Feeling a bit hyper today. Rawr. I can't wait for Tues. HOPEFULLY we'll be able to get the class out to go bowling and maybe a movie. HOOOOO~ XD
I went bowling after school today. Guess I've improved since I've joined the team. 1st game 120+, 2nd 140+, and 3rd 167...hehs. Kept sparing all the way, 2 open frames. If I can keep that up...*dreams*...got stuck in a rut at the 4th and 5yth games with 100+, but pulled myself out with 130+ at the 6th.
Tomorrow, most probably going to Yong Ming's house to watch soccer. Germany VS Argentina. Should be interesting. Haha. I'm also bringing a special item. A item containing memories. A artifact from a dark chapter in my past. Muahahahaha. We're gonna have fun laughing...
Pretty much nothing else. I'm gonna go play com games. Advantage of exams is that I don't hafta go to sch tomorrow, which means I can play late on a weeknight, which equals less ppl to steal monsters from me! =]
Thursday, June 29, 2006
Wednesday, June 28, 2006
[UPDATE] Stroke that. I'm happy now. WHEEEEE~!!! =D [UPDATE]
After my last major paper and I'm here bored and bothered. Nothing to do, noone to talk to. So i shall be conducting a conversation with myself. I had expected fun after today's papers. What did I do? Go home and play com games. Hahs.
CLB paper's tomorrow, and also a chemistry lecture. Hope I can find something fun to do after tomorrow. I want to play pool, bowling and watch movies. I'm game for anything. Call me. =]
I haven't bowled in a while...hope I'm not too rusty..hahas. Quit discomfited actually. You see, I was reading through the blogs of friends, and came across one when my friend was actually berating a person she seemed to be quite irritated with.
Checking back the times, I realised I had tagged her a few hours before that post, and I'm wondering. The problem is, while tagging, I accidentally hit the enter key, which left my sentence hanging halfway.
I finished the second sentence in another post, even though there is an unwritten rule against double-posting, it was a genuine accident. Again, careless me typed "ytd" instead of "tml" in the second post. What did I do? Triple-posted to correct the error.
So...I'm just hoping that person is not me, because if so I'm in deep shit la...lol. If so, paiseh...to err is human. Hehs. Eh what's the point of this? I bet she never reads my blog. Haha. Unlike me. Everytime I go online, I read all the blogs in my links, and make the effort to tag.
Can you guys confess to being so spontaneous in maintaining your relationships with your old friends? Heh. *Gloats as the readers feel guilty*
NEWS UPDATE:
Mt. Pimple on my nose appears to be on the verge of erupting(and the faster the better!). All microorganisms, bacteria included are encouraged to vacate the area. (For the uninitiated, our bodies are teeming with microscopic life. Even after we bathe.) The volcano summit may rupture any moment.
Huh. I'm crapping here again. Oh, well, I'm off to assault my pimple with my newly adopted ritual of washing it with water, then some "Cetaphil", then water, before applying the "Fusidin". Lol.
Monday, June 26, 2006
Went to the twins' house yesterday to study.Started having a headache as I left. Read chemistry and had a cuppa coffee from the wonderful smelling ground beans my father bought. Slept at 12. Tossed and turned about. I slept at 2+am. It was either the headache or the coffee. Maybe both.
Chemistry was a killer today. Today we shall analyze the different stages of my destruction, at my own hands nonetheless...first, it was "I can do this, just relax.". Then after seeing the 1st question, "Don't worry."
I got weird answers, couldn't complete question. "Ok, you can do this later, lots of questions later on. You can do this." Went to the next few questions. "How to do this? How to do this?" Pondered a lot on each question.
"Shit, you're wasting time, move it!" Rushed through. "Faster! Faster!" Hit last section. "Shiiiiit...no time...gogogo" Looked thru, scribbled some equations. If you think I was hoping time would slow down near the end, you're wrong. I was thinking "Oh please let this end quickly, as soon as possible."
That, boys and girls, is about as low as you could go. To hell and back again. When you realise that you have no longer a chance of survival. Only guaranteed failure. When you know that the last flame of hope, no matter how tiny, has been extinguished.
It is when you simply give in and resign yourself to the fact you have screwed up bigtime on this one. You do not fight, you do not hope for a longer duration. You want it to end. As quickly as possible. Just...to stop the pain.
I have never reached that stage before. Until today. Strangely, it doesn't hurt. The realisation that you are 100% confirm-guaranteed-got-stamp gonna fail this exam. You just feel rather...hollow inside.
As I count the casualties, Free response, done, highly unconfident, several uncompleted/dunno how to od. MCQ, skimmed through due to lack of time, hardly put any thought to it, did some rudimentary calculations, partially threw it to lady luck up there. Structured...no time at all, think one-third to half done. Several I didn't even read, some I skimmed through, attempted, wrote some equations.
There's nothing more I can say. No words can describe the carnage I witnessed today. My mind was raped. Equations, formulas, it all didn't tally! I couldn't get it to work. Forgot some critical components of the formula, poof, wasted time and have to redo question. I can REMEMBER the thing I've learnt. I just can't get them to work out right in the questions.
The End is nigh.
Oh, and I forgot to mention I have this horrifically big pimple RIGHT in the center of my face. Like, WTF? It's always like this. I get quality, not quantity. People get little spots all over their face, I get one the size of a cockroach's soccer ball right smack on my nose.
Why there??? It's so damn obvious/disgusting/ugly/idiotic/riduculous. I've had pimple before. I say pimple because its always appears SINGLY. What's up with that???
And always on the prominent areas. Like my nose. A friends told me she had something like my case too. It went down in a week or two. Mine? Mine plays Survivor: Kenneth's Nose!!!
It's like kaboom, lets make a camp here. And they stay there for weeks. In fact, I'm not sure when they would've disappeared had I not seen the doctor. And when my private "volcano" "erupts", the "lava" comes out like there's no tommorrow. Like today pop!, tomorrow a bowl of yummy custard for you.
I can't stand it. Occasionally I have a relapse. One never died even after I used the prescribed cream. You know what I had to resort to? An injection. Into the pimple. Who has a pimple case so severe it warrants an injection? Me!
It was so big you could stick a needle into it. And pump it full of fluid. Cause that's what the doctor did. You know how an average pimple hurts if you accidentally scratch it? Multiply its size by 7 cos that's about the size of mine (avg. pimple area)X7. Then you stick a needle into it.
I wonder when this new "landform" on my face will go down. Thankfully these relapses are few and far between. But they still suck. Must be the stress from all the exams. I wanna go bowling! I wanna go see movies!
Chemistry was a killer today. Today we shall analyze the different stages of my destruction, at my own hands nonetheless...first, it was "I can do this, just relax.". Then after seeing the 1st question, "Don't worry."
I got weird answers, couldn't complete question. "Ok, you can do this later, lots of questions later on. You can do this." Went to the next few questions. "How to do this? How to do this?" Pondered a lot on each question.
"Shit, you're wasting time, move it!" Rushed through. "Faster! Faster!" Hit last section. "Shiiiiit...no time...gogogo" Looked thru, scribbled some equations. If you think I was hoping time would slow down near the end, you're wrong. I was thinking "Oh please let this end quickly, as soon as possible."
That, boys and girls, is about as low as you could go. To hell and back again. When you realise that you have no longer a chance of survival. Only guaranteed failure. When you know that the last flame of hope, no matter how tiny, has been extinguished.
It is when you simply give in and resign yourself to the fact you have screwed up bigtime on this one. You do not fight, you do not hope for a longer duration. You want it to end. As quickly as possible. Just...to stop the pain.
I have never reached that stage before. Until today. Strangely, it doesn't hurt. The realisation that you are 100% confirm-guaranteed-got-stamp gonna fail this exam. You just feel rather...hollow inside.
As I count the casualties, Free response, done, highly unconfident, several uncompleted/dunno how to od. MCQ, skimmed through due to lack of time, hardly put any thought to it, did some rudimentary calculations, partially threw it to lady luck up there. Structured...no time at all, think one-third to half done. Several I didn't even read, some I skimmed through, attempted, wrote some equations.
There's nothing more I can say. No words can describe the carnage I witnessed today. My mind was raped. Equations, formulas, it all didn't tally! I couldn't get it to work. Forgot some critical components of the formula, poof, wasted time and have to redo question. I can REMEMBER the thing I've learnt. I just can't get them to work out right in the questions.
The End is nigh.
Oh, and I forgot to mention I have this horrifically big pimple RIGHT in the center of my face. Like, WTF? It's always like this. I get quality, not quantity. People get little spots all over their face, I get one the size of a cockroach's soccer ball right smack on my nose.
Why there??? It's so damn obvious/disgusting/ugly/idiotic/riduculous. I've had pimple before. I say pimple because its always appears SINGLY. What's up with that???
And always on the prominent areas. Like my nose. A friends told me she had something like my case too. It went down in a week or two. Mine? Mine plays Survivor: Kenneth's Nose!!!
It's like kaboom, lets make a camp here. And they stay there for weeks. In fact, I'm not sure when they would've disappeared had I not seen the doctor. And when my private "volcano" "erupts", the "lava" comes out like there's no tommorrow. Like today pop!, tomorrow a bowl of yummy custard for you.
I can't stand it. Occasionally I have a relapse. One never died even after I used the prescribed cream. You know what I had to resort to? An injection. Into the pimple. Who has a pimple case so severe it warrants an injection? Me!
It was so big you could stick a needle into it. And pump it full of fluid. Cause that's what the doctor did. You know how an average pimple hurts if you accidentally scratch it? Multiply its size by 7 cos that's about the size of mine (avg. pimple area)X7. Then you stick a needle into it.
I wonder when this new "landform" on my face will go down. Thankfully these relapses are few and far between. But they still suck. Must be the stress from all the exams. I wanna go bowling! I wanna go see movies!
Saturday, June 24, 2006
Another mundane day.Went to Shawn's house to copy the notes for summation and induction. Did about 15 questions of the mid-yr revision there. The twins and Shawn are coming over tomorrow to study. Its chemistry all the way tomorrow.
Soon, what we've waited for will begin. It's a dangerous job, but someone's gotta do it. Some of you will not make it, but your memory will live on. To the rest, all the best, and good luck. You'll need it.
The bloodbath begins. In ONE day.
Soon, what we've waited for will begin. It's a dangerous job, but someone's gotta do it. Some of you will not make it, but your memory will live on. To the rest, all the best, and good luck. You'll need it.
The bloodbath begins. In ONE day.
Friday, June 23, 2006
Life is indeed becoming more and more meaningless everyday. By a factor of 2 everyday, and if it started at 1, it gives a formula of [sigma], r=1, n=upper limit of summation, formula 2r. Sorry. I'm halfway through summation notation here.
There's nothing interesting to blog about in my everyday life. I guess it's part of the maturing process of a blogger.One day, you'll get tired of blabbing about your life. Soon after, either you'll quit or conduct long discourses on affairs of the world. Or you can resort to humor, like mrbrown or kennysia.
I'm gonna go back to studying after this. Ciao. Good luck to all for the exams. So...sian. Send in the depressive songs!
There's nothing interesting to blog about in my everyday life. I guess it's part of the maturing process of a blogger.One day, you'll get tired of blabbing about your life. Soon after, either you'll quit or conduct long discourses on affairs of the world. Or you can resort to humor, like mrbrown or kennysia.
I'm gonna go back to studying after this. Ciao. Good luck to all for the exams. So...sian. Send in the depressive songs!
Thursday, June 22, 2006
Blah.
Life is becoming more and more meaningless each day...
Totally boring day. I'm even thinking of playing Maple just to put some more kick into life. Which is gonna be interesting since I haven't touched a computer game since a few months before my 'O' levels. Remarkable willpower isn't it?
Yanked myself away while others were still fiddling with monsters, and haven't looked back . So mature of me. Hahahaha. I'm apprehensive of running a MMORPG on my laptop for a few hours on end. It's only mid-range. Whatever. Back to studying. Ciao.
Life does not suck. It sucks big-time. (I am so freakin bored. Back to bio!)
Life is becoming more and more meaningless each day...
Totally boring day. I'm even thinking of playing Maple just to put some more kick into life. Which is gonna be interesting since I haven't touched a computer game since a few months before my 'O' levels. Remarkable willpower isn't it?
Yanked myself away while others were still fiddling with monsters, and haven't looked back . So mature of me. Hahahaha. I'm apprehensive of running a MMORPG on my laptop for a few hours on end. It's only mid-range. Whatever. Back to studying. Ciao.
Life does not suck. It sucks big-time. (I am so freakin bored. Back to bio!)
Wednesday, June 21, 2006
Woke up to stare at the clock. Shit. 12.30. I was supposed to meet the twins at this time to buy a present. Leapt outta bed, took a quick shower, grabbed my stuff and left. Ate KFC at Mcdonald's. Met them all in the MRT station.
Went to Swensens to have lunch. Wasn't htat hungry after my KFC, so I left the mushrooms on my Salmon 'N' Mushroom Pasta. The salmon was good though. Ice cream was pretty stylish looking.
Come to think of it I should have taken a pic of it, haha. It came with this strange, edible (I think?), hard, biscuit(?) which was in the shape of a long curved wire. It was pretty ok, albeit a bit hard. Sixu said that his teeth hurt after eating it. Haha.
After that, we went to play pool at the Singapore Shopping Centre. Gloriously named, but its glory days are in the past now, overshadowed by Plaza Singapura. There are mant such ghost malls strewn around Singapore. Tiny shop selling niche products, kept buoyant by low rents and regulars.
Half the storefronts are for sale, the other half almost dead. Went to the sixth floor, where a upmarket-looking cafe was situated. I was wondering how much they earned. Pool was cheap. $2 only. Maybe because there many of us playing. I performed better today. Must be the cue sticks. Their sticks are very good.
After that, went back to Plaza Sing and took the train home. Bathed, read the papers and had a light dinner before retreating to my room. Soon after finishing this post, I shall start revising biology. Short post=more time to revise. Such is life.
Went to Swensens to have lunch. Wasn't htat hungry after my KFC, so I left the mushrooms on my Salmon 'N' Mushroom Pasta. The salmon was good though. Ice cream was pretty stylish looking.
Come to think of it I should have taken a pic of it, haha. It came with this strange, edible (I think?), hard, biscuit(?) which was in the shape of a long curved wire. It was pretty ok, albeit a bit hard. Sixu said that his teeth hurt after eating it. Haha.
After that, we went to play pool at the Singapore Shopping Centre. Gloriously named, but its glory days are in the past now, overshadowed by Plaza Singapura. There are mant such ghost malls strewn around Singapore. Tiny shop selling niche products, kept buoyant by low rents and regulars.
Half the storefronts are for sale, the other half almost dead. Went to the sixth floor, where a upmarket-looking cafe was situated. I was wondering how much they earned. Pool was cheap. $2 only. Maybe because there many of us playing. I performed better today. Must be the cue sticks. Their sticks are very good.
After that, went back to Plaza Sing and took the train home. Bathed, read the papers and had a light dinner before retreating to my room. Soon after finishing this post, I shall start revising biology. Short post=more time to revise. Such is life.
Tuesday, June 20, 2006
Gonna finish chemistry today. That leaves Bio and Math (big problem) Well, the good thing about JC is that technically you have less subjects to learn, even though they're more detailed. So it is good to finish a subject because it's a sizeable component, instead of in sec sch when you still have like 7 other subjects to revise after finishing one.
The jury is still out on whether DNA and genomics is included in the test, so we shall see. If it's still not confirmed, I'll probably study it to be on the safe side. Fortune favours the prepared, as they say.
Pretty mundane day. Studied Chemistry. Using the last week to finish up chemistry, and gonna try to complete Math homework Shall either go through Econs again tomorrow or Bio. Or both.
It's gonna take all my willpower to complete Math in one day. Have to force myself to chiong work like the time I did 4 bio concept maps non-stop throughout the night. Had a row with my mother because I wanted to get concession for my ez-link card.
Thhen she wanted me to calculate how much I spent on transport a month etc to see if it was worth it, and I got really pissed. Like, how do I do that? If you take 2 modes of transport within one hours of each other, you spend what? 70 cents? Or is it 75? What about the weekends? Sometimes I prectially tour Singapore, sometimes I'm a hermit and coop up at home all day. How do i calculate it then? What do I use as a benchmark?
It all involves a lot of addition and multiplication and a lot of variables which I didn't care too much for at the moment because I was studying chemistry. If you want to, then we shall get the concession pass for my card...the more questions you ask the more irritated I get because I am not a computer and I cannot calculate my saving on the concession pass at the push of a button!
Either way it all didn't matter because we were speaking to each other normally a while later, and I couldn't care less about the concession anymore because it involved playing 20 questions with her. She'd own everyone at that. Haha.
So that's all the interesting stuff that happened today. Waking up early tomorrow to meet the twins at compass point to buy Suyi's birthday present and to get my CD from Calven. Haven't seen him in a while. Lol. Hmmm...oh well, back to chemistry. Ciao.
The jury is still out on whether DNA and genomics is included in the test, so we shall see. If it's still not confirmed, I'll probably study it to be on the safe side. Fortune favours the prepared, as they say.
Pretty mundane day. Studied Chemistry. Using the last week to finish up chemistry, and gonna try to complete Math homework Shall either go through Econs again tomorrow or Bio. Or both.
It's gonna take all my willpower to complete Math in one day. Have to force myself to chiong work like the time I did 4 bio concept maps non-stop throughout the night. Had a row with my mother because I wanted to get concession for my ez-link card.
Thhen she wanted me to calculate how much I spent on transport a month etc to see if it was worth it, and I got really pissed. Like, how do I do that? If you take 2 modes of transport within one hours of each other, you spend what? 70 cents? Or is it 75? What about the weekends? Sometimes I prectially tour Singapore, sometimes I'm a hermit and coop up at home all day. How do i calculate it then? What do I use as a benchmark?
It all involves a lot of addition and multiplication and a lot of variables which I didn't care too much for at the moment because I was studying chemistry. If you want to, then we shall get the concession pass for my card...the more questions you ask the more irritated I get because I am not a computer and I cannot calculate my saving on the concession pass at the push of a button!
Either way it all didn't matter because we were speaking to each other normally a while later, and I couldn't care less about the concession anymore because it involved playing 20 questions with her. She'd own everyone at that. Haha.
So that's all the interesting stuff that happened today. Waking up early tomorrow to meet the twins at compass point to buy Suyi's birthday present and to get my CD from Calven. Haven't seen him in a while. Lol. Hmmm...oh well, back to chemistry. Ciao.
Finished Econs today. Left the house at 3plus. The sms in my phone has mysteriously disappeared, so I thought it was 4pm at Tamp MRT. I remembered wrongly. =.= I thought I would be late because they were meeting at Pasir Ris MRT and quickly rushed to take the train.
And today was a very unlucky day for me. Of all the trains, and a 50-50 chance that the right one would come, I took the wrong train to Simei before getting off and going back again. =.= All because I was rushing. Made it worse. Luckily they were actuaslly meeting at 4.30, so I was early.
Met Sunny, Edison, Danson, and Diana there. She was like calling around to see who was going. Many weren't. =\ As we took the bus there, we met Syahida on the bus, then Valerie, then Geraldine! Quite a coincidence. Haha.
Anyway we got there to see a boy and his grandma there. Huh? Sunny even thought our pit had been given to someone else. Oh, not to worry, it was just a simple case of GKPTF. Greedy Kiasu People Trying to Freeload. They set up all the stuff nicely and were ready to barbeque. Except for us.
Long story short, we told the freeloaders to push off(politely of course =]), and we waited for the boy's mother (and I presume aunt) to appear and cart all the stuff away. To pit 15. Diana even helped them. =\ You're too kind le.
I don't think the chances of them having a barbeque were high. Hello? This is the holidays...you can't just kope a pit like that and not expect someone to show up. o_O Is booking a pit so expensive? At least they didn't take very long to return and move off.
Set everything up, and geraldine helped to start the fire. She was very good at it too. Regular pyromanic. =P I helped to cook more at this bbq, rather than just waiting for people to cook. =] Anyway, cooking isn't too bad. Who says the cooks can't eat? You can take a break for a while, then occasionally wander off to grab some stuff, or snag something fresh from the pit. Haha.
Yum yum. Cooked, and ate. Had to pay $20 because some others weren't here yet. We had A LOT of food because some people canceled and they had to estimate the food per head, not by pieces. Came up to around $200+ inlucding pit rental. Next time just buy the food from a supermarket. Haha.
Who put the fire out?
I was quite full at the end, and we also had a lot of extra food left...went down to the beach and skipped stones. Syahida and valerie later came along but it was getting too dark to see. The sea had perfect stone-skipping conditions. A light breeze, small waves, and light ripples only. =]
What can I say about this? Its just a ship passing by. Haha.
Later just wandered about, talked a bit with the others. Hardly could eat anymore. Priscilla came halfway. We took a couple of group pics. (Look below) Then, someone had the bright idea of going to the playground. Funness! I haven't been there in a while too.
Ariffin(guy squatting down):Holy~! Look! Look! Narnia!
Went to play the flying fox, but either it wasn't working, or it wasn't built to handle our weight. Went to the mini rope pyramid, reached the rope, went down a hi-friction slide. Then I pushed the girls about on this slanted funnel shaped thing as they sat on the rim. Tried it myself. Very fun. Haha.
Glow.
Then we sat in a see-saw for 3 people, and discovered...The Ride that should not have Been. It will scare you, it will trap you, and there is no escape. It sits innocently in a children's playground, and it looks benign. But beware the forces of it's evil.
Mmm...chicken...
It looks like an upside down plunger stuck at an angle in the sand. Diana tried it and had to be stopped by Valerie. So did Syahida. Then Ariffin. He even videoed himself and me riding the Plunger. Nooo! I got on. This seems ok. I leaned to the left, and tried to jerk some life into it.
It went around but slowly. Weird. I jerkled to the right, against the direction of the roll, and the Plunger attacked. I immediately was flung to the left, around and around in an anti-clockwise circle at ever-increasing speed! Because the Plunger is cup shaped, It requires that you sit in it, lowering your center of gravity, and rendering you helpless.
I spun around and around, it was as though this machine encountered no air resistance or friction! I spun until everything I saw was a blur, and I was unable to do anything, until someone came to my rescue to stop it. If noone were there, I'm not sure how I would have stopped the ride.It's THAT exciting.
A smoky? picture of Sharraf. =X
After that we went on the swings. As much as I tried it was very hard to get as high as the rest. Very sian. I couldn't figure out why I couln't get enough air time. No matter what I tried. I think maybe because I was too heavy. Hahaha.
Group pic 1. I should've brought my cam around because I underestimated my camera's performance at night. =[
Group pic 2.
Port.
Picture ruined by the blurred person. Damn. lol.
Well after the bbq and packing up, chris decided to, um, use the matches.
And we decided to barbeque retro-caveman style. Box after box of matches was added. And mashmallows.
Marshmallows are flammable! They should have like warning labels on all packets.
Extra crispy sir?
Flaming mashmallows! What are you doing?! It's charred black!
Then we fed a very tame cat some of our extra food. And Chris used his marshmallows to stroke it. And poked its, um, "Michael Ballacks" After that, an uneventful ride home.
Checked my mail and among all the news articles(my aunt often sends me online news articles), there was one with the do's and don'ts of hair loss(Father's day special). One reason was "irregular sleep cycles". Shit. I noticed quite a few hairs on my room floor recently, and I'm scared. Reallly scared. Help? My sleep cycle has migrated to 2am-3am to 12pm-1pm, a far cry from the 11pm to 6.15 one I have during school days. If may be the problem. Argh! =X
Either way, kinda glad school's starting soon and I can resume my regular sleep time. Hehs. Hopefully my genes can protect me. =P My father's 50+ and looks as...he did in the past? Hehs. Happy Father's Day!!! =)))))
And today was a very unlucky day for me. Of all the trains, and a 50-50 chance that the right one would come, I took the wrong train to Simei before getting off and going back again. =.= All because I was rushing. Made it worse. Luckily they were actuaslly meeting at 4.30, so I was early.
Met Sunny, Edison, Danson, and Diana there. She was like calling around to see who was going. Many weren't. =\ As we took the bus there, we met Syahida on the bus, then Valerie, then Geraldine! Quite a coincidence. Haha.
Anyway we got there to see a boy and his grandma there. Huh? Sunny even thought our pit had been given to someone else. Oh, not to worry, it was just a simple case of GKPTF. Greedy Kiasu People Trying to Freeload. They set up all the stuff nicely and were ready to barbeque. Except for us.
Long story short, we told the freeloaders to push off(politely of course =]), and we waited for the boy's mother (and I presume aunt) to appear and cart all the stuff away. To pit 15. Diana even helped them. =\ You're too kind le.
I don't think the chances of them having a barbeque were high. Hello? This is the holidays...you can't just kope a pit like that and not expect someone to show up. o_O Is booking a pit so expensive? At least they didn't take very long to return and move off.
Set everything up, and geraldine helped to start the fire. She was very good at it too. Regular pyromanic. =P I helped to cook more at this bbq, rather than just waiting for people to cook. =] Anyway, cooking isn't too bad. Who says the cooks can't eat? You can take a break for a while, then occasionally wander off to grab some stuff, or snag something fresh from the pit. Haha.
Yum yum. Cooked, and ate. Had to pay $20 because some others weren't here yet. We had A LOT of food because some people canceled and they had to estimate the food per head, not by pieces. Came up to around $200+ inlucding pit rental. Next time just buy the food from a supermarket. Haha.
Who put the fire out?
I was quite full at the end, and we also had a lot of extra food left...went down to the beach and skipped stones. Syahida and valerie later came along but it was getting too dark to see. The sea had perfect stone-skipping conditions. A light breeze, small waves, and light ripples only. =]
What can I say about this? Its just a ship passing by. Haha.
Later just wandered about, talked a bit with the others. Hardly could eat anymore. Priscilla came halfway. We took a couple of group pics. (Look below) Then, someone had the bright idea of going to the playground. Funness! I haven't been there in a while too.
Ariffin(guy squatting down):Holy~! Look! Look! Narnia!
Went to play the flying fox, but either it wasn't working, or it wasn't built to handle our weight. Went to the mini rope pyramid, reached the rope, went down a hi-friction slide. Then I pushed the girls about on this slanted funnel shaped thing as they sat on the rim. Tried it myself. Very fun. Haha.
Glow.
Then we sat in a see-saw for 3 people, and discovered...The Ride that should not have Been. It will scare you, it will trap you, and there is no escape. It sits innocently in a children's playground, and it looks benign. But beware the forces of it's evil.
Mmm...chicken...
It looks like an upside down plunger stuck at an angle in the sand. Diana tried it and had to be stopped by Valerie. So did Syahida. Then Ariffin. He even videoed himself and me riding the Plunger. Nooo! I got on. This seems ok. I leaned to the left, and tried to jerk some life into it.
It went around but slowly. Weird. I jerkled to the right, against the direction of the roll, and the Plunger attacked. I immediately was flung to the left, around and around in an anti-clockwise circle at ever-increasing speed! Because the Plunger is cup shaped, It requires that you sit in it, lowering your center of gravity, and rendering you helpless.
I spun around and around, it was as though this machine encountered no air resistance or friction! I spun until everything I saw was a blur, and I was unable to do anything, until someone came to my rescue to stop it. If noone were there, I'm not sure how I would have stopped the ride.It's THAT exciting.
A smoky? picture of Sharraf. =X
After that we went on the swings. As much as I tried it was very hard to get as high as the rest. Very sian. I couldn't figure out why I couln't get enough air time. No matter what I tried. I think maybe because I was too heavy. Hahaha.
Group pic 1. I should've brought my cam around because I underestimated my camera's performance at night. =[
Group pic 2.
Port.
Picture ruined by the blurred person. Damn. lol.
Well after the bbq and packing up, chris decided to, um, use the matches.
And we decided to barbeque retro-caveman style. Box after box of matches was added. And mashmallows.
Marshmallows are flammable! They should have like warning labels on all packets.
Extra crispy sir?
Flaming mashmallows! What are you doing?! It's charred black!
Then we fed a very tame cat some of our extra food. And Chris used his marshmallows to stroke it. And poked its, um, "Michael Ballacks" After that, an uneventful ride home.
Checked my mail and among all the news articles(my aunt often sends me online news articles), there was one with the do's and don'ts of hair loss(Father's day special). One reason was "irregular sleep cycles". Shit. I noticed quite a few hairs on my room floor recently, and I'm scared. Reallly scared. Help? My sleep cycle has migrated to 2am-3am to 12pm-1pm, a far cry from the 11pm to 6.15 one I have during school days. If may be the problem. Argh! =X
Either way, kinda glad school's starting soon and I can resume my regular sleep time. Hehs. Hopefully my genes can protect me. =P My father's 50+ and looks as...he did in the past? Hehs. Happy Father's Day!!! =)))))
Sunday, June 18, 2006
Short blog. (I'll try.) Gonna study after this. Maybe chat a bit. Pretty mundane day. Studied maths. Marcus SMSed me saying "Meet at 5.45pm at compassvale lrt station." Today, I'm supposed to be going to Nan Chiau's concert.
I had just bathed at 5.15. Came out of the toilet, then marcus called. "I see wrong, the thing start at 5. We late already." ==.== Quickly dress and came out. Met up with Marcus and Lincoln and Nic Lee before taking cab there.
Because this joker didn't look at the ticket and thought it started at 7, (it actually ENDS at 7) we arrived at 6, the intermission time. Thanks man! Lol. So 45 wasted.
Went in for the 2nd half, but nearly fell asleep at the beginning. LT sickness. Hahaha. But the performance was pretty good. Went to lau pa sat for dinner later. Then something highly shocking happened.
I was flipping thru Marcus's phone and came to video clips. I saw one entitled part 1, and opened it just to see what it was. Mistake. Marcus told me, hey don't watch porn but I thought he was joking. I thought he was joking! The clip started . I couldn't see what was there at first. Frowned and turned the phone sideways.
Hmm. A girl? Sleeping? Wait a man? Half naked waking her? Shit! I stopped the clip off and gave him that incredulous look. He still has the Tammy clip in there? I didn't even know what it was. I had never seen the clip before.
Like what the hell? Lol. And they asked if I was pretending or was I that innocent. Lol. I honestly didn't know what that clip was, nor have I seen the video. To think he keeps it in his phone still...o_O Ok enough..I'm off to study.
I had just bathed at 5.15. Came out of the toilet, then marcus called. "I see wrong, the thing start at 5. We late already." ==.== Quickly dress and came out. Met up with Marcus and Lincoln and Nic Lee before taking cab there.
Because this joker didn't look at the ticket and thought it started at 7, (it actually ENDS at 7) we arrived at 6, the intermission time. Thanks man! Lol. So 45 wasted.
Went in for the 2nd half, but nearly fell asleep at the beginning. LT sickness. Hahaha. But the performance was pretty good. Went to lau pa sat for dinner later. Then something highly shocking happened.
I was flipping thru Marcus's phone and came to video clips. I saw one entitled part 1, and opened it just to see what it was. Mistake. Marcus told me, hey don't watch porn but I thought he was joking. I thought he was joking! The clip started . I couldn't see what was there at first. Frowned and turned the phone sideways.
Hmm. A girl? Sleeping? Wait a man? Half naked waking her? Shit! I stopped the clip off and gave him that incredulous look. He still has the Tammy clip in there? I didn't even know what it was. I had never seen the clip before.
Like what the hell? Lol. And they asked if I was pretending or was I that innocent. Lol. I honestly didn't know what that clip was, nor have I seen the video. To think he keeps it in his phone still...o_O Ok enough..I'm off to study.
Saturday, June 17, 2006
I am the master of innovation. =] Everytime I use my com I realise that it gets real hot beneath the com when I use it on the table. I also noticed that the computer shop sold some very expensive equipment consisting of 4 half-spheres used to create more space below and to cool your com down.
Ding! I used two pieces of A4 paper and some tape to reproduce the same effect. By creating 4 thick chunks of paper, I allowed greater airflow beneath the com, all at the cost of a few cents. *Feels beneath com* Yup, still cool.
And which pondering lot of things through dinner, I had a brainwave! I have solved my problem with the phone! You see my phone has card slots, perhaps my card could fit in? Yes! I never thought of the slots because I hardly used them since I got the com.
As long as I keep all my stuff in my memory card, I can just transfer stuff to and fro easily! I can't believe I didn't think of it earlier. Then, when I reached home, I tried it. Damn. My card's "mini SD" but the one on my com is for SD. Wait! Thank goodness I bought this 1 gig card.
I heard this voice of Vaibz like in a movie. "This card also come with a SD card adapter inside...SD card adapter...SD card adapter..." Bingo. I found the bow, took out the adapted, slotted it in, instant access to my files. I am saved.
So, now here come the Formerly Lost Chalet Files. Pictures then video.
Nightrider.
1 Night Scenery, with or without night mode, sir?
Kenneth(the other one) would win hands down on Survivor with his use of "McCafe tape and tissue paper to form a bandage.(I accidentally hit the "save as draft" button. Bloody @#%$ing stupid crap Blogger.)
And, we shop for a frisbee at Toys 'r' us. Urk, Alvin's gonna kill me if he sees this. =X
Went to the beach, tossed rocks.
Fooled about since we had so many balls lying around.
Casual Softball 1
Casual Softball 2
We attempt to bind several sparklers to make a sparkler rocket. (Stef said it worked before.)
Ding! I used two pieces of A4 paper and some tape to reproduce the same effect. By creating 4 thick chunks of paper, I allowed greater airflow beneath the com, all at the cost of a few cents. *Feels beneath com* Yup, still cool.
And which pondering lot of things through dinner, I had a brainwave! I have solved my problem with the phone! You see my phone has card slots, perhaps my card could fit in? Yes! I never thought of the slots because I hardly used them since I got the com.
As long as I keep all my stuff in my memory card, I can just transfer stuff to and fro easily! I can't believe I didn't think of it earlier. Then, when I reached home, I tried it. Damn. My card's "mini SD" but the one on my com is for SD. Wait! Thank goodness I bought this 1 gig card.
I heard this voice of Vaibz like in a movie. "This card also come with a SD card adapter inside...SD card adapter...SD card adapter..." Bingo. I found the bow, took out the adapted, slotted it in, instant access to my files. I am saved.
So, now here come the Formerly Lost Chalet Files. Pictures then video.
Nightrider.
1 Night Scenery, with or without night mode, sir?
Kenneth(the other one) would win hands down on Survivor with his use of "McCafe tape and tissue paper to form a bandage.(I accidentally hit the "save as draft" button. Bloody @#%$ing stupid crap Blogger.)
And, we shop for a frisbee at Toys 'r' us. Urk, Alvin's gonna kill me if he sees this. =X
Went to the beach, tossed rocks.
Fooled about since we had so many balls lying around.
Casual Softball 1
Casual Softball 2
We attempt to bind several sparklers to make a sparkler rocket. (Stef said it worked before.)
Friday, June 16, 2006
Screw. I keep telling myself to cram but I can't seem to make much progress. Maybe it's cos of the detestable mountain of work our teachers ladle upon us like paper is free. It saps away revision time like a leech to blood.
Did mostly chemistry work today, went through a couple of sets of notes. This shall be a short post since I'll be back cramming after this then. Sometihng that's been irking me recently it how many typographical errors I've been making. It's been like this for a few months. I used to have mostly correct typing.
Now its peppered with stuff like tihnk, ot, etc. Maybe somehow it's mutated into some wild form of rythmic typing, and typing the correct form disrupts the order. It feels that way whenever I try to type the correct form, eg think. =.= It's hard to explain, and whatever it is, its playing havoc with my words.
What conmpounds this problem is that I simply CANNOT check my own work. No way. It's a subliminal thing. Because I wrote this, my brain suimply glosses over the mistake when I see it and I think everything's ok. The only way to detect errors is to look at it another day.
For example, I noticed about 4 spelling errors in yesterday's post. Which I never noticed even though I checked my post again. That's the problem which causes me to lose marks in exams. I simply cannot check my own work. My brain just pastes the ideal format over it.
Anyway, mostly revised chemistry today. Tried to read while the symphony of 3 jet fighters played overhead. Can't complain; those guys are protecting us. Saw two helis manouvering in the distance.
This is what? SAF day? Lol. Took my telescope and searched long and hard. Found a landmark on the ground, made sure the helis were above it, and scanned up and about.
I never thought it was possible to find a moving aircraft in the vast blue monotonous sky with my telescope, but I had just discovered the method. The helis reached the end of their lap and both turned away from each other to go back.
For an instant, one faced me and I saw the menacing form of an Apache helicopter with a phalanx of missiles on its wing stubs. Cool. One was equipped with the Longbow radar system.I managed to follow them for a while.
One more strange thing I discovered was that my sister cannot cook cup, yes, CUP noodles. Yup. She can't correctly perform a simple hot-water-adding operation. I went to the kitchen, and saw her open her cup lid. Instant zero marks for home economics.
How interesting. There is undissolved solid X (seasoning) on the noodles, the water used in dilution was not seen, and the noodles were somehow floating and in solid uncooked form. I pointed out these systematic errors to her as she removed the "excess"(to her) seasoning and she proceeded to get very irritated.
Even if she wanted to add less water to make increase the concentration (in mol/dm cube) of soup, she should at least stir it. She continued being angry and I retreated. Later when she took the cup to the table, I noticed she had followed my advice to the extreme.
The cup was filled with hot water till near the brim, and and she was carrying it very carefully. I wondered if she enjoyed her first-uncooked, now-slightly lasteless noodles. Everyone is supposed to know you're to add hot water to the line nar the top. Everyone?
Oh ya, by the way readers, can you do me a small favour? This is for my PW project. If you could just take some time (less than 5 mins) to complete this survey, (10 questions only) I'd really appreciate it. Thanks. Please answer it honestly. =]
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Did mostly chemistry work today, went through a couple of sets of notes. This shall be a short post since I'll be back cramming after this then. Sometihng that's been irking me recently it how many typographical errors I've been making. It's been like this for a few months. I used to have mostly correct typing.
Now its peppered with stuff like tihnk, ot, etc. Maybe somehow it's mutated into some wild form of rythmic typing, and typing the correct form disrupts the order. It feels that way whenever I try to type the correct form, eg think. =.= It's hard to explain, and whatever it is, its playing havoc with my words.
What conmpounds this problem is that I simply CANNOT check my own work. No way. It's a subliminal thing. Because I wrote this, my brain suimply glosses over the mistake when I see it and I think everything's ok. The only way to detect errors is to look at it another day.
For example, I noticed about 4 spelling errors in yesterday's post. Which I never noticed even though I checked my post again. That's the problem which causes me to lose marks in exams. I simply cannot check my own work. My brain just pastes the ideal format over it.
Anyway, mostly revised chemistry today. Tried to read while the symphony of 3 jet fighters played overhead. Can't complain; those guys are protecting us. Saw two helis manouvering in the distance.
This is what? SAF day? Lol. Took my telescope and searched long and hard. Found a landmark on the ground, made sure the helis were above it, and scanned up and about.
I never thought it was possible to find a moving aircraft in the vast blue monotonous sky with my telescope, but I had just discovered the method. The helis reached the end of their lap and both turned away from each other to go back.
For an instant, one faced me and I saw the menacing form of an Apache helicopter with a phalanx of missiles on its wing stubs. Cool. One was equipped with the Longbow radar system.I managed to follow them for a while.
One more strange thing I discovered was that my sister cannot cook cup, yes, CUP noodles. Yup. She can't correctly perform a simple hot-water-adding operation. I went to the kitchen, and saw her open her cup lid. Instant zero marks for home economics.
How interesting. There is undissolved solid X (seasoning) on the noodles, the water used in dilution was not seen, and the noodles were somehow floating and in solid uncooked form. I pointed out these systematic errors to her as she removed the "excess"(to her) seasoning and she proceeded to get very irritated.
Even if she wanted to add less water to make increase the concentration (in mol/dm cube) of soup, she should at least stir it. She continued being angry and I retreated. Later when she took the cup to the table, I noticed she had followed my advice to the extreme.
The cup was filled with hot water till near the brim, and and she was carrying it very carefully. I wondered if she enjoyed her first-uncooked, now-slightly lasteless noodles. Everyone is supposed to know you're to add hot water to the line nar the top. Everyone?
Oh ya, by the way readers, can you do me a small favour? This is for my PW project. If you could just take some time (less than 5 mins) to complete this survey, (10 questions only) I'd really appreciate it. Thanks. Please answer it honestly. =]
Take survey! Please?
Thursday, June 15, 2006
Had a pretty foul day. Ever felt murderous before? No, not that kind. The kind where you simply want to give your offenders a TIGHT SLAP on the face, along with a few well-deserved blows before getting up to disembowel surgically them with a blunt and rusty chainsaw before torching their remains and feeding it to the fishes and...and, and i got carried away. Ahem. Right. My day. How was my day?
Got up, read the papers, had takeaway Macdonalds. By the time I was done it was around 3 plus I think. Damn I wake up late. =X Studied econs. I don't think I have some notes. I went for competition, and think i didn't receive some of the notes, plus I kept forgettin to ask. I'll hafta see about getting them.
Tonight, we'll be covering my revision progress. Good progress has been reported in the Econs constituency,I'm finishing all my notes already. I'll start campaigning in the Bio GRC tomorrow, gonna start by locking myself in my room all day to get more votes.
Finishing most of Chemistry, but a recent development has set me back in Math. SO MUCH STUFF to do. Ah. Received an email from my Minister for Math, so I'm dead. assignments requested everywhere. Hais. I put my request for econs notes in my brain and walked away. Even the CCTV oso see le. So I need to try and get it online. Somehow. Ah, IVLE. Damn. I still got some maths notes on IVLE.
So I improved in some places, but worsened in others. =.= Great. Anyway, after dinner I realised I haven't collected my phone, so I went all the way down to century square. Crossed the road from the busstop to get hit in the face by a cloud of secondhand smoke. Yes, they were smoking outside Starbucks, but they're still a load of suicidal assholes.
The first wave smacked through right to the bottom of my lungs cos I wasn't prepared. The second forced its noxious tendrils up my nostrils, and played let-f**k-this-body-up with my respiratory system. I felt my diaphragm CONVULSING, trying to force the gaseous shit out of my windpipe. Choking like hell.
Quickly went up the escalator to get to the store before closing. Stepped off, turned, and there was this couple of women blocking the path. One was yakking away like she had not seen another human being in years. Both were walking at the speed of a relatively fast microorganism. I just uttered a small "tsk." and briskly walked around them.
As I went up the escalator, I heard a female voice say something like "...at least...say excuse me...mister...*undecipherable crap*" Sorry, lady, but I don't wanna waste my breath to talk to you while you yak non-stop cos maybe you're talking SO LOUDLY? Plus...these legs? They're mine. I can damn well walk where the hell I wanna so what if I choose to walk AROUND YOU? YOU GONNA WHIP OUT YOUR SALIVA GUN? Let out some steam here. =)
I reached there around closing time, so thank goodness they processed my order. Waited for 20 people before I got my phone back. Went next door to the food court (with the delicious salmon teriyaki) Set up everything, and proceeded to test my phone. Nothing.
Zip. Zero. Zlich. Nada. No connection. In front I just noticed a cleaner wiping table. I didn't know I would have an irresistable urge to eviscerate her in a few seconds. Highly annoyed by the fact that my phone was not fixed for the second time, I used the universal message of anger. F**k. I only said it at normal speaking level, not too loud.
Only people in the immediate vicinity would hear that, and one of them was...no prizes for guessing, cleaner. =.= So the cleaner was like looking at me already for just sitting there, and as she walked away, I saw her stop in her tracks from the corner on my eye.
I carried on, indifferently but she still stood there. I turned around and gave her an uncaring glance. Nothing is going my way right now, and you give me that kind of look. =.= SOmeone's gonna slap you for that one day. Try it on an Ah Beng next time.
Why? Never heard someone say "F**k." before? Well, this must be a real eye opener then. Haha. Fed up with it all, I packed up and left. Called home to say the phone wasn't fixed. Bitched to my mum about how I wasn't gonna return till after the exams cos these trip were totally wasting precious time.
It was the first time I ever was so riled about something I bitched about it (loudly) on the phone in a public place while storming home. =\ Ride home was eventful. Headset works ok now.
Then, I ran into another toolan person. Saw this woman (I'm not sexist, its true) driving this Merc coupe, speeding towards the zebra crossing. =.= Go on, show off you'r car speed somemore. One day you might accidentally paint it blood red with someone.
With that speed, i stopped at the crossing, and watched her jam the brakes till the car slowed down just infront, and she was looking at me condescingly. I hope someone scratches that car. (Yes, I know even though I love cars.) So what if you're rich. You never know who your true friends are. All I learned was that your car slows down very fast.
Went home to go online, played some HIM songs, 1 Rammstein, blah. Not really in the mood for happy songs today. I think. My day was brightened a bit earlier, so =] Wait. It brightened a lot more. YES! =P
Come to think of it, blogging really is useful. By containing my anger, I release it on my blog where it won't hurt anyone(usually), so while I seem really violent, its just me releasing anger, and overall, it helps me to become a better person in real life by providing me with an outlet, and I can control myself better. =P Hehs. Yay me!
Got up, read the papers, had takeaway Macdonalds. By the time I was done it was around 3 plus I think. Damn I wake up late. =X Studied econs. I don't think I have some notes. I went for competition, and think i didn't receive some of the notes, plus I kept forgettin to ask. I'll hafta see about getting them.
Tonight, we'll be covering my revision progress. Good progress has been reported in the Econs constituency,I'm finishing all my notes already. I'll start campaigning in the Bio GRC tomorrow, gonna start by locking myself in my room all day to get more votes.
Finishing most of Chemistry, but a recent development has set me back in Math. SO MUCH STUFF to do. Ah. Received an email from my Minister for Math, so I'm dead. assignments requested everywhere. Hais. I put my request for econs notes in my brain and walked away. Even the CCTV oso see le. So I need to try and get it online. Somehow. Ah, IVLE. Damn. I still got some maths notes on IVLE.
So I improved in some places, but worsened in others. =.= Great. Anyway, after dinner I realised I haven't collected my phone, so I went all the way down to century square. Crossed the road from the busstop to get hit in the face by a cloud of secondhand smoke. Yes, they were smoking outside Starbucks, but they're still a load of suicidal assholes.
The first wave smacked through right to the bottom of my lungs cos I wasn't prepared. The second forced its noxious tendrils up my nostrils, and played let-f**k-this-body-up with my respiratory system. I felt my diaphragm CONVULSING, trying to force the gaseous shit out of my windpipe. Choking like hell.
Quickly went up the escalator to get to the store before closing. Stepped off, turned, and there was this couple of women blocking the path. One was yakking away like she had not seen another human being in years. Both were walking at the speed of a relatively fast microorganism. I just uttered a small "tsk." and briskly walked around them.
As I went up the escalator, I heard a female voice say something like "...at least...say excuse me...mister...*undecipherable crap*" Sorry, lady, but I don't wanna waste my breath to talk to you while you yak non-stop cos maybe you're talking SO LOUDLY? Plus...these legs? They're mine. I can damn well walk where the hell I wanna so what if I choose to walk AROUND YOU? YOU GONNA WHIP OUT YOUR SALIVA GUN? Let out some steam here. =)
I reached there around closing time, so thank goodness they processed my order. Waited for 20 people before I got my phone back. Went next door to the food court (with the delicious salmon teriyaki) Set up everything, and proceeded to test my phone. Nothing.
Zip. Zero. Zlich. Nada. No connection. In front I just noticed a cleaner wiping table. I didn't know I would have an irresistable urge to eviscerate her in a few seconds. Highly annoyed by the fact that my phone was not fixed for the second time, I used the universal message of anger. F**k. I only said it at normal speaking level, not too loud.
Only people in the immediate vicinity would hear that, and one of them was...no prizes for guessing, cleaner. =.= So the cleaner was like looking at me already for just sitting there, and as she walked away, I saw her stop in her tracks from the corner on my eye.
I carried on, indifferently but she still stood there. I turned around and gave her an uncaring glance. Nothing is going my way right now, and you give me that kind of look. =.= SOmeone's gonna slap you for that one day. Try it on an Ah Beng next time.
Why? Never heard someone say "F**k." before? Well, this must be a real eye opener then. Haha. Fed up with it all, I packed up and left. Called home to say the phone wasn't fixed. Bitched to my mum about how I wasn't gonna return till after the exams cos these trip were totally wasting precious time.
It was the first time I ever was so riled about something I bitched about it (loudly) on the phone in a public place while storming home. =\ Ride home was eventful. Headset works ok now.
Then, I ran into another toolan person. Saw this woman (I'm not sexist, its true) driving this Merc coupe, speeding towards the zebra crossing. =.= Go on, show off you'r car speed somemore. One day you might accidentally paint it blood red with someone.
With that speed, i stopped at the crossing, and watched her jam the brakes till the car slowed down just infront, and she was looking at me condescingly. I hope someone scratches that car. (Yes, I know even though I love cars.) So what if you're rich. You never know who your true friends are. All I learned was that your car slows down very fast.
Went home to go online, played some HIM songs, 1 Rammstein, blah. Not really in the mood for happy songs today. I think. My day was brightened a bit earlier, so =] Wait. It brightened a lot more. YES! =P
Come to think of it, blogging really is useful. By containing my anger, I release it on my blog where it won't hurt anyone(usually), so while I seem really violent, its just me releasing anger, and overall, it helps me to become a better person in real life by providing me with an outlet, and I can control myself better. =P Hehs. Yay me!
Wednesday, June 14, 2006
Everybody's got their problems (problems)
Everybody says the same thing to you
It's just a matter how you solve them (solve them)
And knowing how to change the things you've been through
I feel I've come to realize
How fast life can be compromised
Step back to see what's goin' on
I can't believe this happened to you
This happened to you
It's just a problem that I'm faced with, am I
Not the only one who hates to stand by
Complications ended first in this line
With all these pictures running through my mind
Knowing endless, consequences
I feel so useless in this
Get back, Step back, and as for me, I can't believe
Part of me, won't agree
'Cause I don't know if it's for sure
Suddenly, suddenly
I don’t feel so insecure [x2]
Anymore
Everybody's got their problems (problems)
Everybody says the same thing to you
It's just a matter how you solve them (solve them)
But what else are we s'posed to do?
Part of me, won't agree
'Cause I don't know if it's for sure
Suddenly, suddenly
I don’t feel so insecure [x2]
Anymore
Why do the things that matter the most
Never end up being what we chose?
Now that I find out, it ain't so bad
I don't think I knew what I had [x2]
Sum41-Hell Song
Back to chionging! What with going out all the time and and watching footy. NC concert on the 18th, which like NOBODY is going to and class bbq on the 19th. Even got invited to stay at kelong with my cousins. Sorry, I hail fromMugging Meridian Junior College - where even the 'in' crowd crams. ;)
Studied maths for Tue. Left after dinner to watch footy at YM house. Bought osem packet drink and a bottle of...***Sparkling Juice!*** Ran into Calesta on the bus. Watched some funny Youtube before the match started.
During half time, Shawn and Siwei played Hand Pool, which uses your hand as the cue stick. How innovative. While watching Youtube, we opened some of the snacks to eat. and then comes one of the highlights.
*Siwei takes one pack of chocolates from Shawn and munches it while he watches Youtube.*
*I glance at him*
Eh, you like that eat don't leave any for the rest ar?
Of course got la, I never say you cannot take what. There you see...
*Siwei takes the now empty tray out of the box*
*Looks at half the chocolate stick in his hand*
Eh. No more already.[Confused look]
Back to footy, boring goalless 2nd match. Then during Brazil's match...
Lydia: Eh, but Kaka doesn't looks Brazilian...
Me: Well, Zidane doesn't look French either.
*Uproarious laughter*
YongMing: Haha! Stupid question get stupid answer!
After watching, we all cramming into one room to sleep, and got high on doing reenactments of the hilarious mrbrown podcasts, namely No More Birds and Bak Chor Mee. Hahaha. Speaking of hilarity, Kennysia's latest post is side-splitting.
Played sdme PS in the morning quite fun. Left for home. Wanted to come back today, but it was cancelled. While doing chem, I was informed by calesta that there was a Class BBQ and chalet today. Like, OMFGWTH!!!11 BBQ!! KNN!!!1 CCB!!11 Thanks for informing so late. From what she heard, they seemed to be on the MRT already.
=.= Why plan so poor? I also didn't have the exact details. I could have gone if I wanted to, but sinice it was on such short notice, I decided to take part in themuggi Meridian spirit and stay at home and do chem homework...wheeee!
Either way, I really need to speed it up a little. I think I'm quite behind schedule. Problem...And there's only what? 11 days before the exams. Oh shit! 11???? Damn. mugmugmugmugmugmugmugmugmugmugmugmugmugmugmugmugmugmugmugmugmugmugmugmugmugmugmugmugmugmugmug
Everybody says the same thing to you
It's just a matter how you solve them (solve them)
And knowing how to change the things you've been through
I feel I've come to realize
How fast life can be compromised
Step back to see what's goin' on
I can't believe this happened to you
This happened to you
It's just a problem that I'm faced with, am I
Not the only one who hates to stand by
Complications ended first in this line
With all these pictures running through my mind
Knowing endless, consequences
I feel so useless in this
Get back, Step back, and as for me, I can't believe
Part of me, won't agree
'Cause I don't know if it's for sure
Suddenly, suddenly
I don’t feel so insecure [x2]
Anymore
Everybody's got their problems (problems)
Everybody says the same thing to you
It's just a matter how you solve them (solve them)
But what else are we s'posed to do?
Part of me, won't agree
'Cause I don't know if it's for sure
Suddenly, suddenly
I don’t feel so insecure [x2]
Anymore
Why do the things that matter the most
Never end up being what we chose?
Now that I find out, it ain't so bad
I don't think I knew what I had [x2]
Sum41-Hell Song
Back to chionging! What with going out all the time and and watching footy. NC concert on the 18th, which like NOBODY is going to and class bbq on the 19th. Even got invited to stay at kelong with my cousins. Sorry, I hail from
Studied maths for Tue. Left after dinner to watch footy at YM house. Bought osem packet drink and a bottle of...***Sparkling Juice!*** Ran into Calesta on the bus. Watched some funny Youtube before the match started.
During half time, Shawn and Siwei played Hand Pool, which uses your hand as the cue stick. How innovative. While watching Youtube, we opened some of the snacks to eat. and then comes one of the highlights.
*Siwei takes one pack of chocolates from Shawn and munches it while he watches Youtube.*
*I glance at him*
Eh, you like that eat don't leave any for the rest ar?
Of course got la, I never say you cannot take what. There you see...
*Siwei takes the now empty tray out of the box*
*Looks at half the chocolate stick in his hand*
Eh. No more already.[Confused look]
Back to footy, boring goalless 2nd match. Then during Brazil's match...
Lydia: Eh, but Kaka doesn't looks Brazilian...
Me: Well, Zidane doesn't look French either.
*Uproarious laughter*
YongMing: Haha! Stupid question get stupid answer!
After watching, we all cramming into one room to sleep, and got high on doing reenactments of the hilarious mrbrown podcasts, namely No More Birds and Bak Chor Mee. Hahaha. Speaking of hilarity, Kennysia's latest post is side-splitting.
Played sdme PS in the morning quite fun. Left for home. Wanted to come back today, but it was cancelled. While doing chem, I was informed by calesta that there was a Class BBQ and chalet today. Like, OMFGWTH!!!11 BBQ!! KNN!!!1 CCB!!11 Thanks for informing so late. From what she heard, they seemed to be on the MRT already.
=.= Why plan so poor? I also didn't have the exact details. I could have gone if I wanted to, but sinice it was on such short notice, I decided to take part in the
Either way, I really need to speed it up a little. I think I'm quite behind schedule. Problem...And there's only what? 11 days before the exams. Oh shit! 11???? Damn. mugmugmugmugmugmugmugmugmugmugmugmugmugmugmugmugmugmugmugmugmugmugmugmugmugmugmugmugmugmugmug
Monday, June 12, 2006
Went to tamp today. Gonna get my phone fixed. I wish they find a quick fix for it. A permanent one. Now my phone can't connect to the headset properly too. Doesn't detect it, closes music player, interference, etc. Irritating. The function which I bought it for (transfer pics & vid to PC) is not working!!! =.=
Had lunch at the food court at Century Square. What I had was gastronomically pleasing. I ordered Salmon Teriyaki at the Japanese stall there, and it was D-E-E-licious. The rice is just nice, with a dollop of chilli powder and seasoning. Soup's a bit too salty, but it's a minor complaint, compared to the fish. Mm-mmm.
The flesh is soft, tender and fresh. The added teriyaki flavour is yummy, but not too strong as to mask the salmon's distictive fish flavour. It goes well with the sauce provided, and the protions provided aren't too small. After finished the salmon, I had the skin. The skin is crispy and full of flavour, just what I like. Cruchy with texture, and yet the flavour just oozes out once you eat it.
Also its not just the teriyaki, the flavour of the skin comes out too.Thinking of it makes me want to go back again. I would highly recommend this dish to others, and give it a very respectable 4.5 out of 5. There's another stall at compass point with another award winning salmon teriyaki, so I think I'll try that next time. I hope they give as much skin as the one at Century. Its yummy!
After that, went to have my phone looked at. Very fast. Whew. Thank goodness for weekdays. Phone'll be back in 3 days. HOPEFULLY fixed. Went to Toys 'R' Us and saw my sis buy a "Yo-stick" and a $59.95 Cube World. The Cube World is pretty cool tho. I kinda-partially-almost-like want 2. (They're sold in pairs) Then came home for dinner.
Using my dad's old Sumsung now. Very unused to it. Like operating a piece of alien machinery. I don't know if its gonna prduce a cure for cancer or slice my haed off. My typing speed has gained x4 slowness, I'm using manual gear(no T9 dictionary), and I'm abstaining from virtually all capital letters, because they include several presses of what used to be the back/erase key.
wen i typ it looks lyk tis cos i wana save tym frm pressin all those unfamiliar keys an i cant find e comma!!! I cannot find the stupid comma. How lame is that. It's gone. Missing. Like it never was in the English language at all. Or do Koreans don't use commas when they type in English?
So, the back/erase key now changes the input format, the change input key has become the space key, the space key does squat, and only the change word key is same. Goody. Each sms is an epic battle of old instincts versus the need to adapt. Every now and then I forget and attempt to switch to T9 to see two spaces appear.
Using this phone is an eye-opener. While smsing on Nokia phones, if you press the red "End Call" button halfway, your message will be saved. After forcing out half a message earlier, I sneezed. Ah-CHOO! *Beep* goes the red button. Oh shit. I go back, message's gone! Whee. I send a message, check. It's not saved in my outbox. Goody. Re-type.
Called someone earlier. No answer. Looked at the screen. "Redialing mode" Hmm. Place phone over ear again. BEEEP! Ow! Shit! F**k! What the?! That hurt, dammit. Sumsung phone...all that's good about this phone is that it sounds pretty.
Forecast, a cloudy me heading over in a few minutes. A cold front on all sides, and virtually few people are predicted online today. High chance of boredom and possibly a storm coming. Wind is blowing strongly, creating a cold zone sweeping in from the north and there's gonna be nothing to do online.
Had lunch at the food court at Century Square. What I had was gastronomically pleasing. I ordered Salmon Teriyaki at the Japanese stall there, and it was D-E-E-licious. The rice is just nice, with a dollop of chilli powder and seasoning. Soup's a bit too salty, but it's a minor complaint, compared to the fish. Mm-mmm.
The flesh is soft, tender and fresh. The added teriyaki flavour is yummy, but not too strong as to mask the salmon's distictive fish flavour. It goes well with the sauce provided, and the protions provided aren't too small. After finished the salmon, I had the skin. The skin is crispy and full of flavour, just what I like. Cruchy with texture, and yet the flavour just oozes out once you eat it.
Also its not just the teriyaki, the flavour of the skin comes out too.Thinking of it makes me want to go back again. I would highly recommend this dish to others, and give it a very respectable 4.5 out of 5. There's another stall at compass point with another award winning salmon teriyaki, so I think I'll try that next time. I hope they give as much skin as the one at Century. Its yummy!
After that, went to have my phone looked at. Very fast. Whew. Thank goodness for weekdays. Phone'll be back in 3 days. HOPEFULLY fixed. Went to Toys 'R' Us and saw my sis buy a "Yo-stick" and a $59.95 Cube World. The Cube World is pretty cool tho. I kinda-partially-almost-like want 2. (They're sold in pairs) Then came home for dinner.
Using my dad's old Sumsung now. Very unused to it. Like operating a piece of alien machinery. I don't know if its gonna prduce a cure for cancer or slice my haed off. My typing speed has gained x4 slowness, I'm using manual gear(no T9 dictionary), and I'm abstaining from virtually all capital letters, because they include several presses of what used to be the back/erase key.
wen i typ it looks lyk tis cos i wana save tym frm pressin all those unfamiliar keys an i cant find e comma!!! I cannot find the stupid comma. How lame is that. It's gone. Missing. Like it never was in the English language at all. Or do Koreans don't use commas when they type in English?
So, the back/erase key now changes the input format, the change input key has become the space key, the space key does squat, and only the change word key is same. Goody. Each sms is an epic battle of old instincts versus the need to adapt. Every now and then I forget and attempt to switch to T9 to see two spaces appear.
Using this phone is an eye-opener. While smsing on Nokia phones, if you press the red "End Call" button halfway, your message will be saved. After forcing out half a message earlier, I sneezed. Ah-CHOO! *Beep* goes the red button. Oh shit. I go back, message's gone! Whee. I send a message, check. It's not saved in my outbox. Goody. Re-type.
Called someone earlier. No answer. Looked at the screen. "Redialing mode" Hmm. Place phone over ear again. BEEEP! Ow! Shit! F**k! What the?! That hurt, dammit. Sumsung phone...all that's good about this phone is that it sounds pretty.
Forecast, a cloudy me heading over in a few minutes. A cold front on all sides, and virtually few people are predicted online today. High chance of boredom and possibly a storm coming. Wind is blowing strongly, creating a cold zone sweeping in from the north and there's gonna be nothing to do online.
Sunday, June 11, 2006
Phone spoiled again. Can't connect to com. Think Nokia made it worse. Goin to tampines tml to have it looked at. Looks like i'll waste another day supposed to be studying.
Didn't blog ytd cos was watching soccer. Went to play pool for about 2 hours at hougang, then went to play some recre bowling at Kovan. 140+ hahaha. Next game sucked. Went to YM's house, watched funny stuff on youtube.
Watched LOTR hokkien, James Bond hokkien, Star Wars hokkien, and a video on learning hokkien. Very funny and slightly vulgar. Lol. Then saw "Hoooo~!"Then watched 1st match. Snacked, played pool etc. 2nd match was so boring. 0-0. Lol. Last one better. Fierce. Went to sleep, woke at 12plus
Played some pool again, did homework, went home. Kinda boring now...hmm. I just had a thought. That recent case of the lawyer escaping with $10m. It bears several parallels to a book I read by John Grisham, The Partner.
It's like virtually the same thing! Only the amount is smaller, and it happened in Singapore. Maybe they should try looking for him in Brazil, since that's what the protagonist did. Maybe that lawyer even read the same book! Cool. In the book, the lawyer ruined almost everyone around him too.
It's just too similar to the book...wow.
Didn't blog ytd cos was watching soccer. Went to play pool for about 2 hours at hougang, then went to play some recre bowling at Kovan. 140+ hahaha. Next game sucked. Went to YM's house, watched funny stuff on youtube.
Watched LOTR hokkien, James Bond hokkien, Star Wars hokkien, and a video on learning hokkien. Very funny and slightly vulgar. Lol. Then saw "Hoooo~!"Then watched 1st match. Snacked, played pool etc. 2nd match was so boring. 0-0. Lol. Last one better. Fierce. Went to sleep, woke at 12plus
Played some pool again, did homework, went home. Kinda boring now...hmm. I just had a thought. That recent case of the lawyer escaping with $10m. It bears several parallels to a book I read by John Grisham, The Partner.
It's like virtually the same thing! Only the amount is smaller, and it happened in Singapore. Maybe they should try looking for him in Brazil, since that's what the protagonist did. Maybe that lawyer even read the same book! Cool. In the book, the lawyer ruined almost everyone around him too.
It's just too similar to the book...wow.
Friday, June 09, 2006
Spent the whole day studyin, watched some TV. Nothing much about today. Headache from ytd over. Just remembered I saw the NUS ad on Youtube yesterday. Old news for some, but not for me since I finally got to see it yesterday.
I just gotta comment about it. "I'm going to Singapore!!!" The expression on her face is just too contrived, too fake. There is no way anyone is going to be that excited in going to Singapore unless they are from a third world country, or they have family here.
I'm not looking down on Singapore or our uni. I'm just sayin. Make it more realistic can? Sloane? *Guffaw* Too contrived...
Either way, my next comments, most if not all of you wouldn't be able to understand, but its ok. It not meant to be understood. Just somethings I feel the need to express, to the world in particular. Just to let it out. Have fun guessing, and by the way, I'm not suicidal. Haha. It's just something hanging over my head.
I feel like I'm falling back down into a swimming pool again. One that I took very long to crawl out of previously. I jumped in to save a friend, sacrificing a shield of anonymity, so that my friend would make it out alive.
At first glance, the pool seemed not so deep. Wrongly so. (Refraction of light) It is deeper and harder to escape from. With many more sources of power, and many more footholds. They found me vulnerable, because of my character type. Not to PK, but to join their guild.
Do they see what they choose to see, or do they see what I have shown them? For I am not what they think. I am burdened by the numerous advances and requests.(XXX has requested to you to join his or her party.) A dark cloud of problems, a status effect hanging over my head. Ironically they chose not to attack my friend because he declared his alegiances.
I took sides with them. Sharing the same side, and cause, but not as fervently as them. There are varying degrees of commitment. Obviously I wasn't one of the highest. Yet the insist on further including me. One day, soon, the excuses will dry up. The imagination will empty and there will be no escape.
Damn society, damn obligations, damn politeness. It all just creates a burden. I am who I am. I have no wish to change. I do not see myself doing much wrong from where I am, even though I do less. I am no less strong. What matters is that I still have this side.
Yet they advance. Unstoppable. Just...leave me be. I am happy where I am. It's not easy to bear this. I have enough troubles on my hands. I have to harden and resolve my willpower, to force myself to lock up my room and study. Yet I find it ever so hard. Cable TV is a curse and yet a blessing.
Just me and my inane ramblings and expressions. When will I be able to leave this behind...life is not perfect, but it could be plenty better right now...oh, well, I've experienced worse than this...
I just gotta comment about it. "I'm going to Singapore!!!" The expression on her face is just too contrived, too fake. There is no way anyone is going to be that excited in going to Singapore unless they are from a third world country, or they have family here.
I'm not looking down on Singapore or our uni. I'm just sayin. Make it more realistic can? Sloane? *Guffaw* Too contrived...
Either way, my next comments, most if not all of you wouldn't be able to understand, but its ok. It not meant to be understood. Just somethings I feel the need to express, to the world in particular. Just to let it out. Have fun guessing, and by the way, I'm not suicidal. Haha. It's just something hanging over my head.
I feel like I'm falling back down into a swimming pool again. One that I took very long to crawl out of previously. I jumped in to save a friend, sacrificing a shield of anonymity, so that my friend would make it out alive.
At first glance, the pool seemed not so deep. Wrongly so. (Refraction of light) It is deeper and harder to escape from. With many more sources of power, and many more footholds. They found me vulnerable, because of my character type. Not to PK, but to join their guild.
Do they see what they choose to see, or do they see what I have shown them? For I am not what they think. I am burdened by the numerous advances and requests.(XXX has requested to you to join his or her party.) A dark cloud of problems, a status effect hanging over my head. Ironically they chose not to attack my friend because he declared his alegiances.
I took sides with them. Sharing the same side, and cause, but not as fervently as them. There are varying degrees of commitment. Obviously I wasn't one of the highest. Yet the insist on further including me. One day, soon, the excuses will dry up. The imagination will empty and there will be no escape.
Damn society, damn obligations, damn politeness. It all just creates a burden. I am who I am. I have no wish to change. I do not see myself doing much wrong from where I am, even though I do less. I am no less strong. What matters is that I still have this side.
Yet they advance. Unstoppable. Just...leave me be. I am happy where I am. It's not easy to bear this. I have enough troubles on my hands. I have to harden and resolve my willpower, to force myself to lock up my room and study. Yet I find it ever so hard. Cable TV is a curse and yet a blessing.
Just me and my inane ramblings and expressions. When will I be able to leave this behind...life is not perfect, but it could be plenty better right now...oh, well, I've experienced worse than this...
Thursday, June 08, 2006
Bowling Chalet
Back after these days. First of all, I would like to say that the Nokia 6280 sucks to high heaven and would urge all readers not to buy it. Not even if you love it to death. Honestly. I can't connect it to my computer. AGAIN. So I can't upload some of the pics and video I took during the chalet.
Those already using, watch out. There's something seriously wrong with many of these phones. =.= Buy another phone. Get another brand. Nokia has other phones. Just. Don't Get. This. One.Luckily I anticipated this screwup and brought along my camera. 1.3 megapixel but still alive and kickin.
Ok I'll get started.
Monday
Made it to Tampines mall at 3pm, met up with the rest. Took 29 all the way down to changi and to our chalet. Which looked like a...pre-war barracks?
Foreground left to right: Avinesh, Terence, Mason, Kenneth, Shawn, BenQ, Andy, Audrey
This is the door to the balcony to our room. Which was used just to keep my bag cuz I never slept in it. =.= Doesn't this pic just scream Horror?
Then came the accidental "ghost" picture...
And now the on-purpose one.
Look what we found behind our chalet! Free furniture!
Andy lunching. After playing around with soccer balls, and my skateboard, we went down to the beach. There's this really funny vid of us playing with the balls by throwing them into the 2nd floor windows and out again, but I can't upload it.
BenQ vandalising the beach.
Shawn and Terence playing mini-volleyball.
Got some shots of the ball in midair.
Incoming!
Then, overcast skies.
Plane coming into Changi.
Terence misses the ball by a slipper. (Midway they changed to slipper volleyball.)
What BenQ drew.
Group pic. Terence was the cameraman.
I also got a pic of us skipping stones on the water, but couldn't upload. =.= we went back cuz it was raining. Reached the chalet and saw the playing Project Gotham on the Xbox Don brought. Think we played the Xbox for a few hours and then we later went down to Changi Village (hoho!) for dinner. Bought food back to the chalet, then watched them Xbox for a while before leaving.
Tuesday
Saw some of the, ah, nightlife of Changi. Very eye-opening. First time I saw those creeatures of the night. Cyclied through Changi beach. Very quite dark in some areas. Nearly missed a bend and crashed. The entire line was spread out over a few km I think, cos I lost the chiongsters at the head.
We cycled past the airport which was pretty cool. It was a very very long straight road, and airplanes landed or took off every once in a while with earth shaking noise. Saw a car park facing the airport in the middle of nowhere. Fishy eh? ;)
Turned into another road when the roar of the airplanes was even louder, and nearly ear-splitting. Wecycled waltzed into this SAFRA country club, wandered about looking for a vending machine, drank from the water cooler and kopeed water from the drink machine, those used to make fruit juice etc. Very refreshing
Security was, ah, friendly. The guard who watched us cycle in hardly batted an eyelid. In the still of the night, CLING CLANG! Kenneth rang the "hole-in-one" bell and grinned. "I always wanted to do that." Hahaha...We cycled out without incident. Hit east coast park, cycled down to Mac's for supper.
The looney ones cycled to Orchard before returning. We just turned back. This was the first time a return jorney seemed longer than the starting one. No word for tiring could signify it. Cycled to Bedok, Simei, Tampines etc on our way back. Our butts were getting pounded, tenderised, mashed, minced, whatever. Painful.
Receipe for 5 pounds of minced butt:
Take one ass.
Place it on a bicycle seat.
Cycle around 60km.
While cycling, slowly stir in 5 truckloads of bump, cracks, and potholes.
If preferred, you may throw in tree roots and uphill slopes.
Cycle for around 6 hours.
Serve.
In the end, we slowly became numb to the pain, and to fight off boredom and the agony, Shawn and I devised a game around cycling. The objective was to avoid getting your butt hurt when going over obstacles, or we would take damage. We named the differet sizes of bumps and stuff. It was fun while it lasted, and it was useful, but eventually we also stopped playing it.
At one of our rest stop, I saw this really cool "taxi race" where there were three cabs which started off the green light, one with a red, the other with a green and the last with a blue light. Very cool.
We had to conquer this horrific uphill slope halfway and even while standing up and pumping the pedals, it took a lot outta me...my knee hurt slightly after pumpin it so hard. Going downhill after that, I had to make a sharp left directly after turning right. I saw the bend too late, swerved, and stuck out my foot (emergency brake) and made it through, but the pedal smacked the back of my knee hard.
If I hadn't made that bend, it was a sharp two foot drop off the concrete into wild grass and a slope towards a storm drain. Ow. Then nearing the chalet, tired, and exhausted, it happened. Saw the rest moving up ahaed, didn't see what they were up to too clearly. Shawn shouted out "Goliath!" because there as the pavement started, there was this monstrous 1.5 foot jump up from the road surface and a sharp slope up to it.
This was a driveway leading up to a seriously freaky house up on the hill with two old rusted gates, and I crossed the driveway, approached the pavement, and heard his cry. But what I heard was "Got wire!". Elements for disaster. I slowed down, wondeed if I should head for the road. If there was a wire strung across somewhere, it could hurt me.
As I slowed down, I was burdened down with a hazy fog of exhaustion and confusion. I saw this short stone statue at the side of the pavement, and it appeared to be leering at me. I freaked. Too many things were going through my mind at the moment. The road? The pavement? The wire? I shouldn't get cut by it! The statue...frick!
I twisted at the last moment and my bike went on the pavement, but turned off onto the road. "F**K! F**k! F**k!" The bike slowed and scraped the side, my feet were on the ground, and my specs flew. I scrambled for my specs, shifted the bike upright, and got the hell outta there.
Rested our butts on the beautiful soft cushion and drank horrid Pepsi gold which really tasted like gold back then. Went out and lay on the bench. Very peaceful.
Daybreak.
Side view of our chalet.
The sun catches the frame of our windows and throws it upon the walls. It rained most of the day, so we played cards, Xbox, burned stuff, and watched next door (some KCPSS camp) play with laser guns in the rain. (Grumbles) Yeah we also played with water guns. Playing water guns in the rain? =.=
Later went to Tampines with Alvin, Shawn, Yvonne and Ben Chan. Walked about, went to Toys 'R' Us and fooled about. Bought a frisbee-like thing. Watched em Xbox when we returned, Had some GREAT fun. In Halo 2, after trying several times, Alvin switched to Shawn, and Shawn (more pro) used his energy sword to slaughter the Covenant forces and extended the bridge. I sniped off a coupla peeps and dashed across the bridge.
Ran for the Convenant tank. Yep, there I was, a tiny little human returning fire at 2 Ghosts protecting the tank, getting shot with plasma, dodging the tank's plasma blasts, and running right up to it. I even heard the narrtor saying "No, you don't want the tank!" Cool. I leapt on top anyway, melee'd the soldier inside and hopped in. OWNAGE TIME.
Blasted the 1st Ghost to bits and rammed the 2nd one off the gorge into the river below. Muahahaha. The spash damage was phenomenal. I see a line of fire, swing to it, kaboom. I sat there blasting all the Ghosts swarming out and oblitereating infantry.
Charged in with the tank, creating a swathe of destruction all around me. Died a couple times, but respawned, with the tank. Hahaha. Super fun. Died once cos I was overwhelmed, then was reminded of the speed button. Shot everywhere and shot the enemy to bits. Cool. Reason why I'm so happy is cos generally I suck at Halo. Hahaha.
Went to go and play "truth or dare" with the rest, but in the end turned out into an utterly corrupt game when we all said a short phrase to complete a story. Very funny and highly corrupted. You don't wanna hear the story. Woke up in the middle of the night to move out cos I was cold and couldn't find blankets.
Wenesday
Awoke in the morning to find wings all over the floor. Not chicken wings. Insect wings.
They were everywhere, including the insects they used to be on. Kitchen, living room, the bedroom where I slept, and also near the place where I slept.
I also saw a pile of wings near the freezer. A pile???
Many insects were alive but immobilised in the sink where I washed them into the drain.
I also saw many ants attacking the now flightless insects and sucking the flesh outta them . Saw many ants holding a half empty exoskeleton, and one insect with the thorax and abdomen only.The head was bitten neatly off. It was like some small scale cheesy alien invasion from and old 1960s B-grade sci-fi movie.
After that, went home to sleep for a while, studied and joked a bit at the alley. Played in the league. All screwed at the end. Studied today. Error occurred in blogger, so Ican't upload the last pic of the ants assaulting an insect, and totally raping it to hell.
Those already using, watch out. There's something seriously wrong with many of these phones. =.= Buy another phone. Get another brand. Nokia has other phones. Just. Don't Get. This. One.Luckily I anticipated this screwup and brought along my camera. 1.3 megapixel but still alive and kickin.
Ok I'll get started.
Monday
Made it to Tampines mall at 3pm, met up with the rest. Took 29 all the way down to changi and to our chalet. Which looked like a...pre-war barracks?
Foreground left to right: Avinesh, Terence, Mason, Kenneth, Shawn, BenQ, Andy, Audrey
This is the door to the balcony to our room. Which was used just to keep my bag cuz I never slept in it. =.= Doesn't this pic just scream Horror?
Then came the accidental "ghost" picture...
And now the on-purpose one.
Look what we found behind our chalet! Free furniture!
Andy lunching. After playing around with soccer balls, and my skateboard, we went down to the beach. There's this really funny vid of us playing with the balls by throwing them into the 2nd floor windows and out again, but I can't upload it.
BenQ vandalising the beach.
Shawn and Terence playing mini-volleyball.
Got some shots of the ball in midair.
Incoming!
Then, overcast skies.
Plane coming into Changi.
Terence misses the ball by a slipper. (Midway they changed to slipper volleyball.)
What BenQ drew.
Group pic. Terence was the cameraman.
I also got a pic of us skipping stones on the water, but couldn't upload. =.= we went back cuz it was raining. Reached the chalet and saw the playing Project Gotham on the Xbox Don brought. Think we played the Xbox for a few hours and then we later went down to Changi Village (hoho!) for dinner. Bought food back to the chalet, then watched them Xbox for a while before leaving.
Tuesday
Saw some of the, ah, nightlife of Changi. Very eye-opening. First time I saw those creeatures of the night. Cyclied through Changi beach. Very quite dark in some areas. Nearly missed a bend and crashed. The entire line was spread out over a few km I think, cos I lost the chiongsters at the head.
We cycled past the airport which was pretty cool. It was a very very long straight road, and airplanes landed or took off every once in a while with earth shaking noise. Saw a car park facing the airport in the middle of nowhere. Fishy eh? ;)
Turned into another road when the roar of the airplanes was even louder, and nearly ear-splitting. We
Security was, ah, friendly. The guard who watched us cycle in hardly batted an eyelid. In the still of the night, CLING CLANG! Kenneth rang the "hole-in-one" bell and grinned. "I always wanted to do that." Hahaha...We cycled out without incident. Hit east coast park, cycled down to Mac's for supper.
The looney ones cycled to Orchard before returning. We just turned back. This was the first time a return jorney seemed longer than the starting one. No word for tiring could signify it. Cycled to Bedok, Simei, Tampines etc on our way back. Our butts were getting pounded, tenderised, mashed, minced, whatever. Painful.
Receipe for 5 pounds of minced butt:
Take one ass.
Place it on a bicycle seat.
Cycle around 60km.
While cycling, slowly stir in 5 truckloads of bump, cracks, and potholes.
If preferred, you may throw in tree roots and uphill slopes.
Cycle for around 6 hours.
Serve.
In the end, we slowly became numb to the pain, and to fight off boredom and the agony, Shawn and I devised a game around cycling. The objective was to avoid getting your butt hurt when going over obstacles, or we would take damage. We named the differet sizes of bumps and stuff. It was fun while it lasted, and it was useful, but eventually we also stopped playing it.
At one of our rest stop, I saw this really cool "taxi race" where there were three cabs which started off the green light, one with a red, the other with a green and the last with a blue light. Very cool.
We had to conquer this horrific uphill slope halfway and even while standing up and pumping the pedals, it took a lot outta me...my knee hurt slightly after pumpin it so hard. Going downhill after that, I had to make a sharp left directly after turning right. I saw the bend too late, swerved, and stuck out my foot (emergency brake) and made it through, but the pedal smacked the back of my knee hard.
If I hadn't made that bend, it was a sharp two foot drop off the concrete into wild grass and a slope towards a storm drain. Ow. Then nearing the chalet, tired, and exhausted, it happened. Saw the rest moving up ahaed, didn't see what they were up to too clearly. Shawn shouted out "Goliath!" because there as the pavement started, there was this monstrous 1.5 foot jump up from the road surface and a sharp slope up to it.
This was a driveway leading up to a seriously freaky house up on the hill with two old rusted gates, and I crossed the driveway, approached the pavement, and heard his cry. But what I heard was "Got wire!". Elements for disaster. I slowed down, wondeed if I should head for the road. If there was a wire strung across somewhere, it could hurt me.
As I slowed down, I was burdened down with a hazy fog of exhaustion and confusion. I saw this short stone statue at the side of the pavement, and it appeared to be leering at me. I freaked. Too many things were going through my mind at the moment. The road? The pavement? The wire? I shouldn't get cut by it! The statue...frick!
I twisted at the last moment and my bike went on the pavement, but turned off onto the road. "F**K! F**k! F**k!" The bike slowed and scraped the side, my feet were on the ground, and my specs flew. I scrambled for my specs, shifted the bike upright, and got the hell outta there.
Rested our butts on the beautiful soft cushion and drank horrid Pepsi gold which really tasted like gold back then. Went out and lay on the bench. Very peaceful.
Daybreak.
Side view of our chalet.
The sun catches the frame of our windows and throws it upon the walls. It rained most of the day, so we played cards, Xbox, burned stuff, and watched next door (some KCPSS camp) play with laser guns in the rain. (Grumbles) Yeah we also played with water guns. Playing water guns in the rain? =.=
Later went to Tampines with Alvin, Shawn, Yvonne and Ben Chan. Walked about, went to Toys 'R' Us and fooled about. Bought a frisbee-like thing. Watched em Xbox when we returned, Had some GREAT fun. In Halo 2, after trying several times, Alvin switched to Shawn, and Shawn (more pro) used his energy sword to slaughter the Covenant forces and extended the bridge. I sniped off a coupla peeps and dashed across the bridge.
Ran for the Convenant tank. Yep, there I was, a tiny little human returning fire at 2 Ghosts protecting the tank, getting shot with plasma, dodging the tank's plasma blasts, and running right up to it. I even heard the narrtor saying "No, you don't want the tank!" Cool. I leapt on top anyway, melee'd the soldier inside and hopped in. OWNAGE TIME.
Blasted the 1st Ghost to bits and rammed the 2nd one off the gorge into the river below. Muahahaha. The spash damage was phenomenal. I see a line of fire, swing to it, kaboom. I sat there blasting all the Ghosts swarming out and oblitereating infantry.
Charged in with the tank, creating a swathe of destruction all around me. Died a couple times, but respawned, with the tank. Hahaha. Super fun. Died once cos I was overwhelmed, then was reminded of the speed button. Shot everywhere and shot the enemy to bits. Cool. Reason why I'm so happy is cos generally I suck at Halo. Hahaha.
Went to go and play "truth or dare" with the rest, but in the end turned out into an utterly corrupt game when we all said a short phrase to complete a story. Very funny and highly corrupted. You don't wanna hear the story. Woke up in the middle of the night to move out cos I was cold and couldn't find blankets.
Wenesday
Awoke in the morning to find wings all over the floor. Not chicken wings. Insect wings.
They were everywhere, including the insects they used to be on. Kitchen, living room, the bedroom where I slept, and also near the place where I slept.
I also saw a pile of wings near the freezer. A pile???
Many insects were alive but immobilised in the sink where I washed them into the drain.
I also saw many ants attacking the now flightless insects and sucking the flesh outta them . Saw many ants holding a half empty exoskeleton, and one insect with the thorax and abdomen only.The head was bitten neatly off. It was like some small scale cheesy alien invasion from and old 1960s B-grade sci-fi movie.
After that, went home to sleep for a while, studied and joked a bit at the alley. Played in the league. All screwed at the end. Studied today. Error occurred in blogger, so Ican't upload the last pic of the ants assaulting an insect, and totally raping it to hell.
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