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The Protagonist
Him: Kenneth
His story has been told for: 20 years
His story began on: Sept 11, 1989 (Yes, really)
Current Location: Singapore
Likes: His friends, photography, cycling, bowling, reading, MTV, Facebook, music, movies
Dislikes:
Smoking, Hypocrites
Astro Sign: Virgo
Desires Basic Economic Problem: Humans have unlimited wants but limited resources.
Webcam New Wallet Headphones+Mic Better camera Bowling Equipment Gap hooded-jacket Stephen King books Sony Ericsson w610i Abode photoshop or equivalent
*iPhone 3G S* (Can we like combine last year's gift plus this yr and maybe X'mas too? =D)
Burnout Revenge (Xbox)
Midtown Madness (Xbox)
To be a better photographer
Chapter 20
Tuesday, July 31, 2007,
7/31/2007 08:36:00 PM
Today was a pretty crappy day. Had our personal talk with the Principal today. It was as Galvyn put it, all "doom and gloom". How many hours are you all studying? -points- How many A level points did you get? -points- Which faculty do you want to get in? Are you prepared to not get into uni? Everyone got questioned. Candice got pissed off by you-know-her also.
Because I was unluckily sittin gin the $128 meant for our "good brothers" （好兄弟） seat, I got shot at twice. She asked when I was completing my revision. I was temporarily stunned. I dunno. How can you not know blah blah blah...=.=
Then I got asked again. Are you prepared to NOT get into uni? No. Then what will you do if you don't get in? I...uh...retake...WE Don't Retake J2s. Fine. It's not as if I wanna come back here. I only said that to be polite and to save myself from getting shot at if I mentioned the P-word.
Truth if, I already accepted it. I ranted the other day, and if I didn't make it, I'd go to poly without ever looking back. This place has given me enough grief as it is already. Either way, she riuned my mood for the wohle day.
I was so pissed off, when I saw my friend smsed me, I had no mood to reply or to talk at the moment so I just shut off my phone for the hell of it. Even so I managed to do quite a bit of work after school today, and wonder of wonders, we got released from CLB early because the teacher was kinda sick. YEAH! Missed plenty of lessons already. Eugene was mildly annoyed as he had waited two free periods for this lesson which lasted 15 mins. Hahaha...
My phone scared me just now. Couldn't connect to the PC...same old problem. I hope it doesn't happen again... Cherries Oh, and I took this picture, which was on Life! Sunday, Page 3...it was taken in MJ. Lol. I STOMPed it. Doing that stupid GP essay on the bus.
Hmm...Slept at 1am last night. There's a reason why I don't go to STOMP anymore...lol. Was sleepy during econs, so everything I copied down looked like crap. Had to get myself awake to attempt some questions. I wasn't receptive to the idea of using my sword to keep awake so early in the morning.
Went to Ikea with Ben and XW for our double break. Muahaha. Had French toast and a chicken sausage. Bio tuto was okay...less sleepy...lol. Lecture was full awake, and happy because I did everything. Lol. Chem lec...I felt totally stoned out of my mind. Everything seemed out of whack.
Sleepy, handwriting went to pot, felt like I was being tortured. =[ Everytime I closed my eyes my body went into hibernate, which I had to cut off halfway. I got 29 for essay again. Frick. Must be on purpose. ALWAYS. I have to redraft one whole frickin' GP essay for one sh*tty little mark to hit 30. Zzz. Total, complete, and utter waste of time. What's the point in rewriting all that crap when I'm just 1 mark away? That's like, oh, you forgot to put (3 S.F.) for this question. Please redo your entire bleeding tutorial hahaha.
I did it on the bus to save time. You can probably tell from where my handwriting goes from kinda legible to something worthy of NUS Medicine faculty's top student. Oh well, serves him right for making me waste my time on it. And then when I got off the bus, I walked along with my MP3 and continued writing. That's right, I can rewrite an essay while walking. And listening to my MP3 all at the same time. =]
Sometimes I go wish the visualiser would just, I dunno, transform and throttle him or something. hahaha...that ends my blogging for today. Time to work.
Sunday, July 29, 2007,
7/29/2007 09:47:00 PM
Tuition was...as usual...after that..went online to do stuff, and destress. Was like that the whole day. My grandmother and uncle popped by for a surprise visit. Nothing much else.
Yesterday I went to check out the updates Silkroad website. Looks pretty cool, with the Europe map added. But...not now. After the A's. Went the read the online comic. It was pretty funny. Apparently the admin got a player to do a comic for them, but you'll probably have to play to get some of it. It lasted for 40 strip, over 40 weeks, then no more.
When I read the last strip about the guy quitting due to "personal reasons", I felt a twinge of sadness. Partly because I wanted to see more of his work, and partly becuase it reminded me of the time I quit comic making as I was entering J1. It's another chapter of my life, that seems a million years ago. I only did 10 strips(a short story), but I got quite a lot of readers, updated every Fri-Sun, which took up a lot of my post-Os time.
It was damn fun. Reading the comments, (all positive, honest!) and I felt a sense of satisfaction and amazement that I could actually make many people laugh with what I had. It felt like a gift. I became something of a minor celebrity on that platform. I learnt a lot of things about comic-making, and the only thing I regret was posting a teaser for my new comic before announcing my resignation.
I got a lot of flak for that, and was kicking myself over disappointing my readers, but at least for every rant about "dammit why are you leaving, what about the 2nd comic?", there was one which asked the others to understand that I also had to concentrate on JC. Fat lot of good it did too. I think if I'd continued with my comic, I'd have gotten the same grades.
Problem was that it was quite time-consuming. But as long at I applied the first rule I learnt, I always produced something good. It was: Never make something until you feel like it. It's not to be taken literally of course. I set myself deadlines, but gave myself breathing room of Fri-Sun to update. So whenever I was in that "lets make a comic!" mood, I'd get down to it, and in 3-4 hours later I'd have it ready and up. For the 2nd strip, I tried to rush it before my deadline. People didn't find it that funny. Not so for the next 8 strips. I let myself do it whenever I felt like it, and always made my deadline and produced something people liked.
That's roughly a little bit of my comic making past. Now life is too hectic to update regularly, so I do the PMs whenever I have an idea or the time also. I also didn't work with minifigures then. Mine were handmade pixel art. Lol.
Oh, and before I forget, blog plug! Philosomania A pretty nice philosophical(?) blog by Josh and some of his friends and their musings on life. I like the post about the raindrops.
Just tried to do my stupid maths homework. Got me fucking pissed off. I can't get the answers to the frickin' tutorial questions. Steps looks right but I just can't get it. It's so fucking frustrating. Dammit. Argh. =.= Gonna get screwed again tomorrow. FUCK.
[UPDATE]
That's it. I have had it with this fucking shit. I'll just get it out. I'm still going to try my best for the fuckin' 'A's. I'll do whatever that is within my means. But maybe my best won't be enough. Well, too bad. Some people are going to say its a waste of two years. I don't give a flying FUCK. I'll probably be glad this is over. All I know is that this life is not for me. I hate this fucking shit I have to stand every week. I live each day longing for the end of school. And this has the side effect of making time pass quickly. Too quickly. My maths is fucking me up. I can't even figure out how to do the fuckin' tutorial. Dammit. Its not that I like swearing on my blog. I just feel so frickin' pissed.
I hate this fucking shit. I hate this fucking life. I hate this fucking society. Retake J2? Not on my fucking life. I seriously wholeheartedly regret coming to this hellhole to rot and kill my self in this mire of grades, academics, comptition, failure and all that shit. Maybe it is true. Because if left-handers use the right side of their brain more, I shouldn't even fucking be here. I should be off somewhere like poly. I'm not saying it's easy. Maybe I'm more suited for creative hands-on stuff. What do I do? Blame it on this screwed-up academically centered rote-learning shit society. Ah, don't mind me. I'm just ranting out all the frickin' crap in case I decide to trash my room or something. I'll probably be over it in the morning. Oh wait. I have tuition. Goody!
There's a recent debate in the papers over whether our academics are taking away our children's childhood. Hell yeah, bitches! =.=
These are the products of a new phone with focus finally(!) and a broken com. A flood of photos. Low-bandwidth users, and those with slow internet, tremble in FEAR! I had a friend who used to say something along those lines whenever she had a photo flood. Lol.
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, anyone? I've proven them correct. Some random doodles on my stuff. Very funny. Doodle again. Chocolate! This belongs to my sis. =\ Where the school is secretly building an underground base for the Deceptions in exchange for a million dollars, spent on TVs no one watches, Sakae, and paint. The beer truck! Becks! Preferred by teachers marking exam scripts. Chocolate. My neighbour's mosquito farm. Serial fish killers. They buy fish, set them loose for a coupla weeks, the fish die and rot, and then there are no more fish. Then they rent the place out to mosquitoes free. They're Christians, dammit. Don't they know fishes are living things? I feel damn sorry for the hundreds of fish that have died here. And when my mum told her, she said the fish will eat the larvae. Yeah, when they're ALIVE. The NEA already called once but they insist on doing it again. Ben's phone glitched after he glitched too many pokemon. TWM. Coke Light contains absolutely NOTHING. 1. Sometimes I think Apparating to school would be much easier. Next will be pics from TMT. Mr. Lieutenant-General Galvyn. Bubbles! Mrs Wong complained to my mum I sleep in lectures. Looks like I will have to put this to good use...it's not really that effective, but it works. I've tried. Would you play with me? Randomness. Surprise! Amusing stuff in Calculus for Dummies. I seriouls think they should use it as textbooks. It makes math fun! My free brownie! Lol. XW's chocolate muffin. Randomness I find my doodles rather amusing. Read the questions. This was posted separate from today's post cos it is mainly just pics. Lol.
The soft sounds of Howie Day's Collide pipe from my speakers as I comtemplate how genetic fingerprinting is carried out. I'm in my private world doing biology, while my sis and mum collide outside. Yelling, shouting, papers are flung. WW3 is raging on outside and I couldn't give a damn.
My sister blasts music from her phone.(Futile. I usually do so with my speakers and efficient German metal. =P) My mum yells at her to turn it down before she spoils her phone like me. WTF? My phone died naturally on a quiet Sunday afternoon of antenna-related causes, fuck it! Don't drag me into this. =.=
[UPDATE] Ok. I got bored of work. Gonna go read blogs...lol [UPDATE] I'm feeling high, listening to the radio, and doing homework! Homework is fun! What's wrong with me! Hahaha! =P Sorry, a little weird right now... [UPDATE] Doing work on a Friday night!~...pah. Oh well, I'm in an unusually good mood today so I 'm feeling quite good happily mugging.
Today was pretty ok. I got free brownies in the morning! lol. Some world brownie day thing some people were giving out. Hehe. I have got to thank them. It was not bad. School was tolerable. Finished the math syllabus today. OMG yes. No new math stuff to learn. Hah! Take that! And then we found out the CLB was cancelled. w00txzs! =D That coupled with the fact that it was Friday made me surprisingly high today.
Then as I left school with Ben and XW he suddenly remembered the chem test at 1PM. And I studied for it. But lucky I didn't go back. ^^ Hartini thought we had CLB so she asked us to take it on Mon, and I got to enjoy a lunch with them at Galilee, after a quite emo-ish walk in the rain. =] All in all quite an ok day. Came home, watched some TV, got to doing work.
Was a pretty ugly scene in school earlier, but I won't narrate it for the sake of everyone. It was plain awful. =\
Salutations! I'm officially back! Finally. After that unintended hiatus, which at least let me do more work. My com is back, (Though considerably emptier than before) and something weird is that some old fonts I downloaded are still inside. I still mourn the loss of my treasured digital memories and my 4GB of songs.
Finished downloading all my programs, except for Feedreader and Getting Photoshop CS2 back, and installing my my phone's CD and the webcam CD. HAd this fantastic talk in Compass with some Uber1337 Godlike Epic Heroes who can score OOOO(their equivalent of a U) and come back with AAAA, which confers on them the title of uber1337 pWnag3, and proves that is actually is...possible?=\ I sure hope so.
Gotta do a coupla bio essays and mug for chem tomorrow. I MUST MUG HARD RAWR. My sis will make a fabulous accountant. Let's see now...I took 3 Kit kats from a pack in the fridges. There are 2 packs. One is her, one is mine(or so she said). She comes to my door, sounding royally pissed and such. You would have thought I'd gone into her room and, I dunno, ripped the head off her stuffed turtle or something. She asked me authoritatively how many Kit kats I ate. I mean, for the love of-! Jeez its just 3 Kit-freaking-kat! =.= So she royally informs me that she will take 3 kit kats from my pack to replace hers. I had half a mind to open the door and scream where I think she could shove her kit kats.
Yes I know, that was all rather inane and random. Lol. Here's more random stuff. Eliza tagged me with this, so I gotta find 6 people to pass it too.
6 weird things about me
1) I once did a "This is SPARTAAAA!" on a lizard and divided it into three with a broom. Head, left foreleg, and body. Yecch.
2) I am quite random at home. Lol.
3) I fell into a swimming pool when I was three which probably nearly killed me. I took swimming in primary school and gave it up. So I can only half-swim.
4) I am proficient in 3.5 languages. English, 0.5 Chinese, twittspeakx and 1337speak.
5) I have pretended to be raked in the eyes and temporarily blinded in front of several people during a wedding so someone would get that annoying distant relative who was making hissing noises and clawing actions at me away from me. I was what? 9?
6) I was once the head of a supersecret underground organisation in school formed to defeat certain people with attitude problems and using this organisation I united the entire class on one front, and all the while nobody knew it was me. Oh, and I was one of the Fallen during the Purging of '05 when the top executives were all ruthlessly taken out by our target who managed to find out that we were behind this whole conspiracy. The organisation crumbled. But it was good while it lasted. =]
(This is an interesting story for another time...or you can ask me. =])
People: Ben Tak (yes i know only a few people read but...) Raye M.A.G.E. Josh? lol Uh...? Everyone else who wants a go?
I still have an internet meme from ling which I haven't done...
Will not be reading tagging blogs work to dodododo...=.=
Stupid chem retest...my newest favourite phrase....***in' A. lol.
My sister is fantastic. So she's been using the com the whole day, then I go to her: "Can I use the com for a while? I want to do some stuff." (Check mail and read a few blogs)
"Oh...uh, ok. When you want? I give you tomomrrow can?"
Can anyone say WTF? =.= I also almost didn't believe I just heard her say that. Thisd happened yesterday. Now basically I see her come home from school, have lunch, watch some TV, then use the com non-stop all the way till she needs to go to sleep, then she turns it off. Homework? She does it while she's online. MSNing. BLogging. And reading blogs at the same time. =.=
Today CLB was boring. Had to wait 2 periods for the lesson. At least tomorrow's a short day but I got a math test. Chem didn't go so well today.
Spent my day at home. Tuition was ok. Slacked a bit, did some work. Its been what? dys since I lost my com? I've been surviving ok without the internet with these occasional transfusions where I get to pop online for an hours or so, but I am slowly wasting away without music. And withdrawal symptoms from the internet are starting to appear. The loss of over 400 (or was it 700?) I dunno, 4gig of songs pains me greatly...=[
In an effort to stay alive, I've been listening to the radio, which is quite a good substitute since I haven't done so for a very long time. But still...so it can be true that "Music is my life" lol. Mail has piled up to 173. =[
Gee I dunno what else to add. Bored. At least Monday is a short day. Kinda. =.= So it's not that bad.
When she opened her eyes, Veronika did not think 'this must be heaven'. Heaven would not use a flourescent tube to light a room, and the pain - which started a fraction of a second later - was typical of the Earth. Ah, that Earth pain - unique, unmistakable.
Woke at 615, went back to sleep till 630, took the train with this other guy getting HP7 too. Had to make my own magical journey down through B1 and then to back up 4 floors to get to Popular. I lost to this guy this time, unlike book 6 where I beat theother guy to the queue. I underestimated the queue, considering it was the last book. Still, I managed to get it quite fast.
Went for meet the potter. Damn. Too much reading. Meet the parents session. Met Conrad and Ann Koh. Daydreaming in class, cannot answers questions on the spot blah blah. Sigh. Damn. Now blogger is acting up.
Went to meet tak at CP after MTPS, who came over to read my copy. I did most of my tuition homework, while I let her catch up to page 177. Originally I wanted to blog tomorrow, but I decided to just get it over with and go to bed. Finished work, and dove into the book for a few solid hours.
Finished the book at 10. Now nobody can spoil it for me! Or us actually. Lol. I can wander about online without fear. Traffic was unusually good today. Buses and trains came exactly on arrival at the station/bus stop. Must be some wonderful one day effect thing. If only it lasted.
Yeah, same video as ben, I guess. Lol. And WHY is it so fast? Ugh. The one I have is nicer.
I just came back from That Music Thing, a new MJ event riding on the bandwagon of generically named products. Call it anything you want, but nothing specific. Anyway, That Music Thing was, surprisingly pretty fun! I think it was really worth the 4 bucks (although I did spend a lot more on food and drink going out today lol).
In fact it was so fun that I can hardly believe school happened. Lol. It seems like I last attended lessons several days ago. Today was pretty much the usual stuff. CLB was irritating. First we went for econs, then the teacher called me to ask us to attend CLB. Then we went to tell WML, who surprisingly let us go without a fight. Weird. So we slowly made our reluctant way there. Sigh. Now I see the true price of CLB. Unfailable, (except for ben =P) but now I WASTE 3 mind-numbing periods on useless crap.
They should at least like test us, and if we pass we can also be rid of CLB like the normal Chinese syllabus people. Today we had to redo our letter-writing. =.= I was kinda pissed off also so I just ripped it off my original one, corrected the mis-drawn characters (lol) and spent the rest of the time playing Quadra-pop in my pencil case. Haha.
Went home, slacked a bit, went to WS macs to wait for Ben. Brought The Alchemist along to read. Its pretty good. Met with Diana, played HOTD4(fun ^^), watched Ben shockingly die on DDR. (omg?) Maybe its due to over-mugging.
Waited outside school for tak. Went in and had a LOT of fun. The bands were pretty good, and this rapper called Freaky-Z wasn't bad either. There was waving of arms, jumping, singing along, and general highness all around. The local band Peepshow was damn nice. There was a cover of Muse by an MJ band, and also Chasing Cars and Yellow by Coldplay covered by Peepshow which really made everyone go crazy. lol. Everyone was suffering from residual highness after the show. Wish everyday could be like this. Lol.
Saw the lead singer from Peepshow at our busstop, so took a pic with him with tak and Ben. Haha...he said he was quite surprised our school people were quite enthu and all. Lol. Its not often we can totally cut free of the shell of being a mugger. So Meridian can really party hard. but only after A levels.
Off to bed, then wake at 615 to get HP7 -dramatic music-, then off to Muder the Pupil, oops, Meet The Parents session.
And...Phobos won the best music video competition (w3 4r3 t3h w1n!!!!111) Yay. The video was pretty darn good. Nice choreography, but there was the tendency to fall prey to the flashy video transitions, like any amateur filmmaker would. Yet, there was good usage of slo-mo and ffwd during the sequences, and the location scouting was fantastic. They filmed some emo conflict scene at the dark passageway leading to the sports block toilet, and it totally was PERFECT for that scene. Best place they could have chosen in school. Whoever that director was, great job.
Long day again. Ran 2.4 on the treadmill because of the rain and the wonderful lightning alert system. (Just in case an absent-minded straight-A mugger decides to go for a jog in a storm and lower our MSG by turning into a human lighting rod, as Sunny proposes) There are bright red flashing lights and even a siren to makes sure everyone gets the message. "Lightning bad. Books good." Lol.
Weather was great though. Nice and cold...just right for sleeping. Chem was quite tolerable. Actually could do plenty of the stuff. Lol. Compass was...kinda waste of time. Going to get our report slips already. =[ And we got a countdown calendar. THanks for killing the earth and at the same time letting us know how long it is to the End of Days/Armageddon/Apocalypse/The Second Coming.
Chem was...fine! Herr Doktor rambled on, and decided to test some poor students so in the end Hartini didn't get to trake over, and I escaped questioning in front of what? 600 people? The reason why I'm so scared is because she asked this guy Clifford to answer a question. When he could not(because he didn't do it), she went on to pwn him badly. It was quite scary because I don't think we'd seen her in such a mood before. =\
Conrad went to see doctor. No GP! Came home to mug. Ugh. =[ Lol.
Oh yes one more thing. My com costs $269.95 to repair cos the hard disk is shot and my warranty is over. Dammit. Such a waste of money. First my phone, now this! Its almost the price of my phone already! And I lost everything. EVERYTHING. 4 gig of songs!!! Do you know how long it took me to get that 4 gig of songs? AH!!! WHY???? And pictures! a couple hundred of them! The memories! The nice photographs! All gone! EVERY SINGLE PHOTOGRAPH FROM MY HOLIDAY TO KOREA. EVERY NICE PHOTOGRAPH I EVER TOOK. EVERY PHOTOGRAPH OF ME AND MY FRIENDS. Gone. Curse you technology! Curse you and your foibles! And I dun think backups worked becuase they already did a backup when I partitioned my disk. And the whole disk has become a useles piece of metal anyway. Frick. Ben I want to buy one of your extra large infinity gig external harddrives already. Zzz...this is like the digital equivalent of losing your car, house, job, and wife in one day. Bah.
And I carelessly dropped my phone today! =.= I was putting it into my pocket when it slipped out of my hand. Lucky it was only about a foot or so away from the floor. =[ It somehow bounced, and the plastic protective cover popped out, and I caught the cover which bounced into my hand, whereas the phone and the other half hit the floor. It looks okay but the corner of the cover is chipped. =[
Another day at school. Econs was going thru some J1 notes which I'd seen before at home, but now I can't find them. =.= There's just too much crap. Chem is weird. I've been in LT5 for so long that it feels weird to go back to LT4 for lessons...its so big...so exposed...so many people.
And I am forced to do these extra qns after the transition metals tutorial because Hartini says she will be calling me tomorrow. =.= Thanks la. 6 full questions and I dunno which one she'll call me on. Zzz. I think I just had some slightly undercooked fishballs for dinners so here's hoping I go down with something. =D Or maybe I should attempt to OD on chocolate. lol.
Bio...I thought we'd gone through that set of notes so I left them at home. And anyone who hadn't done was supposed to sit on the steps. Lucky I wasn't noticed. Came home straight, had lunch, read the papers and went to work. So monotonous...I feel so victimised in Chem. T_T This is how I feel. Lol.
Hmm. Sunday...Monday...Tuesday. Monday. Galvyn's birthday! They gave him moving rubber to improve his "nice" current hairstyle. Put it to good use Galvyn! =p Chem, darn teacher caught me for not bringing my chem tutorial. I told her I forgot...because I thought today was lecture.
(They were indeed using the lecture to do tutorial.) Then she somehow became deaf or had selective amnesia after my first two words. I forgot..."To do your homework right?" Fantastic lor. Shows how much our teachers expect of us. They see us as a lazy bunch of miscreants so much so that they impose their own impression of us onto reality without asking. Great Super Mario. Like, with all the jumping about onto conclusions.
Either way, I DID go home and do it nicely and neatly. Except the paper said "Prepare Qns 1-7 for your lectures on 16 to 17 July" BUT I left it at home because she said she wanted to check it on Wed AND I left the Chen Eqm summary at home because I thought its for our own reference. So i ended up noteless again...today. Which also happened to be Val's b'day, and she had cake and presents. Lol.
Ooh yeah we saw them delivering Beck's beer to school. Must be some big delivery by the teachers after seeing our mid years results. Lol. Anyway. I have changed my mind. I will give everything one more chance. It may be our fault(despite the widespread poor performance). I'll really work this time for prelims. And I'd better see something. Or I am sooo screwed over.
On a lighter note, went walked to WS with Ben and Tak. Went to Popular where she counted the pages in like 3 different sketchbooks before buying the one with the most value. Lol. Maybe I will try that next time. xD Went to library. I saw Tuesdays with Morrie on the table so I grabbed it. Sat there, talked, and read, Later went to the cafe for dinner. Then walked about a bit.
Tuesdays is really a good book. I knew it was good, but never really got around to purchasing my copy. There are so many nice quotes that its hard to pick one out. But you can see really how meaningful they are, and the life lessons to be learnt. I'm spoilt for choice, but I'll pick this...this is where my nick comes from.
"It's not just other people we need to forgive, Mitch," He finally whispered. "We also need to forgive ourselves." Ourselves? "Yes. For all the things we didn't do. All the things we should have done. You can't get stuck on the regrets of what should have happened. That doesn't help you when you get to where I am..."
I think that's quite a good principle to live life by. Cherish the good moments, don't get hung on the bad, accept what is to come, and what has been done. What matters is the Now, because it is the only time you can change.Not the Future, not the Past. Live it without regrets.
The last class of my old professor's life took place once a week, in his home. by a small window in his study where he could watch a small pink hibiscus plant shed its flowers. The class met on Tuesdays. No books were required. The subject was the meaning of life. It was taught from experience.
Oh and thanks Danson for letting me copy Grp7. Lol.
Sunday, July 15, 2007,
7/15/2007 01:29:00 PM
Finally I'm back. Because my sister's been hogging the com for practically the whole day virtually every day. I only got to use it now because she went out. =.=
Friday, Went to watch Harry Potter with YM and Siwei after sch at cine. Was pretty nice especially the climatic duel between Voldermort and Dumbledore. Obviously in the book to film transition, things appears to be moving a bit too fast, even after some parts are removed, but that's to be expected. Had dinner at the HK cafe, then pool.
Saturday, woke up, sorted my work out, and mugged. Actual, true, honest-to-goodness mugging. Sat there and quietly and happily did my bio homework from paper 1 all the way to paper 3. In one sitting. That's what I'm talking about. Haven't felt that way in a very long while.
That sense of motivation and that feeling like I could go on doing this forever. Read the question, think, scribble scribble, next question non-stop. Granted, I skipped some questions that were not in our syllabus but I actually sat there for quite a while doing all that without getting distracted.
This, compared to pre-midyears when I totally felt like I had no motivation to do anything. I did force myself, to no avail. A while later, I'd go wandering off to get a drink, look my what my sis was doing online, get a snack, go online, listen to songs, surf, etc. There was no ability to concentrate, which I had no idea why.
But I did tell myself, fine, if I'm not going to have motivation for this, the least I can do is to ensure that I'd start making up for this loss after midyears, so I hope I can carry on like this, and ramp it up if possible.
Went out to run again at the field next to my house at night. Looked up and noticed that actually there were quite a lot of stars. Maybe becasue we're not near the city centre or any major expressway. Well, not for long. Some mega highway is bulldozing itself across a few km of grassland and forest and one river to link up with the riverside 3-way intersection. Such is progress.
I looked up at the cold fire of the night twinkling light-years away, and I wondered. When was the last time any of us really looked up into the night sky trying to spot stars? If we're not outside clubbing, or walking about, and in some mega-mall, then we're at home working, or going online, ensconced in the warm surrounds of our house. Distracted by the everyday activity and occurrences of our life, we never stop to take a look at things around us, or to appreciate life. (Well, whatever there is of it to appreciate.)
Back then, lost in reverie, I tried to count them, tiny chips of diamonds, glittering and yet fading in and out of the inky dark. There was a sense of insignificance, a complete and utter understanding of the universe and its vastness. And there was a sense of me. Years ago at Philip island off the Australian coat, I saw a sight I will never forget. Millions of stars, like an entire bag of diamonds scattered on a black satin cloth that was the sky. It was a mixture of wonder and amazement. Now though, I merely felt...anonymous.(Fine, I think the ending sucked...but the flow left me suddenly. =.=)
Sunday, tuition was screwed again...but I suppose if I can take all that scolding for so long without any effect, I should be able to survive the scream at you part of NS lol. Sigh. Anyway I'm going off to do some work now...
Damn I wish my com was fixed...but then again its probably the only reason why I can concentrate now. Lol. I feel damn sian for some reason...=[
Long day today. Had a headache near the end of the day...=[ FnC sucked. Haven run in a while. At least the end of the week is appproaching. Watching Harry Potter tomorrow. =]
Back again! I had a really weird dream last night. It involved toes being chopped off Meridians. Anyone wanna know the full thing? I'll post it here if I have time. Life without the ocmputer is made bearable by Pikachu and gang. Lol. The Pokemon game on my handpone certainly takes the monotony out of those long boring bus rides. School was as usual. Some long civil servant talk after school today. Homework is at its normal level...
Oh. Yeah. I scored my worst ever grades. Considering my JC performance it's gotta be BAD to be my worst ever grades. For a grasp of my situation, my best ever grades were...EEUUU because I screwed my GP somehow but I did well in econs. I and seriously think something is very very wrong. I know I've said this before, but this just proves my point, so I'll come out and say it outright.
I think its the SYSTEM. I won't say it's the sole cause but it may be a factor. I think there's something flawed in it but we don't know what. Call it the ghost in the machine. Or the Ghost in in the A factory. I see that a lot of people aren't exactly doing very well, and it seems that and I quote, "your batch is doing very badly compared to your seniors." This is the rough sentiment of our teachers. Our principal also said they made the syllabus harder.
Is it going overboard? How can so many people (I have heard that students in other JCs are receiving negative feedback(no bio puns, sorry)) be doing so badly so late in the year? If this wasn't normal in other years, how can it be normal now? Our syllabus was changed so we have no benchmark at all to compare with. Even the J1s are experiencing the high failure rate, although it may be attributed to some not used to JC life. But still, with the such a great proportion of the pioneer batch doing so badly, is it still the students fault? In some subjects, E nets you a 2nd in class.
Another (quite ridiculous, if I may add) policy is that our entire generation is dumber than the previous one. Possible? not very likely. If its, say, maybe a few hundred people, maybe they can't handle the harder syllabus. But for this phenomenon to be experienced in other schools? That's not right. Granted, I may not have a full and proper sample of everything to back it up with proof, and everything I have is word of mouth, but I'm merely stating my opinion.
Either way I hope everyone gets through this okay, not turned into a dead guinea pig.
Oh for F'sake. Oh the horror. OMG. My com has well and truly upped and left on me. It is as screwed as screwed can get. It literally defines F up. It is up the proverbial shit creek without the proverbial paddle. It is t3h screwed.
Was using it halfway, when I minimised a window. And it didn't work. The image of that window was still up while it was minimised. The other stuff couldn't work except for that window. No idea why it suddenly became like that. I hit ctrl-alt-delete, nothing came up. Ctrl-shift-esc, nothing. Then both came up. Exect the C-A-D was stuck in the IE window. But this was just the beginning of the royal screwup.
Then I ended explorer. Everything wiped except for the wallpaper. Shit. Then I ended iexplore. Lag. Jam. F. Then I forced shutdown. Pissed off, I irritably smacked the front. Not the I-am-so-pissed-off-I-will-KILL-you version, but more the work-DAMMIT! kind. Then I think I heard beeping. Then it started up: "Start Windows normally" Yes. It got stuck on a black screen. Off, on again.
Then it hung on the COMPAQ logo for a long time. Then it loaded. Something RealTek Fast Ethernet Controller Something media test failure, check cable Something Exiting PXE ROM And the last two lines kept looping. Something media test failure, check cable Something Exiting PXE ROM Something media test failure, check cable Something Exiting PXE ROM Something media test failure, check cable Something Exiting PXE ROM
Needless to say, no more uploading of pics. And I fear for the safety of my pictures and Music inside there. 4GB+ of songs and pics, I hope they can be salvaged. Exactly when I get a phone my com dies so I STILL can't upload pics. And this pushes me back into the Dark Ages about 2 years ago when I had to fight with my sister over the sole computer.
The card reader on this PC doesn't work either, for unfathomable reasons. I don't want to lose my music...I'm only thankful I did partition my hard disk. And if the true cause of this is Vista, you need not guess at my response. I suspect the cause is hardware.
On the miserably bright side, I can 100% do my work proper wit full zest and zeal already because I have no escape when my sis uses the com. So You all won't see my online for I have no idea how long...sigh. I might update here everyday still.
I think I tried everything. Removal of its battery did squat. I am well and truly screwed. Oh I just saw an ad for High School Musical TWO on TV. Can things get anymore worse? Hahaha...I am so dead.
Sunday, July 08, 2007,
7/08/2007 11:22:00 PM
Lol.I am going crazy with my phone. Perhaps I've been too deprived of a phone with a camera for so long, or maybe its just the experience of some nice and properly focused shots. =P Today was nothing special...tuition didn't go well as usual, stayed at home to do the chem summary which is MIND NUMBINGLY DULL, and made me intersperse my fervent copying with periods of battling Pokemon trainers. Anything to take the monotony off. Lol.
Putting more tracks into the phone now...school tomorrow, but at least there's no PE and I get off at 325. Which means time to do some math. I owe them two math assignments...and I still have 9 pages to copy over from chem. =.= At least I can do it while my music transfers. I still can't figure out how to resize my photos to smaller dimensions. All my shots are at 1623x12something pixels. Is there any way I can do this? I can't find it. Ok nevermind I just asked ben. =D
Pictures, pictures, pictures... Autofocus is wonderful. Which is like duh. Lol. Now even the plastic muggers can appear in better quality.
Saturday, July 07, 2007,
7/07/2007 09:52:00 PM
Well I finally got it. But not after quite some trouble. I went to PS first. On the train I noticed a little girl playing with what looked like a Nintendo DS, poking at the screen. Dismissed it at yet another instance of small kids with big(figuratively) toys. Then a warning signal which I'd missed earlier popped up again. She was poking the top half of the device. I though DS-stylus only works with the lower screen? And the shape was wrong. It was slimmer and sleeker.
Then I heard it speak. It was a speaking dictionary. WOW. Like the one they've displayed for years at the Popular at Compass Point, with its droning monotonus electronic voice reading out English or Chinese words as part of the background noise in that outlet. What, I ask, WHAT has our society come to when we substitute an ELECTRONIC DICTIONARY for a handheld electronic game? I lament this day. There is something seriously wrong with us. I speak from experience. I speak of this little girl, no more than 6, mugging happily at Macs for a few hours next to us, doing her Math assessment book. By herself. The horror!
Got there without meeting any other premature muggers. Turns out the Carrefour offer wasn't really that big a deal. There was quite a bit of stuff in font size 0.001(3 SF) that I didn't quite check out. And the bloody staff tried to devalue my phone. Pointing out the various bumps my phone had suffered over the years...
Buttons corroding SOMEHOW, turning the surface black is just plain crappy quality by Nokia. Streaks of black cover some buttons and they are obviously not scratches, because shouldn't the buttons turn transparent anyway? They're supposed to be transparent with some paint finish over to just let the text glow.
Some scratches on the side, my fault, I dropped it a couple of times.
Some scratches on the top, mere dots in the cover really, caused by my old plastic cover.
Scratches on the back. Scratches on the back? Sure if you count a matte surface SCRATCHED. Bullshit. I fliped it over after I left the store. There you go. It's untouched. =.=
Anyway thanks to the fine text, I rejected their idiot offer and wasted a trip to PS. Came back to CP, nearly got the W880i. It was only 40 bucks more and it looked nicer. But...the W610i had functions. I had auto focus which I wanted, and the W880i lacked it despite its looks. So...in the end I picked the W610.
I've often believe in function over form, and I just realised I've proved myself being true to what I believe. Lol. But the W610 is not bad in itself also...besides, its not like I often use 3G technology. And the auto focus is nice. I've waited so long for a camera that can give me better photos with adjustable focus, compared to the fixed lenses...quality dropped quite a bit when I blew up them up wallpaper-size.
Spent the rest of the day fiddling about with it, being amazed at how preloaded themes were actually quite nice. Oh and they wanted the memory card for the trade in, so I had to go home and back to get it. =.= Then I spent quite some time playing this. I'm suddenly enjoying a revival of retro games, so I downloaded the emulator to play it again for fun. Lol. I can take screenshots and videos. Hmm. I also got this pic from a friend's blog. It's nice. Lol. Off to do tuition hw...
Today was ok. Conrad read my little note to the class. Fantastic. Either way I don't really care, nor do I want to talk about it anymore. I'm over it and all it does it to remind me of the past. On a lighter note, I improved in Bio! I got 13/40! Lol...
Something I find strange is that when basically every teacher in almost every subject tells us we're doin badly. Isn't that too unnatural? How can our entire batch just plain suck-at-scoring-marks compared to our seniors, or it this the same situation elsewhere?
If its that bad for mid years, how the hell are we going to do in the As? Will the whole school screw up? Or are they just setting the stuff too difficult and lying to us? With such a huge amount of negative feedback from the teachers, it all seems very weird that everyone is doing badly. Something is quite wrong.
CLB exam was a sleepfest. It wasn't very hot but still it wasn't that comfortable. Paper 1's question was "How do you slack?" (No, honestly!) So I wrote 1.5 pages about how I slacked after the exams are over. Struggled through section A of P2 which seemed unusually hard. Fought through the thick ugly mess of lines, splotches, and vulgar symbols called A Short Story Written in Chinese. Read 3 of those. Managed to get through them, answered, did the Vocab, done. Finally. Came home, accidentally got hooked on some games for an hour or so...now I'm going to do work. Lol.
First day back was interesting. Turns out Fridays the CLB students will not be able to borrow Time Turners from the school to go back 1 hour in time to attend CLB and econs at the same time. Considering us, I guess they wouldn't let us near one also. Lol.
Actually the Thurs period is for CLB people and Fri for the others. But though we have no econs we have CLB double period. =.= Math lectures was on zomgcomplex numbers, just the stuff to warp reality and make your brain implode. Stuff like solving for square root of -12. =D Not sure what application it has in real life, until later on. After the first lecture, reality around us started to shift.
In the next lesson, I sat at a table that should not exist. Its top was the correct way (indentation for pencils facing the front), but the bottom was reversed. The place where you put your stuff underneath was upside down and the only way to put my file in was from the side or to reach across in front of the table and to slot it in.
Then the weather started warping. After Math lecture the weather was cool and hinted at a light spring shower. Then later it turned out sweltering hot and scorching. And when I bought refills for my pens at Popular I got a plastic bag without the handles. It was literally a plastic bag. Just a bag and nothing else. See the power of complex numbers. Wonder what'll happen after tomorrow's lecture.
Got my GP results back today. Did ok I guess, but I wish it could've been better...I feel I can't write like I used to. There's no flow to it. I don't feel motivated. Anyway, looking back on that silly stunt I pulled it seems rather ridiculous now. I'm only glad Conrad or the marker didn't harass me too much on this. During that period some rather problematic matters were going on, which really screwed me, but I still had to steel myself for a GP exam. When I look at my archives...I can probably see why I did such a thing. I just wasn't thinking right.
I had my own stuff to deal with and then an exam, and furthermore, I had to have this really "nice" teacher as my invigilator. Maintaining a facade of normality for that time when everything was going to pot, I can only guess that I wasn't myself. I was still pretending everything was ok for that whole incident even after my exam. Whereas you kept acting as if you were the only one hurt. Bullshit.
Anyway, I don't want to go back there anymore. I don't want to drag up old ghosts of the past. Everything gets shoved in the back, with a whole load of other stuff. Besides, I know I'm not really going to score for this mid years. I was affected by my own matters, which possibly also contributed to my lack of motivation or will to do well in the exams.
Therefore after the midyears, I intend to make amends for the unofficial and unwilling break I took during that period, which is why I'm going to cut down on my slacking stuff, and officially push harder for prelims. Maybe its better this way. Besides, because of that break, I now have motivation to make it this time. And I'd better, because this is my last chance.
Wow. 500th post already. Lol. spent my day at home slacking, doing some plastic mugger stuff. Stilll unable to upload my pics into the com. School starts tomorrow...=\
[UPDATE] DAMMIT. I am SO getting a mac the next time I switch computers, screw the lack of programs. After all, the Mac ad says it can run on double OSes. Yay Mac! Screw windows! Now Live Messenger doesn't f around and mess with my com, WINDOWS LIVE HOTMAIL does the job for it. I was resizing the views of my window when poof! the damn thing flew to the left, BLOCKING OFF EVERYTHING. HOW THE HELL AM I SUPPOSED TO READ MAIL LIKE THAT???
Does EVERY Windows product makes its goal to piss off its consumer? Because they sure are doing a great frickin' job. I cannot resize the fricking window. Nothing I do seems to get the full view back, so SCREW YOU WINDOWS and your fancy schmancy "reading pane" crap. I am contemplating using the "Classic (and possible less shittier but you have to find that out yourself haha) Live Hotmail , or using my Gmail acc. Pfft. Windows shit is more like it.
[UPDATE] As you may hear, I now have music on my blog. I'm not one for it actually, since I know some people don't like it, but at least mine has an OFF button. And it may be a one time thing. =P I just felt this song suited the mood of my blog and decided to throw it in. For those who can't see, (like Danson =D) its not a big red button at the top right, but a small grey button above my tagboard. Don't tell me you missed it because it was camouflaged...
[UPDATE] A demonic shoe cult lives in my estate. Coming back home earlier, I found a nice looking new sneaker on a grassy patch. I found its brother a few metres away. On the other end of the patch, there was a new pair of bright green crocs and a sandal, all spaced out. I also found a slipper. They were probably spaced in a rough ring. It was 1030pm so don't tell me the kids were out playing soccer and forgot to take their makeshift goalposts back.
I decided to go down and take pictures, but saw the (possible?) members of the cult. A group of Malay youths were loitering at the sheltered pavilion next to the patch, so I did not try to take any pics lest I be molested by these characters. Instead, I retreated to my floor, where I proceeded to draw this map. The blue is where I found the pair of sneakers, the green the crocs, the grey the sandal, the black the slipper. Looks like occult footwear worshippers of all categories were invited, even the visually unfriendly croc sect. What are 7 brand new articles of footwear doing lying around on a grassy patch at 1030pm at night? Or maybe aliens are experimenting with new circles. No longer content with boring old crop circles drawn with their high school geometry set, they venture into shoe cirles. Maybe the whole area will be cordoned off and I'll disappear into a white van tomorrow morning. If you stretch your imagination...the show formation could resemble that of a humanoid...head, arms, feet? Another question is what happened to the OTHER sandal and slipper...hmm...
Or maybe its just a sly little sneaky shoe thief with too much time on his hands. That just occured to me.
[UPDATE] Hmmm...I notice depending on what I want, I occasionally update either at the top or bottom...Well, this is an important matter of sorts so I guess it'll be up here.
So...new skin. I like it a lot. I think this may be one of the best things I have created so far. I'm not a Photoshop whiz, so I think its partially thanks to luck this worked out so well. This inspiration behind skin came from an old conversation with a really good friend of mine a very long time ago
She said that since I liked photography so much, I could try to go and do something she'd seen on another blog before, which was to link each section of the blog to an image of a polaroid snapshot.
The idea itself was interesting, and I wanted to do it, but for the fact that I was stuck with (at best) a GIMP program, and I didn't have a skin that you had to navigate with. My skin used to be a splatter of links, profile and everything on one page.
So her dream was unrealised. It was partly mine too, because I could envision what it would be like, but I didn't have the resources to do so. The best I could come up with was some manipulated "polaroids" with Paint, and rotation, and a not-too-pretty corkboard effect by GIMP. She wanted that layout, but needless to say, the thing looked shoddy and half-assed. I scrapped it.
Then the other day when I was feeling emo...I decided I wanted a black skin. Yet I was unwilling to give up my Expletive Cloaker V1.0. And then I settled upon this rusty idea at the back of my mind in a long unopened box. And with Photoshop CS2, my vision began to take shape.
And so I did it. I selected some of my pictures I liked the most, shrank and cropped them for high quality, and added a "photograph border" around them. Added a shadow effect (something I lacked in GIMP) and almost immediately, the shadow effect worked to make everything look nicer, neater, classier, and more stylish with high quality. Spent quite a long while arranging the photos. What looks like a random scatter of photos took me a long time to get it the way I wanted.
The book was a source of annoyance. My search on the only site I know with royalty-free photos turned up nothing. I guess not many people go about taking pictures of blank books. I'd have done it myself had it not been for problems with my card reader. Left with no choice, I ripped it off a Googled site. I apologise for I couldn't find any suitable photos.
The original picture was brownish or so. I used photoshop to do auto levels and auto colours, and inadvertently made the picture better. Pages were whiter, cover blacker. Fitted in well with the theme. Even the quality of the paper I liked. During the arrangement, added in the text at the same time to ensure everything fitted in nicely. (Melissa chose the photo for my profile. Lol.)
Added a line from Do You Know by Enrique Iglesias. Nearly forgot to put an unobtrusive copyright with my name at the bottom. Saved the selected photo buttons, aligned everything, ben worked the bugs out of my firefox coding, and it was fully operational except for problems in IE.
So this is it. A blogskin conceived more than a year ago finally realised. The thing is, we haven't spoken in a very long time. Probably also more than a year. Lost contact, sorta. We're in different places now.
This is isn't what we really envisioned, but I daresay it probably is better. One year on, I'm much better at codes and image altering that I used to be. Either way, let this at least be a tribute to the friends that I had and those I will have, and I hope I will never forget you guys. Cheers.
Ad amicitia, ad infinitum.
[/UPDATE]
Well, it's finally over. After that 4 day interlude in the middle before the last day and a three-way with Chem P1, P2, and Bio P3, my work is done. Officially over, and I spend the last day stuck at home. Great. =[ Well, problem is, so many other people I know take Physics (Paper 3 tomorrow wahaha), my friends in other JCs have finished their exams, and my poly friends are well, polying.
So...no one to go out with. Which left me at home reading the entire archives of comics from VG Cats. It's pretty nice. Its a series of webcomics parodying/spoofing games and games consoles, and occasionally including anime. One of my favourites is this.
I am contemplating attending the econs Block test post mortem tomorrow. I can't decide. Maybe I should flip a coin. Hmm...head to go, tail to skip. Heads. (I'll try again)Tails. Heads.(Best 3 out of 5?) Tails. Heads. Right...oh hell, let's just see if I can wake up tomorrow? (Answer to that? Probably no. =X)
Found another amusing game to while away time last night. Temple Guardian. Yeah it is kinda cheena but its ok for whiling away some time. A variation on your standard turret defense, this one has maps with paths and you can mount weapons on the top of your hedges to beat back the enemy before they attack your temple. An interesting addition is the map editor which lets you customise your map, like the one I'm using.
I made it as defensive as I could with numerous bends, with weapons mounted on the protusions, and created gauntlets in two places where I could slow the enemy down. As they attempt to break apart my barriers, they come under heavy fire from my upgraded cannons, arrows, and Sacred Lightning Towers, which are probably based off the Prism Towers in RA2.
The spiral design also ensures that to get to the tower, the enemy has to pass near the Lightning Tower array, which deal quite high damage, and the Sacred Dragon Shrine or something which has the capability to trap all creatures, otherwise land would have to be blocked by barriers, and air unit by sky nets. Requires some strategy on the placement of your stuff, and on how to hold the enemy back s long as possible.
DEfense also needs to be lihter at the beginning so that the Treasure Wagon (an enemy unit) will enter the path, whereupon you have to quickly seal the path behind it. It can squeeze through barriers on occasion much like the ground forces, so care needs to be taken there is no way for it to squeeze out. Then, proceed to rape it with your weapons and reap the gold bonus. It escapes very quickly if its hit, so you need to keep watch and ensure u don't let it get away. Overall, an amusing game to while away the time. 50 levels. Can be played here.
Anyway, the family went to Vivo today to watch Transformers. Since I'd seen, I decided I'd watch Hot Fuzz. Then it got screwed up. I left first to try and catch the 120pm movie, then realised I'd forgotten to bring my phone which as charging. =.= And I had to meet my family later
Left the station, bought a phonecard from 7-11, then called back. Or tried to. It kept saying invalid card. I dug in my wallet and found $1, 50cents, and 2 5cents coin. =.= Where's 10 cents when you need one? Then later I called back where my sis told me it was 1pm so I decided to wait for them at the station.
Then I checked my phone (the 6280) and saw it was 1235. Like WTH? So I tried to call my dad but ended up he was at R'vale Plaza. Oh and the card was upside down. The direction was correct, but the chip needs to be facing up when inserted. =.= And my dad told me it was 1255. I decided to try for it, so I called home, ask them not to meet me, and took the train to vivo.
Somehow the timing was off, and although the paper said 120, the theatre was screening HF at 1pm. So I went there too early. Queue was insane, so I used my atm card to book tix for everyone first. Then I spent ages trying to call them because they didn't pick up the phone. And they couldn't find me at the cinema because I was calling them.
But in the end we went for lunch, bought a pair of jeans at Topman, then I went for my movie. Hot Fuzz was pretty good, it was damn funny and the climax was great. Haha...two cops loaded with shotguns and pistols clearing out a whole town of psychos. I think its run is ended soon so those interested should catch it soon.
On the way home I felt damn emo. Must because I was watching that movie alone. But how do you bring friends along on a family outing? o_O Would be kinda weird. Oh well...chem tomorrow. I feel emo. Anyone want to go out?
Went for my semi-annually optical checkup. Lol. Increased 25 deg in one eye, which is not that bad already. It's slowed down to that rate for many years. My sis on the other hand used to have over a hundred degees increases and 50 and 75 on the last one. =\ Must've been due to the Maple. Now she hangs about on Maple forums because presumably after she blew $168 on A-cash and it went -poof!- after 90 days, her character looks ugly so she didn't want to play anymore.
Went to look at my phone at SingTel. If I can trade in my autistic and retarded phone for $150 I only need to pay $248. (It's not dead per se, since it can still be turned on and all of its functions can be used, except the phone. =.=)Had KFC's miso crunch. The smell of that stays on your fingers for hours. Yesterday I ate it at 4 or 5pm, it hung around till the next morning. So I expect they finally perfected their Finger Lickin' Good! technique.
Came home, watched Punisher, was torn between making a new blogskin and doing chem. Decided to go with the former as riding on the wave of my inspiration often leads me to create stuff I really like, and so it is with this one again. =] I hope I can find a fix for it soon. Thanks to ben for helping with the Firefox links and helping with the IE probs.
