Hi! Long time no post!

Marginally happy. CCTs = over (even if I screwed up my whole physics prac via careless mistake in the first part of it. SURE DAI!). I got my Hullett shirt, which is nice. I got my Polo shirt, which is… airy. (it’s made of that holey material, like.. HCI PE-shirt liddat.) I got my Raffles trunks, which are SMALL and… ouch, yeah. But I shall still wear them for PE swimming lessons. So cool!

And then on Monday I can pon last two periods to support RI vs ASCI! Yay! Final match for RI B’div, and they need to win to reach the finals. Hope they make it… they are good team!
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Today, I shall comment on the stupidest fast food ads ever.

Firstly, we have LJS, who takes the silver award for its blatant (insert fallacy here). Their ad, seen in abundance in posters around J8 and I believe other places too, goes like this.

One guy (note: retarded), says in speech bubble: “Seafood for only $4.95?”
Another guy (note: retarded), replies something like: “Yes! There is the Seafood Combo meal at LJS! It includes (blah blah)!”

Firstly, seafood for $4.95 isn’t remarkable or anything. I can buy an anchovy for $4.95 and feel hard done. And there are many stuff in seafood not worth $4.95 by itself. Fish, prawns, squid rings, blah, are worth under a dollar separately. What they should have said was, “Delicious seafood feast”, but that would be lying, since I tried the meal and it sucks.

The winner in this category is KFC’s series of ads on TV. They had a few ads and wanted viewers to vote for their favourite. I bring to your attention one particular ad.

A girl (spastic in nature) is at KFC. She shouts to NO APPARENT EXTERNAL STIMULANT:

“(something something) KFC!
Original Recipe!
Make my stomach so happy! YAY!”

Liek, OMG. Random shit. Why are local ads so crappy compared to foreign, ang-moh ads?? In derision, I shall try to extend the rhyme.

(something something) KFC!
Original Recipe!
Make my stomach so happy!
Lipids grow in my body!
Now I am a big fatty!
I used to be very zesty
Now I am just plain lazy!
My mummy has no money!
She knows nothing comes for free,
Take bus also must pay fee,
So now we all have to DIEEEEEEEEEE!

Yay! It’s the final day before the BARRAGE of TWO science CCTs. Screw the teachers. Apparently, Chem CCT was supposed to be week 5, but they wanted the CCTs to be as, um, together as possible.

I was thinking about moving my blog to WordPress! Shall I do that? Um, tag on my tagboard to voice out. I will totally take your comments into consideration.

Advantages of Blogger:
- ability to add custom skins.
- ability to put tagboard, and other spiffy scripts. Like a countdown to DP!!!!!!1111
- um. nothing else. Allows you to GO with the FLOW?

Advantages of WordPress:
- more professional editing interface
- more advanced category system (that’s the equivalent of LABELS for Blogger, which is dumb.)
- ability to create pages separate from the main blog page. For whatever reason. But it’s super useful.
- SPECIAL. Not go-with-the-flow-ish. Then I’ll slowly convert everyone to WP. Just like I did with coffee filters in South India.

The inconvenience with links can be taken care of for awhile. I tried out a nifty HTML redirection code and it worked! Yay! Then all the regular readers can update my links, yeah.
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Was just thinking how to persuade my parents to help me preorder Diamond AND Pearl.

I’d have to convince them on three grounds.
1) Safety of online purchases.
2) Money.
3) ADDICTION FACTOR.

The third one is by far the hardest, actually, since I intend to pay out of my prize money from last year. And I save really well. I have over $65 in coins! Plus some random notes. And then, I’ll convince them that the site is really established and all.
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Oh, and ESPLANADE CHEE, CHAPTER THREE, IS OUT. Go read ‘em! And please comment! I am very insecure. I crave comments to boost my ego. And hits too! I have over 800 hits for that blog now, which is pretty good for just a ficblog…

Today is one of those nostalgic days. Game-wise.

Wow playing NSMB (Mario) on my DS, I suddenly had an urge to play older Mario games. So I downloaded SNES emulator! You know, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, about the first Nintendo system or something. Wow, Mario was marginally harder back then. And there was Yoshi! Which makes it slightly more fun.

Yay! It’s the weekend! Feels like a holiday to me, due to my super cool weekend time-management programme!

This is how it works:

Friday – get home. DON’T DO ANY WORK FOR FRIDAY. Play, watch TV, blah, crap. I deserve the break! Sleep early.
Saturday - wake up early, may go for exercise. Late, then aww too bad. Read the papers for bloody long, then have late breakfast. Spend half the day using the comp on the pretext of doing work. But get distracted on things ranging from blogskins to… blogging. And, um, playing.
Sunday – work 20% done. Go to church. Spend half the day on the comp, trying to clear up the work. Then sleep late, cos I have to finish up everything. Then again, I don’t finish my work half the time. I leave the most unimportant 40% to Monday, when I don’t hand up and drag until chased by teacher or whatever.

Cool, huh?

Read something funny in Today paper! It was something about India (what else?) expecting a lot from their cricketeers. You know, it’s ZOMG-CRICKET-WORLD-CUP. Woah, world cup. Except it isn’t watched by many. So right, the writer went like “If only India gave as much pressure on their politicians as they do on their cricketeers. India would be a First World country by now.”

(Proverbial justification of potentially offensive remark above to avoid getting sued and flamed by enraged Indians: The above was paraphrased from a newspaper article, and it’s true. And… it makes sense.)

NEW! Ficblog revamp! I name it the Great Blog Revamp 1.0, in case someone asks.

Hey check this out! I was googling something like “all matter expands when heated” for help, and this came up.

http://forums.philosophyforums.com/threads/all-steel-bars-expand-when-heated-25009.html

It’s obviously some RI student. He went to philo forums and signed up on 19 March (2 days ago) and solicited HELP from philo nerds! Gah. I should sign up and screw him a bit. Like:

“NO! Not all steel bars expand when heated. Wait… your teacher has heard of the Mystical Glowing Steel Bar of Doom! It must be guarded – I DIDN’T SAY ANYTHING! No! There is no secret trapdoor in Hwa Chong that leads to the five-headed monster!”

Haha. That is so Team Rocket in the game. I love those TR lines.

Wow. It’s hard to imagine someone being a philo nerd. I mean, math nerds common enough (I just met Ivan Loh today. He spent whole of RE doing SMOPS practice papers), but it’s like, philo nerds would go around discussing… abortion! Sex! Descartes’ Third Theory of Nothingness, and other stuff.

Wow! Philo essay is easy! It is 11.04, and I have 761 words. Spammable.

Gah. Came home at 7-something. RT meeting. Normally I wouldn’t have minded, but today, there was no waterpolo. So I do not need the excuse of RT meeting! Wasted.

Anyway, YOU BETTER BUY the RT issue, and then for the rest of the year, since I’ll almost definitely contribute at least one article per issue! Mooty talks! These are some reasons why you should buy RT:

- My two articles. One bashes up the RA system and the other pits DS against PSP.
- Pek’s funny article. He wrote about squeezing as many CCA points as possible. He wrote stuff like Join Green Earth Club and Indian Cultural Club, and even implied that they were useless and that no skill was needed.
- Chester’s… masterpiece. Gerald Sng put him in charge of a Sudoku and Lame Jokes section, and he SLACKED. I mean, I can do that in 5 minutes! And he even split up the work with Joel, who did the lame jokes while Chester did Sudoku.
- I compiled some Engrish.com pictures. The usual… it sells, doesn’t it?
- THE NEW DESIGN! Not black and grey anymore, I believe. I think it’s green, black, white. Well, it’s definitely colored. Created by imba Daniel Wong! Geez… this guy is indispensable to the club, since he’s the only one in the exco who masters Photoshop.

Yup.
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Updates on Pokemon DP pre-ordering:
- Of all the websites I checked so far, Play-asia.com is the only one that A) Sends to Singapore and B) Has free shipping. Great! So preordering both D and P will be approximately $120.
- Gahh! I need to persuade parents. Worse come to worse, I offer to pay the full amount, which would set me back a little.
- Definitely getting at least one of the two. Now, because of the free limited edition stylus that comes with preordered DP, I WANT BOTH.
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• Philo essay (Friday)
• Lit essay (Next week)
• Chem bonding edulearn (Friday?)
• RE lit review (Friday)
• Chinese project thingy (one month’s time)
• Physics theory (Monday) and practical (Friday) tests

I really, really need a new computer. I’ve had this one slightly after XP was launched. Or maybe before, just that we installed XP after. Don’t think so, anyway. So, the hard drive is freaking puny. And now everything is slow and I have popups. I think it’s some website I went to. Stupid Trojans.

Or maybe, I can persuade my parents to get me a portable hard drive, which I’m really looking at. Hard drive will have like, 100GB or slightly less, but in any case much bigger than my desktop hard drive. Then I can store ALL in here! And when they finally get a new comp I wouldn’t need to back up my data or anything. Mmm.. seems good.

I’ve reconsidered my hasty decision of persuading to get a Mac for a computer, if at all. Mac can’t play ANYTHING. And let’s not just consider games: it can hardly use the same software as Windows, with limited viable alternatives. This results in a vicious cycle: not enough software for Mac –> few people wanna buy –> developers don’t bother making Mac software since market is small.

I mean, Mac at the start doesn’t even have a word processing program, going by the iMac I used a few days ago. Good thing that family installed a test drive for Microsoft Office 2004, which lasts 30 days. Sad.
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I shall restart my riddle site. I need a good storyline to work my puzzles on. And I want a better, ad-free webhost. Freewebs uses a Blogger-like toolbar at the top. Irritating, and potentially confusing if I construct more puzzles in the future.

Wow, yesterday I was reading all about Pokemon DP. And basically, about the DS and Super Mario and such. I shall play more Mario when I can now! I realized that through a secret button combo, you can actually choose to play 1-player mode with Luigi! YAY! He has a cuter voice than Mario.

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/365143 and click PLAY THE GAME. It’s called the Impossible Quiz… and it’s super impossible. Yet masochistically fun at the same time. I got to level 42 then got STUCK.

Edit: Now at level 60++. I’m an addict to a Flash game! Woot. Then again, the later levels I was feeling stupid, so I went to a website which had hardcore answers!!!!!

Started on my lame riddle website, and feeling dumb. I need riddles! Plus, Freewebs adds a toolbar at the top of the page, not unlike Blogger. I think I need to switch webhost. Then, since I was doing the first few riddles on an iMac, I posted an iMac-relevant question, thinking that PC and Mac keyboards were similar. So… watch out for yourself while doing it. The URL is freewebs.com/mootriddle. Nothing fiendishly difficult posted so far.

Leaving on a jetplane?

Not really. But I’m certainly Typing on an iMac. Which is less sentimental and… more sinful.

Everything’s WHITE! Gasp. And there are cool spiffy animations even when you minimise documents. Not that I didn’t know that. But imagine. It would bring lots more enjoyment to your using-the-computer life.

Therefore, it is time to persuade my parents to get an iMac. Heck the not-being-able-to-play-any-normal-games part… I can join a geeky Mac clan and discuss Mac gaming alternatives! Bwahaha. And changing the comp couldn’t be too early. I had the same comp for over five years. That’s the time Microsoft takes to make their imba OS. (not as imba as Mac OS)

If my parents desist, I shall have to find my own ways. Like starve myself and fast for a few years. I should be able to afford a mac in two years, going by $25 weekly allowance.
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On an unrelated note, I shall do tagboard replies. This is what happens when TOO MANY people tag and you want to reply without spamming on your tagboard. OK, actually, not many.

YW: What article?
oneofthemanybens: ben who? Wow, a dying breed of taggers who talk about their blog but do not include their URL. Oh, that’s a compliment. (unlike, coughcough, MARK TAN)
shanzhi: OK shall send whenever I get the chance to on MSN. English names? I thought they were out long ago. Except maybe some rare Pokes.
Brent: I like this skin! Except the fact that it has NARROW COLUMNS. Nevermind. I shall use my infinite knowledge of MS Paint to edit the background. Oh, and the Wicked? I did it first um in April 06… And if you’ve only done 20 or 25 Wicked Jr questions, he’s added more, to 30 now! All are gamer’s contributions -.- … and Wicked up to 70 now I think. Restart! He’s changed quite a few questions.
anonymous: mootmash, lvl 21 ice/lit mage to be, in Bootes! Whee!
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On a somewhat related note, I have decided to create my OWN riddle site! I know, everyone will LAUGH at me. But I won’t be doing this alone! I need helpers plzzzz, preferably IT-geeks. To contribute riddles. It won’t be as IT-centric. Maybe more random, and more story-based? I hope. Every crappy game can be covered up with a good storyline! Yay!
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On a totally random note, I have created a movement. It’s called 1337ism! Leetism! We do not tolerate noobs, and will run them down the moment we can. Who wants to join? Oh yeah, we will also dismiss anything as being too noob for us.

Hi all.

Dunno if you’ve heard of The Wicked. Some local student created this set of puzzles. http://www.weikiat.net/wicked/ It’s mostly IT stuff, so he created another set called Wicked Junior, which is mostly word games. I completed Junior in one day (but not that easy, pals. Took about… three hours?)! But, um, stuck at 27 for Wicked. Um, both are fun. You may find Junior more fun, which is mostly wordplay.

Pizzat sent me this cool font they use in Pokemon RS interface!

I couldn’t help myself. Oh, who wants the Pokemon RS font can, um, tag on my tagboard.

Anyway, so all I need now are some decent sprites for MOOTY, the latest and most imba Pokemon ever to strike Pokeworld, and I can create a battle scene! Um, it’s the sadistic overlord of Pokemon, and also the evil twin of Aruseus.

So, anyone bother to create a cool Pokemon of me? I don’t want to be a pathetic white dog thing with unexplained spikes all over me, thank you very much.

Posted something on my ficblog: an attempt at a chain mail. Please read. BWAHAHAA I now have two fans! Um, defining “fan” to be unknown reader/commenter. Wait, I also have some commenter named Fat Scout, but I have no idea who that is. And there’s YH’s sister, who apparently likes Esplanade Chee.

So: Fancount = 3 (possibly 4)

I’m famous.