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..."

Discmon

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

Discmon