100 and counting

Right. So the reason I haven't updated this blog for a while, is mainly because this will be the 100th post on the blog and I wanted to make it substantial. Not another 2 liner, and definitely not something that confuses people. (Right Dim?)

So here we go.

If tomorrow comes around, it'll be 3 weeks till I leave. There's one question that I've fielded that tends to leave me a bit lost for words. Its nothing complicated really. "So, how do you feel?" is a question that leaves me speechless without fail. How do I feel? There are so many emotions that come along with leaving your adopted country, friends, and family and going off alone into the unknown that I don't know where to begin answering that one. So I decided I'll be nice, and try to tabulate a list here of the emotions.

1) Excited. No duh. I'm going to USA! For college! Land of the Free! ZOMG. Well yea, apart from sounding like a 16-year old air-head bimbo that's the simplest emotion to talk about. And even though I am going for schooling the fact remains that I'll be doing something that I really am interested in. No need to go and sit through double economics and what not again just because I HAVE to do it. The freedom that's provided in US colleges has me quite excited about the classes and courses that I can/will take through my 3 years. So yea, you can say I'm quite pumped about it.

2) Nervous. Another easy one. Its true that my dad will be there with me for the first 2 weeks, and this will help me settle down much easier. But the fact remains that soon I'm going to be alone, making my decisions on my own. And knowing how much of a lazy ass I can be, you can say that its prospects of doing everything independently does seem daunting to me.

3) Melancholic. Wow, listing the emotions does make it a lot easier to explain. I'm going to be 12 (or 13, during daylight savings) hours behind all the awesome friends I've made during my time here. It's going to be tough to talk and even with the comforts of modern technology, aka email and skype, the distance is going to be a problem. I don't want to lose touch or grow apart from anyone I really care about, and that's pretty much everyone I've ever called a friend. Add that to the inevitable homesickness that I will be facing and it's going to be a very very tough first few weeks for yours truly.

Well yea, those do sum up most of my emotions. There are others, that I don't wish to discuss here. Trivial ones. The main problem with having so many emotions attached to this is that they tend to rocket around in a bad-ass multiplayer game of tennis where the only one losing points serve after serve is me.

And now I'm going to shoot right off on a tangent and rant. I think the Tampines Library should be given an award for being the WORST library in Singapore. Good god does the collection of books SUCK. What kind of a library doesn't have Alice in Wonderland. Helloooooo, its a classic! 5 Prachett books? Really? 5? And whats the point of having books for a 7 part series when you only have 3 of the books! AND NONE OF THEM IS BOOK ONE. Bleagh. Frustrating place. Even the comic section which I once thought was awesome has lost its shine. I really wish they expand the fiction section. AND YOU AND YOU. STUPID SECONDARY SCHOOL KIDS. THE LIBRARY IS NOT A PLACE TO GET ALL COZY. GO GET A ROOM RETARDS. And stop gigging and laughing loudly and pissing the whole damn library off.

Grah. Ok. Rant over.

Some updates from life.

1) HP6 was a good movie. I liked it. A LOT. And Emma Watson is soooo hot.
2) Tuesday was a really good day. First Bala came over and we ended up playing crackdown and laughing our asses off the whole time, and then Jonathan came over for an MTG night!
3) UM Singapore Students Association formal reception tomorrow. Can someone explain wtf is smart casual? I'm too used to shorts and flip-flops. (And just in case you can't tell I'm joking and think I'm retarded, I DO KNOW WHAT SMART CASUAL IS. It means good looking flip flops only. :D)
4) I recently decided, that I will be opening a new blog soon. One that will only chronicle crazy backpacking trips that I take in USA. Keep your eyes out for that one peeps. This one will be around forsho. [yea Wendy, I'm trying (and failing) to speak ghetto. Word.]

So yea. That's all I have to say I guess. Thats 100 down. Here's to good health, good friends and many more posts to come.



Cheerio friends. :D

Yours sincerely,

Me.





Oh. My flight is on Saturday the 22nd of August. 5.40AM. Yea. You read that one right.

The Fattest FTW

Kenneth is the bomb. :D

'Nuff said.

Cheers.

Goodbye good friend

My hard drive crashed on 21st July 2009. 4 years of work, music, photos and life, gone.

RIP good friend.

Now my computer feels very alien.

Damn.

Cheers.

Bliss

Fall Out Boy 45 minutes past midnight puts me in a dangerously good mood.





That's not right.

Cheers.








"We're only liars, but we're the best.
We're only good for the latest trends.
We're only good cause you can have almost famous friends.
Besides, we've got such good fashion sense."

Photographs

Middle of Nowhere trips with Varun are amazingly enjoyable. The album is up on Facebook! This time we were on bikes heading for Lorang Halus. :D

Cheers.








"Well I've got a fever,
a non-believer,
I'm in a state of Grace.
For I am the Caesar,
I'm gonna seize the day!"

What lies ahead?

I've been recently listening to this podcast called 2 Chimps on a Davenport. Here's the background.

When I first got my xbox, I was looking around online for some walk through on how to complete the Veteran missions for CoD 4. I stumbled upon this website called nextgenwalkthroughs.com, where these two guys, Jon and Dan, (they go by the names of Beer Baron and ExplicitD) do these video walk throughs with voice overs. At first I watched their videos because they just talk a whole load of bullshit during the voice overs, mainly because they're drunk to the heavens when they're talking. It was a while before I realized something a bit startling. That website? Playing video games and making video walkthroughs? That's their job. That's what they're doing for a living! Sure they don't make much money out of it, (they admit that they do get some money through donations and advertising on their website)(and they also have part time jobs) but the most important thing to them is that they're doing what they love for a living. And no, its not two geeky, fat white guys. Its two decently good looking guys and Dan has this SUPER HOT girlfriend. hahaha.

What's interested me most was the fact that they're willing to spend their lives doing just that because it's what they WANT to do. And everyone around them supports them with that dream. Maybe it's time we all find out what we really want to do. Ok. I lie. Most people already know.

Do I? I need to shed these preconceived notions I have about life and how I must live it.

Cheers.









"Red alert is the colour of panic,
elevated to the point of static.
Beating in the hearts of the fanatics,
and the neighbourhood's a loaded gun."

Stop this

Ah, it's been a while.

Yea, I've finally gotten down to doing the blog post that I've wanted to in a while.

When I was in India, I realized something. I realized that you can tell a lot about a person just by looking into their eyes. Cliche and as crappy as it may seem, they really are the windows into a person's soul. But that's when everything confuses you. I'll explain. When you look at that little kid, who's laughing, screaming and playing wearing torn clothes, running around in a slum what would you expect? You'd expect his eyes to show resentment about the situation he is in. You'd expect anger, hatred and sorrow. But what DID I see in those eyes? I saw innocence, excitement and just plain joy. Now that's not right is it? But take a look at his parents. The one's who're sitting down on the pavement on the cardboard box that for all means and purposes is the house they live in. You can see all of that in their eyes. The pain. The pain of watching a young boy who should be schooling, playing sports, watching TV and doing what a normal 10 year old would do. But here he is playing around in the mud without shoes to wear. Sitting in the car at that traffic light was almost painful.

And the cause for all this sorrow? Ah. That's another story all together. The politicians. These people stand in front of news cameras every day and preach to the world their ideals and promise multiple times every day that they can change the world for the better. And the poor people of my country lap up all the bullshit they spew insincerely and vote them back into power everytime a goddamn election comes around. Not that one is better than the other. It's obvious. From their eyes. All you see is a self serving, holier than thou attitude that is slowly if not steadily running the country into the ground. They don't give a flying shit about the people. Haha, you wish. That's just the pre-electoral talk. After they're in its about money.

And the worst part is? I spent the better part of a 1 and a half hour flight where I could have been reading, listening to music, or watching that cute flight stewardess with that cheeky smile, thinking about this. And getting angrier and angrier as the minutes passed. I really want to do something for my country. The people most importantly. Something MUST be done.



Anyhooo. Yea, feels good to now have that off my chest. Went out on Saturday for Syaks farewell party. It was really sad that she's leaving. But the ties that have been made won't be severed that easily I guess. I went there to have all the fun I could, and I did! haha.

38 more days.

Cheers.

So sue me

Yes I haven't been blogging.

I've been busy.

Yes I'm giving excuses.

I've got a lot on my mind.

So sue me.

Cheerio.