Games to destress...

I know that technically I should not be posting anymore posts for this year on my blog (following my tradition of last year) but hey come on, tradition sometimes need to be broken (although some are better if they are kept)...

I've been thinking that I've been an idiot for the last few days (and some of you out there should understand why, but I'm not going to elaborate here and bore you guys out). So, I'm just going to state that I was an idiot for the last few days, and I'm hopeful that my trip out of Singapore might be able to relax me for the next few days before we come back for our days in JC...

Anyhow, I had tried destressing myself over the last few days by playing lots and lots of games on my computer. Basically, I went playing guildwars, CS, pinball, solitaire, hearts etc. and also O2 jam...

After playing this few games for the last few days, I realised a few things:

1. FPS don't really serve to destress you unless you are really really good at the game and tend to have about 90% of the time shooting people's heads off, or if you are playing with your friend on the same server
2. RPGs don't really destress you either unless you got a really interesting boss battles (like those in Megaman X series). You get destressed from those interesting boss battles because you feel a sense of achievment when you clear that boss fight. Guildwars don't really destress you because of the dark feeling of the game (especially Nightfall) and the boss battles aren't really exciting...
3. Com games are boring, except for pinball, where you can train and try to get a ridiculously hard to break high score table ^^
4. Rhythm games are so far, for me, the best games to destress on...

This is probably because I found myself enjoying myself while I was playing O2jam. O2jam is similar to audition, although I feel that O2jam gives you a greater amount of satisfaction when compared to playing audition. The reasons are very simple.

Firstly, in O2jam, there are definite patterns. What this means is that you can try to learn a freaking hard to master song, and when you finally play it without much trouble, you'll really feel a great sense of achievement bubbling up inside you.
However, in audition, there isn't a fixed pattern, what this means that it is all about reaction time, and there is no way for you to master a single song. I feel that like this, you don't really get any sense of satisfaction easily unless you play it for a really really long time and beat a lot of other people...

I know there isn't really any other points on why O2jam is better then audition because technically audition is better then O2jam both visually and in terms of game managements by the companies, so I'll leave it as that...

But beat-rhythm game really can destress you, especially when you feel that bubbling sense of achievement when you clear that song that you always had had trouble with.

Course, Time Crisis still beats them all in the destressing category...
...once you don't die in prologue(TC4) or stage 1 (TC1,2,3) that is...

Discmon

Thoughts on Second anniversary

Hey, some of you should have noticed that we just got switched over to the new blogger:beta (which is going to be renamed blogger since it will probably not be staying in beta mode for much longer) Check out the whole new combined recent post and archive section !! Looks slightly more organised, and I might try adding labels when I feel like it ^^

I guess I won't be able to post my anniversary post on the exact date of the anniversary (which is 31/12 for those of you who just joined us on this blog). It's the second year running that I had been unable to do this, and the reason for this is exactly the same as last year. My parents, had once again decided that we needed to go overseas...
Bleh...

Either way, 2 years have passed since I first started to sit in front of my computer and type out posts after posts on my blog. I know my blog still can't match up to those "famous" bloggers out there, and I'm not aiming to be those types of bloggers anyway... but at least I'm glad that there are people out there who do read my blog. I like to thank you all people who had been reading my blog and commenting on them. Comments really give you the feeling that you had made an impact somewhere out there, and its a great feeling to know you had set someone out there thinking...

Also, there has been a rather severe lack of criticism on my blog, in case you people hadn't noticed. This is probably because of a) I'm no longer in council, b) I'm no longer in RV but I'm sticking with c) I realised that typing out criticism after criticism on your blog kind of darkens the world around you. I still type criticism now and then on my blog, but I realised that it makes you feel as though your life is not worth living.
Its got something to do with the fact that by writing it down, you confirm the feeling that something is very wrong about this thing, and after a while, it kind of accumulates and then you find yourself locking yourself in a dark dark room and wishing that the world isn't really as bad as you think it is...

This led me to start typing post that chronicles funny things that had happened in my life, such as the 4AD war (which should still be very fresh in many people's mind) and also dumb posts like the "exciting" bus ride, and the top 100 ways to show that you have a lot of time on your blog... It had served to lighten my mood, and I kind of find myself enjoying every day of my life.

With O levels out of the way, its about time to start a new period of our life. Its time for the leap from secondary schools to JC/poly and I got no idea why, but I feel sad about leaving RV behind. The blogging project left me with a desire to go back to west coast campus and get everyone there as well and go have a walk-a-thon around pandan reservoir. I really want to go back there again and experience the morning breeze blowing at us as we run at the pandan reservoir. Moreover, I think I'll miss all the friends that I had made there, from every level, sec 1,2,3 and 4...

Come to think of it, RV had been quite kind to us. Even though RV has continued changing campuses, I had never failed to get a direct bus from my house to RV. It's just one of the more miraculous things that had happened, and I'm glad that RV had been kind to us even as it moved around from one campus to the next...

Here, I would also like to say good bye to two things that had given me a lot of my inspirations to write. Firstly, the student council and secondly, the school. Without this two organisations, I would not have had so much to talk about on my blog, and if it wasn't for them, this blog would probably not exist. Thanks for giving me the subject matter to write, and I apologise if I had made any unbased comments on this two groups. (I believe most of my comments are based though)

And to end it all off, I like to bring in Yoh Asakura's famous line. And it would be good for all you people out there to believe in as well. It was partly because of shaman king that I had started to see all the jokes in life and to live happily regardless of the situation. Before we say good bye to the year that is about to end, let us all remember that:

Everything will work out in the end

And with that, I wish the blog a happy second anniversary, all you people out there a very merry christmas and a happy new year. Wish everyone here all the best for the new year, and do your best !!
I mean, everything works out in the end right? So, why not do your best in everything?

Discmon

Posting results

Hey guys!!
Posting results are out and you guys out there should be probably comparing where MOE has posted you all to...

But either way, its time to say hello to National Junior College for me yup!!
Its either by coincidence but I always get my second choice.
For PSLE, RV was the second choice...
For O levels, NJC was the second choice...

Ah who cares, as long as I like the school, what else matters?

See you guys in National Junior College on 3/1/2007
This is getting to be a freaking short post, but I can't get myself to write anymore haha. So I'll just end it off here.

Discmon

Trip to west coast and commonwealth...

...And we've returned from our blogging project...

Today, as many of you should have known by now, is the date of our blogging project. We did have a bit of a hard time recording down our precise thoughts at the moment because all the thoughts were basically flooding into our brain as though a dam had burst somewhere. So, instead of just copying and pasting what I had wrote down on Microsoft Word during the day, I thought I would go and edit it a bit and add a bit more thoughts as I write this blog.

The day started pretty badly, mainly because of the rain. The three man blogging team, comprising of Yuping, YingTing and me were stranded at jec because of the rain. I was not exactly in the mood to risk the life of my computer and chiong to the bus stop so that we can head off to our first destination. So, we slacked around in jec. We spent some time in the arcade and taking photos of jec, which is an old haunt of RV pupils, while waiting for the rain to die down a bit.








After about half an hour, the rain died down a bit. We decided to take our chances and chiong for the bus stop that will bring us to the west coast campus. Upon reaching the west coast campus, the weather decided that it had relaxed enough and proceeded to bombard us with a greater downpour of rain and winds strong enough to cause passing cars to fly (the above sentence has a 50% chance of containing an exaggeration). We headed for the shelter of the nearby HDB block and waited for the rain to stop attacking us, avoiding flying cars and trees whipped up by the wind along the way...

As we waited in the safety of the HDB block, we glanced at the west coast campus. It has indeed changed a lot. The D&T block and the Art room block has been demolished, replaced with a basketball court. The shed that used to store all the woods for the scouts and guides have been painted white and turned into the power house. Meanwhile, the original power house of RV has been demolished and replaced with the basketball court that we had mentioned earlier. The parade ground where the guides used to build their tents have been replaced with a grassy field, and the few trees that are still standing there are showing signs of gardener Lee sickness (This sickness is caused by lack of care from RV's Gardener Lee). As we continued to walk into the school, we realised that a large part of the school has changed. The garden has been reduced in size, with parts of it having concrete poured over it, and the auditorium has been totally demolished, along with the famous tennis court.


Some things were of course still standing, including the three basketball courts, and of course our dear old sec 2,3 and 4 classrooms. The classrooms though had changed.

As we walked through the school compound, we feel this kind of foreign feeling of the school. Blue and red, as what yuping said, is really RV colours. The blue and yellow colour painted by commonwealth secondary school is totally un-RVish, and I feel myself wishing that we never had to go for any school upgrading. I miss the pandan reservoir, the nice environment, the lack of vehicles, and the great traffic crossing where yuping learned the meaning of "jaywalk"...

I missed it all...

After staying at west coast campus for some time, we set off for commonwealth campus. The rain had decided to stop and we thus had a much easier time making our way all the way to commonwealth campus. The commonwealth campus never changed much. The only major difference is that there was no more RV logos and banners... We managed to get into the school and get a tour of it cause we managed to convince the security guard (thanks to the mighty powers of me)

I don't really feel much while I was at the commonwealth campus though, probably because not much changes has occured to it. Ms Lee should be quite happy to know that her grass revival project had succeded, and LLM should also be pretty excited that her "bio student" incident had left a lasting impression on the grass...

Well, that's about it for the blogging project (darn, it doesn't sound exciting at all ><). Well, it was never supposed to sound exciting anyway, and somehow, most of the feelings that I had were not easy to be put into words... Its all there, you just can't let it out... Wished we were still at west coast though...

Discmon

I love missing the last bus...

Graduation night for the sec4s of RVHS is officially over…
And I am on blogger, which can only mean one thing…
That I am going to blog about it... right?
WRONG!!
I mean, sure ya, graduation night had a lot of lame jokes, especially around our tables where the lame jokes were just coming out of everyone’s mouth about once every minutes… and ya, there were lots of funny things happening, and did I mention I went to talk with the SCs a teeny weeny bit too often?

But technically, who cares?

Ok fine, there are people who will care, but that’s not the point here. Life would be pretty boring if everyone who went to read blogs owned by RV pupils found the same thing over and over and over and over again…instead of doing the normal “blog about the event”, we here will be blogging about the going home part.

After sitting on the MRT train by myself and reaching Bukit Batok Station (apparently, I’m a Loner) I found that the last bus for 173 had left the interchange…

What this means is that I had just missed the last bus home. I’m not so sure about the last bus timing for 176 and I’m in no mood to try. Determined not to call home and plea for help, I decided that it’s finally time to experience what I had always wanted to experience:

Walking home from the bus interchange due to the fact that I had missed the last bus…
Surely it can’t be too bad right?

Well, today, I realised what it means by the advertisement when it says: “I love to miss the last bus”.
Basically, I plugged the mp3 player into my ears and listened to all my songs as I walked home. Of course, I reduced the volume so I can hear what is going on in the surrounding for safety measures and also to listen out for my mobile phone, just in case it rings…
The walk home was rather uneventful… I mean, it’s about 12:15am when I started the walk home, what do you expect can happen? Robbery, molestation…??!? Eh…

Anyway, most of the walk was uneventful, and mind you, it was a really long walk. I had to walk from the station all the way to hillview ave, and then start the long walk past Yu Ping, Nicholas, Ming Le, Yong Xiang, Xiao Bo, Shi Yi, Lian Quan, Shan Mao, Jie Li before I finally reached my house. This group of houses only contains those that are staying in the Hillview Ave area, and does not include the people who are living in the bukit batok region...

As I reached the final stretch before I reached home, I intentionally set the song on my mp3 player to “Tamashii Kanasete”, which is the final ending song of the “Shaman King” anime. The song kind of fit the mood as I started on the final stretch, not because the song is about reaching-home-from-a-long-walk and those sorts of things (in fact, the lyrics don’t even talk about that). Rather, it was because the song is talking about friends and your feelings towards them. You can read the lyrics here.

As I started walking on the final stretch, I feel this sense that our sec 4 life is unofficially coming to an end. After this, I doubt there would be any more big events where all the sec 4s will come together again (release of O level results doesn’t count and neither does speech day). So with all this in mind, the song fits the mood even more, as we all say good bye to the friends who we knew and grew up with over the last 4 years…

Have to thank those people who sms-ed me as I walked home. Kept me company and at least kinda, reduced my boredom as I walked home listening to songs on my mp3…

Anyway, after finishing the final stretch, there was this great sense of achievement as I walked past the gate. Its hard to explain it, in fact, words can never ever express that sort of feeling, but it was a really great feeling…

And right at the same time, the song came to an end as well…

Discmon

Oldies... don't exist.

I know I've not been a very great blogger. For one thing, I had yet to completely revamp the blog layout, so the blog still looks like it just came straight out of a blogger template. (In fact, it just comes out from a blogger template. I just spent a bit of time reorganising the link section)...

I'm still waiting for the day where I can transfer this blog over to blogger beta. Apparently, you can edit your template much like the way in dreamweaver in blogger beta. So I decided that I am going to wait until then...

Anyway, updates on the blogging project:
We have largely confirmed the date to be on 7th of December, with a slight possiblity that it will be on the 8th of December.
For those of you out there who still have no idea what this blogging project is about:
Basically, we are going to travel around to all the campuses of RV. From west coast campus to commonwealth campus to Malan campus. While you are there, try and bring something to write on so that you can record your exact feelings at the moment down. Then you can publish it somewhere or you could keep it in a diary and treat it as one of those greatest memories that you had ever had...

Hopefully, we'll have more people coming...

Anyway, I went indulging in what people would call "oldies" again. But, I think there isn't such a thing as oldies. Sure the rhythm is old, the people who sing it are out of the entertainment biz, but the songs they sing, can never ever be replace. Song never ever become oldies because it is unique. Every song is unique.

For example, lets use 吻别. Can you find a song that can totally replace the feelings conjured up by that song alone...? I highly doubt so. Lets use "Leaving on a jet plane" by John Denver as well. Can you replace the sorrow in that song with another song that talks about the same thing. It will be very hard, and if it can, it would most likely be because the lyrics are nearly the same...

So (because I made a promise that I'll start writing short posts), in short, there isn't such a thing as oldies. All songs are unique and all songs convey a feeling that will probably not be that easy to duplicate. Some songs will always stay fresh in some people's mind, because their life experiences matches the lyrics of the song.
(I think I have serious run-on sentences above)

So ya, there is nothing wrong to listen to oldies, its just that those songs have this feeling and you can hardly ever duplicate it with a newer song. The rhythm, the feelings, the beats. Its all unique to a song. So, learn to listen too all types of songs in the world.

Discmon

State of the holidays/blogging project

I know I have not been blogging for some time, and most of you out there should probably remember the period of time during the O levels where I went crazy with blogging (Check the post that starts with the title, post during O-levels) and you'll get the idea...

Anyway, with this post, it should be good to know that novemeber is coming to an end, and boy am I bored...
It feels as though something very important is missing, and you can all guess what it is, its the holiday homework. Life just suddenly feels very empty suddenly. Last time during the holidays, you had to worry about completing the holiday homework on time, and it kinda gives you the push to get everything done as quickly as possible so that you get to enjoy the holiday for as long as possible...

But now, without a single piece of holiday homework, the holiday feels a bit...unbearable...
As in unbearable, absolutely nothing to do, nothing to worry about (ok, I must be joking for this point), but nothing to do is definitely correct...

Besides, I can't find anything to comment/criticise on, which is supposed to be a good thing. What with me out of council, I feel as though I don't need to worry about so much things anymore.
Hearing what those sc say to me leave me wondering whether or not councillors nowadays are thinking too much... For example, you could rant on an issue on and on and on and on, and then, at the end of the whole thing, I will say one thing to sum up the whole problem that have just been presented :"Don't you all think that you all see too much into people's action that does not have any effect on you......."

I mean, I'm so bored I find interest in visiting shopping malls and go from shop to shop going window shopping... This is called window shopping... I even went so crazy I went to start playing guildwars on the net...

Note to all guildwar players out there: I'm so bored, some of you want to meet someday and go adventuring together? Anyway, I'm playing nightfalls only, so heh, you'll have to visit that place to find me ^^

Anyway, because of the sheer boredom that I think most of the sec4s have chalked up by now, and probably by the rest of the RV population who had finished their holiday homework (which should be pathetically little) I thought we could have a blogging project(ok, it can also be called the "remind-yourself-of-the-past" project). Basically the idea is that we all meet up somewhere and head to west coast campus, following that, we can slack there a bit and go to commonwealth campus before going to malan campus. The idea is to revisit those places and try to relive a bit of those memories we had left behind.

And as we do so, some of us might be able to bring along something to write down your thoughts on the way and perhaps post a blog or something like that. The idea is that we want to capture the moment, the exact feelings that you have at the moment, so you basically just write whatever you feel like once you reach that place...

If you are interested, please note that you better be a member of the rv community, regardless of whether past, present, (or future) and please tell us that you are coming along by leaving a comment in the comments section stating that you want to come along. Also, state the dates that you will be free/occupied so that we can decide on a probable date. If I have your contact, I'll contact you once I have set a date, if not you can always check back here...

Hope to see you people there, currently got 2 people definitely coming, and one is maybe. Lets make this a big one shall we?

Discmon

The LINK section is b-a-c-k...

As most of you should have noticed by now (as if you can never ever notice it) I just sort of added the removed-don't-know-how-many-years-ago links section back. Treat it as a early 2nd anniversary from me to the blog. It is in serious need of changing some of the front page...

Either way, as you all can see, there are certain sections in this group of links. First of, we have the group blogs section. For the group blogs, I just link the blogs that are still active or are probably still being maintained and visited to a small extent. So we have the 4D class blog and the 1D class blog...

Anyway, as you can see, the rest of the blogs have been divided into two sections, blogs you should read and other blogs. Not that I am biased or prejudiced, but blogs that you should read are blogs that most people can read and won't suffer from traumatising headache due to paragraphing issues and the like. This blogs also occasionally talks about issues that are not very private so that you could guess what they are talking about. Either way, I want to try out templating when beta becomes official and I can just transfer over, so we'll just stick with this for the time being.

Special mention for that section:
Liyan's blog is no longer active and will probably never ever become active again. Either way, his blog is still around and his archive are still there. His impact on the school was "amazing" (to a certain extent)(amazing is classified by many people in many different ways). Also, you all should check the post that started a comments war on his blog. Either way, his criticism of the sc, some of which might still be relevant, is still found there. Generally materials for you all to read. However, I think commenting on any of his post would be a waste of time.

Yong Hao's (aka Shadowkat) blog is still active although he tends to post at irregular intervals, which can stretch between about 1 week to over 3 months. Generally, his blogging frequency is indirectly proportional to the length of time he is playing his computer. Either way, his blog is telling a story about a land called Pingasore, in a world called Erath. (as if anyone can't see through the anagrams)... His blog points out the stupidity in certain issues and make it plain through his use of -anyone can decipher at a glance- anagram.

These two blogs deserve honourable mention.
Well then, to all you people who run around reading blogs and always complain that I don't have a link section. Please do "click" on those links and start reading around.

Discmon

Good bye Good bye Good bye

... And this post marks the end of the "Post during O-levels" series...
Did I mention that this post marks the end of the "Post during O-levels" series??
Did I?
Of course I did, today marks the OFFICIAL END of the O LEVELS for the people in school who take SSGBIO...

Which means... there isn't any more sense to say that this post is posted during the O levels. I mean, its all OVER!!
OVER I SAY.. OVER...

Anyway, I was freaking scared that blogger will label my blog as a spam blog due to my last post, which basically just copied and pasted one phrase. Congratulations for my great idea...
Anyhow, the O levels are... weird... Weird because its like its nothing compared to our prelims, where we nearly died trying to complete it...

But whatever, I am not going to comment too much on it until I get my results backs...
Anyway, because of the LONG holiday coming up that has no holiday homework or what not, there is going to be a lot of things to do before we move off to the new year. This includes the blogging project that I've been thinking through for some time, and also the addition of the links section that I've been considering for the past three months or so...

So expect things to come up on this rather pathetic looking blog...
Did I say pathetic?

Discmon

Post during O-levels (VII)

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Discmon

Post during O-levels (VI)

The sixth post during O levels...
I think I can imagine myself having so much things to talk about during O levels...

After going through the exam for one whole week, I got no idea why, and some of you might think I am crazy after reading this, but I wished the O levels don't end so soon. Like, make it longer or let the exams be a longer thing. I think I might live to regret it if it was really longer, but for some weird innate reasons that I cannot really explain out, I wished that I needed to study a bit more, and have more "fun" with the papers we had...

Ok, I assure you that I am going crazy. Its probably got someting to do with the fact that the papers on thursday was darn exciting and required you to think on the spot and produce an answer at the speed of light...

Anyhow, cause I don't want to get spammed by people saying that
-I am crazy
-That they are wishing that O levels are ending soon and not the other way around
-Or they have the same feelings as me...
Lets not talk about this topic shall we.

Anyway, have you ever brooded over your papers after you done them. If so, stop. Its stupid and it gets you tensed up for your next few paper. It could be nothing is wrong with the paper that you had done and you are just imagining it. This could seriously affect your other papers and this will overall affect your results...
So, don't go think about it. Just like talk about it for a minute or so and then stop.

I mean, you could always quote from Cowboy Bebop and Shaman King:
"Whatever happens, happens...but everything will work out in the end"
So don't brood over the papers, it'll just get worse.

Discmon

Post during O-levels (V)

Wow, we're onto the 5th part of the posts during O levels.

I realised I've been blogging rather frequently over the last few days, but this is mostly due to the fact that we are currently celebrating the unofficial end of the O levels.
I mean, with the end of biology and geography, the two most killer subjects, how bad can the rest of the O levels be?

Ok, it can get very very bad. We got Physics, Chemistry and A math left.
To me, these three subjects are not fully content based subject, in that you apply what you learn instead of just regurgitating things that you read from your book. For example, in biology exam, this line should be quite familiar:

During inhalation, the external intercostal muscles contract while the internal intercostal muscles relax. This causes the ribs to swing upwards and outwards. This increases the dorsoventral diameter of the thoraic cavity. The diaphragm contracts and becomes flatter, this increases the volume of the thoraic cavity. The air in the alveoli expands, thus the air pressure in the lungs is lower then the air pressure of the atmospheric air outside the body. Thus, air is sucked into the lungs until the air pressure in the lungs and the air pressire outside the body is the same...
I mean, we tend to copy wholesale in biology exams...

Geography exams have a nasty tendancy to shock you with the fact that you simply do not have the time to write down and explain all your points fully...

Physics, Chemistry and A math is less content based in that you are applying what you have learnt. This means you can prepare for this exams simply by doing tons and tons of past year exams paper.
So, lets make the last push and do our best for the O levels...

Discmon

Post during O-levels (IV)

We're officially onto the fourth post during the O levels. Can't really imagine myself being so talkative and so chatty during a time like this.... (Ok, I can, but that's beside the point...)

Anyway, today officially marks the period of time where we are exactly half-way through the O levels in terms of papers left. As of today, we, the people in class 4D who takes SSGBIO has completed 10 out of our 20 papers as indicated on our entry proof...

So, the good news is we are half way through our papers, the bad news is that we have ten more papers to go.
Anyway, the reason why I am posting a post, other then the fact that we are half-way through all the papers, is that tomorrow is the day of the GOD-LIKE papers.

(I tried embedding the GODLIKE sfx from DoTA into here, but I decided to focus more on my studies rather then my computer)

Tomorrow, through a freakish turn of unfortunate events, the class 4D will be seating through 3 papers, all of them content-based. Biology paper 1 and 2, and Elective Geography Paper 2. Imagine the amount of books the whole class will be eating today as they prepare for the battle of the century tomorrow...

Just Imagine...
Do your best!! (Study for those who are studying, imagine for those who are trying their best to imagine.)

[The count has been moved]

Discmon

Post during O-levels (III)

I knew I would not be able to resist posting something on the last day of revision for O-levels before it actually starts. I mean, the day before prelim start I went crazy and posted the "Top 100 ways to show that you have a lot of time on your hands"...

So, I guess its just how I do things.

Somehow, I feel that I haven't done enough for my revision. There's always this nagging doubt in your brain that you had not done enough and somehow, you'll not be able to do well in your O-levels. I feel that its got something to do with worrying. We all worry a lot, so I guess we all should be having this nagging doubt in our brain that we will not be able to do well for our O-levels...

Anyway, I know I made a huge mistake on Friday. Remember I said that with the official end of the shaman king anime on Arts Central, I would be able to fully focus on my exams...?

Well, friday marked the official starting of a new anime called "Get Backers" which I found interesting mainly because of the characters...Which means I'm stuck to the next anime and am not going to be able to get anywhere with my late-night revisions from wednesday to friday...

Anyhow, with the official start of the mad rush to the end of the O-levels, our small little blog site will have a sort of mini countdown to the end of it all. Unfortunately, this countdown will be based on the 4D class timing, which ends on the 16/11, about a day earlier then the rest of the school.

So, to all you other people out there, don't forget to add a day to the countdown, or you'll find yourself in a mini-relaxing mood when you shouldn't be...
We'll try to update the count everyday on this post, so you won't see multiple one sentence post.
Also, if there is another post during O-levels that appears, we'll shift the count foward to that post, meaning this area will become empty.

[The count has been moved]

For those A-level people out there, do your best. Maybe our exams might even end on the same day.

Discmon

Post during O-levels (II)

I got this feeling that I would not just post one post during O levels. Its sort of like this feeling that everytime the exams come near, I would have lots of things to write on blogger.

Hello friday, the end of the week where I managed to get all the rest I need. Thankfully, my flu cleared up, which means I should be able to handle whatever the exam is going to throw at me next week.

Next week marks the start of the final/mad rush all the way to the end of the exams, with exams almost everyday.
Looking at the exam schedule now, I don't feel much of the fear of having two papers on the same day, it's like so ordinary. I mean, how bad can geography, biology, biology be...?

Well, its meant to be very bad, but I got this weird feeling that I have eaten the biology book, and I only need to start the digestion for geography... Perhaps during the bio exam, I could regurgitate my biology book out from my stomach...

And if that happens, pigs will fly and the sun will definitely, without fail, rise from the west...

Of course, you have to really thank arts central. Either its coincidence, or arts central really planned it. They managed to end the whole series of "Shaman King" yesterday. Which means I got to watch every single episode of shaman king without a lot of interference to my exams. Very nice timing. Finish shaman king, start exams.
Keeps you focused on what you should be doing now.

The revision over the last few days are only slightly productive to say the least. Mainly because my guidelines are still based on my performance when I went back to school everyday over the last two weeks or so. So, if I did about the same thing when I am in school, I should still be productive, at least, according to my standards.

Everything is coming to an end, its just two more weeks...
Do your best everybody!!

Discmon

Post during O-levels (I)

We have officially launched into the O levels examination...
What am I doing here?!

Well, a piece of good news is that we have about a week to study into all our subjects before we continue on with the rest of our papers. Things don't look really good for some of our papers so far, but I think that chemistry practical so far is the only one of the many papers that many of us have no worries...
At least, most of us...

I want to really thank the SEAB for putting a week of rest in between the practicals and the rest of the theory papers, cause, through a series of unfortunate events, I've fallen sick again...
At least, the sickness isn't as bad as last time like when prelim just ended.

I don't exactly know what I want to discuss, but I thought I wanted to post something while I still have the opportunity, particularly during this short one week break...

To all the sec4s out there, please keep yourself healthy, and don't be like me...
Which means that no matter how weak you are in a particular subject, please don't over-exert yourself and fall sick the day before the exam...
And my apologies to all those people who were affected by my sneezing during the exams this week.

And seriously, it sucks when you sneeze continuously in the exam hall. You should try it one day.
(:

Discmon

Choice? and then regret...

Its been a very tiring week no matter which way you see it. (Except for the sec 1, 2 and 3 who should be pretty much relaxing and comparing how badly they failed) Some of our class people managed to get hold of the Sec 3 EOY chemistry paper, and we got a pretty good understanding of why the sec 3s failed badly...

But that's going to be another story...

Have you ever looked back and start thinking about what would have happened if you had not made "that" choice?
I'm talking about choices where both sides are morally correct, thus, this does not include choices that are about whether or not you should shoplift...

While I was making my way home from JEC, I was thinking about some choices that I had made. Then I started reflecting on all the choices that I had made. Things like whether or not I should have went to the Beijing trip, whether or not I should have stayed in Singapore then to go for all those events... and so on and so forth...

After several minutes on the bus ride home, I came to this conclusion that there is no such thing as a right choices and a wrong choice. They are all choices that you have made, and to me there is no point looking back and start crying over the spilled milk...

Using the earlier examples: After a really really long story after the beijing trip, I lost a friend, but if I had never went, would I know so many other people, many of whom I still keep in contact? Those friends that I made there are really unforgettable, they remind me of all the good times we all had had when we were in secondary 2 and could just made fun of others...

So looking back at it all, there is no such things as a wrong choice. All of them are choices, and if you hadn't made those choices in the first place, you wouldn't be here in the way you are now. Lets say maybe you hate yourself for getting addicted to maplestory, then ask yourself, if you hadn't get addicted, would you be able to mix with the people in your class who are all maple fanatics? Would you be able to talk to your maple friends non-stop for the whole bus ride? If you hadn't been to maple, would you even be like what you are now in the first place?...

So in the end, I feel that we must cherish what we have now, and not look back at the past and constantly cry over it... Yes, regretting is good because we learn not to make the same mistakes again, but then, there isn't such a thing as a time machine (Other then the clock, which only goes forward...) so you can't rectify your "mistake". (If you can call it one...)

And even if you are able to rectify it, a few good question to ask is:
-Will you really benefit from never ever making that choice?
-If you hadn't made that choice, will you still be what you are now?

Of course, it is good to remind ourselves that we are not dealing with choices that deal with moral values, or the above two questions will definitely be redundant...
I expect criticism...

Discmon

Some notes...

I can't get myself to write a post describing my feelings today...
Maybe when O level is over I'll get something to write...

Anyway, just wanted to make a short note cause I got a biology practical exam tomorrow.
If you guys remembered, I was talking about computing no longer being offered as an examinable subject in the A levels. I went to check with MOE, and received a reply in about 2 days time. This shows that they are highly efficient (The above message is not meant to be sarcastic).

Anyway, if you guys are interested (which I doubt anyone in the world who read this blog will be interested in) this is the message that I received back from SEAB:

"A-Level Computing (9349) will be examined for the last time in 2007 for repeat candidates only. The syllabus will be replaced by Computing (9754) as H2 subject and the first year of examination is 2007. This subject is only offered to school candidates."

So, remind me again, which JC said that computing is totally out of the SEAB examination syllable?
I don't think I am that evil and petty yet, but you got to sincerely hope that some schools get their facts right first.

Ah well, do your best people. Four years and its all because of this...
Anyway, to all you people out there, here's a thought to think about:

Everything is coming to an end...
Will you remember it all?

Discmon

Rantings on 11/10

One week left before exams starts...
Ok, it's much less then that, and I think I finally start feeling the need to study and do homework everyday...

But I still feel the need to write something before O level officially starts...
For the last week, I had many articles in my mind that I wanted to write about, but I found that I am unable to get past the second line of each article. It's like when you start writing about it, you write down the introductory line, then you look at the thing and you start to stare at the sentence. Then, you start to worry about what others would say about what you write, you worry about how you are going to complete the sentence and complete the whole essay... and the worrying list can go on and on and on with no way to stop at all...

In the end, you give up trying to write it, you delete the post, try again, delete it, look at the clock, and then you click the "sign out" button located on the top right hand corner of the browser...

So this is one of the few reasons why you all did not see any updating on this blog for the last few days...

Anyway, today was a really weird/funny day. Of course, it depends on the way you see it, but if you are optimistic and let others laugh along with you, then today would be a very funny day.
The day started out pretty much the way it usually does, with a cup of milo in the canteen. Of course, things started getting real weird when Yini and YeeJia decides to try and win me in an argument (which they did...). I forgot what was the argument about, but its seriously lame and you know how lame it would be when I lost to them...

Of course, it would also be nice to get revenge from all this arguments. All of you out there would know that Yini can barely reach the OHP screen when the rope is coiled up and tied to the screen. So, you could expect the revenge when I asked Yini to go pull down the screen instead of me pulling it down. I would like to thank Chyuan Sheng for coiling up the rope right at the moment when I most want it. Thanks a lot yar.

The rest of the day progressed almost as normal until we reach the JC talk.
I want to clarify something that you all are thinking. For one thing, I was not the one interested in the cut-off point for PAE. It's my classmates. They all know that I am going to ask about computing, so they all spam me into going there to ask about PAE cut-off point. It's sort of like a "since I am asking questions, might as well just help them ask the question". It's not like what you all are thinking, it's not that I am so desperate to get into a JC. I mean, I am even considering a poly course...

Anyway, I know the above paragraph would be read by people and they would say this:
"Are you trying to bluff?" and "Don't need to hide la, if you are so interested, don't need to push it to others" but of course, I hope that a small group of people would say :"Orh, so it isn't like that"...
And no, I do not appreciate if you said :"Orh..... So you are still trying to push the blame to others?!"

But anyway, why do cambridge need to pull computing out from its syllables... I was so looking-foward to it. Finally I get to do something in front of something that I would never sleep in front of. The below paragraph is detailed account of why I have never slept in front of a computer:

Have you ever tried to stay up to about 4am and still wish that you do not feel the need to sleep. I tried lots and lots of different methods, from reading books to doing math, none of them worked... Until I discovered the computer. The computer does incredible stuffs, you could be killing snails and mushrooms for 24/7. You could be editing a video that you really like, you could be watching videos off you-tube... You could do so much and more, you could do it 24/7. What other reasons are there for staying up late other then to spend your life in front of the computer...

Nevermind...
But seriously, both ACJC and HCJC has said that they would still be offering computing for their next batch of students. I am assuming that they have to pull this out since cambridge will no longer be offering the examinations... Well, another good reason to go to a polytechnic instead hehe...

Then, we had our study session outside the library as usual. Except that it seemed as though the only reason I was there was to be beaten and called a idiot by Fang Shiyi. She came to ask us some questions on physics, and decided to spend the rest of the time there while we were thinking to hit me and call me an idiot. Of course, that was partially because I was being petty cause she was making fun of me asking the same question twice during the JC talk (over the PAE thingy)...

Things took a turn for the worse when this person walked past our table being accompanied by msek and Mr Chua. We were thinking that the person is just another principal from another school when he stopped by our table and asked us about the school and about how things are like since the move and so on yadda yadda yadda...
I was pretending to be happily seating there and answering the questions that he was posing to me. Of course, you have to give the so-called "politically correct" answers. After the person left, Mr Chua gave me a tap and say:
"Do you know who the person is?"
"No"

And here it comes, the top reason why I am writing this post, the quote of the day, as said by Mr Chua:
"He is Ms Ek's boss boss boss boss boss boss".
*Note the need for accent and such. And make sure when you pass it on, it better sounds as though Mr Chua is saying it, or it will definitely reduce the overall quality of the joke...

Cai Zhi came over and talked about "how was the presidential interview", which I agree, except that I thought the president is supposed to ask whether or not you have eaten, like what he always does on National Day when he goes for the inspection...

The day was really weird to say the least and funny in my opinion as I sort of laughed my way throughout the whole day, even though most of the time, the joke came from me...

But hey, I bring enjoyment into people's life even when we are supposed to be freaking stress up...That is supposed to be a wonderful thing to do, althought it isn't exactly that wonderful when it is done at the expense of yourself.

And don't forget, you might be asked about your breakfast/lunch/dinner by someone's boss boss boss boss boss boss...

Discmon

Incredible things that can be done with an instrument...

I originally wanted to type this post in chinese, but after reaching around the second paragraph, I decided to give up again... sigh~ The main reason why is because I found out that I have to take a freaking long amount of time to write down what I have in my mind. In fact, the time interval is sometimes so long that I completely forgot what I wanted to write originally. So you could just blame it on the fact that it is horrendously hard to type out chinese in a computer...

Maybe someone might invent a better programme for inputting chinese into computer...
But that would be another story...

Anyway, about two days ago, we (meaning my family) went to watch a concert put up by the Singapore Chinese Orchestra (SCO for short)(I got a pretty good feeling that I'll be referring to the SCO over and over again in this post). Anyway, the performance is called :"胡琴王见王" and it was held at the Singapore Conference Hall, the place that we went to during our sec 2 life suddenly during one of our arts lesson. It should be very easy to recall for quite a lot of people...

Anyway, they invited 闵惠芬 (I feel darn disrepectful if I don't use her proper chinese name), who is a very well-known erhu player both in and out of China. Anyway, this should leave many of you out there to ponder a very interesting question: Why was this performance not held at the esplanade, considering that they invited such a famous person to perform? If this performance was held at the esplanade, more people would have been able to watch the performance and appreciate the way she play the erhu. The Singapore Conference Hall is simply too small to accomodate this performance...

And you just got to face it, this performance was a near sell-out. I counted only about 2-3 empty seats in the hall, and those seats are all single seats, meaning that they are very far away from each other...Having it held at the esplanade would also have made finding a parking space easier. You can never ever imagine how congested the carpark at the Singapore Conference Hall was. The place was packed and everyone was just doing illegal parking just to find a place to park their cars and watch the performance. So once again, it would have just been better for it to be held at the Esplanade.

Anyway, on with the performance. As usual, SCO, who is already well-known for playing weird pieces of music, decided to start with a very weird piece entitled "秋决". It is supposed to sort of like talk of the story of "窦娥冤"but you got to admit that the music was horrible and grating to the ears... Sounded more like ghosts flying around, especially when there isn't any ghost in the original story...

After the what seemed like forever, the horrible song was over and out came the highlight of the whole performance, 闵惠芬. She walked on to the stage to thunderous applause (I wished I brought a recording device to record the sound of the applause) and after thanking the audience, proceeded to play three pieces entitled :"绣荷包", "游圆" and "昭君出塞".

I feel a great sense of enjoyment from simply watching her fingers slide over the erhu and played out the songs. Her notes are deep, sharp and they pluck at the feelings in your heart. The songs that she picked are all songs that have deep emotional feelings in them, and the way she plays it makes you feel as though she just brought you into the world that is being described by the music. Her fingers are agile and move across the erhu effortlessly. I would say that the movement of her fingers is already an art by itself...

During the interval, we happened to stumble on the VIP reception. We did not realised it until we were about half-way though the whole reception thingy. By that time, we were already happily feasting on the reception provided... So here's another good reason why you should be adventurous...

Anyway, after the reception, we were once again treated to the weird music brought to us by the SCO. Their undeniable affinity for weird music, which actually allowed spells to be casted at a reduced cost of 1 generic mana per weird music spells in play, dominated the whole hall and sent people scooping their cards back into their hands as they admitted defeat to a turn 2 kill... (The above paragraph uses a wide variety of Magic: The Gathering slang)(Confusion is expected)

So, we'll skip that song...
The whole highlight of the concert was the next song, entitled "长城随想". This song is a piece that is mainly played by the erhu and accompanied by the rest of the orchestra. Her notes reverbarated around the hall as I felt myself revisiting the Great Wall Of China, which I only visited about a few months back...
And I found out that listening to it at home is different from watching it being performed on stage. The impact, the feeling, its all different...

After that, the performance has "technically" ended. The thunderous applause at this point was amazing, and I once again wished that I had recorded down the sound of the applause. It was simply... amazing. Our encore was succesful and she walked out back to the stage and said two words that sent the audience into a greater amount of clapping and even shouting cries of "好!!"

The word she said was :"賽马"..
Here, I want to blame the SCO for covering up her notes. The SCO played so loud that various parts of this great piece of music was covered up by the rest of the orchestra...
But, she changed the score of the music on some parts, resulting in a longer time at the end, where she made the most realistic sound of a horse that I had ever heard being made on an erhu. It was so realistic that it actually sent a member of the audience to scream "哇!!". I was holding on to my seat to prevent myself from screaming the same thing as well. It was incredible what could be done with such a simple imstrument...

And that sound of the horse was really incredible. Totally realistic. It was as good as bringing a horse there and making it neigh off-stage. But it was made by just an erhu...Incredible!

After that, we tried to make another round of encore, but we failed...
We were saying that we haven't had enough of the music, it was simply incredible. She could have just played 賽马 one more time, and we'll still be memerised by it...

It was incredible...

Discmon

Sick after prelims...

I wanted the last post to stay on the front page of this blog for a while, but things do crop up now and then so I thought I should just comfortably forget about letting that post stay there. It would indeed by nice if I could leave that post as the last post before O level, but I guess it would also be good to forget about that thought.

As you all should have known by now (It would be a joke if you do not know) that the sec 4 prelims are over. That isn't much of anything to celebrate about but at least its over. I know that there has already been a great talk over the whole handphone issue and I do not think I will repeat here on my blog, seeing that there are a lot of other bloggers out there who will be reporting the issue.

And besides, I am not in the mood to go over this issue, so we'll forget about it.

I remembered that about half-way through the prelim exam, I started feeling sick. As in those sort of feelings that you will get when you feel that you are going to fall sick. Pain in the joints, muscle aches, runny nose... But there wasn't any fever. My father, who decided to use us as guinea pigs, decided to try acupuncture on me to see if my sickness sort of symptoms can be cured.

And it really got pushed down. So the rest of the prelim exams were completed quite successfully. Then on friday morning, the day after the prelim ends, the sickness just suddenly slam into me at full blast and I got everything. Fever, runny nose, pain everywhere and so on and so forth.

Great timing I suppose for it to only appear right after the prelims. My father believed it was a sort of strength that the prelims given me to push it down. My mother attributed it to God. But for me, I'll accept both sides of the argument. Without both, there won't be this miracle where sickness only appears right at the end of prelims...

Anyway, in case you people out there didn't get the message, the message is, even when you people are studying/mugging, please remember to take care of your health and don't be like me. The doctor say that the main reason I got sick was because I overworked.

So whatever the problem is, maintain your health, especially now when the O level is like so close... We don't need another beier, xp and even eddy incident...
Cause it would be a real shame to miss the O levels, don't you think?

Discmon

Another history of the blog...

Congratulations everyone for getting past prelim, of course, this isn't the end of the nighmare of prelim as yet, as there is always the "revenge of the scripts" when they get returned to us and we discover, to our greatest horror, that what we thought would be good marks, would be "good"...

"Good" meaning that we would need to spend the rest of the self-study period in school and can't be like the rest of the school and stay at home and study. For me however, I won't even freaking care about my results and I'll just go to school and study.

Q: Why would you want to do that?!
A: A few one words answers, you can pick one yourself and eh, just think about it ya:
computer/maplestory/gunbound/O2Jam/RO/DoTA/Gameboy/Pokemon/[just add on, you know the pattern already]

I think I got my point across, so I'll probably be spending the rest of the self-study periods in school...

Anyway, I wanted to find something to type during this short little break before we continue that one last mad rush for O level, and unfortunately I found out that I do not have a main topic in mind. So in the end, I decided that we should go and start digging blog history again. I wanted to talk about some video, but I'm saving that for the anniversary post (Yup, our second anniversary is coming shortly...). So, lets continue our dig into this blog's pathetically short history by looking into how the title of the blog was formed.

Revelations: Dark Shadow Games, was a title that I thought of sometime back, with a significant amount of influence by the games that I was playing back then. You could try and run a search of Revelations: The Demon Slayers on wikipedia and you'll run into this stub which says that it is a lesser known game of the rpg genre on gameboy. Yup, I did create the title under the influence of that game.

For your information, I completed the whole game recently then, so I was a bit fanatic over the game. I was particularly interested by the whole "revelations" thingy so I decided I wanted it to be part of the blog title. As for the "dark shadow games"? I was reading an article about a really old game that is detective in nature and required the protagonist to deal with demons and zombies along the way until the murder case is solved. This is further added on by influences from the anime "Yu-Gi-Oh" which referenced the "shadow games" quite a lot...

All this added up to the final formation of the Revelations: Dark Shadow Games...
And besides, I do reveal some thing sometimes, and the world is dark. But if you treat it all as a game, it can't be too bad right sometimes? So I guess the title fits...

And besides, why would I want to change the title after spending over 2 weeks thinking of a suitable title for the blog that I created?

So, another blast from the past...

[Blatant self-advertisment]
Ya, you get the idea...

Discmon

Friday, jec... Anything comes to mind?

I assumed everyone had their own fair share of laughter during the time the last post was on the front page. Thanks to all those people who commented on that post. It sometimes feel really good to know that people do read about what you write and also experience the exact feeling that I had (well at least most of the feelings) when I typed that post to make a laugh out of everything.

So in short, thank you all!!

Anyway, even though its in the middle of prelims now, I find that I really want to type something on blogger. In fact, I'm quite glad that we have this tiny break in the middle of the prelim exams so that we can take a breather. As usual, I've been studying and studying and probably studying even more (ok that isn't true, considering the great big fact that I'm typing this post now. Haha) but luckily, I went out on friday to take a very very big breather at JEC...

I don't know what got into me nowadays, but I've been visiting JEC every friday for dinner and perhaps a dose of what Zi Ang would call "gun therapy". As most of you all should also know by now, JEC is totally filled to the brim with RV people.

For example:
I alight from 176 and I see two Rv students at the busstop heading towards our old school campus. When I enter JEC, I see a bunch of Rv people occupying about 2 tables worth of space in mcdonald, 2 tables in KFC and another table in Long John Silver. When I go up to the second floor, we get to see the normal standard operating procedure (SOP) of Rv students, which basically involves buying food and then camping out in front of the shop that sells winter clothings. We usually see about 4 to 5 groups. You won't see anyone at the arcade that wears Rv uniform (duh) and sometimes when you eat at LJS, you realised that you have no place to look at cause you know you don't want to look at some "people"... heh! (This last part is supposed to be sarcastic, as with last time, its bolded to ensure that people get the sarcasm)

So, basically, that how it feels like to go there in your normal home clothes and see Rv students walking around doing their own stuff. The best part is that, no one realises you are there, everyone treats you as transparent and it thus makes for interesting situations haha. Of course, I am not quite as transparent when the sec 4s are involved. Too bad, but at least I get to say hi to them, without those people giving me those sort of "Do I know you at all in anyway?" look...

So, I was visiting JEC last friday as usual, and for the first time ever since I started going there on friday nights, JEC isn't filled with Rv people (SHOCK!!!) I was like, what the ______, how come there aren't Rv people in JEC today?! Then I started thinking how the business for various shops would be dropping very drastically because of the fact that there are no Rv students there to consume their goods.

Of course, that meant that I had a very carefree time at JEC without worrying about where to look.

But then that brings up the question, what caused this massive change? Is it?
a) Rv pupils decided to abandon JEC (?!!?)
b) Rv pupils decided that they should go harbour front instead?
c) Rv pupils are mostly hanging out in the library?
d) Rv pupils did not have CCA?

Lifelines: 50:50, call a friend, ask the audience.
Your final decision, for the 1 million dollar question is ...?

Anyway, this is definitely not a 1 million dollar question (more like a 1 million "one-hundredth" of a cent question) since the answer is very simple. In fact, I'll probably flush the lifelines down the throat of the host if this was the last question on the gameshow. (It will hurt, I decided to make cardboard copies of them so that we can smash it down the person's throat, then the host would need to eat it, or chew it so much that it can be swallowed, which is the same as eating it...)

Anyway, the main reason would be because there isn't cca. Can you see the power of cca? The power of cca to bring people to JEC and to make them hang out there?

I wonder if I would have went to JEC when I still had cca, cause I never went to JEC because of cca on friday...

Sigh~, you only realise things when its all over and done with sometimes... Its a bit weird isn't it... Like you only start to miss your seat in class with your friends (although thay might be very noisy) when you find yourself at home during the holiday and being unable to talk to your friends face to face...

Its just like the way they say it:
"You only realise how precious something is when you lose it..."

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Top 100 ways to show that you have a lot of time on your hands

I was feeling bored recently (mainly because of the revision that I had been doing day after day, week after week... Sitting in front of the table and read, read, read and study, study, study) So I thought it would be nice to spend some time in front of the computer to destress myself rather then to eat and destress...

Obviously, I greatly admire the people who still have a lot of free time on their hand and can afford to do various stuff that the sec 4s can ill-afford to do. We wished we could, but I highly doubt that we would do it.
As I've been quite jealous of people having free time, I thought I would compile the top 100 ways to show that you have a lot of free time. I have to thank the people at the Neopian Times for giving me the ideas.

So without the further ado, the top 100 ways to show that you have a lot of time on your hands:
100: You are looking at this message right now
99: You have been using your handphone to sms a lot of people
98: You've been playing Maple Story non-stop
97: Or you've been playing any other games during this week for more then 3 hours
96: Or even less then that, just playing it is enough
95: You've been chatting to a lot of people on MSN messenger
94: Or any type of messenger for that matter
93: You have been engaging in conversation with people on this few services with frequent usage of short forms like LOL and ROFL
92: You've been commenting on people's online blog
91: You've been listening to Mr Brown's podcast
90: You've been responding to people whom tagged you to do surveys on your own blog
89: You compiled the survey and even tagged more people to do the survey
88: You have memorised the content of the newest podcast of the Mr Brown Show
87: You have memorised a lot of the older podcast of the Mr Brown Show
86: You have almost all the Mr Brown show podcast in your ipod
85: Or any other storage device for that matter
84: You have started to think that you should also make your own podcast
83: You have written out a script for your own podcast
82: You have given a name to your own podcast
81: You have started recording your own podcast and is trying to find a way to gain populariaty like the Mr Brown show
80: You have been updating your blog daily
79: You have been updating it frequently with new messages
78: You have been responding to comments on it
77: You have been continuously changing your blogskin whenever you see a new one
76: You have been changing your blog song very frequently
75: Your blog have a song is already enough to show that you have a lot of time
74: You spent your time to make Green Tea Ice-Cream
73: You try to advertise it to people to eat it
72: You brought a massive fridge to store all the ice cream for the people who decides to eat it only after O levels
71: You started flipping through your old disk collection to see whether or not you could find the old game that you used to love to play
70: You found it
69: You installed it into your computer and played on it
68: You laugh at the AI trying to resist your attack while you start dominating the rest of the game
67: You start a game of SIMCity 2000
66: You load one of your old saved cities that you consider it to be one of your best ever cities made
65: You set disaster on
64: You sat in front of the computer screen and waited for a disaster to strike your city
63: You waited and waited and waited
62: You pray that your city will be destroyed by that one natural disaster when it appears
61: You got fed up of waiting for it
60: You go to the disaster menu and selected everything 15 times
59: You laughed in glee as you watch your city burn
58: You promised that you will not be that saddistic in your blog after you done that to your own sim city game...
57: You went to reread your own blog post
56: You read everyone of your own blog post and then you read all the comments
55: You remind yourself of your feelings then when you had first typed that blog post.
54: You remind yourself of the funny jokes that you had came up with
53: Or you reminded yourself of all the criticism that you had written
52: Remember the pride you had when people read your post
51: You are still looking here
50: You have made it this far down the list (Congratulations)
49: You start to make up your own games
48: Regardless of whether or not this game is card-based or anything
47: You created an imaginary history for the game, with proper people doing extrodinary stuff
46: You start to think of crazy, almost impossible to defeat final bosses for the game you are developing
45: You start humming some sort of weird tune which is supposed to be your final boss theme song
44: You start watching Japanese Anime every wednesday to friday night on Arts Central
43: You force your family to watch Shaman king with you
42: You succeded/failed to get your family to do it
41: You start memorising Arts Central advertisment
40: You start reciting it to your friends
39: You complain to your friends that Inuyasha is back
38: You exclaimed to your friends that Inutasha is back
37: You persuade all your friends to watch Jap Anime on Arts Central with you
36: You failed to get your friends to watch with you
35: You decided to remind all your friends who watch anime to remember to watch anime on wed-fri
34: You start memorising other advertisments
33: You start to remember the old advertisments that you had watched years ago
32: You start singing the advertisement out
31: You went to watch a movie during this short holiday
30: You did not watch the movie
29: You watched trailers of the movie and assumed that you watched the movie
28: You did not assume you watched the movie
27: You have been impersonating people and posting in their comments section of their blog
26: In their Chatbox
25: In their e-mail
24: In all places imaginable
23: You are still here?!
22: Congratulating yourself and continuing on down this list
21: You find yourself in front of the fridge pulling out food randomly from the shelves
20: You scream at the TV set when you notice that the serials totally "cannot make it"
19: Even though you screamed at it, you continued watching it
18: You went to play at the arcade
17: You went to play at a Lan Shop
16: You messaged people on MSN to tell them that they are gay
15: If you happened to be messaged, you responded with :"What's your point?!"
14: You decided to hook onto other people connection when you have your own modem at home
13: Because you are too lazy to balance the computer in your lap when you connect it to your home modem
12: You downloaded MapleStory, O2 Jam and Gunbound wc all within a short span of three hours, opening three download box at one time
11: Your computer cannot handle it and crashes
10: You reformatted your computer thinking that it is a major system error (when it isn't)
9: You complain about DNS
8: You are sick of studying and complain it to everyone who would listen on MSN
7: You look at the watch consistenly, waiting for your break time that you have set to come
6: You decided to forget about that break time and just do your own break
5: You give up going back to your studies after you have taken a break
4: Even if you went back, you fell asleep on the table on top of your books and start to drool over it

3: You start thinking about life if everything had went right for you

2: You are still reading this definitely shows that you have a lot of free time on your hand
And everyone, the No.1 way to show that you have a lot of free time (Which you probably should not have) is:
[drum roll please]
1: You are typing the "Top 100 Ways to show that you have a lot of time on your hands." on your own blog.

No offence to people whose actions got mentioned here. Haha
Treat it a joke for all those who are extremely stressed from studying
and for those who are stressed, treat this as your laughing/punching bag

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