1337

The special number. Do you know what it means?

For starters, go read my tagboard. Anyway there's one mistake. Go spot it if you can.

Have you tried to figure out the spectra club's jacket? There's a frigging whole lot of 1337 there. Every day in assembly I stare at the 2 people with the jackets in the class in front (2sa2), puzzled about its meaning. Yes, I don't get it. Don't make much sense, especially the last part which goes like "11!!one!11!!!". Then a small "spectra ftw!" What the hell it is talking about? 11!!one!!!11!. Man, I just realised while typing it that 1 and ! are the same button lol, then that one is just extra. Okay, repeated exclamation marks! lol.

btw, in case you dunno, 1337 = elite. 50 _100 711\11< _100 1<1\10\/\/ 1-10\/\/ 70 2341) 1337? Just joking.

the essay

I just finished writing my commonwealth essay for the competition. I wrote about my favourite place which happens to be somewhere. 33% of the essay is white lies. 33% is half-truths. 33% is real. I won't reveal anything more here for fear of muck-raking spies and such. GP teachers are the prime suspects for this case.

Death Cab For Cutie: What Sarah Said

Literature pros. Decipher the meaning of this video. I seriously don't get it totally. I only know it's damn emo. The meaning of the lyrics is much easier to decipher anyway, but still difficult.

And it came to me then
That every plan is a tiny prayer to Father Time
As I stared at my shoes in the ICU
That reeked of piss and 409
And I rationed my breaths as I said to myself
That I'd already taken too much today
As each descending peak on the LCD
Took you a little farther away from me
Away from me

Amongst the vending machines and year-old magazines
In a place where we only say goodbye
It stung like a violent wind that our memories depend
On a faulty camera in our minds
But I knew that you were a truth
I would rather lose than to have never lain beside at all
And I looked around at all the eyes on the ground
As the TV entertained itself

'Cause there's no comfort in the waiting room
Just nervous paces bracing for bad news
Then the nurse comes around and everyone lifts their head
But I'm thinking of what Sarah said
That love is watching someone die

So who's going to watch you die
So who's going to watch you die
So who's going to watch you die

yay the computer is still with me

It was just another day of band... Oh there's a pile of homework.. I haven't packed that piece of shit...
Let's cut the crap.

I love music. All kinds/genres of music, well almost, except heavy metal, chinese opera, tribal music from some ulu place and noise-related stuff that could be damaging to my already spoilt ears that can't hear above 13000Hz. If you wonder why I don't own an ipod, this is the reason. Yeah, I wear hearing aids anyway, in case you don't know. I think the best stuff is rock music, but I won't be going into any discussion on that and on Muse and other bands. Btw, the story of how ACJC Band's annual band concert has its origins from... you guessed it. Right, Muse. Apparently, that time when my brother's friend (probably the president, now J6) asked him about a name for the annual concert, my bro suggested Muse cos he listening to them at that time and so the name stucked. XD Anyway, the next best stuff is classical music, seriously, many are classics.

So recently I have been listening to quite bit of classical, some for listening to help in my expression for my piano pieces, some for the real version of the orchestral transcriptions that I play in band and some out of curiousity.

Just some of my random thoughts:
Brahm's Intermezzo No. 2 Op. 118 is nice and too beautiful to describe, and yup, I can play it on the piano.
The first listening of Chopin's 3rd Ballade in A-flat major makes you think its just great.
Rachmaniov's Rhapsody on the Theme of Paganini is ingenious, I have to agree with the damn nice Variation 18.
Scheherazade by Rimsky-Korsakov minus all the repeats is a classic in an era when Russian composers sort of started to globalise.
Impressionist pieces by Ravel and Debussy like Chloe Et Daphis and La Mer are nice with the use of the pentatonic scale and other unusual stuff, but it's just that it's impossible to remember the melody.
When I heard my brother playing Bartok's Mikrokosmos, I thought that it was nice. When I heard Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra... yeah man. That was good, so good I want to play Movement 2, Game/Presentation of the pairs, where pairs of bassoons, oboes, clarinets, flutes and muted trumpets play. 100% possible to play for band as orchestral transcription.
Some of my classmates did a project on Igor Stravinsky for Project Work and they played only the more dissonant and juxtaposed parts of the Rite of Spring for the class to listen for their event. I didn't quite like it because it was wtf. After listening to the whole piece, it sounded like music.

My two-cents worth.

muthu and other stuff

So anyway, I'm feeling quite ok although I'm supposed to be stressed. (I usually get back to normal cheerful self fast haha.) Actually, there's still a lot of work but nevermind.

I can't stand the monotony. Let's get started with super wols but still damn funny jokes...

*MUTHU & THE INTERVIEWER*
Interviewer : 'What is your birth date?'
Muthu : '13th October.'
Interviewer : 'Which year?'
Muthu : 'Every year.'

*MUTHU & HIS MANAGER*
The Manager asked Muthu at an interview....'Can you spell a word that has more than 100 letters in it?'
Muthu replied: 'P-O-S-T-B-O-X.'

* MUTHU & LONDON TRIP*
After returning from a foreign trip, Muthu asked his wife, 'Do I look like a foreigner?'
Wife: 'No! Why?'
Muthu : 'In London, a lady asked me, 'Are you a foreigner?'...that's why.'
Wife : ?????????

*MUTHU & TOURIST*
A tourist from U.S.A. asked Muthu whether any great man wasborn in his village... and Muthu said .. 'No sir, only babies were born here.'

*MUTHU & HIS EXPERIMENT*
Muthu was doing an experiment with a cockroach. First he cut off oneleg and told it to 'WALK! WALK!' The cockroach walked. Then he cut off it's second leg and told the same. The cockroach walked.Then he cut off the third leg and did the same. Finally, he cut off its fourth leg and ordered it walk! But the cockroach didn't walk. Suddenly, Muthu said loudly, 'I found it. If we cut a cockroach's four legs, it becomes deaf.'

*MUTHU & DRIVER*
When Muthu was travelling with his wife in a motorised tricycle, the driver adjusted the mirror.
Muthu shouted, 'You are trying to see my wife, eh? Sit in the back. I will drive.'

*MUTHU GOES TO HOTEL*
Muthu went into a hotel. To wash his hands, he went to the washbasin. Then when he had finished, he started washing the basin. Seeing this, the manager asked what was he doing. Muthu pointed towards the signboard '*WASH BASIN* '

*MUTHU & INTERVIEWER*
Interviewer : 'Just imagine you're in the 20th floor of a buildingand it's on fire. How will you escape?'
Muthu: 'It's simple.. I will just stop my imagination.'*

the funniest...*
At a political rally, Muthu was arrested. Why ????????????Because a lady journalist with a badge which read '*PRESS*' pinned on the right part of her blouse walked past him... and he did it!

On a more serious note, after this, I shall have to stop blogging for a few days/some while. I'm going to return the NTU laptop very soon and so it will put an end to the days when I have a laptop and I can blog in the privacy of my own room with the wireless. Wait till my brother gets the cheap and small US$400 Asus laptop which runs on Linux and can do everything I want it to do except play games. The sad thing is that, that may take quite a while because he's probably waiting for the next version pf the cheap laptop to come out before he buys it for himself to use in school and for me as personal use.

I shall go and gather some links to entertain you people.

Amazing drawings:
http://forums.hardwarezone.com.sg/showthread.php?t=1823488
At least 254 forum pages of jokes:
http://forums.hardwarezone.com.sg/showthread.php?t=1466190&pp=15
Ownage Who Wants to be a Millionaire video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hr3tsMCrQgo
Singapore future MRT network (Second picture, first is fake):
http://forums.hardwarezone.com.sg/showthread.php?t=1831326
Rubik's cube solution videos and 3 year old girl solving cube:
http://forums.hardwarezone.com.sg/showthread.php?t=1792837&page=2

Anti-smoking pigs:

Bye for now!

random crap

Seriously, spies are everywhere. If you are one, please own up before you suffer a terrible fate. Even if you don't own up, you will die with a guilty conscience. You know who you are. Just admit it. I know what you did. I know the truth about you.

To Others: Stay out of this. Don't ask questions.

am i nerdy?

Am I? haha.

6 proofs:

1. I solved the Rubik's cube recently!
2. I'm in 2SA1, so according to my brother's 2004 yearbook, those seniors in my class actually looked very nerdy and they all took further maths. yucks.
3. I go to NTU quite often to do my SSEF preparation.
4. I participated in the Singapore Physics Olympiad.
5. I got into NTU Contemporary Physics as my H3.
6. Sarah Lee said my new spectacles made me looked like one -.-

6 rebuttals:

1. My brother taught me lah. Not like I was eager in the first place.
2. The current 2SA1 is not very nerdy lor. Like only a few look nerdy haha.
3. No comments. =.=
4. No harm trying out. I never even got honorable mention.
5. I need a H3 to use up 12 credits, so I got into this one since physics is my best subject.
6. Others thinks it looks nice (:

a concert back 7 months ago

On Sunday, I was looking through the Life section of The Sunday Times. They wrote a feature called it's a wrap to name the best 5 and worst 5 of every genre in the entertainment/arts scene. So I was looking and then I spotted a familar phrase: Die Walkure.

Here's the proof... I was there!

Then I looked at the date that the performance was held: 12th May. Did I attend that? Die Walkure, Act 1 by Richard Wagner at the Esplanade. Then a flood of memories came. Yes, I did attend it. Now, here it was, the 2nd best concert in the classical section of the article.


Don't ask me how I got the tickets. I don't know how. It was just that I was brought along by my parents. We arrived late, and entered the concert hall at the intermission. Luckily, the first part was just a 18 minute prelude, otherwise we would have missed the main part.

We sat down. Then the SSO was coming onto the stage to warm-up. I heard 1 of the clarinetists played a chromatic scale up to damn high C (or concert B-flat) and down again. I was like wtf... That was high, if that was a B-flat clarinet. The normal range is up to high G and any higher than that is totally weird fingering. Wah, power sia!

The opera was damn good, but you know, damn boring and damn slow. They sing a lot of crap over a trivial matter and everything is damn emo. So like everything they do is exaggerated. Then, they were singing in German, which means I don't even know what was happening unless I looked at the subtitles on the screen at the side of the stage. This brings me back to the tough time I had understanding the Italian musical, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, that I watched not too long ago at the SIS. You know how retarded and tiring is it to keep flicking my eyes between the subtitles and the actors?

The story ah... damn boring lah. Just know that Die Walkure means The Valkyrie. And this Act 1 is something like this guy, Siegmund, got kena chased by his enemies and he came across a hut in the forest and slept there. Then some Sieglinde come in and found him there. Then Sieglinde's husband, Hunding, came and don't like the Siegmund guy cos he's the enemy. So he say they must fight in the morning since the wife persuade him to accommodate him for the night out of hospitality. The wife drugged the husband. Den dunno how, the Sieg people got together and express their love for each other and linde shows the mund to go and get this sword called the Notung... blah.. then I think it ends... So later on. The two lovers were found to be brother and sister and they had a child. WTF was that Wagner thinking when he wrote the opera... incest. Yuck la. Then some Valkyrie thing come in and dunno what liao.

THE END. So there was standing ovation and bravo and nonsense. I think I won't be going to a second opera soon. This kind of opera only teach people about nonsense such as incest and betraying relationships. Anyway, to sum up, good and strong performance, bad script.

first post of 2008

Happy New Year!

That's it. I've nothing to say. Just be happy.