this holidays went by rather swiftly.. i guess tt's because i managed to meet up with my friends for various outings, from sports to class reunion to chalet overnight stay.. not to mention e genting-KL trip in between.. gonna be a busy jan too.. school's starting.. and my b'dae's on wed.. and my sis is getting married e day after my mum's b'dae.. yup.. there's no typo there.. and btw it isn't a shotgun marriage, just in case u were wondering..

just a little sidetrack here.. had a nice dream yesterday.. always has been when i see familiar faces in my dreams.. e atmosphere is just so relaxed and fun..

anyway b to e hols.. there was also e big 4 interviews which i went for.. or rather e big 3, since i didn't manage to get shortlisted for PWC.. preparing for e interviews was a crazed affair, trying to update and fine tune my resume and cover letter.. not forgetting e preparation of e supporting documents.. actually e preparation was b4 e hols.. its only e interviews which were during e hols.. so in e midst of this craze, some of us found out tt we haven't really accomplished much in our 20+ years.. well, i guess wake up calls are never too late..

had a couple of hiccups in e interview process, some of which were rather serious i think.. anyway, it seemed tt e bleak job market outlook also clouded over this recruitment drive.. some take away from this interview experience was perhaps tt big companies does not necessarily equate to good HR practices.. i'll just give some brief background regarding this recruitment drive.. there r basically 2 rounds of selection/shortlisting.. wat e big 4 does during round 1 primarily involves classifying e interviewees into 3 groups: those who r shortlisted for a job offer, those who r on e reserve list and those who r rejected..

so for KPMG, i was 1 of e unfortunate (or otherwise) ones who was rejected (i later found out tt their focus was on e accounting grades and not GPA.. and it was on such basis tt they based e starting salary tt they offered to successful applicants).. anyway, i got to noe of e rejection through an email sent by e HR manager.. strange thing was, not too many days after, another rejection email was sent.. this time on a mass send basis, with e recipients clearly stated in e TO: fill.. well.. somebody clearly didn't remember this thing called e BCC: fill.. (sidetrack: e recipients were clearly identifiable through their email address, as it is e norm in such professional correspondence, to provide professional looking email addresses.. this means email addresses which spell out yr full name) and it was weird to find tt such an email of, presumably significant importance, was (re)sent by an intern no less (considering e fact tt e HR manager had previously sent an email of e exact same content).. butched HR job.. period.

and no.. didn't post tt cos i was having a case of sour grapes.. anyway, tt wasn't e worst to come.. was over e moon when i received DT's call of offer on e day of e EY interview.. so i thought oh well.. i could still go for EY's interview (although i was sort of settled on going to DT) to gain some interviewing experience.. turned out tt all tt i heard from my friends didn't happen on tt day.. there was no seniors in e waiting room to talk with e interviewees (which was not e case for KPMG and DT) and there was no office tour.. and during e interview itself, e words from e interviewing manager made me think tt i was at e wrong place.. stressing on (school) grades and performance every now and then, i had e urge to blurt out halfway through e interview: "hey.. i think i noe where u r getting at.. u want grades.. and my grades r not good.. so wat am i doing in this interview room?" TOTALLY NO SINCERITY. if it was grades tt they wanted so badly, den dun waste everybody's time by shortlisting me for e interview.. and just to add, e EY interview schedule was arranged in a declining GPA manner ie. those with poorer GPA were interviewed last..

not tt it was e end of e whole thing though.. it happened tt in round 2, where e big 4 call up those on e reserve list, EY gave me a call (of offer).. rather surprised cos 1) of e above mentioned event 2) it wasn't supposed to happen, as i had notified my school of my preference, which was den supposed to have been communicated to e companies.. just so happened tt it was a missed call btw.. and so i waited for them to call me back again.. which, as it turned out, nv happened.. and which, i attributed to e reason given above: NO SINCERITY.. anyway it was perhaps only good tt they nv called again.. cos i might have given them a crappy reply for e treatment given to me on tt interview day..

e primary school outing was beer at club iguana at clarke quay and desserts at e nearby TCC.. quite an impressive turnout with 10 ppl present.. nice to meet up with them after like 11 years.. although i still sorta keep in contact with some of them once in a while.. talked abt a lot of stuff.. some of which i dun quite remember being a part of.. like going to tommy's place for computer and board games.. although i do remember him bringing those stuff to school after exams.. anyway, some updates.. turned out tt ruth was e new face for new paper in '07.. and chee hui had scored some 9 distinctions for his As.. haha.. still as brainy as ever.. and laisan was actually alex's ex.. and joshua sounds so ang mo now, after having spent (still spending) a decent amount of time pursuing 3 majors (in a span of 5 years) in UWA..

thought this post was a bit long.. and yup.. it's over a thousand words le..

deleted maplestory from my laptop e other day.. well, haven played it for like months already anyway.. come to think of it, maple really turned out to be too much of a money churning machine for asiasoft and a ground for those ginnas to show off their uber godlike wow prowess.. puts me off really.. can't stand e monotony of staring at e same monster for hours, only to see e exp bar raise by some miserly %.. which den leads me to think abt slpinstory, a private maple server.. haven played tt for months too.. haiz.. to think of all e time spent on e game.. seems like a insatiable quest with no end in sight.. e time spent might have been put to better use and i prob might not be facing e grades tt i'm having now..

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hmmm.. so it's almost 2 months since i last blogged.. v long absence indeed.. which den probably suggest tt this post is gonna be v v long..

busy with internship lately.. quite some couple of OT along the way.. or maybe tt's kind of an understatement.. i last counted it to be around 1,100 minutes of OT.. and unclaimable at tt too.. not to say tt there weren't e slack moments.. was pretty much a boring last 2 weeks for me.. nothing much to do quite often.. guess i have some stuff which i would like to blog about at this time, but of which it is not wise to.. so i'll leave it till some other time.. if ever tt is.. haha..

been going out with e uni gang every fri during this PA.. and we played pool almost every week.. of course wat came out of it had only been increased expenses.. which isn't really something good, considering tt i've yet to treat bra for a birthday treat and my family for getting my 1st pay check..

i guess not a lot of ppl actually keep detailed accounts of their spending patterns, so maybe e following info might be interesting to know.. i've been keeping accounts since sec school (there were breaks in between when i didn't though) and having just analysed my last 12 months of expenditure, e breakdown of my expenses over e period is: 44.57% on all food costs, 34.60% on transportation, 5.87% on entertainment and ahah! 13.47% on academic costs (mainly textbooks).. spend on average $168.33/month, although recent months have seen e figure to be around $200-$250.. and tt's considering tt i dun pay my own phone bills ($15+) and tt i have meals at home quite quite often..

it's lucky tt i press e publish post button often enough, cos blogger screwed up just now when i pressed e button again.. only had to retype a few lines of stuff.. costs have been soaring these past year and in particular this few months, with oil prices hitting $146/barrel.. totally crazy.. we are just too dependent on oil.. and if i weren't wrong, blair suggested tt e world should build many many more nuclear plants (forgot e number tt he mentioned) so as to meet e energy demand.. now tt as i grow older and become more sensitive to stuff like politics, i wonder if some leaders and ministers actually think through their stuff before they speak..

as it is, e world today doesn't seem to be in a pretty good shape and i seriously won't be surprised if e next world war breaks out over soaring inflation/oil prices/worsening climate conditions during our generation.. something not v pleasant to think abt..

most probably u would have already heard abt e jarring security lapses tt happened here in e past half year.. starting with e mas selamat escape from e detention centre, followed by e sub court escape and finally e passport blunder.. admittedly i dun follow e news tt zealously, but if i'm not wrong i dun think any ppl high up in e office concerned got axed off for e events.. which if true, and in my opinion, is quite wtf, considering tt all e security lapses are quite serious breaches..

coming to more not-so-serious stuff.. have been playing dota and maple lately.. well as usual.. like duh.. managed to lvl up to 82 just a few days ago.. now somewhat getting bored with maple, cos all my characters are at stages where it's either hard to train or lazy to train.. still trying to save up for my little riding pig.. and oh ya.. pangya is shutting down.. not exactly unexpected, given tt it's business model wasn't really viable to begin with.. sad to see it go though, having played it since day 2 of its launch..

just remembered that w3 patch 1.22 was out recently.. patching w3 has always been a mini "nerve-wrecking" experience because i dread e feeling tt e patch would go all wrong and i have to reinstall e whole game.. anyway i successfully managed to patch it after all..

watched kungfu panda and don't mess with the zohan.. e former was ok.. although e fun parts of e movie have been pretty much shown in e trailers and making-of TV show.. as such there's really not much incentive for one to actually watch e real full length thing.. e latter movie is a very lame, sexually dumb show (senseless sex jokes, many boobs and wat not.. well u get e idea..).. my personal opinion is tt both movies are not worth e time watching..

i visit e stomp site once every now and den and from wat i can see, e mrt is really not a safe place to be in.. u nv know who is snapping u.. for all u know u could land up at e website for PDA or more commonly seen, not giving up your seat to needy people..

and talking about mrt, there's a "go green and take public transport" campaign lately.. quite dumb actually, if u ask me.. dunnoe which smart alek came up with this.. e person most prob nv tried taking e peak hour train or bus before.. totally gay.. e crowd tt u see on e trains.. i think it won't be too long before we match up to japan's sandwichness.. just e other day, i went to my client's place at raffles city and e morning crowd was like wtf.. looks like a whole pack of sheep being gathered up by sheep wolves.. just tt there isn't any in this case.. and i thought e situation at tanjong pagar was quite bad..

erm ok.. so my point actually is tt it would make much more sense if e infrastructure is there (ie. e circle line is completed and running (at e very least)) before embarking on such a campaign.. wat u have now is a less-than-desirable infrastructure and u're asking more ppl to come make it worse.. -.-

so today (7 july) i was reading e chinese paper and e headline splashed across e front page was proclaiming tt e above-mentioned campaign was a success.. yah yah.. give me a reason to believe tt it won't be so.. even without the campaign, rising oil prices, increased number of ERP sentries, charges and operation hours, together with rising cab fees and talk of even further hikes to e fee through a fuel surcharge, did anyone with a brain seriously think tt e number of ppl taking public transport would remain as it is? duh..

not sure y it is e case but it might very well be a spurious relationship.. as mentioned some posts ago.. i was talking to meiwen on msn.. she mentioned tt she was planning to attend a talk organised for interested teachers-to-be and was considering to be a teacher somewhere in e future.. (on a sidenote: she's going to KPMG to work.. hmmmm..) as a coincidence, another accountancy intern mate of mine expressed e same thoughts.. and including me, it's 3 accountancy students who have given serious thoughts about becoming teachers in e future..

heard a nice old song on 93.3 some days back.. it's 我想有个家 by 潘美辰.. subsequently commented to my friend tt i was putting it in replay mode and he said tt it gets a bit boring after listening to it for a few times.. i guess i like to look at a song from its different aspects.. having composed my own lyrics i think i have had a greater interest in how e songs are actually packaged.. from e way e lyrics are written, their literal, hidden, historical, cultural and societal meanings, e melody, y certain instruments were chosen, e arrangement of e music, how e mv is shot, y certain scenes are chosen for e mv, e singer's emotions and of course his voice.. there are probably some other things which i left out, but replaying e song really allows to understand and appreciate e song better.. in this case, i thought tt e lyrics were particularly well written and tt e following sentences from e song were quite meaningful and food for thought: 虽然你有家 什么也不缺
为何看不见你露出笑脸

so yup.. like wat i've said earlier, have been playing much pool lately.. so i went to youtube to look for some tips on masse and jump shots.. found e following cool videos of pro shots.. Fast Larry's Two Table Pool Trick Shot and trick shot worldrecord jump shot challange.. subsequently went to try out e masse shot and short distance jump shot.. the players in e videos seriously make e shots look easier than they seem.. could manage to curve my ball a little though.. but should have tried doing it along e length of e table instead, so tt e effect can be more visible..

and yes.. to my favourite portion of e post.. on dream control.. haha.. i think i've mentioned about attempting to do e flash jump in a previous post.. or those kind of jumps tt u see in e movie jumper.. managed to do a few of those in succession.. nothing really special i think.. i still prefer simple plain old teleportation.. nevertheless, i got another 1st in dream control some time this week or last when i ran through a wall.. haha.. and e experience was rather interesting..

my 1st attempt was not well prepared.. had a short run up to e wall, only to put on my brakes when i approached it.. wasn't ready to do e stunt.. and so on e 2nd attempt, i had myself a longer run up to e wall and gain e momentum needed to pass through e wall.. in most of my stunts, e "before and after" effects are usually very distinct and only milliseconds apart, with no apparent transitions.. but during this time's particular stunt, i was passing through e wall, with my right leg already on e other side of e wall, when i looked at my surroundings.. it was actually loading! as in u know wat happens when yr laggy com loads a different picture from e current one tt u are viewing? e old picture would stay there while e new picture, bit by bit, takes over e space of e old picture.. tt was wat exactly happened in my dreams! rather bewildering stuff..

and e stunt of passing through a wall is rather exciting too.. perhaps comparable to e stunt of jumping off a building ledge.. think i might just try running through a wall again sometime soon..

with this i end e longest post in this bloggie at 1,838 words.. hopefully my PA report can be of this length also.. haiz.. dun have e slightest idea how i can even squeeze out 1,000 words for it..

ok.. this is seriously screwed.. haven happened in a long time, but blogger decided to play with me when i pressed e publish post button just now by showing me e log in screen.. now i have to re-type everything.. but luckily it's not a lot..

took a break from studying just now and played a round of dota.. pursuant to my earlier feats of not buying any boots (using centaur) and not buying any health regen items (using enchantress), i managed to end my latest game by not buying any boots and health regen items! lol.. wtf..

yup.. was using enchantress.. a look at my build: initial items - 1 sobi mask, 3 mantle of intel and 1 clarity potion (i randomed); lvl 11-13 - mystic staff; ~2 lvls later - shivas guard; end-game build (incomplete) - shivas, lothars, null tailsman, sacred relic, agies and 1 empty slot..

haha.. with only ~1.4k life, i got a frag ratio of 4:1.. even managed to survive when veno and cm ulti-ed together.. and just in case u were wondering, it wasn't a lopsided game throughout.. e opponent team actually had a better frag ratio in e early game..

was bored yesterday nite and went to play tower defence again (see earlier post for link).. managed to get 37 cannons and 1 tack tower for easy mode! haha.. e power of cannons..

saw this link in e maple forums e other day: http://www.weirdasianews.com/ do check it out! they have some really weird but nice videos.. talking about maple, saw from my sergeant's nick tt he's back to playing maple.. and he's like 2 years older than me.. haha.. adult maplers.. and he has a 77 DK and 121-to-be Bishop! wonder how these ppl chiong their characters.. quite no life actually.. lol.. so having bought e wa10 glove my next item will be e riding hog.. after which i think i'll try and get e pirate hat.. quite good stats, but e exp for e PQ for it is wtf low..

somehow managed to remember e 1st few words to e lyrics of an old song tt was played as an ending song for a HK drama some many years back.. so i went to google it and found e song.. guess it sounded better when it was played in e context of e drama.. haha.. oh ya, e song's called The colour of the night.. see sidebar for link..

remembered y my previous post was short of being e longest post yet.. because i forgot to blog about e cockroach incident.. anyway, before i continue, those animal lovers might just want to read until here.. haha.. cos e following will be a documentation of my torturous treatment of a cockroach..

seem to have an undesired affinity with cockroaches lately.. prob due to my late nites.. as i was saying, was at my com tt nite when i heard this familiar dreaded sound of fluttering wings.. turned up my head and i saw this flying cockroach.. yes.. e same one tt eluded me just some weeks before tt.. in e same fashion, it flew hazardously around my room, and determined not to let it slip through my hands this time, i went straight for e shieldtox.. as it landed on my curtains, i gave it some generous doses of e insect spray.. after yet some more doses of e spray as it tried to run away, it finally turned turtle near my bed..

i finished my game of dota and returned to it, only to discover tt it's still not dead.. so i decided to give it a last VERY GENEROUS dose of mist.. so much so tt its corpse would stick to e ground afterwards because it was too wet.. but it didn't die from e last dose of mist.. -.- so i guess shieldtox doesn't really work e way it claims to.. in e end, i did a finishing blow and ended its misery.. hate flying cockroaches.. esp since they aren't really good pilots.. freaks me out..

as u might have noticed now, i've went to label all 436 posts in e past 2 weeks.. not a lot of posts acutually, if u consider e age of e blog and e fact tt ju-zi's current blog, which is slightly younger than this, just celebrated it's 870th post not too long ago.. anyway, e labelling wasn't done rigourously and may not actually be a good link with the contents of the post.. 2 of the links, lyrics and dreams, are shown in the sidebar.. for the full list of labels, it's only available to my co-authors, who den again i realised have become dormant in their blogging activities.. this is in contrast with e rather frequent posting they used to have back when this blog started..

quite some stuff to blog about actually.. might have to stop halfway to continue with it another day.. maybe i'll just start off with e shorter stuff..

finally leveled to 80 for maple just on sunday.. took e 2x exp opportunity during the weekend to level.. quite pissed about e fact tt although i've killed like 500+ male bosses, he only dropped me one stupid morningstar.. -.-

returned back to playing pangya also in the last few days.. to take part in this event.. realised tt taking a break from games is good sometimes.. esp for pangya i guess.. managed to break one of my course records and did some nice shots during my return to the game..

had a pretty long dream yesterday.. luv having long dreams.. anyway, i did some flying as usual.. although i was struck by the fly height limit thing.. which i might just take a while here to explain a bit.. if e flight starts off from the ground (as contrasted with walking off a high ledge), there's this height limit tt u can fly to.. i believe this limit is actually a psychological limitation and as a sort of response to the limitation, i changed the scene by imagining myself to be at a high altitude above the ground.. an instant jump from e height limit to e new altitude..

the dream was a rather interesting one in tt my subconscious brought back some very old memories which i have not thought about for a very long time.. also attempted to summon someone in my dream again.. but alas.. another failure.. had tried to imagine myself pulling someone's hand from around a corner, but all tt came out of it was me grabbing air..

so i'm back to continue with e longer 2nd half of this post.. think this post may very well be longer than my longest post thus far, which just for info, has 1671 words..

perhaps in response to wat i typed earlier, e male boss decided to be kind to me by dropping me a lvl 80 theif hat.. and an under-average at tt too.. -.- wth.. and ya.. i'm talking abt maple..

have quite some opinions abt certain things lately, more of them major and some of them minor.. will be discussing a few of them below..

e results for one of my module's project was out just not too long ago.. and my friend's group, having given one of their guys a low evaluation due to his freeriding behavior, was asked to meet e tutor to clarify on e matter.. before i go on, i'll just like to add tt i've heard my friends complain about this guy X even before the project submission.. X attended like only 10% of their meetings and contribution-wise, was really far from satisfactory.. while some of e reasons for missing e meetings were valid, e rest were just plain ridiculous.. consequently, their group's evaluation of him, by right, left him with e ability to only claim 65%? of their project's grade (which was A+ by e way).. tt works out to probably a B? grade..

so back to e consultation with e tutor, it ended up tt e tutor decided to let e freerider off and let him claim e full A+ grade.. tt was despite e fact tt e other group members were upset at e manner in which e freerider presented himself at e consultation and the defences which he had brought up.. and in e end, e tutor had all of them sign something, to have them agree to let e freerider share e same grade as them and accept e tutor's judgement..

when i heard about e outcome of e consultation, i was quite fed up really.. although i wasn't in their group.. if e tutors had really meant for peer evaluation to do e stuff tt it's supposed to do, den i believe such a lop-sided evaluation of X should have expectedly resulted in him receiving a lower grade than e other group members, even though it might not actually end up being 65%.. if e tutor had at e very beginning decided tt all group members will be getting e same grade, then he could just jolly well scrap the peer evaluation.. saves everybody's time.. totally screwed man.. i think if i were in their group, i could have just stomped out of e room when e tutor asked everyone to sign tt stuff.. facade man! facade.. and for e record, e freerider has a GPA of 4.7, a 1st class!.. wat on earth is e world coming to really? more on some other screwed aspects of e uni system later in e post..

last week saw e end of e marketing project and case presentations.. i wonder if e tutor was trying to be safe or wat, but 4 of e groups received A- B+ (albeit some received A- for e project, while some received A- for e case; e project carried 20% weightage and e case 10%).. and e 5th group got B+ B+.. my clique's 2nd group (my clique was too big, so we had to separate into 2 groups) was one of e 2 tt presented during last week.. throughout their presentation, i thought it was quite good and felt tt they actually had e potential to become e top group for our class by getting a A- A (they got e A- from their project earlier on).. but it turned out not to be and they got a B+.. and e tutor's explaination didn't help to answer my doubts as to y they didn't at e very least get an A-..

seems like i've once again not have enough time to complete e post.. time for Ah Wang on Chnl 8.. haha.. will continue with part 3 later..

haha.. so finally back to complete part 3.. or at least i hope to.. =x before i continue, wat's up with my co-authors? lol.. blogging again after i mention tt they have mia-ed for so long.. haha.. and bra's post is so long.. 1057 words..

guess now i noe y emu was so fed up with her project mates when she blogged abt them when she was still in her uni days.. i think she would have been more fed up if she knew abt e facade evaluation..

received back my company law assignment this week.. got an A.. not too bad.. although from wat i have heard so far, i don't noe of anyone who got worse than an A-..

got e following link from tty tt day.. quite hilarious.. Food Court Musical.. e main site for e organising party: Improv Everywhere.. did some searching and found out tt e singapore group would be doing a freeze on 31 may.. wonder where it'll be.. anyway, i watched some of their earlier missions and i think tt in order for e impact to be really there, they should really need to get more ppl to take part..

was actually feeling quite depressed e day before tax quiz.. stared at e paper for like hours.. e feeling tt u're fighting a lone battle really sux.. sometimes really hoped tt there was someone there to talk to..

will be traveling to hokkaido after exams with my family.. cool.. time for heavenly food, heavenly weather and heavenly service.. godlike.. drools.. haha.. looking forward to it..

haha.. seems like this post is still a little shy of 1671.. only 1368 words..

pretty rare for me to blog in such quick succession i guess.. but i thought i would just type down some stuff tt came to my mind..

as u may have noticed, i've added a few extra links at e side.. went to take a look at singapore seen e other day.. what with all tt hoo haa about stomp! the idea was quite good.. but was quite disappointed with the quality of the forum-ers tt they have there.. pretty immature lot so to speak.. of course tt is an over generalisation.. but tommorrow.sg's guys are generally more intellectual in their questioning and debating skills.. haven actually visited e actual stomp! site yet.. still a bit lost as to wat is e actual html.. haha.. guess i'll explore some other day..

this weekend had been a long one.. and finally one where there are no presentations and wat not to bother about.. even though tt was e case, didn't make much use of e 4 days.. couldn't find e motivation to study.. was just staring at e marketing lecture notes today for a long time.. although, game wise, there was some progress.. finally bought my wa10 purple wg.. quite ex though.. 38m.. -.- also leveled to 79.. currently at 79.3.. guess i should be able to get to level 80 before my PA.. still contemplating if i should aim straight for e piggy for my next item-to-buy.. or use my mesos for an overall, shoes or pc..

also managed to complete e hard level for e bloons game tt bra intro-ed me some weeks ago (link to e game is a few posts below).. haha.. and to think tt my friends got hooked on to it also.. i personally managed to complete it with 48 lifes.. believe tt i can achieve a perfect score for hard.. was due to carelessness tt i lost e 2 lifes..

realised tt i don't have much contact, probably negligible, and sad to say, with girls this sem.. unlike e previous sems, i'm not in a i'm-e-only-guy-in-e-group situation this time round.. which i think is really bad for my social life (erm not because of not being in tt kinda situation, but rather a lack of contact with girls).. hopefully next sem will change for e better.. now i'm wondering if any of my current teammates are looking at this post.. lol.. shhh..

was feeling rather bored e other day.. and i went to take a look at cedar pri's webpage.. looked v diff from e last time i visited it.. somehow feel tt they have cut down on e contents.. but e video was good though.. was a bit surprised to find tt there's quite a number of malay and indian teachers there.. and 苏老师 is still teaching! after so long! and especially since e majority of my pri and sec school teachers have retired or moved on with e next phase of their life.. 2 other teachers tt r still teaching at cedar are Mr Sim and Mrs Tang.. knew tt 苏老师 was already an experienced teacher then.. but didn't know tt she had already taught for 31 years! really great teacher.. i guess with e leaving of e experienced teachers after my generation, e results churned out by cedar has been on e decline.. as told by my cousin.. hopefully with a few more years, e current batch of teachers would have become more experienced and would bring cedar to greater heights..

Bowman ROX.

haha.. so the first personality test (well sort of) tt i did after such a long time actually turned out to be quite a rubbish.. doesn't quite seem to be me tt it's describing..

was feeling a bit bo liao and went to google my nick.. ends up tt songluck seems to be quite a feminine name, having female counterparts in china and thailand.. on a side note, e thai counterpart actually looked quite nice.. lol..

turns out tt tty started playing ms again.. this time on D server.. and i thought tt it was laggy playing from down under.. well.. i personally haven played ms in ages (read: ~2 months).. might squeeze in some time next week, just to squeeze my way to the next level before parking him somewhere else to continue farming for my WA10 WG.. probably might be able to get it before e school starts next sem.. hopefully..

the time for exams has come again.. yeah.. let's not talk abt it yet.. haha..

was playing around a bit over lyrics no.5 and it seemed like i really need some long stretch of free time if i'm to come up with something decent.. and of course, e need to improve my chinese.. e words tt swim in my head just appeared to be those miserly few..

dreams had been quite interesting lately.. with 2 attempts at something tt i'm trying out.. was actually planning to do a dragonball type of chakra-surrounding/engulfing-your-body move.. or something like king of fighters' athena's ultimate.. e idea is tt e chakra in e dreams stem from e amount of will or control tt u have over yr dream.. and tt this will/dream control is materialised in e form of visible chakra..

and it turned out tt e move wasn't exactly wat i expected.. in e 1st try, i attempted to do e stunt while flying stationary.. in e end, it appeared tt simultaneously flying and executing e stunt proved difficult and i could not keep myself flying upright.. so in e 2nd try, i attempted e stunt in a dhalsim float-above-the-ground yoga position.. to only get my sub-conscious playing punk with me by throwing up random dream characters disturbing my concentration..

on hindsight, i thought tt e stunt might not actually be a good move.. because while executing it, i had to close my eyes and concentrate.. now tt doesn't make sense if i have to open my eyes and see for myself tt i had successfully executed it.. so i thought tt maybe a rasengan/chidori type of stunt might be a better alternative.. e idea remains e same tt i have to materialise my will into e form of visible chakra..

so much so for quite a bit of technicalities on my dreams.. come to think of it.. wat's another word for actually? darn.. even my english vocab are going green by recycling e words..

did an acronym in my previous presentation on dastel and rather amusingly, my groupmate took quite a serious interest in it's creative (*cough cough) use.. such tt e following informal group presentation she actually suggested using it again.. and it popped up again in her final individual presentation just last week, along with another classmate's.. haha.. i personally think tt presentations should be a bit more fun and differing from e normal, boring types.. anyway, i used a story in my final presentation as an attention getter, something which well, was a first in my class.. wonder how e tutor took to tt..

yay.. just realised tt this's quite a long post.. haven't been backing up my blog word file for a long time liao.. probably might want to do it soon.. in e hols.. and perhaps if i have e time to actually edit it into a form tt is compilable into a book.. a check with e file turns out tt i've not backed it up since aug 18 last year.. think e current blog would quite likely have increased to about 70k words from e previous 59,500..

Merry Christmas (belated... lol...) and a Happy New Year! and a Happy ORD!!! (if any of them ever reads my blog in the first place...) :p

yoyoyo... have quite a few things to blog about... first things first... the bungalow stay/outing/gathering is confirmed!!! 6jan evening to 9jan morn... but the main day will be the 7th... will be having a buffet dinner (to be confirmed after i get the initial responses... but most prob will have la...)... those who wanna stay over till the 8th are welcome!!! and anyone who has cards/mahjong/board games are also welcomed to bring it there... oh ya... those who feel like having a karaoke session or movie screening can also bring yr vcds/dvds there... yeah!!! furthur details to be provided later...

was technorati-ing my nick the other day and i stumbled upon lei^3's post:
Thursday, December 15
After the dance, we get some drinks ($3 per person ) and get to see VIC's former classmates, Jane and Wan'er. Apprently they came back from melbourn. To Songluck and Kianpok: at least you know where your sec3/4 classmate was

also heard from chien kit tt wan'er's became pretty wild over at down under... and tt erin's back in singapore this month...

was playing maple when i heard the project superstars voices coming from my sis com... so they have made christmas music videos for this festive season! see them at: http://u.mediacorptv.com/story.aspx?Editorial_ID=177&SubCategoryID=19

heheheh... learnt something recently... my friend brought an origami book to camp and i learnt to fold the pentagonal flower! and i thought it was quite complex and time consuming... spent like half a day folding 1 flower... -.-''' tried to search the web for a picture to show u guys wat it actually looks like but couldn't seem to find one... instead i stumbled upon even more complex origami designs... guess one will have a blood vomiting time trying to fold one of those... esp if u're not exactly the dextrous kind... haha... oh ya... trying to get my hands on how to make one of those origami butterfly rings... ya, rings, those kind tt u can actually wear on yr finger... cool heh...

thought tt my train rides were starting to get a bit monotonous when i came across yet another incident on the train just some days back... i wonder if it's the stressful life nowadays or wat tt make ppl's temper short... haiz...

have you read this free distributing newspaper called the epochtimes? u can view the online international version at http://www.theepochtimes.com/index0.html... i personally didn't browse through it, but wat i heard from joevin was tt the newspaper sorta has some anti-china or anti-communist elements...

wow... haven blogged in some time liao... cos my internet connection decided to go on strikes lately and i had to coax it into working for me... so here i am... online and blogging again... u do get to encounter some weird/unusual situations while on the mrt, or while waiting for it... heh... was on the train, going back to camp when i was reminded of how fine a city singapore is... saw this pair of presumedly european travellers on the mrt, when i noticed tt one of them was holding his digital camera with his arms outstretched... nothing really wrong with tt, except tt he was pointing it at the fine poster posted on the wall of the cabin... he should now noe tt he can't bring durians or flammable items into the mrt or smoke... singapore is a fine city u noe...

life's getting more boring for me... or maybe the world is moving past me faster tt i think... had some peculiar dreams during early august... imagine finding yrself studying secondary school in yr primary school environment... or yr uni in yr sec school... weird... to have so many go-back-to-school dreams within a short period of time... but nvtheless, i always like this kinda dreams... cos i get to see many familiar faces... i like schooling...

still working on my third song... though not as fervently as i had the previous 2 songs... it's been like near to half a year since i started on my third song? lol... coming to the chorus part liao... so it's like between a third and a half done... feel tt part of the reason y i'm taking so long is cos this song is entirely conjoured up, while the previous 2 songs had quite a heavy tinge of personal experience put into them... came up with this refreshing way of giving my friends unique birthday presents... tt is if the plan sees itself through... haha... hope my laziness dun get the better of me... shall not provide any further details here...

playing maplesea recently... well, the things ppl do when they are bored... right, lp? haha... yada yada... i noe of ppl who's older than me and playing ms k? hahaha... and they are pretty hardcore gamers too... if u consider 6 hours a day hardcore, then uh hmmm... u have seen nothing yet...

haiz... 182 more daes to ord... zzz...

http://www.u8generation.com/maple online guide for maple story...

been out of action for some time... cos of some internet connection problem... but finally got it fixed up and running...

went for range on fri... guess wat? i'm a MARKSMAN!!! lamez... think it's because the range this time round was much easier than last year's... anyway, a lot of other ppl also got the $200 and marksman badge... absolutely tiring... didn't have a gd sleep for 44hrs... wonder if any of my peeps spotted me with eyebags on yesterday's movie outing...

had a lot of blog reading to catch up on... anyway, downloading the maple story all over again... thanks to a stupid corrupted file... and the downloading now is taking like ages...

to ju-zi: hey... so sorry for always changing the outing details and making u rush... just unlucky tt u always watch sucky movies when u go out with us... haha... yeah... we should try out something new for our next outing... but had been thinking for a long time liao... i guess tt there's really not much to do on this small island... or maybe there is, but because we are too unhip or unresourceful enough to noe of any fun and cheap trills to spend away the wkend...

so i'm here again... to talk about the events tt's happening ard uninteresting me... zzz...

todae seems like another wkend to me... everybody's at home... sis is not working, my parents and i are all on off... another slack day, doing basically nothing much... well not really nothing at all... did some housework just now...

mapling now... waiting for my char to heal by himself... so don't waste time... blog while i wait...

decided to stop mapling at last... uhhh!!! it's been 5hrs since i started this post... ie. it's now 5pm!!! omg... actually not really, but tt's out of the point... computer games are a huge hazard to me... watever hazard tt might be... i tend to play hours on end... ya... and my parents are increasingly complaining about how i just sit in front of the com, dunnoe doing wat... haiz...

there just have to be these leechers in these online games... leeching just about anything tt can be leeched... experience, items, gold... and i met one just now tt really irked me... he leeched the itms of the monsters tt i killed... so welll, i called him a leecher and his immediate response was: so wat? blood suckers...

going to cut my hair later... and buy some eating stuff to last me for the long stay in camp tt's coming up... schedule for this few weeks, past and future: having, about to had, a long wkend this week... tt's y i'm here typing this post... next up i'll be camping in camp (der...) till sat morn... dun understand y they wanna put a IPPT test on sat... no brains... so i book out next sat morn and book in on most prob sat evening... then it's live firing on sun and booking out on tues afternoon for the reunion dinner...

ok, it has nothing to do with u, so y did u read it? i also dunnoe... (do i sense someone with a can't-wait-to-bian-me look?)... lol...

ya... my mom's at me again... going to log off soon... anyone who plan to have any outing during the chinese new year long wkend call me along yeah?

oh yah, to ju-zi: it's all b'cause of tt dumb wei yuan, flooding my tagboard... tt's y all the earlier posts have been replaced...