Of How I Survived Boredom

One week. One week stuck in Sitiawan, Perak. And I was bored. Bored stiff. My days were basically spent ...

1. (finally) watching Philadelphia, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, The School of Rock, The Punisher, Catwoman, Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams and Scooby Doo 2. Phew!

2. monitoring my brothers while they mastered Solitaire, Hearts, Minesweeper and Space Cadet Pinball on my dad's laptop

3. finishing 3 Maths past year papers

4. reading up Market Structures

5. hunting for cybercafes to waste my time with. (no Internet connection at home) Found out there was only one, which doesn't even have Warcraft 3. Ended up playing Quake 3 with my bro.

6. trying to build up my muscles after letting them flab during my exam period

7. eating

8. sleeping

Did I mention I was on holiday? Hope the rest of it will be better. It has to be. Please.

Current Music: Embrace's Ashes

Of The Day After Exams

Well, its finally done! After weeks of slogging it out, my AS is finally done. The euphoria, however, doesn't seem to have settled at all. Maybe it is just because this particular exam didn't seem like an exam, more like an on-the-spot assignment kinda thing. Or maybe most of my 'slooging it out' was basically blasting off aliens in Halo for the past few weeks or so.

Ah well. After my final paper, which was Law. (Apart from the fact that half of my classmates have already finished one week earlier before me does leave one somewhat resentful) Went straight back home and continued blasting off aliens. And I finally went and saw The Incredibles, which was, like, so chun! Ha! My favourite character was Jack-jack Parr, me having a slight affection on anything which look cute in diapers (and with a cute name to boot too). Now I have a new name to name my would-be dog with. Also, Edna Mode's cool accent and her story on superheroes with capes. As a friend of mine would say: So farn-nee! =)

Had dinner at a Japanese restaurant. I blame my parents for my lack of knowledge on Japanese cuisine. Lol. And Iron Chef doesn't help much either. The waitress brought in these three rolls of fluffy looking edibles. Well, being the courteous gentleman I was, I wondered why my friends weren't eating them. Turns out to be, those so-called rolls were actually wet towels! I ended up being the butt of most jokes the whole night through. Sigh. I still blame my parents though. =)

To all those people who are having their holidays now, enjoy your holidays! To those who still have a paper to sit, all the best! To those who are waiting for their offer letters, I am praying for you guys too. And for those who want me to bring back a panda from my trip to China, please tell me how to get through customs. Enjoy!

Of Math Instructive Weapons

Have you read this before?

Yet another secret cult has emerged with the aim of making life miserable for Westerners, particularly our young children of school age. (In fact, this one seems to have already succeeded beyond its wildest dreams): Yesterday, at New York's Kennedy airport, an individual was arrested when he tried to board a flight while in possession of a ruler, a protractor, a set-square, a slide rule and a calculator.

At a morning press conference, US Attorney General John Ashcroft said he believes the man is a member of the notorious Al-gebra movement. He is being charged by the FBI with carrying weapons of maths instruction. "Al-gebra is an odd cult whose leader is believed to be a cosine of Osama Bin Laden," Ashcroft said. "There are several divisions and they are prepared to use a wide variety of means to achieve solutions.

The members sometimes go off on tangents in search of absolute values. In addition, they use secret code names such as 'x' and 'y' and refer to themselves as 'unknowns', but we are positive that they belong to a common denominator known as the 'Axis of Even', with coordinates in many countries. "As the Greek natural philanderer Isosceles used to say, there are three sides to every triangle," Ashcroft declared.

When asked to comment on the arrest, President Bush said: "If God had wanted us to have better weapons of maths instruction, He would have given us more fingers and toes." I am gratified that our government has given us a sine that it is intent on protracting us from those who are willing to disintegrate us with calculus disregard. Under the circumferences, and factoring in all the variables, I believe that we must maintain unity and draw the line, cos divided we fall."

President Bush also warned: "These weapons of maths instruction have the potential to decimal our society on a scalene never before seen, unless we become exponents of a Higher Power and rid the world of this entirely negative organization."

The President concluded: "Read my ellipse. Here is one principle we are not uncertainty of - though they continue to multiply, we are circling in ever closer, and their days are numbered as the hypotenuse tightens around their necks."

And Bush won.

Of Four More to Go

Six down, four more to go.

For those who don't know, I am referring to my AS, which I am taking, well, now. For my part, I hate the fact that I have one exam per week. It makes me restless: I can't study because I seem to be re-rereading the same thing, and I can't NOT study, because well, my entire future depends on my results. So, I seem to be contradicting myself more often than not, and I only manage to find a compromise when I eat, sleep and surf. (by this, I don't mean the wave type). So, my friend was asking me what kind of exercises I am doing right now. My answer: Eat and sleep. His response: 'Wow, you really are doing something'. Did I mention that he was sarcastic? =)

Oh well, done with Mathematics, Thinking Skills and Accounting. Economics and Law to go. Exams really suck. I can't wait for it to end. Oh well, till then. (Hey, it rhymes!) Bye.