I'm slowly, but steadily losing interest in blogging.

What's the point when you can't type all the shit that you want to say
("Now, students, remember that everything you say on the internet is public, so don't go around saying things that you can't back up in real life.")
and even if you do, your blog readership is so pathetic (tagboard, anyone?) you don't get heard anyway.

Yes, I know our table tennis stars are from China, but that doesn't really change anything, does it? Just like how David isn't from Singapore...

anyway.

Spent 3.5hrs of my life catching the table tennis semifinals against South Korea today in the Library. I originally wanted to go to J8 to watch it, but the library turned out to be the better choice, because:

1. It had Atmosphere, and more importantly,
2. It had air conditioning.

The opening match was rather straightforward.

The second match, LJW vs KKK (granted, I know her name isnt Kim KA Kor but you have to admit it sounds nice) was completely nervewrecking because it was such a closely fought match. Games were decided by the closest margin of points, and the match itself was only decided after KKK won the final game 11-9.

...why am I doing a summary?

Phelps won another gold, in a completely unexpected victory.

Huiyao: "OMG PHELPS WON ANOTHER GOLD MEDAL IN WORLD RECORD TIME"
Everyone else: "How completely unexpected. /sarcasm

If what I've heard is true, I'm feeling really guilty for all the shit I've done in Ms. Kek's lesson.
And I say this with sincerity.

Haven't posted in quite a long time, but, as is the characteristic of the standard RI student, the exact same things've been happening.

More homework, more studying, occasional bursts of slackness.

Oh, and the usual people've been pretending to be emo again.

I won't elaborate, but it's quite ridiculous when you see some guy pretending to be emo--yes, pretending--because he's actually living a damn good life and he's overreacting over the slightest thing. Then compare that to those people who have an actual reason to feel depressed. The contrast is ridiculous.

No, I'm not referring to you.

On another note, I watched the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony yesterday. I don't know why. Maybe it's because I'm Chinese--yes, I'm Singaporean, but Singaporean Chinese come from China, anyway--but it actually made me feel proud of the way China has organized the Olympics. It's evident that they take so much pride in hosting this event, and you can feel the tremendous amount of effort that they've put into the opening ceremony just by watching it on the TV.

The atmosphere there must be incredible.

For those of you who watched the ceremony, you'll probably know what I mean. The entire theme, revolving around China's contributions--gunpowder, printing press, etc--was impressive, especially the gunpowder/countdown to 8.08pm segment. For those who didn't watch it--

summary:
Slightly before 8.08pm, fireworks erupt on the outskirts of Beijing, closely followed one second later by fireworks in a different location. Each eruption, representing one of the previously held Olympic Games, occurs closer to the Bird's Nest stadium. At 8.08pm sharp, fireworks erupt on the roof of the Bird's Nest itself, and the opening ceremony begins.

Damn stylish right? You can't help but be impressed.

1. Does it matter to you if your boyfriend or girlfriend smokes?
Yes. Smoking kills. All you kids out there reading this, don't smoke.

2. How about drinking?
No? Because I'll probably be drinking. Unless you talk about binge drinking. In which case...

3. Do you want someone you can't have?
How do you know if you can't have someone?

4. If someone liked you right now, would you want them to tell you?
...so.

5. What's your favorite sport?
Table Tennis, except the new house doesnt have a table, irritatingly enough. Soccer is overrated.

6. It's Saturday night, you're home alone.. what do you do?
Steadily ignore the pile of homework I have, and start gaming.

8. Can you do the splits?
Do I look vaguely gymnastic to you?

9. Do you like roller coasters?
YES. YES. YES. SERIOUSLY. YES.ONE DAY I WILL GO TO ALL THE SIX FLAGS AMUSEMENT PARKS IN THE US AND RIDE EVERY COASTER THERE.

Haiwei always tells me to shut up when I start enthusing about coasters to him.
But seriously, yes, they're a damn cheap source of adrenalin rush so everyone should ride them.

10. When's the perfect time to have a bf/gf?
In secondary school and JC. Of course, everyone who isn't in secondary school/JC thinks otherwise...

11. If you could date any celebrity, who would it be?
What kind of stupid question is this?

12. What's your favorite band?
Linkin Park. I listen to a wide range of bands/singers, though. And Thunder by Boys Like Girls is my favourite song.

13. What are you doing this weekend?
Going to church, sleeping in, rushing homework, gaming, studying, celebrating national day, the list goes on.

14. What's your favorite restaurant?
Not particularly, but if I had to answer I'd say Jack's Place. Their student meals are damn cheap and good. Think $6.50 (twice the price of some noobles at the new overpriced food stalls) for main course + soup + garlic bread + dessert. /end advertisement.

15. Do you usually fall for the right girl/boy?
I'm always right. So, by extension, yes.

16. Have you ever hugged someone?
Yes?

17. Ever kissed someone you weren't attracted to?
Not...really...

18. Do you like anyone right now?
Yes. What's with the yes/no questions?

21. What is the first thing you notice about the opposite sex?
Appearance.

23. Which do you prefer, beach or the mountains?
Beach. You see:
-Beaches are warm while mountains are freezing.
-You play sports like soccer/volleyball on the beach. You play stuff like LET'S THROW OURSELVES OFF THIS CLIFF on mountains.
-People wear less clothing to the beach and more clothing to mountains...go figure.

24. What kind of phone do you have?
Nokia 6500 Slide DO NOT BUY THIS PHONE IT BREAKS DOWN DAMN EASILY

26. Computer or laptop?
Laptop. Definitely.

27. What is your favorite store?
The Chinese Mixed Rice store in the RI canteen. =)

28. Jeans or sweats?
Jeans. (But if it's hot, you sweat in jeans! hahahahaha....)

29. Which year has been the best so far?
2006 because Stuff Happened.

30. How old are you gonna be on your next birthday?
17.

31. What should you be doing right now?
Sleeping. I'm going to wake up tomorrow feeling awful. Hah but like someone else I don't sleep even though I know I should.

32. What is your favorite tv show?
Does 18 JBJ count?

33. What's been your last purchase?
WAFFLES. Waffles pwn. End of story.

34. Are you attracted to girls/boy that smoke?
Yes, because I find lung cancer sexy.

35. Would you want a chill laid back gf/bf or a party animal?
We had this talk recently, where some guy from some government branch taught us Things.

Do you know that if your girlfriend's a party animal, you have approximately 20 sex partners?

Well, that was what he said.

36. Have you ever fallen on your butt?
Yes, obviously, if you fall down enough the laws of probability state that you're gonna get owned sooner or later.

37. Explain your dream car:
It's cheap, it looks good, it works, it has space for more than one person, and it belongs to me.

38. What do you do when you're at home?
Stay in my room either 1) on computer or 2) drumming. Occasionally pop out to suan my sister.

39. Whats your favorite subject?
It used to be maths until sec3. Then it used to be philosophy until this year. I guess it's Physics now.

40. What's the best thing that happened to you?
I can't remember that far back, but for this year, the whole APCG experience. Scrabble Championship comes a close second though.

Normally I keep my posts and tags seperate, but this is getting ridiculous.

I'm going to repeat what I said on my tagboard:

Renyue:

There are idiots in this world, and there are those who pretend to be idiots. Honestly speaking, the people you are trying to argue with on my tagboard do not use the word 'gay' in any manner degratory to homosexuals, so it really has nothing to do with your campaign against gay people. It's ridiculous to get pissed off at people who are like that in real life, because you're just wasting your time. Your arguments are doing jack shit, because, if you can't tell yet, they have zero intention of listening to reason and logic.

There's a chinese proverb involving a cow, a musician and a musical instrument that sums up this situation nicely.

I highly suggest you stop trying to convince people of something you're never going to convince them about, but if you want to continue, that's your loss. If you want to ignore me, I appreciate you offering your tagboard to the argument, so all this pointless crap can go and happen over there.

Thank you.

If this shit continues, I'm just going to ban everyone and let my tagboard become a ghost town.

Today was a good day, until I got home.

My DMP timetable asks me to multitask. Yes, I can drum, but I highly doubt I can drum while watching a movie or Getting to Geitter.

Then my chinese teacher called.

I was going to rant about her. But, yknow, it's really not worth my time to write anything about her. Even calling her a fucking unreasonable bitch is a complete waste of my time and effort. So I won't. Yeah, don't drag me infront of the entire batch and make me apologize, because I would never actually deign to point out that the entire class hates her and only a fucking retard wouldn't realise it by now.

So, my chinese teacher called. What a wonderful woman.

Apparently Renyue thinks my blog is arrogant. That is a lie. All of you critics are simply pathetic losers who cannot appreciate my brilliant linguistic ability and grammar and syntax!11!!!!111!nub!!1!!

Well, honestly, I don't think I'm arrogant on my blog. We did win the championships, after all...

But truth be told, the way the championships are formatted is really bad.

The first and second place teams only got there because, well, they had easy opponents in the finals. We had St. Nicks, who was probably our standard/slightly higher. Okay graphical diagram for those of you who like pictures:

1. RI Team
2. RI Team
3. Us (who can probably beat all the other teams here, except #4, because we didn't.)
4. St Nicks (who can probably beat all the other teams here.)
5. Them
6. Them

RI Team vs Them (RI wins 5-0)
RI Team vs Them (RI wins 5-0)
Us vs St Nicks (St Nicks wins 4-1 BUT THE OVERALL SPREAD WAS LOW OKAY)

So, ysee, SN gets 3rd and we get 4th and some random noob RI team gets first and second.

Now that I'm done complaining, let's move on.

Renwei is damn funny. I was telling him the horror story of St. Nicks and their overly talkative member and he was like "OKAY I WILL NOT GET AFFECTED."

St. Nicks comes to our table and sits down.

Renyue (opposite rw): "Hi."
-silence
-silence
-silence
rw (whispering to me): "psst can we switch positions?"
We switch. Renyue blinks.

And then

Renyue: "I have a bingo!"
Me: "You have a bingo?"
rw: "DON'T TALK TO HER SHE'S TRYING TO USE PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE AGAINST YOU!!!!!!!"

And, finally

rw's opponent: "How do I swap tiles?"
rw: /wrist "I'm losing by 200 points to someone who doesnt know how to swap tiles?!"

But I have to admit the game I had was fun, although I made a crazy number of mistakes:

1. I had A in my rack, to form HAJ and NA for 30 points. I draw an extra tile accidentally. Renyue takes my A without looking and casts it back into the bag, whereupon it daos me because I hath abandoned it and refuses to come back on my rack for the rest of the game. Which I spend looking at the empty space between H_J and N_ longingly.

2. I had Satine N, and didn't spot it at all.

"augh ATNITES looks like a bingo rack! LET'S DISCARD N!" /facepalm

Maybe one day I'll get to have a rematch.