Topic of the day: Neighbourhood Scums. Yes my neighbourhood is full of shit people. It's been happening for a while, but i think today is the killer one.

Scum incident 1: Some drunk/semi drunk/depressed Indian was sitting at the pavillion right below my block. And there he was shouting at random passerbys, saying stuff like "Knn, u all dun mess with us COMMANDOS! COMMANDOS IS THE NUMBER 1. Knn we COMMANDOS will beat u all!" Something like that. The Diver in me really wanted to throw a glass bottle down at him. Nick, sorry to say, but he's totally destroyed any good Commando impression left in me. DIVERS FTW!

Scum incident 2: Some dude spitted at the lift door. If tt ain't gross enough, u must understand tt it's an extremely yellow glob of spit, and it's so viscous tt it's STUCK on the lift door. Like a chewing gum, but no it's spit. And when the lift door opens/close, some spit get dragged along.

Scum incident most of time: Some bird-loving dude keeps feeding the pigeons in my neighbourhood. Normally, tt will sound alright, probably nothing much. But this bugger is special. He puts the food right below the "Please do not feed the pigeons" sign. I should really take a picture of this. Irony at it's extreme.

Scum incident tt happened due to bird-feeding: Said bird had a big diarrhea. Shitted all over the stone chair. It was so sick tt it couldnt fly away when i approached it. All it could do was to give me the "I'm sorry" look. Fuck.

Scum incident sometimes: The fella living at the 2nd floor of my block, apparently has no sink/dustbin to dispose of his drinks. Everytime he goes home, he'll have a drink, maybe kopi, a packet drink or whatever. And everytime, he'll not be able to finish it. So he pours down the stairs. Brilliant. He's Indian too. I wonder if i'm picking at this race.

Scum incident tt used to happen but disappeared already: Another fella in my block does not possess any form of waste disposal. The stairway is his rubbish bin. I see soya sauce bottles, KFC, Pizza Hut, Macdonalds, takeaways, Campbell soup etc. Nice stuff he's eating, but for fuck's sake please do not throw it at the stairway!

Scum incident tt happened once which GG-ed the entire block: A puddle of urine on the 2nd floor's stairway. Tt guy needs to drink more water.

I wonder what's wrong with this bunch of scums. Y do they particularly like to upset the order and cleaniness of my neighbourhood? And the government is pushing for pple to use the stairs more. And now my lift is messed up too. With tt glob of spit which i think is gonna stay for a while.

And tt Commando, someone shld really get him to shut up. He's so gonna get killed someday.

Wish me luck for the test tml. And also for tt glob of spit. Knn.

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Ok, since Louis told me to do it once, and Nick has somewhat asked all his friends to do it and post, so... why not?

Let's do alittle description for each picture then, probably to explain myself alittle. Apparently the stupid textbox wasnt big enough to contain all that i wanna type, so i have to do this shit.

My Art: Art is overrated in my opinion. A nice picture is a nice picture. We do not have to scrutinise the lines and the brush strokes. And the funny thing abt art is, a nice picture doesnt get much notice. Probably for a while, and then it fades to the surroundings. An ugly picture just sticks out like a sore thumb. So what is the artist really going for? Something pleasing tt will make those pompous arthouse pple go "oh wow, tt's some nice brush strokes!" or something shocking tt will get the attention of the whole world. It's a weirdo scene. Anyways, the shell has some interesting properties on it. The Da Vinci Code shit, yea 1.645. I know it before the book came out. I love symmetry, asymmetry, patterns, and all the mathematical stuff. I'm a statistician. It's not hard to wonder why.

My Music: The pic shows where i usually listen to music. Not at home mind you, i seldom listen to stuff at home. I usually listen while i'm travelling, when u can daze at the road and really hone in to the stuff tt's being played. Drums, basslines, rhythm, lead, harmony, keyboard ambience shit. All these are going thru my mind. In the bus.

My Treat: I need a jog badly to shed off the kilos tt's reflected in That's Gross. And ippt is coming. To think i used to do 8:25 for 2.4km. Now it seems more like 11:25.

My Freedom: I din really quite get this, but i guess the park pic just suits me the most. Alone and doing something i enjoy. Tt's probably freedom to me. Freedom is when ur mind feels free, and not physically free.

That's Gross: See My Treat. Anyways i have a thing against the plumper race. UNLESS their personality completely changes my viewpoint of them. Like Daniel, Siva, Jason, GX, Andy, SS blah blah. If u are my friend, and u feel alittle pudgy, dun worry, i wun poke fun at u. (Begin completely politically incorrect statements) The thing about the fatter pple is tt, they dun realise it themselves! Or they do not have the courtesy to NOT sit right in front of the classroom and block everyone else. Yea i do have 1 case like tt in my Stats class now. And i'm not happy about it. There are many more examples, i'm just lazy to list. (End CPIS)

My Love: This is completely private, but i'll just let u guys in alittle. This move is called the "Snog". It's a cute little move to get ur missus gigglish. Move ur nose and hone in to the side of her's. There will be a nice little groove there to park ur nose there. Sniff alittle of her scent and say nice things to her. Happy lovin'

My Vice: I used to bite my nails. Big time. They were extremely crappy back then, but i stopped during JC, cos it ain't cool to bite nails when u wanna nail a chick! So yea i stopped. But the nails never recovered, so they look semi crap now. But every now and then, some funny stray nail thingy pokes out at the side of the nail. I dunno what you call that (cuticle? seems not), but it's either irritating, or hurting. So i bite it off. Yea. Sometimes it looks uncool to be caught in the act. But fuck it. I've nailed my chick. Bleah.

Bedroom: My bedroom has to be pristine. Neat and tidy. White or not it doesnt matter, but white makes it feel clean i guess. I pack my bed everyday, cos i like order in my room. Shirui says i'm the most orderly guy she has ever seen. Obviously she dunno how mad my brother is. I shall not tell her that he measures the speakers such tt they are exactly the same distance apart from his monitor. Exactly. Now tt's order.

I'd Like To: Fuck tt looks like a Mac. Lucky Dan din get his Mac fried. But it's cool, nothing sucks more than re-ripping 500 CDs. I've done ripping, i dun wanna try RE-ripping. Anyways, computers are fun. They stimulate the mind. The old people dun get it. Gaming is in now la. Even my mom plays games. Like online Roulette. Gambler mom.

Excites me: I'd say this once and for all to all the people who goes for pop concerts and think it's the best they've ever seen. Really, go to a ROCK concert for Satan's sake. Anything remotely rock is gonna be like 100 times better. It's the atmosphere, the sound, the ENERGY. Not the taiwan boyband mind you. I've been to RHCP, Beyond and DT. 150 bucks each. They are totally worth my time. But RHCP has to be the best, even though it's not as happening as Slane.

My Holiday: My ideal holiday is really to explore the world's landmarks. Really, i have a thing for wonders. Great Wall, Pyramids, Taj Mahal, Sistine Chapel, Tower of Pisa, Eiffel, Statue of Lib, i can name them all man. These are works of civilization! It's amazing what humans can do with their bare hands.

My Drink: As mentioned in the Widget above. No teh peng or kopi peng. But wine is nice. Allows u to act arty farty for a while. It's useful to know your wine, so that u can impress girls. And other people. When u impress other people, u climb higher in their personal ladders. The ladder theory, mmmmmm gotta post tt someday.

My Landscape: I discovered that i have a thing for mountains. Everytime my family goes to Msia, i'll look at the hills and mountains in the distance. Does that have a connection with my fascination with breasts?! *rubs chin*

Ok tt's the end of the whatever u wanna call it. Yea. Let's get to the real blog. (OMG WTF UR BLOG IS SO LONG???)

Nick just mentioned tt i shld get the blogger MVP this yr or smthing like tt. Ya, i am glad someone bothers to read my stuff and feel alittle chuckled. Thanks for the praise man. And about praises, yes... tt's my Achilles heel. I think i am a sucker for praises. I like ppl to praise me, so tt i get the high feeling like im the top of the world. Then i will be quite big-headed and start to talk some big-headed nonsense like "BWAHAHA MY BLOG PWNS U" or smthing like tt. And then i will think tt since i'm already so pro at what i'm doing there's probably not much need to improve on my existing situation. That my friends, is why i always try to taichi the praise away. So tt i can get a hold of myself.

And speaking about big-headedness. My dear Vincent aka jrockstar, pls pls do not try to talk shit in front of me. Like how l33+ ur shredding skillz ar, how Herman Li (Dragonforce) is your new guitar master and u wanna dive bomb and tap like him. I know my stuff, i doubt u know ur stuff, so let's just leave at there right. If u really think u are at the top of the world by learning just some licks and wow little girl's cosplay panties, then i really feel sorry for you and your band. Licks aren't everything, it's learning how to use them effectively and correctly tt matters. So i dun really care if the mei meis think that ur hand moves like a butterfly across the fretboard. Mine doesnt move. It's too fast tt u cant see it. And it kills people because of that. Daniel hor?

Interesting thing happened just now at the bball court. Biao sprained his ankle, so i took a 20 ct coin and ran to the coffeeshop to buy ice. RICE treatment ma. So i told the bloke (yes, initially it was uncle, but he's quite the fucker so now he's a bloke) that i want to buy 20ct of ice. And guess what he said.

"Today no ice"

I sincerely think he's pulling a fast one on me. But i din really wanna argue with him so i just let it be and walked away. But i was thinking, if it was true, how could the coffeeshop run it's business? No ice for drinks? Kopi peng with no ice? Mmm very tricky situation.

Louis showed me an article on power napping today. The gist of it is, to sleep for 20 minutes, and u get sufficient rest to last a few hours more. I tried it after lunch, and it works beautifully. I felt fresher, and was able to think better. And best of it was tt it allowed me to beat the inertia of starting on my work. I shld take more power naps nxt time. Remember, 20 mins.

I wonder if it's possible to completely replace sleep by power naps. Sleep has 5 stages. Power naps attempts to achieve the first 2 which are mainly the restorative effects of sleep, and then cuts off the deep sleep + dreaming part. Question now is, do we need the dreaming part? Are dreams integral of our life?

I had a weird dream last night. Chao and I were joggin our usual route along the storm drain. And then we reached an open field, somewhat like the field between Shirui and my hse. And there were ppl playing baseball and rugby. The funny thing is tt the baseball pitcher is pitching in the direction of the rugby players, and he's quite lousy pitcher (ie the catcher cannot catch the ball cos it's too out). But the rugby players managed to siam the balls. Amazing. And then we walked until we see the storm drain path again, but this time, there's no side railings to prevent u from falling into it. Chao says just carry on and we run. But i tripped and fell inside. GG

Oh ya, i just caught The Prestige via technological means. Good show. Shirui and I were on the edge of my bed most of the time. Such a gripping tale. Twists and turns. I loved to be entertained this way. 300 was probably more linear, but the pink n****es more than made up for everything. Lol.

Ok like Nick said, "Shit it's 4am." Ahaha. I have a test on tues. And i'm very worried. No this is not a sarcastic tone. I havent wrote my helpsheet yet.

Ok let's sleep. Let's hope someone whacks me in Travian so badly that i can finally get my life back. :D:D:D:D

Someone told me tt another fella has told him tt i've changed gf. To this particular doofus who has totally no clue on what's going on in my life: Shut ur fucking mouth if u have no idea on what's going on. Nobody's going to say u are stupid if u keep quiet.

-End Rant-

It's been a while since i recorded something. Like abt 3-4 months already. I do have quite a number of ideas/riffs here and there, but they are just somehow stuck. Either no lyrics, inability to sing like Dio/Dickinson/Plant, missing critical bell sound from the ride cymbal in BFD, or just plain boring song structure. I'm trying to break out of the mould here, and it's not easy when 99% of the music world has already done what i'm trying do.

Recently i came across an article, on the importance of having a repertoire and how it aids in improving your playing. It says that having a repertoire of abt 10 COMPLETE songs is good, as it forces you to continually practise these songs so that u are able to play at command. And playing at command also equates to playing at performance level, which is crucial when u are impressing some girl. This leads to the idea of the audience.

In music, at least for me, it is very boring for a musician to just keep honing his/her technique without ever stepping out of the house to play for someone. There simply isn't any motivating factor in it. With the audience, probably the first time u try playing for someone it isnt really that smooth and there's some hiccups. This in turn forces u to try and improve on your playing, and gives u something to look forward to (ie the next performance with the same person/audience group). With each performance, u gain more confidence for the nxt one, and so on. It also makes u wanna learn more tunes, to improve your technique, improvise on the existing one. So yea, probably the main reason tt im not playing much lately is due to the fact tt i dun feel that anyone wants to listen to me. Maybe when i get a die-hard fan tt goes "i need more from u Chang!!" will get me going. :D

To Nick: Keep going. It's really heartening to hear that u are doing so well in your music career. Do the gigs, go for the auditions, learn whatever u can, listen to whatever u can. I really hope to buy your CD one day.

An incident happened between 2 friends lately. One was really too stupid to realise that he is pissing off the other guy, and the other guy was really too egoistic to let everything slide. Friends... it is really a very loose term isnt it?

Johnson came over on Thurs to "learn" some guitar from me, but we are just trading licks la. It's very nice of him to come over all the way from Hougang, and i do enjoy the time hanging out with him, though he's quite quirky at times (sorry dude :D) I see the big improvement in his playing, which is good as the first time i saw him he wasn't really able to play with feel. Now there's more control and feel, but probably he shld focus now on the accents. Playing without dynamics = recorder sound. Very linear.

Daniel's mac died, and i just have to gloat on it. Sorry but i do not buy this Mac elitism shit. And most likely Apple cannot recover the disk. Cos they will not do it. Changing the hard disk for you + extremely sincere letter of apology is so much more cost/time-efficient. My bro's iPod died, and he got the same shit. Pay for a new hard disk or buy a new iPod. Both are equivalent isnt it. He chose the new 80GB iPod. Hasnt looked back since. I need a 80GB too.

I think Scott Adams has alot of interesting viewpoints. He thinks like what a comic artist would think: creatively. I cannot imagine how much shit he has in head, but it's cool to be able to come up with a creative thought a day. Even though it might be 99% rubbish. I have alot of crazy thoughts, but they are just not unleashed onto society yet i guess. My blog readership is low, which is good. People do not have to know what they do not bother to find out.

Speaking of which, i find that people around me have a complete lack of courtesy and EQ. Like not thanking someone for a favour done, and not thinking before speaking. It's disappointing and also reflects bad on me, like "why the hell are u hanging out with this guy?". I stick by my friends for my own reasons, but now they are like slowly eroding this trust away with their little stupid actions. I do not need anyone to lead an immaculate life, but at least, have a thought for other people and have a thought for yourselves. I cannot take care of everyone of you forever.

I wonder if anyone has ever felt that i am behind them all this while. Ok shit this sounds gay,

I realised that throughout my whole life, all the Vincents i know are relatively CMI (Cannot make it). It's quite an interesting trend. I shall try to stay away from Vincents as much as possible.

In NJ, i have 1 basketball junior named Vincent. He thinks he's really the best shooter in the team, but he's not even close to warming the bench. He shoots ugly, rarely makes a shot, and is really one of those pple that you'd go "Dude, u should change to another sport". Complete inaptitude for the game. But he goes around telling everyone how accurate he is, and once challenged me to a 1 v 1 duel. Which i won in like 5 mins?.

In Changi Naval Base, while i was on course, there's another dude with the V name. Looks like a complete drug addict, smokes way too much for his own good, slacks, keng, basically just a company parasite. Fortunately i was in the same section as him, but even then, i could feel his presence, or lack of it.

In Tuas Naval Base, my platoon sergeant is also named Vincent. They call him Vincent Dog (in chinese). Yes, he's like a lackey, but yet, a unliked lackey. Usually sergeants either side with the men, or side with the officers. He's special, no one likes him, so he sides with himself. There's too muh to say about him, but just note that the platoon set up a special altar using a biscuit tin with his headshot stuck on it. And yes, someone supplied hell money for him too. That is how much we hated him.

A few years back i got to know this J-Rock guy and he plays in "THE LEADING JROCK BAND IN SINGAPORE". Yes, he's called Vincent too, but he prefers to be refered by his jap moniker Koyuki, stolen from the anime Beck. Which is quite wtf. And he really thinks he's a rockstar, so-called sponsored by a local production company and all that. But he still has to set up his own gigs, sell his own tickets, blah blah. I dun see the difference between his band and any other wannabe mat band in sg. And yes, they played in Chingay's preview. Guess what? An angmoh wrote in the next day to complain about them. Sad to say, Japanese Death Rock doesnt sell. Yes, they are not close to metal, cos V can't play tt fast. Pity.

Is it a coincidence or is it on purpose that ineffective people are surrounding me? Do i attract the wrong crowd? Or do i purposely hang out with lesser people to make myself feel that i am more superior? Which implies which?

Note: If you are reading this and u think u are an ineffective person, most likely i view the same about you too. Which in that case, I dun really mind if u are CMI because i am a benevolent god (adapted from Xerxes in 300). But it will be wise to improve yourself to a level such that u will be of use to someone else and not constantly leech from people like me. Yea.

Final verdict: 99% of Vincents are CMI people. Yes this is an extremely biased estimate with an error bound of 0.01% at 99% significance level. Please avoid Vincents if u can. If not, good luck. Try not to know those tt i knew.

Totally random stuff tt happened today:

My ex-NDU instructor just added me on Friendster. Almost couldn't recognise him. Tot which gay Ah Beng wanted to hook up with me. Anyways, he's a nice man. Probably the only one in NDU who had a good heart. Seems like his relationship with his wife is in the pits. Tricky

Invasion of Shirui's cousins. Yea little Darren started bombarding me with nudges on MSN and asking whether i was playing game or studying, followed by Aiyin who managed to find my blog. GAH! Shit, my plan to leave Shirui is so going to fail. And my life comes under more scrutiny this time. No KNNCCB ar, no F*** u ar... must more politically correct. Sigh.

Went for a walk along the big canal behind my house. Halfway through i got a stomachache so i headed home immediately.

Woke up with an extremely bad sore throat. Time was 9 am++. Took a pee and slept again. Woke up at 11 with my throat feeling perfectly fine. Wonders of 1 hr of sleep.

Han Yuan got a myspace page. And he listed some of the classic The Casters originals. Goodness, must we really let the Myspace community suffer? I tot i was already contributing quite a good amount of aural torture.

The tutorial that i was going to do had weird symbols. Ok it's so weird tt blogger doesnt support it. Gosh. Are we supposed to read glyphs for Statistics class?

Dilbert wrote something on personal defects. Similar to him, i believe have a complete lack of fashion sense. Like Kai said, "You are personality-wise cool, but you are fashion-wise uncool". But i think i'm not too bad. At least i dun get fingers pointing at me when i go out. But i tend to get shitty haircuts. Yea i'm having one now and it gets to me. I waxed my hair today at home just to see how it will look when "styled". Not too cool either. I'm struggling with the decision to wax my hair for sch. Probably not. Headphones > Cool hairstyle.

Signed up for the Facebook thingy to see what's the big hype about. Personally i'm quite intrigued by it. It's somewhat more interactive than Friendster which is the plus point. But it's extremely American-ised. Like College, middle school, high school. Fuck u Americans la. I really cannot understand y going to Stanford University is called going to college. It doesnt even make any logical sense. There are many things to pick on the US system, but it's for another post i guess.

Some Europeans do not speak very good english, but people do not pick on them. So y should Singaporeans be marginalised for their Singlish?

I realised that the Chinese race have a good habit of killing their own people, whereas the Angmohs and the Mats and the Nehs know how to group up and take care of their kind.

Ok getting out of point. Bye.

I'm down with a slight fever again. This year is a year of sickness. 2nd time im sick. Sucks. But it's good in a sense that it forces me to sleep. I slept the whole afternoon away today. Today is my free day, and it's gone like that. Poof, brilliant. Fortunately, there's nothing much to do.

I realise my group of 4 friends are very dsyfunctional. Heng likes to tell stories that are either totally made up, or stolen from us. He thinks he knows alot of stuff, and always try to "teach" Chao, but in actual fact, Chao is just entertaining him.

Biao is very quiet. Super quiet. The only thing tt reminds you of his presence is that he smiles/laugh once in a while. I am glad there exists someone who can just sit there and listen to your rubbish all the way. And he's very reserved, like bringing down the guitar but not playing it at all. So what's the point of learning the guitar when u dun perform alittle?

Xiang thinks the whole world revolves around him. He must always subtlely try to divert the conversation topic to his own so that everyone can talk about what is happening in his day. Yea, nice try, but i doubt he realises that i am always subtlely trying to change the topic whenever he starts his own. And he too thinks that he knows quite alot of stuff. But unlike Heng, he does more research so his stuff is more concrete. Heng's is just all bullshit 90% of the time.

Chao is probably the most normal in the group. Humble and friendly. But he is too nice. So people tend to "eat" him. And then he will complain about it during our hang sessions. And he's not a very cool person in that all he does is watch tv and basketball and study. Girls dun dig nerdy jocks who watch tv. They like guys who unique interests. Therefore, no girl is interested in him atm. Hopefully when he grads he will learn to speak better, dress better and pick up some hobby.

I dunno why i am blogging about them, but i think these guys deserves a special mention somehow somewhere.

Maybe it's the fever tt's gone into my head

Mmm bye bye. And Scott Adams, u can try reading my blog. Hopefully u listen to my music at the side and proclaim to the world how crappy they sound. And thereby giving me free hits. Thank you very much.