Summer Wars - A review

So Summer Wars, an anime movie from Japan happens to be a nice movie. Watched it for a couple of hours on DVD, alone, with French fries in one hand and Iced Milo in the other. Man, I'll tell you ... that is the life!

So basically its an animated movie with a huge emphasis on family, tradition, courage but really the central theme is the power of family. It's set in modern day Japan, yet the environments happen to look really wonderful. For one thing, the graphical aspect is simply awe-inspiring. By far, the best anime I've seen in a pretty long time. and dude, you are looking at a guy who spent his entire childhood watching the Pokemon and Digimon anime series!

Again, the movie seamlessly integrates modern technology (LCD TVs, laptops, giant CPUs) with traditional Japanese furniture, amidst a background of lakes and mountains. The product is a breath-taking view of countryside Japan. Somehow or rather, the movie can make you ponder, is this 3D or not, probably due to the fact that the artists craft the environment and the characters so intricately. I really enjoyed looking at the environments for one thing. Perfect eye-candy.

As for the characters, they may not be Dragon Age melodramatic or Changeling worthy characters but they are very individualised. Each character has a distinct look and feel around them which offers you an insight into their personalities. In that aspect, I felt the artists were spot on. And there are approximately 20 odd supporting characters, so that is a pretty amazing feat.

The story itself has a very deep meaning, scrutinising the influence of technology over humanity. It kinda reminded me of Chuck, whereby events of great importance take place alongside seemingly mundance, everyday-life situations. Here, we have the protaganist dealing with a digital villain that threatens the safety of the Earth, while trying to prepare for his pretend-girlfriend's grandma's 90th birthday. The climax was especially moving.

Overall, I enjoyed the movie as a whole, particularly because the environments and characters are so damn polished. "Polished" is perhaps, an understatement. The movements themselves, the mountains, the pastures, the fields etc. are all amazing scenery to take in, and it really made me appreciate Japanese culture and their way of life. In conclusion, anyone looking for a feel-good anime must see this movie.

I'm Awakening

Reading old essays causes your command of the English language to go downhill.

This Vesak Day wasn't as enjoyable as I had hoped it would be.

I had hoped to sleep for like 27 years, but unfortunately due to my accursed body's adaptation to months of endless revision throughout the night and 4 hour sleep periods, I actually woke up at 10a.m. when I slept at 2a.m. yesterday! That must be like ... a world record. And not in a good way.

So I started on Dragon Age and as I breezed through the Circle of Magi with my apostate blood magus , called Perry, tearing down waves of desire and rage abominations with my plethora of primal spells *Boomz*, I started to feel that sense of familiarity and ease, meaning I was wondering to myself, "This is starting to get so easy, its not that enjoyable!"

I checked my difficulty level at the options screen. It said "Nightmare" - for players who felt that "Hard" was a joke". Good god. Inadvertently, I flashed back to an old IGN article detailing how difficulty is essentially the heart of enjoyment for every game, and those words never rung more true. What was I to do?

Spend hours tapping the lasers out of my Xbox 360 until it could finally read a disk?! Watch TV for more than 2 hours? Read my toilet book (the book which you bring to the toilet), History Timelines? Which I actually did. Did you know America was named after the Venetian explorer Amerigo Vespucci, who was a relative of Christina Vespucci, who had a liaison with the protaganist of Assassin's Creed II Ezio Auditore Da Firenze?

Anyhow, by the time I figured out what to do, it was 8pm and "When Animals Strike" was on Okto Animal Night, and thus began my 2 hour journey of discovery regarding how coyotes can rip humans to shreds. So that's Vesak Day 2010 for me! Gonna do more productive stuff now, like watching those DVDs I borrowed yesterday.

Free Fridays FTW

Free Fridays - Fridays that are free from stress of any kind.

I love free Fridays. A shimmer of hope in my otherwise insignificant teenage life.

One of my favourite free Fridays took place merely 2 weeks ago. I was *really, really, really, really sick, so I slept till 1pm and played Dragon Age the rest of the day, somehow reigniting my love for the dark fantasy epic. Yeah, that day was awesome. Almost as awesome as Kick-Ass. Which still deserves a good review. Tomorrow perhaps.

I think the key aspect of Free Fridays lies in the fact that it is somewhat of a "preview" of that ideal pseudo-nerd/geek RPG-playing lifestyle, sleep, eat, Dragon Age and sleep again. I mean, wouldn't every self-respecting gamer enjoy that kind of life?

I thought of a cool new name for people like me. Game-Boy. I'll call myself that from now on.

In case, you haven't realised by now, I'm speaking of the top of my head. Yeah, I'm just like J.D. from Scrubs except I'm typing ridiculous things on my blog instead of fantasizing about them.

I should do more of these, "off-the-top-of-head" posts. I don't have to sing to myself that often anymore. Kick-Ass rocks.

Too much of the Force on this guy

So frickin lethargic. Composing embarrassing text messages about the digestive system and butterflies on the phones of your friends is an extremely draining process.

Having a great command of the English language does not bode well for me either. I have to type out my entire essay about how computers have revolutionized the world and I doubt it will even make sense given the sleepy state I'm in. Grrrrr.

Lesson today. Protagonists of science-fiction epics ( with the exception of Hayden Christensen ), always turn into tubby old men stuck on less-than-funny drama series. Just look at William Shatner, who happened to be Captain Kirk on Star Trek. And Luke, my man, you will always be my favourite whiny, appears-initially-as-a-gay-character, lightsaber-wielding farm boy turned Jedi Master but cut down on the intergalactic burgers man!

*faints

Omg. I think ...... I think I just shat my pants.

God has seen me mug through 4 Integration worksheets and has decided to reward me.

Dreams do come true. Miracles exist. The world is beautiful. It is truly and wonderfully beautiful.

http://movies.ign.com/articles/109/1092495p1.html

Someone kick the damn guy

I just realised Justin Bieber has a song called "I need somebody to love". Between that and his sexually harassing behaviour on the "Baby" music video, you'd think more people would hate this guy!

Kick-Ass review coming up soon. Meanwhile, I need to filter all my free time into Dragon Age. After all homework and tuition today, I only have the 10.00pm to 11.00pm timeslot to engage my elven blood mage in some serious darkspawn killing ! Of course, then there's Cougar Town at 11.00pm. :)

I found this quote very helpful in the school handbook ( excuse me, but it happens to contain a wealth of very inspiring quotes by people I don't know ).

"It isn't about what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that determines your happiness. It's about what you think about".

So people, think positive! a.k.a Courtney Cox

Don't fret about stupid things in life that are not even worth your time. I know I won't.

I'm Kick-Ass

Kick-Ass is the only movie that has made me laugh-out-loud-till-my-stomach-hurts, cry and scream "Oh Yeah" as any amazed fanboy would.

Even now, 30 minutes after I have finished the film, I am still in a state of awe. You know, movies like Avatar I could just write a review like 5 minutes after watching it, well probably because it didn't touch me or inspire me to a level that leaves me speechless. Kick-Ass did just that. I don't feel that I have the capability to write something that will give this movie its due.

Give me a day to take this all in. Meanwhile, enjoy the soundtracks of the movie, which are by far the best songs I've heard in a movie.

Kick-Ass: 6 stars over 5. My favourite and the best movie ever.

Nothing is true, everything is permitted

Nothing is true, everything is permitted

Using Google Chrome now. In fact, I'm posting using the "Blog This" extension/app on Google Chrome.

So far its pretty impressive! Gonna watch Kick-Ass online now! Hit-Girl FTW !!!

Chin Man

Chin Man! Beware his Wing Chun Smile of Death !!!

Kudos to Jerome and all his free time.

Sequels. Yay or Nay?

IGN wrote a superb article on sequels, detailing whether games, as entertaining mediums, need to have sequels or not. They mentioned Assassin's Creed 2, which developed on everything that it lacked in the previous game. They also mentioned Mass Effect games by Bioware as one of those rare games that stand out as a self-contained story as much as they do as parts of an epic trilogy and franchise. These words rung true to a gamer that has experienced all these games at one point or another. Read the full article here.

http://ps3.ign.com/articles/108/1088416p1.html

and Fanboys assemble! Here are a few good articles about The Empire Strikes Back, which turns 30 this year. Other geeks often refer to Empire as the most outstanding episode in the Star Wars Saga, but Revenge of the Sith will always be my favourite. Epic lightsaber duel atop Mustafar FTW.

http://movies.ign.com/articles/109/1091748p1.html

http://movies.ign.com/articles/109/1091249p1.html

Weekends w/ little homework are simply awesome. *breaks into the song by Spose

I'm Awesome

Haha I don't usually post lyrics but I can just relate to this song. Its Awesome!!!



Awesome, awesome, awesome, awesome...
I don't necessarily need to be here for this...
I'm gonna keep the headphones though...
Mother fucker I'm awesome!
No you're not, dude don't lie
I'm awesome!
I'm drivin around in my mom's ride
I'm awesome!
A quarter of my life gone by
And I met all my friends online
Mother fucker I'm awesome!
I will run away from a brawl
I'm awesome!
There's no voicemail, nobody called
I'm awesome!
I can't afford to buy eight balls
And I talk to myself on my Facebook wall
I'm awesome

You know my pants sag low (low)
Even though (though) that went out of style
Like ten years ago (go)
Spose, I got the swagger of a cripple
I got little biceps,
Getting fatter in the middle

And lyrically I'm not the best :)
Physically the opposite of Randy Moss and yet
So preposterous
Feel the awesomeness, the most obnoxious
Guest up at the sausage fest
Oh yes!
The girls are repulsed
So I hide in my hood like i'm joining a cult
Uh Uhh
I'm as nervous as my cattle dirty curtis
All my writtens are bitten and
All my verses are purchased
Me? I'll never date an actress
Got too many back zits
Plus my whole home aroma is cat piss
Every show i do is poorly promoted and if you like this,
It's cuz my little sister wrote it

I'm awesome!
No you're not, dude don't lie
I'm awesome!
I'm drivin around in my mom's ride
I'm awesome!
A quarter of my life gone by
And I met all my friends online
Mother fucker I'm awesome!
I will run away from a brawl
I'm awesome!
There's no voicemail, nobody called
I'm awesome!
I can't afford to buy eight balls
And I talk to myself on my Facebook wall
I'm awesome

Check it out

I'm from Maine and I don't hunt, nope
And I can't ski
Smoke weed but I can't roll blunts
*Find me* whipped by my wifey
My neck not icy
Eatin at McDonalds because Subway's pricey

Uh, and my unibrow is plucked
Just asked my mom if I could borrow ten bucks
She's like "For what?
Blunt wraps and some Heineken?
You skinny prick, go get a gym membership and vitamins!"
Find More lyrics at www.sweetslyrics.com
I'm like, Mom please, don't blame it on me
I got my bad habits from you, Dad, and Aunt Steve
My attitude's sour but my futon's sweet,
And the hair on my ass, it is Jumanji

Suit untailored, ringtone Taylor Swift
Can't tweet up on my Twitter
Cuz I haven't done shit
Bank account red, body ungroomed
The only thing good about me is I'm off stage soon

I'm awesome!
No you're not, dude don't lie
I'm awesome!
I'm drivin around in my mom's ride
I'm awesome!
A quarter of my life gone by
And I met all my friends online
Mother fucker I'm awesome!
I will run away from a brawl
I'm awesome!
There's no voicemail, nobody called
I'm awesome!
I can't afford to buy eight balls
And I talk to myself on my Facebook wall
I'm awesome

Futhermore I'm cornier than Ethynol
Cheesier than Provolone
I spent ages eight to ten living in a motor home
With a ego the size of Tim Duncan
Even though I got shit for brains like a blumpkin
I'm twenty four, serving lobster rolls
Because I spent a decade filling optimos
And I'm not even the bomb in Maine
On my game I'm only about as sexy as John McCain
Now put your hands up,
If you have nightmares
If you wouldn't man up if there was a fight here
If you got dandruff, if you drink light beer
I'm outta breath...

But I'm awesome!
No you're not, dude don't lie
I'm awesome!
I'm drivin around in my mom's ride
I'm awesome!
A quarter of my life gone by
And I met all my friends online
Mother fucker I'm awesome!
I will run away from a brawl
I'm awesome!
There's no voicemail, nobody called
I'm awesome!
I can't afford to buy eight balls
And I talk to myself on my Facebook wall
I'm awesome

Soooooooooooo true!!!

I found myself a home

This might be abrupt to my AVID readers ( I know you're out there! All ... 2 of you ) but I had my Passing Out Parade for NCC today. Words alone cannot describe how I feel. Well, actually they can, but I just wanted to act emotional. Anyway, having watched others fling their berets into the sky for 3 years, it never occured to me that one day, me and my NCC brothers would be doing the same thing. I mean, after all we have been through, to simply step down is unbelievably ... surreal.

Well, I guess every great journey has to end one way or another. And what an amazing journey it has truly been. I was never really a touchy-feely kind of guy ( there is a reason people call me Rocky ) but I would just like to say ... from the very bottom of my heart ... that through my time in NCC, I finally understood what brotherhood and bromance really meant.

I mean, these guys, they're not just your simple friends, they're your "brothers from other mothers" as Xiu Ming would put it. And I'm proud to call them so. Inevitably, after countless of physical training sessions and drilling with these guys, you will form a great bond between one another. It's ingrained into your very being ever since the moment the entire platoon is forced to support one another as your PS forces you to pump on the rocky terrain under the bloody seething heat of the sun. But it was worth it. Heck, some of us even grew addicted to push-ups!

And we're ... we're like BOYS you know. We're smelly, immature, ridiculously crazy boys who spend thier time crooning (albeit terribly) to Adam Lambert or Lady Gaga. We wrestle one another, poke fun at one another's hair, whack one another for no apparent reason and list goes on. and I just love that about us.

For me, the definitive time for my batch was the Bintan trip. I thought that it really made us grow closer to one another. I still remember us leaping off the boat into the gleaming, transparent sea, or drinking hot milo after a riveting kayaking race in the background of the setting sun. Ah, those were truly the glory days.

In terms of us working as a team of specialist, I guess we really made our mark. Each of us had our strengths and flaws.

Ryan is the tough-as-nails Part B PS who always has ingenious ways to condition his particularly "unique" platoon.

Xiu Ming makes all our days brighter with his antics.

Chin is the ever-smiling and gleeful Part A PS.

Jerome's the annoying yet truly and undeniably passionate PDS Head.

and I know I will regret this ... but Tan Kuan Ting, to me, is and always will be one of the greatest CSMs I've known.

As a Discipline Head, did I truly make NCC a more disciplined unit? Truthfully, if you ask me, not really. But I always did try my best. I learnt to grow into my role as a disciplinarian, particularly with the the specialists. I wouldn't consider myself to be a particularly great Discipline Head, but I always perservered and overcame my fears and for that I'm proud of myself.


Somehow or rather, that all equates to GOLD UNIT. so NCC 2010 FTW !!!


And how can I forget the splinter group formed in NCC?! I may not say this much but the "Fanboys" remain dear to me as my best friends. If I wasn't in NCC, would I have known that another brilliant Indian Star Wars nerd was just lurking, waiting to be found? If didn't go for the Bintan trip, would I have known that Jerome knew all 7 forms of lightsaber combat? Hence, I thank destiny and fate for bringing these amazing individuals to me.

Best. Photo. Ever.

Yet, in the end, I'm still upset. I'm upset that I'll never croon to "Tonight's gonna be a good night" with my friends anymore. I'm upset over the fact that I won't get to watch people tap out one by one to Jerome's Figure Four leg lock. I'm upset that I won't get to see Xiu Ming shit his pants as he anticipates Damian jumping of the top of the cupboard. I'm upset over the fact that I'll probably never go to Macdonalds again, lugging a bulky bag and making fun of Omar's academic status along the way. Most importantly, I'm upset that NCC has made its exit.

Pang Sai Kia Kuan Ting summarised it the best when he said "I'm a smelly pervert" "I have mixed feeling about this". However, my days in NCC will go down as the definitive and best days of my ridiculous teenage life. So I just really wanted to say thank you to Kuan Ting, Deepak, Chin, Damian, Ryan, Jerome, Xiu Ming, Omar and all those who made this possible. Thank you for always being there for me, thank you for making my time in school so unbelievably fun and enjoyable and thanks for bringing light into my life. You guys are the best.

I loved it here, I loved it here, I found myself a home, a home, a home ... sweet ... home :)

Avatar

Well instead of whining around about my Xbox, I decided to do productive things. Well actually, I spent like 2 hours clearing the Brecilian Ruins in Dragon Age with my unbelievably fast Duncan-looking rogue with maximised attack speed *Bssh Bssh Bssh*, but back to the topic about "productivity" ...

I watched Avatar! on DVD of course. I didn't get to watch it when it was at its peak in popularity. I don't know why either. Anyway, I finally got the chance to catch it, albeit on the Sony DVD player in my living room, which is laggy at times, and some of the subtitles fail to appear and the screen is unnaturally pale ... YET ...

I thought that it was absolutely awesome! You know that a movie has made its mark visually when you are just awestruck by the scenery even though its not in 3D and its pirated nature makes it look pale. I can just imagine what it would have looked like in cinemas.

Again, I would like to reinforce how amazed I was by the various creatures, the Na'vi, the forest and so much more. Of course, my absolute favourite would have been the Hallelujah Mountains, the floating mountains in the sky with the beautiful waterfalls. And the all the night scenes with the bioluminescent flora and fauna, just WOW.

The story was very powerful as well. The prideful and greedy human race attempting to claim the precious element unobtainium( a pun geddit? ) by force, destroying the indigenous Na'vi and all that is dear to them in the process. The victimised Na'vi race, united by the protaganist Avatar, show the foreign invaders that they won't be pushed around and drive them out of Pandora. Amazing.

Yet, behind all this, I feel that there was a secret message. The classic conflict between the needs of mankind and nature itself. One line by the protaganist Jake Sully just really really struck me. At the Tree of Souls, he told "Eywa" (the deity of the Na'vi),

" These people killed their mother. And now they want to kill ours."

Obviously referring to the natural plight of Earth. Is this a foreshadowing of what is to happen to Earth? James Cameron allowed us to see how amazing nature is at her finest, and what we will do and have already foresaken to fulfill our material needs. Pandora, in its essence, is somewhat of a naked image of nature and biology and more importantly, a common visage of that ideal world that we all wanna be in. ( At least, for me ). Maybe if we wanna make Pandora a reality, we should just stop in our tracks in mitigate the degradation of our Earth itself. I'm certainly gonna do more to save the Earth now.

One of the things I didn't really LOVE was the villanous aspect of the movie. I, for one, find the villains and antagonists of any entertaining medium, be it games or movies, to be really integral to the overall experience. Unlike most people, I always try to understand the motivations of these villains so that they appeal to me as not just one-dimensional characters. Take for example, Saren from Mass Effect 1, a top-Spectre gone rogue. Sure he blasted the head of one of his fellow Spectres Nihlus on Eden Prime, but by the end of the game or if you've read the novel Revelation, you'll find that all he did, he did so because he thought that he was protecting his beloved universe. For me, this made me sympathise with him and thus he struck me as a powerful villain.

Here, the villain comes across as, and is epitomised by the tough-as-nails Colonel WhatsHisName. Well, I just really hated him. Lol. He just came across as the loser who doesn't understand how precious the environment and life is. "Well, well ,well , I just like to blow things up and shoot people who get in my way," seems to be his life motto. I don't know, I just could not sympathise with him in any way! So I hated him! Edward Cullen has a new contender!

By the way, can I just mention how the movie also has some kind of "Hell Yeah/ That was bloody awesome" aspect? I think that the part where Jake Sully tames the Turok, the crimson red alpha giant winged beast, really appealed to the fanboy in all of us.

Well there it is. Its 5.59 a.m. in the morning and I'm getting tired. In all, a visually outstanding, breath-taking movie with a deep and powerful narrative. I really loved it and I know why all of you do too :)

"The Xbox Technical Errors" strike back.

Its that time of the year when I feel unbelievably depressed.

Console Wars Episode V: "The Xbox Technical Errors" strike back.

Its the dreaded "Open Tray" problem! With personal experience, the two most common and deadly Xbox problems would be the "Red Ring of Death" (circa 2007) and the "Open Tray" error (circa 2 bloody days ago). Well I dealt with the red ring( pfft, who doesnt? ) when my dad sent it for repairs, which cost me like 2 weeks worth of game time. But we were fortunate because the warranty still held. Now, 4 years later, it comes and bites me in the ass.

This happens with every dvd or game disk. It starts reading, then BOOMZ "Open Tray", indicating the Xbox can't read your disk. By logic, the laser that scans the disk is faulty. And there have been tens of thousands of "home solutions" available on the Internet. I happen to be living proof that NONE of these solutions WORK.

Tap the console multiple times? Check.
Remove Hard Drive? Check.
Clear Cache? Check.
Remove internet connection? Check.
Tap the console harder? Check.
Hammer the console with your fists? Check.
Drop the console on padded carpet? Check.

If you've got a solution for this, I've done it and it doesn't work. The political correct solution to this problem would be to send it back to Microsoft, pay the fee and feel bad about yourself. Gah, it's exactly these kinds of moments when you curse Bill Gates and fuel arguments about why the PS3 prevails. I'm sure the Blu-Ray never screws up.

And when you try countless of times and it never fails to show that accursed "Open Tray" message, you just feel shitty inside. Really, really shitty. >:O

Please avoid this post if you have not seen this movie

Hi. I just returned from AMK hub and a thrilling 2-hour session of fanboy-eyecandy a.k.a Iron Man 2, and I am just eager to share my thoughts about the "Marvel"-ous movie.

(Geddit? "Marvel"?, " Marvel"-lous ?! )

As much as I thoroughly enjoyed the movie, I did feel that there were certain aspects that could have been radically improved. First of all, towards the end of the movie, I kinda got bored by Tony Stark's incessantly sarcastic behaviour (which is starting to become characteristic of all of Robert Downey Jr.'s performances. Remember Sherlock Holmes? ) . I mean, yes Tony's a flamboyant, bombastic billionare with the most powerful weapon in the world, but sometimes, referring to the appearance of Whiplash, its good to be more serious. I certainly do enjoy Anthony's casual, slick tone but I would also like to see a more serious side to Iron Man. Make him angry. Like really really angry. Kinda like Batman. or Black Spiderman. It would probably lead to more interesting storylines and drama. And it would certainly make Iron Man a more emotionally developed character, who is deserving of the Iron suit.

Also, more powerful villains please. Whiplash didn't really fit the bill. Sure, he was a mechanical genius. A guy with a serious vengeance but in the end he was still sucker-punched by the combined force of Iron Man and War Machine. We need someone who really makes Tony Stark pee in his pants. (Although, as Tony humorously pointed out in the birthday scene, it would be filtrated as clean water). We need someone as intelligent as Tony, someone who knows how to exploit him and hit him where it hurts, inherently evil ( as in the person who created the Twilight series EVIL ), with the physical capabilities to match the Iron Man suit. Could this be an opportunity for Justin Hammer perhaps?

That said, I do have to reinforce that I really enjoyed the movie, particularly due to all the references. I was "this" close to orgasm when I saw Thor's Hammer. Micky Rourke was also really good as Whiplash, and I really hated to see him die at the hands of the iron-clad heroes. I couldn't have enjoyed the Avengers references more. Any other deserving fanboy would have noticed Captain America's shield ( albeit half-completed, or was it reverse-engineered? hmmm ) laying about Tony Stark's loft. I mean how did it get there?! HOW ?!

Also, I thought that Mace Windu, Samuel .L. Jackson was exceptionally outstanding as Nick Fury. The Iron Man-Fury banter was absolutely hilarious!

Tony: "I have no wish to join your super secret boyband."

LOL. MORE AVENGERS STUFF PLEASE!!!

Cinematic Effects was just brilliant. Eye-candy from start to finish. And EXTREME firepower. I mean like rocket launchers, repulsor arrays, machine guns and more rocket launchers. By eye-candy, I also mean the beautiful Gwyneth Paltrow, ( still in love with her from Iron Man 1 ) and the ever-voluptuous Scarlet Johansson! Whew, I don't think I can ever be tired of seeing her kick some major ass as Black Widow.

I give the movie a 4/5, officially violating Code 256 of the Fanboy's Bible: " Always give Marvel movies full marks on your blog". Yes, it was a brilliant and outstanding movie but there are certainly areas to improve on. Personally, its selfish because inside I'm still craving more and more Avengers references. But really, its a great movie, even for non-comic fans, and I certainly encourage you to watch it. Ciao. :)

I'm no Superman

ARGHHHH!!!! I can't believe I'm sick as hell. Physically of course. With papers left to go!

It's my usual sinus problem, taken to whole new sick level. I guess it was really the worse during the Higher Mother Tongue paper. It was like one of those dams, with the walls collapsed and the river just gushing. I was equipped with 4 packs of tissue paper and still it wasn't enough. I could have sworn that I saw some trouts swimming in my pool of mucus. I did complete the paper however, and I'm pretty confident of it but it was just unbelievably uncomfortable.

History paper was no better. Sure I completed the whole paper ( Q4 btw ), sure I did all the critical analysis, but with the time I could have saved blowing my friggin nose I could have done one of those double critical analysis and a half page conclusions for SEQs.

I don't even feel like practicing for E-Math. What I do feel like doing is saving the elven alienage from slavery in Dragon Age and watching Scarlet Johansson kick some butt in latex suits. ( ahhhh. Scarlet ) *Breaks into the theme of Iron Man 2*

ARGHHHH!!!!!

JD's HD textures anyone?

Slacked the whole of yesterday playing Randy Orton's Road to Wrestlemania. RKO-ing Kane to the background of the every-annoying Michael Cole's "Randy should really be afraid of that million-foot tall red monster" never gets old. Jerry Lawler screaming at the top of his lungs, " RKO! RKO! " always makes it all the more sweeter :)

Gah, High Definition Dragon Age textures come at a price. A real lengthy one. (Basically I started downloading last night at 7pm and woke up at 12pm today and it still wasn't done).

However, when I did modify the game, it looked superbly wonderful. and it really makes me feel like procrastinating and burning all E-Math practice papers with my range of deadly flame spells from the Primal spell tree. Boomz!

"I loved you Anakin !" -Obi-wan Kenobi, Episode III

Ok I fought thru the pain and now I can't sleep again. Damn that caffeine!

Anyway, lets rant!

So Mr Kamal has popularised the use of the term "Jedi Master" to describe someone who is very proficient in a certain area. Of course, it's always cool to have the awesome Mr Kamal talk about podracers and Darth Maul *breaks to shout out fanboyish praises of Zabrak Sith Lords "HELL YEA DARTH MAUL RULEZ"* ... However ...

As a true blue Star Wars fan myself, I somehow feel rather uncomfortable with this new use of the term. I mean, you have people like Glenn saying stuff like "I'm a Jedi Master bla bla bla" or random people saying "May the force be with you" (albeit in a condescending manner). Am I happy that Star Wars is getting some decent attention around school? Sure, but perhaps it's a little too much attention that pisses off the ardent fanboy inside of me.

I mean, imagine being passionate about something, feeling genuinely unique, sharing that passion with some of your closest friends, and suddenly everyone's talking as if they've been known it for their whole life. Its probably this sense of loss of the uniqueness that defines me, coupled with the 'irresponsible' use of the Star Wars medium that results in a very distraught fanboy.

Haha, sure this trend is probably going to end in like 2 days, but its definitely worth mentioning. Finally, a scenario that fuses school life with Star Wars. I mean, what else am I going to rant about? Big Show being the only notable superstar on Smackdown? I'm stuck mugging for Social Studies whilst Halo fanboys all over the world are assasinating one another ( in the most AWESOME manner ) on the Halo:Reach multiplayer beta, of which I have access to but technically can't play?

Life's just magical huh ? ;)

Coffee anyone?

A true marvel = Caffeine

Definition: God-given substance that enables young Singaporean boys to study endlessly for their Social Studies examinations throughout the night, even when they have not slept for the past 23 hours.

Ok now I'm getting some tumour-like pain in the back of my skull. Time to sleep.

Tralalalala, Tralala in the moorrning ....

I am proud of myself for staying up till this late to study. Btw if I had sat for the 2008 and 2009 'O' level chem papers I would have done awesome.

I don't even think I want to sleep yet. Probably just daydream of the possible names for Miz's and Jericho's tag team.

" ... and now, your Republic ... shall fall ... "

Star Wars: The Old Republic at IGN.com

I forgot how unbelievably awesome this video was. Taken from E3 2009 by the way. Was remembered of this after IGN did an article about the new prominent figures in the upcoming MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic. Personally, I'm not big on MMOs, I always associate them with immature brats that attack their parents and a shitload of profanities. But this could be an MMO that I could really enjoy. However, thats a conversation for after the 'O' levels right?