Ownage II

Let me own the class one time and another with my 1337 mugging skillz! Muahahaha!:P Just got back the Chemical Bondage Lecture Test, and I got 22 out of 30, the highest in da class.Eh, this is getting pret-ty boring... Yawns. Can I have a challenger? HA! I kidd! Humble, be humble! Yeahhh.Yesterday was fun, at CCF Round 2. And that was a serious understatement.Bah... You are about to read a whole chunk of random, completely irrevelant facts. You are warned, my fellow countrymen.I am craving for Jalan Kayu Egg Prata.I am fed up with my webcam.I am craving for more Katatonia songs! And Cthontic as well.I am hungry.Other than wanting to learn German, I have taken interest in Russian, Latin, Greek, Norwegian (which is rather obvious), the real life application of online emoticon talk.I need to...

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666

I was in the family car with my family out for dinner just now. And I saw Block 665. Then, I wondered to myself, 'Hmm, where's block 666?' Half a second later, the car went past block 666, and me and my brother went crazy, and I pointed the \m/ as a homage to the Devil. Hahaha. Finishing the frenzy with me commenting, 'I'm buying that block seriously, dude!' Ha.Anyway, other than that, today has been a stoner's day again, staying at home and staring at the computer. My folks went insane upon the idea of having a geita at the doorstep, and wanted to go and watch it.The siblings, in a desparate attempt to decant the house of their presence, said, 'Go go go. There's alot of people there already! Go... 'I added, 'Yeah! Alot of people already.'I said again, 'Alot of people already', gesturing...

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Contentment

Sometimes I feel that I have a great family...My parents are cool and not of those typical sort who demand for results etc. My sister is awesome in a way that she introduces me to great novels and stuff, and I admires her philosophy towards life. As for my brother, he's a great ranting partner and the one whom I shares jokes with.=)This is weird. Ah wel...

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Because Denial is a river at your mom's house

I just got back from another road trip. Sure, I have time for road trips. Why wouldn't I?I went to North Yorkshire with Lady J and a couple of her friends. It's so nice sometimes to tag along on a trip that I didn't help plan. Because then no one expects anything from me and if it all goes to pot then I can't be blamed. And I don't expect much because all I want to do is look at beautiful views of beautiful England.Highlights: Knaresborough, which was a beautiful town with an aqueduct and castle and Mother Shipton's Cave, where they hang up teddy bears and the dripping water turns them to stone. And where the museum has this really creepy wax...

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Lessons from the master

I've been asked by my mom to make a birthday list. I always have a hard time with this, because I can never think of what I want--my mind tends to go into all these practical considerations as though I'm the one buying the stuff. So I usually get cash, which then just gets added to my checking account and used on regular stupid things like laundry detergent and ibuprofin.My sister Jenny, on the other hand, can immediately rattle off a wish list without pausing for breath. Her favorite thing to do in this world, I think, is to make lists of things that she wants and which other people should buy for her. So I got her on Gtalk and this is our conversation.Me: Hey Jen. You're good at birthday lists, what should I put on mine?Jenny: I can email you my Excel document of birthday ideas if you want.Me:...

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Lack of mood

I'm lacking the mood to blog recently, due to my Antisocial tendencies again. Bah...In brevity, I have picked up the courage to approach the CEO of Esplanade when he came down to my school yesterday, introducing him the art of flourishing, and things seem to be on the positive side. Great on that. I had a great gossip/ranting session with Ivan and Keroy today in school, and thought of setting up a Philosophical/Musing club, but I doubt it'd work... Wells.Other things include the addiction to Little Britian. Loved the opening lines; 'Britian, Britian, we have running water for more than 10 years. Unlike other contries, Britain is the land where there's two genders: males and female." Andy and Lou is another new-found love of mine. And so is The Scottish guy with his picollo.Here, I pause typing...

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Happy 33th Birthday, Dani Filth

OMG. I do not even realised today's Dani Filth's spawndate until I chatted with Matyn. Fuck. I am somewhat guiltly of myself. Ah wells, hereby wishing The Man a very brilliant and Supreme Vampiric Evil Birthday and wish he has got 33 nymphs for his birthday gift. Have it good, Dani! Drink loads of Stella Artois and have fun with the fellow Cradle of Filth members, and finishng Thornography! Thanks for being such a great influence in my life, I admire your lyrics-writing skills and wits beyond everything. Cradle of filth for eternity. Happy 33th Birthday, Dani Filth!Anyway, this morning saw the Opening of Hell's gates for the Hungry Ghost Festival according to the Lunar calender. And, I grin in malice as I hope to experience some weird happenings around. -being an enthusiast in all things...

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Crazy new ideas in animal husbandry

Today I saw this headline in Yahoo News.Farmers use bull semen to inseminate cows.How is this news? I mean, don't bulls seem like the natural choice? If the word "bull" was taken out and replaced with "zebra" or "panther," then that would be something. That, friends, would be a headline.You can read the story here, if you want. I already know how it works, on account of Amyjane's cattle-rancher Dad told me years ago. Amyjane and I were up visiting her family, whom I love, and something he'd said about artificially inseminating the cows got me thinking. So I asked him how the farmers actually obtain the "stuff" from the bulls in order to freeze...

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Fatigue

Today has been tiring, ended school at fucking 5.30pm. Slavery that is, blame MOE. Ugh. So damn tired at the end of today. And people used to say, 'Look forward to a better tomorrow.' Unfortunately in my case, that quote above isn't true at all. I end at exactly 5.30PM again tomorrow. So, children, if you are considering a JC pathway, think twice...In school today, I did and observed several interesting things,Was in the toilet, saw the adjacent cubicle having flickering flashes. I wondered to myself, 'Someone's pimping her physical assets...'Was shifting in and out of consciousness in the damn hot LT5, it was hell on earth.Wrote, 'One thing in life is certain, when you die, someone will find your porn stash.' on the desk and smiled to myself.Thought of vampires, and me becoming one.Hummed...

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Lest anyone think I'm about to become a mail-order bride

So I realized (when it was pointed out to me) that not everyone on the Internet knows whose Blessed Nuptials I'm celebrating in September. My brother (who sometimes comments here as "unmanageable") is getting married on September 16th in the Anchorage Alaska temple. See how pretty? Let's just hope there won't be that much snow on the ground. And that there won't be any moose waiting by the front steps to trample us all to death.He's marrying a very lovely girl from Alaska whom I have never met, but my family loves her to bits already. I've chatted to her online a couple of times and she seems very smart and put-together. Also she's an engineer...

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Maths.

I never knew maths could be so amusing...

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FYI

It may be that my blog posting gets a bit sporadic over the next 8 weeks as I finish my dissertation, pack, and head to freezing Alaska for the Blessed Nuptuals. I would apologize, but I'm not going to. And I'm sure no one will give me grief about it. (Two words: Rabid. She-beast.)The Lake District was gorgeous. We stayed at a lovely hostel--the house was built in the late 1700s and we stayed in a large room with three huge windows looking out towards the lake. The room also came with a crazy old hippie lady who slept naked.We hiked an almost-mountain called Haystacks (it's 3 meters too short to be a mountain, but it sure looks like one) and...

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3rd in Class.

So, I'm 3rd in class for this JC1 common test. But, I think there's some miscalulations on the teachers' part... Hmm. Anyway, my parents are still complaining about it. What the fuck do they want? Sheesh. Bleh.Anyway, today has been a total loser day for me. I did not go out, and worst came to worst, I fucking did homework. Can I have some applause? :P XD. Yes, I did my chemical kinetics and Differentiation I. Yay. I feel utterly efficient. Jesus, it's a damn good saturday and I spent 4 hours doing homework and mugging. I know I am the sorest of the sore thumbs. Thank you.Bah. Life used to be meaningless... Until, Deen told me about the great, fucking awesome news of Slayer and Hatebreed's arrival upon the wrenched shores of this accursed island in October this year for a gig. OMGWTBZXORZ!!!!1111one!...

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Yes!

MSN has repented for his playful behaviour for the previous few days and is now working fine and dandy. Yay! You are forgiven, MSN.Today saw the extremely tiring day as compared to yesterday which was extremely relaxing as compared to today. So yeah.I lack of things to rant about today.I want the weekends to come quickly.I have the sudden urge to speak in Norwegian, but I know nothing about it. Hiaz.Been really interesting and nice to talk with Erik.Now, I really lack of things to talk about. That is a blogger's headache, you have nothing to blog about. It sucks.Auf Wiedersehen,LingNeme...

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Must be the heat

This is the day, everyone. It's set to be the hottest day in England on record. And I got to be here for it! Yeah, I can pick 'em. Of course, I will be spending most of it in a chilly computer lab.Things keep going wrong today. You know those days where everything gets off on the wrong foot? I'm sluggish and tired and I keep forgetting things. And I stayed up too late reading the thriller set in Prague (but I figured out who the baddie was! Go me!). Also the Internet has crapped out again. And the department secretary turned in the two books that I accidentally left in the lab last night, so I have to go find them before somebody else checks...

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Today's news

1. A heat-wave is expected for Britain and we're all going to die.Before you get all "Frawrhar, English heat wave, fwah hah harhar," Dad, they're talking around 95F tomorrow. In England where there is no air conditioning. Good thing they installed AC in the computer labs last Christmas. I didn't appreciate it at the time when I was sick and dying all alone in the labs with only the sound of workmen and their profanity-laden mobile phone ringtones, but now I'm grateful. Which just goes to show you how funny life can be.2. My advisor brought in a thriller set in Prague for me to read, because he is a sick individual. When am I supposed to be reading thrillers? The answer to that, really, is "when I should be sleeping," so I'm going to go pick the thing up from his office in a minute.3. I'm...

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Loathing MSN...

I fucking hate MSN. For the past 2 days, whenever I sign in, it says, 'You have none contacts under this email.' Made me so nervous and at a loss of what to do, all my contacts, fuck, gone?! Sheesh. I'll try reinstalling that piece of crap.On other sides of things, I got a relatively high range C grade for Econs with 2 marks to a B! The agony! B looks better by all means. Ugh. Anyway, thanks to my 16/20 score for my essay component for that C grade. Bah! [still hating MSN]And anyhow, I was thinking of one of the more memorable jokes by Captain Kevin in the biology lecture, it goes like this;A HaikuMax Maven, he said:"One more bald jokes, and I will,crush all of your balls."Haha! Kev's the man.And, stimultaneously, I was thinking of more deviant theories coming from yours truly to aid me in...

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Appointment with my advisor

Alternate title: I Am Now Officially Panicked.This is not the advisor's fault, it's my own. He doesn't seem worried at all. I imagine it's a lot easier to be serene when you're not the one doing the writing. Also he is very cool and laid-back (close to retirement). In a lot of ways what you would imagine a tall, distinguished, well-spoken, tweed-jacket-wearing English university professor to look like.I went in to see him because he just got back from vacation (he's been gone a month). My plan was to have a 3,000 page literature review ready to hand him. This did not happen, possibly because I was the only one who knew about my great goal, and it turns out that I don't hold myself very accountable. So I told him that I needed him to set me a deadline because I was not doing a good job of...

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Disbelief

I was doubting my ears when I heard some blast beats in the canteen during lunch. I approached nearer to the source of the sound, and I became more and more sure of it being a metal song by each step.I cannot believe there's traces of metalhead at SRJC. They were listening to Hallowed Be Thy Name covered by Cradle of Filth. Fucking awesome! I went europhic and approached the group with an universe-friendly \m/ sign.Well, they couldn't believe that I listen to black metal... Bah.There spawns the N.S.S.R.J.C.N.M. Hehe! National Socialist Serangoon Junior College New Metal(heads). Nah, I'm against NSBM. Metal is for all. ^^Can't wait to share our metal headbanging experience and more music to further damage our minds! \m/Metal ist Sieg. Ha.I have sold my soul to The Devil, have you?Ling17th...

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Weird.

This is plain weird.I have always wanted to live in a prison for a long period of time to the extend of forgetting everything on the outside world, under an austere and total code of silence.Sounds interesting for me...So much for the severe trait of a Capricornian. Heh.I really like to try it someday though. Shut myself in. Self-absorbed. Non-existent.From the wee years of my adolescence, I have been saying 'Welcome to my demented world' etc. Now my mind is really warpped beyond repair. Awesome.On other sides of reality, my sister is off to Thailand. The land of really dirty black magick and Kumon Tongs and Toyols. Of the latter, I reckon they have affected my life in someway. Bah. [recite Fear Litany off Dun...

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Opeth

I can't help it, Opeth is Love.I succumb to my knees to each and every one of their brilliant and masterful son...

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At The Gates?

Whenever the councillors shout, 'Students At The Gates, please hurry up and join your classes, assembly is about to start.'I curse under my breathe, 'Dammit! At The Gates is a band!'That is how I keep myself sane in school. Try it, it's f...

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Immortal returns!

Good news for all black metal enthusiasts! The Eternal Kings of Frostbitten Blashryk returns to summon the coming of The Solarfall at the Wacken Open Air 2007! Immortal are back, to satisfy us Within our Dark Minds. In this Darkness that embraces Us, Immortal is the only Mighty (Ravendark) hope for this Pure Holocaustic metal scene. On stage, they will Battle (it out) in The North, claiming what is rightfully theirs by sounding out their Call of The Wintermoon, there marks their Triumph while we are all, once again, Damned in Black after their performance. One By One, we fall in love with them again. At our Hearts of Winter, we are converted to their Sons of Northern Darkness. There, after all the turmoil, they reign supreme at the top of Mountains of Might.Haha, if you aren't a metalhead...

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Thursday

Greetings once again. Due to an early dismissal today, I decided to head over to Jimmy's shop for some rejuvenation and entertainment.My guy, Mark and my god-father Jimmy were there, when they saw me, they started to shower their ''love'' on me and talking nonsense of which I appreciate alot. One very elaborate example of nonsense is about my ''childhood''. Here is it: Jimmy said it all in chinese all the way, 'I know I am a bad father... I used to be a gambler, lost all my money away, owned people many huge debts. To prevent you from suffering with me, I had no choice but to abandon you in a rubbish chute, hoping that you will find a better environment... I know I cannot pay back what I have lost in 17 years, but I can try. You are still my flesh and blood.'' Like WTF?! Haha! Great god-father...

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In case I ever consider becoming a One Who Works from Home

Here is a list that I will come back to so I can remember why that is not a good idea. It turns out I don't do well when I'm home alone trying to work. For one thing, I'm less productive--I already know that. I've been really good about heading up to the computer lab in the mornings and staying all day, but for the last two days I stayed home to do transcription work and phone interviews. Turns out decreased productivity is the least of my worries.The weather has been beautiful, but I only went outside once to water Landlady J's plants, which are dying anyway because all plants hate me. Also to feed her cat, which is back to doing that meowing thing that I know it does just to annoy me.My entire food intake yesterday consisted of two slices of pizza, a can of rice pudding with hot chocolate...

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Whew! That was a close one.

When I came to the UK last fall I had all these lists in my head of places I wanted to go and things I wanted to see. I had a whole year in front of me, so none of it seemed very urgent. But then stuff happened. Assignments started coming due. I got into the student mode. I dated another poor student for seven months and wanted to spend the weekends with him rather than roaming foreign cities by myself. Now that I'm single and footloose, I'm working full-time on a dissertation and staving off The Panic.BUT. I just booked my tickets for Prague. Now . . . I am at peace with myself.That was the big one. There are so many other places that I thought...

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I stamped your mom's passport

In the past week, two different UK people have mentioned the statistic about what percentage of Americans have passports--one thought it was 5%, another thought it was 10%. I just looked around online and it turns out the figure is closer to 18% or 20%. Which, to me, looks pretty darn good. That's 1 in 5.My two friends brought up the statistic much in the same way that people trot out that "did you know that you eat x number of spiders during your lifetime" statistic. It isn't necessarily true but it's pervasive. Over here in the UK, it's used partly to support the notion that Americans are a lazy ignernt bunch who can't be bothered to visit other countries because we just think we're better. This is why we don't know anything about the world. And why we shoot people all the time.Only I...

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Excited

Didn't go school today, due to some prevailing dizziness in my head since last evening. Ugh. Irritating. Ah wells, slacking at home > being a zombie in school. =)First thing first, I cannot wait for 1st of September! There will be a kickass magic show once again at Raffles Hotel, organised by ReDefine Magic. What makes it so appealing for me - such a sucker for all things flourishing? BONE IS PERFORMING! HIS INAUGRUAL STAGE ACT! OMGosh. I can so picture him - The Vampire Boi, doing his Furious Angel routine on the stage with some really classy background music. Awe-inducing. Respect almost instantaneously. Maximum style and eleganance. That's Bone for you. Cannot wait! Nonetheless, the other acts will be great as well, I wonder what's new on Jeremy Pei's side... Heh.I was once again musing...

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Wow. Shivered MY timbers.

So I saw Pirates last night and it was ever so much fun. I didn't like it as much as the first one (too many different plot threads happening at once) but it was still quite the adventure.Also, I think I am probably a genius. Or a seer. Or something. When you see the film you'll know what I mean, because I'm not about to give anything away.One of my favorite "I am a movie geek" parts was when a pistol-wielding Elizabeth and the villianous British official Cutler Beckett have a face-off early in the film. Keira Knightley was Elizabeth Bennett in last year's Pride & Prejudice, and Tom Hollander was the smarmy Mr. Collins. I'm going to call it "The Proposal Scene--Now with Guns!" I'm sure Lizzy was wishing for a gun last time around . . .When you do see the film, it may save you some jaw-dropping...

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Top in Biology!

I topped my class in Biology in the common test! More amazingly is that, I merely passed the damn thing. Heh. Interesting...Hiaz, school ended at 12.30pm today and I am here at home. What a loser I am. I should go out to meet my God-Father Jimmy later.And recently, I am hopelessly obsessed over Dissection's Where Dead Angels Lie and Bathory's A Fine Day to Die. Two classic metal songs. Atmosphere-invoking, epic and all majestic sounding. Just brilliant.Now, that I have heard and like of one Bathory song, I want to get their albums, namely Fire Death Blood which spawned the most attraction to me. I need $$$!No wonder, people said, music is a life-long thing. There is no apparent end of buying albums, at least to me. The addiction never subsides.Anyway, I cannot wait for tomorrow to come! It...

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I knew there was a reason for moving to the UK

Pirates of the Caribbean 2 opens today here, and my American friends and family have to wait till tomorrow. Suckahs!!!! I'm going out for Chinese food tonight and then to see the film. Am ever so excited to get me some pirate boyfriend action--I've always had a weakness for the nautical type. BF #1: Captain Jack Sparrow, who, I don't even care who knows it, is looking so good to me right now. I realize that there would be obstacles to our relationship--things like bad hygiene and dubious morals and STDs, but still. I just--yeah. And if I can't have a fling with him, then I think Elizabeth Swann should. Because he's funnier than Will. And he...

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And I saw that it was good

I pretty much had to roll myself out of the Independence Day BBQ yesterday, which in my book means that it was a success. Here are the foods we ate:Grilled pork steaksGrilled corn on the cobBaked potatoes with butter and sour cream and cheese and chives (no beans or tuna on our potatoes today, England!)Salad with real live Hidden Valley Ranch dressingTons of great rollsJello parfaits with strawberries and blueberriesIce creamRoot beerCream sodaLemonade--the real American kind with the lemon bits, not the clear fizzy Sprite-like drink that is lemonade hereThe E's went all out with the decorations as well. There were special plates and cutlery...

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A Level Chinese Oral

Ok, I just had my first taste of A Levels examination.The oral itself went alright, with a few of words which I had no idea on how to pronouce. Nonethless, it was okay.During the waiting time, I;- Did Crazy Man's Handcuffs for a 2673 times to myself.- Told myself, 'If there's porn to watch, time will go faster.'- Thought of many random stuff.- Sang Inno A Satanas to myself.- Felt sleepy.School today was so damn slack.Did 3 maths AP questions, listened to Biology, then talked for 10 minutes during the oral. That's it!Life is such a drag;Ling5th July 2006(I have turned away, not looking back any longer....

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My country, tis of thee . . .

It's that time again! This is the day when I listen to NPR's reading of the Declaration of Independence and get all misty-eyed. Then I go fight some English. Only I might skip that part this year, since I'm decidedly outnumbered and would probably not do well. But everyone should take a listen to this. It's only the middle that's all about how King George is mean. And that was just for the purpose of rhetoric--it was easier to pick King George as the target than, say, Parliament. Because then all the American hayseeds would have been all, "Parla-what? Where's mah gun?" The beginning and the end are fabulous.I've been invited to a 4th of July BBQ! It's with the family of the American guy I mentioned in the Father's Day post. Also the American missionaries in the ward are invited. His sister...

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WIPO and World Cup

Saxon pointed out at church that I went to London last week to do an interview, and yet in the blog post I managed to talk about everything but the interview. Only that's because it's all part of a higher plan, you see.The interview was great. CD was very nice, very smart, very willing to do all the talking. This was helpful later as I was transcribing the interview, because I only had to hear myself talk a few times. Every time I did hear myself, I cringed and contemplated diving under my desk and just staying there if I can't learn to talk like a normal human being and just Spit It Out already. I suppose that will be helpful for next time. (Note to self: Write down and memorize all questions so that you do not revert to stammering heap of filler sounds. Also try not to sound like a helium...

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