Prelims - Over

Owned. Can't say it was an easy fight though.

Seriously was difficult to get through. But I didn't really cheer much when it was over. There's still the O'Levels ahead. Though I can say its going to be a piece of cake compared to the Prelims.

Oh well. Miscellaneous news (that I'm sure most won't bother/want to find out about). I bought a Zippo lighter. Cool little gadget there. The flame doesn't go out easily, and it looks nice. I might take a picture of it, if my camera weren't such a bitch.

Learning some new flourishes and practicing old ones. Haven't updated my progress log yet though. I will check it and update it, perhaps later. The Dan and Dave - Trilogy 3 DVD set has come out.

Take a look at the trailer.



Smacks of pure salivatory (word? Don't know) goodness. I'm going to get it.

Look.

Yeah. I wasn't bragging. Check that out :)

Ah well. I'm bored. I really need a challenge.

Stress. I mean, really.

Yes, stress. For once in my life the stress is getting somewhat overpowering. Not because of all the subjects that people might normally find hard. Oh no.

Not A-Maths, not E-Maths, not Physics (bahaha), not Chem (okay, I lie, but not as much), not MT (I pwned the subject in June, what can I say?), not Literature.

Its Combined Humanities. I'm pretty much confirmed dead for this one. It's just how dead that's worrying.

When someone who wants to kill you, gives you a choice between a stab in the guts with a parang, a death by electrocution, a slow-acting poison, or any other painful way you can imagine, what do you say?

What's worse. I forgot to bring my SS textbook home. I forgot to bring my SS essay notes home (if I even had them in the first place). It means I won't be able to write jack shit for tomorrow's essay.

I'm fucked.

Okay, lets look at my choices for L1R5.

MT is a confirmed A1, I'll take it.
English is an A1 or A2, I don't know.
A-Maths will probably range from A1-B3.
E-Maths - same as above.
Physics - I hope its an A1 or A2.
Literature usually garners a B3 for me.

Lets count.

1 + 2 + 3 + 3 + 2 + 3 = 14.

Wow. :)

That's a pretty large number. Can't really say I like the figure. This is for O'Levels by the way, not Prelims. Add 2 full grade drops to each of the subjects for that, if you want, please. :)

Ohh fuck...


Oh well. Academic stuff aside, other things are not going TOO badly. :)

For one, my CS skills apparently are now on par with the Expert bots in the game.

Though I can't QUITE slam my mouse in the right direction fast enough whilst scoping in and hitting the fire button, somehow I always manage to kill Expert bots before they do me. Unless of course, they see me first. In that case I can't do much.

I can't grow eyes on the back of my head. Give me a break.

Also, I hacked the Battle for Middle Earth II game credits. I put my name inside. I mean, really, not photoshopped or anything. I might post up a screenshot or something. I put myself as director of the game production. Fun, no? A friend of mine was SHOCKED to see it.

:) Look, you should have expected it right? The game's based in Los Angeles. I've been stuck in Singapore all the while.

Bah, I need my breakfast.


Edit:

Phew. Oral's over. Was a little odd... But okay...

Mr Chan assures me I got an A2 for my CCA. Hm, means I get to deduct two points after all. XD

I got the SS notes. Thanks loads :) Study chapter 7.

Tear

Today, I was on the bus home from school, sleepily thinking about how little homework there was. In front of me was a young Primary School boy. He looked pretty ordinary.

Until, of course, he took out a pen and a book from his bag. "Animal Farm" was the title of the book, the story of which I hope MOST of you are familiar with. It was not a hard cover book. I wondered what he was doing, so I watched him out of the corner of my eye.

And then he opened the last page of the book, and ripped half the page out without blanching.

What. The. Hell.

That sort of treatment of books really makes my blood boil.

He took the page, crumpled it up, and stuffed it into his breast pocket along with his pen.

Mindless destruction.

I don't know what purpose he found in it. Was it supposed to be fun or something?

Baaaaaad!

Well. My dad got his phone serviced, and we went off to the collection centre. The service was terrible.

Hmph. One of the counters had 4 staff members serving a single customer. Odd, I didn't know so much manpower was needed.

Ohh wait, they weren't even serving! They were... what? They were having a bloody chatting session, talking and laughing. WTF!

"Ya, my son also got his phone from Lot 1."

Yeah, right, like its our business. Looks like the customer was charismatic enough to get all the staff members to flock over. Hmph.

Pressing the appointment number ticket machine thing, the approximate waiting time we got was... 13 minutes.

The actual time? 45 minutes.

Screw that.

When we were finally "served", we went to the counter.

I say "served", because, well, when we arrived at the counter, the desk there looked like below. The name of the person serving is blanked out if you can't see.



And the desk stayed like that for a full five minutes. That was a fun time. We waited for what seemed like an eternity, before, FINALLY someone came along.

Oh wait, she barely sat down, before suddenly taking off again, as though she had forgotten to retrieve something; is that counted as "coming along"?

Nevermind. "Service" is like that in the corporate world.

Brian Tudor

Another skilled and famous card manipulator. His dexterity is pretty much unparalleled, to the extent that nobody is able to complete the challenge that he issued. He set out a challenge, that required people to do the routines he did in the above-shown video as smoothly and as fast as he did. To date none have managed to do so.

Its apparent from his face when he's doing the series of mind-boggling one-handed cuts that its all as easy as pie to him.

Probably because its his giant hands that do the trick. I just can't execute one of his cuts properly because I can't put my fingers around them the way he does. I can only wait till my hand grows bigger. Bah.

He's a horrible teacher though, for all his skill in cards. He uses the word "essentially" at least once every few sentences during teaching.

Speech impediment? Probably.

It is over

The Mother Tongue O'Levels are over.

I believe I did okay for it. Might get an A2. Or a B3. In which case I'll have to retake it at the end of the year.


And.. ah.

So much has changed. I did not understand, or even grasp the change until early last week. Now things have changed significantly between us two.

I think its for the better. Don't you?

Oh and, watch the goddamned video if you haven't already.