BSGC Elim Combined Youth Camp 2006 in Pangkor Island

It has been one and a half years since my last youth camp, and although I still had a lot of uncompleted work ( Christmas was just over, and December has been the most hectic month with sleepless nights coz of Holiday Club, Family Camp and Christmas outreach), I still signed up for the Youth Camp. Why? Because this is probably the LAST TIME I will be able to do something like this in a very long time.

Anyway, despite all the unfinished and un-taken-cared-for business that needed to be done, I went to Pangkor, in hopes of gaining some rest for the last few days of my precious holidays. Boy I was so wrong.

While the camp was not as tiring as previous camps have been to me, it provided no rest for me. It was like running a marathon, and activities piled on activities, piled on activities, piled on more activities. While I would have loved such a camp as this any other day, December is just a tough month for me. While some people commented that I looked very emo during the camp, and people keep asking me if I am enjoying the camp, I always give a weak nod, grunting something like :"yeah, It's ok, you know"

Anyway, I'll stop ranting for a moment and comment on the camp speaker, Mr. Steven Low. Knowing him when he was still in Ipoh, and having him in RBS teaching prayer, and still I never fail to learn something from him... He was one of the people concerned if I was enjoying myself or not.

So, I'll end here for now. I'll post when I get the pics. A pic is worth a thousand words.....

The Illusive Dream

Where might you be going this fine day, my friend?
Off along an aimless road that soon must end
Chasing an illusive dream that shines so fair
But when found, isn't there

I can understand your weary sigh, my friend
there but for the grace of God go I, my friend
Come and let Him lead you to your journey's end
Oh, come along and walk with Him

If without the grace of God your life should end
And before the face of God you'd stand, my friend
What would your illusive dream avail you then?
So, come along and walk with Him

........................................................................................

-What do I really need?-

nothing to say

ive got nothing to say lo... so ppl ask me update i update lor... see? this is an update............

Post exam slide

There's like, two and a half weeks more to the holidays, and i am hoping that the holidays come both sooner and later. It is a bitter moment now, to have the time to pause and consider, the event which started the very first link of the chain of iron and of thorns which binds me to where I am now.

I've proved through this examination that i have reached my peak, my "Golden Age" a long time ago, and now everything is in steady decline.

Anyway, I do hope that the end of this year brings an end to many things.

Melancholic Alcoholic...

The Path To The Dark Side

I sense much fear in you...

Fear is the path to the dark side...
Fear leads to anger...
Anger leads to hate...
Hate leads to suffering...

Who Is Quasimodo's Father?

Quasimodo, the half-formed, is a main character in the book (and Disney cartoon, and Michaelian School Play) by the name of The Hunchback of Notre Dame. While Clopin did his best to try to explain how Quasimodo ended up in the bell tower of Notre Dame, there are still many questions asked that Clopin did not answer... questions to Quasimodo's origins... and his relations to the other characters in the Hunchback of Notre Dame....

Question No. 1
Who was Quasimodo's birth father?

According to speculation, Quasimodo's real father could very vell be Judge Claude Frollo... Impossible? Think again. Why did Frollo lay a trap for the gypsies? Maybe he was trying to hide the fact that he has a son... Why did he pursue the gypsy woman, Quasimodo's mother himself, when he could just command a soldier to chase her?
Maybe he wants to make sure the secret is safe... He is a judge, so such a sin would have had great negative impact on his career... Then, after snatching Quasimodo from the Gypsy woman, he is surprised that his son is a deformed "monster". So he tries to destroy all evidence... only to be stopped by the Archdeacon... And since Quasimodo is his son, he agrees to bring him up.

Makes sense? lol....

Oh crap...

I thought I would be happy.


I thought this would make me happy.


But I was wrong.


Ladies and gentlemen, boys and little girls, I have officially gotten my transfer to the Arts stream (don't ask how, I myself don't know) and as before mentioned, I thought I would be happy, but I am not.

I had an encounter almost abrupt as this before. The day I left Sam Tet and went to SMI. No goodbyes, no farewells, I just left. (but no matter what people say, I believe and maintain that it was for the best). Now I am about to do the same with my friends in LSS5.

Not that I will never see these wonderful (and awfully hilarious) bunch of people ever again, but the feeling of not being there to see Harpreet being called up to answer MUET questions or Yew Wai giving a lecture on sclerenchyma is a little hard to bear, considering the little but much treasured time in knowing these guys. Thank you very much!!

And as the students in Lss5 know, elder children are usually more nostalgic, and hold on to the past. I hope the friends I make in Lss5 will not be "unfriended" when I go to the Arts stream. Hope to yum char with you guys, watch a movie or two....

And as a sign of moving on, I've renamed my blog to "The Pinnacle of Crapology". I hope the title changing works.

I Hate.

I hate. I despise. I do not love, for none deserves to be loved. I do not smile. I do not laugh. I destroy, I mutilate.

This is me.

Life is full of setbacks. Do not trust those around you. Your stumbling block is the one you least expect.

I shall not speak to thee... Thou knowst what thou didst, thine face erased shall be.

I HATE!!!!

noob - newest word in the dictionary?

This is how the dictionary entry for the word 'noob' would look...

noob (nʊb)
noun. plural noobs. variation noobie.

1. A person who lacks skills in a certain field, e.g. John is a total noob in golf.
2. A person who is bad at something, while he/ she should be good in it already, e.g. I don't understand why you are such a noob in English, as you have studied it for more than ten years.
3. A newbie. A person who is new at something i.e. an online computer game, e.g. Take it easy on Harry when you play DotA with him, as he is a noob.

For more information, do a wikipedia search for noob.

I will work on the other forms of noob like nooby/noobish, noobynisation/noobinisation, noobness/noobity on a later date, cause right now I am busy memmorising Jibberish: rama lama lama ka dinga da dinga dong, shoobop sha wadda wadda yippity boom de boom....

The Birth month thingy

Since everybody was doing this thing, I thought "oh, what the heck". Here goes:

Your Results:

November

Has lots of extraordinary ideas. Difficult to fathom. Thinkforward. Unique. brilliant. Sharp thinking. Fine, strong clairvoyance. make good doctors (lol??? or maybe Dr of Arts). Dynamic. Secretive. Inquisitive. Know how to dig secrets. (be careful...)Always thinking. Less talkative.(Do any of you think so?) amiable. Brave. generous. Patient. Stubborn. hardhearted. Determined. Never quit. Hardly become angry unless provoked. Love to be alone. Think differently. Sharp-minded. Motivate self. Don't appreciate praises. Highspirited. Well-built, tough. Deep love, emotions. Romantic. Uncertain in relationships. Homely. Hardworking. (I beg to differ) High abilities. Trustworthy. Honest. Keepsecrets. (your secrets (those that I korek) are safe with me) Can't control emotions. Unpredictable.


Well, this is only a rough guide, but basically says a lot. Not 100% accurate, coz not everyone is the same (that's where the whole "environment affects intelligence and character" thing comes in....)

Star Walk tomorrow. Hope it helps clear my mind off things a bit, and spend time with my friends...

I'm still alive!!!!

After four gruelling Chemistry periods, I am surprised that I am still breathing... ROTFLMAOWTIME... (rolling on the floor laughing my a** off with tears in my eyes) So happy to still be in one piece. Of course, Chemistry is only a piece of cake compared to Maths, where the so unfortunate numeric dyslexic (which I am) faints... I just can't grasp the meaning of overly complicated formulae. I can spell supercallifragilisticexpiallidocious without any help but give me any equation with an unknown (or just about anything) and i will not be able do give you an answer. Which is why I am trying so hard to transfer to Arts.

Found out that MENSA Malaysia's test's price has come down to MYR 35... lol.. wanna ask the teachers if they would organize one test in the school. Gotta get 148 out of 180 to qualify.

The nut behind the wheel...

Just wondering, who is more dangerous, a nut behind the wheel, or a noob behind the wheel? (noob: n. a person who is new/inexperienced in something; a newbie. e.g. I am a noob in DotA.)

A nut behind the wheel is a driver who would not apply stop, look, go at berhenti signs, speeds like a maniac, swerves like a drunk, and always drift here, drift there (be careful not to drift away to the lands of the dead).

A noob behind the wheel is a newbie in driving. This type of driver would be slow on the road, especially near traffic lights. They will usually panic when being honked or when there is heavy traffic.

A nut behind the wheel is always impatient. They despise the noobs behind the wheel, thinking that their "skills" in driving makes them good enough to boss or honk noob drivers. The noob behind the wheel, on the other hand, despise the nut behind the wheel because they drive dangerously, and then boast about their "exploits". The noob also hates the way a nut swerves and drifts in front of them.

There is third kind, typical drivers who drive safely without being a hassle to others. The typical driver usually hates both nut and noob drivers, but may be more sympathetic towards the noob.

What do you think? Which is worse, the nut or the noob?

a blessing in disguise?

as I am writing this blog, my hands are not touching the keyboard, mouse, or any part of the computer. This is because I have discovered a new exciting technology called speech recognition. I am writing this blog or should I say saying this blog, using only a microphone which I am talking into.

of course there are a few weaknesses in this new technology because it is still new. for example, it does not recognise my speech as well as it should, resulting in the need for me to type in certain words myself. However, it does allow me to command my computer to do certain things like close Microsoft Windows. Heck, it will even shut down the computer if I asked it nicely.

On another note, the performance went really well during speech day( I think) coz the cast and the psalmists ( I mean vocalists) did a good job after all that practice...


Another thing. I was in town today and I needed to call my mum. However I could not find a single working telephone booth even after walking around town for about 15 minutes. What a disappointment. Don't you think they should provide us with better service? don't you think that vandals should be put in jail? Well I do...


Well, I think I'll just have to live and let live...

Ignorance is bliss...

Horror. The root word for horrible as terror is the root word for terrible. My experience today. Described as below.

"Clarence Choong!" I heard Mr. Karu, our Form Six Moderator call out my best friend's name. I was wondering if I was next.

"Ng Cheon Yuen!" Mr Karu called. My hopes sank. I was still hoping my name would be called, looking eagerly at Mr. Karu, looking anxiously at my friends.

The fact is, Mr Karu is calling out names from a list. A list of those who applied for a transfer from the science stream to the arts stream. Those who supposedly got their application approved. I was still hoping to be on the list, just as everybody else was.

"Goh Cheng Fai" called Mr. Karu. My heart made a little leap, as I walked over to the other side, with a wide grin over my face, and the butterflies gone from my stomach. I hear a couple more names being called. People are jumping up and down, overjoyed to be part of those on the list. we kinda looked like people who just got our SPM results, and who got really good results, commented our moderator.

Oh! now I hope that my name was not called, for those who have been called have had their applications rejected ( or as Clarence puts it: not rejected, merely not accepted only). And so the hopes of those who were planning to go to the arts stream, the exciting chatter amongst those who were called, all came to an end when we found out that Mr. Karu read off the wrong list. The horrible realisation. Oh, ignorance is bliss!!

Now I can only appeal, and hope that it will not be rejected this time round.

On the brighter side, drama practice was good today. Everything else does not matter.

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (warning: Spoilers Ahead!)

I am sick. As in sick. Sick enough to leave school before recess. Thanks to the Looooooooong assembly today.

Actually, can't blame them for making me sick coz i was sickly this morning. But the assembly just made it worse.

Anyway, I have progressed from being sick to being sickly, giving me time to prepare for my MUET assignment. Haha.

BTW I have a throat infection, swelling my lymph nodes to amazing proportions. The interesting thing is, the doctor who treated me was well aware I was a Michaelian, and asked me if there was a school play this year. I told him we are doing the Hunchback of Notre Dame this year and he got excited and quoted parts of the book to me. Lucky I read the first and last chapters of the book ( as well as the synopsis) so I was able to relate to what he was talking about. I told him we are doing the Disney version, to which he said the Victor Hugo version is more romantic.

There are several stuff in Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame that might make monsieur Hugo roll in his grave in the magnificent Pantheon. Here's why:

Quisimodo would never have been able to sing the high high high notes (sung wonderfully by actor Tom Hulce) in the cartoon. Why? Coz he's deaf. He's a bellringer, for goodness sakes. And he was not the King of Fools but the Pope of the Fools.

Here is an excerpt of Victor Hugo's description of Quasi:

After all the pentagonal, hexagonal, and whimsical faces, which
had succeeded each other at that hole without realizing the
ideal of the grotesque which their imaginations, excited by
the orgy, had constructed, nothing less was needed to win their
suffrages than the sublime grimace which had just dazzled the
assembly. Master Coppenole himself applauded, and Clopin
Trouillefou, who had been among the competitors (and God
knows what intensity of ugliness his visage could attain),
confessed himself conquered: We will do the same. We
shall not try to give the reader an idea of that tetrahedral
nose, that horseshoe mouth; that little left eye obstructed
with a red, bushy, bristling eyebrow, while the right eye disappeared
entirely beneath an enormous wart; of those teeth
in disarray, broken here and there, like the embattled parapet
of a fortress; of that callous lip, upon which one of these
teeth encroached, like the tusk of an elephant; of that forked
chin; and above all, of the expression spread over the whole;
of that mixture of malice, amazement, and sadness. Let the
reader dream of this whole, if he can.

The acclamation was unanimous; people rushed towards
the chapel. They made the lucky Pope of the Fools come
forth in triumph. But it was then that surprise and admiration
attained their highest pitch; the grimace was his face.

Or rather, his whole person was a grimace. A huge head,
bristling with red hair; between his shoulders an enormous
hump, a counterpart perceptible in front; a system of thighs
and legs so strangely astray that they could touch each other
only at the knees, and, viewed from the front, resembled the
crescents of two scythes joined by the handles; large feet, monstrous
hands; and, with all this deformity, an indescribable
and redoubtable air of vigor, agility, and courage,--strange
exception to the eternal rule which wills that force as well as
beauty shall be the result of harmony. Such was the pope
whom the fools had just chosen for themselves.

One would have pronounced him a giant who had been
broken and badly put together again.

When this species of cyclops appeared on the threshold of
the chapel, motionless, squat, and almost as broad as he was
tall; squared on the base, as a great man says; with his doublet
half red, half violet, sown with silver bells, and, above all,
in the perfection of his ugliness, the populace recognized him
on the instant, and shouted with one voice,--

"'Tis Quasimodo, the bellringer! 'tis Quasimodo, the hunchback
of Notre-Dame! Quasimodo, the one-eyed! Quasimodo, the
bandy-legged!

An old woman explained to Coppenole that Quasimodo was deaf.




Besides that, the ending was altered terribly. In the book, Dom Claude Frollo (who is an archdeacon in the book but a judge in the cartoon), Esmeralda and Quasimodo all die, Esmeralda by hanging, Frollo fell to his death (graphic descriptions from the book) and Quasi died hugging Esmeralda in her tomb.



Quasimodo was burning to ask him what he had done with
the gypsy; but the archdeacon seemed to be out of the world
at that moment. He was evidently in one of those violent
moments of life when one would not feel the earth crumble.
He remained motionless and silent, with his eyes steadily
fixed on a certain point; and there was something so terrible
about this silence and immobility that the savage bellringer
shuddered before it and dared not come in contact with it.
Only, and this was also one way of interrogating the archdeacon,
he followed the direction of his vision, and in this way the
glance of the unhappy deaf man fell upon the Place de Grève.

Thus he saw what the priest was looking at. The ladder
was erected near the permanent gallows. There were some
people and many soldiers in the Place. A man was dragging
a white thing, from which hung something black, along the
pavement. This man halted at the foot of the gallows.

Here something took place which Quasimodo could not see
very clearly. It was not because his only eye had not
preserved its long range, but there was a group of soldiers
which prevented his seeing everything. Moreover, at that moment
the sun appeared, and such a flood of light overflowed the
horizon that one would have said that all the points in Paris,
spires, chimneys, gables, had simultaneously taken fire.

Meanwhile, the man began to mount the ladder. Then Quasimodo
saw him again distinctly. He was carrying a woman on his shoulder,
a young girl dressed in white; that young girl had a noose about
her neck. Quasimodo recognized her.

It was she.

The man reached the top of the ladder. There he arranged
the noose. Here the priest, in order to see the better, knelt
upon the balustrade.

All at once the man kicked away the ladder abruptly, and
Quasimodo, who had not breathed for several moments, beheld
the unhappy child dangling at the end of the rope two fathoms
above the pavement, with the man squatting on her shoulders.
The rope made several gyrations on itself, and Quasimodo
beheld horrible convulsions run along the gypsy's body. The
priest, on his side, with outstretched neck and eyes starting
from his head, contemplated this horrible group of the man
and the young girl,--the spider and the fly.

At the moment when it was most horrible, the laugh of a
demon, a laugh which one can only give vent to when one is
no longer human, burst forth on the priest's livid face.

Quasimodo did not hear that laugh, but he saw it.

The bellringer retreated several paces behind the archdeacon,
and suddenly hurling himself upon him with fury, with his huge
hands he pushed him by the back over into the abyss over which
Dom Claude was leaning.

The priest shrieked: "Damnation!" and fell.

The spout, above which he had stood, arrested him in his
fall. He clung to it with desperate hands, and, at the moment
when he opened his mouth to utter a second cry, he beheld
the formidable and avenging face of Quasimodo thrust over
the edge of the balustrade above his head.

Then he was silent.

The abyss was there below him. A fall of more than two hundred
feet and the pavement.

In this terrible situation, the archdeacon said not a word,
uttered not a groan. He merely writhed upon the spout,
with incredible efforts to climb up again; but his hands had
no hold on the granite, his feet slid along the blackened wall
without catching fast. People who have ascended the towers
of Notre-Dame know that there is a swell of the stone immediately
beneath the balustrade. It was on this retreating angle that
miserable archdeacon exhausted himself. He had not to deal with
a perpendicular wall, but with one which sloped away beneath him.

Quasimodo had but to stretch out his hand in order to draw
him from the gulf; but he did not even look at him. He was
looking at the Grève. He was looking at the gallows. He
was looking at the gypsy.

The deaf man was leaning, with his elbows on the balustrade,
at the spot where the archdeacon had been a moment before,
and there, never detaching his gaze from the only object which
existed for him in the world at that moment, he remained
motionless and mute, like a man struck by lightning, and a
long stream of tears flowed in silence from that eye which,
up to that time, had never shed but one tear.

Meanwhile, the archdeacon was panting. His bald brow
was dripping with perspiration, his nails were bleeding
against the stones, his knees were flayed by the wall.

He heard his cassock, which was caught on the spout, crack
and rip at every jerk that he gave it. To complete his
misfortune, this spout ended in a leaden pipe which bent under
the weight of his body. The archdeacon felt this pipe slowly

giving way. The miserable man said to himself that, when
his hands should be worn out with fatigue, when his cassock
should tear asunder, when the lead should give way, he would
be obliged to fall, and terror seized upon his very vitals.
Now and then he glanced wildly at a sort of narrow shelf formed,
ten feet lower down, by projections of the sculpture, and he
prayed heaven, from the depths of his distressed soul, that he
might be allowed to finish his life, were it to last two centuries,
on that space two feet square. Once, he glanced below him into
the Place, into the abyss; the head which he raised again had
its eyes closed and its hair standing erect.

There was something frightful in the silence of these two
men. While the archdeacon agonized in this terrible fashion
a few feet below him, Quasimodo wept and gazed at the Grève.

The archdeacon, seeing that all his exertions served only to
weaken the fragile support which remained to him, decided
to remain quiet. There he hung, embracing the gutter, hardly
breathing, no longer stirring, making no longer any other
movements than that mechanical convulsion of the stomach,
which one experiences in dreams when one fancies himself
falling. His fixed eyes were wide open with a stare. He
lost ground little by little, nevertheless, his fingers slipped
along the spout; he became more and more conscious of the
feebleness of his arms and the weight of his body. The curve
of the lead which sustained him inclined more and more each
instant towards the abyss.

He beheld below him, a frightful thing, the roof of Saint-
Jean le Rond, as small as a card folded in two. He gazed at
the impressive carvings, one by one, of the tower, suspended
like himself over the precipice, but without terror for
themselves or pity for him. All was stone around him; before
his eyes, gaping monsters; below, quite at the bottom, in the
Place, the pavement; above his head, Quasimodo weeping.

In the Parvis there were several groups of curious good
people, who were tranquilly seeking to divine who the madman
could be who was amusing himself in so strange a manner.
The priest heard them saying, for their voices reached
him, clear and shrill: "Why, he will break his neck!"

Quasimodo wept.

At last the archdeacon, foaming with rage and despair,
understood that all was in vain. Nevertheless, he collected
all the strength which remained to him for a final effort. He
stiffened himself upon the spout, pushed against the wall with
both his knees, clung to a crevice in the stones with his hands,
and succeeded in climbing back with one foot, perhaps; but
this effort made the leaden beak on which he rested bend
abruptly. His cassock burst open at the same time. Then,
feeling everything give way beneath him, with nothing but
his stiffened and failing hands to support him, the
unfortunate man closed his eyes and let go of the spout.
He fell.

Quasimodo watched him fall.

A fall from such a height is seldom perpendicular. The
archdeacon, launched into space, fell at first head foremost,
with outspread hands; then he whirled over and over many
times; the wind blew him upon the roof of a house, where
the unfortunate man began to break up. Nevertheless, he was
not dead when he reached there. The bellringer saw him still
endeavor to cling to a gable with his nails; but the surface
sloped too much, and he had no more strength. He slid rapidly
along the roof like a loosened tile, and dashed upon the
pavement. There he no longer moved.

Then Quasimodo raised his eyes to the gypsy, whose body
he beheld hanging from the gibbet, quivering far away beneath
her white robe with the last shudderings of anguish, then he
dropped them on the archdeacon, stretched out at the base of
the tower, and no longer retaining the human form, and he
said, with a sob which heaved his deep chest,--
"Oh! all that I have ever loved!"

Phoebus de Châteaupers also came to a tragic end. He married.



This is the last chapter of the book. Very touching ending.

CHAPTER IV.

THE MARRIAGE OF QUASIMODO.



We have just said that Quasimodo disappeared from Notre-
Dame on the day of the gypsy's and of the archdeacon's death.
He was not seen again, in fact; no one knew what had become
of him.

During the night which followed the execution of la
Esmeralda, the night men had detached her body from the
gibbet, and had carried it, according to custom, to the
cellar of Montfauçon.

Montfauçon was, as Sauval says, "the most ancient and the
most superb gibbet in the kingdom." Between the faubourgs
of the Temple and Saint Martin, about a hundred and sixty
toises from the walls of Paris, a few bow shots from La
Courtille, there was to be seen on the crest of a gentle,
almost imperceptible eminence, but sufficiently elevated to
be seen for several leagues round about, an edifice of strange
form, bearing considerable resemblance to a Celtic cromlech, and
where also human sacrifices were offered.

Let the reader picture to himself, crowning a limestone hillock,
an oblong mass of masonry fifteen feet in height, thirty wide,
forty long, with a gate, an external railing and a platform;
on this platform sixteen enormous pillars of rough hewn stone,
thirty feet in height, arranged in a colonnade round three of
the four sides of the mass which support them, bound together
at their summits by heavy beams, whence hung chains at intervals;
on all these chains, skeletons; in the vicinity, on the plain,
a stone cross and two gibbets of secondary importance, which
seemed to have sprung up as shoots around the central gallows;
above all this, in the sky, a perpetual flock of crows; that
was Montfauçon.

At the end of the fifteenth century, the formidable gibbet
which dated from 1328, was already very much dilapidated;
the beams were wormeaten, the chains rusted, the pillars
green with mould; the layers of hewn stone were all cracked
at their joints, and grass was growing on that platform which
no feet touched. The monument made a horrible profile
against the sky; especially at night when there was a little
moonlight on those white skulls, or when the breeze of evening
brushed the chains and the skeletons, and swayed all these
in the darkness. The presence of this gibbet sufficed to
render gloomy all the surrounding places.

The mass of masonry which served as foundation to the
odious edifice was hollow. A huge cellar had been
constructed there, closed by an old iron grating, which
was out of order, into which were cast not only the human
remains, which were taken from the chains of Montfauçon, but
also the bodies of all the unfortunates executed on the other
permanent gibbets of Paris. To that deep charnel-house, where
so many human remains and so many crimes have rotted in company,
many great ones of this world, many innocent people, have
contributed their bones, from Enguerrand de Marigni, the first
victim, and a just man, to Admiral de Coligni, who was its last,
and who was also a just man.

As for the mysterious disappearance of Quasimodo, this is all
that we have been able to discover.

About eighteen months or two years after the events which
terminate this story, when search was made in that cavern for
the body of Olivier le Daim, who had been hanged two days
previously, and to whom Charles VIII. had granted the favor
of being buried in Saint Laurent, in better company, they
found among all those hideous carcasses two skeletons, one
of which held the other in its embrace. One of these skeletons,
which was that of a woman, still had a few strips of a
garment which had once been white, and around her neck was
to be seen a string of adrézarach beads with a little silk bag
ornamented with green glass, which was open and empty.
These objects were of so little value that the executioner had
probably not cared for them. The other, which held this one
in a close embrace, was the skeleton of a man. It was noticed
that his spinal column was crooked, his head seated on his
shoulder blades, and that one leg was shorter than the other.
Moreover, there was no fracture of the vertebrae at the nape
of the neck, and it was evident that he had not been hanged.
Hence, the man to whom it had belonged had come thither
and had died there. When they tried to detach the skeleton
which he held in his embrace, he fell to dust.

Nostalgia...

I've just returned from the land of tea, scones, and RBS... Cameron Highlands, because of a family vacation. The vacation sucked, but the trip allowed me to re-visit some of the places where I spent the best 3-4 weeks of my desperate life...

The trip took me back to places such as Yong Teng cafe, with its fantastic pancakes and burgers,( they still recognized me, lol) Excellent Food Centre ( where almost my whole family had Mixed Grill) , T- Cafe ( for scones, lasagne and milkshake, coz they ran out of yoghurt, so no lassi :( ... ) among other places, like the padang where we go for games, with its burger stall... and some of the places where we went in search of our Treasure Hunt clues... Too bad I couldn't visit HCC, but I will be going there at the end of the year so never mind...

For my RBS friends, I am still trying to free myself for COPA IBA but there is still a possibility I might not make it. So till we meet again, have fun with your own lives...

The Torture Ceases... For The Moment

Sorry for such a morbid and depressing title, especially after a long pause between posts, but this is how I feel now... Form Six is already taking its toll on me, and this is only week two. Not that it is entirely their fault that I am suffering, but mea culpa (my fault). Did so "well" for SPM that I got the dreaded Science class. My transfer to the arts stream is still pending, and there is a possibility it might be rejected. Dumb. And I am struggling not to seem rude to the science teachers by doing my economics stuff or business stuff during their classes, so I am studying 8 subjects instead of five, including MUET...

Anyway, the holidays shall begin, and I hope that by then the application is approved, or I will have a hard time catching up. Kyrie Eleison!!!

RBS Starts Today..

To all friends and relatives, I will be at HCC in Tanah Rata, Camerons for the next month.. Haahahaha... So happy.....

Near Death Experiences

Add some friends who watched "Final Destination" and another morbid fellow and divide it with a treacherous waterfall and multiply with the danger of being sucked by the current of a river and what do you get? I dunno, but my answer will be a near death experience. Nah.. Just a bunch of crap. Anyway, I almost died today but was "lucky" enough to escape it, only to remember that SPM results come out tomorrow. Out of the frying pan into the fire, eh? (Or is it the other way around in my case?)

Well, This is the deciding point. *sigh*

Darn Malwares...

Just recovered from "computer flu", as I term it. It seems that my PC just got infected by this Look2Me malware. Took me days to find a cure.

Results coming out soon. 2 more days of bliss before the being hit by a storm of forms, applications and the like. haihz.. just enjoying the calm... for the moment.

Sigh... another awful awful day.

I shouldn't use the word awful, which means "full of awe", because of the situation, but what the heck, i mean, you all get what I mean..

Well, I broke my glasses again. ( hear shattering sound) and there goes my dreams of getting a brand new bicycle ( hear shattering again)..

Thank God I was not wearing the glasses when they broke, or I might go blind or something.. Yeah, that's right. I put them in my pocket during a captain's ball game this evening. and after the captain's ball I thought I would like to play around with my skateboard a bit. And I took a great fall and my butt hurts because of that. But I didn't know that they were broken until I went home. The melancholy. The terrible tragedy. (sighs tragically)

Bicycles Rock!!

Rode Vincent's bicycle yesterday after work.. was so fun... even though i have not rode a bicycle in years, can still ride one very well.. I am definitely going to buy a bicycle after i come back from RBS.. no matter I get my own car or not...

Work work work.......

2nd day at work today.. feel so so so tired coz working full day now instead of half day.. but it is fun though, getting to work with vincent in a place I am familiar in.. haha. Got to drive everyday to work too.. Going to cook next Wednesday for them too...

Results will be out very soon, 13th March I heard. Dunno how I'll do. Hope for the best, expect the worst? Hope i can get into form 6 though..

Then shall RBS come. Hectic month, yea? Just hope got enough energy to keep going..

Rewatching the whole Lord of the Rings again (for the hundredth and eleventh time, but this time with all of the extra stuff in the DVD too)

hehe.. crap.