Leroy's Secret War Journals: June 2011

HOW TO TICK PEOPLE OFF

Sunday, June 26, 2011

Secret War Journal[26 June 2011]
Came across this at Pei Shi's blog, enjoy. (Oh, and don't do to anyone, especially me. I just had to say it. ;)

Leave the copy machine set to reduce 200%, extra dark, 17 inch paper, 99 copies.
In the memo field of all your checks, write "for sexual favors."
Specify that your drive-through order is "TO-GO."
If you have a glass eye, tap on it occasionally with your pen while talking to others.
Stomp on little plastic ketchup packets.
Insist on keeping your car windshield wipers running in all weather conditions "to keep them tuned up."
Reply to everything someone says with "that's what you think."
Practice making fax and modem noises.
Highlight irrelevant information in scientific papers and "cc" them to your boss.
Make beeping noises when a large person backs up.
Finish all your sentences with the words "in accordance with prophesy."
Signal that a conversation is over by clamping your hands over your ears and grimacing.
Disassemble your pen and "accidentally" flip the ink cartridge across the room.
Holler random numbers while someone is counting.
Adjust the tint on your TV so that all the people are green, and insist to others that you "like it that way."
Staple pages in the middle of the page.
Publicly investigate just how slowly you can make a croaking noise.
Honk and wave to strangers.
Decline to be seated at a restaurant, and simply eat their complimentary mints at the cash register.
TYPE IN UPPERCASE.
type only in lowercase.
dont use any punctuation either
Buy a large quantity of orange traffic cones and reroute whole streets.
Repeat the following conversation a dozen times.

As much as possible, skip rather than walk.
Try playing the William Tell Overture by tapping on the bottom of your chin. When nearly done, announce "No, wait, I messed it up," and repeat.
Ask people what gender they are.
While making presentations, occasionally bob your head like a parakeet.
Sit in your front yard pointing a hair dryer at passing cars to see if they slow down.
Sing along at the opera.
Go to a poetry recital and ask why each poem doesn't rhyme.
Ask your co-workers mysterious questions and then scribble their answers in a notebook. Mutter something about "psychological profiles."

Winds of Change

Friday, June 24, 2011

Secret War Journal[24 June 2011]
How Junior College has changed my life.

Today may will be officially my last day of playing computer games. Not that I can't (if studying for examinations is one reason) but rather I just simply lost the interest because of the stress from the examinations.

Ironic isn't it? Many perceive games as a form of relieving stress. Actually, it doesn't and it has been proven by studies.

I have, as a fellow doctor diagnosed himself, contracted Level 2 Boredom, known as existence boredom. It is not the usual boredom where you have nothing to do but rather having so many things to do, you start to feel it is meaningless to do any. Yes, this is now considered boredom.

Actually, I'm kind of glad this condition is called boredom. It felt as though I'm experiencing some mid-life crisis then.

Speaking of which, talk about the post-effects of Project Work in Junior Colleges and constant examinations, I have distanced myself from using computers. Now I use computers with a form of dread and also slowly but surely alienated myself from all forms of computer games (yes, including Facebook games, in fact that was actually very easy to quit altogether). Hahas, I always wondered aloud to my friends why can't they quit those facebook games. It was so easy for me. I didn't realise it then, I subconsciously stopped playing.

At this rate, people would hardly believe I was actually once the Chairman of a well-known Infocomm Club. I'm like avoiding gadgets like a plague. I respond slowly to my mobile phones now (slower than a few months back). I deliberately drain my phone's battery when I'm doing work too just so it can't distract me anymore.

Sometimes, my iPod discrupts my concentration but it is my last companion now. I feel a pang of sadness when I typed that.

What had education done to me. I feel as though Education is an deliberate policy by world governments to outcast people with excuse to different level of jobs. I mean, in the socially ideal world, everyone should be university graduates with Phd but that is Utopian.

Two more days before my examinations begin once more, my revision is not even anywhere near half-done. I can't really study. No motivation. Herein lies the problem - Existence Boredom. Ah, someone tell me the point of studying apart from the usual thing of going University. I need more feasible reasons! Argh!

Life in this century is truly sad. Educated but so life-less. Is that what we desire? Someone tell me.

"As I go through all kinds of feelings and experiences in my journey through life -- delight, surprise, chagrin, dismay -- I hold this question as a guiding light: 'What do I really need right now to be happy?' What I come to over and over again is that only qualities as vast and deep as love, connection and kindness will really make me happy in any sort of enduring way." - Sharon Salzberg 

MSNz with Kelz

Thursday, June 23, 2011

Secret War Journal[23 June 2011]

You know we're screwed when we seeing (excessive) studying as a form of mental illness. :)

Birthday Cards

Monday, June 20, 2011

Secret War Journal[June 2011]
This is a post dedicated to all my friends who had made a birthday card specially for me! Firstly, a heart-felt thank you to all of you! :)

Green Lantern, sadists, and Munchkin

Saturday, June 18, 2011

Secret War Journal[18 June 2011][Long Post][Photo-Heavy]

Belated Birthday Celebration

Wohoo! Another morning, my parents ain't back from overseas yet.

Johnston, Keller, Qi Xiang, and Marcus have organised a birthday celebration for me. Actually, they intended to have it yesterday but I already agreed to go out with Christopher and gang to celebrate birthday. Hahas!

I guess we can't have everything squeezed into a day unless I decided to not sleep at all. Hahas.

Before that, I would like to say I'm really grateful for Cynthia, Pei Shi, Laura, and Debbie for planning to bake a cake. Hahas. Thanks for your thoughts. ^^

Alright, before I go completely off tangent, I was a bit late for today's outing actually because I was doing house chores before I could leave with ease. (you know, parents complaining the shit out of me when the house is anywhere but perfectly clean....)

Nevertheless, I met up with Johnston first at Daiso, Plaza Singapura. He was buying some textiles for Emelia because Emelia wanted some as decorations for her scrapbook (if I recall). The textiles there are really a challenging area, me not knowing what to do with them. Hahas!

Heading towards where the rest were, I had a hard time locating them because they were dining at a place where we seldom go in this shopping mall. Half-embarrassed myself for spending around 5 minutes looking around like an idiot because I ignored the possibility of them being there. Here's a lesson to learn. :)

Of course, there's a reason why we're all meeting up at Secret Recipe.

There was a cake!

My surprised face. XD

This is where we all got sadistic and tried to 'torture' the cake. The above picture is me trying to 'slice' the cake with my bare hands!

Close-up shots of the cake they bought for me!

Caught admiring the cake, oops? :p

Going in for the kill!

Excalibur!!!

Widening the wounds of the cake!

Look at my evil smile! O.o

A fellow sadist. With added sound effects.

His trophy!

Really appreciated the cake and allocating one day just for me. I'm really glad you all meet and organised it. Special thanks to Johnston. :)

Hahas, the cake was sweet. :P
You people gave me a hard time thinking of a wish! :O Hahas!

Green Lantern: The Movie

Shortly after the clean-up of the corpse of the banana filled chocolate cake, we adjourned to the cinema above for a film of Green Lantern: The Movie.

I would say, this is a movie meant for hardcore Green Lantern Fans. Hahas!

Why do I say that? The climax was rather short. Worse, I thought that was a lead-in all along. Ah! Imagine how disappointed I was when one of the character did not become villain as I thought it would (according to the comics)

Oh well, not much cool effects. Average plot, not much action though.

Hahas, it's hard for a movie to satisfy me huh? :p

Fort Canning Park

After the movie, we went hunting for a place to sit down to do something.

From Plaza Singapura we exited and headed towards the Fort Canning Park for a desolated sitting area.

Well..... we couldn't find one but that doesn't mean we didn't have fun in the process. XD

We're stuck in the Fort! Noooooo!

~Qi Xiang teleporting away or trying to get out of here.

Guys! Don't leave me behind!

Think Gongfu Panda.

The Three Wise Men

No Kellers were harmed in the process of developing this picture.
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This warrant a section of its own! Keller planking!

Munchkins

If you're wondering why we were looking for a place with tables and chairs, it's time for me to reveal (while I open my birthday present!)

Presenting the birthday present (left), an expansion set to Munchkin!

Munchkin is a boardgame that adapts a RPG style that is rather fast-paced.

So yep, we decided to go to SMU study benches to play our boardgames. :)

The Munckin gang!

With the board games!
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Once again, I would like to thank you guys for buying this wonderful present! I had a lot of fun today! Thank you!

Dinner @ Clarke Quay

Thought that's the end? No way! Hahas! After playing Munchkins, we headed down to Clarke Quay to treat ourselves to fine cuisine. Ah, it's been such a long time. I think it's the first time we all went together to eat there. :)

Ordering the dishes was very fun. We accidentally end up in a Sichuan Restuarant (which is known for their spicy recipes) and half of us can't take spicy.

Thus, we ended up ordering non-spicy dishes in that restaurant which was very queer by itself, and earned stares from the staff. Hahas, there was this point of time where the waiters were staring at us, looking worried. So funny. :P

I guess, we must had been the strangest customers ever and freaked the heck out of them. The boss even came over to make sure everything was all right. Hahas!

The Fish ultimately became our main dish. We had a relatively long debate whether to include a fish into our course meal as we didn't want to over-spend but it turned out to be a good decision as it really filled our stomachs. :)

To end it off, we're treated to fireworks! Enjoy!

June: Rite

Friday, June 17, 2011

Secret War Journal[17 June 2011][Long Post]

Kite flying

Hoo yeah! Second kiteflying this week! Awesome start for a day, no? (For a post too, hahas!)

Joining me today for today's meeting would be my 4D class clique namely, Christopher, Jing Ting, Lai Yin, Jing Ying and Guan Hui.

Despite Lai Yin asking us to bring kites for today, I didn't. Ha!

I wasn't intending to fly one since I just had one a few days back. Nevertheless, I still end up playing kite. Hahas!
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After much kiteflying without much result (since it was hard to sustain the height that our kites reach), we headed out of the fields for lunch.

There was much debate as to what we should eat for lunch (we had been discussing this for ages. Hahas!)

After taking a slight detour, we decided to stop by Anchorvale Community Centre for lunch. Since Jing Ying was a vegetarian, we had instant noodles for lunch at 7 Eleven. XD

A bit pathetic but who cares? Hahas! Meanwhile, we played Monopoly Deal!

A pretty long game at that too, I wonder why I was slow in playing just now? Must be mentally tired, I guess. :S

Mr Popper's Penguins

Next up! We're now in Downtown East. As the heading above already revealed, the movie we're watching is Mr Popper's Penguins!

Actually, most of us had no real clue what movie was about (sorry for being an idiot? :p) and the idea was brought up by Lai Yin.

I can't really give much opinions about this movie since I had no real expectations.

Well, it's sorta funny? Hahas! But not as funny as Bruce Almighty.

Personally, I feel that the movie would look better if the Transformers movie trailer was not shown before this movie was played because the awesome action-packed scenes in the trailer really killed the mood for the actual movie because the contrast was too great.

JustAcia

My second time here! Hahas!

Originally, we wanted to go play pool or arcade. But....

For the pool, the place was packed and hence there were no available tables for us to play. XD

For the arcade, we didn't have the card to play there. Hahas.

Therefore, we ended up at JustAcia for our wonderful dinner. :)

Three of us had Herbal Chicken Rice Set. Jing Ting had Spicky Chicken while Jing Ying had Kimchi. It was nice! You should try it in the future. Continued playing Monopoly Deal until it was time to go home. :)

Alright, the time has come to shed an ounce of truth of what had conspired since last year. Since the event was officially over, I personally conclude that it is quite all right to disclose what happened.

Like one of my friend who recently revealed on my tagboard, there was a prank regarding my birthday a couple of months ago.

However, all these were anything but a part of the preparation for today.

You see, with the arrival of facebook, birthday greetings had been slammed with a feeling of insincerity since people would login into Facebook and find out that it's your birthday on that day itself.

Not much meaning is there? Thus, I conspired to hide my birthday on Facebook. Got a number of pals to post birthday wishes on my 'birthday'.

The objectives were two-fold - An excuse to hide my real birthday and mislead other people who didn't know when my birthday was into thinking my birthday was then.

The latter helps, in theory, to prevent people from getting cues from facebook posts on my wall later during my actual birthday. Thus, it serves as a form of confusion. Of course, it's only in theory, there are people who will vaguely remember and see through this amateur plot.

Nevertheless, today's post is actually meant to be a thanksgiving post. I would like to say my plan work relatively well and I would like to thank all of you for making my birthday so significant this year. After all, it's the thought that counts. :)

By chronological order:

My sister -- who had been wondering why my birthday falls on the same day as a certain event. :)
My dad -- Thank you.
Shereen -- Hahas, my 'daughter' who had been bugging me to know when's my birthday. Thank you for your well-wishes and facebook messages later with the funny greetings which really brightened the day. :)
Sally -- Thank you for remembering my birthday. Yes, I shall have a smashing year ahead! Hahas!
Cynthia -- Thank you for remembering my birthday. Still stay up so late? Hahas. Really appreciated. :)
Benjamin -- Ah fellow gemini whose birthday falls on the same day as mine. Thank you thank you. Hahas! :)
Emelia -- Your unique way of wishing me happy birthday really made laughed out loud. Great timing, if you ask me. Hahas! Thank you.
Shawn Teo -- Hey pal, thank you! :)
Janice -- Hi jie, thank you! :)
Bao Lin -- Thank you! It must had been tough sending to all three of us. Rest well!
Qi Xiang -- Thank you! Don't feel too bad about the kiteflying yeah? What matters is that we have fun!
Francis -- Thank you expert cuber! Go break the Singapore record okay? I will be supporting you, hahas! ;)
Aunt Michelle -- Thank you! Have a great time in London! :)
Shi Ming -- Long no see, thank you. Wonder how's life on your side?
Jing Ying -- Hahas, you cute, facebooking me when I'm in front of you and sipping hot chocolate. XD Thank you.
Eunice -- Yes, you got my chinese name right at last! Joking, thank you :)
Jia Pei -- Thank you, I see you post on the walls of all three of us. Hahas!
Yuki -- Hey! You tie with Jia Pei! Hahas, thank you, I really enjoyed today! :p
Travis -- Thank you Junior iCC chairman!
Rena -- Thank you Junior iCC Chairman! Hahas, coincidence much? :p
Sock Yii -- Thank you pretty junior! :)
Shi Jie -- Thank you junior!
Wen Rui -- Thank you. The conversation was funny to me. :p
Wei Jun -- Thank you junior! ;)
Johnston -- Thank you best friend! Hahas, thank you for coming up with such a unique of wishing me happy birthday! :)
Ivy -- Thank you!
Tze Yui -- Hey cousin! Thank you! Tap tap is fun, you know? XD
Joan -- Thank you! Hahahas! It's really fun whenever you join in the conversation. Hahas!
Qi Xian -- Thank you cousin! Mario rocks! LOL
Siew Yan -- Thank you for your attempt to send it at 11:59PM (which is now) :)

Update (18 June):

Gideon --Thank you junior! I will try to 'bump' into you more often in school! Hahas!
Keller -- Thank you, Johnston, Keller, Marcus, Qi Xiang for the cake and everything else! (More on my next post) Thank you emelia too for the present! :)))
Marcus --Thank you once again! Hahas! Thank you for sending me the pictures as well. ;)
Jie Sheng -- Hahas so creative! I hope my reply to you was just as creative. HA!
Yan Mae -- Thank you! :)
Ying Ying -- Thank you though why are you still calling me a geek? Hahas!
Pei Wen -- Thank you!

Update (19 June):

Jia Hong -- Hey long time no see! Thank you!

Update (20 June):

Clarissa -- Yes very late. Hahas! Thank you!

Update (21 June):

Timothy -- Hahas, it's okay I knew you had tuition. :) Thank you!
Erin -- Thank you Erin! BizClub President! ;)

Update (25 June):

ZhenYao -- Thank you! Ironically, that day was my sister's birthday...

Actually, looking at this list now, I would say the operation was highly successful. Look at the date range. Hahas, I bet I never experience this before in previous years. Thank you buddies for making the operation so successful. Over and out.

"I'm not telling you it's going to be easy - I'm telling you it's going to be worth it." - Art Williams

June

Monday, June 13, 2011

Secret War Journal[13 June 2011]
It's been some time since I post a sad post. I think it's becoming a habit of mine. I feel as though a part of me is missing and I can only organise my thoughts via blogging. Sorry world, you would have to bear with me. Haha.

My affinity with June. So many things return back to the word "June". Some consider 11:11 of significance. Apart from one or two things, I think June is of more significance.

June. Where it all began.

June. The name of the first girl whom I caused her to cry. So immature then, so not innocent then. Such a black heart I have.

June. The bond between my sister and I share.

June. Where all fell apart.

June...

Hahas, and what luck? The school administration decided to have my mid-year examinations AFTER june holidays. Is my life great or what? Hahas, I had been having difficulty finding motivation to study. Some help here? Haha?

What can I say? The Shadow King has grown old. His mental will has weakened. That, however does not mean he will stop his revenge.

I still walk the path of destruction.

A path of no return.

A path of whispered promise.

A path of hardship.

A path of great despair. 

But the question I seek now is...

Will someone provide light in this dark path? So many possible routes, so many filled with thorns. Where, oh where, lies the path that bears fruit?

Another step into the darkness, alone.

Double Whammy

Sunday, June 12, 2011

Secret War Journal[12 June 2011]

Today is one freaky day. Okay, short post.

First, I think my computer's internal clock died. I went to use the computer at 6pm and the computer clock was showing 2pm.

I was like mind-f***ed. (partly because the surrounding is still rather bright as if it's 2pm. Thus, there was a slight chance all my other clocks are wrong. Heehee)

Of course, I'm saying this because I think my face expression was rather priceless then. Needless to say, I recovered fast. Sync-ed my computer clock back to the atomic clock. Guess I would be doing this more often if my computer internal clock really died. :(

Next, I just login-ed into Facebook and the first thing Facebook informed me was that my anniversary was coming. (With a heart shape)

*Facepalm*

I have no idea where that came from. I immediately went to check my profile details and even some internal stuff and I couldn't figure out where I, if ever, placed such a date. (maybe my privacy setting is so strong, even I can't view it. Eh, wait, can others see that and misunderstand? Oh no...)

I swear, Facebook is becoming scary.

Raffles City Groove

Saturday, June 4, 2011

Secret War Journal[4 June 2011][Photo-heavy]
Ok, we were planning to study at Starbucks at Raffles City but it turns out that there was a musical performance there. Keller said it was for the Singapore Arts Festival which started this week. Lucky us!

There were many performances but I especially like the violinist. I did not take photos of all the performances, my apologies. Enjoy whatever few I have.