Update

Ok I'm only updating now because I will be off for a month this December.

List of things which have happened:

Work Exposure:

-We had work exposure

-We went to a hotel and worked

-We received no payment

-We received a great experience instead

-We learned that working as the Concierge is one of the most boring jobs ever

I found out that Dawn of War 2 is really fun

I received requests to update the blog

I decided to update the blog but got lazy

I did this

Man, I'm really too lazy to do a full update now. Sorry guys. :(

A Poem I call "Og Number Seventeen"

Og Number Seventeen:

I have to make it a habit to regularly update this blog,

It is just such a bore sometimes my entries are so long that I slog.

I do not know if it will clog your mind if I overuse og og,

But I still really hate that subject which people like to call "geog".
I am lucky I do not take that course because I do like my dog.

This may seem random to you, probably really really such a bog.

Just for you to read this is a very terribly dauntingly slog.

I made a grammatical error just to hit you guys in the "nog".

Yes, I said "slog" two times because I am chopping a two-timing log,

Therefore I make a happy face because I spiked that log's vintage grog.

I could not complete my task because there was way too much London fog.

They told me that that fog is not called "fog" but is called smoke fog or smog.

Can you appreciate this poem for how many lines it has dog?

I write this like a robot which can also be called many gears and cogs.

I now run out of ideas so you can scurry and run along.

I make mistakes to break the monotony that the "og" sound makes. og.

Now "og"le at the "og"s to "og"cupy yourselves, you "og"gish fr"og"s.

Ok to really appreciate it you have to understand why the poem is called what it is called.

L'esprit de l'escalier: The Wit of the Staircase

Well I heard from some guys that my blog was quite interesting and if I could update more (the blog died). So I decided to finally update this (again) after four months.

The title means The Wit of the Staircase. It refers to one having a witty comeback but having it only hit his head when it is too late. This is what I suffer and also a problem for this blog. I had a lot of interesting things about which to write but well... I was too lazy and by the time I brought myself up to do it, the events happened way too long ago. I do not exactly know how to pronounce L'esprit de l'escalier but I shall take it as an abbreviation of La esprit de la escalier which I think is pronounced lah ehsspriht deh lah ehsskahlieh. Whatever.

It's also known as Treppenwitz (Trehppuhn-vits) in German. It means the same thing.

That reminds me, I just had my German exam. It was quite stressful. I do not know what to say except that the others and I spent around 3 hours talking before my oral exam even started. I shall not elaborate anymore thereon (It is like darüber in German. I learned about it therefrom).

Recently I have been playing computer games (wasting some which I do not play) and the Left 4 Dead 2 demo has just come out (I have not tried it yet).

I just got Dawn of War 2 and I have to say it resembles Company of Heroes a lot. It is probably because Relic worked thereon (Sorry the word is just cool) as well. However, I prefer Dawn of War 2 because of the setting. World War 2 is just a bit boring compared to Space Marines and Orkz (yes Orkz).

However, in Dawn of War 2, one cannot build sandbags for cover. I will miss the sandbags. I do prefer, however, the lack of base-building. It makes the game much more focused on the action herewith (ok I should stop using these words) and I really love that (and these pronominal adverbs).

Anyway, I feel that they should make First Person Shooters out of these games instead of Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games (of course World of Warcraft is more fitting as an MMORPG). Same for the Command and Conquer series. Well they already made Warhammer 40,000 online. Company of Heroes would probably make a great FPS as well, but Call of Duty already exists.

Well, I am out of time (for you guys) and I have to go (for now). See you all! Hope you enjoyed your reading of my post and have a nice day thereafter!

EDIT: I have now played the Left 4 Dead 2 demo. It's quite fun. Lucky I have my mouse's on-the-fly sensitivity switch cos the gun was kinda slow.

I did not really care about my teammates since I was playing single player. I just tried the new weapons out, got unimpressed by the Spitter (the spit had terrible graphics), annoyed by the Jockey and unaffected by the Charger (that thing is useless). I was really annoyed by the riot police (bulletproof) zombie as well...

Ah well, it does not seem much different from Left 4 Dead except all the zombies look worse and there are a few more. I guess I will have to wait for the full game to come out before I can really judge.

After SOOOO Long

I know I have not updated this blog for a very long time so as it is now the start of the holidays, I shall make one post.

Customer(C): Hi, I'd like a Milo McFlurry please.
Person at Counter (P): Sure thing. *Mixes vanilla ice cream, milo powder and 5 milo nuggets*. There you go. That'll be $2.70 please.
C: WHAT?! 5 MILO NUGGETS ARE $2.70?! THAT CANNOT BE.
P: Well 5000 people survived with 5 loaves and 2 fish in the Bible. Why can't you survive with 5 milo nuggets?
C: That's because they got it for free. This is $2.70! It's all of my hard-earned money!
P: Well the Israelites had to suffer to get manna. What's wrong with suffering for something even better than that?
C: Well that's because they were in a desert with NOTHING TO EAT and could only have manna. I, on the other hand, can choose not to have this stuff and get a PROPER meal instead. Now give me more milo nuggets!
P: Now, now child, Jesus survived 40 days without food. This stuff is a blessing! If you were to eat this stuff, you'd be more well-off than Jesus was!
C: Jesus was God d*mn it! Of course he could survive without food! Forget this. I'm out of here.
P: Have it your way!

I felt like C when I bought a Milo McFlurry. Ah well, I was bored. Oh and did you get the Burger King reference?

Ok now on to main events that have happened. After all, sharing them is what this blog is for is it not?

I went for my Needs Analysis on Friday and we were analyzing peoples' needs. Saw some freaky people, some creepy people and some just plain annoyed people. Smoking kids, people licking their gate grilles, guy who smoked and had a "No Smoking" logo, guy who ignored our knocking for hours and rejected us in the end, a Muay Thai boxer, an Old RI guy, yeah, it was pretty weird.

Some of us from class went to watch Terminator: Salvation before that. It had really cool action scenes, which sometimes dragged for too long. Some things did not make sense but that happens in almost all movies. I did not watch the other Terminator movies so I had to rely on what Vishaal had told me about the movies to understand the show a bit more. I do not really think the guys in the submarine deserved to die. I think the people not knowing there were Hydrobots in the water was really stupid since they had caught some from there and named them themselves. Ok I just spoiled some for you.

Anyway, it came with a trailer for the movie: Drag Me To Hell. Real freaky that trailer was. According to wikipedia, it got pretty good reviews. Yeah it seemed like a good movie in terms of plot and whatever but well I am not planning to watch it. I do not like horror movies.

They also showed this other trailer. Was really lame... I can't even remember the name of the movie. They said a guy had invented a time travel machine. It "takes them in time". Actually, it takes them to a place chock full of aliens, dinosaurs, cavemen, abandoned motels called the "trash can of time" or something like that. Horrible CGI effects too.

Ok the next day, some NPCC guys and I went to hear CI Shude's CIP briefing. Heard some lousy presentations which furthered the sexist/educational stereotypes I have now. Not exactly a good thing but still... Anyway, what we did AFTER that was the cool part.

All of us went to pizza hut. People ate cheese like there was no tomorrow. Well even though we ate there 2 days ago, my constipation acted up today. Had a terrible stomach ache.
Well I think we will soon be blacklisted because we used up 2/3 of TWO cheese bottles. Heheheh...

I think that should be around all. Have A Nice Day!

Random Stuff:

FLiegenAbwehrKanonen (Airplane Defense Cannons)-FLAK
NAtionalsoZIalismus (National Socialism) -NAZI

Wenn hinter Fliegen Fliegen fliegen, fliegen Fliegen Fliegen nach (When flies fly behind flies, flies fly after flies)

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo (This is a grammatically correct sentence. Take note that buffalo can mean: The Animal, The City, A verb meaning intimidate)

Therefore "Fish fish fish fish fish fish fish" is a correct sentence.

NPAP and CIP

I had a busy day yesterday. I could not go to church because I had two things on.

The first thing I had was this Bedok Reservoir "CIP" where we took a walk along the Bedok Reservoir and either tested water quality or picked garbage from the floor up. Kenneth and I were doing the testing. Well in the end it happened to be a corporate event, hosted by Hitachi, which adopted the Reservoir (I am not completely sure that I know what that means).

I also had to go for the NPAP, the NPCC (National Police Cadet Corps) Annual Parade or something like that afterwards. Right after getting home, I polished my boots the way Kenneth told me to, using a hairdryer. Well it seemed to have worked better than just rubbing the boots a lot. If only that shiny look of the boots with the melted Kiwi polish on them lasted...

Well Teng Chuan and all the other randommers ditched me and Aloysius so we had to take care of the 7 Secondary Ones ourselves. Well the NPAP was not actually perfect, nor was it exceptional. It was... well... fine. A lot of people fainted and one person was rushed off to the hospital. Jason was in that parade but I could not see him. I was looking for him during the march-past. Ah well...

Gute Nacht!

Wise words: Sheep are made of cotton wool. They shrink when made wet. -Flock

I seem to have neglected this blog {Grammatical Error Post}

So I will have a complaint here:

Why is it that everyone uses the same grammar mistake? I have not seen anyone except one or two people who have avoided committing this horrendous error. Here it is:

Put out the fire!
Turn off the lights!
Punch out his eyeballs!

OK these may not seem to be mistakes to you. But what about more examples of clauses with the same structure?

Turn back time.
Pay back him.
Beat up him.

OK the correct structures should be:

Put the fire out!
Turn the lights off!
Punch his eyeballs out!
Turn time back.
Pay him back.
beat him up.

You see, almost no one I know or even don't know puts the prepositions after his sentences' subjects. For some reason it is always BEFORE the subject instead of AFTER it. I hope to see people bothering to remember this simple grammatical rule that almost no one has...

EDIT EDIT: Sorry. It seems like I made an error of my own. It is OBJECT not SUBJECT for all of those sentences in which I used the word subject.

Blarhx

Well this is what I did quite some time ago. It's subtitling a Denglisch (Deutsch-Englisch) song called, erm... well, Denglisch into Gerglish (German - English). OK enjoy!

Well its late so Sayonara!

Finally posting

OK I finally am going to post a post. I am posting post-theolo and post-boredom. Post. I shall try to do this post which I have not bothered to do for a month now. FINALLY, now here goes...

OK so I might have forgotten some things since I am posting so late.

So after I left, I went for a Theological Bible Seminar for 22 days.

I managed to have more prayers than ever and be able to be free from my computer, from which I have been enslaved. Well that's a good thing and all, but I also have been having the same amount of randomness as usual.

During Theolo, I met some new people, and met some old overseas friends that I met last year. No people from overseas joined the First Year this year.

Preacher Ch. also told us that in all of the birthdays listed in the Bible, someone died.

-Pharaoh in Joseph story: The butler and the baker. One of them died. I forgot which one.
-Herod: John the Baptist was beheaded.

So this tells us two things,

1. We do not need to celebrate Jesus' birthday.
2. We should not honour ourselves only on our birthdays. It is, in fact, our mothers who suffered so much to give birth to us.

When the Seminar started, flies suddenly attacked us. We faced flies for a long time. Shawn suggested that it was the bananas that attracted the flies. I was not fully sure of this fact yet, but was at least partially believing the suggestion. Therefore, the people in charge put up fly traps that were not changed for the approximately 20 days. Shawn actually counted the flies accumulating over the days and saw that the numbers were going up at quite a rate. I could list out the numbers for one of the two fly traps but I cannot be bothered.

Eventually, the flies were gone. However, once bananas were served for dessert again, the flies came back. Shawn was obviously right about his banana theory.

OK so we guys were in the lounge and I was telling them (Kevin was there and had not heard about this yet) about how the Preacher said that girls are stupid (I don't take that seriously...). Angela came in and said I was stereotyping when I was just making fun of the stereotype. The funny thing occurred after all of that. I was sitting down and Julia was staring into the window. I was staring at her wondering what in Ford's name she was doing. I think she noticed that she looked extremely dumb and started walking off without looking. Well the voltage room was open because it was being fixed earlier, therefore making the door directly in Julia's way. My view was such that I could not see her when she bumped into the huge square door and shrieked. So Gabriel, who was sitting right next to me, told me, "I guess that just proves the statement." We ended up laughing out loud.

Our choir presentation was messed up because we had a person-in-charge with super good time management *cough*. We did not have a conductor, nor did we have proper preparation. During the singing, the boys were singing a part only meant to be sung by the girls and I got really confused. Even a person who knew the song was singing it, despite being a guy. Yeah the whole thing was messed up.

So I came back home to see that my bros had changed my computer to a vista theme. :p

We had a tiny party for my birthday on Sunday and me and Hansel decided to play the new game I got, Rome: Total War. IT WAS EPIC FUN!!!

Well it consists of you having huge armies (to a maximum of 10,000 men I believe) to conquer the whole of Rome. It is a turn-based strategy on the campaign map where you take turns to do things. The other turns are taken by the other factions. When you destroy these factions or beat a long game, you can use these factions. When you attack an army or a city in the game, you fight the army in real time. The city will be besieged and you control your army. You could also auto-resolve the battle, but that takes all the fun out of the game. I am playing with the Scipii army and I have some tiny island. Unfortunately it is not like Singapore which reaps in huge profits. Instead, those settlements on the island kill me. I have already restarted the campaign (which requires one to take over 50 settlements and battle the rest of Rome to become its supreme ruler in 275 years or 550 turns) one time and I am planning to do so again.



OK I'd really like to talk more, but this post is 2 months overdue, so I'm just gonna post this half-finished thing...