the glass is 3/4 empty

Woo. Metaphors. By glass I meant holidays. Time has passed pretty quick and in 1 week and a bit, the tedium of school will be going on again. Sigh.

In order to realize just how scary this is, it is akin to having a monster hiding under your staircase. Or in your closet, if you don't have a staircase at home. Or any staircase you happen to be going down/up.

Still not scared? Then I have provided some scary materials. Read them all, it's pretty unnerving.
[EDIT: LINK DEAD. WILL REPOST ASAP]

lol. Have fun while it lasts.

P.S. Too much 4chan is apparently bad for your psyche.

nyps gathering

Today was the NYPS gathering, which was really quite fun.

Reached Cineleisure @ 11.40 or so, and saw Zong Xian, Yunyi and two other girls, whom I later found out were Yiting and Jiaying. Looked so different lol. Then James came along and I found that he was still taller than me. =.= Went to eat sushi at Suki Sushi, where the service was really slow and Baifeng got really pissed coz the waiters/waitresses kept daoing him. This was despite the fact that he well-manneredly said please and thank you, albeit laced with spite.

After sushi, we went to the arcade, where James treated me to one round of ParaParaParadise. Yay. It was pretty gay though, as apparently I wasn't doing the movements right or something. After that, we went to Meridien Hotel to play pool!

POOL. NOT IN POOL.

Right. Pool was really fun and we played for about three hours. During that period, I believe I made a significant improvement. :D And that's about all. Fun fun.

independence!

Righto.

Tomorrow my mom is going to work at her new jobby place, after a loooong hiatus. This means that I will be home alone! Yay! Pretty awesome stuff.

Will probably post something more solid in two days or so after the NYPS gathering thingy.

obama!

Yay! Obama is epic win!

CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN!!!!!

world of pain

Today was a horrible day. I had to start fasting since 10 am because of some stupid endoscopy. Then, after enduring thirst and hunger and feeling like a blonde who starved in a grocery store, I arrived at the hospital.

To be precise, I had to undergo a gastroscopy. This is where they stick a thick tube down your throat to take pictures of your stomach. It was very, very, very uncomfortable. For one thing, the room was filled with interns or something just standing around taking notes while I spasmed around. They also gave me some icky tasting anaesthetic solution, which didn't help much. Throughout the entire process, I puked about 8 times and I also could not swallow without my throat feebly trying to contract with the tube blocking everything and shit.

NARGH. On the bright side, I didn't have to go for June camp recce. And the Milo at the hospital was yummy.

the forbidden kingdom!

lol. I just finished watching 'The Forbidden Kingdom'! A movie packed full of action, kungfu and bad english. A lot of bad english. The only characters speaking reasonably good english were the American boy and the Chinese girl. >_>

Action was pretty cool though, as there were some magical elements as well, like the Jade General guy shooting 'chi power' everywhere.

Plot was very stupid, though.

PLOT SUMMARY
*500 years ago*
Sun Wu Kong (Monkey King) is gallivanting around and goes to the Jade Emperor's peach party. Emperor is happy, but Jade Warlord is not. When Emperor goes to some 500 year meditation, leaving Warlord behind to govern China (evidently America and any other country was not included in the bargain), Warlord plots to defeat Monkey King. However, Monkey King has his golden stick, which makes him undefeatable. Warlord tricks Monkey King into dropping stick, then turns him into a nice stone statue. During the stonification process, Monkey King shows good sportsmanship, moving into a nice pose.

Monkey King Bar
A powerful staff used by a martial arts master. Grants +75 damage, 15% increased attack speed, and a 30% chance to deal 100 bonus damage on every attack stopping channeling spells. (not stated, but it also gives immunity to Jade Warlords >_>)

*TRANSITION INTO SOUTH BOSTON*

There is an American boy (Jason) who is some crazy kungfu fanatic, so he frequents a chinese pawn shop for kungfu videos. He later gets beaten up and forced to betray the pawn shop owner by this evil gang of older kids, where they rob and shoot the old owner. After shooting him, they go all "Oh noes! He's a witness!" and chase him to the rooftop, where Jason is pulled over the edge by the magical golden stick given to him by the owner.

*TRANSITION INTO CHINA*

Jason wakes up in a village where everyone speaks Chinese and where there are NO ENGLISH SUBTITLES. Evil Jade army comes and plunders village. Squad captain sees staff and tries to get it and Jackie Chan (drunk guy who pretends to be an immortal until he gets fatally wounded) saves him. Whee. It's all good up to this point, where Jackie Chan speaks his first word of english. After some plot development filled completely with either Chinese or bad english, two good characters Jet Li (Monkey King's kage bunshin) and Chinese girl (pipa-playing avenger) are introduced. A bad character is also introduced, which literally translated is the White Haired Witch, with Rapunzel-like powers of hair manipulation. There is a lot more fighting with nameless noob soldiers, then Witch shoots an arrow and it hits Jackie Chan, where it is revealed he can die! Jason goes to trade the golden stick for the Elixir of Immortality, but Witch wants the Elixir too, so they fight and Jason loses. Then Jet Li and girl and random monks from a nearby temple siege the place and Warlord hastily opens his portal to Mount Doom, hidden under Monkey King's statue. Jet Li then stops him from throwing the stick into the hot lava and after some fighting Witch dies and girl dies and Monkey King comes back after his kage bunshin dies. Warlord is then killed, dropping into Mount Doom and Jason is brought home by Emperor who returned from meditation.

*TRANSITION BACK TO BOSTON*

Jason owns the evil gang with his new-found kungfu skills. He then meets this Chinese girl who looks exactly like the dead one (evidently impossible as her family had died and she was too focused on revenge to think of continuing the family line). THE END.

Yup. It's silly all right.

pulling a PD

Today was relatively fun. Went to the Zoo early in the morning to undergo training for the "Zoolympix", an activity our group signed up for for RE. It basically involves us being game masters at certain stations in the Zoo, where we are supposed to engage little kids in interesting games for little kids.

Unfortunately, I am terrible with little kids, so we'll have to see how this turns out.

After the Zoo, I went to Pek's house for some Chinese Chess and Youtube-ing. Here, an interesting thing happened, as Pek's sister pulled a PD. This is what happened...

Pek's sister: Who's your friend, Wenjie?
Pek: Uh...Joshua.
Pek's sister: OH! REALLY?! He looks different.
Me: Ya rly. Hi.
Pek's sister: Nowai.

Firstly, I'd like to take that as a compliment. :3 Secondly, the gay internet slang at the end is purely fictitious, written to inject humour and possibly verisimilitude into an otherwise bland and insipid narrative. Everything else is factual, or at least factual to the extent of my memory.

P.S. If anyone is going out invite me!! :)
P.P.S. Pulling a PD is when you don't recognize someone when the PD-ee in question is in close vicinity or right in front of the PD-er.