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...

Back

(continue from previous post)

So yeah, I spent like few minutes sending my dad smses to get those three digits and somehow that day it was real tough to sms my dad. Oh, he did reply... 2 hour after I msged him and by then I went back home alr, So in the end we bought some random coded transistors. I do hope they work. Anyways the golden aged guy went with me was not really so called cooperative. He kept pointing at transistors out there (any transistors) and kept saying 'Bentuknya kayak gini...' (the shape looks like this). Oh well... I know la! I took electronics for 3 years leh... If I still cannot differentiate transistors from capacitors or other components I am a world-class phenomenon... I am not saying he's a bad guy... He's nice. Just that yesterday he was making me lost it. My bad temper huh... Proof: after treating me lunch (great food) he asked me to accompany him to buy bread. After paying for 4 loaves of bread, he shoved the bag to me saying that those bread were for me.

Anyways the 'bad' days continued after the Bizcom meeting. I was pretty tired out (cleaning Bizcom table) to think straight. So when we went out to have supper, I was too concerned about the amount of money in my wallet instead of thinking on how to ngakalin (umh... how to translate... 'play around' maybe) with the $4 I had. My 'best' solution was going to other restaurant to buy food. But it turned out that I had to spend $3.80 bah!!! I expected to spend below $3 btw...

Sounds bad rite? To think on the surface, yes! It is real bad. But I believe in a thing...

This is the day
This is the day
This is the day
That the Lord has made
That the Lord has made

Let us rejoice
Let us rejoice
And be glad in it

This is the day that the Lord has made
Let us rejoice and be glad in it
This is the day that the Lord has made

So yeah... just some food for thought for myself... If today is the day that the Lord Himself has made, and all His creation were seen by Him to be good ones, why should I care on how the day goes? He would never plan any bad thing to happen to His kiddoz, wouldnt he?

Anyways, saikang job over... Quite a tough job to remove paint from artpaper... But Jeremiah's Vim finished all. Got quite some boards for O-week (meaning cut cost!). If Shing not happy arh, hahaha.... Going to do a weird mythocard to screw him. Oh and must credit God -as always- who made it rained that I could use it to wash off the soap. But then my room would flood (yes... now understand ur feeling!) hor... Still nevermind! REJOICE!!!

Bad day... Not really...

I woke up yesterday with a big challenge on my shoulder and I cant beat it. So there I went down the drain of my own stupid mistakes n as a result I lost the joy of the day.

I was supposed to go to meet my father's boss' father to accompany him to buy some electronic spareparts. They were saying it is regulator LT1084, 1085 and 1086. But I knew for sure it is not called regulator coz there is no electronic component called by that name. So I asked my dad about this and apparently yeah, they were actually looking for transistors which act as regulators of a circuit. See... Proven?! And to think 2 days ago I went to sweep Sim Lim Square (mind you this is a computer mall) to buy regulators... No point rite??? Wasting my time... And then the night before my dad's boss called me to say it is not Sim Lim Square, but I was supposed to go to Sim Lim Tower! Madness... After the tiring sweep then they told me...

Seriously I thought nothing could be worse than that in terms of challenge of my temper. Oh well my guess was wrong. Upon taking cab to that Sim Lim Tower, I asked the taxi driver 'Which way are you taking?' and he understood it as 'Hello Sir, dont fool me! You go the wrong way!' and he was mad at me. Then asked me with a raised voice how many times have I been to Singapore and I answered I stayed here 6 years already. Not happy with that he mocked my unawareness of one direction traffic system in Singapore despite my stay for a long time. Having enough of that I fumed lah... (loooosssseeee ittttt...) and I fought with him inside a taxi with my dad's boss' dad next to me. Lucky for me he did not understand English so hopefully he did not notice some bad (and no, I did not swear) phrases I uttered to the taxi driver. You see the snowball effect... The morning I did not have the proper mood to start the day and then my mood went worse.

Even worse, during the search of the transistors, I found out that there were 3 more digit next to the numbers. So actually names of transistors goes like this XX XXXX XX X. XX is manufacturer code. XXXX is the type of transistors (numbers). XX I dunno yet. X indicates at what current this transistor works. Correct me if I'm wrong. But as stated on top, I only told the XX XXXX part.

Update later.... Saikang job soon...

51st Post: Tribute To Flying Dutchman

Whoo yeah... Havent really write much here other than short recaps which did not really represent my thoughts. My ENGIN CAMP 2007 has been real great. I have to say that it is greater than the 2006 one. Speaking of which I have just found Lynn (lynn-lime) blog haha... A bit missed the last year camp when I was a freshie and as Evonne put it: any fresher you have to peel it yourself haha. Anyways, just want to quote from my OG mate, Chong Yi about the camp

Whether FD won the first or not is not important. (We know the truth
ourself. Rite?) Most important is our friendship bonding, our
Dutchman spirit of flying and striving till the end and lastly
having fun in the camp.

Even though it's just 4 Dayz and 4 Nitez, our friendships like we've
known each others for mths or even yrs. That's what i'm proud of and
I hope that even yrs down the route after we graduate, our
friendship remains burning strong and bright. It's really possible
cos even my pri sch mates(it's like 10 yrs back!!!) have gathering
recently too...

Remember the first dayz when our spirit were not high enough, the
councillors really does a great job in requesting only "essence"
from us. The lame entertainment and games helps to boost our morale
for the next few dayz...

What's unbelievable is the Sentosa dayz... Cycling to a point, park
our bicycles(with the help of some councillors looking after them)
and run to our checkpoint really seems more like playing Sentosa
amazing race. Not forgetting our success of only group that complete
all 8 stations in the stipulated time without fail and got the
highest spirit then...

Even though our score change wif Sotong, the "siao on" and never
give up spirit still in us. We even go to the extend of taking taxi
down to AMK and try our ways and means to win the game even though
we were left wif 5 freshies...

Whoo yeah.. It's like indeed true. I am proud to be with these madness-filled guys. The first day I came to the camp I was in the why-the-heck-all-the-guys-look-so-sian state. I just could not see the hint of madness in their eyes especially when I looked at Shee Ling and Keow Koon. I dunno, they are just look too uhau. But they proved me wrong. Shee Ling, despite her small stature and quiet personality is actually a very onst girl. She could keep up with the rest of the FDs. Then KK is moderately onst but she could surprise me sometimes with her eagerness to join many stuff. Cynthia n Qiying were livelier. I could see from the beginning. But to reach such a greater 'heights' well... I salute them.

The guys on the other hands look the cool cool type at the beginning. But I think it is pretty normal for all to behave that way. But one thing suprised me is that they had taken off their masks pretty fast. Only after a telematch all the madness started to oozed out. Cynthia put it this way "...after one day we just gelled already...". Yeah. Indeed true. The essence of cheering has rubbed on each and everyone of us.

So yeah, this post is of a honour towards (in no order of preference) Wyman, Zhaohui, Carine, Yiyang, Fengyi, Linette, Ben, Qiying, Cynthia, Shee Leng, Hong Sheng, KK, James, Kenneth, Chongyi. To all the essence of Flying Dutchman. To all the friendships that were made.

THREE CHEERS, THE THREE CHEERS, THE THREE CHEERS FOR FD....
HIP HIP HOORAY!
HIP HIP HOORAY!
HIP HIP HOORAY!
ESSENCE!

Jamrud's Kabari Aku

Aku di sini dan engkau di sana
Membentang luas samudra biru
Memisahkan kita
Inginku berenang ke kotamu
Tapi pasti tenggelam dan kau sedih

Kirimi aku kabarmu di sana
Lewat telepon, surat, faksmili
Ngobatin rinduku
Kirim juga foto ukuran jumbo
Biar nanti ku pajang di kamarku

Ngurangin beban ini
Ngurangin sesak ini
Ngurangin rasa ingin bertemu
^Nggak perlu curiga
^Karna ku tahu kau masih
^Memegang janji yang dulu pernah kita spakati

Mungkin tak lama lagi
Aku hadir di sana
Atau tak lama lagi
Kau yang ada di sini

Aku di sini, kau ada di sana
Membentang luas samudra biru
Memisahkan kita
Ingin ku terbang bersama angin
Tapi nanti tersesat dan kau sedih

Suddenly thought of this song and yeah, I can say that this song represents my feeling right now, haha... Other than the three lines which I started with '^', the song is just right... Hope you read this and understand this hahahaha (I doubt it)...

Anyways, my skin now darkens like mad up to a point that the tone is now similar to Yossy's one, hahaha (no offense). My voice has recovered pretty well now but I guess must rest more for the o week dry runs.

The kids complained to their mum that their study session with me is pretty much useless. I would say so too. They dont have motivation! How am I supposed to make them study?! I can teach well if the student (like my bro) is motivated. And hey, motivation comes from self, not from other...