Dear Diary,
watched Ladder 49 today and reaffirmed my ambition on becoming a fire fighter after serving my bond. A really cool show which chronicles the life of Jack Mawson, from his rookie days to his last breath in a building, as the fire devoured him. Quite touching actually and the fire sequences are pretty realistic except from the part when Jack can abseil down with only one person holding the other end of the rope. Crazy... Did some physics and unless that man's biceps can tahan like 1500N of weights for like 5 min, Jack would have died prematurely in the show, but movies are movies...
Anyway, watched Indiana Jones yesterday ( I think I am totally screwed for the upcoming exams) and find this phrase rather interesting. Dr. Jones told his new class that archaelogy is a subject to find out facts and that if they should want truth, they have to study philosophy... Funny the way he puts it. You find truth in philosophy? So, got friend come from afar, very happy is a truth? WTF? Don't understand at all... Fictitious heroes are all complex figures.
Thursday, October 28, 2004
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Friday, October 22, 2004
Oh my Ohmy...
Dear Diary,
watched the trailer for the special extended version of the Return of the King. Really had orgasm of a life time...not really. haha. Back to the topic, the special extended edition adds 50 min to the already 210 min of ROTK, which means...5h of continual action? wow really orgas. In this edition, Peter Jackson had added in scence that we were deprived of previously, for example, the confrontation between Gandalf and Saruman, Gandalf and the Mouth of Sauron, confrontation between Aragorn and the Eye through the palanthir, and also, showdown between Gandalf and the Witch King, which I don't really have memory of in the book, which is still very nice to look forward to. And, of course, more gaying between Sam and Frodo.
Oh my, Oh my...
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Thursday, October 21, 2004
Dear Blog, diary, whatever...
Been feeling so lazy lately that I haven't had any energy to do anything really useful. Put off most of my tutorials, online or not, haven't run for days, and yah lying on the bed had been pretty much evrything I had done for the week. Well, I guess I can really attribute it to the number of projects due last week. It is so exhausting that I feel that my brain is dead, completely. Never mind, I think I am fast becoming a vegetable or something in the future. Worse still, doing those online personality tests reveals that if I were a vegetable, I would be a broccolli. How? I think broccolli is actually rather ugly. Geez what am I rambling about here.
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Tuesday, October 12, 2004
Joke of the day:
Being the superstitious person that I am, I would never take a plane on the 11th of Sep, never go to school on 1st Sep and never take a train on 11th of March, among other things...
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Dear Diary,
Watched the Lord of the Rings trailer(again) just now and i must say that no movie until now, in my reckoning can rival LOTR. Although i must admit that it is a chore to watch Sam and Frodo gay along the slopes of Mount Doom, see Aragorn kissing Arwen(ARGHHHHH!!!), see Gandalf acting like an old fogey, but it is still a very zai trilogy. The cool special effects, the intense plot, the epic battle scenes, those cool moonsters, well that pretty sums up all a human species with balls look out for in a movie. Way cool and I just realise that for the pst three years or so, I had been sort of anticipating the movie at the end of the previous three years. It had been some sort of an emotional and spiritual relief to follow the latest video clip, whatsoever from the website to keep myself alive from my studies and all various commitments. Thus, this year is just sian. No LOTR, no really good movies except for Spiderman? Nah, shan't harp on I can already hear the Zzzzz monster ringing in my ears....
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Sunday, October 10, 2004
Dear Diary,
I am seriously finding it strange that I am continually being attacked by mosquitoes at home. Why is is strange as you might be asking me? Well, because apparently, I don't get mosquito bites in the foulest of place, like sungei buloh and tekong(field camp). So I think it just serves to prove that my theory was correct, that the fouler you are than the environment, the more the mosquitoes would not come and disturb you. Thus that pretty much explains why a person with a 7-day unchanged No 4 can escape from the area without a single bite!
How to jio a girl whom you have no associations with? That's the question which I had been pondering for the past 2 days. Jono recommend that I go read those books teaching the way to make small talks which i seriously find quite funny and useful at the mean time. In fact, the book even recommends that I start off the conversation with the most banal of all questions, like the weather. Hmm.. dun think I should be reading more into these kind of things or I will be like following a script whenever I start talking. Elmo recommends that I just be gung-ho a bit. Just run up to the girl and say "Hi, can i be your friend?" By the end of the day, I think she would be more freaked out by me. The rest just give me some general tips which I would adhere to definitely, like knowing her friends, then find out more about her but all these are like quite"Duh, of course i would have to do these kind of things what..." So especially with my very new tagboard, can anyone reading this sad story here give me some advice?
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Friday, October 08, 2004
Dear Diary,
I seriously am thinking that I am having too much free time, so much so that I think it is hindering my studies. Why do i say so? In the past, whether it is RV band +council schedule or the HC canoeing schedule, there will be some sort of like compulsory "shack you out" days. What this means is that I would be very hardworking for the remaining few days to make up for loss time. Not that it is very apparent in HC but at least that is what I feel. Now, all I do is go for lectures tutorials, do homework, run a bit, swim a bit and tidy some projects here and there and there you have it, a glimpse into what is my life really about. Haha, can you imagine someone actually complaining about having too much time? Weird person.
It suddenly seems to occur to me that all my friends are giving me the impression that I should get myself attached during my four years in University. Hmmm...it makes some sense but so what if I don't have. Afterall, I am incredibly shy and reserved, inconsiderate, ungentlemanly, talentless, 'unhandsome', freaky appetitie and taste, stingy...wow, I can't be that bad, can I? Anyway, back to the point, I seriously am envisaging myself to be someone to be continually lonely in uni...sigh...hope that the situation would seriously turn for the better.
Anyway, I think I should go learn some fighting martial arts already lah. Aikido seems to be not bad, given the realistic nature of it. Hmmm... can consider... worthwhile to learn something to keep myself occupied.
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Wednesday, October 06, 2004
Winners for the coveted Nobel Prize came out today and gosh..again, those judges gave the salutation of a "laurette" to researchers whose works I have no idea of. In the subject of physics, the researchers were applauded for their works on quarks, arguably the smallest matter in the whole wide universe. But, after reading the word over and over again, I realise that scientists really give funny names to scientific materials. For example, why do they have to call a mole a mole? Does the scientist who gave the name has 6*10to the power of 23 moles on his body?? Highly improbable. Maybe he was a police undercover before? Another impossibility then why the weird names? Next time, the nobel prize would be given out to researchers on "quacks."
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