あの肩を支えるのは俺じゃない。

あの肩を支えるのは俺じゃない。
Ano kata wo sasaeru no wa ore janai.
支撑她的人不是我。
The person who supports her is not me.

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Damn... I took bus 291 to school this morning as usual, but this time, my bus just had to terminate at the interchange. -.- What a drag... I alighted the bus, thinking that I should probably take bus 69 to school (I learnt two days ago that the frequency of bus 69 is much greater than bus 23, lol). Just when I was thinking that I would maybe be able to meet up with KK in the interchange by chance and go to school with him together (since I've met up with him in the interchange twice so far on my way to school), KK appeared out of nowhere and started walking alongside me! XD

The two of us went to queue up at the queue for bus 69, and even less than a minute later, Aaron came along as well, haha! XD So the three of us took bus 69 to school together, but lol, we alighted one bus stop early... XD Oh well, since we still had half an hour before our first lesson starts when we alighted the first bus stop, we took our own sweet time walking there, haha. At the bus stop where we were supposed to stop, we met Shi Hui too, haha, so the four of us proceeded to where the first lesson is held.

The first lesson was a two-hour lab session of WDS (Web Design). The lesson was so easy that I rushed through it, finished half an hour early and started reading up on what we would be doing for next week! XD Ugh, CSS next week, sigh... CSS hurts my head, lol... Tried learning CSS a few times ever since about ten years ago. Not succeeded even once. It kept hurting my head and forcing me to give it up. Meh.

I don't get why Aaron was so slow for this lesson though. He seems to be wandering around Dreamweaver, not knowing a clue about what to do. Just wandering around, lost. o.O He asks me for help, but meh, too lazy, what a drag, so I got the lecturer to come over and help him instead. XD And Jurene's files disappeared all of a sudden when she was transferring them over to her thumb drive, and what do you know, just because of that, she started crying. Damn... I hate seeing girls cry.

Next lesson was a lecture on PRSP (Problem Solving and Programming). We went to the LT, where I took out my One Piece volume 49 and started reading it (I was intending to read it throughout the whole lecture for an hour), but the lecturer didn't show up, lol, so after fifteen minutes, we all believe that today's lecture has been canceled for some reason, and went off for some early lunch.

The few of us loitered around outside the LT for fifteen minutes, unable to decide where to have lunch. In the end, Kenny's INCG group (composing of him, Shi Hui, Jia Hao, KK and Khai Ming) split off to go to Kenny's house to do their INCG project (with Rosanne tagging along for some weird reason I haven't figure out yet). The remaining few of us (including Jian Shun, Yong Han, Qiyang, Wan Xiang, Aaron, Jurene, Shiro-chan and me) went to IIT School to eat.

Nope! No hidden messages here in this blog at all!!

Meh, I hate eating in IIT School. Just because it is the only air-conditioned cafeteria in the whole campus (or at least, to my knowledge so far ), it is often crowded and packed full, making it rather difficult to find a seat. In addition, the food there... well, not really to my taste. Since I was rather full when we went there, I just ordered some cheap spaghetti and ate it. I'll never again say that the spaghetti my mother cooks sucks. Without fail. The coca-cola there, for some reason, tasted really bad as well. It was so bad I just couldn't resist crushing the can after finishing the drink.

After our lunches, we went to the library to hang out. Started work on our INCG board game project as well. It's... going quite well, to say the least. Can't really find more to elaborate on... Oh yeah. There was a really, really cute girl sitting in the table in front of the table I am sitting on, who is sitting facing me, lol. She's really, really cute...! Haha. Can't be bothered to go up to her and ask her for stuff like her name and her telephone number though. -.- What's the chances anyway...? But damn, I just hate it that she would always raise her head while reading her book and spot me staring at her. -.-

Anyway, anyway, it was a lecture on WDS later. I initially wanted to play truant for this one (since they don't care about the attendance for lectures anyway), but everyone's going, so meh. I originally intended to read One Piece throughout the entire lecture, but meh, halfway through, the lecturer caught some idiots sitting in the middle passing notes here and there, went up, took their paper and got all mad, so I had to hide my manga. -.-

Near the end of the lecture, the lecturer gave us a slip of paper each, with a table on it, and we were supposed to write down the HTML coding of the table. I was like, "What the hell? Such a small piece of paper? We won't fit it in!" so, Qiyang and I cramped our HTMLs, not giving a damn about spacing. But Wan Xiang, he gave a damn about spacing and STILL managed to cramp the whole thing in!! Lol! I told him, "Man, you're gonna be someone I'm gonna admire..." XD

After that was yet another lecture, this one on CMATHS1. The lecturer was on page 17, and yet I reached page 47, the last page of topic 1. Meh, lazy to start topic 2, lol. KK finished topic 1 as well too, lol! The others, nmaa... Still in page 30 or so... They are slow. :P

After that lecture, we were allowed to go into the games room for two hours, lol. Kenny, KK and I were looking forward to playing the Wii (since I've never played it before :P). Meh, gotta admit, the consoles-department was rather disappointing, lol... Yeah, sure, there's a PS1, a PS2, a PS3, a Xbox 360 and a Wii, but meh, so little games there for consoles the number didn't even reach two digits. -_____-

I like the two Mokona plushies there on the couch though, haha. XD Qiyang and I were sitting on the couch, and I was telling him about the two Mokona, you know, how the white Mokona eats people up before taking them to another world, how the two Mokona are created by two magicians (Clow Reed and Yuuko, LOL), and how the white Mokona is from Tsubasa: RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE while the black Mokona is from xxxHolic. I even took white Mokona, stuff it in Qiyang's face and go all, "Puu~!" XD

Qiyang asked me how come I know so much about them, and I told him, "Because I read both manga...? -.-" Lol. Oh, and come to think of it, Kikuchi Mika, the seiyuu for both Mokona, sounds really cute when she says, "Puu~!" :P The only game for the Wii there is Medal of Honor: Vanguard, and well... saying that I don't really like to play it is an understatement. I went off to play CounterStrike after five minutes. -.-

I joined the terrorist team, and teamed up with Qiyang, Kenny, KK and the lecturer (who is called "boss", for some reason) against Wan Xiang and Yong Han. Qiyang betrayed us and went to join the counter terrorist team later, because we were pwning with numbers. ;_; I got bored of CS later and wanted to play Warcraft, which was installed on computers over the other side. Luckily for me, at the same time Rosanne got bored of Warcraft and wanted to play CS, lmao, so we switched computers.

Looking at her screen, playing DotA, I can say for sure that the Scourge is practically owned. -.- The Sentinel heroes are all at level 14 to 18, and yet... Rosanne is still on level 6. =.= Ah well, no choice. There's Jian Shun and Jurene in the Sentinel team. Those two, I think they play DotA everyday... ≡.≡ After letting myself get killed by some Sentinel guy for a +1 in his kill count (even though I didn't know who it is), I exited the game and went to play X Hero Siege, my favorite custom map in Warcraft 3. :3

I played X Hero Siege with Shi Hui, Khai Ming, Aaron and Jurene, and mwahahahaha, I'm first to get 2000 kills and got a Ring of Superiority for it! :D I think Aaron is a newbie at this game, lol, he was the slowest to get kills, and would often leak (and since both of us are at the western lane, I had to help him clean up -.-). And Khai Ming, bloody hell, he kept opening ways, lol!! I told Aaron to go to the newly opened lane in the south and had two lanes all to myself, mwahahaha.

I got bored of farming later and went to clear the two lanes I was working on, then helped others to clear their lanes too. Jurene ended up surpassing my kill count. ): Oh well. Who cares? :3 And lol, some God damned glitch happened in the end. I wanted to go and do the All Hero Images, so I went to the little circle, and the menu pops up, but Aaron went to Hero Images at that exact timing, so the options in my menu disappeared, but not the menu itself, lmao, so I got stuck!! So we got owned, lol, because Aaron was away, and I was stuck. -_________-

We went to play Hell TD next (wanted to play Element TD, but meh, Khai Ming doesn't have Element TD on his computer, and he's the only one who could create a game...). Khai Ming set it as "Very Easy" because this is all our first time playing it, and what the hell, it was so freaking easy that Yong Han got bored of playing, let Jian Shun take over, and Jian Shun immediately sold all of Yong Han's towers, let the creeps leak, and get us all a Game Over. XD

Kenny was so addicted to CounterStrike that Aaron and I had to pull him out so the three of us could take the bus home together. ;____;

I have to focus... concentrate!

This will be a rather quick blog post, because I'm rather tired from the day and need some rest quick, lol. But don't worry, my faithful blog readers, I won't skip any details just because of that. XD

Today's first lesson was a tutorial on WDS (Web Design), and the assignment we had to do was the main reason why I brought my laptop to school today (the other reason being to test out my connection to the wireless network in TP). Yeah, yeah, sure, I'm lazy to find myself a printer to print my assignment, I'm lazy to throw my file into a thumb drive (okay, okay, I didn't have a thumb drive to begin with. Damn! Gotta remember to buy one tomorrow! Then again, I could probably use the memory card inside my handphone as a medium for storing and transfering files, lmao...), but I am diligent enough to bring my whole laptop there... XD!

I swear, it wasn't freaking worth all that time and effort bringing my whole entire laptop there, just for that one hour of WDS where half of the class didn't even touch or read the assignment, forget about even attempting the questions!! Seriously, man, I think I should just get myself a thumb drive, makes things easier... Or I could attach the file to an e-mail sent to myself, and access that e-mail anywhere to get that document... Yeah, that'd work, especially since Dave had particularly warned me about the dangers of transmitting viruses in thumb drives. Yeah, I'll do that.

The lesson was rather boring for someone who sacrificed half an hour of his blogging time doing that stupid assignment... Guess what I was doing? Asking Kenny and KK for their computers' IP addresses so I can ping them... =.= And guess what? None of my pings ever reached them. ;_; I ended up killing time pinging myself. Yeah, the pings were obviously fast. 0 milliseconds for each ping, lmao. Yes, I am that bored. .__.

After WDS was a three-hour (;__;) lab session of INCG (Introduction to Computer Games), which was just in the lab next-door of where we had our WDS, lmao. In those three hours, we were supposed to get into the groups that we had decided last week. I got together with Aaron and Melvin, but then Jian Shun in front kept trying to persuade me to join his group, with Jurene and Yong Han, lol.

I was effectively split into two, selfishly betraying my two teammates whom I had recruited into this team with my own two hands (since Jian Shun's team, I just have to be honest and admit this, is composed of people whom I can communicate and work with rather well, lol), or staying loyal to my two teammates. Damn it lor, it was a damn tough decision to make leh... -_________- Wan Xiang later joined Jian Shun's team, but Jian Shun said, "I am the host here, I can kick anyone I want.", implying that he would kick Wan Xiang out of the team to make a space for me. Lmao. XD

And later, our lecturer announced that we would now form groups of five (which made more sense, since we have exactly twenty-five people in our class). That pretty much helped me decided my mind. It was tough enough already to try and invite one more person to our group, forget about trying to invite two people, so I might as well just jump over to Jian Shun's team, which would already have a complete team of five people after I do so. Feeling rather apologetic to Aaron and Melvin, I took my chair and proceeded to the front row.

I just felt that in our team of five, each person played a different and specific role, despite the fact that we didn't prearrange or decide upon any, LOL! Jian Shun and I were like the "engines". We came up with most of the ideas, and scripted and created most of the game concepts. Jurene would sometimes help us and add stuff on. Yong Han acts as the villain. He would think up of flaws in our ideas and raise up objections against our ideas, so we all had to crack our brains to think up of completely and totally perfect ideas just so we can make him shut the fuck up. XD! And Wan Xiang... Well... He's the... spare tyre, I guess... He would shut the fuck up, stay at one corner, invisible to the rest of us and think up of ideas by himself, storing the ideas he thought of in his brain. When we are all out of energy and everything, we would ask him for his ideas, then develop on them (developing a concept is much easier than creating one from scratch XD).

We thought of such a complicated board game imitating MMORPGs, where players navigate around a map, fighting monsters, earning equipment, and finally slaying the final boss of the game in order to win. But Yong Han suddenly thought of asking our lecturer whether our concept would fit in the educational aspect of this assignment, and guess what? Nope it doesn't. =.= We had to completely nuke and scrape it, man. God damn it. Both Jian Shun and I, who had spent a lot of time and energy thinking up of our concept so far, got immediately depressed, lol. Not helping much was the fact that there was already this old board game named "HeroQuest"... So... our idea had already been used and implemented two years before we were even born...?

It was our intelligence and knowledge of common sense that made us not go all emo with a penknife. In the end, we scraped everything and thought up of a new idea. All thanks to Wan Xiang, our backup spare tyre, especially since both Jian Shun and I were heavily hit by that emotional impact to continue on... ~.~

We were dismissed half an hour earlier, but most of the people in our group, including but not limited to KK, Kenny and Shi Hui, opted to stay behind in the lab to further develop their ideas, so there were only six of us going for lunch, lol, me, Aaron, Wan Xiang, Yong Han, Jian Shun and Shiro-chan. And the six of us were further split by the fact that each of us had a different place in mind where we want to eat at, lol, so Yong Han, Jian Shun and Shiro-chan went to IIT School to eat, while Wan Xiang, Aaron and I went to Business School to eat instead.

It was a drastic change, lol... We were initally all eating lunches in large groups of at least eight people, but now, all of a sudden, we only had three people with us... Lol... Whatever. The western food at Business School rocks. :D My only complaint is that the canteen is at such a deep section of the Business School... It's a pain having to walk so far along the corridor just for a meal, lol. =.= And lol, Hiok Joo spotted me while we were walking at the corridor. XD Didn't stay and chat though. ):

After the three of us finished our lunches (thanks to Aaron for volunteering to stay behind and watch after our bags while Wan Xiang and I went to buy our food, resulting in him finishing slightly later than us ^^), we proceeded to the seventh floor of the library, where our group tends to hang out in a lot, haha, and also the meeting point where we decided upon with Yong Han, Jian Shun and Shiro-chan before we split up for lunches at where we want to eat. We were the first ones there, lol, so I got my laptop out.

I just couldn't figure out how to connect to TP's wireless LAN. Neither did Jia Hao, who came a while later with the rest of our group (including KK, Kenny, Khai Ming, Jian Shun, Shiro-chan, Yong Han, Melvin, and I pity the remaining people who came too but were too insignificant for me to remember them). Argh, damn the wireless LAN... Why make it such a pain in the ass to connect to? That's it, man, I'm not bringing my laptop there. =.=

Before the rest of our group came, I was intending to play Risk II on my computer with Wan Xiang, lol, while Aaron hurried to finish his VisLit (Visual Literacy & Story Boarding) assignment. Damn it, it lagged so freaking much, since I set your power plan to power saver, which reduces system performance at the cost of... saving power, duh! And the game lagged so much we couldn't even start it!! -_______- When everyone came, I got fed up and went to watch Bleach instead. Ichigo vs Grimmjow, lol. Shiro-chan came and watched it with me. o.O

Then got together with Wan Xiang, Yong Han, Jian Shun and one of Yong Han and Jian Shun's friends from East Spring Secondary School (who was really extra in my opinions), and tried to further develop our board game concept. Hmmm, it's going well so far, haha. Oh, and know what the name of our game is...? After we spent some time thinking to no avail, Jian Shun suddenly said, "Fun please?" (with a rather weird accent and tone that I can't explain in words), a phrase he often (if not always) say, lol.

We asked him, "So, what? Our game is going to be called 'fun please?'? " I took Yong Han's pencil, Wan Xiang's paper and wrote, "Fun pl0x?" But apparently Jian Shun didn't like leetspeak, lol, so he changed it to "Fun plEASE~" (the "ease" at the end were capitalized because... well, of the tone that Jian Shun is speaking the phrase with, lol!). I further changed it to "fun pℓEASE~?", so that the first half are all small letters and the second half are all capitals; and the litre symbol for fun as well. XD

At 2.45pm, all of us left together for the next class - all except for Melvin. Meh, he's probably going emo. Our next lesson was a one-hour lecture on CMATHS1 (Computing Mathematics 1), where I realized that while the lecturer is still on page 10, I was already on page 27 or so... =_______= The gap widened even further after the lecture ended, with the lecturer on page 12 or so whereas I was already on page 35 or so... .______.

Also, during the lesson, probably due to boredom (I heard a few people around me complaining about the slow pace the lecturer was teaching at, lol. You guys just have to rush ahead like me... ), Melvin wrote on a foolscap paper, "Jurene & JianShun sitting on a tree K-I-S-S-I-N-G !" and passed it around. Was roflmao pl0x? Jian Shun looked so angry that he was ready to tear Melvin apart limb to limb (first time I've seen Khai Ming agree with me, incidentally), but I don't think that Jian Shun should be the person Melvin should be fearing anytime soon... especially when there's another person obviously pissed off with him... :S

There is no hidden text or messages anywhere in this blog. Really...

Oh, and I forgot to mention that Jurene and Jian Shun were wearing the same colour for their clothes (light-blue). We spotted that right after Jian Shun mentioned that Shiro-chan and Michael were wearing the same colour for their clothes (red) too, making them "a couple", you see.

Next lesson was a two-hours lab session of PRSP (Problem Solving and Programming), but the lecturer couldn't get the door of the lab where we are having this lab session opened, lmao, so we were waiting outside for someone to deliver the key. Melvin was hiding from Jian Shun and Jurene behind walls, lmao, which really reminded me of Time Crisis, where you spend most of your time hiding behind walls when you are not attacking. XD And when Jian Shun approached him, Melvin literally ran for his life, lmao! Guess Jian Shun really has his Intimidation Aura turned on.

Again, there is no hidden text or messages anywhere in this blog. I meant it...

And lol, while hanging around outside the classroom (which stupid door is still locked even after Melvin ran away) and chatting, we realized that Khai Ming has not learn most of our names yet, lmao, so KK and I decided to mess with him and make him even more confused. XD KK says that he is Wei Liang and I am KK (in other words, the two of us switched our names, lmao). I continued, and told him that Aaron's name is Kenny, and Kenny's name is Aaron. XD Finally, I told him that Qiyang's name is Kuan Wei, and Kuan Wei's name is Qiyang, and Kuan Wei, upon hearing him mention his name, asked us, "What?!", in such a fierce voice, lol! What the heck was that for, lmao?

The actual lesson has us spent more time on Alice. Since my lecturer has even got a blog up for today, you guys might as well just go check it out. Spare me from typing it out please.

I really like how I solved problem 3, though, the one with the old man and the three trolls. So much that I downloaded Alice just so I can reproduce what I did in school and have a great laugh off it. XD! I'll post a video here when I'm done with it, I suppose. :3 And rofl, for some reason, that old wizard reminded me of the Wise Old Man in RuneScape, haha, pwning noobs around RuneScape with Saradomin Strikes. XD

Edit made on 3 May 2008: And here is that stupid video.



After school, I took the bus home with Aaron and Kenny. And haha, I saw Vernon at the bus stop just when the bus came, lol, so the four of us went home together. XD!

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There's no advantage to hurrying through life

After three days of rest, with my batteries charged up and refreshed, the second week of school begins.

A few of us were waiting at the benches near where LT11, where our first lecture for the day takes place, is, and lol, Aaron disappeared, and then suddenly appeared a while later, both times without a single trace. Jian Shun told us that that was one of Aaron's skills, called "tunneling", lol. But then, he explained that it had a long cooldown of three hours. Aaah, so that's why you don't see Aaron tunneling in and out and in and out repetitively... XD

The first lesson today was a lecture of INCG (Introduction to Computer Games), and the lecturer spent an hour talking about... *drums roll* game genres. -.- Okay, I admit it, I am one person who finds himself totally unable to pronounce the word "genre". But damn, I must admit, that one hour was rather wasted in my case, because I had just read up on game genres in the library during the entire course of last week. Well, can't help it that game genres are right on chapter three, chapter one is short, and I skipped chapter two because it was a drag to read it. :P

Next lesson was a tutorial on CMATHS1 (Computing Mathematics 1). Once again, I went rushing ahead. The binary that they are teaching is easy pl0x? I only wish for there to be answers at the back of the lecture notes. It was a pain rushing through the questions and not knowing whether you got them right or not. No point doing all this shit if I did all my questions wrongly, it doesn't help at all. A piece of advice to everybody: Next time you write a book on mathematics and include a few questions inside the book to test your readers' knowledge and understanding, please, for fuck's sake, include a god damned answer key. ^^

And after that was a three-hour long break for us. A group of us (let me see, there's Jian Shun, Jia Hao, Jin Yao, Khai Ming, Kenny, Wan Xiang, Koh Keong, Shi Hui and me) went to the computer lab, because we all have something we need to do that involves computers (most of us are concerned about looking for interesting articles on the Net and printing them out, just because our dear lecturer wanted us to present some shit for CMSK lesson later. Zzzzzz...). A while later, Qiyang, Kuan Wei, Jurene and Rosanne came along, and the thirteen of us went into the computer lab.

Oh, and come to think of it, mentioning Jin Yao in the list reminded me. From this point onwards, I'll refer to him as Shiro-chan (シロちゃん) from now on, because his MSN nick is Toushirou, and Hinamori and Ukitake both call Hitsugaya "Shiro-chan" ("shiro" means "white" in Japanese, and Hitsugaya happens to have white hair too).

Lol, I just went to Channelnewsasia.com and searched for something that interests me, even slightly, just so I can print it, stash it inside my bag and get the hell out. I looked around in the local section, found this article about a construction worker dead, exclaimed, "Okay!", printed it, and done. :3 I printed my reflection journal for my VisLit (Visual Literacy & Story Boarding) as well, lol, which was, I just got to admit, fucking, fucking lame.

And rofl, look at what Jian Shun found. Addicted to World of Warcraft, thought he was a fire mage and burning his classmate? Now that's what I can truthfully, honestly and seriously call fucked-up! Crazy bastard, and to think he's the same age as me, lol. I mean, come on, I'm seventeen as well, and I'm a pyromaniac as well. So what? Do I run around burning my classmates to death? I hope not. =.=

A few moments later, we have weird people around doing weird stuff. Shi Hui playing DotA on Battle.net on his own laptop which he brought, Qiyang checking out the wireless connection from his own laptop which he brought too, Kuan Wei watching the Naruto episode where Sakura and Chiyo teamed up to fight against Sasori (that fight was boring! Go watch Naruto unleashing Four-Tailed Transformation in the fight against Orochimaru, lmao), Jurene messing around with C++ (=________= here.), Khai Ming and Kenny watching some lame YouTube video I didn't even bother to check what it's about, KK watching Kung Pow! (=.=), and me watching Bleach episode 168, lol.

Damn the computers in the school... The videos end abruptly halfway, making Kuan Wei, KK and I all tu lan. XD And lol, sian leh, Bleach showing fillers now... Zzzzzz... Amagai Shuusuke, new Captain of the 3rd Division... Hmmm, wonder how strong he is?

After an hour of messing around in the computer lab and realizing that we have pretty much nothing left to do in there, we left and decided where to go for lunch. Jurene was quick to suggest Long John Silver's, and Kenny was quick to agree with her, so oh well, we just had to take a bus to Tampines Mall, eat lunch there, and take yet another bus back... =.=

There were just nine people who came along (hmmm, this time there's Kenny, Jian Shun, Jurene, Shiro-chan, KK, Shi Hui, Khai Ming, Jia Hao and me), so people like Qiyang and Kuan Wei pang seh us... Or should I say that we pang seh them instead, the other way around? Oh, whatever. :3

On the way walking to the bus stop, for some reason, we remembered that someone told us during the orientation (I think it's the course coordinator if I'm not mistaken... my memory's getting worse these days... ) that the four girls (in our course of seventy-two people ;__;) were "rare gems". Jian Shun then started calling KK "half a rare gem". Most of us were wondering, "Huh? What did it mean...?", when Shiro-chan kindly enlightened us, "Because he ah quah mah." Oh, lol! XD

At the bus stop, Aaron SMSed me and asked where we are and where we are going to eat, so I told him to come find us at the bus stop. A long while later, he came running along, together with Melvin, and rofl, at the same time, the bus that we were waiting for arrived, lol, so we were like kiddingly, "Get on board the bus and pang seh the two of them!!" XD Well, for your information, they did make it on board the bus with the rest of us. ^^

Lol, it has sure been a long time since I last ate at Long John Silver's indeed. I miss the crispy French fries there, lol. For some reason though, Jurene told both Kenny and I while queuing up that she didn't want any French fries, so the both of us, being greedy bastards, immediately demanded for her to give us her French fries. XD Though, sadly, when Jurene was giving her French fries away later after we have bought our meals and sat down, Kenny was at the counter collecting his grilled fish, lol, so Jurene gave the French fries to me and Melvin, who was sitting at the same table as us, instead. XD! Lol, Kenny got owned. :P

After lunch, we went to the arcade in Century Square, because Shiro-chan wanted to. :3 Lol, whose idea was it to take the elevator down anyway? It couldn't fit all eleven of us, so a few people, including Aaron, Shi Hui and Khai Ming, had to wait for another elevator. General piece of advice: When in groups of larger than ten, take the fucking escalator.

It freaked us out to see the few of them who didn't take the elevator with us arrive in the fifth floor of the Century Square faster than us... @_@ Aaron, he's got his Tunneling skill, we can understand, but what about the rest? O_O Oh well, whatever... Didn't really have any interest in the arcade games there. Yeah, only ones that caught my attention are House of the Dead 4 and Soul Calibur III. House of the Dead 4 there is expensive ($2 a game when it's going $1.55 at White Sands? ;____;), and Soul Calibur III? Lmao, I might as well just play at home!!

Went to the toilet with Kenny while they were playing halfway, and nmaa, since I walked past it, might as well pop into Comic Connections... Hmmm, One Piece volume 49 is out, whoohoooo! Bought it, haha. :D Nightmare Luffy on the volume cover looks pure scary. :S

We hanged out at the arcade for so long that we were almost late. :x Bus 69 escaped from us the moment we got to the Bus Interchange, so we decided to take bus 23 instead, but what the fuck, another bus 69 left the interchange while we were waiting at the queue for bus 23. Fearing to be late, Jurene, Jian Shun, Melvin and some fourth insignificant poor bastard whom I don't really remember who (I think it's Khai Ming... or Styrofoam Sword Jia Hao, but I'm not very sure) pang seh the rest of us to take a freaking taxi on their own!! O____O SO BAD CAN!! T______T

Jurene, I don't mind lah, but for the other three bastards...

For the seven of us left in the queue, four of them (particularly Kenny, Shiro-chan, Shi Hui, and um... who's the last guy? Either Jia Hao or Khai Ming. :3) also thought of getting another taxi, and leaving poor Aaron, poor KK and poor me behind. ): The three of us tagged along with them trying to get a taxi, lol, but Shiro-chan loudly shouted, "We are Team Kenny! Team Kenny!!" So mean, can? :(((((((

But roflmao, before we were able to get ourselves a taxi to stop, bus 23 was ready to leave the interchange, rofl, and we quickly rushed back to the Bus Interchange to take the bus. XD The seven of us on board were planning to run to the classroom where the next lesson is right after we alight the bus, and Kenny quickly asked around for last year's NAPFA 2.4km timings, lmao. So apparently, out of all of us here, only Kenny, Shiro-chan and Shi Hui passed their NAPFA. Especially Aaron, KK and me, three people with fucking lousy stamina. XD!

We reached the bus stop, the bus stops (o.O), we alighted, and immediately rushed towards the classroom at full speed, lmao. Well, there were actually only six of us running. I forgot who the odd one out is who refused to run, but meh, whatever. I remember there were Kenny, KK, Aaron, Shi Hui and Shiro-chan running with me... So... who's the last guy? Jia Hao? Argh, I'm so confused by who did what... x_X

Communication Skills suck. I don't want to elaborate on that. Only thing I have to complain about is how fucked-up the table there is. Spent thirty minutes lying on the table and still couldn't fall asleep. Damn shitty uncomfortable table. Thanks a lot to Faizal for offering to chat with me via SMSes, even though we were literally sending crap to each other. XD Really killed my time, LOL.

After wasting two hours stuck in that bloody classroom where I couldn't fall asleep, I went home with Kenny (whom I'm taking the same bus with), Qiyang and Jian Shun. Halfway while walking out, Aaron popped out of nowhere and joined us. Okay lah, his Tunneling skill cooldown over already mah, since he last used it during lunch, exactly three hours ago.

Even scarier, when the five of us were just about to leave TP by walking out towards the overhead bridge, I noticed there was someone following us, so I turned my head back to see who it is. Hmm, it's a girl. Looks strangely familiar. Took a second for my extremely old and lousy Pentium II brain with a maximum CPU clock frequency of 250 Megahertz to realize, "Oh, hey there, Jurene."

Okay, we can understand Aaron, since he's got his Tunneling skill, but even you too are appearing out of nowhere all of a sudden, Jurene? Okay lah, Jian Shun explains that Jurene isn't using Aaron's Tunneling, but instead, Blink Dagger (some weapon from DotA, I presume). Kk, lol.

Took bus 291 home with Aaron and Kenny. ^^

Look at what I found at the multistorey car park near my home. o.O A "Caution! Wet floor!" sign, rofl.

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Samy […惡りィな、グリムジョー…どうも俺は…これ以上やられる訳にはいかねえらしい。] says:
Is there any term to call those idiots who go to your websites?
☆Simon☆You can tell me that there's no body else, But i can feel it says:
Spammer's?
Samy […惡りィな、グリムジョー…どうも俺は…これ以上やられる訳にはいかねえらしい。] says:
Lol?

Samy […惡りィな、グリムジョー…どうも俺は…これ以上やられる訳にはいかねえらしい。] says:
Is there any term to call those idiots who go to your websites?
dcdkdgad says:
retard?
Samy […惡りィな、グリムジョー…どうも俺は…これ以上やられる訳にはいかねえらしい。] says:
Lol?

Lol?

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全てはあの日から。

何を失っても、守ると決めた…全てはあの日から。
Nani wo ushinatte mo, mamoru to kime ta... Subete wa ano hi kara.
No matter what he stands to lose, he has decided to protect... It all began on that day.

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Hmmm, our whole class wanted to play a MMORPG together, all thanks to Jian Shun's suggestion and idea. We spent a damn long time deciding what to play, and in the end, decided on Nostale.





But just when we have five people, Kenny, Qiyang, Jian Shun, Jurene and me, ugh, we realized that the maximum number of people we can have in a party is a miserable and pathetic little three. x_X How to play as a class when the five of us already have trouble playing together with each other? And so, we all quit Nostale and tried to find another game, but ugh, to no avail, after spending yet another long period of time deciding what game to play next.

*misses Survival Project, possibly the best game ever if you have got a lot of active friends*

Oh, I like the "SpaceTime" concept in Nostale though. It's like instance raids in World of Warcraft, and they have them all over the fields, with a lot of minimum levels. For example, there are SpaceTimes with minimum levels of 5, 8, 10, 12, 15, etc., etc., so most people can just team up together and play in one. In SpaceTime, you just run through a fixed dungeon (some are mazes with dead ends, others are straightforward paths), killing whatever monsters hop up in the way, pulling levers to unlock the way ahead, etc., and in the end, you get item rewards depending on how well you did (i.e. how many monsters killed, how many rooms explored). It is an excellent teamplay game aspect, reminding me of the Quest modes in Survival Project.

Very unfortunately, there is only a limit of three people in a party in Nostale. -___- Probably because the SpaceTimes would be extremely easy with more people. One thing they can do to improve it is to set is so that SpaceTimes become more difficult (i.e. more monsters, duh) with more players inside. Also, they should probably expand them a bit (i.e. make the area to explore bigger) in sacrifice of having less SpaceTimes, because currently the SpaceTimes we have are so small, Jian Shun repetitively went through them for the rewards. -.-

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Finally, man, final-fucking-ly. Level 98 Firemaking, ya - ha -!!







Two screenshots because Beckham and Zinyx are two people who refuse to have their messages shown with each other's. o.O

Thanks a lot to Halo, Jimmy, Ozzie, Halcyon, Zinyx and Beckham for coming to see me get Level 98 Firemaking! :D Boo to Mackerel and Stimpy for refusing to come see me get Level 98 Firemaking. D: And so sorry to Tru for starting without him!! XP

前へ…それでもただ前へ…

癒えぬ傷…見えぬ光…
前へ…それでもただ前へ…

Ie nu kizu... Mie nu hikari...
Mae e... Soredemo tada mae e...

Wounds that do not heal... A light that I cannot see...
Onwards... Even so, I just keep moving onwards...

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Nothing much happened today... Was playing RuneScape. Hyuu~! A drop party with items worth three million gp. Just a tons of Dragon Skirts and Granite Mauls, lol. Wanted to get some Dragon Skirts, but can't get one at all. Damn.



I finally finished the newest quest and once again completed every single quest. Damn it, this new quest is a major pain in the ass, having to travel around the Morytania region, which by itself is already a pain in the ass area to travel around. Blood runecrafting sounds good, hmmm... I would maybe switch from runecrafting Law Runes to Blood Runes, but hey, Law Runes are more expensive and thus more profitable. Must be because everyone jumped onto the bandwagon of runecrafting Blood Runes, causing a surge of increase in their supply and thus a decrease in the price.

Damn u today can stay home

Vernon SMSes me this the first thing in the morning at 8am, two hours before I have woken up: "Damn u today can stay home". XD!

Was supposed to meet up with Ephraim, Yuhaimi and Vernon at the void deck across the road outside Ngee Ann Secondary at 3pm to collect our 'O' level certificates together. Yoshida and Faizal expressed interest in coming along too, but oh it was sad, both of them had school exactly on the date and time when we intended to go, so too bad.

I initially planned to leave home at 2.30pm, walk all the way to Block 201, throw some money into my bank account in the bank there, and then walk back to Ngee Ann to meet up with them, but since my parents were going out as well, I got my father to drive me there. But heck, my mother ended up taking her own sweet time, all the way until 2.45pm, when Vernon called me and asked me where the heck I am, lol. Not even having time to change clothes (I am that lazy... ), I left wearing a plain little T-shirt, shorts and slippers, and my father decided to bring me there first, before coming back and getting my mother (who at that time was currently taking her own sweet time doing her damned dishes and hanging the damned clothes -.-) later.

Yuhaimi called two minutes later after Vernon to rush me. Yes, yes, I know, damn it, I'm fucking coming, I'm fucking coming! But apparently, Yuhaimi doesn't know the meaning of the phrase "fucking coming", and besides, I was pissing my father off, who was beside me overhearing my conversation (I don't know about him, seriously. He gets so angry when I use some vulgarities, but he himself is a much better expert at using vulgarities... *rolls eyes*), so I had to replace "fucking coming" with "on my way". And yet Yuhaimi still spams my ear with, "Huh? Huh? Huh?" I just hanged up on him. I'm sure his patience will allow him to wait for three more minutes.

I arrived about three minutes later (as if I will take note of the exact timing when I am being rushed by two people!! ), and saw only Yuhaimi sitting at the void deck. I called Vernon and asked him where he is. He told me that he is at the bus stop, and apparently, looking to my right, at the bus stop across the road on the side where Ngee Ann is, is an obviously-seen person wearing black and holding a handphone next to his ear. Okay, that's Vernon. Without fail. The black clothes and the handphone gave it away.

I think Vernon fails in understanding instructions... I clearly told him to meet up at the void deck across the road outside school... ;_____; The two of us crossed the road, meeting up with Vernon, and there comes along Ephraim, following Vernon. Oh hey there, Particle! Didn't see you just now! Must be my vision problems, eh?

Whoa... I think Vernon's trying to be a man in black... Black T-shirt, black jeans, even a black bag. I'm just glad his shoes are white... XD And Ephraim, in his Catholic Junior College uniform... I'm so jealous of people studying in CJC, they have a short person to make fun of... I miss doing that, y'know? T_____T () And Yuhaimi, wearing a shirt with jeans. Okay lor, you all win already lor! All come and pang seh me, the lone and solo guy wearing shorts!

The security guard was complaining about my attire. Fuck you, bitch. Me wanting to wear shorts and slippers is my own problem. If you have a problem with it, come eat my Chidori and maybe we can talk. Seriously, man, what's with security guards nowadays? They are all assholes!! No wonder I had a dream about fighting security guards trying to get out of school and achieve freedom. *rolls eyes* Oh, and while Vernon was taking his own sweet time writing down his info on that stupid little notebook the security guards have (I don't even understand why we need to write down our names, IC numbers, contact numbers and purposes of visit just to collect some stupid little laminated certificate... -___-), I told Ephraim, "Long time no see, you're still as short, I see." XD

*has just got an idea of developing a hack and slash-type of game, where you and a group of your friends are stuck in a school building entirely full of security guards, and you have to fight your way out in a bid for freedom together with the help of your friends*

And my 'O' level certificate... Hmmm... It doesn't really look good by itself, but hey, it looks great if you put Yuhaimi's certificate beside it!!



Damn Chemistry for making me my certificate look so shitty!! 血肉の仮面・万象・羽搏き ヒトの名を冠す者よ！ 蒼火の壁に双蓮を刻む　大火の淵を遠天にて待つ！破道の六十三！双蓮蒼火墜！ (Mask of blood and flesh, all creation, flutter of wings, ye who bears the name of Man! On the wall of blue flame, inscribe a twin lotus. In the abyss of conflagration, wait at the far heavens! Way of Destruction, number 63! Twin Lotus Blue Fire, Crash Down!) *blasts Chemistry with a huge fireball and burns it to crisp*



After that, we wanted to hang out, but buzzkill Ephraim, he needed to head back to his school for his CCA... -.- And guess what his CCA is...? Fencing!! XD *imagines Ephraim swinging a sword around clumsily* Okay lah, he's not that bad lah, but hey, in the two years that I spent with him (not counting the two years that I've spent with him in our torturous CCA before those two years, which I don't really want to talk about any more), I've imagined him more like the type to swing a staff and throw spells of ice and blizzard at his enemy. o.O

Oh well, he'd pwn in fencing. Whereas everyone has an evasion stat of around two digits, and those excellent elite train until their evasion stats have three, Ephraim has a pwnage evasion stat of ∞. Yes, infinity. Instant kill. He's so small, you can't even aim at him, forget about actually hitting him. At all. He will dodge all of your attacks. Without fail. Good game. =.=

Messed around and took some photos at the bus stop while Ephraim was waiting for his intended bus and the rest of us without a destination that we wanted to go. XD



I have to admit, Vernon looks so cool in this one it kinda pisses me off.



Yuhaimi's so freaking camera shy, awww... ;____; Then again, just what is Vernon aiming with the camera lol? What's the point of me grabbing hold of Yuhaimi if he didn't take a picture of his face? ;____;



Incidentally, that just reminded me...



So...



Okay... I think I might have gone overboard with that... XP Sorry, Ephraim!! Couldn't resist it!! XP

Bus 291 came a while later, and the three of us literally kicked Ephraim's ass together so hard he flew on board the bus Ephraim went aboard the bus (okay, I made the first one up, but hey, it was cool :3). With the three of us left, we decided to go to Downtown East (since said place is in Pasir Ris, where the two of them stay. In other words, they are choosing to go to a place where they can get home easily -.-), but I need to deposit some money into the bank first, so we had a little detour to Block 291.

Damn stupid Cash Deposit machine there was down for maintenance, so I thought I would walk in and deposit the money over the counter... until I took out a deposit slip, took a brief look at it and realized that I had completely forgotten what my bank account number is... ...... Fuck it. =.=

With that detour completely pointless, we went to the bus stop and took a bus to Pasir Ris. On board the bus, one of our conversational topics was about our laptops, and it pretty much went like this.

• Me: Yuhaimi, buy laptop already?
• Yuhaimi: Ya.
• Me: What specs?
• Yuhaimi: Specs?
• Me: *facepalm* Specifications...
• Yuhaimi: Oh, dunno. Second-handed one.
• Me: Dunno...? *facepalm* How much RAM?
• Yuhaimi: RAM ah...? 512MB.
• Me: 512MB? Go home lah!
• Vernon: Lol?
• Me: Mine is 2GB, and Vernon is 4GB leh.
• Vernon: 512MB sure lag like siao.
• Me: Memory how much?
• Yuhaimi: ...What memory?
• Vernon: Hard disk space...
• Yuhaimi: Um... 2GB?
• Me: *facepalm*
• Vernon: *facepalm*
• Me: 2GB you install the OS no need install any more already...
• Yuhaimi: Got what example?
• Me: .......
• Vernon: Mine is 250GB, his is 160GB...
• Yuhaimi: Oh... Dunno.
  
• Me: Screen size leh?
• Yuhaimi: Ummmm...
• Me: Mine is 16.1 inches! :D
• Yuhaimi: Um... Four is to three.
• Me: Facepalm. *facepalm*
• Vernon: Facepalm as well. *facepalm*
• Me: Screen size lah, not screen aspect ratio!!
• Vernon: And how come yours 4:3? Ours 16:9 leh...
• Me: Ours 16:10 lah...
• Vernon: Not 16:9 meh? Anyway, 4:3... is 16:9 right?
• Me: 4:3 is 16 is to... 12 (16:12) lah.
  

Lol! Vernon and I facepalms! ^^ Oh, and I just realized something... *facepalms* My laptop's screen size isn't 16.1 inches. In fact, it's only 14.1 inches. Fuck.

We alighted the bus at Pasir Ris Bus Interchange, and walked to White Sands Shopping Mall so I can use the Cash Deposit machine to deposit my money in. Vernon tried to walk away with my money when I told him to hold it for me while I take my ATM card out... T_______T

We went to Downtown East next, but LOL, the shop where Vernon always play pool was closed down. Guess Yuhaimi and I should be kinda relieved that we won't have our asses kicked by Vernon in pool. XP We went to the new shopping center there for some exploration, lol! The Ferris wheel has a good view, haha.



We went to NTUC Fairprice there, bought a 1.5 litres bottle of coca-cola and a packet of potato chips and decided to go to Vernon's house to party. XD! Just to save 65 cents each, we walked all the way to his house instead of taking the bus, lol. ;____; How far did we trek, I wonder...? Okay, it's so far I don't even want to bother getting a map of it. ;________;

Reached his house at long last and we played Soul Calibur III, lol. Yuhaimi keeps getting thrashed by the two of us, haha, since that was his first time playing it, except for once when he was fighting against Vernon. Both of them won two matches each, and during the final round, it looked as if Vernon would win, so I tell him, "Bub, if you lose, I will laugh, I tell you." He really lost, and I literally laughed out loud. XD

And lol, I won all my fights against the both of them, except once against Vernon when I used Talim against his Siegfried, lol. He kept swinging his Soul Calibur in my face and making me go Ring Out. ;_; But hey, I thought the winner stays while the loser gets out? How come I keep handing the controller over even though I was winning most of my matches? o.O

Yuhaimi got bored of Soul Calibur III a while later and suggested changing game, so Vernon changed it to another fighting game (I forgot the name of the game, lol), until Yuhaimi suggested wrestling, so he had to change it again, lol... Wrestling was fun, haha, just that your character just takes waaaaaaaaay toooooooooo looooooooong to recover. =.= When Yuhaimi announced that he needed to go home, I went together with him.

Thanks to Yuhaimi for telling me which bus to take from the bus stop at his house that took me straight to my neighbourhood! :D

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Okay, Tsubasa: RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE chapter 188 had just further increased the possibility that the real Syaoran in Tsubasa: RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE is in fact the Syaoran in Cardcaptor Sakura. XD While creating much more confusion for us readers... =.=

And what the fuck?! Kohane had Sakura's feather inside her? Lol! Who would have certainly expected that!! Oh well, Sakura isn't with Syaoran anyway, so even if they sent it to him via the two Mokona, Syaoran can't return that feather to Sakura anyway. :P Though... having the feather with him might be useful to Syaoran, especially if he engages Clone Syaoran in a fight and Sakura comes along. Just stuff the feather into her and keep her asleep.