Santa Claws?

Every year in the month of December, the most popular holiday ever is known to every single human being (except new born babies) without fail and that is Christmas. And in every child, Christmas means presents, and "presents" means Santa Claus and Santa Claus means "The fat dude in the red suit who rides a sleigh pulled by flying reindeer around the worlds in less than 80 days (less in 1 hour)."

Santa is known by the world in many names, St. Nick, Father Christmas, Kris Kringle, etc. But who is the guy really? One thing famously known is that Santa is believed to be living in the North Pole with his wife, elves and reindeer in Santa's Workshop. Kids around the world who still believes in Santa always sends letters to "him" hoping it'll reach "him" and "Poof" appears their presents in the morning of Christmas Day.

But even if you travel to the North Pole, you won't find any cottage, any factory, any workshop what so ever and it's a fact! And because of this fact, people don't believe in Santa anymore and just think of him as a myth. Television programmes all show that Santa has magic abilities and struts his stuff with it. Buh-humbug!!

Even though I still believe in Santa, I need some ideas to support the fact that Santa is unseen. So here's what I believe,

Since I believe in aliens too, I think that Santa has made alliance with the aliens and use alien technology to hide himself and deliver presents in just one night. Simple as that. And Santa does not have a wife nor kids, the identity of "Santa Claus" is passed around to human mortals chosen by the previous Santa himself and again, uses alien technology to wipe out evidence and memories of normal human mortals who have been in contact with and is related to the chosen being as the new "Santa Claus".

Another belive of mine is that Santa is a super kind alien from another galaxy. Simple as that.

Of Hobbies and Interests

On the 20th and the 21st of December, Comicfiesta 2008 was held at Sunway Piramid. I did not notice until Otakugami-sama (SenzO-kouhai) told me about it during our scout meeting on the 20th. I really wanted to go but guess what, my dad forced me to go to a party that I had no intention to attend at all. Lets take this back to a few weeks ago...

My dad came home telling my sister and I that our friend invited us to a Christmas party. I did not have any interest at all because it was just a party and besides, I had other things in mind. My sister and I did not hesitate to say "NO!!" but my dad has this problem or maybe habit of his to keep talking and not listen to what others have to say. (This only applies to within my family.) Yeah, if you're thinking, he is long winded. For two whole weeks we told him we did not want to go every time he mentions it and totally ignores our cries and he input the words, "Yeah, okay, let's go!" in his head.

On the 20th when my dad picked me up after scout meeting, I told him about the Comicfiesta and he said,

"No! Our friends invited us to a party and you want to go somewhere not important?! I'll feel very ashamed if I suddenly turned him down on the last minute! If it was a week ago it'll be okay!"

"But I did not even want to go in the first place!" I retorted.

And my dad's reply was, "You said you wanted to go! Now you say you don't?!".

What the hell?! If he had just shut up and listen to us, my dad won't have heard the words that manifests in his head!! My dad then fired his meaningless lecture about priorities all the way home.

Over view, I did not agree on going to some Christmas party while my dad forced me to go. I prefer to go to a place where I can enjoy myself by indulging myself in things that my hobbies and interests relate to, therefor, I wanted to go to the Comicfiesta badly.

Which would you prefer? Go after your hobbies and interests or go to a party you never intended to go to? I wish I can drive soon so that I don't have to suffer not going to places I want to go and get dragged around to placed I don't want to go.

Okay, I admit, I had some fun at the party. The food was good, pasta only.

SUZUMIYA HARUHI BANZAI!! BAKA-TSUKI BANZAI!!!

As stated above, YES!! I have found the place I have been looking for all this time for almost a year! (Or maybe slightly more than a year, by a few days...)

I have been a Haruhi fan for almost a year and I was really disappointed when the anime came to a stop and nobody uploaded any new chapters for the manga. One time in Crunchyroll.com, a friend I met there, jerryberry (user name) told me that he was following the novels and warning me about how much more confusing it is compared to the manga and anime.

I don't know why I have never thought about it, but I have been hunting down the novels in bookstores and the internet through links in Wikipedia.com but all was a lost when there was no results no matter how much I searched. 2 days ago, I was surfing through Wikipedia looking for animes that my favorite seiyu (voice actor/actress), Hirano Aya had voiced in. I started liking Hirano-san every since I watched Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu (The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya) and Lucky Star on the net. I sighed and went to the article that started my liking for Hirano-san after failing to find any more animes that Hirano Aya stared in. I was scrolling the mouse down to the bottom of the webpage when my eyes caught something, something I had never thought of or never noticed, "External Links".

I noticed in a split second while scrolling, the words "Kadowaka Shoten's website on the Haruhi Suzumiya series" and I quickly clicked on it, finding that the website is in Japanese. It took me sometime to understand it because I'm not so good with kanji. I gave up because the whole story was in Japanese. While feeling down, I recalled the personal message jerryberry sent me about the novels, "I'm currently reading the translated versions of the novel...", it suddenly came to me like a rushing bullet that was fired by AK-47 in a close range.

I have always been using Google to search anime pictures and wallpapers but why have I never thought of it?! I could have just Google "Suzumiya Haruhi novel translations"!! This had made my life so much happier (not quiet, my family still bugs me).

I you wanna know, the website is http://www.baka-tsuki.net/project/index.php?title=Main_Page. Baka-Tsuki is a Wikipedia related website that translates some popular novels into several languages for people to read, loads of novels I want to read are all there! It's truely a heaven, I seriusly want to cry! =")

The Night the Sky Smiled

Last night my friend sms'ed me, telling me look at the west side of the sky and see something amazing. I went out and saw what I had never seen before in my life, two stars above a crescent moon, forming a smiley face in the sky!

Isn't it magnificent or what?!

PS: Sorry, bad camera quality. Hehe.

If I ruled the World

I just suddenly become random and thought,
What if I ruled the world...?
Haha!

I have answers!

10 things that will happen if I ruled the world.
1) Scouts get number one priority at anything. (but of course, still need to obey the 10 scout laws)
2) Anime will be the the show that will be aired the most on TV.
3) Mangas will be sold at all book related stores.
4) Anime DVDs are cheaper than any other videos.
5) Scout camps will be held every month.
6) Baseball will be the most popular sport in the world.
7) American football will be the second most popular sport in the world.
8) Japanese will become the third international language. (after English and Esperanto)
9) Pokemon games are sold cheaper than any other games.
10) There will be a Scouts Day just like any Independence Day around the world.

Locked Out!

Yesterday after our after-camp-clean-up at SMK Tropicana, my dad came and picked me up. I had to bring home some of my troop stuff I took from our scout den for TriplexTM. My dad got out of the car to help me put the stuff (kettles, portable gas stoves, jud rope) into the boot when it happened.

The car my dad was using was a old, screwed-up car that has a "mind of it's own". Because previously, the car was broke open before and the alarm was rigged, so now, at any time anywhere, the car's appliances can act up on it's own. (example: window wipers move by itself) Oh, and by the way, the car is actually my dad's friend's car, he lend it to my dad because we only have one car and my dad's and my mom's workplace is far from each other.

So, what happened? My dad kinda forgot about the fact that when ever the car engine is on, and the car doors are closed, the car can lock by itself. So, after my dad closes the boot, we found out that the car was locked. Luckily the drivers door was not completely closed because my dad did not close the door but thanks to the weight of the door, it closed by itself, leaving a gap. My dad started pulling the door with his might and I tried putting my finders in the gap to pull the door lock but my fingers are too big. So my dad started to look for a ruler or sort and I explained what happened to 2 parents who were talking at the bus stop outside the school. Soon, my friends came out of the school and noticed that I was still there, so they came to help. William lend my dad his penknife but it could not reach the door lock, then Kaili asked why don't we get a wire and pull open the lock. And so my dad raced off towards the main road looking for something. I tried to fit a scout rope into the gap but it was too soft to reach the door lock, everybody (including a parent) suggested ideas but it only worked on new cars. My dad then came back with a piece of long wire and we started to try and pull the door lock. After some tries, my dad finaly pulled open the lock. Woot! Woot! I waved goodbye to everybody (again) and thanked them and then we left the place.

2 day trip to Genting - Day 2

So this is day 2 in Chin Swee Caves Temple, going to Genting, but before that, we made so sight seeing on Chin Swee Temple's beautiful artifacts. After breakfast, we headed to to roof top and saw this beautiful sight! We can see KL from up here!


I have no idea what I was doing but here's me with the statue of Buddha.




I thought if I helped the game one of the 8 immortals in their game, I will get a reward, but...

...instaid, they made me play a game with him. It was a tough match!



This is my family (my dad was taking the picture) in front of the pagoda. We climbed it and it took me some time to get down because of my fear of heights.




The dragon beside the statue of the Laughing Buddha. The sign says "Wishing Well", looks like "Pool of Dragon Drool" to me. Just jokking!



The 10 Chambers of Hell. I took it from afar because my camera was low on memory.




We found this big beetle outside the pagoda.



After cheaking out, we found this moth on our car, it followed us home!

So here is the view of Genting from the top of Chin Swee Caves Temple. Genting, here we come!!

At the Genting Outdoor theme park, I went on most of the rides, and for the first time! The last few times I went Genting, I could not ride the rides as I was either too light or too short. After getting the tickets, we went in but my dad stayed outside because he did not want to go in. The very first ride I rode was the Spinner. My mom told me to scream because it releases the pressure that builds up in you when you ride rides and it was also to make the ride more fun, but on the Spinner, I felt perfectly calm, maybe because I did not look anywhere else other than the guys head in front of me.

After the Spinner, we took the Super Toboggan. I was short but funny, the toboggan ride was bumpy, so when I went "Whee~" it came out "Whee-e-e-e-e-e...". After the Super Toboggan, we rode the Space Shot. I challenged myself to ride it and it turned out to be fun! But now, I'm afraid to take the elevator. After Space Shot, my mom took us to the Corkscrew. This was my very first roller coaster in my whole life and I took the front seat. It was crazy and fun and now, I'm afraid to take the escalator. We wanted to ride the Flying Coaster but because we had to pay for it, my sisters did not want to ride it and my mom agreed. So we skipped to the Pirate Ship. It was like a big swing, you can really fall off the darn boat! I almost slipped out of the bars that holds the people riding it!

I decided to take one last ride and we rode the Rolling Thunder Mine Train. It started to rain while we were on the ride so after that, we went for an early dinner at Kenny Roger's Roasters in the Indoor theme park. That was my first time eating at Kenny Roger's. After dinner, we went back to the outdoor park and my mom with my youngest sister went to ride on the Cyclone, Malaysia's first roller coaster. While they lined up for the ride, me and my younger sister waited beside the photo booth that takes your picture and hopes that you'll buy it. Oh and did I mention, I look damn ugly in those pictures. Later, all I did was wait for my family to finish their rides, they went to the Sungai Rejang Flume Ride, Flying Dragon and the Pirate Train. Time flew as I waited for my mom and sisters at the Sungai Rejang Flume Ride because there was a long queue. After that, we went to meet with my dad and went home. The moth was still on our car wind screen. When we got back to KL, we had supper at our favorite dim sum place (I dunno the shops name...) and went home.

My dumb sister waisted the camera batteries so there were no pictures of us on any of the rides so when we got home, I took a picture of the ticket that we wore on our wrist as proof.

2 day trip to Genting - Day 1

Recently I went on a holiday trip to Genting with my family (duh~) and my sister's godmother along with some friends to watch The Magic Mirror: The Musical.

My family and I arrived late at Chin Swee Caves Temple, the place where we were gonna stay for the night. It's really cool to know that there is a temple that looks like a hotel! There were a lot of interesting things to see at the temple but we had to catch the bus to Genting to watch the musical.

The misty view from Chin Swee Caves Temple.

There was mist in the evening but later at night we could see the statue of Buddha over looking the temple and it's attractions.

Before the musical started.

The golden ticket! Woot! Woot! Lol.

I'm not cam-whore-ing, just remembering how weird I look at Genting.

The night view of Genting from Chin Swee Caves Temple.

Baldness!!

I cut my hair for the Triplex camp this year. Mr. Colin asked me if I was gonna shave my hair because it is sort of like a "tradition" to shave our hair for Triplex just for the fun of it. And so...

tada!! A bald head! Lol.

Note: This photo was taken 5 days after I cut my hair because my irritating sister deleted the photo I took earlier.

Scouts Birthday Dinner!!

Whoot! Whoot!

When we hear the word "scouts", usualy people get, "work", "marching", "camp", "activities", and it goes on and on relating to work and sort. But this time, it's a birthday dinner for three scouts, Jarrel, Girishankar and Mr. Billy~!

We had dinner at a restaurant called .99 in TTDI. There, William, Kelvin, KY, Jerry, Mr. Ewing, Mr. Kentrick and I waited for the birthday boys to come with our Surprise Team from KFC. We talked about all kinds of funny stuff about the scouts around us and watched the idiot box. (Too bad, no sound.)

After some time, they finally arrived and we shouted SURPRISE!!! like all surprise birthday parties do. The staff at the restaurant were really helpful as they did our favors without hesitation. While we were eating our food, a family from another table also had a birthday dinner and the father of the birthday kid gave us some of his cake, how nice!

After dinner, Mr. Colin bought us durian cake as the birthday cake from Secret Recipe. After cake, we had some more talking. I was wearing a shirt with tie and jeans that night and Mr. Colin teased me. Hahaha. Mr. Jeremy joked with me, he told me, "I like guys with ties." and then Kaili pulled my tie, brought her face close to mine with a kind of look and said, "I like ties with guys." I got kinda scared because Kaili looked kinda horny. Lol.

After the party we all went home.

I still can't get over the joke of Mr. Billy and Ms. Yong LM about their future child, Billy Lee Li Li. Hahahaha!! XD

Hangin' Out?

I hanged out with Yubs and Xin a few days ago (forgot when... my memory sucks...). It's my first time with Xin and it kinda went ok except that Tesco-Ikano-The Curve-Ikea-Cineleasure was kinda boring... One Utama would have been better. XD

We met up at Borders, as usual, I wore my Hang Ten T-shirt, this time brown and, SURPRISE! Yubs wore a Hang Ten T-shirt as well! (after complaining about me wearing it for like 2 years?) This time I wore jeans and shoes instead of my usual 3/4 pants and sandals.

We walked slowly to Cineleasure as we talked. I was not used to it as I ZOOM!! as I move from place to place in those malls. (I can go from Tesco to Cineleasure in less than a minute while my sister takes 5 minutes or more if she does not look at anything which she won't normally do.) We had talked about going to Tony Romas for lunch but it was darn expensive, so we went to Sun Cafe, an otaku hangout that I recommended. It was playing a One Piece episode on the display TV but I did not really care because I only watched the anime until episode 19. Xin called the place a anime nerd restaurent which kinda hurt me because I'm a so called "anime nerd" (otaku) but I did not mind. (I always do...)

After lunch, we headed to the cinema complex and bought our tickets for Madagascar 2: Escape to Africa. I thought I saw my friend Min who I did not meet for a long time but I could not tell if it was her or not because according to Kaili, Min changed a lot since primary school and I did not have my glasses with me. Haha.

We bought popcorn and went for our movie. The movie was kinda hilarious and touching at the same time. The thing I did not like was that squirrel guy and the biting shark and also King Julien. (I hate that guy! He is plain stupid!) It's the second time I failed to finish my two large bags of popcorn, maybe because I had stomach-ache.

After the movie, Xin started taking pictures and we sort of became cam-whores. Hahaha! We went to Popular to check out some stuff and then we went to Pet Safari, I bought a hamster ball thingy for my sister's hamsters.

Yubs had to go home first so Xin and I went to play pool. The match ended 1-1 but I finished my game beautifully by hitting four balls continuously because I did not want to lose another round. Lol.

After Xin went home, I went back to Popular and bought an anime DVD titled Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu. Then my parents came and we had dinner at Fireman. Then we went home. End.

Yubs and I in Hang Ten T-shirts! Whoot! XD

Xin pretending to sleep on the couch. Lol.

Playing pool with snooker balls with Xin. My shots are pretty accurate~!

The three of us. (From left to right, Xin, me, Yubs) I look damn stupid... =_="

My JMC '08 Update (and a bit off topic...)

Hello dudez (Sean style),

It was a few months ago already that I joined an amazing event which is a "once-in-a-life-time" thing to me, and that is the JMC 2008 event! JMC stands for Junior Manga Challenge and it was sort of my gate way to the world of mangaka or doujinshi as I want to be either one in the future.

I guess I was lucky enough to be one of the 100 people who get to register for free. My dad panicked when he found out I registered for free because he sent to RM10 registration fee to the company.

Haha, I was excited in the beginning. Long before I found out about this event, I had my doujin story in my head for months! And when it came to drawing it, uh-oh, it's too complicated...

My doujin is a Bleach doujin,titled Bleach: Infinity, is about a shinigami (death god) who suddenly appears in Karakura Town and Soul Socity about a year after the great war between Soul Socity and Hueco Mundo. This shinigami's reiatsu (spiritual energy) is familiar to most shinigami but they don't recall him until he broke a memory seal he placed on all the shinigami's before he left the world to travel to another. This character's name is Desuka Mashita (出州蘭 茉只多) which is the captain of the Infinity division, an acting backup division for the Gotei 13, but they are in charge of "taking care" of a group called Agente which consists of stronger Hollows and some rebellious shinigami.

I actualy wanted to make a new blog about my doujin but I don't have a scanner to scan my pictures and I thought what's so good about it if there was no pictures?

Oh well, back to the topic, it took me a few months to draw my manga as I took a really long break for 2 months and now I only have 5 pages!! Eeek!!

As I am drawing my manga, I'm also still making more and more characters for this story (I have a total of 45 shinigami's in the Infinity division... *swt...) and I redesigned the Inifinity division HQ and moved it's sitting place from "some where in Rukongai" to "a dimensional pocket space in Runkongai".

So far, what I have been doing most is making up characters, I have so many, I can make another manga. That's all for the day. Cheers.

-Max (or Mashita. Haha.)

Randoming~

Every single human on Earth would always suffer from a certain kind of syndrome that not a single human won't suffer. It is called Randomness Syndrome, and "Randomness" stands for,

Radioactive
Alien
Nutrients
Dominate
Our
Minds
N'
Eventually
Stimulates
Something

And when you suffer from Randomness Syndrome, you turn cool, and "Cool" stands for,

Crazy
Odd and
Obviously
Lame

And when you are cool, you also suffer from Special Sickness, and "Special" stands for,

Spontanious
Purging
Ends
Circulation
In
Asses and
Livers

And when you suffer from Strange Sickness, you get Weird Virus, and "Weird" stands for,

We
End up becoming an
Idiotic
Retarded
Dumbass

がんばって ください~!!

オハ-ラッキ~!

Here's wishing all PMR and SPM examinees a very good luck to all of you!!

Same goes to others who are having their finals.

バイ-二~!

Back To School Blues

After that long winding week,
the holidays have come to it's mountain peak.
All feel restless, all feel weak,
probably because they did not take a long night's sleep.

Enter school, fresh and new,
friends here and there, some talked about games, Tr-tr-tr-triple Kill!!
Enter class, not so new,
dust everywhere, so disgusting, E-e-e-eww!!

Teach' came in, diagnostic test at hand,
start the test, no time to spend!
One by one, homework walked in looking so grand,
Nooo I don't want, I melt like sand...

Fused together words, gibberish?
Aiwanagohoumraitnow, did you catch the fish?
She did not come to school today, not like what I had wish.
Feeling kinda sad, I cheered myself up with a vegetarian dish.

After school so tired, I stood under the tree,
talking to the girl, who likes to disturb me.
Discussion about Triplex, something we did not disagree,
I suddenly felt that coming back to school is not bad after all, with a glee.

OMG!! OF ALL THE HORRORS!! THIS?!

Recently, I just found out that my friend, Timothy had created a new blog. I was afraid it was going to be another boring and un-understandable blog but it was far more worse than I thought.

It was http://www.bronzetim.blogspot .com (do not enter unless you want to suffer from outrageous head blowing experience) and it's in my Links To Another Dimension section labeled as "Timothy A.N.'s second horrible blog".

I had known Timothy for 3 years now and I still can't get a word out of him. He speaks so randomly weird and strange that you only can catch about 1 or 2 sentences only. We also cannot understand him in our scout forum, it's so weird, I think no one can understand it!

Here's an example,

The tread topic is My favorite Camping activity.
In the previous post, Maverick said that we should do dancing during camps because during our Tenderfoot Camp, they only sang songs in the middle of the night with no one listening to them. Timothy replies,

Re: My favourite Camping activity
« Reply #54 on Jul 4, 2008, 8:24pm »
"Well if you say so but im not joining in the dancing part but i will do the part of the crappy storyteller"

Re: My favourite Camping activity
« Reply #55 on Jul 5, 2008, 6:58pm »
"Well I mean i will be the old man who gets kicked left and right by the bad guys but in the end wins the fight or dies telling a story or the "truth""


How on Earth does the second reply relate to the what ever he said previously?! It does not make any sense! There are more than a hundred more of those kind of posts in our troop forum and they can be so random, from, "the chalky rainbow is some how going to help us in this" in a news thread, and "u can use the Long Johns happy feet to fly over the moon" in a fire-making thread. And when we ask, he replies, "I trying to master the ways of speach the old people speak." (At least we understood that!) What kind of rubbish is that?! I can understand what the people talked about in those old black & white TV shows and movies, but I don't understand him! He is making up his own language, not old man talk!

So, when Timothy had one blog only, it was enough of a nightmare, but now, a second one appears, and it's a story! A boring long random story! I read just one sentence, I feel sick! It's exactly the same as listening to him talk about what ever he is talking about! I totaly don't understand what he is trying to express in that story, it's about war, and just like his nicknames, like Scarred Barred, Deadly Pork, Akasia, Little Puddles, Starusta and many more, he has weird names like Captain Tin Ton!

That's all I have to say, Timothy is a person who no one can completely understand. If he was not so errogent and stubborn, he could speak normal english and prevent us from getting headaches!

THE END!!!

NOGAHK POALABLU HEEHEE BLAH!!! (Timothy version)

How did I get into the Japanese world or rather how did Anime get into my life and a little about my computer life

How did it start? How and when did I start watching anime? How did I get addicted?

Haha, it's pretty short at the beginning, but then it becomes long in the middle.

I don't remember when did I start watching anime but what I do know is that I was not so into it because the anime my local television aired on TV was dubbed into Malay. I watched Sailor Moon, Dragon Ball, Doraemon, Crayon Shin-chan, the old type of anime, basically. Then there was also Pokemon in English and Digimon in Malay. I was just like, "Oh, it's just a common TV show." I often see new animes back then coming out on TV like Cardcaptor Sakura, Bleach, Fullmetal Alchemist, etc.. But then, when I turned 14, the world of anime came to me, and I ran into it's light.

It all started last year when a friend of mine, who I call, Vegi, transferred out of my school asked if I want to watch this new anime, one day when I went to visit him at his house. The anime was the now famous, Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle. I actually did not want it but I took it anyway because I did not want to upset a friend who I won't see for a long time. I had no homework, so when I got home, after my shower, I watched the DVD Vegi lend to me. For the first episode, I was not entertained, but when I got to the next, I was getting interested. I watched the show the whole afternoon till evening that I forgot to cook dinner. My mom scolded me but she did the cooking, so went back to watching the show. I finished the whole season in 2 days and returned the DVD a few days later because Vegi was not home that few times. When I returned the DVD, Vegi lend me the second season of Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle. But my DVD player wont play it because the second season's disks was meant for computers and my computer was totally busted. I disappointingly returned the disks.

After a few weeks later, my cousin who's studying in Australia phoned me and told me that he bought me a new computer for use because before he left, he helped to fix and upgrade my old computer. I was high in cloud nine! I was like flying over the rainbow and jumping into a pit of gold. I was excited and could not wait for the computer to arrive.

After a month, the computer reached my doorstep (my dad actually picked it up from some place where large mail is received). I set up the computer and got it starting. After all the intro things and the registration confirmations, I got in. Yippy!

I went back to Vegi's house to borrow the disks and I brought it home to watch, and in that whole afternoon, I finished half the season. I started feeling excitement in the show and notice how it is similar to CSI and the cartoons I watched back then. After finishing the whole season the next day, I downloaded the episodes into the computer and returned the disks, this way, I can watch the anime over and over again. Unfortunately, I can't download the first season because of some protection programme. Through Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle I started learning the Japanese language and started singing Japanese songs. I did not have the Internet connection back then so I was still watching Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle season 2 over and over again. I also bought the soundtracks to listen to the songs.

A few months later, my parents got me the Internet connection. I was a bloody shit noob so I only got Internet help from my friend Joshua. He told me about Wikipedia, some Bionicle sites, YouTube and how to use MSN. I slowly learned my way through and found more animes from Wikipedia. I wanted to find more animes and watch them in Japanese but YouTube mostly had them in English dubs, so I searched and searched until I found, Crunchyroll and later on, Megavideo.

Usually I hang out in Wikipedia and look at Pokemon, the new ones that appears in Pokemon: Diamond and Pearl were the ones that amazed me the most because it was not announced in Malaysia yet. Then I went into looking for anime in Crunchyroll, the second anime I watched was Bamboo Blade. I saw an article in the papers about it being released just recently (at that time) and I watched it with joy and I was interested in kendo. I learned a few basic moves but of course, without a proper trainer and gear, I suck. Then, Eyeshield 21 caught my eye. I became interested in American football (I started playing this year because my friend had a ball). Through the "What Others Liked" section next to the playing screen in Crunchyroll, I watched another famous favorite, Yakitate!! Japan. I was glad I found this anime because I liked bread and did not know about all the different types of bread other than the normal dinner bread, wholemeal bread, French bread, sausage buns, pita, and coffee bread or what we call Mexican bun.

Soon, I watched more and more animes, I have a whole list of animes I finished and animes in my "To Watch" list. A few of those I have finished are, Hand Maid May, Otome wa Boku ni Koishiteru, Tonagura, Chobits, Nagasarete Airantou, Lucky Star, Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu, Amaenaideyo!!, Bokusastu Tenshi Dokuro-chan, Futakoi, Happy Seven, and more. Currently I'm watching a new anime that just got released, Strike Witches, and also Bleach, Eyeshield 21 and Animal Yokocho.
There are a few animes I "abandon" because,
1) Boring (Ginban Kaleidoscope)
2) Too long, a scene lasts a few episodes (Naruto, Naruto Shippuden)
3) Pointless-like (Demashita! Powerpuff Girls Z)
4) Too many episodes, so I finish the short ones first (One Piece, Digimon, Pokemon)
5) Watch this some other time... (Kashimashi: Girl Meets Girl)
6) Lost the link to the anime because Crunchyroll does not have it (Yamato Nadeshiko Shichi Henge)

I found Gendou this year and downloaded a bunch of songs I heard from the animes I've watched (goodbye to buying soundtracks~) and heard (my sister also picked up the anime fever and she watches some animes I don't watch). I have also got into the world of JDrama, I've watched Nodame Cantabile and Proposal Daisakusen.

So, now that Japanese had invaded my life, I started learning more and more about the Japanese language. Now I'm even included mangas and now working on a doujinshi or fanga or fan art of Bleach, finding that Tite Kubo had an excellent idea and I like it.

With a few friends who also love animes and mangas, I belive I am one step closer to going to Japan.

The Horrible Chore

It was horrible, to do that job.
The sour, smelly smoke, filled my lungs.
I felt like ailing, I felt like barfing.
I ran out of the room.

The horrible chore, no one wants to do.
The horrible chore, no one hopes to do.
The horrible chore, no one willing to do.
The horrible chore, washing the toilet.

Pinoeering Course: Petaling District 2008

What do you get when you cross between a pioneering project, a teaching course and more than 10 scout troops?





PIONEERING COURSE!!! WOOO-HOOO!!!




This is Malaysia's very first pioneering course and it happened here, in SMKBU(3)! Schools fromall over the Petaling district were invited to this amazing event of the month! (Why month?Malaysia Jamboree is the one that is the most amazing event of the month. lol)

Date: 22nd to 24th August 2008
Venue: SMK Bandar Utama Damansara 3, Petaling Jaya

Schools participated, (those that have sent representatives)
-SMK Damasara Jaya (DJ)
-SMK Tropicana
-SMK Damansara Utama (DU)
-SMK Bandar Utama Damansara 2 (BU2)
-SMK Bandar Utama Damansara 3 (BU3)
-SMK Bandar Sri Damansara 2 (BSD2)
-SMK Bandar Utama Damansara 4 (BU4)
-SMK Seafield
-SMK(L) Bukit Bintang (BB)
and many more! (I guess... Hee-hee)

Wait! Don't forget about the PKKs! (Pengakap Kanak-kanak)
-SK...
Okay... I dunno the primary schools that were there but let's give them a big hand!

Clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap....

Day 1

I was the last in my troop to get to school. (Whoops...) There was a total of 6 people from my school and all of us were seniors. I was disappointed because no juniors or semi-seniors came. We had to register ourselves in troops, one by one. After all the registration and stuff, Mr. Colin divided us into patrols. There were 3 senior patrols and 5 junior patrols. I was separated from my buddies and got stuck with horrible emo CK. I thought I was gonna die.

When I first looked at my patrol, I thought, "Oh, maybe there are some talented people here, everybody looks promising." We got to know each other, and we started with electing our patrol leader, assistant patrol leader and quarter masters. Thanks to CK, I became patrol leader, I thought I was really gonna die. Then my assistant was Leonard from BB, QM for food was Jay from BDU2 and QM for items was CK.

Oh well, next with the patrol name. We had to come up with a patrol name related to "pioneering" and it must be in Malay. So our first choice was Bakau Extreme. Haha, Mr. Colin came up with that at first. Then we had Ular Rafia. We chose Ular Rafia but "rafia" was taken. I then came up with Naga Takal because my troop's mascot is a dragon. (Eh-hek.) We got that instaid. Woopee~

After the opening ceremony, the PL's meet up with Mr. Ekbert and the others go and set up the tent, keep the bags and stuff. In the meeting, Mr. Ekbert gave us some tips, and orders. The seniors had to build a stilt tower while the juniors build up their camp area, putting up gadgets their level. Mr. Ekbert also gave us the course booklets, it was big, cool and had a lot of cool pictures of gadgets we should build and also knots that we should know, along with a step by step guide on how to make them.

My patrol was a mess. Everybody was not in one place like they should be. I had a tough time getting them together especially CK who runs everywhere with no reason what so ever.

I don't remember what happened between here...

We picked our bamboos and bought our gloves (for those who don't have) and started out stilt tower. I did not notice this until the next day, but my patrol was the noisiest patrol among the 3. We talked and talked, making us getting to know each other faster than the other patrols. (Wow.) My patrol was I think, one of a kind, it was like a box of chocolates with many different flavours!

First of all, me, I am the only person in the patrol who had most experience with Mr. Colin and the, what I call, 3 troop-bond-thing most (DJ, Tropicana, BU3). Leonard is a rash person who rushes things and smiles a lot. He does not really listens to me. CK, oh, simple, emo, hyper, hardworking (okay...) and Naruto-like (air head). KS is smiley, tall and smart (I guess...). He loves to dig and in his bag, majority are food. I think we did the right thing and made him QMM. Jay is tall, pretty lonely, and I think there is one thing in his mind when we are in the patrol, "work". I notice that he talks a lot only when we are going to sleep or taking a break. He talks to me a lot. PH is well, short? Talkative? Random? and I have to admit, she is really Kelly-like (Kelly is a super short girl who some people thinks of her as bitchy.). XF is the normal one in my patrol, (unless she had something up her sleeve which she did not show.) but she is also something different from other girls, she does not mind telling others her weight and is pretty strong (I think... Haha, I always, "I think.") JY is a quiet boy who came from the same troop as XF, he mostly talks to XF only maybe because he is shy? Who knows. Elfred is a funny boy. We nicknamed him the monk because he shaved his hair before the camp. Funny though, he likes to speak Malay despite the fact that he is Chinese like the rest of us.


Mr. Ekbert came and did some rounds to look at our progress. He showed us how to do the Japanese square lashing which is faster and tighter than the normal square lashing. After he left, we continued but unfortunately, it rained. (By the way, it rained a few days before the course at least once everyday.) We continued to build our stilt tower under the rain. We used our fly sheet, as a big shade but it did not really work. Only two of us had raincoats so the raincoats were given to the girls and us boys were "sacrificed" under the rain. Mr. Dawson called the PL's and gave some orders and told us if we want to stop, we can take shelter and a break at the school canteen. I told Mr. Dawson that my patrol had nothing to shed us from the rain, so Miss Melody gave me some clean, new rubbish bags to make our "raincoats". We continued until the sky turned dark and the rain stopped, I was shivering in cold and was trying to keep warm. Later after we finished, we went to have dinner.

Tonight's dinner is....

Rice with half cooked veg and chicken curry. We gobbled up the food and I don't remember what happened here. Hee-hee. For the rest of the night, I remember we showered and went to sleep.
We slept in the school hall because our tents were wet, inside and out.


Day 2


When I woke up,


Brrrrrrrrrrrrr.......


It was cold! Eeek!
We all woke up and went for morning exercise. After that, we had breakfast and then PL's meeting. This time, Mr. Ngoo was here. He discussed with us on what to build that day. After a long time, Mr. Ngoo told us to build a trestle tower. He gave us permission to use bakau because we ran out of bamboo. I'll skip the taking the bakau out part because it's basically just taking bakau out of the scout den. Leonard planned everything on the trestle tower and we made our measurements on the tower. So along with the tower we go. Basically I was just supervising the patrol because of the rain, I had a headache and I felt slack. When lunch time was here, we did not leave the place at all, so did the other senior patrols! We all had the same thinking, "Finish this up before it rains again.". Us senior PL's told Mr. Dawson about it and we got permission to continue. Well, food went fast and we seniors had no food. Mr. Dawson went out and bought chicken rice for us and I only ate at 1400 hours with Jay because we had another meeting with Mr. Colin about our up coming hike. When Jay and I left the patrol for the meeting, the other then only had lunch. Under the hot blazing Sun!


During our meeting, Mr. Colin told confirmed with us what to bring and the information related. After that, we dissmissed and we left for our places. After a few minutes, the time that everybody had not wished for came, rain! Argh! I had it, I took shelter in our tents along with Elfred, JY, Jay and KS. Then, CK gave me his raincoat and I ran out for Miss LM called for the PL's. It was funny when I ran out, because I ran in the wrong direction away from the school buildings towards our gadget. When we got there, Miss LM told us to hurry up with our gadget and come in but the God was not fair to us, He made lightning and all of us had to rush into the school compound. I almost got sweeped off my feet because the wind was so strong it reaped CK's raincoat almost in half!


Later when everybody got in, Mr. Colin told us to get dry and we went to do our patrol meetings for MK that night. The senior patrol's were combined together to do our sketch, about a boy who kicks cats and God tells him about the bad luck he will get if he continues to do so. It was hilarious! William slipped and fell twice when he was explaining his idea. He still joked that a stuntman was supposed to take his place while some people carry him away. After the rain stopped, it was late already. Mr. Ekbert told us to take a shower to prevent from catching a cold. I don't remember what happend but, we got ready for dinner and the seniors had a meeting with Mr. Ekbert before our dinner.

After dinner, we had our MK, after Mr. Ekbert passed Mr. Dawson this really cool vest filled with badges, the MK started. We had our cheers and then the sketches begun.

.... (Bla bla bla) ... (Jo~king lar~)

The PKK's did a good job, for their standard. It was short, not so funny, but still, they are kids, so it is something big to them. The juniors were also not bad, after all, they are around our standard. Not forgeting that the scouts from DJ and Tropicana are excelent. We presented our funny sketch and was pleased with it (even though there was some parts that we failed to perform). Some rovers also did some performences, Mr. Marwan and Mr. Jaffrin pulled up a song and guitar performence and everybody was waving and singing. We sure did had fun.

After the MK, it was sleep time. KS cooked instant noodles for us and we shared it among ourselves (boys only, the girls took their time in the toilet.). After a short chat, we slept at the school coridores becasue our tents were flooded with rain water. Sigh...

Day 3

Day 3 is the last day for this course. After we woke up, we did an extremely stupid and dumb morning exercise. We spent all night drying our shoes, and on that morning, made it wet again because one of the scouters pulled us into the wet, ocean-like school field! Muddy too!

After that, we had breakfast. Mr. Dawson told the PL's to get our things ready and be in full scout uniform for gadget inspection. After the inspection, it was time to say goodbye...

We had a closing ceremony and the camp was over. Luckly, we gave each others contacts on the second night. Tee-hee.

THE END~



NOT! HAHAHA!!

The seniors had to stay back to help clean up the school. After a few hours of picking up rubbish left behind by the juniors and us. We went home one by one.

Now this is really, THE END.

Save the World

Silence, was the word,
no one dared to speak.
Chirp, went a bird,
and a mouse went squeak.

This world is balanced,
by the natures of life,
But man made it unbalanced,
by starting with a knife.

Pollution kills our Earth,
does man really care?
I see people destroying the Earth,
throwing garbage everywhere.

Blue, green and brown,
you see the bins here and there.
Come, go, you frown,
they put the wrong things there.

Stop, think, not stop and stare.
What will happen to this world some of us don't care?
Recycle, reuse, and don't forget, repair.
If we do so, we can still save this world, please don't don't care.

A wind blew, so cool.

The wind blew, so cool,
The weathermen relaxed, at last.
The farmer went and washed his bull,
It worked so hard, it's shower, was like a blast.

A night's chill, so cool,
The animals have gone to bed, at last.
The old man, went for a swim in the pool,
His wife sat quietly, remembering of the happy past.

The wind blew, so cool,
You know, you want to relax too.

Sakura Petals of a Modern Hanami

Bloom went the sakura flowers,
A new spring has come, no?
Girls in yutakas, boys too?! Uso!
People having picnics under the beautiful scenery,
Ahh~ What a feeling.
The happiness does not end,
The party will not stop,
The food keeps comming,
The petals keep falling.
This, is, happiness.

Life

One, I saw that silver bullet fly out of that black coloured gun.
Two, I seem not to know what is happening or who ever are you.
Three, I climbed up the mountain just to reach to an empty bare tree.
Four, I wathced her ran away from me to that white door.
Five, I ran as the bees flew out of their broken bee hive.
Six, I accidentaly tripped over my friends MagicMix.
Seven, I looked up to the sky and saw clouds that looked like heaven.
Eight, I stand here, looking over the grave of Alexander the Great.
Nine, I lie there in the hospital because I broke my spine.
Ten, I looked at the possibilities of life, now, this is the end.

The future is unpredictable. Good things may happen, so do the bad. Please do and always treasure and enjoy life.

-Max

ODYSSEY AEON 2008

19th July 2008, is a special day for the 9th Petaling scout troop for that day is their 50th Campfire Anniversary Celebration day. 9th Petaling is the S.M.J.K. Catholic High School's scout troop and they invited around 20 different troops to their campfire anniversary, ranging from Selangor to Kuala Lumpur to Melaka and surprisingly Singapore! On that day, was a special day not just for the 9th Petaling scouts and Catholic High, it is also a special day for us scouts who attended the campfire as well.



Our troop, 157th Petaling of S.M.K. Bandar Utama (3) was very pitiful as our troop has only 3 representatives, CK, YF and me. We got there at the same time because I picked CK and YF up from their homes. When we got there, we saw lots of scouts walking everywhere! Even from some distance from the school, there were scouts who were walking in and out of restaurants.



WOW!!!



My dad dropped us near the entrance to the school and the three of us waited under the shed along with some other scouts from other schools. The first person I recognised was CY who immediately waved to me when we saw each other. We saw girl guides and scouts who dress differently from the "normal" we know.



(Example: The girl scouts from troop 80 tuck in their uniforms while the "normal" to us don't. [Sorry~ I'm being troop-ist!])



We talked as we waited and looked at the different scouts around. We also saw a Singapore scout troop. They wore white uniforms that looked like the ones the sea scouts wear.



After a looooong time...



More scouts gathered, even the road was blocked! Cars were hooting and scouts, rangers and guides were coming from all directions as if some God called for the animals around the world to gather. I heard from someone from troop 10, who was standing near us (and showing off too!) that the entrance fee was8 bucks! OMG!!! I had 5, YF had 2 and CK had none! I called Mr. D to tell him the bad news and he told us to look for Mr. C who can help. So I looked around but all I can see are scouts, scouts and scouts. No sign of Mr. C, maybe he got blended into the colour of the scout uniforms. Suddenly, he poped out of no where and said, "You guys got no money for the fee? Ok, (he said to me) go look for WL, and bring him here." "Yes sir. " was what I replied. I ran off, looking for WL, but the first thing that came to my mind was, "Look for B, look for B, look for the black guy, look for the black guy, he'll be definitely with WL." And whoosh! I saw B! And behind B walking was, WL! Oh yes! I rock! Not. So I brought them to Mr. C who was still with YF and CK. Mr. C asked us to join together scenes there are only three of us from 157 only and Mr. D asked for Mr. C's help. So... Okay! 157 joins together with 147! Wow!



So we stuck together. Other 147th Petaling scouts started arriving and I see more familiar faces, which makes me happy. Not to mention 37th Petaling was next to us. (Woo-hoo!!) We got in through this really cool and neat entrance which ends with a 88 degree slide. Some of us burned our elbows, I burnt my elbow... When we got in, we got this pass thingy and a campfire booklet. (So this is what that costs 8 bucks! KL told me about it and I told him I was thinking about it also.) We sat down in our seats and the first thing CK and I wad looking for is the toilet! Aaaahhh!!! We looked around and around but no sign of toilet. CK saw a toilet located on the top most floor of the school building and I said "No way...." Scouts started to get up and get each others contacts via the campfire booklet. I also started getting some, while looking for the toilet... Then I realised something. Holly Molly. I could have just asked the 9th Petaling scouts for directions! Wasn't I blur or what!? I raced over to a scout I saw and asked for directions. He and his friend directed CK and me to the nearest toilet and both of us took off.



After our "heavenly" business, we got back and continue collecting contacts. I had a discussion with Mr. C and then I continued to collect contacts, because I'm a shy person, I did not collect so many, but of course, I did get my friends contacts because I already know them, just that I don't have their contact.



As the Sun set, the campfire starts. The MC, welcomed us, and there was a speech from the head teacher advisor. There was a souvenir giving and then the campfire lighting. The fire was huge! And we could feel the heat from it even from far! The campfire then continued with a lion dance performance by the school team. I have to say, it is a lot better than those we watch during Chinese New Year. The stunts were something out of a kung fu movie and the crowd was wild!

After the lion dance performance, there was a slide show about the theme, ODYSSEY AEON 2008. The slide show was about a father and a son, and the difference between the past and the future. On the first part of the slide show, a son and his father went to the park together and the boy played with the slides. He then tried to ride his bike but he fell down, the father rushed over to his side and picked him up and cleaned his bruises. Then they went home together with the boy asking his father (In text because it was a silent slide show.), "Dad, why do people suffer?" and his father replied, "Son, you will find that out in the future.". In the next slide, the son is now older, he entered the house and his father called for him. He argued with his father and left him. His father shouted at him and coughed blood. Later, the son went out and was squatting in an alley feeling grief. His friend came up to him and offered him cigarettes but he rejected, after some encouragement, the boy received the cigarettes and started smoking (its a fake.). They went out and they met with the rest of the gang. After some walking around, they met with another gang and they started fighting. The son ran away and checked his hand phone, after that, he ran away leaving his hand phone on the ground, the screen shows the message on the phone saying, "Your father is dying!". The son reaches home and rushes to his father's side. After some talking and some crying, the father dies. THE END.

After the slide show, the campfire continued with a performance by the school's cheer leading team. They are so much better than my school's cheer leading team. After the stunts and the hot chicks and guys, the campfire continued with a game or I'd rather call, a dance, the Night Walk. A lot of couples (boys and girls/girls and girls/guys and guys because some people are too shy to ask the opposite sex.) got up and joined the circle. Well, I stayed to take pictures. But of course, with so many people in the humongous circle, the dance was a total fail er and the MC had no choice but to call everyone back to their seats. I was laughing at them for the foolish act (so mean...).

Up next was something that I think was the BEST performance in the whole campfire, the 24 drums performance!! It was loud! It was exciting! There was also hard-to-do stunts and actions! I was amazed! But I was too blur to remember that I could have taken the whole show via video camera then taking stone still pictures.

After that, there was another foolish dance the MC came up with, the Chicken Dance. Again I stayed, and everyone had to leave after a while because there where too many "chickens".
Hahaha!!!
After the "chickens" went back to their seats, a performance by two singers, The Happy Two Friends (how lame! It's copy right!) They sang two songs and I was kinda glad it was over. After the Happy Two Friends were a group of boys playing acoustic songs. The first was Jenny by Click 5 and the other was something I never heard before but I find it nice but I did not catch the song title, all I got was, 3000. I enjoyed the second song and I tried to sing along.

Then, another slide show came in. This time, it's an introduction to the comity members in the 9th Petaling troop who helped out for this campfire. It was so hilarious I almost laughed my heart out! After the slide show, the next performance was not ready so the MC came up with another foolish game, Musical Chairs. MUSICAL CHAIRS!!!!???? Were they nuts?! It's so childish! Even a childish guy like me won't wanna play that game! But still, as the same as before, a lot of scouts dragged their chairs out to play the game and once again, another fail er. The MC decided to have not winner since the last few people were so aggressive fighting over the chair.

After the dumb game, we had our refreshments. At that time, we not just ate, we went around collecting contacts again. I managed to get nearly get the whole page but then the MC called us back to our seats. After the crowd settled down, a rock band came in. They played a song, I forgot what, and a lame and suckish tune with four words that are just so random (I only remember, "sexy", "lady" and "Ouu.."). Next was a performance by a couple playing the piano and a violin. It was kinda sleepy at the first song but a bit better at the second.

Then, there was a last performance by a group a "emo" guys in black clothes and white masks. In the beginning, it was good, because there was a mime performance, but then it sucked because they started dancing and there was a messed up problem in between. At the end, it was over all boring.

With just a final speech and a moment of silence, the campfire ended.

I was freaking tired and I felt like sleeping. The fire was still burning though (Wow.). When my parents picked CK, YF and me up, we went for supper at Devi's Corner and we slowly dropped my friends home. I still did not sleep that morning because I stayed up to watch Paycheck until 2 a.m.

The next morning, I was damn tired and I almost fell asleep at tuition...

A poem to my irritating friend.

Smile, and they'll smile with you.
Cry, and they'll cry with you.
Laugh, and they'll laugh with you.
Enjoy, and they'll enjoy with you.

You smile but they don't smile to you.
You cry but they laugh at you.
You laugh but they frown at you.
You enjoy but they look away from you.

Why?
Because you are God damn emo.

You always run around and hit people you know.
You always pet girls on the head.
You always do stupid and dangerous things to get peoples attention.
You always get angry for just tiny reasons.

What the heck is your problem?!
You do all that for no reason at all!!

You want the world to rotate around you.
You want things to work out for you.
You want peoples attention.
You want everything.
But we don't want you in your stupid behavior.

Your attitude is irritating.
Your habits are irritating.
Your actions are irritating.
And your speech is also irritating.

You ask why others hate you.
You ask why we are sometimes rude to you.
You ask why everybody looks down on you.
You ask why sometimes we ignore you.

You are happy, when you hit us.
You are revengeful, when you hit you back.
You go jolly, when we do what you want.
You go crazy, when we don't like what you like.

If you continue like this,
I have only one thing to say,
You will have no future,
You will have no friend.

But some of us will stay by your side,
Because we are one thing to you,
A friend.

We tolerate your behavior.
We tolerate your strength.
We tolerate your attitude.
We tolerate your lies.

We are...

(This irritating friend of mine might most probably get mad and emo when reading this because he is too shallow and not open. -Max)

Something You Don't Need.

Hate is something you don't need,
when you know the true meaning of life.
Hope is something you don't need,
when you already know the future.
Lies are something you don't need,
when you are pure in mind and soul.
Control is something you don't need,
when that person is always irritating you.

Friendship is something you don't need,
when you think you are the best.
Wealth is something you don't need,
when you have succeeded everything in life.
Health is something you don't need,
when you keep drinking Coke everyday.
Kindness is something you don't need,
when you eat and drink endangered animals.

Trust is something you don't need,
when you keep lying to others.
Manners is something you don't need,
when you are facing someone younger and bitchy.
Respect is something you don't need,
when you don't even respect others.
Humanity is something you don't need,
when you lie, kill and scape goat others.

Dreams are something you don't need,
when you have no thoughts.
Intelligence is something you don't need,
when you use it wrongly.
Enlightenment is something you don't need,
when you continue to do bad things.
Love is something you don't need,
when you tend to kill others.

Hesitation is something you don't need,
when you want to commit suicide.
Emotions are something you don't need,
when you are about to be executed.
Choices are something you don't need,
when you want to live without working.
Life is something you don't need,
when you want to die.

Usaha Hike 2008 part 2

As I was saying, we continued the pace until we reached the park. Wooh. My first time here! And we are first! XD

Tsen Vei continued to lead us around the park and stopped to rest near the restroom, asking if anyone wants to go to the toilet. Abby and the other two continued to chat among theirselves. Haih~ And we don't see any rovers around...

Suddenly, Mr. Edwin (or Erwin or something else) came up to us and told us to go back to a pondok near the gate we came in through. OMG! =_= And Mr. Jeremy and Mr. Raymond was already at the pondok. Pheh, we got here earlier than the rovers...

After Mr. Raymon talked to the patrol, we (seniors) stayed to talk to him as Patrol Helang took off first. He asked us whether there was any problem with them and we just gave him some complains, "They did not cross the road the way they were told to.", "They keep bursting speed." and he also asked if they were slackish or excited. Oh well, they were half of each. =P

Ok, now of the sweets hunt! The seniors basicly don't know anything so we just blindly follow the patrol around the park. Marcus found one around the play ground and the patrol continued to walk around.

Few minutes later...

Still ahve not found the next sweet and the third patrol got here. Sheesh. We still walked and walked and still no sweet... -_-"

Then, we seniors decided to stay at one spot and wait. Haha! I was hungry so I took out my apple and gave a chomp. Yummy~ ^_^ I offered Abby, Su Mei and Jeanette some and we ate while we talked. Talked about what? Some random stuff I cannot enjoy because it was girly stuff, until the topic, of my big arms came in. Not again... -_- Abby told them about me before and after a scout camp, skinny to WHOA! I do not show off so I just kept quiet and let Abby exaggerate with her story. And because David was involved with me (Abby told them, David asked me to do push ups with him and when I went down, my vains poped out. -_-"), they started talking about David, well, the conversation shall be confidentual because it was not good... =p

Just like our predictions, Patrol Helang went a big round and came back to us with the intent to find the sweets and not look for us (How mean! XD). Then, the third patrol took off after finding all the sweets. OMG! We are the first to get here and the last to go! I got childish and walked under a small tunnel and I hit my head. (Ouchis) Mr. Raymond (who went one round around the route of our hike) pitied us and gave Tsen Vei a hint, and they ran! Like they found light to heaven or something. We just followed them and whateva, I'm tired of this. =P Ok, so Marcus found the sweet (again.) after looking at the wrong place and we left. FINALY!!!

We passed 1 Utama and oh, I hit my head against a road sign that was too low (I was looking at the ground, a habit, when everyone else ducked.). Ok, so we walk walk walk, bla bla bla and reached Taman Tun. Tsen Vei stopped at some shops to collect their stamps for the test while Haziq kept saying, "Oh look, Tsen Vei needs my help, I better go in and help him." (Translation: "I wanna go in there and enjoy AIRCOND!!! YEAH!") After that, we continued to walk to Kiara Park, our next destination. We manage to catch up with the other patrols and beat them (flat! whooh!).

---Skip the walking---

At Kiara Park, Tsen Vei lead us to the car park and rest for a while, our job as a senior had to go on, so we rushed the patrol and we continued to walk and walk. We soon saw the other 3 patrols and the rovers soon arived (they were late again...). As all the seniors rest, the rovers test the juniors, so at that time, we get to eat and enjoy! Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeee~~~

Ok, move on time. We walked out of Kiara Park. Su Mei and Jeanette went home leaving Abby and me to take care of Patrol Helang. On we walked, to the TTDI firestation. There, we took pictures and got the fire chef's stamp and we went on the hospital. When we got there, everyone got to enjoy aircond! Whua~~~ Then Haziq gave everyone sweets, I did not take any 'cos I did not feel like having any.

After the hospital, we continued to walk to Damansara Utama. There were two routes and Tsen Vei lead us towards the highway. Ok so walk walk walk. Later, when we finaly reached DU, we came to a crossroad. We looked at the end of the crossroad opposite to us and we can see the hospital at the far end.

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We took a big round just to find that we could have taken a much shorter route! Jeez! I was tired like a dog and I should be lying like a log! So we just continued our journy to 7-11. So when we got there, we saw no rovers. Mabye they are late again, we thought. So we got so stuff that we have to snap and was ready utill... "Are you sure?" Tsen Vei was not sertain. Haziq almost took the picture. So Tsen Vei did the smart thing and called Mr. Dawson. When he put down the phone, we found out that we were at the wrong 7-11. Oh well, walk again.

---------------------------So tired... Abby bought a Slurppie------------------------

At the other 7-11, we caught up with the other patrol, someone from there fell into a drain and hurt his leg. Mr. Dawson was "repairing" him with ice to cool the wound. Then, we continued waking again. This time to the nest stop, Center Point. We walked and walked and walked (again...) and we reached the highway. Tsen Vei wanted to go against the busy traffic but the other members hesitated. Now, I step out as a hero (lol), because it was time I had to give them hints. I said, "There is another way to get back to school other than this way, and it's safer, but which way you choose is up to you because you are the patrol leader and Abby and I are just the seniors to take care of you." Haziq argued with Tsen Vei saying that we should take the other route but he denied until he saw the road sign. So we took the safer route. When we got to Center Point, Tsen Vei read the instructions, they had to count the numbet of fishes in the pond and buy a useful item that cost less than 15 ringgit. As the patrol members go into the mall, Abby and me rest near the pond waiting for them.

After that, we met Mr. Raymond. He told us to go back to school and rest up.

WHOOOOOO - HOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SCHOOL! Here we come!

Pheh, I was so tired at that time I did not feel any emotions and I could not think straight, and I was thinking was, what I see, "Grass, grass, stone, grass, grass...". Abby told me, to stop thinking but I could not help it, it is a habit of mine to think at all times, especialy my Bleach doujin.

When we finaly reached school, I "crash landed" on the floor and felt lifeless. Oh well, the seniors sat together sharing experience, but I sat there and fell asleep. Later after waking up, (about 15 minutes later) we had out lunch and we continued to talk. After 1 hour, the last patrol still had not turn up. Heard they got lost. =P So Mr. Colin joked and talked to us. When the last patrol got here, we gave them encouragment and continued the day with instalments.

--------------Bla bla bla---------------

After istiadat, we all went home.

THE END

Usaha Hike 2008

Woo-hoo!!

This is 157th Petaling's first ever hike! Plus, we combined with 159th Petaling!

Date: 5th Jully
Time: 7.00 - 3.30

We got to school. Some people were late and Mr. Dawson was pissed.

Oh, let's just skip the begining!

Well, when we got into our groups and after the Istiadat, we had to waddle and quack before we reach the front gate of the school! OMG! I packed a whole load of food and carried a large bottle filled with water! I was tired by the time I reached the gate... So, as seniors, we had to take care of the juniors. Abigail and me joined up with Jeanette and Su Mei from 159 and took care of Patrol Helang, PL is Tsen Vei and we had semi-senior, Marcus to help. I was crying in my head because once again, I was surrounded by girls. Luckly Patrol Helang have boys over girls, not like my patrol...

The first oder was to walk to 1 Utama park and find sweets. Well, we seniors have to act dumb, so we just talked at the back of the line as we followed them. Man! I was carrying all that stuff with me, and Tsen Vei kept bursting and walking as if he was playing an American Football game!

To be continued...

死神 の 歌 (Shinigami no Uta ; A Death God's Poem)

I want to hear a voice in my head,
I want to call out it's name,
And leave this horrible world,
To the world of Death Gods.

Play a gamble of life and death,
And fight, to protect my life,
And also fight, to protect my pride.
I will kill them, to purify their soul and their heart.

To be a Death God, who leads and strides,
To be a Death God, who leaves and arrives,
To be a Death God is what I want to be,
For I have given up on reality.

I want to hear a voice, in my head.
Do I want, to hear a voice in my head?
I hear it,
A voice, in my head.

化形丸

Gotta' Catch 'em All Pokemon scout camp

The camp was held at SMK Tropikana on the 28-30th of March.

I got to the school at 2.32 after my school was over in my full scout uniform and when I got there, I did not see my patrol leader, Benjamin at the bus stop, so I decided to call him via handphone but then I remembered that I did not bring my handphone and so I ask 2 147 scouts sitting at the stop to help me call him out. As I waited, Kaili, my assistant patrol leader got here with the anyaman we need for the camp and some of her stuff on her maid's bike (I think it was her maid's). She laughed as she said hello to me and then Ben came out. He quickly took Kaili's stuff and Kaili went back home to change. I took my bags (bag, bottle, and 2 bags of leaves and twigs for fire) and went into the school with Ben and the kid I asked just now (named Brian) to the form 4's "campsite", the classrooms. My patrol's classroom was decorated with some leaves Ben "stole" from the school and tables along with chairs were arranged "nicely" to make it look like a room. Ben asked me to draw our created Pokemon for the camp on the blackboard while he goes out to look for more leaves. Our patrol is the grass-type patrol. After asking Ben, he and I were the only ones there at that time. Later, Kaili came back and more scouts came too. Mr. Colin was downstairs ordering things to be done by the urusetia who ran here and there busily arranging stuff.

Later at around 3.00, the form 4's have to go and start our pioneering. My partol had to do a draw bridge. After getting the stuff we need (bakau, rafia and hole digger), we started by tying square lashings for the bridge, quadripod lashing for the quadripod and dig the hole for the stick that holds the jube rope for later. I dug the hole half way when I came across a tree root! Argh! I did not care, I just "cut" away the root and continew digging when, ouch, I got a blister and it burst. So Ben took care of the hole and I help "Master" Ping Chien, Jeremy and Joycelyn tie the square lashings. Amanda the form 5 was near by doing backwoods under a tree. Mr. Colin then came over to check us out. He made fun of us and especialy Ping Chien and then went back to the Urusetia Room and set up his loud speaker for calling us and playing music to keep us semangated. He play Pokemon songs because, duh~ it's a Pokemon scout camp. Soon we put up the quadripod and, oh shit, it's not good.

Re-do!

Nooo~

So we redo our quadripod and finaly put it up. At that time it was already time for bathe and then rest but we waisted our time in redoing the quadripod and did not get to bathe, but luckly we still manage to have our dinner. Ping Chien and Derrick brought alot of corn flavoured bread from their schools sports day event and we had them for dinner. As we ate dinner, Kaili showed Ben and Derrick (and mabye someone else) how to make ketupat for our test at night.

We were called by Mr. Colin's whistel call and we "rushed" to him but we were slow because we had to make sure we took everything. Mr. Colin was angry and so we had to go back and forth 2 times to get there the way he wants us to do. Then he gave us our chicken and we took off to do our backwoods.

We went to the verry end next to the fence of the school and we started our backwoods. Kaili and me started doing our roti lilit, Ben started the fire, Derrick, Jeremy, Joycelyn and Ping Chien went to prepair other stuff (I only remember Derrick was incharge of the chicken). We did our chicken lazy style. We stuffed all the garlic we have up the chickens butt and put it in the fire when it wa done with the marinating and stuff. Our roti lilit was also ready, we did it real roti lilit and not biskut lilit like we always did. Kaili then did the rice and Joycelyn (I think) did the eggs and potatoes. While we waited for our food to cook, we had to send representitives to Mr. Colin to keep him updated.

When out food was done, we dug out our food and brought it back to the school's hall to present them to Mr. Colin and the rovers. Our great chicken fell onto the road when we were bringing it back. Derrick, Ben and I cound not help laughing because the way the chicken fell (twice!) and the garlic falling out of the butt was really funny. (Looked as if it was shitting garlic!) Mr. Colin laughed at my Roti Pokeball and thought it was that druckstick thingy monks use to hit their drum thingys.

Tock tock tock tock tock tock tock tock.......................

Our chicken was half cooked and our rice tasted like pulut. Mr. Colin failed (or passed? I'm not sure... He is pretty hard to understand when he jokes while he is being serius.) us. We ate some of our food and threw away the rest. (What a waste!!!) I cound'nt recall what happend that night but I remember sleeping in the classroom while Kaili "watched" over us while practicing on her ketupats.

Next day...

We woke up, LATE! Breakfast was 10 minutes ago and the other senior patrols have already continued with their pioneering. Omg. Omg. Omg. Ben rushed us and we quickly ate breakfast and headed to the feild to bulid our Biouvok (Not sure how to spell...). But we were all kinda slacky so our biovak was not done even by noon. We worked so slowly and we kept hidding from the great lasers from the Sun. Grand Master Ping Chien, who was also known as the "non-stop working" scout also was slacky. Mr. Colin questioned us and Grand Master stood up for us also so Mr. Colin did not punish us (Wow..). The pace conitinued until evening. We had to help out with the Malam Kebudayaan. I don't remember what happend, but I'm sure we did our Power Rangers mix Indian dance and a sketch about a blur gangster (Derrick) and his hentchman (Jeremy) bullying a Pokemon (Kaili) and it's short trainer (me) and at the end, the Pokemon did a "super attack" and turned the blur gangster into an Indian (Ben). Haha! It was sucsessful and funny at the same time. I cound not help smilling at that time.

After MK, we talked to our guests from 159th Petaling (SMKBUD2) and 37th Petaling (SMKDJ). Ken, Jie Lin and Kun Yi talked to us about the sketch and happening events. After that, biovok!

This time we were kinda active. So we quickly build up our biovak but we ran out of time and had to hit the sack. Before that, we had marching and ketupat test.

The next morning, after breakfast, we continued our biovark after appogizing to Mr. Colin. We finished in time and head on to Monkey Bridge! We finished fast because it was kinda easy.

I can't recall much of the camp but it was a great experince! I'm really looking forward to another camp!

From left to right, me, Kaili. Joycelyn, Benjamin (in the shadows, lol) and Jeremy.

My Strange Dreams: The Mall

I have this dream quite a lot of times already, it started since last year.

When I entered the dream I found myself in the middle of a newly built mall, small constructions are still being made and only 2 shops are open, a 24 hour store called 24 on the ground floor, and an antique and furniture store on the first floor, owned by an old mentally insane guy who hates kids entering his store, as far as I remember, his shop has no name.

On my first visit, I was not able to control my movements, hence I walked around going into the old guys shop. He chased me out once he saw me and swore that he will splash water at me the next time I enter his shop. So I went down the escalator and walked out the one and only entrance of the mall and woke up after what seemed like a few minutes of black space.

The second time I got there, more shops were open. Once again, I found my self in the center of the mall again, and when I looked up, I saw the old man chasing a small boy out of the store shouting, "Get out! Don't come here again if you still want to live!" The small boy ran out of the mall and disappeared into the darkness behind the glass walls. I went into the 24 hour store and was greeted by the guy at the register. I looked around at the instant noodles section when the guy called to me saying, "Your times up kid, good morning, come again." At instant I was sucked into darkness and woke up later finding myself thinking whether I had dreamed of that place before.

The last time I dreamed was last night, the 9th of March. That day was Malaysia's voting day. When I entered the dream, I was in the middle of a new furniture store, when I knew where I was, the shop assistant asked me if I needed any help, I replied, "Nope, I'm just looking around." She smiled and went back to the back of a desk and begun writing something. I walked out of the store and found out that I can control the "me" in this dream, and that almost all the shops in the mall are newly opened, but its still too early to opening time. I walked around and passed the old mans store, he had more things and next to his store is a candy store and a boutique (the boutique was not open yet). Some kids ran out of the candy store laughing, then followed by their mother calling after them. As the two kids ran pass the old mans store, the old man shouted, "Hey! Watch it! You might get your dirty sweets all over my beautiful carpet! Shoo! Shoo!" The woman gave the old man a look and left with her children who were crying because of the shock that old man gave them.
Later, I went into the candy store just in time to catch a glace of the rest of the mall I had never looked before, it looked like a hyper-mega store 'cos it was filled with all kinds of shops (one of the shops I could not forget is a shop with a picture of a sun with a smiley face, I did not catch the name even so). I looked around for a while in the store and when I got out, the mall was filled with people! People were everywhere! Filling every corner of the mall, walking here and there. I walked blindly and ended up at the malls food court. I saw a few of my friends.
First was J, an old friend of mine who I recently saw a few days ago, I said aloud, "Oh, yeah, I'm suppose to call him and ask for his hand phone number and his e-mail address." (He asked me to call him before he went home that day) Suddenly my friend, G, came up behind me and said, "Yeah, but you are still sleeping, how are you gonna call him now?" And I replied, "Yeah, I am still dreaming." At that instant, I thought to myself, "Hey, I'm still sleeping and I'm thinking and moving as if I'm in the real world, this is a first time!" I looked around and saw my other friend, A, running to me saying, "Rocket win! Rocket win! Yay!!" I looked around and continue to see more friends.
Suddenly, a voice said, "Times up, time to go back.", and the same sucking feeling came again and I got sucked into darkness again. After I woke up, I decided to type this down.

So after recalling back what happened, I continued my day.

The End.
-Max