posts to look forward to

dun have e time to write yet but apparantly there r so many things i wanna write in e long run. I decide to write it down so tat viewers can noe wat to expect from my blog,aside from any unexpected events

1)My Bridge Career - Contract
2)my 2 cute dogs-Cocoa n Copi...in e meantime guess which one is in navy n which one is in airforce..lol
3)my experience with girls,or rather e lack of it
4)me involved in Orc rallys in e darkest time of my life,finding joy n meaning in life by embracing e dark side
5)results of request to defer,my parents r so supportive n wan me to defer no matter wat...this blog will be superb interesting n less classy if e deferment fails.
6)my obsession of Star Wars...use e force,luke...zinggggg....
7)Favourite food in NTU (n some say jurong)

My Salsa Story

I've realli been exposed a lot through salsa n i now believe tat dancing changes a person's life. If not for salsa,i may never get to experience certain things tat i had. dancing is v ery pple orientated,so e diff characters of e pple n the interaction with them is something meaningful.
e most impt thing i found so meaningful is experiencing humanity. While i am usualli passive abt commiting myself to judge pple,this time i muz admit i am impressed with Gary,Nicole n Alvin. it is touching to c gary n nicole teaching us so patiently n dedication despute been so busy themselves. the amt of time they spend on their own act is insignificant compared to e time they spend cheoreo n guiding us for our Ran Kan Kan performance. Being so happy for our performance is another thing,another of e emotional support i find difficult to receive nowadays. thinking of them reminds me of johnathon n serene which i had a brief encounter with them while going for few beginner lessons with them. any 1st time students can tell they enjoy salsa a lot n teaching is another way of expressing it out. this's probably e reason y nicole n gary r so into teaching us salsa en sync as well. Alvin is no less admirable too,but in a different way. as our chairperson,he does e admin work n plan e things for us so tat we can concentrate on onli our on stage performance. He constantly comes down for rehearsals with us juz for us to view our progress. we all can sense how sianz he feel abt not been able to join us for e performance,but he will never show signs of been upset over it. instd he alwas encourages us n motivates us to perfrom better,alwas telling us how proud he is of us. It's good tat HAS's demolished,or e sch would not be able to spot pple of such talents n passion to lead e sch clubs n make a difference in e lives of NTU students. oh,btw he is a final yr student anyway.
e pple in salsa en sync (it's not diff to c) r e most expressive bunch of pple among all e CAC performers. They find joy in anything n even a bus ride can be remembered with "scandals". Each of them have their own style n u cannot help but love them. it is no coincidence tat Salsa En Sync sold e moz number of tickets for e JDC,which resulted in a 98% full house. n e support we give one another b4 e performance realli helps n makes us all want to do well as a team.
as for dancing,it is something many of my friends r still amused by me taking it up as i am e slack n relac type hu sleeps 23 hrs a day. but salsa is realli something,n e number of times i feel happy for no reason juz by dancing out e shrines. it juz feels good n i dun noe y. n as one hu dun listen to music,it is also a real challenge for me coz even till now i have trouble listening to e beat of e music. Dota n bridge,i have seen the ugly side of them,but in salsa i'm glad to c none so far. it's almoz too good to be true but then again i am still a noob n will take my own time exploring salsa more e natural way.
I am very sure all this will be e intro of my salsa story. n i think it is a unique one considering we started performing salsa b4 learning e basics n social dancing. i muz make this story e begining n not e end.

JDC-u kan ran away from it

24 march-JDC. my 1st chance to perform in front of so many pple. never b4 have done anything so cultured but there i was preparing for my performance-Ran Kan Kan
JDC's definately worth e money going for onli $12 as there r profesional dancers as well performing tat nite. Aside from salsa,my favourite items were e contemporary dance,chinese dance n e break dance. e break dancers' moves were v physically challenging n cool too. contemporary dance was so emotional tat u could feel e sadness in it,making e song so memorable. e chinese dance,ironicalli, was enjoyed for its rehearsals. at least tat was how i feel becoz of an occurance of one of e lady's hair accessory accidentalli dropping off coz of vigorous body movements n e hair's pony tail was gone leaving e lady a v natural look. at tat pt of time,it was like in e chinese dramas where by e the hair droop down n e emporor started noticing tat specific girl. hence this funny incident,i found amusement in it.
but regarding my own performance,i had a bad feeling b4 e performace actualli. esp when e salsa en sync pple were high while waiting for jdc to start. is like shouldn't we be mentalli preparing ourselves for Ran Kan Kan instd? to make matters worse i had an embarrassing encounter getting caught forgetting to zip my pants after my make up n change of clothes. luckily it was not during e performance itself. it also did not help tat i had this premonition(is tat word correctly used?) tat i had after losing my tooth.tots did creep into my mind of e mistakes possibly made. but i quickly brushed away anymore negative tots.
it was our turn soon n we started walking onto e stage......
all uneasiness n discomfort diminished at once. instd i was laughing inside my heart after hearing a shout "joel jiayu!". tat lightens up everything n reminds us how all this's supposed to be fun. e music starts n we performed.....
i noe this gonna sound dramatic n fairy tale like,but we realli performed the best of all our times we practised. the timing n sharpness n our smiles,it all happened. when it ended, another funny "zai ah,clarance" came from e audience as we walked out of e stage. We were all high after tat n proud of ourselves. it is realli great,esp when our team was onli formed 2 months ago. our salsa shoes were bought recently onli. happy n happy n estatic.
We went on to made use of e intermission break to sneak into e auditorium to watch gary's n nicole's performance coming up soon. watching them perform is realli an inspiration, esp since we r alreadi so high,their act motivated us to do well in future. i was v happy n smiling all e way as i watch them do their moves.
a lot of us went on to Union to celebrate n to chill out. it is there tat i realise i onli noe e performance moves n nuthing else. all social dancing moves i totalli dunno n lost. well at least, i knew tat i have much more to improve on.
Later, shaun's friend actualli offered us a ride back home. i was like cool... we went to geylang for supper b4 they drive us back. something v sweet happen at e car park. it is good to c tat there r singaporeans being so nice. Shaun's friend KC left his car without putting any coupons. but he found e parking coupon on e car with a note on it:someone paid for ur parking coupon;;;; then there was an addess there. tat person probably saved KC from being summoned.
went home n played dota b4 crashing on e bed.

GSS-u r wanted!

i actualli got selected for my gss application to france from 18 june to 13 july. but i juz realise tat it clashes with my NS mobilisation date from 3-6 july. i will have to call e army up n postphone e reservist tml. hopefulli can,or else it is a little wasted
i did had reservations abt going actualli coz i love staying in singapore n used to my slack way of living my life. also,i did not noe anyone else hu is going.(i did not noe rica was going yet) Besides my plans to dota n slasa during e holidays will be held back if i go. But Gss is realli a good opp. n every1's tellling me tat i muz go no matter wat. but i am sure they did not meant awol.
ok c how bah.muz call e army soon. will be cursing in this blog later if they dun allow. n i seldom curse.

Beef Kway Teow vs Tooth

Can u believe it? Fri,i dropped my temporary tooth AGAIN after having fixed it. I think i brushed my teeth too hard n loosen it tat morning. I dropped my tooth at can 13 again while eating beef kway teow. I felt e tooth in my mouth n e 1st thing tat came into my mind was HG, tomolo salsa performance liao,no time to fix it..which means i actualli have to go on stage with e prominent gap in my mouth. I was starting to think tat i am either destined to be a genius or an idiot in salsa for such a thing to happen juz e day b4 e performance.....
I remembered i was so resigned to my tooth dropping out tat i actualli started being grateful tat at least e tooth did not enter into my throat n into my stomach. I began to be calm abt it,becoz there is realli nuthing i can do abt it. is like one of those days in mahjong whereby u throw a red dragon away onli to keep on drawing it again n throwing it away for 2 more times in tat round. u will feel so silly,moz pple i noe actualli curse n scold shit or fuck. but i will alwas express e mild side of me n smile instd when it happens to me n sayang e red dragons i threw away.
I realli hope i wun be writing in this blog anymore abt this incident repeating again.,esp not after my 4.2k operation.

pizza v.s tooth

pizza versus tooth..hu wins?

i found out e answer yesterday.. e pizza won... my temporary tooth came out yesterday after biting e slice of pizza. man... today went to c dr. chu to make it up again.

e receptionist realli chu stunt man.. expected me to come next week for an appointment to do it. i got fustrated n with a rare change of tone ..i repeat,my tooth drop..not next week pls..

i got it done today then. feel so much better. man..i realli wanna settle this thing fast

e 13 wonders(Chan Meng Chuen Raymond)

Yes! here i am writing a mahjong post abt myself finalli. n yup i did e 13 wonders,in great style somemore. although it is not zhi mo like how jospeh did tat time,this one will be more meaningful to me coz i started with onli like 6 tiles.
now tat i have succeeded in doing it,i feel tat i am entitled to describe the requirements to do e process of such a difficult task. e driving factor behind the temptations for the 13 wonders is actualli poverty. u need to have no folds from e flowers or animals so tat one will be motivated to do e 13 wonders. or else it makes no sense to forgo something more practical juz to do it. one also need to have most of e winds n dragons in order to attempt such a stun. Also another thing one muz noe b4 doing such a task is to be sensible. once all one of the req. tiles r all out in e open n e 13 wonders is no longer possible,one should usualli stop trying to reconstruct as he is usualli too slow by then. start throwing e safe tiles n wait for a next time.
let me perhaps describe how i did it while playing with jimmy,glen n regent in glen's room. as i had no folds n one of moz of the dragons n winds,i decided to attempt for it keeping in mind to consider doing half colours of buttons.however,e buttons stopped came too slowly at tat point of time n instead came all e 1s n e 9s. all seemed lost in mid game phase when 3 of the west wind n 2 of e 9 of number came out in e open. it means tat aside from e other factors.i had to take e 25% chance of drawing the west wind. my mind was racing already whether to continue or to start throwing all e safe tiles. however, as no 1 was making above 3 folds at tat point of time i decided to continue n threw out my two 5 of buttons n a 4 of button.
By late game phase,i was still missing the west wind n the 9 of number. the game was also abt to end. by now there was onli 1 more 9 of number n 1 more west wind available for taking. at this pt of time i drawed the west wind! 25% chance n i got it! i then threw out e 5 of bamboo which glen happily pong it n throw out the last 9 of number. the rest is history. 13 wonders have been constructed. Thank u

i have seen while playing:-
13 wonders:2 times
da si xi:1 time

my dota experiences

i will remember e times when i spend with my NS or uni friends going out and they will end up talking about warcraft 3 almoz throughout the sessions. this is wat happens when my circle of friends r mozly guys. I will alwas end up feeling super bored n uninterested,n yet unable to blame them. i mean,wat do u realli expect them to do? it is realli their source of interest,n me as e minority(actualli e onli 1 moz of e times) cannot expect them to accomodate me all e time. "hey does sange stack with this butterfly effect huh?" "bs level 4 can double kill alreadi,let me teach u how" "guys,guess how i use my lycan? haha..u guys will never found out..haha" YAWN! i never cared or intended to play e game coz all computer games seem so degrading at tat point of time.

But one person made me realise e true beauty of such online games. my ex roommate, played dota with a level of commitment n graciousness for his team tat u cannot help but respect e game. you should c e way he use rasta n sets up e kills for his teammates to pounce on. the number of times he rescue his teammates with his foresight to get wards or his tactical disabling..moz pple will actualli run away for their own lives,but my roomate will alwas be there to help out. there was once when i was a novice at using sand king, i was being ganged n was waiting to die once my sand storm expires. another of my teammate(sadly is a good friend of mine somemore) laughed at me n taunt me about my inevitable death. but not tat rasta. instead,with an air of coolness, he rushed over, vodooed one of e opponents,n plant his serpent wards. he was about to even shackle e other hero b4 they had to back. i was then able to run away for dear life back to the fountain. His Qop is also quite dramatic. he realli cr8s terror in his opponents n disallow them to farm. there was a time the sentiniels was returning back to base as a group with one of them in low hp. he went over,blinked rite in e middle of the group n assasinate the weakling with his spells. then like a ninja after completing his mission, he blink away n escape from e group.
Hence my interest in e game grew. Something is seriously wrong when i decided to commit 2 days a week playing dota in usa west bnet. i have been playing reasonably often since. i realise how into the game i was when once i was defending the throne n this ABC went in to my room n started disturbing us in a very offensive manner over some admin stuffs in e real world. At tat point of time,i felt invaded n all anger n bloodlust in e game was reflected onto her.wat happen next is not impt but I am sure any guy hu plays dota long enuff will agree with me tat,regardless of hu is rite or wrong abt e issue, ABC definately picked e wrong time to attack e sensitive issues. When i am defending my throne somemore!!! how attacked i feel at tat point of time. anyway, tat incident caused quite a stir for a week b4 it finalli cooled down. but this will alwas remain in my mind about how my level of emotions i feel for e game.
Anyway,dota while has onli been in my life for less than a year, has been quite a journey indeed. esp when u c my journey from been alwas scolded a noob online. in every game,pple will complain abt my heores,esp e sniper. onli once my teammates actualli found my feeding funny,n tat's onli coz my panda was cute. indeed my panda appeared more cute than its usual image of magical vulnerableness n its fearsome area stun. my panda was more of a roasted bear with its sugar cane to be grinded as a bonus drink.
I almoz wanted to give up. too many times, actualli all e times i dun understand wat is happening in e map. it is not uncommon to find me farming n rite behind me,my opponents were pawning my teammates. in almoz every team battle i will never fail to do something wrong. be it blocking my teammates,to die first in almoz every teambattles,end up attacking creeps instd of e heroes. it does not help tat e opponents will never fail to take advantage of my complete unawareness of e game n gang me. my reflex is juz pure horrible. double kill's like a norm when playing against me.
e turning pt of my interest came in a game whereby i was playing with kenneth in usa west. what made e game so unreasonable is tat there was actualli a player more noob than me ising razor. Kenneth had e misfortune to farm alongside with him n c e razor feed freely,doing nonsense stuffs. at least he had e brains to feed to e towers rather than e heroes. he controlled razor so badly tat e opponents had no chance to last hit him b4 the towers took care of him. n throughout e whole game,e attention was on him. KNN ask him buy boots,u will c him buy 2 boots of elvenskin. i even contribute my bracers to him. We started losing v badly because of him. even kenneth wanted to quit the game. i was e one persuading every1 to stay on n try to win e game. fortunately,e other 2 teammates were not bad. Needless to say,kenneth is alwas e great asset to his team,ever reliable,if not a little too obsessed with denying(i also love denying a lot actualli). hence we all decided to take it seriously n try to turn e game around.
close ot 2hrs later,we started winning e game. my juggernaut by then had sny n mkb n could defeat any of their heroes 1 on 1. kenneth's rasta was on his way to his refresher n was doing an excellent job controlling axe n bone clinck for us to kill. e best thing is tat our dear cutie little razor actualli got one kill!!! man we were celebrating for joy when razor killed someone,i remembered laughing till i cry while playing e game. we eventualli won e game with kenneth's double wards demolishing all e towers n buildings. this game will alwas cr8 an image of juggernaut holding his unneccesarrily overenormous size sword in a jedi style with serpent wards behind me with an rasta's spirit(tat game kenneth keep on dying) pointing forward, getting us all to chiong with perserverance n heart(not e items,u idiot)! till now,this will be my impression of dota even when i switched to more practical heroes like sand king in e later stage.
I could not stop playing after tat. n it realli helps tat kc at tat point of time lied to me that my dota skills are actualli not tat bad.more inspiring battles occured but juz not as inspirational as e eventful one. one more significant battle was with me,e shining light n kc. we were e onli 3 left in sentiniels. i was using enigma,feeding quite a lot due to me first time using him. then by chance i discovered my strengths when i black hole e whole team. even e opposing panda could not split n had to die! i will alwas remember kc n e shining light saying ray... i was like oh no wat have i done wrong again. then they will say n1... yah ray realli n1.i still totalli lost, will say yah not an issue... we manage to hold up e game with juz 3 of us. then when they were pushing top, we suddenly stopped defending n pushed mid instd. n we pushed all e way to e throne,much to e shock of every1. my enigma's pushing apparently is more powerful than i realise. one of those undeserved victories.
However despite my acceleration in my interest,i could not hide my horrible reaction n map sense which i cannot seem to overcome. it was so bad to the point of depressing once i started playing in ntu bnet. ntu bnet has many seasoned players tat one player doing badly will realli affect e whole game. in usa west bnet,there will be so much leavers tat one can afford to play badly n still win,but not here. i tot abt it n decided tat it's not something i can do much abt it immediately. after all,my slow progress in this game is coz of my first time playing such real time strategy games. i even for a point of time tried joining other things which i tot will improve my reaction but i felt to no avail. i concluded tat it is juz something i have to improve slowly n naturalli.
i think i am now an average dota player coz of my recent sudden improvement ironicalli after i took a break from it for like 2 months. i started my winning streak after i found using tidehunter. somehow,i cannot help but win moz of e times when i use tat unimpressive hero. after my obsession with tidehunter,i became better in dota unexpectedly. i owe a lot to alex too,for i am now quite pro with e scorpion. if he had not commented on me to stop using sk n use simpler heroes("sk is juz not for u"),i would not have realli trained my sk to e pt of even noeing all e minor technical details of the hero. oh yah,dota lets me noe how stubborn i am. my first favourite hero was juggernaut mainly coz pple also keep on telling me how lousy juggernaut is.
recently i joined a clan n get to play more drafts. i was pleasantly surprised but i had to admit tat i was playing my sand king very well tat day. a scorpion could not be any more powerful.
i am now trying for more intel built heroes like rasta n holy chen. for any dota players reading my blog,this is my tip for u. in entrepreneurship,pple go for wat will be hot as they try to predict e trend. here,it is obvious tat e game is going towards e direction for a more early game strategies.(much greater incentives for tower destruction,cheaper sentry wards,weaker roshan with ageis as a reward!) hence e need to learn early game heroes. as one hu love melee heroes,this will be a great disadv for me,hence i muz change.
ok bah think next time perhaps i will write a blog abt e way i play some of my heroes. it will be fun. meanwhile, my dota journey continues...

year of e pig

man...realli neglect my blog for some time man.. guess when one was in tat down period for a while,one wun realli bother to write or even think abt anything else.

but now reflecting on wat i have not written,i realise how many things have happened n how things have turn for e better. While my bridge life has been neglected, my other aspects of life seems to have taken for e better. all e small small little things which gave me back the confidence to even face e world once again after a severe loss of even self esteem of my academic grades. Even my bridge experiences while been more slack, has some very interesting experiences which actualli make my life more eventful n enjoyable. i recently got to play with different people n i realise the effects of different styles of playing. Hopefully,easter congress,i will be able to squeeze time to play with them.

i also found a new source of entertainment in life:salsa. salsa is realli cool,as long as it does not make u feel silly at times when u cannot remember e steps in time(which for me is moz of e time). I was realli flattered tat i make it to the ntu salsa en sync performance team tat day. the trial had a shortage of participants;one which i was secretly pleased about. i hence made it to be able to perform on stage. This is a far cry from what i expected from myself. I wanted to learn dancing mainly to improve my body reactions in dota n to try something new. to commit to this level was something i actualli never expected. I never achieved my target(i still fumble in dota team battles), but it was something i never complained. in my desire to achieve something,i have explored another side of me n experienced joy beyong explaination.

i also have been playing mahjong on average five rounds a week. i am no longer e noob raymond hu dun even know when i have gamed or rely mainly on flowers n animals to win my tiles.

as for dota,haha i recently was asked to join an emo clan. playing draft is real cool. i get to understand e important heroes better n it realli maximises the joy of dota. my love for teamwork n saving teammates beyond logic has been discovered n could onli happen in draft. e pleasant surprise is tat i am not realli lagging n not totally inferior compared to my clan mates in my dota skills. i am currently training my sand king,rasta and holy chen. playing holy chen is realli a nitemare n i hope i can overcome the barrier.

erm...ok i guess i cannot realli explain all this happenings in such a post. i will indirectly have posts of my dota n salsa experiences soon..

but basically,this is realli e yr of e pig n i can feel it! a lot of things r working out for me.i hope studies will be better too. oink oink