My New Year Firm Decision To Do Or Not To Do Something 2011

Some people might have already listed down their new year resolutions already. I wonder what new year resolutions I should have this year, all the past year resolutions did not really work or whatever. It's an hour till new years so whatever.

My new year resolution, hmm...

1. Spend less money on lunch.

2. Work harder at college.

3. Be less lazy. Maybe post longer blog posts, work harder on whatever I do, things like that.

That's pretty much about it. Screw No.3. Ha. Ha.

Energy That Runs In My Blood

It's been awhile aye? 2011 is just around the corner and I have finished two anime series before it happens. While at that, I'm now watching three anime series thanks to Kenada.

First I finished Saki (咲), an anime about mahjong. I won't go into details because I'm lazy and I'm in download mode. I'm currently downloading songs, and more songs. Go Wikipedia for further details. Well Saki is about a girl named Miyanaga Saki who has an amazing ability to score 0 points in mahjong which is said to be harder than to win consistently. She joins the mahjong club in her school and goes for the nationals. Well, Saki got me interested in mahjong. Surprisingly I was not that into mahjong before because I never got the chance to learn how to play the game. Well, Saki is really good, I mange to guess that it was produced by Gonzo because of the similar art style as Strike Witches. There are countless scenes that help you get engrossed in the anime and mahjong and as well the motivation to watch the next episode but the weak point of the anime is the number of flashbacks! There were a lot of flashbacks, I kept having urges to skip them. Still, I recommend Saki. Before I end I would like to say something, I don't like Nodoka! She's not aerodynamic! There's huge blobs of fat! Arrgghh!!!

Next I finished Taishou Yakyuu Musume (大正野球娘。), an anime about baseball. During the taishou period in Japan where running is considered vulgar for girls, a group of school girls play baseball, a sport which was only meant for men during that era. This anime really made my hands itch to play baseball. The enthusiasm and spirit of the girls really made me want to play baseball again (well, I played softball in high school). Because the time setting is located in the taishou period, the Japanese spoken by the characters were formal honorific Japanese and it kinda boggled my mind because most of the anime I've watched have slang and rough language. Well for baseball lovers, watching this! I'm telling you! The art style and color also really matched the taishou period pretty well.

Next up, I'm watching ef: A Tail Of Memories, Angel Beats! and Kami Nomi zo Shiru Sekai (神のみぞ知るセカイ). Yes. So far, ef is kinda confusing even though I have watched two episodes already. Even so, I'm eager to understand the story. I've only watched the first episode of Angel Beats! so I'm still hanging around the confused zone. Angel Beats! have proven to be a good anime in just the first episode, I can't wait to watch the next. For Kami Nomi zo Shiru Sekai, I think the first episode is kind of a rush but I guess it went pretty well. The beginning was too sudden compared to the manga. Also, I did not expect Keima to have such a voice. Huuh... Same goes to Elsea. Their voices did not go as how I imagined. Oh well.

Well, what's up next? I'm planning on buying Strike Witches season 2 and the first Haruhi movie, Suzumiya Haruhi no Shoushitsu. Maybe some others as well, I just need the money to buy them. But the problem is I also need money for my cosplay! Gah!! Where's my allowance?! I have to save money from now on! Cut down expenses on lunch! Noooo!!!

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Haunting 21

Today I went to the clinic to check on that leech bite I had at Triplex. I had to take numbers and wait for my turn and I had to take two. The two numbers were 1121 and 5211. What's the probability for one person to get the number 21 in both papers? I don't care, too lazy to do the math. The point is, I'm haunted by the number 21. Hah. I think I said this before last year.

コミク・フィエスタ 二〇一〇

This year's Comic Fiesta was a blast! My second Comic Fiesta and compared to last year's, this years was the bomb. There was a whole lot more cosplayers, a whole lot more variety of cosplay characters, a whole lot more people who attended Comic Fiesta 2010. Unfortunately for me, I did not have a camera to take, so I am really unfortunate to be unable to take photos of all the countless cosplayers at Comic Fiesta. Oh well.

Pre-Comic Fiesta

I went to college to check my OTP results and I met Chia, Wee and Ann Nee. Chia told me that none of our classmates got OTP so I had one thing less to do. I then headed to Block K with my huge box of stuff and found Cheryl and Nicole. I joined them and did edits to my Anime and Vocaloid Song Guessing Game songs. Cheryl and Nick were making their keychains for sale at Comic Fiesta. Soon Emma and Jian Leng came and following after them was Mal and then Kai. Everyone was here and we were all getting ready for Comic Fiesta.

Soon after Mal got back from buy duct tapes for her Tetris block costume, Kai lead Emma, Jian Leng and I to his car so that we can put our stuff into it, then we headed to KFC to have lunch. Cheryl, Mal and Nick went to have some of their doujin art stuff printed and later joined us. After lunch, we all headed to Daiso in Sunway Pyramid to buy some stuff and after that, Cheryl and Nick went to this new Japanese candy shop to buy some candy. We then all went back. Mal was staying over at Nick's and the rest of us are staying over at Cheryl's along with Yumi and Blackcatz.

Cheryl led Kai the way to her house and we all crowded into her house. We put our things down and settled in, getting 'make yourself feel at home' sink in. Well, Yumi, Blackcatz, Jian Leng and Emma have been to Cheryl's house before numerous times already so it was easy for them. I guess it was because of Emma and Jian Leng's lax attitude I also made myself feel at home. Haha.

After bathing and relaxing around, Cheryl's parents and brother came home. Her dad had bought us dinner and we all dug in. After that, Cheryl and Yumi practiced on their makeup while Jian Leng and Emma got their props ready. Kai tried on his Lao costume and then did what he does best, play Monster Hunter on his PSP. Jian Leng and Emma decided to disturb Kai and the four of us were on the mattress making fun of each other. Later at night, we all were at the hallway. Emma was gluing his Devil May Cry fingers to his gloves. We then hit the sack after that.

Comic Fiesta Day 1

We got up really early around 6.30a.m. except for Kai who as agreed will wake up at 7. Nicole and Mal came around 7.15 and after we got all our stuff, we headed out. The girls sat in Nicole's car (her mom was driving) and the boys into Kai's car. Cheryl's younger brother, Ben, joined us.

Nick's mom drives fast and we almost lost them when we were along Jalan University; we followed a wrong car. Haha. Well, it did not take us long to get to Times Square. After dropping off Jian Leng and Emma, Yumi lead Kai to the parking lot and we later met up at the Meridian Hall in the hotel.

After getting permission, Cheryl lead us to our booth in the hall. We started setting up our booth and because I was gonna be at the booth full time, Nick, Cheryl and Mal ran through the prices of their stuff and I settled into the booth. In the hall, other booth owners were also setting up their stall. I had problems arranging the things not needed on the booth and I ended up having only one chair because I had to put my huge box on one chair so that it'll be easier to open it to show people the sock dolls my mom made for sale. Later Ann Nee and Wee came by and Ann Nee stayed with me to help out.

My feelings? Excited. This would make it my first time at a booth, I got to experience Comic Fiesta in a different point of view. When the doors opened and people started to swarm in, I could not help but to smile because that is the moment Comic Fiesta officially starts.

Rin-neechama and Senzo came by to visit, with them was Jo Yen and Amanda (I only got to know her on the second day). Soon I started to see people I know passing by the booth. It was really refreshing? Is that the word? I felt really happy because I got to see friends who I've not see for a long time. Julian, Wilson, Wei Jin and Justin were there too. It took me some time to recognise Abby, she was cosplaying a character from Angel Beats and she looked really different. Yati, Yat Sun and Wayne soon came by. Yati was cosplaying Yamamoto while Wayne was Byakuran. Really, Yati did a good job on his handmade katana and Wayne's costume was perfect, to me at least, it was perfect. For some reason what seemed like minutes was hours. Ann Nee and I were dying to get out and buy a Black Rock Shooter shirt that was on sale on a booth opposite of ours, unfortunately it was sold out very fast.

This year there wasn't the spam of same cosplay characters like last year (there was a huge number of Kagamine Rin and Len). This year the Vocaloid cosplayers did a huge coverage on the different Vocaloids and UTAUloids. There was even Defoko or Utane Uta! I almost cried tears because someone actually did Utane Uta. I thought no one would cosplay her. There was even a Lily on the second day. Akita Neru was also present and of course, Black Rock Shooters were there. The characters from the anime were also cosplayed. I was awed my brains out.

Around 3.00p.m. Ann Nee and I were getting hungry. I'm not sure about Ann Nee but I wanted to jump out of my shoes and do a sprint around the hall to buy things I want. Of course that was impossible, the lanes along all the booths were packed and flooding like a river. Our sales at the booth wasn't so bad. I hate to say this but I had good sales while the others did not really get good responses. Cheryl and Nick's keychains were sold off pretty fast and Nick manage to sell some of her fan art. Unfortunately for Cheryl and Mal, Cheryl's fan art keychains did not sell and Mal only sold one of her Prussia Photo Booth fan art. My Anime and Vocaloid song guessing challenge got quite a good response surprisingly. A few people played but most of them tried the Vocaloid only and only one person tried the anime. Out of the few people, only one person manage to get a score over ten. Haha. She was cosplaying a Meltdown version Vocaloid (I'm not sure though, her hair was black), I think it was suppose to be Rin. She wrote some Japanese on the list and she manage to guess quite a lot of the songs. Unfortunately she was only familiar with the Vocaloids, she did not do well with the UTAU and others.

After some time, around 4 (I can't remember, my sense of time was lost), Cheryl and Nick came back to the booth to take over our place. They also brought some food for Ann Nee and me. The two of us then headed out to the mall and had our lunch. After that, we went back to the hotel and we had a look at all the booths and the displays around. Along the whole way from the hotel to the mall and from the mall to the hotel, I was practically spazzing over the cosplayers. I was really happy when I saw Touhou Project cosplayers like Reimu, Patchouli, Remilia and others. This year there was a lot of crossplaying guys as well, and I really mean a lot. There were so many it's like a trap fiesta. Well, thanks to this and some encouragement from friends, I think I want to crossplay too. Haha. Rin and Cheryl sure are excited about it and Jian Leng said he would crossplay too.

There were a lot of things I want to buy, especially badges. Ever since Cheryl gave me my first anime-related badge, I wanted to more. It's like a new hobby now, anime badge collecting. I bought a huge bunch of badges (not really huge) and an ANBU mask. After Ann Nee and I finished our "tour" we headed back to the booth and took our places again. Ann Nee was tired so she took a nap under the table. Haha. When she came back up she complained that people who stopped to look at our booth kicks her. Around 6, Wee came back to take Ann Nee home. I stayed at the booth and I don't remember what happened. Hahaha.

Later Cheryl, Nick and others came in to check on me. Day 1 was coming to an end so we packed up and then we headed home. Everyone was exhausted except for me. My legs were only tired because I was standing the whole day, literally, I only sat down for 10 minutes and then continued standing. The whole day would mean 9 hours? My gosh, but oh well, I had my own fun. This was Kai's first time cosplaying and on top of that he's at the biggest event of the year. He was really, really tired. Too bad I did not get to try on Mal's Tetris block costume.

Back at Cheryl's house, we had dinner Cheryl's dad bought and then we got ready for Day 2. My mom said that she'll bring more dolls for me to sell so I had to stay up and wait for my dad. Kai was already asleep and I was watching Scrubs with Jian Leng and Emma. The three girls were in Cheryl's room. Later, Cheryl came out to check on us. Cheryl and I then got down to dividing the earned money because it was messed up some time during the event. Soon, around 12.00a.m., my dad arrived and Cheryl took me out to find my dad. I gave the money I got for the dolls to my dad for my mom and then we went back in. Kai woke up and then went back to sleep. The rest of us also hit the sack after we got our stuff ready.

Comic Fiesta Day 2

This time I'm cosplaying, again as Keiichi, this time I have my Rena~ Rin-neechama got her costume last month. The morning is the same, after having some stew Cheryl's mom cooked, we all headed out and same way we did yesterday. This time Kai did not lose track of Nick's mom and the both of us headed down to the car park after dropping Jian Leng and Emma. Kai parked his car in the same parking lot. Haha.

Up at the hall, we all sat down outside the event hall exit. The Comic Fiesta community members were having a briefing. Later, we went into the hall to set up our booth again. Because I wouldn't be at the booth, I briefed Kai on the sock dolls and I decided to sell the Chupa Chups lollipops instead of setting up the song guessing challenge. After Kai got the idea, I headed back out to find Rin and Senzo.

It was funny because Senzo called me, trying to find me and we were both facing each other less than a meter apart. We got together and Rin passed me her wig and a pair of scissors. She told me to style it and she headed to change to her costume. Senzo followed and I asked Cheryl's help to style the wig. I can't thank Cheryl enough. She has been helping us everyday, letting us sleep at her house, use her things, she's awesome. Cheryl helped me style the wig after helping Nick put on makeup and then proceeded to help Emma with his makeup. We got up and then started hanging around. I did not get to take that many pictures but I'm okay with it. Rin on the other hand got lots of pictures. Haha. Maybe I should have not been so timid and get Keiichi's casual outfit instead of the school outfit. Meh...

Here I got to know Amanda and we had lunch together at a shop that apparently is part of Shabu Shabu. We then rushed back to the event hall because Rin and Senzo joined the cosplay competition. Rin was really nervous and scared, she panicked on stage and ran out after a few minutes. Poor Rin. We manage to cheer her up later.

After walking around and around, I headed back to the booth. Kai was bored out of his boots. I walked around once more the rows of doujin booths to see what I want to buy with Rin, Senzo, Jo Yen, Yati and Wayne. In that journey, I bought a Special Orchestra t-shirt (Nodame Cantabile TV drama) and a bunch of badges. I finally manage to get a Cirno badge! Yay~ I was wishing there was something like ⑨ with Cirno's ice wings but this will do.

I went back and sat at the booth with Kai and Mal. I was really, really tired. Haha. After Rin, Senzo, Yati and Wayne left, I fell asleep at the floor of the booth by the wall. I don't know how long I was asleep but after I got up I was still tired. It was already around 6 something and Cheryl and the rest were already at the booth. We packed up and headed out. As we were going down, we passed by a vending machine and I joyfully bought a can of coffee. Cheryl's dad was busy so we waited for her dad to come with Cheryl and we ate dinner together at the food court in the mall.

After Cheryl's dad came, we split into two again, this time Cheryl was the only one in her dad's car because her sword was huge and there was not enough space of others. Yumi, Jian Leng, Emma and I got into Kai's car and we headed for Cheryl's home.

Post-Comic Fiesta

I got energetic again from dinner and the coffee but I was still tired. While I was bathing, Kai drove back home. We all sat in Cheryl's room after bathing and we chatted. Jian Leng and Emma would occasionally tickle each other. While in the room, I told Cheryl about my plan of crossplaying, Jian Leng was interested too. We later went out and watched Salt. After the movie, we all went to sleep. Salt is not bad, I just don't like the ending which tells me that the chase will keep repeating itself over and over again, Russian spy after Russian spy.

The next morning, Jian Leng, Emma and I lazed around waiting for Cheryl to wake up. After she did, we had breakfast, luncheon meat, peas, cheese and bread. After that we discussed about cosplay plans. It was fun, I learned some new stuff and got interested in some new anime like Starry Sky.

I can't wait for next year. This year's Comic Fiesta was better than last year's, I bet next year's is gonna be a whole lot better!

What's the awesomeness level?! IT'S OVER 9000!!!

400

Yes, this is my 400th blog post every since I started blogging, minus a few of blog posts I deleted.

What's install for my number 400th blog post? Why am I like celebrating this?

No reason actually. I just coincidentally saw that this blog post will be my 400th one and I just came across something I'd like to share with whoever's reading this or whoever's following my blog. Did you know that 'spot' is one of the few anagrams for 'post'? I kept typing 'spot' in the previous 'post's so I just wanted to tell.

Okay. O2Mania. It's the free version of O2Jam that can be played offline. Yeah. I got it like a few months back. Recently (and today) I downloaded some songs to play on my O2Mania and I came across a legend. There are a lot of the similar song types you can find, especially on YouTube, and people download these songs for fun just to see Auto Play fail to get perfect scores. What am I talking about?

I'm talking about Xepher.

Xepher [SHD] is made such a way it's super hard, hense the [SHD] (Super Hard Special Edition). Normal levels for a hard song on O2Mania (and of course, O2Jam) would be around level 50. (Gaussian Blur is at level 50 and was my hardest song before I downloaded more mad leveled songs.) Before Xepher, I found a song titled Fantazindy. It's hard level is 28. Then came Fantazindy [SHD] at level 74. It is crazy. You can find a video on YouTube. Then came along 378 Fantazindy [SHD] at level 378. It's madness! I thought I'd never find anything worse but no. Here comes Xepher.

Xepher is at level 36. Harder than Fantazindy. Then they made a Xepher [SHD]. I don't know if there's any figures in between 36 and the number I'm about to announce but I got this hell of a monster. I don't know why someone made it, that person must have wanted to see Auto Play fail very much. If you compare 378 Fantazindy [SHD] to Xepher [SHD] without knowing Xepher [SHD]'s level, you maybe will think around 500? Haha. I did. Guess what, with a total of 3,3842 notes of hit in 2:57 minutes, the Xepher [SHD] I have here is level 1155. No kidding!

I told ya!

At the beginning of the song, impossible steps are already punched out and Auto Play starts to get Miss, Bad and Good. It's nice to see because Auto Play can get perfect score (all Cool) on all the songs you'd find in the O2Jam song pack. But it doesn't end there.

More and more impossible steps are shown. Auto Play would start to have more Miss than Cool and to me, I start to feel that I don't wanna play this song at all.

Why is Auto Play failing? If you look closely at the notes, those long lines are not for hold, they are to be pressed or rather, punched all the way. It's like machine gun! You can't punch machine gun on your keyboard! Even if you can, your keyboard keys won't sustain the force!

Eventually you'll find this kind of madness. Xepher [SHD] is beyond madness, it's like an abyss in an abyss in an abyss in an abyss in an abyss in an abyss in an abyss in an abyss in an abyss in an abyss in an abyss in an abyss in an abyss in an abyss in an abyss in an abyss in an abyss in an abyss in an abyss in an abyss in a black hole. It's impossible to play.

I played it five times to see the results Auto Play will get.

Round 1:- Cool: 5661, Good: 4357, Bad: 2551, Miss: 2,1111

Round 2:- Cool: 5663, Good: 4360, Bad: 2588, Miss: 2,1069

Round 3:- Cool: 5759, Good: 4438, Bad: 2348, Miss: 2,1138

Round 4:- Cool: 5613, Good: 4352, Bad: 2447, Miss: 2,1265

Round 5:- Cool: 5470, Good: 4416, Bad: 2442, Miss: 2,1349

They say nothing is impossible but this is. No human is able to get a score as close as Auto Play. Not even a world champion I bet.

Just A Little Poem

My dad opened the door,

a cool breeze floats in.

I'm sitting here all kinda bored and all,

this Mac can't play games,

Restaurant City on Mac is fail.

My sisters are on the desktop,

damn I wanna be on the desktop,

MSN, Worms Reloaded, O2 Mania,

they are all on the desktop,

I can't do shit on this Mac.

MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAC!!

Boring Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaac.

Still I love you MacLappy.

Haha.

More Than A Litre Of Tears

I just finished watching the JDrama, 1 Litre of Tears, a drama based on the novel of the same title. The story itself is a true story about Kitō Aya who suffered from spinocerebellar degeneration. An incurable disease that cruelly takes the daily life of an individual slowly. Aya suffered the disease from the age of 15 until her death at the age of 25. It's really touching. Everybody said that it's impossible to not cry when watching the drama and I support that statement. In all eleven episodes, I have at the least teared and the most cried for almost fifteen minutes straight. Watching a drama about a girl who's suffering an incurable disease struggling to cope, adapt and survive it was sad enough, what made it even more was that it is a true story about a real girl.

"Why did the disease choose me?

I cannot carry it, if it's just for the word 'fate'."

-Kitō Aya

While I still have it, I want to put my feelings down here because unlike Aya, I don't write a diary, my blog posses as my diary, therefore I will type.

After watching the whole drama, I have changed my view about life and the world. I don't want to see it as boring anymore. I want to go out even more. I want to learn more things. Go out and experience more things. Live life to it's fullest. I will do that. And I want to do it with my friends.

"Friends are cool. I want to be with them forever."

-Kitō Aya

Some of my feelings have been amplified,

feelings like, 'I'd rather be a happy man with no money, than a rich man with no happiness.',

feelings like, 'I'd rather be healthy than to be smart.',

feelings like, 'I'm happy that I'm still alive.'.

I now feel that I want to live on no mater what but it also makes me feel selfish, but it's a good feeling. Someone said that.

"I don't care if I'm stupid, I just want a healthy body."

"Just being alive is such a lovely and wonderful thing."

- Kitō Aya

When I woke up this morning, I teared because as long as I'm awake, I will remember the tearful moments from the drama. The story of Aya is such a strong and influential medium. I want to treasure all the moments I have with my friends and family. Like someone had said, 'You never know when you will die, it could be tomorrow, it could be next week. Treasure what you have now.'.

"I will live 'alone' carrying this heavy package called handicap."

-Kitō Aya

Some people may think I'm just being emotional but I understand how it feels like when you're in a handicapped situation. There are things you can't do, things you can't achieve. I was born different from normal children because of the deformity in my sternum. There was a time when I could not eat or drink anything cold because of this. Still, I lived a normal life. I guess I'm really lucky.

"Reality is too cruel, too brutal.

I don't even have the right to dream.

As I think about the future, the tears will come out again."

-Kitō Aya

I followed my dad around Shah Alam this morning and I was feeling under the weather, walking very slowly, carrying a depressed face.

I came to a thought and I felt really happy that I am still walking.

I might be thinking too much but I like it, I cannot imagine myself unable to walk, run or play sports, if I really can't do any of that, I would mentally break.

I cannot be as strong as Aya and smile everyday, encouraging herself that it's okay.

"It's okay if you fall.

You can just get up again.

Why don't you look up at the sky, while you are down there.

The blue sky spreads across above you.

Can you see it smiling at you?

You are alive."

- Kitō Aya

Watching 1 Litre of Tears really made me appreciate life more.

It had really gave me a lot of inspiration and courage.

I won't ever wish that I was in the past again.

I will continue to fight on and live my life to it's fullest.

"I really don't want to say things such as 'I want to

go back as how things were before'.

I recognize how I am right now,

and I will continue to live on.

Therefore I definitely won't run away.

That's what I'll do. Definitely, always."

-Kitō Aya

I have been thinking and I came to a conclusion that I want to help the disabled more than ever but I'm not doctor material nor I'm in medical school. What I can do for the future with what I'm learning is to promote awareness in everyone else through art.

Today my sister was saying that she wants to quit scouts next year. It got me even more angry when she said that the only thing that makes her want to quit was that she had to take tests and memorize things. What's so hard about memorizing things? I know I don't have a good memory myself but why can't she do her best? I scolded her about not doing things right and that she will regret for the rest of her life but am I in the right place to tell her that? I, myself have not lived my life to the fullest. I can't go out when I want to because of transportation issues. Still, my sister's attitude for giving up cannot be overlooked. I want her to watch 1 Litre of Tears but what's the point? She won't be paying attention to the show anyway. She's such an idiot.

"People shouldn't dwell on the past.

It's enough to try your best in all that you're doing now."

-Kitō Aya

I'm starting to dislike the word 'goodbye'. Why say 'goodbye' when you know that you'll be seeing the person you're parting with again? Even if you won't be seeing this someone for a long time, saying 'see you' is a lot better because I feel that it gives the feeling that you will meet again. 'Goodbye' is like a eternal farewell. I don't like it.

I'm proceeding to read the translations for the original novel, 1 Litre of Tears some nice people shared on the internet. The novel contains the contents of the diary Kitō Aya wrote.

"I write because writing is evidence that I am still alive."

-Kitō Aya

I Don't Know Why I Try So Hard...

...but yeah, I got a new score of 24.8 meters.

Run, Human, Run

What do you get when you cross flimsy limbs and a track team runner? QWOP.

What the heck is QWOP? No, it's not Quick Water Our Plants or Quit Wasting Organic Poo nor Quinn's Wonderland Of Pantyhose.

QWOP is this running stimulation game that uses the four keyboard keys, Q, W, O and P to make the avatar run by controlling the thighs and the calves. Simple isn't it? That's what you would think but hell no, it's hard. Personally I can't even make the avatar run like a normal human being.

Even so, I manage to get a score of 22.8m and the lowest being -2m. All the flailing and leg bending, ouch! Yeah. At times when the avatar falls, his legs bend in awkward positions, it's painful to look but funny at the same time. Imagine your leg spinning in a 360 degree turn upwards, like you don't have a knee and it bends upwards. Ouch.

Well if you're up for it here's the link: http://foddy.net/Athletics.html

Showing real courage, you ran 0.8 meters. Everyone is a winner.

What the hell...

Birds On Two Wheels

Today seven of nine Birds went to Botanical Gardens located at Putrajaya. Laura could not go because she was feeling under the weather and Nick had props to finish before Comic Fiesta arrives. In the morning, Wee and Ann Nee drove down to 1Utama to pick me up because I could not get a transport to Sunway Pyramid. Thanks guys for the hassle.

We got to Sunway Pyramid and met up with Chia, Mal, Wilson and Kai at McDonald's for breakfast, only Kai, Wee and I bought KFC for breakfast. Haha. After breakfast, we headed to Giant to buy food for our picnic. After that, we divided ourselves into two groups and one went to Wee's car and the other went to Kai's car. Mal, Wilson and I went to Kai's while Ann Nee and Chia went to Wee's. Then Kai lead the way to Botanic Gardens using Mal's map that she print screened, pasted together and transferred to her PSP.

It did not take us long to get to Botanical Gardens (there was some where during the trip we lost Wee and we kinda panicked) and we were lucky to not get lost like we usually do when going out for our Bird activities. Well, Kai made a wrong turn when he misunderstood Wilson and we ended up in a tiny dead end just by the road. What kind of turning was that?! It was some tiny portion of road that was meant for cars to take a break or something? Well it was really funny. Anyway, we got there in one piece. Yay! I was so excited, I was actually gonna get to ride a tandem bike! A two seater bike! We went up to the office and paid for our rent and then we grabbed our bikes and took off into the horizon.

Okay, not the horizon but we were going uphill. Wee and I got onto the tandem first and we kinda struggled a bit in the beginning because it was kinda hard to synchronise our footwork. We got the hang if it soon and we begun pedaling uphill. At a stop, I got off and "hijacked" Kai's bike and so Kai got onto the tandem and cycled with Wee. We cycled until we got to the peak of the hill and we took a break. Everyone was kinda tired from cycling uphill. For me, I got kinda knee cramps because it has been years (or was it months..?) since I cycled on a bicycle. Well the view was spectacular and the wind was making everything better. We soon went down lower to this picnic spot and we had our lunch. I brought the instant noodles I bought the from the last night market outing with the Birds and hot water. Yay. This was the first time I ate the new Pringles flavor, soft shell crab. It was funny, I felt like I was eating soft shell crab but in chip form. I can't imagine the taste of that blueberry something flavor. Eww.

After lunch, we continued to cycle down. Wilson and I were the first to reach the bottom but Wilson fell off his bike and he got a big graze on his elbow. Apparently the bicycle stand on his bike popped out and made his bike stop suddenly and thus he fell, thanks to laws of physics (thanks why I don't really like reality, it's all about physics).

We took Wilson back to the place where we rented the bicycles and the nice guy who works with the bicycles gave us some first aid stuff to use. I helped Wilson wash his wound and then put on some dressing using the knowledge I learned from Triplex. I wasn't really good with first aid but I was kinda proud I manage to put what I learned to good use.

Wilson's injury did not stop the fun, we continued to head out to cycle more. Unfortunately people started falling too. Kai fell while bringing the tandem down a steep slope, luckily he wasn't injured and Mal also fell on the same slope. She was not hurt too but she tore the knee part of her jeans. Poor Mal. Well I got onto the tandem with Kai this time and we cycled around to look around pretty much the whole park. Sorta. We got to this place where you can go into the lake in the middle of the park. We hanged there for a moment and I skipped some stones. After that we cycled some more and then we put the bicycles back and left for Alamanda.

While in Kai's car, Mal, Kai and Wilson planned Wee's surprise because today's his birthday. Earlier Wee was emoing because he felt that he was not as excited as he used on his birthday. Well, after we got to Alamanda, Mal, Kai and Chia left to buy Wee's cake using MPH bookstore as an excuse to leave. I helped Wilson buy some first aid stuff to replace the one I did for him at Watson. After that, the both of us followed Wee and Ann Nee to decide where to eat. We finally came to the food court as a decision and we "feasted" there. After finishing our food, we chatted a while and as Wee dozed off while sitting, we took out the cake (two slices, we were low on budget) and we sang the birthday song, surprising Wee. He was happy but too tired to show his excitement on full scale.

After that, he headed to MPH bookstore (for real) and checked out some books. I found this biography about Google. My God, what is the world becoming to. Well, Ann Nee was reading this Ripley's Believe It Or Not book and I learned that there was this guy who has a flat head because the top of his skull came off after he healed from getting a lightning strike. Eww. There was a picture too. Then there were these bunch of animals that had pairs of stuff like a cat with two faces, an elephant with two trunks, a goat with two heads, a bird with two heads, the list goes on. After that, we all headed home. I fell asleep in Kai's car and woke up later after he dropped Mal at her home, he proceeded to drop Wilson and me at Sunway Pyramid. After that my dad picked me up and I got home.

This was the first time I got really tired from an activity with the birds. Ann Nee said something about these lying down bicycles. I think it's the recumbent bicycles. Gosh! I wanna try those out!

I'm Like...

bored right now.

kinda sleepy now.

a G6, like a G6, na na na na... I'm feeling now so I fly like a cheesecake.

a short kid who sometimes wears shorts.

wlasys havign tpoys.

so bimbo when I want to.

so bitchy when I want to.

so girly when I want to.

'Oh my God.'

a leprechaun on crack.

some kind of retard.

...

thinking of what to type here...

stoning because I rock.

Gordon Remsy when I'm in the kitchen at home. Just without the cursing.

hard to predict. I think.

so forgetful.

err... What did I want to type here again?

a bird~ I only fly away~ I don't know where my soul is, I don't know where my home is~

listening to oldie songs now. Sigh.. The good old times.

A Lawyer With The Way I'm Always Trying To Get You Off.

whatever~

rubber and you're like glue. So who's the idiot now, huh?

so missing my highschool friends even though we just had basketball together today.

so missing friends I know. I wanna see them again!

so missing my college friends. I can't wait to return to class!

so missing the Birds. When is our next outing?

so wanna ride the two rider bicycle!

so, so, so, so, so what?!

so random.

so lame.

so randomly lame.

so random. Eh? I said that already.

so forgetful.

something from outer space. Not really...

you, only different.

me.

sick of my Internet disconnecting. Gah! There it goes again!

happy that it got back on. Geez.

a somebody with a nobody attitude. Oh, so perasan~

a kid.

funny? A lot of people tell me that.

a ninja. I make almost no sound when I walk. Or does that mean I'm sneaky?

tired. Gah... Never will I go shopping with my mom again...

so forgetful. Eh? Déjà vu.

a bottomless pit.

a black hole.

a garbage truck for extra food.

a glutton. No, I'm a glutton.

a rhinestone cowboy~

losing ideas on what to type here.

in dire need of inspiration now.

a stand fan. ...Nope not working.

a rag on the floor. ...Err... Scratch that.

so forgetful. Eh? Déjà vu.

looking forward to Comic Fiesta.

hmm... What am I like?

I don't care anymore! Let's just post this! Yargh!

It's 1:50AM

Sleep is like... zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Blood Stained, That's Just How He Is

I have finally found my next cosplay target: Kumagawa Misogi

Again it's a character who has stained his hands with blood. So far I've only cosplayed three different characters, Maebara Keiichi, Sawada Tsunayoshi and Tomodachi. Well, I can't say Tsuna has killed anyone but he did get lots of cuts and blood loss. Tomodachi did not kill anyone with his bare hands but he did kill using different methods. Keiichi is the only one to have killed someone with his bare hands, with a baseball bat that is. Now for Misogi, he did kill people but he brought them back to life. Is it still killing? Yeah, and not to forget he kill people using giant screws.

So yeah, what do I need for Misogi? I don't think I need a wig unless my hair is too short. I would need that black Japanese highschool uniform. And I need to make giant screws. Yeah. Pretty much it. Simple. Misogi is my plan for next year so I should be able to get everything by then. Ha. That's about it I guess.

[I am not evil.]

December, December, Descender

Today marks the countdown to a new year,

a new year to be filled with more memories,

a new year to make more friends,

a new year to learn more things.

For some reason I feel kinda depressed,

I feel as if there's not enough time,

as if the world is coming to an end,

I feel like I'm getting older and losing the vigor of youth.

Bullshit, I'm only 18 and next year I would be 19,

but that's sadly making me feel old,

feel like I'm incapable of doing the things I use to do when I was younger,

missing out the fun and joy I had when I was younger.

Things are gonna change,

things will become different,

I myself have made a big change,

a change in personality, a change in the view of life.

The more I feel like I want to be with my friends,

the more I want to go out and enjoy,

go to different places,

malls, forests, places I'd love to go.

What's in line for me in December,

Comic Fiesta, Christmas parties, new years eve,

over nights, hang outs, sport outings,

I want more, I want to have more fun.

I feel lost,

floating in worries,

floating in melancholy,

wanting to escape.

But I also can't wait for the new year,

to see all the friends I know,

to see their smiles,

see their happy faces.

I guess it's just one of those moments,

I lose myself for a moment,

and reminisce,

remembering the good times,

and wishing for them to last forever,

to give my selfish self,

a happiness that will last,

a happiness that will be shared,

a happiness that everyone can have,

a happiness that everyone can enjoy,

a happiness that everyone will remember.

Hello December.

AFTRSHOK

24th November 2010

Wednesday

Sunny (Morning), Cloudy (Day), Rainy (Night)

Today morning I arrived at SMK Tropicana at around 7.20, just in time to learn what's happening and stuff. The juniors were gathering their stuff into their patrols and the S.L.A.V.E.S. were moving things into the lorry that will take all the tables and stuff up to Commonwealth Park. I got to put my bags in Amanda's car so I did not have to worry about it after that. I then helped out with whatever I got to help out with, pretty much nothing. Haha. Some of the scouters have already moved out with the S.L.A.V.E.S. in charge of setting up the place before the participants arrive at Commonwealth Park. After the buses arrive, Benjamin, Li May, Wai Sin, Chee Meng and I helped organize the scouts to put their stuff into the buses. Ben, Chee Meng and I then each rode in one of the three buses to go up to the campsite. When we got there, Ben, Chee Meng and I taped the general camp info on the usual whiteboard. Later, Chee Ming and I did the points system for the patrols; we stopped half way for lunch and after lunch, Chee Ming went out to buy stuff for dinner with Amanda and so Chee Meng helped me out. Time crawled because there was nothing much for the scouters to do. Chee Meng and I did rounds a few times and looked around for things to help out with. Later after the Dark Portal was completed by the S.L.A.V.E.S., Mr. Colin got all the scouts to fall in and we got ready for the opening ceremony. After the opening ceremony, we had photo sessions with the Dark Portal. Some how, the kerosene era of lighting has been somewhat replaced by this rock thingys I forgot what they're called but it's awesome but also smelly and hard to use. Kerosene lamps were replaced with this rock powered lamp thingys that work with the logic of chemistry which I obviously fail at. A bunch of rocks plus water plus fire equal lamp. Cooooool… Unfortunately it's hard to use because some of these lamp thingys can't work because it's chemistry and chemistry is a bitch, too much water, no fire, too little rock thingys, no fire. Ben, Chee Meng and I struggled for some time to get this one lamp to work but no avail. Whatever. Hahaha. After the rock-lamp thingy, I helped Amanda taste and evaluate the scouts' dinner and after that, our dinner, yay~ Nasi goreng pataya. Too bad the S.L.A.V.E.S. did not go a good job with the dinner, the juniors did better. Hahaha. After dinner, we arrange the tables and got ready for the Ice Breaking Ceremony. Yay~ It was awesome, only the activities the scouts played was kinda boring. Mr. Colin's Triplex: Aftershock opening video was awesome. Yay~

25th November 2010

Thursday

Rainy (Minutes after 12am), Cloudy (Morning), Heavy rain (Day), Rainy (Night)

So now it's 12:47a.m. and we are awake and I'm here writing this in Textedit because there is obviously no Internet connection in a forest. Hahaha. Oh yeah, I want to talk about Commonwealth Park. It's only been a year since I late came to Commonwealth Park and there are quite a lot of changes here. The building that used to be a broken down toilet is now a massive dormitory, the old torn surau is now fresh looking and there is this swimming pool next to the river. Why is there a swimming pool next to the river? Can't you just play in the river? So weird… The Indian temple next to the campsite also has a fresh coat of paint. Yay. It is still raining and it's really cold, my mucus have started to flow. Ahh… Mr. Colin just finish giving us our scouter's briefing for today's agenda. Yay. Now we are free to bath, sleep, eat, whatever. I'm gonna sleep, that's for sure. Later I'll be going to the waterfall. Yay~! But the water current must be really strong. Oh no. Just from this few sentences I'm pretty sure you don't know that I'm tired. Haha. I think I'll bath later before I sleep. Yeah.

Oh my God! Stomachache! For the first time in my life at a camp! Ahhh!! I've been practically been farting since I woke up. I farted so much I bet I could convert the gas energy into making a penny farting. Oh my God. Anyway, I was the last scouter to wake up but no fear, it doesn't mean I was late. Haha. I had three hours to prepare before performing morning inspection with Ben and Aaron on the Starcraftians. After morning inspection, Ben, Aaron and I went to the Warcraft camp area and look-look see-see Chee Meng, Ken, Wei Liam and JC doing their part of the morning inspection. The Airplex was already in progress, yay~ In the afternoon, Wei Liam, Yee Ying and I went to lead the Starcraftians up to Templer's Park waterfall. Yay! This would be my second time going up there to enjoy the waterfalls. Along the trip were representative S.L.A.V.E.S., Phui Yee and Ivan. Awesome. Because we are scouters, Wei Liam, Yee Ying and I got into cars and went ahead while the camp participants had to hike to the park. They were fast so they got there in time, according to plan. We got up to the falls and then climbed up against the current according to the activity but after passing the easy stage, it started to rain and the current got stronger. We had no choice but to get out and return. Along the whole way, a lot of the scouts got bitten by leeches, well, as usual, I did not get bitten, neither did Wei Liam and Yee Ying. But why?! I was wearing slippers! I had a bigger chance of getting bitten! So weird! Moving on, during the activity, Bernice, nicknamed Princess, because she had a deep bamboo cut on her thumb, making injury serious, getting a chance to take rests and always attended by Aaron, tripped in the pool and hurt her ankle, so she got to ride in the car with us. So the other scouts had to hike back, unfortunately, after the participants headed out to hike back to Commonwealth Park, it rained heavily. Wei Liam did a U-turn and told them to take shelter at the Shell petrol station that was ahead them. We then headed back to camp. At camp, lunch was waiting for the three of us, chicken with mash potatoes. It was awesome! Something not camp food-like. It was raining very heavily so all activities were stopped, the participants can continue to build their gadgets and stuff but the games and all had to stop. It rained for hours. In the evening, the rain finally stopped and the "stranded" Starcraftians got back to camp. Yay! Just in time to make dinner, mee hun kui! I went around to check on the juniors and help with tips and stuff. When I got back, dinner for the scouters was served, Li May made an awesome spaghetti olio for us! It was amazing! All of us ate together. Later, Mr. Colin requested me to help out with the carbide lamps. Yeah, the rock-lamp thingy is called carbide lamps. Yay. Intelligence increase by one. Well, this time a lot of the lamps could not work. Fook Hoy, Chon Giap, Chee Ming, Wai Sin, Roxanne and Dawson came and Fook Hoy helped us out because he knows how to work the carbide lamps. Fook Hoy explained to us that most of the carbide lamps were clogged and had to be cleaned out. Sad. So as Fook Hoy tried solutions, I went to have dinner part two! The S.L.A.V.E.S. cooked too much mee hun kui and could not finish all so I ate about three plates to help out. Yay! Right after that was Triplex Got Talent. The concept was similar to America's Got Talent mixed with Malam Kebudayaan. There were good dances and bad dances, one patrol even got scolded for going over board with inappropriate content. TGT ended with a movie-like trailer for a video made by some of the participants.

26th November 2010

Friday

Cloudy (Morning), Sunny (Day), Rainy (Night)

Well, it's 3.22a.m. now, not too long ago I confirmed that I had stomachache and was writing this. I think you should by now realize that this is written in a diary-like format but whatever. After TGT, Mr. Colin gave us scouters a brief for today's agenda after the Warcraft patrol leaders' meeting. Now everyone is going to sleep. Because of the heavy rain, the juniors and sleeping in the scouter's sleeping area. Luckily it's bigger compared to the last time I was here.

Yeah! Finally! After seven years of scouting, five years of camping and three years of going into leech prone zones, I finally got bitten by leeches! Yay! I was learning the route deep into Commonwealth Park with Chee Meng for the K.K.B. when I got bitten by one. I was so excited! It was my first time! Of course, the thing to do was to pull it out. The first one did not suck any blood, so did the second. Later on, during K.K.B., one of the juniors saw a leech bite mark on my calf. Whoa. Third one, without me knowing it. Some time later, I felt something cold and slippery in my pants. Whoa! A fourth one! This time it bite me on my thigh but somehow it fell off. I took off my pants and threw it away. JC said that I have good blood because the wound clotted fast adding on that leeches produce some kind of acid that prevents blood clotting the normal way. Later at night not too long ago, I was bathing and I found another leech bite mark, higher up, near my family jewels and this time it was not funny nor exciting, it was worrisome. I remember Christian B.P. was bitten on his dong by a leech. Damn. Well moving on, In the morning, I did not many stuff to do so all I did was hang around the Demon's Temple. Oh yeah, my stomachache lead me to shitting five times in the morning itself. Bad. Well, I got better after I got my first leech bite. I did the K.K.B. in the afternoon until evening and then I helped out in the kitchen with the S.L.A.V.E.S.. It was fun! It's been some time since I did some real scout stuff I did back when I was still a senior. Ah, the good old days. Well, dinner was out the roof! We had spaghetti carbonara! It was awesome! Like damn awesome! Ah. Time kinda flew… I can't really remember what happened here but yeah, Mr. Colin asked me to help out for Night Base Station activity for the Warcrafts. I was to tell them about wild animals in the forrest, why they attack you and how to save yourself. I learned a thing or two in this. Haha. One of the reasons why elephants attack people is because they are on heat. Haha! Mr. Colin gave me a book to refer to and in the book were descriptions on how to tell if an elephant is on heat. Hahaha. I also learned that to defend yourself from wild boar is to wave your arms and cheer (make noise). Oh yeah, wild buffalos sometimes attack people for no reason. What?! Hahaha! Well it was fun. After that I took my bath and found the fifth leech bite. Haha. Five leech bites in one day, all in the same day I first get bitten by a leech. Awesome shits, huh.

27th November 2010

Saturday

Cloudy (Morning), Sunny (Day), Rainy (Evening), Humid (Night)

I woke up from the voices of the other scouters. I was kinda blur but I still was aware of my surroundings. I immediately went to brush my teeth and had breakfast, pancakes. Yummy. The S.L.A.V.E.S. did a good job on making the pancakes. After breakfast, we got ready for morning inspection. I was paired with Kaili to check the cleanliness of the Warcrafts. After morning inspection, we all headed out to do Airplex. We let the juniors who had not gone on Airplex and then each of us had our fun riding on Airplex. I was the last because I did not really want to get on Airplex because of my acrophobia but I did it anyway, three years and I still get the shivers riding Airplex, still, it was an excellently awesome experience. After Airplex, we went back to the Demonic Temple and we had our lunch, burgers! Chicken and beef. I only had beef because not everyone can eat beef and the chicken was out fast. The best part is that I had five huge beef burgers. Nom nom nom. After burgers, we conducted Triplex Quest. I was teamed with Edwyn, aided by S.L.A.V.E.S., Joey and Cassandra. We did the Orb of Lightning, a game of accuracy. The darts game was the same as the one I wad back in Triplex 2008: Inferno, blowing darts at pictures drawn on starofoam. The funny thing is, I was in S.L.A.V.E.S. that time and I was to assist Edwyn that time for the same game. Haha. Such coincidence. Well, I later learned that the participants were actually fighting against time to try and complete the whole Triplex Quest in a time limit. After Triplex Quest, I helped out in the kitchen again to cook. Well, I accidentally screwed up one of the pots of soup, I added too much salt, really, really, too, much salt and it was ruined. I was devastated and tried to fix it, almost made myself miss dinner, steamed chicken with rice and soup. Dawson came and stopped me and told me to eat dinner because Triplex Got Talents Season Two was going to start. Well, I had a bitter dinner but oh well, how many times already have I disappointed others and myself. TGT was a cheer up for me there were good dances and stuff that made my night. Haha. The S.L.A.V.E.S. were great! Their S.L.A.V.E.S. dance was off the roof! There were two Korean dances, this crazy dance from Step Up 3D, the part where there's this guy who moves only his body and his head stays in place, breakdance moves and others. It was spectacular. It was simply amazing that the simple Power Rangers dance the S.L.A.V.E.S. back in Triplex 2007: Blizzard and in Triplex 2008: Inferno has been changed into a complicated modern cool dance in Triplex 2009: Vortex and now, Triplex 2010: Aftershock. It was really, really, great. You can say I was blown off my seat.

28th November 2010

Sunday

Cloudy (Morning), Sunny-Rainy (Day), Rainy (Night)

Benjamin woke me up together with Wai Sin, Chee Meng and others for morning inspection.We did a pretty strict inspection that morning because it's the second last morning inspection. After morning inspection, some of us went for K.K.B. again but this time, instead of hiking into the forrest, we had no choice but to do it near the Illidari campsite because of insufficient time. Well, it was going fine until it rained, everyone was wet and the juniors had no choice but to change from backwoods to modern cooking. Yeah. After we were done, we rest at the Demonic Temple and soon after that, Wei Liam, Benjamin, Wai Sin, Chee Meng and a few other of us went out to the Commonwealth Park entrance to usher the parents in for Triplex Night. We did the ushering until 7.45p.m. seconds after Triplex Night starts. Yeah. Triplex Night was intense! The S.L.A.V.E.S. dance still blows my mind. After Triplex Night, I was so tired I fell asleep for about two hours in uniform. Oh yeah, this day's the first time I've seen Gordon Koh in person.

29th November 2010

Monday

Sunny (Morning), Sunny (Day), Rainy (Evening)

We had scouter briefing at around 2.30a.m. and after that, I'm here typing away on my laptop using this energy I have no idea where I got from. I had some biscuits and milo and just now I finished my song compilation for Comic Fiesta. I just realized that Bobby is my distant cousin, how fail is that? I'm so ashamed that I did not recognize him and he recognized me. After taking a better look at his face, yeah, I remember him now, haha, so fail.

I did not want to sleep but I slept anyway, so I woke up pretty early. Today there's only Mr. Colin, Amanda, Wei Liam, Benjamin, Ken, Chee Meng, Jarrel, Arron and me left. Mr. Colin left to do morning inspection. Well we packed our bags and stuff and then immediately, packing up the whole camp was in procession. We went around to monitor the Warcrafts to pack up their bags, clean their campsite, throw away their rubbish and stuff. The S.L.A.V.E.S. on the other hand we're busy cleaning up the Demonic Temple and the bunker and got ready things to be put on the lorry that will come to take the camp stuff back to SMK Tropicana. I did some rounds and then took a break with the other scouters and at the same time listen to the survey Mr. Colin was giving the juniors to vote for the best scout, best patrol leader, best assistant patrol leader, best quartermaster, et cetera as the S.L.A.V.E.S. together with the Starcrafts work together to put up all the things to bring back on the lorry that arrived earlier. Soon enough, we had almost all the things out. When all the patrols went out to the parking lot outside Commonwealth Park to get ready to get into the buses to go back to SMK Tropicana, I learned that Wai Lynn is Yu Kane's younger sister. Well, to wrap things up, I learned that there are a lot of the younger siblings of well known scouts who were at Triplex, Wai Lynn one, Amos, younger brother of Abel, Jesselyn, younger sister of Justin, Nick, younger brother of Neal, Steve younger brother of Joycelyn and many others. It was just wow. Anyway, I took a bus back down together with the juniors. Oh yeah, I also learned that Wai Lynn knows Mae Yen. Haha. It's such a small world after all. Well, we got back to SMK Tropicana and we did the closing ceremony. Well. That's the end for Triplex 2010: Aftershock. Next year Triplex will be completely different as the Blizzard theme (Warcraft, Starcraft) will be changed.

It's good to home again but deep down I still have this feeling of wanting to still be at Commonwealth Park, the same feeling I had back in 2007 and 2008. The sentimental feeling of missing the times being at camp with different people. Well, at Triplex this year, I meet new friends, reunite with old buddies, learn new things. I learn new faces of others, learn new catchphrases from others, find new potential scouts and also learn my own mistakes. There's always this thing about Triplex that makes me more sentimental compared to other camps I've been to and that's probably because of the number of troops this camp brings together, the number of participants this camp has and the number of days this camp lasts. Even though I was not a participant in Triplex, it was still a fun and trilling ride as a voluntary scouter for the camp of the year that rocks, Triplex, beyond excellence!

Triplex Dictionary for Dummies:

Triplex: An anual skills camp held every year for scouts from troops within Petaling Utama. This year the troops are 37, 147, 152 and 157.

Warcraft: Form1 and Form2 scouts

Starcraft: Form3 scouts

S.L.A.V.E.S. (Super Lame And Very Efficient Seniors): Form4 scouts, involved with the activities for the juniors in a way that they are the ones who build the commando courses, Dark Portal, etc., serve the Demons.

Demons: Scouters; adult scouts from Rover H who help to run the camp

Azeroth: Commonwealth Forrest Park campsite

Demonic Temple: The big pavilion in Commonwealth Forest Park for the Demons and S.L.A.V.E.S.

K.K.B. (Kayu-Kayu Belakang): a play on words on 'backwoods', participants are to carry their cooking stuff into the depths of the forrest to do backwoods without modern equipment (excluding the provided things; e.g.: pots, matches)

Dark Portal: The huge awesome Triplex banner structure.

Triplex Quest: Commando Course

Airplex: Flying fox made from scratch (bamboo, flysheets and man power)

Kindergarten, Painting, Toilet Bowls and Shooting Games.

Shit: 1

Thursday, 18th November

Chia, Mal, Laura and I met up at Starbucks at Sunway Pyramid at around 9.30 in the morning. With Kai, Wilson, Wee and Ann Nee, we agreed to help out Chia's aunt, Debbie, do some drawing and painting work for her new kindergarten at Puchong. We all soon gathered at The One Academy's Galley and admired some of our seniors work before departing to Chrisdale kindergarten. The boys sat in Kai's car while the girls and Chia hopped into Debbie's car. We got there and after Debbie's briefing, we worked on drawing simple stuff for kids in the instructed classroom. We drew stuff like vehicles, candy, musical instruments, those stuff you'd find in places for little children, humanoid insects, bla bla bla.

Outside, we were instructed to draw this bunch of kids based on some small scale drawings done before hand by Debbie. What we kinda did was play around before Debbie returned from buy us lunch because the scale Debbie gave us to draw the kids was too small and Chia said that it was better to wait for Debbie to look at it instead of deciding it ourselves. And so Laura, Wee and Ann Nee ran off to a nearby park to play at the swings. Chia, Kai, Wilson, Mal and me waited at the kindergarten instead. The kindergarten looks pretty good. There's a swimming pool there! We hopped around the little playground thing in the kindergarten and talked bird (the actual word is 'talk bull' but we 'talk bird' as we are called The Birds).

After Debbie got back, we got to work. The girls worked inside the kindergarten while we boys worked on the kids. After finishing the drawing, we went back in and we all had lunch together, char siew chicken rice. After lunch, we got back to work. Wee joined the girls and painted the stuff inside while the rest of us boys worked on the outside.

A few hours later, we have some retarded looking kids. Even some fail looking kids. It was so hilarious! At one point, Chia did a mistake drawing one of the kids so he decided to erase the mouth but it got worse and there was this huge black hole for her mouth. It looked like something from Exorcist. Kai and I laughed so hard, I had tears rolling. Later on, we painted on the skin colors and one of the kids looked retarded, as if she was suffering from down syndrome or something. Mal came down to check out our progress and laughed at the poor retarded painting. Of course, all of us boys were laughing too. Later on, there was a perverted looking girl. Ha, now I only realise that all the problematic paintings were girls, why was that? We're not sexist and that's for sure but still... makes me wonder why...

The painting and all took us longer than we thought. We could not finish the job at the planned time, 6.30p.m. and it the sky started to get gloomy. After discussing with Debbie, we decided to return on Monday to continue. So we then took off and headed to Sunway Pyramid for dinner.

Mal suggested T-Bowl and that was where we had our dinner. I was so excited! Ever since Ann Nee told me that T-Bowl was open, I was eager to go there. What is T-Bowl you ask? T.Bowl is a toilet concept restaurant. I remember seeing the restaurant once when watching Ho Chiak! on TV and since then I wanted to go there simply because of their shit-shaped ice-cream. Now, here at T-Bowl, I learn that T-Bowl is more than shit-shaped ice-cream, the food are awesomely mouth watering! I did not know what to eat! Everything looked so good! I just had to sink my teeth in everything! I later then decided on this tomyam seafood ramen. The food was freaking awesome, in bold! I had an ice-cream desert; Yes! I have finally fulfilled my dream of eating the shit-shaped ice-cream, with my awesome college buds too! After the dinner, we all said our good-byes and the five boys marched together towards the outdoor parking lot outside Sunway Hotel. We are staying over at Wilson's house.

At Wilson's house, the first thing we did was pick up his comic books and read. Hahaha! Wilson's room is filled with Marvel and DC comic books and we were attracted to read some. We took turns to bath and after everyone was done, we went down and started to play games. We first played Splinter Cell, Wilson and Wee played first and then Kai and I played next. What was awesome was that Kai did not play it the Splinter Cell way, to be stealth, he played it Call of Duty way, blowing enemies up with a shotgun, running head first into rooms without tactics and laughing hysterically. It was pure awesome. If Laura and Mal were there, they would have seen the crazy side of Kai. Haha. So Kai and I made a great team, I would take out the lights and Kai would take out most of the enemies and the both of us would heal each other when one gets hit. Strangely I would be the one who gets shot most of the time, probably it's because I'm still not used to playing shooter games but seriously, I'm starting to enjoy them. And so we played Splinter Slaughter until 4.30a.m. and then the lights were out.

Shit: 2

Monday, 22nd November

I was late. I was half and hour late but Chia said it was okay and Kai was later than me. We gathered at the TOA gallery again and as soon as Kai arrived, we hoped into his car. Wee went to China for a holiday so this time, there was Chia, Kai, Wilson, Laura, Mal, Ann Nee and Ann Nee's brother, Shen, I could not catch his name properly so I call his Handsome because that was what Wilson and I first heard when he introduced himself. Kai did not come in his Vios, instead he came in a BMW. We were pretty surprised. So Debbie's car got into an accident so she could not pick us up to the kindergarten because it was in the middle of service. All eight of us manage to squeeze nicely in the car, this time no one had to sit on the floor of the car.

We manage to get to Chrisdale in one piece. As soon as we got there, we got to work almost immediately. It was the same. The girls worked on the inside and the boys outside. After finishing the out most side of the kindergarten, I moved in to the wall next to the door and there was Chia and Mal, and Laura who just came out in time to hear Kai and I talking about fish as we walked towards them. Laura said something about the difference between the topics girls and guys talk about and went back in, Chia and Kai followed and Mal and I was left. I decided to help her finish up whatever was left. We worked in silence because the both of us were not good in starting conversations. I sorta started one but it died out fast and there was the awkward silence. Haha. While painting I think about this problem of mine, not good at starting conversations, especially with girls. Haha. I'm well aware that I still have that anti-social part of me that occasionally surfaces and it just reminds me of it.

After we were done, we went in and helped out Chia and Kai on a huge tree in one of the classrooms. What we did was dab this sponge of green for the leaves. It was fun. Haha. After that, we went back into the classroom where we drew the vehicles and stuff and worked in there. Laura, Ann Nee, Wilson and Handsome had already painted some of the drawings already. Without wasting time, we got to work. Laura and Wilson childishly played with paint by painting each other's arms and legs, even though Laura kept telling us that she's not a little girl anymore she behaved like one. Haha. Like Kai said, that is one of Laura's X factors. I agree with Kai as I think Laura's attitude like that makes her cute. Hours passed and we finished at 7.15p.m., again pass the time we thought we would finish. After washing the brushes and changing clothes, we all hopped into three cars, Debbie, Debbie's friend and Kai, and took off for Sunway Pyramid, once again the dinner location is T-Bowl.

I was in Debbie's friend's car with Wilson and for the first time in many years, I spoke a whole conversation for more than ten minutes in Chinese. When we got there, Kai and the girls were not where to be seen, only Debbie, her friend, Chia, Wilson and I were there. Apparently Kai lost sight of the car I was in and he got lost. After talking to the Laura, Debbie manage to get them back on track. This time I had mango sago dessert and this lamb chop. It was awesome! Haha. Again Mal could not finish her meal and I finished it for her so I got to taste the cheese baked rice. It was awesome! Well, thanks Mal. I also want to thank Debbie for this awesome experience and of course the lunch and dinners!

After the dinner, everyone went home and once again, the boys made their way to the outdoor car park next to Sunway Hotel. We are once again staying over at Wilson's house.

Again we read the comics in Wilson's room before going down to play Splinter Cell. Kai was not as crazy as before because the level was kinda harder. He was laughing in the beginning but then it stopped at some point. After Splinter Cell, Wilson and Kai played Black Ops in zombie mode and then they switched to the story mode after they failed twice when the flaming zombie dogs came. Wilson was did not even play for a minute and he fell asleep, we did not notice it until the character was spinning in circles. We then headed to hit the sack.

We woke up the next morning at 11.59, surprisingly at the same time. I woke up earlier actually but I was still feeling sleep so I dozed off again. Well, after we woke up, we got up, brushed our teeth and stuff. Chia got back to reading the comic books while Kai and I got on our laptops and surfed the net. We stayed like this until 1p.m. and then we only had our 'breakfast'. After 'breakfast', we got on the xBox again. Wilson and I played Gears of War but half way through there was a problem so we switched to Left4Dead 2. It was awesome! I sucked though because I still suck at shooter games, I kept shooting my own teammates. I played with Kai and I kept accidentally shooting Kai. Anyway, it started to rain and thunder stroke, loud. Wilson switched off the xBox and we lazed around and talked bird before heading back to Wilson's room and continued to read comics. We left around 5.

Well, what a day. Tomorrow I'll be away until next Tuesday. The Birds are planning an outing again for this Thursday, too bad I can't go. Too bad I'll miss the awesome soya milk! Argh! But oh well, like Mal says, such is life.

All I Can Eat!

Yesterday after Triplex Training, I went to 1Utama to meet up with my family and we had dinner at Robot Sushi because we got some coupons a few days ago. It was awesome!

Because we can only use two coupons per receipt (and we had a lot of these coupons), my sisters separated from my parents and I and had their own table. At the same time, Robot Sushi was having this All You Can Eat Buffet promotion and I was totally up for it and so I had the buffet while my parents ordered the a la carte menu items to use the coupon because the buffet was not entitled for it. I did not really have a lot of food but I guess it was okay, two meals and a bunch of appetizers and also sashimi. Hmm... Okay I guess...

First off I had a plate of gyoza, and then I had tempura prawns and vegetables, and then I also had this modern-type sushi called Rock 'N' Roll, it was a grilled beef wrapped cheese and mushroom kind of sushi. For my meals, I ordered this tempura and beef bento set meal and also a wagyu burger. I wanted to get some noodles but my mom told me to get other stuff. I got some salmon sashimi. I wanted to order some more stuff but I accidentally filled myself up by finishing my drink. Darn. I got full and could not eat any more, or I would end up walking weird again due to a bloated stomach. I still have two more coupons and I'm thinking of going again, maybe alone this time, the food there is not cheap.

ORGANic

Every third Sunday of every month is Setia Eco Park's monthly fair. People will go to buy stuff and bla bla bla, the usual stuff at a fair. Last month my mom registered for a booth as to sell organic vegetables, with help from my dad's friend. I don't know why my mom wanted to do so but hey, it's something to learn eh? So today my mom dragged my sisters and I to Setia Eco Park for us to help her out. Why dragged? Because I was having my beauty sleep! I was so sleepy I slept at the tables during the fair.

Anyway, at the fair, our supplier came in her van and passed us the organic vegetables, there were many green leafy vegetables, mushrooms, bean curd, gourds and also some interesting stuff like coral seaweed and sea salt. From 10a.m., we were there selling these organic vegetables until 5p.m.

Being a vendor means you will meet all kinds of people. Yeah, some were organic eaters for years, some were new to organic food, some were eager to buy but do have space in their fridge to store.

At one point of the day, my dad was attending to a customer, he was explaining about the organic vegetable farms my dad's friend was running and stuff about the organic foods. The customer then said to my dad, "Are those your kids? You have good looking children.", and my dad, as usual, not listening to others, stuck in his own words floating in his head, said, "Yeah, we are distributors.". My sister and I laughed at that. That's my dad for you, once his mouth opens to let the river of words flow, words from the outside gets drowned out from his head.

At the end of the fair, we did not manage to sell off all the organic vegetables, my mom said it's expected as the suppliers said that since it's the school holidays, people would normally go away for a holiday or go back to their hometowns so there won't be that many people at the fair and so we did not profit. Haha. At least we got to try out the organic vegetables after we got home.

The organic bean curd (tofu) can be eaten straight from the packaging, cold and all. It was my first time eating so and it was pretty filling. Then we had these huge organic oyster mushrooms, some were bigger than my palm and they were crunchy. Of course I cooked them before eating. We also had some organic wholemeal bread. They were small but heavy, which my mom said that they really are wholemeal and seriously, a single slice was filling.

The next fair would be next month, a week before Christmas. Well I don't really look forward to it as the experience I had today was crazy. The weather was hot and I was super sleepy. I sweated while sleeping and I was really thirsty. Oh well, no helping it as my mom would 100% pull me out of bed to help her out.

PS: I feel like eating thick beef burgers and bubble tea...