hahahah i was on kol and opened chat.

noob (not his real name): Noob here, how do you level up?
evil guy: fight monsters. this is an RPG for $%##’s sake.
cool guy: Gravy = Experience. The more gravy you drink the more levels you grow.

at this point of time i was highly amused. now i had afked for quite long so now i was scanning the chat to see noob (not his real name)’s reply.

noob: How do you get this gravy?

i kid you not.

i created puzzlyvania 4! wisely, on an A4 paper! i’m burning my capital! i need advertisements just like mrbrown and xiaxue!

maybe i should sign up for google adsense and fake my age.

but first i need to create a chain mail to irritate people. i received the bill gates sharing his fortune because he was being sued or something AND the short one about the scary blonde girl called summer today. hey, PAP! you can stop political podcasts but you can’t stop this kind of crap?

hehe. my mom had visitors today. great time to bother and piss her until she let me use the comp. by the time her friends are gone she would JUST have remembered that she has this son who’s using the comp happily.

for today, let’s talk about how maple is so STUPID. and how people try to think maple is like, not some game, but real life.

it didn’t get that bad until they introduced the marriage system. but marketing-wise it was a great decision. to marry, you have to buy this and that cash items. ring.. marriage invitations.. bottomline – you had to pay real money and exchange it for some heart animation effect that will happen when you get near to your “spouse”.

combine it with megaphone – another cash shop item that allows you to let everyone in the “world” know what you’re saying. so, all the time, you get people saying like “congrats on my hubby [insert name] reaching lvl 120! jia you!” the jia you is the last straw. go to h3ll! playacting! they should play neopets instead! so irritating.

then there are the occasional stuff like “i’ll love you forever [insert in-game name]” um whatever! polluting the world with sweet nothings. that don’t mean anything, because you probably haven’t seen your ‘lifelong partner’.

remember those digitalife articles about how games can bring about a marriage yadda yadda? you see those about maple soon.

“oh we married in maplestory and her in-game character was so pretty that i asked her out and we married. in real life! (giggle giggle)”

please.

i’m getting used to a world cup lifestyle! with world cup channel, it’s so easy to wake up 7.15, slack until 7.30 to catch world cup breakfast show! the best part about highlights are that they take up the 3 minutes of sublime (or at least passable) moments from the 90 boring minutes of passing etc etc.

one counter example was argentina-serbia. that was a cool match! and the only match i’ve watched for 90 minutes, through some luck. 6 goals! including the team goal! that has so made me an argentina fan. plus, they don’t have a team of old faggots fogeys tumbling all over the pitch. but they have young mid-20s footballers – and Lionel Messi! who’s 5 years older than me but who, strangely enough, seems to be more famous than me. hmph. i thought having a blog was enough.

oh yah. school starts in 7 days.

crrrrrrrrap.

anyway, let’s talk some religion because i’m bored of all my games and still want to stay on the comp.

so. apparently, this is how Buddhism works.

you are this normal guy who already has enough problems, such as trying to guess what your past life is. and then to become a god or demigod or something, you have to be perfect and earn enough merit value-added points to do so!

erm. how are you supposed to attain perfection? from young you tend to lie and scold your parents and swear. as you grow you tend to lie and scold your parents and swear. etc. how can you become perfect on your own means? what makes you think you’re that great?

can see or not? can see or not? can see that you didn’t tell me you dowan te gua?

recently i have gone through a “good patch”.

first my parents went to carrefour and bought some LCD TV there! then i went for the long awaited test at NUS Guild House at Suntec (which was posh, more abt that later), then we celebrated father’s day yesternight by stuffing our greedy souls with durians. then i had a great breakfast today! whee!

no idea how this good fortune came from, especially as i have not sent ANY chain mail to 15 people and above. maybe this has something to do with the Prayer of Jabez i tried out a few days ago. it goes like this

oh, that you would bless me indeed
and enlarge my territory
let your hand be with me
and keep me from harm
so that i will be free from pain

heh. basically covers everything, and apparently it helps you in your life and evangelism. this is found in 1 chronicles 4:9 about this seemingly anonymous guy called Jabez (which means ‘pain’ in hebrew. gee.)

the mensa test was so easy. my sis was right in saying it was overrated. lol! i had slight problems with only 2 questions and when i finished i thought i was too fast so i checked through another time, even though there was nothing to check.

(having fun listening to all of mrbrownshow podcasts. haha listen to the Singapore Fei Chang Super Campus Idol Star plus Band show one! and all the others too.)

as you all know, many dumb geppers who actually think their thoughts COUNT (how’s that for disillusioned, man) have started setting up blogs. which means competition for this small little blog of this dumb gepper who actually think his thoughts count! (how’s that for disillusioned, man)

anyways, this is a pilot test!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v330/matthewc/puzzlyvania/puzzle1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v330/matthewc/puzzlyvania/puzzle2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v330/matthewc/puzzlyvania/puzzle3.jpg

this is not a trick, blah blah. it’s just a puzzle series based on, the Puzzle Series! as in those puzzle books. i think i started this like in May. i’ve viewed them so many times, it seems clear and legible to me (except the bottom section that is supposed to say (c) matthew chan 2006 on the right, and “A Puzzler is You!” on the left, but got left out mysteriously in the scanning process), but if you can’t read any words feel free to drop a note. and drop a note ANYWAY so that i will know if i’m to continue this crap.

i released the first three today, but any continuing issues will come in, um, ones! for the seriously puzzling suspense. whee.

woot.

my pops subscribed to wc channel yesterday! something he should have done at the start! heh. i broke into the new channel with: ecuador v costa rica, which decided the top 2 teams from the group before 3rd round of games.

then today i woke up at 3.30am for no apparent reason – just in time for the 2nd half of sweden-paraguay. i supported paraguay even though their passes were obviously suckier than sweden and their shots were most distance shots, while sweden had a better game… because paraguay players were better-looking and had nicer jerseys, kekekeke. the game was deadlocked because the paraguayian goalie was great until the penultimate minute where he couldn’t do anything because there were 3 attackers in the box when ljungberg scored. sooooo… i hope sweden beats england. and piss lots of cookie-cutter england fans.

i went for today’s training because i ponned yesterday’s.. man it’s so disheartening. what’s the point if i go anyway. i notice that yu hsuen and brent have not come for a SINGLE TIME. oh well. it’s their funeral if they choose to stagnate at that sucky level. heh, at least i try.

oh man – tmr’s the day i’ve been counting down to. it will decide EVERYTHING!

(not telling you anything until i get in.)

oh yeah i forgot to tell everyone that i accidentally got a google analytics invite! kool. just sign up at the waitlist and sooner or later you get one. this is so cool; hope they don’t eventually make it so public like GMAIL (man, i was having so much fun being one of the few until they like gave 100 invites to every account and opened up handphone signups!)

haha according to g-analytics 2 people from “north brumswick” and “willimantic”visited my blog! hehe.

nooooo… just realized that the straits times on june 8 has a world cup chart to mark progress. and we cancelled subscription for that day thanks to church camp! i have to track untrackedly!

or print out one from the thousands on the net. soccernet should have a nice one. which will use up lots of colour ink.

i’m guessing world cup 2010 (south africa i think) will be my year to go out to pubs and watch or something. so bored staying at home knowing that pops didn’t subscribe to wc channels!

i hope all the england supporters out there aren’t just supporting simply because the media features nothing but them! headlines are always “gerrard 50-50″ “erikkson complains of heat” “rooney recovering” “beckham groin injury”. i mean seriously, they have given you no choice! you either LOVE THEM or HATE THEM cos they’re so in-your-face. like, they’re not even the best team in the world, or nowhere near.

there was this spate of time when i started supporting england, for the sheer reason that i knew so many members of their team as compared to other countries with funny accented names. they suck! 1-0 was a lousy game and crouch will probably not be doing “robo-crouch” for a long time, since he needs a proper striker/AM behind him to feed him the balls and no one completely fit can do that…

that having been said, i’m going to soccernet and researching every single portugese/netherlands XI player mannnn. then i can say, um, i’m a true blue fan! or true oranje/red/green fan.

i’m beginning to develop a very profound boredom and distate for a game we all know as “maple”. it’s a thoroughly stupid game that sucked up like $80~ of my money on prepaids! over time. besides it isn’t really fun, just something you can own at without great skill. losers adore it!

besides, my 8-year-old cousin (pretty rich, like having an x-box and stuff) lent me fifa 2004 for approx a month – woooooooot! time to try it out before i really decide to go for ‘07 in november.

i bought the new paper today – the second edition that’s mostly soccer (in the form of world cup) and sob stories. wait – that IS the essence of tnp. oh wait again – the essence of tnp is ads! well never mind about that, the world cup coverage is swell and i think i shall grab a copy everyday i can in the span of the world cup. lol england bombed. i watched a bit of it at my 8-year-old cousin’s house (wth realized that my father thought the premium wc channels were too expensive and DID NOT subscribe. like, ONCE IN 4 YEARS??? besides, not a wise choice considering he’s as much a soccer fan as i am, so… he’ll be blaming himself for quite awhile, i think.)

i’ve decided to support some teams, to boost the excitement of following the world cup, see? i supported brazil the other time (HEY! i didn’t even know they were that good until they won!) but they will prolly win again so i’ll support portugal and holland!

portugal – i like their jersey colours (dark red+dark green)! besides there’s c ronaldo to look out for. world no. 7 or something.
holland – i like their jersey colour (bright oranje)! van nistlerooy! dubbed the best team never to win the world cup. strong claim, since they’re world number TWO.

not much chance they’ll win anyway, just hoping they’ll beat/outlast england. hehe.

woohoo fifa takes quite a short time to install. cya folks!

Nong, Nong Ago

Sing me the songs that to me were so dear
Nong nong ago, nong ago
Tell me the tales I delighted to hear
Nong nong ago, nong ago

Out of the past on the winds of the years
Sung by a voice that could still all my fears
Softened by laughter and gentled by tears
Nong nong ago, nong ago

Sing me the songs that were mine at the start
Nong nong ago, nong ago
Tell me the tales that were dear to my heart
Nong nong ago, nong ago

Now I shall share with a child at my breast
All of those songs that once put me to rest
Safe in the arms of the one I loved best
Nong nong ago, nong ago
Nong nong ago, nong ago

(original song lyrics http://www.lullabysongs.net/Best%20Loved%20Lullaby%20Lyrics.htm. tedious task of changing Ls to Ns: mooty)

on retrospect this thing is pretty mean, mannnn. i mean, you stuck his face there and attached those subtitle-lyrics “Nong nong ago” there. oh well, to Idol it’s all about viewership. last year’s ‘lemon tree’ was funny since the guy was just making a fool of himself, but this season?

oh well. funny parts are over. it’s the real singing competition now, which will stink until the final few, where they start hardcore grooming them until they look like real Idol material.

and i’m too lazy to talk about church camp but i was talking with my sis and i present you with an edited conversation on everything. well almost.

world cup! boring so far. going to watch england since it;s at 9pm (but i’m going to sleep halfway anw, hehe. soccer is boring.) MANNNN they should hold wc permanently in asia so that we at least can sleep normally.