here we go again

2011-12-17T22:23:00.000+08:00

someone's coming back tomorrow!

:D

2011-10-31T20:58:00.002+08:00

I get on the MRT in Ang Mo Kio and in the blink of an eye I'm at Bukit Gombak.

Of course, this might be because I take the MRT at 6am and my eye-blinks are approximately 35mins long (much to the chagrin of pregnant women, children and the elderly), but there you go. There was once I even woke up to find myself at Yew Tee...going back towards Marina Bay.

I need to sleep earlier.

In other news, Heavenly Moon is a great song :D

2011-10-05T21:40:00.001+08:00

Brilliant day yesterday and today I wake up to realize that my next few years are going to be spent back at Kranji 3 I swear I'm never escaping that place.

Then again, they have godly (and expensive) fried rice...

Surprisingly, being a technician isn't a slack vocation at all; who'd have thought?!

2011-09-21T20:05:00.003+08:00

Wow, I got home really late today.

On a completely unrelated note, some thoughts on man-management:

Assume you're in charge of a group of people. Now assume that there's some friction going on between them, something like, I don't know, a few culprits consistently harassing one guy until he can't take it and complains to you. This is known as a Problem, and you have one of 2 ways to solve it-

1) Investigate, identify the culprits, and punish them as a deterrent to others-in short, do your job. Of course, this actually takes a modicum of effort, so you always could instead...

2) Intentionally waste everyone's time (victim included), drag your feet, do absolutely nothing, waste everyone's time (did I mention that already?), completely miss the point, go off on a mild ramble about something entirely unrelated, relate childhood tales (when I was your age...) to your increasingly fidgety and reluctant audience, and keep this show of ineffectuality up until no one ever complains to you again.

After all, if you don't receive any complaints, there aren't any problems.

Right?

2011-09-11T20:16:00.003+08:00

Airports always invoke a sense of nostalgia; a reminder of days past when I actually used to go on holidays with my family, sitting excitedly in the window (or aisle; depending on whether I won the let-me-sit-next-to-the-window fight with Christine) seat with face pressed against the plastic knowing that in a matter of hours i'd be halfway around the world in a completely foreign land having the time of my life.

On the other side of the departure gate, though, it's a sense of wistfulness; a feeling of happiness for the person embarking on her (not "his"; for the most part, all 'his'-es are busy Defending The Nation) journey but also one tinged with selfish regret, after all, whenever someone enters a new stage of her life she also leaves yours irrevocably--perhaps she'll return, but you know it won't ever be the same person, but rather someone subtly remolded in myriad different ways from myriad experiences.

On another note, the viewing gallery at T3 is a godly place to just crash and sleep.

2011-07-14T20:00:00.002+08:00

The PROPER way(s) to get from Hougang Avenue 7, The Florida, to Kranji Camp III

(Gothere.sg is a piece of shit)

Hi guys, in the interests of all my readers who've always wondered how to get from my home to Kranji Camp 3 (i.e. no one), I have, after a week of waking up at 530am, cursing, and inevitably running in barely on time for first parade compiled an exhaustive list of all plausible ways to do so. You may thank me in the future or with a thoughtful gift (min price >$10 thanks)

GOING THERE: (6.00AM)

Route 1: Walk abit -> Bus 74 to AMK -> MRT to Yew Tee -> Bus 302 to the-place-near-my-camp -> Walk for 1km+

This is the shortest route on paper and also the route suggested by gothere.sg. It is also pretty much the worst route imaginable. DO NOT TAKE THIS. While brilliant in theory, bus 74 is a terrible place to be at 6am. Practically its entire route to AMK is jammed and for some reason everyone at every single bus stop along the way is waiting for 74 too, for some reason. This turns a quick and painless 20-25min journey into a 45-50min slow, lumbering crawl. Unless you enjoy spending a good part of an hour squeezed against the few (un?)lucky people near you, smelling each other's body odor/cologne/whatever it is people put on themselves in the morning (not clothes), go find another route.

Route 2: Walk abit -> Any bus to either Hougang or Kovan -> MRT to Serangoon -> MRT to Bishan -> MRT to Yew Tee -> Bus 302 -> Walk for 1km+

...Like this one! Essentially the same as Route #1, but you get to trade the insanity of an early-morning Bus 74 for the relative peace and quiet of the MRT. Relative, of course, because while the NEL and (if you're lucky) the CCL will be empty and comfortable, by the time you get to Bishan at around 6.45 everyone else would have woken up too. Some small comfort as you jostle madly for a place, though; you got on earlier, so you can stare smugly at those idiots who took Route #1 above as they try desperately to squeeze in at AMK. Take that!

Route 3 aka The Smart Option aka I ONLY DISCOVERED THIS AFTER 4 DAYS DAMN: Walk quite abit -> Bus 161 to Woodlands -> MRT to Yew Tee -> Bus 302 -> Walk for 1km+

This is the best route ever seriously; it's at least 10mins faster than Routes #1 and #2. If you're staring at your screen and wondering why the hell 10mins is even relevant, you've obviously never stayed across the island from a place you have to be at 715 every morning, you lucky bastard. You'll be taking bus 161 from one end of its route to another, which means you can sleep happily in one corner of the bus and hopefully arrive in camp in slightly less of a stupor. Half of its route is on an expressway, which ensures a smooth journey and perfect sleeping comfort ^_^ /end advertisement

tl;dr: Don't get posted to Kranji if you stay in Hougang.

(but if you do, take route #3 to get to camp.)

NOTES:

1) Route #1 is a much much better route for the return journey; while 74 is ridiculously crowded at AMK station the crowd soon peters out around Serangoon and this ensures a relatively smooth journey home thereon.

2) Route #3 changes slightly on the way home: Getting on 161 at Woodlands during peak hour is insane, I had to skip one bus because it was full today. AT THE INTERCHANGE; SINCE WHEN ARE BUSES FULL AT THE INTERCHANGE?!! Also you can get down at Sengkang and switch to 136 which shortens journey time :D

Ok this feels weird me giving instructions to myself why couldn't I have known this 4 days ago?

2011-07-03T19:18:00.002+08:00

Shit I accidentally deleted my entire links column (you know, the only thing that my blog's been good for for the past few months) and now I'm lazy to type it back so...if there's been anyone apart from me using my blog as a linkstorm I apologize. Doubt it though; my old blog was so dead even Sallycute stopped posting on the tagboard...

2011-04-20T23:17:00.002+08:00

Ok I'm well aware that I'll be singing a different tune in approximately a few weeks' time but seriously enlisting in May is the worst shit ever

Humans are by nature social creatures, and with 1) practically everyone else in army and 2) no job, my opportunity for social interaction nowadays is limited; put it another way, I am fucking bored stoning at home every day literally doing nothing.

Yes you self righteous people may point out that I am wasting my time here (which, ironically, is my entire point) and I would be better off spending it doing something productive like, i don't know, learning Chinese or something but I would like to remind you that boredom is not alleviated by doing something, but rather doing something that you enjoy doing, otherwise the act of typing this half-rant half-blogpost would inadvertently make it unnecessary for me to do so

the end of As is not supposed to be like this seriously whoever's in army now, you can take this as a form of comfort because I am arguably more miserable than all of you right now; at least your 2-year clock is ticking while mine is as stagnant as I am every day at home.

oh also it doesn't help that my computer doesnt work at all.

if there's one bright side to this thing it's that I'm actually looking forward to entering army now, would you believe that?

/end rant

2011-03-31T21:18:00.002+08:00

they look at me with jaded eyes

i ask, understand?

i repeat

slowly

understand?

which part you dont understand?

entire thing

facepalm

k again

first part you understand?

yes

second part you understand?

yes

now entire thing can already?

2nd last day!

2011-02-26T21:33:00.003+08:00

Review of major rides at USS:

Jurassic Park: Huge disappointment. The only thing it has in common with its cousin in Florida is the name. The local version focuses far more on psychological thrills (drifting through a completely dark tunnel, random dinosaurs jumping out at you from nowhere) than physical ones, which makes it ultimately disappointing-the drop at the end is a joke.

The Mummy: This is perhaps Universal Studios' best signature ride and it delivers exactly what you expect it to--psychological and physical thrills. While Florida has an excellent moving-backward sequence, the local version executes a far better plot. Otherwise, they are essentially the same ride and that isn't a bad thing.

Battlestar Galactica: The Human (red track) is a relatively mild ride, especially given the imposing layout of the track. Other than the opening 14-storey drop, the rest of the ride consists of high-speed banks and turns which, while fun, isn't exactly exhilarating--or maybe it just isn't my kind of thing. The Cylon (blue track) is far better in my opinion; it has the same thrilling 14-storey drop, but more fun (a hanging coaster is always superior to a sitting one) followed by an elaborate sequence of half-rolls and corkscrews as well as a signature loop which I felt made the ride far more thrilling than its counterpart.

k sorry readers I have no idea why my language is so pretentious; it's getting harder for me to find the correct adjectives to describe the rides. Other stuff like Waterworld, etc. were quite impressive with the stunts going on, although Monster Rock was a letdown (partially because of a dead audience and partially because, as one dissatisfied audience member put it, "even chuyong dances better than them.")

tl;dr: jurassic park sucks, the mummy is decent, BSG cylon is a must-ride, i had fun.

tl;dr: Jurassic Park sucks, The Mummy is good/decent, BSG Cylon is the best ride in the park.

2011-01-17T21:52:00.001+08:00

Vanisa tells me I make some good points. Go me.

In other news I am in taiwan and it is mother cold and whenever i finally manage to get online (tearing the laptop away from the clutches of hw and xw) no one else is online so i end up posting random posts on my blog

starting work once I get back home on friday :(

2010-12-19T19:19:00.002+08:00

Some people celebrate the revival of a dead blog by changing their blogskin; I spend my time on cbox.ws trying to delete all the spammers from my tagboard. Not that it helps though, they just keep on coming, like Pushing Against A Wall Of Water.

(why did I capitalize that?)

Okay fine it's abit late for exam jokes given that 1) prelims are over and, far more importantly, 2) As are over (!!) but forgive me I haven't exactly blogged properly here in ages. So, a quick summary--

1. As were a curious mix of a travesty and a challenge, and I'd rather not think about how well I did until next year (preferably never, if I can help it, but given that my results will be shoved infront of my face in about 2 months theres little I can do)

2. The highlights of bridge chalet 2 days ago (apart from the entire damn place being haunted) were, in no particular order, the J1s thinking that I was good at TFT just because I could beat insane AI; yensen refusing to walk over from his comfortable...niche...at jap club chalet despite being all of 50 meters away, lanning with the J1s (yilin actually plays a surprisingly decent Invoker) and me playing XG.

3. Speaking of XG, XG is always a highlight AND IT'S ACTUALLY REASONABLY PRICED NOW--of course this doesn't mean that I'll spend less, it just means that I get to enjoy myself more before I fall into inevitable destitution.

(terrible exam joke #2: define destitute.)

4. XGXGXGXGXG 5 buttons is ridiculously hard

5. Youth Teams just ended, we actually lost to ACJC J1s (the story of which I cannot recount here for fear of sounding elitist (is it elitist to call someone terrible if he truly is terrible...?)) but suffice to say I will always remember that 3ntx+1 vul is 950 from today onwards.

6. BOWEN HAS AGREED TO POSTPONE TIME TO BOOK TICKETS FOR SLEEPOVER

2010-11-28T15:48:00.000+08:00

Well since my blog is fast settling into its niche role as the hub from which spokes to other blogs extend, I updated my links :D

2010-11-02T23:36:00.000+08:00

kenneth says:

ehy

you going for chem test next week?

yanwei this person is going to RUN OFF FOR BIG MUGGERY says:

kenneth says:

but i heard quite important

as in

they might give questions similar to a level qns

lol

yanwei this person is going to RUN OFF FOR BIG MUGGERY says:

w/e

lol

kenneth says:

yanwei this person is going to RUN OFF FOR BIG MUGGERY says:

idrc srsly

2010-10-23T14:28:00.000+08:00

Ok I actually am rather scared for A levels they are in like what, 2 weeks' time? Everyone's mugging-even yanwei is mugging-and I'm like the only one slacking around laddering it up

I need to recover faster I swear once I've recovered I'm just going to hardcore mug all the way

Heal faster plz

2010-10-04T02:01:00.002+08:00

Wow Starhub is damn audacious not only does it sell me a shitty broadband (ok technically it's free but that isn't the point) it spams the top of my windows with advertisements for its own services.

Okay comeon firstly I obviously am ALREADY using Starhub broadband (hence your advertisements glaring at me) and secondly this is a very annoying form of insidious advertising.

Prelim results were exactly what I was aiming for; quite happy w/ my results (although I still believe GP was unfairly marked) but ofc parents continuing to nag me daily to study. Which I will, eventually, I guess, but there's so much time left...

2010-09-27T23:12:00.000+08:00

mozarc!

2010-09-26T01:22:00.002+08:00

There are alot of things I want to say but I can't because this is a public blog (although with the readership I have it might very well be private) and there are some things that, yknow, you don't want the world to know.

Suffice to say that this is -supposedly- the prime of our lives (who're you kidding, seriously, we only live once and after we die it's gonna be a depressing miasma of darkness/nothingness that we can't even experience [ok I know that that just sounded like some typical emo nsk rant but there's actual logic behind those generic phrases (and this is here because I couldn't resist putting a bracket in a bracket in a bracket)]) and I'm wasting it completely by failing where others have succeeded and generally feeling abandoned ok this is becoming way too emo where is the goddamn post lock function

-rest of post saved to notepad-

2010-09-21T22:43:00.002+08:00

The prelims so far have been a smorgasbord of tediousness, careless mistakes and hilarity.

GPEssay-wrote essay in a conversational tone

GPCompre-didn't finish AQ (damn)

EconsCS-struggled with the not-very-straightforward qns

EconsEssay-an indiscribable fiasco

Phy2-DIDN'T FINISH PLANNING (but apparently had time to draw rotom-f)

Phy3-completely forgot how a metronome worked

Chem2-rather disastrous with lots of careless mistakes

Chem3-picked wrong questions to do

Math1-a ridiculous amount of careless mistakes

Hey, at least it isn't the As...

2010-09-11T23:12:00.002+08:00

aikeke i finished the entire HCI math paper today it was an infuriating affair but 5h50min is enough to take down 24 questions of unbearable tediousness

ok I shouldn't be so happy since I guess a few hundred hwachongians did the same thing in the same time period last year but nvm this is a Milestone

now prelims are in 2 days time to (try to) pwn it up

2010-09-04T02:30:00.002+08:00

I'm too lazy to clear my tagboard of the spam. If Videogirl says blogwalking is a journey, let her be.

I realized I sincerely miss drumming ever since I 1) stopped lessons in preparation for As and 2) Y****n destroyed my drum throne by sitting on it (damn genius seriously), especially when I listen to songs that I used to spam. Like damned if I do you, ocean avenue etc k after As I'm going to buy a damn imba set and start practicing like hell.

On that note, also after As:

bridge, shoddy, gfdm, watch a backlog of movies, read liar game manga to figure out why the hell earthquakes occur...

list to be updated as inspiration strikes

2010-08-18T23:18:00.001+08:00

18/8/10-uninstalled shoddy and bbo :(

2010-08-18T20:08:00.002+08:00

how quickly things change

at the start of this year ago:

Go to school -> sleep through ~~almost~~ every lesson -> play bridge -> go home -> dota my night away -> sleep

now:

Go to school -> stay awake & pay attention for most lessons -> eat a quick lunch -> mug in library until 8pm or yanwei asplodes (whichever comes first) -> go home -> shoddy awhile -> mug till i fall asleep

life is good

2010-08-15T23:31:00.000+08:00

2010-04-03T10:49:00.001+08:00

Today's Garfield comic is hilarious

2010-03-24T13:32:00.003+08:00

Lots of things have happened since I last posted. Not surprising, since I haven't posted in practically forever, but I haven't had any motivation. Does anyone actually read this?

Anyway, a quick summary--

We won HCI Cup, which wasn't actually all that easy. Nevertheless, one down, 2 more trophies to go...

CTs have also started. With minimal studying from me. Econs is probably going to hover around D. Math asploded on me--damn disappointing--should be able to get B at least. Chem also looks like a B.

Damn these CTs.

2010-03-09T21:23:00.004+08:00

Summary: Jack Neo's a piece of shit.

2010-02-16T23:19:00.005+08:00

Hey, I haven't updated in a while. Not like it's surprising y'all anymore, I guess. This blog is fast turning into a random event kinda thing. Yknow, you guys occasionally check this blog in a fit of dreariness/boredom, not really expecting a post, when suddenly...

~~*RANDOM EVENT!*~~

...

~Fontcolour back to normal--check.

~Caps off-check.

~Bold off-check.

~Tildes off...oh wait...okay there. Check.

Holyshit that was damn gay I'm never doing that again.

This CNY is not turning out to be a happy one. Stuff have happened, which most of you probably know about already, and I'm not really a fan of shouting my troubles to the world. As great readers are all (some? most?) of you are.

Either way, this CNY isn't really turning out well, which really is a pity because it's the only holiday we get in a while.

Okay I shouldn't trivialize everything into a matter of holidays. Sigh. /cue emo

On another note, I finally finished Questionable Content in all of...5 days, after Jingxian intro'd it to me last thursday. I really am insane.

ok that sounded wayyyyy worse than it ought to

2010-01-10T21:45:00.002+08:00

My dear readers! I present the HOUGANG MALL BUBBLE TEA CHALLENGE, jointly organized by me and xw, who, incidentally, will be sponsoring the prizes.

The challenge goes thus:

There is a SWEETTALK opposite Pastamania right outside Hougang Mall. Your challenge is to successfully order a cup of bubble tea without pearls. You are allowed to tell the auntie that you don't want pearls when you are ordering, however you are not allowed to scream at her to stop once her ladle is poised relentlessly over the giant tin of pearls.

Correct way:

"Hi auntie, can I have [insert fruit] [insert tea] here, no pearls, no pearls, NO PEARLS, thanks :D"
-5 minutes later-
"Ah, a refreshing cup of bub-WHY ARE THERE PEARLS HERE ASDFG"

Wrong way:

"Hi auntie, can I have [insert fruit] [insert tea] here, no pearls, thanks :D"

-2mins later-

"AUNTIE NO PEARLS AHH STOP WHAT ARE YOU DOING STOP STOP STOP RAGEMODE ASBGWIUBGWERJBVEWRG"

If you succeed, XW will treat you to a cup of bubble tea. Good deal no?

Now go forth and fail miserably!

2010-01-07T17:23:00.003+08:00

Hi guys I haven't posted in a ridiculously long time. I realise I use the adjective 'ridiculously' a rid...way too often. There's probably a far more obscure word with the exact same meaning hidden somewhere within the 100 pages of 1000 WORDS YOU NEED TO KNOW FOR SATS (photocopied, incidentally, by tingfang, whom I am very grateful to. Grateful enough to thank her publicly, at least, although she doesn't read my blog and the number of readers I have is laughable, so the extent to which this demonstrates my gratefulness is open to debate. Yay or Nay? The tagboard awaits your comments.)

Anyway (where was I?), this post is to let yall know I'm still alive. To my persistent readers, who can somehow tolerate sporadic updates once/month, you guys need to suggest topics for my blog. Which will go through an elaborate screening and vetting process (read: me looking at your suggestions and going "what the hell, no way") before being written. Or, as I suspect the case may be, discarded.

This is assuming I still have readers left. Also, I hope everyone got the lailailai reference 2 paragraphs ago, because if you didn't, you probably finished the paragraph thinking that the writer was an idiot. Which is probably true, actually, but that's beside the point.

I remember how I used to blog; I just wrote down inane things that happened in the day. That was before I realised no one gives a shit about what I do. Or maybe they do, which is slightly more than a little disturbing and even more incentive for me to not write about how I spend my days.

Anyway this post has been long enough. Not bad, 500 words of pure vapidness. I still have my RI essaywriting skills with me.

2009-12-21T13:03:00.001+08:00

I have a new theory on life.

If everyone I knew mastered a specific rhythm game, we could one day all tap/strum/drum/dance/hammer buttons/whack away/spin to one song.

What a party that would be.

In other news, Econs calls.

2009-12-09T21:08:00.002+08:00

Ok the holidays are damn boring because everyone is overseas. So I am bored enough to complain on this blog.

For those of you who follow xw's blog, Princess Peach is saved, no thanks to the slacker Mario (pronounced MEH-re-oh according to Junyi) who spent the entire final stage in a bubble while Luigi heroically propellered/scrambled/tanked his way to the end, only to be cruelly killed by the heartless lava as Mehreoh stole all the glory.

For those of you who don't, uh, too bad. I'd love to have something to blog about but unfortunately I really AM THAT BORED so the least I can do is to condemn you to a life of equal boredom reading this inane post.

And yes, I miss you.

2009-12-02T12:15:00.002+08:00

The chalet was damn fun. It was also damn small. Remind me to volunteer to book chalets for people next time.

Seriously, everyone who organized the chalet did a great job. No idea how much effort was put in, but it was obvious that a LOT of planning went into it.

Of course, the random slack parts like Truth/Dare were interesting as well. Whoever knew Jingxian would...nevermind.

2009-11-29T00:09:00.003+08:00

Why is everyone so interested in my opinion on Ruth, I will never understand.

Given that I actually have a topic for this post, for once, I can't exactly ramble on incoherently like I always do for all of my other posts. I also have no idea exactly what to write about. It's like one of those GP essays, yknow, consider the value of play, where you stare at the topic, go "what the hell?!" and eventually start writing something in the vague hope of scoring something higher than 26.

Either way, uh, I shall begin with the first time I met her. Oh my tian this sounds retarded already.

Contrary to popular belief, it wasn't on a starry night/rainy day/against a backdrop of swelling orchestral music (depending on your preference in drama serials), but in some boring classroom on the third floor of Block B. I recall cursing when I realised that my entire class was full of scholars. I also recall Ruth introducing herself as a TSD student and me thinking that's interesting, so that's what a TSD student looks like.

Of course, Chester is also a TSD student, so that's not saying much.

ok wait i have just been interrupted

ruth@ruth-ng.com says:

if i find a long account

ruth@ruth-ng.com says:

on how we met

ruth@ruth-ng.com says:

i will not speak to you for the entire chalet

That settled, moving away from the story of how we met and skipping past random events which I will not mention (I can almost hear the collective groans now), I shall now give everyone a crashcourse on how to recognize Ruth if, for some reason, you have no idea what she looks like but still have the audacity to tag on my tagboard asking for this post.

#1: Hairband

The key thing, which most novices fail to realise, is that you do not spot Ruth by looking for her. You instead look for the hairband, then skim the general area around it until you find an utterly perplexed Ruth staring at you wondering why the hell you're staring at her forehead. If the hairband-wearer isn't Ruth, scream "BLASPHEMY!", tear the hairband from the unholy being's head and hurl it into the Biodiversity Pond (optional).

#2: Paint

It's a well-known fact that Ruth never wears a clean uniform. Look out for paint, blanko and miscellaneous debris.

#3: Company

This is by far the easiest method.

Step 1: Find Haiwei.

Step 2: Follow him around the entire day.

Step 3: Wait until he starts to suan a lanky guy.

Step 4: Look slightly to the lanky guy's left.

Step 5: You failed! Look slightly to the lanky guy's right.

Step 6: Yep, that's Ruth.

Now go forth and spot her!

2009-11-22T22:51:00.001+08:00

Uh okay I have completely run out of topics to post SO I shall post about whatever youall want me to post about.

Tag what subject you want and I'll write about it.

No, seriously.

2009-11-12T20:52:00.002+08:00

Gwen if you do not update your blog soon it will become more dead than mine. And I can tell you from personal experience that dead blogs are vaguely troublesome. It's like a dead body lying somewhere in the middle of your pristine Internet Explorer/Chrome (or, if you insist, Firefox. What is wrong with you?). You prod it occasionally with your foot, but it refuses to move. And it attracts a steady stream of commentators going WAI IZ YOUR BLOG DED UPDATE PLZ until you one day decide to revive it only to realise that your blog is but a pale shadow of the majestic creation it once was, with the former grandiose and elegantly crafted sentences reduced to a singularly long run-on sentence, much like the one I'm typing now, although, if you aren't anything like me (and chances are you aren't), making far more sense.

In conclusion, Gwen, and all you non-blog-updating-slackers (coughhaiweicough), go forth and UPDATE.

Okay fine, I'm just bored and need entertainment.

2009-11-09T19:40:00.002+08:00

OP tomorrow!

(On a side note, notice how I only post before major exams? There's a perfectly logical reason for this, which I will leave all of you dear readers to mull over before the next post. Of course, the next post, according to trends, will occur sometime around January, so you have plenty of time to think...)

After spending approximately 8 hours today reciting my script over and over again, I'm pretty much able to take on the world. OP examiners might be a different story, however...

Uh okay I know alot of people have been pestering me to post, but I honestly can't think of anything to post about. My life is not that exciting. Or maybe it is, but I refuse to share it with all of you because, honestly, when Hollywood comes calling to make the movie about my life the rights shall be mine and mine alone.

I almost typed 'rawr' there, before thinking better of it. There's a limit to how much insanity this blog can hold.

Seriously though, my blog needs an Extreme Makeover. It needs an Identity. Like Charlotte's blog, which reeks of Charlotte. Or XW's blog, which is full of retarded nonsense. Kind of like this one, actually...or Jingxian's blog, which is full of metaphysical incomprehensible posts. Kind of like JX, actually. The incomprehensible part, not the metaphysical part.

As with all my posts, I've run out of things to say, so here the post shall end.

2009-10-08T01:33:00.002+08:00

The exams are over. Wonder of wonders, the exams are over.

Maths was decent, Physics was mediocre. Enough said. Unlike some people, I don't spend entire paragraphs analyzing how each individual paper went. I do, however, devote the occasional line or two to subtly suanning them.

I amaze myself sometimes. This, however, is not one of those times.

Went to the arcade today with xw, yensen, bryan and winston. Yensen searched the entire arcade, concluded that they didn't have SFIV, and pretty much spasmed and died. The rest of us happily spammed GFDM until

1) Bryan's thumb exploded.

2) My middle finger exploded. Ah, poor middle finger; it served me well over the years.

On the bright side, I did pass TTFAF on drums today. I know that no one understands me.

Night all!

2009-10-06T00:21:00.002+08:00

Ok I swore I'd get on a hiatus until promos are over but it's 12.21 now, Math exam is tomorrow, I just finished rushing/skimming over a pile of notes so thick it's not even funny and I have to post this so, in 2-3 months' time during the December holidays, I won't accidentally wish I was back in school studying because STUDYING IS NOT FUN.

My schedule is ridiculous, every day is just an insane blur of studying for the next exam and the occasional DotA game to keep me sane (and you know something's wrong when DotA pubs are the only thing keeping you sane). Ever since the chaos began with GP all of 6 days ago, there hasn't been a single day where I can just slack and relax and happily consider my plans for the next day. It's been AHH GP MUG MUG followed by AHH ECONS and "oh right, chinese, i kinda forgot about that" and WEEKEND OF EPIC BOREDOM WHERE I MUG FOR CHEM and, as of 2 hours ago, AHH OH SHIT MATHS IS TMR HALP ME.

And tomorrow won't be better, I know what my schedule will be: finish Maths, complain about the paper, go home, DotA for sanity, sleep, rush physics.

The best thing I can say about the promos is that it's going to be over soon.

I'm not complaining, though; every J1 student has to go through this. Still, it's worth noting. I can't wait for the day--2 days' time--where I can actually start, yknow, living a life again instead of spending each day in a DotA-and-panic-fuelled blur.

And since everyone is talking about papers:

GP promises to be a borderline A/B. I hope like hell it's A.

Econs promises me absolutely nothing, as expected.

I don't give a shit about Chinese.

Chem is promising.

2009-09-01T02:18:00.003+08:00

2nd at SCBA on Friday and first today. Gosu partnerships ftw.

If this goes on I might actually be able to supplement my pocket money, assuming, of course, that we continue running into opponents who bid 4h on 20 points, get doubled down 2 and then complain angrily at me for doubling without the Qh.

Well, it's a topboard, so it was amusing to watch him bluster (and screwup the following board; 3hx-3.)

Life's been getting more stressful and yet better. I've learned one thing--don't think about the amount of work we need to mug because it is insanely depressing and will leave you curled up in a fetal position whimpering softly.

It's the people you have around you that pull you through times like these. You need close friends who will force you to mug (or at least, I do; muggers like ~~jing xian~~ are probably self-motivated by the tantalizing thought of learning the inner workings of Chemical Energetics) and yet keep the mugging from being unbelievably boring. Or sophorific. Usually both. I'm lucky, and always have been.

Most of the time, anyway.

2009-08-20T00:41:00.002+08:00

Blogger has finally deigned to allow me to write another post, after a few days of fruitless attempts at accessing blogger.com (this webpage could not load. please try again later.) And I thought anything owned by Google was supposed to be efficient.

Then again, my laptop isn't owned by Google, so I suppose it could be my fault.

Defence talk was a complete waste of time. We were subjected to what had to have been the most one-sided, biased and monodimensional play ever. Yes, I get that you're trying to brainwash us kids (the FUTURE of the NATION) into mindlessly believing that NS is good for us and not a complete and utter waste of time but surely there are more intelligent ways to do so. Like subliminal messages. That's pretty much the only way you're ever going to convince us.

Most of us, anyway...

2009-08-10T01:48:00.002+08:00

Up was a great movie, with great company. Life's good.

Tagboard evidence seems to suggest that my blog readership has fallen to roughly two people, excluding myself (since I am sadly forced to read whatever I write, I don't really count), so I think I should spare everyone the misery and shut this blog down soon.

But first...

All of you should go listen to instrumental rock. Just listen to it. Once, before you make any judgements, although I'm pretty sure that none of you will like it anyway. Still, it's worth a try...ask me or Bryan for songs.

This is how you ask me:

You: "Eh kenneth I read your blog!!! (this automatically makes you either 1. gwen or 2. renwei) GIV MUSIX PLZ"

Me: "Ok here you go."

This is how you ask Bryan:

You: "Bryan can send me some instrumental rock?"

Bryan: "Sure :D"

You: "NO ASAKI PLZ"

Bryan: "....whhhaaa?!!! give it a try la"
You: "NO I DON'T WANT ANY ASAKI"
Bryan: "ASAKI ROCKS LA WTH"

You: "Just send me a non-Asaki so--"

Bryan: "Screw you go ask Kenneth la."

---

You: "Eh Kenneth I read your blog!!!"

2009-08-08T02:13:00.001+08:00

hw` I'm hooked on you I need a fix said:

i fridgeraided

kenneth said:

did u win

hw` I'm hooked on you I need a fix said:

but i looted 0 gold

kenneth said:

noob