Geog

now some of you know I don't like geog that much.
As a result I tend to doze off in geog.
But today is a special day.
How special?
Very special.
Why special, you ask?
I made good use of a geog lesson :)
Doing what? Geog?
Of course not. I did some theorycrafting that proves that armour does indeed have diminishing returns on both damage reduction and how much longer you stay alive (this would apply to a few game scenarios, like dota, WoW and basically anything that has diminishing returns on armour)

the diff. between girls and guys

I have been thinking. and i have come up with this conclusion. girls have a different sense of humour. i dunno about sexual jokes, cos i think its a bit rude to tell these jokes(especially the worse ones) in front or to girls. but i know about lame jokes.
for example, i tell purple passion to a guy. he's annoyed. but then laughs. or sort of laughs. i tell the same joke to a girl. then she's annoyed and then goes kind of hyper, then expresses how annoyed she is, then rants on about wasting her time over and over again, then kind of "hates" me for life. you can clearly se a difference. i think guys appreciate lame jokes like this more than girls. i am not being sexist.
I have come up with a theory. girls and guys brains are different. guys are more "logical" while girls sort of excel in communication. most lame jokes deal with lateral thinking. yes, lateral thinking. they are kind of smart. they do make sense. very common sense. but still is funny, cos you often don't think of the answer even if it is really obvious. however, the common sense is actually very uncommon nowadays. and obvious answers are always overlooked. and the mind thinks up complicated stuff. so, these lateral thinking puzzles are more "logical" so to speak, and thus, the guy's mind will be able to appreciate it more. they can see the humour in the joke. how they were misled into thinking about something else. on the other hand, girls will not really appreciate this and think its utter crap. and taking time off for crap is a waste of time. therefore the violent reactions.
i base my theory on fair scientific evidence. maybe not evidence. but proof. but they're both the same thing. so i'll put them in inverted commas. this is based on experience(field studies) and scientific "proof". feel free to give your comments.
please note that i do not have any malicious intent in writing this post, and that i'm not being sexist. i'm merely stating my observations and trying to come up with an explanation for these occurrences. in an objective(as far as possible) manner. i am not slandering all you gals out there. please do not hate me for this or anything. this should be subject to open dialogue. as i said earlier, feel free to give comments. no flaming. and no vulgarities. thank you

haha hearing "george bush" is really funny. Note to NSA, i am not saying anything bad about the "commander-in-chief" nor am i mocking america. And no, i am not a terrorist. or an extremist. and i wouldn't want to commit suicide. its crazy. I am NOT a suicide bomber. go to www.weeklyradioaddress.com. funny stuff. can even download the sound clips!
and now i dunno what to rant on about.
yes...
from what i hear, sajak is ok. and from other people, sajak is going badly. i would like to believe that it is going badly. well. my dear cousin has crossed the line by being such a hypocrite. yes. and acting like a bigshot. thats quite ironic actually. if you get my point, good. if not, i'm not going to explain. cikgu, you should have called me in to direct. or at least be in the thing. but then, on second thought, i wouldn't want to join. if i knew i would be working with HIM. but you should have taken a hint from our stuff in class. like you can't see i can act? or am i too lame for you to see that?
ok, maybe i should try to cut down on my lameness.
so my dear cousin, if you want to walk out, but stay because you are pressured to do so, go. no pressure. but then again, its on saturday. but when you said that there was some more time. we could have done without you. so. and don't give those guys any crap about commitment. they are evry ounce committed. ok, maybe not, but still they are very committed. and stop criticising them about commitment. cos you don't seem very committed yourself. got it? and be more accepting of ideas. you're not that smart. or all powerful. you're just some puny being, like most of us. you just can't boss people around. maybe persuade. but not boss. cos you're not the boss. who's the boss? no, its not tony danza, but neither are you.
suddenly i feel quite angry. so i'll just end this post.

brochure done. my mum bought me some nice green paper. unfortunately its huge. i mean huge. and secondly, its too hard. and thick. not too sure if my printer can handle it. so i told her i needed thinner paper. then she said she had quite a bit. haha. ok... so i'm using that. also finished maths.
Yesterday i finished it, but hen i asked mar(goh) when it was due, he said next week. so i didn't print out, cos mr. fong wouldn't accept stuff early anyway. then, in school, i realised that it was actually due today. ok... and mark went to ask mr. fong if can hand in by email. and then he complicated stuff by saying some stuff about wee hsuan and yixiang. which had the slightest connection, but not that relevant. so in the end mr. fong was a bit angry that he "conned" him. smoking. as in throw smoke grenade so smoke all around and cannot see, then he give extension. so now, we get to hand in late... mark, i know you got good intentions, you're a nice guy, but you sometimes do stuff like this.
just watched blackadder. really funny. BBC prime, Starhub tv channel 76. 10pm on wed. nice stuff. old, but nice. its actually not slapstick at all. maybe a little in some actions, but its mostly in the dialogue. rowan atkinson is one smart guy. too bad he kept on doing bean. bean the movie. but as far as i know, no Blackadder the movie. and mr. bean doesn't talk. so its a different kind of funny... like kung pow... both at the same time. haha. the dialogue is actually funny.
if i could scan in my drawing, i would. maybe next time. a drawing of a very ferocious monster. haha...

although i finished my brochure, cikgu rejected it. yes. rejected it. why? because the font was too big and there wasn't enough content. And there really isn't much written about this guy(Prof. Ariff Bongso). as in his life. cos nobody really cares about a scientist's life. unless you are like soooo prominent and one of histories greatest people. then they care. they write whole biographies on you and study you even after you die. sad isn't it? so i put whatever content i had and then put some of his achievements. why some? cos he has a lot and i didn't have enough space. why? cos the brochure maker flash software doesn't allow you to change font size. its really rigid templates. but nice. so now i got to redo. i think i'll just take green paper and print words on it. then cut and paste. simple.
and i managed to complete ERP. and part of my maths project. i thought it was due tomorrow. but after i finished my part, i was so worried cos i didn't know how to stick all the parts together. then i found out that its due next week. ...
and now i want to take up some time to write about angklung. for those out there who have no idea what an angklung is, its a wooded instrument which is sort of hollowed out and then the hollow tube can vibrate. so you make a sound when you shake it. it only plays one note, but its quite nice. so. to have an angklung ensemble... i've always wondered how they manage to pull it off. even hand bells ensemble. back to angklung. nice sound. very interesting. go for angklung concert. 22nd april. RG angklung concert. i repeat again. or maybe not. you get my point.
seaking of concerts, I(and the guitar ensemble) will be performing at the esplanade on the 28th april, along with the other RI musical groups. got some nice stuff. although i never know what the string ensemble is playing. but its still nice. I'll say something about string ensemble later. but now. 28th april. esplanade. you get the picture.
now about string ensemble. i must say that SE is the best musical group in RI. i'm just stating the facts. why? because all of them have prior music knowledge, know how to play an instrument, play a string instrument, play in the SYO, get damn high grades in music, or more than one of the metioned reasons. for guitar, we need to spend some time teaching kids to read notes. and how to hold the guitar. and stuff like that. and same with the other ccas. so they are the best. then got pro people like Remus who add on to the proness of the SE. and guitar? got me. and maybe eugene. but i usually like to think its me. and linky of course. but then speed. we're fast. but me, i do better with distortion and thinner and softer strings. comparable i guess. probably can compare with Remus. but we haven't tried. maybe one day. i wouldn't mind losing. cos he's pro.
and when we have the best, we have the worst. RICO. the only cca to get a silver for syf. GE only got gold, but then noone else got gold. and the judges were biased. there was no way neither ACS nor us could not get GwH. must be lagging from string ensemble judging. you can't compare SEs and GEs just like that. both our schools were the only ones which didn't cheer when we got gold. or an award for that matter. other schools were like "hooray! we got bronze!" and we were "damn we got gold..." i think we actually owned them. really. they were playing real basic stuff. and by basic meaning our sec 1 or even 2 standard.
but enough about SYF. i really need to practice CS... someone lend me!!!

Yay! completed my brochure for malay. however, printer cannot work properly. even though i just changed the black ink cartridge. and no, its not the colour cartridge which is the problem. or maybe it is... NO...

this somehow reminds me of switcheroo... not the normal one...
at swensen's the other day, taufiq linky and i were playing this twisted version of the age old game. took 2 cups, and one handphone. find the handphone. then we start switching. then we give you three tries. then we kept guessing. and then again with more variations in number, items and variety of items.

and please people, do not think i'm all lame... i'm quite lame. but i can be serious. does this look srious to you? probably not cos its just words. but i can be serious. but that wouldn't be so fun. and try to get some humour into your lives. ok, i must admit that i'm not exactly that humourous but then i try and i think its a positive attitude. but if you want true humour, look into the eye. or find something humerus in the arm...

hmmm i don't know what to say now. i forgot again...

Sunday

It's interesting how ppl spend their Sundays.
First there're the really bored ppl. Like Ari. :) They stone while spending most of their time convincing themselves to do the work they should. Unfortunately I think this applies to me too :(
Then there're the DUN WORRY BE HAPPY kinda ppl. Just PLAAAAAAY cos it's SUNDAY the last day of the weekend. Then the next day they get yelled at by their teachers but WHO CARES :D
Then there're those ppl whom other ppl call "have no life" or "MUGGER". Yep they mug. and mug. and mug. then look at watch. "eh 9pm let's go eat dinner then sleep". Scary.
Last but not least, ppl who blog cos they have nothing else to do (or rather they have other things to do but they don't want to).

rants of a bored guy

today was just boring. work. and more work. and when i say work, i also mean slacking off a whole other load of work.
maybe the only consolation is watching funny movies on youtube. thank YOUtube... weird al rocks. not just his songs, but his videos. weird... but its not that weird. just hilarious. i wonder what the world would be like without him...
then i got this brilliant idea for camp(RIGE). last year during war games, someone fell down and injured himself, so mr. tan will probably not allow any sort of war games unless its in the morning. not very fun. so, i was thinking. instead of that war where you pull people's tails out, why not a war where you actually shoot people? or even more relevant, a war on terror? and there's a games in war games for a reason. so, the obvious answer would be Counter-strike!
Ya, you may say its outrageous. there's no way he'd let us do that. its a computer game. but then think again. computer games in the FPS genre usually help out in the psychomotor department. importantr for guitar. also improves finger motor ability. also guitar. teamwork will be required to win(against seniors at least). team work is good. then fun. sure beats pulling peoples tails. and no injuries! or at worst someone sprains a finger while trying to press the keys.
so counter strike doesn't have anything to do with guitar? rifles sure look like guitars. and theres even guitars which look a hell lot like rifles. both make loud noises. you hold both by the neck in your un dominant hand. and you control the sound with your dominant hand. there. guitars and rifles.
but what's an eevn better reason for us to do it? cos we actually can!!! got com science club people in guitar. and not talking about any old memebers. talking about high ranking officials. like daniel and yichen. daniel being vice chair. see. told you very high. a high chair. that sounds weird.
more importantly, i don't think we would be able to whoop juniors asses if we actually play actual war games. but if cs, got pros like daniel and linky! and others. and got not too pathetic guys like me. probably get fragged a lot, but kill quite a few also. and that's cos i never play cs at home and go lanning very rarely. must be my console FPS experience.
and in cs we can dictate the rules! we will be in complete control. kicking peopel out of the server if they don't comply or stuff. i like absolute power...
now got ERP. not electronic road pricing. Extensive reading programme. some english thing. actually a cheem way of saying book review or report. so i've finished reading my book long ago. about feynman. nice guy. then now got to do the report. and i have no idea what the projects are. you're supposed to choose one of a few projects. but then i can't remember. i actualy need to go check...
then, my printer out of ink. ya. now truly out of ink. last time was almost. now its out of ink. you think it will work if i go put a pen in the printer and tie it to the moving thingy?
suddenly i'm filled with a sadness. so much to do so little time. which is kind of sad. thats why the sadness. and then i try to think of happy thoughts. but i don't. i said try, not say i think happy thoughts. i tried didn't i? then i try again. this time i do think happy thoughts. and then i forget about work and stuff.
as if RE wasn't bad enought, got a mini RE for malay. MINI?????!!!!!!no way that can be mini. got a proposal, report, presentation and the report is like an actual RE report!!!!!! now i got to think up of a topic. its kinda stupid actually.
I'm just ranting cos i'm bored. or insecure. or like to rant. or any 2 of the above. or all three of the above. i can't remember what i said to heck. i'll stop this post

New template.really

now taufiq get off my back! and i'm not really very comfortable with vulgarities on this blog...
as you see i just got a new blog template, thanks to the guy who does the basic templates. then miraculously i managed to figure out what's what and formatted some stuff. this proves that you can always learn something everyday.

today performance was ok. at least people said it was ok. i agree. it was ok. but only just. i screwed up again(as usual) and the lack of songs proves a problem again. to add to that, the cheung cheng high people were in front of us, and playing diabolos and acrobatics stuff like juggling and human pyramids. so? as if the diaboloing was that good. and impressive. i do give them credit, but then they had to shout at the beginning and clap as if we weren't performing... give us some respect man... so we were background music.

Thanks to all the peopel who came down to support us. like parents. my mum, linky's parents and sister and narishka. and my guitar mentor. and other peopel who came down and i forgot to mention. and to those who supported us in spirit. and to those who believed in us...

and mr. tan...
never told us anything about a performance in aug at ttsh... i'm sure. even the vice chair doesn't know... luckily my mum was talking and got this info. now i'll be mentally prepared when he tells us...
and yesterday, after friday prayers, taufiq,adly and i were having lunch at macs, the one near 3rd lang. then got a bunch of RG girls sitting next to us. i recognised one of them from my kiq group. so we were wondering whether she heard purple passion. so i said it loudly as she was leaving. then she heard it and turned around, spotted me and said,"oh my god!" and walked out. then the whole group was outside stopped at the pathway. they were looking back so i waved! haha. then some were laughing... hope this is good. and hope i'm not that notorious in RG... like Dian going,"so THIS is Ari?" and walks away looking weird...

now got to concentrate on the upcoming concert, the RI combined musical groups concert at the esplanade! go buy tickets, cos i'm in it! haha... i think i'll be playing with another guitarist and 2 er hus(is that how to spell?). hopefully. supposed to get 2 really pro guys to play. hint... the concert is on the 28th april, and we just completed our song halfway!!???!!?!?! without any dynamics or anything!!??!?!?!?! ok i'm probably overreacting.

i better go to sleep now . my mum and dad are already asleep behind me. and tomorrow got madrasah in the morning at 8...

new template! not really

Thanks adly for helping me get this skin. also thanks to taufiq for donating this skin(coped from his blog) but i think it fits me better cos i like this guitar...
tomorrow is the performance. maybe i should be practicing, but heck, if i didn't screw up big time on thursday i won't screw up big time tomorrow. haha
and i got to figure out how to change the rosari thing...

Today got this performance at Suntec. was supposed to have allthe ministers, but would you really think they would want to stay and watch a small performance by RIGE? haha

I screwed up a lot, although many people would say otherwise. am i too hard on myself? maybe i have high standards or i'm just being modest. and maybe my level too high already until not so pro people say very good even though i screw up... haha just kidding. I feel my head shrinking back to normal size.

To all my fans out there... hahaha You can catch us again on Saturday 1-2 pm at the tropics atrium. if you don't know where it is, its under the giant toys-r-us. YAY TOYS-R-US!!!
still don't know where it is? ask around or look at the map lah.

Taufiq still is bugging me. Won't tell you about what. Kind of sensitive matter. Very irritating. but i think i'm kind of getting the stockholm syndrome. For those who have no idea what that is, its something like a kidnap victim sympathising for the kidnappers and liking them. I think. hey i don't know all the answers, even if i like to think i do....

And my blog is still very plain. basic template. I promise that i'll get it done by this year! haha maybe next month. and i dunno how to put a wish list, so i'll say the few things i want.

WISHLIST:
A new blog template!!!!!!!!!!
guitar
new video games
an x box 360
a ps3
new effects pedals
A NEW BLOG TEMPLATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

speaking of x box 360, i tried it out at best denki at J8. really nice. just that if you already have an x box, don't bother getting this one, cos just turn yours around fully and you'll get it...
but i must say the graphics were awesome. can't wait for ps3, cos its 100 times better.

now i got to do my malay brochure. i got no ink to print! haha got to send by email. what's her email again?

YAY!!!

HI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I finally bothered myself enough to make a blog.
WE all like to BLOG...WEBLOG...
I'm still trying to figure out some stuff about this thing, but i think i'll get it soon enough.
Now i'm going to find out all the features here. Don't be surprised if you try surfing here and get your com crashed cos i have no idea what i'm doing...