Saturday, November 15, 2003
Today 7.30am went to school to listen to some stuff on how to do Flag Day etc. In case you dunno Flag Day, it means go get a life. C'mon, need me to explain that shit to you? GET A LIFE.
Went there so damn early, then change venue to LT2 instead of LT2. Damn, can't they make up their mind? Then they gave us our license cards, then the cool whitish RSVP baggy and a pack of STICKERS. A pack of 6 sheets of stickers to be exact. A pack of 6 sheets of 50 stickers per sheet TO BE MORE EXACT. So, they expect us to get 300 people putting that cheap greasy old coin into our bag. PUH-LEASE! Nah, just showing some ego in my own blog. Oh ya, MK and Perry were there too.
Then my bag number is 92. We were free to do it anywhere. No, not that "it". Dun think that FAR out. Yingqun and Boon left so quickly lor to the bus stop like a split second. My first donor is Mr Thomas Liew. C'mon, let's give this judo-man a standing ovation! Winston and some others went far out to get the bookshop aunties to donate. Okay, we were supposed to do it in pairs, but we did it in threes anyway. Hylden, One-of-a-kind and Chngzm. OOAK approached this angmoh woman running in gym attire along the CHS way. No response. Little did we know this is only the beginning.
Boarded 157 at the NY bus stop to Toa Payoh MRT. Remembered that place coz that place got a distinct Breadtalk smell in the morning. That whiff. That BREAD!!! So, I get to do alone-duty first. I stood alone besides the escalator at 2nd level of the MRT station, standing like a rock. I didn't approach people but stood there like a log. And my eyes were looking at the ground. My first non-CHS donor is a plump Chinese man in his 40s etc. $2. Then after that, business rushed in. Perhaps it's because I bow and said "thank you" to everyone who donated? Toa Payoh was the most productive location lah. No other flaggers to snatch my business besides Winsty and Chngy. Cleared my first sheet and some columns of stickers - abt 70. Got a lot of praises. Eg, "What school you from? Chinese High? Very good ah." , "Well done, keep it up.". One extremely chatty JC boy who got the attitude of Zhou Ren chatted with me for a while, told me I shouldn't stand like a rock (which I didn't listen to his suggestion afterwards coz my method is more productive), then gave me $10!!! Generous. I told him to get whatever number of stickers he wanted, but eh didn't even took one. Generous. A lot of people forgot to take their stickers, went after a woman who forgot about it down the escalator. Gave double stickers to a pair of twins. Feel very good seeing those little kids pasting stickers on their faces and smiling at me. However, there's some racism issue there la, only 1 Malay donated to me. But Indians and Chinese not bad. Angmoh dun hav lah, angmoh where got live Toa Payoh one?
Next stop, Orchard Road. LOUSY BUSINESS. Partly because there are lot of other RSVP people there, including some CHS guys from 2I I recognised. Cleared only 2 columns and Winsty and I nearly got lost. We climbed a staircase of eternity with no doors, v. frigtening. About going 5 floors up then got door. But that door locked LOR!!! Then climbed another 3 floors up then got an unlocked door. I began to notice a lot of things while doing Flag Day. Angmohs really no good. Somehow I got a feeling they looked down on us Chinese boys. Most passers-by are angmohs but none of them donated. BAHHHH!!!! Most donors are ladies going to work. We covered underpasses then when we moved to underpasses linking shopping centres, we got chased out by security guards. Shouldn't the guards lighten their day a little bit?
Moved on to Jurong East. Met old Yuhua Primary School friend Weiquan with his tennis buddies. Haoteng, another old classmate was late. I made a thriving business but not as good as Toa Payoh's there. No praises there. Got photographed by adult volunteers of RSVP, perhaps used in their magazines? :D In the end, at 1.30pm, we ended our session. In the end, I sold 113 stickers and my bag weighed 800+g on the scale. Quite good. But could have earned more if not for that dumb sucky Orchard Rd. Now listening to Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Child. Guitar riffs are legendary MAN!!! Lixi is sure gonna love it if he were to hear it. Ok, that's all for today. Thank you for wasting your time to read my garbage blog. Ciao.
Thursday, November 13, 2003
Today being a slave to Sungkk's programme again. Talked crap with Tevax and Jophren, translating Matrix Revolutions dialogue to Chinese. Eg, "Make shells." translated to "zhuo4 bei4 ke2". LOL. Today, Boon and Rife were absent. Sigh, this week is 6 days, so many people pon training, somewhat I feel different from others. Change. People do change. I've discovered the people around me are rapidly changing and changing. How I wish it will go deterred. Why change? How I wish I was never educated. Educated to learn the corruption of mankind. Sex, rock n roll, drugs and beer......I wasn't made for this. Somehow ever since I was born, I feel God has a special purpose for everyone. After 14 years, you know what I realised? Purpose is a delusion and illusion.
Okay, let's skip. I just downloaded Matrix Revolutions OST today. Amazing symphony music from Don Davis. The most appealing music track on the album to me is Neodämmerung. The title is obviously German lah, I can translate the title for you since I got study a little bit of German. (hehez, I got French, German dictionaries at home...pop got that when he went Italy) "dämmerung" means "dawn" lah, and Neo obviously meant "new", (if you dunno, you really should be SPANKED) so the title is translated as "new dawn". Beautiful, as the music. To my surprise, the track is sang in Sanskrit language. In case you dunno, it's a language used by Hindu devotees and Indian Buddhists lah, in their chanting of scripts and sutras. I know, coz I chanted it when my grandmama died, lalala.
So, from the net, I translated the Sanskrit lyrics as this:
From delusion lead me to truth. From darkness lead me to light. From death lead me to immortality. He who knows both knowledge and action, with action overcomes death and with knowledge reaches immortality. In him are woven the sky and the earth and all the regions of the air, and in him rest the mind and all the powers of life. Know him as the ONE and leave aside all other words. He is the bridge of immortality. Beyond the senses is the mind, and beyond the mind is reason, its essence. Beyond reason is the Spirit in man, and beyond this is the Spirit of the Universe, the evolver of all. When the five senses and the mind are still, and reason itself rests in silence, then begins the Path supreme. And when he is seen in his immanence and transcendence, then the ties that have bound the heart are unloosened, the doubts of the mind vanish, and the law of Karma works no more.
Beautiful lyrics, Don Davis, you rawks for a white man who knows sanskrit. Lalala. That's all, tomorrow have last training for the week at 8am. Then Saturday got CIP Flag Day...
Tuesday, November 11, 2003
Today is sian, so I blog double post. I hope latecomers won't miss my Matrix essay at the bottom of the post below this. Today I will analyse the origins of some names. Hmm, so what did I do for starter? Word unscrambling. I've put every single word relevant to M3 in http://zbreiten.netfirms.com/UnscramblerForm.html. No anagrams except for the one I found yesterday, which is limbo, anagram for "Mobil Ave". So I will specially search for the origins of some of the names in M3.
Mjolnir (one of the ships' name)
Definition: Thor's Hammer
Origin: The legendary weapon of the Norse God Thor. "Mjolnir" means "lightning." Made by the Dwarves Brok and Eitri, it possessed magical qualities. It would magically return when thrown, and was used for healing and even resurrection.
The hammer was feared by the enemies of the Aesir, and stolen by the frost Giant Thrym, who demanded the goddess Freyja in exchange for its return. Instead, Thor disguised himself as the goddess, siezed control of the hammer, and slew all of the giants in the hall.
The Thor's hammer is often used as an emblem of recognition for members of the Asatru faith.
Logos (one of the ships' name)
Definition: God
Origin: God. The Cosmic Being Who ensouls a planet (Planetary Logos), a solar system (Solar Logos), a galaxy (Galactic Logos) and so on to infinity.
Nebuchadnezzar (one of the ships' name)
Definition: May Nabu protect the son
Origin: Nebuchadnezzar and Nebuchadrezzar. [Heb. Nebukadnessar, and Nebukadressar, from the Babylonian Nabukudurriusur, meaning "May (the god) Nabu protect the son," or "May Nabu protect the boundary." In Greek sources, the same interchange between n and r is found in the forms Nabouchodonosor and Nabokodrosoros; Aramaic, Nebukadnessar.]
Vigilant
Definition: well, u know lah, from dictionary.com
Origin: Apparently, it's a word. But I've searched using google....and found this. So there's actually an art painting named "Christ the vigilant eye". However, Buddhism does speak about "vigilant" too in its teachings. So ergo, concordedly, it is related to a lot of religions, vis-a-vis, it is unconfirmed.
That's all, brother using com. Ciao.
You're Most Like The Season Winter ...
You're often depicted as the cold, distant season.
But you're incredibly intelligent, mature and
Independant. You have an air of power around
you - and that can sometimes scare people off.
You're complex, and get hurt easily - so you
rarely let people in if you can help it. You
can be somewhat of a loner, but just as easily
you could be the leader of many. You Tend to be
negative, and hard to relate to, but you give
off a relaxed image despite being insecure -
and secretly many people long to be like you,
not knowing how deep the Winter season really
is.
Well done... You're the most inspirational of
seasons :)
?? Which Season Are You ??
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Today is okay. Ok, the story starts off like this........once upon a time, EP3 Mr. Big-shot Mr Sung Kah Kee announced that non-sports EP3 people have to train for some days in a sports EP3. Vball is sports, naturally we dun have to go looking for other sports EP3. But it doesn't spell good for us either. We trained Mon, Wed, Fri in the holidays from 8am to 12pm. That is already a lot, and Mr BIG-SHOT have to increase our burden. This week, is Mon, Wed, Fri, and Tues and Thurs teaching other people vball. Sat is our CIP, going Flag Day.....weehee, we're going to sell Sg flags.....NIEH (if u realli think we are selling flags then you r naive) ! Obviously, he was put off by our responses at one of our assembly when we told him about Track n Fields snatching other EP3 potentials. He delivered us his clear message, "T n F is the ULTIMATE EP3 of CHS. None of you are going to stop this. So shuddup and wipe yr arse, kids, coz Kansas is going bye-bye (quoted frm Matrix) "
By the way, forgot to announce I got a HP, number is 93464258 (courtesy of boon). Dun call me unless it's important, coz I normally switched it off. Messages maybe, but in limited number pls. Goodbye, Mr
Monday, November 10, 2003
Today vball training rocks. Soccer, mMm. Our team scored goals in the first 30 seconds for all our matches except our last two matches, leaded by Jophren and Xinkspac. (Ok, I'm officially recognizing this alias) So sit down and enjoy. Not that I'm niaoing Winston's old training that is. Sometimes, you gotta to balance the equation. Eg, you have main course ah, you need DESSERTS (did i spell korrectly?) wad....Eat main course alone is not enough.....sometimes even stomachache.....Little bit of kachang putih or ice kachang is good u know? *The people's eyebrow*
Watched Matrix Revolutions today. ROXXOR. A lot of stuff. Couldn't have done better for the CGI fights between the sentinels and the Zionites. It's so cool! Especially when the woman pulled by Zee firing that shot into the big digging machine. It looks like a saviour, or a Christian cross. And look at the light given off at the end of the movie when Smith died. A Christian crucifix. Damn, symbolism roxx0r. The whole fights made me feel as if I was there. Really. My teeth was chattering, my ears were painful (partly because my ears are sensitive) and my feet went numb. Damn, any movie that can made you feel like it? War.....ONLY brings out the BEST in people...man...although some of you may disagree with me. All the gory, all the pain....I really feel I am suffering with them.
Of course, there is the philosophy too lah. Sati is a very good example. She symbolized the passionate part of the machines. You see, machines are becoming more human, she is the clue, the gist, whatever you called the damn niehy thingy. The train station, if you still don't understand lah, is basically got 2 definition terms. One is a place between the machine world and the real world, in the way common people defined real. Second, is WS_FTP_LE. It uploads programs manufactured in the machine world to the Matrix. That's all, you keeping up with me? I hope you do.
Next, is the train station. I found something queer. For the whole of the movie, I am looking for clues. Yes, you don't go to ENJOY the movie. I came there to analyse it in blueprint. I was looking for anagrams, symbols and the CGI effects, religious connections. To my relief, I found one. Train station, dubbed Mobil Ave. Scrutiny "Mobil". Anagram of "Limbo". Limbo is really an easy word lah.....I learnt it in P4? In case you dunno, I help you define "limbo" now.
limbo (UNCERTAINTY) [Show phonetics]
noun [U]
an uncertain situation that you cannot control and in which there is no advancement or improvement
Cool isn't it? And it was symbolized by something. Neo tried to run through the dark tunnel where the train tracks lead. And it leads back to the beginning of the train tracks leading to the same station, Mobil Ave, again. No "advancement". No "improvement". Omg, I'm turning "Matrixised".
The APU, or Armoured Personel Unit, is one of the most sophisicated thing ever produced in a CGI film. The APU is for REAL, ok? They only use special effects to make more of it. But the stuf used to make the APU for the movie set is totally REAL, only the guns are CGI-effects. Lemme tell you the statistics of APU.
Amazing isn't it? So, don't think Matrix Revolutions is a cheap movie all made up of computer special effects like Shaolin Kungfu. Anyway, cheap movies do STRIKE OUT RICH, eg. Shaolin Soccer.
Okay, back to Matrix. Of course, the common question people will ask is, how come Neo can destroy the Sentinels in the real world? In reloaded, Neo came to the source aka the matrix mainframe aka THE PORTAL. Somehow, Neo did not re-insert his code to reboot the Matrix as the Architect predicted. Still, he touched the source, thus linking himself to the source. He had separated his mind. It's like a a telephone line lah. His mind is at the source. His body is the receiver. Hence, his body is capable of what his mind has done. His body is the output. His mind at the source is the input. Understand? So, he could destroy the sentinels through the source. The other 5 predecessors have touched the source, but they re-inserted their codes, so they died and never ever used their ability through the source to destroy the sentinels.
Of course, the most easy question is: Why Smith died? Every program created has a purpose. Notice that he keeps talking about it when Neo got up to his surprise. Thus, when he destroyed Neo, the anomaly, he is rendered OBSOLETE. He has fulfilled his so-called purpose. Useless programs are immediately deleted.
Eg, Sati, the program without purpose....has to be smuggled like a secret item by her parent programs throuh the train and uploaded to the Matrix as an unimportant individual. The striking difference between the Matrix and the machine world is that there are individuals which have NO purpose in the Matrix, that is the trapped humans in the Matrix. The difference is that Sati is more than an individual, she is a PROGRAM. Therefore, this maybe could have explained why the computer screens in the Logos flashed and flashed encrypted codes, going haywired. The only program that has no purpose - Sati has arrived in the Matrix. Notice that, when the screens flashed, there are a lot of black space and little lines of green encrypted codes. How do you use programming language to describe a program that has no purpose? Nothing! ZERO! Space, space, space! Therefore that explains the black patchs on the screens.
Of course, I admit, there are disappointing parts in the Matrix Revolutions, but not many to me. Most of the time (2h) is filmed in CGI battle scenes - The Machines Breach Zion and the brawl between Neo and Smith, allowing little time for philosphy. Of course, some people may thought, "Hey, there's 0% philosophy! Revos SUCKS". Those kinda people do not think enough. They are still trapped within the boundary of their own mind. One word of caution - "FREE YOUR MIND". See, with all the analogies I drawn up just now, isn't that philosophical enough? Of course, there are more analogies which I will draw up later in the week.
(Please credit "Hylden" aka Richard Nian if you want to publish it in your blog. Thanx.)