Right now, I'm considering of doing something of a fair trade- for my two sisters' sake.
One of them will enter her big high-school-leaving-exams tomorrow. (She's studying right now - more like getting a whole load of Math ravings from my elder sis.)
The other one is going to enter her big junior-college-leaving-exams a week from now. (She's the one doing the raving.)
Both have the same reaction, even though they're sniggering at each other and gaping at all the careless mistakes - th
Jamiroquai is some old band that has risen from the dead. No, I'd say that of the band if it hadn't been for a funk-infused classmate who is spreading the Jamiroquai-love around the class.
And it was infectious.
With an outspoken singer (Jay Kay, with) who had vibes and hats to match his eccentric style on stage and a grooving band, it had lived through the late 1990s till now. Their style is all about groove - and really, it is their style that has remarkably kept going.
And, out of b
When my mother invited her visiting friends from the U.S. to a seafood dinner, I couldn't let the chance of having something different for dinner pass me by.
The seafood was great - it was a pity that there was no fish.
However, they did have wine.
Now, drinking isn't good, but wine is something different. I may have sworn myself to stay off alcohol, but it didn't mean that I was curious about it.
And I was with parents - that meant that it'll be safe.
My mother allowed me - s
I'm toying with the idea to start replacing some of the hardware on my laptop, maybe even software if I feel like it.
Currently, my laptop is - to quote from friends - the slowest they've seen. They claim that even dragging the mouse across the screen showed a lag in the computer's speed.
I then started the disk cleaning, defragmentation, and moved surprisingly old and unused files to an external hard drive. I had cleared up the computer to get it from a meagre 7% to 22% free disk space.
Imagine a mocking bird in the snowy woods mocking at a wolf that led a dying pack, and the wolf heeds it and drives itself without rest till it collapses.
I just realised that this situation could very-well happen in my newly-formed group.
We have a really fun assignment lined up for us - we're going to make our own MTV. An original song from our previous assignment will be used as the MTV's main idea, and then the video is slapped on top of it. Duh.
Our group was planned as it was, w
Ironically, I'm not referring to the little clownfish that everyone adores, but the song by goth-metal band Nightwish (And, for those in the know, before they changed their lead singer). I can also be referring to the fish.
The holidays are coming to an end. I look forward to school and, ironically, work. I want a nice load of assignments to busy myself with, instead of lying on my bed and letting my RPG game run on autopilot. I don't even touch the game anymore.
And to think that this wa
So, I came back from USA. Old news - maybe not to those who haven't me back (in black) at the Epics.
But, I feel like some memories would be nice to share:
- Down at the front of the infamous Kodak Theatre, 'Johh Hancock' was in full swing of production, with its main actor right in the limelight - and attending to the crowd of screaming fan girls and I do exclude myself from that fray.
But, I did see Will Smith - in the flesh.
- We visited Apple's Campus - the mothership of everythi
The performance went all-right. The mistakes I made weren't too obvious, thank goodness. The teacher-singer I had enlisted as my partner in crime did a splendid rendition of 'Girl From Ipanema' to 'Boy From Ipanema' in English and Portugese.
But, that aside, I'm heading to the US on Monday - and arriving on Northwest-American soil on Monday. No thanks to the Greenwich line and the Median line (My geography is rusty), I may suffer from serious jetlag when I return (next Wednesday), and I fores
I was sick of having canned or prepared food at home. I was opening packets of things to eat, and some of them did not taste so great.
So I decided to try something cooked from scratch - something that every Chinese-bred Asian should be able to cook: fried rice.
Don't start jumping yet. I realised how tough it was to make it. I knew that my grandmother was the absolute head of the cooking matters of home, granted with years of expertise and much more of experience. Her fried rice is strang
The idiosyncratic mannerism of nail-biting often means that the person doing this dirty act is either nervous or has a bad habit to kick. (I'm not in any way being nasty to Dr. Bionicle - He is breaking the habit. Go go!)
I'm nervous. There's a private function I'm to perform at, next (or this) Friday! Egads and eek, and the night's repertoire is still slightly flawed. I've been drilling - but to a point of exhaustion. I realised this, of course, and took a break. I don't know when I'll get b
When my little sister came into the room at 9pm, my twin and I noted that she was still in her school uniform.
She had not gone for her daily shower.
My twin was absolutely nit-picky about that. The surrogate mother of the house ordered the little grasshopper to make a move.
The little grasshopper continued to watch me play my MMORPG.
So, Twin came to me and she decided that we two should take up our duties as Elder Sisters to full responsibility - and get her to the bathroom.
W
... would be one of the most cruel jokes to play.
Description - one of the most important tools to the writer, and one of the toughest to wield. This is where your style is defined, whether you sit with simple writing, or immerse yourself with steepled, yet brief poems.
I realised that, while writing the next chapters to my fictions, that description was starting to elude me. It was nastily playing tricks with me.
So I stepped back and contemplated.
It's easy to use description whe
This is going to be patriotic, but it's necessary, IMO.
At least two centuries ago, a small island in the South China Sea was found.
Fast forward to the twentieth century, and the island has grown. It gained independence, like how the United States of America had the Declaration of Independence signed and recognised.
Fast forward 42 years from its independence, and you'd find that Singapore is thriving as a successful world hub in the year 2007.
So, what I really mean to say is:
Yes, there's a webpage talking about database problems instead of the epic threads.
Oh no - will BZPower go down for another site maintainence?
I'll have nothing else to do if that happens... well.... I discount school from this topic, but no other places on the Net to really sink my teeth into - other than my RPG.
Oh yes, my RPG.
Should I show a screenshot? A few?
This is one of the latest, maybe the newest, RPGs that a local telecommunications company bought regional license
That was the challenge given to me, and it was tough.
Y'see, I have my next school assessment coming up: a public performance.
Yep. Right. Next Wednesday.
A public performance.
The hub of the arts in this country (look up the Esplanade if you're interested in depth-knowledge) had a conveniently-placed cafe in the library, and it had conveniently provided a little stage, complete with a digital piano.
When our group of merry students made a trip to that library to handle our assign
To cut the long story short, someone found my wallet, and I'll get it back - hopefully - by tomorrow! A little girl found it and innocently took it home and passed it to her mummy.
D'aww.
The evil laugh.
For I have nothing better to analyze.
Some people can do it. Some people can't. Some people love to do it. Some people get annoyed by it.
It's utilized in the world of fandoms and fiction commonly. I've yet to see Bionicle characters (in the books) do it.
I've seen it being done in fanfiction a lot, though. A really rotten villain would be brought down for his evil laugh - and choking/coughing halfway in its execution.
I beg all writers who read this not to do that
We must celebrate all the good news, y'know, instead of the morbid mentality we have of being attracted to any bad news that occur.
First on the list is the Transforming Sound (from the original Transformers cartoons) that I received from my friend as a ringtone. As Nokia goes, if you leave the phone in its 'General' profile, it shall make noise.
That happened when someone quite wisely sent me an SMS during class time. I had left the phone in 'General' mode.
Cue in the shock and laugh
Lord Survourlourde still hates me.
This is my sixth attempt, I think, to post up a blog post. And as you may've seen, I double-posted on the last round.
The server renewal is a good thing - but it is not a good thing for my account.
That, and I can't send PMs out.
Nasty, this. Nasty.
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I'm going nuts. BZP's bugs aren't helping.
Today, I sat down and thought for a bit while eating lunch. Good friend was doing assignments in the studio, so I was alone for the while.
And it was a good time to mentally prepare myself for a long while's worth of havoc.
A rather major assignment is due at the end of this week, one is going to be presented this week, one really really big one is due in three weeks and it's still in the works...
Do I really have any other life than an a
Music Theory is a chore
It's way much worse than a bore
To read each note in the score
Like staring at ants on the wall (and you can't squish 'em)
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Don't ask. Ask my lecturer who was smart enough to load us all with music theory exercises. With the current assignments that are bearing us down, this one is the heaviest and most urgent for now.
But... but... music theory! Egads, you don't know how painful it is until you sit down for one hour straight just to work on it - and only be an
I was absent for a bit, but I've got good reason!
It seems like it's been a spate of sick-season over here. The dengue scare alert is up in code red, and my grandma got it. She's still recovering, but at least she's back from the hospital.
A day after she got warded, my uncle was found with a blood clot and was hospitalized too - one ward away from her. He has returned home too.
And back at home ground, my puppy Lucky ate something that didn't agree with him - don't know what - and he g
