[Instant gay accent...]
There's this busted van at the Forum in NUS. I saw it yesterday and I actually thought there had been an accident, until I walked on further and realised it was just a display for the Motoring Club.
In any case, I thought it was pretty incredible. Where did they get something like this? And the sign-board on the right, that's the kind of sign-board put up by the police in appeals for witnesses during accidents. I heard that they had to remove the word "fatal" from it after many people thought an actual fatal accident had occurred.
[Why am I doing this to myself?]
I keep up to date with what's happening in the pro-wrestling world by reading newsboards. I currently visit wrestlezone.com and lordsofpain.net (this address could so easily be mistaken for a S/M site or something).
lordofpain.net's pretty sucky, and I no longer visit them regularly. Their news are slow, and not a lot of interesting stuff gets reported.
wrestlezone.com is better in terms of the news quality as well as the regularity of their updates. But they have their problems as well. Their site was infected with a virus in the past but luckily my anti-virus caught it every time.
Lately, there is a new problem with the site. For some reason, opening too many tabs of the site would crash my browser. It's really frustrating as I prefer to open up all the links I wanted to read using tabs. But for some reason, I keep returning to that damned site.
It took me five paragraphs, but does anyone have a good newsboard to recommend me? One with the clean design (relatively speaking) of lordsofpain.net with the news quality of wrestlezone.com.
Thanks in advance.
Took the following picture in McDonald's today.
It seemed funny at the time. Now I wonder what's so funny about it.
[Football bloopers...]
I laughed out loud at some of them.
Check out the first incident, the head-butt thingy. I wonder why people do such things. Don't they know there's a camera on them 99% of the time? Even if they got away with it then, the truth will come out later.
The one with the player on the stretcher stuck under the guy's ass was funny too.
[Shrimps!]
Took some pictures of my shrimps today.
To be completely honest, I don't know the true name of this shrimp. I've seen so many names for them, I don't know which is the right one. Diamond shrimp, black bee shrimp, crystal black shrimp, etc.
Anyhow, I only have a few of them. They are really expensive as they are hard to breed and it was easy for their colours to run if the water parameters were not exactly right.
I have, however, a horde of cherry shrimps.
I wish their colours would be more vibrant.
The last couple of days has been rough. Been rushing a ton of work. I actually took 5 hours to prepare a project report. That includes reading the entire thing (stuff written by my group-mates) carefully, editing where necessary, and then writing my own part.
I learnt something about myself through all this (and also partly due to a conversation I had on MSN). It seems that I'm a methodical worker. I don't work well under pressure. It's better if I could start early, and work at my own pace, thinking things through.
I also learnt that I'm a sensitive and sentimental person. I won't go into how that happened, just that it did. It's always good to know more about yourself, good or bad.
[More RAM! Whoo hoo!]
I've been thinking of adding more RAM to my rig for a while. Last night, with both YQ and Aeron asking me if I wanted to go to SLS today, I checked the RAM prices. They were half the price they were 6 months ago. I bought 2 sticks of 512MB RAM for about $100 each in September last year, and each stick cost only $50 now.
So I went down with them today and bought 2 more sticks. I now have a total of 2GB of RAM. Woot!
Too bad I wasn't able to find the keyboard, ear-piece or adapter I wanted. Oh well...Guess I'll make do for now.
[My darting eyes...]
It's been pointed out to me that when people talk to me (in real life), my eyes keep darting around instead of focused on the person's face. Sometimes, instead of darting around, I simply look away or focus on something else and look like I'm talking to air.
Yes, I am aware of it. It actually takes effort on my part for me not to. I'm not sure if I do this to everyone I talk to...Because I know some reasons why I do, and they don't seem to apply to everyone I know.
Anyhow, if you were ever annoyed or offended by this, I apologise. No offense meant, on my part. Everyone has a weird social habit or two, I guess this is mine. I'll try to control this in the future. The thing is, I know that my eyes are looking away/darting about while I'm doing it. I think this happens more in the more "public" places as I tend to be easily distracted. Which is also why it's very difficult for me to study in public.
[Elevation X...]
One of the most exciting gimmick matches right now would certainly be the TLC in the WWE, and the Ultimate X in TNA. Both types of matches were not for bulky, big-muscled wrestlers with no wrestling ability. Wrestlers often go all out and pull off insane moves in these types of matches.
So when TNA introduced Elevation X, I was excited. I wondered what tricks they had up their sleeves. The first ever Elevation X pitted AJ Styles against Rhino. Basically, it's a scaffolding match, with two planks placed high above the ring and whoever falls off, loses.
You know it's gonna be bad when fans start praying before the match.
Fear/uncertainty on Rhino's face? Don't see that very often.
AJ Styles starting the climb.
AJ Styles on top of the scaffolding. At this point, a "please-don't-die" chant started.
AJ Styles in the middle. You can see how high the structure was.
This fan can't look...
...and these are plain worried. Fans' faces don't lie.
Rhino climbing up. Look at the size of the planks relative to Rhino. Not a lot of room to move about.
Worried fans.
Rhino trying to climb back onto the top.
More concerned fans...
AJ Styles in trouble...
Even the normally bloodthirsty male fans were worried.
I didn't see this coming...Styles hiding from Rhino.
Finally, Styles falling off the top.
That marks the end of the first-ever (and hopefully last) Elevation X in TNA.
Credit to both men for putting up a decent show. These matches were usually punch-kick affairs due to the lack of space on top, but Styles and Rhino managed to pull off some, albeit not as spectacular, moves on top. And credit to Styles for climbing all over, under and through the scaffolding like an insane monkey.
That said, I hope I never see another match like this, ever again.
This was definitely the most dangerous match I have ever seen. Even more than Hell in a Cell when the wrestlers took bumps off the top of the Cell. Because in HIC, bumps were planned and the Cell was sometimes rigged. The chances of something unexpected happening was low (although Foley did crash through the Cell unplanned in the third HIC). For Elevation X, the chances of things going wrong was far greater due to the lack of space on the top of the scaffolding.
It was dangerous, fans were genuinely worried, and there wasn't room for much creativity on top of the scaffolding. Too much risk, too little returns. It had Owen Hart tragedy written all over it.
[How to comply?]
I just started studying for a mid-term that's on Thursday. I think this is one of the very few (if not, only) times I started studying for a test so late.
The lecture for this module is conducted from 4pm to 6pm. I tend to feel sleepy around this time, and often have to fight the urge to fall asleep. When you're sleepy, your brain doesn't work the way it's supposed to. Look at the notes I jotted down:
Practices to comply with practices. Like that made sense...
[Aragh...]
Most of the time, a single person would find something either funny or disgusting. Seldom both. Probably cause the two emotions were very far apart.
This video made me feel both at the same time. Go ahead, watch it. Then prepare to laugh and puke at the same time.
Then blame Keith for giving me the link. Notice her looking at what she dug out and rolling it about.
And before some holier-than-thou person comes along to say that everyone does this...Yes, perhaps we do. But most of us don't do it on the train in public, opposite someone with a camera phone who happened to be holding it up.
Oh, and did anyone notice that she's taking up 2 seats? Not that anyone would want to sit next to her and risk getting...Stuck on.
[The snack of frustration...]
I once saw this stand-up comedian who talked about how he preferred grapes over apples. He said if you had a bad apple, you're stuck with an entire bad apple. But with grapes, even if you get one bad one, there's always a chance that the next one would be good. Hence, grapes were the "fruit of opportunity".
Now, let me introduce you to the snack of frustration:
In case anyone has never seen or tasted them before, let me explain how it works. Basically, you push the shells in opposite directions until they break and then you eat the nut that's inside. Sounds simple enough. In fact, shouldn't they be the snack of opportunity (seeing how they don't come alone, same as grapes) instead of frustration?
See, the thing is, there were three types of pistachios. The normal type which you could easily get at (not pictured above), then there are two types that drive you crazy.
These nuts crack open by themselves when they are ripe. Sometimes, they don't open enough. Like the one on the left. It's difficult to crack them open, and may even be painful. Incidentally, after I took the photo, I pried the thing open with my fingernails and ended up getting cut (there was some blood) along the front of my index finger, where the nail meets the flesh. Ouch. That was so not worth it.
Then there are those which cracked open too big and the nut inside fell out. If you're not paying attention (say you're watching TV), you can crack open a few of them only to be disappointed because there was nothing for you in them. And the funny thing was every batch of pistachios comes with some of these, but you never find any free nuts inside the package. (Okay, you do, but there's still more empty shells than liberated nuts.)
So henceforth, I proclaim pistachios the snack of frustration.
[Don't stand there...]
I took this picture earlier at the bus-stop.
See, the pillars are meant to prevent the buses (or any other vehicles) from mounting the kerb and smashing into the people at the bus-stop. It has actually happened before in the past. So please, for your own safety, do not stand in front of the pillars (like the guy on the right). They are there to protect you.
[Please, no more...]
Avril Lavigne has a new album coming out. Her latest single is called Girlfriend. And as it turns out, there are 7 (yes, seven) versions of it. I heard the original version. The "dirty" one. It has "motherfucking" in it. There's probably going to be a radio-friendly version of it (the "clean" one), just like My Happy Ending.
Then I heard the Mandarin (that's right, Mandarin) version. And I started laughing.
I remember M2M coming out with a Mandarin version of Pretty Boy. It was funny then, and it's still funny now (with Avril).
I wonder if they know how funny they sounded...To the native speakers of the language they are mangling.
[US$5 and getting a laptop?]
I did a survey a couple of weeks back, and I got a US$5 voucher for use on Amazon.com as a thank-you. I have no idea what to get. As things stand, I might wait for AJ Styles' DVD to be released in April and use it then. Then again, I prefer not to buy DVDs off Amazon.com, as the delivery company they use will send the DVD to the Board of Censors first, and I might have to wind up paying for the "censorship test" or something like that.
I'm thinking of getting a laptop from school once the models for the next academic year has been updated. It makes sense for me to get one since I'm graduating and haven't bought one yet. I survived 3-years in Computing without a laptop. Yes folks, it can be done.
If I were to get a laptop, I'd be getting an ultra-portable under 1.9KG. No need for a powerhouse, I'd use my desktop for that. Last year's ultra-portables cost from about $1800 to $2000. I'm not sure if I want to spend that much on something I might not really have a need for. Let's face it...I won't be using a laptop at home, not when I have a full-functioning desktop. If I were to get a laptop, it'd probably be for when I'm outside or traveling. What are the chances of that?
Broken for now. :( If anyone knows of a good way to display tweets without using Twitter's awful looking widgets, please let me know. Preferably something that allows me to retrieve my tweets in plain-text format.
What's this about?
Anything and everything under the sun. I write about my day, my thoughts, things I see in public, things to get off my chest, or sometimes just some senseless rants that make sense only to me.
About Me
30 year old male. Always with too many ideas in his head and too little time. For my 15 minutes of fame, I want to be a guest on the Late Show with David Letterman.
Interests
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I'll try to control this in the future. The thing is, I know that my eyes are looking away/darting about while I'm doing it. I think this happens more in the more "public" places as I tend to be easily distracted. Which is also why it's very difficult for me to study in public.
Notice her looking at what she dug out and rolling it about.
And yeah, I blacked out its name and URL. I'm not going to do any free advertising for them.
