In News Today..

This is Betty/Bob.



Betty has cool hair.



Hamizah made a new friend.



"mmm..baaald!"



Chen Yan the major Ahbeng



That's a real cool cap.



Now that's just plain mean. Doesn't anyone think of the feelings of painted canaries anymore?

Terence almost died four times today. Two of which were captured on video.

Go to this gig cause a fucking awesome crack designer did the poster!!

:D:D:D

Hello, I'm Nic. I want to sit down in a noisy bar somewhere with my friends, a very crowded place where we can have a corner to ourselves, and I want to drink and talk and just be with my friends. There are so many people I want to see, so many things I miss doing. There are so many things that piss me off, small things that irk me when I think of it, yet I am helpless and I can do nothing about them. I want, no, I need someone whom I can bitch all this to, someone who'll just sit with me in the aforementioned bar and listen, and nod with understanding and not get worked up just because I am. Someone who is not friends with the people who irritate me, preferbly someone with powers to change things. Magical powers that manipulate situations.
Oh dream on. I am, I am dreaming. I know it's irrational and stupid and why can't I just change myself and it won't affect anyone around me, but I don't want to. I guess I just need someone to confide in. I don't know, I'm really bored with life at the moment. Nothing's moving and there's hardly anything to look forward to. I can't just smile and pretend and put on a mask and be someone whom I'm not.
I know the solution to all this, one which would affect no one but myself - that seems to be the best option to everything doesn't it? - just ignore everything, and switch off.

Freeloaders are not good.

I mean, seriously. If a group of people, or a person, is doing an interview, the good, proper, POLITE thing to do will be to wait patiently and quietly until the person is finished.

But noooo. Basic etiquette and graciousness have completely eluded some people. Classmates, to pinpoint a specific group of people.

It is generally frowned upon to freeload on people's interview. We do all the thinking, we ask all the questions, we were the ones who have exerted all the effort.

It is not nice to hover around the group doing the interview and record the whole thing on say, a camera, or an mp3 recorder. It is not nice when you just listen and make no effort to ask any questions. It is not nice when you do both at the same time.
It is not nice when you ask stupid questions that just display how imcompetant you are, and show that you were not listening when the speaker was talking. Neither is it nice to cut in while another group is interviewing and ask your own rambling, vague questions and hog the speaker.

Nope. It certainly is not nice.

PFFT YOU

History of the F word!! :D

It's something to believe in, that no one else knows, but don't take me for granted.

It kinda occurred to me, Aza and Merv yesterday whilst discussing the double diploma option that DMC offers, that a lot, and I seriously really mean a LOT of our classmates don't know about it. Why! One of the main reasons why DMC appealed was the prospect of maybe, just maybe, taking the double diploma and graduating with two diplomas.

But why don't they know about it? The diploma in question is the Specialist Diploma in Digital Film and Television. Now, if you'd just been accepted into a tertiary institution and you'd be spending three years (and a lot of money) there, wouldn't you want to research and find out more about the course that you'd be taking? But nooo, they don't.

Rather amazing, really, how people take things for granted. Considering the fact that Aza, Mervyn and I had to worm our way into the Media and Communications course through phone calls, letter requests and interviews, well, I can't help feeling a little irritated that others are so blase about their acceptance into the course.

I remember when I got the call from Singapore Polytechnic informing me that I'd gotten through the interview and was in the DMC course, I was so happy I cried, standing in the lobby of Meritus Mandarin Hotel, and had to run back into the office real quick. While I was terribly happy I'd gotten into the course, lots of people in my class did not even have Singapore Poly DMC course as their first choice of school/course!

It's a major case of taking things for granted and not realising how lucky they are.

Speaking of which, I've been doing a lot of thinking (yes what's new, over the wrong things again huh) and I've realised another big aspect of our lives we all take for granted. No, not the peace and stability of Singapore, this applies to at least a third of the world's population.

Quick, go find information on Bahamas. Hotels, food, prices, nightlife, beaches - I want it all. Where would you go to look for that information? Why, just open your internet browser and type "bahamas" into Google. Or Yahoo, or Lycos or any other search engine. Half a second later, you get pages and pages of information on anything related to Bahamas.

Have you ever wondered where we'd be today without the internet? It's such a key part of your life now (yes you reading this, without the internet you wouldn't be at this page) that we tend to take it for granted. We turn to the internet for boundless information and entertainment.

Just stop for a moment and think. If I take away all computers, block the internet, then set you a 500 word essay on the eating habits of the people of Papua New Guinea, you wouldn't be able to do it. You'd have to go down to the library and use what we call encyclopedias. And even then, the information won't be up-to-date, and accessible to everyone.

Ok, so you may be thinking. How many times in my life will I be looking for information on the mating habits of dung beetles? But we use the internet for information in so many other ways too. Say, for example, you have a song bouncing around in your head, but you only know the first line of the chorus, and you don't know the title or anything else about the song. Just use a search engine and you'd be able to get the title, artist, record label and date the song was released.

Even something small that'd nag at the edge of your mind, for instance the name of the brother Gibb who wasn't in the BeeGees, can be found easily in half a second and spare you a lot of annoyance.

I'm not saying we should have an "Internet Awareness and Appreciation Day", but the next time you open your internet browser to search for information, or look for entertainment and stress relief, just stop for a while to think.

Where would we be without the internet?

Think about that. Then realise how fortunate we are.

Don't take it for granted.

Hey, j-j-j-jaded..

I'm loving Digital Video Production and Applications more and more. Apparently, according to Ms Kwa, I'm a good camera person! P4WN4G3 haha. I like the role of Director too, but I've only tried it once.

Do you know what happens when a T-Rex has sex with a Triceratops? You get Terence Chen! Yes, this new species of dinosaur named "Terence" has been discovered in Mongolia, according to Aza, live on SBTV. Hahha.

Our new best friend's name is Jonathan! He's this 19 year old guy who attends some classes with us, he forwarded a few modules because of medical reasons, and today he asked Chen Yan and I if we wanted him to "bring us to T7", where our GEMs were.

At first Chingy and I misunderstood, we thought he wanted to walk with us over in case we n00bs got lost, then we realised, Jonathan has a CAR, and he was offering to drive us! WHOAAAA. Anyway it was damn fun zooooommmming from Sch of Business to the Triple E grounds, Jonathan drove damn fast down the hill and, as Merv said, it was like a roller coaster! :D

You cannot take Jonathan away. He's ours, OURS you hear!
NYEAH!


Recently Merv and I have been feeling rather jaded. I'm tired and tired and sick of day-to-day routines.

Hey today Merv and I had a stupendeously wonderfully awesome idea!
See you all know that My Chemical Romance changed their name to
The Black Parade, yes no?
Yes now you do.
Anyhow, so we decided, let's form a band reallyquick, and call it My Chemical Romance!

The name's up for grabs now!!
:D:D:D

Wasabi.. In My Pants

So today we played a game. Take any song title - any one - and add "In My Pants" after it. You can get ridiculously idiotic stuff like "Making A Mess in my pants", "Oops I Did It Again in my pants", "No Such Thing in my pants", "Garden of Eden in my pants", "Mama I'm Coming Home in my pants".. and well, you get the idea.
It was really fun, and kept us amused all the way after Issues and Viewpoints to Jurong Point for lunch.

After lunch we bought wasabi for 50 cents and we went back to school, where Chen Yan, Mervyn and Aza played Sissors, Paper, Stone, and the loser had to eat gobs of wasabi. That got boring after a while, yes stuffing wasabi into your mouth does get boring after the fifth time, so we dared Aza to snort a mixture of soy sauce and wasabi with a rolled-up plastic $2 note, and guess what, the mad shit did it!


Wasabi Part One!


Part two!


Snort it, bitch!!

Rawwwrrrhhhh school tomorrow AGAINAGAIN :(
Last semester the days just flew by, but this semester the days just seem to draaaaaaaaaaag by. Why why why!

After Saturday's gig at Vintage, with cheap drinks and good music, it's going to be even harder to ease back into the rather senseless ratrace, with the only saving grace being Friday's Digital Video Production and Applications class.
But that's on Fridays. So there'll still be Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday to get through.
Plus Gordon's starting school again this Tuesday, and his lessons are from 3pm to 6pm. hjgfjklfjjlfadfsdg fgtur.

And my neck hurts from headbanging too much last night, but it was allll worth it babayyyyyy.