I've decided to fuck sleep for once and blog tonight. Haha. Been MIA for quite a while cos i'm staying in hall, and the activities end abt 1130 every single night. By then, i'm already shagged out, so no choice, have to sleep.

Anyways, orientation is fun. Very fun in fact. Played quite a number of interesting games. I'd say the organizers are very innovative, and can see they've put in quite some effort in setting up every game. Props to them.

But as usual, i'm the lonely me, cos i dun mix ard much just like in JC. Tho this time at least when someone shows a positive interest in me i'd go talk to him/her. Made a few friends, namely my neighbours Gabriel and Colin, and this hall-king-to-be from my OG, JiaJie. Really handsome, and available too! SMS me for more details lol. And yea this clingy girl Keying who keeps clinging on to the both of us. Quite irritating at times, but becos she's a model and so-so looking so i give it to her. Might be useful nxt time.. But die, cos she's in my block. Guess i'll have no peace for at least 1 yr. Save me gal!!

I'd say i'm slowly going back to my basketball roots again. Hardly touch guitar these days, hardly check Luthermusic and SOFT either. Guess the interest lvl is pretty low now. Whereas for ball, TH has plenty of good bballers. Plenty. Felt like training hard again, training hard to be champions. Tt's provided i'm chosen to be in the top 12. Hard but i guess i'll work extremely hard. And IVP too, think i'll just piah alot of ball in NUS. At least it will keep me fit. When i'm fit, i feel good, and i have better mood. Now i just feel plain sucky lar. Hmm.

Helped out rag just now, quite a fun experience. Seems like me and JJ were born to cut cans. Cleared a few hundred cans just now which i think was pretty amazing for just the 2 of us. Might go help more in the next few days. We'll see abt tt.

Too tired now. Gonna sleep. Bye all my groupies.

K blogger's photo uploading system is kinda screw up... so here i am doing it for the...umm.. let's say 5th time ok. Yea hope this is gonna turn out right. *hope* Anyways here's all the junk tt appeared in my room lately. Kinda freaky to realise tt they're all bought in less than 2 weeks. *wallet shudder*

Latest toy. Got it this afternoon cos Kai wanted to buy a phone. LOL. This is the first time i bought a handphone. Stunning huh. Quite slick design tho. Nice.

My Acer lappie. Got it on Sunday. Fierce specs yet good price. Lightweight too. Gonna serve me for quite sometime. Muahaha.

Check out the wide screen. Pretty nifty. Good for DVD watchin'.

The One cupboard to rule them all. 6 freaking doors! And i'm only using 2! But kinda good to throw all the rubbish barang barang inside and no one can see it.

The conversation starter. Haha, my pencil case looks like a coffin right now tt's to the uber cool ankh tt Kai gave me as a bday present when i was in sec sch. Yea used to like the design for dunno what stupid reasons. Too much Magic & Diablo i guess.

Now for a little history on the beginnings of my GAS (Gear Acquisition Syndrome - used to mention in my previous entries, but i'll say it again. It's the bloody urge to buy effects pedals! No idea y but seems like all guitarists are somewhat affected by it)

Started off with this little orange one:

And then my wonderful girlfriend surprised me with this surprise of the century:

After tt i realised tt the little orange box is not tt nice after all, so i sold it off. Instead i bought its little brother:

Lately i saw a cheap deal on Luthermusic, and this deal couldn't be missed! So ladies and gentleman, please welcome the little green one: "Yoda"!!

So this is my current setup... the little white one giving my overdriven rhythm tone, the little orange one giving my hard rockin' tone, and "Yoda" giving everyone the required "Force" for wailing solos:

Blogger's photo uploader is still cranky. But at least i got my post up. Hmm.

K after a few day's absence... i'm back here again... with a few more new gadgets and headaches as well.

Yea, went to buy myself a laptop during. Got it off the Acer roadshow @ Funan. I'd say it's a pretty good buy, good specs for good money, and a 3 year warranty on top of it all. The promotion on tt day was a lucky draw, and u'll definitely win one out of the 3: Lexmark Printer, Olympus Digicam and the other's a grand prize thingy or smthing. Either ways, a printer or a digicam would be nice, but i got the printer anyway. Saved me some time for hunting another one. Coupled with the fact tt i'm currently so used to taking pics with my digicam tt i become uncomfortable to the digicam's inflexibilities.

Sorry, but din take any pics of my new toys, cos i'm just plain lazy right now. So it's just a black and write blog for u all now. Until i find the mood again haha.

Ok a small recap for the past 3 days..

Sat - Went for gal's SEP Alumni Award Ceremony thingy. Boring, but have to go to show some support la. After all it's free money. After tt, Dad's bday celebration @ Mirama Hotel again. Same Japanese buffet again. This time, we got slightly cleverer, we just ordered all the stuff we really like to eat. Like me, it's ebi tempura whacking session! (for the uninformed ebi tempura = prawn tempura). Oh ya, and sake man! But alittle not as shiok as before already. Dunno y. The food is getting boring too, cos it's nothing but sashimi. The rest of the stuff are just ain't worth eating man. Might not go there again for quite awhile.

Sun - Rushed down to Funan to catch the last day of the roadshow. Wanted to buy another model initially but the salesman kept pushing my current one, which is more or less similar, but alittle lighter and wide screen. Specs? Pentium M 1.73GHz, 512MB DDR2, ATi Graphics Card (Dun need it, but it really makes everything look nicer) 60GB HDD. Rest of the stuff are standard la. Mom chut ur usual bargain + free-gift-until-u've-got-nothing-left move, and we got quite a pretty good deal out of it. Free printer somemore. Saved me so much trouble. More on my mom's bargaining skills when i have the time. She's the MASTER!

Note: Wannabe aunties, or aunties-to-be, or already-aunties, or XiuQin (haha), if ur really interested to learn the tricks of the trade, give me a ring. I'll transfer u to my mom. $20 introductory OFFER <-- note the key word here!

Btw, i spent the rest of the day setting up my current pc, as well as setting up the lappie. Took the whole night in fact. Slept at 3.... so....

Today (Mon) - Woke up at 830. Felt like a zombie. But had to meet Louis at NUS to do some admin stuff together. GIRO form ar, my Temasek Hall forms ar, NUS bulletin ar (not out yet).. Lotsa bullshit. I wonder why we pay NUS so much money per sem, and they cannot do our admin for us? Alittle NKF-ish thingy going on here too i suspect. HMM.

Made a trip down to ACJC amidst the pouring rain. And Louis had a teeny weeny purple (*stunned*) foldable umbrella for the 2 of us. So the 2 gays huddled close to each other and swore at each other as they walked clumsily to ACJC.

From the outside, it looks quite shabby la. Cmon, it's a school for rich kids (ok mostly rich kids), so i bet they can do something better right. Another NKF-ish thingy going on? HMM. Went inside, the school feels alittle like a hospital. Yea, freaky. The classrooms are like wards, then they have this little signboards at the top of the ceiling tt tells u where all the "wards" are. Anyways, we're there to endorse some stupid certificates of Louis'. Tsk. Gotta see some AC chicks tho. K not chicks, it's xiao meis meis. Seriously speaking when i looked at them i was thinking, "Gosh, these girls are so short, and so young! Like sec sch girls?!" No way anyone of them is gonna interest me. Quite alot of posers in the sch too. Sigh.

Still raining, so the 2 gays got out of ACJC using tt small gay umbrella again and made our way to Buona Vista MRT. Did our NUS ez-link card there. Surprisingly they know we are in NUS!! Seems like the government knows every single little thing abt us! One scan and tt's it. Fuck we are all being watched! Maybe tt harmless little hole in ur room is a spy cam, watching u do every single thing since the day u were born! So Truman Show. Fierce.

Chiong to Sim Lim to get my warranty card from them, bought some wrong stuff for both gal and Kai. Fuck i can never get it right. I hate buying stuff from Sim Lim. Either they are not the correct stuff, or they just dun work. And i hate their salesman attitude big time. They'll always tell u 70% of the information, most of which are stuff u already know. Then u'll have to walk ard the shops and they'll let u in on the other 20% of the information. But still, NOBODY talks abt the most impt 10% of the information! I hate buying stuff this way man. It's like buying stuff relying on rumours or smthing. Fuck.

Rushed home with Louis, and did module planning at my hse. Module planning, not gay stuff u sick bastards! I'd say i've pretty much settled my modules, whereas Louis is hanging in mid-air thanks to the stupid system. But at least i'll see him for 2 modules. Will be taking Bahasa Indonesia and some health care shit. So next time, if u are Indonesian, and u are sick, i can help u! Haha. Dhani would help greatly in this department. Hmm.

-End of recap-

Btw, for the uninformed, i'm already in Temasek Hall. Gonna move in this friday, which i only got to know last week. Stupid admin! Everything feels like a rush right now cos i have to settle all my stuff asap, so tt when i move in i'll start to go crazy with orientation. Or smthing like tt.

Seriously speaking, i'm dreading the orientation alittle. Kena confined for 2 weeks is quite something for me u know. I still dun feel quite prepared for it. Damn. Gotta move so much in also. Like moving all my possessions in, tho i dun really have much, it's still quite alot to me. ZZ

And this NUS thing is getting into me. Have to do so much urself. It's confusing to do all tt admin with little, no, or conflicting information. And hall stuff is so mysterious, i have no idea what is gonna happen inside man. Dun even know if they will give us time to settle our stuff or smthing like tt. Hope i can make some good friends inside, tho most of u know i dun make friends easily.

Saw JunHong today at TH. Nice chap. But i dun know him tt well. Seems like he's got a buddy with him too. I feel so alone right now.

And yea, we've got only up to this Friday to spend time with each other. Then i'll disappear for 2 weeks. And then u'll disappear for 4 mths. Hope i can see u more. *pat*

It's been a while since i bashed someone. Apparently i've found a new target!

MR T.T DURAI!!!

Look at tt name man serious. T.T...doesn't tt look like someone crying. Like from -.- then to =.= then to T.T.. Yea then maybe when he's really crying real hard he'll be something like this ToT.

Yea i bet his face will be like T.T when he finds out tt he's getting sacked for something. Shame on u. *Do tt little kiddy thing by brushing ur index fingers down ur cheeks and go "shame shame"*

Quite shocked to hear tt mofo earns so much a mth. 25K man...tt's equivalent to ard 10 Gibsons man! Tt's of course adding in a 10% discount for buying 10 pieces at one shot. But anyways, 25K a mth is not the real shocker...

It's the ONE YEAR BONUS!

Fuck man, which company in the right mind will give someone a 1 yr bonus? It's stupid also. Might as well just say, "Hey Durai, 1 yr bonus sounds fishy man. Y not we give u 50K per month?" Yea do it in the Indian accent with a little jiggle on ur head as u speak. 25K is what most people earn in a year man. Fuck, we are paying an Indian with a funny name 25K a mth? NKF's board shld really wake up their idea. Firstly if i wanna choose a CEO i also wun choose an Indian la, not to mention one with a name tt looks like he's crying. T.T

Oh btw, T.T sounds like Titty. OMG. Titty Durai. HAHAHAHA. What a joke man. Imagine he's friends going, "Hey titty....oh i meant T T! How's ur titties.... uh day?" Fuck i really love to make fun of pple's names. Like Ah long's name. Sylvester Stylo Sim. Wtf.

Tt's y i tell u all. There's no need to donate! Mr Titty has already sorted it out for all our kidney patients. They've got enuff reserves to last 30 yrs! Look at all the hard work he's done! We should be proud of him! The kidney patients are living the life now man! Kidney failure? Dun worry! Mr Titty's got it all planned out for u, but u are not entitled to the 25K salary, the SIA business class airfare entitlement, free cars and maintenance and repairs. But other than THOSE, he'll sort it out for u!

Fuck i'm bloody cynical, but this man has really killed the donation thing in me. This coming NKF show, i'll laugh at every single celebrity tt's performing, esp those singing stupid pop songs. And street donations... forget it man. I'll never do flag, and i'll never buy one either. UNLESS, yea a big big unless.... tt gal tt asks me to donate is a pretty one. Oh ya even better if she has nice T.Ts. Oops, did i say something wrong? Oh i forgot, Durai's the one with the T.Ts!!

He's Indian, has a weird name, cheats pple money, and acts as an angel.

FUCK YOU! *Jug jugga ja jugga ja...JAR JAR*

Note to Louis: Maybe i'll really write a "fuck the world" song this time. And it will be in tribute to Titty Durai.

Just finished a rocking session with my guitar, my amp and my little board of effects. Yea i jammed with my mp3s till now, kinda crazy, but it was fun. Never had such fun for a long time. Had to stop tho, or else mom will barge into my room with a chopper or smthing.

Been playing alot of covers and increasing my repertoire of songs, mainly stuff with blistering solos and catchy riffs. I'm always fascinated by beautiful solos, it has to be both melodic and technical. Yea stuff like The Darkness comes to mind. They've incorporated all the techniques into their solos, like legato runs, right hand tapping, pedal-steel licks and yet still sound so melodic. Gonna study more of their works. Kai doesn't think they are that great tho, cos u know y? U ARE JUST A POWER CHORDS GUY!

Anyways The Casters has only that many songs, and none of us have been writing any new stuff lately, so it gets kinda boring playing tt same few songs over and over. I'm so familiar with the songs tt i can recite them backwards or smthing. And probably they'll give me a satanic message or whatever. Btw, i've just re-did Driven and One More Time, just lack vocals from Kai only. Same goes for the rest of the songs tt i re-did. Dude, find one day and sing them. Talk is cheap man. (hey gink i got it right this time!)

The TS-9 is a real beauty. So bloody loud, and adds so much fullness to my sound. I love it tremendously and it's really a fantastic buy. I've yet to try this baby out in a jam, but i think it will just cut thru every single instrument, even the drums. Cos it's just so powerful! So much so that i don't really dare to step on it just now while i was jamming with myself cos i was afraid of disturbing Kai. He's just next door and u dun wanna disturb him when he sleeps.

Gonna give tuition again tml. I have to say i'm beginning to love this little kid. Yea was telling gal all abt him when we were walking back to her hse. This boy, he's just so adorable. And i love teaching him stuff. Maybe it's just me, i have a thing for little kids. Gosh, i hope i dun sound like Michael Jackson. Tt will be so wrong. But then again, i think he's innocent. So, uh.. what the heck.

Decided to skip Yuan Kai's bday party just now. Yea i used the word skip, cos i really did not feel like going. One, it's far..at Aloha Loyang. Two, i felt lazy. Three, i felt tt i havent spent enough time with gal and Cassie. Four, no one's driving there, so there's no return car either. Either ways, i'm not really sure how my classmates are gonna view me in future since i told Lili i was not going, though i think she's the only one who cares cos she bothers to ask? Yea whatever the case it doesnt matter if anyone is gonna bitch abt me or what, so Angela, u too dun worry so much. *pat*

Speaking of Angela (k think i shall not link u since u are always so private abt ur stuff), yea she's got some issues with fitting in into other pple's cliques or stuff like tt. Which i think, is pointless la. Live for urself first babe, that's what matters most isnt it? To me, only friendships forged from young are truly strong. Cos you watch each other grow, there's no so called reliance on each other. Let's face it, most friendships are formed because we need each other's help. Or smthing along tt lines. I'm not gonna deny, i befriended Louis cos i felt he's a computer god and he'll teach me computer stuff. I befriended Joel cos i know he plays the guitar and we can trade guitar info. I befriended Daniel cos he's got the iPod and he's really cool with all the music he listens and we can talk music all night. So on and so forth. It's the cold hard truth. But of course as time goes on i know more abt them so we are more than just "help". For my kakis like Xiang, Biao, Gink and Sichao, there's no such shit, cos we know each other from young. I dun remember befriending them cos i need their help, i just befriend them. It just works alittle differently.

Coming back to the topic (digressing alittle just now), trying to fit in cos u feel the need to....to me is quite fake. I dun need to fit in. I dun need to conform. Everytime i do something i do it my style, and pple respect me for that. So shld u too my friend. And pple will come to u naturally, cos u are doing ur thang!

Anyways i'm blabbering alittle right now. Think i will sleep. Or else LiYang will learn rubbish tml. Whaha.

Went over to Li Yang's today, yea turns out i like teaching this little boy alot. Very clever, and thinks very quickly. But one thing abt him is his English. He's got this broken English thing in him big time. Too much Mandarin i guess. Think i'll take quite a bit of time to drill the English in him. Tho mine's isn't that fantastic either hurhur.

Oh ya, one thing to mention. This kid is super hardworking. Finishes his homework right after his school, so that when i come for tuition he lets me check his work. And just before i leave he'll start to do the homework tt i gave him. Insane! I've never seen a kid like homework so much! But tt's good. The willingness to learn. That's what sets the good and the brilliant kid apart.

Anyways, did a little biathlon thingy a few days back. Tuesday night to be precise. Yea, ran to JE swimming complex, did some laps then ran back. Freaking shag, but it's fun. Kai said life is all abt doing stupid things. So here i go. One less stupid thing to do. Think i might embark on a triathlon the next few days. Yea, run swim run back, then bike trip with WeiYe! YEAH! Tt's the bomb! K time to go do some serious planning this time.

*rubs hands*

Oh, btw my room's in a freaking mess right now. Cos the giant wardrobe's gonna walk in tml. And dominate all the other cupboards and drawers. Hide my little wooden/plastic friends! Yea all my clothes are strewn all over my bed now. Din even realise i have so many clothes. Gosh. Din even realise how dusty the back of the wardrobe was. The horror! Haha, but still the worst is the fan at the X-ray machine in my camp. It contains various species of insects, a huge clump of dust clustered neatly into each of the single grooves in the grill. EUGH. I wonder who cleans the fans. Haha Daniel care to enlighten?

Oh forgot u BOC. *slap forehead*

Think i'll just blog alittle...probably to show tt i still exist. Yea, been bumming ard for the past few days, so bummed tt i dun even feel like playing guitar, dun feel like bloggin. Just wanna slack my days away i suppose.

Gonna give tuition to this new kid tml. Named Li Yang. Pri 4. Abit too young for my liking. And the money is not worth the additional effort to get his attention and so on. I'm also seriously out of touch with the pri sch stuff. Oral... compo... ?! I'm seriously dreading this man. Hope it's gonna turn out fine. And hope tt kid is NOT like Si Chao's, cos he's dealing with a serious case. For lesser pay too. Gosh.

Second lesson with Weiye today...amusing as usual. Dude u gotta relax la. Playing the guitar is a relaxing process. Not a struggle man. Anyways u've improved quite a bit too. At least u can get certain concepts which took me months. Slowly u can wow girls with ur new found musicianship. Be patient my young apprentice...

Blah..i've already lost the urge to blog. So many things have happened (tho small), but i did not write it down here. This is supposed to be my diary, but i guess as the days goes by it's slowly losing it's purpose. But anyways, here's a little list of stuff tt happened lately. So tt i'll remember next time

1. Went Ubin to cycle with my class. Yanting fell. I burst my tyre. But uncle changed it for me...for free! Wickedly good service. Saw small green snake and a giant monitor lizard. Freaky.
2. Bought an Ibanez Tubescreamer TS-9. Really good stuff. Nice boost pedal. Very loud and chunky. Gives all my solos THE TONE. Haha. Ex tho. Shan't say how much here tho.
3. Registered myself with MOE. Went to a helluva schs to put my name down. But none has called me since. What luck
4. Recording company tt i mentioned the other time...also havent reply me yet. Think the deal is over too? Guess so. No more rock star my groupies
5. Bought a new wardrobe. A giant 6-doored one. But it's not here yet. And i've moved pretty much of the old furniture out of my room. The one i sorely miss is my "SHEN QI XIAO ZI" set of drawers. Yea tt piece of wood has been with the family since my brother' birth. And it's been in my room since i was young. Now it's gone, i have one less thing left to amuse myself. And tt large blank wall right behind my room is irritating me. Hope the wardrobe comes soon.
6. Took the box tt contains the RSN Maglight and used it as my new pencil box. Took the ankh tt my bro gave to me aeons ago as a bday present and stuck it onto the box's cover. Looks alittle like a coffin right now. It's freaking gal out but i think it's prett nifty. I'll have the coolest pencil box in sch.

Ya tt's abt it. Letting it all out. Feels alittle better. Tho i still feel miserable inside. Ask me why.