28/06/2010

The new term started today.



The release of the Term Project was actually pretty fun, now the students have 2 choices, we are actually given option to choose which project we want to do. It's doesn't get any better than that, you either take the hard one, or the hard one.



The hard one requires us to do some concrete mixture thing and the other hard one required us to use plywood. Being the Singaporean that I am, I decided to take the one that everyone took, the hot topic which was the concrete project. When I say hot topic, I mean "Great Singapore Sale Aunties Hogging and Smashing Each Other Withe Plastic Bags" hot. Okay, so maybe it isn't as choatic as that, but there's a queue going on, like how people queue up for the iPhone. It was pretty long.


44 spots for that project, I was No.40.


Am I lucky or am I hardworking. I bothered to queue up and it got me that project,so I am both hardworking and lucky, but mostly hardworking because so far I haven't won any lottery, well I don't buy lottery but if I was really lucky, I would have found a winning lottery ticket on the floor by now.


I have no idea which one is easier because it could go both ways, here's hoping it's easy to score because I bothered to move my butt and queue up.

27/06/2010

It's pretty late now and tomorrow is the last day of my holiday, technically tomorrow is the start of the new term but since I have not gone to bed yet, I shall just lie to myself.

Very much not looking forward to it. Seated right in front, the tables are arranged in such a 2 by 2 manner, and it's like the 4 tables in front belong to me because my friends are all seated behind me. I am seated at that spot to shield my classmates from the lecturer's spit, like a meat shield.

I can't move because if I do, I am going to look like a loner, seating all by myself at one corner, the empty table is literally at the corner of the room. I am already pretty much a loner now, sitting at the front with my friends sitting behind me is like a pretense, I don't speak to all my mates that are seated behind me, I am only speaking to 2 of them and there are about 5 seated there.

It's not that they don't speak to me, just to be clear, I am not speaking to them.

There's no animosity going on, but with some people, there's really no common topic to talk about. If you try to start a conversation it will just end really quickly, the awkwardness will last longer than the actual conversation. I am being cock block by my mates because people I speak to mostly are situated behind them.

One thing to look forward to though is the new project that will be coming up, it's exciting because it's going to be an individual project! The excitement will die when I know what the project is about, but for now, it's a "Yay!" for me. Now there's no more excuse for me to stay back to do group work, I had to stay back till 8 pm one time for my group project last term, and I didn't do anything, it was a bloody waste of my time, time that I could have spend at home playing Aion. Subscription Fees are not spelt with a "R" in the middle of "F" and "E".

Over the holidays I made more friends online than I ever will in a year. Aussies from my guild, it's fun to listen to Australians speak and learn their lingo, I just assumed everything they said, that I didn't understand, was their lingo. Many a times it's just a spelling error and I will have sigh of relief when the other guild members go....

"WTF are you talking about mate?"

... because it just makes me realise I am not the stupid one who doesn't understand, we are all stupid together for not understanding the error filled sentence in the Guild Chat.

Aussie Guildies are so much more friendlier than Singapore Guildies, a pity school's gonna start soon and I am not going to be able to spend as much time in-game anymore.

Why Real Life Why?

Latest record with Aion was that I played till 3 in the morning. When you enter an Instance Dungeon(Google it Non-Gamers) , who knew it would take 5 hours to complete, I was literally stuck on my computer for 5 hours, you may think to yourself...

"You can just stop and go to sleep whenever you want."

... if you think that way, you are obviously not an MMO player, you don't just leave a group in game when you want to, that would just make you an asshole in the gaming community. I am not kidding, you can't just go, people online will sometimes get pissed. We stay on the game because we care, not because we are too engross in it, well maybe a little of the latter, but mostly the former.

A good analogy is like telling someone to stop the baking process of a cake because they are running short of time. It's ridiculous, we gamers are committed online, I am pretty sure fellow MMO players will agree with me.

Ask your wife to STFU and GTFO. Some guy I met online said his wife threatened to divorce him if he don't stop playing, the group that I was in ended up not having a tank for the whole run,, a tank is essential because it's like a meat shield in the group, like how I am a spit shield for me mates seated behind me in class, you need them to get spanked by the mobs(in game monsters) or the group's gonna wipe (everyone dies), luckily the people in the group were experienced and in the end we didn't need the tank to survive, but I've been blaming his wife ever since because she just made me realise that we have no life, that's why we are so good at what we do in-game.

I am not that good a gamer, if I say I am in-game people will think I am being arrogant, and if I say that I am a really good gamer in real life, people will say I have no life. It's like there's no pleasing anyone.

23/06/2010

I have recently set a new personal record for myself, one that I am extremely proud of.


I managed to play Aion for 10 straight hours, non-stop with the exception of taking a piss in my pants every now and then and having to go to the toilet to clean it up. I was stuck on my computer screen for 10 hours.


You don't get to hear someone announce that everyday do you, because people who beat my record are too engross in their game, they have completely forgotten about their social life, which I am pretty sure I myself am lacking.




On the topic of social life, it's safe to say my circle of friends has dwindled to only a handful of tens. I am not even kidding at how sad my social circle is right now. My online social circle is getting a lot bigger though... not really making me feel any better but I have been playing with a bunch of aussie players and they are not racist at all, which is of course surprising to me because I just assume any causcasian I see is a racist because they have a thing against slanty eyes I guess and towards people who has "Chink" as their first name.




Difference between Aussie players and Singaporean players online is probably the way they speak on Ventrilo, a programme that allows you to speak to your guildies. Singaporeans all sound extremely tired when they are speaking on Vent while Australians are more energetic, no where near being high, a little dead but you can sense a bit of life in them.



I don't speak to them because I feel inferior with my accent, I just told them I will get too turned on if I hear myself speak on Vent when they ask why I don't speak on it. They laugh, but I know they want to hear my voice real bad. You don't get to hear the voice of an angel on Vent everyday, like how you don't get a no life showing off how no life he is by telling the World Wide Web his 10 hour gaming streak everyday.



Countdown to the start of a new term.
Holding back on the enthusiasm.
Damn it. School or stay at home all day doing nothing productive. Hmmm~

22/06/2010

If you have recieved a personal message on your tagbox, please re-link me.



Just to talk about life in general.



Holiday's started, for like a week now and that's probably how outdated this blog is. I've been home all day playin Aion because who needs to go out and get a life when you have Aion. It's been pretty boring over the past few days truth to be told.


Results for my first project of the year is out and I got a C! C is a very common grade I get, which is of course extremely upsetting, but nothing can be more upsetting than the end of the project, the joys I have shared with my groupmates. Everything turned out great, even the sacrasm filled in this passage.


No one in my cohort likes group work at all. Especially in a design project, nobody likes to compromise their own design. I don't even know where to start with how terrible to group is, not the people, I like the people in the group, well most of them that is.


It's actually the workstyle that the group has somehow adopted that was terrible. You come in whatever time you want, group discussion doesn't neccessarily have to have the whole group involved. Sometimes it would only be 2 people discussing and sometimes 3, there are 6 people in the group.


The design had to be re-done over and over again and again it was just really bad.



If you were to experience that whole thing in my shoes, you would be glad you got a C. I can't even be bothered to treat this as a real exam because denial works best in such cases.



A week more to go before school starts, and 4 months to go before NAPFA starts. I have to get a least a silver this time round, been failing a lot in Secondary School. Silver so I won't have to go NS for an extra 2 months. Why must Singapore be so small and lacking manpower, why can't they just hire foreign talents to die for our country. Get those from a third world country, they will never start a war with us, ever. Unless of course they get paid by us and then start their own army in their country to overthrow us for treating their men like dispensable soldiers.


One can hope can they not?

30/04/2010

"If Slaughterhouses Had Glass Wall"

A message by PETA that's extremely graphic.

I think meat eaters should take a look at that video. Youtube's your best friend when you are looking for videos, if you aren't, you can deny that friendship.

I have to admit, watching the cow getting beaten up and send through the slaughter machine while it was still alive was extremely disturbing, but seeing the cow coming out of the machine, skinless, alive and kicking was just inhumane and sick on so many levels. I am never going to look at a burger the same way again.

Hearing the pig wailing while getting dragged away to the slaughterhouse was even more disturbing. After watching that I just wanted to go and adopt a pig for some reason. I mean it's cute, and I eat it for lunch and dinner on several occasions, it would be nice to have a pig that I can pet rather than eat.

I don't like the way the slaughterhouse kills a chicken, first they snip off their beaks, which I am guessing hurts like a bitch, and a chicken would probably call that an understatement, but leaving them beak-less for months, that's nuts. After all that torture, the chickens are grabbed by the leg and either slammed against the ground or have their head stomped on by the people working in the slaughterhouse. The video even showed a guy attempting to break the chicken's neck by twisting it, but the bird just didn't want to die, so he just tossed it aside and let it die slowly, all the time the chicken was on the ground with a broken neck, it was flapping away like crazy.

I think there's a more humane way of killing animals, I know I should be turning vegan after watching that video because that's the whole point, but meat is too delicious to deny and vegetables pale in comparison, taste and texture wise. I had salad once for lunch with a little chicken on the side. It sucked which helped me realise that I am not disciplined enough to go vegan HARDCORE.

Maybe I will avoid eating meat once in a while, just like how many Christians forget about God except on a Sunday when they go to church. Guilty!

I am trying, yesterday for dinner and today, I avoided the pork because I know that would what my pet pig, that I have yet to adopt and probably never will, would want me to do. 

28/04/2010

I'm not one who likes to work in a group, so when the time comes to work in a group, rather than having my own opinion, I really much prefer to follow what others have to say.

Well, that's half true, the part about me not liking to work in a group, the other part only applies to a group with overbearing group mates. 

Today was a really really bad day. 2 lectures at one go, one was slightly dull and the other was just insanely dry. After that was group work, you don't hear me jumping for joy when that happens.

All I did was sit at my little corner surfing the internet while my group was discussing all the other stuff about the project. Let's just put it this way, if you see a bug in a bowl of cereal, you would dump the whole whole bowl cereal away even if the rest are clean. I am the person eating the cereal, my project mates are the bowl of cereal and the bug is, well, the overbearing groupmate.

I am not trying to talk shit about anyone but that's just the way I feel about the group, Poisoned by a single bug.

27/04/2010

I am currently watching videos on Youtube.

Taking a look at all the cool phones in Japan right now, or last year. I don't know exactly what year they are from since they have an assortment of gorgeous clamshell phones which are oddly similar looking.

As I was browsing through all the fantastic phones, I chanced upon a video of the current phone I am holding, the Xperia X10 also known as SO-01B in Japan. 

I like the name SO-01B.

It is so baffling, that on it's release date, there are these shitload of Japanese men queuing up outside the DoCoMo store waiting to get their hands on a SO-01B. I didn't really have to queue up for mine, well, actually on second thought I did, but the queue wasn't exactly long, there were this 2 senior citizens at the front of the queue I was queuing asking the questions old people would ask about gadgets, which essentially means all the questions you can possibly ask about gadgets.

They are old and modern day gadgetry are not their thing so I understand. They probably forgot what they wanted to ask and the they had to constantly jolt up each other's memory like 24/7, they are old.

I think I just made that old people thing up, there wasn't any oldies couple, just a single old lady who managed to pull the customer service guy out from the customer service booth and me being the next in line after her wasn't happy.

I want to get a queue number!

Oh, yes, there are 2 waiting lines. First to get a queue number that's bombarded by oldies and the next, to wait for your number to be called out, which is slightly less bombarded by old people since everyone is just walking around the store looking at dummy phones which are probably 50% spoilt. People can apparently slide a dummy phone till the sliding mechanism gets spoilt, that, my friends is what you call skill, even a stress machine at some Samsung factory can't do that kind of damage to a phone.

After probably like 15 minutes of walking around and playing around with all the damaged dummy phone models, my number was called, it wasn't as exciting as I thought it would sound. My Aunt who came along with me didn't squeal in excitement with me, I needed adult supervision so I asked her along. I am 20 years old alright, that's extremely young for an individual to go out to a mobile store alone, in the afternoon, with a lot of people.

And I finally got myself a SO-01B, Japanese men are probably so jealous of my gloating now. SO-01B ! Well, probably not since mine is called the X10 and there isn't any DoCoMo engraving at the back of my phone but it's almost a keitai.

Of course there being a choice of either black or white, I went for the white one because I am racist. No, I am not racist, well, maybe a little but you won't be able to tell, I treat everyone fairly, I give everyone a fair share of bread when I have a chance, a loaf for the white men and a pinch for the black men. Fairness is screaming my name, and so is sarcasm in this whole paragraph to those who think I am really racist.

Lesson learnt though, after getting the white phone. 

White phones will turn to an off-yellow colour, at least the black one will stay black, because it's already extremely dirty and all. Plus the white one has a glossy battery cover at the back, the black one is a matte finish.

I am such a genius, already staining my phone during the early stages of usage.

My partner in crime? My sweaty palms. 

That Bitch ! 

This post is so 2 weeks ago, because I bought my phone roughly 2 weeks ago. 17th April 2010 to be exact, life's been so dull with nothing much to report, so I thought it would be great to record my adventures in getting an Xperia X10 a SO-01B down.