Monday, March 30, 2009
havent really had much to blogged about in the recent week. or rather inspiration always seem to fail me whenever i wanted to write about stuff. oh well.
last wednesday was cross nationals, which i took at day off to go down and watch. raman surprised me (totally) with her 2nd place finish, just behind hanyu from rj. and i thought the girls team from nj did pretty well. and the sph relays over the weekend at gombak was quite an eye opener too. the nj guys are able to form a pretty decent team this year worthy of competing in the nationals schools track finals (and yes that surprised me as well). only sad case is that the girls have a lack of sprinters this year as compared to previous years.
saturday had class outing with the 4kers. shoyu ramen at the waraku, black sesame ice cream from azabu sabo and beer (not that i like it) from pump room for the night, and mcspicy meal from bpp macdonalds for supper at 3am -.- anyway it was great hanging out with them once again, and gossiping about school life just like every other class gatherings, and bitching about how our life sucks now as compared to the good old times. it's probably my first time staying out at clarke quay until this late but i guess it was worth it.
and today, it was back to work again and it felt as though someone released sleeping gas in my office because i totally felt like sleeping the entire day. and squinting my eyes at the eyes-terrifying excel sheets seem to catalyst the falling-into-lala-land reaction.
well, at least monday is over. hooya.
and a quarter of 2009 is over. hooya.
edited: i just dl-ed the new version of windows live messenger a few weeks back. in the older version, the statuses were "online, busy, away, be right back etc." now, "online" is "available" and when i saw that one of my female friend's "status" is "available" i was like "this is so wrong"
aaron | 6:17 PM
Friday, March 27, 2009
i guess it's true that they say when you earn more, you spend more
i'm broke haha
aaron | 11:28 PM
Sunday, March 22, 2009
logged in to facebook twice yesterday and once this morning. and all three times when i see the number of birthday well wishes i got on my wall, i admit that the first thing that came to my mind was a mixture of joy, surprise, and a tad of "what the hell i have to reply to so many people" kind of feeling
but i really appreciate all the smses, wall postings, msn wishes, face-to-face wishes, face-to-not-my-face etc (if i missed out any form of greeting, please feel free to tag and add in). from the 5 star chicken rice cum pool outing with the "consecutive birthday rv clique" on friday night to the gathering on saturday night with a whole bunch of people whom i didnt expect to turn up, i thoroughly enjoyed every single moment. though there were a few hiccups here and there like how someone got a black card but doesn't have a silver marker, how they wanted to eat at fish and co. for dinner when i already had fish and co. for lunch, how the cake (aka g spot) that came when i'm only halfway through my roasted chicked at the big O, and nobody knowing the cake had came cos the waiter just placed it beside me quietly (which i find quite dumb).
but nevertheless, it was great because i appreciated everyone's effort for doing (or at least trying to) watever they've done for me. even a simple "happy birthday" on my facebook wall (or a lakerol sweet from you know who you are), i believe, takes some effort and it's that thought that counts. that's what we always say but only recently have i really thought about what it meant. so really, to those who've made a difference to my day in one way or another, and more importantly, to those who've made a difference to any point on my 20 years on planet Earth, i thank you guys from the bottom of my heart.
shall not make any special mention here lest i miss out some people =p (everyone says i'm getting old anyway). but you guys know who you are.
yes you
it is you la
don't doubt yourself can?
("20 already, but still as lame as ever" is probably going through your mind right now)
aaron | 2:24 PM
Saturday, March 21, 2009
no longer a teenager.
but still brimming with energy, wanting to do so much more.
not satisfied with my current position, my deskbound "job"
like a beast trapped in a cage, needing that much desired freedom.
waiting to unleash that energy, when the time is right
will save all my excitement for next year
誕生日おめでとう =)
aaron | 12:47 AM
Sunday, March 15, 2009
it's always hard to practise what you preach
but we still have to
顺其自然吧
与其担心那无可预测的未来,不如把握此刻的美丽
相信船到桥头自然直吧 =)
aaron | 10:59 AM
Saturday, March 14, 2009
if you think that mario (or rather any game that you play) is way too easy and has began to bore you, try this game below. my colleague showed it to us and we were laughing like hyenas when we were watching this video. can really imagine the frustration of the player going through the ordeal of trying to get past that stage, which is only the first stage. try searching for "japanese mario" on google and attempt playing it without watching the entire video. the game is really made to annoy you to the extent that you'll start pulling your hair out (i wanted to say stab yourself but in light of the recent incidents i decided to watch my use of language)
but nevertheless, really have to give it to the game designer for coming up with this. he must have been some irritating basket in his school days hahahaha.
aaron | 9:02 AM
Friday, March 13, 2009
whoever said that typo errors are bad.
here is an example of a typo error that actually produce a better effect the the word spelt correctly. this was an extract from a certain order. i forgot the exact words but it goes like this:
"....those who fail to comply will be disciplinarily (no such word btw)
dealth with."
it was meant to be "dealt with" but the addition of the letter "h" strikes fear into the hearts and make ppl comply with whatever order that was stated above.
aaron | 11:14 PM
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
wasn't exactly pleased with this picture because i thought it was too simple, as in there should be more details. but i can't really blame myself because i did it while i was sick.
anyway i decided to draw something based on naruto's famous (or maybe not so famous) rule no.25 which states that shinobis aren't allowed to show their emotions or something along those lines. which is something i realise many people have come to be able to do it well. not that they appear expressionless (is there such a word?), but the fact that you can never know how exactly they're feeling because they're just so good at masking it up with a different face. sometimes i really think these people are scarier than the really emo ones.
i chose to draw young kakashi because i thought he really brought that out quite well. and the ANBU mask he's holding further amplifies this. and also partly because of the dagger/short sword he carries with him behind his back, which is supposed to be a gift from his deceased father, showing that one can never fully discard his emotions no matter how hard he tries to lock himself up from outside influence.
aaron | 9:09 PM
Monday, March 9, 2009
i told me colleauges that
"the pen is mightier than the sword"
and one of them misheard it, combining "pen" and "is" together and repeated that sentence out loud
aaron | 7:13 PM
Sunday, March 8, 2009
been a week since i last blogged. i guess the urge to blog gradually dies down with time. or rather it fluctuates over vast extremes. who knows...
actually did another drawing for my blog during my 2 days MC since i had nothing to do at home, or rather i can't really do anything because the amount of phelgm i had was really breathtaking (literally). now i'm having second thoughts about uploading it cos i'm not entirely satisfied with it. oh well.
went back to NJ on friday to crash the release of 'a' lvl results. took that day off only to realised that my colleauges had a pizza party back in the office (i was told that it was supposed to be on monday!! wth) it was nice seeing some people either doing well or doing very well. haha. but actually i thought NJ's overall performance this year was about the same as last year. not that i'm trying to defend my batch but i really think so =p
and soccer after that with naraen and the soccer guys (which is my other aim of going back to NJ) kind of killed my mood since i was expecting to sweat it out, but only to be faced with the lack of playing ground because the other CCAs were all taking up the usual soccer spots.
ORD come to me soon...
aaron | 6:07 PM
Sunday, March 1, 2009
hello flu, long time no see. must be because of the weather. (or i can be thick skinned and say: "someone must be really missing me alot")
thankfully it came after my tennis game ytd because i thought i managed to find back my strokes (except my serves). somehow i decided to change the way i hit and it worked pretty well. now if i can only get my serves in... and i thought i could test my improvements by playing with mr. teo and ms loo today but along came the nose who decided that it should go for a run. and here i am stuck in my house, with the unbeautiful afternoon weather
and i think unbeautiful is a great song.
let's rewind a bit. friday was hq rsn cohesion day (hq means headquarters, rsn means republic of singapore navy). wasn't too boring, neither was it any bit exciting. left for orchard after that to play left for dead. i think the number of times i've played lan with my friends have finally hit the 2 digit mark. i'm not a crazy gamer and neither do i enjoy first person shooters. but ya it's always the company that matters.
after that headed down to zouk with eT and his poly mates to catch AAR (aaron without the ON, not that they turn me off beause they definitely don't) live. this is the second time in a while i've caught one of my favourite band's performance live for free, am i cheapo or what. they started with 'swing swing', and followed through with 'dirty little secrets', 'move along', 'mona lisa', 'i wanna' and ended with 'gives you hell'. it was great nonetheless, just that i thought BLG's performance was better (sorry AAR =p). and i was thoroughly disppointed that they didn't play 'it ends tonight' because that was my second favourite from all 3 of their album. and there wasn't any encore nor was there any effort at calling for one (ok there was a bit, a lousy one).
and after the performance i went into zouk for the first time in my life, for free! (cheapoism strikes again). i didn't do anything inside but just walked a few rounds and came out after that for the lucky draw. oh btw i forgot to mention that there was some nokia phone launch event that day. anyway it would be so unlike me to party at zouk so i decided not to bother and go home after that.
aaron | 5:20 PM