My Story.

Chapter 20

Tuesday, October 31, 2006,
10/31/2006 07:41:00 PM

My back hurts. Bad. Oww. The area below my left shoulder. I can't move it about too much. Yet I went bowling today. It hurt a bit a first, then it got worse after that. Hais. Pain. But, tml's OP 1st dry run, so I'll still go to school. See I'm so good. Except it's gonna be hell to get dressed. =S Hais. Pain. Lots of paperwork to settle tomorrow. =S I mgiht be seeing a doc to get MC. Probably have to miss training. =S Feeling kind of crappy now. Hais. Zzz...

Went to Suntec Carrefour. Bought a plastic sword and a Hannibal-esque mask. Also helped Shawn buy a scythe. Went to his house to pass him the scyrhe and watched some Bleach. I had a LOT of time cos I thought it'd take a long time to go all the way from my house to Suntec and then back. Walked all the way from 1 end of Citylink Mall to another, and then from one end of Suntec to the other, and then to the 2nd floor.

Arrived early in sch. Wandered about. Waited for it to start. When it started, waited for the rest of the class to arrive. Everyone was like damn cold at the beginning. All seated around the edge of the hall. Then later everyone warmed up a little. The middle parts was pretty crazy. Somke and loud music and all. Like a club. Lol. For a moment this place looked cool. For a moment. Ok, pictures.

The moment we've all been waiting for?

The Masked Murderer

One of my favoutire pics. ^^ Slaying the headless Conrad

Conrad dancing. Cute.

Looks like some upscale club right? Well...that's cos of the smoke. PSI 300.

After that, went for supper at KFC before going home and online...

Sunday, October 29, 2006,
10/29/2006 11:16:00 PM

Went to look for a hockey mask today. Was directed by Ling Xuan to Lips at Far East. On my way there, I saw the hottest young thing. She was like wow! Such a sweet, sexy young thing. Her curves are so mesmerising! My jaw dropped when I saw her sitting at the side of the road like that. Just check out her headlights! Probably the nicest I've ever seen, and so unique. She was in great shape. Yeah...a lot of people were looking at her too. The sight of her would just stop most guys in their traps. She exuded huge amounts of class. Must be some model or something. She was...perfect. And I managed to snap a clandestine picture of her... ;] Here she is...
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(I was talking about a car all the time!)

Tough luck to anyone looking for a hot chick. =P Anyway, I went to Lips, and they were all sold out of hockey masks! Dang. Lol. So after that just bought this shirt. Went bowling. Then dinner at Kovan. Saw this rat in a drain beside my table. Appetising.

(Spot the rat)

After that went chome, called customer service, fixed up the internet, and my sis jumped on it and back into Maple less that 5 mins after its up. She told me she'd go in for 1 min. Pfft. A lie, of course. Oh well...Plastic Muggers

(Obviously, he's wearing sunglasses to cover up the rings)

While we're on the subject of Death Note, did you know there's a prequel coming up? There's a dectective who came before L, and is smarter than him. His name is K. ABCDEFJ...K...L...get it? I managed to find a pic of him...
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Hahahaha...ok that was lame. 2 photo pranks in one post? Lol...my humor content is high today...

Saturday, October 28, 2006,
10/28/2006 09:02:00 PM

Well my sister has finally gone and done it. Busted the router, that is. Finally she stops mapling, but not of her own volition. The thought of her stopping mapling by herself tickles me. It ranks high on the list of Nice and Impossible Things, slightly below pareto optimality. Finally the internet connection decides to show some resistance after bearing the brunt of her frequent maple orgies. Yes. I think orgies is the right word.

She was mapling halfway when she started experiencing severe lag. Then, she found she could connect to the internet. She was literally in tears at the thought of not being able to connect to maple and the internet. Note I said maple before internet. She was sobbing hysterically as she left the computer and I took over to try and find out what was wrong.

If she were playing Survivor: A Remote Island Without Internet Connection, she would probably break down in 3 days and turn into a shivering wreck, stabbing mushrooms with a plastic fork in an attempt to emulate her digital life.

Well, I tried resetting the router, which worked in the past, but not now. The router was well and truly having its revenge on her. I was also pretty pissed off, at the thought of her screwing up our net, becuase this meant I would b able to go online later. I shut off everything for a few hrs, and tried resetting later. No dice. So the connection is totally shot. Not to mention she's losing $168/90 = $1.90 *roughly) a day she doesn't play maple and peer at her pretty digital armor. $1.90 seems a little, but if you don't play for 10 days, that's equivalent to throwing $19 into a flaming volcano.

Hais. Which explains why I'm at Macdonalds now.

Friday, October 27, 2006,
10/27/2006 08:18:00 PM

Hmm...spent today sleeping and reading in my room. Watched my sis play Gunbound earlier. Finished Christine. Starting on Seven Ancient Wonders by Matthew Reilly. Love his books. The setting are like wow. Super innovative. And he provides diagrams of them because the setting play a BIG part in his stories. Like in Ice Station and Area 7. I highly recommend them. They're unique in that way. Now...for a change, a recap of my sis' day? Here goes. Brackets mean my schedule.

(The numbers on the left are just numbers, not time)
1. Wake up. (I'm sleeping)
2. Have a simple breakfast. (Wake up, eat)
3. Play Gunbound (I'm watching)
4. Quick lunch eaten at the computer. (Lunch)
5. Play Gunbound (I'm watching)
6. Play Gunbound (By now I should've gone to my rm)
7. Play Gunbound (Still in my rm)
8. Play Maple (Still in my rm)
9. Play Maple (Still in my rm)
10. Play Maple (Still in my rm)
11. Play Maple (Still in my rm)
12. Play Maple (Still in my rm)
13. Play Maple (Bathe)
14. Turn off com, go bathe (Waiting)
15. Dinner (Me, my dad, my sis)
16. Return home, turns on com before even changing clothes. (Go online)
17. Play Maple
18. Play Maple
19. Play Maple
20. Play Maple
21. Play Maple
22. Play Maple [Probably 3am or so now]
*Throughout all this, my dad askes her to stop a few times but she refuses to do so.

Wednesday, October 25, 2006,
10/25/2006 08:03:00 PM

Nothing to say about today. Training. Gonna see Conrad tomorrow. I just want it to be over quick. The mental weight of it crushing down on me is unbearable. My mood now is subdued. Not emo as of such, just incapable of joy. Haha. And I'd BETTER make it through the block test ok... I'm determined to thrash out all my problems next yr. Looks like I'll need math tuition too. =X It's the only subject that hasn't improved, apart from Econs. Econs is fun...but I can't figure out why I can't score... Maybe I'm not a numbers person...haha.

Economist: Someone willing and able to to make the simplest of concepts as complicated as possible and with a minimum of 50% jargon within, ceteris paribus. =P

I'm reading Irregular Webcomic now, and I loved this quote.
"The Roman Forum was the administrative, commercial, and religious centre of ancient Rome. As the centre of the greatest empire of the day, it was a stronghold of collected wisdom, intelligent discussion, and skilled rhetoric by the greatest masters of language and thought.

An Internet forum has none of these features."
Wonderful innit? Irregular currently has 1.3 thousnd strips (wow), and some of them are pretty good. Some are lame, but... Haha. This comics has different themes, e.g. Star Wars, Rome, and you get to learn plenty of interesting stuff.

Tuesday, October 24, 2006,
10/24/2006 10:11:00 PM

Spent my whole day playing MUonline in the morning. Then reading later. Was freaking unlucky -bleep-. Damn. Ran about in stadium, thinking I was (nearly!) invincible, until I came across the nefarious Lag. You all know Lag, if you've ever played a computer game stuffed to the eyeballs with lurid special effects. Its ubiquitious in all those games.

Well, I was walking to this sweet spot, and I turned the wrong way. BAM! A Molt appears from nowhere. I'm inside the molt. Like, in the same square as it. AAH! AAH! AAH! I died 3 times before getting away because you respawn in the same spot in stadium. I'm like omg nononononono! The idiotic thing is that the Molt is a lot stronger than the Phoenix, which is SUPPOSED to be the strongest creature in-game. I can dispatch 3 Phoenixes without a scratch, but I get killed 3 times by a Molt.

As they say, it never rain but it pours. Who ahould I run into next but...the Spirit King! Currently the strogest creature in the map because the Phoenix sucks. Batteries not included. He popped up next to me, AAH! uncountable times. Spawn die spawn die spawn die. Now, I was like omg nononono! Ahh! -bleep- you you -bleep-ing -bleep- -bleep- -bleeeeeeep-!!! 200 million poorer, I managed to warp to Lorencia.

But it doesn't end there. Noooo...bad things come in threes! So with my pockets decidedly lighter, I tried hunting for money. I hit 2.136 billion in fact. Guess what? 2 billion = money bug = oh -bleep-. They treat it like I have no money, and I can't warp anywhere, I can't reset (cos it seems that I have no money.) And the website is gonna be down for days due to a changing of domain. When I use the money reset later, I'll be left with 1 billion. Great. 1.1 billion down the drain. Eff. Good news for my sister because I can't reset, and she can play Maple all day long. She already did the past few days. =.= Bah.

Anyway, I was feeling bored, so I set up links to the webcomics I usually frequent. The Noob is hilarious, especially for those who have played online games before. I had to place it at the very bottom cause the size of the link is obtrusive. Do check it out. Life in plastic pants is side-splittingly hilarious...hahaha. This one's a must see for all. Some coarse humor though. Plastic Muggers was inspired by this. Ornery Boy and Alien Loves Predator aren't too bad too. 4 comics seems like a lot, but since they don't update everyday, 4 can cover your humor needs nicely for one week, since you can be sure one will be updated almost everyday...

Do note that come of the comics contain extreme language and violence

[UPDATE]
Video game addiction is real. Please do NOT get hooked on it like my sister. Your life is at stake! When YOU game, your family pays the price! My sister, let's call her K. K was a normal 12 year old girl, until she discovered the evils of this new mind-altering drug. It's called MapleSEA, but its usually known as Maple on the streets. You first shot is always free...but after you get hooked, you pay with your life. And in A-cash.

A few days ago, she blew $168, that's right, $168 to make herself look pretty while using this drug. That $168 gives you a high of 90 days, before your "avatars" expire. That's like paying $168 or 160,000 A-cash to see a cute character run about on your screen for 90 days(!) before its all gone.

Now, my sister got her fix yesterday. She played the whole day. Well, today I hit the com in the morning. When I told her I'm gonna playing for almost the whole day, her whole face changed. The Maple withdrawal symptoms began showing. She became moody and depressed, and easiily irritable. She was very lethargic too. She told my mum she was bored. When my mum suggested she read a book or watch television, she became irritated and stormed off to her room. She lay there stoned to death, and if I didn't know better, I would've sworn she was on chemical drugs, not the electronic ones.

She read a bit I guess, but after sometimes, I heard groaning coming from the room . I'm not trying to be funny, but I really heard it there. Believe it or not. It sounds really sick, but if it weren't true, I wouldn't put it here. What game addicts people so much they actually make noises of agony when allowed to play it?! I think she's too deep in...

Monday, October 23, 2006,
10/23/2006 04:20:00 PM

After mugging so hard, the Plastic Muggers try out for the OGL applications.
[This humor is to even out the emoness later in this post.]
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[Slight emo alert. Press alt-f4 to skip the following passage]
Let be be finale of seem.
The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.
-Wallace Stevens

A poem about death. How apt. Went to school for the OGL interview. Was ok I guess. We had to come up with an impropmtu cheer. About the projector. Kind of tense but not very nervous. My grades were the lowest in the room, so I'm not sure if I can get a chance. Once again, the Establisment might deny me a chance to take a leadership position. Hence locking me into a vicious cycle of not being able to succeed later on in life when superiors see that I have "no leadership experience", thus not letting me have a chance, and etc.

I have tried. Oh, so many times I have tried since coming here. But the system defies me. I have the initiative. I have done stuff for my CCA without being asked to. But to list them out here seems like an unwarranted display so I shan't. The Establishment had to remove the job of publicity head. Thank you very much. I'm posting this here to state it out, quite clearly, that it's not that I don't have any qualities of a leader, nor don't I want to try being one. The system NEVER gave me a chance. Hence creating a bitter cycnical 17 year old for the future ahead. Oh sweet joy. Ho ho.

After the interview, I waited with Valerie for Doris cos I didn't feel like going home. But in the end I couldn't avoid it. I didn't know where else to waste my time. Why don't I wanna go home, you ask? There are events which transpired before...

I was reading Christine when a call came. I picked up the phone and handed it to my mother. Returning to my seat, I realised she was speaking English. In the tone she uses when it's an official call. I knew something big was going on. When I asked her, she said the school wants her to see my teacher. Two words hit me like cold lead balls dropping into my stomach. No prizes for guessing. For the more foul-brained, no, it was not Oh F-. Rather, oh shit. But I digress.

I tried to go back to my book, to where the protagonist was describing a confrontation, and the ugly intricacies of one. The uncanny feeling was too much for me. I felt like a cold dark cloud had just enveloped my soul, dampening my mood for the day. It was like a solid mass inside of me. The nasty box of memories which I'd locked up in a crate and chain and red tape had been blown open by one call. I felt l ike everything I was doing was meaningless. I had no motivation for anything.

She asked some questions about the promos. I replied with unintelligigle monosyllabic answers. It was eating into me. I got out of the house as fast as possible. I dunno how to tell my mum. I'm afraid if she says something wrong to Conrad. Everytime I went out to study, she said "Make sure you're studying, I don't know if you're playing or not." Obviously(!!!) I was not. But what if she mentions something like "He often goes out to study, but I don't know if he is playing or not"? It doesn't sound good. What if she doesn't know much about my school life? I don't think she even knows my class. Ever since coming here, I haven't told her alot of my school life. Doesn't look good either.

I told Valerie since I got The Call, I'm gonna be r*****ed. She told me not to think too fast, there's still a chance. With a H1 U, I want to believe that. I really want to believe that...

God grant me the serenity to
accept the things I cannot change
And the courage to change things I can
And the wisdom to know the difference

Sunday, October 22, 2006,
10/22/2006 11:32:00 PM

Hmm. Nothing interesting today. Played MU in the morn, later went to YM's house with Shawn from a BLeahc marathon. Wahahaha. I alr watched till 30+, but Shawn was at 27. We chionged all the way from 27 to 41. If that is not madness I dunno what it is. xD

Funness I tell you. We keep going and going and going. Liked the battles. I should get YM to get his hands on the Death Note anime too. He bought the comic. Then we 3 can watch that. I feel like borrowing his Bleach manga too. And maybe Naruto. I'm going to read myself silly before succumbing to mugging again and throwing myself off a building sometimes next year. Cheers.

Muahaha..my wish was fulfilled. Got up early, beat my Maple-mad sister (who spent $168 in 1 shot to buy 160,000 A-cash to buy avatar that will last her 90 days. Read: NOT PERMANENT)to the com to play MUonline. Now, if those guy at Asiasoft are not rolling in money I don't know what to say.

Anyway, agreed to go pool with YM and Shawn later. Booked tix at the AXS station. To watch Death Note! Finally! Pooled, then had dinner at this western food stall at the kopitiam. Was very nice. The steak wasn't bad and the black pepper sauce was oh-so-spicy. Yum. YM paid me in a movie coupon...hahaha. So, anyone up for another movie with me? I've got tix!~ =P

We made it to J8 with time to spare, so we look about the Apple store. However, I prefer the Creative V plus. *Hint* X'mas is approaching wahahaha. I'd be content with a 2gig one. $230. =D It's so small!!! It's like a toy. An expensive hot toy. I love technology. =D

Anyway, bought a Ben 'n' Jerry's Cookie Dough ice cream and went in. Yum. Look at YM's ice cream.

Looks more like a pudding...=S

After that went home on the 88. And....came online. OOH! Look what my frined saw on the MOE site!

[UPDATE]
More Plastic Muggers.

Friday, October 20, 2006,
10/20/2006 07:03:00 PM

Since today is the WR deadline for submission, Plastic Muggers will be making an appearance in a short comic. Enjoy?

Note: Reader should note that the "teacher" came from an older set of Lego. A half-evolved version, if you like. In true mugger fashion, here's a page off some old toy textbook.

Alright. Went to school for submission of PW's WR. Woke up half an hour late. But I wasn't late at all cos Conrad didn't meet us. So we just hung about in the council room as Ben fiddled about with the WR. Then, Conrad wanted to see our WR although we had bound it already. Had to quote percentages from the diagrams. So reprint and rebind. Quite a few last minute problems came up, but were solved with Ben technological skill. Haha. Played soccer in the council rm with Priscilla(yes, soccer) and multi-player hp game. Surprisingly, Mr Hon didn't chase us out. =D

Later, we found out because of out changes, our organisation screwed up abit...and we had to edit 2 pages. Ran about a lot around the school. Haha. Finally submitted at around 2pm. Oh ya, I borrowed FF Advent Children to watch from Kiaming. OMG nice show...I can't believe I was missing this. THe fight sequences were (allow me to lapse into 1337speak)pWnz0r!!!!11

Then alternately slacked/stoned in front of the com. Ugh. I want to go out. Anyone free? Lol.

Thursday, October 19, 2006,
10/19/2006 05:37:00 PM

Finally. No more papers to collect. Passed Bio. May have a chance then. Our PW's WR is up to its 5th draft already, doesn't look too bad. ponned math lecture. They were going through a paper I'd rather not have seen in my entire life.

I got one more mark for my bio paper. Still E though. We later went for PW lunch at Swensen's! Yay!

This is Ben with the Swensen's fries cone on his head. We wanted to treat Pris to an ice cream to cheer her up, but ended up sharing a Giant Earthquake. Nice. Talked a lot, then later Gladys came to join us.

Ben was singing "You're Beautiful" dedicated to Xiwen.

And we concocted a nefarious plan to get revenge on Indonesia.

After that Ben and Gladys returned to school. Then Pris, Kiaming and I went to Kiamings house to see her um...guinea pigs. Ah, that should be the correct spelling. They're so cute. Looking at them makes me wanna rear hamsters again. =P Then stayed for a while before going home. Another Plastic Muggers Comic. Click to enlarge.

[UPDATE]
I was bored and WLM kept crashing. So...

Wednesday, October 18, 2006,
10/18/2006 08:44:00 PM

The river of Sorrow runs red with the blood of a thousand wounds.
No eye nor heart of man can peer into its painful depths.
The heart beats once but then is stilled by the trials that lie before it.
Can you ever rise again after falling so low?
The all-emcompassing Darkness smothers all.

The past few days seem insignificant in light of recent events. So I have decided not to blog about them, instead erasing the pictures. The chances of disaster in my life have risen sharply. And so have the chances of depression. All that mugging gone to waste. I shall not elucidate too much on the subject, for all I get are wasted words, and wasted breath.

Suffice to say, Chemistry is 1 mark away from S, and that Econs...I need to depend on my minor tests. For a S in my H1. Maths was a fiasco. English. Dismal. I was highly unsatisfied with my results, as I felt I was not in full possesion of my mental faculties on that day. I can hope hope the Forces Above can find it in their hearts to take pity and allow my Bio to be ok, as it is the only other subject I have been passing, with the exception of GP and CLB.

A dark cloud was hanging over me today. I had virtually no motivation for anything. Except life, that is. (I'm not so stupid. Contemplated suicide, yes in a sick way, but no, not actually doing something so retarded.) I have no idea how to break this to my parents. I've lied to my mum so many times yesterday when she asked if I've gotten my result back. The last time I cried was when I got my O levels results. I nearly did today. Too bad the former produced tears of joy and relief. When I got my paper, I guess the shock held it in. THe H1 hit was like bam! This is a neon sign with flashing lights saying you've just won greater chances of being r*****ed!

Well, thanks Val and Sabrina for your concern. Especially your sms, Val. It meant a lot. Its like, I dunno. At least someone is there?

Oh yes, I quite enjoyed our PW breakfast the other day. Can we have one again? =]

"Thank you for calling 1-800-SUICIDE.
If you wish to self terminate by electric shock - press 1
For termination by overdose - press 2
If you would like to make a reservation to visit our drowning pool - please press 3
For termination by hanging - please press 4
For death by self inflicting headshot - press 5
To speak to a representative, stay on the line.
If you dont wish to die - please hang up now."
-Dr. Online by Zeromancer

[UPDATE]

Convo with Diana:
get me out of this crazy world says:
don't get sooooo stressed up!.
get me out of this crazy world says:
we are only SEVENTEEN.
get me out of this crazy world says:
hahaha.
get me out of this crazy world says:
stress should be a foreign word.
[Zangetsu] The river of Sorrow runs red with the blood of a thousand wounds. <-\ÇhÂø§ ThËø®ÿ/-> says:
sorry
[Zangetsu] The river of Sorrow runs red with the blood of a thousand wounds. <-\ÇhÂø§ ThËø®ÿ/-> says:
we are 17 in the singapore education system
[Zangetsu] The river of Sorrow runs red with the blood of a thousand wounds. <-\ÇhÂø§ ThËø®ÿ/-> says:
stress is taught in your piano, violin, swimming, chess, english, chinese, maths, and science tuition lessons when you are 4 years old

[UPDATE]

For post-promo humor...

Damn. Who knew I'd be busier after promos than during them. Haven't blogged in 2 days. One big-ass load of pictures in my phone. Will try to blog tomorrow, that is if I don't get distracted by MUonline or Salem's Lot.

Sunday, October 15, 2006,
10/15/2006 09:14:00 PM

Nothing much today. Haze pretty bad. Went to ply bowling for a while, went home to chiong MUonline. I hear tml getting back math paper. Hais. Good luck to all.

Saturday, October 14, 2006,
10/14/2006 10:42:00 PM

Ok, where should I start?

These are the size of the lousy milos we got for $1.50 at White Sands.

BenQ using one of the old balls

The banded design on my pin.

With my fangs logo.

And the flames at the base.

And the full thing.

Shawn's pin w/ the skeleton hand design.

Fangs on another pin I designed.

And on the other face, an imitation Converse logo. Copyright infringement in progress? =X

The shoddy workmanship of the polka dotted pin..hahaha. Looks like something you'd see at a pasar malam. Next to it is the "bandaged" Gambler Pin, designed by me =P

The 3 PinMakers. Azlyna in foreground. (Damn I look ugly hahaha)My fanged pin, Shawn's evil pentagram pin, Ben's flaming pin.

Now Shawn's looking evil with his pentagram pin cos he used it to curse Azlyna out of the picture.

The pins in formation, pentagram as head pin, my fanged and the flaming one at the side. All from the 3 creators. =D

I've replaced mine with the Converse pin.

All in a row. Gambler pin 3rd. One of my favourites. With a heart, diamond, spade, and club.
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Now for yesterday.

After all the very troublesome logistics stuff, we got the pins set up.

An example of the wonderful logic shown by the Management, all students were ordered to lock their bags in a class room. Presumably, this is the ensure no students escape the later Sai Kang (SK) in cleaning up the school. However we just left our bags on a spare bench and did our work. Azylna had the brilliant idea of covering up our bags with an old cloth we found in one of our boxes, after receiving several orders to lock up our bags. These are the reasons why we believe locking our bags up is flawed.

"Ssh, our 'captain' is sleeping!"
1) On such occasions, it is virtually certain some people might accidentally leave vital stuff in their bags. Of course, they would then have to go through the inevitable countless levels of beaurecracy to open the locked doors, causing trouble for all.
2) So we take all our valuables out, where do we put them? The world is not digital. There are many factors of chance. Even with our bags, we still left our wallets and handphones on the table. We would be increasing the risk of loss to our valuables if we did not have access to our bags.
3) Huge valuables. Several booths were using laptops, ours included. Without bags, I would not have been able to keep my laptop in its bag, and then cover it with other bags when circumstances demanded we all leave the booth. Leaving my(I stress my, not the school's) laptop out in the open without any form of protection (even covering it with a bag would suffice) is not my idea of fun.
4)There is no need for any locking up of bags. For what purpose? A student could easily leave the school mid way and come back later since their valuables e.g. EZ-link cards are with them. If the school does (and it didn't!) an attendance taking after the SK was completed, you could easily find out the deserters.There is simply no need for such a draconian plan to be put into effect. (Unless there is a better reason which I don't know of, that is.)

I waited till noon for our speakers to arrive. Not the huge portable speaker I'd hoped for, but 2 computer speakers. So I played the bowling videos on max volume. After it became clear not many were interested in the video =.=, I just swapped to playing my music on max volume. Irritating songs (Crazy Frog), heavy metal (Disturbed), silly songs (Guo Mei Mei =.=), funny songs (My Humps&Mai Hum), and podcasts (Bak Chor Mee) were played. We took turns playing our own game and setting pin for others. Until my hands and legs were so tired.

Shawn bowling.

Us and seniors. Shawn, BenQ, Me, Daryl, Terence, Don

Halfway through, the wind blow the whiteboard down. Quick as lightning, (I was using my laptop) I leapt up, and held the entire thing back with my two hands a la superman pushing a train. For my angle, I didn't have the leverage to push it back, so I remained there till aid came. (Later the board came down again, slamming the laptop shut, but the impact was less cos it hit the bag of snacks first. Whew.)

Beautiful destruction.

Gavin's ball smashing the steps haha.

Box of memories?

During SK, we observed a chain of chairs forming. Innovative way of shifting chairs. Up and down stairs too!

Left of the guys in black and green is the team's Superman, Wee Hian, carrying one bench confidently on his shoulder.

BenQ testing out our lane.

Terence doing a funny shot.

Later, the teachers ordered us to help out in the SK. Walked with Terence up to behind LT3, carried a bench. The atmosphere was so COOL!!! Seriously. It was like so fun. A non-stop crowded flow of people either way, one w/o stuff, the other lugging heavy stuff! It was like being in a mine. You know, like orcs in the Mines of Moria. All sorts of grimy and sweaty people moving in lines around the school. Like being in an anthole, where, you, the mindless automaton that you are, obey the queen, ruler of all. Fun. I stained my pants with dirt for all my work.

Then after that, the school asked up to clear the bins, so I did so with gusto, happily, picking up a huge bag filled with the festering leftovers of organic drinks (e.g. Green Tea, not Coke.) baked in a thin plastic bag for hours in the hot sun, and sauntered off with my load. It's like Rubbish Collecting SPA skill B, a useful skill in case you can't take JC. Shawn would have failed this SPA cos he kept puncturing my bag with a satay stick in his.

Later, physically and mentally tired, I returned home to be yelled at my mum for dirtying my clothes, and I retorted to get yelled at by my dad. Whee.

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Today's highlights.

My mum sent some infantry to fire at dad's border guards, so he fired some cruise missles back at her. Therefore I get bombed by air strikes from her while my populace cower within and shut up. Logical, no?

My sister has been playing maple for...9.5 hours today.

Later tonight. I had to each my rice at LHS w/ a fork...=.=

Friday, October 13, 2006,
10/13/2006 11:39:00 PM

Will not be blogging today. Physically and mentally exhausted after today. I can now add the titles of slave labourer/student-orc in the mines of ~~Moria~~ Mugland, human pinsetter/pin monkey, and rubbish collector to my resume. Always handy to be able to do a couple more jobs if recession hits. =] Will blog up everything about today and yesterday's pics tomorrow. =\

Thursday, October 12, 2006,
10/12/2006 11:05:00 PM

[No pictures today cause blogger sucks and there's an error =.=]

Today was pretty ok I guess. Met with the CCA in the morning, did some logistics stuff. While hanging up banner, Sunny called to say we have to help out with the logistics as our class proposal failed. In Mugland this roughly means: Hahahaha! Losers! Go and do Sai Kang aka shift heavy stuff around the school for long periods and saturating your uniform entirely with sweat, with no minimum wages. Hoho. At least construction workers get money. Time seems to stretch when you're moving chairs up and down over and over again from one storey to another. =\

Ya, so anyway, I have double commitment to the CCA and the class, so I went off after shifting chairs to go help out. I previewed some of the videos for the people there, and it'll probably sound a helluva lot better if we get the portable speaker out there tomorrow. I'm counting on it to appear. Bringing an extension plug so I can charge my com at the same time. Well, we did a wild goose chase for the old pins, but we soon found them after a while. We also played some bowling first. Lol. Our so-called lane was so short.

We went off with our black and red spray cans to give our pins a gothic design, and painting those pins was damn fun. We experimented with a lot of designs, after painting 8 of them black. Vaibz disappeared with our can of black and 2 two for so long and we couldn't find him. We stuck masking tape on our pins and cut out the designs and sprayed them red. I could do this for a living. Haha. One design that turned out beautifully was the fangs which I cut out. They were perfect. Sprayed my "-=[K]=-" logo on that pins too. Me, BenQ and Shawn each personalised a pin and then did the rest. I imitated the Converse logo wonderfully on one of the other pins.

BenQ did a pin with a fiery design, and Shawn did a true evil(upside-down 5-pointed star) pentagram on the front of one pin. When we placed that at the head of all the pins, it was nearly impossible to strike...hmmm...then BenQ did osmething crazy by doing a full power spin which hit the pins, leaped up, and chipped off a piece of the staircase...the ball...was scratched I think. Lol. Anyway, we have a choice of 3 balsl for the visitors tomorrow. Please join Mugland! You will not regret it. You will not regret it. You will not regret it. You will not regggg...

Wednesday, October 11, 2006,
10/11/2006 09:21:00 PM

Today was pretty ok. Came to school, then I heard we'd be watching High School Musical. I was like OMFG not that! It's everywhere! I was starting to think I'm the only one that disapproves of the show. I just think its diabolical of Disney to trick starry-eyed pubescent teenagers on the cusp of maturity into believing that a perfect world exists, and thru creating legions of fans who devour excellent product placement and marketing, when their dreams are borught crashing down when they discover that the world is not so perfect.

It just doesn't work that why. Perfect sometimes, but not fully perfect like the way they depict it. Oh well, I understand some ppl are crazy over it but, I reserve the right for my own opinion. This doesn't mean I will detest anyone who has "creative differences" with me. Lol.

So we changed into house tee, and watching people play funny games to blow time, then watched the intra-house Capt. ball matches. Then we enter the LT. And I had depositied my phone in a bag for valuables, so I didn't have it with me. And...omgomgomg?!?! Do I really have to watch this stranded here w/o my phone? And...phut. Error with copyright. HSM disc can't play. And...there seemed to be equal amounts of HSM and Bring It On supporters too. So...I am not alone? Haha. So we watched BIO, which was not bad.

Then, I met up with Alvin and the rest of the CCA. We split into 2 groups, game, and board and split up to go and buy our stuff. Couldn't find spray paint at White Sands, so went to Tamp Mall. Technically, I'm doing IT so I'm not in any group, but I just tagged along to help find. Went home, completed 3 movies/ads we're gonna use on that day. They please me, so I hope they'll have the same effect on the rest tommorrow. Total runtime is 1:38. Tomorrow's Open House prep and PW. Should be kinda slack. Bringing my com to work on PW and to show the rest the vids, so they can see what changes are needed. Won't post them here cos it'll be a surprise! Will upload to Youtube on Fri night, I guess.

Tuesday, October 10, 2006,
10/10/2006 10:47:00 PM

Well nothing much for today. i'm reminded how much I detest Singapore's public transport system today. Got off the LRT to see the bus drive off. Wheee~ Was nearly late for the Econs lectures. Zzz...always is econs that has the extra lessons. Always econs...let's see...went home to slack. Read A Prison Diary, watched TV, played MUonline, resetted once, then came online. oh ya I receivd my shock for today from...this!

I was reaching for the sink to wash my hand when ZOMFG there's a adult COCKROACH in the mug (which is used to rinse our mouth)! I was so startled cos of the juxtapostion of the cockroach, a filthy disgusting insect, in the mug, which we so often bring to our mouth and take in the water in it. Yech. So I attempted to cover the mug with plastic wrap and throw it away (like geez, do you still wanna rinse your mouth with that?) but it scurried off, quick as greased lighting. Unable to find it, I enlisted the help of my father, who, stunning it with a broom, ejected it from the premises via our window 15 storeys up. Oh well, nothing to report...hope sch tml is fun. Lol.

Monday, October 09, 2006,
10/09/2006 11:12:00 PM

Silly me...to think that I thought I wouldn't have anything interesting to post about today. Well, devoting my words to this issue seems to me dignifying ~~the person~~ "it", who has been posing as me, but I plan to use this post to inform all that read my blog (and use up a little time). I went to Darren's blog earlier, and spied a post calling him a "loser" and "hypocritical". I would like to publicly clarify that that person is not me. I mean, seriously, I see the guy everyday on the bus. Would I do something like that so blatantly? Pfft. Whatever "it" is, "it" is seriously underestimating me.

I am not going to pull a Hiroshima and go OMG WHO IS THE LOSER WHO POSED AS ME because poking about in bovine faeces and rotting fish guts would be a more favourable waste of time. Commenting on it also doesn't rank much higher. Sure, I was indignant for a few seconds, ok, maybe a minute. But then, I was just unmoved. Like c'mon, its pretty obvious. A sudden change of personality? Like duh.

It's akin to pulling on a Halloween George Bush mask and storming into the Oval Office and ordering Indonesia to be nuked. As likely as turning Michael Jackson black again. Or as likely as Peter Jackson filming Queen Kong. You get the idea. It puzzles me to think how "it" thinks that by posing as me it can "harm" me. The only "harm" is that I might die laughing at is naivete.

So...to everyone that reads this, please do not be alarmed. If you see any suspicious posts, please inform me or call 999. Ok the last part was a joke. Been travelling too much lately. =D Yup, so don't believe anything "I" say because the post might have been made by a creature with the intelligence of a F pili. Yup, not bacterium, F pili.

(Uh yeah, I hope the tagboard thing is ok with you, chris, cos I seriously didn't know. I thought he just called up some old AHS friends for the concert. That was my fault. Thankfully Danson didn't mind, so...ya. Of course, this doesn't give me the permission to crash anything(!). It was an iolated incident, I hope you understand. No harm intended...)

Sunday, October 08, 2006,
10/08/2006 10:17:00 PM

[UPDATE]
Good news. Not emo anymore. Cheers.
Students are like giant ionic lattice structures, too much stress and they snap. And then shoot everyone in sight

Emo relapse. Too emo to even write an emo poem. That sounds stupid and ridiculous right now. Hais. I think I should stop with any mugging crap. I tihnk its getting a bit stale, and in my current condition, I'm in no mood for anything light-hearted. So just a quick recap on the past 2 days? Didn't blog cos was staying over at YM's house. Oh, and ppl? Don't worry abt the white dots. The snow effect takes a while to load. Assuming you don't clear all your temp internet files and cookies, the load shld be faster next time you enter.

Weather sucked previously. Still thought might have school canceled, then wouldn't have to return to that accursed place for Chem lecture. So much for mercy. Today the PSI dropped like a student's grades upon entering Mugland. Gosh I love that analogy!
Ok. Shawn's birthday. Met Shawn and Suyi at CP. YM joined us at Kovan. Went to Marche for lunch. Quite nice. Expensive though. Only brought $30. Suyi bought him a shirt, we all paid a bit. Some pics of everyone.

4/6 of the board of executives of EDA. Went to take a pic at the fountain of wealth. Later went to Vivocity. Plenty of pics too. The entire place is SO big. Bigger than anything else. Lol. It's gonna be amazing when it opens...watched Stay Alive. Was pretty nice. Ya, another horror flick, but I still like it. Haha. Wasn't too bad. Vivocity has some great interior design, too.

Later went home to change, grabbed some stuff then went to buy sparklers, candles, lighters, then went to Shawn's hse with Suyi. Ate cake. Lol. Wanted to make sparkler rockets, but the haze was like...ugh. Stuff's still in my bowling bag.

Went Ym's hse, watched Texas chainsaw massacre. I could predict almost everything that was to happen next. I can be a director now. Lol. Then watched "Leon". A very very very good movie. Quite old (abt 1994) but nevertheless nice. It's about a hitman who takes in a 12 yr old girl. Good mix of violence and emotion, plus a great plot. One of the better movies I've seen. nice ending too. 5 stars, go watch it or something. Lol.

Left at past 9 in the morning to bowl. Aborted at 11pm, rushed like mad to meet up with Val for lunch. I literally was unstoppable. Ran over anything in my way. (ACCIDENTALLY) Crushed a woman's toes w/ my bowling bag, and lifted 12 pounds or so of my bag above my head and squeezed past a slow-moving old woman on the stairs who was blocking the entire path cos my train was already in the station. Was VERY late. (Sorry!) Even accidentally took e wrong train in my hurry. =.=

Concert was great. Loved the encore. They played osmething which I've listened to every weekday, 6pm on Star World. The Simpsons theme. Haha. After it I caught up with Danson and some of his friends. We hung out at TCC, just talked...had a delicious oreo choco frappe. I love TCC. It's just a great place to hang out and chill. Except for the bill. Lol. Came home then my mood became sucky. Not cos of the Chem lec...haha...that's all I guess. (sry for any typos.)

Saturday, October 07, 2006,
10/07/2006 02:43:00 AM

With it being the holidays and all, I'm continually discovering new ways to amuse myself. Namely this great program that can generate water, ripples, rain and snow effects. Cool, eh?

(No I do not play Maple any more, but I needed a 2D model...haha)

Friday, October 06, 2006,
10/06/2006 03:56:00 PM

Here the pic. Isn't it nice? With the barbed wire and the rain and all? Aww...

When I'm early, I'm too early. Took the 6.30 bus today. Anyway Math was as fun as taking part in a sack race using a sack of nails and fire ants. I'll have to count on luck, working marks, and error carried forward(?) This is the only test in which the muahaha-you-are-so-effing-screwed message is very clear. I hope I make it thru ok. And that means getting a minimum S grade overall.

But enough about that. What's done is done. I'm happy to get promoted. Then I'll mug all year long. Finally. A time when there's not notes to study, no tutorials to do, no deadlines. Can do anything at my own time. Slowly eat, slowly watch youtube, slowly go out. Bowled 6 games today. I have deteriorated after not playing for so long...accuracy drop, strength drop, even defence dropped. My hand hurts after the 6 games. Top socre only 140. The rest hanging about the 110 standard. 140 was on the 5th game, and was too tired by the 6th. Spent all that itme trying to regain my proficiency.

Might go going out to cycle in the evening...I'm gonna watch a Naruto marathon now...nth much to do...lol

BTW, noticed anything new about my blog? That's cos I've been too free today...lol

Thursday, October 05, 2006,
10/05/2006 07:05:00 PM

Weather's worsening, no thanks to our not-so-intelligent neighbours.

Today I figured out that our transport system sucks royally. I got up 15 minutes early, and waited double the usual time to catch the same bus and end up in school at the same time. Somehow, the powers that be tweaked the stupid timetable so that no matter how early I came, I would always miss the 6.40 bus, and have to take the 6.50 one. Then, the bus started coming later and later. So i decided to take matters in my own hands before I ended up late some day. =.=

I woke up 15 mins earlier. Watched the LRT speed by overhead. Never mind...I've got time. So they waste all my effing time! I waited like double the usual time for the next train to come, and then when I got off, the most wonderful thing happened. I saw the 6.40 bus speed by below. For CRYING OUT LOUD! How much earlier must I wake just to take the earlier bus?! It's like they time the friggin' timetable so that as one leaves the other comes and vice versa. WTF man...

Chem...was just another usual MJ test. It seems ok, but there might be a twist at the end. Ever since coming here, I've had virtually no confidence in stating what I might expect for my tests. Oh yeah, and since coming here, I've also gotten a coupla silver hairs. Shiny and all. Great stuff, JC. Makes you age 10 years in 12 months or your money back. Oh and btw, I didn't get the pic, my bus came. So... tomorrow, ya? Lol. I think it'll be great...

Wednesday, October 04, 2006,
10/04/2006 09:38:00 PM

Nothing much to say. Won't be blogging about today, or reading others' blogs. Chemistry tomorrow. I'm off to mug. God bless one and all. The worst is yet to come. And I'll be back tomorrow with a pretty pic we all can identify with. Ok? ^^ Promise. =D

Tuesday, October 03, 2006,
10/03/2006 11:14:00 PM

Another muggy day I guess. Mug mug mug mug mug...bio. Went to Tamp Library to mug with Valerie and Friends. Hahaha...that sounds like some children's TV programme. Lololol. Eh...nothing much else I guess. Came home, went online, did loads of stuff, watched today's Bleach on Youtube, then probably going back to mug again. Amazingly I did not click the "Bleach Episode 27" button on Youtube.. I am so proud of myself. Haha. On the bright side, 3 exams(I don't count CLB =P) and 3 days to the end of exam! W00t. Then, its BOWLING time!!!!11one Muahahaha...I cannot wait. To swing 5kg of urethane and knock 30 pounds of stuff over! Destruction as a sport! ^^

Ooh! Wait. I discovered that Smarties actually DO have proto-oncogenes, and they can turn into oncogenes! So don't eat smarties. I found one with a tumor to prove it.

Of course, cancer is a multi-step process, hence these Smarties with tumors are extremely rare. The tumor-suppressor (p53) gene and ras proto-onocogene of this popular sugar coated chocolate candy must've been hit too.

Maybe I should have bought M&Ms.

Monday, October 02, 2006,
10/02/2006 08:23:00 PM

Hmmm. Not a very good day today. Couldn't sleep well last night, for no reason. No, of course I wasn't nervous, ha-ha , because if I did, I would've known it myself. Before I fell asleep, the time I last saw was 2:06AM. So I probably got 4plus hours of sleep. Then my mother woke me up half an hour late. =\ So I had to rush to school. Amazingly I managed to reach the bus-stop in 10 mins, something I could not do on normal days. Reached school 5 mins before assembly began. On the bus, this funny-smelling man sat next to me. Out of all the 12 or so seats, he had to sit next to me. Ugh. My nose got used to the smell, but it was unsettling that I had to breathe his air for over 10 mins.

Becuase of the hurried nature of my departure, I feel like I screwed up my Paper 1(I think) Thank goodness I switched to question 5, supposedly The One.(in Conradlish, The One=The easiest question) Yet, I felt wholly unprepared for this. Must be lack of sleep and the adrenaline rush in the morning. There was no spark, no juices. I couldn't get into the flow. So I'm guessing I need paper 2 to help me.

Econs was ok I guess. Its one of those test that seems like you MIGHT pass ok, but you have absolutely zero confidence at what bombshells the school might drop on you. It's like that in Mugland. I've already gotten used to it. So just sit tight and hope that your feelings are right. Because I CANNOT FAIL MY H1!!! Damn. before the promos, I got my momentum up and running, yet I cant seem to get it started today. Lack of sleep? I can't waste today...need to mug bio. I think I'll sleep at 1am then mug 10 hours again tomorrow for Bio. It's probably my best subject in Mugland, so I'm counting on it having a big chance of fulfilling the H2 pass criteria. All that's left is Maths and Chem. Two of my greatest foes.

And I think I invented the coolest game ever that ALL MUGLANDERS must buy.
"Step into the magical realm of Mugland Online! Play as a mugician, mug-knight or muggerelf!"

[Note the blue mushroom, slime, and pig. Spoofed maple monsters. Hahaha]
Ok, back to bio!~
Wait. I found a country for Bush to bomb. It's on the other side of the earth, and its inhabitants do STUPID things that cause harm to others. Harm like this.

Just nuke Indonesia.

Sunday, October 01, 2006,
10/01/2006 10:51:00 PM

God help me. I hope nothing's wrong. Mugging is unhealthy, you know. After days of mugging and stuffing myself with junk food, the past 2 days have been weird. I enter the storeroom to find a huge array of snacks (3 plastic bags full) and I'm not interested. In any of them. Yet when I return to my seat empty handed, I feel this urge to eat...something! I just randomly take anything and eat. And fail to feel satisfied.

All my experiments: half a tin of peaches (4 halves), a wafer biscuit, a cup noodle, a few chips from Pringles' Sour Cream and Onion have had no effect. None of them produce the "Yummy! Now you're full." effect. Its like I want to eat something, but my bodys doesn't know how to tell me what it is it wants. I hope its not some kind of disorder. Nothing like this has happened before. =X I asked my mum to drop by Mac's on the way home and get me a McChicken. I hope it works.

Maybe this is the side effect of getting engulfed in the cigarette smoke of 3 lowlifes? While leaving the house, I had to wait for another lift as the 1st one was full of smoke. On the way home, one walked by me leaving a trail of gaseous shit, and the other one exited the life lobby at my block, leaving it and one lift smothered in his murder gas.(I had to take the lift on the 2nd floor because I couldn't hold my breath waiting so long at the lobby.)

Not to mention the fact that when I came home, I noticed a suspicious brown stain on the swivel chair as my sister was using another chair in place of it. After unpacking my notes and about to take a bath, I found that my sis left a little brown present for me on the bathroom floor. No wonder my appetite's a little off today.