First thing I would like to say is Nepal was nice. I have pictures, but nowhere to upload due to restrictions. If you want you can ask from me on MSN, but its around 450MB so you should be a person like me who sticks on the computer whole day if you want to finish receiving it.
Second thing I would like to say is screw Take5 :X We send proposal bloody damn long ago and they haven't given us any reply. I bet later the reply come back got a SHIT LOAD of SHIT to do, and very little time to clear all that shit. Actually, there will be enough time, but given how busy I am as an individual there is simply no time. I got better things to do. *cough*game*cough*
Third thing I would like to say is I've seriously been gaming a shit lot. On days which I do not go out (which was almost everyday until recently), all I do is plop myself in front of my computer and gamegamegamegamegame. And its not just game then sleep at maybe the normal gamer's sleeping time of 1am or so. I sleep at probably 3am normally now. That's really gay. My biological clock is screwed, just last night (or morning?), I slept at 5.30am and had to wake up at 10.15 for church, and even the usually hyper-energetic Ivan was unable to function properly. I walk like I'm drunk, and my eyes were barely open. Fortunately as the day went on I woke up abit and still can continue gaming :)
Fourth thing I would like to say is the reason why I never post is exactly because of the third thing I wanted to say and nothing else.
Fifth thing I would like to say is GO FREAKING READ LIAR GAME. For those who do not know what it is, it's something called a manga, or a japanese comic book. I don't want to go into any details of the storyline, but it's damn good go read it at OneManga or something.
Now I go back to doing the third thing which I said, and I will hover back when my hero dies and I'm waiting for respawn or something :X
ivan fed the world.
It is three days till I leave for my end-of-year expedition with ODAC24 to Nepal, and all the hype about it, with all the various types of gear we have to purchase, the fuss about the food over there, and the need to acclimatise quickly, is steadily making me feel that this task can actually be daunting.
In my head, it's always been: "Ah go to Nepal, take 7 days to climb and descend a mountain. One whole week, should be quite slack la."
Mood: HOLIDAY WOOOOO!
But recently, it is definitely starting to get more scary, with all the talk about the inevitable acute mountain sickness (AMS) that everyone will get when they go above 3000m. FYI, the mountain we are climbing is around 4200m, so there's not much room to avoid that AMS shizzle. The thought of possibly being the person to pull the batch down is something that can be quite scary, because it is not a role that I am used to being in. Symptoms of AMS include: headaches, appetite loss, restlessness etc. Just the thought of it can really dampen my mood, because trekking becomes very boring when faced with such symptoms. With all the talk about it from everyone I hear, I guess its a reality that I have to face, and because of that:
Mood: AHHHH AMS OMG SHIT DIE OMGOMG
I read some websites and they said that you should not be progressing more than 300m a day in order to acclimatise properly, and from our schedule, we are going up more than 800m a day, and with only a night's rest to acclimatise on each day. How we are to handle this, I HAVE NO IDEA. Screw Singaporean's rushed itineraries, later everyone get AMS we are screwed :(
How am I preparing for expedition? Currently, I'm doing everything which I should not be doing: sleeping late (at an average of 3 am), not eating vitamin supplements, gaming all day and not doing any kind of cardiovascular exercises, eating fried and oily food (increasing my chances of falling sick), and the list continues.
Let's see whether my luck holds out lol.
Oh, and $27 trekking shoe pwns you. Buy from random market shop FTW (Y) Ultra budget possible feet destroyer. Again, I depend on my luck :)
I shall start packing... in about 1-2 days time.
P.S. My luck has NEVER been good. Shit.
ivan fed the world.
While browsing through the My Documents folder in my computer the other day, I realised that I had loads of pictures which I found funny stored up in my computer, and therefore I wanted to share the results of my collection over the years.
[rant]The WHOLE FREAKING 5 YEARS I HAVE BEEN USING THIS COMPUTER, AND HAVE TO USE FOR ANOTHER 3 MORE YEARS. WHO USES A COMPUTER FOR 8 YEARS? DAMMIT WTF.[/rant]
Anyway have a good laugh:
Hehe.
ivan fed the world.
I almost forgot about the existence of this blog until today my friends were talking about it. While I didn't say anything much, my head was suddenly enlightened with an "Oh! Now I remember I have a blog!" kind of feeling, and here I am posting.
And what better time am I posting, because this so happens to be the DOOMSDAY everyone was going crazy about - the doomsday being the return of promotional exam results of course. It is indeed a day of mixed feelings, some people go "YES I PWN LOLOLOL (very very rare, if not impossible to find)", some people go "Oh shit gg advance/retain/never score high enough to match up to personal expectations or to beat so-and-so (KILL THESE PEOPLE PLEASE)", and some people go "Well it's okay but I know I could have done better than this."
I have a short message for each type of person:
"YES I PWN LOLOLOL"
Well done
"Oh shit gg advance."
Well I'm pretty sure life will still go on, so don't be too sad and push yourself too hard. I know the pressure you will probably face by your parents, like "WTF YOU HAVE TO DROP ONE UNIT! I KEEEEL YOO!" But just take things in your stride and go on with what you have, and I believe things will become brighter as time goes on.
"Oh shit gg retain."
I think nobody who reads this blog has retained. If there's such a person, well I'm sorry but gg :/
"Oh shit gg never score high enough to match up to personal expectations or to beat so-and-so."
FUCK YOU. Seriously, fuck you.
"Well it's okay but I know I could have done better than this."
I'm pretty sure many people fall under this category. They are kind of happy with what they have, yet they somehow know they can actually score higher and get that extra mark. Well, it's good to have this mindset as this is what keeps you improving, but just a tad bit too much of this will bring you over to the "fuck you" zone over there, so be careful. Yea, and to encourage you, work harder and I believe you will improve next time :)
It is a day of uncertainty, where it silently creeps up on you and soon enshrouds you without you knowing what's going on. Fear not though, for what's done is done, so just let bygones be bygones and work harder towards a better future (and hopefully better grades too). For now though what I'm going to do is to soak up the holidays, enjoy myself by immersing myself in games (both computer and real-life), and prepare for the expedition to Nepal come the end of the year. Yeehaaaa!
For those of you who wish to start studying immediately, I believe it is a conspiracy by the school to make us keep studying on an on in a vicious cycle. If I remember, I will post about this next time. For now, ciao it's time for TENGEN TOPPA GURREN LAGANN WOOOOO!
P.S. For those interested, my grades are BBBCE. But please, don't start comparing, thanks.
ivan fed the world.
ivan fed the world.
This anime deserves a post on its own. Having just watched the last episode of Code Geass R2, which is most definitely the last episode of the entire series, I am declaring that it is the:
And I am not joking. I remember stating in a recent blogpost that it is the best anime, but now I am stating that it is the best, and will be the best forever, and ever. I cannot even imagine how anything will even come close.
Having watched about 34728379347 anime series (approximation), Code Geass stands alone, at the top by far, as the one which has left the deepest impact on me, and made me talk about it the most.
There's Bleach and Naruto which the whole world recognizes, and watches, but what special thing is there other than for "RAAAAAH CHIONG AHHH!! POWER UP!! BOOM! KILL ENEMY! RAHHHH YES I WIN!!" involved? Code Geass has got me thinking about the human intricacies, human weaknesses, human wishes, and the human behaviour which stops man from attaining these wishes. Geass, as a concept, is simply brilliant. Being able to symbolise so many things, it can be interpreted to be a power which is plain and simple, that is, the power to subjugate people's will. But reading between the lines, the definition of Geass is unlimited. Anything more I say will become a spoiler.
And so, I implore you, anime watcher or not, to watch Code Geass. Watch it not because I said it was good, but watch it because it is riveting. And earthshaking. And fabulous. And
ivan fed the world.
Payment for expedition is due this week, and in spite of Edusave and Internationalisation Fund helping the price to go less than $1000, which I think is bloody damn cheap for a trip to Nepal. It's a nice and happy endi... NO WAIT!
PROBLEM COMES IN!
My father refuses to give me teh munnies. Why oh why? Has our family been reduced to a state where we are unable to afford teh munnies, which has already been drastically reduced from the initial payment of around $1800?
N-O. No.
He simply does not wish to pay. Why? Because he says the reason why the teacher wants to collect this early is so that she is making things easier for herself. Uh duh? Which idiot in this world doesn't want to make things easier for his/herself? However, even if my father is backed by the ABILITY to pay, coupled with unwillingness but no choice, he still does not want to pay. He gives plenty of reasons like being unsure whether the Edusave amount that we want to deduct has been confirmed blahblahblah. You debunk one, he comes up with another. (I think I need his kind of brains for a good GP essay, plenty of points. OH WAIT! ITS ALL BULLSHIT!)
What transpires is that he is making things difficult for the teacher, for me (who is in between, naturally things are difficult for me), and of course he has to stress with my constant reminders of the need to pay. Why stress yourself so much when payment is inevitable? Oh my god I have no idea how the brains of adults work. My father gets all his useless points shot down by me, then he walks off to my mother to rant. My mother gets all her even more useless points shot down by me (she's not exactly as smart as my father), and my father comes in with the "MY SAY IS FINAL" trump card, and I am pwned.
My mother probably said a good point. "We have difficulties that you won't understand..." Well that's the function of my brain and your mouth: You explain, I comprehend. Complicated much?
I feel okay if you are able to explain why you cannot (or rather, will not) pay, but if all the reasons that they come up with are utter nonsense, and all visibly seen as the "think up for the sake of thinking up" kind, how can you expect me to be convinced?
Damn the lack of reason.
P.S. Total rant post. Just needed somewhere to write down what I feel about this issue.
ivan fed the world.