Interview with The Lame One

The Lame One (TLO) is a CCA-whore, specializing in orientation programmes. He's been super busy with his projects and thus, it is very fortunate of me to be able to get a interview with him. This is the excerpt of the interview...

Me: Hi, good afternoon, thanks for your time... I heard you have been very busy with your projects up to a point you have been missing since 4 July 2007. What have you been doing all these days?

TLO: Wah lau... Very damn busy la. 6-7 July got Oweek dry run, then 9-14 got Union camp. Then after that must be ready for those Indon freshies. Then MF also got the meetings n stuff. U damn lucky lorh got time to interview me one...

Me: Are you indicating that you are free today?

TLO: No la! Where got free... Yesterday call ppl up for the councillors for Oweek. Some never pickup, today must call again. Some give wrong number. Bah! Hate this kind of thing... N later 6pm I must go back to PGP leh... Those Indons going to Orchard, I must join them one...

Me: You were mentioning about PGP. Despite your abundance of CCA points, why do you not move to hall? I heard that it is more fun staying at halls.

TLO: Hall fun. Ya, true true. But then my frenz are in PGP. Then I know the security guards, techies, RA of PGP. Some more I already involved in outside activities..

Me: NUSSU, you mean?

TLO: Ya lorh... I like hanging around in NUSSU Sect. If I stay in hall one, I dont think can be as active as now... By the way arh... 2 of those NUSSU Exco have been influenced by my sandal-kicking antics hahahaha...

Me: That's quite an interesting fact. Speaking of which, you have rubbed shoulders with quite a few of those excos during the Union Camp. What do you think of them?

TLO: Ei bro! Dont say UC UC hor... I dun like UC one! Ok ok... I must be professional one... Hmm. Those excos are not camp material lah! Only Donald can lead cheer but toned down already according to Jeeremiah. Others, hmm... Can lah, but cannot make it in my standard. But then hor, wad to say... Everyday do paperwork, throat cannot cheer already.

Me: That is an interesting theory. There is a thing that I would like to clarify. One of the councillors of Paikia, Amy Leo has expressed her interest on becoming an OGL of Engin Oweek. You, as the VPD of Oweek, have expressed your doubt about this. Is this true?

TLO: Gam puah true lah! Dry run one she everyday call call call call people one. Quotation this. Quotation that. Then hor UC also never heard her lead a cheer. Like that want to be OGL arh? Must really impress me during the second dry run la. I talk to my boss already. He also thinks the same. I heard she busy coz the HonFin of NUSSU zhao somewhere. Then I think she should not become OGL lorh, do her stuff first.

Me: There is another rumour circulating around that you do cheer in the middle of lectures. Is it true? I can picture you doing the 'wad say you say' cheer in LT7A you know.

TLO: *!@#$%*!@#$%^&*( not true la! Outside camp I'm just normal Engin guy. A lot people think like you lah, especially after watching http://youtube.com/watch?v=rUIHV7WgPeQ but I say again arh. Not true! I only go high on camps!

Me: Really? Hmm, maybe we really cant judge the book from its cover.

TLO: Ya lorh, that's exactly what Sharon said. You know, that girl from Hydra then UC joining Paikia.

Me: Your romantic interest, perhaps?

TLO: Wah lau! You want to die is it? She attached FYI. But yeah, quite some people ask me already wad my traffic light status is. Some think I am red already leh.

Me: And you are?

TLO: Dont have driving license yet.

Me: Uh, sophisticated answer. But I'm just curious about this. Do you expect your wife to be able to cheer as loud as you?

TLO: Err, no lar. Prefer my wife to be quiet one. Someone to control my self-high. Im not Shing Lam larh. He expect his wife to 'Ecstasy' cheer before bed leh! And he eyes someone already haha...

Me: And who might that be?

TLO: Secret la. Oei, why talk about this? Back to laptop larh!

Me: Sorry about that, Sir. Shall we talk about Oweek?

TLO: Ok, fine. Wad u want to ask? I a bit piss off one about Oweek but can larh... Professional one.

Me: Exactly. I heard from a trusted source that you lost your temper during last Oweek meeting. I do believe that you have your own reasons?

TLO: Ya lorh. First I very the sorry one I piss off leh. You see, I got a handicap in Singapore. Cant speak Chinese, and thats why I want to take Chinese next sem. Then in the meeting everyone speak Chinese. Ok, I can take it to a certain extent but yesterday hor, got s*** happens la. They never allow FD stay during Oweek. Ok lah, as committee I ok, can take it one. But after all they allow Joel to make a house leh. Not fair rite?!

Me: But that does not justify your anger, does it?

TLO: Ya lorh, I know. That's why I sorry one. After that, that Tsin Li ask those FD are councillors or freshie. I say freshie. Then she says this 'Freshie wad? Who cares?' This one arh, enuf already. Come on la, I study TR2201 then I heard this s*** arh, cant take it already. This point I explode alr lorh. Lucky only 2 words 'I care!'

Me: Why would you call that lucky? I mean afterwards, Shing Lam talked to you regarding this and this shows your failure, isnt it?

TLO: As in lucky I never whack her right in the face! Lucky I can control a bit my anger! I bet no one want to see me angry rite?

Me: Judging from your dark past, yes. I do not want to see you 100% angry.

TLO: Better like that. I also dont like my temper leh. I want to control more lah. But I a human mah, got some threshold thingy. You cross this threshold, I explode. But trust me, yesterday only 25% of my temper out. Hopefully I dont explode again during MF or Oweek.

Me: I hope so. Interestingly, for MF you are given a security officer position which require you to be intimidating sometimes. Your job scope is to ensure that no unauthorised personnel can enter MPSH and its surrounding. Do you make any preparations yet, considering security is an important aspect of MF?

TLO: Erm, sorry ah. But I dont think I use threat to chase those bugger out of MPSH. This MF I rather see as challenge. Can I hold my anger in front of those irritating bugger? Can I be authoritative without being scary? This one must rub my chest all the time.

Me: It's been nice talking to you. But I see it is almost 5.30. You do not want to be late for your next programme do you? Thanks for your time and cooperation.

TLO: Welcome. See you again arh. I think ur question list not finish yet haha...

Me: Certainly so...

Another post on Risk

Rafi, Yong, Ted, Nonk are banned from reading this post
PS: Even if you dont lend me your Lenovo anymore I dont care haha...

Hahahha... Apparently my last post continued... Risk is really risky game to play. Look at the state of the Project Room 2B. Now I think Risk is not a recommended game to be played among the hard-headed people. Haha... There is a massive psychological (and linguistical, to a large extent) warfare in the room after the Risk game. Hmm... Maybe it's just the composition of the players which are just wrong. Yong and Rafi are the serious ones. Nonk is the moody guy. Me and Ted are the clowns. 2 clowns meet 2 serious guys. Big fight. A moody guy who is actually dont want to play but choose to play. Bad mood. Big fight + bad mood = madness!

Even from the start I noticed that there is something wrong with the game. I mean look... Yong was playing stupid online game with his laptop n Nonk was making noise about unfairness of the game system, roll dice kind of game. Anyways, as the game went Yong kept telling the rest to finish him off coz he was sleepy. My foot lah! Once he got his huge reinforcement he was like so onst. Bah! I cant call that a psychoing strategy even if he said it afterwards! Haizz... Why cant God gives ability to read mind... (although that's gonna be even messier). But still if I saw (hopefully true) this was the scenario on Yong's mind. Initially he saw the arrangement on the board and beaten by me in Aussie. He lost his morale and did not feel like playing anymore. Then he seek refuge in his stupid game (feeling sorry for my choice of word...) and kept telling us to kill him. Wth?! He even still fresh now! And it's like 4 am now? Isn't it ridiculous? Oh well, maybe adrenaline rush but.. just not common sensical.

Anyways, the game turned very wildly at this moment. After he bunked himself in one of the Russian area, he planned major invasion on me haha... But suddenly we felt that we (me, Nonk, Yong.. by then Ted was reduced to Japan only) should screw Rafi out first. And on doing such killing most of me. Haha... I laughed at that (PS: Rafi said nothing! No one can deny that!) and immediately counting at how many guys I had to take out Rafi's main army in umh... Canada. So yeah, that was what we did. Yong wiped out most of my Asia (which was not defended well) but leaving Aussie so I got the 2 extra troops. Then he wiped out most of my army in North America leaving Greenland alone so I had the access to Rafi's main troops. Then Nonk wiped out Europe and leaving a state for backup gateway to Rafi's troops. And as a result, a major invasion. 38 vs 29 troops each. Just following probabilities lah! I won...

Ok... And here's where the 'fun' par began. Rafi and complained about the alliance. Oh well, yeah... That was an obvious alliance. Hello... We all knew that was a late game. And Ted was already no mood playing (one state only, gonna die soon mah) although I am not sure of it. Nonk has suggested few times to end the game (aka to gg) and called for a voting which only me and him agreed to stop and meant we kept playing (note: Rafi still wanted to play, which later he excused himself of not knowing we were going to gangbang him). Come on, who would think of extending the game. I myself just wanted to end the game on high note. That's why I invaded Ted the turn before instead of fortifying Asia. Hmm... Talking about the pissing off thing, apparently Rafi regarded alliance as unfair! Damnit, everyone knew it is unfair. But that's how the game can run. Angry is ok, but pissed I dont agree. Bah! And talking about his style of playing being international!!! I have heard few times but I could not remember the source saying that you would clique with people of your own style. Even if someone says that he and his international friends do it this way, doesnt mean that other local way is weird / wrong. This is my stand. So, sorry... Point not taken.

And after the heated debate between Yong and Rafi -the earlier denied that it was heated- the rest (Rafi moved out) moved to TV room where Ted (coz he finished playing for qt long time) already been. Me and Nonk initially came in peace (duh! fren fren mah?) then it was disrupte by Yong's coming to discuss about that interesting incident. Oh well, big debate happened after that. Quite brutal one as temper flared (whoa, big phrase!), interruptions flew and argument thrown. The main thing was that Nonk believed that everyone should not be pissed after the game (so have fun lorh!) while Yong believed that game should be played as if it was real life situation (ie so must play seriously). So Nonk thought that it would be better if there is a rule saying that there should not be obvious alliances, which I contested because there is a subjectivity element there (what is obvious and what is not?). Good thing is that both still okay-ed to my silly suggestion of a minute of no interruption rule. Even Ted joined the fray attempting to rephrase both side of arguments in simpler words. It's just mad haha. I even covered my mouth upon speaking.

The argument was neverending one. Even till now, 5am, it is still not resolved. Yong was just too defiant and Nonk could not get Yong's view. I do not fully agree with both points but I could respect both. So yeah, for Ted's, Nonk's n my side I think all is cleared. As I said earlier, fren fren mah? Why angry coz of this thing. And we talked to clear this. So yeah, just need to see how Yong and Rafi today. I dunno about Rafi, just could not connect. When we played (real played as in making fun of everyone) he was mad and refused to play. So it is like strike two hahahhaha... Is it strike three and out or strike two and out? Haha...

Okay, I have to admit that I was a bit aggressive on using my loud voice to 'moderate' the debate . And talking about the debate I've just learned that Nonk quitted debate coz he does not like the fact that debate would yield in nothing. And besides that I understand that I made some mistakes. One, I was too erratic in play, sometimes with strategy sometimes with madness. Two, I lost it when Yong destroyed (which I believed to be accidental) my arrangement of pieces. Three, I lost it (again...) when Ted messed up with the game. So yeah, think I set the mood a bit bad as well.

I brought this up to Ted. That did not like his entertaining style. He entertained others by jacking someone (as always...). During the course of the game, he nuked some pieces by using rubber bands, hid a few of Nonk's pieces, putting in 'rebel' forces in his land etc etc. While I was not targetted, I did not like that he continuously disrupted the game. And the fact that he kept jacking a target (did he not think about the guy's feeling?). Oh well, maybe just my style is different. To entertain, I would jack myself and that's why Ted sometimes unconsciously picked me a few times as the target.... Like when he told the 'I never kiss a guy' thing a few times and I jumped 5 times while screaming 'one, two...' For those who dont understand, it's truth or truth with doing that as the punishment for those who cannot say 'no'.

And all these bring me into a thought... Are all games to be played to win or to have fun. One thing to take note is that when you keep winning, it is going to be fun. But does the maxim 'play to win' hold true in all cases? Obviously I could not answer using absolute yes or no. But this is my foolish stand. I play to win. But I would make fun of myself on the course. Justification of my stand: 'play to win'... of course lah, there is such thing called 'objective' of the game. Why play if dont want to fulfil the objectives? 'make fun' I think game was created so that the player could have some fun. Of course must ngebanyol a little bit rite? I'm not the kind of guy who is having fun by playing it seriously all the time. 'of myself' Hmm... I rather have the pain of being laughed so that others would not suffer. But I dont know whether this is the best way to initiate fun. For this I would see how different situations can shape my stand.

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Lighter note! I kena inverted by Jeremiah again. haha. Fun but this time hurt lah. Could not balance myself so I fell forward. Luckily I tucked my head inwards and rolled on my left shoulder, so only my left knee suffered from minor abrasion. And that was during the clearing up of NUSSU dungeon. I got 6 pieces of T-shirt. So Cit, you can have one for your dance practices. Remind me haha. Umh, did not manage to get James' order of weird stuff like parfume and stuff. But nevermind got backup. Give him a T-shirt n Singtel book would suffice haha.

Risk, the ultimate real life strategy game...

Another mad day in PGP... It started with Risk. Ted, Nonk n Yong were trying to play the game but not really knew how to play it. Knowing the simple rule (from that time Danny, Ismy n Cindy playing) I offered to b the 'judge' of the game. Nonk was not really convinced that it's going to be fun because he thought all based on luck. Well, I personally thought it was quite true. To win a Risk game you really need a lot of luck! But anyway yeah, first game Yong bashed them. So round one, gg...

Second round I was damn bored (coz all the msn chat closed) and thus decided to play with them. It was a CHAOTIC game!!! It started with Ted declaring he was playing anyhow one for fun! So yeah, I followed suit by playing anyhow. After all game is supposed to be enjoyed right? Hahaha... So yeah, first step is the dividing the world step. I first took Indonesia (well...) coz I'm loving it haha... Then, because no one contested me, I continued my pick on the Papua (I dun care whether they call it New Guinea or whatever) and Western Australia. Eastern Australia went to Teddy so I contested him back in Southern America in 2 'states'.

So the games went on and on... At a point Nonk did a northern hemisphere region conquest and on the way, he messed up Ted n Yong's regions. They retalled and surprisingly leaving my weakly guarded Africa alone. As a result I could fortify Africa next turn and my winning was inevitable. They GG-ed at the point I had Australia, Africa n South America. Whee... But that game was real fun. Yong attempted to hold onto Japan only. A bit mad guy. He said that he would conquer from Japan. And Nonk was mad coz Ted got 6s 3 times and foiled Nonk's invasion to Ted's territory. Hahaha... Yeah, luck and skill haha... So for now I guess we (the RA community ++) are addicted to Risk. But sad enough, the 2 gals normally with us no longer here (no mahjong mah...) but well... I enjoyed my company. That's enough right...

In the mean time still thinking on next FD outing...