Waiting Game

I'm waiting right now. Waiting for a certain Shaun to come. I'm in a cybercafe now ( shocking, is it not? ) and Shaun, is, amazingly, late. As such, I have decided to update my blog, which I have not posted in for a week or so because I have inconveniently been in Singapore. Which, frankly, is a lot more fun than waiting for Shaun. I'm far too tired to describe everything that I did in Singapore at length, and thus I shall compress it as best ( lazily ) as I can. Okay, first, Night Safari. Orchard Road, Chinatown, Zoo, Clarke Quay, small hotel room. Lots of other stuff. Uhhh. Pictures coming soon. Possibly.

I am, however, not tired enough to stop me from going to a cybercafe and waiting for that blasted Shaun. "WHY YOU ALWAYS SO LATE AH!?" I'll also try to get Modern Warfare 2 up and running, which took a wholly ridiculous three and a half hours to install on my computer. Oh, and I bought season 2 of Life. Now... Shaun. He's fifteen minutes late now. And I rushed to be early. See how I'm clearly the more responsible one in this group?

I'm On a Committee?

I'm actually supposed to be going to a CF Camp Committee meeting later, presumably to discuss what we're going to be doing for the camp next year. This strikes me as odd because a) I had never, ever previously known that I was ever in a committee for anything and b) because I'm possibly the worst choice to pick for a Camp Committee because I am practically the only Form 2 CF member who hasn't been to either camp. Not a single one. Anyway, that's just as well, because I can't go, thanks to the "no transport" reason, which sucks. This does seem kind of familiar. Probably because I was invited to something very similar earlier and couldn't go because of "no transport".

On the bright side, however, I'm going to Singapore next Wednesday. This probably seems like nothing to shout about but the fact is, believe it or not, I have never, ever been to Singapore. In fact, I've only ever been to two countries in my entire life, namely Malaysia and Australia ( although I did spend a good four years there ). Speaking of Australia, I'll be going there for a two week holiday next year, the first time in six years. Yay!

2012

Went to One Utama on Saturday. Played Counter-Strike. I sucked conspicuously. For the first half, at least. Then I was OK-ish. Jia Min sucked the whole time. Shaun likes shotguns. Brandon loves the AK. Jun Yee likes buying useless crap and then dying, thus driving our team into bankruptcy. Fun indeed. Then watched 2012, which had a lot more to do with stuff blowing up than an actual story. In fact, I can summarise it all thusly: First it was "Oh noes we are gonna die" followed by "BOOM" then was a plane so it went "SWOOSH" then there was a flood so it went "SPLASH" followed by a sigh of relief and a hearty "Glad that's over."

There was also an earthquake, a stupidly large volcano and a giant plane with some very nice cars in it too, but I can't quite remember where. And by the way, the world doesn't actually end. What a let-on. With all the explosions, satisfying, I guess, but not exactly moving. Then we tried playing Team Fortress 2. But we couldn't figure out how, despite the fact that the guys behind us quite clearly did. So we played Counter-Strike again. Darn you, Brandon.

Yay

School after the exams has since degraded into a spectacularly unproductive mess ( in other words, just the way I like it ) and I honestly haven't had this much fun at school since post-UPSR Year Six. Basically, we've been playing cards, Killer ( which is oddly fun, because I've taken it as my personally duty to kill Jia Min as many times as I possibly can ) and Chess ( in which I checkmated Kylthur, which would be the first time I've checkmated anyone in a long time ). School is just really fun now. For the first time, I actually want to go. If you truly know me, that's an extraodinary statement. Although sadly this won't last long.

Oh yes, and there were also those Talent Show auditions, and most of them ( about one or two ) were pretty good ( although I regrettably did not see Sausages and Mash - best name ever ). I am however, not really in any position to judge, seeing as I'm not particularly good at singing, dancing or doing stuff with that big Chinese yoyo thingy. Anyway, as to what I'm doing at home, I've been watching the first season of Life which is really quite good and soon(ish) I should be going on an outing planned by Brandon ( which is nice because I've planned absolutely everything else ).

Remember, Remember

The Fifth of November. Just saying, because V for Vendetta is one of my favourite movies ever ( although I never read the comic book, which came first, but I did read Watchmen though, which is by the same author - and widely recognised to be the greatest graphic novel of all time ). For the uninitiated, the 5th of November is Guy Fawkes Day, who was this guy who blew up something. Or something like that. Anyway, right now, as I write this, my internet has mysteriously died, so I'm typing this on Notepad, for the sole reason that I have absoluteley nothing better to do. I want my Internet! This hasn't happened in a while, which just makes it more jarring when it does, ( no Team Fortress 2 - nooo!! ) and I can only hope it fixes itself tomorrow.

Speaking of games, Boon Kuan, Jia Min and I have made yet another version of Total War on paper, which is just as well because there's nothing else to do in class since the exams are over. And I'm really glad - also because my results thus far have been really very good ( especially Math, which I struggled with in mid year - and I got an A for BM. An A! ). So good, in fact, that my overall average is now better than Jia Min. Which, as many of you know, is practically impossible, so thank God for that. Anyway, now, what to do. I was thinking of playing Total War ( the real one ) again, but my Egyptian campaign on Very Hard difficulty seems to be an exercise in futility. And frustration. Oh well.

It's All Over Again

Yay! It's over! Again! I must say, that was pretty annoying, but not nearly as bad as it could've been. And that's something I should get used to, seeing as there are many, many exams in my future. But I'm going to ignore that for now, because right now, I'm free! I'm almost euphoric right now, and I have every right to be, considering next year will be Form 3. But we'll get to that later. Yesterday, I celebrated my "holidays" with Yong Teng, Brandon and uh, Jezzey, playing Call fo Duty 4, 5, Company of Heroes ( in which I sucked ) and Counter Strike. Oh, and I also got a ( admittedly cheap ) birthday present for Alycia. Happy really quite belated birthday!

The next two weeks of school should be fun. It's everything I love about school ( friends, talking endlessly, and playing Live ) minus everyting I hate about school ( studying, homework, exams ) which should be very fun indeed. And on a final note, I have just finished reading An Abundance of Katherines, which is a book from the same guy who made Looking for Alaska, which is another book I talked about a long, long time ago. Anyway, if you do somehow manage to find either, do read them.