1G's tag

After lots of procrastination, finally decided to do 1G's tag. On second thought, not bothered. Oh well, I now hate doing some tags. Especially the colourful tags. Cos some dial up people will hate my blog more with more pictures. I wish that TM improve their services, screw Mahathir for his bright privatisation ideas... wtf. Screw them.

s4 class trip

I think 1G is right. Someone other than him has gotta do the class trip planning. I think I'll try my hand at it. After the last 3 events, it's time for somebody else to plan for a change.

Reflections on life now... [not emo just annoyed]

I was reminded of what I am on Wednesday. Why are teens loving the "pairs" life? Why can't we sit back and enjoy the solitude of remaining single? I mean, almost every non-food stall promotes couples to come to "donate to charity". Good examples are song dedications, roses for your "loved one", etc. etc. etc......
Why must we make use of the human tendency to find discounts to encourage couples to help/promote us or whatever we do? Why?

Don't accuse me of being a cold-blooded son of a bitch. I have my right to ask such questions, even if it hurts. I'm not jealous of those guys/girls with girl/boyfriends. After all, a lot of these couples break up within about 6 months. With luck some of them don't break up. It's a fact. Even since Form 5 there have been quite a few problems with couples. Anyway, I'm just wondering out loud.

Prom/corroboree is in November. I hate to mention this at all, cos I've never been to a prom yet [out of sheer poverty and laziness, not to add annoyance at the rich crowd...]. So. I mean to go this year, but if I'm lazy I won't go.

Taylor's Charity Carnival

It was a fine day, slightly windy. Not good news for a fella having to transport fragile Styrofoam to college. So started today’s charity event. If I were to highlight the skills of the Taylor’s organising committee, it would be their abilities of doing too little too late. Also, there was the incredible feat of miscommunication. It was not until past 9 that we could officially open our stall, after various efforts to explain the situation properly to various people.
Oh well, a splashing good time is the usual tagline used during such events. I think it’s quite appropriate still. After everyone got wet. Of course everyone got wet, including many lecturers. So we had fun… in the sun and haze. Balloons and water everywhere. Final coup de grace: drenched Andrew. And also a whole gang of wet people.
The only hope now is that we can get at least 1k. And also best stall award. If possible, so help us God.

slaving around / marathon

It's been a fun day, I dare say. You can exercise for the whole day today if you had run all over Taylor's. So. I hope all the running 3 people did will not be in vain. I really hope that our sweat was worth it. Taylorians, don't let us down, help S4 get the best stall award!

bots suck

This is the main reason why it's kinda boring to play against COD4 bots. They suck worse than some feeder humans.

Strike 2...

OMGWTF. Once again the skill of S4 at irritation is at its peak. Either that, or Ms. Ting is emo cos of PMS again. Why does she walk out on our class AGAIN?? It's not fair for her to lump the rotten ones with the good ones. It's all her own bloody fault that we discuss things while she monologues in front. So, enough ranting from me. She must believe herself faultless, otherwise she can't say such things about us.

avenging angels from heaven

I love ZOCOM Orcas. They're useful to the point of being avenging angels. Unfortunately the patch reduced the bomb loadout of these gay planes. Sad. Anyway, finally won 1 FFA against Matthew and Andrew. Oh well guys, Orcas are stronger than Mechapedes, live with it. Reaper loses to massive Orca spam. Even spam loses to Orca spam. This is fun.

"free for all" never is

Lately I've been taking on both Andrew and Matthew in Kane's Wrath free for all. The only thing I can say after each round is gg. I hate it. Both fellas are techers, and I'm a harasser/early attacker, so every time I try to take out 1 opponent, the other survives the harassment, so I die. So far, the lesson seems to be the first to attack will die. Painful. Anyway, I kinda hate the experience. I never did like dying. It's that 12 Reaper Tripods with tiberium reserves and shields rampaging through my base is very painful.
It's worse if you tell me that the best offense is defence. That's utterly wrong. If I turtle or tech up, then I'm in for a battle of numbers. Have you seen Matthew tech? He's too fast. I'd die faster.

point counter point so far...then on relationships.....

Aldous Huxley wrote this book, Point Counter Point. At first read it is like an adult book, talking on and on about at least 3 different people and their sex lives. So it is like a Sex and The City story. But then when you read between the lines, you realise one thing about these people. Intellectuals are different in their treatment of sex. There's Lord Edward, a biologist, who takes sex like a lab experiment; Walter, a writer, who takes sex and love like a little boy, and so on and so forth.....
Although this book of literature reads like a dirty story, it isn't. The sex and love scenes are just there to show how society degenerates with these "intellectuals"....
Does anyone have Huxley's Brave New World? I'd like to borrow it, it's supposed to be on par with Orwell's 1984....

Anyway, this brings me to a related topic. I've learnt 1 thing so far. It is better for someone to love you, rather than you love someone. If it sounds odd, then think about it. I dunno why it sounds right to me.

anwar shabery debate

It was a colossal bore. Although the debate was on petrol, Dato' Shabery kept on tackling Anwar about politics and other things. The chairman didn't do much to stop the deviation from the topic either. How annoying. Anwar had his points out, but Dato' Shabery didn't really answer Anwar's questions. All in all, I would say that it shows how the government can't avoid politicizing anything the opposition does. Quite unhelpful to the rakyat.

the antics of some ppl

Yesterday I had the occasion to go for a housewarming party. It was a Muslim family, and me and my family were early. The interesting thing is this: they prayed for almost an hour and a half before they started eating...
Anyway, there was this gang of ustaz who were holding a stack of prayer books. So it would seem that the gang of people inside were reading all the prayers! No wonder it took so long for them to bless the house....

Oh well, maybe that's why the Malays are so laid back, they pray 5 times a day, almost an hour of productivity lost........

PS: I am not anti Malay, I just wish they can do things better/faster...

government's attitude towards blogs

Recently some minister came out to say that blogs are bad for the country.

I think I know why he said so. Anything the government can't control, they will say that it is bad for the country. They can control the conventional media, such as the press [Don't want anything bad said? Just shut down the printing press.] and the TV or radio stations [Take and hold the stations.] But in the case of blogging, as long as they catch hold of one blogger and take him/her under ISA, the blogging community will just ignore the whole business, and they will continue blogging as usual. The blogging community may even criticize the government even more. So the nett effect is that nothing much happens. Thus, anything that the government cannot control, they will denounce it as something bad to the country.

How boring. And also annoying....

some old pics...

I was reminded of SPM and some of the pranks I did during that short period of say 3 weeks....

So here are some old photos taken during the open season...

emo and the world view

Emo is a state of mind. Usually it is quite calming. Goodness knows who came out with the idea 1st, but apparently emo is getting to be quite common nowadays. Some people think that my MSN personal message is emo. I don't really care, to be frank. It is up to personal interpretation for that.

1973

Tagged [music tag]...

Instructions:
a. Put your iTunes, Windows Media Player, etc on shuffle.
b. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
c. YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN, NO MATTER HOW SILLY IT SOUNDS.
d. Put any comments in brackets after the song name.
e. Put this on your blog.

1. If someone says, "Is this okay?"
Learning To Fall - Boys Like Girls [Interesting. Kinda encouraging and condescending simultaneously.]

2. How would you describe yourself?
Heels Over Head - Boys Like Girls [Another interesting one. I never see things straight apparently.]

3. What do you like in a guy/girl?
Headlight Disco - The Click Five [Fun?! I dunno. I think this means I like bad girls... wtf]

4. How do you feel today?
The Prayer - Charlotte Church [Why? I didn't do anything. I'm innocent, right guys? (ref Eckels)]

5. What is your life's purpose?
You And I Both - Jason Mraz [What the... God knows what this means... Do I live for others? Or for companionship?]

6. What is your motto?
I Could Fly - Keith Urban [Odd. Maybe in the fairy sense, I'd like to fly. Not airplanes, I think. Man-powered flying, only myself and no one else. Maybe that's the flying I like.]

7. What do your friends think of you?
Breaking The Habit - Linkin Park [Funny. My habit is to help them with their homework. But maybe it's the head whacking I'm slightly fond of. Sorry Matthew, pls watch NCIS a bit more.]

8. What do you think of your parents?
Ayo Techonology - 50 Cent feat. Justin Timberlake [Correct correct correct. I wish my parents appreciated tech, especially computers more.]

9. What do you think about very often?
Because I Love You (SaRangHaNiKa) - The Cross [Wow. Spot on! Try and guess who the "who" is.]

10. What is 2+2?
It's A Love Thing - Keith Urban [Cos 2+2 never is 4. Just like love, boy + girl does not equal couple.]

11. What do you think of your best friends?
She's The One - Robbie Williams [Uh oh. My best friends are guys... =_="]

12. What do you think of the person you like?
The Hard Way - Keith Urban [What is this?! Maybe half true. Love is hard.]

13. What is your life?
He Ain't The Leavin' Kind - Rascal Flatts [Maybe true again. Cos if I find a girlfriend I don't think I'll walk out on her.]

14. What do you want to be when you grow up?
Mayberry - Rascal Flatts [...]

15. What do you think of when you see the person you like?
痛彻心扉 - 张栋梁 (Hurt all the way to the heart) [Cos I can't get her yet? Maybe this is accurate...]

16. What will you dance to at your wedding?
Desiree - Keith Urban [No comment, I don't really like his songs... But I think it kinda fits the situation.]

17. What will they play at your funeral?
Yume no Tsubasa - Shaoran • Sakura [Why? It's too cheerful. And I don't understand it]

18. What is your hobby/interest?
Walk Away - Paula Deanda [What the heck?! Some trick of the shuffling functions...]

19. What is your biggest fear?
Here By Me - 3 Doors Down [Fear of girlfriend leaving? Maybe...]

20. What is your biggest secret?
Breaking Free - HSM [Walau a... What the heck is this again? But its kinda true still, breaking free of the chains of authority...]

21. What do you think of your friends?
Machine - Josh Groban [They are soulless robots... Quite interesting...]

22. What will you post this as?
1973 - James Blunt [Whatever lah...]

23. What song would you play during your first time having sex?
Starry, Starry Night - Josh Groban [OMGWTF... the song title fits only. Not the tune, it's way too slow...]

8 people to tag [why 8??]:
1. Max
2. CPU
3. Anderson
4. Kay Li
5. Andrew
6. Tim
7. Wan Ji
8. Caitlin

dress code blues

We had a pretty fun argument in class today about the new dress code to be enforced in Taylor's starting tomorrow. The general consensus is that the new dress code is rubbish as usual.
For example:

No shorts for guys.
How short is short?

No slippers.
Why? It's convienient in the morning when you are rushing around.

This suggests that we should have an open debate with the Taylor's people who changed/improved the dress code. Worse, they suggest that we should be expelled after 2 infringements of this miserable dress code. Why? How does dressing influence the character we are? As some lawyers will attest, the Mafia gangsters in their suits and ties look like honest businessmen, until you start discussing deals with them. This goes to show that well-dressed fellows can and may be bad guys still.
Rubbish codes are rubbish codes, no matter who made them. We are the innocent sufferers and victims. God help us all, may he long be our shepherd in these trying times.

So this is my shout to all Taylorians and everyone out there:

Just remember that we are who we are, not what others want us to be. They can try to shape us, change our way of thinking to theirs, but it may not always work. We and we alone can guide ourselves to the right path.

teacher walkouts

Not as rare as you think it is. In my experience so far, it's happened twice only. Once in form 4, when my Chinese teacher had a good argument before leaving the class, and the second time was last Friday.
Usually something triggers the reaction. Then the volcano erupts, and the class runs for cover as the teacher runs out of the class. Talking or doing unrelated homework is a good trigger. Oh well, we learn to live with it. Like the villagers, we spot the signs and then run. Far, far away. Explosions like these aren't that spectacular if you're used to it.

wish list

Just finished reading The Wish List [Colfer]. I know, it's old. I don't care. It's fun, and it's written by an Irishman. Way better than Man of the House.
Anyway, I got the idea of compiling a Wish List like the old man Lowrie in the story. It's similar to the bucket list idea. But then again, we can always do things on the list way before we kick the bucket, bite the bullet, sleep with the fishies etc etc... [you get the idea] Look out at the sidebar to check out the list if anyone wanna see what I wanna do before I shuffle off the mortal coil.

On an unrelated note, I managed to track down an old friend's blog. I must say that he's changed. A little, a lot, depends on how you look at things. Ah well, change is relative.

Joke on relativity:
How do you explain relativity to simple people?
It's simple. When an old lady sits in your lap for a minute, a minute seems like an hour. But when a pretty girl sits in your lap for an hour, an hour seems like a minute.

m'sian government

The M'sian government is incredible. They assume things, jump to conclusions, and generally do everything we quite disagree with. So. How can we trust them? It is not easy to do much. Just take the petrol price hike for example. When petrol price increases, everything will go up as well, EXCEPT for the salary of the rakyat. This causes inflation. And the government assures us that the inflation won't be that bad. Yeah right.

As I ask again: How to trust the M'sian government?