Tagged (Oh Do I Have To?)

It's been a horrid week. I've outdone myself with fails in both Maths and Physics, and while I don't want to think about it the sad truth is staring at me in the face: I've to buck up, stop wasting time wallowing in self pity and start working hard.

This tag is not helping me in any way.

List Out The Top 5 Presents You Wish For

1. An iMac. No, a Macbook. Wait, make that a Macbook Pro.
   
2. An Osotogari t-shirt (at the moment I've to work hard for this - defeating about 4-5 judokas, for instance)
   
3. Wonderful STPM results that I don't have to study for
4. A DSLR
5. Tay's brains. Minus the fur, of course.

The Madding Crowd That Tagged You Is:

In order: Wen Qi.

YOUR 5 IMPRESSIONS OF HIM/HER

• Nosy (pleasantly so)
  
• Tall
• A wry sense of humour
• Wise
• Gifted with unnatural powers of observation
  

MOST MEMORABLE THINGS HE/SHE HAS DONE FOR YOU
Listening to me rant. She's been the person to go to for many, many people.

THE MOST MEMORABLE WORDS HE/SHE HAS SAID TO YOU
"Ahem, practise what you preach then. Just say liao, Cedric. Haha. See? Not that easy right?"

IF HE/SHE BECOMES YOUR LOVER , YOU WILL
Wonder what happened to my other fixations.

IF HE/SHE BECOMES YOUR LOVER , THEY HAVE TO IMPROVE ON WILL BE
Location.

IF HE/SHE BECOME YOUR ENEMY , YOU WILL
Throw myself off the nearest cliff.

IF HE/SHE BECOME YOUR ENEMY , THE REASON WILL BE
Highly unlikely. But I'll go out on a limb and say Tay.

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Next on the list: Andrew

YOUR 5 IMPRESSIONS OF HIM/HER

1. Blatantly honest
2. Unabashed
3. Cool
4. Funny
5. Stereotypically Chinese
   

MOST MEMORABLE THINGS HE/SHE HAS DONE FOR YOU
Invited me to his birthday party

THE MOST MEMORABLE WORDS HE/SHE HAS SAID TO YOU
Fiona le?

IF HE/SHE BECOMES YOUR LOVER , YOU WILL
Hide in a hole.

IF HE/SHE BECOMES YOUR LOVER , THEY HAVE TO IMPROVE ON WILL BE
His current fixation.

IF HE/SHE BECOME YOUR ENEMY , YOU WILL
Try to patch things up.

IF HE/SHE BECOME YOUR ENEMY , THE REASON WILL BE
Sam.

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The Greatest Designer I've Ever Known: Tay

YOUR 5 IMPRESSIONS OF HIM/HER

1. Dirty
2. Furry
3. Funny
4. Subject to unpredictable moodswings
5. Layered
   

MOST MEMORABLE THINGS HE/SHE HAS DONE FOR YOU
Apologizing the very first time.

THE MOST MEMORABLE WORDS HE/SHE HAS SAID TO YOU
"Think of it like this: you are driving down a road blindfolded, and there's a traffic light ahead. It might be green, it might be red. Asking would be taking off that blindfold."

IF HE/SHE BECOMES YOUR LOVER , YOU WILL
Not worry, because he will soon fall in love with another person in a day. Or two.

IF HE/SHE BECOMES YOUR LOVER , THEY HAVE TO IMPROVE ON WILL BE
Sexual orientation

IF HE/SHE BECOME YOUR ENEMY , YOU WILL
Been there, done that. He'll come to.

IF HE/SHE BECOME YOUR ENEMY , THE REASON WILL BE
Jylene.

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The Tigeroach: Vivian

YOUR 5 IMPRESSIONS OF HIM/HER

1. Cute
2. Uses trademarked words
3. Frequently calls other people posers for following said trademarked words
4. Tigeroach
5. Nicholas Teo regrets the day he ever made Smiling Pasta

MOST MEMORABLE THINGS HE/SHE HAS DONE FOR YOU
Burned Prince exactly 15 minutes after I asked her to

THE MOST MEMORABLE WORDS HE/SHE HAS SAID TO YOU
"Ah pek!"

IF HE/SHE BECOMES YOUR LOVER , YOU WILL
Sweep her off her feet and carry her far, far away from Tay

IF HE/SHE BECOMES YOUR LOVER , THEY HAVE TO IMPROVE ON WILL BE
Her tendency to melt when watching Chinese dramas

IF HE/SHE BECOME YOUR ENEMY , YOU WILL
Strangle Sam

IF HE/SHE BECOME YOUR ENEMY , THE REASON WILL BE
Me.

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The Best Friend: Garrick

YOUR 5 IMPRESSIONS OF HIM/HER

1. Happy go lucky
2. His unwavering loyalty
3. Fun
4. Eager to help
5. The. RTS. Gamer.
   

MOST MEMORABLE THINGS HE/SHE HAS DONE FOR YOU
There are too many memories of things he has done. Perhaps introducing me to Judo, but that jostles in place for collecting our SPM results together, teaching me the basics of badminton and playing Advanced Wars with me and Ling 30 minutes before the Sejarah PMR paper.

THE MOST MEMORABLE WORDS HE/SHE HAS SAID TO YOU
"Who cares!?"

IF HE/SHE BECOMES YOUR LOVER , YOU WILL
Throw Fiona at him

IF HE/SHE BECOMES YOUR LOVER , THEY HAVE TO IMPROVE ON WILL BE
Sexual Orientation.

IF HE/SHE BECOME YOUR ENEMY , YOU WILL
Been there, done that

IF HE/SHE BECOME YOUR ENEMY , THE REASON WILL BE
A. Very. Bad. Misunderstanding.

I absolutely refuse to pass this tag on to other people. Whew.

[I Remember] Boys Brigade

Yes, that's me in there. Stop laughing.

There are 3 UGSers in this photo. Spot em?

What I've learnt from BB:

• how to stand in the sun without moving
• how not to tie a rope
• how to get kids to do what you want them to do, without yelling at them
• the joys of hating drill
  
• how sedia is more comfortable than senang diri
• how not to polish a shoe
• how not to polish a belt buckle
• how to kiss a car tyre
  

There are times when I think back on my BB experience, and the feeling that comes to mind is that of an old grandma being cheated of her pension fund. I know a few people who've gotten a whole world of experience from BB, and my father still gathers with his ex-BB friends from time to time. They laugh when they recall all their BB days - strip a fellow friend, wear lipstick, general evil (etc, etc).

And all I get is this bitter taste. Of grandmas.

I Woke Up This Morning ...

And sprained my neck. This site tells me 4-6 weeks before healing. I don't get it - I deal with very fast neck grabs and I twist out of chokes, but do I get neck sprains then? No ... I get this sprain by turning my head once in bed. I am now sitting ramrod straight, typing this in my room.

My bed is a more dangerous place to be in. Seoinage.

No Judo for 4-6 weeks. I might as well die.

UPDATE: Found a better site. Tells me its a torn ligament. Torn ligament, muscle strain, neck sprain ... I don't bliddy care. It just hurts. A lot.

The Love Of All Things Shiny

I'm typing this from my room, where my fan is set at a high 3. The white keys beneath my fingers are uncomfortably warm and I play a complicated dance with them. Tap here. Tap there. Jump over to the spacebar and tap, tap, tap. Ignore the clock in the upper right corner of the screen: I know that it's 3, I know I should be studying, but don't mortals all have their vices?

It's just a computer la. Go back to your Physics textbook. Stop wasting your time trying to edit some Square article - you know you'll never get anything done with a wireless connection singing to you softly from the modem downstairs.

I swat the thought away and it sinks into the murky recesses of my brain. Now I turn my mind back to this notebook: my God it is slow. Computers like these make grandmothers in Sentras look fast. Such a sorry state you are in, you poor white thing!


Earlier today I borrowed it from the staffroom and proceeded to handpeck my way through 3 artices and a Firefox download. It was competent. Really it was! (Okay so Safari did crash, and my mouse did do cartwheels over my Chemistry homework, but other than that everything worked fine! Fine! And have I told you how the dock looks when you're opening files?)

There is a 4 second lag between what I type and what appears onscreen. The keyboard's getting warmer. I swear it's turning into a grill. God.

I dream that one day we will all wake up in hell, and find Satan toasting unsuspecting pirated movie buyers between iBook G4s. Steve Jobs is evil. Go find a PC immediately. I take my leave and try to ignore the sizzling bits of my fingers still stuck to the keyboard.

Judo For Girls

Oh, I just couldn't resist.