- Black Death -

I Have A Dream By ABBA

2012-01-13T22:52:00.003+08:00

Since its 5days past my birthday, why not write something about Nur Shah? I know Amirah Izaliawanted me write more posts about myself. Wow, this post is 1200 words long; I guess this is the longest post.

My fathersays that I am forgiving, respectable, gentle, superior,ambitious, magnetic, cautious, constant, conservative, duty, anti-social,dependent, stingy, stiff, clumsy, loneliness, self-doubt, uneasiness,criticism, heroism, morality, peace-keeping, tolerance, not alert, sensitive,does not hide feelings, listen to mother most, loves & reserves order,unique, mysterious, wants the real things out of life, excellent cook, likesdetail, attracted to luxuries, doesn’t look for comfort, clever at buying, goodat being an inspector, businessman & banker By the way, I think he wrotethis on a piece of paper back when I was smaller.

This is what I have to say because I know myselfbetter than he knows me. I am forgiving to a moderate extent. I don’t know muchabout respectability because I don’t know how people view me but my closefriends do respect me. I am not at all gentle. I tend to be rough with mythings and I tend to over pressure myself and not take safety precautions whenI exercise.

I can’t say much about my superiority because that isa very large topic and it depends who you are comparing yourself with. However,I think that I am superior because there’s a quote that says “smart peoplediscuss ideas, normal people discuss people and stupid people discuss people”and from this, I know that I am superior because ideas are always in my head,sometime making it difficult for me to sleep and more than half of my blog isabout ideas and even my Facebook posts. I know this sounds like I am showingoff, but look at it this way, if I am only to talk about the negative side ofme, that makes me a pessimist but neither do I want to make this post to portrayme as a saint, as such, some the next few characteristics will be negative.

I am ambitious, very ambitious. If you add ambitionsto ambitions and multiply that by ambitions, you’ll get Nur Shah. I HAVE A DREAM of becoming a world class musician, much to the likes of Led Zeppelin,Metallica, Bon Jovi, and the Beatles and so on. At least a 100 million albumsales will be my target. I’ve even drawnmy dream house, but it’s still not perfect and not to scale. From there, Iwould like to set up small companies which are being parented by GMR UNIONwhich is the name of my future band. Enough of ambitions, let’s move on.

I am magnetic because some think I am weird but alsobecause I present myself with confidence and charisma. I don’t why my fathersaid I am cautious and not alert, but regardless, I know that I am both becausewhenever I enter a new place, I would look out for the tiniest detail but whenI am in the same place for many times, I tend to not pay attention to mysurrounding. My life before entering Polytechnic was not constant becauseresults were like a rollercoaster however in Polytechnic, my grades are slowlydecreasing. I am conservative when it comes to religion but I am open almostabout everything else. I stick to my duty as I can see from working at the zooand also being a soccer defender for my primary school team, too bad though,I’ve got no duties at the moment.

I agree that I am anti-social one the reasons beingthat I do not like to sacrifice for friends. Obviously I am not dependent, I amvery independent and one of the reason is that I learn everything on my own and I alsodo my own research when in doubt. I am stingy when it comes to sharing foodwith my friend or giving donations and money to friend. However though, Iwillingly lend my friends if they need it and I also share things if thequality or the quantity of the product does not decrease such as my sisterplaying my Nintendo DS. I am stiff but I am learning how to be flexible andsensitive to other people’s needs. I agree that I am clumsy.

I feel lonely almost every single day because I amanti-social, do not mix much with my family members and also because I’ve neverhad a girlfriend before. I usually self-doubt when it comes to makingdecisions. I always have this feeling of uneasiness because my mind is never atpeace. I always criticize people, ideas and even myself and that also explainswhy I am doubtful. After watching many heroic movies, ranging from medievalwarfare to Napoleonic Wars to World War 2 to Lord Of The Rings, it inspires meto be a hero. I have done many sinful things in life but I am moral becausepeople in my shoes would have evolved and do more extreme sins however I donot.

I am not peace-keeping because I only support the sidethat is ethically correct and I am not interested in gaining another person’sacceptance. I am a very tolerant person, throw everything at me and I’ll stillbe standing on both of my feet. This is because I like to have this idea whereI’ll have the last laugh and also because I’ve tolerated much worse things inmy life before. I’d say that I am sensitive but I do not show it because I keepeverything to myself, be it feelings and emotions. From this, you’ll know thatit contradicts what my father said which is that I do not hide my feelings.

Of my siblings, my father says I listen to my mothermost, I do not know if I should agree or disagree. Firstly, my sister sleepsbeside her, so she should have listened the most to her, but then again, I amvery interested in her untold childhood. Loves and reserves order? Not reallybecause I like some flexibility. I am very unique in a positive way and I ammysterious during my childhood days but now no more secretive. I definitely want the real thing out of lifesuch as being religious, having many cars, a dream house and also receivingpassive income. I like to cook on my own and so far the food I’ve cooked isbetween average and delicious. I love being detailed and paying attention to itand I am definitely attracted to luxuries.

I do look for comfort because I’ll wear something uglybecause it’s comfortable. I agree that I am clever at buying because I checkother stores, differentiate my needs and wants and also have my own ifssituations thought of. From what my father had said about the jobs I am goodat, I agree that I am good at those because it matches my characteristics but Ido not think I have the passion and passion is the most important thing when itcomes to selecting a job. Thus, musician is my choice.

Runaway By Bon Jovi

2011-12-24T02:14:00.000+08:00

Holidaysare finally here, but it only lasts for 17 days, time to catch up on my blog.My number one favorite video game has got to be the Pokémon Series. I got myfirst silver game boy advance near Woodlands Checkpoint when I was in primaryschool and Pokémon Sapphire was the game I bought for 45sg to compliment it. Itwas the only game to company that game boy. My brother’s friend gave him LeafGreen but he never really played it because I was playing it. About many monthslater, the game boy spoilt. So, when I was in secondary school, I bought a matgrey game boy advance sp for 155sg. Some months later, I bought Ruby for 68sg,which was expensive. I often battled and traded Pokémon with my neighbor,Solihin. Now I have a Nintendo DS which I bought for 178sg that comes with ascreen protector. I bought a Pokémon Black for around 50sg and later bought anR4 DS card which contained many games including all the Pokémon DS games.

Ruby, Sapphire& Emerald had an interesting storyline and gameplay. I like the Pokémoncontest a lot and also having your own secret house and battling other playersin their secret house. Bad thing about the game though is that there’s nothingmuch to do after defeating the elite four and some of the Pokémon are “alien”in the sense that they do not have any resemblance to animals/plants in thereal world. My favorite Pokémon in this game has got to be Absol followed bySalamence.

I could notsay much about Fire Red & Leaf Green because I could not remember muchhowever I like the Sevii Islands a lot but I could not remember why. I thinkthe things I hate about the game is that there’s nothing special about it andgetting the next 3 starters is hard. My favorite Pokémon from this game isLapras, Arcanine and Gengar.

I playedthe Diamond, Pearl & Platinum series on my computer via an emulator. The 3starters are ugly but the catching the main legendary Pokémon was fun becauseof the twisted dimensions. Most of the Pokémon in the game look like “aliens”and so I do not have any favorite Pokémon in this series.

ThePokealthon is the most fun thing in the HeartGold & SoulSilver series.Other good things are there’s a whole new region accessible after defeating theelite four and rebattling all gym leaders. Thing I hate about this game is thatcatching the 3 roaming legendaries because they always RUNAWAY and doing the pokeathlons over and over againto get those evolution stones.

The Black& White series is the most fun of all because of the gameplay. Firstlythere are rotation battles, secondly the story line is engaging, the A.I ismuch smarter, there are quite a few things to do to keep you busy afterdefeating the elite four and the TMs can be reused again. Bad thing about thisgame though is that there are always unexpected battles and events, so theremust be constant saving, the Pokémon are the ugliest in this series.

Play That Funky Music By Wild Cherry

2011-12-02T09:28:00.001+08:00

Wow, there wasn't a post for the whole month of November. I do not feel like blogging during that month because I've been busy with Pokemon, school work, movies and basically just lazy to blog.

Some of you know that I play the bass, but many do not why? I play the bass for many reasons. Firstly, there's too many guitarist but little bassist, making guitars over rated. This also means that bassist will be playing for many bands and they will be higher paid because of that shortage. Secondly, you can PLAY THAT FUNKY MUSIC with a bass with a technique called slap and pop, where you use your thumb to usually slap the thicker strings and pop the thinner strings. Thirdly, a bass looks menacing and intimidating because of it's sheer size.

Sometimes I regret picking up the bass mainly because of the lack of resources to teach me. Not many people play the bass so not many can teach and the best online resource for me is Dmanlamius and also ultimateguitar.com, I think. Secondly, because acoustic basses are hard to find and expensive, I seldom bring my bass out to jam with people. Lastly, my busy life hinders me from playing the bass and as of now, it is just collecting dust. Luckliy though, studying Sonic Arts has motivated me a little to pick it up again because I've improved my Music Theory and also mix with musically inclined people.

Shut Up & Kiss Me By Orianthi

2011-10-29T18:08:00.001+08:00

Finally, a post about something good. Something happy. Something positive. My beloved sister, Nur Shahzani Binte Anwar. Here's her Facebook to give you a better description, http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001555565753. She finished her PSLE about a week ago and I know she will get a good aggregrate.

Here's a brief description of her, she's afraid of insects that fly. She cries easily and when she cries, the skin beneath her eyebrows and her nose turns red. She likes to help so much that people might ask her for help but not appreciate it. She is careless and clumsy but hard-working. She loves singing and is the school choir

Compared to my other two siblings, I share the most similarities with her. We love playing board games, we love playing pokemon, we love swimming, we love watching Smosh, Niga Higa and Ray William Johnson on youtube and we love watching the same television programmes.

The things we do together are what makes us love each other very much. I love my sister so much. It's wrong to say this but I love my sister way more than I love my mother. If I loose her, send me the mental institution please because I'll go mad. The most fun we have is when we tease and disturb each other. Way back then, when EZ-links card weren't invented yet, my family tend to tease her baby "botak" which means bald baby because she had a patch of baldness at the centre of her head. Slowly the teasing evolved, from bald baby to "bhangla" which means Indian foreign worker. We would get our small dosage of physical "damage" from her for teasing her. As of now, my sister and I are playing this game where we slap each other's cheeks and then I or her would then tease the one who got slapped. I would also sort of tickle her or just speak things that doesn't make sense to her just to disturb her. Yes I am cheeky, but only to her.

After all the fun we've had, as the sun sets and she lays herself to bed, I would usually kiss her on the forehead as she sleeps. I can't tell her to SHUT UP & KISS ME because she doesn't like kisses.It's a sad thing because whenever I try to hug her, she doesn't seem to want it, and this makes me feel sad because I do not hug often and people say that when you hug, you experience this positive warmth of the person you're hugging, oh well.

Wasted Years By Iron Maiden

2011-10-11T08:41:00.013+08:00

There are some things wrong with the Singapore Education System and also some things that can be improved upon.

Touching on the topic of schoole hours, school should be on every Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday. This is so that they can refuel on Wednesdays and Sundays. The problem when you do not need to go to school during weekends is that you do not do much work and you tend to do your homework last minute. Secondly, 1 week holidays should be at the start of February, April, August, October, a fortnight holiday should be on June and a one month December Holiday. These one week holidays are designed in such a way such that students get to refuel themselves more effectively as there is a one week holiday after every month juxtaposed to a week holiday after three months. June holidays are minimised to just two weeks because a month is too long. Post end of year exams should not strecth from a Novembers to December because it is too long and it should just be December long. Primary 1 to Primary 3 students will take morning shifts because they do have a lot of homework. Secondary school students should start school at 9am so that hey get enough sleep and A Level students should start school at 10am because they have a lot to study and so not to cause traffic jams if it was to start at 9am. This especially helps Malaysians who commute to Singapore Daily.

Next we touch on the things that happen in school. Firstly, 2nd language should not be made compulsory because English is the main world wide language, it is not an important language because many employers do not look at what you got for your second language. Adding on, living in a multi-racial country, when we speak in our 2nd language, we tend to interact with our own race. Recess should be 45 minutes long because there's not enough time to eat and relax in 30 mins. Your teacher dismiss you forn recess 5 minutes late and you queue for about 5 minutes, 10 minutes gone in all. Physical Education should be 2 hours per week and an hour per lesson. Back in primary school, Physical Education was only 30 minutes long and we usually did some warm-up and back to class we walked sadly. Physical Education should not be erased when the exams are coming, in fact it is better to have Physical Education when the exams are coming so that we can de-stress ourselves.

This is how teachers should teach their students. Firstly, they would teach them the basics and the students would make notes out of it. Notes should be done on A4 and filed into a file so that it is easy to edit the information because you can just throw away the paper if it's too messy or there's mistake. Homework should be given to them where the questions in the worksheet are is ascending in level of difficulty and they should inform the students on what skills is used to answer the question. Skills are such as visualisation when it comes to geometry and explanation when it come to the comprehension section. After that you are prepared to do other school's exam papers to prepare yourself for your exam. And the whole process repeats itself over and over again.

Last of course is exams. Firstly, they should tell us what we got for each subject in numeral form and not grades. For example if a "B" grade is 70 to 75, it is unfair for person who got 69 for subject A and 74 for 7 subjects juxtaposed to that dude who got 70 for subject A and 71 for the other 7 subjects. Secondly, we should know where our mistakes in our PSLE, O levels and A levels are so that we can improve ourselves or also debate with the marker as to why you deserve a mark for that question. Adding on, there should be a proper guideline as to how to mark essays. You can write two completely same essays and give it to two teachers to mark it only to realise that two different marks are given. Lastly, we should not have our papers marked by Cambridge because it's expensive and we get it back months later. Even though Cambrdige papers are known world-wide, it is better if it's marked in Singapore so that Singaporeans find it hard to migrate, thus solving the problem of diminishing local talents. All of these would ensure that we do not spend WASTED YEARS in school

Foolin' By Def Leppard

2011-10-04T22:28:00.007+08:00

There were a lot of memories that will be etched in my mind for the time I spent in Thailand.. These events are not in order so just bear with me. Let's start off with the cruise buffet, it was simply awesome! The best dining experience I've ever had. It was on a medium sized ship and the ship was moving while we were eating. The food was exceptional but the dessert was awesome. It was memorable because I had dessert on top of the ship and the view was awesome, the atmosphere was relaxing and the cool breeze just made you feel good. About an hour later, half of the group went onto the dance floor and danced along the hired band's rhythm and that was the most memorable of the whole trip because although I didn't dance, it was entertaining to watch them Foolin' themselves.

We headed for an orphanage in Singburi and I remembered giving a Mars chocolate bar secretly to an orphan because I was shy. I gave all the hotel stuffs such as toothbrush to the orphanage and I guess what I gave to them was the most unique of the bunch. We played soccer with the primary school kids on their field and we won the match of course. Oh yeah, and there was this boy who dressed as a girl and dance with the rest of the female dancers for us. I felt disgusted because how could the person in charge let such a thing happen.

At the Royal Pacific Hotel in Bangkok, I was disappointed because there wasn't enough time to swim and I also regretted not going to the massage because I wanted to try for the experience.

At the Grand Leo Hotel in Singburi, I remember bending down to shower because the shower hose was very short and the noodles, tom yum over there was bloody awesome. The chilli served at the hotel was very spicy unlike Singapore's and it also tasted more real.

There was this hot girl at Chulalongkorn University and her dance was seductive because her finger was at her lip and she was teasing us because it seemed liked she wanted to lick it.

On my flight towards Bnagkok, I lost my chain where my guitar pick was attached. It had no monetary but it had an emotional value to me. How disappointing. I watched the movie American Beauty on the flight back to Singapore only to be abruptly interrupted because the plan had touched ground. I continued watching it at home and that was a really awesome movie

because it teaches you beauty from another perspective. For example a plastic bag floating for 10 mins is beautiful.

I also visited the Royal Palace, Siam Niramit (a theater full of talented actors and actresses) and also a museum but there was nothing special about it.

Hunger Strike By Temple Of The Dog

2011-09-25T23:08:00.003+08:00

I travelled to Thailand on the 19th to 23rd of September with 23 other Republic Polytechnic Students and this post is about the differences between Thailand and Singapore. In the next post, I will I talk about memorable moments I had in Thailand.

People in Thailand are much friendlier than Singaporeans as their smiles are much sincere than Singaporeans and their greeting is also much friendlier than the universal hello or a simple handshake. The food there are much spicier and the tom yum is much tastier. The highways are much more magnificent compared to Singapore's because they are they are three to four storeys high. The sun sets at 6pm compared to Singapore's 7pm because of the 1 hour difference between these two countries. Their historical buildings are much more beautiful than Singapore's and they take Buddhism more seriously than Buddhists in Singapore. There's also villages where farms produce rice and Thailand is the produces the most rice. You are also bound to see street vendors on any road in Bangkok. Thai culture is also much richer and diverse than Singapore although there are many races in Singapore.

They serve samurai pork burger at MacDonald juxtaposed to Singapore's. Bangkok's traffic jam is atrocious compared to Singapore and this is mainly because many people buy cars over there. Have some food when you're in heavy traffic in Bangkok or else, you'll experience a HUNGER STRIKE. The roads are also badly-planned because you have to drive around the roads to your destination because you can't drive directly to it. Singapore is much safer as compared to Bangkok in terms of road accidents. You can only see a few transvestites in Bangkok and there are also a handful of shop that sell luxurious cars.

Prostitute By Guns N Roses

2011-09-25T12:38:00.003+08:00

For every country, region, city, there's a clean image of it and of course the bad. For Singapore, a clean and green city, it has to dump it's rubbish somewhere and that happens to be Joo Chiat and the Lorongs of Geylang. For Johor Bahru, I recently discovered that it's Jalan Wang Ah Fok and Merlin Tower.

From my Malaysian friends, they enlightened me that Jalan Wang Ah Fok is a prostitution district and also where merchants sell viagra openly and illegally. Jalan Wang Ah Fok is Behind City Square and is alive when darkness dominates skies. I tried scouting that place alone and there were no prostitutes but there were the merchants in broad daylight and there were the rooms on top of the street shops where I saw couples together but I can judge if they're doing it.

From City Square, I entered a bridge that connected it to Merlin Tower. There were coffeshops in the building with little customers. The second floor was Chinese dominated and the third and fourth were Malay dominated. The common things between them is that they served alcohol. As I walked passed through a Malay coffeshop, a woman tried to tug me in into the shop while asking me to have a drink but I kept on walking and then she raised her voice and said why do you come to Merlin Tower not to drink? Only then did I found out that Merlin Tower is a drinking place where men gather and mingle with the waitresses who serve the alcohol. Luckily I explored that place while it was broad daylight or else I would be receiving glaring stares from chubby, old, greasy, hairy men.

I plan to explore the lorongs of Geylang and Joo Chiat but I'm scared if I'm being suspected of doing it with prostitutes by undercover agents and so, I shall not until maybe when I'm 21. There's this adrenaline rush when you explore this dangerous places because you never if your going to be approached by a PROSTITUTE, get beaten up by gangs, or get caught by the police because you're just at the wrong place at the wrong time.

School's Out By Alice Cooper

2011-09-10T14:17:00.002+08:00

The last drop of ink smothered the exams paper and minutes later the invigilator announces we are free to go. It was the best orgasm I've had. It was the end of the dreadful O levels. Everything of positive rushed into my nervous system all racing against each other to reach my thoughts. Freedom is now mine. Now I can spend holidays without the guilt of not doing any homework. Now I can watch those late night movies. Now I can molest my bass. Now I can read the whole series of Richard Sharpe. Now I can hang out with my friends. Now I can organize myself. The thought of "SCHOOL'S OUT!" was still hard to get into my head because it was very unbelievable.

The many things I did enlightened me how life after school was so much more fun. It taught me how school interrupted my education. It also, most importantly taught me how I regretted my time back when I was in school. Sleeping in classes, being a slave to my own addiction, copying my friend's homework, all these hindered my ability to learn. I know my own potential and I could have done very well if not for those negativities. On of the most important things O level thought me was that it showed me how much I could pushed myself. Burning all those midnight oil till there was no oil left, staying awake in class although hearing a lullaby could put me to sleep instantly and also doing those revision papers with a sense of urgency.

I really hated O levels and so I just wanted to get over it and done with. About months before the commencement of O levels, we were playing badminton outside class, playing carom, playing street soccer and basically, making a fool of ourselves in our classroom. In the head of Fuchun students were formulas and definition but mine was a blueprint of the things I needed to do after O levels and all of those things were done and it was very meaningful doing those things.

Welcome to the Jungle By Gun N Roses

2011-09-02T00:31:00.003+08:00

WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE Nur Shah, welcome to the bloody messy jungle. Money is a labyrinthine by which it is filled with a lot of jargon, theoretical ideas and such. The most important thing one should do is not getting lost in it in an effort to understand those jargon and such but rather to find your out in order to be rich, stinking rich having the hands of King Midas. Nope, we're not talking about Bill Gates here, who is he by the way? We're talking about riches that matches the richest man in history who is John D. Rockfeller who is at an estimated 663.4 billion dollars in 2007 dollars.

It is by the inborn gene for man to desire to be rich to support a family, to do charity work or of course to spoil himself. Money makes the world go round and it is one of the most things in my life. The simplest idea of money is getting it and spending it. However, as time pass by, man have very much over this idea. Soon came, interests, investment, insurance and the list goes on, so much so that it can cover the diameter of this globe. Those driven by greed made money an injustice to society. This post has no structure and such as it is a bloody messy jungle.

Up ahead is a list of theoretical ideas that does not need answering but rather much thought to keep you busy and maybe in the midst of the process, you'll have an idea that'll make you wealthy. In the rapid urbanization of today's society, does the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. My reason for this is because it is that of the poor's ignorance that makes poor and the rich's desire for knowledge and the average income do not know why the poor get poorer and the rich get richer. By knowledge I do not mean degrees and diplomas but rather anything that is important for you to succeed. The poor begs for money and this becomes a daily routine so much so, that he does not find vacant jobs at the newspaper because of this illusion of mandatory begging. While it is not wrong to donate to the poor, I ask for the rich to instead educate them or else the poor will continue being poor and the next generation of poor people will be even poorer.

Democracy, Communism and such other political systems establishes a direct impact on money. They are very confusing and I feel that no system is perfect for every country. Even though Communism is not loved by many however when you look at it, Russia managed to defend itself from threats in World War 2 because the economy was experience quite an exponential growth. If there were no countries, would the humans then have rather balanced income? This is because different countries have different resources while a few have none. So, if these countries were to trade to other countries freely, wouldn't countries in Africa be much richer as they have a lot of natural resources? Something good is always balanced with something bad. The dictatorships in Middle East, the slave's resources in Africa, the poverty in India, the weather in Asia, the corruption in Russia, the gangs in South America, the changes in China, the economic instability in Europe and lastly, the social decline in America. If only each country would be not prioritize it's citizen but rather humans on planet earth, wouldn't it be a more visually appealing image?

Now on the topic of investments. You can basically invest in anything that has monetary value. Be it a simple school bag or a rather much more expensive gold bar. There are many different type of investments all of which have risks of varying levels, so the question here is, is investing a sin in Islam considering that it's something like gambling? The banks here in Singapore complicate me. What's the difference between them? Why are their interest rates so low?

For me, the world is revolving too fast. Everywhere there's developments. What happens if globalization was to take a step back? Wouldn't we then have more free time however we our income would remain the same as everybody else is taking a breather? More time to spend with our families, friend and religion.

Stock markets, I never comprehended them. How does a stock market? Why are people sacked from their jobs when it crashes? What are stock markets in the first place? Why are many countries dependent on America's stock market? Why is the American currency the universal currency. What does inflation mean and how does it affect the man on the street? What determines the constant uncertainty in a stock?

About a year ago, I read a book about being rich by Napoleon Hill. So, basically the main ideas of being rich is having a burning desire to be rich, reading a piece of paper everyday to make yourself determined, transforming love into its physical equivalent and dreaming many dreams. Dreams that generate ideas that sell and also dreams that is the fuel to your burning desire. However there are 16 things in all that makes you successful which I've already mentioned some. I need to read the book again someday because it's a very knowledgeable book, I never got the "secret message" and also because I never practiced what he told me to. Just for your information, that book sold more than 30 millions copies and it is the best selling self-help book in history.

I'm really hating blogger now because they're putting K-Pop advertisements at my chat bar. Nice sharing with you my thoughts and remember, do ask yourself questions about money.

Love, Hate, Love By Alice In Chains

2011-09-01T23:12:00.003+08:00

The worst fortnight in any year for me is the last week of the fasting month and the first week of Hari Raya.

Starting off, my mother bakes chocolate chips during the last week of Ramadhan (fasting month). Total in all, we've baked around 2000-3000 cookies. Baking those cookies is not like finding a needle in a haystack, it's like finding that hay which is 1cm longer than the rest. This is because she's very fussy, she gets angry easily and the whole process is inefficient. Even after baking it for more than 15 years, she admits that the process and those cookies are not perfect. Her anger is the biggest reason for the depressing week. You get scolded for the smallest mistake most of which is not my fault. During that whole week, I've experimented something. I try not to argue with her even though she's wrong. The results are as such, she realizes that I've stopped my so call rebuttal and appreciates it, however she barely appreciates it because by then, I would have caused another mistake. I feel very submissive not arguing and awkward as I have been arguing with her for a long time. Regardless of which, I feel better arguing because I feel empowered and so then she realises her mistake. The verdict is as such, for small mistakes I will not argue, but for big mistakes, I'll argue and this is all beyond reasonable doubt.

Besides cookies, there also a lot of chores that needs attention. Most of which is buying products. I do not hate doing them and neither am I in smitten with it. Who loves doing work? Unless you choose to then it's understandable. Even though I do not hate doing it, it's the bloody fact that my mother does not appreciate but continues flooding with more chores. Just to let you know, I've had all my Poly tests during the last week of Ramadhan and yet, I still helped my mother. My other two siblings occasionally helped because they were having their Preliminary Examinations. My younger brother and is having his O Levels this year and my lovely sister is having her PSLE.

The first day of Hari Raya is always a surprise. It can turn out to be very good,bad or average. This is because my mother is unstable. For this year it was average because we shared happy moments however my profit was only 14 dollars and we only went to 3 houses. Last year, was bad because my mother wanted me and my brother to go home because we could not find one of her relatives house. However as we were walking towards the MRT station, she changed her mind. Read this, the first day of Hari Raya is not fun to me because my mother never visits her parents house because she hates them and her siblings and also my father's parent house because they're divorced. Lookin at my relatives makes me even jealous, an example would be http://www.facebook.com/finabieber. Adding on, I can't remember the last time I bought new Hari Raya clothes.

The jealousy, loneliness and sadness that resides in my body when I see people happily celebrating Hari Raya on the streets of Singapore and also those cheerful pictures at Facebook reminds me how unlucky I am to be in this family. Everything is in tatters and bits. The reason why I do not let anybody to come to my house is because of the stress provided by my mother when she asks me to prepare the food and so on. And then of course, there's that sudden burst of anger from her. Last year, I gave chocolate chips to my friends who visited my house. I gave them the wrong cookies as they were meant for my brother's friend even after asking my mother if I had given the right cookies for 3 times in clear verbal communication. Then she replied, "if I asked you to eat shit, make sure you eat it". Of course I got very angry and shouted at her and so on. To LOVE, HATE, LOVE my mother. That represent my indecisiveness towards my mother, should I love her or not? Concluding, please take your time to listen to this as it represent the hatred that plagues my thoughts and my heart, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9jX1KAKp78.

You Shook Me All Night Long By AC/DC

2011-08-12T20:04:00.005+08:00

Shafiqah - My first crush. Reflecting back, it was very cute because it was when I was about 5 or 6 years old. Can't really remember how it started but we spent our days together only in kindergarten classes. Well what'd you expect? A fancy restaurant? I remembered crawling beside each other and I guess we were just playing a fool back then. I think we were like only attached for a week or a month or so. I didn't really know what happened after that. Well I saw her about a month ago under my block and we were like"hey I remember you!" and the conversation ended abruptly because the lift was waiting for me. She was waiting with her "minah" friend and she also looked like a "minah" but with a higher class. Facebook link - I should have asked her when I met her at the lift lobby. Damn.

Farhati - My second crush and she also turned out to be a "minah" in the later years. I poured out my feelings to her on an exercise book. Then, I carelessly gave her my maths exercise book and she read it and was impressed with it. I read her face and then realised I gave her the wrong book. When the real book was given to her, she immediately fell in love. Sometime later, she went to the toilet with her friends and I followed. Going back to class, my teacher scolded me because I went to the girls toilet and surprise, surprise, Farhati told the teacher that lie. The next thing you know, we're done. It only lasted a few hours. How pathetic. It all happened when I was 8 years old and I saw her again when I visited Si Ling Primary School during Teacher's Day. I witnessed her kissing one of her guy friends, and that really surprised me. Facebook link - Could have asked her during Teacher's Day, but now she's a slut, so there's no point.

Angie - I had a crush on her hen I was 10 years old till 12 years old. Had a crush on her because she was cute and it ended because I gave up on her. Best memory of her is when she played badminton with me and her mother. Never going to be attracted to her again because she listens to K-pop and she just isn't me type. Facebook link - http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=671113217

Wanee - I never had a crush on her but she had a crush on me and that was when i was 14 years old. So we spent several days together though I wouldn't say we were officially attached. We parted our ways when she knew I was using her and I deeply apologise for that. Now she's into all these hip-hop dance crew and all that which I'm not into. Facebook link - http://www.facebook.com/Sayanggg

Cheryana - She's the hottest girl on my list. She was one of my brother's ex and he also regretted she breaking up with him because she turned out to be a goddess when she grew up when she grew up. She broke up with him because he was with Wanee when they were together and this all happened when he was 11 years old. I knew of Wanee and Cheryana through my brother but I do not take sloppy seconds. Sadly, the crush slowly died because I never talked to her. Now it's just an infatuation. Facebook link - http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1536021072

Aniqah - Had a crush on her when I was 14 years old. Many sms-es sent to and fro. Fell in love with her because of her personality and the common musical taste but it never grew from there because it was never taken to the next level. Facebook link - http://www.facebook.com/nikettes?ref=ts

Ervika - Not sure when I had a crush on her but sure it was in secondary school. She's a mix of class and cuteness. What I like most about her is her voice and I found that out by watching a video of her making a prank call to her classmates. That's a definitely a fun girl. Lastly, she has this cool name, Trinny, so her name is Ervika Trinny, not tranny, Now it's just a minimal infatuation. Facebook link - http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000154315156

Yvonne - She's you not-so-typical "ah lian" that plays DOTA and she has a very beautiful face. I and my friends were conversing about her at the school canteen and two of her classmates overheard us and I told them that I had a crush on her and told them to keep it a secret. Now, it's not a crush, neither is it an infatuation. Facebook link - http://www.facebook.com/VoN.vOn.x3?ref=ts

Somaline - She's exotic. Bloody exotic. Chinese blood from her father and Thai from her mother. The sexiest things about her is her mysteriousness. She has a very impassive face and sometimes it scares you because not many girls are like that. She's the second most beautiful on this list by a small margin. I think about 6 weeks ago, I saw her and her mother at the gym. Only did I found out that her mother has a sexy tattoo above her buttocks, however, Somaline bored me at the gym because she was only at two machines throughout the entire time at the gym. I remembered being in the same group with her during Secondary 2 camp and I how wished I was in the same class as her to get to know her better. There was also a time when I slept at her chalet and her friends and sister's friends were also there. We played truth or dare and one of her friends dared me to do a pole dance at a tree when a stranger walked passed by. After completing the dare, she kind of had a smile on her face. I will always be infatuated by her. Facebook link - She deleted her Facebook due to some unknown reasons.

Hazimah - Had a crush on her when I was 16 years old and I knew her through my brother, no surprise there and she was also his ex. We chatted on the net a lot and we studied together only for once and that was the only time I saw her eye to eye. I left her studying alone because I needed to go somewhere. Looking back, I shouldn't have left her. My crush was eradicated when she found a new boyfriend. Just like a line from a Malay song "Jangan tunggu lama-lama, nanti lama-lama, nanti diambil orang" which translates to do not take a long time because somebody else might take her. However it was just an infatuation, so not worth asking for stead. Conversations with her are great because she is playful and teases here and there. Facebook link - http://www.facebook.com/zim4ality

Izalia - Her decency and humbility that she carries within herself makes her beautiful. Chatting with her via sms-es is the best compared to other girls. She loves comedy and so do I. Sad thing though, she listens to K-pop, which is a big turn-off for me and the sadder thing is that it's usually me who start sending the sms-es, so, it's seldom her starting the conversation. Facebook link - http://www.facebook.com/miraizalia

Atiqah - My current crush and the strongest so far. You see, Atiqah, YOU SHOOK ME ALL NIGHT LONG. This is because she's religous, smart, strong, great musical taste and takes a walk on the wild side. Back when I was 14 years old, I was cyber-bullied by her and one of her friends, Shafiqah Othman Hamzah and they teased me black jokes because my nickname was Black Death. It was a fun experience because the conversation was lively. About a year later, my brother asked me to pass him my textbook at the library and so I did. I was surprised when I saw Atiqah over there, I didn't know my brother knew her. She used my brother's handphone and texted me to hang around with them. I refused because of the akwardness and I was feeling shy back then. After our O levels ended, she asked me and my brother to accompany her to buy an electric guitar and girls who play electric guitar are way sexier than those who play acoustic. Facebook link - http://www.facebook.com/tiqqies

Funny little thing you see, I've watched a video at Youtube that says when you sincerely love Allah, you won't fall in love with any women/girls. Now I'm confused, should I or should I not be attached? Point to note, in a relationship, it's you, your girlfriend/boyfriend and the devil.

18 by Code Red

2011-08-01T22:18:00.004+08:00

These needs should not be balanced. Safer and informed media should be ubiquitous and such "creativity" should be eradicated at all cost. Anything that is NC16 or more serious than that should be eradicated.

This is because some of the creative content does not affect the story line at all. A scene of a naked man/woman is not creative. A couple having sex is not creative. A person beating up a guy with a bat and blood splattered on the floor isn't creative. Strong language isn't creative. These are all everyday occurrences and there's nothing special or creative about it.

This is also because such creative content does not bring any positiveness to the society. Although some content really are creative such as the SAW franchise where creativity is displayed when the victims have to play games that test their survival skills, these movies do not bring any good to the society. Perhaps these gory scenes from SAW serves as a reminder to appreciate life, however i think otherwise as many people will tend to forget the "appreciate life" part.

And then we come to the subject called maturity. Maturity controls our addiction. The more mature we are the lesser the strength of the addiction. If a 7 year old watches porn for the first time, compared to a 18 year old watching it for the first time, the 7 year old would have a stronger lust. Point to note though is that the 18 year old also becomes more lustful after watching the movie. Adding on, different people have different levels of maturity because of the different environments they live in and also of their programmed genes.

Looking at a much brighter side, if these NC16, M18 and R21 movies changed to PG13 movies, they'd have a much larger audience which in turn, brings in the money for them.

I'm getting irritated at blogging. Firstly, I can't seem to highlight words in white and those "people" keep spamming my chatbox. Should I delete my chatbox? I've said in Facebook that I'll blog about the major crushes in my life sometime, well I'm sorry but my schedule is getting tighter and it's going to be a long post.

Friday By Rebecca Black

2011-07-24T18:18:00.008+08:00

Two days ago, I and my family went to Pulau Ubin for a one night stay at Celestial Resort. This is because my younger brother, Akashah won a lucky draw. The overall experience over there was very bad. It was not worth the stay even though the stay cost around 100 dollars. Now let's analyse why it was a bad experience for me.

Firstly, it was on a FRIDAY where I had school and I had a badminton session with Joshya from 5pm-7pm at Republic Polytechnic. So, I had to leave school at 12noon when school ended at 3.30pm and I had to cancel the badminton session with him even after all the trouble I've gone through to book the court. Adding on, my mother didn't tell me to bring my own clothes so I was bored over there, but not bored to death. I could have brought my monopoly board game, shower towel and laptop of course.

Secondly, I calculated our expenses and it totaled up to more than 50 dollars. 21 dollars on 5 packets of delicious mee goreng at haig road, 12 dollars on taxi, 6 dollars on bicycle rental, 20 dollars on boat trip and other minor expenses such as bus fare.

The boat only leaves when there's 12 people and I guessed we wasted about 30 mins on waiting for 12 people to and fro. Once we reached there, it was infested with dogs, full grown dogs but luckily they were tamed and scared of visitors. The pillow was hard for me and the air con was sort of faulty because there was no difference in 16 and 30 Degree Celsius, so I had to constantly switch the air-con on and off. The shower room on the top floor was bad because it was hard to operate the shower head.

In the morning, the hall was plagued with black ants that really packed a punch when they bite. It was plagued because of the mee goreng in the bin. I did not had the chance to explore Pulau Ubin because Aka cycled to Celestial Resort at about 5pm, so it was getting dark and those free to roam dogs makes it less enjoyable.

The thing I hated most about the trip was that my mother left the Pulau Ubin very late. I told her to shower at 6am so that I could leave early and see the Saint's Andrews Junior College open house where there were some of my friends. I really wanted to try out the Oreo truffles and fried Oreo, sounds interesting right?

At 9am, we went to have a breakfast at a restaurant and the waiters and waitresses over there provided us really bad service. As we had our breakfast was free, the treated us unfairly and they treated paying customers much better. So, going back to the jetty, there was already 10 people waiting and the boat drivers refused to take us but took 2 people that arrived later than us. As we waited for the next boat, little people came, thus, a Philippines couple paid 15 dollars instead of the usual 2.50 per person so that they could leave earlier.

If you're planning to go to Pulau Ubin, don't, just don't. As this is a bad experience, this post deserves a bad song for it's tittle. There is no justice that a girl like her, have the surname Black, it embarrasses someone like me who loves the color black very much

Black By Pearl Jam

2011-07-01T16:21:00.006+08:00

Wow, it's been a very tiring fortnight and that's my "valid" excuse to be less active in blogging. I'm even slouching while blogging at the lecture theatre. This whole week was filled with talks and club meetings. Changing the topic now, many wonder why my nickname is Black Death and some have questioned how I came up with the nickname.

I think I came up with that nickname since 13 or 14 years old when I created my Friendster account. So, if there is anybody else that has the same nickname as mine, let's see who came up with that first.

I found the need to create a nickname for the main reason being that it is cool. Having a nickname is never blatherskite. Other reasons being that I needed a stage name just like Slash and Undertaker to brand myself so that it is easier to market myself, to show my creativity and also to have something to represent the other "me". I realise that I have split personalities. I behave differently outdoors and indoors. So, my nickname would represent the more bad, cool and sociable side of me and Nur Shah would represent the good-hearted and anti-sociable side of me. Just like how Gollum from Lord Of the Rings has split personalities.

My initial nickname was Black however this sounded racist so I needed to add another word to it. By a mere stroke of genius, I added the word death to it. Coincidentally, I found out that Black Death had a meaning. It was a plague that killed 450 million people in 1400 in Europe. To me, it means superiority because it killed a lot of people when they know nothing about it. It is silent and deadly. It attacks when people least expected it.

The word BLACK also has many meanings and almost all of the meanings are negative in nature and Death basically means the end of life. Nur Shah and Black Death have remained in the vicissitude for the past 4 or 5 years and we shall do so until we part.

Lastly, I've changed my playlist to the top 7 of my favourite bands and those songs are the top songs from each of those bands. This is because these songs best represents my musical taste and I don't care if the music is too loud.

Hold On By Jet

2011-06-21T17:42:00.011+08:00

So recently, I did my reflection journal for my Cognitive and Problem Solving module and it turn out to better than expected to the extent where I'll post it in my blog.

Opinion is more important than facts because opinions affect facts. For example, Republic Polytechnic is located at Tanglin Campus before. However due to opinions that RP needs to expand and Tangling Campus is small, the fact now changes to RP being located at Woodlands. Another example is the relative atomic mass is found by adding the weight of the neutron and proton and not electron because scientists think that it is too small of a number, and this are the scientist’s opinion.

Moreover, facts implies that we know everything about the universe and this isn’t so the case unless we are god. Facts are based on observations of how it has behaved in the past, and theories derived logically from those observations that predict how it will behave in the future. For example, earth is warm because of the heat from the sun, but with advancement in human technology, we may find that it is not the sun but it is from the core of the earth. This means that facts are never immortal except for historical facts. For example Singapore Polytechnic is the first polytechnic erected in Singapore and this are facts that are created by human themselves.

I am not a factual person because factual people are those who just take those numbers without appreciation of how those numbers are derived. The process of knowing how this numbers are derived is more important than the number itself because we can apply this process to other scenarios and also for our use. HOLD ON, facts are still important because it is the end product of an opinion and these facts are used to create more opinions which then, create more facts. For example, the relative atomic molecule is found by adding all the relative atomic masses of the atoms present in the molecule.

Just Breathe By Pearl Jam

2011-06-19T22:28:00.004+08:00

I started swimming around the age of 10. I was thought by a swimming instructor and so were my two younger siblings and we all started swimming at different ages. It was on every Saturday afternoon and I quitted swimming when I passed my gold test. I remember my first lesson where I was quite scared of drowning but I just told myself to stay calm and JUST BREATHE. My mother told me to continue to gold star but I see no point in getting it and I was lazy. My fastest 100m time is 2 minutes and 28 seconds and that was when I was swimming for my gold test which was when I was about 12 years old. My borther Akashah has taken his gold star certificate last year and he is alos in water polo so that makes him a better swimmer than me. My younger sister, Shahzani, is about to take her gold star test in a few months' time.

The most irritating about swimming for me is that I never really learned how to swim freestyle and butterfly. I was always the last when the coach told us to swim freestyle. Until now, I still do not know if I should bend my elbows when it's in the water, bend my knees and feet. After watching a few videos at youtube, I found out that my body needs to twist in accordance to its own axis and that I also needed to look forward when my head is in the water. I never learned butterfly because my coach never even thought me and I really regretted not asking him.

When I go swimming, I realize that my body is more toned. Compared to gym, let's take for example the scenario where you carry only dumbbells, your arm size would increase, however for swimming, the whole body is toned and thatis what I like about swimming. It also increases my stamina, reduces stress and also enlarges our lung capacity. With huge lung capacity, you have more endurance, blow wind instruments and sing better. For me, the best thing about swimming is that you do not sweat. The worst thing though, there is never the perfect goggles for me. Water will always seep through it. Even if I can swim without goggles, it is bad for my eyes because of the chloroform present in swimming pools and also the salt in the sea.

These are surely moments when I was swimming. When my family and I went for a vacation at Penang, my father, Akashah and me went for a swim at the hotel's swimming pool. Back then, we didn't know how to swim so our father warned us not to swim without his advice. I and Akashah were at the edge of the swimming pool holding onto the edge, but Aka, being smart, decides to go for a swim and then losses his breathe. Adding on to his intelligence, Aka dragged me along and so I was also in the midst of drowning. Luckily my father came to the rescue.

When I was in secondary two, all secondary two students had to attend basic swimming classes. The advanced were in different classes from them. One thing I remember from there was that I was just about three seconds away from Syazana when we were swimming 100 meters. After the 2008 Sports Day, I had intially planned to swimming all alonr to just relax and laze around. There were these 2 normal technical girls from secondary two at the swimming complex and we mixed around. The best part was when they two poured water from the swimming pool onto the back of my body as I was sitting at the edge of the pool. They couldn't enter the pool because they did not have swimming attires, and it would surely have been much more fun if they brought it.

There was this 2008 barbeque gathering where we just chilled out at Zhuang Xian's condominium and also wished farewell to our history teacher who trasnferred to Yishun Junior College. When darkness conquered the blue skies, I stripped in front of Juliana and swam into the pool with my jeans and so did a handful of my friends. Zhuang Xian told us not to swim but we just ignored him. The last of these moments were when I went for my business club activity at Sentosa. After the activity, I planned to go swimming all alone but I asked two girls if they wanted to come along because they also wanted to laze around, and they did. The scenery was beautiful because the sun was setting and the sleazy environment. Both of them however did not swim but just played with the water because they did not know how to swim. It was a memorable moment because it was the first time I swam with strangers and chatted with them at the sea. Ending off, I would like to encourage people to get off your facebooks and online games and go for a swim right now!

Heaven By Bryan Adams

2011-06-17T12:45:00.001+08:00

Well after the one week of school holiday, I find myself very busy. This is because of school, and I've been playing Age of Empires 2 expansion and also GTA 4 side missions. Some of those side mission are quite fun actually.

During the December to March holidays, I have drawn three sketches of my dream house. I took my time to generate ideas because perfection can never be rushed and I am fussy with my ideas. The final blueprint sketch was finalised on the 4th of March 2011. All those ideas were fondled around in my mind when I am about to sleep. I hated this because it made me hard to sleep. I loved it because they were really great ideas. I took some ideas from MTV's Teen Cribs and modified it to totally different thing. The crib of soccer superstars and famous adults are nothing compared to teen cribs.

My HEAVEN isn't a castle or something as huge as Oprah's house. The reason for this is that it would be hard to maintain it and I want my family to stay close. The house is of jaw-dropping French architectural influence on the exterior and of luxurious modern Arabian interior. Like all high-class houses, my house will have a cool swimming pool and it is of an irregular shape. The shape of my house is like the Mercedes Benz logo except without the circle. It's like three lengths of buildings spread outwards at an angle of 120 degrees. The first choice to erect my house would be in Canada, the second would be in Dubai, the third would be in Russia, the fourth would be in Spain and the last would be in Malaysia. It would be located between light forest and behind my house would be an untouched beach where you just lay in the sun and throw all your problems away into the ocean.

In one of those 120 degree spaces, There is a swimming pool which envelopes a tree house. In this get-away tree house, there will be a simple table with four wooden chairs. When there's a swimming pool, there's bound to be a slide to that swimming pool. So where's the slide? It is joined to the tree house of course! This slide is of a high-gradient for maximum thrill and there will be some turns in the slide. There will be a training swimming area in the pool and you train yourself by swimming in those simulated currents. Besides the pool lies a barbeque pit escorted with a handful of lazy chairs. Near it would be an ordinary changing room, nothing special about it.

In the next 120 degree space, there would be my own farm. There will be chickens, horses and also cows. Chickens and cows because I am a meat lover. Horses because I love riding them, and they represent speed, freedom and medieval warfare. Behind the farm would be an open trimmed Greenland and some flowers would be grown beside fences.
In the last 120 degree space, would be the carpark. This is located at the entrance of my house. I plan to fill it up with luxurious cars, a family car and also some motorbikes.
In the first building row on the left, you can find a balcony, kitchen, dining hall and a toilet. On the second floor would be bedrooms, multi-functional court and shower rooms. In the second building row on the right would be jamming studios, gaming room and a toilet. On the second floor would be bedroom, a gym and shower rooms. The last building row at the back of the house would be hall, toilet, and table room. In this table rooms, there is an adult size pool table, air hockey table, carom board and a table-tennis table. On the second floor would be the master bedroom and stairs leading to the 3rd floor.

The 3rd floor is the roof and only accessible from the staircase in front of the master bed room. At the ground floor, in the centre of the three buildings would be a reading area and two staircases leading to the 2nd floor. The basement level consist of a 20 seat cinema under the car park. There’s also a bowling alley under the third building row. Beside that alley, you can see people swimming through a window that show you the basement level of the pool, so don’t be distracted by the people swimming when you are bowling.

If the house is erected in Canada, I only know that it’ll cost more than 20 million US dollars and let’s hope that my dream house is erected.

The Game By Motorhead

2011-05-31T08:30:00.006+08:00

The past is and will always be better than the future. I guess this is even so for technology. An example would be the Age of Empires game. Age of Empires 2 is my favourite computer game. It's a combination of strategy and tactics. Age of Empires 1 without doubt is still worth playing however Age of Empires 3 is not worth buying.

I played Age of Empires 1 when I was about 7-8 years old I guess. It was bloody fun. My favourite units were the monk and the scorpion. I liked the scorpion because it looked like a mechanical car stripped down to it's body structure. I liked the monk because it made a very funny noise when you use them to convert an enemy unit. There is the Age of Empires expansion pack but I have not yet played it though I have it installed in my computer. Such good memories........

Age of Empires 2 is definitely worth playing regardless of what generation you belong to. There's just so many thing to love about it. Firstly there's many civilizations to choose from, each majoring in one strategy. For example, the Byzantines are a defensive civilization. Another thing to love about the game is suprisingly it's simplicity in it's graphics. It's like playing Sim City in Age of Empires. The buildings look so neat and the units are so beautiful although it is not very detailed. The missions are so engaging and tough. There's a history section in the game for you nerds out there. Don't worry, I am guilty too of reading some parts of the history section. There's a buttin that leads you to scenario. Scenario is where you can create your own map and let other people play your map.

There is also the Age of Empires 2 expansion pack which also worth playing. The missions are much harder and there also the introduction of several new civilizations and with the introduction of new civilizations, comes new units and buildings. I do not love the new units and buildings because they look disgusting and not inproportion with the older units. 1 big dissapointment though, is there isn't any improvements in the A.I's tactics though there is improvement in it's strategy.

Age of Empires 3 is set in the Napoleonic era however, it is no where near the other 2. Even with the improved A.I and graphics, there just isn't that feeling. Age of Empires 3 is so not worth playing and so I shall end my post here. With that being said, THE GAME isn't worth playing

Creep By Radiohead

2011-04-26T12:33:00.007+08:00

More than half a billion people use facebook. I use facebook and so do my siblings and so do you. Well I've watched The Social Network and it's not a good movie if you don't use facebook. One thing I like the most about the movie is that I learnt more about the founder of facebook. For your information, I don't care about the co-founder. Another thing I found out was that facebook was created after friendster was created. The most suprising information I got though was that facebook was created out of anger and it is no suprise that Mark Zuckerberg is a Jew.

I log into my facebook about 3 times a day. When I log in, the first thing I do is see the notifications and messages. The next thing I do is see a few people profiles and if I'm bored, I would see the posts at the home page.

Akashah, my brother, is more addicted to facebook than me. This is because he has more active facebook friends and he has a talkative mouth. His post are usually about everyday stuffs and the first thing he does when he switches on the computer is to log onto facebook. Before he finishes using the comp, he would sign into facebook again to check for any notifications and that's when he tend to forget about the time.

My sister, Shahzani, is not active on facebook. I think she logs into facebook about 3 times a week. However, the major difference between her and me and my brother is that she's the only one that play facebook games. The only thing that can stop one from playing facebook game is one's maturity and unfortunately, she's immature, but she's not immature considering that she's o nly 12 years old.

There are many bad effects of using facebook. Having no facebook account will drastically change your life. The most bad effect would be wasting your time. Some people who are seriously addicted to facebook spend about 5 hours a day on facebook. 1 month, he would have wasted about about 150 hours and 1 year would be 1800 hours. That's 1800 hours for goodness sake and that's only for a year. The second most bad efffect would be the facebook paranoia. Every hour, you would log into your facebook to check for notifications and view many people's profiles. Even with your girlfriend, you would still check your facebook through your iphone and this is common among many young couples. The third most bad effect would be your privacy being molested. Those scary CREEP, would go to great lengths to "get" you. There are many other bad effects of facebook and an interesting fact is, in Singapore, 82% of divorces are due to facebook.

Type in these keywords to be inspired to get off facebook "you need to get of facebook". One can't just delete one's facebook all of a sudden because then, one will feel the urge to create another account. It's something like smoking and drinking, one's just can't quit all of a sudden.

Hips Don't Lie By Shakira

2011-04-25T12:25:00.007+08:00

On the 24th of April, I watched a documentary entitled The Science of Sex Appeal and the most suprising fact was that we love certain things about the opposite sex is because of the opposite's ability to produce offsprings and taking care of them.

Most beautiful women go for alpha males and the reason is because they feel secure with them but the scientific reason is because the alpha males are the ones who protect the offsprings. Besides the ideal male being muscular, he must also be a man of status and wealth and this is not because woman are greedy, but it's rather because he can support his family. Tall males with deep voice are appealing because they are masculine. Certain woman are attracted to certain odour of men but they are not attrated to the odour of their males relatives at all. An attractive male is one who walks with broad shoulders swagging and this is attractive because it shows his muscularity and confidence.

Why are breasts attractive? Many have asked, but few know the scientific reason to it. The scientific reason to it is that women with'appealing breasts can feed their babies with milk. This was a suprise to me because who would have thought it would be related to it. I used to think that we males were attracted to breasts because they we always shown everywhere in public and we males don't have breasts. The hips of woman are appealing to males because it shows that they have gone through puberty meaning that they can produce offsprings. The ideal length of the hips to the stomach of a woman is to 7 to 10 but research have shown that the smalle the waist of woman, the more attractive she is. However, having a waist to hips ratio of 6 to 10 is rarely seen in human history. When a woman ovulates, males appear to be more attractive to her and the scientific reason for this is because she is the most fertile stage to produce offsprings. A woman who swags her hips when she is walking is attractive because it show that she has large hips. So basically, a woman's HIPS DON'T LIE.

The scientific standard to measure the beauty of a person is the person must have a symmetrical face and a face with the golden ratio. Do not ask me about how to find a person face's golden ratio because they explained it too fast in the programme. Another interesting conclusion from the research is that we attract people about the same standard as our attractiveness.

Ladies Love Country Boys By Trace Adkins

2011-04-19T16:11:00.004+08:00

Over the school holidays I've watched 4 seasons of apprentice. I only planned to watch season 7 because there was Gene Simmons, the lead singer of Kiss and also because I watched only the 1st episode some days before O levels started at the television. After watching season 7, I got kind of addicted to apprentice and I watched a few more seasons.

Season 7

Season 7 is Celebrity Apprentice where celebrities compete against each other to get donations to charities of their cause. The last one standing would get a generous cheque of $250000 from Donald Trump. Season 7 was the best because of Piers Morgan and Omarosa. From season 7, I started listening to music produced by the runner-up Trace Adkins. The winner of season 7 is Piers Morgan.

Season 9

Season 9 is also Celebrity Apprentice and I watched this season because there were some celebrities I know. These celebrities are Bret Michaels, Goldberg, Cyndi Lauper and Sharon Osbourne. The winner is Bret Michaels, lead singer of Poison and this bloody shows that not all rockers are dumb and lazy. Its kind of cool to see Trace Adkins giving support to Bret Michaels because both of them have that cowboy image and LADIES LOVE COUNTRY BOYS , good-hearted guys and both participated in apprentice because of their daughters.

Season 10

I told myself that I am not going to watch anymore apprentice but I decided to watch season 10 because season 10 were about participants that were once very successful but became devastated by the wall crash. One thing I noticed about season 10 is that the participants are all very defensive and I am very impressed when Brandy gave an incredible answer to Mr Trump on why she should be hired.

Junior Apprentice

Junior apprentice was one worth watching because I am junior and they all look so cute in their professional clothes. 1 thing I hate about junior apprentice is that it's British. I do not like British apprentice because there's a narrator and Alan Sugar always mixes up the team. I am very proud that the Indian guy won the junior apprentice because he's asian, has a cool hairstyle and is Asian.

Watching apprentice really helps me because I'm in RP, and in RP, it's always group work and presentations. Watching apprentice also killed my holiday boredom and I also learned from their mistakes. Why isn't there a Singapore Apprentice?

Slither By Velvet Revolver

2011-04-16T17:01:00.003+08:00

Damn it man, internet is lagging and because of that, I can't play Need for Speed World. So to kill my boredom, I'm gonna post again, this time, it's about my Top 7 favourite wrestlers.

1ST - Undertaker
I love everything about him. His persona,relevance to death, the all black theme, the serious impassive face and especially the hardcore wrestling with blood splattered in your face. Also known as The Phenom & The Deadman, his finishing moves are chokeslam, hell's gate, last ride, and of course tombstone piledriver. His real name is Mark William Calaway and hails from Houston, Texas which explains his cowboy hat.

2ND - Stone Cold Steve Austin
Snakes SLITHER and so does Stone Cold when he unleashes his finishing move, the Stone Cold stunner. Stun gun and million dollar dream are also his finishing moves. The fued between him and Vince Mcmahon was the greatest in WWE history and for that I've placed him at the 2nd spot. His real name is Steve James Anderson and comes from Edna, Texas. Since Stone Cold left WWE, WWE became bullshit because there was so much talking and little hard core wrestling. His nickname though is the Texas rattlesnake.

3RD - Shawn Michaels
Not one of the biggest body, but he's in the hall of fame. Full of energy and a no nonsense attitude, that's why he's 3rd. Pity all the wrestlers who have been sweet chin music-ed by him because it looks like it really hurts. His real name is Michael Shawn Hickenbottom. He was born is Chandler, Arizona but grew up in San Antonio, Texas which again explains the cowboy hat. I am so gonna buy for myself a cowboy hat when I grow up. Other of his finishers are modified figure four leglock and teardrop suplex. His nicknames are the heart break kid and showstopper.

4TH - Triple H
Triple H + Shawn Michaels = D-Generation X > Undertaker + Kane = Brothers of Destruction. Not many know this but Triple H is a simplified version of his original ring name Hunter Hearst Helmsley. His real name though is Paul Michael Levesque and is born in Nashua, New Hampshire. His finsihers are pedigree and pedigree pandemonium. His nicknames are the cerebral assasin, king of kings and the game.

5th - The Rock
If The Rock was not a good actor, I would have place him at th 6th position. Also known as the poeple's champion, his real name is Dwayne Douglas Johnson and his finishers are people's elbow and rock bottom. He is born in Hayward, California.

6th - Rey Mysterio
Mexicans are proud of him. Americans are proud of him. We are proud of him. Why? It's because he has a small body but able to take on wrestlers much bigger than him and his great technicality and swiftness in wrestling. His real name is Oscar Gutierrez and he took his first breathe at Chula Vista, California. His nickname is el super duper nino which translates into the super duper kid. His finishers are 619, diving splash, west coast pop and frog splash as a tribute to eddie guerrero

7th - John Cena
He has that stage presence and carries with him the pride of America. I've placed him at a last because he's a rapper and I hate rappers except for eminem. His real name is John Felix Anthony and is born in West Newbury, Massachusetts. His finishers are FU, spin-out powerbomb and STF. His most famous nickname is the champ.

A Hard Day's Night By The Beatles

2011-04-16T16:13:00.003+08:00

Here's a list of the things that I've done over the holidays. After going through the list, you'll understand why I seldom get bored during the holidays. Many died of boredom during the holidays because they are boring people and they do no do a variety of stuffs unlike me and some crazy people even say they want to go back to school, how crazy!

Here are the things that I've watched, firstly all the episodes of Kenan & Kel and it's 2 movies. Secondly, all the episodes of Mind Your Language. Thirdly, X-men Evolution. Adding on, U.S Apprentice Season 7,9,10 and U.K Junior Apprentice. U.S Apprentice Season 7 was the most entertaining and I recommend you to watch it. I've also watched videos posted by Niga Higa and Ray William Johnson.

I've also worked at the zoo for a pathetic duration of 4 days but it was a very valuable experience and every time when I come home from work, I sleep straight away because it's been A HARD DAY'S NIGHT For my fitness, I went swimming and played street soccer with ex-Fuchun students and also current Fuchun Students. Despite that, my stomach still looks like an inflated balloon which I think is the result of drinking too much water. I also went to my good friend's house, JBrien accompanied with Joshya and Muhaimin. We watched movies, played computer games and board games and ate delicous food prepared by his mother. We also played pool together but we were poor so we only played several times.

Besides watching movies and episodes on the comp, I've played Napoleon Total War, Age of Empires 2 and also update my facebook and blog. I've also improved my bass skills thanks to Dmanlamius but it's still like shit. Lastly, I've played Shogun 2 Total War demo version, and I can't wait to buy that game but firstly, I really need to buy a handphone.

Blonde, Bad And Beautiful By Airbourne

2011-04-16T00:03:00.004+08:00

I can't have tattoos, but my car has tattoos(vinyls)
I can't drink alcohol, but my car consumes alcohol(oil)
I can't smoke, but my car emitts smoke(carbon monoxide)
I can't gamble on races, but my car is in races
I can't molest, but my car is molested by many
I can't watch pornography, but my car is BLONDE, BAD AND BEAUTIFUL
I can only ride my wife, but many women will ride my car

Hurt By Nine Inch Nails

2011-03-20T15:45:00.005+08:00

Before I start writing, I would appreciate if you guys listened to Hurt by Nine Inch Nails and then listen to Johnny Cash's cover of it. It's amazing how a song can be completely different and rarely is a cover better than the original. Reznor, the lead singer of Nine Inch Nails, said " it's not my song anymore " after hearing Cash's cover. Johnny Cash said " it's one of the best anti-drug song I've ever heard " .Thumbs up to Cash and R.I.P .

We all have regrets in our life, some of them big, some of them small, and here's mine. They're in order of biggest to smallest regret.

1ST - Secret. This has surely HURT me a hell lot.

2ND - Fractured Knee. As a result of that, I could not join the Fuchun Soccer Team and so I went into a boring CCA called the Infocomn Club. For 2 years I could not run or engage in rough physical activities and so I also missed 2 years of exciting P.E

3RD - Religous Class. I wished my parents could have sent me to religous classes when I'm much younger so that my life would be much more meaningful

4TH - I should have taken combined science and not 3 pure Sciences because i dropped Biology, got a B4 for Physics and C5 for Chemistry and I remembered getting distinctions for Design and Technology back in Sec 2. Science is just for nerds and I sure ain't one.

5TH - The fourth would be financial management. I wasted my money on my Xbox and many other things. With that money, I could have bought a high-end laptop which i really want.

6TH - I should have joined a soccer club at en earlier age.

7TH - I remembered being in swimming classes when i was about 10 to 12 years old. What i regretted was not asking my swimming coach the proper swimming techniques.

Plush By Stone Temple Pilots

2011-03-10T01:21:00.005+08:00

Hello there! I have not been bloging for some time because my internet has been down and I've been playing Napoleon Total War for a few days. Oh yeah, I've been playing street soccer with some upper secondary Fuchun Boys. My fitness has gone down dramatically and my skills also decreased. So here's a post about the 7 "requirements" that I look for to be my girlfriend. To make it easier for me to remember those 7 "requirement", I have come up with a simple acronym - I CB CREW. The "CB" part was partly coincidental

1ST - Interests

Why interests? The more time a couple spends time together, the closer they get. The closer they get, the better they uderstand each other. Turn Ons - Listens to Metal and Rock, active in sports, plays board games, tries new and a variety of activities. Turn Offs - Shopping, clubbing

2ND - Character

I'm not going to say stupid things like I want a loyal girlfriend and so on because those are the obvious. Turn Ons - Organized, efficient, horny,simple, direct, not lazy and not hardworking. Turn Offs - Insecure, vain, argumentative, spendthrift and flirtacious

3RD - Beauty

Long hair, no glasses, acceptable weight :) 1 more thing, I dun't like black woman.

4TH - Connections

I have a disgusting family background and that's basically why I don't want a girlfriend with a bad family background. It'll really make me go mad till the point of suicide or murder. I also do not like it when my girlfriend has enemies because it's very immature.

5TH - Religion

I don't mind marrying woman of different races provided of course they don't convert to Islam because of me.

6TH - Education

Minimum level of education should be a diploma

7TH - Wealth

I want a PLUSH life. A big house with fine architecture, a handful of exotic cars and of course money but I placed this at the last because I am going to provide that wealth!

I've wrote down this post so that this will be my checklist. I admit that I am hard to get and there's a good reason for that, I don't want to make the same stupid mistake my mother made twice.

Play The Game By Queen

2011-02-25T06:04:00.003+08:00

Well it's been quite some time since I've blogged. It's because I am playing Napoleon Total War which is rather addictive and watched Celebrity Apprentice. So, here goes my list of top 7 board games.

1st - Monopoly

No question why it's at the top of the list. Everybody loves Monopoly.

Pros - Negotiation, resource management skills and hard to understand the game.
Cons - Transactions of cash, setting up of board and it's unclear rules.

2nd - Chess

Pros - It's the ultimate game of tactics and strategy.
Cons - Finding the right "opponent". If the opponent spent his whole life playing chess, checkmate in 10 moves mate. If the opponent is a noob, you're wasting your time because you'll just utilise scholar's mate. Many different rules of chess such as castling, En passant and so on.

3rd - Risk (2nd latest edition)

Pros - People who love dominance will surely love this game, forming alliances and being a traitor.
Cons - There are many flaws in this game and as such players make their own rule before they start the game such as only a maximum amount of 20 units are allowed in a territory. 2 player battles are not that fun.

4th - Youth Olympic Games

This is a game i created with ideas from dividends. Well, actually, it's simply a rip-off but my friends told me that this game is better than dividends.

Pros - Bidding, 3-12 players, easy to understand and easy to set-up game set.
Cons - Not a proper price for the player discs and athletes. 5 rounds of doing the same thing.Not many people know how to play this game.

5th - Checkers

Pros - Easy to understand and many people know how to play it. Tactics and strategy also included.
Cons - You'll get bored after playing a few rounds because the maximum number of moves a player can make is limited.

6th - Go

Not many people know this game. This game is like the total opposite of chess. I only played a single game against the computer and I lost. I placed it at number 6 because I have not played with any players at all so I do not know much about the mechanics of the game.

Pros - Easy to understand. Tactics,strategy and observation. Specified rules for handicapped matches.
Cons - Not many people know how to PLAY THE GAME and a game can take up a few hours if it's a competitive match.

7th - Scrabble

Pros - Improves your English. Easy to understsand.
Cons - Tedious job of counting your score and constantly looking up at the dictionary.

Warrior By Kid Rock

2011-02-15T23:13:00.008+08:00

Genghis Khan was the most significant ruler of all time. To prove that Genghis Khan was the greatest ruler, we must go back to the very beginning of his existence. We must examine such issues as Genghis's struggle for power,how his life as a child would affect his rule, his personal and military achievements and his conquests.

Genghis Khan was originally born as Temujin in 1167. He showed early promise as a leader and a WARRIOR. By 1206, an assembly of Mongolian chieftains proclaimed him Genghis Khan, which meant universal or invincible prince. This was a bold move for the assembly. They obviously saw some leadership qualities in Genghis that others didn't. When Genghis Khan was little, his chieftain father was poisoned. With no leader left, the tribe abandoned Genghis and his mother. They were left alone for many years to care for themselves. Throughout these years, his family met many hardships such as shortage of food and shortage of money. Though unable to read, Genghis was a very wise man. His mother told him at a very early age the importance of trust and independence. "Remember, you have no companions but your shadow".

Genghis contributed alot of items to the Chinese and even western civilizations. Perhaps his greatest contribution was a code of laws that he declared. Since Genghis couldn't read or write, these law were documented by one of his followers. His laws were carried on by people though the many generations to the point of still being in use today. Either as a modification of Genghis's laws or as Genghis had declared them. Genghis Khan promoted the growth of trade between China and Europe. This allowed him to gain essential supplies such as food, weapons and other essential survival materials. Genghis also invented a system similar to the pony express. It was a system in which the horse and rider could silently communicate, a system that is still in use today. Perhaps the greatest gift ever given by Genghis Khan was the gift of language. Genghis was the first ruler to develop a Mongolian language.

Genghis Khan was also a military and strategic genius. He structured his army in a unique and interesting fashion. He integrated soldiers from different tribes into one powerful fighting force. This was a brilliant idea. Not only could he have diversity and people who specialize in certain aspects of warfare, but it also inspired loyalty to the mongolian army as a whole rather than to a specific group of people. Genghis used harsh training and strict discipline to create a superior fighting force, he also insured that everyone of his soldiers was well equipped and could easily adopted new warfare tactics. His soldiers were always learning. Whether it be a new tactic Genghis had invented or a new weapon He decided the army would use, his soldiers were constantly learning. Genghis inspired loyalty by a unique way of promotion. Genghis felt that the best way to gain a loyal following was to promote people on the basis of achievement and not within the family. This did not only inspire a great deal of loyalty but it also made his army better and actually raised the morale of his soldiers. Every soldier gave their life to Genghis and one hundred percent of their effort because no one knew who would be the next Genghis would promote.

Finally, once Genghis's army was trained and ready for battle, Genghis felt it was time to flex the muscles of the Mongolian empire. Genghis took on the great task of conquering all of China and uniting it under a single ruler. Genghis began his assault on China by attacking a northwest kingdom called Xi Xia. He defeated Xi Xia with little effort and then in 1215 he moved northeast, attacking and conquering Bejing, the capital city of the Jin empire. In 1218, for reasons unknown, he decided to cease his assault on China and sweep into central Asia. He crushed the kingdom of Krorezm which was located in what is now present-day Uzebekistan and Turkmenistan. In 1220, he destroyed the cities of Bukhara and Samarkand, which are located in present-day Uzebekistan and Neyshabar in modern Iran. By 1223, Genghis Khan and his troops had conquered the Kipchaks, and they had defeated the Russians at the Kalka River. It had taken Genghis Khan 17 years to create an empire superior in strength and achievement to Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar and even Hannibal. From 1225 until Genghis's death in 1227, His army was at war with Yi Yia kingdom.

Genghis Khan died on August 18, 1227, and was buried in a secret location in Mongolia. By rewarding skill and allegiance, and punishing those who opposed him, Genghis Khan established a vast empire and the most powerful empire to ever exist. Upon his death, Genghis's son Kublai Khan took over the empire, founding the chinese-style Yuan dynasty. Mongol rule brought relative peace to Asia, leaving China accessible to foreign visitors, such as Marco Polo.

Waka Waka (This Time for Africa) By Shakira

2011-02-14T17:39:00.006+08:00

I know that the World Cup is over. The most boring world cup is over. Most teams played "safe" which bored me to death. If I can remember correctly, Slovakia vs Italy, Portugal vs N.Korea and all of Germnay's matches were the best to watch.

Germany was the team I was rooting for because they employed a counter-attack tactic which made all of their games very colourful. However, I feel that they do deserve their 3rd position because Spain and Netherlands simply had better players. It's funny though that many people started to support Spain only after they qualified for the quarter finals. Well I've bought a German wrist band and attached it to my school bag to show my support for Germany. I'm really glad that Mesut Özil is now in Real Madrid because Real is my favourite Spanish team.

There were many things that made this world cup memeroble. Firstly, it's the vuvuzela. Hahahaha, I hope vuvuzelas will be blown in future world cups because then, the South Africa will be remembered. Secondly, the infamous "Hand of God" by Luis Suárez. That guy is a cheater and he still has the nerves to call it "Hand of God". Ghana should have qualified for the semi-finals. If I had known, I would ahve placed all of my bets according to Paul the octopus. He could have made any man the next King Midas. I am still not sure though why Paul died, but the best thing Paul told me was to not watch the world cup. I ignored him and I regreted spending all those nights watching almost all of the matches at my computer. I hate the theme song of this world cup and I don't think there isn't a need for a world cup theme song. It's just over doing it. South Africans complained when their local singers could not sing for the theme song which I agree but I have to admit that Shakira's WAKA WAKA ( THIS TIME FOR AFRICA ) is a good effort and matches the world cup fever.

The 2014 Fifa World Cup will be held in Brazil and the next one would be held in Russia. I forsee that the 2014 World Cup would be a boring one but the 2018 will surely be a better one and I wonder how the Russian team would fair. Fast fact - the 2018 World Cup will be held in 2 continents, namely the Europe and Asia.

The 2022 Fifa World Cup is the one i would so be looking forward to. Let's see, by then I would be 28 yers old. I would so go watch the finals with my future girlfriend/wife if of course if 1 ticket does not cost more than 2000sg. So why is this Fifia World Cup fun? Well, t's because a number of western groups and meida outlets have expressed concern over the suitability of Qatar to host the event. Such concerns are those of Alcohlism, Israel and the weather. Well I am to sure expect many unexpected events in this 2022 world cup. Okay ,well it's just about 11 years more.
How sad.

Iron Man By Black Sabbath

2011-02-11T10:06:00.005+08:00

Have you ever watched Superhero movies? Something like IRON MAN, Superman, Batman and X-Men? Don't you get irritated when one character is over-powered or how the good guys always win? Why doesn't any one of the villians or hero die? Sure enough the villian is defeated but his death is always uncertain and then he comes back to kill the hero. Then of course, wouldn't it be greater if charaters from this comic cross-over to another comic permanently just like Justice League? I've read a few characters at the comic series about X-Men which was published in the eighties. I got bored when i saw that many of the characters had the telepathy. Oh yeah, the most thing that i got disgusted about is the fact that the writers don't know how to do an incredible battle scene. For example, Wolverine just slashes Sabertooth with his "claws" and then Sabertooth throws a few punches and then the battle is interupted and then it ends. Like what the heck man! We ordinary humans always dream of superpowers and the most that the writers creates for the battle scene is simply that? Their battle scene should be more longer and interesting than any action-packed movie. They should make the viewers " wow that's cool! I really really wished I had superpowers like them ". They should not make viewers go " why did punched him when he could have blasted him to pieces? " Lastly, battles should be cooler in the sense that fellow heroes standing on the same side of the battlefield should combine their powers together. For example, Rogue should not run to an enemy to get his powers, instead she should have asked Nightcrawler to teleport her there and quickly take a touch. Though there are scenes where they do combine their powers, there are still areas for improvements.

With that in mind, I have created my own superhero comic which is called "50" . 50 is about 50 mutants or rather characters as I would call them in a series something like X-Men Evolution. I have finished thinking and narrowing down my characters to 50. I have also finished giving the characters their superpowers but have yet to classify their powers to levels. For example, at level 1, this character can control fire and at level 2, he can create it. Leveling can be due to many reasons but it mostly comes from battle experience and training. I have also decided that each of the 50 characters will come from different countries so that viewers can learn about other cultures.

The last paragraph will be about what i plan to do with 50 when I retire. I want 50 to be a telvision series programme, in the comic books, made into a huge movies for the installation to the end of each season of the television series. I also want a cards game franchise to be made out of it and also video games with a plot similiar to the series. Online battles would also be cool. As such, this will be a very huge project and thus I will need many investors, designer, advertisers, artist, scriptwriters and of course a trademark label!

Home Sweet Home By Motley Crue

2011-02-08T20:30:00.002+08:00

Well, HOME SWEET HOME Nur Shah, you've finally got to study something you're interested in. No more Maths, Sciences and Languages. Welcome Sonic Arts baby(Republic Polytechnic)!

About the Programme

The Diploma in Sonic Arts is a comprehensive course in music and audio technology, supported by cutting-edge recording studios and music production facilities. The programme is designed to produce all-rounders in the field of sonic arts, who are equally adept at studio recording, mixing and mastering, live sound engineering, scoring for film and television, sound design for commercials and games and live performances.

The programme will help students develop a good ear for music, knowledge and appreciation of various musical genres, a keen aural sensibility crucial to sound design and music composition and personal creative voices.

This programme is delivered through a series of theoretical study, practical workshops, production assignments, industry projects and strategic internship placements.

Students will develop core competencies in location and sound recording, multi-track recording, audio post-production, sound design, sonic experimentation and live sound reinforcement and of course, composition and performance.

Students have the opportunity to work with the very best audio technology and equipment, HD software and an extensive range of unique analog synthesizers and instruments such as Doepfer, Moog, Buchla and Theremin.

The scope of study also includes video post-production and creative entrepreneurship which enhances your versatility and employability.

Career Prospects

The diploma positions students at the forefront of industry where they are able to fill a wide range of professional roles in live sound engineering for music, theatre, entertainment and corporate events; recording studios; radio stations; sound design and audio post-production for film, television, theatre and games, as well as music composing and performance.

Graduates can also work in the audio or multimedia departments of schools, government bodies, and a range of private enterprises.

Further Studies

Graduates can choose to further their education in local and international universities offering degree programmes ranging from Sound Design to Creative Arts and Communication. Many of our graduates progress to National University of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University and Singapore Management University.

Advanced standing of up to 1.5 years is currently available at overseas universities such as Queensland University of Technology, Monash University, Edith Cowan University, University of Queensland and the University of Newcastle in Australia.

Shoot To Thrill By AC/DC

2011-02-08T16:43:00.003+08:00

One of the things I've always wanted to do after "O" levels is to play pool, and I managed to did just that! Wooohooooo! Shooting those coloured balls are so damn fun. I SHOOT TO THRILL. The feelings after each shot, regardless wether the balls go in or not is unimaginable. I think I've played about 4 games with my friends all of which we played at a place near the Singapore Immigrations Customs.

One of the things I am going to buy in the future when i have my own house is to buy an adult size pool table and a children size pool table for my kids. Haha i know you'll be thinking that oh my, 17 years old and you are thinking about kids? well i say future planing never hurts right?

The funny thing when we play pool is that we never really know the proper way to play it. There are many ways to play it, for example, billiards, snooker, eight-ball or nine ball. So, we basically made our own rules when we play. The number on the ball represents the points that ball is worth if you pot it and if you get to pot a ball, you get a free turn and that's about it. Simple right? No such fancy tournament rules like those I found at youtube.

I can't stop laughing when i remembered of a time when Matin and Faris played pool at a bowling center in Melaca. The table was so small and it was too easy to pot the balls in. I think 1 game is about 3 Ringgit Malaysia which is super cheap when you compare it to those in Singapore. However, a game at the bowling center ends when all the balls are potted but in Singapore, you pay according to how long you play. I prefer Singapore's system athough it is more expensive because I saw several kids about 10-12 years old at Melacca stopping the ball from being potted which irritated me because we must wait a long time for our turn to play.

Well if anybody can teach me how to play billiards, i'll gladly learn and if you want to treat me a free game, surely I'll go but provided if it's only in Singapore of course.

I Am Mine By Pearl Jam

2011-02-08T15:49:00.003+08:00

For those who think the world is perfect, well it's not. Even after a million inventions, it is not perfect. Even after the introduction of laws, it is still not perfect. There are surely more than a billion ways to improve this world we live in. We need ideas, ideas and ideas. Though of course some ideas are impractical, they can still be introduced to certain countries and from there, to the world.

An idea I would like to propose is the introduction of thumbprints to the identification system. I bet your wallet is heavier than your jeans. It's stuffed with coins, your IC, grocery cards, bank cards, safra membership card, EZ-link and so on. Why not throw all that away and let's just use our thumbprints when we buy something or any identification purposes eh? Let's see, the Singapore Immigration Authorities have already introduced this system but it's only for people who are sixteen years old and above. Furthermore, the machine does not really identify us, it merely matches our thumbprint with that in our passports.

However it's still a good thing that they've introduced this system, because hey, if nobody starts it, then nobody would follow right? 1st world countries must surely be the starters because they have more than enough cash in their reserves. There are of course some problems with introducing this system. Firstly, many poeple thumbprints are needed to be recorded down into a data bank and i'm talkin about more than 7 billion people and counting. Secondly, what do we do with our existing cards,cash and coins? Thirdly, what about people without fingers? Fourthly, hackers can still hack into the system with their nerdy brains and then of course, they'll be rich, powerful, and famous for the worng reasons but the thing i fear the most is that the law could never catch them. Lastly, business that produces wallets and cards would simply go bankrupt.

However if by some miracle this system is introduced, the world would be more effecient and we'll be saving resources. Imagine this, you go flag a taxi and you show him your thumb, place it onto the identification system and say I AM MINE!

I Miss You By Blink 182

2011-02-08T11:49:00.002+08:00

There was a class activity like some days before the "O" Levels started. We had to write positive things on a scrap of paper about each and every one of our classmate and give it to them for memory's sake. Here are the scraps of paper which I kept for about 3-4 months and after posting this post, I'm going to crumple and throw it all away.

Mr. Foo - " Dear Shah, I believe you have a seed of greatness within you, to achieve the wildest dreams you ever dreamed! And wear a smile :) always. Like what Michael Jackson's favourite song says. "

Calvin - I miss having you beside me & telling me jokes ~ you'll always be cool & awesome in my eyes, rock on!! ~

JBrien - Shah! I wanna hear you play the bass like a pro. Get your total war skill up also.

Yadana - Don't forget me when you become a reknowned vocalist

Afiqah - You are weird yet it crakcs me up. Haha. Hope we meet someday. Do your best in "O" Levels k? :)

Julaina -You're weird but that's the cool thing about you! And, I like that! All the best Shah!

Boon Fong -Good luck buddy! Happy 2010! Stay happy!

Matin - Shah ! Matin loves you !

Vaaheni - Thank you for all you have done for me ... All the best for your "O"s :)

Muhaimin - Black Death, hope you do not die from the black death.

Faris - YOU ARE SO COOL! WHY?

Khairi - Black Death, you have been quiet in class but you will always crack jokes out of the silence. Thanks for encouraging me.

Nash - Black Death, I love you. Good Luck for "O"s.

Meirong - All the best for your "O" level . * your A.maths.

Shenee - Shah, you're very funny lol. One good friend! I like your voice :)

Joshya - Looking forward to Pokemon overkill.

Joey - Shah, you're random. - Work hard for your "O" Levels!

Li lin - Shah : Haha ! You're always so interesting in class. (Y). Good luck for you "O"s.

Jia Yu - Nur Shah : You are so mature and I think you can do your best in your "O"s.

Lili - Sometimes your jokes are lame. But it is entertaining. Haha. Good luck for your "O" levels.

Unknown - Hey : Weirdo, thanks and sowie! Keep in touch! Never give up! Persevere! Love you forever.

Unknown - Shah, don't play too much Pokemon, sometimes study too.

So, total in all, only 20 students wrote to me and I know I've lost some. I'm so sorry bout that because the fan in our class were blowing the papers everywhere. Now, time to throw those papers away. Oh yeah. one more thing, 4E1 2010 was the best damn batch Fuchun Secondary School has ever had. I MISS YOU guys very much! I hope we have another gathering in the near future, perhaps maybe during teacher's day eh?

Seek And Destroy By Metallica

2011-02-04T04:16:00.005+08:00

Faris arrived at my house at 5.45pm and handed over his green gatsby. There was a lot left in it. I do not know what to do with it so i just use it everytime i go to work. We walked to Sakura Buffet Restaurant which is near Republic Polytechnic. As expected some people were late, which made me wonder why did i arrived early? I could have stayed at home about 30 mins more.

I was seated with JBrien, Josh, Faris, Muhaimin and Matin and i did not any wanted any teachers at our table as it would be akward for us. After seeing Mr Soh, our Chemistry teacher, "chionging" a bowl of something, I immediately went to SEEK AND DESTROY every food that looks good. I like the systematic order of placing your "clip" onto a food that you want the chefs to cook for you. I would say that the nicest food over there is bulgogi chicken and the lousiest is raw salmon because i just ain't a sushi person.

Here's a rough list of what i ate over there.............

- a bite of raw salmon
- 1 chicken nugget
- 2 prawns
- a plate of kimchi fried rice
- 9 chicken satay
- a plate lamb chop
- a plate of bulgogi
- half a plate of chicken cutlets
- 1 slice of cheese cake
- 1 slice of oreo cheese cake
- 2 slices of blackforest cake
- 2 slices of truffle cake
- about two to three slices of swensens ice cake
- a glass of sprite mixed with coke
- a glass of mango juice
- 2 scoops of peppermint ice-cream
- 2 scoops of coffee ice-cream
- 1 scoop of strawberry ice-cream
- about 3 or 4 slices of pizza
- 2 soursop
- 4 "balls" of grape

Wonder why i can still remember what i ate even after 2 weeks? well firstly, it's just two week, secondly, it's my first buffet i've ever had, thirdly the food over there are delicious considering that not much of it is spicy, fourthly, i usually eat "boring" food at home and lastly, it'll be the last time we will see each other. I wonder where they will go 20 years from now and most importantly, who'll be the most successful?

(Ou yeah, do you think i ate the food over worth more than 27sg? It's because I knew i could still eat a little more because i am the "saver" type of person.) Argh! i regreted not eating more..........

Laugh And A Half By D-A-D

2011-02-03T00:47:00.004+08:00

These are my top 7 comedies that I've watched . Surely you'll have disagreements but hey, who cares about you? You may ask why 7? Why not 5 or 10? Well it's because 7 is my favourite number.

1st ~ Mr Bean
2nd ~ Friends
3rd ~ Kenan and kel
4th ~ Simpsons
5th ~Whose Line Is It Anyway?
6th ~ Mind Your Language
7th ~ Spongebob Squarepants

Mr Bean ~ Rowan Atkinson is a bloody genuis. No one could match that rubber-faced Bastard's visual comedy. aaahhhhh back in around 2000, i was watching all of Mr Bean's episode and laughing all the way till I found it hard to breathe. Even watching them now, you'll never get bored watching it again and again. People of all ages loves him because his comedy style is super easy to understand. Even the animated series of Mr Bean are worth to watch!

Friends ~ I was introduced to friends a year ago by my mother when she keeps watching it on TV. I have not watched all 10 seasons though but after watching a some episodes, it deserves the 2nd spot because it is killer funny. In every funny comedy, you have to identify that "stupid" guy because let's face it, they are the funniest as they have no common sense. In this case the "stupid" guy is Joey and he's my favourite character. The downside of Friends is sometimes you do not understand their jokes especially jokes about sex. I guess i have to do IT and then watch the whole 10 seasons of friends so that i could understand their jokes eh?

Kenan and Kel ~ " Who loves orange soda? Kel loves orange soda. Is it true? mmmmmm hhmmmm, i do, i do , i do uuuuhmmmm " If you've watched Kenan and Kel before, you'll understand what i am quoting about. Haha that line never gets old. My friend, Naufal, introduced me to Kenan and Kel this January and after watching all four seasons, I was like, why they don't show re-runs of this instead of Drake and Josh. I mean they are wayyy better than Drake and Josh, plus they are way funnier than the crap at Nickleodeon and Disney. The downside of Kenan and Kel though is you can expect Kel to mess up everything which loses the element of suprise but his super stupidity makes up for this lost. Kenan and Kel is so funny to the point where i had to force to stop my sister from watching it because she's having her PSLE this year. Well here's another trademark line from Kenan and Kel " AAAWWWW HERE GOES! "

Simpsons ~ With 476 episodes and many awards, it's the ultimate comedy to watch with your family after a hard day's work. Homer here is identified as the "stupid" guy but he loves his family really much and when he makes the right choices, the viewers will go aaaaaaawwwwwwww. It's very funny when i've read at Wikipedia which said that Bart is a negative influence to the younger audience though i do not know how to explain to you why I found it funny.

Whose Line Is It Anyway? ~ It's awesome. Why? It's because they're a stand-up comedy and they're the most talented stand-up comedy acts I've seen. I love the prop acts the most because it uses creativity and I also try to come up with my own sketches in my head when they are doing props. My favourite actor is Ryan Stiles though many would argue that Wayne Brady is more talented. I do not know why, but i like Ryan's jokes better although i agree that Wayne is more talented.

Mind Your Language ~ Who knew English could be such a complicated subject? The original run was from 1977 to 1979 and 1986. Though I have not watched the fourth season, it deserves the 6th spot because their confusion on the English subject is a laughing medicine. Anybody wants to teach foreigners in Singapore English? Please recommend them to watch this and they'll think twice before learning English. My favourite character is Ali, the Pakistani guy because he's fued with the Ranjit ( the Indian guy ) is very funny and also because he creates the most jokes. It's a sad thing though that comedies like these are likely to be produced in the near future because viewers might see it as rasict but hey, it's all in the name of comedy.

Spongebob Squarepants ~ " Who lives in a pineapple under the sea? " haha that would be Mr. Spongebob. That's the only comedy worth being shown at Nickleodeon well, maybe except for Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide. I love Patrick a little more than Spongebob because his IQ is seemingly lower than that of Spongebob which makes him the "stupid" guy in this comedy.

Well, you'll surely have more than a LAUGH AND A HALF after watching all of it and that's it for today, I'm exhausted and badly need some rest, especially my fingers. C'ya

Reckless Life By Guns N' Roses

2011-02-03T00:12:00.004+08:00

The parade was thronged with primary school kids. My friends and I were playing rugby at the parade amidst the crowd. Most of them who were playing rugby there were "mats" ( although that term did not existed that time ) and we were playing it during recess. As Haiqal was running with the ball, only one thing was stopping him from the touchline and that was me.

I moved my body sidewards and "hugged" him by his stomach. Regardless of which, he kept moving forward even though my shoes were almost worn out from friction against the hard concrete brick. Then..........something changed my life forever. I was thrown onto the ground like a carcass of meat by him and i landed on my left knee. What a RECKLESS LIFE ! My left knee was either dislocated or fractured.

For some weird reason, it felt good. I tried to straightened my leg and it was a bit painful. My friends sent me to the general office and i was left in the sick bay. I had to wait for my mother to come and send me to the hospital. Minutes passed and i could not control my bladder. I needed to piss badly. I went to the staff toilet in a wheelchair but i could not pee while standing so i have to pee in a bottle which one of the teachers gave to me. After pissing, the teacher teased me and said that i have a really huge bladder and as i looked at the bottle, it was 3/4 full which shocked me. That's the longest i've held and i still could not beat that record hahahaha.

After being treated at the hospital, i had to learn how to walk with a crutch and had to strenghten back my left leg. The most "shiok" part was when the bones and joints locate themselves back to place when i was sleeping. The feeling is like when you are cracking your fingers for the first time. Up untill now, my right leg is bigger and longer than my left which affects me for the worse when i'm playing soccer. Due to that injury, i could not get into the Fuchun Soccer Team which i regreted the most :( .

Feeling Good By Michael Buble

2011-02-01T01:57:00.005+08:00

These were my choices for poly admission

Courses > Interest, Prosepects & Mother

1st - Sonic Arts > 100-100-0
2nd - Architecture > 100-20-10
3rd - Interior Design > 100-5-0
4th - Business Management > 20-75-100
5th - Product Design and Innovation > 75-10-0
6th - Landscape Architecture > 70-5-0
7th - Food and Beverage Business > 50-50-100
8th - Games Design and Development > 60-5-0
9th - Sports and Exercise Sciences > 40-5-0
10th - Civil Engineering with Business > 40-15-30
11th - Real Estate Business > 10-50-50
12th - Common Engineering > 10-70-20

The numbers beside the courses represents how much interest i have in that course, the prospects and my mother's influence over my decision. So let's take Business Management for example, I have 20% interest, there's 75% prospects and my mother fully supports me because it's at 100%.

Well I am FEELING GOOD cos i know for sure that I'll get Sonic Arts as my L1R4 is 14 and the Cut-of-Point for the course is 21