taboo for shampoo

dear all.

do you have something called the common sense?

i'm sure you do.

unfortunately, yours truly doesn't seem to have much of that (what with a lump of muscles in the skull not quite growing into brains).

see, i had this extra bottle of shampoo that wasn't mine. it belongs to a vain ass, and it was bought out of, well, vanity and curiosity. but the contents were left to rot. so, it was there, doing nothing.

guess what i did!

use it?

yeah, i did.

i mixed it with my Head & Shoulders.

then 3 weeks later, i got a feedback from Vain Ass, "hey... got white white particles on your head leh??"

... my head has been itching for a week, but i didn't realise it was the powerful effect of some forbidden alchemy.

so dudes and dudettes, learn a brain saving lesson from my example and don't ever mix your shampoos.

(btw, i'm now using that mess of a shampoo as body soap. i hope no one comes up to me and tell me the next time we meet, "hey, you seem to have grown more hair on your body??")

random update - Hai Carnival!?

this is really random. it's been 10 days since my last update. and although i think about blogging everyday, i never really do it. why? i also dunno. sigh. i need a new job soon. blame culture drains energy, and so is defeatist attitude. now, i have energy only to play metal gear solid. *sinner prays quietly*

anyway, i never got to really talk about the day of the carnival. no, more like, i had lots of chances but i just didn't. haaa it's kinda late but i'll just highlight a few things of that day.

before you wonder what i'm talking about, a brief description.

pretty, yes? a bit senget but whatever. it's actually pixelated, so when it's captured by handphones, it looks good. hahaha. it covered a section of the wall in the canteen. i kinda think it'd make a very good banner to hang around the school for promotion, but i saw nothing of the sort.

it took place on 28 march 2009 (correct? o.o), between 9am - 3pm. it's the day ze kids kom' out to do things that generate money--end of story. YUP!

so, a few notes about the day:

01. sorry emily, i didn't buy any tickets from you! dunk me X|
02. i am quite stunned that sales for the dunk machine actually ding dong doioio-ed. (haisiansss we are $1982.?? away from our target of $2000.00!!)
03. go Lao Jiaos!

this is called--a patronising photo. WHWAHWAHWA! now, let me say this -- liz and i made it just in time for the performance. baato was on a photo taking spree. eehern (ee) was having fun talking weird (???). hz came after the performance ended. hq came many moments after the performance. end of chain.

04. ze students in ze classrooms, in all honesty, were a pretty sad bunch. no, really. i kinda think the few classes that cooped themselves up inside shoulda just booked the multi purpose room (because it's quite big), and did either of the following:
a. Load a WII and host screening for the playthrough of Fatal Frame 4
b. Load a WII and play something active / hold a tournament with WII
c. Load a PS3 and hold a fighting tournament
d. Load a PS3 and host screening for the playthrough of Metal Gear Solid 4
e. Put a bunch of tables, and set up a Mahjong Set rental store like the Aloha Pasir Ris thingy (and disclaim that you are not responsible for any gambling involved and advocate play no money so you don't get into any school troubles)
f. Set up a PSP only corner, ready a Laptop for game transferral and begin mass gaming. My personal recommendations: Metal Gear Ops (hosts up to 6 players; good for brainless killing of one another or ganging up on one another; great for laughter) / Gundam VS (i dunno what it's called, but good for tournaments) / i do not know what else has game sharing features LOL

now, some tips on how to generate sales for..
playthrough items (a & d) : pay $2 to watch (and you get to watch the entire thing)
tournament gaming (b, c, e, f) : pay $2 to play (mahjong rental different rate), tournaments go on until 1.30pm, finalist plays until 2pm, win an attractive prize and finish up before 3pm. there are a few ways to decide on finalist - get as many wins as possible, or macham auction bidding (or the keroro frog logic inside mgs) -- beat the winner and stay the winner (whoever beats you becomes the next finalist)... you think of the rest yourself lah hor. and if player loses, maybe pay $0.20 to continue (for tournament only, which means you may need to set up gaming for fun corner). (additional note: you can even do up a "rent a psp" thing) which brings in the next point...
all items: set up lottery. for the first $2, you automatically get a lottery ticket. and put up an advertisement: "the sure win lottery". the last prize can be anything as bo liao as a sweet or tissue. but make sure the main prize is something erh, students would die for...like...a Hello Kitty from Mc??? (no lah. but you get the idea.)

most importantly, make sure people feel like their money is damn worth it. some people pay $2 just for the fun. don't even think about collecting another $2...it's too damn rip off. and when you do game transferral, say it's for free and unlimited times. remember to put up "do not transfer virus into my laptop ; my laptop is still pure minded".

oh, another alternative method of revenue with playthrough items: watching playthroughs is free... then sell food and drinks inside :DDD hahahahahaa.

too bad i saw nothing of the sort above. i saw a lot of dark classrooms with terrible spaces for gaming and worst, no aircon. LOL! k. enough rambling about games.

05. another item i feel is worth improving on. i don't know if there was anything in the school hall because i didn't go up. but if there was nothing going on, it is the bloody best place for the karaoke item man. and it goes on all the way until 2pm. there are a hell lot of combis for this kind of item (like not forgetting lyrics, or the impromptu sing and dance -.-??? or dunno what lah), so to each individual's imagination. LOL!

06. food. to be honest, i think most of the food there...is not very safe looking. haha. there was a guy who tried to do pull a sales pitch on me, telling me his fried noodles are damn cheap, $3 only...mind you i get the same quality and quantity at econ minimart for only $1.80 or less leh??? hahaha! i wish you success. he does seem like the type who will eventually get himself in the lines of sales and marketing, cuz he dares. haha.

07. baato's cries of hunger. i do not understand his logic of screaming hunger but not eating anything when we finally reach the oasis. -.-|||

08. and baato's observation of toilets. he talked to an unfamiliar malay boy. when we asked if he knew him, he said no. he said he was asking the boy why the toilets so dirty and why they never clean them. wth!?!??! well, personally, i think the toilet is a haven for unseen neighbours--you know those neighbours who piew by you and sometimes molest you, sending you chills down your spine even though you cannot see them? the door seems ready to collapse anytime, the ceiling is damn high but the lighting is weak, the toilet seat is missing (maybe i imagined this), the automatic flush really looks more like an automatic sensor to trigger alarms, and there is a weird long stain on the mirror. and correct me if i'm wrong, the stain looks like rust. no to mention, the toilet smells pretty unique. it's not terrible or anything...just unique.

09. little kids dance uglily (??) to the music of band. the little bugs. lol

10. there were no shops in the foyer under the sun. it's a good thing, but it discounts 80% of the festive mood since everything is hiding inside.

11. i really think the food needs improvement. get someone's mum to cook curry, get another mum to fry beehoon, get another mum to cook fried rice, get bread, get some mini finger food to cook on the spot and you can do a $3 or $4 buffet liao lor. normally no one would eat a lot of these things, but the idea of cheap buffet is enough to attract lahh. btw, bacon is an easy food to cook with a portable stove simply because i tried it and it's edible.

12. be a cheat. cook mc's big breakfast. the so called not-so-secret secret to scrambled eggs is just to add milk. so get milk, cook egg, cook meat (all of which are extremely easy to cook...i believe) and you can rip people's money off. where are you going to get cheap meat? your problem lah.

there are just so many darn possibilities. why waste this once in a schooltime thing?? haha.

ok, i had more to say about the carnival, but i better slept my mouth shut. i'm sure you noticed by now, all the kok i talk are pretty theoretical in nature.... heeeeeeeeeeeheheeeeeheee!

ok, on to the rest of the day! we went to Tea Valley. yes, a large group we were. btw, tea valley has changed location to one lane down and increased most of their stuff by $0.50. those cheeky lil'... anyway, oh, it was a big group, yes we were. (talking like the King of Cosmos liao.)

huiqin ordered... the Fishball Tea (or something like that). it looks like this:

these were my thoughts when she ordered the Fishball Tea:
01. aren't fish balls salty?
02. and some more this is red?!
03. isn't it gonna taste saltily bloody???
04. that must taste like crap...

until someone told me "please lah, she's just being nonsense lah! where got such drink?? so obvious no such thing lah! you mean...you...FELL FOR IT???"

CONFESSION: Yes. I fell for it.

well, liz fell for it too?????? *tries to share the dumbassness*

hah, ladies and gentleboys. scroll up and seek the picture once more.
it's an obscene ghost drinking bubble tea man.

ok whatever--let's move on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?????/

we arrived at Aloha Tampines. hey, who was it who thought that there really was such a thing as Aloha Tampines and even asked me where it is? (and to answer your question, it's in Tampines).

the sacred grounds of Bonjour Tampines (identity crisis) was showing Yamada Taro. folks, you really should watch it--the dumb ass ness is good for the soul. but unfortunately, we were watching the last 2 epi, which technically speaking was the more slow and dragged out part to mark the end of the main plot. so, we had spasmodic (???) bird lying on the floor going on and on about his hunger, while ee and swj will literally dying. i apologise for any casualties caused that day.

you know, baato's laughter is damn contagious. show him anything funny and you SCORE!

we went out to eat. we went home. HAHAHA

okokok. so, we came back, and decided to connect laptop to tv cuz we wanted to watch hotel626. appreciate baato's explanation of both the title and the reason for such a strangely elaborate game for a commercial.
01. 6pm to 6am -- you can only play during this time.
02. it's a horror game created to advertise .... i forgot what the snack's name is.
03. it's supposed to be like a movie where you sit back and eat snacks.
cool hoh. i learnt this from baato. haha.

apparently the ad is unsuccessful cuz the name of the snack has escaped me. either that or my brain really isn't actually a brain. hahahaha.

so, it started out with 1 person tackling with the darned monitor cable. then it became 2. then it became 3. until eventually, it came to a point where 5 people were struggling to put the tv back on to the wall. LOL. until my father, the master who set it up, finally came in and put us out of our miseries.

btw, baato has somehow managed to make a friend out of my dad. oh, something about my dad. he has this weird tendency to talk weird "oh, no problem no problem" (to what, i also dunno). he really is damn bloody eager to make friends but he has an anti-personnel mouth that...what can i say, simply talks weird. LOL. despite the weirdness, baato still actually managed to make a new friend with him... i am impressed! .

back to subject. hotel 626 was quite a satisfying play, but a tad bit shot. then to make up for the short game, we started to youtube and literally surf the net together hahaha!

new activity: watch youtube on big screens. indian bollywood with rubbish subtitles are damn cool to watch in a group. and so are condoms having sex. LOL.

sigh. beginning to miss large groups with nonsense activities. i shall stop here. and shall talk about my trip to Genting real soon.

tell me two things...that
01 it is legal to talk about casinos on blog
02 that most people around me haven't actually entered a casino

point 02 is damn important because...litat then can be as amazed as i was when i stepped into the casino!! :D

ok, time to rest. i've been metar gear series non stop. i'm gonna die. ugh.

thoughts before and about going to Genting

while walking home from the bus stop just about an hour or two ago, two cats sprinted by and started screeching at each other.

erh. i just realised i cannot demo how they sounded because i can't get my laptop mic to work and well, wth. but basically, a white cat and black cat seemed to be quarreling, and a few of us kpoh humans stood around watching. the two cats seemed injured, backs arched, but didn't seem to be slapping each other soon. why? the white cat was going "wowowowowowow..." (???) it sounded like a baby with an auntie tone. wtf is that? i have no idea. but seriously, the cats friggin felt human leh!!! the white cat sounded like an auntie scolding the black cat, going, "what, i take your fish only wat?? see lah, now your back and my back both injured, worth it or not??? you took my rat last time i never say anything, huh?? shame on you!!" ... active imagination indeed. and why i say human. the white cat occasionally glanced at its sides, obviously aware of the eyes watching them. LOL. cute sia.

ok. now, let me make a quick list of what i wanna bring:
1. laptop + hard disk + cables
2. psp / ds / chargers
3. a couple of drawing material
4. fft guidebook
5. jay chou and utada hikaru lyrics
6. camera.

hmm. that should do it! :D

now, i'm hoping to miraculously pop up with a couple of stories during the trip (when i'm not distracted by games). haha. and i feel incredibly...bloated. and it's bad!!! urghhh. i don't enjoy eating as much as i did. nooo. i need work out. i need...KILL!

hmm. okok. time to pack. tml no time to pack le. LOL. title so long, post itself so short. sot. byeeee.

next meeting point -- lh chalet!! :D

rambles from an obsolete

i kinda forgot i have a bad mood blog. at the moment, i think i'm bordering more on the bad mood side. first, i don't think i can finish my quick play through of mgs2 once more before i go Genting tml night. second, i'm hungry but my mother's bathing, so my stomach acids are exacting vengeance within me now. third, i wanna bathe but i realise i need to wash hair (=more time wasted). fourth, i wanna bring my laptop to genting, so i'm panicking over what to put in my laptop before i zoom off. fifth, that means my luggage is gonna be heavy. and sixth...two nights ago i dreamt of wanting to leave a gathering because the feeling of being an extra was so bloody strong. hmm. i think the last point seems to fall not so in place with the previous bad mood points.

oh, speaking of dreams, last night i dreamt that swj ordered me to buy lunch and have it delivered to his house (what nerve...# he still owes me lunch). and when i ask which house (did i just say, which house?), he said his own house. and when i ask how come he got his own house, suddenly a bunch of band members (whom i really dunno who they are) said, "he's living with his girlfriend!!" and when i asked where, they proudly announced, "blk 254!!!" and swj's face turned back. LOL. then i dunno why i was watching clips on his psp and i saw a person doing body check on snake of mgs2. wtf?

k. rambles of an obsolete. y'know, i've been in a not so good mood since the syf. i couldn't figure out why. it took me about two days to finally figure out why.

it's just this feeling i can't shake, that finally, i'm like an obsolete piece of the past. it's this realisation that i've attended 5 syf sessions. that's about 9yrs you know -.-||| ok, not counting my pri school one lah. the first was in 2001, followed by 03, 05, 07 and finally 09. in 01, i still remember going home straight after syf, expecting to hear that we've got Gold. well, a friend did call to say that rather excitedly, but me being an arrogant ass at that time felt that it was pretty much within expectation. but in 03, it was the reverse. i was expecting a silver and i stayed back to hear the results. man i think i was drowning in my tears. then in 05, i listened to mn and friends (??? barney and friends?) play. the week i went to hear them play, i honestly felt they might not be ready for SYF and although i claimed i wasn't not really bothered, i was. hahaha. can you believe it? i wept right after their performance, out of relief. that was kinda anti-climax; so when the results came in, it wasn't that surprising.

07 came and i wonder why i went to watch anyway. then it felt like a whole new band; 3 guys from the whole band cried over the results--everyone else simply froze. if i'm not wrong, the 3 emo guys were all from flute. LOL.

then now 09 comes and i realise, i hadn't attended a single practice of the main band. i didn't even know what the choice and set pieces sounded like (or were, actually). in 07, i listened to them one week before syf, so more or less i knew how they were doing. but not this year.

in 01, i was determined to win. in 03, i felt it was a pretty special syf cuz there was hz, lh and mn with me, instead of xh and mc. it's damn different; i used to follow, but the pressure has changed and i had to lead. i think we gave ourselves some pep talk? i don't know, don't remember, but given the way we were, i bet we did. and after performance, we were worried sick cuz we knew we played silver quality.

in 05, i think i made some attempts to go back and 'help'. i don't think i really helped much. i could still play the flute, but i claimed that my ears were failing. still, i went back anyway. things were beginning to seem different at that time.

but by 07, i think things had changed so fast, i was beginning to wonder what i was going back for. until now i still don't quite understand why. i might just be back to meet the alumni, and am curious what our next generation is like, i don't know. and by then, i was so out of practice that i felt i wasn't qualified to say anything anymore.

and now it's 09. i feel like there's nothing i can contribute to hscband anymore.

after all, the old ideas are dead. haven't you noticed, that old people seem to talk about the past fondly, and seem to want to pass down their 'legacies', which may or may not be valid anymore? i don't know. has it really changed so much? i don't know.

i'm not sure about the rest, but the more i feel that i've been sticking too much to the past, the more i feel like an obsolete being.



all the same, i wish hscband the best. and i hope to see a concert soon.

tooddaayy, syf.

hello! i just took 4 photos of Metal Gear RAY, sent them to Otacon, and am now witnessing a daring act from Ocelot. hehheehooo.

today, 11.00am, i got out of the house to go to meet mn, lh and swj when i was supposed to meet at station at 11.00am. LOL. then we reached SCH at erh, i think it was close to 12, who knows and cares. but the darn tickets were given out only at 1.10pm. @&(#*&$*(#&@ !

ok, had a quite heavy lunch and watched band number erh i think it was 89? = hsc. followed by i think it was teck wai (how to spell? no idea), then... you know, i think i shall not list the schools anymore; my memory is as good as a buffalo.

so, came the moment of revelation. i has never seen a results sharing that was as weird as this. no one was screaming with joy or sadness!!! it is too damn weird.

well, my comment is, first, i must know what the name of the choice piece that hsc played is. haha.

i dun really know what to comment actually. i've been out of this circle for too damn long, i can't even play a decent piece of doraemon, so yah. i'm just wondering if the judges hate loud sounds in general.

either way, well, hsc, you can't rely on star players. i mean... it makes a heck lot of sense for star players to make the main band sound good, not to stick out of the main band. and dare to perform.. hscband sounds just about as fresh as someone who came directly out of VR Training (virtual reality) haha. i think a concert at the end of the year is a good start to accumulate actual combat experience !(!??!?! too much metal gear) ... you gotta start getting addicted to perform. or there's practically no joy up the stage. once you're in band, you live to perform. or at least, seems that way to me. you don't live for competitions, dudes and dudettes.

*drama music everywhere*

actually, i think it's a big deal not to get Gold. 2yrs ago i cheated myself into thinking that it's the hard work that counts. but when you think about it, do you believe it's really like that? i think the crying and all that proves that no one wants anything less than a Gold. getting a silver...or rather, not getting a Gold means too many things. the funny thing is Gold itself doesn't even mean anything. but i think, it is the direct result of what you put in. there's no telling yourself that the judges were harsh or stuff like that. there's just no room for such crap.

anyway, whether you put in your best or not, it's up to you to decide as individuals.

i'd love to see hscband come back "with a vengeance" though. i mean, you got a silver, so live with it--you've got the advantage of showing tremendous improvement now instead of having the pressure of having to live up to expectations. haha.

but if the main band decides that that's the end of the improvement road, then i guess it's about time i stop going back to visit. (erm. but i will still go for outings with my juniors LOL fun doesn't stop there OK??)

after saying so much, to sum everything up, let me just put it simply: You lost, so just suck it all up and move on. you've got better things to worry about from now on.

(i worry about pressing the post button. wonder if i'm clicking on a landmine. LOL.)

Kizuna! ...and Dragon Ball Evolution!

wooohoo! out of boredom, i went to surf youtube for gay anime. LOL. well, youtube was once a rich island full of treasures. but now it's a barren land. then i stumbled upon Kizuna. you know, for a gay anime, it's actually quite nice! :D no explicit stuff, just 2 guys, ranmaru and enjouji. what makes it nice is ranmaru is a bit too 'realistic' (he doubts that they can stay together because they are 'not normal') and quite easily jealous, while enjouji is the happy guy who always hoaxes ranmaru. LOL. so basically a 3rd party unwittingly sets up a misunderstanding, and ranmaru thought that enjouji has become 'straight'...and becomes angry and sad at the same time... when the air clears up, another misunderstanding begins! hahahaha.

hmm. i dunno why i talked about Kizuna. i just thought it was a rather nice watch. haha. at least it's not like eliminating boobs and adding a specific piece of meat and calling it a gay show.... ...

anyway!!! i suddenly remember Dragon Ball Evolution!

it's probably too late to say it, but it sucks!!! it is best watched either through online streaming or renting a VCD (Vcd leh, not dvd)... the characters are actually ok, but the plot sucks ass... it's as mind numbing as can be. oh GOD! if you ask me, i think Chichi is quite pretty. haha. actually the movie could've been quite ok even with a Caucasian Goku, but the plot... arhghhh i felt that it was bloody convenient and corny!! and the ending shows hints of a sequel!!!

the part that blew us all away was when Goku (spoilers! but i can't be bothered. BE SPOILT!) turned into a monkey and turned back into a human, with him saying, "I must have faith in who i am." screw YOU! hahaha. and you know, shen long (Dragon God) seems to have shrunk by 1km. wah liew. so short!! shen long no more long man!

i still dunno who is that person that's piccolo's sidekick. there was never any proper introductions to that weirdo. piccolo is a solo worker! he does not work with farnie looking minions!! (well, except his spawns...)

VERDICT! plot: 1/5 | character: 3/5 = FAIL!

i pray that a good adaptation comes soon!

to date, i still think Deathnote is one of the best manga-turned-movie. :3

so, i shall now retreat and rest for the day. seowza!