11/07/2010

I thought I should share with the world something that happen to me a few days ago because I feel that it's time to tell people this.

I lost my cellphone on Thursday.

Feels so much better after letting that out, phew!



I feels like such an irresponsible father, to loose my cellphone without even realising it a day later because that's how often I use my phone, it can be ignored for days and even after days of ignoring it, the number of messages or miss calls I will recieved is very high up in the zeros.


What's worse is that the phone is pretty huge, in both size and price, so all the time I was thinking the chances of actually having the phone slip out of my pocket and not realising it, that is just not possible, in fact, that was just what I was thinking of Thursday in the bus where I dropped my phone, that it would be impossible for me to loose my phone without realising it dropped from my pocket.



It did....starting to hate you Murphy's Law. Well, I have hated Mr Murphy for a while now, so the hatred just got a lil deeper.



Chances of having someone in the bus giving the cellphone to the Bus Driver is also very unlikely, as someone who only purchase gorgeous phones, it's impossible not to have someone see the phone and not keep it, it's so precious it can only be destroyed in Mount Doom. 70% of the kids in the bus were primary school kids and I don't trust them I remember one stupid kick who was seated behind me was so busy jumping up and down on his chair I thought he was dry humping my seat.


I tried calling the damn phone a few times because I thought I might have misplaced it at home, which till now I am still thinking it might be somewhere in this house, hiding in a place where only hamsters will hide, before getting squashed by their owner's butt, but the stupid phone's battery only last for a day or 2 tops. Stupid battery life... so annoying. Worse thing is my Twitter and Facebook account is synced with that damn phone, so if anyone were to their hands on it, buy a charger and charge up my phone, they will have access to my Twitter and Facebook account, and my email too. As if getting my Aion account hacked didn't make me feel dirty enough, now I am going to feel like a geeky whore, feel so dirty.



When a person looses their cellphone in let's say the United States, they are actually able to call their service provider like AT&T and send an activation to their phone to completely disable their phone via the IMEI code, but in Singapore, all you can do is make a police report and hope that the person who took your phone sells it to a shop, have the shop alert the police and have the police catch the guy who sold your phone to pay a fine to the police and probably write you a 100 word long apology letter.


It's like a win win situation isn't it, the police gets money on your expense and you get a crappy apology letter of sorts. *thumbs up*



I am probably gonna get a new phone to feed my hunger of getting new phones, and this is an extremely good excuse to get a new phone, so thumbs up on that.

08/07/2010

Today was kind of a piss day for me because today I found a lecturer in my class that I can really resent.


For every year there will be this lecturer in class that will act like a complete bag of shit during the examination period, previously it was guys, both of whom were part timers, this year it's no different, except this time, it's a female part time lecturer.

For today's lesson, it was mainly a consultation period, which is simply a way of showing the lecturers the work we have done so far, for them to check our progression and to give us advice on how to move forward, it's like a very light discussion in a way.


For the past 2 years, consultations have always been very straightforward and very relax, even the tough lecturers soften up to actually give proper advice, but this year, this part timer decided to go into bitch mode all the way, even though it's just a consultation. I was actually feeling pretty positive about my work, so I got to the consultation table pretty relax, thinking everything will be alright....I couldn't be more wrong.


Number 1 response I got from one of the full time lecturer was...

"I am not going to be a part of this."

after loooking at my graphs....whilst laughing to not appear too rude, due to my lack of graphs and research stuff, which I understand.... understand that she's feeling tired and can't be bothered with me. That response apparently triggered the part-timer to switch on Bitch mode and she started asking me some really fucked up questions....

"Why is your graph like that? Why is your model like that? I can't see the connection? What's the connection?"

...in a single sentence, she was able to squeeze in multiple questions, and so I explained what the whole thing was about, stuttering a little bit here and there because when you shoot so many questions at me, it's hard to remember what the hell you want from me. After answering the questions, she starts blabbering some crap which I couldn't absorb because at that point I was actually starting to feel really really pissed off, and then she starts asking again...

"I can't see the connection, what does this represent? Whay is it like that?"

...and I answer her questions yet again., only to have her shoot back the same questions, it started to become this vicious cycle of "Why? Why? Why?".... and no matter what I answered back she just replied with a "Why?" question.

DOUBLE U, TEE, EFF! Lady! WHAT THE HELL DO YOU WANT FROM ME?

If you have nothing positive or contructive to say, just shut the fuck up for pete sake. That lecturer got me so pissed off I was not able to absorb anything from the other lecturers. It's a consultation not a critique period, I don't need to hear any useless negative stuff that will just keep me daunted for the next few hours, like seriously, rather than giving proper encouragement she just sits there are points at this and that and breaks the student's ego.


It's so much easier if she just flips me off in the beginning and then shut the hell up for the entire consultation.

07/07/2010

Recently my Aion account got hacked and I was extremely sad thus the lack of updates.


I was kidding about the sad part, getting my account hacked was the most exciting thing that ever happened to me since I stopped having a life.


The only fun thing that happen was the cyber-bullying that took place yesterday on Facebook among my Polymates, it wasn't so much of a case of bullying, sometimes people do stupid things and they just get what they deserved and in this case, the victim's extremely unreasonable comment got him into that mess, not going to say much because it was a very very long story, that single status post recieved over 160 comments within 4 hours, it was nuts. I didn't join in of course because it's not really my place to say anything.


I originally wanted to post something like...

Today, I found out half the class hates me...FML.

0 People Agrees that your Life Sucks : 160 People Thinks You Deserve It

28/06/2010

The new term started today.



The release of the Term Project was actually pretty fun, now the students have 2 choices, we are actually given option to choose which project we want to do. It's doesn't get any better than that, you either take the hard one, or the hard one.



The hard one requires us to do some concrete mixture thing and the other hard one required us to use plywood. Being the Singaporean that I am, I decided to take the one that everyone took, the hot topic which was the concrete project. When I say hot topic, I mean "Great Singapore Sale Aunties Hogging and Smashing Each Other Withe Plastic Bags" hot. Okay, so maybe it isn't as choatic as that, but there's a queue going on, like how people queue up for the iPhone. It was pretty long.


44 spots for that project, I was No.40.


Am I lucky or am I hardworking. I bothered to queue up and it got me that project,so I am both hardworking and lucky, but mostly hardworking because so far I haven't won any lottery, well I don't buy lottery but if I was really lucky, I would have found a winning lottery ticket on the floor by now.


I have no idea which one is easier because it could go both ways, here's hoping it's easy to score because I bothered to move my butt and queue up.

27/06/2010

It's pretty late now and tomorrow is the last day of my holiday, technically tomorrow is the start of the new term but since I have not gone to bed yet, I shall just lie to myself.

Very much not looking forward to it. Seated right in front, the tables are arranged in such a 2 by 2 manner, and it's like the 4 tables in front belong to me because my friends are all seated behind me. I am seated at that spot to shield my classmates from the lecturer's spit, like a meat shield.

I can't move because if I do, I am going to look like a loner, seating all by myself at one corner, the empty table is literally at the corner of the room. I am already pretty much a loner now, sitting at the front with my friends sitting behind me is like a pretense, I don't speak to all my mates that are seated behind me, I am only speaking to 2 of them and there are about 5 seated there.

It's not that they don't speak to me, just to be clear, I am not speaking to them.

There's no animosity going on, but with some people, there's really no common topic to talk about. If you try to start a conversation it will just end really quickly, the awkwardness will last longer than the actual conversation. I am being cock block by my mates because people I speak to mostly are situated behind them.

One thing to look forward to though is the new project that will be coming up, it's exciting because it's going to be an individual project! The excitement will die when I know what the project is about, but for now, it's a "Yay!" for me. Now there's no more excuse for me to stay back to do group work, I had to stay back till 8 pm one time for my group project last term, and I didn't do anything, it was a bloody waste of my time, time that I could have spend at home playing Aion. Subscription Fees are not spelt with a "R" in the middle of "F" and "E".

Over the holidays I made more friends online than I ever will in a year. Aussies from my guild, it's fun to listen to Australians speak and learn their lingo, I just assumed everything they said, that I didn't understand, was their lingo. Many a times it's just a spelling error and I will have sigh of relief when the other guild members go....

"WTF are you talking about mate?"

... because it just makes me realise I am not the stupid one who doesn't understand, we are all stupid together for not understanding the error filled sentence in the Guild Chat.

Aussie Guildies are so much more friendlier than Singapore Guildies, a pity school's gonna start soon and I am not going to be able to spend as much time in-game anymore.

Why Real Life Why?

Latest record with Aion was that I played till 3 in the morning. When you enter an Instance Dungeon(Google it Non-Gamers) , who knew it would take 5 hours to complete, I was literally stuck on my computer for 5 hours, you may think to yourself...

"You can just stop and go to sleep whenever you want."

... if you think that way, you are obviously not an MMO player, you don't just leave a group in game when you want to, that would just make you an asshole in the gaming community. I am not kidding, you can't just go, people online will sometimes get pissed. We stay on the game because we care, not because we are too engross in it, well maybe a little of the latter, but mostly the former.

A good analogy is like telling someone to stop the baking process of a cake because they are running short of time. It's ridiculous, we gamers are committed online, I am pretty sure fellow MMO players will agree with me.

Ask your wife to STFU and GTFO. Some guy I met online said his wife threatened to divorce him if he don't stop playing, the group that I was in ended up not having a tank for the whole run,, a tank is essential because it's like a meat shield in the group, like how I am a spit shield for me mates seated behind me in class, you need them to get spanked by the mobs(in game monsters) or the group's gonna wipe (everyone dies), luckily the people in the group were experienced and in the end we didn't need the tank to survive, but I've been blaming his wife ever since because she just made me realise that we have no life, that's why we are so good at what we do in-game.

I am not that good a gamer, if I say I am in-game people will think I am being arrogant, and if I say that I am a really good gamer in real life, people will say I have no life. It's like there's no pleasing anyone.

23/06/2010

I have recently set a new personal record for myself, one that I am extremely proud of.


I managed to play Aion for 10 straight hours, non-stop with the exception of taking a piss in my pants every now and then and having to go to the toilet to clean it up. I was stuck on my computer screen for 10 hours.


You don't get to hear someone announce that everyday do you, because people who beat my record are too engross in their game, they have completely forgotten about their social life, which I am pretty sure I myself am lacking.




On the topic of social life, it's safe to say my circle of friends has dwindled to only a handful of tens. I am not even kidding at how sad my social circle is right now. My online social circle is getting a lot bigger though... not really making me feel any better but I have been playing with a bunch of aussie players and they are not racist at all, which is of course surprising to me because I just assume any causcasian I see is a racist because they have a thing against slanty eyes I guess and towards people who has "Chink" as their first name.




Difference between Aussie players and Singaporean players online is probably the way they speak on Ventrilo, a programme that allows you to speak to your guildies. Singaporeans all sound extremely tired when they are speaking on Vent while Australians are more energetic, no where near being high, a little dead but you can sense a bit of life in them.



I don't speak to them because I feel inferior with my accent, I just told them I will get too turned on if I hear myself speak on Vent when they ask why I don't speak on it. They laugh, but I know they want to hear my voice real bad. You don't get to hear the voice of an angel on Vent everyday, like how you don't get a no life showing off how no life he is by telling the World Wide Web his 10 hour gaming streak everyday.



Countdown to the start of a new term.
Holding back on the enthusiasm.
Damn it. School or stay at home all day doing nothing productive. Hmmm~

22/06/2010

If you have recieved a personal message on your tagbox, please re-link me.



Just to talk about life in general.



Holiday's started, for like a week now and that's probably how outdated this blog is. I've been home all day playin Aion because who needs to go out and get a life when you have Aion. It's been pretty boring over the past few days truth to be told.


Results for my first project of the year is out and I got a C! C is a very common grade I get, which is of course extremely upsetting, but nothing can be more upsetting than the end of the project, the joys I have shared with my groupmates. Everything turned out great, even the sacrasm filled in this passage.


No one in my cohort likes group work at all. Especially in a design project, nobody likes to compromise their own design. I don't even know where to start with how terrible to group is, not the people, I like the people in the group, well most of them that is.


It's actually the workstyle that the group has somehow adopted that was terrible. You come in whatever time you want, group discussion doesn't neccessarily have to have the whole group involved. Sometimes it would only be 2 people discussing and sometimes 3, there are 6 people in the group.


The design had to be re-done over and over again and again it was just really bad.



If you were to experience that whole thing in my shoes, you would be glad you got a C. I can't even be bothered to treat this as a real exam because denial works best in such cases.



A week more to go before school starts, and 4 months to go before NAPFA starts. I have to get a least a silver this time round, been failing a lot in Secondary School. Silver so I won't have to go NS for an extra 2 months. Why must Singapore be so small and lacking manpower, why can't they just hire foreign talents to die for our country. Get those from a third world country, they will never start a war with us, ever. Unless of course they get paid by us and then start their own army in their country to overthrow us for treating their men like dispensable soldiers.


One can hope can they not?