to have lunch and hung around till my Section/Bunk mates come at 2pm. We were supposed to meet at Somerset MRT at 2pm then proceed to Cineleisure. Ziluo joined us before 2pm.

Apparently, out of 12 people, only 4 people turned up. Yi Hong, Corn and CS said they cant make it at the very start. Justin went out with his other friend at Cineleisure (we bumped into him at the E2MAX @ CINE-L9 lanshop playing console games with his friend. He later went to catch a movie with his friend). Nich Eng wanted to spend more time with his GF (who wouldn't =\). LY and SX, our 2 china buddies, probably didn't understand my SMS and hence didn't reply lol.. So end up only 5 of us - Weijie, Wei Zhong, Nich Yong, Ip (our Hong Kong friend. Yes, our bunk got a lot foreigners haha ) and me.

So 5 of us + Zi + WQ + Justin played CS 4v4, then played Left 4 Dead VS Mode. It was damn fun haha.. And Ip is some secretly imba shooter la! He say he never play FPS for 6 years or smth, but he was like the top 3 fraggers while Justin and me fight for the top spot >.<

After that WZ gtg and the 7 of us went to play pool on the 8th floor. And I met Darryl at pool! Lol... Apparently he's in Raven. After around 1hour, everyone went home. Justin and me went to eat at Subway, before Bing Xu, Ting Wei, Sin Chin, Wei Cheng came to catch "Yes Man" at Cineleisure with Justin. Since I watched it already, I gave it a pass and went home.

Ting Wei's also in Raven. And from his description, his training seems tougher than Cougar leh.. Which is kinda wierd since the craziest companies in BMT are supposed to be Ninja, followed by Cougar. Bah.. Maybe Cougar is just being nice this batch.. Or maybe hell is just building up slowly.. Probably the latter bah. Before the first book-out it was the first 2 adjustment weeks. Before the second book-out (which is the current one), it was spammage of COC (Change Of Command) Parade and rehearsals, which meant Area Cleaning time for us to slack off. Let's just hope it doesn't get THAT crazy THAT fast, anything's fine as long as I can take it =P

Overall, today was quite fun ^^

(then again, tmr is book-in day.. more hell. Heh.)

Happy New Year!

2008-12-31T19:20:00.003+08:00

Happy new year!! 2009 is here yo! (And also happy bday to Fawwaz!)

Got book-out from today (31/12/08) 2pm to Saturday (3/1/09) 8pm. Siao la, my ex-buddy, before our company was re-arranged and buddies re-paired up according to our 2.4km run timing (apparently only Cougar does it, or at least thats what they told us), Goon CP kanna confine la! Right after first book-in, someone straight away tio confined - because he left his rifle on the ground when he walked 2 steps forward to report his temperature to the Temperature I/C.... Omg.. So scary.

First Book-out.. Then all hell breaks loose.

2008-12-24T18:22:00.002+08:00

Yay first book-out, after the 2-week adjustment period (more like 2-week confinement period). BMT (Basic Military Training) so far has been pretty slack, unlike what I have expected. Then again, its our "honeymoon" period, so our seargents and officers were trying their best to be nice.

Oh btw, I'm in Company C (C for Cougar). My 4D number (yes, NS gives you some lucky number to buy 4D with) is 3208, meaning Platoon 3, Section 2 (i.e. 2nd bunk), Bed 08. My buddy's called Justin, some guy who went to Xiamen to study and just recently came back to SG.

Too bad I'm not supposed to blog about NS (the officers warned us about it, they said its smth about military secrets etc). So I'll just briefly cover lor.. Wasted sia.. I wrote diary everyday leh.. zzz

Okay, here goes...

10 interesting things I've noticed so far:

1) Though vulgarities are not supposed to be used, they ARE always used. According to my seargent, he said "CH** B**" is an organ, and "F**K" is an action. They're not swear words. Here you go. They're not swearing, they're just using nouns and verbs =\

2) The SAR21 (Singapore Assault Rifle) is actually very easy to aim, no prerequisite skill, like air rifle experience, needed. Unlike M16, SAR21 has a very good 1.5x optical scope. Marksmanship is no longer that hard to get now, comparatively.

3) You'll only get to throw a live grenade once in your entire life. Unless you sign on NS that is. Haha

4) Almost all the females (besides guest speakers or lecturers) in Tekong look like males. But yet, people still whistle and clap and make a racket when one walks by. What the heck?

5) Upon enlistment, you will get a heck lot of things. All for FREE.

6) Officers and seargents with nothing to do stay inside this nice room called the "Platoon _ Room" (Insert platoon number) or the "Coy Room" (Company Room), with radio, air-conditioner etc.

7) Lights off is at 2230 and reveille at 0530 almost everyday.

8) You'll find yourself spending hours doing exercises (warm-up, cooling-down, 5BX, etc).

[Btw, 5BX = 5 Basic Exercises. Smth you'll do every morning before breakfast]

9) Heard of the N Coy (Ninja Company)? Heard of its crazy reputation? Well thats for BMTC School 2. For BMTC School 1, its Cougar apparently. My company. Good for me =/

10) Commanders (officers and seargents) get to decide their day-offs and leaves, and are compensated for their "confinements" during weekends by day-offs. Meanwhile, trainees/men like ourselves currently, do not get to decide when to use our leaves and do not get day-offs for being confined. The trainees/men early leaves are decided by the commanders (btw, men refers to soldiers who are under command of commanders =/).

10 Tips to make your BMT life easier:

1) ALWAYS go for every single toilet break you can get or are given. You never know when's the next one, and you get to take a break from whatever shit you're currently doing. SO GO FOR IT.

2) Right after RO (Routine Order) every night, choing to the bathroom to bath first before doing anything else. Because the queue will form in around 10minutes, and its 50 people sharing 7~8 cubicles.

3) During mealtimes, don't bother asking for "less" just because you don't think you're hungry. Just take the given portion (if not ask for more, if you think it'll taste good). Leftovers just throw away. The food is free anyway.

4) While eating, refrain from talking and always start off with the good parts first (unlike normally where you eat the crappier-tasting parts of your meal, saving the best for the last). This is because you're only given 20minutes per mealtime, including queuing up for food.

5) Go bath daily. Seriously. It takes only 5~10minutes (and DON'T look and comment at other people's private parts -.-"). If not you'll stink and get sick or whatever. And your bunkmates might hate you (like this RJ dude in my bunk.. He bathed only 5 times out of the 2wks)

6) Whenever possible, plan your trips to the toilet (and best if you can plan for everything) once you're given the RO for the next day. This will help you save trips to the toilet, which is usually crowded during peak hours like after RO or in the morning.

Personally for me, after RO,

- 1st trip: bath and brush teeth (brush first if there's already a queue)

- 2nd trip: shit, then wash clothes

- 3rd trip: refill bottles/waterbags etc (if there's road march or smth the next day)

7) Don't overpack your bag when you're enlisting. Just bring exactly what they say, excluding those "You may bring..." just pack those "Bring along...". Like I said, upon enlistment, they'll give you a heck load of items.

Just bring along:

- Toiletries (toothbrush, toothpaste, soap and washing powder, they'll give you 2 toilet rolls)

- 3 sets of undergarments (unless you don't intend to wash daily, then bring more)

- hangers and pegs

That's all if I remember correctly. Everything else is provided.

8) When hanging your laundry, you can hang at 2 areas - Outside the bunk windows, or at the bamboo poles at the staircases. It's better to hang outside the bunks (but you'll need pegs or your stuff will get blown off by wind). You get sunlight and wind, and the poles always fall down due to wind, causing ur laundry to drop to the floor, which is almost always dirty.

9) In NS, forms that you fill in are very important documents. If you screw up, you'll be screwed.

Some things to take note:

- Always write in CAPITAL LETTERS

- Dates are in this 6-digit format DDMMYY (without - or / etc)

- Do not write/sign across any line. Or make any extra markings on the paper

- Avoid creasing the paper/document

10) Avoid drinking too much water. Because there's god damn water parades where you force yourself to gulp down 500ml worth of water in seconds. Just drink during water parades and mealtimes, and maybe a little after RO, will suffice for your daily water requirements.

Tip: How to gulp down so much water? Don't take small sips, just keep gulping before your brain sends a signal saying "Oi, stop drinking, i'm bloated!"

So long... Goodbye.

2008-12-11T19:38:00.002+08:00

Went to Changi T3 at 7.15am to have breakfast and send Ying Xiao off back to China.

Saw this at the Outram Park MRT. Rofl.. Didn't know the CPF board uses ":D" in their advertisements! XD

Mm.. then after reaching and having breakfast, we went to send Ying Xiao off... Guess how many people send him off? Lets see:

- Our class people

- TJ Climbing Club people

- DHS St John's Brigade people

- Ying Xiao's DHS Classmates

Total around 40 odd people.. Sia la.. Big shot sia =P

Look at the crowd, and its only a fraction of it.

Sigh.. Known him for 6 years (sort of), nice chap. Funny and blunt guy. Gonna miss him eh. Thank Mr Tim Berners-Lee for the Internet and MSN, we can still keep in touch... During weekends I suppose =\

Besides saying goodbye to YX, there's one other thing to say goodbye to..

So long civilian life, for tomorrow embarks my NS enlistment life.

Here's some pics of me, before I enter NS (and get my haircut):

Let's see what I transform into.. soon =P

New Specs!

2008-12-11T00:03:00.002+08:00

Yea, collected my new black specs today. My cousin told me to buy, even though its not on the list =\

so i did.. and apparently my ears are uneven.. the uncle tweaked the specs forever before he gave it back to me, saying "your ears are.. seriously.. too uneven liao" (in chinese of cos)

Alt asked me to take a pic so I did, though I never liked zi pai-ing =.=

Looks retarded eh?

Let's poke fun at maple.

2008-12-09T01:22:00.001+08:00

Spot the typo:

Dragonica Outing!

2008-12-07T13:02:00.005+08:00

Went to Ben & Jerry's Chunk Fest at Fort Canning Green with a few Dragonica peeps - (all IGNs) Altessa, Cake, Pie, Eilrahc21, Ginz, Nogami, Sakamoto.

Group Pics:

[From http://forum.iahgames.com/dragonica/showpost.php?p=67903&postcount=530]

Don't ask why. Saka wanted his face to be blurred out XD

If you really wanna know how he looks like, he looks somewhat like JS

(if you're from DHS, you'll know.)

CHUNK FEST!! RAWRRR

There wasn't much there - Less than 10 booths selling stuff in such a huge area. The band setup was also quite wasteful, it was empty the whole time we were there. And their time scheduling for events wins. They allocated 1hr for a eating competition which ended in 18 minutes (where the prize giving lasted longer than the eating part itself haha).

So what did we do at Chunk Fest? Well, it IS an ice-cream carnival. It'll be dumb not to eat any ice-cream right? Wrong. We spent 1hr 20min before we got into the front of the queue !@#$%^&* But at least the ice-cream was good =D

No it doesnt.

Look at the queue...

Oh great. Rain + outdoor ice-cream.. Luckily it stopped before we got ours XD

The ice-cream booth. Yum yum ^^

After that we roamed around Plaza Singapura for the rest of the day o.O

No movies, top floor arcade too small and boring, waited for Ginz to come before we go dinner, spent nearly 1hr deciding where to eat before going to Kopitiam. And Ginz brought home-made Mousse!! Though its a tad sweet, it ended up being a good ingredient for "Cream of Kimchi".

Cream of Kimchi

Ingredients:

- Ginz's White Choc Mousse

- Altessa's Spicy Kimchi

Instructions:
- Pour and mix well.

- Add rice/noodles or whatever you deem edible if you wish to.

It actually tastes like my DHS home econs curry with too much coconut milk.. Quite tasty actually, though Altessa refuses to try it =P

And Cake always seems like he's going to eat the final product of tissue + aluminium foil + rice + noodles + cream of kimchi + apple tea.. but he never.. aww man.

"Don't play with your food, Cake!"

"Don't play with your food, Cake!" Returns

Other stuff at:

http://forum.iahgames.com/dragonica/showpost.php?p=67903&postcount=530

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7th Dec 2008

Guess where can-pickers leveled up to? Recycling bins.

Words on bin: Drink Cans.

Stayover at Nigel's

2008-12-05T20:30:00.011+08:00

Went Nigel's house to stayover and play. Met Wen Quan (WQ) at Tiong Bahru. Watched "Bolt" before we went to Nigel's house.

Reached around 12am. Mahjonged 16rounds. Won $7.30. Then switched to Poker. Till 8am. At around 5am, I had lost about $20. Maybe I was just too tired or something (I hardly lost at Poker. My total net winnings from all the Poker games I played is positive, and quite high also). It was as if something was playing/toying with me. Everytime I get a very good hand, the wanted card doesn't come out until I fold (due to crazy raises) or when I think I got a crappy hand (and I fold), I could have won. Anyway, after I washed my face and freshened up at around 7am, I recouped some of my losses. We ended at 8am when we all felt too tired, with me losing $8.30 in Poker (i.e. total night loss = $1) Lol. Super worth it. 8hours of fun for $1. Haha..

Then the 4 of us slept on a double decked bed with a pull-out mattress. Joaee and Nigel shared the bottom deck while WQ took the upper deck. I took the mattress.

Took some videos haha.. My phone sucks so I added subtitles if you can't hear properly.

Halfway through, Joaee picked up Nigel's sakkat, wore it and started dancing...

Subtitles:
Joaee: "Hola..."

When the iTunes hit the Digimon theme song, WQ went into a dancing frenzy..

Subtitles:

WQ: "I hate you."
Davin: "Say again?"

*WQ punches*

What happens when retro music like "Staying Alive" comes on while Mahjong-ing..

Subtitles:

Joaee: "You are born in the wrong eh-ra, era"

WQ: "Sorry."

Joaee: "Are you hungry now?"

Nigel: "I also."
Joaee: "Are you going to play?"
*random noises I can't decipher"

Time for bed (at 8am+).. WQ asks for a bedtime story, and Joaee gave it to him.

Subtitles:

*The story started a few seconds back..*

(Ignore spellings of wierd names, just trying to make them sound like the same when pronounced)

WQ: "Gooey what?"

Joaee: "Gooey Kebluey" (Goo-ee Ke-blue-eee)

Joaee: "One day, Hamster Heyui was walking around the forest. And then, he met the rabbit." (He-you-eee)

Joaee: "The rabbit said, (in high pitch) 'Hello Hamster Heyui..' "
*random noise from WQ*

WQ: "Er sorry."
Joaee: ".. Hello Hamster Heyui. So hello.. wait wait.. So Hamster Heyui said, 'Hello rabbit.' "

Joaee: "And then the Hamster Heyui started walking again..."

WQ: "And then?"
Nigel: "Eh, don't be disrespectful la.."

Joaee: "I dunno, its supposed to help him go to sleep."

WQ: "Go on."
Joaee: "Okay, and then he met Harry Potter."

Joaee: "Harry Potter said, (in high pitch) 'Hello Mister Heyui.' "

Joaee: "And Mister Heyui said, 'Hello Harry Potter.' and then he started walking along the forest again. He walked and he walked and he walked... Are you sleeping yet?"

WQ: "No."
Joaee: "I want to sleep."

*random noise*

Joaee: "And then he met the Gooey Kebluey. And they both... exploded. In the great space Kebluey (no idea what that means)"

Joaee: "Davin ain't you tired yet?"

WQ: *inaudible noise*

Nigel: "Joaee, we're getting screwed."
Joaee: "What?"

Nigel: "We're getting screwed.

Joaee: "I want to sleep."

Nigel: "We're getting filmed in bed by Davin."

Joaee: "WITH YOU!"

*Sorry, I laugh so hard the phone jerked like mad"

Nigel: "Yeah what the f**k"

WQ: *inaudible noise*
Davin: (to WQ) "And you're on top of them"

Nigel: (to WQ) "Do you like it on top?"

WQ: "Yeah quite."

Joaee: *random noise I can't decipher.. smth about "model tone"*

WQ: "Its a bit jiggly."

Nigel: "I know it that way."

WQ: "Everytime you move, the entire bed jiggles"

*Joaee jiggles*

WQ: "There you go."

*Nigel kicks upwards*
WQ: "Oh shit."

Joaee: "What if he falls on us?"
WQ: "I can pee."
Nigel: "F**k you!" *laughs*

Joaee: "Can we sleep?"

WQ: "You know my cousin once peed through the entire mattress?"

Joaee: "Through?"
WQ: "He was..." *WQ's voice is overshadowed by Joaee's*
Joaee: "Davin ain't you bored? Doesn't your camera run out of memory"

Joaee: *yawns*

Nigel: "Wa f**k your breath."
Joaee: "Really? I brush my teeth leh. Before coming out"

Davin: "Its been how many hours?"

Joaee: "That's true. Maybe this is why I brush again"

Davin: "We played for 8hours straight."

Nigel: "This is rude. This is not a _____ (didn't catch the word)"

WQ: *inaudible noise*

Joaee: "Ya ok, I'll blanket it."

Davin: "Ok, goodnight."

Anyone for gay parties?

After we woke up at around 12am, we met up with Bing Xu, Sin Chin and Wendy and watched "Cape 7 海角七号". Quite nice la. Though I didn't really see the point in the movie.. I mean I get the plot but, its a bit pointless. Well again, that might be just me. But the pianist is really talented. She's even more mature than all the other people in the movie.. And I think she's more mature than anyone I seen -.-"

Random sightings:

Attack of the litter bugs.

Location: Outram NEL MRT entrance.

No one even bothered to pick them up until I saw it -.-"

Sorry for blur pic.

The black text: Specially produced for domestic, restaurant, outdoor and other uses.

Specially produced for "other uses"? o.O

This baby just can't keep still..

My Sis's BlogShop

2008-12-04T15:27:00.005+08:00

Check it out....

http://breakthebottles.blogspot.com/

Her Advertisment:

"Mixed tee , NF short/skinnies , Slogan tee , smocked tube , etc .. all selling at cheap prices"

Also:
Any suppliers interested, contact her at:
babyy.queeniie-@hotmail.com

Prom! + UDHR

2008-12-02T21:31:00.014+08:00

1st Dec (Mon)

Prom night. First one in my life. Sec school's prom was cancelled because DHS booked the swimming club opposite our school for $50 per person and no one wanted to go swimming for $50.

On the way

Jon: Hey! Buckle up. It'll be a bumpy ride. Nah just kidding, you can trust my driving =)

Hey hey, guys, look at the camera (my aunt's) I brought! Let's take a pic. I'll zi bai (self-take)!

Take #1:

Take #2:

Take #3:

Take #4:

Oh finally. I think I need to do something about my positioning. Oh btw zac, my aunt's cam likes you -.-

Grand Theft Auto VI: Let's go steal some cars

Ah ah ah ah.. Staying alive. staying alive. Oh wait, there's 4 ppl here.

Let's welcome the artist Jon with his 2 body guards Zac and Bay, together with Fawwaz the business man.

Before Dinner

Toilet shots.

Hey, blur's the "in" thing now, right? Right?

Say yes please... Ok fine, the camera just sucks.

During Dinner

Why are you... Biting a bird?

Nice pic. No further stupid comments.

Look pa, no legs! Oh wait, hakeym has no eyes either.

Post Dinner

DHS GEP reunited. Oh wait, Yuhui's missing.

Oh look, nice lighting effects from my camera..

It's as if a fraction of my face just dissolved in the light. Ouch.

Then again, we look like we're angels or something, the glowy effect =\

Also.. someone seems to like the top left corner of the screen..

Alright! Onwards to sleepover!

Random MRT pics

You know what's the funny thing? No one ever sleeps on sleepovers. Wonder why they call them "sleepovers" instead of "awakeovers" or "playovers".. Oh wait, it can be called "stayovers" too.. Hm.

Anyway, we went to Charlene's house, which was 2 blocks away from WenQuan's block. We meaning around 10+ people. We played cards games ("Pig", "German bridge", etc) then watched mime Norbit (i.e. super soft sound cos Charlene's family's sleeping) for a bit before we gave up, while others were checking out girls on Facebook/Friendster. I never knew girls like ogling at other girls and getting all excited. That's new. Haha..

After all those, someone suggested going KTV the next day (or should I say later today). And then me, being all money-worthiness-conscious said, why don't we just sing aloud here in the room for FREE. And we did. All the oldies first - Westlife (If I let you go, My love, Uptown girl, etc), Britney Spears (Lucky, Oops I did it again, etc) - then we randomly searched for songs on the Internet, and started singing together with the lyrics on the other window. Haha. It was fun, and funny =P

At around 5~6am we all split up, some went home while Bing Xu, Sin Chin and me went to Wen Quan's house to sleep.

Ah. You got me Bing Xu. What's the time? 7am? Ok.. zzz

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2nd Dec (Tues)

Woke up at like 10am. Went home to do some work before heading out to NLB with WenQuan for the the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) 60th anniversary celebration. Quite boring actually. No idea how to write an article on it. But heck, Zheng Xi says just do it, I'll fill in the blanks and polish it. So, there we go.

http://theonlinecitizen.com/2008/12/u60-launches-human-rights-anniversary-celebrations/

Tired + Random sights

2008-11-30T21:42:00.004+08:00

Tiring sia these few days. So many events and things to do...

Choinged finish a coding assignment (or should I call it "work" since I'm supposedly paid =\) before leaving the house for my uncle's/grandpa's house today to pray to ancestors. Have a look at my "grown-up" cousin. Psst... she plays maple =O

New way to recycle used/worn-out T-shirts:

It's never too old to bask:

Cool sia. Oldest person I seen that can play a guitar, an electric somemore!

Better start choinging the 2nd coding assignment ba.. Going into army soon =\

Oh btw, I'm no longer wearing the jacket I bought.. My dad insists I wear the jacket he wore during wedding >.<

First TOC Report.

2008-11-30T08:46:00.002+08:00

Went with WQ to Hong Lim Park (Speaker's corner) yesterday to report for TOC on Mr. Tan Kin Lian's 6th speech. Get the full report + videos and pictures taken here:

http://theonlinecitizen.com/2008/11/“this-thing-cannot-just-die…”/

It was quite interesting actually.. I've never seen Singaporean's so vocal before. Not just the speakers, even the audience. There was around 200 odd people and we even met Wei Cheng's parents =\

After that we went shopping for my prom stuff lol.. Bought a pair of shoes for $35.90 and got some $5 voucher. Then went to OG and tried looking for a jacket. Holy crap, the normal formal jacket costs $229 or smth. Crazy... Then when we were about to turn and leave, we saw another jacket, a cross-breed between a formal jacket and a cold-weather jacket. From far it looks like a formal jacket, and it doubles up as a normal jacket as well. Since I lost my black IP Zone jacket a while back, months ago, I decided to check out the price. Woah nice.. ~~$59.90~~ $29 . ROFL! Ok. Buy. Wanna know how it looks like? I'm not uploading. Can't be bothered. Just find me on Prom Night =)

The Top 5 Myths about H2 Computing

2008-11-28T19:36:00.003+08:00

Went to Sitex at Expo today with my dad. After roaming around for a 2.5" HDD 250GB external hard drive and comparing prices etc, we decided to buy the Toshiba brand one. The close competitors were (excluding random brands selling way above $100):

- Maxtor: $79, no freebies (if i didnt remember wrongly cos we didn't really consider this partly due to poor service etc lol)

- WD: $99, free pouch, 3-yr warranty

- Toshiba: $109, free pouch, 3-yr warranty

My dad said Toshiba more reliable and he could try to bargain lol.. The Toshiba pouch was also better. The WD pouch can't even fit the hard drive properly and totally no space for the cable. Not to mention the WD hard drive has horrible design, if it had any lol.. Oh well, anyway, here's a pic of the one I bought.

After coming home, I realised over the 2 years, I was bombarded by random computer-related requests after people knew I studied H2 Computing in JC. Well, just to clarify stuff and provide info for people deciding whether to take it as a subject in JC1... I've come up with a list of "The Top 5 Myths about H2 Computing". Enjoy!

The Top 5 Myths about H2 Computing

Myth #5:

FAQ: "Hey hey, can you tell me about the new ___ and how it works?"

Truth: New stuff are NOT taught. We are taught old stuff. Those years ago. Want to learn up-to-date stuff? Wait till Uni.

Myth #4:

FAQ: "Can teach me how to fix my computer?" or "Can tell me how to upgrade my RAM?"

Truth: Assembling your own PC is NOT taught. Not to mention other hardware stuff, like how RAMs works (in detail), which type of processor is good for what, etc.

Myth #3:

FAQ: "Are you going to make a program/game?"

Truth: Well, all you ever gonna learn if you take H2 Computing is how to make SIMPLISTIC programs that run in MS DOS. Everything else you have to learn yourself. You won't learn how to make any user interface programs.

Myth #2:

FAQ: "Do you know Flash, Dreamweaver, CSS, Video editing, Graphic design, etc etc?"

Truth: Although I know some, they are not taught in school but self-learnt. After taking the subject, you WILL NOT know every single thing related to computers and the Internet, contrary to popular belief.

Myth #1:

FAQ: "OMG!! Teach me how to hackzors!! I want to hack ___, blah blah blah"

Truth: Hacking is NOT taught. If you think you can take H2 Computing and turn into a hacking genius overnight (or over 2yrs), you can forget it.

Nice.

2008-11-26T21:36:00.002+08:00

Went to my grandma's yesterday night to stayover because I got to go pray with my grandma at a nearby temple the next morning (today). After that I went to school to collect testimonial. Oh man, its always "Davin WAS an intelligent student... Davin WAS hardworking.. blah blah". So I guess I'm no longer all those haha. Quite a routine day today bah.. Nth much interesting, except a few sights through the day...

Just when you think the record for "The most number of people you can fit in a lorry" has been decided by the Cambodians.. Here comes Singapore's entry.

Nice. I'm sure this gantry will make car drivers smile.

Free parking anyone?

Ok, enough of "guess what's", after we found them, it was like... 1hr after the proposed meeting time. Andrew was with another girl around our age called Rachel (TOC's graphic designer). According to Joaee and his description of Andrew over the phone, Andrew seems to have this perma-smile on his face and perma-cheerful. And we were guessing he's 30+ or so.. Apparently, he looks 40+, has a rugged look and I have never seen someone thinner than me before (until I saw him). Rachel on the other hand.. Okay, just apply the average teen (i'm guessing 16~early 20s) look.

We were supposed to meet at 4.30pm, but we met at 5.22pm or so. And Andrew chatted (Rachel hardly spoke, but when she did, her tone was very strong =\) till like 7.30pm? Mostly it was him talking and the 3 of us nodding/shaking our heads and throwing in some opinions here and there.. Basically he told us what TOC is about, what they do, why they do it, and filling us in about TOC info.. And I'm supposed to help out with the revamping of their website cos ppl complain its too messy (and I agree lol).. And WQ has been selling me off too much that I'm not even confident that I might be able to reach the standard which he set for me cos I'm rusty in all my applied computing skills (screw the outdated theory we learn in JC).

At first, WQ told me TOC is a neutral website that publishes/reports things not in the newspapers, which was quite cool. But throughout the talk, the more I listen, the more I'm convinced both Andrew and Rachel are strongly anti-government (PAP to be exact). Not to say that there's anything wrong (I mean look, there's opposition parties), but it was the first time in my life that I met such strong anti-government people face-to-face and conversed with them. Especially Rachel, when she spoke, her tone and eyes.. wah seh, tell u, if LKY or his son were here, they'll be shot dead or smth. Seriously..

Anyway, we didn't expect it to last so long (WQ convinced Joaee and me that it was because Andrew didn't know what to talk about so he dragged on and on). After that, we decided to check out the Anime Convention (3rd floor) which caught our interest when we saw a few cosplay ppl around Suntec earlier. Apparently you have to buy tickets meh... $5, and its ending soon. So we decided to go to the Book Fair upstairs (6th floor).

Roamed around the place and came to a conclusion about book fairs. Book fairs = Fairs selling books that no one wants to buy. LOL. They were selling things like freaking old DVDs, books, things that no one will think of buying.. Okay, there were nice books there but half of it were ancient. While roaming, I saw a shelf of puzzle books and I bought a word puzzle book for my sister since she's been looking for one since she played a word puzzle game on her PSP.

After that we went dinner at Marina Square foodcourt, saw Chin's GF with her friends (we presumed) and I got ripped off by a stupid $4.50 Laksa with nothing in it. Oh well, life's like that I suppose. You get ripped off once a while.

Guess today was quite an eventful day. And I found something to occupy myself with for now I guess, to pick up/polish my computing skills.. And one more thing...

I GOD DAMN HATE ADOBE AND THEIR UNDOWNLOADABLE 30-DAY TRIALS. SCREW YOU ADOBE. YOU WASTED HALF MY DAY (a few hours in total to be exact since friday, not really 12hrs though) TRYING TO DOWNLOAD.

Guess I'll start with XHTML first then. Flash and Dreamweaver can go die thanks to Adobe.

Its over.

2008-11-23T11:33:00.002+08:00

Whee.. A lvls over.. Okay maybe this is a bit late.. It was over 2 days ago on Friday 5pm.

Though it was over, somehow I don't feel any kind of elation within me.. It's like "oh ok, its over" instead of "OMG ITS FINALLY FREAKING OVER!! WOOOT!! WHEE!! WOW!!! YAY!!!" or smth.. You know.. Maybe I'm just wierd.. Bleh.

Been spamming gaming, reading manga and going out with friends the past 2 days.. Slept at like 3am~4am almost everyday and waking up at 8~10am due to habit (sheesh. if this continues i gonna die from tiredness).. I guess I need a life. Lol.

Oh speaking of real life, time to apply for scholarships and hope to get one ^^

Sights and Sounds over the past few weeks.

2008-11-13T12:17:00.004+08:00

"A" Level's almost over. Left 2 more papers next week - Physics MCQ and Computing Paper 2. Thats why I was able to convince my parents to let me come home to use the computer XD

Anyway, I played till 3.30am lol.. Alright, now to share some stuff I saw..

Now you know what's in Newater! Its pee!

Nah jk, its just ginseng thingy my grandma made for me

Now this is called a pillow fight.

At pillow's hse (thats the nickname of the guy on the right)

What's with the lights?

How's this refreshing? Its 37degrees HOT!

Ever wanted to own a cool kick-ass vehicle like that? I do.

You see that greenish thingy at the center of the picture, at the ledge?

That's a man suiciding, I saw it on the way back to my grandma's..

According to the newspaper the next day, its a 33yr old drunkard. His mum scolded him for drinking at a funeral then he go ledge want suicide. While on ledge, he even asked the police for cigarette. Wth. Anyway he got arrested 1hr later.

See what happens if you don't have common sense.

You put the concrete over before u remove your scaffold.

This lorry is truly imba.

He triple laned on a 2-lane road, then he started driving off when its still red light for his lane.

That's all for now I suppose.. Gonna be invisible online for a while again till "A" levels really finishes. Ta ta.

Hermitage Round Two.

2008-10-17T12:49:00.006+08:00

Gonna start studying once again. 2 weeks to A levels!

Time to camp at grandma's house again. Till then. Ta ta.

Ah btw, before I go. Lemme end it off with some things I spotted and an email from my cousin.

Pictures:

Mmm.. I wonder how babies taste like with bread =P

Saw this on the bus, while approaching bedok interchange.

Woah, so many birds.. Either crow or mynah.

Can't tell.. Beak colour too far to see.

Reminds me of that resident evil scene with all the infected birds.

Awesome.

Let Un be the arithmetic progression of the number of stripes,

with u1(a) = 2 and common difference (d) = 1.

Email:

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Somewhere in here is one that describes your life....

ROMANCE MATHEMATICS

Smart man + smart woman = romance
Smart man + dumb woman = affair
Dumb man + smart woman = marriage
Dumb man + dumb woman = pregnancy
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OFFICE ARITHMETIC

Smart boss + smart employee = profit
Smart boss + dumb employee = production
Dumb boss + smart employee = promotion
Dumb boss + dumb employee = overtime
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SHOPPING MATH

A man will pay $20 for a $10 item he needs.
A woman will pay $10 for a $20 item that she doesn't need.
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GENERAL EQUATIONS & STATISTICS

A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband.
A man never worries about the future until he gets a wife.
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend.
A successful woman is one who can find such a man.
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HAPPINESS

To be happy with a man, you must understand him a lot and love him a little.
To be happy with a woman, you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.
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LONGEVITY

Married men live longer than single men do, but married men are a lot more willing to die.
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PROPENSITY TO CHANGE

A woman marries a man expecting he will change, but he doesn't.
A man marries a woman expecting that she won't change, and she does.
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DISCUSSION TECHNIQUE

A woman has the last word in any argument.
Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument.
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HOW TO STOP PEOPLE FROM BUGGING YOU ABOUT GETTING MARRIED
Old aunts used to come up to me at weddings, poking me in the ribs and cackling, telling me, 'You're next.' They stopped after I started doing the same thing to them at funerals.

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The Big Bang Theory

2008-10-10T18:46:00.004+08:00

Mervyn introduced me to this show yesterday in CR219 during a free period. Lol its so hilarious.. MUST WATCH if you take science (especially physics) haha..

Oh btw, here's the link to the whole list:

http://so.youku.com/search_video/q_big%20bang%20theory

Mervyn said currently its screening Season 2, Episode 3 or smth. Season 1 has 17 episodes. Have fun watching! The theme song is quite catchy so I decided to find it on YouTube.. and tada!

Oh by the way, this is what happened today, during our LAST physics lecture:

[Yes, our dear lecturer is SINGING as a farewell gift. LOL]

Physics department is the winnah!

Funny SMS from sis

2008-10-09T22:29:00.002+08:00

Got this SMS from my sis..

Character for character, even those typos and stuff

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Juz 4 laugh. L0L

Dear Prime Minister, We d citizens of Spore urge u 2 PLS MIND UR OWN BUSINESS. We DO NOT NEED ur help. Everytime u mention HELP, we hv 2run 4 cover!! Help d poor? RAISE GST!! Help d Traffic? Up ERP!! Help passenger Service? RAISE MRT/Bus Fare!! Help us get Taxi? RAISE taxi Fare!! Help usget good Government? RAISE Minister/Civil servant Salary!!and now electricity bill up 20%!! Everytime U want 2 HELP, We all PAY 4 IT!! TQ & Tolong Lah,PLS we'll HELP OURSELVES

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Lol.. ok let me translate it clearer for those who don't understand...

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Just for Laugh. LOL

Dear Prime Minister,

We the citizens of Singapore urge you to PLEASE MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS.

We DO NOT NEED your help.

Everytime you mention "HELP", we have to run for cover!!

Help the poor? RAISE GST!!
Help the traffic? Up ERP!!

Help passenger service? RAISE MRT/Bus Fare!!

Help us get Taxi? RAISE taxi Fare!!

Help us get good Government? RAISE Minister/Civil servant Salary!!

...and now electricity bill up 20%!!

Everytime you want to "HELP", we all have to PAY FOR IT!!
Thanks and i beg you, PLEASE we'll HELP OURSELVES

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Though not very coherent, still quite funny.. Haha

Game Review: Fantastic Contraption

2008-10-07T21:28:00.003+08:00

Alright. Time to introduce a new game. Haven't been doing so for quite some time..

Free Online Game @ MoFunZone.com - Fantastic Contraption

Overview

The game concept is an edited version of all the so-called famous games like "Magic Pen" and so forth, whereby you create some design of your machine to bring an object from one location to the goal location. So.. its not really an original game concept.

At first when Ying Xiao and Ryan introduced me to this game in computer lab, I was a bit reluctant to try out since its not original. I was thinking "bleh, probably another edited rip-off version by noob game makers", so I continued to dota with the rest. When I reached home, I was quite bored.. So I just went ahead and try it out.

The first thing that greets you is the neat artistic design of the user interface. Unlike most other free online games, whereby the games have very very very shitty artistic appeal, this one on the other hand was quite attractive. In a way, it was quite cute. While playing, a constant music plays on the background looping over and over again. Reminds me of playing pacman loooong ago.. lol.

In this game, there's a total of 21 levels, and oh look at the joke they put there. Lol.

"Play with no Ads or Pop-ups!" <-- This wins HAHA

In-Game Tutorial

This is one of the clearest in-game tutorial I've seen in all the games on MoFunZone. I took screenshots of all the important parts. Have a look. You'll find yourself nodding with me haha..

Simplicity is the best policy isn't it? =)

Sharing of ideas

Need fresh ideas? Bored of your own work? Have a look at other people's!

In Fantastic Contraption, you can share your work and have a look at how other's solve the same puzzle as you! But definitely in a different way. There's no 2 same way of solving a problem, even in the real world as we speak.

Some are quite interesting, some of which are ideas which you would never have thought of, and of course, some are just plain brute force -.-"

Oh yeah, there's also a certain bug with the wheels which I noticed after looking at some people's contraptions.. Sure it looks nice, but it spoils the fun doesnt it =P

Let's have a look at 3 of the many different solutions shared for this particular puzzle:

Map Name: Full-up

Oh by the way, I took these videos using Snagit. Like I said, the sound quality of it is like shit, but the video quality is quite good. So I just took the video without the sound input.

If you're interested in using Snagit, download Snagit5 (the newer versions require you to buy it after 30 days. Snagit5 doesn't. Hehe)

Video Solution 1:

OMG IMBA

Video Solution 2:

Another nice one

Video Solution 3:

Brute force -.-"

SozoS's Ratings:

Graphics: 8/10 (simple and slick)

Sound Effects: 2/10 (nice initially but its so repetitive that it gets on your nerves after a while)

Gameplay: 8/10 (Uses your brain out instead of mindless clicking. My kind of game)
Replayability: 6/10 (Watching other people's contraptions can be quite entertaining!)

Overall Rating: 6/10

Related Websites:

MoFunZone's Game Link:

http://www.mofunzone.com/online_games/fantastic_contraption.shtml#

Great. Everything Inversed.

2008-10-06T20:58:00.002+08:00

Let's have an evaluation of what happened for my birthday shall I?

I got 2 cakes.

One of which was bought by my lovely (maybe not.. haha) class of CG24/07 and I got ganged and cake spread all over my face and jacket.

The other was a slice of cake (I had to repeatedly tell my dad NOT to buy cakes, but he still did) which my family gave me.

I got 0 SMS-es regarding the self-improvement plan I devised.

And I just realised less than 5 people, aside from my class and clan, knows that I exist and that my birthday is on 4th October.

Okay. I guess I'm a nobody and everything I wished for to happened is inversed. What a screwed birthday, and I spent the whole afternoon teaching my sister History for her exam on Monday. Guess what? Today she came back and told me she slept through the History exam. Oh nice. I wasted another part of my life -.-"

Today was an eventful day. I wonder how shameful can people get. I guess some people just don't know shame. I know that person is generally disliked by people in school, but to stoop so low? Sheesh. You ought to slap yourself. No wait, that's too easy. You ought to hang yourself on a flagpole upside down with cuts all over your body and glucose poured all over your cuts. That way, you can't move and you'll die from pain and the itch from ants crawling all over your cuts.

Oh! Children's Day is here!

2008-10-01T14:31:00.005+08:00

YAY Children's Day is here! But first, let me put in what happened the past 2 days.. Was too lazy heh.

Monday - 29/9

I went to watch a movie with Justin, Wen Quan, Wendy, Bing Xu, Sin Chin and Wei Cheng.. Apparently BX won 2 free tickets to "Black Swindler" so we just went and split it, so everyone get $1 off lol..

The plot was quite good.. too bad they didn't explain a lot of things. And what's with the flooding of Japanese names without helping viewers match the names to their faces?! At the very end of the movie, we're all like "what? who is who?".. I still can't figure out without the name of the main character. Is it "Kurosaki" or "Kurosagi"? God damn it. But seriously, the starting few minutes was damn good, for me at least. The concept of the movie was nice, but the development was shit -.-"

Tuesday - 30/9

Yesterday, I went dinner at Jack's Place (which Jack? I'm not sure myself either) with my family.

On the way, I saw this nice gradient on the blue taxi. See for yourself:

The way the bottom part of the Comfort Taxi gets brighten up by the Mercedes Taxi behind is nice... Maybe my phone camera sucks (its only 2 Mega-pixels), but it was really nice =)

Mmm... Dinner. I ate something from everyone's plate lol.. Everyone can't finish, except my dad. So in all, I ate like 2+ portions =\

After that, I ordered a Chocolate Mousse, I thought it'll be nice.. Bleh, its not even soft to bite. I guess I'll just refrain from eating any kind of cake except from Secret Recipe XD

Alright! Done. Now let's get back to today's theme - Children's Day!

Oh yes, I can still remember the first year in Secondary school where everyone misses Children's Day celebration (and of course the half day) very very sorely.

"You all are youth now, no more Children's Day," said a teacher (I can't remember who lol). And you see our whole class whining and "sian-ing" lol.. But still, year after year, throughout my 4 years in DHS, our teachers always bought us sweets and gifts on Children's Day. I guess we're still kids in their eyes, but not in the eyes of the school system huh. In J1, it seriously ended. End of childhood so to speak. No one even mentioned about Children's Day. Goodness. But for me, Children's Day still remained happy for me haha.. Children's Day always reminds me of something.. my birthday is coming soon. Lol..

No cakes please (i've been eating enough of cakes recently lol), well unless the wishes actually come true.. If so, then I wish my sis will be more sensible, my dad will be more reasonable and responsible, and my mum be more happy.. Then again.. Hey! I'm still single. I don't mind a gf as a bday gift haha.. jk jk

If possible, I hope on my birthday, instead of presents and gifts or whatever, everyone comes up to me and tell me 1 strength that I have, 1 weakness that I have and how i can overcome my weakness.

I'm not a person good with words and expressing myself. So erm.. On my birthday, confess anything to me, whether you think I've been a jerk or you hate me or what you like about me or whatever, just be frank. I won't take it personally.

Thanks. If ya read this, please pass it around.. No cakes, unless the wishes actually comes true. Haha =P

Breakthrough!

2008-09-28T09:30:00.006+08:00

Was listening to my MP3 random-shuffle and this song came up. Quite nice, so I decided to share it =)

Eyeshield21 Anime (Episode 1~35) Opening Song - Breakthrough

[In Japanese]

ONE toki wo koete tokihanatta mihatenu yume-tachi
LOVE POKETTO no naka marumeta chizu, ima hiroge yukou
Kidou ni noseta kodou kimi ni todoketai
Togireru koto no nai, ai de sasaeatte

I FIND BREAKTHROUGH ashita e mukai
Yami wo kakete, asayake wo ukete
I'm JUST DREAMER samayoinagara
Mitsuketa n' da mamoru beki mono wo
Arata na hikari motome... NEVER GONNA GIVE UP

-----(the anime cuts it off here)-----

ONE shiranai ma ni moshi dareka wo kanashimasete itara
NEED sono namida wo mushi shinaide nuguu tsuyosa hoshii
Zassou no you ni yurete sassou to ikiteta
Kawariyuku kisetsu ni negai wa kawaranai

YOU FIND BREAKTHROUGH kitto daremo ga
Sagashite iru susumu beki michi wo
YOU JUST DREAMER hitori ja nai kara
Arugamama ni toki ni wagamama ni
Jibun wo shinjinagara... NEVER GONNA GIVE UP

[In English]

ONE, surpassing time

Unleased dreams whose ends cannot be seen

LOVE, within my pocket

the rolled up map,

lets open it now!

This heartbeat which has been put on the right track.

I want to reach you!

supporting each other with love,

that has no gaps

I find breakthrough!

Facing tomorrow,

I will race through the darkness and behold the dawn.

I'm just dreamer.

Just even when wandering about,

I've already found what i must protect.

Seeking a new light...

Never gonna give up!

The Video!

Used Snagit to capture the video, apparently the audio quality SUCKS! Bah.

You can download it here, I've uploaded my MP3 version of it:

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?3d2qjr8nitm

Mmm... Cupcakes.

2008-09-27T18:12:00.008+08:00

Woke up by my mum this morning and the first thing she said was (translated) "Ah boy ar. Later you make cupcakes hor. Yesterday I make till left 1 more batch. The ingredients all there liao. You go finish it up."

Hm. K. Since I was bored anyway (my dad refused to let me use the computer -.-")

Might as well tell you guys how to make it, so you guys can make it at home =\

Erm.. I'm not quite sure about the exact amount of ingredients. I never prepare them anyway. I always just make use of what my mum gives XD

I'll update it if I remember to ask my mum about the exact amounts haha.

Ingredients:

Pack of Ground Almond

Chocolate/Rainbow rice grain (or whatever topping you want)

Self-Raising Flour

Artificial Vanilla Flavour (or whatever flavour you want)

Slab of butter

Eggs

Sugar

Container to hold the cupcakes

Steps:

1) Smash/Melt the slab of butter and stir

2) Add in sugar and stir till the sugar looks evenly spread out in the butter

Ideally, it should look creamy-white like this:

3) Add eggs and stir well

Looks like tau hui lol..

Looks much better now =D

4) Add flour slowly and stir well

(unless your arm is super strong and you are confident that you can mix a whole lot of flour with the mixture properly)

5) Add almond and stir well

6) Add vanilla essence and stir well (yes, stir well once again.. lol)

The bottle of "artificial vanilla flavour"!

1 spoonful will do... But if u want more "vanilla taste", then add more. Duh!

7) Pour in the mixture into the container

(don't put too much or you might end up with a tumour cupcake! Remember there's self-raising flour inside!)

I put 5x5... then my mum said "NO YOU! Waste space!"...

... And this is what happened -.-"

8) Add chocolate/rainbow rice garins as topping

9) Put it into the oven till it becomes golden-brown in colour!

Use a toothpick to poke it. Make sure that the cupcake is NOT sticky like the mixture

10) And... YOU"RE DONE!

Interesting tip:
You know the triangularish thingy bakers in bakeries use to squeeze cake toppings or cream out neatly? Wanna know how to make one yourself? Easy!

All you need it a plastic bag and a pair of scissors!

Step 1: Get a plastic bag and a pair of scissors (well duh.)

Step 2: Cut a hole in the plastic bag on the sealed end (preferably the corner)

Step 3: Fill in the mixture into the plastic bag from the open end and.. tada!

See the small triangular cut in the centre?

that's the first version I made.. then I realised its better to cut the corner instead =\

Finally done.

2008-09-25T21:09:00.003+08:00

Phew. Finally updated everything. Yay.

Prelims results have been trickling out one by one.. Everyone is having mixed feelings. Generally pissed and sad though.. I haven't seen someone anyone who's happy about his/her results.. Either fail or "not good enough".. Oh well.. Sigh.. How to comfort people? I have no skills. Bleh. If only I knew how..

I shall only reveal all my results next Tuesday when all the results come out then.. No point one by one =\

A One-Month Journey - Intro

2008-09-19T21:58:00.031+08:00

Yay! Prelims finally over. Finally I'm back home with my laptop and back to technology. Initially, it was me who proposed this arrangement as I haven't been studying much, so I was hoping 2 weeks of solid revision is going to save me. Having experienced 1 month of no technology (besides my handphone which battery always die after calling for 20~30min), I've experienced quite an eventful month... IF you saw me online, it was probably my dad watching movies using my laptop. Anyway, throughout the month, I've been "blogging" on my phone, saving my thoughts as "draft SMS".

Now, I shall spam ya all what happened!

I've decided to break up the whole thing into 5 parts.
Part 1 - Intro. This.
Part 2 - Week 1 (25/8 ~ 31/8)
Part 3 - Week 2 (1/9 ~ 7/9)
Part 4 - Week 3 (8/9 ~ 14/9)
Part 5 - Week 4 (15/9 ~ 21/9)

It is also arranged in chronological order. I posted the Part 5 first then Part 4, so you can read from top down more easily =)

P.S. Holy crap. A lot of my draft SMS got corrupted.. So some parts are gone.. Bleh..

A One-Month Journey - Week 1

2008-09-19T21:58:00.030+08:00

Week 1 (25/8 ~ 31/8)

Wednesday - 27/9

Decided to join darryl's thinkquest team.

Lost my black IP zone jacket. Maybe that's the registration fee huh. Lol.

Friday - 29/9

Went back to DHS to visit teachers, and of course played bball with the others.. Sian la! This year like no one come back like that. We had to play 3v3.. Probably all mugging for prelims -.-"

Brings back memories.. Sigh. Didn't bump into ruijie, so didn't get dragged back to HPPS haha.. Actually the only primary school teacher I would like to find is my english teacher, Ms Ng.. The rest not that close to me =\

Sunday - 31/8
Sent message to perk up peeps and encourage them to jiayou. Thought people would say the "starhub" part was lame/funny. I thought wrong. Blah.

This is what I sent:
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Hey class, not to dampen your mood, we have exactly 1wk left to the start of prelims. If you've been slacking/not working hard for the past wk, do make use of this last wk. If you have, good on you! Keep it up. Use this prelim as one major gauge for the big A lvl later on. if you need someone to talk to in case u get bored/ask or verify stuff, feel free to SMS/call me.

This msg is brought to you by Starhub. Wishing you all the best for your prelims.
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Sounds cheesy huh. Lol.

A One-Month Journey - Week 2

2008-09-19T21:58:00.029+08:00

(1/9 ~ 7/9)

Monday - 1/9

Apparently some people just can't see the "reserved" and "no parking" which is put obviously in red..

Around 11am+, I was accompanying my grandma to buy lunch. While crossing the road, something hit my head from above, then I started bleeding. All the uncles and aunties gossip and gossip. Some say bee/wasp. Some say crow. I myself felt as if some huge ball/fruit hit my head. Apparently there's a huge cut. Doctor suggest stitch because the cut is too big and it might continue bleeding and its hard for the blood to clot. But my grandma said no need so the doctor cleaned my wound and covered it up for me. He said "this medication might hurt", but somehow I don't feel additional pain. I guess the pain from the wound was overlapping the pain from the medication huh. He then prescribed me a cleaning agent, a lotion to apply and painkillers.

This thing gimme a throbbing headache sia.. I still have no idea how bad the wound is. I can't see it, and I dont know if its going to have any damage to my brain..

But lucky whatever hit me hit me, if hit my grandma.. then really cham..

Can't really see the wound.. my hair's quite thick, haven't cut for 1 month already:

(top left, clockwise) The cream, iodine solution, painkillers

Just cleaned my wound and applied cream. My grandma just came back home. According to her friend, my wound is because I'm too heaty, then my blood vein burst, so blood ooze out.. LOL la.. She actually believed.. My grandma can be so naive.. So cute. Haha.. Its so hilarious that even my auntie who overheard kept laughing..

Tuesday - 2/9

I'm officially irritated by this household opposite my room window.

Oh c'mon. Don't you sleep? You don't need sleep I need leh. You like that shine at me every night how I sleep? Zzz...

11pm you're awake. Fine. 1am? No wait.. 4am, 5am you're still awake? Wth.. Even if you really don't sleep, mind using curtains or using a less glaring light like the apartment below yours?

Wednesday - 3/9

My sis came over to stay till Friday when she goes on a cruise with my mom, auntie and cousin, while I can't go because I got prelims. Nice -.-"

My hair has "fixed shape" liao.. Its like permanently right parting, thanks to the hairclips my sister lent me, so that I can keep my hair away from the wound.

Lol looks so wierd. Btw have a look at the blood clot right of the hairclip =\

After Econs tuition in the morning (special arrangement lol), I went to Marine Parade library to study with Wen Quan and Justin. WQ thought I was using gel for the 1st time in my life. Hey! Not bad.. I should extract my scalp cells and sell my "hair gel" to make a neat profit =P

Thursday - 4/9

Today my grandma found out that some newspaper delivery boy delivered newspaper to us (accidentally). She just took it and asked me to read.. I was like "er ah ma, return?" then she say "return to who? Not here liao", then she started scolding the delivery boy for his failure and poor job attitude. Lol.. So hilarious. Lol.. My sis and me kept laughing behind our notes.

I was quite bored so I decided to test if mentos + sprite gives the same reaction as mentos + coke. What a letdown. Coke wins.

Friday - 5/9

No error delivery today. Guess he realised his mistake =P

My hair is getting too oily and long. Buay tahan. Gotta cut and wash my hair. My auntie recommend "the barbershop at the corner" because got discount, $4.80 per cut. Wah really ar? K lor..

When I reached, I checked the price. Really $4.80, then I look at the promotion period - "Starts 1/4/08". Eh? Now still valid? Heck. Just try. Lol.

My hairdresser is a dude called Jimmy. While cutting my hair, he kept telling me my hair is oily, if go on will bald.. my hair full of dandruff, if liddat go on will tio skin disease... Wah lau, just 1 haircut you no need scare me till like that right.. Lol..

And hey! Its really $4.80.

Saturday - 6/9

Went for NVPC's annual Volunteer-A-Day (VAD). Had a mass group ice-breaker session and briefing before we were split up into the 4 different organisations we volunteering in.

This year, NVPC collaborated with "MINDS", "Singapore Disability Sports Council", "All Saints Home", and "Waterway Watch Society".

Last year, I chose NParks to help them catch monkey-feeders and conduct survey. Quite fun. This year I picked WWS to take part in their bike patrol to keep the future marina bay reservoir clean and hopefully change the mindset of people so they don't anyhow litter and will protect the environment. Quite fun too. Its like a free 1hr bike rental, minus the "no cycling" tunnels in the area. Lol.

Sunday - 7/9

Bored while eating lunch. Saw an apple. Spun it. Quite fascinating. Took a video of it.

Went bedok library in the evening to read some GP stuff. Halfway through, this young boy, who looks like he studys in primary school, sits down beside me with 2 computing books "Mac OS X Leopard" and "The Fat Man on GAME AUDIO"... Sia la. For all you know, I'm revising GP right next to the future next bill gates or sim yong woo. Lol..

Ate dinner then relocated to a table seat. Got 2 girls sitting opposite me studying computing.. I peeked at one of their notes.

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Format

Section A: MCQ

Section B: 5 Structured Questions

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Hm.. MCQ for computing paper -.-

I want MCQ for H2 Computing also! And only 5 structured nia.. The things they covering also quite similar (i saw polymorphism and classes) but why their format so good.. No fair >.<

A One-Month Journey - Week 3

2008-09-19T21:58:00.028+08:00

Week 3 (8/9 ~ 14/9)

Monday - 8/9

First day of prelims.. And I was late. Meh! Having GP then Math.

For GP compo, I only studied poverty and tech. There wasnt poverty, so I had to do tech. Oh well.. Quite good actually, though I ran short of time and could only write 3 content paragraphs. Zzz

As for compre, the questions were so-so. AQ was shit -.-

Then came math, my favorite subject! I was thinking "Set ar! Own in Math to cover the misery in GP".. End up I cant do 19m worth of questions. Wth.

Must be the invigilator lol.. Spoil mood. She severe PMS or something. Every small thing also scold. I was holding the piece of string when she was reading out the instructions "Do not open the booklet until you are told to do so..." Then she suddenly stopped and stared in my direction. At first I thought she looking at someone behind me.. But then she started moving closer to me. So I lifted up my hands and the string in my hands and gave her a questioning look. Then she snapped at me "You don't understand instructions is it?" Lol la wth. Which part of your instruction say cannot touch strings >.<

Wednesday - 10/9

Computing yesterday was... Er.. No comments.

Physics paper 3 today was crap. Because I can't recall 2 formulas, I lost the subsequent 18 marks, in 2 questions. Plus a few careless mistakes here and there. 1/4 of my paper 3 marks gone =(

Friday - 12/9

After Physics paper 2 ended, I was to collect a whole bag of mooncake from my grandma to bring home. And then I plan to get a headset with mic so can skype with clanmates during inhses. Asked yunie and mel where they got theirs, both say sim lim. Yunie's $14, mel's $18. So I was preparing to fork out around $20 or less..

Then after I collected mooncake, I met up with justin and wenquan to go lan lol.. They suggest we go cash converter and check out for the headset first though, and we did. Sia la! They got sell... I always thought the things they resell are crap. Actually got first-hand stuff too =\

Spotted 2 headsets, $3 and $10. The $3 looks suspicious and the salesgirl don't let me test, so I got the $10 one. Whee...

After that, we decided to catch a movie at "princess" since its $5 nia and we were bored. The nearest screening was "Wall-E" at 1.30pm. Its quite nice and funny. The type where you will hear my laughter in the whole theatre. But let me tell you what's the funniest.. Princess uses projector slides for "please switch off your handphones", "please do not litter", etc.. They even have a slide to advertise "please contact ___ for slide advertisements". LOL!

Sunday - 14/9

Mid-autumn festival is here!
Yay mooncakes.

Bah fire engine.

I wonder what happened. I don't see, smell or feel any kind of fire. Oh well...

A One-Month Journey - Week 4

2008-09-19T21:58:00.027+08:00

Week 4 (15/9 ~ 21/9)

Monday - 15/9

I think I'm sick. My right nostril is perma stuck. My throat feels dry even after drinking 2 bottles of plain water within 10 minutes, and I'm aching all over. Bleh.

Today's math paper 2 was seemingly a breeze. I (thought that I) had only 1 question part, the probability question, part 3, which I did wrongly and I thought of the answer only after "time's up". LIke I said, the focus is "seemingly". Upon discussion with justin and wenquan about the paper, either I get it all right and they get it all wrong or I get it all wrong and they get it all right -.-"

Wednesday - 17/9

Despair.

The worst piece of paper I ever sat for in my entire life so far. I totally couldn't do 32 out of 60 marks worth of questions. All hopes of getting C or better for econs was dashed. Gone. Poof, like meepo.

What caused it didn't really matter. Bad flu, stomachache, watching TV from 7pm~9pm, then from 10pm to 10.30pm, studying only 1hr, going school early to study but end up not doing so, or what not. The script has been handed in. History cannot be undone. "Past is prologue" as Shakespeare says. Maybe I should stop thinking of excuses why I screwed it up -.-"

Computing tomorrow better not be comparable to this. Physics MCQ on friday better be doable as well. Can't afford another screwed up subject.

Thursday - 18/9

Feelings are fickle but powerful sources of empowerment or demoralisation. They can make you stronger or cripple you, all in that instant.

Woah. So chim. Kk. Anyway that's what I felt after I sat down at the comic shop below my grandma house and read for 1 hour. Moments before, I was totally devastated at how much I have yet to master. Computing Paper 2 was yet another killer paper. 1 more tomorrow and it'll be a "killing spree".

I hate it when people categorise or stereotype me. To people like darryl, I'm supposed to be some sort of genius who's infallible. He even threatened to bash me up after I said I didn't know half the computing paper. At that instant, it feels like he's dropping stones into a well I fell into. How nice.

C'mon man. I WISHED I am a genius.

Friday - 19/9

RAWR! Its finally over. And how lucky am I that it ended off on a good note. Now I can go and enjoy myself for the weekend without feeling guilty. Yay. Kk. First off, sleep now. Gonna play tong xiao (i.e. overnight) tonight with my clan. Hehe.

Heard on TV about "games convention asia", quite interesting, wanted to go, but justin and wenquan not interested. Decided not to go alone. Bah.

Had guitar lesson as usual. Last few lesson before I stop liao. I didn't have time to practice for the past whole month. No point sia. Might as well continue after A's.

On my way back, 2 out of 3 buses that I can take left the bus stop when I was across the road. Noooooo -.-"

Then again, it might be a blessing in disguise. I talent-spotted a future dancer/pop-icon, you might even call her the next pussy cat doll (without the "s", she's solo). Judge for yourself:

I better stop or this gonna take forever to upload. She started dancing more than 10min ago before I started video-ing, and she's still at it after I stopped. All the way till her bus came and her mum dragged her up the bus. She train so hard sia. Lol.

So long.. for now.

2008-08-18T17:21:00.003+08:00

I think this is going to be my last post for quite some time before I gonna blog again..
Why?

1) I'm going to stay-over at my grandma's house from next week onwards till the end of prelims. Possibly till the end of A levels as well I suppose. I can't study at home..
My dad and sis = gg my concentration, however high it may be.
2) My dad claimed "YOU ARE A PIECE OF SHIT. YOU PLAY TOO MUCH. GO TO HELL. YOU DISGRACE TO THE CHOO FAMILY... blah blah blah" and confiscated the house internet modem (I'm currently koping other's internet connection via wifi to post this.. shh...)

Yeah. That's about it I suppose..

Anyway, Ying Xiao has decided to re-invent himself since the "Chicken Man" happened (refer to previous post, quite some time ago). Now he's the.. What?

Failed attempt to be a Muslim woman.

Oi look up la brother.

Ah yes, he's now a ninja wanna-be. Oh and that's Ryan sleeping there. Haha

Today is a sad day indeed. Last day blogging for quite some time + I got to return this book!! Apparently this is the last official school week for J2s and I'm NOT going to travel back to school so I got to return this book...

Fun stuff.
Don't give me that look again please -.-"

It teaches you stuff like graph theory, Eulerian cycles, etc.. Seriously. Very interesting.. I gonna borrow it again after A levels or after prelims =)

Lemme end it off with a set of song lyrics.. Kinda reflect what I feel like telling my dad. Especially those italicised. Zzz

Edit: Eh.. practically everything -.-"

Song Name: Shut Up
Band Name: Simple Plan

Youtube video of - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UztpFPn2Q-Q

Lyrics from: http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/simpleplan/shutup.html

"Shut Up"

There you go
You're always so right
It's all a big show
It's all about you

You think you know
What everyone needs
You always take time
To criticize me

It seems like everyday
I make mistakes
I just can't get it right

It's like I'm the one
You love to hate
But not today

So shut up, shut up, shut up
Don't wanna hear it
Get out, get out, get out
Get out of my way
Step up, step up, step up
You'll never stop me
Nothing you say today
Is gonna bring me down

There you go
You never ask why
It's all a big lie
Whatever you do

You think you're special
But I know, and I know
And I know, and we know
That you're not

You're always there to point
Out my mistakes
And shove them in my face

It's like I'm the one
You love to hate
But not today

So shut up, shut up, shut up
Don't wanna hear it
Get out, get out, get out
Get out of my way
Step up, step up, step up
You'll never stop me
Nothing you say today
Is gonna bring me down
Is gonna bring me down

Will never bring me down

Don't tell me who I should be
And don't try to tell me what's right for me
Don't tell me what I should do
I don't wanna waste my time
I'll watch you fade away

So shut up, shut up, shut up
Don't wanna hear it
Get out, get out, get out
Get out of my way
Step up, step up, step up
You'll never stop me
Nothing you say today
Is gonna bring me down

Shut up, shut up, shut up
Don't wanna hear it
Get out, get out, get out
Get out of my way
Step up, step up, step up
You'll never stop me
Nothing you say today
Is gonna bring me down

Bring me down
{shut up, shut up, shut up}
Won't bring me down
{shut up, shut up, shut up}
Bring me down
{shut up, shut up, shut up}
Won't bring me down

Shut up, shut up, shut up

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P.S. and yea, I did notice my blog MP3 stopped working since months ago. Can't be bothered to fix it.. Bleh

Beijing Olympics 2008 - Ping Pong. China vs. China Reserve Team.

2008-08-17T20:12:00.007+08:00

Ya Ha!
Its time for another commentary on a Beijing Olympics Game.

This time, its the most anticipated game in Singapore... Singapore's bid for a gold - In Ping Pong - with Li Jia Wei and Tianwei. Come to think of it, they're both China PRs.. Most would say they're "people who didn't make it in China and came to Singapore", others call the majority of Singapore's Olympic team "The China Reserve Team". Personally, I don't really care. But I definitely prefer true blue Singaporeans winning something.. C'mon man.. We can do this.

Fight 1 - Feng Tian Wei (SG) vs. Wang Nan (PRC)
Scoreboard:
11-9 (1-0)
3-11 (1-1)
8-11 (1-2)
6-11 (1-3) PRC WINS

Comments:
Just like my absolute prediction. SG will lose 1-3, only due to human error on China's part.

Tianwei can't handle smashes.. apparently.. Though she won the 1st match, it was hard fought, and with much human error from Wang Nan.

Wang Nan reminds me of Huang Na -.-"
Lol la.. I was on BNET shouting "WANG NAN GO BACK TO YOUR GRAVE! DONT MAKE ME GET THE MALAYSIAN GUY TO SCREW YOU AND CHOP YOU UP AGAIN!"... still we lost anyway haha.

Fight 2 - Li Jia Wei (SG) vs. Zhang Yi Ning (PRC)
Scoreboard:
11-9 (1-0)
3-11 (1-1)
4-11 (1-2)
7-11 (1-3) PRC WINS

Comments:
This match definitely the most fierce and interesting.. I had this impression since I heard Li Jia Wei playing.. Wa.. just how old is she? I think I heard her name since Primary school days.. and she still looks damn young and pretty on TV.. Sia la..

The commenter said "They (Jia Wei and Yining) were friends when they were very young".. Pain sia.. I would never wanna fight my friend in Finals.. Why can't we just have a friendly match =(

During the 1st time-out, the China team was discussing strategy to win back Li Jia Wei from 10-8. Guess what's Li Jia Wei was doing? She was clipping and re-arranging her hair, while nodding to the coach. Rofl.. Cool sia..

Anyway, I think their match has the best point play in this match between SG and China. The 3rd round, 2nd (or was it 3rd) point play.. Smashes after smashes.. smashes returned by smashes.. around 5~7 smashes before it finally ended.. You can practically hear the crowd ooo-ing and ahh-ing.. Sia la! Damn imba and nice to see!

Fight 3 - Li Jia Wei & Wang Yue Gu (SG) vs. Zhang Yi Ning & Guo Yue(PRC)
Scoreboard:
8-11 (0-1)
5-11 (0-2)
6-11 (0-3) PRC WINS

Comments:
Ah damn. Didn't really watch.. Was playing BNET with Justin. Pif. Anyway, a few glimpses when I turned my head was enough to tell me it was quite a close fight I suppose.. Pretty good teamwork and stuff.. Nice smashes, nice slicings, nice spins.

And you know I was just bullshitting all those generic comments out. Bleh. I give up. I didn't really watch it so nothing much to comment on this.. But I know we lost. That's all.

Lol la. I guess China still the Top eh. But not bad for a 2nd I suppose... Considering we have nothing so close before. FIRST SILVER MEDAL SINCE INDEPENDENCE BABY!

Good job Team Singapore. Or if you prefer "Jiayou China Reserve Team!" XD

Hefty spending on food in 1 dinner + ESS Econs Talk

2008-08-17T16:05:00.008+08:00

Another tired night. Plonked in bed after bathing..

16/8/08
What I spent in 1 dinner...

$2.80 + $1.50
Chippy's Fried Mars Bars with Chocolate Ice-cream
($1.50 for upsize. 8 pieces instead of 4.)

$8.60
Subway Terriyaki Sub Meal (2 Double-Chocolate Cookies)

$3.20
MOS Fish Burger

Total: $16.10
MEH! Lol though the Fried Mars Bars is delicious (DAMN NICE! Must try), I got sick of chocolate on my 2nd double-choc cookie and brought it home as tmr's breakfast XD

Man.. I must have gained 10kg or smth.. Then again.. that kind of stuff don't happen to me =P

17/8/08
Economic Society of Singapore (ESS)
Annual A-Level Student Seminar 2008
@ Singapore Polytechnic Convention Centre
9.00am~12.00am
Price: $10

And this is what we got:

[Front]

[Back]

YES A PIECE OF SCRAP PAPER AS ENTRY PROOF...
not to mention they didn't even ask for it throughout the whole thing -.-"

Ah heck.. The talk was quite interesting la.. The 2nd talk was funny. At the start the presenter gave us an "introduction" ppt..

http://www.scribd.com/doc/2074315/Subprime-Primer?query2=subprime%20primer%20.ppt

Since he works in MAS, while reading it out (its obviously too small for us to see), he intentionally replaced all the crude words... the last few parts are the funniest.. keep replacing "f**k" by "mess" and say it out loud to get the effect =P

"They.. messed up."
"We.. messed up."
"You... messed up."
"MESS YOU!"
"MESS YOU TOO!"

Lol.

The food they gave... One word. Shit. What's with the tasteless (seriously NO TASTE, not even potato taste, its like eating paper) hash browns and SOGGY bread, not to mention... THERE IS NO SPOON, no not the matrix one.. Spoons ran out super fast I had to eat rice with a fork >.<

Ah yes, another bad thing about the talk is the super long and boring Indian speaker who is supposed to introduce for the following 2 speeches.. Right at the start he said "I am not the main speaker, I'm just here to give a brief introduction", and he dragged on and on for a good 30min~1hr.. Basket.. All of us got freaking bored -.-"

This is what happens when I get bored...

You probably can't see.. but its a whole load of doodling..

An attempt to draw the Indian "not-main" speaker...
Gave up when I started on the mouth.. Made him look like a vampire and his ears were somehow pointy.. so heck. Lets transform him into a elfish vampire. RAWR!

And oh.. there's a case of a ninja photographer...
Can you spot him in the following pictures?

Argh. I'm weakening.. Nyuuu... + GIC Scholarship Talk =\

2008-08-15T17:21:00.003+08:00

Played too much with Justin, his cousin and Wen Quan then forgot to blog about for yesterday. Rofl.

Thursday 14/8/08

YAY!! Computing Coursework is FINALLY over! No more late night coding and seeing stressed faces and people becoming moody in class (at least I hope so...)

Bleh. That's just a side point. The main point for this is the weakening state of me. No not him, no not you, yes me =(

Thursday Mass PE is another usual full court basketball game because NAPFA is over. Lol.. No more "army boy" training. Bye Mr Goh XD

Anyway, usually I can run in the whole game without feeling extremely tired, not till the extent that I have to keep walking from 1 end of the court to another during offence/defence.. This week, Wei Xiong (do I have to intro who he is? lol) decided to play also.. After the "oh ya beh ya som!", Hao Qing and Wei Xiong were made captains and Hao Qing chose me 1st -.-"

Wth. Out of everyone he chose me first.. Bah heck. Nvm. I shall test and train myself against Wei Xiong rofl.. Should be quite fun.. I usually manage to piss off people who are better than me by persistently sticking to them and denying them from balls. This time, however, Wei Xiong's playing style is hardly the same, he doesn't give a hoot if he's the one who puts the ball into the net or not, and I don't see him getting irritated at all =\

Anyway, when he was passed the ball, immediately I tried to steal or block him.. But what the heck was I thinking.. Trying to defend against someone who run 2.4km in less than 9minutes.. After chasing him for 3 balls or so, I totally cannot do anything else for the rest of the game.. I was practically walking from one end of the court to another during offence/defence.. I can't even box out opponent rebounders (which I usually fare decently well in), let alone jump higher -.-"

Basket. So this is the difference in physical huh. Just like Monta vs. Taka. One with shit talent and another with imba talent. How to win? So far (in the comic Eyeshield21 that is) Monta only won ONCE because of Sena's assist and because he's been spamming training since primary school. Gah. One day I tell you. One day I'll dunk for you all to see.

Friday 15/8/08

When I was sent this email to sign up for the GIC Scholarship Talk on Friday, a few weeks back, I immediately signed up.

You probably must be thinking either one of the following:
"WAH. Davin so hiong ar.."
"WAH. Davin so kiasu ar.."
"WAH. Davin so active in scholarship talks ar.."
"WAH. Davin... -.-" "

But let me tell you the truth. It should be..
"WAH. Davin so smart ar! Get to pon TRIPLE econs + GP."

Hehe. Best plan ever right XD

Anyway, here's some pictures I took lol..

The place where 2 GIC employees (both TJC alumni) shared about their experiences in GIC.
The first speaker was quite entertaining haha.

The screen which was never used, the goodie bag (which has like 2 books about GIC and a notebook), and a bottle. They gave another short and cute Evian bottle before we came here rofl.

Yay reception. FOOOOD.. Looks like a mee monster huh. RAWR... I love bee hoon with ikan bilis... No actually I don't really like it. Its the only thing there to eat lol.

And the scenery is nice.. Come on, we're on the 38th floor?

Hey look! On the far right is the new 50-storey HDB estate called Duxton... which means my HDB estate is just right behind it.. lol.. Guess I can walk home later. My turn to laugh at all teh people who live in the east and laughed when I said I lived in Outram XD

Lol. CPF never lets us run away from its control huh.. Legal money leecher >.<

Ah btw.. Just came back from Funan.. Lol la.. long time no see chilli packets... And guess what sia. No more "GARLIC" in front of the "CHILLI".. and its now ORANGE in colour instead of YELLOW.. Oh well..

Beijing Olympics 2008 ^^

2008-08-12T19:54:00.002+08:00

Wooo.. Here comes Olympics.

Games I watched:
- Soccer: Argentina vs Australia

Siao siao. Argentina super super aggressive, while Australia's defence is superb.
It's like Wild Gunmen vs Oujou Knights (those who read Eyeshield21 would know what I meant).

Argentina had possession of the ball at least 70% of the time. But Australia mass-defence it seems, the majority of their players (except 1~3) were always on their half of the field -.-"

But the Aussie goal-keeper is good, in my opinion... I kept thinking Argentina's goalie is shit, then I saw him jump and saved a ball from going out (which will result in a corner kick)....
CRAZY LA THAT GUY. His arms super super long.. He reminds me of Taka in Eyeshield21 -.-"

Enough said. Argentina won 1-0 with a good teamplay of passing and finally scoring at around 77min.

- Basketball: USA vs China

DIE DIE must watch rofl. Stayed up from 12~2am to watch, lucky Monday no school. Thanks MOE! XD

China's team only Yao Ming can dunk properly. And he does it by HOPPING. Yes you heard me. His feet left the ground by at most 1cm on my TV screen, and he dunked... But then, the whole of USA's team can dunk -.-"

Apparently, USA sent their youth (i.e. noobish) team last olympic and got thrashed, so US got damn pissed and this time sent all the NBA players. Lol...

That game the USA like playing with China players.. Though China was leading in the 1st half of 1st quarter with 3-pointers, USA didn't even look panicky.

Look at USA's roster:
Lebron, Byrant, Wade, Kidd, Redd, Bosh, Chris Paul, Deron Williams, Anthony, Howard, and 2 others.

China? I only know Yao Ming. Another notably good player is number 11. Besides that, I don't see any -.-"

China can only bank on 3-pointers since they are too weak (seriously, they're as thin as me, while compared to their USA counterparts), and too short to choing in to dunk. While their 3-pointers scored them a lot and gave them an edge over USA's 2-point dunks, China's stamina is super shit compared to USA's. They sub like free like that, while the USA substituted less than 10 times in the whole game if I remember correctly... As the game progressed, China's 3-pointer accurancy dropped and dropped.

In the end, the score was 101-70, USA won. Like DUH -.-"

TJC National Day Celebration

2008-08-09T12:13:00.006+08:00

Firstly, HAPPY BIRTHDAY SINGAPORE! =D

Okay, now can poke fun at the celebration.
The overall performance was not bad la.. The emcees were funny.
The first performance was an external band. Seriously, our school sound system is @#$%^&*(
Can tell they're not bad one, but then due to our powderful sound system, we can't hear what the singer is singing =(

Anyway, that's not the main focus of this performance.. Something else happened in the hall that caused loads of people turning their heads and laughing (their asses off.. if they could.. they can't because we're all sitting on the floor)...

Something like this:

LOL! Tissue paper in the ears. Way to go our ageing stuttering Math teacher.

After that we had some student created videos blah blah blah.. Then came Wushu performance.. Somehow they always fit Wushu in ANY celebration -.-

Anyway, this is the first time I see a Wushu guy with FAN. As far as I know, fan is a 'weapon' that girls train in...

Oh, and he dropped his fan during the performance XD

Ah well... anyway, I finally got off my lazy bum and compiled the Project Can "Just For Laughs".. Enjoy! (actually also not much to enjoy, only 2 people got scared.. The Can Man was too nice to scare more people.. he was stoning half the time or "meowing" and acting cute >.<)

Remember to turn up your volume! XD

Bleh. Apparently some words are too small to be seen on this puny screen...
Victim #1: Never talk to stranger cans (even when your mum tells you to)
Victim #2: Never look behind a can

Ah thanks ar Austin.

2008-08-05T20:21:00.002+08:00

Thanks ar Austin..

Rules of Engagement:

People who have been tagged must write their answers on their blogs.
Tag 8 people to do this quiz & those who are tagged cannot refuse. These people must state who they were tagged by & cannot tag the person whom they were tagged by.
Continue this game by sending it to other people.

#1. If your lover betrayed you, what will your reaction be?
Er.. Stun, then emo, then get over it.

#2. If you can have a dream to come true, what would it be?
Hm.. To have a very lucky life. Life is all about luck. Everything you do is luck =P

#3. What will your dream wedding be like?
Bah, a repeated qn. In summary, one that my wife and me would both like.

#4. Are you confused as to what lies ahead of you?
Sorta. I'm still unsure what I wanna be, so my mum is like "BE A TEACHER!". So i'm like "ok =\"

Then I overheard her in a conversation with my dad "I want to be a mum of a teacher".
Then I'm like -.-"

#5. What’s your ideal lover like?
Don't have to be a knock-out beauty (though that's a bonus), just pleasing to the eyes. Someone who is not a total idiot. Someone who is naturally lovable and cute.
Act cute = Suck. Just look around and see those who act cute -.-

#6. Which is more blessed? Loving someone or being loved by someone?
Sian. Another same qn as Winston's tag. Er.. Lemme Copy Paste...

Well, frankly speaking. Depends. Loving someone always feels nice. But if the person doesn't reciprocate after a looooong time or she ignores you PURPOSELY and that kind of stuff, of course not good la.. Gorden and me can hold testimonial to this =\

Being loved is often said to be better. But you see ar.. You must try to understand why people sometimes reject others. They don't like the person "chasing" him/her what.. If you are being loved by someone you loathe or hate, you tell me how you feel blessed? You'll feel more like dying...

Actually ar.. I think the best is still BOTH people zhun zhun love each other =)
But then again, hasn't happened in my life before, so I can only "think".. cannot confirm =(

#7. How long do you intend to wait for someone you really love?
How to say.. usually I wait. and wait. and wait. Then the person get attached. I'm just too humji to initiate -.-

#8. If the person you secretly like is already attached, what would you do?
Forget it. Imagine if someone breaks up your relationship. How'd you like it?

#9. Is there anything that has made you unhappy these days?
Many things. Mostly family issues and being pissed at my own un-productivity.. zzz

#10. Is being tagged fun?
Once, yes. Twice NO. Do you have how much idea how long I spend typing this? -.-

#11. How do you see yourself in 10 years time?
Hm.. hard to say leh. I uncertain about the future. Lol.

#12. Who are currently the most important people to you?
Another repeat qn.. zzz
Time for copy paste again..

Erm. My mum (no not my dad, seriously). My sis (she insisted I add when she saw me typing this. She was practically whining XD).

My very close friends who won't mind whatever stupid things I do or say, such as Justin, Wen Quan, Winston, etc. (if you're not here, you're not impt to me... Lol jk. Just not important enough to come to my mind in the first second I saw this question)

How I wish I can write my girlfriend's/wife's name here. But nope. Single still >.<

#13. What kind of person do you think the one who tagged you is?
Someone who just ignored me because he was fixing his eyes on Yuxian. Same for Yuxian, totally ignore me. I was waving like mad la -.-

#14. Would you rather be rich and single or married but poor?
So many repeat questions.. copying..

Can I choose married AND rich? Haha.. Well seriously, I wouldn't want my loved one to suffer if I decide to marry her. I'll either slog myself out or not marry her and let her marry someone else rich and give her a good life.

#15. What’s the first thing you do every morning?
Drink water. Lol. Habit I suppose. I always sleep with a bottle of water next to me. I sometimes wake up in the middle of the night feeling thirsty.

#16. Would you give it all in a relationship?
Yes, at 5% level of significance.

#17. If you fall in love with 2 people simultaneously, who would you pick?
ANOTHER ONE?! Zzzz.. copying...

How's that supposed to happen? -.-
Anyway, if that happens, see which one respond back first =)

#18. What type of friends do you like?
Friends are friends. They are what they are.

#19. What type of friends do you dislike?
Why will I be their friends if I dislike them? I'll just be their "classmate", etc.
Want an example? Sure. Ruishan is my classmate, not my friend.
(sry RS, i'm very open one, and you know that i dislike you openly, just that i dont bring it to a level of action)

Tagged:
NO ONE. I'm not that evil to make ppl do double -.-

A bitter experience

2008-08-02T22:48:00.003+08:00

Met up with Kheng and Fann at Mac for dinner. As I was early and frantic to book a spot for the 3 of us at the super crowded Mac, I quickly kope a seat and ordered a cup of coffee (no point eating first then watch them eat right...) while I read my Newsweek =\

My cup of tea!

Sry, I meant my cup of coffee.
No wait, its a CUP of CAPPuccino.

Anyway, it was my first ever cup of cappuccino (or any thing related to coffee, as a matter of fact) in my life. I always hated bitter stuff and always pondered and fascinated at why people love coffee and cappuccinos so much.. So heck. Lemme give it a shot since I got to use it to "steal" some seats anyway...

OMG la.. so bitter. The bitterest (ignore the fact that the word doesn't exist) thing I have ever tasted! I am so proud that I managed to finish it -.-"

I don't see what's so nice about coffee and cappuccinos after all. Bleh.
Maybe coffee is just not my cup of tea XD

This Old Man... Aiya, don't judge a person by his appearance

2008-08-01T22:41:00.003+08:00

Went to eat KFC before my guitar lesson at Funan.. Sort of running late already.. 15minute to finish eating a Zinger Student Meal. Hm.. How to do that given my amazing record of slow-eating >.<

Heck! Just order first then find seat...
Lalala..

"Zinger Student Meal, give me mountain dew, don't want ice, and change the whipped potato to regular fries. Thanks"

Alright! Meal acquired. Now to find a seat.. Hm...
*scans the area*

Ah hah! I see an old man taking up 2 seats (apparently his bag took up one =\)

[In Chinese]
"Hello uncle, got people sit here? Can I sit?"

Before I could finish my sentence, he nearly went into a fit and started shaking his head violently and shoo-ing me away while shouting some weird words which I can't decipher. I was thinking like "Woah.. ok chill.. nvm i go find other seat, no need so violent reaction right.."

Damn la. 10 minutes left.. Zzzz

*scans KFC again, with 1 hand holding my guitar and the other balancing the tray -.-*

Yay. Someone's leaving!
As I walked nearer, 2 malays already reached the table.. Crap. Nvm, lemme ask them if can share..

HOLY CRAP. They look gangster-ish and stuff, and they don't look friendly at all -.-
Oh no.... Then I looked at my watch, 10minutes left. NOOOOO.. heck la, just ask.

"Hi excuse me, how many people do you all have?"
"2?"
"Ah, can I share this 4seat table with you?"
"Sure, why not?"

Woah. They actually damn friendly la! Rofl. The guy talking to me felt like Mr. Fazli.. he was oozing with that kind of friendliness sia.. The other guy just sat there and played his PSP and blasted music like nobody's business. Maybe its just a malay thing to do, not all people who blast music are paikia (bad boys). *Shrug*

After eating, I thanked them for sharing (in my desperate attempt not to be late) the table with me. The Mr Fazli-lookalike (no wait, more like talkalike or feelalike) was still smiling at me lah! Waa...

See ar people..
This old man, he played one, he played knick knack on my thumb, with a knick-knack paddywhack, I found a new table. This old man went rolling home alone.

Okay, ignore that failed attempt to adapt the children song "This old man" -.-
Just remember.. Don't judge a person by his looks/appearance =)

Cool Uncle

2008-07-31T17:01:00.003+08:00

Walking back from lunch with Winston..
Saw this cool sight. A car on the long walkway back to school
(TJ students should recognise this path)

The uncle in the car actually smiled and waved to us XD
But on the MRT back home, I was telling Mianjun about this.. then I'm like hm.. Where can he drive to.. the other end of the walkway is HDB void deck liao.. LOL

The Blog Tag =\

2008-07-30T22:59:00.005+08:00

Got tagged by Winston. Bah. Here goes.

A) People who have been tagged must write their answers on their blogs and replace any question that they dislike with a new question formulated by themselves.

B) Tag eight people to do this quiz and those who are tagged cannot refuse. These people must state who they were tagged by and cannot tag the person whom they were tagged by. Continue this game by sending it to other people.

1. What are your reasons for having a LJ?
LJ.. meaning? L** Jiao? Long John? Live Journal? How I know sia.. Lol.

2. What do you do before bedtime?
Probably using my laptop I guess.. I have nothing much else to do.
Unless you want to include brushing my teeth, pee-ing and saying good night to my parents.. Well of course that's DIRECTLY before I lie on my bed...

Oh wait.. actually I lie on my bed and think of a lot of random nonsense before I sleep =P

3. What will your dream wedding be like?
Hm. No idea. Ask my future wife. I'll probably follow along. I quite easy going one, unless it's things that go against my ideals etc..

4. What is the city of your dreams and why?
Erm. Somewhere safe, environmentally friendly AND healthy (no smog and 1000degrees temperature for the win), cheap, stress-free. No point living in the city of my dreams as a poor beggar, nor is it any better to slog my whole life in the city of my dreams.

5. Are you an introvert or extrovert?
Eh. Depends bah. To close friends and most guys, they think I'm hiong and extrovert..
To strangers AND girls... "Hi. Er..." *fiddle fingers* >.<

6. Which is more blessed, loving someone or being loved by someone?
Well, frankly speaking. Depends. Loving someone always feels nice. But if the person doesn't reciprocate after a looooong time or she ignores you PURPOSELY and that kind of stuff, of course not good la.. Gorden and me can hold testimonial to this =\

Being loved is often said to be better. But you see ar.. You must try to understand why people sometimes reject others. They don't like the person "chasing" him/her what.. If you are being loved by someone you loathe or hate, you tell me how you feel blessed? You'll feel more like dying...

Actually ar.. I think the best is still BOTH people zhun zhun love each other =)
But then again, hasn't happened in my life before, so I can only "think".. cannot confirm =(

7. Do you trust easily?
Quite bah.. Once I know you slightly I'll just share almost anything with you, my life, my family stuff etc.. But some 'sensitive' areas like sexuality, relationships, racial, religious stuff I'll only open up if the opposite party initiate by talking about it. Then I'll be like "ah ok, you're the kind who is open to discussion about this kind of stuff", then I'll talk about those kind of stuff.

To me, I think in any kind of relationship, trust is the most important thing lor.. Why else is my MSN comment "Trust. That wins everything." Though it was created when I got pissed at my dota clanmates not understanding that teamwork and trust can win individual skills anytime >.<

8. What person, dead or alive, is your role model?
Role model ar.. I have different role models for each kind of aspect in life. Sometimes more than 1 in an area in life.. Too many to name la.. But here's a few: Maths Teacher:
Mr Low Chang Hong (his ability to bond with students and his funniness)

Computing Teacher:
Mr Claude Chua (his ability to bond with students and his self-unaware funniness)
Mr Desmond Kao (his ability to command respect from students without being overly strict)

Sports:
Eyeshield21 Devil Bats Team (though they're just manga.. they're quite inspirational)

P.S. Wondering why I mentioned teachers? I did say I wanted to be a teacher right.. RIGHT..? lol

9. Is there anything that has made you unhappy these days?
Not really bah. I think.. I usually get over things rather quickly unless they're things close to heart, like relationships.

10. When's the last time you had fun?
Hm... Depends on the degree of fun. I have all kinds of fun everyday. Just different magnitude. I find doing math and coding fun. Lol... HEY YOU. Don't gimme that wierd look ok.

11. Is being tagged fun?
Quite fun bah. But a bit lame la. If you want to know anything just ask me lor. If you're that close to me to bother tagging me, I'll probably be sharing almost anything with you already what.. Right Winston? >.<

12. How do you see yourself?
Hm.. Philosophical bah. Rofl. I always think too much.. Maybe thats why I can understand how most people feel.. That's why I usually don't quarrel with people much. I just try to persuade them in a calm manner explaining their flaw in thought process etc.. I can tell my dad is quite pissed at me pointing out all his logical flaws =\

Ah another one. I think I am a failure. Fail at being funny, end up being lame. Fail at getting results I want. Fail at this. Fail at that. I can't remember me actually meeting any expectations set by myself in my life. Of course cannot say parents. Cos my dad want me become president scholar. He say "You cannot one meh?".. One out of whole country. Wth -.-"

13. Who are currently the most important people to you?
Erm. My mum (no not my dad, seriously). My sis (she insisted I add when she saw me typing this. She was practically whining XD).

My very close friends who won't mind whatever stupid things I do or say, such as Justin, Wen Quan, Winston, etc. (if you're not here, you're not impt to me... Lol jk. Just not important enough to come to my mind in the first second I saw this question)

How I wish I can write my girlfriend's/wife's name here. But nope. Single still >.<

14. What kind of person do you think the person who tagged you is?
Fun and Funny. Quite lame as me also. Lol.. Oh ya.. My lunch buddy XD

15. Would you rather be single and rich or married but poor?
Can I choose married AND rich? Haha.. Well seriously, I wouldn't want my loved one to suffer if I decide to marry her. I'll either slog myself out or not marry her and let her marry someone else rich and give her a good life.

16. How many children do you want to have, if any?
Probably 0~3 bah. Ask my future wife on this again. I can't make kids on my own right. Haha

17. What's better, to give or to receive?
What happened to "Give AND Take?" =P

18. If you fall in love with two people simultaneously, who would you pick?
How's that supposed to happen? -.-
Anyway, if that happens, see which one respond back first =)

19. What would you do if you (or your girlfriend) became pregnant unexpectedly?
What? Er.. I get pregnant? That's wrong lol.. And I don't have a girlfriend now anyway..

20. What are you waiting for right now?
Someone to walk into my life.. Man, I sound so despo >.<

Tagged:
1) Felicia (my sis. you better write me down too XD)
2) Altessa (if you did check my blog out.. then again, do only if u got blog la. If got do gimme your blog URL i want poke poke see see haha =P)
3) Chi Hung (my good o' HK CS buddy lol)

I shall spare the rest since they already kanna.. according to what I see on your blogs >.<

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Btw, have a look at the powderful English our school library upholds...

"DO NOT BRINGING" FOR THE WIN!! XD

Alpha II Day 3 - My last as well =(

2008-07-26T23:48:00.007+08:00

Alpha II ends on Monday (28/7/08) 5pm.
So why did I say it's my last? Because Sunday I going airport with friends to study till late and Monday I have school which ends relatively late. When I reach home, sure to be over 5pm already =(

Anyway, since this is the last day of Alpha II for me..
PICTURE SPAMMMMM!!! I regret not re-installing Snagit to take videos -.-

CLICK TO ENLARGE!
(same for pictures in previous posts ^^)

Mage:
(IGN: SozoS)

Wheeeee... If only I could do this during Standing Broad Jump =\

BOOM!

Oh hi wolfie!

Heeee-ah!

Stop being a crywolfy and gimme my loot!

Warrior:
(IGN: ZosoZ)

Thief:
(IGN: Hidden)

Archer:
(IGN: Lego-less)

Random Pictures:

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Before I logged off, I saw Altessa online!! ^^
and... It's time to PARTAY!!

We decided to do the easiest boss instance/quest for the fun of it =P

Choing arrrrr!!!

Aww.. Died. Let's revive XD

DIE IN THE NAME OF... erm.. who?

Monster Charge V.S. Mage's Lightning Shield

Oh yay. it died.

We're "S" grade. Top-notched =)

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It was all fun and joy. Definitely will pick it up again at the end of the year during Close Beta Testing (CBT)! =D

Related Links (SPAMMMM):
IAHGames Official Website
http://www.iahgames.com/
Dragonica's Offical Website
http://dragonica.iahgames.com/
CM Kaye's Blog (CM -> Community Manager):
http://kaye.blogs.iahgames.com/
Dragonica Forum (fun place to be ^^):
http://forum.iahgames.com/dragonica/index.php
My Compilation of Alpha II data:
http://forum.iahgames.com/dragonica/showthread.php?p=48899#post48899
Compilation of Alpha II bugs (yes, again. what do you expect? IT IS Alpha II testing. Sure a lot bugs):
http://forum.iahgames.com/dragonica/showthread.php?t=2250
Funny Alpha II Joke!
http://forum.iahgames.com/dragonica/showpost.php?p=48789&postcount=31

Alpha II Day 2

2008-07-26T00:15:00.004+08:00

More pics. Too tired to type again.. Gonna sleep =P
Here are more pics:

Fighting Vega, a boss, in an instance/quest thingy..

Yes of course I died. I'm not godlike..... yet. Haha

Meet dolly.

Woodi! So cute >.<

Spider pig. Spider pig..

The Mage's Skill Tree (of course la! I playing mage what. =\)

For those interested.. you might wanna check out these. Some stuff that I did to contribute to Alpha II testing =\

Alpha II Data Compilation!
http://forum.iahgames.com/dragonica/showthread.php?p=48290

Alpha II Bugs - A Compilation
http://forum.iahgames.com/dragonica/showthread.php?p=48236

Some pics. Lazy to type stuff. Gotta sleep

2008-07-24T23:44:00.003+08:00

Weird green arrow.

Rofl! Typo in beginner guide

Some bugs:
http://forum.iahgames.com/dragonica/showthread.php?p=47280

Meh.

Its out!

2008-07-24T00:57:00.002+08:00

Been reformatting my laptop for the past few days (including data transfers and stuff).. Finally its done. Sort of.

Anyway.. DRAGONICA IS FINALLY OUT (24/7/08 12:00 to be exact)!!
Though its Alpha II nia >.<

Good thing I've completed my A level Computing coding for PART B on Tuesday.. Now I can full enjoy playing it without feeling guilty XD

Still downloading the client as of 1am in the morning.. Sian.. Hope I can keep awake in school tomorrow.. zzzz

TJC Physics Dept Wins.

2008-07-18T21:10:00.002+08:00

Yet another funny joke made by TJC's Physics Department.

At the beginning of our lecture, the teacher told us that our June Common Test (JCT) grades are quite reflective of our IQ levels. He made it sound so serious and stuff.. Then he suddenly flashed this. ROFL!

In case you can't see...

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How high is your IQ?

A - Albert Einstein
B - Barack Obama
C - Christina Aguilera
D - David Beckham
E - Elmo
S - Spongebob Squarepants
U - Ultimate Warrior

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Winnah! I'm a blackie yo! Lol... I wish all the other departments were as entertaining and stress-relieving as the Physics Department XD

So far, only the Math lecturers (only some.. Like Fazli, Ngoh, Lim, etc.), were entertaining..

The Econs lecturers all CMI la.. Only 1 can really teach... The HOD of Econs (really explains why she became HOD right... Lol).

What about Computing? Fun at times but hard to say, because our dear Mr Kao seems to have some form of male-PMS.. His emotions very erratic one =(

Racial Harmony Day

2008-07-16T22:22:00.008+08:00

Today was a once-in-my-lifetime day. Why? Because its the last proper Racial Harmony Day celebration, AND the first which I actually wore an ethnic costume o.O

Yes yes.. we're sort of coerced into it by our "best debator" Indian classmate Elakeyaa.
"Very nice one!"
"Everyone is wearing it!"
"Wear a long sleeved collar shirt, looks the best!"
"Dhoti is not a skirt, tomorrow I show you."

I'm like "What the hell? You open shop is it? Can supply whole class...". But heck. Last year. Just try la >.< Guess what... In the end? Only 5 girls (including 2 Indians) and 3 guys wore the Indian costumes (3 others gave up like 1 period after wearing it..).. SOMEMORE, long sleeved + collar so DOES NOT fit with the dhoti... AND IT IS A SKIRT.. I feel so scammed.. zzzzz

After some further observation.. I think our class girls look pretty in the Indian costumes lor.. Look at Mianjun at the picture below la! Wah... And the guys all look like shit -.-

I seriously think this kind of thing.. Must girls wear, then guys just look =P

The only group shot I got.. because I had to leave at 12pm for the FFGCC competition zzzz...

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Only Zac looks decent because he wore a plain singlet-like t-shirt. Which made him look like a roti prata seller. And he kept reminding me of the "RK HOUSE" joke.. I kept asking him for "pork curry". Lol.. In the end all of us look more malay than Indian.. What joke.

RK House - http://youtube.com/watch?v=sBDA_4DKrbM

We were supposed to take class photos during Civics.. but then I gtg at 12pm because I taking part in Fastest Fingers GC Competition (FFGCC).. Sounds grand? It's retarded. It made me miss the FUNNEST lesson in school (Civics), miss out on class photo taking.. AND most importantly, miss out on celebrating Gorden's birthday at 1.40pm =(

On the way to MJC (yes FFGCC held in MJC), we were besotted (lol what a word to use) by 3 SMU girls who needed photos for some photo collage for their CIP. They say got chance to win IPoD nano.. bah heck. Let's do a good deed. Maybe will raise our luck later haha.. So we took pictures and left our names and email addresses there.. After that, a pair of SMU guys wanted to take our photos again.. we're like "We just took... -.-"". Like Wei Cheng said, I seriously think even if the guys asked first we won't agree one lor.. Lol.. How sexist (against our own sex somemore.. ROFL)

And guess what we did for FFGCC?
Format:
15 math questions, answer in 3.s.f., each question 2.5min
Team of 3 (Person A, Person B, Person C)

Individual scoring system:
- Total time (in minutes) taken in answering all 15 questions [1min -> 1 point]
- Wrong answers -> +3 points

Team score = A's points + B's points + C's points
Lowest team score wins.

The questions are so retarded la.. I think we lose in Preliminary round lol.. When I type finish I look up at the scoreboard, apparently half the people typed in their answers already -.-
Lol forget it. Just hope win IPoD Nano. ROFL.. Fat hope XD

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Oh, below are just some random stuff Ryan and me did during Computing.. we were seriously bored and I decided to use Ryan's Indian dhoti cloth to make a ninja headgear ROFL.

He stole some shots while I was listening to Mr Kao.. =\

Yes it is a BLACK dot on my head. It's not a black head. It's a sticker to emulate the Indian dot.. careful, don't anger me. Ima shoot mah laserz from my dot at ya!! RAWRRRR!! ^^

Ah yes, our trilogy of "The Indian White Ninja"...
(I named it like that. It was just an impromptu videoing of random stuff lol!)

Alert! Indian White Ninja detected! =O

The Indian White Ninja strikes!

The Indian White Ninja strikes BACK (again)!!

Things to watch out for:
-> Mr Kao's "finger gun" at the start of the video (IT WAS INTENDED BY HIM LOL!)
-> The "swiftness" of the ninja attack. Lmao.
-> The item Ryan dropped when he "died".

P.S. Now you know what we do in Computing.. HAR HAR!

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Was listening to this one the way back from Mrs Raj's Econs tuition.. I have no idea why but this is one of the 3 Linkin Park songs that I feel for. Like they speak/relate to me..

"In the End" reminds me of all the hard work I put in then end up failing or not getting what I expected/wanted (like erm.. O levels? -.-). Actually this happens to me many times.. So maybe that's why this song speaks out to me =\

The other 2:
1) Linkin Park - Numb (I shown the lyrics last time.. LOOOONG time ago in my blog)
2) Linkin Park - Faint

Linkin Park - In the End

[Verse 1]
It starts with one thing
I don't know why
It doesn't even matter how hard you try keep that in mind
I designed this rhyme
To explain in due time
All I know
Time is a valuable thing
Watch it fly by as the pendulum swings
Watch it count down to the end of the day
The clock ticks life away
It's so unreal
Didn't look out below
Watch the time go right out the window
Trying to hold on, but didn't even know
Wasted it all just to watch you go
I kept everything inside and even though I tried, it all fell apart
What it meant to me will eventually be a memory of a time when

[Chorus]
I tried so hard
And got so far
But in the end
It doesn't even matter
I had to fall
To lose it all
But in the end
It doesn't even matter

[Verse 2]
One thing, I don't know why
It doesn’t even matter how hard you try, keep that in mind
I designed this rhyme, to explain in due time
I tried so hard
In spite of the way you were mocking me
Acting like I was part of your property
Remembering all the times you fought with me
I'm surprised it got so (far)
Things aren't the way they were before
You wouldn't even recognize me anymore
Not that you knew me back then
But it all comes back to me (in the end)
You kept everything inside and even though I tried, it all fell apart
What it meant to me will eventually be a memory of a time when I

[Chorus]
I tried so hard
And got so far
But in the end
It doesn't even matter
I had to fall
To lose it all
But in the end
It doesn't even matter

[Bridge - Sung 2x]
I’ve put my trust in you
Pushed as far as I can go
And for all this
There's only one thing you should know

[Chorus]
I tried so hard
And got so far
But in the end
It doesn't even matter
I had to fall
To lose it all
But in the end
It doesn't even matter