Driving slow on sunday morning...

GOOD MORNING!

No tuition today, Mr. Chan cancelled it a few days back. My original intent was to sleep really really long, but then I decided to wake up and BLOG. Hah.

So yes I know, I haven't blogged in awhile. Damn is it hard to keep consistent. This post WILL be long.

Justin has been posting a lot of those 'So-tell-me-more-about-yourself' chain mails of sorts on his blog. Lol, I'll do one of those later on.

Well, the week hasn't been that bad. I really think Mr. Kang is a hilarious guy.

He doesn't really have much of a 'sense of humour' if you look at it, but he says some stuff in such a child-like and innocent manner, it's funny.

So on thursday we were going through some E Maths paper, and afterwards Mr Kang decided to talk to us about integers.

So he told us about integers and that they were represented by a Z with a line parallel to the /.

And then he went on to tell us the most random reason why:

"It's like Zorro. You know, Zorro has two swords. -makes funny gesture with hands-"

Like LOLWTF, he's damn cute.

Then he went on to tell us the REAL reason why integers were represented by Z. Supposedly it is because it was discovered by a German named Zahren. So I asked:

"What about Zorro then?"

"Erm, I'm not too sure myself, but I think it is because he wasn't born then."

AHHAHAHAH.

Anyway, just in case you're wondering, Mr Kang is misinformed. There's no such German as Zahren, so he got it 3/5 correct. Integers are represented by a Z, which stands for ZAHLEN, which is German for "numbers".

So then the next day, he was telling us about percentage increase. He told us that some companies and people sell stuff at 300% the cost price. Ridiculous eh? Although I suspect that's how much a meal at Mac costs.

I was pretty skeptical so I said:

"300% the cost price? But who is willing to buy?"

And he gave us the example of fake jewels and all.

Okay I know right now you must be thinking I have a REALLY odd sense of humour. But you have to see the WAY he said it. It's all to do with his expressions and the way he punctuates that makes it funny.

"So what about Zorro's two swords then? Anybody willing to purchase them for 300% the cost price?" I said.

He looked at me and said,

"Well no."

"...But I heard you can get a replica of King Arthur's sword Excalibur on the Internet for $200."

"It's like the real thing, except a replica."

"Then you and go around and bluff people that you used it to kill DRAGONS. -smiles-"

LOLOL.

Man, I love his lessons.

Speaking about selling stuff overpriced, I've been trying to find an article on Starbucks. Supposedly the article was about SOMETHING about Starbucks policy. I'm not too sure if anybody can help me out, but it's about the policy that if you ask the barista to make a better cup of coffee, he WILL make a better cup of coffee for you.

Don't make sense?

Well that's the reason I want to re-read it too. lol.

Kudos to anybody who can relink me to the article. And did you know, Starbucks earns a lot just HEATING milk.

I got back in touch with Tiffany yesterday. It's amazing how everybody in Singapore seems to somehow be related to one another.

It's like a little Friendster network going on.

For example, when my sister was in Victoria Junior College, she knew a friend, who happened to me my NCC (Land) Cadet Lieutenant.

And then she knew someone else, who was my primary school friend's brother. Double that, cause she knew ANOTHER friend who was my friend's brother.

So apparently Matthew and Stephen actually know Tiffany. They go to the same church.

Haha, but it was really great getting to talk to her again. I remember in primary school we didn't talk much, and no I so want to get back with everybody I have lost contact with.

Tiffany actually has an interest in dolls and art. Haha, I thought it was really neat. Most girls I know don't really have an interest in dolls?

Of course, there's CK who draws amazingly well.

But then dolls? Haha, not many.

Her doll is so expensive. It costs like $300?

My bass is worth two of her dolls then. HAHA.

Anyway, most of the time we kinda linked back to the education system and that it sucks. I have to agree. I feel the education system makes us stupid in some ways.

I agree with Tiffany when she said:

"We have the brightest kids, but not for the working population."

You have to admit that is true. Singapore wants to promote creativity and talent, but IMO the education system kills it. And no, I don't think IPW helps promote much creativity.

I guess the main reason why is because the education system is too rigid.

Looking ahead, Singapore is entering a new phase. Maybe things might change in the next 5 years? We'll see.

Hahaha, but then I'll get to vote. COOL.

And Tiffany says she wants to go to either Temasek Poly or NAFA. I was quite enthralled when I heard that.

Maybe it is because everybody in TK I know (with a couple of exceptions like Justin) are either done with their DSA admissions, or just really want to go to some JC. So perhaps it is refreshing to hear someone say that they want to go somewhere else.

And coming from someone from TKGS? Hah, when I first entered TK, all the girls I knew from Tao Nan wanted to go TKGS cause it was so prestigious.

Then their standard dropped? It's so sad really. And Michelle told me that it's because of their former principal, who is the current principal of TJC.

ZOMG LA. That means TJC's standard is going to drop even further.

Crap, I'm steering clear of TJC given the choice. VJC or MJC then.

And if you're wondering why I'm so 'traditional', it's not because I want to. But my dad won't allow me to go to a Poly or anywhere else.

"Old minset," Tiffany said.

Well, I'm really glad to know that SOME Singaporean parents are a bit more open minded now. When I have kids I really hope the education system changes.

And when I have kids I want to teach them how to appreciate music as well. HAH, okay fine it's so long from now. But hey, no harm looking forward eh?

Haha, I sent Tiffany my recordings of me playing bass as well. Lol, I feel like such a show-off sometimes.

She's the person who said it is 'funky'. HAHA I'm like so overjoyed. Finally someone who KNOWS what makes something funky.

And she really likes the Red Hot Chili Peppers too. WOW. It's like one of my favourite bands.

Haha, I guess we somehow connect a lot. It's great.

Okay okay, so here's the thing Justin wants me to do:

Once you've been tagged, you have to write a blog with 6 weird facts/things/habits about yourself, saying who tagged you. In the end you need to choose the 5 people to be tagged and list their names. No tag backs.

INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Do the following without complaining.
2. Choose 5 people to do this after you've completed yours.
3. Leave a tag on the person's tagboard to say that he/she has been tagged.
4. Start your post with "I have been tagged!" then do this.

FAVOURITES:
colour : Blue, shades of grey, black, white and sometimes really funky colours.
food : Hah, too much to say.
song : Too much to say too.
movie : PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: THE CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL!
sport : Foosball.
day of the week : Friday.
season : I would say autumn although I haven't experienced it.
ice-cream : I'll settle for a Cornetto.

CURRENT:
mood : Lethargic.
taste : Er?
clothes : Shorts and a tee.
desktop : Laptop palmtop?
time : 9.32 am
surroundings : My room.
annoyance : The rain.

FIRSTS:
best friend : No particular one.
crush : ST, hahah zomg :X
movie : I can't recall, but I would say Top Gun with Tom Cruise in it.
music : Britney Spears was cool back then.

LASTS:
cigarette: No I don't smoke or do drugs.
drink : Water.
ride : Taxi ride home.
movie : ONE HOUR PHOTO!
phone call : My mum.
CD : The Raconteurs' "Broken Boy Soldiers".

HAVE YOU EVER:
dated one of your best friends : Nope.
been arrested : Almost, on the count for assault. LOL.
skinny-dipped : Nope.
been on TV : Maybe?
kissed someone you dont know : Nope.

THINGS:
4 things you did today : Woke up, walked around, turned on the computer, blog.
Sounds you can hear now : The rain.

The chosen five to do this!
1. My anti-self
2. Jian
3. Winston
4. Someone who doesn't know me
5. Tiffany

So the printer died today...

The printer doesn't even feed paper properly. It's like a snail compared to the oh-so-fast printer my dad and sisters have.

Hmmm, so apparently Freddy The Computer Guy will be coming over to fix it. Or maybe I'll get a new printer.

I think it'll be kinda redundant to get a new printer, but heck, it makes life a hell lot easier.

Apparently what happened was my sister tried to print with it this afternoon, and supposedly the printer just took more than it could chew.

In other words, instead of drawing in ONE sheet of paper to print, it took in the WHOLE pile.

Bah. Stupid printer.

If you noticed, I posted a picture of a note written to me to explain the situation.

And yes, THAT is written by my mum.

My mum writes funny.

SHE ACTUALLY QUOTED WHAT FREDDY SAID. LIKE WTF? LOL.

"PRINTER CAN USE BUT CANNOT LIFT UP THE PAPER," FREDDY SAID.

AHAHAHA.

Okay, my mum has a rather odd personality. I suppose those who have been at my place know. HAH.

Anyway, today I headed down to Kallang KFC with Henry, Isaac, Matthew, Jonathan, Baskhin, Keith, Jian, Darwin, and Umesh.

Darwin and Jian were feeling down because of some problem. I have totally no idea so I don't want to talk about it either.

Ah well. Hope they get through their troubles.

We had a great load of laughs. Man, I just realised it's so fun to be with them.

Matthew initiated his usual plastic straw bursting routine. I think it pissed off those guys from Dunman High who were trying hard to study Biology.

Bad idea to study in KFC in the first place. Hah.

Matthew then proceeded to tell us the funniest thing to happen this week:

HE WAS LITERALLY STRAPPED TO HIS CHAIR DURING BIOLOGY LESSON BY PAKIN AND HOU CHIAT. LOLOL.

If you have a good imagination, you can probably imagine the scenario. I was in stitches just thinking about how it was like.

Matthew was day dreaming. So Pakin used his belt and chained him to his seat.

Hou Chiat and Pakin then went on to simultaneously tickle Matthew, whilst shouting the phrase:

"MEATY!"

HAHAHAHHAA.

MATTHEW GOT SO PWNED. I wished I was there when it happened.



Anyway, I just got The Raconteurs' album "Broken Boy Soldiers". It's good stuff really. Nothing revolutionary or groundbreaking, but good music nonetheless.

It's really solid sounding stuff. I would recommend you to give it a listen if possible. "Steady As She Goes" is catchy as hell.

Oh well on a sidenote, I tried singing whilst playing the guitar in 4J today.

Well so Matsurah and Malak heard me, and they were like:

"OH MY BRYAN YOU SING SO WELL! DO YOU KNOW RYAN CABRERA SONGS?"

Haha, I don't even know any songs by Cabrera. I'm just amazed as to how he keeps his hair in that shape all the time.

I'm not intending to brag of course, but I would just like to say thanks to them for their compliments. Malak's comments sounded rather exaggerated though. LOL.

Okay, so today wasn't so bad. Rather productive and not to mention I think I'm working just well towards prelims.

Sure, so my Combined Humanities and English sucks, but who isn't doing badly for these two subjects anyway?

Haha, ah well, I'll figure something out.

Prelims are in a month's time people. Let's all go study and get good grades.

GET AROUND WOOHOO!

GET AROUND, WOOHOOOOOOO...

I just love The Beach Boys.

A few hours ago, I asked David if he ever considered being a vegetarian.

"No."

Well of course, his answer was a lot more detailed than that. He says he would be a vegetarian for health reasons, but not just because of the whole 'animal rights' thing.

Hmmm, well honestly, after watching the damn cat killer video that has been circulated by Jake, it gave me a good enough reason to be a vegetarian.

Nobody deserves to be killed like that.

It is funny really, sometimes I feel that war is a necessary evil and here I am rambling about animal rights and being a vegetarian.

So it's all right to kill humans with bullets and artillery fire but it's not okay to kill a cat with stilletto heels and large amounts of pressure applied onto the cranium...

Is that logical? I suppose many people like to think of death in a first person scenario rather than third person. Some people don't get why shooting you in the head is inhumane. After all, you die instantly.

But if we look at things from a third person prespective, REAL images of war are indeed gruesome. You're just lucky if you haven't seen pictures of Iraqi citizens losing their heads.

I meant that literally.

It just doesn't play out right. It seems like, when you join in the hippie gang, it's like a package.

You probably have to be anti-war and vegetarian. And smoke marijuana.

Seems like I can't be a pro-war vegetarian. Because technically, that would be contradicting.

Like an oxymoron...

ANTI-MISSILE MISSILE. MICROSOFT WORKS. PRETTY UGLY.

Hm. Can't really think of anymore. But I suppose that a vegetarian meatball is funny and hence should be added to the above line. Why didn't the EA Games creative team think of a Command and Conquer Generals anti-missile Patriot missile.

Like lawl, so imba. And as Winston would say:

"G33K SPEAK."

Anyway, so far it's all talk and no action for me though. I just haven't had that 'push' factor that would make me go vegetarian.

Apart from all that, David also stated that he gets pissed when people go up to him during meals and tell him all the stuff about how the chicken he is eating was killed or how that cow got slaughtered. Then they will look at it pitifully as though someone just murdered their pet hamster.

Hmmm, pretty logical I suppose. It's one of those universal truths that we can all agree on: You don't impose your beliefs onto others, and keep your opinions to yourself until asked.

I suppose many people fail to get that sometimes though.

Ah gee, time is running short.

Time to get my homework done.

Music is such a wonderful thing.

I'm on inspiration overdrive now.

And no, I didn't take LSD nor am I on an acid trip.

Hahaha, I came home, so ready to get my Geography Elective and Social Studies essays done. Unfortunately, I decided to procrastinate once again.

"Ah, let's just play bass for like...half an hour?" I told myself.

Okay, so while I did stick to the time limit, I'm totally turned on by jazz funk now. I just nailed down the intro riff for "Silly Putty" by Stanley Clarke as covered by Primus. I haven't got the verses down though, god, there are mutes all over the place it's so tough to catch.

I'll figure that out IF I have the time tomorrow of course.

Apart from that I was grooving along to this track called "On The Move" by some group called "Count Basic". Uber jazz chillout, and the bass is still funky as hell. I love it. I managed to transcribe out the majority of the groove by ear. I haven't figured out the rest though.

Once again, I'll figure that out IF I have the time.

Music is such a wonderful thing. If you can't appreciate it, it's really sad.

Anyway, as much as I love music, I officially proclaimed myself to be a good cookie and study hard for the upcoming prelims. So, I guess I'll have to set the four string groove machine aside to allow time for studies.

Gah.

I thought I managed to keep up pretty well today. I don't now if it was my excessive hyperactivity that got me through, but I didn't feel tired for the entire day.

Heck, I didn't even yawn during the Chemistry paper.

Anyway, apparently my classmates noted that I got scolded by various teachers for the entire day. No idea. It started with A Maths lecture with Mdm Halilah.

I was telling Pakin this joke Shane had told me over MSN yesterday. It's really hilarious, I'll talk about it again.

Now, when you are in a super quiet room, telling a joke is pretty hard. Coupled with my supposedly 'very audible' voice, I guess Mdm Halilah could hear me like a mile away. So she went on with the usual "Shut up before I do something really mean" routine.

Of course, I suppose that didn't stop me.

Mdm Halilah went on to target Jian An and co. at the 4D camp in the auditorium.

She was like, "Jian An, you like to talk so much is it? Come down and teach la."

Total silence for like 10 seconds...

Which was broken by my sarcastic 'Hur Hur'. Apparently Keith thinks I did it on purpose to get back at her. Now now, that's a misconception.

So if this was a football game, I supposed it's 1 - 1. Of course finally, Mdm Halilah got the final move. I was busy entertaining myself with Lianny's ponytail, cause I thought it looked kinda funny.

Yeah yeah, I know, I have a weird sense of humour.

Mdm Halilah's super senses heard my giggles of course, and she went on to say the same thing to me she said to Jian An previously.

Bummer.

Ah gee, I don't really want to go into detail for the scenario with Mrs Koh during English. If this isn't boring to you, it's boring me out.

Anyway, so I guess the rest of the day was pretty cool. Miss Erma didn't come to school so we had 2 free periods. SWEET! So we get to choose what time we wanted to go for lunch etc. CE on Monday is great.

Okay okay, just to make your stay worthwhile, here's the joke Shane told me yesterday. I've been telling it to various people in school today, and god is it funny. According to Shane he got it off the Something Awful forums.

Anyway, so this is how it goes (it isn't exactly RA or anything but just some references to the genitals. Hope no one finds it offensive):

A few days before Jack married Wendy, he had her name tattooed on his penis to show how much he loved her. When fully erect, the name was visible, when not, it read "Wy".

So Jack and Wendy went to Jamaica for their honeymoon. Their hotel had two beaches: A traditional one and a nudist one. After spending two days at the traditional beach, Wendy suggested that they spend a day at the clothing-optional beach.

At the nudist beach, Wendy asked Jack if he would bring her a cold drink. Jack walked across the sandy beach to a little hut. He saw the bartender, also naked, and asked him for two pina coladas.

Jack tried not to stare, but he noticed that the bartender had "Wy" tattooed on his penis as well.

Jack got curious.

"Hey," he smiled. "What a coincedence, your girlfriend must also be named Wendy?"

"Oh no, mon," replied the bartender.

"This one says: WELCOME TO JAMAICA. ENJOY YOUR STAY."

Happy Interntional Lefthanders Day!

Meh. Well, I got bored so I figured I started blogging again.

-wipes off dust-

Last post was in May, now it is...August? Haha. Looking back I thought my previous two posts were rather boring to say the least.

Anyway, just in case you didn't know, today is International Lefthanders Day. I don't know what that means for us righthanded people, but I suppose it's a day of fun and laughter for lefties.

Samuel once told me that lefties are more prone to committing suicide though. Lmao.

It's interesting, I found out that Calvin is actually lefthanded. He plays the guitar righthanded though. He claims he did so because his guitar teacher started out by telling him to play righthanded because it was probably cheaper that way.

Furthermore, he claims lefthanded guitars "look like cock sia". Take that, Hendrix.

Well, I wasted today as usual.

I had some random discussions with Zhang and Winston over MSN. I guess the common topic was probably the FA Community Shield match between Liverpool and Chelsea.

I'm not a huge soccer fanatic, but I guess I enjoy rambling about what formation kicks and who should play in the left wing. Zhang was like...

"OMG! BRYAN AND HIS WINNING ELEVEN STRATEGIES!"

-.-?

I don't know if what applies for Winning Eleven applies for football, but I'm pretty sure not every player in the ENTIRE WORLD can do 10 step overs successfully without tripping over and looking like an idiot. If that's the case, then what applies for Winning Eleven 8 doesn't apply for real life football then.

Stupid video game reality.

Anyway I like to express a big warm "AWWWW, THANKS I'M SO TOUCHED" to Terry and Siantzu. I'll look forward to that double date someday :D

Ah gee it's 1am and I'm up here blogging.

I'm pretty sure I'll feel awfully wasted tomorrow. Not to mention I have to stay up til 5pm tomorrow for the Chemistry test. Caffeine?

Maybe not.

I think I'll blog again tomorrow. LOOK OUT WORLD!