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This is my first attempt at blawghing. It's just like tweeting in Twitter. Just that this one sounds less cute. Btw, I am patenting the term 'blawghing' ... or at least I am the founder :P.

I won't be blawghing here. Too bad. The blawgh is just the official term for the short sentence at the top in gray.

This morning I woke up for History tuition after a mere 3 hours of sleep. When I woke up I scrambled for the door because the room was dark and Where Got Ghost took its toll on me apparently. Last night after blogging I went up and I played Zubo for a bit. It's a musical-cum-role-playing game on the DS. Quirky and decent. Then I quickly moved on to Pokemon. Diamond. I finally discovered how to connect with players all over the world. I'm so happy that I have HomeWiFi. Did you know that WiFi stands for Wireless Fidelity? Later I will be battling Jordan's team, straight from my house here in Bau. I hope he remembers. I trained my Pokemon a lot last night, without using Rare Candies/Exp Share. I mostly focused on Vesper (my Vespiquen, originally intended to be named VesperLynd, a tribute to the Bond girl of the same name) and Cherry, my Cherrim. Here are their current movesets, ready for my future NU battles with Jordan or anyone else. NU means Never Used. I like using Pokemon that are rarely used by pros. 

Cherry Lv 29
Naive nature
Held item: Persim Berry
- Hidden Power [Fire]
- Petal Dance
- Growth
- Sunny Day

Vesper Lv 29
Quirky nature
Held item: Insect Plate
- Heal Order
- Defog
- Power Gem
- X-Scissor

They were both very useful on the annoying route to Celestic Town. Cherry easily OHKOed the Ninja Boys' Geodudes and Vesper Power Gem'd those stupid Ponytas to death. During the final quarter of the route I switched in Murina, my Murkrow since the aforementioned duo were already exhausted. 

So let's get back to History tuition. Not very reassuring. I got a B for the first paper my tutor issued but I got an A that beats my mock's A for the second paper. It was very fun. My tutor also watched The Final Destination and Where Got Ghost in cinemas though she is pregnant. Whoa. And here I thought horror flicks are the worst treats expectant mothers can ever receive. We discussed the deaths in mediocre detail, laughed at some of the silliness, talked about the songs that were playing on my playlist (my teacher loved The Vogues' "Turn Around, Look At Me" which was palyed in Final Destination 3 and was really creepy) then Mynci and I were left with two sheets to do in the holidays. Before she went, we watched a spoof trailer of Final Destination 4 on YouTube. It's got to be one of the funniest parodies of a horror movie yet.

Watch, there's not one bit of a scare, but every part is worth lolling for. Then after the teacher left, we moved onto watching the very first Final Destination on YouTube. Wow, the movie feels so fresh since I last watched it during 1st grade. Part 7 of the movie was banned for 18 and below YouTubers ... what a let-downer. I believe it was during Mrs Lewton's death. Too violent? Don't think so. The first movie's deaths are all pretty lame. And stupid. First of all, Mrs Lewton is a retarded teacher who didn't even notice her mug leaking, and didn't have the common sense to back away from a smoky computer. And she was a bish. Die, bishes! So we watched Hana Kimi instead. Mynci already watched the Taiwanese version, but it's all new to me. I love reverse harems. Awesome. I mean to say, I love everything with Horikita Maki in it. 100% lol-guaranteed. Later Mynci left after the first episode, I went for a nap. I woke up, looked at my left. Then I turned my head to the right. WAGGGH! My maid was standing so near to me staring off into the distance and I was so scared. I really should have picked A Perfect Getaway over Where Got Ghost. Or even G-Force. I was so traumatized, I didn't go back to sleep and sat around singing random songs I came up with. I really wanted to get on with my homework, but ... yeah ... The whole afternoon I also used Blogthings, a lot. I also went for a walk under the rain with my umbrella. I like rainy walks. Chilly, refreshing. 

Then I sat aorund doing fruitless stuff till now. I know, I REALLY should start getting things going. Quote Mr Andy, "When the going gets tough, the tough gets going!"

WiFi Battle, here I come!

All Your Base Are Belong To Us

If you don't get the reference on the title ... I dunno. 

Btw, I got some of my facts wrong. The Prof. Layton series is not based on picture books. It's based on the creater's fondness for puzzle books >.< ... I don't really like puzzle books!

It is so nice to have early holidays, even if it's just by a day. My mock results were okay. 5As, 1B, 1C. The literature part for BM 1 is actually pretty subjective to how you see things, so how well I do on that part always varies. I did not expect my PK results to be how it is. I really thought History was way harder, and the A I got from it was so encouraging! It was a very close A, yeah, but it still counts. I don't think I will be getting straight A1s in SPM, but we really shouldn't care all that much. While waiting for the 29th of September to come round, I've been playing a lot of Pokemon Diamond, and Pokemon SoulSilver. SoulSilver is in Japanese, but hey, I've been playing those types for quite a while already. I will play HeartGold in English later. I just beat my first Gym in SoulSilver with my following team:

Flint Lv 12 (Male Cyndaquil, main sweeper)
Gina Lv 11 (Female Geodude, my current physical wall)
Buzz Lv 11 (Male Beedrill, mainly for weakening Pokemon with Poison Sting/Fury Attack to capture them)
Kiran Lv 10 (Female Hoothoot, I initially wanted a Spearow for the Flying position but people recommended Hoothoot for its Hypnosis)
Merry Lv 11 (Female Mareep, backup sweeper)
Vic Lv 6 (Male Bellsrout, just captured)

I have an Onix and a Togepi egg in storage ... I'm not using the Onix cos' I got it when Gina already learned Rock Throw, so there's no point stocking up on Rock Pokemon ... I'm not a fan of them. Gina will be replaced later I think.

James thinks it is unfair if people like me get straight As if hard-working people like him don't. Eh ... I just have to say that studying isn't all about working hard. I believe one can study in many ways, and I decided to take it smooth and easy, like how I am currently doing my PK homework. I copy all of the answers down with pencil, read through all the papers, and that's it. It's easy, fast and you get the info. Later I just have to intentionally make some errors to make it seem like I didn't copy. But I bet Mr Jeff will find out *gulp* ... the teachers read blogs. I also don't think it is wrong to still be reading manga, playing games or watching movies (I just did :D). I just wasn't born to be a work-grinder. I don't like games that need a lot of grinding as a result. Thus my dislike of MMOs. I am also more of a night person (I took the test online) - I sleep through the first 4 classes of school everyday since I work better under the moonlight (I never did any work al fresco though, just indoors, at night). You can see that James detests my copying/sleeping habits (he sure does, and I don't like him reprimanding me). Well, it's not like anyone compliments me for not copying. No, that's just an excuse. Now I'll be moving onto the History homework that doesn't have answer sheets :( ... but I will NOT refer to the stupid textbooks. I prefer to read and work separately. My workspace is not all that ... spacy, and I'd rather just skim through my work :P ... sorry, I don't want to waste so much time on homework. I have Pokemon and j-dorama to catch up on. There's also the minor timeslots of blogging and badminton. I don't get to do much badminton these days, it had been more than 2 weeks. I am expecting to exercise some tomorrow. Talking about exercise, I'm so glad that our team won our last captainsball match of the year! I'm also the self-proclaimed MVD (D for Defender) this time round, I chose to stick to steel wall defense than the balanced offensive-defensive approach I used to take that turned out disappointing. We lost our last ball, but I don't care, in total we scored more. It's the most fun team sports for me, in others like basketball or football they all seem so rough and show-offish. Btw as a guy I hate football. I never saw what the whole craze is about, so don't bother changing my mind. But I don't mind American football. It's awesome. I'm an Eyeshield 21 fan. Karen said she may hold a captainsball match during her birthday, and I am hoping that it will be held.

I never said I will get straight As. I don't need them. But they will be helpful. I try to get them. Even if I don't get them, I won't blame my laid-backness. I am happy for how things are, and it's better to stay true to myself than reduce myself to some studious nerd or wannabe model student when I am not. Hey, just having a few missing As won't cancel out your future! Let's have a little look-see: Final Fantasy XIII will still be coming out, my passion for writing is still burning strong, One Piece has yet to end, Japan is still there, marriage is still on the highway, the soundtrack to my life still consists of the most vibrant of songs. I'd wake up every morning to see that the world has begun anew yet again. There are so many things to enjoy. Like enjoying the Malaysia summer daze with Mr Danny while watching the Football Club do their drills. Rewinding at Spring with Jordan. Shopping with Daryl. Eating snacks with Sharon. Playing badminton with Mynci. Deep talks with Shau/Yong. I particularly enjoy all these 1-on-1 sessions. I have the hardest of times expressing myself in groups. When in groups I just be the clown (I'm scared of clowns to be frank) ... there's no real bonding cos' I'm just there for laughs. I expect myself to have hard times in both the Arts and Science streams (but possibly won't be as hard in Science since I am really only business-blind) ... they make little difference. If there's a Literature stream, maybe I will work harder, but ... XD I bet I will just subconsciously expect the teachers to know where to stream me. People in Kuching sure look down on the realm of artistry. That's why the Literature stream got cancelled out. My parents aren't the most encouraging of their children's dreams, so they won't pay for courses I intend to take from The Writer's Bureau. It's a writing school btw. I showed Yi Yong a letter I received from them, straight from Manchester! I wished I have paid less attention of school and more on part-time jobs. I have an ex-classmate. She started working at a boutique part-time since she graduated 6th grade. Now she has gone all the way to working in a restaurant in Kuching from mere Bau. I'm still trying to contact her ... I wish one day I can meet her again. She was an awesome friend. I used to help out at her grandparents' bakery (I still do it actually, occasionally, without pay). I wish I live in Kuching, there are more job offers, and with my size, it isn't hard faking my age unless identification is needed. Then again hopefully I am given the chance to show my capabilities. But all those can just be excuses, I realized. I am just running away. I am just lazy. In fact there are jobs just about a mile from where I live. I just feel bored looking at the low wages. Sigh ... I just recently received an e-mail from the Bureau stating that they have reduced the student's fees but I never told them I cannot pay. I dunno why I am letting down the hopes of so many people. But if there's one thing I am sure of, I am trying to over come this laziness, and hopefully I can grasp my dreams as soon as I can. Currently I am shooting for whatever writing competition that comes my way, but I'm yet to win any. I lost the MPH one ... I realized that I never really stuck to the theme much, and it was actually quite vague, the references. Writing is a most enjoyable career, but it is also one of those that can take forever to receive your paychecks. I wonder how J. K. Rowling manages those uber-thick monoliths known as Harry Potter. According to many sources, a stable income is the staple requirement for marriage, and I don't want a late marriage. I really like family life, evident from how much I adore the dorama At Home Dad. Mr Andy even said that I am born to be a family man. Oh, he's an education counsellor that came for our EduFair this year as GEN's ambassador. He recommended the Academia in Australia as my place for higher education, but I have many pet peeves about Australia ... mainly because of it being where most Kuching people are going, and also the thing I've discussed with Mr Danny the other day ... my unwillingness to blend in with the norm. Isaiah seconded it. I went to the EduFair with Agnes ... meaning ... that was one of our 1-on-1 bonding sessions! Awesome! So she wants to be a businesswoman ... guess I won't be seeing her in class next year. Btw, if you are a guy, and you secretly admire Agnes, you have to be thin (not stick-thin), muscular and tall. And manly. If you actually observe here, you shy boys of 3A, you can see that beneath her quietness she is quite perky and ... cute! I am just trying to highlight our classmates' qualities, so don't go thinking the wrong way. And btw, don't be like Michael who just upped and asked to bond. It won't do! When we bond, we bond. Our moments come n-a-t-u-r-a-l-l-y. For current 9th graders, you can still see Mr Andy (Lee) next year during our EduFair if you go. Or else you can meet him later this year at the The Functions Room in Hilton on October 17th. GEN (Global Education Network) will be holding a Pre-University Education Fair there for free, and that includes career counselling etc. If you engage me on MSN I can give you the flyer online. GEN is very cool because they provide farewell parties for students who are leaving, student visa application and also guaranteed accomodation, alongside other spiffy bonuses. Not all education companies do that. In case you are wondering, yes, I am the self-appointed ambassador of GEN in the blogosphere. It's a very sad job with zero wages. But I did mention to Mr Andy before that if I'd be working in an office, I'd be in the CM (commercial) field. As of now that's the only office job I know so far that needs creativity. Maybe besides fashion/interior designers. I'd say I have a knack for interior designing (needs verification) or at least the passion. I love playing The Sims to design my Sims' houses. My last project was a a very hexagonal suburban home. I loved it. It used to be symmetrical but later I added a backyard. It's still great! 

I must be the Digression Maestro. I am so great at digressing, I kill Tweeters at Twitter who use uber-short messages with my Midgardsomr-ish posts. You can call me Williew, the Cute Sparkling Warrior of Love, Friendship and Digressions! I heal J. Loh with my Angelic Eye Beams of Love! I massacre hoards of loners with my Dance of Friendship! I slay Tweeters with my Digressive Verbosity Pose! For the rest, I can subjugate them with awesome sparkles of cuteness. I was joking. I wish I wasn't born big cos' I really like to act chibi. Maybe I am just a Midori (from Devil Survivor) wannabe! But who cares!? This post needs its fair share of un-seriousness, I believe. Lately I think I could have multiple-personality disorder. Sometimes I see myself as a midget-like character with delusionary quirks. Other times maybe an old man with quite the facial hair, salt-and-pepper hair and cigarette. If not, a guy dressed in a cute mascot costume. Eww. Watahelle.

Today I went to Spring with Jordan. I reached there first, and the crowd for immense. I queued so long at MBO's box office. Then I asked for Gamer tickets. I stupidly nodded when the health-conscious attendant (she had a face mask) asked if I was below 18. James called me naive, and I really can't see why otherwise, sigh. So I couldn't watch Gamer, forcing me to watch Where Got Ghost. It gave me goosebumps to even type out such horrible English. Before I got the tickets though, I saw a bunch of stupid grade school boys with such short height queuing up at an empty counter waiting to be served. I bet their parents would be so embarassed. I can't believe they can let such stupid children go out on their own. On the other hand, my father won't even let me buy an iPhone casing on my own because he feared I will be cheated. Wth. This is way more unfair than me getting 7As and James not getting them, IMO. Iasked Sharon out as well but her parents did not grant permission. Poor Sharon. I tried to contact Shau but failed. I must have had the wrong number. I lingered around outside till Jordan came from Ms Joey's tuition. We just poked around the top floor. Then we realize there was only 15 minutes left and the queue at the snack bar was horrid. I left Jordan to grab the drinks and popcorn while I chatted away with seniors Victor Tan (my apparent lookalike which I still have doubts of) and Shirley Ngui. I also saw Joshua from 3B and Elyssa along with their gang of unknown kids. In the end we were about 10+ minutes late for the movie. The movie is just a compilation of 3 shorts, and we just watched the last quarter of the first short movie. It was mildly scary. Since there were a bunch of idiotic kids (presumably from the empty counter) and other idiotic teens, it was so noisy with people shouting and laughing at whatever. Seriously, that was my first time being in a theatre with such cinema-etiquetteless people and it wasn't my first comedy. When I watched Final Destination the other day, no one even screamed. I must have been unlucky this time. Like Jordan said, today Spring was just replete with sluts and Ah Bengs. There was even a girl who mustered the most unnatural, off-notch "F**k" when a ghost appeared on-screen. And man, was she loud or what. Then those stupid kids ran up and down the aisle screaming that it was scary. Hey, have some manners. It was your own fault for not buying G-Force tickets. At least leave quietly. Good riddance. The second short was actually scary and with minor funny moments. But truly scary. I am more scared of ghosts than gratuitious gore I had during the last outing at Spring. The last one was so touching, I cried. Seriously. It was also a bit scary. Especially the part where the ghost appears in the television. 3.5/5 for the whole thing ... maybe it would have gotten higher if I watched all of the first short too.

Jordan and I went gallivanting over to Starbucks. Before that, he went to buy a crystal case for his DS (...). I ordered an Apple Danish and an Iced Latte. The drink was so bitter, I regretted buying it. The food on the other hand was divine. But RM7 still seems a bit too pricy. Oh well. We whipped out our DSes and booted up our respective Generation IV Pokemon games. I used Diamond, he used Platinum. We logged onto Starbucks' WiFi and traded our evolution-by-trading Pokemon. Finally. Willie, my Machoke, became a Machamp. Gashuri, my Haunter, became a Gengar. Domon (Do means earth in Japanese, mon means door), my Graveler, became a Golem. And Jordan's Kadabra shedded its bra and finally became a true woman who doesn't need bras (Alakazam). I admit that that was so lame a pun, I didn't even chuckle. I myself forgot to trade over Mephisto (my Kadabra) but whatever. I don't use Mephisto much after I got Raphael, my prized Girafarig. Did you know that Girafarig is palindromic? It is the same spelled backwards. Girafarigs belong in the NU tier when it comes to competitive metagaming, but I use it anyways. To make matters worse, my Girafarig has the Jolly nature. When I caught it I still haven't realized the importance of natures but anyways I don't think I will be into the metagame part much anyway. I will just max out Raphael's SpA EVs and probably give it Choice Specs. Girafarig is awesome for its Normal/Psychic typing so it cancels out its Ghost-type weakness though it is still weak to Dark-type moves. So I intend to spread its EVs between HP, SpA and Def. Jordan and I also battled some, I got 2 wins, 1 loss. Then we said bye and here I am after finishing up Uta no Onii-san's last episode. I cried. Haha.

Darrowe, Darrowe, Darrowe ~

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If Everyone Cares, Nobody Dies

... If everyone dies, nobody cares. Those are the first two lines of the Random Singing session between Yi Yong and me. Currently, it goes like this:

If everyone cares, nobody dies
If everyone dies, nobody cares
(those two lines are interchangeable)
[Yi Yong sings something]
Oh my soul is in pain
(time for random lyrics)
My head's in the game but my heart's in the song
Bla bla bla

Besides Random Singing, 3A also has Random Dancing services, along with mock trials and talk shows ... all hosted by me. I am also thinking of a confession booth service. You can cover your face with a piece of paper, so will I, and you can start confessing your secrets. By the way, I will be able to see your nametag :D

Okay, a-yo yo, we are, fin'shed, rappin' the prologgie ... yo! Leschuhz (let's start) wiv ... gaymin'! It'z a-gettin' gayer by da min'te!

I am currently into Pokemon Diamond and Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box. This is PLatDB:

That was just a parody on the official trailer. If you want the links to the other parodied Prof. Layton trailers, drop in on the chatbox, right on your ... right, yessiree. Anyways, since Prof. Layton is pretty unknown in Kuching (only Dawn knows it when I mention the name), let us start with the explanation; full-swing and all.

The Prof. Layton games are together a DS series based on a series of picture books (picture books are really cool, okay?), developed by kick-ass developer Level 5 (Dark Cloud, Dark Cloud 2, Rouge Galaxy, Ninokuni: Another World, Ushiro) and currently there are only two Layton games in English - Prof. Layton and the Curious Village + PLatDB. The series are based on Profesor Layton and his apprentice Luke as they take down puzzle after puzzle. That sure sounded boring. But believe me, it's not. It's even better than masturbation. Trust me, I'm sure. In every game you will be treated to a majestic plot and charming, simple artwork. The game also has voice-acting to boot. Great voiceovers, in fact. They are rich with the British accent, and I just love classic English settings, okay? Especially being on a classic express train in Diabolical Box. According to Yi Yong (the London guru), no such trains exist anymore. Boo. You may be wondering how Level 5 managed to cram 1000s of puzzles and voice-acting and orchestrated soundtracks into a DS cartridge, but who cares how they did that. All that matters is the game sucks you in. I'm also currently playing Pokemon Diamond ( I know I've said this). I can't wait for HeartGold/SoulSilver. By 29th September though, I no longer need to play Pokemon Diamond, I will have Hero's Saga: Laevateinn Tactics, Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days and The Wizard of Oz: Beyond the Yellow Brick Road. Don't underestimate the last one. I've seen a trailer, and it looks awesome. I also would like a PSP just to play P3P (Persona 3 Portable). I finally netted myself a deal that if I get at least 5As, I can have a new console. Finally, some motivation to study. ONLY ONE CONSOLE! AND THEY ALL LOOK SO AWESOME! The PS3 has the best graphics output, and also the most likely console Konami and Atlus will move Suikoden and SMT onto, respectively. The 360 has some impressive games like Eternal Sonata and Tales of Vesperia. The Wii will be having Fragile: Farewell Ruins of the Moon and I also wanna try Pokemon Battle Revolution, alongside Super Smash Bros Brawl. The PSP will have Ushiro, P3P, and Revelations: Persona. Btw, my father brought home a PSP of his friend's son's to give me a taste-test. I was like, "WHOAAAA" ... I mean, I've tried Vincent's before, but I didn't have much time trying it out XP. It was a 1st-grader's PSP, and thus I played LocoRoco :) ... it was pretty innovative for a platformer, but that's about it. With me, platformers won't ever make it to the end credits. Well, most of the time. That's also why I don't appreciate stuff like Mario. Eww. At least LocoRoco has its charm.

Dorama, dorama, I like dorama (Japanese drama) ~
Indian, Indian, I like talking like an Indian ~
Objection, objection, I can't wait for Miles Edgeworth's game next year ~

Let's check my list of watched dramas!

1st (and the one that drove me to watch dorama in the first place!) - Smile (unfinished)
2nd - Atashinchi no Danshi (finished)
3rd - At Home Dad (favorite, finished)
4th - Attention Please (unfinished, stupid Dailymotion is crazy slow)
5th - Dragon Zakura (this dorama is awesome! But the 5th episode is hosted on Veoh which is banned in Malaysia ... one of the reasons I hate staying here ... maybe I'll have to look for the DVD ...)
6th - Uta no Onii-chan (watching, I hate how the main character looks so pathetic but otherwise it's great ... personally, I find the main character to look like Kenny Sia actually, minus the pathetic parts)
7th - My Little Chef (just started)

I've been working hard on finding every dorama with Abe Hiroshi inside (At Home Dad, Dragon Zakura, My Little Chef) ... he's my favorite actor! Let's see my favs!

Fav. Male Actor: Hiroshi Abe
Fav. Female Actor: Maki Horikita
Fav. Child Actor: Okayama Tomoki

I also like regulars like Ueto Aya, Koike Teppei, Aragaki Yui etc. I tend to like watching family dramas, so I especially liked At Home Dad. May talk about it another time.

I worked hard painting in Art! I painted a personified collage based on my image of Persona 5 ... I am expecting it to have a neon green + black motif, complete with a plot connected to nature. So I brought my painting to Mr Chai after-school. He gave me the 49, but he said he wants to sell my painting. Wth? I refused (I won't even get the money!) since I really wanted to show the painting to Isaiah and Aaron from upstairs. However he just went on with it, blur as always, and told me I can take it back if it doesn't sells. O_O ... Hey, I know I'm supposed to be happy that a painting of mine actually got appraised to be of value, but it's really a special one for me. At least let everyone else in class to see it. T_T I really want people like Agnes to praise me, because ... they like to give harsh criticisms! Argh!

These days I am getting good reads off the school's library! I recently read Tripping to Somewhere by Kristopher Reisz and it was a fantastic blast. I had an awesome time reading it, except for the mildly disturbing parts featuring lesbianism. Otherwise it's just the perfect book for me. Now I am reading N. P. by Banana Yoshimoto. Her Kitchen book was amazing, so I thought, "Why not?" As usual, Japanese stuff sucks me in. N. P. stands for North Point, btw. It features incest. Oh great, I am starting to attract books featuring the most disturbing of sexual conquests like how rubbish attracts flies! ... Not a very nice comparison. I like my most recent essay that I wrote for a pop writing test. Yi Yong said it was average, but I suppose she just didn't get the humour. At least Dawn got all cracked up. I was actually worried that Ms Chin wouldn't like the sarcastic nature of my essay, but it seems to be fine.

Down, down, down ~ *humming Uta no Onii-chan's OP*

Oh yeah, no HeCuDePe.

Like, Bam!

I have no idea why I am posting this late when I am supposed to be sleeping. Last last week, I cried for a total of 9 times. See, first I cried when Yousuke reunited with Juxiang in The Little Nyonya, then I cried watching the Brand New World (by D-51) opening theme for One Piece because an overpowering nostalgia surged over me. Brand New World is the best anime opening, EVER. One song that I will never get bored of. Here's my rating for One Piece's best openings:

#1 - Brand New World by D-51

#2 - Believe by Folder 5

#3 - Crazy Rainbow by Tackey & Tsubasa

Talking about songs, I recommend Mystery Jets' Half in Love with Elizabeth. Don't worry, it's English, anti-Japan freaks. Please stop thinking that everything western is cool and all that and that eastern stuff are lame. You're just wasting your life by covering yourself up in a dumphole. You might as well be living in a dump. You don't even try to know eastern culture yet you prance about with your western dreams ... when you don't really know much about western things either. 

I cried 5 times watching Smile's 6th episode, 3 times during its first. I wonder what's taking Stormy Subs so long to sub the next episode. I can't wait. Atashinchi no Danshi is awesome. It's a really cool dorama (Japanese drama) and I think they should have more dramas like it. My favorite character is Ohkura Akira. See, he is just kewt and undeniably charming. I mean, hello? He's 12, he's cool, he's cute, he's mature, he's smart and he BUYS AND SELLS STOCKS. Oh yeah, he also does magic and will fall asleep immediately at 9 pm on the spot. He could be peeing, arm-wrestling, anything. He will just freeze still. 

He is portrayed by Okayama Tomoki, who immediately became my favorite child actor. In the drama I also like Chisato (she's very cute too), Satoru (cute) and Kyoko (she always appear out of nowhere). My fav AnD episodes would be episodes 3 & 7! I like Ep. 3 because of the scene in the end which was so effing hilarious. First of all, stupid Sho didn't even notice that a woman was stealing his' house's stuff right in front of him. Then they went on a wild goose chase. The woman (Yoshida) knocked Takeru (who's part of a Bosouzoku) unconscious with one flying punch. Then Satoru screamed for nothing and jumped out of his window. Wth, the Japanese are pwnsome! I like Ep. 7 mainly because Akira is the focal point for once. Poor Akira. His theme color is yellow, and that is so in sync with me.

I'm currently playing SMT: Devil Survivor on my DS (US release this time round). It still feels fresh even though I played the JP version already. I love Midori. She will always be my favorite character.

I want to sleep. Bzzt.

I Miss Battle Royale

Tough day, folks. Last night I slept at 1 after playing Knights in the Nightmare. And I woke up at 6 something to prepare for my private tuition at 8. History =). I have a History tutor starting last week. When my parents told me about it, I was horrified as I had been through tutoring experience before. Last time in 6th grade I had a tutor for Chinese. He's awesome, but I had restrain myself from yawning the whole time. I really didn't want to relive such a nightmare. Therefore I invited Mynci to come along to my house every Sunday morning. At RM50 a month, it's quite cheap for a tutor really.Well, contrary to my initial expectations, the tutor is fun! She has quite the sense of humor, we get our share of laughs, and I get to play music from my computer XD! I've always wanted to go to a school with a BGM, especially those video game ones (which ARE school themes) like Persona 3's Want To Be Close, Changing Seasons or Mana Khemia's Vayne and his Pleasant Friends. Revitalizing, fo sho. Sadly, schools don't realize this. Even though Lodge is a private school like Gekkoukan, no one thought about it. Like, speakers in class playing the music quite softly (like I do during History tuition). The speakers can also be used for breaking news/announcements by the higher ups like in Japanese schools. Cool. Last week during the exams I was suddenly thrust back into Persona-mania mode. Therefore, I bought a sling bag on purpose, and I jog into the foyer with the exact rhythm as the random Yosuke, Chie etc. who bump up on Souji when he is walking to school. And I hum Want To Be Close. There's that sense of true youth in it. I walk into class and shout, "Mornin'!" Wow, never done that before. Very, very refreshing. I wonder if Eugene does it too. Whenever I finish my papers I will be tap-a-tapping my fingers like Inspector Lunge and hum something. If it's cloudy, Hearbeat, Hearbreak. Sunny? Your Affection. When The Moon's Reaching Out Stars for rains. But then the rhythm of the falling rain is enough for rains, like in P4. A most carefree exam week. As of the last day of exams, I went to PBK for my replacement exam. I didn't meet Karen or Phil. So I was so down, down, down. I did meet Geraldine-dine-dine. I'm high (now, not then). After I'm done I went out with a big plan. Not exactly, but a plan. I wanted to go to The Gingerbread House, sit down, order a cup of coffee, and act all adult and cool, sipping coffee while playing Suikoden Tierkreis on my DS. Nevertheless, my plan failed, due to my mother already waiting for me. Huh. We were to go to Premier 101 to wait for my father. So off we go in her friend's car. Woosh! And it was like, ka-blam, and, like, we crashed into the main square of 101. It's the open area in front of the Yamisu tea house. I'm not calling it Zhen Gong Fu, because it's Jia Gong Fu. No, serious, it's fake. The real Zhen Gong Fu franchise in China is not that cheap. Cheapskate! It had been quite long since I went to an open-air coffee-shop. So why not? It's kinda wild and happening anyway. 101 is pretty tame during the day, so I didn't know. For people out side Malaysia ... 101 is a block of shops that is far from 109 in Shibuya, Tokyo =). Anyways I ordered mantou with cream milk. And off I went to the nearby cd store to jot down horror movies worth checking out at Wikipedia. It's one of my hobbies. I don't watch horror movies much (cos I don't do well with nightmares) but I am fascinated by them I constantly look up on horror movies in Wiki. I like reading about the deaths =). Don't worry, just a hobby. Willie ain't no psychopathy =). When I was done, my father was already at our table. Apparently he did something rude which I didn't find out until last night. I don't want to go into detail, I ALWAYS suck at explaining the cruelties of my father. The mantou there was good. Of course, my father HAD to go against it. He said it was unhealthy. Okay, whatever. Everything he recommends is good, and everything new I try is bad. Like I care. Actually I do. Hmm. 

Wow, I finally managed to digress. So after the tutor and Mynci went home, I had to go to Kuching for PBK. Ugh. I ditched my essay today, the teacher is too blur anyways. Which is kinda good actually. You can pick to write the essays which are decent and ditch those you don't like, he won't scold me. After all, I don't talk in class. No one to talk to. Pretty cold class. It wasn't like this back in grade school. Last time in tuition even when we were total strangers everyone would ease up to each other fast. Teenage life, sigh. Oh well, at least the Green Road girl sitting with me is beginning to warm up. My throat always feel stuck when I try speaking to her though. I hope everything's resolved by the end of the year. Or hopefully not. Then next year I can move on to Mr Willie's tuition with no regrets whatsoever. But if I DO manage to net myself some friends, I may stay in PBK. After all in PBK you can get 97/100 in essays. Serious. When it comes to marking essays it really all depends on the teacher marking it so don't be sad if your school teacher if you low grades. Some other teacher may just worship your essay! Let's positive thinking! Oh, talking about grades, I'm quite happy with myself this term =). My Maths shot up from 54 to 95. If only I got 59 in the first term exams, then my marks would be palindromic. Before I went off for PBK, I finished up Battle Royale's last two chapters. Sob, bye, BR! I will miss you! Currently looking for the original novel!

What did I do yesterday ~ I woke up abruptly thanks to my inconsiderate father who doesn't realize that people need more sleep. I couldn't get back to sleep, and instead of playing Knights in the Nightmare I went downstairs, switched on my PC. I spent most of the day watching Smile on Dramacrazy.net and Nobody Knows at the same time. I finally found the movie online. Don't worry, I don't entirely blame the class. That stupid teacher too. She DID know that she wasn't one of our teachers, right? Why show us a movie of hers which we know would not be finished in 2 periods? Crazy! I also actually logged into my supposedly-dead Facebook account out of boredom. 48 friend requests. Wow, crazier than that stupid crazy teacher. Sheesh, craziness these days. I'm Ken Amada on Facebook btw, not Williew or anything. That's why I had to accept 48 requests at a time =). Facebook hates Opera, so there are stuff I cannot do with my current browser, like, say, Mafia Wars, searching for apps or adding quizzes to my Page. I hope Facebook becomes more compatible with Opera soon. I may like it more. I tried playing Bubble Town. Very classic. Actually that was just a nice way of me saying, "What a Puyo Puyo/Puzzle Bobble rip-off!" But really, it does have its own ideas, like the walls bouncing off Borbs. 

On my way home from PBK, I also noticed a few houses that burned rubber, causing a tall pillar of black smoke rise up. Yeahhhhhhhhhh, maybe I was in Indonesia. *nudge* *nudge* Malaysians aren't really all that great and civilized, get real, know-nothings. There's a haze in West Malaysia now. Oh, I wonder what caused it. "Stupid haze from Indonesia"? I think not. Have you even been to Indonesia? Retard. Retard isn't a bad word, we have to learn it in Maths. Stupid dense commentators on haze who have serious retardation issues, geez.

I will try my best to keep up with consistent weekly updates. 

HeCuDePe

1. Knights in the Nightmare - This. It's also the must-use-stylus DS game I am currently playing. The learning curve is steep therefore I don't recommend it to Dawn. The story is pretty dark anyways. My current band of Knights includes Bonn, Oswald, Diora, Meryl, Reinhart, Giesche, Freiber and Hilgard.

2. Persona 3 - This.

3. Mana Khemia - This.

4. Gekkoukan - The elite private school you go to as main character of Persona 3. It's awesome.

5, 6, 7. Yosuke, Chie, Souji - Main protagonists in Persona 4, they wear glasses in battle (hence the coolness). Users of the Personas Jiraiya, Tomoe and Izanagi respectively. Souji can actually use any Persona, since he is the game's main character. Souji is his given name in the Persona 4 manga, there was never any real name given to him in the game.

8. Inspector Lunge - An eccentric, important character in the manga Monster. Read it, it's deep. I mean, c'mon, it's by Naoki Urasawa (author of 20th Century Boys), how can it not rock? Of course, 20th Century Boys is way better ..... obviously as it is even more popular than the rock song by T-Rex its name is based upon.

9. P4 - Persona 4.

10. Suikoden Tierkreis - The current non-stylus game I am playing on the DS. A spin-off of the original Suikoden series, with still 108 characters to recruit. My current party consists of Hero (named Williew), Sophia, Yod and Servillah (with Balsam as support character) all at Level 51. I'm near the end of the game , currently at the Rarohenga dungeon. I returned to HQ to rest after recruiting Zayin inside Rarohenga. I recommend this game to Dawn, it needs no experience in RPGs at all, the battles are too ridiculously easy (except when you get to Rarohenga), nice if not slow plot and you do not need to play previous Suikodens to understand this game. I mean, it's better than just revising in the weekends! For Sharon, get Suikoden and Suikoden 2 for the PlayStation. Even if you can't game now you can keep it until the year-end holidays. My favorite Suikoden game is Suikoden 2. 

11. Let's positive thinking - Catchphrase of Persona 2: Eternal Punishment's main character Maya Amano.

12. Battle Royale - Oh I love BR! BR starts as a novel by Koushun Takami on a government project where a class of students is sent to an island and they are forced to kill each other until one remains. It was later made into a manga, which bore a sequel (Battle Royale II: Blitz Royale) and also a live action film, which also bore a sequel (Battle Royale II: Requiem). Both sequels don't rock as hard as their prequels. I've watched the films, read the manga, now I'm hoping to chance upon the novel sometime soon. It's really awesome, and sadly you can't read it at OneManga. Go to this website instead. Beware, it may be deep, but there's nudity and gore. The gore is really cheap though. Ask Sharon. She saw Yutaka's head drilled through with bullets by Kiriyama. Not very scary actually. You just may at most be surprised since it's a manga. Well, tough luck, CuDePe. Manga isn't limited to stuff like Naruto. Talking about shonen battle manga, I'm addicted to Fairy Tail! It's pwntastic! And I like it that Katekyo Hitman Reborn finally realizes that it sucks as a comedy manga and is moving on to become a real battle manga.

13. Smile - A Japanese drama. You have to watch it. I mean, it's the first drama EVER which got me crying in the first five minutes of the FIRST EPISODE. And I cried two more times i nthe first episode. How good do you think it is? It is subbed and watchable for free.

14. Dramacrazy.net - A website that hosts countless asian dramas and movies (Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Taiwanese). Yes, you can watch Battle Royale and Battle Royale II: Requiem on that site. Don't worry, the films have hardly any gore.

15. Nobody Knows - The sad movie based on the affair of the four abandoned children of Sugamo. The movie is unappreciated and underrated ... here at least. I'm happy it got the awards it received. I don't like Shigeru, unlike Sharon who had finished the movie online. I think Susan finished it too. Damn, I wanna finish it myself. Awesome stuff. 

16. Puyo Puyo/Puzzle Bobble - Play Bubble Town in Facebook and you get the idea of both games. They already exist in arcades years ago. You can't find them in Hock Lee. But why play a puzzle game at an arcade anyways?

Snake Snake Cobra Cobra

Photofest post galore (from last year) ~

^ Yiew Chiew sure looks the part here, doesn't he?

^ Picture at Borneo Springs, I used Lens Distort to pincushion it first, then I added a water effect.

^ A candid shot! Yay! Once again with Lens Distort, I barrelled the pic to have the TV look. Then I solarized it. Congrats, posing girl, you're on TV!

^ Custom duotoning, then add a canvas layer.

^ Believe it or not, this is Jocelyn.

^ James, stamped. Scary!

^ The view behind the canteen with stained glass effect.

^ This was taken au natural, without any effects. Even Sharon was befuddled by it. I don't know how my phone managed it, but it's unique, alright.

^ To get this photocopy-like color, emboss it 3 times, then use chalk and charcoal.

^ The watercolor effect just makes Phil handsomer, doesn't it?

^ Barrel, and then I disabled the green filter (IIRC). I like the mist look and the crimson skies.

^ Let it glow with custom diffusion and intensity. Canvas layering next.

^ Plain ol' chalk n' charcoal. The basketball court never looked as charming.

^ Custom aging and really light water effect.

^ Custom posterization, then solarization.

^ Kaleidoscope'd Dawn, pincushioned beforehand.

^ It was a 1-on-1, mano-a-mano photo-taking face-off!


^ It was the snake thing in the wildlife center. I grey scaled it, barrelled and finally vignetted.

^ Simple glowing.

^ Aged orgasm. Hmm.

^ Notice the linked hands? At first when I saw the one around Karen's right arm I thought it was a ghost's arm. Creepy.

Oh phew I can finally delete those photos! Awesome! Btw try to click on the pics in your eyesight fails you.