i managed to mug bio. somehow, i had overlooked it before today. but today i remembered. and i mugged. yay me! and then mugged physics sommore. i must say i'm improving... haha. i got one more day of mugging ahead. go mugging! i wonder why mug? not cups? and did the people know that mugging also has the negative connotation? well those who came up with gay had a similar problem.
BTW (i tried to say...) if you got something to complain about, please do tell me what about. cos i don't understand these stuff most of the time. and sorry if i insult you. i really apologise. cos i like to think of myself as a nice guy. so i make it an effort to apologise. i probably won't buy you a gift, but i am sure sincere. unless its an exception. then i'll tell you i'm not sorry.
I just got new queen scores for piano. nice!!! i like that guy who arranged them. cos the ones you get from books or stuff are quite crappy. btw this guy also transcribed the bhemian rhapsody score i used. haha.
I can't think of anything else to say. happy mugging everyone!

back again. i've sudenly had the urge to mug recently. so i did. not intensive mugging, but mugging nonetheless. but somehow i need people to help me mug properly. i need a study group......... desperately......... I'm more desperate than a desperate housewife...... i don't see really how desperate tey are, except for the title..... but that's besides the point. so anyone out there who does the same syllabus as me or something, contact me....
The only reason i'm blogging right now is that my mum and dad aren't home. and i got some time to kill. let me do a quick recap on the weeks events i haven't blogged about.

Angklung concert was nice. thy said it sucked. well, if they said so, i believe them to a certain extent. why? cos i'm no expert. it sounds nice to me anyway.and then i don't believe them cos i know what its like performing. and i think it was horrible, screwy and stuff, while people are congratulating you. but i must say one thing, your dynamics owned the RIGE... the angklung still amazes me. you got to teach how peopel do it. coordination and vibrating wrists or something...

before angklung was bahas. RG team won! well, good job. congrats to you people. frankly, i thought SJI was better in terms of speech, but i also knew they sucked in content.(no offence) but not really sucked. just lacking. and the parliament system goes by votes. so a majority is needed. and then you contradict yourself also, as someone kindly pointed out. then Berita Minggu was like.... inaccurate as usual. hmmm. said that RG lost to SJI in the finals 2 years before. crap. last year they lost, to SJI. but before that it was RI!!!!!!!!!!! . crap.

then we had combined practice that friday. um. guitar is really insignificant. and we were owned. by skill and loudness. i mean. we 6 playing are pro. most of us. and the others still can make it. but then RIGE is so. plae compared to everyone else. even CO.

then wed after concerts, we had learning journeys. went to tuas naval base. nice. went on a ship. nice. had refreshments, not bad. what i learnt? some interesting stuff. not a whole load, but still interesting.

then thusrday was malay mid-year. haha
karangan surat kiriman was ok enough. then the second one i got mental block. so i think i'll die. and then the second paper, i completed within one hour. everything except that 6 mark compre question. so i felt bored. and tired. so i slept. then20 min later, Malani d'cruz woke me up. asked if i had finished and said that i had 20 min left. so i got up and finished the question. then i slept a little more. and according to muhammad, i was snoring... then everyone siad i was damn king and all. haha. right.

then yesterday had this inaugural ambassador's series thing. in the afternoon. went to RJ lt1. then the high commisionner of india, his excellency mr. alok prasad came and gave some talk. haha. then went to parkway to try to fix my ngage. thinking of getting a motorolla V3. but then its more ex. and i still like my ngage a bit. i like pink V3.... nice... but blue is ok. then i had a coffee bean sunrise. and had burger king. then go home and mug a bit more.

i just feel real scared, cos exams.... i mean common tests are next week. nd i'm going to die if i don't mug. and i need people to explain stuff and mug with me... please....

A change in taste

Well, for this years concert, i was thinking of something purplish and with very deep meaning. Deep purple lah... but then, i was listening to steve vai again. and the audience is listening just popped into my head. again. and now i want to play it. again. and this time i can play it better. i figured out the fast tapping part near the start. and can play it! now i need to borrow someone's wah pedal, cos mine isn't good enough. why this song instead of the other one? do something different. showstopping. that's the idea. impress with great skill and showmanship. this song can be really showy. compared to the purplish tinge of the other song. and its more upbeat. and not so rocky. quite jazzy. especially the intro riff. nice stuff. and its not just picking, but plucking too. see? different... and also the solos nd riffs are different. nice different. unique. a normal rock solo won't do in a steve vai song. its got to be complex. and killer. with the deep purple, its not that straightforward either, but compared to steve's licks, i laugh at how it sort of pales in comparison... one more reason. actually 2 or 3. i got a steve vai signature, so why not play his song? very fitting. it would just be weird if i had a strat and i was playing a steve vai song... also, linky will get a bass solo. go watch G3 live in tokyo. haha. not as radical as that, but just as nice. and then, watch the music video for the song. as in the one with the small kid. haha. nice. last reason i can think of. at least now...
Yesterday, i went to tampines mall. and of course stopped by yamaha. i was oogling at the pedals. jimi hendrix wah, crybaby... and then my mom had this idea of getting me drumsticks. not the chicken one. the real drumsticks. used for drums. drum sticks. so, i just went along. its kinda cool. and i can use it to conduct guitar practice... so i got my drumsticks. drum sticks. now all i need are drums, or a drum pad thingamajig...
and my dad is finally letting me use the iPOD. i know, not a big deal. old fashioned. yes, while people around are dancing in tune with their ipod nanos, i have an ipod 3g. yes. why am i excited? i can finally cram all my dream theater songs in one place. 15Gb!!!!! beats my shuffle, only 512MB. and why he lets me use it? cos we got the skin. some screen protector. ya. oh, and if you didn't know, dream theater songs on average last around 8-10 mins. and they got 11 albums. choc full of songs.
This weeked i feel very helpful. why? i've helped loads of people. especially in maths. and i also helped a bit with malay. a teeny yiny bit. surprising cos malay isn't my forte. more like pianissimo. can't remember if i spelt that right. so i'll use symbols. pp first, i help 3 girls who failed maths test and have to take re-test. then, i teach my cousin, who's in madrasah, taking o levels this year and is way behind, cos the school lag a bit in maths. so there. helpful me. and i translated a word from english to malay.
I still haven't worn my pink panther boxers. haha. i'll probably wear it on saturday. and speaking of boxers, the other night, i was walking to the carpark with my mom and dad. then at the void deck of one of the blocks, there was this guy. wearing only boxers. licking an ice-cream. haha. weird. and he was going about like nobody's business, reading the notice board at the lifts. i bet those boxers were knocking each other out...
and to everyone who wants me to add your blog to my links, you got to do the same. add this blog to your links. its not fair if you don't. and i'll also need your blog addresses. i'm not psychic. or maybe i am, but i don't want to tell you... reverse-reverse-reverse psychology? or even that could be reverse psychology... BAM, i'm reading your mind... you're thinking i'm weird, and crazy... SNAP, wrong mind, read my own... but probably it doesn't take a psychic to read one's own mind...

.

Its not much of a title. but i can't think of a good one. and if i don't put a title, the list of posts would state the whole of my sentence... anyway, today in school was an emotional roller coaster ride. First, in the morning i was so sleepy. somehow, Mr. Fong was being nice, and did not pick on me again. haha. not really pick on me. but more particular about me than others. haha. maybe he thinks i'm special...haha. lets just keep it to picking on me. then during bio we got some nice thick notes from the univertity of reading. ironic, cos the first page, there was a picture of the petronas twin towers and it had the caption "Petronas twin towers, kuala lumper". no, i did not make a typo. that's what it said. then, a few pages after that, there was this huge box with a small "x" at the top left hand corner. haha... must have been the haze...
so then after recess, the bad part. Ms. Kuang came into class, and left Wee Hsuan to set up the console, cos she had to do some stuff. then Jun Ren went up to go and "try out" some passwords for Mr. Fongs account. lame passwords. like 4Q ROX and other stuff. then ms. kuang returned and whe was sooooooo angry. then she gave us a lecture forthe whole period. i kind of felt sad and sorry. it was bad cos we got scolded. it was good cos we learnt a lesson. i really felt like crying when she said something about teachers having feelings, and that they continue to teach even after all the "abuse" they've been through... so everyone out there. respect your teachers. cos they are really something special. or at least most teachers.
then, for RE, mr. yuen was hinting to us that our project wasn't substantial and stuff, and suggested we change project. then after we thought about it, we discussed sommore with him. then he say actually why we change whe our project can do? haha. then we stick to the project. but after a short while we came to a dead end. then want to change subject again. but then he say actually can. then we discuss some more. its confusing, but the main thing is we stuck to the topic after a few indecisive moments. haha.
then for guitar, ms goh came and watched us. told us we sucked(not really lah, just pestering us to practice hard) and we need to be really pro cos we are opening the concert. haha. then somehow, the other peopledon't get the idea of dynamics really quick. and we spend loads of time on it...
then hyqel and other J1s came to sell tickets. haha. then we jam a little. and stuff. and then say goodbye. haha.
on saturday. ORA thing. only a 1.6 km walk... walk... then the fun fair was nice. although i didn't get to go into the haunted house. cos the queue was too darn long. and i wanted to catch bahas. also, well done to the bahas team from RG for pwnzing the opposition. in both ways. haha. dunno why that girl got best speaker though... Good luck against SJI though, they're tough. they slaughtered SJI. maybe partly cos VS wasn't very good. this time RG got chance lah. the topic helps you. so pls don't screw up. and if you lose 3 times in a row to SJI, you might want to consider not joining bahas at all. like us...

dialogue

today got the dialog competition which our mcc was organising. this is how it goes:
two people are given a topic, and they have to make a dialogue on that topic. amongst themselves, but engaging the audience. simple?
well, some of them went totally out of point. for example, something about young peopel not eating traditional food became something about junk food. and other stuff. haha.
then another thing, some of my fan came down to watch. haha.
during the decision break, when the judges were deciding who would win, taufiq was told to occupy some time. so he called me down. unexpectedly. and so went down. and some people cheered loudly. yay! then i couldn't tell purple passion. a)it was too long b)i didn't want/know how to translate into malay. so i tell the 3 robbers joke. haha. but i couldn't do any better cos it was so unexpected. thanks to cikgu probably.
Anyway, the first half was boring. Fawaz was a bit stone, but then got no Taufiq so i guess he was scared to crack jokes. but after taufiq came back from his chinese drama stint, they were blazing. they were wearing blazers... but they rocked. really funny. i felt like joining them down there and adding more lame stuff. good job guys!
so tomorrow got ORA jogathon. and i need slightly longer pants. i look awful in pants that are too short. so got an announcement today on the atire for tomorrow. must wear ORA t-shirt(which for me is L, but i'm an M probably, cos i switched with someone else) and pe shorts, which are too short. at least most. my newer ones are slightly longer, but quite short too, so i got to pull them down lower...
and bahas semis tomorrow. still need to figure out what to do before that and after guitar lesson... maybe crescent girls fun fair. hope its fair, and that i get rice...

Sorry...

In my last post, i may have made hasty conclusions. sorry for that. i truly am. but still, please like consider us. and how we got no time to practice. and now it leaves me pissed at whoever caused this. why? this stuff needs practice.
like today. dk was a disaster. awok was off time(more like speeding up to super fast speed until its damn hard for me and taufiq to keep up) and juara(lead singer:adly) screwed up. we're frens, but let me get this straight. i told you before and i'm telling you again. you don't sing very well. not saying that i do, but i think i do sing better than you. yes. and taufiq sings better than you. and stop trying to ignore me. everytime you somehow push the fact that i can be juara away, and assume theres noone else. i mean, a lot of guys like the awok are tone-deaf(sorry for the bluntness, but i'm getting worked up) and you're slightly better than the average guy. but that's not saying much. the average guy doesn't sing well. and you are a bit better. put 2 and 2 together. and you're like damn insulted if someone goes up to you and says you aren't that good. like hanif tried to tell you. but then you attacked him instead, asking him if he could do better. the last time i checked, that was a fallacy. poisoning the well. yes. i remember...
anyway, he made a good point, and you should have listened. i mean, quite a few of the mats think i'm better than you. so don't be bodoh sombong(i'm being very kind to those people who don't understand malay. bodoh sombong is literally translated into stupid proud. its a proverb, which means that the person is wrong or lousy but doesn't want to admit it. i think.). that's all for dk. at least for now.

International friendship day

after that 2nd place in the sajak competition(poetry dramatization), my cousin sort of redeemed himself. i do give him credit. well done. but today, i get really pissed off again and take that back. here's why.
yesterday afternoon at 4, i recieved an sms that we had dikir today. for those who don't know, dikir, or dk for short, is that malay clap hand action thingy with some singing and percussion. and so i find out that tomorrow we're performing for assembly period, in conjunction with the friendship thingy. ok. fine. so today i find out that they were supposed to do the sajak thingy. but then my dear cousin didn't want to at the last minute. and we had to do dk. ya. 2 hours of practice. and we still very unpolished and all that. yes. and performance tomorrow. i think we all gg already. and so i'm pissed. yes, pissed. this means that i have gone to the toilet extra times today. yes. really...
so there. basically what happened today. and why i'm in a bad mood. or a bit of a bad mood. but i can switch moods. yes. haha. i'm happy now.
I'm still stuck on smells like rafflesian spirit, but i'm bazing through fumes on the water. its the deep purple song, smoke on the water. the chorus is " fumes on the water, mosquitoes in the sky, eggs under water..."
ya, i like parodies. but i can never come up with serious stuff. haha.

the Ari Budiman Society

today, i mad a revelation. haha. not really. but a discovery. a discovery that i have a fan club. haha. you may think i'm joking. but no, i am not. yes. to my surprise, there is the group known as the Ari Budiman Society; because Ari is the BOMB. ya. serious. i am deeply flattered, and a bit creeped out, but only a bit. i'm quite sure it will wear off. and don't let this dampen your hopes. so now, i got some "groupies", so i'm well on my way to becoming a rockstar (don't worry, these groupies don't do those type of things normal groupies do)
oh yes. i was thinking of renaming the band from lactose intolerant to milk. yes, milk. still haven't discussed with the band yet. LI is a bit muggerish. maybe a good album name. then after that album, BSE.
and taufiq, stop calling me a casanova. and the movie was casablanca. so is the place. and the chicken stall is called cavana. there. and supernova is sort of astronomy.

yes, linky. nice... a bit the bored or very curious...
today got sajak. we got 2nd. ya. st.andrews got 1st. 3rd time in a row. ya. i thought we were the best. haha. really. st. andrews was very good. but to me it had not much artistic value. however it is a creatif thing. but ours was creatif. but not "entertaining". it was too heavy. and unnatural. sad lah. and i think we were the only school(apart from bedok south, which was absolute crap) who didn't use some funny symbolism of the senses.
on a side note, RG won the malay debates quarter finals match against kranji. congrats to them. but then they weren't spectacular. i'm afraid they won't make it to the finals. and from the performance we saw just now, RI could actually stand a chance of winning. or at least finals. cos we got a heck lot of good debaters. i mean, if the standard was like that, even i could debate. i'm not that good, but i can do it if i prepare a lot. ok. let me put it this way. even sports school took part and got to quarter finals. then got kicked out. nonetheless(is that how to spell?) it demonstrates that we wouldn't shame RI in any way by taking part. hmmm. taufiq got an idea to hold a "raffles cup" RI vs RG. then can have a lot of fun. and we can have the title "cows are better than chickens" or "Macdonalds is better than Burger King". fun stuff like that. ya.