Why?! GOD WHY ?!

Today is a special day for gamers worldwide. Science fiction nerds and professional gamers in the 3rd person shooter genres gather outside video game stores today to celebrate the release of a landmark videogame. Yes, today, we all celebrate the release of Mass Effect 2.



At the same time, an Asian adolescent by the name of Nicholas weeps quietly in the background. No, he is not a victim of the Haiti earthquake. He is a victim of another great tragedy. The inability to purchase what would go down as the best video game in his Xbox360 collection. He screams:" Damn the 'O' levels! Why 2010 ?! " Nicholas is left contemplating ... with a pile of Mathematical homework at his side ... while millions of gamers achieve orgasms watching the Normandy SR-2 take flight. A wave of anguish and misery overwhelms him. He writhes in bed, reminiscent of that girl in New Moon when her albino boyfriend leaves her. Ok, this is going out of hand. I hate this feeling. Period.

By the way, do show your support for the Haitian Earthquake because there are true tragedies out there other than a sickly 16-year-old kid begging to play a computer game. Peace.

Jai Ho !

Graduation Video from the teachers of Anderson Secondary to the graduating batch. Really cute video lol. Btw I finished like half of my weekend homework since the last post so I'm really not remorseful. In the mean time, enjoy watching Mr Kamal boogey-ing in the staff room !

No chance at all

I can't bear to read the Mass Effect 2 review.

The beating of a broken heart.

The past 6 hours could possibly be the ultimate geek experience in my entire life. I read almost all the wikipedia entries about Marvel and DC characters that I didn't already know about. I watched all the videos on Mass Effect 2. Watched a couple of IGN originals. Read more than a dozen articles on IGN. Read a couple of entries on Starwars Wikia/ Wookiepedia. Heres what I learnt today.

- Wolverine has a son called Daken, which he had with his wife in Japan. The second Wolverine Origin movie is slated to be set in Japan, as implied at the ending of the movie.

- Daken practically has like all his dad's abilites. However, his bone claws are structured rather differently. We know Wolverine's claws are situated between his knuckles. Well, Daken has two between his knuckles and one from the underside of his thumb. which is pretty cool as well.

- Logan's wife was killed by the Winter Soldier, a resurrected Bucky, also known as Captain America's sidekick killed in WW2 by Nazis.

- Daken experiences a terrible childhood, bla bla bla, eventually gets recruited by Norman Osbourne as past of the Dark Avengers. Kills the Punisher, Frank Castle in hand-to-hand combat. Of course they were neck to neck because we all know how awesome the Punisher is.

- I am distressed over the apparent death of Frank Castle, who is one of my top 5 heroes. At the same time, you could say that I am excited about the emergence of WOLVERINE"S SON and his potential.

-In reference to my previous point, my favourite comic book characters are Deadpool, Batman, Wolverine, The Punisher, and Daredevil. You might guess that these characters are highly similar in that they are all very complicated, emotionally tortured and deep characters. Save for Deadpool. He's merely the comic relief cum very awesome hero.

-For trivia, Batman is on the verge of insanity ( You would be too if your archenemy was a criminally insane clown ), Daredevil's blind as a bat, Punisher had his family murdered ruthlessly by the Mafia, and Wolverine's just this really conflicted and constrained beast . Deadpool likes songs by Aqua and paints his guns with glitter glue.

- I sent in my entry for IGN's daily fix. They were posing a question on Mass Effect lore and being a mass effect geek myself, I knew it by heart and thought what's the harm? Well the prize is one Xbox 360 version of Mass Effect 2 and 2 editions of the PC version of Mass Effect 2. I don't know whether to hope to win this or not.

And dude thats like 20% of what I learnt today. One more thing I learnt was that I have not completed a single weekend homework. I starting to recieve informaton leading to the conclusion that I am going to die of stress next week. yes I'm starting to picture my corpse slumped on my table. If I die, I hope to be placed in a coffin made of Mass Effect 2 boxes.

Normandy abound

Haha I reached a climax when I saw the Mass Effect 2 Launch Trailer. Which is also depressing at the same time given that I won't be able to buy the game until after the "O" levels.

I'm now reading an article by IGN, detailing the history of Bioware. Which happens to be my farvourite company cum role-playing game developer. Its products are all RPG gold. From Baldur's Gate to Mass Effect and Dragon Age: Origins, there is little reason not to love this company. As stated in my profile, I aspire to work with this prestigious company one day. One of my dreams is actually to help produce Mass Effect : The Sequel Trilogy or Dragon Age XXV. LOL, you know you gotta dream big.

Both video and the article can be found on IGN, our trustworthy geek companion.

Don't stop lah

This is some GOOD SHIT. Did I mention that I love Glee ?

Take that

In order to get back at the bitch who ruined my day I joined the Facebook group, Twilight sucks.
I would like to share some comments that fellow anti-Twilight people wrote on the wall.

Vampires used to be great - Ash Redfern

97% of teenswould cry if they saw Robert Patterson (Edward Cullen from twilight)standing on top of a sky scraper, about to jump. If youre one of the 3%that would sit there eating popcorn screaming 'DO A FLIP!' then copy and paste this as youre status - Matthew Schultz

This has nothing to do with hating Twilight, but let's all do something for those poor victims at the Haiti Earthquake. :( I bet those pathetic Twitards are having orgasms over the pictures of Edward Cullen while the poor people of Haiti are suffering from the disastrous catastrophe. - Paul Shin


im so glad so many ppl hate twilight. back in my day vampire movies were badass, not full of queers and kites - Colby Lapresi

it is so great to find a group of people who all think that Twilight sucks.... -Nick Winch

Twitards' professionalism - Being unstably retarded. -Paul Shin

Words that I've learnt from joining the group. TwiTards . Meyerpires . and TwiHards.

Ok listen I'm not one to usually hate and bear grudges but if there is one thing that really ignites my inner explosive is making fun of Star Wars and my family at the same time. Enjoy.

The song by Lily Allen - The emotional and depressing post

First and foremost, I would like to kindly ask that Edward-sucking Twilight bitch to fuck off my blog. For the rest of her miserable life. You wanna sue me for slander for making fun of a fictional character? You make one more comment like that about my mother or Star Wars and I'll burn those 4 lousy novels, film it and post it here. You hear, bitch ?

You might imagine that I'm not in a very good mood today. A few things happened today that really pissed me off. Really bad things, because I'm not one to get angry very easily.

Lets just start by saying what terrible morals you have, if you even have some. Let me just tell you that there are limits to everything in this world. Fuck that borderless TV advertisement, a penguin will never fly. Period. Returning to the topic at hand, today you really crossed the line. What you did was so far past the line, that you can't even see the line. The line is a minute dot to you. Or maybe in your life, a LINE doesn't even exist !

I like to think that I have healthy self-esteem. I laugh at jokes about me. I make jokes about me. I ridicule myself more often than not. Why? Because I want to make people feel happy around me. But sometimes things can get twisted and it goes back to the theory that "Words Really Do Hurt."

Right now I'm not standing up for myself. I'm standing up for the TRUE victims of your vile comments. Yes those girls. You claim to be an intellectual yet you don't know shit about how actions have consequences. You can make all your petty jokes about me and I will ALWAYS take it in my stride. But I cannot say the same for those girls.

How do you think these girls feel when you make those kind of comments? Have you ever, for once, considered their feelings? How do you think it feels like to be constantly haunted by something you said in the past, oblivious to the fact that it could ruin your life. I'd bet that she curses me and that line as the biggest mistake of her life. You think its nice to be associated with someone you don't like? or more possibly, HATE ? What if you already admire someone else, only to be constrained by these rumours. I think it really sucks. I would really hate that guy. That much I know.

I'm very angry not because of the fact that you constantly ridicule me in front of girls. Maybe you need the uncool partner to make YOU look better. That is something I can live with, because I treat you as one of my best friends.

But you see, when you make those kind of "jokes", the real villain always appears to be me. It will appear as though I BRAG about the fact. Although I wrote what I truly felt back then, every single second of every single minute of every single day I wish that I could turn back time and just delete that sentence. To save her from the misery. But do I brag about it? No. Instead, I always make pleas for all of you to stop. To end the torture not for me but for XXX. But do you listen? No. You do stupid things like what happened today only to add fuel to the flame.

Man, you know I will always like you as a brother. But sometimes you do stuff that are unbelievably overboard. They make me question my friendship and loyalty to you. Do I deserve such treatment? I really hope you think about this and maybe, just maybe I will consider being friends with you once again.

Well thats done. I'm just gonna express my disdain for jock#1, who at basketball today pushed my friend to the ground and hurt his knee. and didn't even apologize. Well, just because you're popular and stereotypically funny(in fact, I don't even find his humour interesting) does not give you the right to fuck around with those considered inferior to you. In fact, he is far from inferior. He's a 100 times smarter than you, you dumb-ass mastery-test taking jock. I have no doubt that one day he will get a super good job and hire you as his unpaid ass-wiper. Have fun licking his shoes clean sucker!

All is said and done. I really do hope that you reflect on what you did today. I don't want a simple apology and have you going about your usual routine the next day. I want to see a sincere and evident change of heart. Think about it.

We're marchin on

I completed Chinese Newspaper Report, Activity Sheet, Chinese Summary, Zhuo Ye Book Exercise 1, One and a Half Geography papers, marked all of my geography papers, Plane Geometry 2b, Math TB Pg 190, and Math tuition Homework today.

And I even had time to go to Bata at Bishan to buy new pairs of school shoes. Where the salesgirl was totally hitting on me, smiling and all. Ok who am I kidding , no one hits on me. But she did look pretty happy. Heck anyone would be smiling if the customer spent a 100 bucks on 3 pairs of shoes.

Ok you know you are overwhelmed when you post about your achievements at 4am in the morning. I thought that maybe if for each day of the year I posted such things, maybe as a confirmation of the "little" successes I had each day, I wouldn't feel as stressed. Its the same moral as the story with the caterpillar and the cocoon or something. No wait, thats not it. What was the one with the rabbit and the tortoise again ?

Hey little world

Omg. Stress. Stess. Stress. After dozing off just as the Emperor was F-U-ed by Vader at approximately 6am in the morning, woke up at 10am in the morning for tuition. Couldn't keep my eyes open so fell asleep again till 5pm. Rushed to finish A-math time practice and Plane Geometry Worksheets and finished by 8pm. Did school and tuition chemistry homework till 10pm. Had dinner till 10.30 and intends to complain on his blog until 11pm whereby he will start on 1 and a half Geography papers due tomorrow. Not forgetting Chinese newspaper reports and reflection WS. Provided he does not DIE due to stress on his table.

Mass effect 2 is like out on the 26th on January and I can't even play it. Well, I don't have any time to play it that is. I can only stare at the cover art (and very possibly cry) as millions of sci-fi gamers all over the world go on suicide missions to take down The Collectors and Reapers, playing as Commander Shepard and his A-Team whilst I finish my Chinese homework.

I'm hardpressed for time to even complete my homework, I don't have any time to do absolutely anything I like and rabbits sleep longer hours than me. Man Secondary 4 life is hard.

RE: ...

Around the time that Luke killed the wampa, saw Jerome's post and his really mean comments.

Yes apparently he thanks others by making fun of their social status.

First of all, its not a phobia. I do not have nightmares about girls. I don't cower in fear whenever a girl walks by.

Secondly, I can speak perfectly well/ go into full conversations with girls, complete with a touch of humour. Well, girls that I know closely. Like my sister and cousins.

Thirdly, I just do not initiate conversations with them readily. I'm not one to go up to a girl and start talking. I personally don't think most girls will enjoy talking to a self-depreciating, Bae-Yong-Jun-specatacle-wearing nerd with humour they don't have a clue about. Maybe its the self-esteem, whogivesashit. So does that constitute a phobia of girls?

Fourthly, it plays in nicely with the profile of the typical geek. Something that I respect and enjoy as a lifestyle choice.

So this goes out to anyone who likes to make these kind of insensitive jokes. Because the more you make fun of me and girls, the more I will believe that I TRULY cannot speak to girls and one fine day I will announce that I'm gay and have an affair with your father. Would you want that? You wanna call me " Mum " ? Okay so think about it.

The smell of wine and cheap perfume

I have a confession to make. I'm an addict. An addict to Glee that is. *Sings"Dont Stop Believing,"Hold on to this feeeeeeeeeeling ".

Short post before I go on to Episodes V and VI marathon on DVD.

Open House performance today. Rather sick in the morning, really didn't feel like going to school on a friggin Saturday Morning ( which happens to be the ONLY morning I can sleep in ). So you can imagine my frustration. So I'm apologizing to anyone whom I have focused my dark side energy on ( I'm talking about you Khalid ) .

But the performance on the other hand ... that was pretty awesome. One of the highest jumbos I've seen and he actually managed to catch it. Perfect wave timing. Couple of slight mistakes here and there but nothing really major. Personally, I felt that the entire PDS performance eclipsed any other performance in the school. Nothing seemed more awesome than those shiny guns. OH ! except for the police car. That was the most awesome. *makes immature noises of sirens WEEEEOOOOAAAAHHHH.

Although one thing, the PDS head didn't seem so impressed. He reportedly spent around 2 decades looking at the video of the performance and spotting all the mistakes whilst making sarcastic remarks. If anything he redefines stuck-up. Maybe its the hole in his head. LOL why do I keep laughing at that.

God then I realised how much homework I had left. We went for lunch up till 3. Made Kuan Ting laugh uncontrollably at an unintended joke at 3.13pm. (Actually I was narrating that SpellCast advertisement on Okto) Reached home at 4. Took a nap and woke up at 7. Had tuition till 10pm. and I still inted to watch an odd 4 hours of Star Wars.

now take a look at my homework plan for today.

Complete Science Tuition Homework

Complete Geography paper 2.5 to 3.0

Chemistry Bond Making WS

and my tuition is like 10am the next morning. My Darth Maul BobbleHead is giving me that typical EPIC FAIL look. I told you my table accesories were made of plastic and PURE PURE EVIL.

Here's my new wallpaper. courtesy of Dragon Age. :D

The world behind my wall

*Imitates John Williams conducting the Star War's band because The Imperial March is playing on the blog.

Wazzup. Courtesy of Wazzup Ng, my new friend on Facebook. OK I'm talking rubbish. Feel like spouting random crap right now.

I've been attempting to level up into "O" level mode recently. and with much success at that! Basically, this involves losing old habits that can potentially hinder your ability to study, whilst developing new ones. For example, I restrict myself to relaxing only on Wednesday and Friday nights, because anyone deserves a break after an odd 3 hours of scolding a couple of brats.

Oh but when I relax. I relax GOOD. This involves taking an unbelievably refreshing bath, getting comfortable in bed and with a bag of chips in one hand and iced milo in the other, I watch and scream as sweaty men in tights decimate one another. One finisher at a time.

Of course. Every other day I can commonly be found sitting at my depressing table, finishing depressing homework with rather unfriendly stationery. Evil ... Evil stationery.

I am also facing a problem I have never faced before. Nowadays, I struggle to cross off everything on my school journal only to have like a gazillion more added. Bytheway, what is gazillion multiplied by 3 ? To the power of 9 ? Plus Avagadro's Constant ? Rough estimate of my weekend homework list.

Speaking of TV, you should all watch Glee, the musical comedy drama series on Fox. StarWorld in Asia. Its a well-deserving award-winning show because its made of PURE amazing-ness. I have to admit, I've always been more of a Fringe and CSI:Miami kind of guy. But this show. OH this show makes me jump up and sing along to their songs. Much to the delight of my neighbours.

PLUS, its pretty funny.

The chemistry between these guys is palpable, if not sizzling. True musical talents with entirely different vocal capabilities, but boy can they make it work.

Just listen to one of their hit songs. Don't stop believing - Glee Cast. Here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUZwdbeS2mM. Its worth the 4 minutes.

Well, its getting late. I have to watch Kane big-boot the faeces out of any upcoming young superstar before having an early night. Open House is tommorow at 7am. Don't forget to miss the NCC Precision Drill Squad performance, courtesy of our resident faggot and un-beloved PDS Head Jit How. Who has a fucking hole in his head. LOL !

Please stay 1 metre away from this post unless you are a geek

Life is wonderful. I just finished Episodes III and IV of the Star Wars Saga and then 2 hours of WWE. In fact, 30 minutes ago Batista delivered a devastating Batista Bomb into poor poor Rey Mysterio. Though I have to agree with Jerome's stand that its a little too PG-13 for its own good. You know, 6-year-olds are starting to think the Undertaker is a wuss.

I was watching season 2 of Chuck today.

Btw Chuck is this hit television show about a geek who downloads the government's top secrets into his brain, essentially making him the United State's most powerful weapon. I always like these combinations of popular culture with nerd fandom, (i.e. Chuck, Fanboys, Big Bang Theory) because you get a lot of tributes to things you really like. For example, an episode of Chuck is named " Chuck VS The Wookiee ".

Courtesy of the angre wookiees in Episode III. :)

Did I mention that I have a penchant for linking things easily? I do this in my mind when I'm bored, especially really geeky stuff like games and science-fiction.

Take a look at this. Okay I came up with a totally random thing.

Jerome mistook the word on my cool name tag to be "Firefly". Firefly is a hit sci-fi TV series that features Nathan Fillion as the lead actor. Nathan Fillion ... is a fan of the Halo series. He voices your squad captain Buck in Halo 3: ODST. Another squadmate of yours, Dutch, is voiced by Adam Baldwin. Adam Baldwin is rumoured to be voice acting for Mass Effect 2. The Mass Effect universe was created by Drew Karpyshyn. Drew Karpyshyn, was the author of the Darth Bane Trilogy. I did a review of Darth Bane for my English project in Secondary 3. Jerome is in my English Class.

OH! Heres another one I just thought of. I mentioned Chuck in this post. Chuck's agent girlfriend in the show is played by Yvonne Strahovski.

Yvonne Strahovski voices Miranda Lawson in Mass Effect 2. AND ... I Love Mass Effect 2 :D

Generally, its nice to know that so many interesting stuff are connected.

Okay now I'm gonna sleep because the thought of 1 people reading my blog is depressing.

You Sexy Thing

Hi,

Started school very ... very reluctantly. Waking up and travelling to a foreign place at 7am in the morning at the expense of Dragon Age? Not very enticing. Plus, the fact that I was in Secondary 4 started to sink in. And hey! you know what Secondary 4 students do? They take "O" levels!Anyway, school also conducted this "Start Right" course on the first day about Goal setting and Inspiration 101. I called it " Mind Champ Rip-Off No.23 " . The only productive thing from the course was this card.

(Edit: Sorry for the poor quality. My handphone is not exactly perfect. Its not beautiful. Its not exactly ... Canon )

In case you can't read the words, it says " Acts Cool and Friendly ". Wai Ken Some sexy girl thinks I'm cool and friendly haha.

On Wednesday, we had our first official NCC trng of 2010. Left the Part As playing "poisonball", and went to look at the PDS training, which happened to be ... particularly lousy. Our PDS head, being the typical stuck-up, threatened the performers to cancel the performance, slammed the NCC room door, failed , slammed it harder and left the performers feeling depressed.

Took the iniative to scold the PDS guys and made them feel really guilty of themselves for letting down the PDS head. Yeah and then it gets interesting. You know when you're at the edge of tears, you're choked up and finding it hard to contain it. Well. Ryan kicked them off the fucking edge haha. A record-setting 3 people cried.

Personally, I feel that it's always reasonable to give them a good scolding when they suck but it is also never nice to make someone cry. I mean, I could never make someone cry. Maybe I should have stopped him, but I think the fear of potentially insulting him got in the way. And one of our rules is that to not interfere when a fellow specialist is scolding. So maybe ... the Discipline Head was at fault too.

And then on Friday a ... conflicting thing happened. Lets just say Jerome told me something sad. Unfair. Extremely unfair to me, so to speak. I started thinking of a million and one reasons why HE (not jerome) didn't deserve it. I thought of even more reasons I deserved it. Sure I may not be the best at what I do but I learn from my mistakes and always try my best. and as the Sith Code would put it, " Fear leads to Anger, Anger leads to Hate " . He was outside enjoying himself, fooling around as always and making ridiculous jokes and I was sitting inside the room. Contemplating the ... unfairness of life.

Mr Kamal told us: " Life is unfair. Accept it "

I say, It sucks to be on the losing end.

This guy is someone I treasure as a friend. As much as I would like it, I don't want to go into a discussion about how lousy he is. That's why this is such a conflicting topic and I dread the fact that it is something that is going to happen.

I'm glad that's off my chest. And besides, I had a hell of a time partying last night at the Sec 1 campfire. Because nothing beats crooning and dancing to the likes of "Qing Tian" and "I gotta feeling" along with fellow friends in the NCC room.

*Hums to the theme of Halo

Happy new year one and all! Firstly, I thought that the New Year countdown was real depressing. Its really just me, because when I was watching the fireworks ( which went on for approximately 25 decades) on TV I swore I could see the words "O levels. " Yeah as if Channel 5 was branding " Oh crap! " in the Singapore night sky. and the Singapore Flyer was whispering " epic fail ... ".

I for one thought that this year was pretty eventful. A short review of 2009 if you will. I think the phrase " Work hard, play harder " aptly describes my 2009. I mean, its Sec 3 so you can't play catching or trade shiny cards everyday. You have afternoon lessons. You have countless hours of tuitions. Yes, for every subject. You start to genuinely worry whether or not you will pass your Mother Tongue. Your science teacher is a virulent walking bomb, ready to erupt once you are 0.01 seconds late for Practical.

And don't get me started on social life. All my friends are male and my relationship with any girl is as stagnant as can be. I'm starting to think that it is breeding mosquitoes.

On the other hand, I really thought that I embraced the dark side this year. and by dark side I mean all things geek.

I bought toys, posters, games. ODST, Batman, Dragon Age, Assassin's Creed 2, Mass Effect to name a few. I went for STGCC, 501st Legion exhibits and Xbox Gaming Letdown Showdown. *cough* suckfest *cough*. Every minute, I long for the day that I can set foot into E3 or ComicCon. thats how much passion I have for this lifestyle and I feel that I finally know what I want to do with my life. But enough with my generally-uninteresting female-repelling ambitions/

I practically killed off all my muscles by sitting on the couch all day paralyzing brutes as Batman. I used to do 500 pushups in Sec 1 and now a mere 50 is enough to drive my chest muscles into Ultimate Spasm Mode.

I won't post my resolutions cause I feel its really of little use if you post it on a blog. Like a trend where I spout random jibberish and look cool but won't even fulfill. Instead, I wrote them down on a note which I pasted on my writing desk and on top of my Xbox. That way I will be constantly reminded of my goals when I work and play. Just my thoughts on resolutions.

Bring it on O Level Year. Bring it on 2010. ;)