Yeap, I am officially the record holder in PINUS for the number of F collected in NUS. Obviously I am not proud of it (bloody hell, this semester I cried 2 full minutes) but in a way I would choose to laugh at myself as compared to cry/hate myself.
It might have been FO
It might have been FYP
It might have been incompability
But one thing I know, it is NOT coincidental
And those who read this post, I would still be in NUS for another year...
My faith is irrational. Even if you have managed to prove that all the basis of my faith are wrong (or fallacious or skewed) I dont think I would change my faith. Hence, regarding my faith, I am an irrational, ignorant, illogical, hard-headed person...
Imagine a situation like this:
For a reason, you are presumed to be dead by the whole inhabitants of the Earth other than a plastic surgeon who totally changed your appearance and voice. The said plastic surgeon happened to be dead due to a heart attack right after your surgery is done. At the same time, due to your 'death', all your identification documents have been destroyed. Assuming that you managed to forge all new documents and get a believable identity, do you think you can convinced your loved ones that you are you? An additional condition: somehow you cant say directly that you are you...
PS: No significant reason why I asked this thing... I am just wondering about this ya know...
Sharing van from Changi Airport to Gallery Hotel -> $12
Sharing van from Zouk to Tanjong Pagar -> $15
Food/drinks while waiting at J8 -> $5
Meet BEG + Jea's autograph -> close to priceless
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Maybe we all know that TLO is a big kpop fan. Well, to be exact.. general one. And it just happens that last week Brown Eyed Girl comes to Singapore for (what was it again) Sundown event... So this budget fan (as TLO did not buy the concert tix and spent $20 for the autograph) decided to try his luck and contacted local fanclub. Here's the account.
I came down at 3pm on Thursday although it was stated that BEG would arrive at Singapore at 9pm and the fans would start gathering at 5pm. Committed to be a crazy-ass fan, I came down to Changi straight after my 0830-1400 CBLC duty shift. As expected, none of the fans is there, totally in contrast with Shinee.
Oh well, to cut story short, I met few members of BEG Intl Forum admins and heck, they are damn sucked at hospitality. For an hour they didnt talk to me. To be exact, they friggin ignored my existence (which I later learnt that they are just being *cold* to strangers). I made some eye contacts which was ignored by that girl who sat in front of me (apparently she was kunimelon/Doris) and my attempts of starting convo with people were met with one worded answers (coldest tone awards goes to 'smirk')
Hey dont get me wrong, I was stating history... They are nice fella!!
Griffie: we were seriously sorry for being unwelcoming at first
Smirk: i am really sorry to say that during the meeting i seriously didn't bond that much with any of you ...
So well, my first hour was hell. Thus, I was having enough and of course, time for some actions. I talked straight to their de facto leader (apparently was Alvin), trash it out a little (in controlled manner, I am old enough now, thanks) and 'taught' him a lesson on hospitality (by welcoming what I knew later as Sengkiat and Farhan) and yep, I guess they treated me slightly better. And now the fun part started!
Waiting for delayed artistes can be fun. I happened to have Gajah Mada with me so time passed quite fast. Of course the interactions with the people helped. I learned that SK is a huge fan of SNSD and he played SNSD songs repeatedly on his PSP. I was told also that there were Invincible Youth analogy in BEG fanclub, with Sunny being the member with golden hair (which I identified later as Eri). And as usual, it is always interesting meeting bunch of people. It is even more fun this time, as they were coming from a different background, from secondary school student (Alina aka fourasone) to those in polytechnics (Marcus).
The rest is just a history for me. The events are just sequence of happenings:
- the Initial D with the facebook group (I didnt know there was the unhealthy rivalry between them!!!)
- stay over at Alvin's house
- finding receipts at 5am, one of which was $20.01 (how imba was that)
- J8 queue (Jonathan from soshified was it? and Jason was nice to me!)
- fansigning (GaIn was seriously cold and irritating imho)
- that autograph from Jea in the Pasir Panjang restaurant
- point blank shoot with handphone camera at the side entrance of Zouk (including SK's pic with GaIn SK: who brought fun into the place^^ and like the photo taking of me and GaIn)
- handshake with Narsha, GaIn, Miryo
- the Semarang girl, Amanda
- code red thingy?
All those was just memory, pretty much insignificant to (what Ted, who joined me on the hunt as well) the new OG I got in form of BEG International Forum. And of course, it is not a surprise eh that I am now one of their DJs (DJ JoKer in da house yo)?
[I didnt get to follow them on Sunday and Monday, partially due to PL and 3232 midterms on Monday, damn...]
So here's a thing I learnt from becoming a fan:
To enjoy fandom to the fullest, you need two things, time and money.
Ya know there is a kind of Chinese tradition, whereby when someone pass away, the relatives of that person would burn hell money and paper buildings (I think it is what they call it) which I found a little bit intriguing. Being Chinese myself I often wondered, why this thing has been carried out. According to my older relatives, this is done in order to provide money (and necessities) to the spirits/ghosts so that they can get some comfort in their after life. Oh well, I found this tradition stupid.
Wait a sec....
I am not talking about this from religious (spirits do not live like human) or the lack thereof (there is no after life) point of view. I have my own set of belief on this from that angle, and so do you, I guess. But, let's talk about this in term of economy instead. This is more interesting in my opinion.
First of all, have you ever noticed how much money being burned every time (ie the denomination)? It can reach about more than hundreds of millions... Insane right? Such amount of money can create hyperinflation worse than Europe in early 1900s. I could elaborate further on this, but just click the wiki link. It basically explains what I want to say.
Burning paper buildings doesnt help either... Since no soul (by logic) can escape from hell, and there is a constant supply of people going to hell, (and let's assume hell is not expanding, ok?) there is going to be overpopulation in hell. So where the hell are you going to put your building (pun intended)? Oh wait... You can always set up Hell Development Board (and of course... no freehold). Even if hell is expanding, come on... By convention hell is pretty hot eh? In such climate, you are going to need a lot of air conditioner to keep your huge houses cool. Such a waste of energy right?
(TLO recently received a nice point from Sec, his friend : might as well build a gas-fuelled electricity plant... since hell is THAT hot... then you can generate money)
So, having said all the nonsense above, my suggestion Nonk's suggestion is to burn SNSD humanoid paper doll. Ya know, I think that really makes sense. Things can get very hot in hell, so why not turn it even hotter? Moreover, souls in hell might need entertainment eh? And with so much money they have (see above), I am sure they dont mind paying a million or two to watch SNSD. Oh and tell your relatives to burn 3 sets of costumes for SNSD to wear on performance every week please...
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giving proper credit to Nonk on his SNSD idea...
sto NONK orz
One might think that The Lame One has abandoned this blog. Indeed pretty true, but not necessarily true. He doth stop writing earlier, but since he just read a blog by the one with the pseudoname Ins& Poet (oh well... that is the best translation that I can do) now he is on fire again to write.
Interestingly this year's Valentine's Day coincided with the Chinese New Year. Whoo boy, now that would be the reason why this year Vday was not really so-called romantically meaningful to me. The environment maketh the mood, no? Oh well, without the existence of those lovey-dovey couple around, that cursed romantic feeling wont be around as well.
Anyways speaking of the environment, NO WONDER MY LIFE IS THAT MESSY!!! The environment I am living in right now (ie that teeny weeny room) is in the worst possible mess. Indeed I saw something worse than this before, but hey... this is bad enough. Which brings me to the next point... THAT tradition of spring cleaning before Chinese New Year apparently was created (my extrapolation here) in order to set the festive mood.
Ya know, I have been writing rubbish so far. But consider this as a warm up okay? My fingers are kind of rusty, the dance that they used to do are no longer able to execute, now oh well... it is more like a greaseless machinery. But no worry, I will be back with more stories, more insight once those fingers recall how to dance again.
For now, TLO is out!
Mantra, according to wiki, is defined as a sound, syllable, word, or group of words that are considered capable of "creating transformation". Well, I am an avid mantra user, especially in my workplace. Here are 4 mantra I can recall.
1. "I have done something worse than this before!" - said before pouring 14L red tea from one container to another, to sieve the tea leaves. For record, the worse thing I have done before -> transferring 18L...
2. "Lord, God of plant, water and electricity, please help me!" - said before switching the rice cooker on (normally cook rice enough for 50 plates)
3. "One two three, UP!" - said before lifting heavy objects.
4. "Wind of disgust, OUT!" - said before doing disgusting stuff like entering refuse center...
Oh wait, those arent mantra?
18 y/o Bill Gates served as a congressional page in the U.S. House of Representatives.
20 y/o Alexander was proclaimed King of Macedonia and built his empire.
17-21 y/o Wondergirls conquer Korea n making a wave in the US.
20 y/o Ronaldo was the 1996 FIFA World Player of the Year.
19 y/o Phelps did an ownage on the Athens Olympics with 6 golds n 2 bronzes.
20 y/o Mark Zuckerberg started what it would be $15 billion empire in 3 years time.
21 y/o Rihanna is the person closely associated with umbrella wherever in the world.
22 y/o JK, relatively unknown.
5+ Reasons Why A Mechanical Engineer Make A Good Husband
1. I master how to handle all forms of stresses.
2. I can overcome frictions and tensions anytime....
3. I can always give you a moment.
4. I know how to make good coupling actions.
5. I can increase hardness and toughness values of any objects.
(+ For me, 'F word' refers to Force)
5+ Reasons Why A Mechanical Engineer Make A Good Wife
1. For me, PMS stands for Periodical Motion System.
2. I can differentiate all your problems and give specific solutions to them..
3. I understand that your cars have horsepower.
4. Do you think I Carnot understand Watt you are Torque-ing about?
5. I know and apply the principle of lubrication well.
(+ I am not biased towards anyone. Both forward bias and reverse bias.)
TLO hence claims copyright of this.... For pride sake...
I was watching SNSD's Hello Baby and suddenly this thought came into my mind. One of the songs by SNSD can be translated as 'Tell Me Your Wish' and probably this inspired me to write down a wish list. You know -just a little bit of thought on wish list here- I think wish list is a kind of manifestation of your purpose of life and values held. For ideal case, I believe that a wish list should be empty. Really. It is indeed true that according to economists, humans have infinite wants and needs but there should be a point where a person says that 'I am satisfied' so this would be the state whereby the wish list is empty.
So what is your wish list? Being an imperfect fella, my wish list is pretty long. I popped this question in a mass chat with Ted, Nonk and Adit. And yup, Nonk and I decided to write down on our respective blogs (rather than forgetting it, I rather write it down here)... Adit had a blog regarding his wish list and Ted was (correct me if I am wrong) pretty skeptical about wish list. So here goes my wish list.
Let's start with tangible stuff first:
- LCD monitor 16' for my desktop
- A fixed guitar (yeah... FIXED), I dont mind C-330
- $4000 to finish my NUS education, or more...
- That rubber mat to cover my floor, that is about 16 more
- Two extra pair of heavyduty jeans, any brands will do
- A laptop, simple one will do, as long as it can be used for browsing and working
- Enough wires, plugs and whatnot to create my own home theatre
- Surgery for my joints (or anything that can fix it)
- Larger room.. 4x3m is good, 5x4 is wow!
- Digital camera, at least 12 megapixels, 5X optical zoom....
- Electric drill, electric saw, planks of wood.... kyaaaa
- Sunny (nahhh... kidding... though i dont mind knowing her)
Now the abstract thing (this cant be considered as wish list imho):
- Graduate soon (one n half semester)
- Well paid and enjoyable job
- Get married and start a happy family
- Raise kids who are more successful than me
- All my good friends' wives know each other well
- World peace (naaaahhh... i'm fine with current state)
- See the world aka traveling
Right... I am working to delete the list one by one. Yeah! Let's roll!
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Interestingly I notice something... My tangible list deal mostly with short term wishes while the other list is generally speaking about long term matters.
Hallyu wave -> refers to the increased popularity of South Korean culture around the world since the 21st century, especially among the Millenial Generation... That was taken from wiki... And so many people (including readers here) know that I am into K-Pop stuff (which is pretty weird according to many). While K-Pop can be characterized by the presence of eye candies, I beg to differ on why I like K-Pop. The songs are actually good n catchy. Anyways, sharing with you here two three of my favorite songs.
link to 2AM - This Song
I came to heard of this quartet from dingdong who informed me of 2PM (2AM and 2PM came from the same project). I was impressed at their ability to belt such mellow type song, considering I saw 2PM bboy-hiphop style first. After I googled the meaning behind the lyric of the song I was even further impressed.
link to FT Island - I Hope
I know the existence of this band from a reality show which was joined by one of the members. Anyways, I didnt know there was a popular band amidst the girlband/boyband wave in Korean music scene. This song has uber cool intro, mild-smooth verse and damn cool chorus. The MV is pretty interesting too.
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link to Taeyang - Where U At
Well, this fella is one of the five members of Big Bang. This solo single is catchy. Sleek dance moves, decent (if not uber good) voice, smooth song, numerous English parts, enough for me to play this song repeatedly. (note to self: dingdong immediately entered her drool drool mode once I intro-ed this song)
Yup... Breathe... Coz it is 090909 0909h and apparently I am still alive to experience such interesting moment...
Pardon me. This time I'm writing in Bahasa Indonesia. Oh well... I only have 2 non-Indo reader anyways (I think) n you guys understand Bahasa, right? N anyways, the thing below is full of complains.
Kenapa ya hidup gw (terutama tepatnya soal cinta) selalu penuh dengan penantian akan seseorang yang nggak gw dapetin anyways ya? Ok, sebelum gw bahas terusannya... Jangan kasi komen gw ttg 'Indah pada waktunya' atau 'Segala sesuatu ada masanya' karena gw udah tau, apal, n internalize dalam diri gw... Gw punya pengalaman, orang2 yang nasehatin gw jangan cari cewe dl itu hipokrit! Apaan bilang jangan cari pacar dl, sendirinya juga udah pacaran dari umur 14, 18, gitu-gitu lah. Itupun setelah ngomong ama gw jangan cari pacar, pacaran lagi... Haizz... Manusia...
Ok, sebelumnya gw tulis dl sejarah gw. Ini filosofi gw. Gw ga pernah cari pacar. Gw cari istri! Gw ngaku, pertama kali gw serius ngejar cewe (yang ngga pake unsur monyet-monyetan) itu baru taun 2004 kalo ngga salah bulan Agst. Abis kejar-kejaran selama setaunan, yup... menunggu... menunggu gw libur selesai n siap ngejar lagi... eh... ga taunya gw musti kerja keras nyambung hidup... 10 jam/hr... Asoy geboy choy! Abis dah... Ga bs ngejar gara2 ga ada waktu... Cabut dah tuh cewe.. Secara ajaib ilang rasa waktu gw freshie
Nah sekarang bagian komplain komplainnya! KENAPA SIH MUSTI NUNGGU?!!!?! Berkali2 pula. Gagal terus pula... Hadohhh... Jalan gw kok aneh banget. Kayak musti lewat jalan tol lempeng tapi ngga selesai2 kayak old airport rd. Iya, gw tau pasti berakhir n gw punya iman bahwa gw bakal berakhir di pelaminan jg. Tapi kadang kadang, namanya manusia, apalagi cowo... Wadoh ga tahannya itu setengah mati. Ngiri rasanya liat temen2 yang udah punya cewe sejak masi belasan. Nah gw udah kepala gw masih belum ada gandengan... Ngirinya bukan gara2 statusnya seh.. Cuman gini... Menurut gw, ada untungnya pacaran masi muda. Karakter masih bs dibentuk. Jadi kalo ga cocok, masih banyak room for improvement. Lah kalo udah se'tua' gw? Kurang lebih apa yang gw yakini bener n gw pegang itu udah fixed. Kalo mau ngubah, musti perang gede tuh. Haduh...
Nah repotnya lagi... Bonyok udah minta cucu!!!! Udah nyuruh gw cari pacar. Tekanan tekanan tekanan kyaaaaaaa... Ga cuma bonyok! Eshan juga udah minta 'Ko, cariin cici buat aku'. Edan edan... Gini deh kalo sekeluarga hobi ngerjain. Awas lo es, tak doain kamu jadi sama Fransiska Andriani atau entah siapa gitu!
Udah ngambek-ngambek sampe segitunya, gw bilang gw juga masih belum cukup umur buat pacaran seh. Masalahnya gw masih kecil. Ngatur temper ndiri aja kadang lepas. Okelah, ini gw udah mild banget dibandingin bbrp taun lalu. Tapi tetep ada beberapa kali lepas kendali gw. Nggak cuman itu. Waktu waktu waktu!!!! Selama gw masih berkutat ama sekolah n eskul, gw rasa gw ga bs punya cukup waktu buat cewe gw. Ini filosofi laen lagi. Begitu gw punya cewe, gw musti siap korbanin 80-90% waktu gw buat dia. Menurut statistika, jadi kurang lebih CI gw segitu la! Kenapa gitu? Soalnya begitu nikah, udah musti 100% (okelah tawar-tawar dikit bs buat hobi ama maen2 ndiri) dan seiring filosofi pertama gw... 80-90% nggak terlalu susah kok. Gw ga mau ngalamin kejadian gini...
Pacar: Eh TLO, gw perlu bantuan neh... Blah blah...
TLO: Eh maap ya, gw lagi latihan NUANSA neh...
Pacar: Kalo ntar malem gw telp lagi bs?
TLO: Waaahhh... ga bs, tar malem musti bantu2 CBLC neh...
Pacar: Besok?
TLO: Bisa seh, tapi jam 7 pagi bisa? Jam 8-1 duty, trus lab sampe jam 5.
Pacar: ...
Terusin ndiri deh... Menurut salah satu freshie gw n si item SiDney jg... Ga semua cewe high time maintenance kayak gitu.. Tapi dalam kasus gw... OMG!!! Ada kemungkinan gw punya waktu mepet banget sampe-sampe mau ambil 3 jam aja susah stengah mati. Nah jadi sekarang apa? NUNGGU LAGI LAH!!!! Okelah, gw punya filosofi satu lagi gini. Kalo memang jatah gw, ga bakal kemana-mana. Kalo keambil duluan, ya kalo gitu bukan jatah gw... Tapi mosok nunggu lagi? Capeeee!!!
I'm TIRED!
But it's ok...
Not big deal...
(tapi ngomong gt susah bgt!)
Jadi TLO.. Lo mau yang mana?
Yang 14.5 sih...
Yang 14?Ga tau! Gw pusing! Dia gw anggep adek seh, cuman kalo kayak gini mulu.... Thank God this is cleared tanpa aneh-aneh. Wish you all the best!
Yang laen?
Bisa... Bisa... Masih belum ketemu 15 kok...
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I love my fb status...
Mike JK fried potato is an amazing food... cut it thinly, you got chips... cut it slightly thicker n make it like a splinter, you got fries... cut it slightly fatter, you got wedges... smash it and form it into a oval-ish shape, you got hashbrown...
Mood: weird
TLO is having a bad day... Not exactly a bad day, rather... weird in its own right... Yup! Kinda weird day today... Tomorrow is a better day!
Mood: normal
PS: Cant believe I need to post something to fix my mood...
Well... I guess I will know what was happening once I saw this freaking entry. TLO is on the verge of breaking down...
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Yeah... I didnt type that... I was ctrl+c n ctrl+v ing... But hopefully the message goes through!
It is 0343 and madness... I am still bloody awake with my bloodshot eyes. I have a packed schedule today, yet not in the mood of sleeping (yeap! I need the mood to sleep). Got a few (read: a lot) things on my head which I must let go somehow...
1. WTF happening with MF?!?! Like, why am I now the minesweeper of MF? PINUS JCO? Mixer spoilt? Feedback? Phew... Can I just disappear? Or maybe exchange to the other part of the world? Damn headache..
2. That nagging pain... I need a surgery ASAP. But I have no idea whether surgery can recover all the injuries I received so far. Here's the checklist: right shoulder, right wrist, lower back, upper back...
3. Night of 17 Agst - Dawn of 18 Agst. Two freshies broke up. Isn't this the proof of Kristiono Postulation #1? The same night was the birth of Kristiono Postulation #2, which states that 'The afore-mentioned breakup should be within an academic year'
4. FT Island's 'I Hope' is cool, especially the intro.
5. I want to pursue the art of entertainer. But isn't it a bit late? I like to make people laugh; does this make me a natural comedian?
6. I am pretty fed up with PINUS, luckily still managed to pull a little laughs here and there. Probably that would be my last time doing something to PINUS for free. I AM FREAKING NOT PERFORMING IF PPIS/PINTU/WHATSHIT IS AROUND. And no thanks, telling me that they are coming an hour before the performance doesnt help at all.
7. Girl girl girl. Okay, so I am doing an offshore specialization. Would it further lower my chance to get a wife? Dont really think so, but hey... I hope I can get attached before I graduate.
8. That predayor has gone from PGP. I gave him a year to prove that he is good. Well his crowd controlling skill sucked and I don't think he has the intention to fix it. You only earn half of my respect dude. You are task oriented, I am people oriented... We're fundamentally different...
9. GG... Im tired now. Got to sleep...
10. That girl might be 15/15. But can I settle 14.5/15 first? Dad, are you reading my blog? I'm kind of experiencing same thing as you when you were young! Forget probable 15/15 (she's 14/15 after all), I am going for 14.5/15.
0403...
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with power comes responsibility
with responsibility comes shit
with shit comes experience
with experience comes knowledge
with knowledge comes opportunity
n with opportunity comes power
-MERDEKA-
I feel that I need to say a thing or two regarding this issue.
*work in progress*
