THE SUBLIME DIVIDE.

I just realised something. Edmund always get called 'ah ma' by his girl friends (notice the space) in school. But now that he's a potential commando, I think they're gonna start calling him 'ah pa'. Everyone agree with me?! He can be a handsome 'ah pa' to them lah, it's fine.

I also think about really weird stuff before I sleep, but that occurs on an occasional basis. I thought about how guys have it easy throughout life. Firstly, asian sons are more valued in society because they can carry on traditions. Then as a guy goes on with his life, he realises that he doesn't need to give a hoot about how he dresses, nor does he really need to bother about what others think of him. As he grows older and national service comes in, well there's some suffering, but it's only short term. If you're lucky like me, it's one year and ten months. After that, it's mostly over. I think. I'm excluding the fact that there's re-service in the later years of a guy's life. But then, even when you think of it on an extreme level, a guy rapist can just do it with any girl he sees and he only needs to worry about contracting stds, if that's even a worry to him. I guess that's probably it.

When the females come into the picture and they get parents who're expecting a boy, boom, there goes the hopes and aspirations of a son. That's only for some cases of course, but I don't think such a mentality is that rampant nowadays... right? Next, they have to worry about how they dress and look, which will affect how others think of them. If a girl dresses like crap or looks ugly in some guys' perception, she gets added automatically to the blacklist. Plus, if she has a huge attitude problem, the negative perception is twice its impact, as compared to a guy's. Even though a girl doesn't have to go through ns, her life is constantly watched and monitored by on-lookers, and it's like as if there's no certain sense of security. That's why they're some of them who get so obsessed with beauty they resort to plastics, and guys complain. Well, it's a fact which I don't deny. And if a girl has casual sex, she has to worry about contracting stds, an unwanted pregnancy and how others would think of her as a slutty whore. That's about thrice of what the guy which I mentioned has to worry about.

At least that's what I thought about last night, and it's very true right. Guys may be more conscious of how the look nowadays, but the basic mindsets will remained entrenched in everyone's minds, and that's how the society works. Perhaps it's natural, but I don't think the blame game between the genders will cease anytime too.

I could go on to describe about how aids in developing and developed countries are spreading quickly and go research on some figures but I'm too lazy to do all that and this might become some online gp essay which my tutor might start marking while glaring at the monitor. Plus, I've got a chemistry test to worry about with ample memory work to do.


Sound the trumpets to usher the month of august! holidays :)

DRENCHED IN HOPE.

The sky threatened a stormy grey,
Yet the day still seemed bright as day.

As if the rain could cleanse my skin,
No cranberry cleaned me within!

For He who forged the skies on earth,
My Lord God watches me from birth.

~

Bring out the umbrellas, kids!

LET'S IGNITE THE SPRING.

Yesterday was more eventful actually. After school I walked with my class peeps to the bus-stop and I was one of the few lagging behind. We were passing under one of the flats and there was this staircase. Not that there was anything special about the staircase, but it was more of the people at the top of the first flight of steps. They looked like students because they were obviously in my school's pe shirts. I began to wonder since they're all standing around halfway at the level to the second floor in a sneaky manner, they must've been smoking coke or whatever. True enough, it was nicotine instead.

I told chris about it and he went for a peek with eugene. Ahaha if I was a law-abiding citizen who loved to admire the pain of punishment, I would've ran to the general office to tell the principal about it. Or maybe I could have been those citizen reporters and start snapping away pictures of them smoking in the uniform and tarnish my school's reputation. But, I couldn't be bothered at all. It's their lives anyway, and it's more enjoyable being an observer.
I just realised during a certain lesson that there's a certain teacher who still surfs around student blogs to search for certain defamatory remarks. Wahahaha, sneakaye, sneakaye.

I also finally took the career profiling test which I missed due to certain valid reasons, hoho. I got classified into an INTJ.

I as in introvert, N as in intuition, T as in thinking and J as in judging.

Well, I shan't elaborate on those, since I think those words reveal enough about me, ahaha. I still don't like the idea of being an introvert though, so I guess that'll change a lot in time to come.


I have a feeling life will be much sweeter than grapes after the exams. Yes I do.

PERISHABLE HOMINIDS.

I guess you've probably heard of the south korean hostage situation by now. If you haven't, well, try to get in touch with reality.

As of now, one korean has been killed off by the taliban retards. I think they're like a bunch of extremist dolts with no other clear aim but to kill, kill, kill. Damned idiots. Anyway, I don't think there's much point in grieving for the korean pastor who was shot dead. He's a Christian, one who believes in God and His gospel, in the form of the bible. So, as feste the witty jester said in shakespeare's twelfth night, it'd be foolish to mourn for someone who's in heaven. It'd be against human nature to rejoice for someone who have just passed on, but it's Christ-like if you're joyful for someone who already has the opportunity to meet God in person.
If you can, keep the other twenty-two hostages in your prayers. People might ridicule them for going against government orders to travel afghanistan to provide free medical aid for the people there, but it was perhaps God who gave them the call to obey Him by serving in abnormally fastidious situations.

Thus, rejoice for bae hyung-kyu, who has already left gaia to transcend to elysium and pray for the others to be released from unfathomable insanity.

THAT WHIMSICAL INJECTION.

Whoa, damn! I think I just caught one of my most gratifying films this year! It has action, humour, its usual satire, and all the ridiculous antics you've caught on the trailer. Aye, the simpsons movie.

Well, even though you intrinsically know that it's going to be a blast, you wouldn't throw those bucks away for a cartoon. I'd say I still agree to that opinion, but you wouldn't be able to enjoy the entire impact of the film, especially when the music's produced by hans zimmer, the same guy who gave you music in pirates of the caribbean (two 'b's, one 'r'!) plus other blockbusters. But anyway, your money, your choice.We got practically the best seats in the house, with thanks to my insistence on quality seating. I think the best time to catch a movie is when the sneaks are screening. That's because there're no advertisements and it starts on time, right on the dot. Secondly, hardly any audience! It's a gamble though, because it's like you're a guinea pig.Camwhoring in the theatre at the back when no one's watching, hoho. I selected the shot which had solach looking the most retarded.
But lookie here, remnants left behind by others on the back of the seat in front of us ;)

Although the plot was entirely predictable, the movie was a blast. It had every element from the television series presented in the film. They had guest stars like in the series and unexpected moments. I think the three of us laughed so hard the people in front of us occasionally turned back to notice, ahaha. Pity I had to sit beside jonah, ahaha cos' he kept pushing me jokingly and laughing whenever it came to the ludicrous parts of the show. Hoho, so I transferred the pushing to solach and we both annoyed the hell out of him, ahaha.

Oh, if you thought everything was purely pg-13 material, they had some pretty indecent innuendoes you'd see in an nc-16 film with human actors. Very interesting to note.

Re-watchability factor is an eight-and-a-half out of ten. Haha but seriously, you need purely great company to enjoy this.

That'll be perfect, like today, hoho.

LINGERING SPECTRUM.

It was the final practical yesterday. Well, it's kind of a milestone in my life because it's most probably the last practical I'll ever do in my life. It finished with a bang though, or more of a crash since two test-tubes were broken. Not by me, fortunately, as I've already had a bad experience last year when I leaned nonchalantly on a bench and a ten-dollars-worth measuring cylinder came tumbling down. Worse, I wasn't even having practical, I was in the physics lab finding the teacher in front of another class. Zzz, another embarrassing moment in life.It was mixing halogens with halides and getting a plethora of colours by adding hexane as a non-polar solvent. And... never mind if you don't understand, just know about the colours part :D

~

You're dwelling in a familiar domain,
Yet it seems foreign, all of it.

Emotions run shallow, unreal,
And superficiality reigns.

But fret not,
For the other realms are under one rule.

Apropos the way of subsistence,
Learn the tools of every trade and follow suit.

THE PURSUIT OF ENDURANCE.

I'd like to take my grandma's celebration as a break from studies, although I don't exactly think that I've been very loyal to my targets. That has to change, I know.

My uncles and aunties from the maternal side decided to go to this place called quality hotel. At first I was thinking whether this place would end up looking like some other hotel named after a dictionary. Well, at least my doubts shoved away into the closet when it looked pretty pleasant for a lousy-sounding hotel.It was a lunch buffet, and I haven't been to a buffet in what seemed forever. There wasn't a lot of variety available so I went easy at first. Then when my bro and I caught the freezer with tubs of ice cream in it, my eyes brightened up.

You could dish out as much ice-cold ice cream as you liked, top it up with moist and luscious hershey's chocolate fudge and crunchy peanuts all over. Whew, I make it sound better than ben and jerry's :D
The cake that they bought looked as if it was stolen from that candy house in hansen and gretel. Though it was chocolate, I didn't think it was that palatable.

Turns out it wasn't good at all, according to my bro.
This is what they called, the second generation portrait. I'm in the first generation so, I didn't take any pictures. Or maybe I felt rather lackadaisical, having been dragged out of bed in the morning on a sunday.Well, it was a humble gathering I guess. My guess is that things will be much livelier during national day, when we'll all sit around as a whole family and watch the television in beach road and hopefully catch a few sights of the national day parade.

Hoho, I just found these which I took on friday.
At first edmund was trying to escape the camera when I tried to paparazzi him.
Then he picks my handphone up when I looked unsuspecting and snaps an emo shot of himself. Pretty paradoxical eh?

Tsk, life is just full of ironies.

ADOLESCENCE; CHROMATIC FLAMBOYANCE.

Apologies for the absence, but I found some time for blogging amid my busy mugging schedule.

Hmm, I can say that my more youthful days were really privileged. Most of those days were occupied with playing with lego whenever nothing occupied my mind. Yes, lego, pretty exciting stuff.
From my display cupboard, I suppose you can see how much of my life lego used to have control over. Three-quarters of the cupboard is filled with the entire lego collection, and this is not all I have. Hoho. Erm I don't play with those stuffed toys at all so I think it's some sort of dumping ground my mom found to place them.
Over the years, when you accumulate heaps of lego men, you can't help but to tweak their costumes here and there. Some construction worker could be wearing an scuba-diving suit, a medieval soldier could have a racer's helmet on and a commoner could don a king's crown. I guess the infinite possibilities that were associated with lego attracted me to it. Look, even some alien invader could become the leader of all these minions, hoho.

Wondering how I got all these babies? Haha in the past, my mom took me to raffles city occasionally. Then, she'd bring me on the routine trip to sogo, which is actually robinsons now. Actually, the name didn't matter, because the lego section was still left intact. Each lego toy I bought would cost about five bucks or more, and I would be so enticed by the packaging that I'd excitedly rip open the box on the train home, while my mom dozes off watching me play with the toy.
It sure sounds like pleasant memories, even till now. However, in the course of growing up, I lost interest in lego, even though I still played when I felt bored. It didn't really matter though, since my mom started nagging me to tidy up all the lego stuff when I wasn't playing with them. I think it was also getting ridiculous that all these expensive lego toys were bought and left on the shelf, literally.

And that's the big problem with wisdom.
Anyway, my interest shifted to lego technic for some time because of the bionicle robots that were always featured on the telly last time. The first generation bionicle robots. Previously, I wasn't too fascinated by those technical looking lego parts but I think I was so mesmerized by bionicle, I bought all the first generation sets!
In order to build the huge one, which consisted of three robots. Haha seriously, it was loads of fun. Step-by-step, piece-by-piece. I think when I wasn't too sure of how to put together some of the parts I had to ask my bro or dad. After piecing together everything, I'd sit on the carpet with my other lego characters and commence destruction on the little lego men. Mwahaha.
This, my friend, is lego star wars. Yeah, when there was all the hype about star wars, lego just had to come up with the lego star wars sets and make me interested, in turn making my mom splurge more cash on these stuff. But isn't it amazing how kids get crazy over these toys? I'm still amazed I think, wahaha.This is one of the most expensive lego sets I bought, and this costed slightly more than a hundred bucks. I think I partly felt the pinch since I had to fork out some money to pay for it, and I don't know why I was interested in this ancient egyptian set. It's pretty intriguing though, because there's a couple of traps in this uh, egyptian structure. Everytime when I made some lego man attempt to acquire the treasure, I can fall into some hole and be attacked by lego mummies. Haha, how fun.

Well, this may not be related to lego.
But this is quite a memorable one. When I was caught up with the whole final fantasy ix thing, I had to sneak into the shop to buy zidane and vivi and attempt to hide them from my parents. Maybe I was being controlled by some voodoo doll faraway, heh heh but my parents eventually found out and I was reprimanded for wasting money =x Well, you can't blame a hobby right... :)

Time is water flowing into a bottle, when someone suddenly seals the top with plastic wrap.

THE INVINCIBLE ITINERARY.

I expected today would be a long and draggy day, like always. That's because mondays now end at five in the evening, just like how last year mondays ended with project work lectures. Annoying, but I'm left without a choice.

Things sorta brightened up after gp lesson when the whole lot of us sorta surprised miss tan with a birthday celebration.
Solach trying to look cool with a cock-eyed look. Well, after all he was trying to look like some kid from ac by wearing the badge above the breast pocket, while jonah was elsewhere with the badge on the breast pocket, imitating the rjcians.
There was no cake, and the cafe had only a sandwich on sale. Sounds pathetic huh? Never mind lah, it's always the thought that counts. Uh, gross, I shouldn't use flash next time since the quality is so bad.

I know it's no coincidence, but after miss tan told me about the great commission in matthew twenty-eight, the church published her first newsletter on missions and the focus was on matthew twenty-eight: verses sixteen to twenty.

Anyway, it all sums up in four points. Every mission has been authorised by God, disciples have to go forth across all nations to spread the good news, every commandment has to be obeyed and God is always with us during every mission. That, is the great commission, and it is indeed a marvellous decree.

Sums up the day I guess.


Thank you Lord, for incomprehensible miracles.

A PERFIDIOUS PROBLEM.

I've been recently exposed to a couple of cases of polygamy.

I mean like, isn't it ridiculous to have so many wives yet you have to struggle to not like, but love each and every single one of them? It's also pricey to spend on more than one woman too, plus I don't think I'll feel the gratification by spending on so many of them.

In case you're wondering, I went somewhere where they indirectly advocated polygamy. The people there made me see how important it was to stay faithful to a spouse and not to be tempted by others, even though I've yet to master this entirely. So I honestly thought it wasn't a wasted trip, or not I'll be feeling depressed by the rest of the week thinking how I'd spent my saturday walking the perimeter of bugis junction aimlessly and watching two pool shops whiz by my hungry eyes.

The other one was some girl I know who has a guy who has another girl. In other words, the guy has two girlfriends. The huge problem with this is that she doesn't mind the guy having the other girl, yet she's all torn up what the guy does for the other girl. See, ludicrous. Well, she tells me she think she'll win the war, but not so sure herself.

I guess even when you think you're the luckiest guy in the world to be loved by more than one women, it'll never end right. Love is not a piece of cake (no pun intended), where you can cut up the pieces into slices and share the love. When you love someone, you love that person, one and only - the end. That's all to it to quintessential faithfulness. At least for now when the kids haven't come yet, but that's another story.

"Do you promise to love, honor, cherish and protect her, forsaking all others and holding only to her forevermore?"

Hell yeah I will!

SILVERCYST UNDER RESTRAINT.

Well, caught harry potter and the order of the phoenix on saturday at one in the morning and surprisingly, the whole of jurong point looked welcoming for once. No shoppers :)
Anyway, the show was okay I guess. Not too boring and not too flashy. I felt kinda bored at times because it was excessively dark, or maybe I wasn't in the right mood for black. There's some humour though, so I'd think it was a balanced show. Umm, okay but the nice parts didn't last long, which kinda sucks. The confrontation between voldemort and dumbledore is supposed to be the most climatic and fanciful part right? But I think the fight didn't even last five or six minutes, and that's a real bore.

They said this is the best one of the series right? Maybe I'd beg to differ, or you might like dark stuff. This isn't a very highly entertaining show, mind you. I think it was trying to be loyal to the book, so probably I didn't get some stuff.

Hmm, a six or seven out of ten?

My sleep after the movie didn't last very long since I had to go for the parent-teacher's meeting on the day itself.

Let's say that it turned out well, as expected. Since my mom doesn't want me to blog about teacher, school, and all that, and yes, she knows. She even told me the consequences of that by showing me pm lee's son's article. That's rather sad though.

Time to shift gears.

REVERBERATIONS.

An inconvenient truth;

Live earth;

The eleventh hour.


Answer the call, bush.

Edit: I found an article today which strongly complements my view. How nice.

Article:

Defiant Bush tells Congress Iraq war can still be won

WASHINGTON : President George W. Bush insisted the Iraq war could still be won and dismissed mounting calls for a change in strategy as US lawmakers voted again for troop withdrawals.

Bush struck a defiant tone Thursday, insisting on his authority to run the war despite a report from his administration showing the Iraqi government was making only paltry progress and growing anxiety over the war from fellow Republicans.

"I believe we can succeed in Iraq, and I know we must," Bush said at a news conference dominated by the unpopular war, which has now killed 3,612 US troops.

Bush frequently invoked Al-Qaeda, warning the withdrawal of 160,000 US troops in the country would mean "surrendering the future of Iraq to Al-Qaeda."

The House of Representatives answered Bush with a vote to withdraw most combat troops by April, as Democratic leaders blasted the president's handling of the war.

The House voted by 223 votes to 201 to pass the measure, but the Republican coalition stayed intact: only four party members voted with the Democrats.

The troop withdrawal deadlines have almost no chance of becoming law as the Democrats are well short of the two-thirds majority needed to override a Bush veto.

But the Democrats see votes for troop withdrawals as a way of keeping up pressure on the president and his Republican allies.

"The president hasn't seen the last of these votes," said Jim Manley, spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. "We'll look forward to additional votes in September."

Bush reiterated that he is not ready to consider any change of course in Iraq until the commander of US forces in Iraq, General David Petraeus, issues his assessment of the troop "surge" strategy in September.

The president accused his Democratic foes of trying to encroach his legal authority as commander-in-chief.

"I don't think Congress ought to be running the war," he said.

Bush also pledged to launch another bout of diplomacy on Iraq, by sending Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates to the Middle East in August to consult US allies on the conflict.

Both cabinet heavy hitters had postponed foreign trips to launch an intense lobbying effort of wavering lawmakers, after several key Republican senators broke with Bush in recent weeks.

The political combat came as the White House issued to Congress a much-anticipated interim report on Bush's strategy to deploy extra troops.

The report found satisfactory progress by the Baghdad government on only eight of 18 security and political benchmarks set by Congress.

Both sides in the bitter debate cited the report as proof for their entrenched positions, with Bush saying he still had "confidence" in Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.

The report revealed efforts by Iraq to get its armed forces operating independently of US units -- a key goal of the US administration -- had made "unsatisfactory progress."

Baghdad also had made "unsatisfactory" progress on legislation explicitly endorsed by Washington as central to efforts to quiet sectarian violence, the report said.

There was more optimism on the situation in some regions, like Anbar province, echoing recent US statements that local tribal leaders had turned sharply against Al-Qaeda.

And the report said "satisfactory" progress had been made towards reducing sectarian violence, though not yet to acceptable levels.

Bush, struggling to preserve his draining power late in his second term, defended his decisions on Iraq.

"I will be able to say, I looked in the mirror and made decisions based upon principle, not based upon politics," Bush said.

"Everybody wants to be loved -- just sometimes the decisions you make and the consequences don't enable you to be loved."

Democrats went on the attack.

Senator Dick Durbin said: "It's sad to say, President Bush is out of touch ... with the reality of the war in Iraq."

A similar bill to the one passed by the House is being debated in the Senate, but both approaches mirror earlier initiatives which Bush blocked. He signalled again Thursday he would veto any new troop withdrawal timelines.



My guess is that you got lost halfway in between, but never mind, you're not alone.
You just need to know to blame america for electing bush as the president, while things might have been much more different with al gore around, even though live earth was a paradoxical failure.

Leave it to the americans.

INCRIMINATING NOTIONS.

Physics of transition,
Chemistry of uncertainty,
Mathematics of revival,
Economics of luxury,
Language of progression.

Id est, I'm mugger-crazy.Just a word of pre-emptive caution, kids.

This blog may disappear in less than a second next time and re-emerge at some other location in cyberspace, dependent on circumstances.

Hahaha, I just saw ms tan's 'free' photo and she looks quite retarded.
But she says she won't bother about what others think, so I assume this comment won't bother her at all, hoho.

BEYOND EPHEMERAL.

I'm utterly speechless.
That's because today's events totally exceeded my initial expectations.

This only goes to say that, something really is very wrong, something is not quite right yet,
And such a wrong seriously needs to be righted.

'nuff said.

SOLACE ONCE KNOWN.

The day before marked a day of affirmation, but also a day of finality. I had to determine whether my efforts all these six months had paid off at all. It was a tough inclination to walk to my destination, but there was no other choice. I keep to my appointments, and even if it was impossible to make it, I'd at least give a call.Walking through the urban landscape which I once did half a year back, I awoken at the fact that my personal era of adolescence has already concluded. Has it already? I've only lived eighteen years on earth. But no, they told me it would be the last time I could come to this place. The next time would be elsewhere, where the adults go. As the law governs the body, the body has to observe every regulation. Maybe, I'd like to taste being a radical someday.
As I took my queue number from the counter, I took out my book to read. That 70's Show was showing on the tube, but it was on mute; didn't grab my attention the least bit. Before I went past chapter ten, my queue number flashed a couple of times on the screen. Well, this was it.I walked along the aisles to the cubicle and she was there. She flashed me a friendly smile with her face mask on, but I could tell she was smiling with her eyes too. It sort of calmed my nerves down a little. Even when doing so, I thought how ridiculous this must have been, since I've already been to the same place for almost a hundred times.

"What do you want me to do for your teeth?" She asked politely, exuding a form of warm disposition.

"Urm, scaling."

She welcomed me onto the seat and offered me a pair of goggles to guard my sight from the glaring lamp. So far, so good, I thought. She checked my teeth and suggested that I go for a x-ray when it's still free. Why not, since it's going to cost much more the next time.

The x-ray contraption was similar to the last time I did this. I had to bite on something while some scanners revolved around my head. By now, I'm still clueless to how those stuff works. She took my mind off the x-ray, and invited me back to the cubicle.

This was it.

After months of changing my brushing style, I've been waiting for this moment to see if my efforts had paid off.

In the past, I had serious gum bleeding problems. I thought it was absurd that I had to bleed every time I went to the bathroom at night, but my friend told me it was perfectly normal. Well, now you know friends can be wrong at times.

Expectedly, the scaling process was painful as always, but not worser than the previous appointment. There was some sort of airbrush at the side of my mouth, while she dug out the usual dental caries from every tooth, ruthlessly poking my gums when she did that. It started from the bottom, all the way to the top, diligently removing the unwanted visitors from my mouth and it hurt.

Thankfully, it ended before my tears flowed down (which would take hours) and she calmly told me to take a rinse.

I poured the water in, gargled everything in my mouth, and spat.

Despite minute saliva and water, there were only minute traces of blood which washed down into the sink.

Yes! What a victory, having won the war against bleeding gums. I was on the road to healthier teeth. Having such an overwhelming sense of relief, I thanked the dentist and was on my way out.
Suddenly, the skies seemed so clear and bright. It was like a window into the future beyond, to trouble-free teeth.

It's the last time I could visit the school dental centre as a student anyway, but it was all worth it for this wonderful conclusion. It'll be a long while before my next dental check-up which I'd have to pay for though. It really pays to have clean teeth, ahaha.
Ahhh... no more worries.

For now.

SPORADIC MISANTHROPIST.

I'm not trying to be ebenezer scrooge by saying this but, I really think this is disturbing.

You should've heard about the live earth concerts by now. Initially I thought it was a good idea, with their aim of creating awareness around the world about global warming and all the environmental problems it'll create.

But seriously, I realised that it's ludicrous, possibly conspiratorial.

With billions of people expected to catch the concerts, more people are going to be aware of global warming right? You are riiight. More people are going to watch television too! Id est, I am riiight too! More televisions switched on, more electricity consumed, less fossil fuels remaining for consumption and more environmental problems. Other people might say hey, isn't this already happening already, you stupid? Well, it is, but with the hype increasing about live earth via advertising, aren't more people gonna watch these concerts? Thanks marketing.

A two, three-hour concert (notice singularity) would be fine. They had to make it a twenty-four-hour one. There're sure to be fanatics out there who're television-addicts and I'm sure they're capable of watching all the concerts all at one go. I'm sure their television sets will go boom too. The reason why I think they might be glued to the television is because of all their favourite celebrities from across the planet. Thanks madonna and gang.

You know, in the end it doesn't really matter. The earth will be voided into oblivion and there'll only be a single shining hope of eternal salvation.

Another thing on the complaint list:

Price of mac's ice-cream cone rose from fifty to sixty-cents;
A tub of ice-cream, rose from seven-ninety-five to nine-fifteen;
Lunch from the canteen's economic stall, one-eighty to two bucks;
... (it carries on)

Outrageous two-percent.

PERSEVERANCE. // DESCENT.

When it was like being at the top of the knoll,

Indeed pride comes before the fall.

So now, I'm gonna give it my all.

~

I don't think I'm exaggerating about this but, I think yesterday was one of the more exciting days in school. There was this abseiling/zip-line(flying-fox) programme which most classes would probably skip, but my class is one of the most enthusiastic ones, so we all went for it.

Even before we started anything, chingyi grinned with anticipation.

If I'm not mistaken, the both of them went first, ahaha. Yeah, solach found the balls to do it with jiayang the man.
Superstar's class occupied the same time slot as our class, and we even got to catch one of his rare performances. Singing before he leapt along the zip-line, the rest of us gave a splendid standing ovation (because there weren't seats around). You better win that superstar competition too.
And that's christopher with a victory sign even though he didn't win anything.
Yeah yeah that's me, and that's going to be all to it :P
I knew he was excited about this.

Aiyo, no other new hand signs is it...Oh I just realised huikim had a new one, maybe that meant that it was going to be smooth-sailing =x
Entrust my camera to an idiot and he seizes the opportunity to cam-whore with himself. Speechless. Entrust my camera to the same idiot and he takes the chance to shoot girls running on the field. Perverse.Haha, this is rather hilarious. I was at the end of the zip-line with eugene and jiayang and we were waiting for the next person to come down. Strangely, after ten minutes, no one did. The person was actually standing there, reluctant to jump off the edge. We identified her to be jieying, ahaha. Well, I couldn't do anything else even when eugene was cheering wildly for her to come down. When it was almost half an hour gone, she made the leap.

Amazing, I don't think I could have such stamina to stand up there for so long."I'm doing this for my girlfriend and parents!"

To end off, I'll satisfy the prince......with the princess =x

Imitated flight.

LIBERTY'S SEITY.

Youth day was supposed to be for the youths, ie. teenagers within the age range of thirteen and eighteen. However, look at the state of this holiday.
Just look at it. Scrutinise every single pixel of this image, it's horrendous!

Totally lowered my morale to go queue up for donut factory doughnuts at raffles city, which I've been hearing nightmares about. Five, four, three- hour queues - goodness gracious me.
Anyway, I managed to drag solach along to wait for more than an hour to collect my passport. So cumbersome man, need to wait so damn long to get my new passport, and I wouldn't even say it's worth it.All in all, it was a sad thing. It's because I can't use this photo to bribe custom officers into letting me into foreign countries anymore! :( I still think my hairdo looks like guile from street fighter, and no, I didn't tell the barber to cut that style for a cartoon character's sake.
Yeah so, we were bored stiff with kids running around the place and shouting out 'jonah' under unused wooden podiums. Plus solach was sitting next to some indian girl who kept shouting 'jonah' and the sound was somehow amplified directly into his ears. Poor kid.

Fortunately, we weren't worse off out of all the people who came. I saw one girl with her queue number hitting the three-thousand already. Ouch.

Alright, I'm probably bored with this post. But happy birthday to my dad who turns fifty-something this day! We celebrated with a dinner barbeque at home too. Ahaha, and my mom coincidentally bought doughnuts from donut factory today! She only took an hour to queue up but she complained about it to us, ahaha. I think she purchased more than two dozens, woohoo. Thanks mummy!

Cherish your parents.

Omigosh! A chevrolet! It's gonna,

Transform!

SIXES AND SEVENS.

Woohoo! I got an advertiser from nuffnang, sweet. Go visit that ad for fun if you're bored, even though I have no idea what they're selling.

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Today was rather unprecedented, especially when tian bought tickets for transformers without my affirmation. So, what to do, can't watch with my classmates next week if they're planning to. Worse, he got the fourth row from the front and my eyes had to strain to catch all the action within the four corners of the big screen.

However, it didn't affect my viewing pleasure.

You might have also already heard about all the hype surrounding transformers. Seriously, it's a hit. The cg animation is undisputably a plus factor for this movie and it adds a lot of impact to this action flick, making it really action packed. Even when the autobots and decepticons were transforming you already feel your muscles tightening with anticipation. There's also so much action in the show you can't even properly discern which exactly is the climax. So, if you're bored with life and you need something to smack you in the face, just catch this show. It'll blow you away.

Not only is it full of robot action, it also has humour to spice it up. The jokes aren't too dry or lame and I think they're rather suited for any audience, except when the black car dealer's mom/grandma raised the finger high into the air.

Also, if you're looking for love, you've got it in the movie too. But the romance set-up wasn't exactly a fresh idea; some loser guy meets a frickin' hot chick and ends up being together in the end happily ever after. So, I'm not too bothered by this.

Story-wise, it's not a complete one of course, because some of the bad guys are still roaming freely on earth for the time being which suggests a sequel. Yes, a sequel, don't get too shocked. Tian even told me there'd be two sequels, we'll see. The show ended off too abruptly and it was like a fairytale ending. Plus, the big bad guy megatron got defeated so easily, it's so 'spiderman three' kinda thing. If that was a spoiler, I apologise even though it's too late :) Then optimus prime looked like some damsel in distress when the kid had to save him, so retarded, isn't the robot supposed to be more useful than the human. I apologise once again if it was necessary.

All in all, everything was fantastic. Animation was mesmerising like in any other movie, just that this had an extra punch to it. There was also so much chaos and destruction everywhere you'd feel like you wanna be a transformer and obliterate the planet next time. But the essential part which is the storyline was lacking in fluidity, and some parts of the movie were questionable. I enjoyed my two-hours-plus show though.

I probably award it eight-out-of-ten popcorns, hoho, which means you should go catch it.
Oh, by the way, if you're a die-hard prison break fan, you should catch transformers too, you'll surely see fernando sucre as a 'extra' soldier fighting his heart out while annoying american soldiers with his spanish.


I feel uncertainty between the paths of insecurity or plain gaiety,
Why not be merry?
I know not, for I know only my heart in minimal turmoil.
Not as extreme as burying myself in the soil.