With the passing of a decade comes another possibly catastrophic year
Oh look, the decade of 2000-2009 is leaving us, woot!
I think emo-me can have a million things to say about this passing decade and the recent revealing of semester 1's results. I guess old habits die hard when it comes to examinations and results, but I've been trying to stop thinking like a O/A-Level student since, and honestly speaking, I really did ok.
But because I felt like it, I carried out my cathartic verbal diarrhoea over at the Wretch blog instead, which is the unofficial trash-bin for all my trashy emo posts.
I'm doing my countdown this year in a rather, erm, gay atmosphere while working to repay my mahjong debts, so this interesting start to the new year/decade should be a good sign!
Let's embrace the new year with cheers and a positive attitude, and may bad karma STOP COMING ROUND TO BITE ME IN THE ASS!
Sian
Apparently, my results for my COM205 speeches was a prediction of my overall results.
B for the win, yo.
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Apparently, the early release is a leak of results for the year 1s!
I demand all results of Semester 1 to be nullified. HAHA.
Sunday Morning
I'm sorry but I can't stop giggling when reading the article on M'sia outlawing witchcraft.
I'm a bit slow with the news, but I just read that Ris 'Boomz' Low had met the Singapore Tourism Board to "discuss promoting Singapore 'in terms of fashion sense'".
Seems that I'm not that far from becoming spokesperson of National Council on Problem Gambling.
Awake for >36 hours and I'm delirious.
Went out for the whole night to hang out with the guys, followed by mahjong just now and I haven't slept a single bit since I woke up on Christmas eve morning.
On my way back on the bus I had a dream and I think I really should quit mahjong after this Christmas.
In the dream, I was visited by three ghosts.
Firstly, the Ghost of Christmas Past appeared in a form of a little boy and showed me the scenes of my childhood, then innocent and still untainted by the evil that is mahjong. I was contented, happy, used pocket money sparingly and most important, I didn't piss off friends for winning their money. Then the Ghost just disappeared.
What appeared next was the Ghost of Christmas Present, in the image of a financial banker, Delwynn Lee Kok Mun. However, he is not really Delwynn Lee Kok Mun because Delwynn Lee Kok Mun is not yet a financial banker so obviously the ghost just looked like him.
Anyway that's not the point. The point is that this ghost showed me pages and pages of numbers and dates in red which I cannot comprehend because I haven't taken MB102 yet. Apparently, those figures are the deficit I've made over the few years of playing mahjong. 'Win big, lose bigger' was what the Ghost of Christmas Present said to me before scuttling off in his Porsche.
At that point of time I was really wavering in my belief. Isn't mahjong simply a time-passing habit that wouldn't cause me much trouble? The Ghost of Christmas Future gave me the answer.
Ghost of Christmas Future looked like an old man who looked really really familiar. I could've sworn I'd saw him somewhere before, but I can't put a finger on where exactly. Anyway, he appeared next to me with a walking stick and a packet of teh and introduced himself as Uncle Tan. We've got the same surname! What a coincidence.
What Uncle Tan did which answered my question was to tell me what happened to him when he played too much mahjong. He is poor and homeless because he lost all my money to gambling(that old geezer even asked me for a loan, good thing I don't have his currency); his wife and children left him for another man and he had no friends because he won too much money from them and they gave up.
After saying his piece, he left and I had my answer:
Mahjong is bad. It has caused me to lose a lot of money, and it is time to stop. That's right.
From now on, NO MORE MAHJONG UNTIL NEXT YEAR.
After the atas dinner
I tell you, if somehow M'sia decides to drop a bomb on Orchard during this festive season, they will wipe out around three-quarters of the total population in S'pore.
The whole country practically spilled themselves there!
And if you're wondering, that remaining one-quarter are either chilling out at Boon Lay Interchange or shopping at Little India.
Post 21st thoughts
Never mind the fact that I wore the uncle-est looking shirt I've ever owned(uncle even by MY standards) to a dinner where I took photos which ends up on a present, this birthday week is really enjoyable.
Big thanks to all who remembered; I left birthday out on Facebook because there's no point in having people leaving me wishes when it's Facebook that reminded them and also to give myself a reason to make myself feel less shitty for the dismal number of friends who remembered.
By chronological order, Big thanks to the cousins for the early and yearly meet-up; thanks to the few Bocelli people(Marcus, Amelia, Jianxuan, Nat, Samantha, Malcolm, Eunice, Fiona, Wallace) who turned up for the buffet and board games; thanks to the Rubbish guys(Delwynn, Wei Liang, Kai Quan) for bursting their wallets, and the 2/4 Clique(Chee Wee, Xiu Ming, Sin Kuan, Sin Yee, Pristine) for giving Uncle Tan so much 面子 by all(yes, ALL, wow) turning up.
I don't do shout-outs frequently so this is the special-est and rarest post you'll ever see here.
For a weird guy who usually doesn't make a big deal out of birthdays or special events, I guess I am really lucky not to be left all alone these days.
So go
The Ruling Party's Handbook on Question Answering
All characters and dialogues are fictional, any similarities to living persons or real-life scenarios are purely coincidental.
One day, in an unknown education institution,
Tina: "Mr Tan, what does recalcitrant mean?"
Mr Tan: (silence)
Tina: "Mr Tan? Did you hear what I asked? What does recalcitrant mean?
Mr Tan: "Ok Tina stop and ask me another time, we will do Maths now. Here are your test papers from last week's test and because I'm feeling happy, you will all receive bonus 5 marks! It's ok if you don't understand it, as long as you're happy you shouldn't have too much questions ok?"
Tina: "Mr Tan, then what does doctrinaire means?"
Mr Tan: (goes on about maths)
Tina: "Mr Tan, then how about 'beating around the bush'? What does it mean?"
Mr Tan: "Ok guys, please be reminded that next week there will be a History test. If you fail that test you will be forced to stay back in school everyday for revision. If you continue failing it, the school's average score will drop, it will close down and every student will have to go somewhere else and maybe die from malnutrition. Please be worried sick about that instead and forget about the other 'minor' issues."
Tina: "Ok then. I have a History question for you Mr Tan. What's the difference between Hitler's Germany and our..."
Mr Tan: "ENOUGH IS ENOUGH TINA. You are being a bitch. You already have gotten detention for general indiscipline for listing out the names of students who got kicked out of the school on your diary, have you left your manners in the dentention room? You have a dubious record therefore you cannot ask me anymore questions."
Tina: What? The dentention was meant to be a secret and the Principal promised that it will not be revealed! You're a lousy teacher! You don't answer my questions directly either!
Mr Tan: "AHA. Now the whole class can be my witnesses. All your report cards are with me so you will tell the truth and that is Tina is being rude by calling me names and starting this argument. For this, I will ban Tina from speaking in this class from now on. And Tina, if you're disenchanted with this arrangement, you can can always leave the school."
Tina: " I, but I..."
Mr Tan: "Be quiet. Now class, turn to page 264 on public policies..."
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Random story I thought of. I'm not lying, it is random.
*cough*Anway, on an entirely unrelated note, the recent spat between YPAP members and a certain outspoken S'porean on FB, which is really nothing important since the mainstream media aren't saying anything much about it, has caught my eye and I'm checking up on it! Quite interesting, you can read about it here and here.
21 years ago, an evil spawn was conceived
I think it's the latter.
Anyway, there it goes, the 'big' 21st birthday. I think it's only 'big' because everyone thinks it is. In the end, it's just the few people who matters that remembered and bothered. Or maybe the periodical reminders from me leading up to the day itself helped.
STARS in two days! Shit.
And I was wondering how can I blog about today
Went down to Zsofi Bar at Little India earlier in the evening for a CS event, Unplugged, where we had our talents from WKWSCI doing acoustic performances. I've never been to the Little India station since its opening and boy, was I surprised when I alighted. There was so many queueing up escalator!
As we made our way to the bar, passing through the streets, the number astounding. It's about 20 times worse than the situation at Boon Lay, I tell you, flooded and grass field! Seriously, I've lived in S'pore for 20 years and I never knew so many wa lao!
Of course, me being me, I made enough racist comments to ensure karmic retribution on myself for the following year. Like for example, when HAHA. I'm not the only one of course. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ and _ _ _ _ _ _ _ made their contributions to the momentary racism.
Dinner afterwards was fine but I can't take spicy stuff so it's not as fufilling for me.
And with this, begins my 4-days of activities. Will update if there's anything interesting!
Fashion idiot
Shopping is like abstract art, I can never understand how it's done. It's made worse by my absolute lack of fashion sense and unwillingness in leaving the house.
I resolve to get myself clothes to wear by the end of this year otherwise I'm going to start wearing the grey admin tee out.
On an unrelated note, I'm watching 海派甜心!
Taiwanese idol dramas get on my nerves for its predictable plots and certain draggy arcs but thanks to improved connection speed, I can skip the boring parts. Plus, 罗志祥 is kinda funny AT TIMES (I skip the act cute parts) and there's oh-so-cute Rainie Yang. She's the only celebrity who can act cute and not piss me off; though for the show I think she really can't look fierce enough for the part.
But it's only at the sixth episodes so I might get sick of it like I did for the previous 蒋小花 drama.
My life is really boring. Sheesh.
I'm awake not because I woke up early
There's lot going on in this country that I think people should know but are not being told. But I guess this probably happens anywhere. We are safe, clean and rich(relatively speaking), but at what expense? Freedom does come with a price, doesn't it?
Mean World Syndrome
I believe in karmic retribution; I know it exists because I've been on the receiving end of it for a very long time. And no, it's not the positive type.
I kind of like the idea of 'an eye for an eye' as well. Contrary to what most people would believe, I don't think the whole world is going to go blind because not everyone is evil and had done bad things that would cause them to suffer retribution for it.
So, as a hypothetical example, if a villain plucks out the hostage's teeth as a form of torture, he should receive the same punishment, preferably from the hostage him- or herself.
I'm having such morbid thoughts because I just watched 学警出更 and I'm mortified at Winnie's predicament. Hello she's pregnant lei, at least give her anaesthesia(shit I didn't get the spelling right at 1st try) lah. Geez I sound like an auntie already.
Somehow bad people have it easy. There's a lot of injustice around and bad guys don't seem to get what they deserve.
I should start watching happier shows.
Snores
Because I'm nocturnal and I've been sleeping AT LEAST 12 hours, I've forgotten how the Sun looks like now.
When school starts I'm positively screwed.
It has been a long while
and we've forgotten how to live.
For me, I've forgotten how it feels to sit on the grass, wet with dew, to just enjoy the morning breeze. I've forgotten how it feels to walk under the cooling rain and just let it wash me. I've forgotten how it feels to just plug the music in and run around my old neighbourhood until the player stops.
But I think that it's not that I've forgotten. It's just that while 'growing up', I decided that these actions have no meaning, and I stopped doing them.
How many of these 'childish' actions did you have? And of those, how many have you forgotten?
Fail
This, ladies and gentlemen, is NTU's way of saying "YOU WAIT LONG LONG THEN WILL HAVE LOR".
Another update
It seems easier to put a gun to my head and pull the trigger than plan modules, especially now that it's the glorious holidays after the bloody exams. But time is not on my side; then again, when has time ever been on anyone's side? Actually, I think it's pretty easy to shoot someone in the head. Even easier if that person is...
Anywayyyyyy, I'm officially debt-free for this December(the month)!
Managed to clear the bloody debts I owed the hospital for the braces treatment, and my pay from the school has came in whoosha! Not a lot of spare cash for shopping though. I'm just grateful that this month should turn out pretty smooth.
Random update
I'm thankful for KQ and Wl because they're provided me with a specific goal to accomplish this December(the month), otherwise I'll just be spamming Full-Metal Alchemist(re-watching the old series) and doing nothing else.
But I still think we'll end up wasting money. Hah.
Enjoying life
This December(the month) feels so short and inadequate for the amount of stuff I need to get done! And module planning is like the last thing I want to do.
Bad news even before the next semester even started: I'll be having two core modules' exams on the same day AGAIN. And I'm not even sure if I can avoid a third one!
Complaining to the administration seems like a viable resort but this is, afterall, S'pore. We(S'poreans in general) either complain in places that don't matter, or we don't complain at all, even at places that matter because that's equivalent to giving ME a lesson on the Heisenberg uncertainty principle - NO POINT.
Besides, complaining about dates of exams seems like something a whiny spoilt brat would do and I RESENT THAT (credited:Marcus Yong).
So I'll just have to live with it.
Who knows? I might do sooo badly when the results come out that I'll have to quit school.(I honestly doubt so; I'm just saying it for the sake of being careful and hypocritically modest. For more details behind the reasoning for that, check out Delwynn's post which makes an awful lot of sense.)
Teh ftw
via loveyourchaos
Stop calling me uncle. Teh ftw ok?
