"Okay can you stop with those ghost stories!?" - Bryan Freeman, 18 December 2009

First of all, I am simply too lazy to write the birthday-gasm Act 3 or whatever that is left. Hell, the past weeks I have been doing nothing but playing Left4Dead2. I haven't even started on my homework yet. Fml.

Okay so lets bring you, my reader, up to date. Yesterday night, we finally, finally organized a sizeable outing with about 10 people? Yeah.

The outing was, of course, to go Old Changi Hospital, again. The previous I admit, we were pretty freaked out. However this time, I dunno if it was the large number of people or perhaps coz we already went before, but it didn't seem half as scary. lol. Nevertheless, some pussies cough*lincoln*cough still don't dare to come, claiming it was too scary. Well I don't blame him. For a guy who scared of even Hotel626 homepage, I would say is confirm no balls. rofl.

My sis took the flashlight I bought the previous time, so I had to spend another 6.90 on some shitty flashlight that stopped working the moment I reached home. Bryan even had to went to exchange coz well, apparently his spoiled while we were waiting for the bus.




That's what you get when you~.....................buy China products.....





Okay neh mind not funny.

I also realized that some people need to know when to quit. seriously. When we say party's by invitation only, we mean it. Nobody invited your sorry ass so don't come along and say 'oh, I'm braver than you guys and therefore I rule.' No, it doesn't work that way. FYI (No reference to Utada), you can drop the act coz no one believes you. Enough with the bs about your friends can do this do that, or that you can punch a guy till he vomits. Our outings are for the cool and the minority, so yeah, don't think you can crash it anytime you want.

BACK TO TOPIC.

OCH wasn't really that bad actually. I mean, when you go up till the 3rd or 4th floor, and you look out the windows, you can really see the night skyline at the horizon. Its kinda beautiful and mesmerizing in fact. Pity it was raining the night before (I think?), so the top 2 floor were rather waterlogged and as a result we could not continue further. Trust me, in the first 5 min you might be thinking about scary shit and stuff like that but soon you will get quite relaxed and take time to appreciate the aging structure and its magnificent history and well of course, the countless graffiti.

The only rather freaky part (that I could remember), was when we just ascended to the 3rd floor, and Weilong said that he recalled reading at some forums that people mentioned the 3rd floor was used for some cult rituals and shit.

Hearing it, I was thinking prolly we wouldn't be that unlucky and most prolly its bull'.

However, we walked down a short hallway and the first thing we saw when we turned into a large cleared room were strings stretching from one end of the room to the other. Hung on the string were different colored pieces of paper. Upon moving closer, we discovered they were actually sorta like talismans? I'm not sure. But from what I remember, its like a square piece of paper, with a picture of a goddess in the middle, with what seems like Sanskrit writing surrounding it in forming multiple circumferences.

"Oh...shit." Was all I remembered saying.

It seems to me like there really had been a cult conducting rituals here. Come to think of it, the goddess in the picture, if I'm not wrong, reminds me of Shiva.

God knows what those people were doing up there. But whatever it is, I wouldn't wanna be there when they are doing it.

So after about half an hour, we exited the compound, and met a couple walking towards the structure carrying torches that completely outshines (literally) our own flashlights. Each of theirs is like the brightness of 5 of ours, maybe more. One of them was a foreigner, and she asked if we just explored the area, and did we see the people living up there. We were like wtf, since when do anyone live in OCH?

When asked further, we found to our relief, or was it amusement? that what lead her to the thought, was that using her epic torchlight, she shone all the way to the 3rd floor and was able to see the pieces of paper hung on the strings used for the rituals. Due to the distance she could not see the printing, and from where she was, it seemed like towels to her. Rofl-copter.

Well, and that was that. OCH was done, more or less. A 10-man raid. Next up, LFG Red House. Anyone?

Birthday-Gasm [Part 3] Act II: Accruement Of Caffeine

After a couple minutes of cycling, we arrived on the destination.

Jackson, was super lucky, coz I had my McCafe card which Ivan gave me to let me use during my birthday. I gave Jackson and he got a free drink even thought it was like almost an hour after his birthday officially past. Melissa on the other hand had to borrow money lol.

P.S. It's not that they are poor, its just that they helped us to pay for majority of the BBQ cost since most people who were invited couldn't make it.


While we were waiting for them to finish their drinks, I saw Jackson putting his drink into the bottle-holder on the bike frame and I made a passing comment to Melissa to do the same thing to which she replied, "Don't want lah later drop."

Famous last words.

Within a few seconds, suddenly her hand somehow lost control and we all watched in awe as her drink slowly escaped from her grasp and began its descent towards the road. With a sickening sound it hit the ground and the cup which absorbed the majority of the impact contorted under the pressure, leading to the cap detaching itself from the cup. The next thing we knew, half of the drink was splattered all over the ground and the straw itself was strewn a couple of inches away.

Needless to say she hastily picked up and tried to salvage what was left of the drink. Fortunately Jackson had an extra straw (Don't ask me why) and gave it to her. Finishing the rest of the Mocha Frappe, we hopped onto our bicycles and turned the bikes to the right direction. This was it.

We had no training prior to this trip. We weren't sure of what to expect. However none of this could stop us from venturing deeper into the night, as the four of us pedaled the steel machines into the darkness...

Birthday-Gasm [Part 2] Act I: The Quatro Convening.

Sup yall! Okay so since I'm getting pretty bored even with YouTube I decided I might as well come on Blogger and complete the Birthday-Gasm posts.

So, on Friday, 27 November, which of course is Jackson's birthday, there was a Birthday Celebration/BBQ at East Coast Park. For those who are wondering "HUH? Since when there is one?" Well, let's just say party's by invitation only eh?

So yeah I shall fast forward to the BBQ which kinda started around uhh... 7pm? Yeah. Actually I'm pretty sure it officially started at around 6 but at that time only Jackson Melissa and Yu Zhou were there. By seven pretty much everyone was present and then the caterer (who was late) came. Alas, since we didn't actually book at pit, but sorta like a bench, we had to buy a portable bbq pit from the caterer, which cost 23 bucks if I'm not wrong.

However, we got scammed by the bloody caterers since the box only came with the pit and not the stands. What is this, each sold separately? Damn lame can. Anyways, long story short, we used our innovation and in the end we were barbecuing with the pit lying on the stand. Works pretty well actually.

So we carried on with the BBQ, ya know, the usual hotdogs and wings... Speaking of chicken wings, I kinda missed the special marinated chicken wings I had at Mingyi's that time. That was by far one of the best BBQ-ed chicken wings hands down. Seriously the catered one pales in comparison.

After a couple of photos and some cups of Vodka-Cola cocktails, Cheryl, Pok Chow and Yu Zhou had to leave. Good things come to and end I guess... haha. Well now that we only have Jackson Melissa Jesper and I remaining, we kinda struggled to finish the food that the evil Pok Chow didn't chow down. Trust me it wasn't easy, and by the end of the day I think we consumed like thousands of calories and also tons of carcinogenic waste, which is a result of our epic BBQ-ing skillz. nice...

Now I can already picture Pok Chow (if he is reading this), to go "Walao eh! Damn fattening lah you all eat so much! I'm very disappointed with yall..." BUT no worries! For after food comes exercise. heheh....

After lepak-ing for like almost 2 hours to allow digestion to reach half Vmax, we decided that in order to survive the rest of the night, no not from vampires, but from sleep exhaustion. (Is that right?) We would have to get ourselves some caffeine. Surprisingly the caffeine in the coke isn't doing its magic.

Perhaps its just all in the head. You know, like only when you get coffee then you thing the caffeine works. Something like that.

Nevertheless, after some deliberation we decided to go for high quality coffee. Since there are no Starbucks around it was therefore out of the question. Consequently, our best bet would be McCafe coffee.

Arriving on a consensus, we cleared the trash and packed our bags, and the four of us headed into the direction of the nearest MacDonalds...

Birthday-Gasm [Part 1] The Prelude

All right the past week has been crazy with birthday gifts and celebrations.

First, I gotta thank everyone who contributed into my birthday gift. Its alright that it was belated, no worries (:
The amount of people who chipped in so humongous. Without further ado, I shall list out all the names huh. Its a pretty long list tbh. lol.

(In Alphabetical order)

Akram
Cheryl Toh
Daryl
Hafiz
Haikal
Hui Sei
Ivan
Jackson
Jesper
Matthew
Melissa
Pok Chow
Raihan
Shaun
Wei Long
Yu Zhou
Zhiyi

I think thats about it. 17 peole. I never thought it could be possible but well it seems after almost two months of planning it was actually accomplised. Thank you guys for making my wish come true. Especially Raihan who planned almost everything. Well you know what they say... you wanna get close to someone, you have to appease their good friend first....uhhh. Okay, Joke. That was a joke.

Anyways, in case yall are wondering what the gift is, it is actually a Diamondback Grind BMX bike.






Cool right? I mean just look at that beauty. A marvel piece of modern BMX engineering clad in a crimson and Fire brick coat of paint, complete with the words Diamondback displayed on the main frame.

WoW.

It must had cost quite a bomb and I admit that I do feel pretty guilty. I mean, most of the people who chipped in, I did not really get them anything for their birthday and well now they have given me this, which is the prolly the best birthday present I ever had.

I know there had been many times where I was quite selfish and only cared for myself yet you guys still got this for me. I really am quite speechless and it leaves me to re-think about the way I treat people. As to the main conspirators of this, I have to say its not that I am dis-satisfied with the gift, I was merely too shocked at the sight of the bike that I couldnt really articulate my expressions so forgive me. haha. Also, I couldn't have possibly thank you guys enough.

I am deeply grateful to all of you.

(:

No one, Is as lucky as us.....

Okay, so the title has absolutely nothing to do with this blogpost and uhh yeah.

Life is so mundane right now. Looking forward to next week where at least there will be more event like movies and ensemble dinner and birthdays. Not mine of course.

So these few days I have been doing nothing except going to school for lectures and all I do at home is sit in front of the computer. I can already feel myself putting on those pounds.

Even most of my games seem boring now. I have exhausted my interest on almost every game but GTA San Andreas. Yes I'm still playing GTA:SA coz I'm lazy to download GTA:IV. Alas, I have reached the last few missions of the game today and hell, my Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 is still stuck at 26%. This sucks badly.

I'd like to think Singtel is to blame for all this. The crappy 2Wire modem is full of shit. People live in America where the land is so vast and yet can get up to 20mbps of connection. My MIO only has the maximum of 10mbps, and Singapore is so figgin tiny.

Even the 10mbps isnt doing its job. All it takes is for my dad to on the MioTv and all the bandwidth will be leeched from me. Now whose bright idea is it exactly to hook TVs up with the same modem used for computers.

Argghhhhh. Cannot take it lah seriously. My fingers are itching to Play Left4Dead 2 and the torrents are still not out yet. Utorrent is also another issue. It crawls along at a mere maximum of 80kbps, which is almost negligible compared to speeds I used to be able to get with my old settings, which was around 1mpbs.

Bah. Enough of my rant.

Guitar has been busy lately. Lotsa planning and allocation to be done. I also requested to switch my section to Guitar 1 as well, I heard playing melody was much easier. Let's just hope it works. Gonna have pizza dinner next wednesday yay. Okay I admit I wasn't very involved in the planning but hey, at least I was present in the conversation and provided some kinda support eh? lol.

On a side note, I wanna watch 2012. Yes, I know its kinda like a melodramatic disaster movie and also it is super exaggerated but I really want to see the special effects on the big screen. Seeing it on mere HD on youtube isn't enough and since it is a rather long movie, I reckon it would be more worth it than Paranormal Activity, which I felt I rated it a tad too early.

It's a shame people are getting so hyped up about this 2012 myth. I mean yeah it true that the Mayans calender ended on 2012 but that doesn't explain anything does it. They were very skilled astronomers, and they prolly got their shit right 90% of the time. Still, there wasn't any direct evidence that Cataclysm would hit on 2012 does it? The calender only hinted it.

My point is, everyone is like "whoa isit true the world is gonna end on 2012?" and I don't get why are they so anxious over a myth, when a very real impending disaster is already occurring. I'm talking of course, about the good ol' Global Warming.

It is obvious the Polar Ice Caps are melting at an alarming rate and Carbon Dioxide emissions are insanely high. However, it's too late to be pessimistic. The effects are blatantly staring at us yet we carry on with our life as if nothing's happening.

Okay to make this clear, this post wasn't intended to be about Global Warming and shit but I just mentioned it and so went with the flow.

As I'm typing this, I can hear some sounds coming from my CPU. If you ask me, weird sounds don't usually mean good. I fear for the worst. 3 weeks of using that shit old laptop was enough.

*Fingers crossed*