well yesterday was supposed to be the Tree Top Walk, as part of the HLS week. as luck would have it though, the skies opened (cue playing of Hilary Duff's "Come Clean": Let the Rain Fall Down..) and thus even before the bus reached MacRitchie, instructions were relayed to drop us at AMK Stn instead haha. woot woot. released at what? 3pm thereabouts. went to shoot some KPool. beat zk, beat yew pang, ass raped daniel BUT lost thrice in a row to edward. yeesh, each time by like one ball. argharghargh. haha not too bad i suppose, having not pooled in a rather long time. i reckon i must credit luke josh zh etc for having dragged me to shoot pool way back in uhh hmm sec4 i think. either that or j1, its all kind fuzzy now.
went to meet up with debbie for dinner after that. growl, stupid traffic jam caused me to be late. ate at mac, and apparently she never knew that they had sweet and sour sauce dips haha. well i suppose they never really did advertise that or anything. chatted for like 2 hours. not bad at all. it's like what we discussed, we all have chemistry with certain ppl and there are bound to be others where that's really lacking. took a little walk over to Borders' afterwards, which surprisingly was still open and till 11pm even. she din manage to find anything though. so we just headed home after. was nice catching up. shall attempt to find other ppl in the near future.
hmm on a totally non-related issue.. i just felt like ending my post with "Ya Savvy?"
yes the workplan seminar is finally over. been OTing for like the past week, including going back on saturday just to ensure that basically there isnt any fubar. woah been working hard if i do say so myself. so anyway everything went really smoothly. ahh can finally relax a little bit. realised i havent even had the time to conitnue watching my Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre (sounds weird in english). sigh back to work tmr!
oh yeah also been reading this book A Year in the Merde. funny as hell haha. check it out.
Luna Moonfang (Level 25 Moon Rider)
-Boots of Travel
-Satanic
-The Butterfly
-Bracer
-Ring of Regeneration
-Kelen's Dagger of Escape
Creeps Killed: 303
Heroes Killed: 19
after reading that a/m descript, in a word of fairness, please tell me if i deserved to lose? i can already hear your resounding NO! as im here blogging. thanks for the empathy. such is life. pretty much flawlessly executed all my combos as stuff. honestly speaking, if i were to give myself a rating out of 10, it would be like 9.5... a round 10 is tempting but i dont deny that i executed a couple of misplaced blinks. now dont get me wrong. im not saying that 9.5/10 is a scale of absolute skill. no no. on the contrary, im referring to that figure being the embodiment of perhaps a best game that i am capable of. i pretty much dont have much misgivings since well i've done all i can. but Man is fallible and like others, obviously id prefer to have some measure of success as reward for the hardwork. which brings me to the disappointment of losing that game. without coming across as arrogant, i shall pin the blame on the absolute buffoonery of the Shadow Shaman. let's put it this way. i cast Eclipse more times than he cast Shackle. the late game ownage synonymous with a N'aix never came. to the point that even with Treads and S/Y, a KoTL with Boots could still escape. Yes i hear ya. you're taken aback too. dumbfounded even by this revelation. as for the DP, well cant expect much in a late game yeah? oh yes i neglected to mention that we were one man down. but that's hardly the point isnt it. i have no doubt in my mind that if only the SS was well played, the tables could easily have turned.
will tomorrow (or actually it's 2am so technically it's today) offer better game prospects. well one can only hope. well guess it's about that time of the night when one seeks the solace of the bed and pillow. yes i should.
just finished playing 2 dota games. or shall i be precise, i totally quit 2 dota games. unashamedly i might add. and those are 2 prime examples of why i gave up weekday dota for quite awhile - lack of competent teammates. at least when i play with my friends i have a gauge of how they're gonna fare. plus when u play with friends at worst you'll get annoyed with them, but never to the extent of cursing their ancestors and descendants :D and that, of course, was said in jest. i firmly believe that if you're gonne swear at someone, u gotta at least have some principles. i still remember joel tay telling me in secondary sch, that you may make fun of a person's anything save for his parents and his name, both of which he has no control over. well i take it slightly further. i make sure that when i DO swear at someone, it's directed solely at the victim/perpetrator and never at his relations haha. that's most unbecoming i feel. afterall the stimulus for said cursing if due to your ineptitude, your incompetence, your utter buffoonery no?
hmm was reading the survey in the straits times regarding swearing in singapore nowadays. apparently it's on the rise. what bullshit. swearing on the rise?! swearing more condoned?! ain't happening damn it! what the hell! okok that was lame, but yeah. i dunno i guess they should've taken the survey one step further ya know? and ask what kind of company they're with when they swear. well i know for a fact that guys definitely swear around other guys. and perhaps girls among themselves as well. but as far as i know, guys and girls generally dont swear in front of each other. that's just kinda wrong isnt it. now don't get me wrong, i'm not even implying a hint of pretentiousness here. what im driving at is merely this: swearing is simply another form of expression. as is singlish. as is slang. for example would u go on and on with the la's leh's and lor's in say, a one to one conversation with an overseas friend? would u use colloquial (sp? anyway thanks mr perrin for that particular word taught haha) phrases like "talk cock" "dun play play" etc if say u were giving a speech to the nation? ok perhaps u would for effect, but would u pepper ur speech with it? i'm assuming that, like me, ur answer to those questions posed above is "no".
PS. On a side note, does SHE totally rock or what. i love their songs. granted not all of them but those that make the cut are vunderful!
sigh watched the last episode of Shen Yi Xia Lu on channel 8 jsut now. actually it's a pretty sucky show haha. but hey there's alyssia chia so it's all good. din know wat the heck the ending was about though. maybe it was supposed to be a cliffhanger. or maybe it was just lame, im not too sure. but anyways i guess im kinda sad that its over, altho i must admit, it's one of the draggiest shows i've ever seen. so was channel surfing between that an MSU on channel 5. i was basically rooting for jade seah. i mean she looks good enough but more importantly i was so impressed with their wit and language skills. it's not everyday u get a multi-talented contest hello, and the winner goes to someone (in my view) much less deserving, not to mention not as good looking. anyways im perspiring like crazy atm, gonna stay awake for the man utd game later. cmon ya red devil buggers, don't disappoint!
so anyway i did promise that i would blog about the Campus Superstar finale. i was really pleasantly surprised by the standard of well, some, of the contestants. i mean i thought it was a lame show since well heck students cant be all THAT good if even open categories, like its predecessor Proj Superstar, wasnt completely impressive. the show totally vindicated itself. i mean the contestants sang very contemporary songs and it was very easy to appreciate. i get really fed up when other competition contestants sing challenging (read: hard to understand/appreciate) songs to impress. i mean if the layman like me cant understand whats the point dude. was really impressed with teresa and ok zhiyang too, i'll grudgingly admit. totally enjoyed the 2nd part of the show where it was down to the both of them. my fave section was definitely the duets. haha teresa was staring wide-eyed at junyang the whole time like "wow i cant believe he's singing with me!". i mean im not a girl, i wouldnt know the effect he has on girls but he definitely doesnt seem to be lacking in the looks department so.. anyways they were holding hands throughout the song and i was thinking no freaking way zhiyang is gonna top that. amazingly he did. i doubt anyone will forget a particular scene anytime soon. that is: the scene where sin huey twirled into his arms. i was aghast. was like "woah, how cool is that". and i also noted that after he won, the girls couldnt wait to go hug him and stuff. haha i'll bet he enjoyed that. well he should, cos i think he'll remb that for life.
anyway watching the finale has spurred on my interest in chinese music haha. been uhmmm obtaining new songs lately haha. schweet
hmm had like the weirdest dream whilst doing idoc duty on sunday haha. i mean i think i had that dream during my afternoon nap but i dunno, time always seems to get a bit fuzzy in dreamland shrug.
so anyway this is how it goes - i've just boarded a bus right? so i head on to the upper deck since there are usually more seats there. turns out im right and there are only like a handful of people on the upper deck. so i'm about to sit down when i notice "holy shit! that's Hebe sitting there all by herself" now to non-listeners of chinese music, she's one third of the immensely popular (and talented) female pop trio S.H.E. so being a huge fan (of her in particular) i'm totally starstruck and proceed to sit in the seats directly in front of her. and then i turn around and explain that im a huge fan and i would be truly honoured if she would just sign in my autograph book. funny, last i checked im not david blaine nor criss angel so i dunno how i produced a book from nowhere for her to sign. i dont carry such books around in real life!!!! right moving on: i was ecstatic when she not only signed but wrote like a whole page worth of comments and stuff. here's the thing though, i was so eager to talk to her in r/l that i didnt take a second glance at her comments and just shoved them in my bag. oddly enough i remember absolutely nothing of the conversation. i only remember that when she was getting down at her stop, i rushed down after her and i remember the exact words i said "wait! please can i have ur handphone number or something so i can contact you again? no wait, u cant give it to me. if it gets out ur fans will hound u to no end. can i have ur email address instead? argh cant either because if it leaks out ur fans will spam you also! oh no oh no oh no! how do i contact you then??" to which she just smiled really sweetly and... I FREAKING WOKE UP! ARGHARHSADHFASHAHSFHARGHARGHARGH!
so basically not only did i not figure out how to contact her again (albeit in dreamland) but i never did get to read her comments in the "autograph book" either. im horrified. so tell me, is that a totally weird dream or wat. im not so concerned about the person in it (i mean yeah ok Hebe, sure, but it couldve been anyone else as far as im concerned) but more so the "starstruckedness" for lack of better word. i was just doing some thinking and all. and i was like "dang i sure would like to personally know someone great" by great i mean in terms of achievements and potential, and i dont mean academically. i must quickly add that this sudden desire doesnt stem from me wanting to freeload or anything like that, heavens no. i would very much want to look up to that person and marvel at how fortunate i am to cross paths with one destined to perform great things in life. i'd also like to learn as much as possible from him/her and get an idea of their perception of life and stuff since they're gonna be great (overused in this post, so kill me). i guess this stems from my knowing jeric. i mean knowing he's the programmer of x-x-x-x-x-x and that hes gonna go overseas to pursue his dream of x-x-x-x-x-x-x, x-x-x-x-x-x and x-x-x-x-x-x just makes me slack-jawed with awe. and he's really humble too. i truly admire his gifts and have absolutely no jealously whatsoever. haha i cant figure whats up with my thoughts nowadays.
ah well. gotta go sleep before i become like the walking dead tmr! oh yes tmr i shall remb to blog abt campus superstar finale. which also happens to be the only episode of the whole competition that i saw heh.
fwah. guard duty on friday and idoc duty on sunday. supah dupah short weekend this week ergg. guard duty wasnt as bad as i expected, but heeded zk's advice to sleep on my bag rather than the pillows which are supposedly dirty. the lights were off so i couldnt tell haha. anyways pretty much spent my time today watching yi tian tu long ji (the alyssa chia and gao yuanyuan version hehe). played very little dota really. owned with zh, ter and sw. oh yes was watching soccer, and yay my score of man utd to win 2-1 was spot on. wooo. breakfast shall be sponsored by pools for a little while haha. ah well may go watch another episode before going for duty in a couple of hours.
happy belated april fools day!
