Sunday, November 27, 2005

Pre Guitar 1st Performance

I got my japanese and had a test in my 1st day learning jap... which is to write japanese characters! So many, it was quite tedious. Anyway, i got on with it and had fun in jap lesson which was on tuesday.

The day before, on Monday, 21st Nov, i watched Harry Potter with my EoD friends. i don't usually watch movies nowadays... compared to sec 3 where i practically watch all movies that came on advertisments. People said Harry Potter was nice, very nice, but somehow, i felt disappointed with it... Perhaps due to my fatigue of rushing a lab report till 3am.

Since there are two guitar performances just around the corner, i had 6hours of practice on wednesdays and saturdays. Although it's a long duration, but if you are interested, the longer the better, i did enjoy the whole duration of it. Lunchtime performance at NYP on wed, lets hope we play at our best that day.

Mark had gastric problems this week, perhaps due to his accumulated diet, trying to slim down, but he has already slim down, just that he is taller and look bigger in size. He eventually went to a hospital as the medicine he took did not work, and recovered after trying another type in the hospital. All the best.

Lets Do The Finest Of Job On Wednesday.

Monday, November 14, 2005

Seeking A Change In Language

Troubled abit these days because i have yet to change my complimentary module to Japanese!!! I chose japanese when they asked us to and i was given french -.-", alright, i accept there may be a lack of space because many people wanted japanese, but my friend who chose french got japanese!!! Screwed up eh? NYP, and you said it's by merit too. Anyway, i am still hoping the change will be approved and is waiting for my mentor's call, hope it's a good news even though friends told me that there are no more vacancies... I want to learn something with interest! I can't concentrate on something i have no interest in... and this persistent headache of mine isn't going off... dammit -.-"...

Sunday, November 13, 2005

Professional/Loser

Personally, i do wish and cry out for a thorough stop in every pro and loser talks of people in games. But its realistically impossible. 1st of all, i would like to say that i am not writting this article against anyone i know. I am writting this to express my thoughts about the harm these things instill into the gaming world.

Indeed, these two words will sometimes make games much more enjoyable, you win, you call others losers, and name yourself a pro. (rating him/herself good in this sense, not really the real meaning of being professional) Human are unknowningly sadistic because sadistic and comedic is just a line apart. U knock someone head and laugh, but it may hurt.

In all games, the real motive is to interact and show that you are good, no one can deny that. But the majority are in for the latter. No, i don mean it comes naturally, some people play games - seriously to pass time and to enjoy only, not involved in the evil aspect - but its only when the innocent did not encounter any disturbing problems yet. A human is borned honest, devious acts come upon realistic view of society, it's just whether people want to do it or not. Game, compared to real world is not as serious in this sense, but it relate seemingly to the same problem.

A heart of pure innocence can be influrenced by a drop of mischievous act seeking for fun and become one him/herself. The bullied become a bully. That's the normal action to seek protection, "Xian Xia Shou Wei Qiang", showing some content of bully will make a bully hesitate, because everyone has a cautious thought.

So, whenever a comment is passed, everyone will take notice of it, reaction differs in everyone, but how will you be able to determine their reactions? It's true there are Mr Nice Guys in the world, but they too will sometimes feel victimised and want to get over to the other side and victimise others instead. It's all about the guage of tolerance.

A guy called loser may want to have some payback, and the problem with internet games are, are you able to easily seek out the person who called you a loser? indeed, if you win back someone who taunted you, you would feel great and get some revenge. There's a hunger for it. But what if you can't find the person who called you a loser? Calling others is an alternative to feel better? Then it goes on to be a chain action and reaction.

Please think twice before passing comment about others' ability because people really live off their ability, an insult in that area hurt badly and one of the way people usually do to get back confidence is to hurt others to feel the word "pro".

There are people who learn fast and people who learn slower, but the only reason is the way they learn, the pattern they see, the method they apply. Be glad you learn fast, be holy to encourage (not scold) others, be kind to avoid sins. Especially among friends.

*If you win, there's no need to brag, no need to say, because the people you won may have reactions about what you said, consider their thoughts instead of wholeheartedly seeking acknowledgement of pro, true pro need no advertisments*

*True meaning of pro means professional, a professional is a good loser and winner, be it win or lose, no words should be passed in the risk of others feeling bad or inferior*

*Scolding is harmful, again because people reactions are different, some will be alright, some, with extremely low confidence will completely lose it and feel inferior. But is that true? Or just that they need a master to lead them to the easier path, to see the pattern into learning*

*Bragging may let you feel over the moon for the moment. If payback day comes, the damage done is worse because to feel pro and being name a loser back is much more hurtful. A lost in ability. But can you see it as something you don't deserve? You hurt others, to get hurted is a balance up, no matter which is more severe*

*True supportive friends are harder to get than friends for laughter and fun*

Jokes are fun, but are all kinds of jokes a win-win situation? taunts between (a) and (b) makes (c) to (z) laugh, why? cause they aren't involved, Jokes and taunts are only a line apart, if these two things are named (1), some people may think that if (1) is said among friends, they are jokes. If on strangers, they are taunts, is that really true? Friends started off as strangers.

Headache "Problems"

I just woke up from a rest which i usually don't as i don't like to spend time sleeping. But this time around, it's different, my brother played call of duty which is a 1st person view game and it got me dizzy, with a bad headache, thought of vomiting and sweating away. I got my handphone and went to a sofa, lie down, plug the ear pieces into my ear and got off to rest. It got me asleep with a dream that made me felt worse, the headache got worse, the head felt hot, pain, so hard to endure that only got away after i woke up, seemingly, i felt the pain even though it was a dream.

That apart, i realised something i posted was not in my blog. Maybe it's fate not to post it yet. That may be good too though, because the more i lose respect for the things that person do, the more i will repeat the uncontrollable mistake of losing a friend, i just got to be a by-looker, get along with it, but how will that person know his faults? It's not that i love to be a judge over what people do, i hate it, but it just comes, whenever something happens, i seek a conclusion to it, about what people seek in what they do. Greek.

Anyway, after waking up around midnight from my rest, i browsed through the IRC conversation to see what i had missed. Well, not much, but saw some minor bad stuff.

One of my friend (a) asked the other friend (b) in a middle of lengthy conversation between both of them whether he can create something, and "create something" is pretty obvious about what he wanted, a wc3 game, that's about the only thing (a) could have wanted (b) to do, becoz that's the only thing needing a host, with (b) mostly being the only one hosting. His motive is clear, (a) want to play a game. (b) asked, "like?" and (a) replied , "some game", "like dota?", or some other nonsense". After replying a question "like?", would u be expecting a reply? but (b) replied only 30mins+ later, not to that question, but with a lol not relating to the question but to (c)'s message about gunbound. (b) continued with, "hmm", "anything do?" with (c) later on replying, "we can dota", "one game", "it has been a long time since i dotaed", "if not", "i am going to gunbound". (b) then "hmm" without a definite answer and never spoke again.

What i want to say here is that we should be taking notice of the way we relay our conversations, the way we should response to people question, be it wanting or not, we should give an answer to let the other party have a plan about what to do instead of waiting a few mins and concluding that he has been ignored due to some reason. We may have such habits too, but i think, none as bad yet as (b)'s becoz it has been quite persistent. I mean, he could have replied yes or no to his wishes instead of ignoring or trying to avoid that mere "game asking" question. Why didnt i say, went off to do something and 4got about the question or question which sometimes happens on us as well? becoz it has been quite persistent. As for the few mins thing, well, (b) loved to say things like that for minor stuff, not a few minutes, but wasting time, like taking public transport or some sort. That's a copied stuff, but something is different here. One is bobian (no choice) while the other is just not taking note of it.

*Respect is important because words from an unrespected person are vile. Be it jokes or some opinions, it become substantially unappeasing. Perhaps a brillant one will fare well, but how many brillant stuff are there for someone to absorb from someone that lost respect*

*How would we salvage something that had been broken down into pieces, just trying to get along with it, and not trying to infuse more conflicts that would eventually trigger the spinner of a grenade?"

*You reap what you sow, whatever evil you do a few decades ago will not gain sympathy from whatever you deserve injustically a few decades later, let alone a few years. Deserve what you did, that's what i believe, so don't expect me to be a forgiving type, Especially major ones, we shouldn't expect anyone to be forgiving, because you did something that is needing to be forgiven, but minor stuff? no one should be that petty, but yet again, the differences between major and minor differs in everyone*

As i was typing, i saw a message in IRC. (x) pasted a ban confirmation from an IRC football IRC channel with (y) being the victim. (y) then declare innocence and was asked by (x), why was he banned, (y) replied, "how i know", "lamers". (x) continued, "last time got kicked?" and (y) followed, "that was ages ago", "narrow minded losers". (y) knew what he did, and i knew too, because i was around when he and another friend, or two more friends were bored and childish enough to go into football fans' club channel to type some infuriating words about their clubs. He did something to them and he deserved that outcome, that's what i wanted to tell him, and (x) said don't argue already, i replied quite frustratingly because everything should be explained and cleared up. With (x) knowing what i meant, he wanted to clarify that but with an addition that i would be wasting time telling (y) about what he had done, because he would not care. That may be true, but we should all at least make an effort, that's what i thought. It hurt abit between (x) and me even though it's a small matter, but after being friends for so long and becoming like a family in EoD, all small matters become seemingly big. I respect (x), even though not in games and it doesn't feel right to get any conflicts just because of a small matter, but what is done is done. That's all i have to say.

Sunday, November 06, 2005

New Term Of School

Tomorrow, i'll be back in school for my 2nd term of the 1st year in poly. And there goes my occassional possibility of sleeping till i naturally awake. That's the only thing i will miss i think.

Wednesdays, Which are my guitar ensemble days is practically the only day i went out after getting the work during October. On those days, we will practice our ensemble pieces - "Aura Lee" and "Happy Together" - which is usually full of fun becoz of my interest and eventually going for pool after the lesson.

During the 16 days working, i met Eugene twice, although not in way which i could say hi to him or do any greetings, he will flash pass my sight which i wonder, why do i always see him? even in nyp, he's the person i saw the most times among those i know, in nyp doing different courses. Don't get me wrong, i don hate him or dislike seeing him, he's one of my nice darkages online friend. But to mostly see him compared to others just makes me wonder :/ perhaps he love going town or becoz he lives at ferrer park eh?

Last Saturday, we got extra guitar practice as we will be having some lunchtime performance in nyp and the annual guitar concert of the school during december, so, we have to perfect our pieces to spare the blushes, extra practice is definitely needed and it was the same, fun. After that, we went to play DOTA, at amk central, calling Wk along as he stays near amk central.

Monday, 31st, i went to work as usual and collected my pay for the 9 days at work after being paid for the other 6 days. That night, we had planned for a LAN tonning session at mark house. Those that ended up there are kel, wk and me, with marcus and aaron deciding not to go on that day. We had canadian pizza, played DOTA, ordered macs at arnd 3 or 4, and eventually kel went to sleep, getting ready to do his project with his cjc friends later on that day. Mark also went to sleep after seeing kel on his bed. And soon, wk joined, on the floor, after noticing that we got nothing to do having only two people. I also slept, only to wake up and say byebye to kel who left early, and at noon, to see wk play AOE3 trail which mark's comp has. I played awhile and eventually we decided to play some wc3. We started off with a standard game, ate noodles which mark's aunt cooked for us, and played custom game - poke'mon world 6.0 after browsing thru the maps mark have. It wasn't a bad game, in fact, it was relatively fun even though i am not a poke'mon lover or viewer.

Friday, 4th, i went to work as usual and met julian in the mrt, we merely nod our heads as greeting and went different ways. Feeling fluish after reaching the workplace, i went home earlier. It's my last day of work, and it ended badly. That night, marcus, je and me went mark hse to play dota and other forms of wc3 games, similiar to that of monday night. Je and i didnt promised or confirmed that we will be going, as Je is Je :/ and i was fluish, but we eventually went. Kel, Jus, Nav, Wk pulled out. Nevertheless, we played thru the whole night and went guitar on saturday. We played a game called dynasty warriors in wc3 mod, it was quite fun, perhaps 12 of us shud try it together 1 day. Mass killing stuff.

Saturday, Mark's father fetched us to guitar ensemble practice and we bought our books while we were there. Monday will be the start of our new term, but before there will be a sense of needing to accomplish something - going to school - there will be a soccer match! - man utd vs chelsea - and i am a man utd fan. It will be a reddish day.

Lets see how's school tml