Wednesday, May 27, 2009

The 13 Wonders ( Glen Lin )

23th may--i shoot the 2nd red dragon to glen in his house tat day for his 13th wonders... super fast,, it was only e beginning of e mid stage of e round.. n it was supposed to be super safe.. jaws went wide open when i saw it.. somemore,is i shoot one! sianz lah
but it certainly brought b memories of how i did my 13th wonders also.. n it was glen also who gave me e 13th wonder! so it was like... e return of e favour... man...
e best thing was... he already announced to e whole table he was doing e 13th wonders.. n he still did it so fast.. he started with i think 8/9 tiles formed only...
still won a bit from tat nite though.. but oh man, wat a nite..luckily, i did not shoot one bamboo.. i starting to be scared of feeding e one bamboo.. has happened a few times.

naturally,oh yeah

yes,yes,yes..i passed..which means i finally graduated...oh oh oh yeah.. sweat... e last few nites in e last few weeks... man they were a nightmare..sleepless nites cannot sleep n worry abt results... n to finally c e wonderful remarks of graduation... phew.. shout for joy, no more studying!
erm, a horrendous recap of my uni days..
came in youthful n energetic.. not ever wanting to study.. so playful, n never worry abt exams or quizes till e day b4.. naturally,did not do well.. but passed..
first 2 yrs was spent as an enthusiast learning contract bridge, naturally,i won a lot of prizes n awards externally n internally.. but wat mattered was not abt bridge ..it was e learning process. after all, i have already quit bridge. one of my bridge comrade went on to be a top notched national player in bridge. it really showed how passion can drive wonders n energy into a person.
3rd yr onwards, my results went downhill all e way. it was a combination of e tough modules, picking up of new things like mahjong, salsa n dota. performing for ntu salsa en snyc was actually e most fun times in ntu life. dota was fun too, but it turned out to be only a foundation, as it was ironically outside ntu where i found my dota buddies who really have this affinity of winning,no matter wat. mahjong... well,i seemed to have a flair for e game. n every nite, even during exam days, play like nobody's business... i did e 13 wonders in hall 16 too.. oh yeah. but actually, learning mahjong was super meaningful becoz... i always perceived mahjong to be something out of my league.. want play mj muz speak crudely n a bit ah beng tat kind. also, i get to c how fast i learn mind games, using e same approach i have been adopting towards bridge e past 2 yrs
so u can imagine, a uni life of play play n play.. n oh yah.. sleep, n more play,. n watever time i have, take a nap. naturally, i failed modules after modules..sometimes i smile even when i c e results.. chemistry n computing was e ultimate.. i took each subjects 5/6 times b4 passing.
oh yah,did i forget to tell u, i also went to Paris for GSS programme. awesome... who says uni cannot be fun... only e results viewing is not fun.
Final year, woke up.. start studying hard.. barely passed most of e subjects.. but still pass.. e most scary is my FYP. i did not even do my fyp progress report,which constituted ard 25% of e final marks. e fyp report i handed up was with full of disapproval from my prof n moderator too. i had to redo e fyp report within a few days, n tat was only through luck tat i got to even redo.. i think, had i not redo,i would have stayed b one more sem for fyp report alone.
This is one of e worst reports i have seen so far..honestly. e moderator said to me on e day of presentation. It is not of university standard at all!-he continues.. this 2 statements will always remain in my mind..
well ok lah.. now everything happy happy le.. kai kai xin xin, it is abt time to pursue my dreams.
....Naturally

happiness

YOU HAVE COMPLETED THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING (CIVIL) WITH A MINOR IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

exam stress

Raymond,
If u ever fail any subjects n dun graduate,e whole world will look down on urself,i will also look down on myself. n papa n mummy will cry nonstop. pls sucide if u choose not to study.
Silent Passion

eye diseases

my rite eye keep on getting swollen.. it sucks.. it affected my studies,my fyp..n best,it gave me an excuse not to study.
went to hospital after visiting private doctors 3 times.. it was a good move.. not that it really helped more.. but cheaper.. n... omg.. i got a sweet doctor to look after my eye.. she will go..look at my ear..look at my ear..come..come. while she inspects or cleans up my eye tenderly..
surgery was another issue. it was then i realised how mcp i am..i at tat point of time wished my doctor was a man,n when she injected needles into my eye lids.i really was scared to e max of any mistakes.. i keep on imagining her making mistakes,poking into my eye, n say oh oh,so sorry..
dota stopped,.. i miss frenchfries,babu singh, mango so much.. n of coz playing with a team makes winning so much more fun.. oh yah.. no such thing as lose,when i play with either mango's or french fries team..
oh well.. my eye is better now.. but 2 times swollen is no joke.. i played a bit of l4d recently.. i think i looked like e smoker when my rite eye is swollen.. imagine every 30s,tears will come out of my eye,as it is suffering..

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

encounter with e lower class pple

if u watch jack neo shows,u will alwas see characters deceiving themselves with v funny remarks or logic. like for eg. mark's theory of winning in 4D..u either win or u lose.. 50-50%..
i alwas tot all these r juz in shows..for laughter,humour or sacarsm.. but i actually encountered a few jack neo's movie scenarios recently..

eg,last wed,i went out with chee wee for thai dinner plus a movie..thai food was nice,but anyway,later we went to watch marley n me movie. e cinema was almoz empty with juz a few pple watching a relative old movie on a weekday. me n chee wee juz watched e show, n at most commented on e story plot once in a while. Then got this mad guy, alone n mad looking(actually,later he was really mad). he was sitting directly in front of me,n he suddenly stand up n shouted abt us needing to keep quiet in e movie.. n we were hardly talking at all! stunned for a few seconds..then i commented v loudly"CRAZY fellow".. v irritating sound of crazy highly emphasised,ne h got mad! which was honestly wat i wanted. he stared at me while i smiled at him,awaiting for him to deliver his first punch b4 i start kicking him,but to my dissapointment,he did not fight. instd, he sat on top of e chair cushionn purposely block my view. i pushed him to e ground n we started argueing abt who is e one been kuai lan..tat was e exact words used...kuai lan.. chee wee was like trying pacify e situation,while e calm me was calm but yet trying to aggrevate e situation. (btw,calm does not mean smart). chee wee in e end walked to another sit away from him,but i refused to sit anywhere else. i purposely coughed v heavily at his hair,which provoked more quarrels..
haiz..marley n me is a good show,n v touching.. but i guess both of us(not talking abt chee wee) really spoiled e whole show's atmosphere. but it is his fault,i merely defended my pride n class.. no way was a mad man going to have e last laugh at me.. mad laugh then he win..
marley n me is really a good show.. i like it a lot.. esp e dog,he really relates to how deeply dogs have immersed into my family's lifestyle. honestly rite, i am nice to pple,but i never trust human beings. family aside,my dogs r my most trust worthy friends tat i will trust n noe they will never want to harm me for selfish gains.
another encounter..but not so exciting.. i was taking cab from home to ntu,n throughout e 45 mins rite,e taxi driver kept on complaining abt how bad sg government is.. n i can tell he is those ah seng in e past,one of e more senior chief gangsters also got. anyway,he was convincing me abt how stupid sg citizens r to vote for e gov. juz for e sake of economic stability,which turned out to be so bad. i was like telling him abt how sg is safer than other countries which is our strong point,n he start telling me tat sg is safe only coz we literally pay for the lights n safety measures...oh man..so lame.. then nvm..i start convincing him tat citizens should vote for PAP n only consider other parties if they proved to be reasonable parties. u noe wat he tell me?? i try to recall e conversation...
"this sg pple,dunnoe how to think one..simple probability also dunno how to count..still think they so smart..
...ok i ask u.. wat is e probability a political party is better than PAP?"
i replied.."low..they r not exactly v active now except for when there are.."
he interrupts "wrong! tat is y gov brain wash u all till simple maths also dunno how to count....e chances is 33%!!!!'..."
he continues"there is a 33% chance any party is better than our gov,33% chance it is e same,33% chance it is worse!"

OMG.. i really heard such logic from my own encounters.. i cannot believe it.. wat has my nation turned into.. there is a taxi driver with such logic, and an encounter with a madman in a cinema...
worse..wat have i turned into.....

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Tribute to my favourite Dota hero:Yurnero the Juggernaut

this story is modified from my fantasies when i first play dota n was obsessed with juggernaut's omnislash n thought perserverance was a godly item. needless to say,my juggernaut went round e map looking for e item perserverance n got slaughtered many times,b4 i learnt how to get perserverance,b4 boots...i love juggernaut a lot.i really do.. even when my friends told me how a beginner should not use such heroes,i did not mind, as long as i was rewarded with getting to perform e OM-NI_SLASH! ladies n gentlemen, welcome to my world of juggernauts..



Once upon a time,in a small northen village of Kalimdor,a baby juggernaut was born. He was looked after by his grandparents KOTL and CM who loved him very much n took great care of him. He was called Yurnero,soon to be known as e greatest hero of all times.
It was at this time whereby scourge mages were often sent by the Lich King to haunt the villagers for protection fees. Yurnero at the tender age of one,already learnt the art of spinning without been affected by spells and chased them away. The mages tired out eventually after they realised Yurnero had unlimited mana spinning thanks to his grandparents. Even the loan shark leader DP could not handle him n had to run away with her magical bats.
The lich king was angered tat the sentinels dared to defy his enforced laws and sent his best assasin SA and hired his contracted bounty hunter BH to hunt him down. Young Yurnero could not handle them and was cluelessly spinning at the wrong places,while been tactically backstabbed. Fortune was on his side as he became mysteriously invisible in e forest and thus managed to escape. To date,noone ever could solve e mystery y he became invisible suddenly near the trees.
Yurnero,injured and vulnerable,sought solace at his uncle's tarvern. His uncle AM was a v nice blind man who was one of e elite guards of e sentinels at its peak b4 e dark times. Yurnero asked:"Uncle AM,y is it tat i cannot c my enemies which are haunting me? how can i see better?" Uncle AM replied:"erm,let me think how can this old one help.. e problem with u,young Yurnero is tat u see too much,n feel too little. fighting a war is never abt fighting ur opps,it's abt feeling urself and understanding ur surroundings to e peak of perfection...Only then,can u feel e air n feel e foreign matters in e air around u" Uncle AM then took out a gem n gave the juggernaut intensive training with it. By the end of 2 months, young Yurnero finally learnt how to sense e disturbance in e force around him,n trusted his fighting skills totally on his instincts n his essense.
The jug went b n sought revenge on BH n SA. They were totally dominated by him n were defenceless. BH n SA went b to e Lich King n complained:"My Lord,it is not fair.We r most valued for our invisibility,and yet, this youngster juz c through us like water.i am sorry,but we cannot be of service to u anymore,now tat we have lost our invisibility."
e Lich King was infuriated and sent his top henchman the SK. SK was powerful because he had 2 lives n his 2nd life usually will kill any opps who dared stand in his way. yurnero got a shock when SK merely revived from his spin. Yurnero had to cool down n started retreating..However,SK chased him for 3 days n the jug was cornered in e corner of e map.Yurnero,then a teenager recalled his trainings in his early days,whereby he had to sit down at e fountain n do nothing but meditate. it was at this hour of need,tat he finally understood wat his trainings were for-to do nothing is so tat he will not be reliant on his spins,but rather fighting with his own skills n beliefs. Having achieved enlightenment,he closed his eyes n do wat his mediation over e years guide him to do wat he excels best...it was e OM-NI-SLASH! with tat, e 3 hit combo killed SK's 2 lives. Jug taunted SK n said" 3 is better than 2! u r doomed.." SK then said"u will not kill me pls..i am your father..." SK then took out his mask,n jug realised he was e man who used to play with him when he was young. Tears flowed out,n SK took e chance to escape.
Our dear jug was not naive. He knew SK has been mind altered n will still came b for him. He hence practised on his new SENSATIONAL omnislash.Jug was a fast learner n soon increased his omni to a 5 hit combo. Meanwhile,SK went to farm for a weapon called MANTA. with tat,SK planned to have 6(3x2) images to counter jug's 5 hit combo. SK eventually hunted jug down,but he got defeated again..OM-huat-NI-huat-SLASH!..Jug screamed in victory"while 6 is more than 5,5 is more than 4! Manta has cool down..ur ignorance will be ur downfall.." With tat,e evil SK was perished.
Jug was not fast enough though,to stop a droid from sliding in n stealing e MANTA b4 teleporting away. e droid was later known to be Tinker,n it created history by defeating one of e wildest monsters called Roshan n claimed e ageis. Tinker was programmed by e Lich King to hunt down jug. This time,jug gave up hope for Tinker had 6 images this time,as a robot has no cooldown. Jug,in defeat,went into isolation for years.
Fortunately for e sentinels,our hero stumbled onto a secret shop. Next to e billard place,there was a lanshop. yurnero took up IT courses and,with the help of technology, mastered his omni-slash to the fullest! he has perfected hsi omnislash to a 7 hit combo! During e course, he also fell in love with the secret shop sales lady,lina and they got married. Lina loved him v much too,n gave him a butterfly pin.
Enthusiastically,our now adult Yurnero went b n chased Tinker away from e village. E villagers cheered in joy,for their saviour the juggernaut king has returned! Yurnero's 7 hit combo was juz enought to defeat e roshan slayer. huat-OM-huat-NI-huat-SLASH-huat! e villagers celebrated in joy at their release,but yurnero was not satisfied. He wanted the scourge to leave e village once n for all.
However,reality is tat age has caught up with our no longer young hero here,n his meditation has also let him noe of his limits of his powers. The lich king was truely invincible,for he has 9 lives. But heroes r defined not by their powers,but by their character and their love for their nation. Yurnero, with the most threatening but calm voice he can master, hissed to e Lich King:"Dreaded enemy,e time has come,my omni slash is boundless in powers n has grown more since e slay of e TINKER. i challenge u to mortal combat one on one! come here now with ur 9 lives!"
The Lich King laughed,n laughed n laughed for a long time,then stared at jug, Yurnero was not affected n continued to smile sweetly at the scourge war lord. The lich king,suddenly with disguise did something he never did b4.....
the Lich King(level 25) has left the realm of Kalimdor.