The Learning Seasons, Part 2

I have a couple of announcements to make.

First, to the con artist formerly known as Sushi: we need to talk.

I don't know whether or not you'll actually read this but I think chances are pretty good.

Secondly, to Alex: thank you. It works like a charm.

Alex solved my MSN problem. Well, he didn't so much solve it as provide a way to circumvent its dark purpose. But after almost a month of eBuddy, I'll take what I can get. His solution?

A newer version of the classic seven-point-old.

If you somehow find yourself facing my old adversary, you may find proper armaments by clicking the above link.

Assuming you didn't already figure that one out.

End announcements.

This one's for Heroes fanboys and girls (I know you're out there):

Adrian Pasdar's YouTube account!

In the past few months, Adrian Pasdar, who plays the role of Nathan Petrelli (the congressman-turned-hobo who can also fly), has been posting videos on YouTube under the name buckshotwon. His videos are all taken behind the scenes, and some of them are pretty... well, all of them are pretty. Whatever else they are, you should check out for yourself.

His videos are usually accompanied by classy effects and soundtracks, and I am totally jealous. Click to see the gallery.

If you're still not convinced, here's a clip in which Sendhil Ramamurthy (I spelt that from memory, if you can believe it) contemplates an apple. Yes, it is as exciting as it sounds. Click to watch.

I just like this one because of Zachary Quinto and Kirsten Bell. Zach is Sylar, and Kirsten is Veronica Mars. Her role on Heroes has yet to be revealed, but we think it's coming soon.

By the way, Ricky's sister, the girl who Peter saved from the Irish gangs in the last episode is named Caitlin. Wicked huh?

Well, against all odds I actually finished a second page of my new short series... The Learning Seasons. Why is it called that?

Whoever comes up with the best original reason why my series is called the Learning Seasons... gets a special mystery prize! Special! Mystery!

Ahem.

Click to check out the larger version.

Now if you read that and you're wondering why the characters have such bad dialogue, it's because they're children.

Facebook's getting pretty popular these days. Well, all I'll say is that it does a pretty good job of making you feel wanted. And it looks so much better (tidier) than Friendster.

If Friendster was the Xanga of social networking, Facebook is the Blogger.

Addictive.

There's always something going on. If you logged on every two hours you would find a whole bunch of requests and notifications that require gratification. I mean, look at it! Top friend requests! Sex appeal invitations!

I know it's just clever marketing but it's almost irresistible.

Would love to write more but I'm a bit try on materials somehow. Maybe next time I'll let you all in on my most amazing, vivid, technicolour dreams about Halloween and the Great Escape.

PS: Skies! Photographs!

These snaps will be accompanied by no explanations.

If you know why they are there, you don't need me to tell you.

If you don't know why they are there, I won't be telling you. Hint: they are pretty.

OMFB

Okay, though I did intially promise that the next update would be a video of me and Hari poking a lion, dances come first because that's in bigger demand.

Also, so I don't forget, I have plans to blog about mascots, shirt designs, sports and the aussies.

Just a reminder.

Click to watch.

Click to watch.

Okay I know they look the same but the one on top is the Indian dance, and the one below is the Chinese dance. The Malay dance is only like two minutes so I won't upload it unless someone requests it.

Okay? Okay.

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There was a video screen at IU day. It was made by Wilkin and me and some of the board and was supposed to be really good. Unfortunately the teachers behind the wheel in the projector room messed up my sound and played lounge music instead.

The injustice burns with the heat of a thousand suns.

Luckily I have this blog, and I have youtube, so you can now... you know.

Click to watch.

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Jess plays Hands Down at the Interact IU Day!

Click to watch.

Told you there'd be updates.

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The aussies are here and they are awesome.

Jun Ian is hosting Marc Gangemi, the smallest guy, so he will not be actively involved in the blogosphere for about a week.

This does not mean you should forsake the blog. I might still upload things.

This post will be removed eventually.

Karma

Yup... they're coming. This Wednesday night! If you can you should definitely come and chill with our Australian friends. They are very cool.

Okay? Okay. I'm very tired right now since I slept only two hours last night. I plan to sleep by ten today. There is a video to keep you occupied.

It is not entirely about penguins kissing, but you should watch it. Your time will be well spent and I would like to have your opinion on it (cause I made it).

Click on the picture to watch the video.

Yup... I've been iPimped.

Gelaskin. Protects entire iPod except sides. Costs RM 69 normally but currently on 10% discount at Gizmo in 1 Utama.

Check out their other amazing designs here.

The Singapore Troublemaker's Index

Jamie - # 38

"She wants to know if anyone is suffering from Jamie-withdrawal syndrome." - Peako

Likes:

• counter-strike
• fried mars bars

"The deep-fried Mars Bar is thought to have originated in Stonehaven, in the north-east of Scotland. Its existence may help account for the fact that parts of Scotland have the highest incidence of heart disease, cancer and strokes, the worst teeth and the lowest life expectancy in the developed world." - BBC News (link)

• white sports (tennis, golf)
• solitaire

Dislikes:

• twits
• jaywalking
• straws
• staying in school

Notes:

• spent night at MRT station
• mother has fear of her getting raped in taxi
• influential

The second time they played Counter-Strike, Jun Ian killed a lot of people and he told Jamie that he wanted to play more Counter-Strike now. Jamie told him that she has made a lot of people feel that way.

Jamie also influenced Jun Ian to look for napkins after meals even if there weren't any around, and to dislike straws the way she did.

Unfortunately, Jamie could not influence him to stop jaywalking. This was because his Malaysian upbringing was too strong and he thought that waiting for the traffic lights was silly.

• critical
  

See it is pretty much all right to insult me because just check out this diagram of my self-esteem.

Troublemaker Rating:

• Nosiness: 7
• Disaster Power: 9
• Financial Damage: 8
• Escape Factor: 7

Mark - #5
Likes:

• wife
• babes
• guitaring
• artistry

This is Marks' guitar. He pimped it out himself. Clever Mark!

Dislikes:

• Macbeth

To see Markduff's heroic fight against Macbeth, just click on the picture.

Something went wrong with the embedding so it has to be like that.

• the killing of "all [his] chickens in one fell swoop"
• shallow conversation
  

"The entire three days was just spent talking about which superhero, actor, singer, video game character or otherwise celebrity you would rather 'do', which was fun for the first half an hour but then got really immature." - Mark

Notes:

• picked fight in cybercafe over ringtone he didnt like
  
• brutally honest

"If you weren't my friend I would punch you for saying that. You're one of those guys I would glare at like this if I met on the street." - Mark

• almost set fire to Dexter's house

Troublemaker Rating:

• Nosiness: 8
• Disaster Power: 10
• Financial Damage: 10
• Escape Factor: 8

Rachel - # 98
Likes:

• manga
• Eliot's cartoon of the Pope

Dislikes:

• not known (generally amiable)

Note:

• again, not much known apart from the fact that she is good natured, friendly and approachable

Troublemaker Rating:

• Nosiness: 7
• Disaster Power: 8
• Financial Damage: 7
• Escape Factor: 8

Heroics

Everyone's watching Heroes.sanesaint says:

oh and guess wat
sanesaint says:
i hate sylar

Everyone's.

Watching.

Heroes.


And those who don't wish they could.

Just imagine if we had Wira-Wira in Malaysia.

The Mat Rempit who can heal from any accident. (Ghost Rider)

The batik artist who can paint the future into scarves.

The UMNO candidate who can fly.

The Rakan Cop who can read minds.

The teenage blogger whose split personality exhibits super-bitchiness. (*ahem*sushi*ahem*)

The Mat Salleh tourist who can stop time. (Look, Alan! Not a scratch on the Satria!)

The chemistry teacher who tries to find them. (H, Li, Na)

The imitation watchmaker who collects abilities. (going by the name of either Lolex or G-Shock)

Mawi.

And the reckless footballer with the power of retrieval.



Explanation. On Friday, we were playing football. The fencing was down for repairs or something and the ball went into the drain. It started to float away fast so there was no time to think and I jumped down to get the ball. Of course, the walls were like three metres high so I was stuck down there. Some of the guys tried to lower a rope but that almost tore my hands off. I tried wrapping my hands in my shirt but that didnt work either.

Vexation. So I was trapped and shirtless and everybody there had their camera phones out. Stupid technological advances.

Conclusion. The video will show you how I got out in the end.

[01:05:37] [F.G.R.S.]: people go down there sometimes right
[01:05:43] [F.G.R.S.]: how the hell do they get up?
[01:05:51] [F.G.R.S.]: i heard some form threes went down before
[01:05:54] sanesaint: yeah
[01:06:03] sanesaint: it took five of them to retrieve the ball

But how did they do it?

Animal Stories #1

Marcus: You know my house... surrounded by monkeys. They're always climbing around on the trees and sitting on the roof.
Jun Ian: When you say surrounded it sounds like the monkeys just sit in the trees and watch your house all day, smoking little cigarettes.
Marcus: My father hates the monkeys. Whenever he sees one hanging around he'll take his BB gun and shoot it. He keeps them in the garage where we can't find them. Sometimes you see a monkey on the roof and he just takes two and... dual wield!
Pui May: You know Lib Yin's house? At the back where the trees are damn thick?
Marcus: Oh yeah, there got monkeys also right?
Pui May: Sometimes the monkeys attack her dog. You know how her dog is this small right?
Daryl: Huh, the monkeys attack her dog? So small that they just swing in and snatch it and disappear into the trees?
Pui May: This one time, she came out and her dog was alone in the yard and all the monkeys were looking at it. She just grabbed the dog, ran into the house and shut the door.

Animal Stories #2

Marcus: You know what pet would be cool? A shark. The big balcony at my house, we should put a pool there, and put a shark in the pool.
Daryl: Someone's been watching too much Austin Powers.
Marcus: Imagine just standing there watching the shark swim in circles... then every day you go out and catch a small dog and throw it!
Daryl: Make the ceiling real low so when birds fly past the shark jumps out like RAWR and takes them down!
Jun Ian: You know what animal could beat the shark? A pelanduk. It has complete mastery over all other animals, especially crocodiles.
Marcus: Put the pelanduk near the shark pool with a dog chasing it... then the pelanduk will kick the dog into the pool. Put a different dog every day.
Daryl: Eventually one of the dogs is going to outsmart the pelanduk.
Jun Ian: Nah, the pelanduk will be too smart. You can invite your enemies to your house and leave them alone with the pelanduk. Number one assassin! Your pelanduk will kill more people than AIDS and eventually replace Osama as the FBI's Most Wanted.


Animal Stories #3

Pui May: The guy who owns the Mines Wonderland... his daughter wanted a white tiger for her fifteenth birthday.
Marcus: What? A white tiger? What makes a person wake up in the morning and say, I feel like having a tiger? And not just any old tiger either.
Jun Ian: Is that the reason why the Mines has white tigers? She got bored with it?
Pui May: Actually, they're not allowed to keep it in the house. Cause it's an endangered species.
Daryl: Would be pretty cool actually.
Jun Ian: People drop by to visit and you're sitting there stroking your tiger's head.
Marcus: And if you get robbers you can just say... got get them!

This one time, everyone was having this deep, meaningful discussion about movies, when along came Wilkin.

Sanjay: That is actually a good movie.
Brian: Can't wait to see 300 la... they already went to watch right?
Wilkin: Hey, you know what movie you should watch? ORGAZMO! (^o^)

Everyone was like (O.O)

Wilkin: It's about a superhero called Orgazmo. When people are in trouble he humps them.
For a while we all just thought he was just being Wilkin. Then I found out they actually made a movie called Orgazmo.

[00:58:57] peako: wilkin, watches alot of stuff
[00:59:04] peako: he said betty brings back "interesting movies"

According to the inter-net, there are like seventeen porn stars in it and the producers had originally wanted to make it a musical but couldn't get enough support.

Holidays are the busiest time. Holidays have been pretty fun lately though. And on Wednesday... Singapotrip, the gayest fscking thing on the internet.

We Have A Rat

Jogathon donation meter: RM 13,000 and something. The Jogathon was on Saturday.

In my opinion it went pretty well.

But maybe my opinion doesn't count since I'm biased.

You know how some houses have rats, and you would never know if your house had a rat until you either saw it running around at night doing rat-like activities or else it left some kind of sign of rat-like activities. Like eating some cake left on the table or leaving little rat-footprints in the bread.

I found this behind the fridge of my house. What does it mean?

Do we have rats?

I would hate to have rats.

Maybe they're not rats but Jews.

Borat: The Jews have shifted shape!
Azamat: Throw money at them!
Borat: How much should I give them?
Azamat: More, more! Run!

So either the Jews have shifted shape behind my washing machine and are somewhere in the ground floor of my house, or I have rats. Am I safe upstairs? Can rats climb stairs? Can Jews?



I am aware of the fact that the word Jews looks like the word Jesus. Is that the reason why people are racist towards them? So many people are racist towards Jews they're not even called racists anymore. There's a new word for it. Anti-semitic.

You know people hate you when they have to make up a new word for those people. It's like there was a club, and then someone decided to give the club a name.

How about a new club? For people who make fun of Ming Yi? We could call it Everybody Else.

Just messing.

Dexter: I dare you to ask Mdm Moses whether she can part the red sea.
Jun Ian: You know what she once told us? We were reading The Pearl, and she said, and that's how pearls are made. But not me. I was made in the normal way.
Daniel: That's so lame! Did anyone laugh?
Jun Ian: Yeah, sorta...
Daniel: But that's so lame!
Azfar: Ask her if she can part the red sea to find a pearl!

As it turns out, we do have rats. Or at least one.

The exterminator people came over and said there was a rat and it was in the storeroom. But they couldn't get to it to exterminate it because there was too much stuff and they couldn't move it out of the way without the rat escaping through the door.

Since when was a rat faster than a man? Is it because they have two more legs? Is it the tail? Why not have one guy watch the door and get the rat when it tries to make its sweet escape?

The exterminator's plan explained.

Exterminator: We can't catch the rat. There's too many things in that room and if we try to move it, the rat could escape and disappear into the house. Rats are too fast for us.
Me: How can a rat be faster than all seven of us? What are you going to do then?
Exterminator: We're going to leave some bait for the rat.
Me: The rat has already eaten some of the bait you left for it before, right? Why isn't it dead yet?
Exterminator: It's not poison. It's rat food.
Me: Not poison? Are we starting a colony then?
Exterminator: See, the rat food will make it thirsty. So the rat will leave its hiding place to look for water.
Me: And it would go where?

What good are you as exterminators if you can't catch one lousy rat?

The plan of attack for the rat. Just nail it with a six-iron or something!

Exterminator: The idea is that the rat would leave your house to find water. So the rat won't have to die inside the house.
Me: So your plan is to make the rat leave the house in search of water and have it die of old age? What's to stop it from coming back after it gets the water?
Exterminator: There's a slow poison in the food that acts after 2 or 3 days.
Me: Why wait? Why not kill it outright? The rat could go anywhere in that time.
Exterminator: There is an alternative. Lock the door to the room, and call us when you smell something and you know the rat is dead.

That's so dang brilliant. Stay tuned for the thrilling conclusion of Man Vs Rat.

Tomorrow: The Hallmark Holiday!

In Which Actual Blogging Begins

Mrs Matthews: I don't think I can allow you to sell roses anymore.
Boon Guan: Why not? We've always sold them for friendship day in previous years.
Mrs Matthews: Because what happens is a girl will give a rose to another girl. And the two girls will hug.

I'm not making that up. She actually said that. That's the reason why we can't sell roses in school. Not boy-girl relationships, but because apparently, Wesley Methodist hates fags.

If I can pull it off I plan to organize mass gay huggings outside the office or wherever on valentine's day/friendship day. And, if the masses are willing... why stop at hugging?

Imagine... the whole school standing in the basketball court, paired up guy to guy and girl to girl, holding hands, dry humping and snogging in the most blatant display of homosexuality this school has ever seen since the YMCA.

We could make a movie. And call it like...V for Valentine.

They will remember the 14th of February.

It's been almost a month since Christmas, time to show everyone what I've been up to.

No it's nothing bad...

#1: Made christmas card for Australian adopted family. See, it is very good to be a member of my adopted family. Actually, they adopted me but DETAILS.

This is the link to the non-animated version if anyone's interested.

Maria says Stefan isn't coming over this April. Meaning I'm gonna get someone else to host. Cause I'll be hosting for sure. Unlike certain people who are 'too busy' to extend the same courtesy they received back in July... was it July? I've got no memory for dates at all...

See, I remember that my own birthday is on the 2nd of April, and that Jun Yu and Wei Li have the same birthday as me. And Shannon Matthews was born on the 1st of April, one day before.

My sister's birthday is in April, 17-18-19-ish. My father and my brother, in December. My mother in May-June-July-ish.

Wen Juin's birthday is in June, Bio's birthday is the day after 9/11, so I remember that. Ding Wei sometime in February, Yow Hwui in January, Jenq Yan last Friday, Suat Lay today.

Some Korean guy called Hero also had his birthday on Friday. I know because they wrote in on the whiteboard under 'happening things', next to 'Rain is coming'.

Should be here by now.

And there was one day in January where Karen and Rachel Lee had the same birthday, but I can't remember what day it is anymore. And it was just last month. No wait, it was this month. SEE? I TOLD YOU.

#2: Found snowman outside mall in Beijing. I did not make the snowman. I when I found him, he was already made. By who, I don't know. Do hobos make snowmen? Are there even hobos in China?

Hobo-licious - definition: person who is homeless.

It's not a very good picture, and I don't know what I was looking at. But it gets the point across. There was a snowman, and I was there.

There are many more pictures of snow and stuff that I could show you, but if you wanna see that you'll have to wait. Maybe wait for a long time. I don't know.

Brian: Bang, mana saya punya? Kenapa makanan lambat sangat bang?
Waiter: Saya bagi you dalam dua jam boleh. Kamu semua siap saja saya bawa dia punya okay?
Brian: Tak lucu la bang. Sangat tidak lucu.
Waiter: Dua jam la, you tunggu.
Brian: Mana boleh la?
Waiter: Okay la, saya pergi sekejap. Jangan nak nangis la okay?
Brian: What the... He stole my line wei!
Waiter: Don't cry okay?

The waiter pats Brian on the shoulder.

Brian: Kenapa you sentuh saya? Saya bayar kamu sentuh saya ke? Apabila saya nak kamu sentuh saya saya bagitahu okay?
Brian: Hey bang... ada makanan di situ la.

Brian points near the waiter's mouth. There is a mole there. The waiter feels for it then realises he's being had. He takes a swipe at Brian. Brian ducks and shows off his T shirt.

Brian: Tengok ini, ini kamu punya. Ini saya punya.
Waiter: Bukanlah... ini saya punya. Itu baru kamu punya.
Brian: Macam ni la wei... Ini saya punya. Ini you.

Brian points to the empty space on his shirt.

Brian: You tak ada.

The waiter laughs and heads back to the kitchen.

Kevin: He is totally spitting in your food right now.

#3: Made snowball. The video will show you the way.

You have no idea how much I want some ice cream right now.

News: I'll be getting a shoutbox soon. Maybe before the next update.

It's Not Blackmail If I Go Public With It

Maybe the best thing you'll ever see on YouTube all year.

Sanjay.

Mark.

Jon.


Special thanks to Eugene for digging up this old video!

Special thanks to Kengyee for helping out with the background!