Story

I feel like writing my own novel... Maybe just a normal short story, without the influence of any exam or stuff. Of course I wouldn't write all those fantasy crap that ang mohs give. In all my stories I always write about normal life, the slice of life genre you know. Cos maybe its easier for me to lie about it, like I lie about my past. I take experiences from place to place, then put it together to make a perfect story, often very convincing, since they are all real life experiences. Although i don't do that now, cos it's lost all meaning in doing so. I think I wanna try using chim words like one of my previous posts I guess. When I'm done I may just post it here...

Quite a fruitless day today is I guess. Felt exceptionally tired this morning... Seems like a lack of sleep although I slept at 11pm and got up at about 9 this morning. Solved the rubik's cube again before heading down to have my breakfast. Just a bun though. Used the com, played dumb games. Stopped at about 11. Decided to do my Chinese hw. Too distracted by music than to actually listen to it. Was still thinking about Ichigo 100% though. Shan't say more. If it was about writing the feelings I had about the articles for the Chinese projects, I would have done better in English. I wonder if next time there would be English holiday homework like this. Since I probably would have plenty of time, I may possibly ace it and get a head-start in class when school reopens due to the marks involved. Dunno why these few days just seem like writing. I think I've been influenced by Ichigo again. That manga really leaves a strong aftertaste. So I've been doing the Chinese project until about 4pm. But most of the time, I was doing other irrelevant things. Surprisingly, none of that was reading manga, which I would do most often. That's cos the only manga i want to read now is Ichigo, despite already finishing that. I gotta stop saying that all the time. After that went to visit manga forums.

Talking about forums, there's this guy who made a very detailed character study about the ending of Ichigo 100%, which some people hate and some people like. It's really interesting, despite being about 3500 words long. Apparently it was done by a high school graduate. If I could write like him now, wonder how I would write in the future. Omg. It makes me think that my dream is to be a writer. Half-influenced by Ichigo again. Cos I do enjoy writing, and doing conflict studies. But I'm still too half-baked to do it well. Another thing I read in another forum. How do you keep your manga. Omg. I totally forgot about it. Then I noticed my Chobits collection seem a bit more yellow. So thirsty hippos eh. I read an article somewhere, which was used as a comprehension passage (I think) talking about yellowing paper. If I remember correctly, the paper they use now yellow because it is acidic. That's an idiotic improvement. It's fine if you want to use those low grade paper newspapers to make things cheap. But not on manga (or any other book). That would make things so much easier for us manga buyers. Ahh. The pleasure of holding the Tankoubon in your hands is great.

Ichigo 100%

That is the best manga I've ever read. Better than Chobits too, even though its hard to admit, but its a shoo-in for me. I spent 4 days and this morning, before I went to IT lessons, to finish it. This morning I just read the omake though. I'm re-reading it again cos its simply so great. Whoever who starts reading manga should read it. Even though there are of course ecchi scenes, I don't really mind not having them but it would then change the entire feel quite a bit (especially Satsuki scenes). Gotta thank CH for kinda reminding me about it. And now, I'm so desperate to get the hardcopy in my hands that I even requested it in the Chuang Yi (Singapore's manga publisher) website, along with requests for republishing all the volumes of Neon Genesis Evangelion and Love Hina I'm missing. But buying 19 volumes at one go, which would not happen, would cost about $161, assuming one volume is about $8.50. Really really hope they would satisfy my request... Now I truly know the pleasure of having the hardcopy in your hands. Didn't get much sleep cos of it. Spent the whole night rolling around and thinking about it. Even had a dream that all 19 volumes were at Comics Connection, top left of the Chuang Yi section, with English translation as well as the Chinese translation, which they had in the first place, plus merchandise. What a great dream. haha. I know my dreams are weird. I was quite sad when I woke up though, cos they only had volume 1, 2 & 19 in reality, and in Chinese (not that I'm against chinese but the translation of names would sound real weird...

This morning I missed band. Ohoho. First time I missed band intentionally. Not gonna hide it from anyone. Band starts at 9 while the IT lesson starts at 10. At first I got scolded by a certain teacher about being 25min late. Even told me to run. I ran away instead after seeing that they were doing drills. I don't want to be selfish and stink up the Com Lab if I had went for band and then gone to the lab. But I was selfish that I did not go to band. But to me, 1 person less was just insignificant to me. Anyway what difference would it make even if I was there? No point... I wonder what happened in band today though. Maybe I shouldn't find out...

IT course we did programming, cool. But then it ended at around 1, when it was actually supposed to end at 4. Not value for money. Created a BMI programme thing. After that went to J8 and ate Cafe Cartel with Keith. First time eating there. Haha. After that just walked around. Didn't buy anything cos the only thing I wanna buy is Ichigo 100%. Haha. Never so obsessed over an anime or manga series before...

The day was over in a flash though. It just seemed like nothing much happened, even though I woke up at 8. Haiz... The second day of the school holidays is already holiday. Better grasp it well, otherwise I would end up like Ichigo 100%, time just passed so quickly, middle school to high school to their future...

EOS

The denouement of the first semester is finally over. How time flies. Very soon I would be writing 'it's already the end of the year. How time flies...' It's rather surprising that I got 5th in class. In a class whose standard is significantly higher(or so it seems) then my class last year. Umm. I feel that the biannual post-exam activities is a full display of the immaturity, stupidity, as well as self-centeredness of students. For e.g. if you just shut up for 7 more minutes, you would have unrestricted speech as well as unlimited talk time without being scrutinized by any of the teachers at all. It just works this simply. Keep quiet for that period of time and you would be praised, released on time, if not earlier, and you would have to spend less time in that sticky, hot and humid environment crammed with smelly, sweaty students. So simple yet so hard. And as for the I&E. The winner actually got jeered. I hope those who jeered would continue jeering people when they grow up and out into the real world. I would be interested to see what would happen to them. The suggestion for the 'Treasure Hunt'. I didn't like it very much. Apart from my personal reasons like not wanting to be in groups, there would not be able to have sufficient manpower to monitor the event. Just think. Why does only 1 or 2 teachers come to do the post-exam activities for each level. Cos the rest are helping with your report books and writing testimonials. Can't believe it got 3rd. The judges are really open-minded. The conveyor belt is a disaster, the exchange programmes, which seem to be for a noble cause, like etiquette in front of members of the opposite sex and guess what. They missed out different races. This shows that it's obviously just like a Potemkin Village. It just reflects on their 'despo-ness' and childishness.

There were also suggestions on how morning assembly was very long due to the preaching of 'clock time' by a certain Mr K. I'm not against those suggestions. In fact, this Mr K is actually contradicting himself. I was laughing away when he started contradicting himself when it was already about 8.10 and there he was telling us to work on 'clock time' and not on 'event time'. For the benefit of those who still do not understand what the contradiction is, Mr K was working on 'event time'. Get the link?..

This is usually how I would write something ok. Cos you all dun seem to like this way of writing, I just show you an example lor. lol.

Yessshh! I finally managed to solve a rubik's cube. Not by myself though. haha. Too many steps to memorise. So I juz remember the first half of the steps. Mebbe I blog the rest tomorrow. Cos tmr got band. Then mebbe got more to write. Au revoir.

Neighbour.

Chye told me today that he was my neighbour. Surprise. He's really a good teacher. Apparently he's leaving next term. So sad. A new teacher is coming in. She's female. What a weird way to phrase me sentence. When I use 'she', it's obviously female. I'm not gonna talk about my results, cos apparently none of you actually care what marks I get, and I don't want you to compare marks with me, and get all high and mighty if you score better than me, or get all depressed and emo and start hating me if you get lower than me. The highest for A Maths in my class is none other than the guy I last sat next to, whom I haven't been talking to, at all. Apparently 'Archimedes is shining down on him'. Good for you.

I recently shifted all my personal folder into the D:/ drive, which I totally forgot about. Now my C:/ drive has 20GB+ of space, which means my folder takes up 20GB+ of space. Sigh*(haha) So now I'm gonna try installing RA2, the game which I have been playing for 7 years. Brutal enemies are quite easy when the terrain you are on is very defensive and to your advantage. Just need a few steps to defeat them though. Defend (Quickly build up your defences, air and land), send a few prism tanks (Allied only), I usually use 3. It's good enough. Finally, destroy. Hahahaha.

Happy Mother's Day

Today is Happy Mother's Day. This is the 2nd time I have blogged about Mother's Day. Feels so nostalgic. So I gave my mother a bookmark. A Christian bookmark. Even though I'm very much atheist, I still went into a Christian shop, bought a Christian bookmark, and gave it to my mother, cos she's a Christian. I have nothing against having a god or any other religion. All I want is substantial evidence. Cos its all not convincing enough. The local churches are very much hilarious. People rush to go there, but can't wait to get out. The church looks forward to offerings in such a direct manner. Sermons actually get repeated. Why? Cos new stuff hasn't been added for the past 2000 years. This applies to all churches though. So the sermons get repeated in different ways, twisted, manipulated, trying their best for the people to understand. I'm very fair about these issues though. I won't base it on biased accounts or add in additional imaginary information just to prove that religion is false. Oh my. I'm digressing from the Mother's Day theme. By the way, I finally bought a book called God is not Great. I'm just started reading it and it is very very 'chim'. I think I may need a translator even though the book is in English. (No I don't.)

Today went to church and got these kids to do some performance. I then realised 'Head & Shoulders, Knees and Toes' is a very hypnotic song. Especially when they keep repeating, "knees and toes, knees and toes, knees and toes" really quickly. I have been really slow the past few days. The worship seemed ridiculously long today(personal opinion) and I gave a 5-cent offering. I was saving up to by a mother's day present. And my 4 volumes of Chobits which I'm gonna ask Jonathan to help me get from Kinokuniya. (Now I can only afford 3 volumes.) After that went for a 'quickie'(lunch) and went to maths tuition. After tuition went to J8. The F1 game was not loaded but i knew how to make it load so I played a couple of rounds. Even had rainy seasons to drive in as well as foggy. After that just walked around. I think the new game up for the Sony thing is called Devil may Cry. Bought the bookmark after that then went for Chemistry tuition. After tuition went to play the F1 game again which was not loaded again. The idiot boys were breathing down my neck again. Just ignored them. Went back home, had dinner, bathed then blogged. Nah...

Exams Over

So the exams are officially over for me... At least. Actually it didn't matter whether it ended today. Cos the past few days (ever since the Bio paper ended... Yes, I slacked off for Chem) I haven't been studying very much. Been playing Frets on Fire. Finally got God Knows... sung by Aya Hirano aka. Suzumiya Haruhi. Yay. Kept playing that song but only got 4 stars for all difficulties. :( Oh. And here's the random quote off Wikiquotes "It may be that today gold has become the exclusive ruler of life, but the time will come when man will again bow down before a higher god." ~ Adolf Hitler. Obviously he's talking about himself. Oh how indirect...

I am still settling down in my class. Its already 5 months into the year. Haiz... Firstly, I don't have a single friend in my class. Yet.. Ever... There are just people I don't like (Not hate. I won't hate someone if he does not intentionally do something to make me hate him), people I know better, and people I am on better terms with, but none I can call a friend. My msn does not have a single contact from my current class except for me and some other guy from last year whom I have a reason to hate. But I know its just me... I've shut the window of my heart out from the people in this class (Yes... I'm talking like someone). Someone there keeps calling me emo, when I'm not feeling emo at all.Everytime he sees me he calls me emo. Then asks other people "hey, he emo right?" Then I usually ignore almost everyone. Then he come say "Wah. Dao me again ah." Then people will say. "Aiya he always liddat one lah." I don't really care though. A class without friends. What I have learnt in a Class Without Friends(CWF). You must be very independent (Pay attention in class!). Remember to bring your own stuff. Yah. That's a about it. The bad points I mean. Good Points. Spend more time paying attention rather than talking. Learn to be independent. Get into less trouble (getting linked with trouble-makers). Be more independent. Yessh. Enough about friends for now...

Gotta find time to produce the LIBRARY CATALOGUE!!! Wonder what to do... Let me try reciting what we have in there... With Heart and Voice, Christmas Festival... My memory is very poor. I also don't really want to be the SL. But there isn't anyone who can be right? This is called no choice. chikushou...

I think I must make a list of all the anime and manga I need to read. Lessee.
Manga (If you want any, you can ask me)
1. Fate/Stay Night
2. Azumanga Daioh
3. Ichigo 100%
4. Ef ~ A Fairytail of the Two
5. Chobits (One of these days I must go to Orchard Rd to complete the series)

Anime
1. Chobits
2. He is my Master
3. Mahoromatic
4. Love Hina
5. Tsukihime
6. Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
7. Lucky Star
8. Galaxy Angel
9. Clannad
10. Kimi ga Nozomu Eien(Re-watch)
11. Chrono Crusade
12. Shakugan no Shana II
13. FLCL

That's about all for the time being. And if you've realised 8/18 of them are girly. Haha. Cos I'm Hetro(?). I don't use "straight" cos its a gay slang. Haha.