299 : Round 2

I don't think i'm eliminated again... its just i feel i didn't do too well in the test. Abstract i was in my drawings and the modeling part, i now i reap the fruits of of sins. haha lol.

Here, we go... meet simple joe.

何じゃこれ～！

Of course the topic was "transcending identity". How the heck do we make a model of that. The drawing part was rather easier, you could express more with a pen and 'create' images faster as time was of the essence. Perhaps it was my inability to think beyond my means and thus.... i'm up for another round of filtering first thing tomorrow morning for them to conduct sanity inspection on me. And right after that, its back to duty at my lovely home at tuas.

298 : TIM(R) SUN

The test is tomorrow and i am not one bit anxious at all. If i do get in, its bye-nara to my Australian prospect, but aloha to a fatter wallet. Pros and cons a plenty... would be cool to live off a friend overseas... haha. Alas, there's nothing like studying close to home (4 bus stops !) and living off your parents for another few more years. Ok i shall not delve deeper.

I've been thinking a lot what questions will pop out in the test, as i've been largely adviced to go there with a super open mind. Provide answers which you think the tester would like to see, convince not confuse. Avoid a direct approach to answering but with a concise message to be communicated through. Believe in yourself, don't copy others.

Confidence in victory.

俺には負けない！　必勝！

297 : Rats

Rats. Was i surprised to find my huge ali baba bag filled with cereal and milk powder all over the sides and even in the pockets. I looked closely and noticed this 5cm wide hole under my bag..... and it looked really like bite marks... of what i'm not sure... but you get the idea.

Yes, rats bit through my leather-liked bag and chewed through another few layers of plastic, to find their (actually its mine, bought them at NTUC downstairs near my place) tasty snacks and had one hell of a buffet... of super 3-in-1 cereal.

And so i spend the next 1 hr cleaning up the mess in my bag at home while waiting for my posting all the way to changi. So its sayonara to my 4 month stay in tuas.... and konichiwaz to loyang/changi.

I packed my new bag free of rats leftovers and prepared to report the next day... only to find out 4 hours later i got posted back to lovely durvy tuas. Feel so damn like ping pong ball now=X.

But i've learnt much in the realm of dippinig my thumb in sweet ambrosia and lollipop my way into ignorant bliss.

And one for the win.

296 : The Way Out ?

It pays off sometimes to be a nice person everywhere we go, because you will never know especially in this tiny sunny island when you would actually bump into a fellow acquaintance, or someone you know... or not.

Having myself tossed around like ping pong regarding my ahmi posting ( don't we all love TV dorama ), you get to know a lot of people; bad, evil, oscar-grade, fat,  lazy, and the worst types are the siao-on types. And finally, i think that i do not really have to tahan the annoying types. Here, at my yet-another-new work place, which is actually within 500m from my previous work place, the people here are more people-like, more human. Unlike the slave drivers that dominated us previously, its more of a cozy environment where you could, eat, sleep, watch TV ( channel 8 dorama), work, fulfill your duties, shit and shower... oh and use the internet, like right now. 

Initially there are 2 of us being attached to this place, but the other bugger, he hates the air-con bunk and the need to stay inside here for 24 hours in a row. Frankly, i think he's claustrophobic and he doesn't like to read. I like to read, people here likes to read. And best of all, we all watch DVDs. The old birds here like DVD too(after 5pm).

Today is my 2nd day a weekend inside this 10x5m room with all you can eat night snacks. And my upperstudies are letting me go early to spend time with family because next week is intensive training eveyday to equip us with the relevant skills to answer phone calls, handle keys and on how to identify showers that doesn't go full blast on you. Its a small family here unlike other places where strength lies in numbers, here is where strength lies in doing the wrong things at the right time.

295 : Knowing is better.

One of the nicer movies i watched this whole month is probably the oscar winning japanese movie Departures or other wise known as Okuri-Bito. I'm not the drama mama type but this one certainly got my golden stamp of approval for goodness and the not so touchy wouchy but still teary scenes. But thats not the movie i would like to write about today.

With a large influx of silly time travelling tales of recent serialised TV dramas, etc. heroes or sarah connor chronicles, it seems that the play-around of the space-time continuum theme is getting pretty old. ( i just started playing red alert 3 again and boy, was it cliche~)

Yet the movie Knowing avoided it ( expected something along the line of time travelling in order to predict the future ). It fact it left quite a number of loopholes that left my movie buddies annoyed and disappointed and nagged about it all day right after the movie. Without spoiling too much, i liked how they blurred the line between scientology and christianity and haha... how they depicted *SPOILERS* the aliens to be as winged humanoids when they "provided salvation" before earth became a scorched piece of spherical rubble. Good tie in when they did some calculations at the beginning of the movie giving us an idea of the possibly of extraterrestrials' existence. Interesting ending with 1x boy + 1x girl running towards a lone tree in a vast grassfield with the aliens leaving the planet as if like... something godlike. Coolness. *END SPOILERS*

So here at this moment we wonder, is everything pre-destined ? Or is there somehow a method to break the chains of fate and be free ? No one is truly free. As long as we're confined in this 3D space, as long as we're in this body of flesh, we're bloody hell stuck on this MRT of doom, unable to derail, enslaved in an established system of order and rules. I felt afraid watching this movie, for let's say one day GG day comes, where can we run ? To quote the movie... is this truly the end?

Of course if there's some religious biasness in the film. Where did all the hindus and buddhist and muslims go ? Were they saved too ? Haha... loopholes. Seems that the movie is speading some religious faith too, of course while promoting scientology at the same time i guess... win-win.

294 : 14 hours

6 points to note today.

1.We try not to think too much about it, but the thought of going back to ahmi land keeps getting strongly as buku in as the clock ticks by. Ah heck. We half year grunts should be used to the meaningless tortures we go through inside, locking us up, whipping us with their nasty tongue, and at the end of the day dangling the off-pus book infront of us. Dang, they're damn privates too. Me ? I'm proud of my single chevvy plus atap chee hanging down my shoulder sides.

2.Despite tomorrow's Highly Advance Relay Duties ( HARD ) for the Chamber Of Higher Incompetence Learning Laboratory ( CHILL ) over this weekend, I've managed to pull up my socks and endure whatever sian-ness that will totally overwhelm me. I have equipped myself with proper equipment for ANY ordeals; Pokey moan the latest version to fight off sleep by "gotta kill em' all" for the 2563rd time. Or the loading up the latest episodes of HE-ROLLS, seeing how bad guys turn good then turn bad just to shock us again by turning good... again, and turning bad again, and of course watching all that on my tiny media player on my soft comfy bed with the same old GREEN blanket over my cold feet.

3.I dug up my extremely yellowish story book titled "ANNE FRANK". Found it lying underneath a 6cm layer of dust under my bed. I recalled promising myself i will somehow finish the damn book before my final literature exams back in secondary 2. I though, hmm, maybe i can finish this in ahmi land, where i can show off to my bosses how well cultured by err... reading anne frank. The next second i knew it would'nt work, and i threw the book right into the bin. Never passed my lit anyways.

4. Bought some new goods, part of the package after i watched the recent shopaholic movie in which i realised i'm spending too little to help the economy move. Best part is, these babies are... yup, they're RED. I can't wait to post up the pictures of them, they're soooo cute and oh my god, can i say... absolutely charming ? Too bad my webcam is down, its at night, not enough light also to take a decent photo from my camera (i mean too lazy to use the flash).

5.On the way back today by train, there was this huge eye sore (super pun here), it was flashing, it was moving, it was stuck on a wall, and you could see it from 1km away. After walking a few steps more out of the train, holy crap, there's one more at the side.... You know what talking me ? CB try to make a guess. Oh mans, it was worse on ground level, it was distrating as hell, the 9-5 crowd was already bad enough plus friday night and people had to walk even slower now thanks to that. I am so disgusted in these people ultilizing all available space to generate revenue from basically anything that could be milked from. Eeehek.

6. Best shit that happened to me a few days back was probably opening up a letter i thought i was never going to recieve. I got short-listed for interview + test at a nearby university after being rejected last year despite being not so confident of getting in. Strange thing was i did not submit ALL of the documents needed for admission... and why the heck did i got chosen anyway ? Devil's luck i guess. Well, now need to prepare the damn CD and my portfolio nicely filed up to show this coming end of month. If i do possibly confirmed a position inside... i think i first thing is get a bike, then can bike to schoooooool everyday. Imaging the awesomeness involved. Bah, that's 2 freaking years from now. TWO. YEARS. ORDORODORODOODOROSROOSRO.

Goodnight, have fun, good day.

293 : Day off

Spent my day off on something i had been procrastinating since last year.I finally got my portfolio site done with all my works from the past 2 years. Take a look ( click above !)

Koped the template from somewhere off the net though. Lots of work still anyways... Have to buku-in later also, the sian-ness....

I think i gonna remove my cbox permanently, the pop up ads are getting irritating doncha think ?