I HATE LOUSILY DESIGNED SURVEYS!

From a statistician point of view, it's a total pain in the ass to do a crap survey. So far, Song Hui's professor's survey is the Number 1 on my shitlist. How does anyone even quantify his opinions on a scale from 0 to 100. Ridiculous.

I've been sending out surveys for my dear fellow statisticians to do. Somehow response wasn't good, cos the market has been ruined by shitty surveys before mine. Mine's the real deal la, 5 minutes to elicit a simple response from you, you wouldnt even know what hit you. Best of all it's on a topic that strikes close to your heart.

I really feel i can't get 100 responses. It's too crazy. Half the fucking NUS population dun check their email, those who check dun give a shit abt any surveys either. It's time to exercise my statistical powers to shift the numbers around.

Feeling some funk beats lately. Must be the newly pasted John Myung postcard on my cupboard working it's wonders. Autographed when he came to Singapore for the first time for a bass clinic. Apparently my brother said he was a monster. I was just a shithead concerned abt pop music then. "Dream Theater? What?"

Today was a shithead day. Went early to school to try and do my work. But apparently i cannot access the comp lab, COS ONLY HONOURS STUDENTS CAN! Like wtf stupid reason man. Yr 3 students will hack the computers, whereas the honours PRC students will uphold supreme netiquette? Fuck off... i've seen what PRCs can do during my days in Chinese High. Like surfing for "sexy actress" in the school library computer. How fucking stupid is tt?!

Either ways, i was locked out for a while, until a PRC opened the door for me. Presumably, she's Yr 4, and has good internet track record, while, i'm just a shithead. 30 mins into my work, the department decides to have a fucking fire drill. Nice la.

So a 2 hr assignment turned into a 4 hour nightmare, with little cock ups here and there. And that's just retrieving the relevant data and output. Still got analysis leh? Stupid assignment lasted until 12 midnight la. Fucken hell!

Sometimes i feel that i talk and act like a juvenile. Like i'm 18 or smthing. People dun take me seriously becos of this. My girlfriend doesnt take me seriously sometimes. My parents usually dun take me seriously. But it's always fun to test someone with a really ridiculous question, just to see how they react. Tt's y i like to talk to certain people. Some people are just not game enuff for weird ideas.

Ah fuck. Good night. So distracted. Hello hunny :D

My headphones are dying. The sponge-y muffs are coming off. Does anyone have any idea on fixing something like tt? It's been a solid pair of headphones, tho everytime i wear it, it just flattens my hair and makes me look like an idiot for abt 15 mins, before the hair pops back up.

Can't really imagine life without it, unless i get another solid pair to replace it. Makes me wonder, how long do headphone sponges last?

Recently, people have been acting strange. Some flare up for no fucking reason, some get unnecessarily emo, some act extremely mysterious. I try to be as neutral as possible, and avoid all said people as much as i can. Really, their problems are not mine, i should not be affected by them.

Fundamentally, everyone is selfish. Everyone is worse off than anyone else. Each own's problem is the biggest, and therefore must be viewed with utmost importance by everyone else. Your problem is nowhere as jialat as mine, so you must listen to me.

If i could, i'd hide myself from the world. Cos almost every human being i see is digusting. Kai is right, no one can fulfill the 10 commandments. The Edison saga has also shown that no one is an angel.

I'm no angel too, but at least i dun try to portray as if i am one. There's no persona, no facade. If you know me like tt, then i'm like tt. Nothing more nothing less.

It's irritating for anyone to keep asking abt my band. I dun have a fucking band for Satan's sake. I dun intend to join one either. My current setup is perfectly fine. Jamming with Johnson's gang is just for purely fun reasons. Joining a band is for serious reasons. Everyone has to be committed in a band. It's like working in a group project. You can't afford to have a guy to fuck it up, cos tt's just wasting other ppl's time. I dun want to waste other people's time. I dun want to waste my time either.

I shall stop wasting your time too. So good night.

Was playing Microprose: Magic: The Gathering computer game over the past 2 days. Just completed the game with a kickass Black Weenie + lotsa disruption + 2 Ancestral Recall. Almost every card in my deck was a 4-5 star card from Inquest. Yea, tt really shows how powerful black used to be until all these uber cards phased out.

Thankfully, my skills still remained. Magic is probably 90% playing skill, 9% deck construction skill, and 1% luck. Yes, sometimes you just have to topdeck the right thing. 1 good topdeck = GG for the opponent.

This game sure brings back memories. I spent 3 yrs of my life playing Magic you know, instead of hanging with the cool sports people from Chinese High. Oh well.

Tml's another jam. Hope it's fun. ^^

Miss ya btw.

It's Kai's bday today, and we went for a pedi-party. Yea, a pedicure party organised by my future sis-in-law Adelin, with some of my bro's close friends. It's a nice cosy and intimate party, where everyone just chill and enjoy the food, the wine, and yes, the pedicure.

It's my first time trying it, and i must say it really does make ur feet feel real good. My toenails were thoroughly cleaned, and most of the dead skin were filed away. I think the best part is the removal of the cuticles, makes the nails feel really clean and smooth now.

Oh ya, Kai and I painted out toenails black! So rock la! Metro-Metal-Sexuals! Hoo!

This year, we are just gonna go the "fuck it, let's do it" route. Black toenails, Check. Driving against traffic, Check.

It's gonna be wild.

I feel tt i can handle my homework a little bit better right now, though at the expense of my social life. So far it's a worthy trade, cos not many people i meet nowadays can stimulate my senses/thoughts. So it's better to work on the more important yet mundane things.

Dwight Howard was a monster in the All-Star Slam Dunk Competition 2008. Go Youtube to really find out what he's all about. I think he will be the next big thing in the NBA, due to his dominance and sense of humour.

I'm trying out this new idea: Instead of eating breakfast every morning from the coffeeshop, which shld cost $4.20 in total, i shall buy a box of delicious POST cereal + milk, and see how much it costs per meal. Gut feeling says i shld be able to spend alot more less a day, eyeballing the cereal pack says it's good for at most 5 meals. We shall see how it goes. Anyways, it's cheaper, healthier eating, so y not?

EH's bro's dog, Coco, a minature poodle is damn cute. Nicholas's schnauzer + silky cross, Coco, is also damn cute. Are all dogs tt are named Coco damn cute? I find myself becoming more and more like a dog lover. Any invitation to visit a dog seems so much more irresistable now.

I have so many feeds from Digg, Reuters and Lifehacker tt havent been read. I guess sometimes u just can't absorb everything, becos a lack of memory space, or a lack of time, or a lack of desire.

Drifting off. Bye :)

Little known fact abt me: I dun open my red packets until the very last one i get. So usually the money counting starts like abt 1 week into the New Year. Usually by this time, most people would have either gambled some way, or spent some already. But not me ^^. Pls do not rob me when u see me on the streets, i dun carry that much cash on me anyways.

Johnson's organising another jam. This time we are playing "Smells like Teen Spirit" by Nirvana, "Makes Me Wonder" by Maroon 5, "Is It Just Me" by The Darkness, "Slide" by Goo Goo Dolls. And hopefully this time, the drummer/s can play the songs properly. Hmm, there's a solo in the Darkness song. WTF?!

I survived 1 day without coffee! Yay! I'm trying to cut my dependence on coffee to last through the day. Apparently there's this post caffeine crash, tt causes u to be more tired after the caffeine wears off. But either ways, i dun want to drink coffee to stay awake. I want to drink coffee cos i love the taste. So for now it has to go, to re-program my brain to think tt coffee is a drink, not a drug.

And so now i'm gonna log my no coffee days onto my beloved Google calendar, where i also log the days i play the guitar, run, or din eat supper. Feels good to know how many days u've not been a glutton. Probably should log the days tt i see my girlfriend too. Seems like i havent seen her for a v long time. Hmm.

On girlfriends, Valentine's coming, but i've already bought her a nice big fluffy orange rose-lookalike flower. I'm fortunate this year cos it's quite hard to find plush toy flowers, and it's harder to find one that she doesnt have. Either ways i really hope she loves it. Cos it's big orangey and fluffy. My girlfriend loves orangey and fluffy stuff. Like Happy.

Anyways, i read something like journalling at the end of the day to relax your mind so that you can sleep better. I'm trying this method out, hopefully it lulls my mind for tonight. If it's really good, then i might blog every single night, but then it will end up to be really mundane stuff. Some people like mundane stuff, some people like pictures, some people like intellectual stuff. Some people like free guitar tips. I cannot please everyone, so umm we'll see how it goes.

At most i add some hot ah lian pics from friendster to spice things up.

Oh yea, "You Wanna Be A Star" has reached #5 on the Soundclick Classic Rock Charts! So rock la! Thanks to any random soul who's been listening to this shitass lame song with lyrics co-written by Daniel. Daniel should really just give up his Nobel poetry prize and switch careers like Jay Chou's lyricist Fang Wenshan. Just find a guy who can really write music (aka ME) and then u help the poor fucker who can't really sing to write lyrics. And then both of you can take over the whole world.

I think it's a brilliant idea, Daniel u shld really consider my suggestion haha. Join forces with Nick or something. Boomchick with prog lyrics can work too you know. Like Prog-abilly, or Prog-grass.

As for the rest of you, keep listening in!

And umm, i can't really access my blog to read the tagboard for the past few days. It just hangs my browser every single time. Maybe it's the Soundclick app, maybe it's the tagboard. Maybe it's the Flickr photo. Whatever the case, i'm semi-pissed by it, but nvm. Let's hope things will be better tomorrow.

Meshuggah is really a difficult band to listen to. I think they can beat Sonic Youth as the worst band to introduce to your best friend. Firstly, they thrive on dissonance, so there's close to zero "melody". Second, the rhythmic patterns are so complex, that you dun really hear patterns. So it sounds more like random beats. Thirdly, the tone of the guitars are intentionally set to be heavily fuzzed, like static. And lastly, the singer growls & scream on top of the mish mash of noise.

Does Meshuggah mean "fucking drive your mom crazy" in Swedish? Oh ok, from Wiki: The band's name is Hebrew for "crazy". That explains it. Either ways, i dun recommend the band to the faint hearted, it's too warped for any normal human. BUT, i'm superhuman, so i can tolerate such kind of aural assault. So far this is the maximum i can go. Anything more extreme i will really go nuts.

I think my brother and i can start a private guitar restoration/repair service. He brought home 4 really chui guitars from my future sis-in-law's family a few days ago, and they are really chui. Just imagine all the hardware covered in rust, the knobs unable to turn, the fretboard so dry u can see some white lines on the rosewood, the frets cover in green moldy eeeyeer stuff. Yea, tt chui.

He restored one of them, and it looked pretty solid now, like a restored vintage guitar, which it really is. No more rust, no more gunk, sweet solid fretboard. Makes me want to string the guitar now and play it. My bro can do all the cleaning, i can do all the technical setting up. It's a perfect combination. Probably can start off small by taking online requests. Like 20 dollars per fix perhaps? I'm dun really aim to make a profit for doing something like this. Cos, it's just a hobby. Fixing guitars can be a hobby too u know.

Alright the post is really long. But i like long posts. Shows tt i have alot of bullshit. Good night.

First off, Happy Chinese New Year to everyone reading this blog. Hope that in this coming year, you'll enjoy great success in everything you do, and wish everyone good health and good luck.

Personally, I havent looked forward to any festive holidays for a v long time. I'm just not a festive person, i'd prefer school holidays much more. Shirui's very hyped up over festive holidays, and i feel quite bad to not being able to be as hyped up as her. Kinda like bringing down the mood for her though.

Movies and music dun really trigger much of my senses recently. Everything seems more boring than mugging and programming. And the fact tt i really have to mug makes it even worse. Chinese New Year will be the period where i swallow Longitudinal Data Analysis, Data Mining and Statistical Methods for Finance.

If u consume something alot, and tt product is perceived to be harmful, you are labelled an addict. If tt product is not perceived to be harmful, you are just someone who loves consuming tt product.

I love drinking coffee. Is coffee harmful?

Thanks to everyone who visit this blog anyways, cos it has pushed "You Wanna Be A Star" to #8 of the Soundclick Classic Rock charts. It's madness, cos i never had such a high ranking song before. Anyways the ranking changes everyday, so it might most probably drop soon. Unless some rabid fan keeps listening.

I dun understand y T-shirt + berms + shoes = very lok kok, and therefore i am not allowed to surface in Orchard with my very hot girlfriend. Why is it a cardinal sin to place comfort over looks? Singapore is so bloody hot la my retarded friends.

I think for my nuts. They shall be kept cool and dry.

I havent touched my guitar for a while. Joanne told me tt she visited my page and she told me tt the music was good, but not the singing. And tt some of the songs are somewhat repetitive. Oh well, you can't expect much from someone who has just the basic setup for recording. Not to mention tt i'm not really good in arranging and editing. Tt's why musicians hire producers. They are there for a fucking reason.

And tt's y i'm not a rockstar. So I dun go ard dissing this band and tt. Cos they have cut their well-deserved 1st album. And 2nds, and 3rds. If u are able to cut so many albums, it just says one thing: you either have talent or u have marketability. So does Britney Spears suck? Unless you can do a Britney and prove it, otherwise just keep ur mouth shut. Bedroom musicians have no right to judge, cos you are just at the bottom of the shitpile.

Tt's also the reason y the local scene is struggling. People spending too much time shutting themselves out of music that they should be listening to gain ideas from. Because of that, they are not creative enough, not diverse enough, and not technical enough. And since they dun practise enough and write enough, they struggle in the studios and eventually can only choose 10 out of the only pitiful 12 songs they have to make an album. And then the 2nd album takes forever to come out, and the supposed fans forget abt the band.

Sting's music is pretty interesting. I cannot really categorise, but i would say it's closer to fusion than straight up rock. By far, i really love "Seven Days", simple and effective song. Get the Ten Summoner Tales album. It's really solid.

I've been trying hard to complete this F-Day version of Hero Siege, but it's close to impossible from what i observed, cos the main castle u have to defend dies from 2 hits from the enemy. And most heroes cannot survive the onslaught at the final wave, like the castle, die in 2 hits. It's retarded.

Aiya i dunno what i'm saying already. Bye.