As if I needed further confirmation that yesterday was up there in the Top 10 Unluckiest Days in my Life. Thankyouverymuch, the powers above. I had not realised there was such a thing as bad luck carryover until today. It had to spring up on me like a jack-in-the-box-holding a can of Mace in its hand. However the effect of making me want to fall kicking and screaming and yelling F**K F**K F**K F**K! at everything was the same.


Thinking about it makes me want to shout F**K at life, luck, fate, and whatever accursed things are up there. Because it SUCKS. IT. SUCKS. BALLS. Even if I in some mystic way deserved the karmic shit shovelled on me yesterday, I didn't expect there to be more in the bucket. But NOOOOO, the powers above had to keep a little shit left inside to pour on me todayyyy! Like it wasn't enough.


Here's how it goes. I meet up with Shawn and Sixu at CP. Went to PS, walked about a bit. We saw monks looking at laptops and trying them out. Maybe they're trying to set up their own blog! We met YM, who arrived on the dot when it began. Entered the cinema, found our seats. Hey! There's someone in them!


We checked and the seat and hall were same. Hmm. Let go ask the counter! Now hold your breaths ladies and gentlemen. Here comes the shitty part. My friend gave me the receipt.(drumroll please)


"Eh. You see the date. 30th December." Oh fuck. Oh fuckity fuck fuck. Fucking hell. Sorry for all this wonderful language people, but this is a classic f**k moment to relive. I sank to the floor and put my hands on my head. I shouldn't have bought that effing ticket on one of the most unluckiest days of my lives.


So we had to buy new tickets. Instead of collecting $30 from them and being loaded(kinda) and having fun, we morosely finished our popcorn and drinks stoning on the top floor outside the theatre and walked about and entered the arcade a couple of times before waching the 5 o'clock movie.


On the bright side, DN2 was wonderfully funny. I loved it a lot Hahaha...L's mask was retardedly hilarous. After that went home. YM was going for dinner w/ his parents. I was broke too. And Sixu was attending his F class' countdown gathering at city hall.


Their class is positively insane. I say positively because they're like as strong as an inoic bond. Scratch that. They're more bonded than the carbon atoms in a diamond molecules. Their extensive covalent bonding is more extensive than Donald Trump's empire.I don't think it's such a good thing if it borders on religious fanaticism though...


Oh well, came home and was pleasantly surprised to find my dad ordered pizza. Yummy. Extrmemely full now. Slightly nauseous. Might be from the Pepsi. =X Was bored, so I'm reading the Wikipedia article on Freud. Whatta way to welcome the new year, eh? I might move on to Nietzsche later. Ciao. Oh, and, happy new 365 days again.


Have you made your new year's resolution?
Sure! Which one? 1024x768 or 800x600 pixels?


[UPDATE]
I've just finished reading the article on Freud. I found it extremely interesting! Too bad being a psychologist is Singapore isn't going to be very practical. (I think. I'm not sure.)I can identify several sections of it present in us, such as repression, which is done unconsciously, by, well, the unconscious mind. And several defense mechanisms.

Well. Today was a pretty frickin' unlucky day. Dammit. It ranks up there among the worst. Tuition was very fun. Got railed at again. Why? Thanks to this bloody retarded question in math. It asked to find a and prove b is 7. So I did it. Wrongly. However, the gods of math saw fit to let my wrong answer's b be 7. WTF?! Of couurse I got conned. Eff. Then my tutor checked it, WRONG. He was like why did you get this question wrong again?? And I was like oh shit.


And he went on like I didn't know how to solve it but the idiot question, when solved wrongly, gave half the right answer!!! Effing shit. Then after that I went to the AXS station to book DN2 tix for tomorrow. First, my mum asked me to exchange some chicken taiwan sausages for pork cause my sis said pork was nicer...=.=


So I went to NTUC and had to get in the long queue. Then this old lady in front started asking me about the prices of Pepsi. I was like huh why me...=\ But I answered her. And it was good cause she let me go first in the end cos I wasn't buying anything. Like in those games in which you give the begger a few coins and he repays you with a sword of a thousand something-or-other-that-makes-it-incredibly-powerful.


However I had to wait for the manager to come...and check it out before doing the trade. Then while booking I realised that the timings were like late afternoon instead of afternoon. And I didn't bring my phone cos I thought a newly released movie would have more timings. =.= Yay. Went home to call the rest and went back to book again. Seats one row from screen.


Came home, turned on the aircon and mugged, finally. Did Chem. Halfway I went out to pour water and closed the door. Now this is wonderful. Here comes the classic part. I came back with my cup, turned the knob, clunk. What? No way. Somehow the door was locked. I'm quite certain I didn't lock it when I went out. (I mean, why would I??) So I'm locked out of my room and my hw is inside.


MEANWHILE, my sis was shouting cause my mum cos the latter couldn't hear her, and my dad started yelling too and it was great. Whoo. Then my sis went into the kitchen and scalded her hand. My mum called after her to put toothpaste on it and my sis just stumbled out back to the com, sobbing. And my father started yelling. Again. By the end of it all my father was telling at all of us to just die, and go jump off the building. More fun.


So I was locked outside my room while my dad was flaring up, my sis scalded her hand, and my mum was not exactly very happy. And I didn't know where the keys were. Who do I ask? My mum. I got some flak from her. Mainly being called stupid by not knowing where stuff is in your house. Well, how could I when she said "it's there beside your sister?!"


Managed to unlock the door and get while they were having their "fun". Sounded like the welcoming party for Mr. Hussien "downstairs". Quietened down later of course. But bad luck simply wouldn't leave me alone. I bumped my cup a few mins earlier and spilled a cup of water all over my com =.= Beautiful. I attempted a sloppy rescue mission by lifting it all up and SOSed my sister to come in and help me wipe up the table and unplug the stuff and dry it before I put in on another table. It never rains but it pours. I dman well hope I pick up a $100 note tomorrow. =X

Went for my semiannual eye test...all well. My sister's degrees shot up again. =\ I managed to get to Nokia Tampines. Before giving the guy my phone, I tested it a few mins before. It was dead. When I gave it to the guy, he took it, removed the memory card as per standard procedure prior to sending it for repairs...doodle doo doo, doodle doo doo, doodle doo doo doo. Nokia tune!


He gave me a what-kind-of-stunt-are-you-trying-to-pull-here face. I was speechless. I protested that it wasn't like that a few mins ago, and he said it might've been my memory card corrupted. =.= Wasted trip. Anyway, grabbed a bite at Macs and headed down in time for training. So I planned my schedule correctly. =]Gonna miss next week's training due to orientation...=[ Went to Changi V for dinner. The chicken rice stall at the kopitiam was fantastic! I wonder why there weren't many customers. Came home, simmed.

Le Piano Player

Selling my 2nd painting for $135

Dinner with the neighbours.

Bravely drinking a blue potion from my potion set.

Abducted by aliens! WTH?!

Eating brownies a neighbour made.

Playing pool. Like I did today with the guys after training...

Hi genie!

Off to work! OAnd now I'm off to bed, won't be reading blogs tonight...zzz.

I've just finished "Tales of Mystery and Imagination", a collection of stories by Poe. My homework is still at a stationary level of completion. Call me insane, but I'm hooked onto books. Right now, most would be rushing last min work.


"Tales" isn't too bad. However, I often see the same recurring theme in his stories, the same plot devices, recurring plot lines...maybe it's not evident if the short stories are separately published in magazines or journals of the day, but in this collection its fairly obvious...a short sample:
The Black Cat
Man chops wife in the head with axe.
Man walls up wife.
Man confidently brings cops to wall.
Man confidently raps on wall.
Cat meows within wall.
Man exposes his heinous crime.
(The story is deeper than this but...you get the gist)


The Tell-tale Heart
Man chops old man into bits. (Think chunky bak chor mee without the mee)
Man buries body parts(under floorboards).
Man confidently brings cops to room.
Man confidently sits above heart.
Heart beats underneath floor. (Heard by the madman only)
Man exposes heinous crime.


The Cask of Amontillado
Man walls up enemy.
The End.


See any link? Another gripe is that the stories are kind of draggy and long winded in the beginning, shooting off into all sorts of other stuff. Maybe this was the writing style 200 years ago, but I don't think it'll gain popularity 200 years on. And some stuff isn't really that scary to us now.


Yet I must admit the titles are great. The Fall of the House of Usher, The Masque of the Red Death, The Tell-tale Heart, The Pit and the Pendulum. They sound so grand. Some Words with a Mummy was pretty amusing.


"...the Mummy first drew up its right knee...and then, straightening its limb with inconceiveable force, bestowed a kick upon Doctor Ponnonner, which had the effect of discharging that gentleman, like an arrow from a catapult, through a window into the street below.
We rushed out en masse to bring in the mangled remains of the victim, but had the happiness to meet him upon the staircase..."

Obviously Poe has quite a bit of humor, sometimes slightly lame, if I may be permitted to add. The mummy's name was "Allamistakeo", poof! there goes the realism of the story (provided it had some, from the unassuming title which bares all.) Out of Breath's protagonist/narrator was Mr. Lackobreath, and I first thought he used the title out of jest. =.= The person who stole his breath was Mr. Windenough. Double =.= Oh well.


Simmed a bit earlier. My sister's house is amusing. A ragtag eclectic jumble of furniture scattered all over the place. It's not ugly, its...disorganised. And she has like multiple copies of stereos all over the place. Like wth? You want Dolby Surround Sound all over your place? =S
A few days in my sim's life:








Tomorrow I'm gonna go chiong 3 items on my to-do list so I got time for h*mework. Gonna go for my semiannual eye exam, send my 6280 to Nokia General (Hospital) at Tampines, and then off to training...
My new phone:Nokia 3100 (Still not as pro as Shawn's granny phone though..=])


Either way, I think I could possibly finish my chemistry by the end. Math I leave it to the fates of JC to decide. =S Going to meet Eliza to possibly mug on Tues, and she bought me sth from China! ^^ And I must thank her for the Xmas card. =D


By the way I saw this on a friend's blog. It is inestimably cool.


God created everything,
but did he create evil too?

A University professor at a well-known institution of higher learning challenged his students with this question.


"Did God create everything that exists?"


A student bravely replied, "Yes he did!"


The professor answered, "If God created everything; then God created evil. And, since evil exists, and according to the principle that our works define who we are, then we can assume God is evil."


The student became quiet and did not answer the professor's hypothetical definition.


The professor, quite pleased with himself, boasted to the students that he had proven once more that the Christian faith was a myth.


Another student raised his hand and said, "May I ask you a question, professor?"


"Of course," replied the professor.


The student stood up and asked, "Professor, does cold exist?"


"What kind of question is this? Of course it exists. Have you never been cold?"

The other students snickered at the young man's question. The young man replied, "In fact, sir, cold does not exist.


According to the laws of physics, what we consider cold is in reality the absence of heat. Every body or object is susceptible to study when it has or transmits energy and heat is what makes a body or matter have or transmit energy. Absolute zero (-460 F) is the total absence of heat. And all matter becomes inert and incapable of reaction at that temperature. Cold does not exist. We have created this word to describe how we feel if we have no heat."(Muggers, feel the love!)


The student continued, "Professor, does darkness exist?"


The professor responded, "Of course it does."


The student replied, "Once again you are wrong, darkness does not exist either. Darkness is in reality the absence of light. Light we can study, but not darkness. In fact, we can use Newton's prism to break white light into many colors and study the various wavelengths of each color. You cannot measure darkness. A simple ray of light can break into a world of darkness and illuminate it. How can you know how dark a certain space is? You measure the amount of light present. Isn't this correct? Darkness is a term used by man to describe what happens when there is no light present."(Here it ocmes again!)


Finally the young man asked the professor, "Sir, does evil exist?"


Now uncertain, the professor responded, "Of course, as I have already said. We see it everyday. It is in the daily examples of man's inhumanity to man. It is in the multitude of crime and violence everywhere in the world. These manifestations are nothing else but evil."

To this the student replied, "Evil does not exist, or at least it does not exist unto itself. Evil is simply the absence of God. It is just like darkness and cold, a word that man has created to describe the absence of God. God did not create evil. Evil is the result of what happens when man does not have God's love present in his heart. It's like the cold that comes when there is no heat, or the darkness that comes when there is no light."


To those who have actually made it to the end of this unusually long blog post, congrats! You're at the end.

It seems I forgot to blog yesterday. Was hooked on The Sims. Lol. Funny I should be hooked on a game which is so old. Maybe because I never really had fun with it before. But after learning the cheat codes...=D


I only got about 3 and a half hours of sleep, which was about the same as many other OGLs. Today at sch was noting interesting. After that returned home for training. On the way home my 6280 suddenly fell into a coma, causes unknown. Total black screen. I can turn it on, but noihng shows, and it shuts off later. Coma but not brain dead. Gonna send it for repairs tomorrow. Yet another waste of time.


I already don't have much time to do my h*mework. However it seems most other people also are in the same predicament. =S


One strange thing I noticed these few days is that out of nowhere, I've been having this strnge feeling of deju vu a LOT. Which is seriously weird. I hardly experience such stuff, and yet in the span of a few days this feeling keeps appearing at random monents. =S Maybe its all happening after I watched Deja Vu? Lol.

Another year has come to pass,


so much time does not last.


Holiday season is in the air,


rain comin down everywhere.


The time is here so deck the halls,


Merry Christmas to one and all.


-=[K]=-
Hello people! Thank you for the tags. The more astute would have recognised the poem as one I sent to a few of you guys out there. This will be a long one. 4 days to be exact, so here goes. =]


Day 1 (22 December)
Movie marathon start. The first half of it was spent m*gging. Went over to YM's house after training on friday. Becuase they had their class bbq the rest came over at around 12, so we didn't have to wait long. Calven and Sixu and Siwei were behaving like little boys cause they wanted to play pool and refused to bathe even though the girls asked them to. Haha...it was utterly hilarious. First time seeing Siwei in his 70s style long hair. With a polo tee from YJ, his 70s look was further enhanced.

Retro look, circa 1970. =D

The totally cool cover of Bleach 25. I'm intending to borrow YM's collection someday. Someday.

Thanks to his phone dying on him, Shawn was forced to use his grandma's phone, which is, well, a grandma's phone.

One of the weirdest pool breaks ever when the balls fall into one straight line. o_O

The prized possession of Ym's younger brother. Literal translation: World's No. 1 Knife. Later we all went up, and demolished giant packets of chips and bottles of Coke while watching MI:3. We joked this was better than Vivocity because we could pause the movie in the middle to go for "washing of hands" breaks after the chips! Haha...


Later on we watched John Tucker Must Die, which wasn't too bad, although I read most of the plot from newspaper reviews. =S Then Benchwarmers was pretty funny, so it was pretty nice...but Convenant...was as the newpapers put it, eye candy for the teen viewers. A thin plot that moves none too quickly , and a ending scene that was pathetic. They guys are so powerful they can do anything but all they do is attack with transparent blobs of energy?! Pardon me but I've seen those "blobs" as computer screensavers distorting the wallpaper before. I personally think the graphics team spent so much effort on the car-goes-boom-and-reforms-like-LEGO scene till they got bored at the ending. Not nice. =.=


Day 2 (23 December)

Next morning. None of us slept throughout the night. Some fell in bed instantly after our last movie, but I was one of those crazy people who wandered the house, not sleeping. Later went to play bowling in the afternoon, then to Heartland mall where Siwei got a haircut. Thank goodness.

Then went to compass point to get YM his Xmas present, a barbie doll!!! And then on to Swensen for dinner where they treated me as my birthday gift.Went back to his house where they drank bacardi and played mahjong. Weird combo. =\ I played a while before heading upstairs to watch dawn of the dead alone cos they were still going mad over mahjong.Some partsstartled me cos I was alone in a quiet room and the speakers were a little too loud. Hahaha...but of course I made it through ok...I like the raving HORDE of zombies xD, of course plotline's kinda thin since there's no what and why and how the disease came about. =S


Then we all fell asleep at one plus. Which is kinda weird since I thought those to who earlier today would have wanted to watch more movies. Anyway slept well even on a sleeping bag cos my Gap hood was darn comfortable and warm. I didn't need a blanket xD. I guess you pay for what you get. =]


Day 3 (24 December)
Woke up close to the afternoon, had breakfast and left early to go home cos we were sending my aunt off at Changi on her flight back to Houston.

Tyrone and Jiale.

Uh right. Now the one who is supposed to look at the camera is not. =.=

Dunno why but my camer's been a bit blur lately...crap.

Digital zoom...so, yeah. Tyrone loses his basketball here...

They're waving at us, but I'm too lazy to corp so take my word for it. =]

Later went to thon/stay over at my cousin's house. We played chess online cause it was raining =.=, and then later went down to the pool. Couldn't really play much cos I couldn't see without my spec, and they're too loose to wear in water. =.= Just as we were about to leave, we got Jurgan into a float and stranded him in the middle. =]


Up the proverbial creek without the proverbial paddles. :)

Our xmas cake.

Apples for xmas? What are we? Death gods? Heheheh...


Day 4 (25 December)
Woke up, my uncle drove us to Jalaln Kayu for pratas, but we switched to Mad Jack's cos of a long queue. Later returned home to bathe, then went to my aunt's house to exchange presents. Had a great timne catching up with Sarah on online games and cosplay. Hahaha...then returned home very tired. Fell asleep in the evening and sent my body clock to kingdom come. Woke up feeling like shit. =X Came online after having dinner. No spell check today. =]

Well. Attempted to mug today. Managed to do some stuff with the aid of some trusty gummy bears and jelly beans from Candy Empire. Nevertheless, didn't really accomplish much, and training tomorrow plus the Movie Marathon will hamper my efforts.


Fear me! I am Xalthax, the gummy bear of blood!

Gummy bones.

Jack and the beanstalk anyone?

Taky told me how to make a hybrid bear. I am now my very own geneticist! =]

I have no idea what flavour is the black bean, but it SUCKS.
Tuition was sucky today...I got confused halfway through the stupid question and then my tutor kept alternating between caustic sarcasm and blunt criticism. Not a very fun day huh? This of course didn't help my mood.


Finally finished the bloody thing. Wasn't really very happy about it. The last level which they said was EASY, I found hard...and the levels my friends found hard, I breezed through. What the...=.= My only consolation was that I didn't take as long to complete 36 as expected. =\ And the fact that it was the last puzzle, and me being my stubborn self meant I kept pushing myself to finish it, hence my crappy mood. Zzz...


Ok...off to conf call w/ taky and ben and log off... Z_Z

Super tired. Went for training. Shawn came late...so much for mugging earlier at CBC. =.= Anyway his Nokia 6111 died on him, so he's reduced to using this sad little mono-colour Samsung. As a testament to its antiquity, it even has an antenne sticking out the top. Gasp! How long has it been seen we last saw one? Lol.


After training, I took 89 to Downtown East to meet up with my family for a chalet-dinner thingy. We had turkey, which was delicious with the gravy, fried vermicelli(bee hoon for the uninititated), and chocolate fondueeee. =D Yum.


Later my cousins and I wanted to swim but the pool was closing soon, so ended up playing frisbee. Ultimate frisbee to be exact. To my dismay we were playing near the smoking area of Macdonalds. Ultimate frisbee involves running, running involves breathing hard, and breathing hard does not go well with second hand smoke. Therefore I had to say hi to my turkey for the second time that night. (Read: puked in the grass.)


Also, my specs kept slipping off thanks to the sweat, so I removed them. This proved to be a bad idea. Due to the fact we were playing in partial darkness and my 800+ degrees deficiency in both eyes, I could make out who was who, but not a frisbee tossed at high velocity approaching in the dark.


Seeing it at the last minute, I couldn't close my eye in time, hence this involved a bright flash of light/pain as the edge of the frisbee promptly assaulted my right eyeBALL. This soon elicted from me a string of profanity which is in fact repeatable here since it mainly consisted of one word. "F**K! F**K! I'm ok. F**K! F**K! F**K!!!" This situation was indeed quite humorous in reflection.


After I washed my injury, we left and saw this guy of about 18 being questioned by no less than 5 police officers. As we walked off, we soon started a discussion amost ourselves on the flagrant puerility and flaws wide enough to put an African bull elephant through of the " Keep-all-sodding-kids-below-17-at-home" plan. Pfft.


Me with Tyrone. ^^

The younger kids form their own gang. =]

Xoviel and my sis






Someone's head is gonna get bitten off if I don't get what I want this chritmas.


Danson's grail of Dena Koontz. I too hope to drink from its few hundred pages of words. I thirst for it.


As I write this my right eye is screaming at me to "turn off the com and go to bed you idiot!" so I guess I'll stop here...

This item merits enough to be the 300th post on my blog. Mere words cannot describe.

HA.