Yes, happy new year. Had a dream during the night of new year's eve. She reappeared suddenly. I was in school, Fajar sec. And like a tape recorder, it replayed that night. We didnt talked, i just hum-ed away just like how i did in the past.
29/12/2006 Went for sec 4 fren's outing. Was almost 30min late. The best thing is that zhihao and mingwei came for it, which was quite rare. We talked about where to go for the next 1hr+. At first it was ECP one, but later duno y changed again. So after 1hr+ of discussion, we finally decided to go cineleisure for a movie. And when we were there, we spend somemore time discussing wad to movie to watch. LOL sia, but tt's was we always do. Actually i was quite keen to watch NATM...but....
Mingwei watched "Night at the Museum" and so we cant watch that. Weiquan watched "Death Note 2" and so we cant watch that. Roy and Mingwei watched "Curse of the golden flower" and so we cant watch that.
So in the end, we watched something that somewhat gave me an idea of "pearl harbour". The movie was FlyBoys. It's freaking stereotype. You see the title you aso know what izzit liaoz. Flyboys definitely gives you the idea that its a movie on aeroplanes, and when u add guns to the planes and add some romance into the show, that's the full movie. =.='''.
Flyboys
My Rating - 3.0/10.0
Its a waste of time. It was about 2hr+ i tin. Avoid this movie, its horrendous to me. I've never rate this low on a review.
After the movie we discuss on where to makan our lunch/dinner. At first we went seoul garden but the cost was too lol liaoz. Raf recommended Ramen Ten @ Far East, so we walk from taka to far east lo.
The food there? I personally don't fancy jap food la, IMHO it sux. But the ramen was quite alright, not that bad, the only thing was that ginger taste was alil strong. It was quite spicy too. I ordered the Spicy Teriyaki Salman Ramen i tin. Forgot liaoz. The portion was really pathetic, but its expected la, its town wad. After makaning lunch went to gin's house. Before that go plaza's Auntie Lucy (NTUC) to get some stuff.
We went there to get some vodka, and some other content to mix. The auntie @ NTUC didnt let me buy and insisted on wanting me to flash my IC.
So we went to gin's house with only some lime juice and cans of tonic. Lol. I barely drank up to 2 glasses of vodka + ice cream soda. Den later after a few games of "Bluff/Cheat", I felt alil drowsy. But the amazing thing is that my face turned white. And wth is that so? I only see in movies that pple's face turn red but not white. I seldom drink alcohol. The only times i drank was @ gin's house. It was the place i first drank alcohol.
Lost
Lots of my SP frens asked me to play games with them on hamachi lately but i rejected them. Why? Because i had something else to do. Watch Lost. Worth watching, but not as addictive as prison break.
My Rating - 8.2/10.0
When Taiwan's Earthquake became my problem...
And yes, the taiwan earthquake stopped my business for a day. And has affected my business for almost a week.
And after the earthquake till now....
Its really bad compared to the rest.
But it doesnt really matter la, anyway now i'm short of space. That's y i'm getting a 750gb.
Woohoo...the new year approaches...yea, this year isn't exactly the best. Laziness is ruining me. Nth much for this year, the only thing probably to be remembered is how many lessons i pon-ed, which i never needed to resort to during sec sch.
Apart from those torture, i've found happiness in electronic gadgets. Comparing from the previous to this yr, i've definitely became more techo-saavy and exercising less. I never got my balance right. Last time was too much of bball, too alittle study. This time is too lil exercise, too much food, too lil study. So it seems that this time is worse. Sadly, I think i've lost interest in bball, i duno why. Maybe i've gotta hear some FRUCK sounds before i get motivated again, but for now, if you ask me to play bball, you'll hear a totally different answer from the previous years.
So this coming new year, there are a few targets i wish to meet.
I don't wanna become a geek @ home. I'll need some pull factors to pull me outta my home, and current i duno what izzit but hopefully i'll find it.
Healthy lifestyle program
Yes, i know, and please dun remind me again that i failed last year. After 2mths, i succumbed to my mum's offer to a McSpicy Burger and from then, I was back to eating, and this year i'm back to how i was during sec 1?
So yes, I'll be trying to keep my weight down again. It's seriously a waste of food when you have so much food on your table and you dun eat it. Hopefully, it'll last till i serve my nation this time.
And yes again, it'll be cereal or no breakfast, and i'll be in school in the afternoon, so means its no lunch. I know its very possible to eat during break in SP, cuz i've been doing it with no sweat. But the challenge is to maintain eating just enough for dinner. Cuz even though i reached home usually @ 3pm or 4pm, I'm capable of eating excessive amounts.
Eg. I straightaway grab a large packet of Ruffles potato chips after taking off my shoes and socks after returning home.
After finishing Ruffles, if there's still time before dinner and i'm bored, i'll take the whole plastic bag of swee heng bread (about 3-4 bread). Believe it or not, i'll down it before the day ends. Then i'm sure i'll get a drink (Eg. Milo). After that, makan dinner.
After dinner i'll rest awhile and i'm sure before 8.30pm is up, i'll grab the next item on the list, practically anything on the table. Sometimes its biscuits, sometimes its twisties.
And btw, when i open up a bag of tidbits or a carton of biscuits, u'll find nothing after i get my hands on it.
I think its most likely boredom or just for fun. Its become such a habit to take something in after i walk out of my room.
I think i've exceeded 80kg now. I couldnt believe it when my auntie showed me a photo of me taken during sec 3 (with my moustache hair) to show me how much i gained. =.=''', so bloody demoralising. So the target would be like sec 3. My closest to a healthy lifestyle.
BASS LESSONS.
Yes, i want it so much. I just casually told my dad today afternoon, maybe he would think i'm joking. But i'll make sure he gets my message. Dad needs time too, cuz taking up a new instrument is expensive. You've need enough money for the bass + lessons + amp for a start. I'm ok to do the upgrading myself. Yup, i want it very much, but i've been thinking for how long this excitement will last. I don't wanna find myself playing it for only a year. I'm sure my sponsor would aso wun wan to see me playing for only a short amount of time. Maybe lessons @ yahama, since its the only music school to offer bass lessons. Plus bass lessons would give me another reason to escape home to enjoy the outside world. It helps deduct geek pts. But veri little since its only once a week.
Bass? My dad doesn't know what to buy, and so, i'll have to do alil research to find wad's good and budget. Maybe i'll aim to play get my music theory and basics right, and get some riffs played. I'm more concerned with the basics, cuz bad habits suck. And no, if pple in church are looking to find me to play during worship this coming yr, i'm sorry, i've gotta turn you down, cuz i dun wanna find myself playing w/o knowing wad i'm playing.
Its better to immerse yourself in learning music den to makan like cr4zy.
Give myself a reason to like attending lessons
It had been a really tough year to like school. Maybe my adaptability suck or smth. But i'll try smth to motivate me to go to school more often. It has never been like that all my life, kindergarten, pri sch, sec sch. The most i'll skip two days in a year cuz i'm sick or smth. Oh yes, although its been a boring year, i've never fallen sick this whole year.
Before i continue, lemme countdown first. LOL...9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1...Happy new year...~!@#$%^&*()_...LOL...Relax la, pple in bangkok crying lei...
Maintaining and Improving my relationship with my relatives and family
Maybe its the number of times i've been meeting them, i get all anti-social with some of my relatives. My mum? i've always been communicating v well with her, sometimes shouting even, but its still a form of communication. My sister? No problems with communication too. They are the most communicat-able at home.
My dad? Maybe i and him spend veri lil time together, but i've always have some problem with asking him to get something for me. But shouldn't a son be comfortable to ask his dad to buy smth for him? Never for me, ever since birth maybe. Most of frenz know that i've even saved for my gameboy during pri 3 when i've only $1 as allowance. Could only afford a gameboy pocket. But he's always been providing for my sch fees and stuff. (Duh!).
I've always got a problem communicating with my dad's youngest sister (2nd auntie) and her family. I duno why aso. Mayb its the truth that i'll turn all cold and boring if i dun sped time with pple.
Church friends? I've always been a block of wood. I talked veri lil, as if i'm some retard. I dun even noe whether i can regard them as friends, cuz i'm never talking to them volunteerily for the last 17 yrs. No common topics to start with.
I really wanna change to be more sociable, but wun it be weird if some lol guy didnt really talked to you for the past 17 yrs and suddenly he talks like!@#$%^&*()_+. Weird weird one lei.
Huat AR!!! Fortune rolling rolling come.
Finances had been quite stable. No overspending. No CNY during 2006 for me cuz of my grandpa's death during 13/4/2005 6:30pm. There's no overspending, but there's aso no increase in my funds. Yea, i wanna be wad i used to be, a giver as well as someone who could control his funds. Last time i could buy supper for my family at my own expense. 4 fillet o fish burgers. But since sec 3, didnt buy liaoz.
Actually for me, its not the huat factor la, its how i use my money. Its a bomb this year considering the number of days i worked this year - 0 days. I managed to save enuff money to get my speakers, soundcard, headphones, mouse, keyboard = $600+++. And i still got my 1.3k reserved for the upcoming ps3.
On the item list this year, its more challenging:
1. Razer mouse ($60-$100) 2. Logitech G15 Keyboard ($105) 3. Supper frequently for family 4. Bass upgrading (If my dad agrees for me to play bass that is) 5. Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 750GB HDD. 6. PSP 7. Increase PS3 reserve by $200 to $1500.
Which means, u won't be seeing me eating @ sp for the whole of 2007. Its a 60cent qin chow for me.
Other aims
-Bringing torrenting to a whole new lvl. -Get a part time job w/o getting fired for slacking. -Eliminate laziness.
Things havent been going smoothly like this whole year. Even now i feel like crap. Nothing to look forward to. Boring Boring Boring Boring. Life is full of downs lol?
By the way ar, 4e1 pple why no outing? I damn bored man. SP frenz? Don't even need or feel like asking. Firstly, the people near me won't wanna go out. And the few that wants to go out are like staying so far away in the east. That's why I always feel fajarians are the best. I'm totally getting the opposite experience of what poly students should get la, wtf. If there're students that just finished their O's and need a reason to not go poly, i'm the living testimony. Just cant blend with them well enough to goof ard.
It had been really boring after the last update.
Didn't turn up for school on tuesday(12/12/06), wednesday(13/12/06) and friday(15/12/06).
So i shall talk about some few days which some interesting stuff happened like...
11/12/06 - Monday Came to school today cuz i'm alil worried about my ISE attendance, cuz Mr Liew may be a lil more sensitive to attendance. Class ended with WCD, which i can never follow what the heck Ms Kim is doing. Totally lost after the html chapter. CSS was cr4zy enuff, then now Javascript, wth? WCD ended half an hour earlier cuz Ms Kim wasn't feeling well. So after class i stayed back awhile to play Warhammer 40k with fabian on sch comp lo.
After that sean called me to look for them (IDEA project group) @ fc4. So ok lo. I was on my way to fc4. Then got this unknown caller called my hp. And wth? It's the Annie Sung - IDEA Lecturer. I roughly had an idea of what she wanna talk to me about. It is attendance. But i was part wrong, cuz she said she wanted to pass me some crap donation card. =.=''' So she came down from office and passed me the card. Then she talked to me about my poor attendance and my punctuality.
Annie Sung: Joel, what happened to you ar? Seldom see you around in school nowadays lei, and you always late for my lessons. Can you tell me why is that so? J0sA1Ac: Err, haf mei? (trying to kay siao awhile) Annie Sung: Haf. The other lecturers also told me about your poor attendance. Always late, always nv come. What happened Joel? J0sA1Ac: (So I came clean with her lo.) Sian lor. Don't feel like coming. Annie Sung: Why? Izzit of the travelling time? Or very hard to make friends? But cannot be wad, last semester your attendance was quite good wad. J0sA1Ac: Travelling lo, and modules boring + cant really catch up. Almost all modules i sian liaoz (Actually, a big part was the friends la, but i didnt tell her, later make trouble) Annie Sung: Where you stay? J0sA1Ac: Bt Panjang. Annie Sung: Aiya, so near. J0sA1Ac: Lol, 45-60 minutes lei cher. Annie Sung: Aiya, go work lo, earn money to buy a car (I was like, are you serious or am i supposed to laugh? But apparently she was seriously.) J0sA1Ac: Wa cher, car lei, if i despo till want car you should have seen me touching the subaru car liaoz lo. (Wow, that was like a few months ago ever since i cracked a joke. I never had the habit of cracking jokes ever since i stepped into SP.) Annie Sung: *Laughed* True ar. But do you know i actually had students who worked until they got a car?
*...And it went on and on....the whole talk ended 1 hr*
After that went on to fc4 for project discussion. Den went home.
Oh yes, my life is currently boring. But there are also things that keep me going. To entertain myself at home i've got the whole season 2 and part of season 3 of Mythbusters to watch. Its really nice. Informative and yet interesting.
Mythbusters
So. You're minding your own business, filling up your gas tank, when your cell phone rings. Hmmm. Should you answer it? Because you've heard you shouldn't use cell phones near gas stations since they can produce small sparks that can ignite big fires.
But wait. Could that actually be true?
Sounds like a job for MythBusters!
It's a tough job separating truth from urban legend, but the MythBusters are here to serve. Each week special-effects experts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman take on three myths and use modern-day science to show you what's real and what's fiction.
My Rating - 8.6/10.0 Status - Available (Tag me if you want them)
Besides the Mythbusters, I've aso some stuff for pure entertainment, I've got Survivor Season 13. Very nice too. I still think the Survivor legend is Terry from the last season, he was pure ownage. But for the last two seasons, people who won most challenges didnt win the million dollars, weird?
Good stuff. Its a dvd/video where they teach you how to use flash. Very useful, just the right stuff if you didnt like reading books. There are aso materials where they let you practice along with the guy.
My Rating - 9.5/10.0 Status - Available (Tag me if you want a copy.)
I'm getting a few more stuff but my harddisk exploding. So i'm gonna format my harddisk very soon. Here are a list of stuff i have, if you need em, tag me or msn me.
Software FRAPS Registered 2.8.1 Macromedia Studio 8 PerfectDisk v8.0.30 Professional.Edition (Defrag software) StyleXp BitDefender IconWorkshop Likno Web Button Maker NOD32 Antivirus Office Professional 2003 Adobe Acrobat Professional 7.0.8 Adobe Photoshop CS2 Delphi 7 Enterprise
Games Crazy Taxi 3 Splinter Cell Double Agent Rainbow 6 Vegas Rayman Raving Rabbids Star Wars: Empire At War (Includes Forces of Corruption Expansion) The Sims 2 (Includes Glamour Life, Night Life, Pets) Warhammer: Mark Of Chaos Gothic 3 LOTR Battle for Middle-Earth: Rise of Witch King Expansion Only Marvel Ultimate Alliance Medieval Total War Neverwinter Nights 2 Need for Speed: Carbon Phantasy Star Universe. Top Spin2 Warhammer 40k (Includes Winter Assault, Dawn of War, Dark Crusade) Battlefield 2142 Civilization IV (Includes Warlords) Half-Life 2 (Includes Episode One) Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 Rome Total War. (Includes Alexander) Titan Quest
Movies Barnyard Chicken Little Deathnote Final Fantasy VII Advent Children Ice Age Flushed Away (Not DVD quality) Little Man Mission Impossible 3 Monster House Superman Returns Talladega Nights The Ant Bully The Matrix Trilogy (Original, Reloaded, Revolutions) World Trade Center You Me Dupree
today sux la. firstly its cuz today got gems, but nigel and i purposely 1hr late lol, cuz nigel + i + ben + jon played bigtwo/daidi/dalaoer @ fc4 after lunch. today's hand damn good, duno why aso. and today i ATE @ SP, wth? Cuz very bored la, so eat lo. The most less money only ma. Nothing much to save for also. After gems came home lo. Saw Salman from pri.sch on the lrt with his skateboard. Didnt say hi, cuz the lrt train damn packed. First time i saw him ever since i left pri.sch sia. He's taller liaoz (of cuz la, feihua, who wun grow taller from pri sch onwards?). Face didnt changed much, that's y i can recognize him. Lol just got the letter by mindef, to register for some ns thing. I get so late sia.
today the singnet people came to upgrade my internet connection to 5Mbps. Sux la, i lost my admin rights to the router. zZz. Router back to where it was, my parents' room. Which means i don't have the ethernet cable, which means i'll have slower speeds. Which means my dls will be slower. Which means.....
Long and short, I want wired connection, wireless too unstable.
But i'll give u readers my word. I'll negotiate with my parents' and return the router to where it is destined to be. My room. Pwahhaha. SHOW
4/12/2006 Boring, boring, boring, boring, boring. The end.
5/12/2006 Boring again. Today got pck, and that's the only thing that's interesting. Today didnt go to school for IDEA, boring la, plus i thought got nothing to do, but actually my group got re-presentation. Paiseh ar, my IDEA group. Came for the hardcore 3hrs of DBMS, but as usual playing bigtwo/daidi/dalaoer in class with the "four big sky king" (chinese), louis, fabian, me and [yuh shyang or jon or cr]. But me fabian and louis sure play one la. LOL. I know its bad to not listen in class la, but u noe u noe XD. Yesterday saw a job (link to job details) @ forums@vr-zone i would like to try to apply for. Some promoting job @ sls la. I no promoting exp, but nowadays jobs usually are promo jobs ma. So must learn lo. Somemore @ sls, hope its easy lo. Called that guy today, he says interview tml @ 6.30pm lo.
6/12/2006 Wednesday is as usual lol one la. Morning got CRS presentation, as again as usual, my presentation part confirm suck la, can aso say its retarded la. Cuz i duno why i got problem with explaining stuff to a class. Cant talk much. Got any tips on how to improve on oral presentations drop it in the tagboard, cuz i really suck in it. And i dun wanna be a liability to my group when it comes to presentations. After school went home rest awhile then went with junwei/sexy for the interview. We took a taxi there since we duno how to go, LOL. Then it started to rain. zZz...Didn't know the exact venue, so i called the guy again. The guy says his office is one the terrace. Den i lol. In my mind = "scammer sia".
The guy give us form write write then he come in talk talk lo. Lol sia, he says, "We're aiming for high sales on weekends, let's say about 20 units per weekend?" My jaw hit the ground sia. Tio shock. So much la. Its not pencil or pen lei. Its LCD Monitors or Laptops leiz. Hey, people who had promoter jobs b4, how's your business usually, and how you get your business? (post them @ the tagboard) Most likely i'll work @ sls during the 3 weeks hols (starting from 17 dec) and the 2mths hols (from feb 11). HUAT AR! Hope so la. Hope people got sudden crave for electronics. IT is the 'it' thing now.
Basic $5/hr. Working from 11.30pm to 7.30pm lo. Commission? Almost like dun haf la. $6 for each laptop. $10 for each laptop during weekend. If i really can sell 20 units per weekend then say. So if you ever come to sls, don't come find me unless u plan to buy stuff from me. LOL, no la, up 2 u la, jk.
7/12/2006 Thursday? at first decide to skip WCD only, but in the end i skipped the day. LOL. Thursday = guitar class, omg. Took a taxi down to International Plaza, the taxi fare is cr4zy, i tin its $17++ that day. Everything was so normal until after guitar class. I chased the last 700, and the flag down the bus and stood at the door but!? the bus driver bochap me. WTF!? Ok, nvm. Den the 970 came, The bus bo chap me again. WTF? That moment i hot sia. LOL. But i very fast cool down one la lol. Nvm lo, wait for the next 970. From 7.30pm wait till 8.05pm sia. zZz.
Boarded the 970 lo. Den i'll do the first thing when i enter 970 A.K.A Bus of Surprises. Check the environment of the bus. And most of the time it'll be dirty with crawling cockroaches. This time aso dirty. zZz. And again, I thought of a few stuff.
I thought of how Larry Graham plays funky music so funky that makes my head bob like cr4zy, and also why music is so influential. Dun know who's Larry Graham? Lai lai lai, lemme show you.
Larry Graham
Retro bass player. He's from the 1970s la, so be understanding. The music not very pop la. But i like, so share with you guys lo. 70% u'll bob your head.
I like almost all music la, but i mean who will like music as lol as death metal? Its cr4zy man. LOL, even if i don't listen to the lyrics, let's just say i just listen to the music, also lol la. So boring. Its loud, yes. But wth? Louder = Better? Credits to paul for introducing to me Cannibal Corpse.
Cannibal Corpse
Wow rite? LMAO. The lyrics is totally lol la. wanna know the lyrics go google it. By the way, don't bother turning up the volume to know what they are singing, instead, accept it, its impossible to listen to what their singing. If you guys like that kind of music, I respect your choice, just that i've gotta say u've got a unique taste =D. The only thing i find cool is the headbanging. LOL. Use hair to draw a circle, WOW! Tell me how's the music in the tagboard also.
After i reached home about 9.30pm?, I lol sian. So i did some stuff for this post. Den @ 10pm watched prison break on channel 5.
