Before they see you...

Just a quickie post...
FSI done and over, bye bye fencing for a long time...
Did no mugging at all...
Will type out the ideas for part 2 and 3 of the tf movie i have in mind...
Holidays are here...
Happy mugging people!

Cyclical argument

So much has happened since the last post. Will try to summarise quickly the events.
Last monday, played around with pGlo, tues had to repair my disc player, wed was ns checkup, spent a great deal of time there, found out my left ear is defective, thurs got my knee swollen, limped home and got scolded, friday limped around school, got home and then went out again to watch shrek 2. Sat, spent the day at home mugging somewhat, sunday burned it somewhat, lunch with the family then kinokuniya browsing. Monday again, crashed in 4 goals in floorball, tues attended a econs s session with 4 ppl only, and collected my lens.
Feeling a bit of end of term blues. Don't really know why. Maybe the realisation of the need to mug madly is now upon me. Maybe all i need is some crazy lanning.
Whatever, who cares anyway. My life , not yours.

Happiness held for ransom

Wow, believe it or not I've 260 posts in just 1 and a 1/2 years. Not bad, not bad at all.
Ok after the previous post filled with transformers fanboyism, here's something more normal. Friday was the visit to the art museum, quite interesting, but my personal feelings of art is just that it has always been a matter of perception, as long as you get enough people say it's good hey presto you have a piece of art. Personally I think everything can be considered as art, as long as one thinks so. In the end, got quite pissed as got played out of watching troy, feeling fed up i took 14 to taka to go to kinokuniya and browse for some books. Flipped through the catalogues of transformers toys, found out that bludgeon's alt mode was actually a tank. Went down to the food court of sorts and bought a cheese japanese bun?pastry? which now cost 1.10, an increase in price of 10 cents. Grr... Bought 1 only (elastic demand) and walked along orchard road, homeward bound. Then by some contrivance of fate, met sally my ogl on the way. SO we spent the next 45 mins chatting by the side of the road, me leaning against the board seperating the work place at wisma, listening to her give me advice on studying and econs s. I must say I remembered how she went out of her way to make us feel comfortable during those days of orientation, and I subconsciously modelled myself after her as an ogl as well. She really inspired me to work harder, 4As 1D, something I know i can achieve. In the end she had to rush for a movie and I thanked her for her advice. Saturday, trained, more j2s came this time, fenced rather badly, must be due to my lack of fitness. Got home, slept till 5, read online posts on transformers, only started doing S2 at 8, all the way till 12. Sunday, surprisingly woke up at 730, finished up S2, mugged money madly and did my overdue essay, before slacking till the night and slept.
I must say now sally has really inspired me to work harder. Now to translate that inspiration to real hard work.

Fanboy

Yes yes, I am one. So, a BIG warning to all now. If can't stand fanboy gushing, leave NOW. This entry is that and only that.
For all those who haven't heard the news, there is going to be a live action transformers movie coming soon, projected date is 2005 dec. Well, once the movie arrives, it will surely be marketed as those comic cartoon crossover to the big screen blockbusters, and everyone will be interested in it. I, for one, hope there won't be too many fair weather fans proclaiming to be fans for 20 years and not know his bluestreak from tracks. Admittedly, that is unavoidable that bandwagon hoppers will suddenly appear out of nowhere, but I hope they don't make stupid comments. ALso, there is talk about changing some aspects of the original show, like how megatron cannot be a gun. Sighz, i must say that is rather expected, times have changed and Walther PPKs cannot be seen by children. Anyways if they make megatron into a tank i don't mind as long as they use his G1 mold and tweak it, like how figueroa did for war within. For the movie itself, I'm just happy for the fact that it'll be made, I hope they keep to the original story well, and use only a few characters. Most of the season 1 crew would be fine. Maybe the sotry could be along the lines that they crash on earth, mt st helens erupts, the decepticons leave the ark and raid hoover dam, the energy weapons duel revealed in remastered glory, before blowing the dam up and pissing off humanity royally, the autobots are forced to retreat, spike tells them that their war is unwelcome here, the collateral damage saddens prime, megatron ponders his new move, and decides to raid both cybertron and earth! As prime contemplates spike's words, the decepticons attack a NASA insitute to steal a rocket to return cybertron. Prime tells the autobots to "transform and roll out", but not before askign wheeljack to look for the "5 unaccounted warriors". A drag-out knock down fight takes place, with individual battles showing each tf's power, like skywarp's teleportation and mirage's cloaking ability. Prime and megatron duke it out again, and prime bests him, places his rifle to megs' forehead, all the while rehashing the classic movie dialogue, but before he can pull the trigger a gamma blast strikes him on the shoulder, knocking him away. Autobot and decepticon alike pause to see shockwave, in gun mode, transform as he exits a vortex. He chillingly tells megatron he brought "reinforcements" and out come the 6 constructicons! They scan for alt modes, then combine to form devastator! Devastator promptly routs all the autobots with his solar rifle and size, and as prime lies half dead mega transforms and gets soundwave to blast prime, but wheeljack arrives with the "5 unaccounted warriors", the Dinobots! They take on Devastator, and prime rallies the autobots for a final push. While the war rages on, the US govt decides to end this problem by nuking them. Soundwave reports that a nuke is arrivng, and megatron laughs hysterically about how the humans have betrayed him. Superion goes to intercept the missile, and the us govt, seeing that their plan had failed, decide to attempt to capture superion instead, so they detonate the missile near superion, knocking him out but not killing him. They salvage him and transport his parts for investigation. The nuclear explosion however created a large wave, which covered all the tf's allowing the decpticons to escape. Prime contemplates the autobot's cause again, as all around humans protest their residency on theri planet. Seeing no alternative, the autobots return to the ark, with prime vowing to prtect this planet despite their inhabitants hatred for them. In the final scene, we see megatron, in his new udnersea base, reiterating his desrire to enslave earth inhabitants and drain it of its resources. He looks at a computer as it is scanning, then it stops. The words "NEMESIS FOUND" appear on the screen, and we end with megatron laughing.
Not too shabby huh? I just need to add in more areas for character development, and tie up some loose ends. Maybe i will do a full cinematic script, but yeah that is a big maybe. Notice i sorta mixed the MTMTE ideas with dreamwave vol 1 ideas.
Yeah fanboyism over. Transformers.

From one skeleton key to another

A quote I always wanted to post here for the longest time but it kept slipping my memory. "Warm coke tastes like piss." Go figure which person said it. I think it was annual camp sec 2 and it was said to edwin.
And just a nugget of information, a skeleton key is a key that has auto-adjusting teeth, so it can open any door which has a lock of about the same size as the key.
Loads of things happened this week, notably the 3 tests which I slumbered, struggled and ultimately got through. Spent the monday mugging for chem, tuesday I forgo econs s for bio test, but didn't do much studying, couldn't cram sacrromceyes-whatever-it-is-as-long-spellcheck-can-recognise-it into my brain, wrote loads of crap in the test itself, like what is a commercial use of amylase? sold to bio labs in schools for digestion experiments. Wed was the smu econs talk, the professor was good, although i slept, yangqi used his stuff for econs test the next day, so i guess i lost out. Speaking of which he led me to a merry good chase around bukit timah with me cursing and swearing and putting my hiking skills to use again.
I think nerves are fraying at the moment. I read something that made me feel sad, really, and I don't know quite why. I should just brush it off, since I can avoid the problem totally by doing what I've been doing all this while. But somehow I can't. I feel the need to speak out about it.
Ok, I'll be the first to admit our class isn't the best, we're crazy to a fault, and we all have our quirks. I can honestly say I don't dislike them, most of them I consider to be my friends, and although they irritate me at times I think my tolerance levels have increased since 01 times with DC and at home with my brother. Therefore I'm just saddened.
Mum used to tell me she used to just hang out with all her like-minded friends all the time and "despised" (she never used the exact word) others who she felt was intellectually inferior. Now, she tells me NOT to do the same, and learn from Dad instead, who could talk to anyone, be it the roadsweeper or a CEO and still make the person feel at home.
I never took that advice seriously until sec 3, and paid the price for it. Now I know, one cannot choose who you want to work with, same goes for a class. We cannot just live our lives with the same bunch of like minded people. No man is an island, we need to socialise and learn to live with people we don't like. I used to dislike those really arrogant people, but now I'm trying to tolerate them, as now i understand their arrogance is actually an extension of their confidence.
Haiz. So it would come down to this. Shinji Ikari's ideas of running away seem to be the best way out for me. And I'm subconsciously doing that. Know that I'm taking no offence with whatever was said, one has a right to say and think what one wants, and so do I. My belief is that we must learn to live with all types of people, and lower our expectations of others to make life more bearable to ourselves. I used to think that is a cop-out, and at times still do, but I guess accepting things as they are has kept me going. Maybe that will make life a tad more bearable. Maybe not. But happiness is something one feels, no one can make you unhappy unless you let the person do so. And I certainly ain't letting no stupid thing or people who are out to spoil my day do so.

Scorpia

There can really be no words to describe the absolute emotional intensity of this book, less fun than Eagle Strike, 100% the best book in the series. And the ending really blew me away. Although a bit cliched, but horowitz's writing ability more than makes up for it. Normally I would scoff at the star wars-esque plot twist but horowitz's wizardry makes it all believable and real. Gripping, absolute page turner stuff. All I can say is that everyone who lieks the notion of a teenage 007 with a very mature twist, go read the alex rider series. For those who hope they can escape the drudgery of being a student and be a jet setting spy, this series will make you change your mind.
Nothing like a very very VERY good book to take your mind off things for a while. Like the impending 3 tests in 3 days. Like the rather staid ORA. Like reading drab economic text. For 3 hours, I was transported to a world of alex rider, to a world I would never envy him for having it. Great writing does things to people. At this moment I am truly still reeling from the explosive ending.

There just ain't no figurin' a female

For starters, no, the title has no hidden meaning or what nots. It means what it means, and it was taken from Beast Wars Season 2 episode 3 "Tangled Web". Quickstrike said it in reference to BlackArachnia. And somehow it is quite true. Oh well, if we understood everything, what is the fun in that?
Speaking of which, some time back glenn was being bombarded by mrs toh in gp class over his presentation on agnosticism. Something glenn said which i fail to recall now prompted me to wonder if god had a sense of humor. Maybe by making all things imperfect in their own way was his manifestation of his kooky side. Oh well, who knows, but I sure hope he does because people who don't sure are boring. Like Optimus Prime. Defender of all things good and right and fluffy bunnies.
Been a good week, I guess, monday was short in my opinion, handball was fun, somehow lost a 3 goal lead. Econs S on search theory was interesting, the analogy on SDU is hilarious. As usual mr sowden provided some soundbites, like the one about how MOE won't hire teachers that support division 1 clubs. Wed came, the unfortunate incident which I was lucky to miss, rain came down in sheets, washing out the scorched landscape. Went to training, cut a lonesome figure on the side as I did not bring my suit to fence. Thurs, rain continued, so we had floorball, scored 2, although the second one zhongwei stole frag, bouncing off his heel before it went in. Did stupid things like stalking kp in ghim moh, whacking him damm hard and making the bunch of them think i'm jealous (i'm sure). Friday was choir concert, before that we rushed about with econs s essay, chem prac, and me fighting back sleep. Got home and just crashed for 1 and a half hours, then got up went for choir concert. Finally got to wear the blue long sleeved shirt from thailand. Dropped by the orchard mrt florist to buy flowers, saw yeng yong and priscilla chan there. YY insisted the champagne rose I bought for audrey was for myself, I refused to argue with her in front of the nice stallholders. They were friendly and helpful, and bailed me out as I knew nuts about flora. Concert was good, passed the rose to audrey, congratulated her on a good job, and went home with js. Saturday, training, got the bloodlust back, and saw the return of some of the prodigal daughters. Got home after a few rounds of hard sparring, crashed a bit, before going to watch man u vs chelsea. We needed a man sent off and a goalkeeper fumble to get a measly 1 goal. Sighz.
Tests, ora, fsi, fa cup final and other unseen obstacles ahead. Life is good. Need a game though.

I was an atheist until I realized I was God

Finally got Armada vol 3 and Gl #4. Both kick ass, Omega Supreme was just majestic, his monosyallabic responses brought me back to my primary school days when I knew if he appeared, he would kick serious decepticon ass. Armada Megatron vs Galvatron was nice as well, the sheer gravity of the fight leaped out of the comic book. But the combined price of $46 is causing me to be a little short on cash...
Boon seer and sharon came over to do the biotech project, had a real brain trip, boon seer made a lot of "interesting" comments, and i ended up saying "erhemmm" a few times. Make that many times. The comment about Jurassic Park was priceless.
Econs S essay is driving me up the wall. I am becoming a LKY soundpiece, quoting from his memoirs like nobody's business. Oh well, better get back to it soon....