Ah.... I can feel tension lift from my shoulders. As each deadline melts away, and I get more work done. This is the first blog update in over a week! Haven't done much else these few days but work on my MEP project, as well as Radio. But hey, it's all coming to a head. By next monday, it should all be good.

I can just envision a trip to Bintan when everything's over... yeah, yeah. I can't go to the Maldives like SOME people. ¬_¬

I'm not gonna be blogging for quite a while. Too many work committments to make.

-On a hiatus-

Yawn. Work work. Yesterday I went to go film for Ling's group after their original detective (Hozea) had to back out for some reason. Anyway, I feel good. I can act! Gwahahahahaha. Even Shen said he wanted to slap me because I sounded so much like an asshole. Anyway, finished around 10.30, then shared a cab home with Nat. Damn, but I'm broke. Spent all day today working, though. Okay, only some of it. But I *am* getting work done, dammit!

Someone needs to lock up my PS2. Sigh.

Was too sleepy yesterday to blog, so here it is:

Had my radio shift earlier on Thursday morning, and I royally screwed it up. So many practice sessions, and I screw that one up. Yaaaaaargh. Ah well, at least almost no one heard it. Or would care enough. Had a couple of hours of school, then rushed home to shower and change for my interview at SPH. I don't think it went very well, actually. A lot of the questions they asked me I didn't anticipate, such as whether I could speak Chinese/Dialect (!), or what I thought a reporter did. Needless to say, I don't think I came across as knowing exactly what I wanted to do. And THEN they asked me why I seemed so solemn ("Where's your youthful enthusiasm? You're only 19!"). Stuff like that.

Fast Forward to today, when Brendan Wong seemed to be in an uber bitch mode. Only 8 people showed up for class, and needless to say, he wasn't the happiest camper in TP. So he cancelled the class this morning, and told us to come back again tomorrow. So there goes my Saturday morning. Then, that left us with about 6 whole hours to kill. Fantastic. So I decided to do a little editing, then I bummed around and somehow managed to waste the time (Eddie went home to sleep for 3 hours, then came home. Applause please.), then went for lecture. Again, Ms. Chuah complained about the super low attendance. We finished early, then I went to Long John Silver's to try out that Spicy Chicken thing. It's not really very spicy at all (and this comes from a non-chilli eater), but at 3.90 for 3 pieces of regular-sized chicken, I sure as hell wasn't complaining. Eddie went back to school to pass the time, and I went home. I'll stop blogging at this point, since I can bet there won't be much else that will be happening.

Dasvedanya
HW

Well, SPH finally called. I'm supposed to have an interview with them Thursday afternoon. Hooray.
I can't get my mind off the current situation in the Gulf. You've got so many people there, living, always assuming that the US would never make good on it's threats to bomb the living shit out of them, and snap! While they slept, Darth Bush giving Saddam the ultimatum he knew he wouldn't follow through with anyway. They're feeling fear for the first time in their life. Genuine, unadulterated fear. I mean, shit man. The US is supposed to be the big brother of the world, but any country in that position inevitably attempts to bend the world to their view of what's right. But I can't help but feel for the Iraqis. They're involved in a war that they never asked for. It's things like this that I lose faith in humanity. Not to mention the Americans, patriotism is fine, but patriotism to the extent of extremism isn't. Freedom Fries? Dumb. Banning artistes because of certain P.O.Vs that don't agree with the status quo? That's not freedom of speech, that's communism. The real sad thing about all this? No one seems to care.



While I'm on the subject of bitching, I'm also quite tired of never being told anything. As if I can't be trusted to be told. And I'm also apparently never high up on the list of those who're going to be told, too. "I was going to tell you but you found out already." Yeah. Sure.

I guess it sucks that everyone has someone who they confide in, when something's exciting happened to you, you rush to tell that person because you need to let someone know. I want to share in that, I want to be happy for you. I don't know what it is, though. Things like this, make me wonder what kind of friend I am to the people in question. Am I not that close after all? Can I not be trusted? How would I know, when I've never been given a secret to entrust? So far, no one's ever told me their secrets in person. It's always been me finding out for myself. Through coincidence, or an accidental slip of the tongue of their, much closer, friends. Everyone's a busybody at heart, but nobody likes feeling left out of the group. Left out of the loop. Never knowing what people are talking about, what the joke is, or why he or she is acting that way. Instead, they hush me and tell me to mind my own business.

I don't like going to sleep sad.

Added a comments system to this thing. And for the life of me I can't get it to the settings I want, so you're going to have to stare at an ugly-ass piece of text until I can figure it out.

Well, today was shorter than I expected. Woke up super early to go for the lecture, and afterwards I find out that the radio tutorial is postponed. I'm not complaining anyway. Helped film for Kenneth's group today, then at the same time filmed some random footage for my MEP individual. I don't even know what it's about. Ah well, he's not looking for Oscar-worthy screenplays, right?

Came home, watched Clerks. Played a bit of PS2, then pretty much slacked the rest of the day. Yeah, ideal.

Yet another long day of Ratchet and Clank. Damn, but that game's fun to play. From morning till night, same as it was the day before. Hmm.... I sense a trend.
Anyway, went for the Career Exploration workshop on Saturday, was a student leader. Did more or less the same thing as I did the other time with the collages and stuff. Sadly, got no placing this year. I am disappointed. Oh well.



I dunno, my life seems to be stuck in a rut. It's a pretty boring one, as far as lives go.

Yowza. I am tired like a one-legged man at an ass-kicking contest.

Wednesday, 12th March

Went to school early to do filming. It was hot like nothing else, and I came away with a bad sunburn. Trust me to go film in the open without any shade nearby. Anyway, it was worth it to see a pretty funny fight/cursing sequence between Siwei and Jim. After that, went to Ling's house to help her out with her filming, with a huge bag of comics in tow. I was supposed to be an extra, as Jack of the Tales. (Beanstalk, candlestick, frost, you get the idea) But I sat in a position that was off-camera, so I might as well have not been there at all. Funny story, huh? Got home past midnight and immediately crashed.

Thursday, 13th March

Went to school, again, for prep for my radio shift. Was supposed to do the PSA for the BSC Biz Shield while here, but Li Rong didn't send me the right info, and (obviously) we couldn't record the PSA. After the radio shift, went to Bugis to meet Maddy to buy comics. Fables is cool.

Went over to @omix after that, met Haider, a TP student I've seen around, yet never talked to. Didn't know he liked comics too. Went home at about 7, disappointed to learn that my brother would probably not be going away to East Timor for 6 months. Damn.

Went off for a group meeting at Thomson Plaza, and finished unexpectedly fast. Oh well, wasn't arguing. But I swear, the kaya toast at Starbucks there is heavenly. Took a cab home with Jenny cause I couldn't be bothered to take a bus, then chilled for a while, and did up some CCC interview questions. Following that, a short WC3 break. Fumbled around with Dreamweaver (I swear.... I shall conquer you), brother came home, chased me off the comp. Fair enough. Ratchet and Clank is addictive enough to be classified as a new drug.

Someone help! There's too many deadlines and I must get my R&C fix?

Oh, and thanks all of those people concerned over my last entry. It was just a simple misunderstanding that I took badly. No worries.

HW

Fuck. Pissed off over something that happened today but I won't go into detail. Just let it be known I'm getting tired of being left out and assumed to be invisible. I get shit from people that I don't deserve. They say do unto others, but there's only so much I can tolerate.

My comics drawer broke again. Had to relocate my comics, and I have to recatalogue them all. FUUUUUUUUCK.

Snootchie Bootchies!



Jay and Silent Bob is the shit.

Man, long day today. At least all my tests are over, and we got a 2 week break! BWAHAHA. Ahem.

Went to school for my Cross Cultural Test today, but not before Bryan popped over to borrow my brother's Btech sourcebooks. Spent the time making him jealous (=P) and then left the house. Before the test started, though, I was feeling queasy. Think it was the assam yesterday, dammit. Halfway through the test I had to rush to the toilet. Luckily I was already almost done with the whole thing.

After the test was over, took a cab back home to bang out a quick resume, as well as shower/change for my test at SPH. And daaaaaamn. It sure wasn't easy. Oh well. Leave it up to fate to decide. I don't mind internship in the TV field anyway. ^.^

But anyway..... FREEDOM! I'm off to enjoy the rest of the day. Dasvedanya!

Wow. Updates on this thing are officially dated. Business or just a lack of motivation on my part to write about my boring life?

Gonna have to do JAE tomorrow. Saturday. *Shrug*

Listening to that Lighthouse Family CD I got yesterday. It is officially chill-out music. And not many people know this, but I am a closet Lighthouse Family fan. Shhhh...

Exams next week. Gotta have to get started. SOON!

I officially am a bum.

Stayed home and watched 8 mile and The Hot Chick today. It's a lot better to download the movies yourself and watch them yourself, rather than relying on waiting for people to deem themselves free to go watch with you. Or for them to NOT pull out at the last minute. Or having watched it already with girlfriends/boyfriends. I tell ya, watching it yourself, by yourself, is the best way to go.

Stupid unreliable people.

Haven't updated in a while. Is it because I'm too busy or is there a lack of activity in my life? =/

Been involved in open house preperations and the open house itself for the past few days. Exhausting work. At our peak we were entertaining like 40-50 people at a time, non-stop. I'm getting sick and tired of seeing the same videos over and over again. What the hell.

Absolutely none of the people we saw today seem to have any interest at all in joining the course. So why bother looking around? Most of them looked pretty CMI in the first place anyway. Ah well.

I hate having nothing to write about in the blog, makes it kinda pointless don't you think? But hey, staying out of the spotlight is a good thing in itself. You don't get involved in all kinds of politics, power plays, the 10 or 20 different sides out there - I'm pretty much the human equivalent of Switzerland! Heh.

Back to C&C Generals for me!

Crap. The open house people called and told me I was still working for them for the open house acting stuff. Then, I had the pleasant experience of finding out that some lecturer had told the people that "those who'd pulled out were pulled back in". Marvelous. I was supposed to go meet them at 5.30 p.m. but it somehow managed to slip my mind. Really. I swear!

Was supposed to go see a movie with Shen, Ed and Heinz, and possibly Ling. But never underestimate the power of Warcraft 3 over LAN. We got to Tampines around 3.30 or so, and they swore they'd play just one game. 3 hours later, they decided to leave. Sigh. So much for going to town - which was my original plan. Instead, we went to Kenny Rogers to eat (just a few side dishes) and some deliberation later, we all went home. Shared a cab with Ed cause I was too freaking tired, and playing Half-Life gave me a headache. Got home at about 9 p.m. and finished off my roast lamb dinner. I could have eaten it much sooner! Bah. It was good lamb too...

Dasvedanya,

HW

"If you forget the pasta, you are doomed to reheat it."

Woke up at roughly 12 pm today. Ah, bliss. Slacked around for most of the day, spent it playing C&C: Generals and GTA:Vice City. Ideal.

Dad left on a business trip again today, forgetting to turn computer lockdown off. Hey, I'm not complaining.

Watched Shanghai Noon on Channel 5 today. Now that I've watched it, I kinda realise how unoriginal Shanghai Knights was. God, they reused so many scenes in the movie it wasn't funny at all.


Played up till China mission 5 today. Brother's already finished the USA missions, going onto the GLA missions. Bah. I really need to find a way to get him to stop playing the game. Don't know why, but I can't play online games now.

Sigh. Me = Lose. Still, tomorrow's another day.

Dasvedanya,

HW

Kind of uneventful day today. Went to Breeks for dinner, ate a shitload (Still feeling it. Yikes.) and then met up with Adrian, (whose birthday it was too), Gi, Heinz, Jon, Dan, Kenneth, and Yongjie. We caught the midnight screening of Maid In Manhattan (starring the very yummy J-Lo). A cute little romantic comedy-type flick, but nothing special. Adrian didn't seem his usual self today. Wonder why.

Got home at about 2.30 to find my brother still awake, playing MY game. Bloody hell, if he continues I'll make him write the damn review. Chased him off, and went on to check my usual forums, webcomics and etc etc.

Dammit, I wish he'd get a damned life already. I didn't bring the game home for YOU to play. Prick.

Signing off,
HW

Today... is V-Day. Not that it concerns me much, not like I ever had a reason to celebrate it anyway. 19 years dateless! Let's go for 20! It's a much nicer number.

Surprisingly, though, I got a rose from Jolene. The surprise was that it was, in fact, a flower. I dunno, presents like flowers generally aren't 2 way, if you know what i mean. I wouldn't have minded chocolates, but hey. C'est la vie. Now what to do with a rose....

Dan dropped off a whole load of games for me in school today - GTA3 and MGS2, original no less, for my PS2. Then, C&C Generals, (which i'm supposed to review for Khabal), and Unreal 2. Unfortunately U2 (hah) decided that it was "With or without you", seeing how Dan accidentally gave me 2 play discs. ¬_¬ Soon I felt I was stuck in a moment I couldn't get out of, and it was such a beautiful day... sigh.

Bryan came over to hang out after school. He's an even match for me in Smackdown:SYM at the very least. Oh well, at least he got to go home with a couple of books he'd been after for the longest time. Good on ya. He's getting a new computer tomorrow, so I guess I won't be seeing a lot of him over then. Oh well.



Tested out C&C Generals. The gameplay is nice, the interface is shiny and clean, but I feel like I'm in a John Woo movie: Everything's so slowwwww. Tried to have a mulitplayer game with Sean just now. And only after MUCH trouble were we able to actually get it working. EA had better get a patch up, QUICK.

Awfully tired now. Actually fell asleep at the computer for about 10 minutes. Off to bed, candy dreams y'all.