EXERCISE FRENZY.

Well its 2 in the morning and I'm supposed to sleep. So after this post I'll probably really go to sleep. I'm like... damn tired. lol.

Yesterday I went to the stadium to run with Miaode, because it has been quite some time since I ran 2.4km (or clique; NS terms) WITH TIMING, and I did certain bad mistakes that made me activate THE GAG REFLEX (i stopped immediately after finishing the run, bad idea). It's funny how the reflex term came about because yesterday while on my way to the stadium I was listening to AM MAYHEM (good morning show from 987fm, the only show where I really enjoyed listening to in 987fm) and Ms Vendetta was talking about how her gag reflex was activated whenever she sees Mr Young (for those who listens to AM MAYHEM will know who they are). Anyway out of topic, I managed to run 2.4 with timing recorded and guess what,

IT'S 12 MINS PLUS. BETTER THAN MY NAPHA TEST THAT I TOOK IN NP where the time was 15 or 16 mins long (see the effects of poly life, somemore I'm not in swimming team anymore).

Ok yeah I know it's sort of still a fail, but it is definitely an improvement compared to half a year ago. Meanwhile I'll just continue to train and run and probably lose another 3kg or so (I just lost around 3kg and I can feel it) and then tone up my body more. ONWARD DERREL.

Time to go for a swim later today.

I'm Back WITH ALOT OF RANTS???

Maybe not for good. lol. But I suddenly have the urge to blog, so...

Guess what, I finally graduated from NP. It's like, how am I even supposed to feel? For one thing, I feel really great, but at the same time, I am going to miss school life (but seriously what the **** has FSV done to me sometimes I wonder; I learnt alot of things though). In fact for the pass 2 months I have been wondering what will happen after the 2 years of NS, will I be working? Or studying? Where will I go in the near future? I got a letter saying I'll be in NS in sept. And now it's July. 2 more fracking months to go. I'm kinda sianed by the fact nothing much is happening in my life (except for work). I have so much things that I wanna do with friends around me, yet I can't enjoy those things because most people around me are not really interested in it or simply they appear to be lazy (partially may be due to the NS rotting syndrome and other obligations). I have a few choices that I wanna choose from. Today I was listening to some music and it suddenly struck on me that, Derrel, YOU LOVE MUSIC. One reason I joined FSV is to learn about sound engineering and production. However, I was given a screwed up chance which was kinda costly (The Label) and I was very lucky that during the last semester of my school life I managed to get into Music For Picture module. I guess that was probably one of the most fun and engaging module that I have ever taken in the course (along with scriptwriting and audio tech). And all of a sudden I was like, DUDE YOU NEED MAKE A CHOICE. DO YOU WANNA GO NIE OR DO MUSIC PRODUCTION?

I like both, I really do. But I have to choose one, I can't do both at the same time, and I need to make a decision fast in order to move on from there. Damn am I ranting? lol. I love to solve maths (other subjects too actually, not only maths), it gives me a great sense of satisfaction. I love to interact with students during relief teaching, because I enjoy interacting with people, and the satisfaction I gained when they can solve the problems after I teach them, is priceless. BUT, making music is fun too! And I'm talking about singer/songwriter type of music. Predominantly pop culture music. Granted, most music nowadays have a wierd sense of pointless appeal (especially RnB and hip hop/rap), but there are really good musicians out there that are RAW, TRUE TO THE BONE, and BRILLIANT (and I think they all have a common style: mainly rock). I have been listening to alot of such music nowdays, artists such as John Mayor, Rob Thomas, The Fray, Michelle Branch etc etc and I pay close attention to the arrangement and lyrical content of the music, like what kind of instruments or roughly the kind of mixing treatment that goes into the song. I could have learnt some of these in detail during The Label project in school, but somehow the whole thing just kinda screwed up (six music videos? ok, but I WANNA DO MUSIC TOO?!?!) in a very unfortunate way where I don't even know how to explain.

Besides, I am looking for someone to teach me how to play the guitar properly currently. I think the guitar is one of the most brilliant instruments ever made in history; the sound is just awesome. Clear, mellow and crisp. (BUT I LOVE THE POWERHOUSE SOUND OF AN ELECTRIC GUITAR TOO. MUAHAHAHAHA. gotta learn an acoustic guitar first at least, isn't that better?) If I ever learn fully how to play the guitar well, i'll probably start composing and write some tunes about anything that comes to my mind. Currently I'm using garageband to do some simple audio recording and mixing, but its really lame because I rather use Logic Pro to do audio recording and mixing. BUT DAMN I DON'T HAVE much professional equipments to go along with. Anyway, enough about all these rants. It just happened that I feel the need to blog it out. So in conclusion...

I have so many things I wanna do, but yet no one really shares the same interests as me to get me really motivated. Probably due to the fact I don't like to do things alone. I'm addicted to people. lol.

After blogging out this post I felt I've known my self better. At least everything typed here is real, not masked. No fake bullshit, no lies.

WOW?

WOW.

It's a new post, guys! New post! I bet almost everybody have already treated this blog as though it has been in oblivion already. I don't blame anyone for that, I can only blame myself for not updating regularly and being lazy for almost every single second of my life to blog. Anyway, here is the rundown on today's post.

1) How have I been?

2) What's next?

Starting with point 1,

I have been practically dislodged from the way I live my life. When you have to wake up for more than 24 hours without rest, it's crazy. It gets worse when you have to sacrifice that rest time for something not as worthy as a resting time. Why the hell do I want to dislodge my life in such a way when eventually I know what's better for me in the future?

Catch no balls? Well ask me directly then. I'm lazy to type out so much stuff in blogspot.

2) What's next?

Evolution. I see the future as being a drastic change over the course of my life. I know it, and people might be beginning to notice that change in my life. However, it isn't me that is changing. It's my life, my destiny. In other words, I think I will have a stable life of my own in the near future, and it will be influenced by who I am. I feel more and more at ease with life now. That's good. That's a really great start.

Catch no balls? Think deeper. HAHA.

My blog quite Englishfied leh I realise. Like everything is so standard and literal. Till then, I'll see you guys soon I hope. Enjoy life!

P.S If you follow the whole post you will realise there seems to be some contradiction in the post. But don't bother to think about the contradiction, let's just say I'm a contradict.

Sweet Potatoes Meets Me

And it died a horrible death.



















Can you guys even notice something is wrong with the meal? (My camera is lousy, it's really poor at handling proportionate scaling in pictures) Look, I ordered a Combo 1 meal at Long John Silvers, and Combo 1: 2 piece chicken with fries and a drink. But what I got was 2 pieces of SWEET POTATOES THAT TASTES LIKE CHICKEN SOAKED IN COLD SHIT! If you look closely, the 2 pieces of sweet potatoes are only a little longer than the fries with respect to the length, and the width of it is nothing more than the width of 2 sausages placed together side by side. I rather they throw me some 4 pieces of sausages instead of some mutated sweet potatoes that taste strikingly similar to chicken, with added-on shit flavour.

Needless to say I was so annoyed at the dwarfed serving I took my knife and fork and plunged both of the utensils right into the dry, cold flesh of the sweet potatoes and gobbled them up like a full time carnivore, making sure I remove the food as fast as possible lest I start to curse.

No more combo 1s in LJS for me till furthur notice. They think only mini dwarfs patronise their outlets? Damn it ^%*^%#$&^!!!!!

Hello Kitty and Friends Lost In Lot 1

Today I'm trying to be funny and tell you guys a wonderful story I've got in my mind.

HELLO KITTY AND FRIENDS LOST IN LOT 1

LOL?

Ops.

Once upon a time, Hello Kitty and friends went to Lot 1 and got lost while walking around.

THIS IS NOT HELLO KITTY!

Oh is it? I must have gotten it wrong I'm sorry about it.

In desperation, Hello Kitty and friends decide to seek for help.

"Any kind souls here? Help we've lost our way!"

While they were seeking help, they met the bad guy!

"Hi, I'm the bad guy, and I'm gonna eat you guys up! Rawrr!"

"NOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!"

Sadly, Hello Kitty and friends had a tragic end to their tale.

Owned.

Thanks for reading!

Oh Levels (Funny Title)

The birds and worms have been waiting for my new post before the birds eat those worms that are anticipating to be eaten. Now I can happily declare that the bird is allowed to eat those worms. Birds, if you ever see this blog, or even made it to this post, eat those worms, and enjoy your breakfast.

SO! What's up people? As I have said, the frequency of my blog posting will be based on the amount of readers reading my blog, and I'm really not very confident at all to announce that quite a number of people have been reading it. I'm still hoping it, though. Anyway I suddenly have the insatiable urge to publicise certain things in my mind that I thought needs to be published, because I love sharing information with other people. Right. The very one thing I have in mind now to blog about is "O" levels!

Those poor, kind souls who used to take a peek at my now de-functioning, old blog may have that trace of knowledge about the time I used to blog about my "O" level results. About how pathetic the grades are, how I kept whining and complaining about the downfall of the exam, and how I said I regret doing stupid things at the wrong time. Three years have passed and so many things happened between the time frame 2005 and 2008. Going to a polytechnic has toughen me in ways which I will never be able to if I went to a JC, and also gave me insights on the reality of the adult/working life and made me stop depending on the idealistic side of things; I now know that in certain industries, such as the media industry, people-to-people relationships are essential, but the ways the relationships are handled and viewed upon can possibly make an aspect of an individual's life unhealthy, such as cheapening the value of a relationship occurring. This does apply to other aspects of life too, it does not necessarily apply to the media industry only. Simply put, it means you make "friends" for the purpose of using them to your advantage and you may or may not really care about the "friendship" after you have fulfilled your purpose. It becomes a cycle of ""friends" come and go", but you are obliged to say "hi" to them for the sake of saying so. Yes, this may be depressing to some but this is one of the things I have learnt from going to a polytechnic, and I have learnt to wise up not to fall to this trap anymore, or at least I tried not to.

Coming back to the "O" levels topic, let's just say I have decided to assure myself some form of security by paying an amount of money in exchange for another chance to redeem my dismal English grade. Yeah, that eyesore inducing, heart-stabbing letter 'C' was printed on my certificate 2 years back and there was no way I could remove that letter from the cert without using a correction tape. So in order to save the trouble of buying a correction tape, more than hundred bucks was forked out for another chance. I wanted to pay for it myself, but my mom paid for me instead. Thanks mom, you rock!

And I sincerely hope with this precious chance I can correct that 'C' mistake to the original 'A' that was supposed to be on the cert. Why did I need that form of security anyway? Well, NIE officially stated in their website that in order NOT to be a victim of the proficiency test (which you will need to pass in order to be considered for admission or something like that), you must have at least grade B4 in English if you are going to teach English-medium subjects. And I'm not going to teach Chinese, so... well, I guess in order to have a higher chance of admission, a better grade will be better too, because I'm 70000000% sure that grades do matter, especially with the fact I didn't take 'A' levels and I'm using a diploma with my 'O's for admission. Does it sound like I'm certain I'm going for NIE after my diploma? HM....

Anyway, I got my entry proof for the exam already, and I'm kind of bummed by the fact that English paper this year falls on the eve of my B'day. All the best to me. Paper 1 from 2.30pm to 4.15pm, and paper 2 from 5pm to 6.40pm. The paper ends when everyone's having dinner? I hope the comprehension passage is not on chicken pies nor dining etiquette. I'll just draw chickens all over the answer sheets. Just joking. Hope you found it funny though!

Mostly DotA Content

Alright, people are asking for the release of a second post, therefore I'm going to listen to their requests this time (the one and only time anyway) and release this post out for everyone who cares to read. As you know, this blog is new, and there are quite a number of stuffs to be fixed on this blog. I have just added a tag board at the right hand side of this blog and also more links coming up that will be connected to unoriginalism/boredism. However, as a note, that the frequency of my post posting will be directly proportional to the amount of readers reading unoriginalism/boredism. So guys, you know what to do!

This post may have been long overdue, but that may not be the case (*Hints*). The topic for the post today will entice a target group of gamers to read this post. Yes. Some of you may have heard this game before, some of you probably will not understand a single thing I am going to say in the later part of this post, and some of you might just go crazy over it. Unlikely though, because it's DotA.

Feeling bored while doing my final year project in school, I became determined to sit at my desk and blog. Why would I blog about DotA at this time when I am supposed to do work and complete my assignments and projects? Simple. Cause I didn't have any ongoing projects currently, well, at the very least not for today. So I allowed myself to engage in euphoric activities that give me immense satisfaction by winning a game of DotA or two. Hence the need to blog about it.

DISCLAIMER: FROM THIS SECTION OF THE POST ONWARDS TILL THE VERY END YOU MAY OR MAY NOT KNOW WHAT AM I BLOGGING ABOUT.

To start it off, for those who didn't know, I was a total, complete noob in DotA back in 2005, that was when I first started playing the game seriously. I could vividly remember the very first game that I played on my it-was-really-not-very-fast-at-all desktop and the game was a total bomb. The computer processor was so tortisefied that the display simply keeps freezing at 3 second intervals, and I was being banished to a helpless state where I just sat in front of the computer and waited for freezing process to be completed. To make matters worse, I totally lacked the skills to locate my Visage on the screen and all I knew was that my kill-death score was 0-17. Pawned.

Fast forward to 2006/07. I finally learnt the game play techniques used in DotA. I changed my desktop system. It was one of the most wonderful gifts I ever had from the 06/07 period: to be able to own a decent, fast-processing computer with the ability NOT to freeze at 3 second intervals, and I thank God for that! Ever since my desktop system was changed, my DotA games generally went uphill. I could really enjoy the games without the inevitable need to be banished to a helpless state. Anyway my choice of heroes in DotA became diversified, instead of the usual Lion/Visage/QOP hero choices, which really suck when it was passed on to me in the game during the pre-computer changing era, I started to use many other heroes and I finally found The Hero that I know I was fated to use him.

NERUBIAN ASSASSIN

This is the very first hero that I had critical success with. In fact, he is the most successful hero that I have used so far for the past 3 years of my DotA conquest. With almost 20 kills and 1 death, this hero definitely is my favourite hero of all times, and obviously I am not trying to show-off here, I just need to produce some textual proof to explain why I consider this to be the most successful hero I have used. All you have to do for this hero is simply to backstab, impale, mana burn and DAGEON and you will own. Trust me. The only displeasure I have about NA is that I hardly see people using him, and it makes him look like an along-the-lines-of-a-KOTL hero (I will explain more on KOTL in the later portion of the post). In other words, underrated. If only people knew that there were other interesting heroes other than POTM and Shadow Fiend (SF), such as NA, the DotA community would not be as 100% predictable as it is now.

Well, currently, for 99.98% of the games ever found in the DotA community, the probability of 1 player choosing either a POTM or an SF is 1. The probability of an SF player buying lothar's edge is 0.99, the remaining 0.01 is due to the SF being a noob that simply couldn't farm enough to buy a lothar's edge. The SF will then use the purchased lothar's edge to make himself invisible, and he will sneak up to other players and do his extremely sensational, bondage-releasing ultimate that causes everyone to scream out their final "urrgh", which echoes out from the computer speakers and then they will fall down gracefully (like Lina Inverse) onto the pixilated grasses, rapidly degenerating into bones and then the death timer shows up on the top right side of the screen. Pawned.

This is what I meant by 100% complete predictability in the DotA community. And I have yet to mention about KOTL, which was stereotyped as a lame and useless hero by many people. Well, all KOTL ever needs to do is to blast!

KEEPER OF THE LIGHT

Regarded as one of the most rubbish intelligence heroes by many, KOTL has indeed earned a unique reputation for himself. The person who gets the luck and privilege to use him, is not spared from the intense bashing of those anti-KOTLs either. A player who decides to use KOTL will be under heavy scrutiny throughout the whole game, especially during the peak periods of the game such as during mid and late game periods. Any mistake made by the player, and I mean any, will result in extreme criticism and disapproval from the rest of the teammates. Take for example, a player is in the middle lane of the scrouge side soloing using KOTL. One of his teammates from the top lane declares to be AFK. The player using KOTL charges up his illuminate skill, and misses, for whatever reason. Within the next second the player will see that the chat space is being spammed and filled up almost instantaneously by his teammates, including the AFK player, with the content of the chat space going along the lines of:

"WHY DID YOU MISS YOUR BLAST!"

"HOW COULD YOU HAVE MISSED IT!"

"YOU HAVE JUST WASTED 5 SECONDS OF OUR LIFE!"

"SO NOOB!"

"KOTL CAN'T DO SHIT LA!"

"SIAN. GG"

"GG EVERYONE, THE GAME WILL BE A WASTE OF TIME."

"CAN WE RR?"

"SO LOUSY!!!"

And last but not least, "OI, DERREL!!!"

Poor me.