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Sunday, May 24, 2009
When shadow comes to claim our souls,Some must rise - the light of old.
Names in stone, spirits of legend.
Deeds unknown, yet never forgotten.
These are the Duranin!
Of honor within and of fear without.
Remember them, when in hope you doubt.
-Tales of The Past III
posted @ 7:28 pm
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Monday, May 18, 2009
Its funny, you know. Its funny how I'm being so uptight and eager about finding out the score of a soccer match. I've never been like that for any sport in my life. As you should know, I'm not a sports kind of person. Why is this soccer match so important to me? Well, its mainly for selfish reasons. As you've read three posts ago, we're being forced to go down to support people. Although I've never really went for one yet, the fact that the teacher is asking us to go is putting a lot of pressure on me and irritating the hell out of me, and I don't like that. Its a semi-final match, and if they win, they go to the finals, and its obviously obvious that we'll definitely need to go support them again. I was already thinking in my head what I would do if I had to go cheer for the finals. Maybe I'll go get detention class on purpose. After all, detention lasts a shorter amount of time, and I can get some work done.
So, by putting the pieces of the puzzle together, you should know why I'm so eager to want to know the results. If they lose, I'm free. And they did. When I saw the results about ten minutes ago, I whispered out a cheer of happiness and freedom. Yes, I know, I'm an asshole, wishing for my school, my classmate, to lose so that I'll never need to go support them ever again. But hey, that's me. Too bad for you if you don't like it. I was never a patriot to this country and anything that's in it anyway. I'm on the verge of burning the school down. The only thing stopping me is the damn laws and security of this country. Four to five more months of proper, structured school, then I'm free from authoritarian teachers. Can't wait to say goodbye and f*** you to the school. Gosh, maybe I'll throw a stone at my teacher's car too. Its untraceable (I mean, they've had low success rates of catching car vandals in Singapore), and he's the sort who loves his car. Sweet.
I've never written such a vulgar and angry post before, I think. The school is just driving me insane. I'm going nuts. I can't stand it anymore.
I've got exams next week from Wednesday to Friday. Kind of crappy, but I guess it all helps. Tests let us learn and understand things better.
I'm thinking of writing a post on how Maplestory is making people think that video games are shallow and for kids. I chose Maplestory simply because I think that its one of the most commonly played game here in Singapore. Even if its not, then its definitely well-known.
posted @ 9:45 pm
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Saturday, May 16, 2009
Sometimes I wonder if I'm some sort of a nonconformist. I notice this a lot in the games that I play; I don't (I try) use classes/races/factions that are too commonly used by people. I always like to be the unique one, the one that is special and somehow needed, wanted, or liked by the community.
Here's an example: World of Warcraft. I don't play classes like the rogue and warrior. Before the WoTLK expansion, I played a paladin, but now since its starting to be an overpowered class, almost everyone's playing it and I don't seem to have that motivation to play it anymore. In fact, the very first class that I had that hit maximum level was the priest. Its not exactly a favourite class among players, but its definitely a class that everyone wants, and there's definitely a lack of priests around.
My choice of my job in the future seems to be a rather different and special job as well. I don't think this is because I want to be different, but it just happens to be different. I honestly have no interest in the usual jobs, that for some odd reason 90% of people want to have, such as doctors, lawyers and all that. Wanting to be a video game developer is a pretty different job, especially in Singapore. Its a job nobody really knows about, and nobody really cares about. Its also a job that's going to be rising up and strong in the future, overtaking music and movies (which according to rate of growth, it already is). Sadly, most people think video games are for kids and stuff, but seriously, play a proper game before you judge. The video game industry isn't worth US$22 billion in 2008 for being a "kid thing". Think deeper people.
Try reading this as well as the comments:
http://kotaku.com/5252157/making-a-game-out-of-todays-war
Pfft, how did this turn into a defense for the video games industry? Anyway, here are some quotes from the comments:
"Good points, I for one find it retarded that games cant refer to issues such as war, race, sexual connotations or religion. It makes the art form seem childish and I feel it prevent the relatively young audience from being educated about real life."
A reply to the above:
"Exactly, movies reflect current atrocities often, it's time the industry grew up.
What made Mass Effect controversial? A Sex scene?? Grow the fuck up people!"
"Seriously, people need to be educated about games." Indeed. I get damn pissed when people put video games down. Its an art form, and its intrinsic value is no different from a picture, a music score, a book, a movie, and even anime which I don't really like.
I also have to disagree about how we can't put the fun into such a game, just because war isn't fun. There are many movies out there that feature people in war, and yet they excite us, pump us up with adrenaline, and we go all "whoa" and "cool" over all the action scenes. Is war cool? No. So according to the logic applied to video games, movies depicting war in such a manner is insensitive and kiddy. Case closed.
posted @ 12:13 am
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Friday, May 15, 2009
Here's a video I made using Alice 2.2. Made it during one of the silly Tech Council sessions.
posted @ 7:06 pm
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Tuesday, May 12, 2009
This seems inevitable, doesn't it? Here's another post on why I hate my school.1. Whiny and annoying teachers
For the past one year, my form teacher has been telling us at least once a week about how our subject tutors have complaints about this and that. He tells us that they complain that we're too noisy, we don't answer questions sometimes, or that the teacher just has some pet peeve that's retarded beyond being a proper and amicable human. He tells us that the moment he steps into the staff room, he's stopped be a teacher at least five times for complaints before he reaches his table. Its so bad that he goes off to hide somewhere else to work instead of the staff room. At first, I thought its just my form teacher that's just that annoying, but my Chemistry teacher says that all form teachers would be like that.
But seriously dude. Why the hell are my school teachers so damn bitchy and whiny? Why the hell do they complain about every single damn small piece of detail that happens? Are they bored or something? This hasn't happened even once in my primary and secondary school days. Not even once. Fairfield teachers will only come and nag if its a really big problem.
2. Forced to cheer for competing teams
Apparently, because there's some guy from soccer in my class, and my form teacher is in charge of soccer, he asks us to go to the location of the match to support him. It supposed to be part of the "school spirit" that's unique to my school, and also something to do with how the sports teams will always have supporters (and supposedly very enthusiastic supporters). First, I don't like sports at all, and I'm only neutral with indoor sports and maybe I somewhat like racing. Second, I don't really care what happens to the result of the sports teams, they can lose everything for all I care. Third, don't freaking make me travel all the way to the other end of the island (extreme east). Well, I got forced to go watch the Chinese drama act for their SYF competition, because the class wanted to go. That wasn't so bad, mainly because its right in school, its air-conditioned with comfy chairs, and I finally get to visit the inside of the Centre for Performing Arts. Also, sure beats soccer or rugby anytime. Watching Singaporeans play soccer or rugby is like watching the Special Olympics (I came up with that myself). Interestingly, by making me do something I don't want to do, I'll just hate my school even more. Its been almost one and a half years since I entered this school, and I don't really feel any sort of connection with the school yet.
3. My standard of English is dropping, I think.
After being in a primary and secondary school with teachers that speak proper and coherent sentences, I ironically find that my school teachers (at least those that teach the Math and Sciences), speak horrible English. You'll literally hear a grammatical mistake in one of their sentences once every five minutes. Its seriously that bad. After a year of hearing such stuff, its slowing starting to rub off me. Its not even the complicated mistakes that they're making. Its just the simple use of "are" and "is" after a plural or singular term, things like that.
4. Annoying acts of etiquette
There's this really dumb rule that we cannot go out of the hall if there is someone speaking on the stage. If we do, its only if we really need to, and if we really do go out, we'll either find ourselves stuck outside the hall for a while, or we have to sit at the nearest possible seat from the door (apparently to minimise walking). Its like, dude, if I want to go for a poop, I go. Its my right, its my human right. People need to poop and pee once in a while, and adding unnecessary rules like that doesn't help at all. Not allowing us to go to the toilet when our bladder/rectum is full is tantamount to torture.
5. Supposed HOD of Physics
Spends 40 minutes in a tutorial going through 4 Physics questions, and the whole class leaves the tutorial with none of the 4 questions answered. Apparently, "this question is very straightforward so you should be able to do it". Also, torture: see above. There's more than this man who can't teach at all. I have no idea why my school is filled with such teachers.
posted @ 9:35 pm
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Sunday, May 03, 2009
posted @ 8:21 pm
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