Tennis

Mood:So-so,waiting to get slaughtered on tuesday....
Music:How's a Man supposed to change?-Blue

You know,whenever I play a tennis match,I always remember this:

"Listen and talk about anything related tennis during a match;anything other than that is rubbish"

There is one guy in our tennis class that...as I like to say. "Ai Gao"(one who acts boastfully).I always dread playing with him(although he is something) cause he really LOVES to talk rubbish during a match.

He always say my serve too fast and he can't receive it.I mean...come on?!Can we just play the match?Somestimes he will make sarcastic comments everywhere and he does think that makes him cool.Huh,on the contrary....

Tagged by EVILyn(there's a reason why that was big..XD)

1. What was ur dream when you were a small kid?
Hmm....being way better than my peers i think.

2. What was the happiest thing in your whole life?
Not yet

3. What do you wish to have right now?
Anyone but "friends of feast"(which I have alot right now)

4. When was the last time you Horse Laugh?
Nope.Never had one.

5. What do you realize recently?
Most of my friends are "friends of feast"

6. Which bad habbit of you that is most unacceptable?
Bad-tempered...oh yes..

7. When you're unhappy what will u do?
I will cycle around my neightbourhood.It makes me feel I'm the one "cycling" to my
destiny without any interfearance.Good or bad.


8. What are you afraid of losing?
Those that matters to me right now.

9. Within 5 years, which target is the most realistic one?
I'm able to drive my car(hopefully not a jalopy) all over Penang.

10. When you met someone you like, will you confess or hide your feelings?
Hmm...see how the circumstances are.Usually I will only confess after she does.
Even if she said she used to have a crush,I will take it manly n tell her the truth.I more prepared now...

11. List out 3 kind of people you hate the most.
Politicians....hypocrites....racist...oh wait did I sum it up with the 1st one?

12. Define Loneliness.
No true friens....no family...no GOD

13. Are you satisfied with your life now?
I'm doing the best I can to improve it right now.Go figure.

14. When is the most recent time you felt touched?
Just now when I watched "Freedom Writers" It was amazing how one inexperienced teacher would go great lengths to help her so-called "scumbags of the society" to be students who are understanding to each skin and graduate from highs school despite oppositon from even the school.

15. Where is the most beautiful place that you've visited?
Somewhere in Melbourne...I think it's the 12 Apostles rocks.

16. A song that is playing in your mind recently?
Over and Over - Nelly feat. Tim Mcgraw

17. If you have a wish come true, what is it?
She?

18. Do you have anything to worried or scared recently?
My AKPN.....End-Years exam....slipping away from her....

19. If the world is going to end, what will you do?
Say this: "God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;and wisdom to know the difference;and the will to stand up for you".

20. Who are you thinking of right now?
Her

I'll tag:

Sook Koon,Qian Wen,Adele,Adrian,Sukumaran

Volkswagens

Just went to Queensbay Mall after my tennis lesson.There was a car exhibition and I saw 2 Volkswagen cars I would I long to own!

I saw a Black Volkswagen GTI and took some random pics:


(the car)


(interior...luv it)

Another more few random pics:



(VW+ GTI+red break callipers=FUN!!!)

Then I saw a Volkswagen Eos beside the GTI.The eos is a new cabriolet released by VW and has just arrived on Malaysian shores quite a while ago.Sure,there are better n cooler looking cabriolet out there but who cares?IT'S A VOLKSWAGEN!!


(The masterpiece)


(The interior,some ppl say it looks boring but it looks ok to me..)


(Cool!You open the boot with the logo!)

Another few random pic: (I know I suck in photography...)

A Serious Movie

By Soo-Inn Tan

Dark Knight is a movie that grabs you by the you-know-what and
doesn't let go till the last scene. It's one of the few movies where I
saw people clapping when the credits rolled. Was it that good? The
box office receipts say yes. So do the critics. It is a powerful movie,
an adult movie. Compare it to Spider-Man 3 and you know what I
mean. It even has a different feel from its predecessor, Batman
Begins. No futuristic trains in the sky, Gotham here looks like any
major city. It looks like New York, and September 11 is the constant
not so subtle subtext. Dark Knight may be a fantasy but it is a
fantasy about our life, a vehicle to ponder our questions.

If you are not living in Baghdad, Dark Knight gives you a good feel
of what it means to live in constant fear of violence and death.
Heath Ledger's Joker is the star of course. And so the show is about
evil, evil that is smart, cruel, and seemingly unstoppable. When the
Joker is inflicting his violence, you want to look away, but like road
kill caught in the lights of the truck that is bearing down on you,
you can't. Sometimes there is no time to look away, like the scene
where the guy gets the pencil through the eye. I was surprised that
I didn't black out during the show. Maybe I did. I held my breath
throughout.

Dark Knight is a violent movie, a visual Ecclesiastes. Through the
mouth of the Joker, it tells us that everything is meaningless. There
is no guarantee that good guys win. Indeed those on the side of the
angels get no special protection from evil as exemplified by the fate
of Rachel Dawes. So why bother? Why so serious? Why do we try so
hard to do the right thing when it doesn't guarantee us anything?
Indeed why bother to make any plans at all when we have
absolutely no control over what happens in life? The only rational
response to the absurdity of life is anarchy. Listen as the Joker sells
this to a bitter Harvey Dent.

['It's the schemer who put you where you are. You were a schemer.
You had plans. Look where it got you. I just did what I did best --- I
took your plan and I turned it on itself
Introduce a little anarchy, you upset the established order, and
everything becomes chaos. I'm an agent of chaos. And you know
the thing about chaos, Harvey? It's fair.' (Dennis O'Neil, The Dark
Knight, New York: Boulevard Berkeley Books, 2008, 248.)]

If I had the chance to have a chat with the Joker, I would suggest
that the fact that he finds live meaningless and seeks an
appropriate response --- anarchy --- presupposes some intuitive
belief that there is such a thing as meaning. I wonder where that
came from since the data that life provides seems to argue the
opposite?

But the question that the Joker and the movie poses, is a serious
one. Why bother doing good when the forces of evil are so
powerful? Why continue to work for good when we have no
guarantee of victory? Why press on when we are so tired and we do
not know how long the battle is going to be? Why so serious?
Might as well enjoy life while we can. Eat drink and be merry and a
consumer society has many suggestions as to how you can do that
in style, with products and services tailored to your income level
and credit rating.

So why bother? Christopher Nolan and David S. Goyer, who wrote
the story that was the basis for the movie, find salvation in a
romantic irrational belief in the goodness of human nature. They
have the Joker setting up a horrible experiment. He sets up bombs
in two ferries, one carrying hard-core criminals and the other
carrying civilians. He gives each boat the option of blowing the
other one up, or he blows them both up.

[Joker: 'At midnight I blow you all up --- both boats, boom, bye-
bye. If, however, one of you presses the button, I'll let that boat
live. You choose. So who is it going to be --- Harvey Dent's most-
wanted scumbag collection or the sweet, innocent civilians? Oh,
and you might want to decide quickly, because the people on the
other boat might not be so noble.' (O'Neil, Dark Knight, 268)]

Nolan and Goyer would have us believe that a group of hardened
criminals would not take over their ship and press the button to
save themselves. Or that a group of concerned citizens would not
carry out their decision to execute a bunch of murderers and
thieves. Riiiiight. I found the Joker's position more honest. In the
face of the absurdities of life, and the uncertainties of any battle
against evil, the human spirit cries out for hope and a happy
ending. But if all we have to count on is the goodness of human
nature we might as well choose the path of anarchy/hedonism.

This is the real good news --- that while we were yet sinners
Jesus died for us. This is the real good news --- we couldn't save
ourselves but a loving and holy God intervened in history, that He
died for our sins and rose again from the dead as concrete proof
that death and evil can and have been defeated.

I have come to have fresh appreciation for the Lord's Supper. It is a
commemoration of the reality of what God has done. But it is also a
symbol of defiance, a fist in the face of a world where evil and
meaninglessness seem to hold sway. Jesus has won the victory and
He is coming again to wrap things up. And that is why I am joyfully
serious about good and about God.

Nolan and Goyer did get one thing right. In a fallen world, good can
only come through sacrifice. In the final scene of the movie we have
Batman taking the rap for the murders committed by Harvey Dent
so that Harvey Dent's reputation remains unsullied, and the criminal
cases he had successfully prosecuted continue to stand. The
innocent takes responsibility for someone else's sins for the greater
good.

[And as Batman crossed the rooftops of the sleeping city, not sure
where he was going, knowing only that his wounds were deep
(O'Neil, Dark Knight, 291)]

By His wounds we are healed.

Was it meant to never happen at all?

Mood:Angry and dissapointed
Music:Nickleback-This is how you remind me

For your information,the TCII patrol seagull under Saik Ian were overall champions last year..and we wanted to meet up again....

1st it was supposed to be March,to also celebrate Joon Ling's bday.But I can't go because I was in Cameroon,and elections was near.So can't go...Then we wanted to do 2 days after elections...but it that failed because some of our parents were concerned that there may be a riot since it was a "tsunami"...

So it was delayed to May.We wanted to celebrate along with my birthday..but the guides can't make it...so we postponed it...again...

Then we decided to do on 2 september.But I can't make it cause it was the day I was suppose to for my 40km expedition..but cancelled cause of a really heavy rain.Moreover,the next week(9 Spetemeber)we had a MBS gathering that Saik Ian wanted to bring our troop there.But Soon Lee don't allow.BTW I also did my 40km expedition on that week...I'll post something up soon :)

Then we decided...17 September cause on the 20th Jonathan is going to Singapore.Then...Saik Ian said he can't go because the parents are concerned about 916.(If you lived in a cave in yr past 10 year,read the papers).The guides were ok and the outing was SUPPOSED to go on.The Jonathan said he can't go without citing a reason.(I don't think I want to know,let alone hear about it).So all was left of the scouts are me and Adrian Hong.Now he also said he can't go because of his parents.(916 I think).

ME??ALONE???I was in a mixed feeling of anger and dissapointment.My parents were kind enough to let me go even if 916 has raised concrens among parents and now??All of them PPK me...I understand if parents don't allow them to go,but it would be alot more better if they told us a little bit earlier,not on the last night when I had my plans compromised for the outing.(the word was bolded for a reason)

My conclusion is that most of them told their parents at the eleveneth hour of the outing,cause assuming they did told earlier,their parents would not allow them in the 1st place because I'm sure they read the papers.

WAS IT MEANT TO NEVER HAPPENED AT ALL??Now I'm thinking of ways to kill of time when we could have a reunion...

"When life hands you lemons....

...You make lemonade".That is probably one of the more famous quotes you ever heard off.It means when life gives you something(usaully bad ones),you will make the best out of it.

If you regulary browse through my blog,I recenly posted something called "Someone chopped the cherry tree".It's a satire of some politicians in Malaysia that may respond to a question.Some are true and some (probably) are false.

Right now,I want to do something similar.Except it would be:

"When life gave them lemons..."

One example I figured out:

Dr. Koh Tsu Koon:I gave it to Guan Eng cause he will do a better job taking care of it than me.

=S

Sore Losers

Just now as I'm posting up,I played a game of Wordbiz scrabble...then I met this opponent(forgot the name..not even worth remembering).As we were playing,I had a pretty good advantage,over 30 spread.

Then I had this tiles:

S A E ? S G U

I quickly thinked of "SAUSAGE" and then I hentam him/her(whatever the gender is,maybe I'll refer IT as "Donkey") and got 66 points.

Okay,it was pretty good eh?And then..right after that I got this:

R W D D I N E

All I could think of is "REWIND",but wait,the person placed an open E..so...

REWINDED

and I got 81 points for that!I still remember.

Then that donkey resigned from the game,saying it could not be possible to have 2 bingo in a row,I admit I'm still not that good and lady luck probably pass over me that moment butcome on!!People like the Richards and Ganesh could "hentam" bingo's just as easy as their ABC...literally?And that donkey is saying I'm a cheat?Man it is reallt STUBBORN.Can't even accept a good play and she even put me in a "no-play" list.STUPID!If only I could strangle it...but I won't,fortunately for it..

Btw,Tomorrow I'm having a 40 km expedition and so whoever is reading my blog while I'm doing the walk please wish me all the best,OK?

=)

Update:My 40 km expedition has been postponed to next week due to bad weather..according to our scout master.He said it will be bloody dangerous to hike Penang Hill...