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Presenting... the ~*Trish*~ Sleeping Series! Part 1.

more should be coming your way... =)

Pictures!

super long ago pictures of 6N... i too lazy to rotate n stuff... so yea...

pictures pictures!

the guys look damn engrossed. looks as though they're watching -in the words of cheechin- PONG?!

kelvin and his amazing power. look at the nice domino effect

wingchung looks odd here.

the tangled love lives of S06N. (disclaimer: 99.99999% are false)

Saga of 6Nations Para II

“Where are we?” asks an explorer, which for the reader’s convenience, we shall name as Explorer I. “No idea,” replies Explorer II. “Duh. We fell off the edge. So we must be at the bottom of the world,” says Explorer III, which historically proves beyond all doubt that 2000 years ago, stupid humans existed as well, and many of the more intellectually challenged humans today can trace their lineage with great pride all the way back to Explorer III.

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Saga of 6Nations I

A Happy CNY to everyone! The Chinese New Holiday Year has finally given me an opportunity to work on the Saga of 6Nations, and the List of Characters is finally taking shape, whether long anticipated or not. I shall slowly post bits of SO6N in the days leading up to the biggest release of Saga of 6Nations so far. It does not matter if you do not understand what I write.

Pre-Prologue (1st para)
2000 years ago, the world was flat. Following in the manner of all humans, a band of explorers, closely emulating the lemmings they resemble, in a suicidal bid to satisfy their deadly curiosity, sailed to the edge of the world (for adventure, gold, glory, and a strawberry), and fell off the edge.

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photos update

the two candidates for trish's vdae prezzie. which is cuter?

who could wing chung's love be. hahas.

flowers (:

balloons in the lab

jameson and chinny...aww they look really sweet lol. the dogs, that is.

more balloons ^^

wing's ponytail

happy vday mr chong! er, wherever you are =p

see! the two shades are so different! entirely different shirts, i say!

learning journey! xD

clearly, trish doesnt like any flower not from e right person =\

i think e mass RJC photo would cooler if we all did this...

wooh xiangyu our Fortune God =D
--take 5 @ ccab--

Pics

Update a few nice pics for u to enjoy....happy everyday everyone

MT rocks

Today is my game...lol, just come back from schl and about to turn myself into sleeping mode. i thought there is only one guy who is in charge today and after the whole game i found one very short guy, haha busy with one spoiled computer. Kel, wing, xy, lz, occ, esc were there and they are some kind of engaged with their own game and did not give me any support( which i dunt need when i was in a mass be4 the game begin :) i could not change my nickname or i could nt adjust my mouse sensitivity... pretty stress out be4 the thing. Anyway, the game was not like what i expected...a bit easy to win coz they r just J1's? nvm, our team got one random guy who just fill up the absent space, btw he is very pro...his name is not like the way he played"Fatty" he was owning. Of course i must not disappoint u guy so i got the 2 place in the game. our team won mainly becoz we stick together...haha quite unbeatable despite there was once tt our whole team got killed together. hoping the fatty will come back tmr so that we have a shooter...Tdy is V'Day, everyone knows...haha, our 6N is quite caring...everyone got cookies to eat...thx ya ppl for such an effort. anyway, xy, kel and me bought bolloons to let ppl play inside phy lab and ppl always use it to hit other ppl's face...yayay, V'Day is finished, tmr is another day.
take 5. let's go out and play something!!! anyone votes for cs? i do!!!!!

IHC cybergaming

"For everything that happens, there must be at least a good point, and at least a bad point. nothing is completely good or bad"

Anonymous

And so, i must say, that the cybergaming committee did a pretty good job to string together a competition of such scale in such short notice. With hardly any time left, they managed to just get the competition going, releasing the namelist on sunday, one day before the actual competition itself. kudos to that.

But then again, the good points are limited, while the bad points are plentiful. number one, lack of proper backup equipment, in this case, comps. our game got delayed 30 mins cuz one of the comps screwed up. imagine if odac had flown all the way to australia, rock climbed up half of mount arapiles, when one rope or carabiner screws up. and u hav no backup equipment. ggxx. u can have fun slacking midway on the rocky mountain, since u can't go up, u can't come down, and all u can do is wait for some remote time when another climber passes by and notices u and calls for help. in the meantime, u can hav fun. wooh.

number 2, lack of judges. never has any competition has this lack of judges. usually, organising committees will be more than prepared with a PANEL of judges to attempt to ensure fair ruling with no bias against any side. cybergaming not only didn't hav a panel, they didn't even hav a judge. yes, u heard(or see) correctly. not even a single judge. good job cybergaming club. u all rock. in the end, some weird guy will step in a say any team won without giving a proper reason or whatsoever. wooh.

number 3, no knowledge of game rules by the weird guy who steps in. erm pro lor. the game rules written on the board has towers/base destroyed or kill/death ratio to decide winners if game drags longer than 80 mins. that guy came in, ignored all those, and says the team which wins is the team with an aegis and a divine rapier(the best item in the game for all those who don't know). erps

now, many of u must be wondering why i'm writing such a post. so let me recall what happened. It was an MT vs MR match. I was playing for MR(cuz i'm from MR duh).

MR. GvDnvh omiknight
MR. yijing sand king
MR. noobify† shadow shaman (me)
MR. smasher™ lich
MR. WM queen of pain

MT. Fatty prophet
MT. Max warlord
MT. vh vengeful spirit
MT. (forgot alrdy) venomancer
MT. (forgot also) netherdrake

Before the match started, one comp screwed up, everyone had to wait for like 20-30 mins before the comp got fixed. so now that precious time was lost, some guy(assume he's frm cybergaming) says to carry the game to just 60 mins instead of the original 80 mins as planned. lousy planning, but okay, shldn't affect much. so the game began. and we owned them. not pure total ownage but gd enuff(my rhasta with a 2-0 score by level 5 and a sand king triple kill in the middle of the game). trashed them, and beat them in tower kills and hero kill/death ratios. (the audience can testify to this) And just when we managed to break their base and destroy them totally, 60 mins was up, we had to stop. So as everyone tot MR had won, we all left the game and the audience walked off. and then this weird walks in. he took a damn long time to look at the heroes scores and items ans everything. and then said MT won. y? because they had aeigis and divine rapier. errr... since when were victors decided just by their ability to get rapier? wth? and the most thing is what i just realised today, which totally made me feel wtf. that weird guy was from MT. and knew one of the MT players(harold). gd job lor. so they won lor. impressive judging.

so basically we won on everything except for the connections factor. pro pro. but nvm, unless their connections factor can tide them through the next round, that team will be way way way too weak to match the BW powerhse. didn't watch today, but bet BW won MT. not much thinking needed. and since we felt we were no match for the BW powerhse anyway, we decided not to quarrel just let the matter rest. for we knew we played well. like really great(except for the lich, he damn noob. but at least his spells were impt). Credits goes to wen jun, for playing such a great sand king for the team. he owned them all. triple kill. woot. 2nd best player in the game(3rd is me yay). u held up our team, and won it for us(u just didn't hav connections to that weird guy). u won't be reading this, but i just want to say a big thank you to u. a job well done. as for the qop and omniknight, well played. nice aoe damages and supports. u guys were damn impt. well done, wang miao and yaming. and the lich, u can improve a hell lot more, but anyway, u were impt too, with that chain frost of urs. so gd job anyway, sean.

And now that i've thanked everyone in the team, i'd like to thank xun yong, lu zhou, wing chung, and chee chin, for being there to support whoever u were supporting. haha.

And good luck to lu zhou and mayb xun yong( dunno whether he playing or not) for their cs game on wednesday and thursday! own them all but dun get owned by other ppl's connections to weird ppl!

And anyway, tmr's vday! happy vday to everyone! bet chinny giv trish smthing and rard giv yiting something. haha lol

yong sheng

Night Hike

"and in the darkness bind them,"

a really short excerpt of a quote from LOTR

ok writing this now despite the fact that there are two tests tmr, being physics and maths. dun wanna let this short journey slip from my memory. anyway, realised that since the emphasis on reflections during odac's end of year trip to australia, i kinda like reflecting on stuff alrdy. whee.

anyway, gathered at 6 at the odac room for a final briefing and settling of stuff. had a quick briefing till 7, then j1s arrived and we briefed them. first 2 grps of j1s left at 7.50, 20 mins behind schedule. but i was following the second 2 grps of j1s, who were supposed to leave 30 mins later, meaning 8.20. so we(the j2s in my grp, gerard, siying, kevin, charlene, yee sian) settled down and played some screwed up 'who what har' game with the j1s as icebreakers. kinda realised that i hadn't eaten my dinner(had played cards with gen instead of getting dinner b4 6, crap). cldn't do anything abt it, so nvm lor. so yup we set off at 8.20 and the j1s headed for their first checkpoint. basically night hike is meant for the j1s, meaning they do the navigation, they choose the route, and even if they are on the wrong track all the way to tuas, we're not supposed to tell them. we're there only for safety and entertainment purposes.

ok so they arrived at their first checkpoint in the middle of macritchie nature trail, continued on in the darkness of the trail(we were not using torchlights in the middle of the forest so as not to disturb the wildlife) till we came out of it to the island country club. continued past it to pierce reservoir, where we played our first checkpoint game. some really stupid game so i shan't bother to elaborate. found out that one of the odacians in my grp was my bro's gd fren. had been in ri's bball team and is the first team point guard. some shen. anyway, he qte fun lah. and this was when a grp came up behind us. omfg we're the last grp to leave sch how come got a grp behind us? apparently the grp that had left 30 mins ahead of us had sort of lost their way and so lagged behind. woot, so we owned them by more than 30 mins alrdy. so we continued along, ahead of them now, upper thomson road to thong soon green playground. where we played our second checkpoint game. some cool game of attempting to count to as high a number as possible without 2 ppl counting the same number at any time. then when the grp behind us caught up, we left the checkpoint and stayed ahead of them =)

continued along to seletar reservoir, our next checkpoint, where we slacked arnd the playground there. again until the grp caught up wif us then we leave haha. was running out of stuff to talk abt le, and it was alrdy 1.20, so continued the next hell of a long stretch of journey in silence. walked all the way till 3.50, when we finally managed to reach jalan kayu, near gen's place. played the spiderman, batman, superman game with the j1s, then all went to hav a rest and eat at the prata shop there. aiya the prata there not that shen lah, for all the hype. one of the girls in my grp, Hien(she's vietnamese, cool), got a ligament strain and cldn't walk as fast as before le. she had been damn enthu one lah. anyway, didn't really understand her pain until later. anyway, continued after that at 5, but everyone damn slpy le, so the walking speed dropped significantly. the grp behind us finally managed to catch up wif us, and we continued as one big grp towards our last checkpoint, the japanese cemetery. and it was on this hourney that i got the same ligament strain lah. same area lah. exactly the same thing excep that her's was on the right leg, mine on the left. anyway, just carried on with it lah. when we finally reached it, it was 6.30, too late to make it back to sch by 7 alrdy, so everyone made a decision to take a bus back to rj. crowded the whole 156 which came(shun cheng saw) and all made our way back to school. hell lot of ppl fell aslp totally on the bus.

Back in school, a few of us decided to be mad and proceeded to run 1.6k arnd the sch track, with the rest of the tired odacians staring at us like we were crazy idiots. haiyo, and chin ee was at the odac area looking for bandage for a sprained ankle of his fren. and the chinese dance jacket i brought along didn't get used cuz the night is not that cold after all.

aiya sian of writing le, so i shall stop here. mayb edit this post some other time or smthing. haha.

The Beginning of the End

it's a marble bust at the Balmoral Hotel in Edinburgh, and it says : "JK Rowling finished writing Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows in this room (652) on 11th Jan 2007". It's been confirmed that she did write this, which means she finished the book THREE WEEKS AGO!

the countdown on my door!

This post is for all ye ignorant Muggles out there who have yet to witness my, erm, ‘excitement’ yesterday.

HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS WILL BE RELEASED ON SATURDAY 21 JULY, 2007 AT 00.01 (UK TIME) I.E. 07.01 SINGAPORE TIME I.E. 06.01 THAILAND TIME.

Yay! (This is a great understatement - if I were to transcribe my real reaction, your com would probably explode.)

July is such a happy, happy month! First, the Order of the Phoenix movie will come out on FRIDAY 13 JULY, and then book seven will be released on SATURDAY 21 JULY, and finally Harry and JKR’s birthdays will be on TUESDAY 31 JULY!

And yes, for all ye extremely ignorant Muggles, this book is the LAST BOOK. (hence the title of the post)

As the countdown starts, my mixed feelings start to intensify. I want to read it, but I don’t want to read it. Confused?

I desperately want to read it because I want to know how it all ends. I want the confirmation that Harry will live, Voldy will die, Snape will be good and Draco Malfoy will redeem himself.

But the problem is, I don’t want it to end. I’ve been part of the living phenomenon of Harry Potter for so long (7 years to date) that I feel reluctant to let it become ‘history’. Now that I’m left with the last few months, I’m starting to realise how hard it is to let go. I know it’s hard to believe, but I have never, ever cried while reading an HP book. Not when S_____ died. Not even when D_________ died. (Names not revealed for the benefit of those who, by some amazingly extraordinary chance, haven’t read the books. I hate being spoiled, so I try not to give other people spoilers, because I know exactly how it feels.) But somehow, I just know that I’ll cry when I finish the seventh book, even if Harry lives to kill Voldy, and Snape is truly loyal to Dumbledore and has been working for the Order all along and was in love with Lily Evans Potter, and Malfoy fights alongside Harry and becomes his blood brother (this is starting to sound like Draco Trilogy…). I’ll cry because it would be the end of one part of my life. Not that I’ll stop being an HP fanatic after the release of book seven. I’ll still continue to read, and re-read, and re-re-read the books even after the last movie come out, after all the hype has died off and HP becomes one of those obsolete books (if it ever does).

*laughs hysterically and sobs*

I don’t think you all would understand the feelings of a true HP fan. You may think me crazy to be fanatical over something completely fictional (yes, I’m not that far from sanity to realise that it’s not real), and you may laugh at my seemingly pointless and ‘unusual’ antics (HP hangman, anyone?) and my overrated reactions (like the one above). Except for maybe Yiting :) . But the truth is, I feel really sorry for those of you who haven’t taken the chance while you have it to enjoy such a wonderful series. HP is not just a set children’s books; it’s the story of a real person with a real life, but with fictionally-named characters and made-up places as the setting. It’s unnerving, really, how real it is. We can relate to almost everything in the HP world – the good, the bad and the in-the-middle people, the teachers in school, the tension between the different houses (or countries, in our case – the Thai-S’pore match totally proves this)… basically everything, expect for the magic of course. Don’t tell me you haven’t met a similarly stuck-up Percy whose blind love for authority and rules isolates himself from the rest, or a Neville who’s bullied because of his incompetence in all subjects save one, or a Malfoy who looks down on anyone who doesn’t belong to the same ‘class’, or a Diggory, the perfect and popular student who’s loved by everyone, or even a Ron, who can make you laugh no matter what, because I certainly have. The books deal with everything that we have to deal with. JKR explores the themes of life and death, and love, and friendship, and even the sometimes ineffective methods of the authority in controlling havoc, though in such a subtle and un-clichéd way that we don’t even realise it. The magic of HP is that it’s so unbelievable with all the wand-waving and flying broomsticks, yet so real at the same time. I can confidently say that there is no other book that we can relate to as much as HP. Of course, all ye non-readers out there would never believe me until you’ve read the books yourself.

Some of you may say that there are plenty of realistic books out there, and I absolutely agree. The greatest books of all time, be it the classics like Jane Austen’s, or epics like the Lord of the Rings, are stories that are as realistic as a story can get. Austen’s books reflect the lives of the middle-class of England in the nineteenth century, and while the characters are fictional, the experiences and struggles are real. Tolkien ingeniously created the whole of Middle Earth, whose history is so detailed and complete that we sometimes wonder whether they (the Shire and Gondor and the High Elves and pipe-weed etc etc) really did once exist. But no story in our time has captured our very existence into the living pages of a book, except for one. (Slight exaggeration here, I know.)

Our tastes and aspirations show in the choice of books we read. Mystery lovers long for a thrill in their comparatively dull lives, fantasy readers hope for a place where they can escape from the mundane and sometimes difficult world, and romance fans just want a little sweetness. HP appeals to readers of all different genres precisely because it’s a mixture of everything – mystery, thriller, comedy, drama, romance, angst, and of course, fantasy. I guess not many people realise this though. Terry Pratchett himself accused JKR of pretending that she did not know that she was writing fantasy ("I would have thought that the wizards, witches, trolls, unicorns, hidden worlds... would have given her a clue?"). I would whole-heartedly agree with him if he’d said that HP wasn’t pure fantasy – it’s not. But to say that she didn't know it is slightly too much - she didn't even mean it to be purely fantasy. I’d say that the reason he did so is that he’s merely jealous. He calls his own books 'fantasy', but the themes in his books don’t even qualify them as fantasy; heroism in them is a feeble sort of heroism, that arises from only compelling circumstances and not emotional and moral strength. The only reason I think he can call his books fantasy is that there are witches that stir cauldrons and fly on broomsticks in them, and that 'the world rides through space on the back of a turtle'.

Another reason why HP is way better and more popular than Discworld is that it is emotionally moving. Good books, in my opinion, are like good music. They can wrench your hearts out when they need to, they can shock and frighten you and then compensate for it by comforting you. When I read one of Pratchett’s books, the only thing I felt was indifference. Sure, it’s entertaining, but entertaining books aren’t necessarily what I think are good books. I know this is all very biased, since I haven’t read every single one of his books (there may still be a book that I’ll like), but trust me, I wouldn’t be attacking Pratchett if he hadn’t attacked JKR in the first place. I am just doing the job of a loyal HP fan, and he was wrong to accuse her so strongly. No offence to Pratchett fans out there!

I hate it when publishers advertise fantasy books using the tagline, “If you liked Harry Potter, try this!” These people don’t understand that it’s not because HP is ‘fantasy’ that it’s popular. I like fantasy, but that’s not why I like HP. I’ve tried countless of other fantasy books, but none of them have had me hooked me like the first 5 lines of Chamber of Secrets, the first HP book I read. JKR has the amazing ability to connect to readers and gain their trust – we know that she will not let us down, and that we won’t regret reading the books, regardless of the ending.

Being part of the HP phenomenon has totally been worth it, even if it means that I get people staring weirdly my way every now and then (though nowadays the frequency has been increased to every few minutes). There’s an essay on the-leaky-cauldron.org that completely and accurately reflects my experience. I was amazed when I read it. (If you read it and don’t understand the Gladys Gudgeon part, Gudgeon is a Gilderoy Lockhart fan who regularly sent fan mail to him. So if a cure for Obliviate isn’t found, Lockhart won’t get his memory back and will be unlikely to be answering his fan mail for quite some time, hence the unlikeliness that Gudgeon will be in book 7.) I get ecstatic when I meet another HP fan, because it means that someone, somewhere out there, encounters the same things that I encounter, has the same reactions that I have (therefore proving that I am NOT insane – or rather that I’m not the only insane one), and understands how completely magical the books are as I do.

So. Those of you who haven’t read the books, there’s still time left for you to catch up and be part of the anticipation leading up to the final release. You have only 5 months and 18 days left before the living legacy ends. ‘Use it wisely.’, as Dumbledore said (if you read the books you’ll know who Harry, Voldy, Snape, Draco, Lockhart, Diggory, Percy, Neville and Dumbledore are). I assure you that reading the books will NOT make you crazy like me, if that’s what’s preventing you from reading. My estimation of readers who have become HP fanatics (not fans – those are a completely different and much more mild species) is around 1 in every 100 people (I know only 3 people in school who are real fans – I mean fanatics). Extreme cases like mine, 1 in every 500 (I’ve yet to meet anyone with a severe a case as mine). So I’d say you’re quite safe. If you claim that reading the books will interfere with your studies, the total number of hours it would take to finish the first 6 books would be 3 + 3 + 4 + 8 + 10 + 8 = 36 hours, and 36/168 days = 13 minutes a day, which is quite reasonable in my opinion. I’m not doing this for the satisfaction of having persuaded people to read HP - I’m doing this so that the joy of reading HP is spread to as many people as possible. And since I don’t have a wand, and even if I did, I wouldn’t want to be chucked into Azkaban for using an Unforgivable Curse, I obviously cannot force you to read HP using ‘Imperio’. All I can do is strongly advise you to read it, and tell you that if you don’t, you’ll regret it the rest of your life. The choice is ultimately yours, after all – and what’s so hard about picking up a book and reading it?

On a different note, I have just finished another fanfic! It’s called Oblivious by Pallas, and it’s the best fic I’ve ever read. It’s even better than (gasp) DT, and it’s original. The plot is fantastic, but the characterization is even fantastic-er – there’s hardly anyone out-of-character, which is amazing! The story revolves around Lupin and his ‘furry little problem’. If you’re wondering why Dumbledore’s still walking around, and where Fenrir Greyback is, it’s pre-HBP. Highly recommended! (this is another one of the joys of being an HP fan)

I think I’ll end my post here. But before that…

THE HP QUOTE OF THE POST

“What’s comin’ will come, an’ we’ll meet it when it does.”

- Rubeus Hagrid, GoF page 623 UK edition, Chapter: The Beginning

This quote is SO fitting for the book release. Sigh…

And after all this rambling, I guess it’s sort of confirmed that I’m crazy.

:)

kel's creation lol

eating an apple

haha @ kenny!

omg la chem revision

eh plspls gimme my phone back

here doggie doggie!

patpats

ginger (left) and cookie (right)

look at the camera (:

whooosh

haha swiiing