CNY 2009 - The Ox Year

The season again.

No intention to elaborate too much about what's going on recently, as I'm kinda exhausted now and wanna save everything for later. So here's an ugly attempt of mine to put up a character 'spring' in a twisted way here.

And gonna be having a week trip to the south in 5 hours time. So this blog will be sleeping until then.

Ennui at it's best

Life is at it's best when you don't feel like doing anything at all.

Well, at least I felt it that way for now. I had nothing better to do for the past 3 days except to help around the house a bit while some of my family went for a short trip, and lazing as usual. And as a bonus the house was more quiet that usual for the past 3 days. Mental peace.

Which led me to being uninspired and unmotivated, and can't think up of something to scribble, including today as well. Only scooped this up because I want to coax myself to sleep but have to get rid of the pre-slumber ennui clogging up within me.

So yeah.

And to think of it, Year of the Ox is coming over in a week's time, by which starting that time I'm gonna be out of this country for a week to meet my sister in Singapore.

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Which also means a week without my PC, and my songs and Foobar2k 9.6.1 player with a new layout I configured myself to be more streamlined than the previous one I had. Rats. At the end of the Rat year.

On the bright side I get to see S'pore again, but being a hermit for one week on the not-so-bright side. Ah well, can't have everything in life.

All Out Gunsblazing

Almost all the fans of gun-related themes out there share the same dream - to one day dual-wield pistols in the most badass fashion, blasting the hell out of everyone and everything.

Blam blam blam blam, finishing off the rounds in your clip, release both the pistol's magazines, rapid reload, blam blam blam blam. Awesome.

Seeking to fulfill my own personal hunger to achieve this, I found my oppurtunity in the least stylish means - in the arcade. That's right, the arcade's lightgun shooter machines. Well of course to achieve my objective, I had to play it alone in the 2 player mode, which also means double the credits for it.

First time I tried it, it was on The House of the Dead 2. I only managed to survive with 2 hands until the first swarm of those monster leeches, and then I died before I could even reach the first boss.



Not awesome.

It isn't as easy as how it looks like. For one I have to coordinate both hands, for another I had to make sure both pistols still have ammunition to fire, and the most painful part was that I have to kill the enemies fast enough before they could kill me, a deadly on-a-spot-reaction challenge to which I sucked at the most. At times I wished I was playing Time Crisis instead because I can take cover in it.

Well, this experience was quite frustrating in a way, so I didn't indulge myself into this dual-wielding experience too much after that. Then the THOTD2 machine in that particular arcade was removed, and the only shooter machine I could do the dual wield on was that outrageous Ninja Assault machine. Still find the idea of Ninjas with pistols hard to swallow.

Ah well. Guess it will be some time after before I get to play dual-wield again.

Traffic Culture 01

Sounds familiar?

I believe this happens frequently all across the world. Yeah it sure saves you maybe about 10 minutes, but that 10 minutes can change a lot.

- You just taught your child at the back (if any) why is it worth it to not invest in this thing called patience, and thus in the future they can choose to dump the already old and senile you into some old folk's home to save their 10 minutes worth of time. You aren't even worth 10 minutes, they probably think.

- You might get back home early to find your spouse, who had expected your timing to come back in around 10 minutes later, cheating on you with the milkman.

- Blue car in front suddenly brakes for the fun of it, causing you to crash into his rear and you have to pay up because you rammed into his rear, saving the red car the agony of being the scapegoat. Well, this is how it works here in my country, at least.

- You saved yourself the agony of detonating your explosive diarrhea in your car, making to the toilet bowl in time. But turns out that guy in red car was a stalker robber in disguise waiting for unsuspecting targets like you who ignored traffic, and he followed you to your house and break into it. And you watch (or to be exact, listening while in the most awkward position) helplessly as you hear the bangs and cracks and the shiftings of your valuables in the house, and there's nothing you can do except getting stuck on your toilet bowl with your rear explosions.

That 10 minutes can really mean a lot. Please drive safe, and drive smart.

What I find lacking and disturbing...

... maybe isn't that much to be significant, but it sure could've made my life less difficult if I don't lack of these little things.

Like, for instance :-

- the lack of HDD space in my PC (music and not porn, I will say it's porn when I say so)
- the lack of RAM in my PC (geez it's related to my PC again)
- the lack of stuff to do during the 3-week break (honestly there's almost nothing for me to do except spring-cleaning, bleh)
- the lack of material to scribble (which is the sole reason why I haven't been updating the blog for the past couple of days)
- and the lack of many more, that would've made my life less difficult (like money, money can be anything)

Though the lack of a love partner doesn't bug me much, to my chagrin it's just the people around me nagging about 'When you getting a GF' that adds up to a sum of annoyance. But this time that's not going to bother me as well, as I always have the best shield for all types of arrows - DIVINE GUIDANCE.



Pretty much what I got from the joss stick prediction I took from the Thien Hou temple, in the relationship section. Originally I had the intent to ask about my progress in my dropping-back studies (which was quite a decent reply - don't look back and keep moving forward, heh), but I scored an extra bonus for an extension in my single life on the same sheet of pink paper. Hurrah for the deities !!!

Of course, it doesn't work that way in this mostly-scientific-oriented world. But since there are people who even had blind faith in certain aspects (notably religious), so why not make use of it?

So at least I get to do more stuff that only a single can do a little more longer. Stuff like more gaming time, more freedom to look at the people around without having to suffer a glare of potential jealousy from my side, and - albeit requiring a thick face to do so due to my age but - at least I still can go around and receive some 'ang pau' (red packets for blessing in case you never heard of) around the place.

It isn't really that bad with what I'm lacking, except now that I'm a little hungry (early dining hours at 7pm causes me to kinda have the urge for supper), and maybe that now due to late sleeping hours I'm going to find myself having a lack of sleep for the next day. Guess that's really enough for me here.

RAAAAGE

Today was supposed to be kinda like this. Yeah, at least half of it was this most unproductive way of wasting time.

But bad things love to keep people in company, especially on the responsibility part. Hell no, before my great slumber and after it, there are always reasons to go RAGE.



Though honestly, sometimes I gotta admit that having to get angry over certain stuff makes me more awake. I'm by default a lazy person, thus the lack of adrenaline flow made me somewhat a reserved person. But if anything gets to my bad side, I will end up what a normal person will react when provoked - turn GREEN.



Well, scribble's ugly I know, but in my mind, no angry face is a pretty face. Unless you are the type who prefers the 'tsundere' type.

And as fast as my temper rises, it goes really fast too. 10 minutes ago I was in a mood to crush the neck of some unsuspecting passerby, but now after some drawing and writing in here, I almost forgot the reason why I raged in the first place.

Wait, why was I angry again?

......

Never mind. Ah well.

HELL YEAH !!!

I'm done with my papers. OSSU !!!

My first thing to do as a celebration - SLEEP. I definitely didn't had enough this morning, and ended up oversleeping this morning (I woke up at 9.02 am, 2 minutes after the paper starts......).

I can now forget the reason why I raged in the examination hall too - students making noise despite the invigilator 'requesting' the students to remain silent after the paper because there are students in the other part of the hall still having their papers. I hate it when others never placed in their mind the risk of doing things that will drag the others down, especially when there is a risk that the invigilator will announce our papers as invalid.

Now that I had everything in this semester done (including meeting my advisor early, since I managed to make an appointment with her after the papers), I have more room to plan out my next semester now. Academics and activities blah blah blah.

Mmm. Wonderful day for me today.

Yeah, so I started this rolling.

As a means of self-deprecating amusement, for my own. That and sometimes it helps to lessen the burden of my words if I scribble the graphical parts out.

My drawing sucks horribly, given that I am somewhat a little of a critic of everything myself. I know what's wrong with a drawing when I see it, and ironically mine's one of the worst I've ever seen out there.

Even though it was compulsory for me to take art classes during my elementary and junior high years, and also added the fact that for a short period of time in my elementary school life I took extra art classes, but somehow I still cannot bring out my sense of art through my hands. Nuh uh, my hands are just too clumsy to draw a Picasso, that's what I thought.

But meh, that doesn't stop me from showing off my ugly workings on MS Paint. I know a lot of artists out there shun this little program because it's kinda primitive to stuff like Photoshop, but given that I'm no art maestro, thus MS Paint is good enough for the likes of me who sees scribbling this type of kiddy art as a means of fun.

I hope I can keep onto this little newfound fad of mine. I may not be very persistent in a lot of things, but if it's fun, I will always come back for more.