sharity gift box.....past 2 days couldn't blog...too late now to blog....next 5 days at camp....soz guys.....just too bad :(

Well it's been an eventful few days....and i think it's finally time to blog again.

recently i've been leaving my QT for late at night...and i think it's been quite horrible, i know that God doesn't mind meeting us at any time, but at the same time, i few so guilty for not giving Him my best time...but instead the worst time when all my mind is telling me is to go to sleep...:( i hope He forgives me....I also don't know why...but recently i haven't been able to feel His presence during QT...maybe just a bit...but not alot...maybe it's something up with me...too many worries? sin keeping me from Him? i hope i find out soon. It feels terrible not being with God, then again i always feel that burden of doing QT...and i wish one day i can say 'Let's do QT!' with the same enthusiasm as 'Let's go play comp!'

My bro got 231 for PSLE....he's so disappointed...missed ACS(I) cut off by 4 marks...hopefully he can make an appeal though....and ding...that does not mean saying 'My brother is v.smart so let me join the sch'. Sometimes i pity him...hopefully he's not comparing himself to me...that would be terrible..well we all have our own strengths and weaknesses....and i'm sure he'll discover his own set soon :)

Today was soccer...and arjun getting reported to SPCA for injuring that poor rat...such a sad sight....a graze on one side of the body...the size of a ten cent coin or maybe twenty cent....bleeding...ow >< Then there was arjun's antics....go pick up the ball...kick it forward...then it falls back into the ditch again. Whatever it was...it was a good game though it was a wet day...Thank God for the fellowship. Then there was ding's bro si han :P who was playing with peeps twice his size but could compete for man of the match due to his brilliant goals!

ok gtg...maybe tomorrow...and why am i reading chronicles of narnia?

Well well....who's caught Harry Potter's movie as of now? apparently my bro hasn't, and well he hasn't read the book, doesn't want spoilers, but as with all 'muggles' or normal people, we all want spoilers...don't we? Anyway, i am no longer a Harry Potter newb, at least now i know the rough plot of the whole story....interesting how anyone could have come up with such an elaborate plot, matches or even supercedes Tolkien's Lord of the Rings or Star Wars. Either way, i think the publishers who turned rowling down intitially must be feeling more than just a pinch now :)

realized it took Harry Potter and Chamber of Secrets 3 years to come from cinema to TV, then again a bug's life took 4...and some nvr made it anyway...*waits another long long time till episode 3*

Sean finished riviera.....in 2 days...!!! i took forever!!!!! this is crap....nvrmind....i think i practise too much. Anyway, i think i'll just go get the Cierra ending as well...it's too late to do otherwise anyway

Anyway there was the walk along almost the whole river valley road yesterday, and i realized that it is actually quite long and tiring....then again taking bus 11 was nvr easy. Bus 260 is much easier (you don't know what bus 260 is? it's a taxi...) well ok i gtg bb

A Harry Tale

"<yeangyeang>: ppl dont tag because your tagboard is hard to find. not that i get a lot of tags, but, yeah."

first things first the tagboard is at 'speak up' in the top right hand corner of the blog. if you don't know how to click, then you wouldn't be reading this post now (technically no....but then i'm trying to make a point)

btw i happen to do play pokemon....last check i probably finished or gave up at the last part for all the games that pokemon has tossed to me...of course after some time i do get bored with the same concept over and over...pokemon has the highest replayability ever, then again....it gets boring after some time. And yes sean i still remember the stupid bean thing that i couldn't access because my VBA emulator wasn't the latest version. I think recently i just ditched riviera for golden sun....i can never seem to complete games...but that's supposed to be the coolest part...the cliched endings!

anyway....today went with Fab, Xunliang, Mr Sim, YangJian, Adriel and Patrick to watch Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire!! wow whee. We thought the place was pretty empty and waited alwhile b4 getting tickets...bad mistake, we end up with front row tickets and now i think i may need a neck brace or sth. Nevertheless, anyone who's watched the previous episodes won't be disappointed.....yes lots of eye candy for either gender (all girls' and all guys' school :P)....plus that prof Allister guy has his eye and fake eye thingy on you!!! I shan't spoil it for anyone...go enjoy the show....but i have to mention that someone dies :( and yea it is definitely less playful than the previous episodes...darker and scarier. I think i shan't comment for fear of spoilers...maybe next time.

Then there was one of those mad arcade games, those drum things...except with guitar....oooo we got totally pwned by the noob lvls. :)

Home alone today, bro at fren's, parents at seminar, so i'm so lonely...fortunately went to my couz's house for some company, found out to a certain horror that my couz plays maple story, then watched some chinese shows and well that's basically it today...gtg now...have to wake up early!!!

GBA games to try (which i clearly haven't):
1) Sword of Mana
2) FF 1 and 2
3) HarvestMoon
4) Fire Emblem
5) any more???

i forgot to mention that kirby was quite fun!! kirby and the amazing mirror....

Skiving on the comp :P

hmmm sry no posts for alwhile....too busy fooling around with the GBA (it's Game Boy Advance if you don't know...doh) emulator (yes i cheat!!!). It rocks to have an emulator, you don't spend hours deciding on what game to buy :). Yes several games have been played like crazy during this holiday...and i think i'm getting hooked...oh noes....nvrmind...as a pressure to those around me i am 5/8 through my 8 horrible chinese essays...but i haven't started on the EOS :(
yes i have been skiving.

Here is my list of GBA games i have tried...just to show those who think i do nth but study all day that i actually play comp games!!!!! btw if you like RPGs all the following games should be pretty good. In no order of merit:

1) FF Tactics Advance: (yes we remember this) Moogles and Vieras are cute (wait i didn't say that).

2) Golden Sun 1 and 2: (actually just one, but my bro played up to two...too much time liao) Yes not much of a storyline, but the graphics are fantastic for the limitations of a GBA, and the gameplay is engaging. Psyenergy!!

3) Mario and Luigi Superstar Saga: Yes back from quite long ago, ask sean. This game is pretty fantastic, the way it's played is unique and yes the mario bros are hilarious as always. but then again the last boss took me like half an hour, and sean cheated with gameshark to give the brothers infinite health and power...:(

4) Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap: Ok not much of me playing, more like my bro again. Then again it looks quite fun. Link looks so cute in the game, not more than a little kid running around with an oversized head and a sword half his size...with a minnish cap named elzo (yes it is a bird thingy) that shrinks him...haha

5) Riviera: The Promised Land: Oh well, an RPG with a guy followed eventually by 4 girls, yes
there are multiple endings to this one. The interaction between characters is a unique concept (think something like dating sim, yes you choose which girl you want through the things you say). Of course there's the conventional storyline and the fighting, levelling and stuff that comes with all RPGs.

6) MegaMan Battlenetwork 3,4,5: wait have i really played so many?? yes i did. Ok in short there's the interesting battle concept of using chips and then running around and stuff, and there is still a storyline in place, making this game even more enjoyable.

and then there's my brother with maple story, yes killing snails and funny stuff....then again i used to play it and got bored......well any suggestions of good games are welcome...but atm golden sun is confusingly long...:P

Blog depression

Well i dunnno why ppl don't want to tag...and i think i really don't care anymore, if they don't want to tag or don't want to click an extra link for tagging...then i'm fine, i guess i will spam my own tagboard. This i probably what they know as Blog depression.

Just as a country goes through several stages in growth, a blog too will go through the same stages, i think i shall highlight the stages and a few of the characteristics

1) The New kid on the Blog (Block):
At this point in time, the blog has just been started, the user still happily enthusiastic, posting a first post that shows many signs of unsureness and anxiety....at this point in time, the blog may not even have a tagboard yet, and may still be unknown to the blogger's friends. The purpose of the blog at the preliminary stage is most likely curiosity, maybe wanting to catch up with the trend of the times, or just wanting personal rambling space. Blogskin is usually one of those provided by blogger.com.

2) Growing Phase
As a blog grows, it is slowly linked to the rest of the blogging community, eventually a friend will find out that you have a blog, either that or you simply cannot resist telling that you own one. Either way, people start to visit and read your blog posts. A tagboard is set up for those lovely tags that everyone goes after, the number of tags is proportionate to the popularity of the blog, or how unique and interesting you are. You are basically a loser if you have no tags. At this point, there will be many welcome tags like 'nice blog' or 'hello' or 'maiden post' or something like those.

3) Golden Age
The highest attained lvl for any blog, when the blog is updated almost everyday and the blogger is enthusiastically posting interesting and stimulating posts. The tagboards are flooded. At this point in time, the blogskin has most likely been changed, possibly from websites like blogskins.com. People may even talk about your blog in school! wow!

4) Plateau and signs of aging
Most bloggers eventually get here, the original enthusiasism soon fades off, and the blogger, realising that he has many other commitments, decides to blog on alternate days, even daring perhaps to skip 3 days without a post. Nevertheless, the blog is still visited, just less, and the tagboard is tagged on at least every 2 days. The blog is still alive at the very least. At this point in time, a change in blogskin may be implemented to perk up the blog again.

5) Stagnation
Tagboard left untagged for 4 days or more. Very soon you realise that the tagboard remains untagged forever. The blog is visited, maybe once or twice, by certain faithful people. Perhaps it is still being visited but not tagged on (which seems like it is not visited). The blogger may try to change blogskins, post sth more controversial, post more...to encourage tags, but oftenly to no avail. Pretty soon the blogger gives up as well...leading to

6) Death of a blog
This either signals the start of a new blog at a new address, or the complete resignation of the blogger from blogging, certainly a saddening event, and most often caused by lack of tags and encouragement. From this death onwards, the blog remains as merely an archive of past events and most people would probably forget it forever, even the blogger himself may forget. The tagboard is fossilized, the blogskin never changed again. Maybe a few comments on the deadness of the blog from friends, but it would never be enough to start the blogger up again. how saddening...we all get here eventually

I think i'm at stagnation, but that's just me...wondering about you guys....ian's probably still at his golden age, going strong even after 2 years plus!! as for me...you know retirement from blogging may also be a good thing...one less thing to think about? bye bye then

I miss all the tags on my tagboard. depressed

Best ways to increase the number of tags on your tagboard:
1) have a tagboard
2) Make the tagboard accesible and visible
3) Change blogskins (my latest discovery)
4) Change blog address (from eric's discovery)
5) Post random stuff (from ian's discovery)
6) Post controversial stuff
7) Spam tagboard by yourself (desperate attempt)
8) post a post like this and hopefully your friends will listen

but then again i did say b4 that it's ok for this to be a personal blog...and that i shouldn't be out to blog becoz of tags!! ahhh i'm contradicting myself.

Coy Camp Reflections

Back from BB camp, it has indeed been a hectic 4 days and i'm relieved that they're all ovr. Now as with every camp, there will always be the unforgetable highlights. Firstly i would like to thank God for granting every single boy the strength to run this camp and having his hand ovr the whole event. Also like to thank God for inspiring me to bring across the spiritual message of the camp, i hope that all the boys will continue to remember the camp not only for the fun fellowship but for it's deeper meaning.

1) Advance party, we got the seafood bee hoon from mr azmi's mum, and as his scouts would say it....BAGUS! anyway, we went on rambling on how the sch was especially freaky late at night (I'm not the first to comment on this). I also found out that again that it wasn't smart to bring a sleeping bag along, then not use it and end up freezing to death throughout the night. Plus there was a furious thunderstorm that shook all the UYO cabins. No skirts this time, i promised.

2) Wing Time the nxt day, that means free time at Orchard road. Suaku little me attempted CS for the first time in many many years and i can safely say i got pwned, but it was partially because i always respawn in front of the enemy. I also tried DOTA for the first time, i see stuff moving and fighting but don't understand, then i decide to stop multi-player and i actually played the campaign - in a LAN shop. What a waste of LAN time!! Yes i remember also us staring out of the windows in one line looking at a bunch of girls playing hockey (i wasn't there). eyes focused on the lower portion of the girls though...wonder why

3) Shrooms burger meal at $2.55, yes a mash potato, burger and drink for $2.55!!!! Ding will be sooo pleased, and so was i actually.

4) Then it was between Sky High, Zorro and Exorcism of Emily Rose. Sky High - too juvenile. Zorro - who cares...probably end up zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. And Exorcism's trailer was freaky enough to deter half of us. I ended up spending 2 hours in burger king sleeping and koping the vacant tables. So i heard that YangJian and Ian Liew left halfway in apparent shock at the contortions and the funny stuff. And the rest came out exclaiming it was a good movie. Controversial indeed. Anyway catch it yourself....i watched the contortion part on a trailer and i never thought i second i'd watch the movie (neither did bong). Anyway, it all adds up to Harry Potters' fault, if his movie could just come out earlier. Plus it was 10 bucks for a movie!

5) We take an MRT back to buona vista, take a bus back to sch, drop our bags and in half an hour, we take a bus back to buona vista to eat at ghim moh, frankly ding would be ashamed of the shameless waste of ninety cents.

6) Night Games 1 (conventional CTF), there was an injury (Matthew Chua's bro), but besides that, i ended the day nursing my sore pimple, my smelly feet, and a host of other things. At least sleeping bags were good. Problem though, we killed 5 cockroaches in our room in 2 days, that's an average of 2.5 cockroahes a day! (v.smart tim) Anyway, i decided to sleep on a table...hehe.
Slept at 1 am that day

7) Church/Siesta for many ppl, i think it is wrong to sleep in church but many ppl could not resist the urge. We saw eric and daryl from the top deck and were pointing and waving to them, but i think they did not want to associate themselves with us so they left us alone. Sad

8) Wing Time 2! Went down to Clementi, and for the second time, fast food, it's starting to get a lil bit disgusting!Mostly boring, had a short soccer match back in school. Then it was the Esmond crisis, we had like this kinda court scene thing with Esmond defending and everyone else giving comments on what he had done in the camp. Yes he and his friends are actually mostly ok, it's just that occasionally their attitude can be improved upon.

9) Well the highlight that day had to be Vishnu's murder case game. It was fun playing 'Stairway to Heaven' to set the mood. Investigation of a murder case, interviewing suspects and stuff, but with a ghostly twist of ppl jumping out in gorilla masks and horrible red food dye to scare you! And yea lots of silly forfeits as well: singing songs, catwalking like models around the oldham statue, seducing the oldham statue, doing pushups with a person's mouth below yours (Alex's idea of pedophile)...i didn't have to join in as i was the squad i/c but i thought i shld be fair to the sec2s and 1s in my squad. Jack Tay was horrified and kept repeating the thing from Emily Rose (At 3 am, the burning smell and then the door opens and shuts)

10) On the Exorcism thing, Adriel had quite violent objections to it as it may undermine our trust in God, somehow i agree to an extent, it is dangerous to dwell into stuff regarding the spiritual realm and i don't think i would ever do into such stuff unless supervised by someone really experienced

11) nxt day was truly just a slack session with card games. I taught Joshua how to do the 4-pile card trick :). Anyway it was a day with 169 news on SK, mafia, more mafia, murderer, and other funny card games. And yes the card game speed against Jack can give you a massive heart attack

12) About Jack Tay, i guess i made quite an ok counsellor today trying to find out what was up with him Mostly low self-esteem that was developed over time, yes his problem was developed, he was not born with it. Always reminds me of louis except kinder and more pleasant in nature when he wants to.

FINALLY, reflections on the camp and being camp commandant:
Well sometimes i'm a bit soft, so i cannot command the necessary respect from the company, plus i'm like indecisive at times and i forget stuff occasionally. Hate to offend ppl, again adding to my softness, when i'm with sec1s and sec2s, i'd rather be like the friendly good guy than anything....but of course that makes me the 'goody two shoes'/ Well it's my nature, suppose i'll have to live with it. I pray that God will continue to show me the needs of the BB and the needs around me, helping me to reach out to those who require it! This camp, most of all, has taught me to rely on God more than ever!

Ppl have been saying nasty things about this blogskin, First off it is not immature, it is anime and if you have no liking for anime i think it is better that you do not comment on this skin :), and yes we are working on a skin for mr azmi. Second i am not horny, it just happens that i enjoy the winter feeling and that all anime skins have girls in them...ok almost all. The funniest one i've seen is a 'guy' and girl where the 'guy' is obviously not a boy as 'he' is wearing a skirt. Anyway i will not change blogskins in a long time because it is tedious. Plus points, this skin is nice and neat and does not spill ovr in the fast becoming famous mozilla!

i have finally linked phillip, i found out it did not happen last round because i missed out on a ' " ' sign (that's an apostrophy!) wait my spelling is bad.

ow my left middle finger is hurt and everytime i type the letter 'e', 'd' or 'c' it hurts!!! plus my right toe got horribly injured in the sean bdae party. Which brings me to that....as ian said, i think it wasn't the best idea to invite the HPPS female company along, because they were obviously left out in a lot of things...like bulldog....and after tons of years in BB, it kinda gets you a bit upset as we BB ppl have the word 'unity' strongly imprinted in our minds and as Lilo says, no one gets left behind!

Mr Azmi did not get to say goodbye to us and i feel so sad we left him out the last part. Si yan came for one hr then left....again quite disappointing considering that now fab and ding are my closest frens in sch.

fab has been going crazy with the chicken little dance, the numa ei thingy. Yes it is quite annoying when you hear it every sunday while sitting in the Macdonalds in Causeway Point chewing on a burger when a chick with an oversized head appears on the TV and dances around, then it feels good when he gets squashed then like a superhero he resurrects and it gets annoying again. Cartoons never die.

then there was company camp, the spiritual aspect got me quite depressed and quite frustrated this week, but following a talk with Mr Sim, i felt so much better that God placed him on earth to understand how I felt and though he was mad he forgave me so that is something i will always cherish and respect him for!

Anyway won't be seeing you guys for 3 days coz i have camp...so see ya then...do not give up on this blog! keep admiring and criticizing the blogskin....and if it gets boring...there's always daniel to pick on....oops.

Seany's Bdae Party

You know wad i think i will comment on it tomorrow (IF i have time)

and yes i did change my blogskin! it is compatible with firefox YAY! but it has a girl on the front part and i think ppl will get the wrong impression again. I'm sry that i like anime and snow ok? it could have been worse...there were so many more feminine skins! no one makes anime skins for guys....it's a scam!

ok nvrmind, i shall pretend to be hungry bears about to eat hikers!

Ahh all you firefox ppl out there cannot view my blog becoz of the skin...soon i might have to revert all the way back to the previous blogskin...so boring....i liked the watermelons ok...:(

but then i like firefox too as it is hotter than IE (ahahahaha) so i'll have to make a compromise

but if all fails i just have to find a new skin which when posted will probably have anime again and then will probably commented on by all as feminine...and i will probably be labelled as some kind of pervert or something.

as to phil, i actually linked you then in cutting and pasting the design in missed the line where you were in...something must have happened...either way the link was not there...soz...i promise i will link you by this week before my camp. Then again...i am not the best promise-keeper.

ok then gtg....blogskins so hardddddd to find...so is planning the coy camp !!!

woot back to old times....mr azmi may not recognize this old skin! david chan loves this...guess why. Finally started on my chinese essay, i'll be back later to comment more i guess

hey my blog is back alive!!

well well....if there's no comment i think i'll go with the watermelon girl by say...tomorrow?

Bulldog / Bullfrog for sean's bdae party...if you dunno wad that is..you'll just have to come and find out ahahah! just a clue....it's almost like mass taupok :P. Anyway, we had weird suggestions for sean's party yesterday, from croquet to religious debates to chess to 'dunk mr azmi', by the end of the convo i earned myself 80 pushups after a 20% discount since i was one of mr azmi's 'favorites'. And no i do not think that 1 pushup = 0.5 pullups....that is a horrible exchange rate, i shall use another money exchanger.

now wad shld i get for sean's bdae party prezzie....i'm so confused...sry sean don't be surprised if you end up with a book voucher or an ang pow...i rather you spend your own money than i do it for you since i don't know you that well yet :P....of course this might come across as like thoughtless or last minute....so i really don't know what to do...help

i must have spent 1.5 hrs polishing today...nvr trust the 'instant-shine' polishing kits!!!!! i had my boots shining the best they were ever, then i used the instant shine...and wham! usually it evaporates and leaves behind shine, but today, it evaporated and left behind a dull grey mess which took an agonizing 1 more hour to repair.

got tuition later...shld i go?

bb....! and scouts (haha bad joke)

1424....i will always remember that number, mr jonathan ng's previous safe password....so today we stopped all the clocks in the admin room at 1424 p.m. Then we write there is a meeting on Saturday from 1230 - 1424, then we write for a request to visit p1424 Singapura...so we made it obvious, he got mad, changed the code...and well.

still looking for a new blogskin...i should really revert back to the watermelon girl....anyone remember that one? ok i bet you do....:P anyway as ian has said that i didn't like feminine skins...i shall deny that....i'm sry but i kinda like a few of those...of course we don't go crazy and paint the whole screen pink...that is scary (heard that ian?)

ok keep cheering me on to find one.

i played 4 hours of com today....feeling bad...haven't started on any chinese essay or EOS for that matter. Ding feels that 2 hrs of com is hardcore....hmmm that's innocent of him...don't corrupt Ding

gtg bye!!

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Yay i am free! i have sent the pics to Mr Azmi, you can view them on his blog soon and we can all laugh at each other for looking so dumb...i especially like the candid shot of Mr Azmi...brings out the animal in him :P

About eka's comment on ian's blog:

JustMe: disturbing[10:58:34 PM]

JustMe: eka is deadmeat

Simply wow....yay!

Well now i gtg...been trying to look for a new blogskin...i like winter so i search that up and more than half the blogskins are 'feminine' .....there is either a gender bias or sth is seriously wrong.

NYAA is soooooooo tough...i really do not like logging but i don't have a choice

recently i haven't been blogging at all...or even doing my normal homework...past few days it's just been O lvls, and lots of worries over BB stuff like the company camp, bringing quite a bit of stress. I feel quite useless as i haven't even touched my homework yet.

Yes it is quite odd that out of my 3 CTs and PCTs, 2 of them do not teach me. And everybody was quite delighted that we got Loo as PCT...because perhaps it is a good omen and signals the passing of our present Chinese teacher. Ahh we have 8 chinese essays to do....i say this as there are still ppl who are unaware of the homework and still living in self-delusion.

Deepa-Raya, then again i'm going out to do stuff these 3 days so it's not much of a holiday anymore, today had BB stuff, tomorrow have BB stuff, and thurs has BB...no wait a minute, church stuff. That leaves me with no time to do homework, no time to blog, no time to play com or piano, no time to do wadever i want....it is therefore quite a crappy holiday

Wow i'm invited to Sean's bdae Party....so cool....wonder wad are we going to do? get lejon along and we can drench him in coke again.:) (probably only Sean would remember this....)

I know i'm a short and sweet blogger, i don't go on forever and ever and ever and ever and ever on certain topics (oops). but of course that kind of rambling makes blogs interesting, which probably explains the sorry present state of this old blog...10 months old...woot!!! But this week has been encouraging, i had at least 6 tags on my board in one week! that's like half of what ian gets a day...which is....good?

yay all continue to provoke daniel on my tagboard.

you know...the hols are so bad...i have nothing to blog about