My father once told me that respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. "Something cannot emerge from nothing," he said. This is profound thinking if you understand how unstable "the truth" can be. - from Conversations with Muad'Dib by the Princess Irulan
That bet I've made with Alvin, was supposed to escalate things into a higher level (not really, though). I wondered what he has done to keep his end of his bargain. He was supposed to... date her and hopefully marry her. What are the winnings? If he dates and marries her, I will have to buy THEM a bottle of whiskey (I don't even know whether we would even be drinking alcohol by then) as a wedding gift on their wedding. If not, I'll get the latest PlayStation at that point of time from him. Sounds great? I'm willing to buy them a wedding gift on their wedding of course. But he will suffer if he loses. He'd better not lose this gamble. Truth will be revealed 13 years later. And I'll be waiting.
Utakata Hanabi
Sasuke x Sakura
Saturday, October 30, 2010
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Apologies
I'm sorry for not posting much nowadays for you viewers as I'm kinda really busy and filled with exhaustion everytime I sit down in front of my computer to write a post due to entering a National Competition (unwillingly, and not sports by the way). I'll try to post as much as I can.
Saturday, October 23, 2010
Spooky Feed #20
If you believe certain words, you believe their hidden arguments. When you believe something is right or wrong, true or false, you believe the assumptions in the words which express the arguments. Such assumptions are often full of holes, but remain most precious to the convinced. - The Open-Ended Proof from The Panoplia Prophetica
Haven't been updating my blog for the past few days. I'm either too busy, or simply forgot to update it or too exhausted. There's actually a day when I was so exhausted from my basketball match and stuff that I slept at 7pm. Well, I'm finally updating it today. Today was not really an eventful day after all. "John Avery", "SpirAlvin" and I actually went to VivoCity for a short while before finally deciding to go the usual internet cafe at Bugis. Upon reaching there, we found out that there was no space for three. Then we went to the arcade just next to the cafe and started playing a game. After that, I played Time Crisis 4 myself. You know something? I actually lost two out of three lives during the PROLOGUE!! What impressive statistics for a professional Time Crisis 4 gamer like me who had finished the game without help with just one try before. The real reason behind my demise twice was the problem with the pedal and the gun itself. I did my best and held out till the last stage area 1 then a helicopter took my last life. Damn! Following the arcade, we strolled to Suntec City and had our usual dinner there. There... What we discussed was absolute EPIC. I don't wanna talk about it here as I might really get into trouble. Alright, enough with the stuff I did. The main reason for posting is about this "SpirAlvin". Alright, this guy was the friend I was referring to in Spooky Feed #17. This guy finally decided to ask her out for a date after hearing my advice and stuff. This guy told me that there's six other people in his school telling him that "she already likes him". I don't like the tone of that as it could be just teasing. Really hope he would not get rejected...
Haven't been updating my blog for the past few days. I'm either too busy, or simply forgot to update it or too exhausted. There's actually a day when I was so exhausted from my basketball match and stuff that I slept at 7pm. Well, I'm finally updating it today. Today was not really an eventful day after all. "John Avery", "SpirAlvin" and I actually went to VivoCity for a short while before finally deciding to go the usual internet cafe at Bugis. Upon reaching there, we found out that there was no space for three. Then we went to the arcade just next to the cafe and started playing a game. After that, I played Time Crisis 4 myself. You know something? I actually lost two out of three lives during the PROLOGUE!! What impressive statistics for a professional Time Crisis 4 gamer like me who had finished the game without help with just one try before. The real reason behind my demise twice was the problem with the pedal and the gun itself. I did my best and held out till the last stage area 1 then a helicopter took my last life. Damn! Following the arcade, we strolled to Suntec City and had our usual dinner there. There... What we discussed was absolute EPIC. I don't wanna talk about it here as I might really get into trouble. Alright, enough with the stuff I did. The main reason for posting is about this "SpirAlvin". Alright, this guy was the friend I was referring to in Spooky Feed #17. This guy finally decided to ask her out for a date after hearing my advice and stuff. This guy told me that there's six other people in his school telling him that "she already likes him". I don't like the tone of that as it could be just teasing. Really hope he would not get rejected...
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Spooky Feed #19
Your original unselfish choice fills you now with selfishness. - Leto's Inner Voices
Got back the results of Chemistry and A-Math today. Just barely passed Chemistry: Already a joyous moment for me. Then... Failed A-Math badly. *Sigh* Forget it, forget it... Let's talk about something else. During recess today, me and my usual friends grouped up together and chatted like we did, then the subject came to love. I went quiet (sucking from a straw to the packet drink), while the rest targeted Bryan Cheo. Gavin who was sooooo 'successful' in wooing a girl and sooooo arrogant that he did it like it was nothing, tried to 'impart his skills' to Bryan. It was mentioned that Bryan's special someone recently kinda broke up, and Gavin and the others were strongly persuading him to "occupy the space while it's empty". Bryan rejected the idea strongly even after so much persuasion. Then there begin where Chong Jin muttered "Bryan, your ValVal". Bryan was annoyed at that remark for a couple of seconds until he looked at me (I recall that I was looking down and drinking my drink). As I was looking down, I didn't see any fingers pointed at me when Chong Jin remarked that keyword a second time. "Oh ya, BX yours also right?" Bryan commented. I simply nodded my head. At that time, Yi Da pointed out that my case was a failure while Gavin's was highly successful. I was reminded of my painful memories once again. After the entire discussion, Bryan and I had a 1-on-1 talk. Having been in the same situation once, I understood why he didn't want to just "occupy the space while it's empty".
"You didn't want to, coz' you think you ain't good enough for her right?"
"Ya." Bryan replied.
"You could improve yourself. However, the opportunity may already have left you." I told him.
The words I spoke, were the exact words that I've told myself at least half a decade ago. My second sentence, was exactly what happened to me. It was a unselfish choice when I chose to not confess... It was unselfish when I found out that she had a boyfriend and yet gave them my blessings silently. It was unselfish when I discovered that they broke up and I did nothing but worry about her feelings and emotions. It was unselfish when I found out that they patched up and swallowed my feelings once again. I tried my best to let go of you, But I can't...
Got back the results of Chemistry and A-Math today. Just barely passed Chemistry: Already a joyous moment for me. Then... Failed A-Math badly. *Sigh* Forget it, forget it... Let's talk about something else. During recess today, me and my usual friends grouped up together and chatted like we did, then the subject came to love. I went quiet (sucking from a straw to the packet drink), while the rest targeted Bryan Cheo. Gavin who was sooooo 'successful' in wooing a girl and sooooo arrogant that he did it like it was nothing, tried to 'impart his skills' to Bryan. It was mentioned that Bryan's special someone recently kinda broke up, and Gavin and the others were strongly persuading him to "occupy the space while it's empty". Bryan rejected the idea strongly even after so much persuasion. Then there begin where Chong Jin muttered "Bryan, your ValVal". Bryan was annoyed at that remark for a couple of seconds until he looked at me (I recall that I was looking down and drinking my drink). As I was looking down, I didn't see any fingers pointed at me when Chong Jin remarked that keyword a second time. "Oh ya, BX yours also right?" Bryan commented. I simply nodded my head. At that time, Yi Da pointed out that my case was a failure while Gavin's was highly successful. I was reminded of my painful memories once again. After the entire discussion, Bryan and I had a 1-on-1 talk. Having been in the same situation once, I understood why he didn't want to just "occupy the space while it's empty".
"You didn't want to, coz' you think you ain't good enough for her right?"
"Ya." Bryan replied.
"You could improve yourself. However, the opportunity may already have left you." I told him.
The words I spoke, were the exact words that I've told myself at least half a decade ago. My second sentence, was exactly what happened to me. It was a unselfish choice when I chose to not confess... It was unselfish when I found out that she had a boyfriend and yet gave them my blessings silently. It was unselfish when I discovered that they broke up and I did nothing but worry about her feelings and emotions. It was unselfish when I found out that they patched up and swallowed my feelings once again. I tried my best to let go of you, But I can't...
Monday, October 18, 2010
Spooky Feed #18
The most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error. - The last thought of Kynes before he died of a dust whirlpool caused by a pre-mass spice gas explosion.
Time sure flies. I recall posting last Thursday on "Tomorrow is the FIRST day of checking EOY exam scripts", and here I am now posting on "Tomorrow is the LAST day of checking EOY scripts". Alright, let's talk about what happened the first two days first. I got back my Mother Tongue paper (Chinese) and scored above average (However, although I scored only ABOVE AVERAGE, I kinda pwned almost if not the entire school. This kind of things often happen during my secondary school life.), got back my Combined Humanities paper and failed the overall by 2%. I'm hoping that the other scores from the last semester and term would pull me up to passing grade though. Today, I've got back Physics paper and I made it!!! I've passed my Physics!! Finally! Then Geography paper comes next, and my intuition already told me that I wouldn't pass and I didn't. Then English Language is up next: Results show that I've successfully passed the important subject. After that I got back the E-Math paper. E-Math results were weird. Paper 2 was supposed to be a lot tougher than Paper 1 (which almost the entire Secondary 3 cohort thought was fairly easy: I meant Paper 1) then many scored a lot higher in Paper 1 then in Paper 2. But my case is weird. I actually failed Paper 1 by 2 marks!! Yet I kinda pwned quite a number of people by scoring 71/100 by my Paper 2. How could someone score higher for the tougher paper than the a lot easier one? That's me. It was due to several errors and careless mistakes that I failed my paper 1... Tomorrow is coming up fast: We are gonna get back our Chemistry and A-Math Papers tomorrow. Hope that I did secure a satisfactory score in both papers.
Time sure flies. I recall posting last Thursday on "Tomorrow is the FIRST day of checking EOY exam scripts", and here I am now posting on "Tomorrow is the LAST day of checking EOY scripts". Alright, let's talk about what happened the first two days first. I got back my Mother Tongue paper (Chinese) and scored above average (However, although I scored only ABOVE AVERAGE, I kinda pwned almost if not the entire school. This kind of things often happen during my secondary school life.), got back my Combined Humanities paper and failed the overall by 2%. I'm hoping that the other scores from the last semester and term would pull me up to passing grade though. Today, I've got back Physics paper and I made it!!! I've passed my Physics!! Finally! Then Geography paper comes next, and my intuition already told me that I wouldn't pass and I didn't. Then English Language is up next: Results show that I've successfully passed the important subject. After that I got back the E-Math paper. E-Math results were weird. Paper 2 was supposed to be a lot tougher than Paper 1 (which almost the entire Secondary 3 cohort thought was fairly easy: I meant Paper 1) then many scored a lot higher in Paper 1 then in Paper 2. But my case is weird. I actually failed Paper 1 by 2 marks!! Yet I kinda pwned quite a number of people by scoring 71/100 by my Paper 2. How could someone score higher for the tougher paper than the a lot easier one? That's me. It was due to several errors and careless mistakes that I failed my paper 1... Tomorrow is coming up fast: We are gonna get back our Chemistry and A-Math Papers tomorrow. Hope that I did secure a satisfactory score in both papers.
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Spooky Feed #17
Anything outside yourself, this you can see and apply your logic to it. But it's a human trait that when we encounter personal problems, these things most deeply personal are the most difficult to bring out for our logic to scan. We tend to flounder around, blaming everything but the actual, deep-seated thing that's really chewing on us. - Jessica speaking to Thufir Hawat
I'm not gonna write anything on what happened today. It's quite irrelevant anyways. If anything, I wanna write about something else. I'm gonna write about a friend. There's this friend trying to woo a girl that he likes. He kinda have difficulties in the wooing process. He seeked advice from me, which I gave. After some discussion, he decided to buy the girl a pendant as a birthday gift. As his friend, I've advised that he not present her the gift yet, maybe next year when they have a stable foundation in their relationship so that the gift may be announced as a wooing gift. After much consideration, he decided to continue to give the pendant to her. It just so happens that he gave her the pendant right before the 1-week September school holidays. On a day nearing the end of the short school holidays, I've told him that after the school holidays, something either positive or negative is gonna happen to him due to his actions. The first two weeks seemed fine and "nothing" sorta happened. However, recently the girl seems to be ignoring and avoiding him. Naturally, He'd feel disappointed and down. He's considering giving up wooing her. He just seems to blame a lot of stuffs, including himself. Should I, as a friend, tell him? I'm not sure myself.
I'm not gonna write anything on what happened today. It's quite irrelevant anyways. If anything, I wanna write about something else. I'm gonna write about a friend. There's this friend trying to woo a girl that he likes. He kinda have difficulties in the wooing process. He seeked advice from me, which I gave. After some discussion, he decided to buy the girl a pendant as a birthday gift. As his friend, I've advised that he not present her the gift yet, maybe next year when they have a stable foundation in their relationship so that the gift may be announced as a wooing gift. After much consideration, he decided to continue to give the pendant to her. It just so happens that he gave her the pendant right before the 1-week September school holidays. On a day nearing the end of the short school holidays, I've told him that after the school holidays, something either positive or negative is gonna happen to him due to his actions. The first two weeks seemed fine and "nothing" sorta happened. However, recently the girl seems to be ignoring and avoiding him. Naturally, He'd feel disappointed and down. He's considering giving up wooing her. He just seems to blame a lot of stuffs, including himself. Should I, as a friend, tell him? I'm not sure myself.
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Spooky Feed #16
It occurred to Paul then that he had seen his own dead body along countless reaches of the time web, but never once had he seen his moment of death. - The Collected Sayings of Muad'dib by the Princess Irulan
Tomorrow is the first day of the checking of End-Of-Year exam scripts. A long time before the exams, before the preparations for the exams, before the final school term of this year even started, even before the September school holidays, just right after the minute that my father had told me "Find a way to catch up your results yourself" when I had shown him my Term 3 result slip, I have already have that vision: That vision of me sitting among the ranks of students sitting according to their classes, waiting... For the papers that we have written and drawn on during our exam periods... The papers we've worked so hard for. I've been through the process before, and I will go through it once more... For the last time this year, I am getting back the papers tomorrow, next Monday and Tuesday. Excited? Nope. I'd rather not go through it. Why? Because getting back the papers meant either having the glory of scoring high and exceeding your own expectations or huge disappointment in yourself and the results and sorrow. Did Harry felt the same when he saw the owls that brought his, Ron's and Hermione's O.W.Ls results? I'm already anticipating what's gonna happen tomorrow and what scores I will get, but I assume it's negative to a large extent. Been playing basketball and games hard to tire myself out and not think about that fateful day which has just about 3 more hours to go. However, what's to come will eventually come.... Might as well get it over and done with.
Tomorrow is the first day of the checking of End-Of-Year exam scripts. A long time before the exams, before the preparations for the exams, before the final school term of this year even started, even before the September school holidays, just right after the minute that my father had told me "Find a way to catch up your results yourself" when I had shown him my Term 3 result slip, I have already have that vision: That vision of me sitting among the ranks of students sitting according to their classes, waiting... For the papers that we have written and drawn on during our exam periods... The papers we've worked so hard for. I've been through the process before, and I will go through it once more... For the last time this year, I am getting back the papers tomorrow, next Monday and Tuesday. Excited? Nope. I'd rather not go through it. Why? Because getting back the papers meant either having the glory of scoring high and exceeding your own expectations or huge disappointment in yourself and the results and sorrow. Did Harry felt the same when he saw the owls that brought his, Ron's and Hermione's O.W.Ls results? I'm already anticipating what's gonna happen tomorrow and what scores I will get, but I assume it's negative to a large extent. Been playing basketball and games hard to tire myself out and not think about that fateful day which has just about 3 more hours to go. However, what's to come will eventually come.... Might as well get it over and done with.
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