Last day of SL.

Last day of SL today, I guess I'll sort of miss the kids. With this, the last IP event is over. With this, my IP experience has truly come to an end. Sigh. Two years have gone by quickly, haven't they? It'll be 2012 in a couple of days. Looking forward to the class chalet, and of course, turning seventeen :D

I'm gonna try and clear small bits of work today, so I can have the whole of tomorrow to read my Death Note. Like finally.

I do not understand why I still don't get enough sleep during the hols.

Maybe it's because I haven't caught up from all the lost sleep from going to Gold Coat. After all, with SL everyday, I haven't had my usual afternoon nap for a long time. Got to catch up on all that lost sleep before school starts again.

First day of SL today. The kids were more interested than I expected. The younger ones anyway. It's amazing how some of them can already draw so relatively well at such a young age. They were a little unresponsive to my part, but ah well. The rest of the workshop should go on smoothly, I think.

Entering 2012 on Sunday. That's fast. As usual, I think I'll be counting down online, Fiesta most probably.

Time really needs to go by slower

Yaargh so many things to do but so little time. This whole week's gonna be more or less taken up by SL, so I have to use the remainder of what I have of the holidays very carefully. Ideally. it'll be split between drawing that manga I'd been intended to draw since ever, reading the manga I bought, and watching anime movies. But considering I only have from 31st Dec to 3rd Jan, and a few days before 10 Jan maybe, I'm just planning on reading my Death Note and leaving my OP volumes to another time, and leave more time for drawing and anime movies.

This is pathetic. How did the holidays go by so fast? Oh what I'd give to leap through time, or to rewind time with the sands of time.

Back home :D

Well, to sum the past six days up, Gold Coast was pretty awesome hehe. The beach was really beautiful, the sand was really sorta golden too haha. And Sea World, Movie World, Dream World, all of them were awesome. Some more than others anyway. And I got to get close with kangaroos too, that was pretty cool too. At first I didn't dare to go near them, though they're actually pretty harmless. But eventually I went and sort of mingled with them and fed them and stuff. Was a new experience :D

Overwhelmed today when I checked my email. Damn, I've gotta get busy again. I'm kinda lost for SL though since I've been away for a week. Besides that, still gotta finish the newsletter and finalise the nightwalk plans. And I'm not too sure what happened to designing the retrospect. And these are only the stuff I have to do. Sigh. There are still plenty of stuff I want to do, but I guess they've got to wait.

Ah who am I kidding. Gonna go catch up with all the anime and manga I missed now :D

I think I've got The Girl Who Leapt Through Time soundtrack permanently stuck in my head.

Maybe I shouldn't have listened to it so many times yesterday. Or rewatched the 2nd half of the movie ._. Anyway, I'm looking for other really good anime movies like this, and I found one called Paprika, it's about entering people's dreams or something. Seems interesting, I shall watch it when I get back. Damn, I've still got quite a bit of work to settle when I get back. Shall worry about it once I'm back then.

1 more day till I fly off.

Anyway before anything, here's my manga :D







Feel like such a happy kid now that I've got these, even though I haven't opened them yet haha. Will open them when I come back, which just nice, is Christmas. I have forgot the last time I was so happy actually buying something. Think it was years ago, when I bought my last Bionicle set. Guess I didn't really have anything I wanted to buy for the past few years. Even this, I sort of bought it because I had vouchers. Sigh. The time will come when I can spend freely on manga.

And since I sort of wrote the last post in a rush, I don't think I wrote enough about The Girl Who Leapt Through Time. Well I'm not sure how to describe it, but it really is an amazing and wonderful movie, I would recommend watching it. It's one of those unique movies, in my opinion anyway. I like the OST for the movie too. Might watch it again when I come back.

Done packing already. Now lets see, if Australia is as good as I expect it to be. Bye Singapore, hellooo Gold Coast :D

Finally got my manga :D

Well I haven't blogged much for the past few days, mainly because I had quite a few things to do. Anyway, just a short summary of what I did for the past few days.

Work-wise, the Pulse newsletter is about half done I'd say, and nothing much to do for the retrospect for now. As for my part in SL, I'll think more about it over the next week.

Had to move my Bionicle sets to another location, so it was the first time in years that I actually touched them. Got kind of distracted and started fixing up some stuff hehe. But the sad thing is, a few of the parts are broken. Sigh. It really has been that long, hasn't it?

Went to Kino today and bought manga. One Piece volume 43, 44, 52, and 59. The volume which I wanted the most, volume 59, was out of stock. Well, I should have expected that, that's the volume everyone would want to buy immediately too. Bought Death Note book 4 too, which consists of volumes 7 to 8. And it's in the original black version :D I decided on all these after about an hour of looking. If I had more vouchers, I'd have bought everything there. Sigh, the things money can buy.

As I was buying the stuff, I looked behind the cashier, and guess what I saw? ORIGINAL JUMP MAGAZINES! I nearly squealed in delight, luckily I didn't. I can't believe it, they actually sell them here too. Well, that's the next best alternative to a Jump shop I guess. I'll buy them one day when I've got extra money to spend, after buying all the manga. After all, this one is lower on the priority list since it's fully in Japanese. I'll just focus on buying the English versions of the manga now.

Well, having bought my manga, I am now a happy and contented boy :D I guess this is sort of my early Christmas and birthday present to myself. Speaking of which, I'll be turning 17 reaaally soon. I still don't have volume 58 of One Piece yet. Just saying.

Watched The Girl Who Leapt Through Time yesterday, after being reminded a few days ago that such a movie exists. It is truly a wonderful movie, and it's a nice change from the action/adventure stuff that I usually watch. Apparently this movie wasn't advertised much when it first came out in Japan, but because of all the great reviews it eventually spread around the world, and there's even a English version I think. The Japanese version is always the best though.

Time waits for no one.

Finally recovered from my flu.

Looks like sleeping for half the day yesterday was a good investment. Let's see the to-do list today:

Touch up on the design for pages and calendar for retrospect, put them together.

Start designing the cover of the retrospect.

Watch yesterday's Bleach episode.

Read the latest manga.

Finish drawing my manga.

Finish the cover for the Pulse newsletter.

Start packing for Australia.

Go to Kino to use up my 100 dollars voucher all on manga.

It is reaally hard to choose which volumes I want to buy. I'd buy them all if I could. One piece is my first priority, though many of the volumes I want are pretty recent, don't know if they have it stocked. But I'm going prepared, with a narrowed down list of both old and new manga, just in case. Well then, time to get to work.

Busy-ness really kicks in out of nowhere.

Well, I aim to get the retrospect design for the calendar and those other few pages done by tomorrow morning, then I'll try working on the cover. After which I'll start doing up the Pulse cover. And I still haven't gotten back to drawing my manga T_T I just got this wonderful idea for a one page-r with Ace and Luffy. Only problem is, I don't have the time to do it now. And my flu just got worse again, just as I thought it was getting better. My immune system just haaas to fail me now of all times. Still got to pack for my trip to Australia too. Aaaargh. Alright then, getting back to the retrospect design now.

I WILL make time to draw that manga. Somehow, but I'll make sure I finish it before I go overseas.

Down with flu -.-

Aaargh this is annoying, why did I have to get sick just as I got my momentum for drawing? I actually finished a whole page yesterday. Now I can't even draw without having to blow my nose every few minutes -.-

And I don't think sitting in front of the computer the whole day helps. But there's honestly nothing else I can do now. Just been mindlessly leveling my mage in Fiesta. Ah well. Looks like level 60 is just within reach.

Goal for the week: To get at least one page of manga done.

I reaally want to draw fight scenes again, all this while I've only been doing intros for manga. Perhaps this one will turn out good. Also starting to practice various landscapes. Oh, and I got back to the character I was working on before I got distracted by PoP hehe.

Raw scan:

Colour 1:

Colour 2:

Personally, I prefer the 2nd coloured version. I'll try to colour the evil version of him when I have the time too. One thing I realised from this is, outlining without a tablet is painstakingly hard. Half the time the line goes awry and I've gotta undo it. But still, it gives better results than using the original scan outline. Gotta get used to outlining using a mouse.

This week's manga was good

So apparently Jinbei isn't joining the crew now, but later. And The mermaid princess is the ancient weapon that was spoken of previously. I've gotta go re-read those old chapters to refresh my memory on Skypiea.

Got another design job, to redesign the Retrospect for next year. As usual, not much of an idea now, but if all goes as it usually does, it'll turn out pretty good in the end :D

Been reading through my old posts, and I've realised how quickly time has passed, how much has changed. And another thing I realised...

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE EAGLES THAT FLY OUTSIDE MY WINDOW?

I think I'm getting a little sick of Pop ._.

Well, that's what happens when I spam it for a week I guess. Never mind, I've got all the life upgrades now, I can take my time finishing what's left.

Gotta get back to drawing too. I think I'm gonna focus more on working on landscapes, my characters are already pretty okay. Need to get some inspiration for landscapes though. Manga artists usually travel all around the world to get ideas on various landscapes. Guess I'll just have to settle for whatever googling these places gives me.

On a side note, if I ever learn how to play the piano(unlikely), I wanna learn how to play the 14th's song from D. Grayman. It's pretty good.

Finally, finished PoP 2

Well, it took me less than a week. Feels like ages since I started though. Anyway, it's pretty interesting, apparently the Prince did see himself going back to the past to change it, just that he didn't recognise himself because the mask of the wraith made him look like a sand creature. Anyway, the Empress has been killed, the Dahaka no longer chases the prince, and the sands of time no longer exist. And the prince returns to find his city in ruins. This isn't the ending I want. This is the bad ending. Apparently for the alternative ending where I fight the Dahaka, I needa get all the life upgrades, which will unlock the water sword, which will actually allow me to harm the Dahaka.

Hmm.. I think I'll go see where all the life upgrades are today, then I'll aim to finish the game again in the next 4 days :D

The Dahaka is just annoying.

I got chased by it for 3 hours yesterday, without any save points. Mainly because I kept failing and had to redo the level. Only save point was like after it chased the Prince about four times. Anyway, currently I've defeated the Empress of Time in the past, the Prince has returned to the future to find out the Dahaka is still after him, and now he's gone back to the past, to bring the Empress to the present, because if she makes the sands of time in the present and not the past, it would not have been found yet, therefore the Prince would not have been tricked into unlocking it, and thus the Dahaka would have no reason to kill him. Seems like a good plan. Let's see how it goes.

One Piece is the top manga for 2011 :D

Apparently there were more than 37 million copies of OP sold this year, making it the top ranking manga. In second place is Naruto, with 6 million copies. All the rest in the top ten range somewhere between 5 mil to 3 mil. Well, that just proves how awesome One piece is :D

I have really gotta start buying some One Piece manga.

Waiting for my iPod to recharge now

Well my progress so far is pretty good, I think I can complete the game by next week. After that I'm gonna replay it again in impossible mode, and depending on which ending I got, I'll go for the alternate ending. And I think I missed some of the life upgrades on this one, only way I found out about them was by accidentally coming across them in the walkthrough. I didn't really refer much to the walkthrough, I'm trying to figure everything out myself. So far it's been good, and the times when I did refer, it seems that my instinct was correct, just that I mis-pressed the button or something. Oh and I've gotten quite comfortable with the touchscreen interface.

iPod's gonna take about an hour more to fully charge. Guess I'll go running or something and then get back to it. It's nice to forget the world for a while, and be immersed in the Prince's world. Glad I haven't spoiled the details of the storyline for myself yet, that's one of the main things that keeps me playing this :D

I think I'm addicted to POP again

Yup, but not that I'm complaining. Feels good to be playing POP again, after so long. The soundtrack in this game is simply the best. I'm only stopping for eating, sleeping, and more importantly, recharging my iPod -.-"

Looks like it's more or less recharged now. Back to Persia now :D

OH YEAA HAHAHAHA :D

I just started playing POP 2 on my iPod, and it's AWESOME. It expected they'd cut some stuff to make this version on the iPod, BUT EVERYTHING'S EXACTLY THE SAME HAHAHA. BEST OF ALL, IT'S IN HD!! I FEEL ALIVE AGAIN MUHAHAHAHA :D

Only downside is the middle control button's a little hard to press, it doesn't register sometimes even when I press really hard. But I think I'll eventually get around that. As for now, back to some sword-swinging, wall-jumping, time travelling action hehe.

Oh and if I haven't said it before, I'll say it now. PRINCE OF PERSIA IS THE BEST GAME THERE IS. ALWAYS HAS BEEN AND ALWAYS WILL BE :D

Got an iPod :D

My bro gave me his iPod, mainly because he doesn't have much use for it anymore, and his PSP should be more than enough for him. Still trying to get the hang of using it though. Anyway, I'm just trying to download good games now. Already got Iron Man 2, currently downloading Prince of Persia 2. Yea I know playing these on an iPod as compared to a PS would be kinda sucky, but ah well, better than nothing. Trying to find a decent One Piece theme and wallpaper too. Hehe, this could be the start of something good :D

Caught up to the latest chapter in D. Grayman

Well, I've finally caught up, after spamming it since after EOYs. This series is gooood. But the anime stopped a few years ago, and the manga only comes out like once every month now. Might be because of the accident the mangaka had a few years ago, which cause the series to be on hiatus for a while. It used to be released weekly, now I've got to wait a month for each chapter T_T And I reaally hope they continue the anime. This one's too good of a series to be stopped. Well, I have 4 mangas and 3 animes ongoing now. I think I shouldn't add any more to the list. Might not be able to keep myself updated with all of them next year.

I suddenly got some inspiration to draw today. Well okay, my character's hair looks a bit like Allen's, but that wasn't intentional. It turned out pretty good, gonna scan it in and colour it tomorrow. Gonna start drawing more these days. I might even do a few pages of manga. Alright then, back to drawing this guy's evil alter-ego now :D

Cut my hair a little too short -.-"

My hair was already awfully long, so I went to cut it today. Walked into the barber shop, sat down, and after thinking a bit, I told him to cut it short. I usually don't say anything, he knows how short it should be. Not sure why I told him this time. Apparently he has a really stretched definition of short. -.-"

Lesson of the day: Sometimes its better to just shut up.

Hmm.

Today's TED event got me thinking a bit. About whether the path I'm choosing to follow will truly make me happy. Well, if I blindly follow it, maybe it won't. I've got to make my own path within this path. Perhaps that's what I'm looking for. But I just needa make sure that where I'm headed, that's where I want to go, what I want to do. I just hope it is. Only time will tell, I guess.

I just hope I have no regrets in the future.

Today was a good day :)

Met up with Derrick, Sunda, Keith, and Darren at Keith's house today. We had the usual ps2/ xbox marathons, watching and laughing madly at lame videos, and of course, the ever-usual pizza lunch. Well this year the game selection got better since Keith bought some new games, we spent most of the time playing Marvel vs Capcom. Damn, that game is good. And I think I've sorta lost my touch in Soul Calibur 4. Ah well, at least I won a few times in that.

Meeting them again next week probably to watch Tintin, and sometime during December at Derrick's house for a barbeque. The don't exactly seem that confident that they can get into VJ next year, but I'm pretty sure they will. Gonna be interesting having them around again next year, even though we most probably would be in different classes :D

And so, another chapter of my life has ended.

Today was the last day of being an IP2, it was kinda sad. I'll honestly miss the IP life, my crazy yet awesome class, all the crazy things we've been through in IP, and most of all, my friends. One of my biggest worries always, is that I'll lose touch with old friends. Hopefully it doesn't happen this time.

I remember thinking two years ago during the welcome and matriculation, that these two years are gonna be the best two years of my life. I was right. There are a lot of memories that I really treasure, most of them aren't any big things, just some stuff that we do randomly in all our madness. I find it quite a crazy stroke of luck that my class seems to have the right combination of people, and by that I mean that everyone's so different that it's not a problem anymore.

I'll miss the good times we had, painting the walls, going to IKEA to buy furniture, scaring people in the mornings, the pillow fights, the random dance sessions, the class outings, the really interesting lessons(once again, because we were lucky enough to get all awesome teachers :D), playing pokemon cards, and even minor stuff like going down to eat with everyone during breaks. Honestly, I think it's the small stuff like this that we'll miss the most. Another of the things I'll miss is having a classroom we can call home. The four walls within which we could be as crazy as we wanted, without having to care about the rest of the world.

Anyway, as I've said before, these two years have been the best two years of my life. Though we'll all be split up next year, I hope that we'll all still be able to meet occasionally, to relive good old times. And thanks, to all my friends and classmates who made the past two years one of the best experiences of my life :)

Memories are good to look back at, but we shouldn't live in them. Keep moving forward, keep looking to the future, and making new memories.

Last day of Tamil

Finished O level Tamil today, this marks the end of ten years plus of studying. On one hand, I am quite glad to be finally rid of it. But then again, as I keep moving forward and finishing certain things I never thought I'd see the end of, it sort of means that my life as a student is also going to come to a close quite soon. I know nothing could be better than these two years in IP, but I do hope the next two years are good. It'll sort of be the last time I can call myself a student (somehow I don't find that term quite applicable to uni).

Anyway, I've really gotta use this holiday meaningfully, as tempting as it may be to just mindlessly slack the whole time. Got some things in mind already, but whether I'll actually get around to doing them is another issue. Ah well, I shall take a well deserved break today. And touch up my symposium slides later. Gonna have to rush to finish everything tomorrow.

Decisions, decisions.

Well, by the end of tonight I'd have officially chosen bio over phys. I just really hope that I made the right choice, and that I'll continue to do well in it. Well then, even if physics is supposedly easier, it only means that I'll have to put in more effort for bio. It's not impossible to ace it. I definitely know I prefer bio over physics, and it's definitely more relevant to me. All that's left is whether I'll continue doing well in it. If I don't, then I'll just HAVE to. No regrets then.

I have started to consider taking KI again x.x After what Mr Chad told us about IP students generally doing better in KI, and that KI might be a better choice for some people as compared to GP, I'm starting to re-think my opinion that GP is a fail-safe option, that everyone who takes it struggles and somehow gets a B or something. If I take it, I might not even be able to get a B, considering I'm not that in touch with current affairs. Might. On the other hand, KI does seem interesting, but is also scary at the same time, as I'm not sure if I can do well in it. I don't think I'll have a good gauge of whether I'll be able to do KI after taking it for a few months, I think I'll only know for sure after maybe a year, and that's a little too late ._. Then again, if it's like LA, I guess I could get through it relatively okay, just that the lectures might be a little boring. But then again, GP seems a little idiot-proof, though it's a little tedious to read up on current affairs and all. I could go on debating with myself, but I've been already been doing that a lot for the past few weeks. First bio versus physics, and now this. I'm just glad I got the bio/phys thing sorted out. As for this, I'll see how the briefing and talk with Mr Ng is on Tuesday. I can still predict what's gonna happen though. I'll take it next year, and after 3 months I'd be okay with it, but I'd still be unsure on whether to continue with it or not, whether I can continue to manage if I continue it. Sigh

If after looking into myself I can't find an answer, I guess I'll just have to make an answer.

Yet another Deepavali with 10V13 :D

13 came over to my house yesterday, zac and marcus too. Was quite fun playing break the safe with them hehe. At least we now know that to play cluedo properly, you've got to have fewer players. The food came two hours late though, my mom says we're never gonna order from that place again. Sadly not everyone could come this year, but I guess there's always next year. Thanks everyone for coming over yesterday, hope you had a good time :D

It's gonna be a tough two years

Well, I managed to qualify to take H2 econs next year, though the statistics of past performances are kinda scary. Got shortlisted for KI as well, but I doubt I'm taking it. Yea I know it's interesting and all, but not sure if I'll be able to manage. I'll just somehow struggle through GP I guess. And the really scary thing is, I NEED to get straight As if I'm going to study medicine, which is my main consideration now. Even a slight screw-up in the A levels could screw everything up. Sigh. They always seem to notice what you do badly more than what you can actually do well. It's scary, but I'm going to have to do it. It's gonna be real hard to be able to get that kind of scores. Gonna have to work reaaaaaaal hard for the next two years (something tells me GP would need the most work for me). Well, if I get an A for my Tamil now, I'd have secured a H1 A. But it's a bit too late to be worrying about that :/ Sigh, I'll see how it goes. Will think more about this when O levels and symposium are over.

My Gameboy died :(

I picked up my gameboy again for the first time in months today, and I found out that it had this weird ripple-ly thing on it's screen, and it can't be turned on now. Sigh. Well, at least I've played the most out of it, I've lost count of how many times I've played pokemon blue over and over again haha. Somehow, I never get tired of it. And yea, it's more than ten years old, I guess it's only expected that it's spoil sooner or later. I'll miss playing pokemon on that old machine.

There goes another piece of my childhood.

Still not enough hours in a day

Yea I know EOYs are over, but I still don't seem to have enough time to do everything I planned to do yet. Half of this weekend was gone helping my mom to make cookies and clean the house for Deepavali. And I really think I should start worrying about my mother tongue O levels. Soon. Still got quite a lot of things to do, symposium, VIP Pulse recruitment, and a few more. This year is honestly a crazy marathon. But it's getting to the good part :D

This is the life :D

Didn't go for OBS, but I still find there to be not enough hours in a day. From editing the symposium invite, to drawing some single-pagers, to playing Fiesta and Blackshot, to trying out new stuff in Photoshop and Illustrator, and to spamming D-Grayman, there simply isn't enough time. And that only covers about less than half of my to-do list. Trying to find companies for the job attachment is reaaally taking up a lot of my time. I wanna try and find a comic or manga company, or at least an illustrating company, but all that I found so fare are really small and unknown ones. Might still try to apply for them though.

On a side note, the class walls have been fully painted over. Sigh. I think I've sorta come to accept it already. As the saying goes, all good things must come to an end. Those class walls have truly brightened up daily lessons in my class, and I'm just happy that it turned out to be so good, even though I was sorta unsure how it would turn out when we first started painting. I'm grateful for having such an awesome classroom for these two years, and on top of that, having an even more awesome class. I couldn't ask for anything better :D

So it ends. So it begins.

EOYs ended yesterday, YEAAA :D Played pokemon cards with the rest at soghurt, then went home to watch the latest episode of OP(no words can describe how awesome it was... the new opening too :D), then I watched the first Johnny English movie, then the 3 new episodes of BBT season 5. I made sure I wasted no time :D

Last day with the class walls today :( I would really do anything to save those walls from being painted over. Our class put in so much effort into it, my heart and soul went into it too :/ I will never forget how that big eye began as a sketch on paper, then the sketches multiplied on the walls, and how I watched them grow from sketches to vibrant, colourful paintings. Honestly, once it's painted over, it seems like a huge chunk of evidence that our class ever existed would have been removed. Siiiiigh. I really love the class walls. I really can't bear to see them getting painted over.

After next week, it will no longer be our classroom, it'll just be... yet another room.

6 more days to go

Well, I just hope the remaining papers pass quickly and painlessly. Looks like the new OP opening has already been leaked on to youtube. I'm not gonna watch it yet, if I do, I definitely won't be able to study. Sigh. Reaaally looking forward to seeing the crew reunited after 2 years in the next episode :D (The cool part is, it has been more than two years since the crew separated in real time too, that episode aired in June 2009 if I'm not wrong) In any case, for the remaining papers, all that's left is to FIGHT ON!!! :D

Last episode of the current One Piece arc.

This episode, was pretty awesome, it gives you the awww yea feeling about what's coming next, with all the crew members already having started their training. Looking forward to the new opening especially :D But it's kinda sad though, this marks the end of the first half of One Piece. But I have to admit, it has been awesome till now, the whole 14 years worth of it. Though it's so long, at least in One Piece it's ensured that there are no loopholes in the plot, or any underdeveloped characters. 14 years is a looong time, and the stage has just been set for the New World Arc. I really liked how they showed "Go to New World" at the end of the episode instead of the usual "To Be Continued". Oh, and the (seemingly) final time the "We are!" song was played at the end of the episode was pretty cool too :D

Reaaally looking forward to the next episode, though I don't think I'll watch it next Sunday. I'll wait till my exams are over on Thurs, then watch it. Firstly because I don't want to get distracted with over-excitement over the New World, and also because I'd rather wait for a few days and watch it in HQ. Good things are definitely worth waiting for. October 2nd marks the start of the second half of the One Piece anime, it marks the start of another 10 plus years of anime. OH YEAAAA :D

Should really get into work-mode

Before anything else, I have to say that this week's manga was awesome, as usual, Bleach in particular. This week's chapter showed showed they changed slightly, yet are somewhat the same after the time skip. If I haven't mentioned it before, Ichigo's new sword design and outfit do look much better than the old one :D

Yaargh, EOYs are coming up soon, but I still feel rather relaxed. I reaaally needa get into that exam mode. Hopefully it happens soon. On the bright side, it's less than a month till EOYs are over, less than a month till PARTY TIME :D

Teachers' Day

Went back to RMPS yesterday. Well, it seems like my batch is the oldest batch that's returned to visit. Saw a few teachers like Mrs Som (though I'm sure she has kinda more or less forgotten us), and went for lunch and chatted with an interesting mix of people this year, at vivo. Can't believe we spent 4 hours just talking about all the funny stuff that happened when we were still in RMPS, talking about random people from our batch, and how life is for all of us now. Thought this would be the last year I went back, but actually, I think I'm gonna go back next year too. I'm gonna try to keep this tradition. That's what the others said too. It's only once a year, we may as well meet up and see how everyone is. That, and also because there's just something about walking through those ever-familiar corridors of RMPS :D

ONE PIECE ANIME'S GONNA AIR FOR AT LEAST 10 MORE YEARS :D

HAHAHA YEAAAA this is just awesome. Another 10 years of waiting weekly for the episodes, another 10 years of the awesome storyline :D Oda is definitely gonna leave a legacy in the world of manga and anime with this awesome series he created. His patience is admirable too, he started the manga in 1997 and is still going. If it were me, I think I'd be tempted to rush to the good epic part in a few months time haha. It would definitely be cool if I could create a manga on the same level as his, that's enjoyed by millions around the world. Not to mention leaving one hell of a legacy for other aspiring manga artists. Sigh, I'll stick to trying to complete a volume of The Cursed Blade for now.

Just started on my final essay for SIP. I've more or less got all the content in my head already, it's just a matter of typing it out. Which is sorta hard because I'm too excited about including bits and pieces here and there that it seems impossible to type it out properly at one go. Hmm, this is gonna turn out good, I hope :D

Bits of nostalgia here and there

Talked to Keith again, first time in a few months that I had a proper chat with him. Apparently life in VS now is kinda horrible. With the AEP work overload, preparing for O levels, and the horrible people there too. Well on the bright side, he seems quite interested in taking KI next year. Not that I've completely decided on taking it. Something that I've gotta decide on soon.

Going back to RMPS on teachers' day. Gonna be the last time going back there. Kinda sad that it all ends this time, there's not gonna be anymore walking along the ever-so familiar corridors there after this. No more seeing the teachers whom really made an impact on us, in good and bad ways. And I'm sorta sure I'll lose touch with my pri sch friends after this year. Yes, while I do talk to one or two of them occasionally, It seems like it's just for the sake of it. Sigh. I don't care that much anymore.

The weekly manga never ceases to amaze me

This is awesome, all 3 mangas I follow are all in an epic phase of their storylines now. But most significantly, Bleach seems to have made a turnaround from that storyline that was doing downhill. Return of Rukia AND the other captains from soul society. Oh hell yea it's gonna get interesting from here. Not to mention the lead up to the epic boss fight in One Piece, and Naruto's team-up with Itachi. Everything in the world of manga is just pure awesome now. It's gonna be real awesome when the anime reaches these parts. Damn, that's gonna take at least a year or so :/

No more excuses, no more regrets

That's the way I'm gonna try to do things now. Better to try and fail than to have never tried at all. Let's see if I can actually stick with this though. Small nagging part of my mind insisting I have to. It's for the better after all.

Nothing like spending a Sunday morning in the library~

Went to the library today to get a book for my SIP. Managed to find it, but I've just realised how many interesting reads there are in that whole section, which is like the psychology section and a few other related topics. I would have stayed there reading bits of the different books if I could. I managed to skim through a few books, all from quite different topics, though all within psychology, and damn, they are interesting. I think I'm gonna go borrow and read a LOT of books from there after EOYs :D

On a side note, I feel a bit enlightened after reading some of the stuff in the books. Kinda makes you look at the world, and your thoughts in a different perspective. It's really interesting to think about how you think. Just saying.

Surprisingly free

Honestly, I'm not sure why I seem so free when others seem to quite stressed out now. Ah well, it's good anyway. Except for the fact that I can't slack in peace with everyone so busy. I think the busy-ness is gonna kick in from next week, when I start my SIP. SIP's gonna be interesting, I'm glad I chose this module. If I did it on other modules, I'd just have been doing it for the sake of doing it. At least for identity, I'm learning a lot of interesting things along the way. Going to the library tomorrow to pick up some books to read for SIP. But now till I sleep, it's Fiesta time :D

xXEnchantoXx shall return, much better than ever, after EOYs :D

Not sure if this is good or bad.

I've really back into drawing, I've spent the whole of yesterday and today drawing. And the re-make of The Cursed Blade is coming along rather awesomely. But I have this tiny nagging feeling that I have other work to do. Well, SIP proposal is done, I guess I'll worry about it once I actually can start on it. Besides that... IH project? Erm, I'll leave that to when my group next meets, and most probably rush out something next weekend. But for now, I can relax a bit I guess.

Finally, some peace in the midst of madness.

Finally back to pencil and paper

Started on the re-make of the characters today, the new Ken is definitely muuuch better than the original. Thinking of changing his name too. Heck, I think I'm gonna change all their names. Gonna start on the new Jake soon. After which I might start trying out the landscapes. Damn, I've gotta get back to work tomorrow.

It's gonna be an awesome time after EOYs :D

Long weekend~

Well, this weekend shouldn't be THAT busy I guess. Yea there's plenty of stuff to do, but I think I can manage some slack time. If I can, I'm gonna start working on that character I've been thinking of for ages. Either that or start on the re-make of my characters from The Cursed Blade.

Anyway, this week's manga was just purely awesome too :D More of Itachi in Naruto, about how he planned so far, the return of Rukia in Bleach, which is like @_@, and Luffy starting to use his haki in One Piece, and the big battles beginning. The manga for the next two months or so is gonna be really awesome :D

Decided. Sort of.

Well I more or less know the path I'm gonna take, though what I want to do eventually hasn't really been decided yet. But oh well, that decision has to be made after I get more experience. Anyway, I've sorta already narrowed it down. Finally, the future seems slightly more clear. Can stop worrying so much now :D

This week's manga was awesome :D

Well, this week's manga was just awesome. Itachi's return in Naruto, yet another twist in Bleach, and the re-appearance of the Straw Hats in One Piece(which means the epic fights are gonna happen soon :D). Gonna watch the latest episode of Naruto later, hopefully that's be as awesome too.

Been thinking quite a lot about my career path these few days. Well, it's important that I should like whatever I do right? Sadly, this world places a price tag on almost everything. I'm not looking for a job with a high pay or anything, I'm happy as long as I enjoy doing it, and know that I won't regret doing it for the rest of my life. But I still gotta take into account that it's money that drives this world, that as ideal as it would seem to just follow your passion, sometimes it just doesn't work out.

Anyway, I still got about 2 years to decide I guess. People say that's a lot of time, but I don't really think so. I really hope I get a better idea of what I want to do in future. This (unnecessary) worrying is just going to give me more white hairs.

It's gonna be a mad rush till EOYs

Busy every week, with so many assignments. Once they're all done, there's still the IH debate thingy, CI, and SIP, and EOYs after that. Sigh. I'll manage, somehow I guess. Careers week next week. I'm still sorta unsure on what I wanna do in future. What I want to do, not what I should do. So far most of my choices are more of the should kind. If I really go along with those, wonder if I'll regret it. But as quoted from the speaker from college day today, the future isn't set in stone. What I may end up doing in future may be completely different from what I expect now. Anyway, yea I shouldn't decide so fast and limit myself to a certain path, should see how the future turns out to be. On the other hand, leaving it to the future seems a bit ._.

I just wanna live a life with no regrets.

A short break, finally.

Physics project is more or less completed, all that's left is the presentation in a few weeks time. But anyway, there isn't that much to do this weekend. Which means it's time for a well deserved break. Gonna try to get my mage to level 60 over the weekend, and play a little blackshot too. Gonna go sleep soon. Might as well stock up on sleep while I can. From next week on it seems like it's gonna be busy like hell.

Need to get back all that lost sleep

I seem to be more tired and sleepy nowadays, and can fall asleep more easily. Probably because of not being able to sleep well in Sweden, and not being used to waking up early in the morning yet. First week of term 3 just passed. Having to get back to studying and all is quite ._. On the bright side, there are some intereting things, like my magic elective, and this term's LA module. Identity seems like a pretty interesting module.

Just can't wait for the projects to end. Physics more or less ends next week, and CI should end this month. Pretty doomed for CI though. It's impossible to meet the deadline looking at the current progress. Sigh. Might have been a better idea not to have opted for a CI.

Back home.

Came back yesterday. The past week has been the most awesome week of my life, being halfway across the world. seeing new things, doing stuff I've never done before, words can't really describe it. Might write a longer post on it some later. But for now, siiiiggggh. I'm kinda starting to miss it already. But it's time to get back to reality :/

Flying off tonight :D

Alright then, not gonna worry about physics till I get back. Can't belive it, in another 12 hours I'd be on the plane. My first time on a plane. And my first time to europe. First time in such cold weather too(though not THAT cold). Really hope it doesn't go by too fast, this seems like one of the few opportunities I'll ever get to travel that far ._.

Really hoping that eureka moment will come soon

This physics project is reaaally starting to get annoying. Spent so much time on it and yet can't even get it to make a sound -.- And somehow most of the others can get theirs working on theiirst try. I'm just gonna go back to sch and try one last time(and I hope by some miracle we manage to get it working. Sigh, 2 more days to sweden, when I should be looking forward to that, I'm stuck having to worry about this. Well, even if my mike fails, I guess I have a back-up plan(as usual), though it isn't that great. If the mike fails I guess I'll just have to make the presentation and all the other stuff so good, that we can at least get a decent gade for this. I shall say this once, and once only. STUPID PHYSICS PROJECT IF YOU WERE ALIVE I'D HAVE KILLED YOU TEN TIMES OVER AND OVER AGAIN BY NOW AAAAARGH!!!

Kinda boring now.

Finished all the work there is to do, though I'm still going back to sch for physics a lot. That doesn't seem to be going so well, but I guess we'll somehow sort it out ._. Since I got through one piece, and my internet connection these days hasn't been good enough to play anything, I'm stuck with nothing to do. Guess I'll just rewatch death note then :D I didn't really watch all of it in the anime, only read the manga. Now's definitely a good time to catch up.

Finally :D

I FINALLY caught up with the manga for One Piece as well, which means I've caught up with more than 14 years worth of manga :D All 628 chapters yeaaa. But it's sad that now I gotta wait every week for the new episode and chapter. Interesting though, that 14 years after the start of One Piece, I think it's only gotten through half the storyline. Which means there's a hell lot more I can look forward to :D

Another day, another white hair.

I think I worry too much, about pretty much everything there is to worry about ._.

Episode 483, Chapter 574: The Death of Portgas D. Ace

Well, I finally got to the part where Ace died T_T That has got to be the saddest death I've seen in all of the anime I've watched (second-saddest being Jiraya's death). They just HAVE to kill off all the awesome characters, don't they? Kinda sad that Whitebeard dies too. Just gonna keep watching for now, gonna see how this ends. But on a side note, whoa, I managed to cram about 100 episodes in a week @_@ Gonna reach the latest episode real soon. After which I will have to wait for the latest episode to come out every week, as the rest of the world does.

Almost half the hols gone x.x

Went to sch in the morning for tl project, which is actually of a quite low standard but we don't really care much. Then went to the library to get some books. Today seemed quite tiring, though I didn't do much. And I thought today was Thursday for the whole of today, till about an hour ago. Gonna try to sleep slightly earlier today, though that means watching less one piece tonight :/ Already at episode 470, I'm amazed how much of Ace's past they can bring in through so few episodes. His death is definitely gonna be sadder than I thought.

Well that went better than expected.

I FINISHED THE ESSAY AWWW YEAAA :D Though I know it isn't that great, probably gonna get average marks for it again, as usual. Can't be bothered to proof-read it now, just gonna sit back and enjoy a few hours of one piece, and proof-read it in the evening.

I sure hope I gain a bit of weight by the end of this hols. Everyday it's like breakfast, snack, lunch, snack, nap, snack, dinner, snack, sleep. That SHOULD be the right formula to gaining weight. Plus I haven't really gone running or exercised or anything. If this doesn't help me gain weight, don't think anything else will x.x

Week 2 of the holidays.

Well one week's gone just like that. Oh well, at least I'm at episode 450 of OP now. Only 50 more episodes, and I'd have caught up to the latest episode :D

Started on my LA essay today as planned. It's kinda hard to concentrate on writing my essay when I have all my episodes loading in front of me. Oh well, just hope it doesnt drag for more than 3 days. Aiming to finish this by wed.

And I've got to go to the library soon too. Not only to return matt's book, but also to stock up on books for the next few weeks. At the rate I'm getting through my OP episodes, I think I'll run out of entertainment by next week. That's a scary thought.

We all grow up too fast.

Well today was reaaally productive. Not. Watched One Piece the whole morning, and I finally got around to watching Toy Story 3 after that. I just remembered, however childish it may seem now, I used to play with toys like that too. Most of my toys were thrown away though, my mom only allowed me to keep some of them :/ I remember having a buzz lightyear and woody too. And a mr potatohead. Those and maaany more toys of all kinds, They actually filled up a whole cupboard, and I'd spend hours everyday playing with them. When life used to be so simple and carefree. Sigh. It's kinda sad, we all grow up too fast.

Really wanna clear all the work quickly

Meeting up so many times this hols for one project or another. Sigh. After matt goes overseas next week my phys project would pretty much be put on hold till term 3. Really gonna have to rush it then. On the bright side, I guess I can't worry about it much during the hols :D

CI is another -.- for the hols, but besides that the other work seems pretty do-able. Planning to finish everything by the end of next week, which leaves 2 weeks to slack. LA essay, political cartoon, tl homework, bio assignmet, math homework. Seems like a lot, but I'll just try to finish them quickly I guess.

Wow, 3 weeks to Sweden. Time really flies.

Holidays are finally here :D

Last day of the term yesterday. Met up with keith sunda and derrick. Darren couldn't come because of some chinese lesson, but ah well I think we'll all meet up again later in the hols :D Planned to watch Thor, but ended up watching Fast and Furious 5. Didn't really matter that I didn't watch the 4 previous movies, the storyline was quite easy to follow.

Just like that, one and a half year have gone by. Only about 5 months left. JC life reaaally isn't gonna be that fantastic. I have to make sure I enjoy whatever time I have left here. Sweden trip in 4 weeks, looking forward to that :D First time I'll be travelling out of Southeast Asia, first time I'm going to Europe, first time I'm flying on a plane. It's gonna be awesome, I hope.

Now that the holidays are here, I have all the time in the world to spam One Piece. Even though there's a LOT of work to do. Alright shall get back to watching OP now, I'm almost at the part where the crew gets separated for 2 years :(

Feels like the holidays already :D

Watched Pirates of the Carribean today. Was pretty awesome, just as expected :D There's definitely nothing like Jack Sparrow styled comedy and action. And staying an extra five to ten mins for that post credits scene....just wasn't worth it -.-"

The theme song's still playing in my head. Not that I'm complaining hehe.

Got through napfa in one piece

By some stroke of luck I managed to get a silver today, getting Ds in those stations which I previously got Es on my first try. Yup, all thanks to my awesome luck I managed to just scrape just past the D mark.

Been drawing quite a bit these few days. I've gotta admit, I have improved a lot. Just been drawing OP related stuff though. But seriously, who needs photoshop when you have good enough pencil-and-paper skills :D

And the workload seems to have lightened a lot now. Much free-er now. What else to do to occupy myself but to watch OP. Got a LA test tomorrow, but I guess I could push the studying to tomorrow. It's a holiday after all. For now, back to my drawing hehe. Gotta find some time to watch a little OP today too.

Boooooring.

Nothing that interesting or eventful happened recently. It's just the usual boring routine. Spent most of this weekend watching One Piece. Reached the part where they have to leave the Going Merry T.T But anyway, looks like the storyline is moving closer to Ace :D

Somehow being so free this weekend seems... out of place. Maybe's it's because I've gotten too used to rushing projects and stuff over the last few weekends. Going back to school for math project tmr. One that's done with, there shouldn't be anything major to worry about. For now.

Cut my hair today too. I think the next time I go for a haircut, I'll consider saying "very short" instead of "short" -.-"

The final open house

Open house today was quite slack actually. For me anyway. Kinda pity the presenters who had to prepare so much for today lol. The food was worse than last year ._. Wanted to go watch Thor with the rest, but apparently all cinemas in Singaore were fully booked or sold out -.-" Went to eat instead, and found 3 ben and jerrys vouchers by quite a stroke of luck.

Anyway, I reaaally think I should start work on IH and math now. But my manga is calling me, and I won't be able to fully focus unless I've read about 20 chapters today. Ah well, I'll just slack now and be productive after dinner :D

Eventful day.

Today was quite interesting. First when I was about to leave school, I nearly had to stay back to help my tamil teacher for open house stuff -.- Fortunately due to my awesome lying I managed to escape from that flawlessly, saying had to stay in school till very late for other open house preparations. You've gotta love the way I lie :D

After which me, zx, matt, hy, marc, wj and farhana went to parkway, and it started to rain. Zx went first with his his umbrella, then matt and wj went with another umbrella. Which left me marc hy and farhana with only one umbrella. It was kinda stupid with the four of us under one umbrella haha. Then we went to macs for a really long gossip session, I learnt so much today hehe. And the best part was, we saw goh chok tong come right outside macs to talk to reporters just as we left. Our timing was perfect. But yea we couldn't hear much so we left after a while.

Open house tomorrow. Gonna be slack, but this weekend isn't gonna be that slack :/ IH and math project, and ci too aaaaaaaaaaargh. But I think its still perfectly fine to slack off today :D

Well that didn't really go as planned.

Ended up doing IH till 12 yesterday. Ah well, today seems free-er, think I'll be able to get through some OP today. And there's napfa tomorrow -.- I just hope I get a D, and then I'll hope this year they're more lenient and will let you off if you get a bronze. Or else PE is really gonna suck from now on.

Lessons end at 11.05 on Friday for open house prep? Not like I have much to prepare for. Guess that means I get to leave early :D And the following weeks seem pretty good, lotsa long weekends. It's time to relax a bit. I'll get back to reality soon. Soon.

Back to infinite loop

The weekend is coming to an end. Well it wasn't as busy as I thought it would be. Got plenty of time to slack, which seems relatively good compared to others who seem to have endless amounts of stuff to do. Well I've still got bit to do, gotta finalize my IH and summarise it, maybe research a bit more for my CI (honestly this is one of the things that I'd reall rather not do), and maybe a bit of lat minute preparation of the LA test tmr. Not like there's much I can prepare for anyway.

It's getting so busy, the weeks are passing by so quickly, and months have passed by in a flash. I cannot believe it's soon gonna be about one and a half years since I first came into VJ. Only about half a year plus till I become a J1. Sigh. Gotta enjoy life while I can eh? Even with this supposed crazy rush towards deadlines that doesn't seem to end anytime soon. Ah well. I'll try to finish all my work before 10. Then after that I'll spam a little One Piece. Chapter 410 now WOOO YEAAAAAA :D

Yeaaa.

The ugh-ness of yesterday seems to have faded away. Possibly due to that crazy dance session in class. But anyway, in a much better mood today. Yea, I know theres are tons of things to get done this weekend (including getting my specs replaced), but I'm not gonna let that bring me down. I feel unstoppable now :D Even with all this work, I'll make sure I have time to draw for quite a bit this weekend.

Siiiiigh.

Just feel kinda ugh today. Glad there isn't much work to do today. I'm just gonna go drown myelf in some manga, or go sketch a bit later if I have time. Quite relaxing to just sit down and sketch for hours, then finally see the final product of the hours of effort. Just that I don't seem to have the time to do that anymore. Sigh.

If only life had a pause button.

Would really like that now, with so many things to do now life is getting kinda ugh. I reaally needa take a break from this and relax. I can't even remember the last time I logged into Cloudnine or Fiesta. Sigh. The only things to look forward to every week are the new manga chapters on thursday I guess. Don't really have much time to do anything besides that. 6 more weeks till this hellish term is over. I know I'll still have quite a bit of stuff to do during the holidays, but yea I'm still looking forward to it. Mainly because I'll get to wake up late everyday. Waking up at whatever time you want to should be a human right -.- Saw eagles outside my window again today. Honestly, there's just something about them, how they fly, I can't put it into words. Majestic maybe? Watching them fly off into the distance till they disappeared out of sight was pretty cool. What was even cooler was when a few of them came back and started circling in the sky :)

My bag finally gave way.

Been using this bag ever since sec 1, and I've gotten reaaaally used to it. Yea I pretty much knew it was gonna break soon, but I didn't expect it to be THAT soon. Well, it's really sad to have to throw it away. It's like throwing away a chunk of your memories. Besides, that bag really suited me. Ah well, I've got to start getting used to my new bag. Which has no side pockets for umbrellas or bottles -.-"

My 100th post :D

Wow this blog has survived for longer than I thought it would when I started in last year June. Pretty sure I won't stop posting here. The hell has just begun. Not fully kicked in yet. Still haven't really started on ih project, math project, or the soon to come phys project. And I still have all the existing stuff to do like ci and bio proj. This is gonna be a hellish term. And I'm alread starting to get a bit tired x.x I can't burn out that fast. Gotta keep going, 8 more weeks for this term. BRING IT ON YEAAA. Went for the ydsp prize presentation today. Was stressed out in the morning cuz I forgot to bring my shoes, but that worked out in the end. And it was at orchard hotel. First time I've been to such a high class event, if I can call this one. Orchard hotel also was quite high class. Everything there, from the food to the toilets. The toilets are damn spacious, and so nicely designed, and they also have TVs in them -.-" After the prize presentation I had to mingle with the minister, and I didn't really ahve that uch to say to him. What he talked to us was sorta interesting I guess lol. Then I got video-ed and interviewed by someone (not sure if it'll come in the news yet HAHA) but i kind of stammered a lot cuz it was so on the spot and I didn't know what to answer to the questions. Then I was told to go take pictures with other tamil people for the tamil newspaper. I gave the person the >.> face when she said that, and she noticed it. And then after that (finally) I went for the food. Luckily this was a hotel, not like biomed, so the food doesn't run out, it just keeps coming :D After I reached home, the person frm the tamil newspaper called me to interview me -.-" In English. I'm gonna try to get more sleep these few days.

Peaceful weekend.

Feels good to have no homework or anything to worry about this weekend (I lost my tl hw so I can only wait till monday to start on it). It's been a long time since I was so free. December holidays were the last time I was this free I think. Sigh. Time does seem to be passing a little too quick. It's already going to be April. Before we know it, this year will come to an end. What seems to be the best two years of our lives, it'll all come to an end. And if the years go by this quickly, we'll soon pass through the years which we would forever look back to in the future, as the "good old days" that would never come back. But yea I should really stop thinking about all this and just enjoy the present as it is :D

Got into the Sweden trip :D It seems that once again my powers of luck have not failed me. It's gonna be fun I guess. First time flying in a plane WOOHOO! And I'm finally getting out of southeast asia for once. It's really gonna be a completely new experience for me.

Having no work to do this weekend left me with nothing to do but SPAM ONE PIECE MUAHAHAHA. Chapter 360 now, I think I can hit 380 by tonight. Also got to design a logo for VIP Pulse, and I'm running low on creativity for that.

So many things coming up soon. Bio project, IH project, chem VA, psychology presentation, CI... the list goes on. I shall enjoy this short break from the madness while I can. On a side note, it seems like there's forever stuff to pay for. I might seriously be tempted to go rob someone one of these days ">.>

I really like where I live.

The whole area around where I live is pretty cool, I don't know how to describe it. Like, I always enjoy the 5 min walk home from the 197 bus stop when I take 197 back home. The ever-present strong wind blowing against your face, butterflies flying around the bushes, crunchy leaves scattered across the path, and the pure calmness of the jungle-y area next to my house.

Also have a view of the sea in front of me everytime I sit down in front of my com, its quite windy at times too. That and I get to see eagles flying around the area occasionally. BUT TODAY ONE FLEW RIGHT OUTSIDE MY WINDOW HAHA. I normally only get to see them flying in the distance, just circling in the sky. But just now while I was at my com(which is right in front of my window) one just flew right in front of my window. Then it like circled around my window for a few seconds, and went back in the direction it came from, Honestly, the way an eagle glides and flies is just awesome. It seemed much bigger than I thought it would be up close too. I was completely awestruck for the few seconds it was circling outside my window. Then once it started flying away I got the sense to try and take a photo of it. But it flew out of sight before I could :( Sad thing is, I think they only fly around here around this time. And I'm normally in school at this time T_T

It would be really cool to tame an eagle and have it as a pet though. If I had one, I think I'd call it Taka :)

History does repeat itself.

Almost 1 and I'm still awake for financial lit. Technically I could have slept an hour ago. Just staying online to give the rest moral support haha. I'm so gonna be walking aorund like an undead zombie tomorrow. And I think I'll have to live with these dark ring around my eyes forever. Ah well. At least it makes me look more like L :D

6 hours till I wake up.

Just realised I did waaaay more paper leaves than was needed. Ah well. It was kinda fun doing them :D And I really don't feel like going to sleep now. Even though I think I'll need it. I'm pretty sure I'll have an almost sleepless night the night before the final FL presentation. But heck it. I JUST GOT TO THE INTERESTING PART IN ONE PIECE MANGA :D Not gonna kill the momentum now. Finally hit 300 chapters yeaaaaaa. 300+ more to go.

I should really get started on writing out my LA essay.

But it's raining heavily outside. Such a dark and gloomy atmosphere. Perfect for drawing some manga :D Ah well guess there's always tomorrow for the essay. Can't possibly take that long to write right?

The green power of will

Well the holidays are coming to an end... didn't blog for the past week cuz i didn't feel like sitting down and typing out stuff. (actually i did sit down and type out my LA essay but now I have to sit down and write it out too AAAAAARGH. gonna do that after lunch)

Went to the library on sunday, and borrowed a HELL lot books. I seriously think my bag's is gonna give way soon. Anyway, half the books i borrowed were comics hehe. I borrowed lotsa green lantern books, its almost the whole storyline up till the black lantern part, with a few missing gaps in between due to volumes that I coud not find at BM library :( But yea, the whole GL storyline is AWESOME :D On the last book now, the one focusing on the black lanterns. Think I'll be able to finish it by tomorrow. Then I'll go hunt down some more of the latest volumes.

Had the surgery for my braces on tuesday. Well, the whole surgery was like 2 hours, ended around 5. Even though there was anasthesia, it was still quite uncomfortable (because you gotta keep your mouth WIDE open for two hours while they poke stuff in it). And still slightly painful. Then I went to my orthodontist to get the "power chains" put in. And that hurt quite a bit, because the anesthesia was starting to wear off. Then I had to wait for the medicine and all, and that's when it began hurting like HELL. Seriously, I think my pain threshold has been brought to a whole new level just because of tuesday. Then it was raining so I couldn't walk home, and no cabs came so my mom had to call one. And it arrived after 15 mins -.- And I was in undescribable pain the whole time. But I've got to say, I'm pretty proud of myself, for having endured that so well :D

Then when I went home and took the painkillers (finally), I tried to take the gauze out of my mouth, and what do you know, it was stuck in my braces -.- As in seriously stuck, and I didn't want to risk pulling it out by force cuz it was at the area that was just stitched up. So I went back, luckily the surgeon was still there even though it was past working hours, and he managed to cut off most of the gauze, only leaving a bit of the stuck part there. And yea that small bit came out over the next few days. Once I finally reached home again, I felt seriously tired. Never felt that drained before. But after lying down in bed and reading GL for about 30 mins I felt like I was back to normal, energy levels at maxium :D Never underestimate the healing power of good comics. Still chewing on one side of my mouth now, hopefully I can eat normally by next week.

I have really gotta do something about the VIP pulse. Mr Ng sorta trusted me with the responsibility to take charge of it, I can't just leave it and not do anything. I'm supposed to dicuss with the rest, but finding a time everyone is free could be hard, and I doubt they'd be that interested to discuss stuff anyway. And it's also a bit too late to start planning anything for april's fools. Sigh. Guess I'll jsut try to start on creating a tumblr and thinking of other events to organise. Gotta think of some unique identity thing too. Hopefully I get that brain-blast soon.

And as expected, the Japan trip was cancelled. But now we can choose from switzerland, finland, india, sydney or sweden. After comparing and looking throughthe details of each of them, I think sweden would be the best. It was my second choice after japan after all. But there's only 2 spots for it :/ But I'll say this, I'LL MAKE SURE I GET ONE OF THOSE SPOTS. YEAAAA BABY :D

Whoa.

I sill can't believe Japan got hit by an earthquake and tsunami. These once-in-a-while devasting disasters are just crazy. And scary. Looks like there's a LOT of damage. Really hope they recover from this fast, without any problems :/ Everytime I read my manga now I can't help but think of Japan. So much for spamming One Piece over the hols. But on the bright side, Kishimoto, Kubo and all other major manga producers are safe :)

Reaaaally wonder if I'll stilll be going to Japan in june.

So it ends. So it begins.

Just felt like using that awesome quote from Vampirates :D RTs finished yesterday WOOOHOOO! Finally free to slack. Not gonna think about work for today and tomorrow.

Went to tampines mall after school with the rest yesterday with the intention of buying the $1 burger at burger king, but the queue was too long ( I failed to take into consideration that we are living in singapore in my calculation of how crowded it would be). Ended up going to the hawker centre to eat instead. Watched I Am Number Four after that, it was pretty decent. Went to miss chua's house after that, which was super hard to find. Talked, slacked, and left around 7.30. Went home and caught up on all the anime and manga I missed. Feels good to be free once again.

Cross country today. Didn't do that bad relatively, but I could have pushed myself more :/ Met up with sunda, keith, darren and derrick today. Feels really good to meet up with all of them again. First time ever since I left vs that I met all of them together. They may have grown taller, or sideways too, but they're still the same as they were 2 years ago :D Went to KFC to eat, and we nearly died laughing talking about keith's family tree and the stuff they're gonna do for victorian challenge. GREENHOUSE AD KITE SUPPORTED BY BALLOONS HAHA. I have never laughed so much in my life. Laughed till my stomach hurt a lot, and till I nearly choked on and spat out my pepsi. Had to go for a stupid tl debate today that lasted pretty long, but I guesss today was still good :D

The sad thing about life is that it's always about the present. Happy moments of the past would just remain as happy memories, nothing more. Even looking forward to something in the future, after it passes, it's all just in the past. There's no going back to the happy times in the past. Things change. People change. Guess that's one thing we have to live with.

RTs tomorrow.

I've studied as much as I can, and honestl, I dont feel stressed. At all. Just feel like these are jsut some minor tests. Which they probably are. Ah well I still can't wait to get them over with so I can slack guilt-free. It's not gonna be like post-EOYs though, still got a lot of stuff to do. But at least I can take a reaaal short break during the march hols and do all the things I need to do. Like read one piece, practise on my guitar, get back to playing fiesta, cloudnine, blackshot, rewatch death note in preparation for the movie that seems to be in the making, get back to drawing, and start on d-gray man. Only one week to do all that, plus homework.

I simply love these stuff from tumblr :D

Luuuuuucky

Well I guess my theory is proven. I HAVE THE SUPER POWER OF LUCK. GOLD MEDAL FOR BIOMED HAHAHA :D Seriously, I don't think I really studided that much compared to the rest. Don't even think I know as much as them. But somehow I got my gold hehe. Feels awesome to get a good result for something even when you know you haven't really worked for it MUAHAHAHA

RTs in a week. Revision is going ok I guess, but there isn't that much time to practice anything. Ah well. Worst come to worst, I shall rely on my SUPER LUCK for RTs.

Too tired to fall asleep.

Been sleeping for 6 or less hours a day for teh past few days. Wonder how long more I can keep this up. Just gotta survive till RTs. Which is in less than 2 weeks. Just gotta keep pushing on.

Found out yesterday that I made it into the final round of the biomed olympiad. Well, that kinda proves my theory. I seem to have the super-power of luck. I've lost count of how many times I've gotten through stuff just purely on dumb luck. Well, don't think luck will be that useful this sat. Since they're all open ended. Actually I might get lucky. I know I'll surely get a bronze medal since I got this far. If I get a silver, or even a gold. That would just be @.@ and it would pretty much confirm my theory. Don't really feel the pressure to study for it though. Might flip through the notes again on thurs or fri.

So I've somehow become the unofficial leader of the vip pulse team x.x Guess that's cuz I was one of the first mr ng asked to join. Its kinda funny. It all started with miss chiam overhearing some talk about me drawing comics in the past. And it led to mr ng seeing my comics and asking me to design the symposium invite. And now this. Pretty wow I guess. But anyway, I'm supposed to get everyone to meet up. Even those other people whom I dont talk to. And I'm not really sure what we'll even talk about when we meet. Ah well I'll leave that to a later date. For now, CHEM PROJ BIO PROJ RTS AAAAAAAAAAARGHH!!!

Biomedical olympiad.

Went for the biomed olympiad yesterday. Well, it was pretty retarded. When we went there we got a free shirt and a weird notebook. Both of which had the words SINGAPORE BIOMEDICAL OLYMPIAD 2011 printed big and bold on them. Don't think I'll be using neither of them in this lifetime. Might use the shirt as a rag though.

And the test itself. It doesn't really make a difference whther you studied really hard or if you went in there without studying at all. Everyone ended up guessing all the questions. It was THAT hard. Almost all the terms they used were 1. not understood by me 2. not in the english dictionary. Ah well. At least the food they provided was good :D there was like pasta, donuts, pizza and all. Glad I took more than most people. Might as well get your money's worth of stuff. Not like I paid for this olympiad anyway hehe.

WorkWorkWork.

Really busy week. But I think since I've done a decent bit of work over the week I won't be THAT busy during the weekend. Don't think I'll need to stay up till like 3 in the morning to finish stuff like I thought I would have to do. Lets see. Biomed olympiad tomorrow. Not studying much cuz it's an mcq test :D Got chem project to do, but my part is more or less done. Just gotta get the book done quickly by next week. On a side note, if I had used the time I used to draw and colour those illustrations for chem to draw my own manga, I'm pretty sure I'd have finished one volume by now. Might try to start on a new series after RTs. Anyway, the to-do list for now:

• History task, and some history questions on that article
• Tl homework
• Maths homework and extension
• Read up for bio project
• Bio task
• REVISE FOR RTS!!!!!!!!

Yup, gonna start revision for RTs tomorrow aftermy biomed olympiad. Not much time to revise. No one week to stay at home to revise or anything. Gotta use every free moment to revise. Seems pretty crazy now, but somehow it'll all work out in the end. It always does.

Seems like quite a few people are cracking under the pressure this week. Pretty normal I guess. It has been a pretty tiring and crazy week after all. Well, I think I've pretty much kept a clear head through the week. Besides the tiredness due to lack of sleep I mean. Looking forward to saturday night. Because that's when I'll be able to sleep peacefully. Sunday is the only day of the week when I dont have to wake up like one and a half hours before the freakin sun even comes up. Oh well. Back to work now.

Mass dance

Yesterdayy was pretty relaxing. Class picnic at ecp, playing frisbee, captain's ball, crazy catching and slacking at macs. Went to wj's house after that and karaoked, rewatched the latest ep of bleach and just slacked (again). Left her house at the perfect time, just as it began to rain.

Mass dance this year just wasn't as crazy as it was last year :/ The trains of people weren't shouting crazy stuff like last year, and the music was kinda soft too. Ah well. Guess it was sorta ok.

Started designing the sea regeatta poster with jesslyn and phoebe today. Wonder how mr ng's gonna react to our hand-drawn and colour pencil coloured poster haha. Went to gracia's house after that, but i had to leave early. And the sole of my slipper came out halfway on the way back so I was walking like a crippled person all the way back home.

CNY

Half day as usual today. Met up with sunda and keith, darren couldn't come because he had a fever and said he had to be "responsible" and not spread it to us ">.> Walked through parkway and talked for a while before going to macs for lunch. Luckily we didnt listen to sunda's advice to go after 12 cuz of the lunch offer, we were sitting there at 12 watching people queue till outside macs.

Anyway, talking to them again made me remember a lotta crazy stuff that happened in sec 1 and 2. Like the time we thought that drinks weren't allowed on the bus and tried so hard to smuggle them onto the bus without the bus driver looking, and standing in the "blind spot of the driver" (aka the standing area) and finishing our drinks lol. Kinda broke the usual tradition this time, since we didnt order the typical hawaiian pizza at his house. Played taiti, ps2 and watched tons of funny vids at his house. My POP is currently at 60% :D Though I only played it for like for 15 mins today. Gonna borrow his ps2 during the dec hols to I can finish POP again. Its either that or I buy a ps3. Which according to them is around $400 to $600.

Guess the next time I'll meet up with them is during the march hols. Maybe again during early june, but after that not till after their o levels :/ Really hope they come to vjc next near. Well, even if they don't I just hope I'll be able to keep in touch with them and talk to them often. Only time will tell if we really do keep in touch over the years ._.

The future

Kinda realised that I've gotta start doing things now that might be important in the really long run, like taking part in certain competitons that might be relevant to what i want to do in future. It feels really -_- to have to worry about all this now, but if I dont start now, I think I'd regret it later on. It would be reaaaally nice not to worry about the big stuff in life.

PE this week wasn't that bad I guess. I think my training during the hols were pretty useful. I ACTUALLY PASSED THE 3 STATIONS :D Well actually for the pull ups I did 2.5 instead of 3, but that's still pretty close. I'm amazed how much I've improved in 2.4 and standing broad jump. And with the chem project it really feels like there's a lot to do now. Well actually there isn't that much. Just that heavy feeling of a project weighing down on you. And now I'm not sleeping on the bus rides back home. Using the time to go over the stuff that was taught in the day, because it seems like we're learning a lot more stuff now, and much faster so I guess its ok to sacrifice a little sleep to make sure I don't get behind in lessons. The opportunity cost of sleeping isn't more than the benefits of reading econs notes on the bus. Ok I can't beleive I just said that.

Buuuuusy.

Haven't really blogged much lately cuz I've had quite a lot to do. Well lessons started this week, and it's really -_- to get back to lessosns. Got a chem project, and notes to read for econs, hist and bio. And I'm pretty sure this is considered "not much" looking back at last year. Ah well. Things are gonna get more busy. I'll survive it somehow.

Back to school.

Well today was the first day of the school year. Woke up at 5.45 today. And it was reaaaaally cold today. If everyday was like today i think it might snow here soon :D And if it wasn't already cold enough, I was on the old 196 today, the one with the screwed up air con. Which made it even colder.

Anyway we didn't do much in sch today. Just watched a movie and some sharing about it. And just as i REALLY was starting to revise trigo today my gc hanged -.-" I really hope I can get it fixed tomorrow. Or else I gotta spend quite a bit to get a new one.

Managed to find some time to practice on my guitar today. Haven't really improved much recently. Just practising the same old stuff. Well I did continue to try practicing the intro to I Got A Feeling and Grenade, but still can't play them properly yet :( Looked at a few youtube vids of people who can pluck and then continue strumming in perfect rhythm. They're just awesome. One day I'll be able to do that too I guess. Gotta learn how to walk before you learn how to fly.

-For future reference

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KegiYdo4Blk&feature=player_embedded

Sixteen :)

Well, I'm finally 16 :D Today was pretty awesome. TOUCHED SNOW FOR THE FIRST TIME TODAY HAHA. But it was freaking cold. My ear froze solid at one point lol. But the most fun part wasn't throwing snow at each other. The most fun part was when we slid down the slope together :D Seriously, I think it's kinda lucky there were only four of us today. If there were more or less I don't think we'd have as much fun sliding down the slope. Had snow fights too, but we could'nt make snowballs so we ended up throwing snow powder at each other. Went to the science centre after that, and its kinda sad we went to the interesting part only at the end when i had to leave soon. Wish I could have spent more time there :( Anyway, seems like I'm getting presents on mon too MUAHAHA.

Sch is starting on mon and I still haven't fully realised it yet. Still in holiday mode. Oh well, the first week seems pretty slack. Ok going back to reading OP now. At chapter 200 whoooo yea :D On a side note, can't wait for the latest bbt ep to be put up online :/

Wish I had the sands of time.

It would really be nice if I had the dagger of time, and the sands of time. That'd be like my undo button. If I had them, I'm pretty sure there would'nt be anything I'd regret doing anymore. But I guess some things in life are meant to be done and regretted. Can't run away from reality. Even the prince of persia saw that. No matter how many times he rewound time, life would never be perfect for him. And finally in POP 3 he accepted that, and didn't try to rewind time again when his father died(again). Gotta admit, that's pretty cool.

Anyway, the hols are gonna end soon. Don't think I did all of the stuff I wanted to do :( Lets see. I did learn how to play the guitar decently well. I did get back to playing Fiesta. But I only read 143 chapters of One Piece up till now T_T But that's cuz I was watching BBT (and finished watching watching it up till the latest ep :D ) I didn't do any manga, but I did do some characters which turned out awesome when I coloured them on photoshop :D

Turning 16 tomorrow. 16's a nice number :D Wait, I feel like I've said that before o.o Anyway, snow city is gonna be awesome. Really looking forward to whatever surprises there are in store for me tomorrow :D

New year.

Well it's 2011 already :) I could see the fireworks from my house WHOOO YEA :D Some interesting new ones this year, like large pink stars slowly falling from teh sky. that was pretty cool :D Ah well better go sleep soon. Lotsa NY specials to watch tmr. Looking forward to the spongebob one :D