Meme

I don't care how busy you are. Do this with me.

Today, we are going into the lucrative business of band and album naming. Everybody knows a cool and ambiguous band name can Capulet you to absolute indie stardom.

Lettuce begin.

First, your band name! You don't need a cool back story
Just go to a random wikipedia page and then choose the article title as your band name
Band Name:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Randompage

Now, you need a pretentious, I mean super cool debut album name.
Go to this random quote page and scroll to the last quote. Take the Last Four Words of that Quote.
Album Name:http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3

Of course, you need a artsy fartsy cover to complete the image. Choose the third image from the first row(left to right)

Album cover:http://http//www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/


Grab a few chords, some converse high tops and become the next indie critic darling.

What, you mean you've never heard of Public Art?

Post results in comments your blog or the tag board. I would love to see the results!


A Summary for Beijing Olympics 2008

The days are going kinda of slowly now that the Olympics is over. Can we do it again please?

Books

I need something more to read but the library isn't stocking any books that I want.

Something old. Neil Gaimen retains his position as my favourite author with Terry Pratchett definitely piquing my interest.

Good Omens was satire gold.They managed to keep the sardonic tone, use the word apocalypse sparingly and not annoy anyone in general. I don't remember reading something milk-through-nose worthy in a long time.

The Dark Knight

I have two things pertaining to the Dark Knight.

One, remember the review I gave The Dark Knight a while ago. I mentioned the joker being a pyromaniac with no back story and no room for sympathy making him one of the best villains of our time.

There is an article devoted to this concept of how to make villains who do not suck.

If your attention span allows, click here to read it.

Secondly,if anyone is interested, The Dark Knight Script is officially available for download. It's tight script which reads like a really good comic book without pictures.

Click for Download

An expert from "In Which nothing much Ever Happens and other stories"

Chapter 25/08:临时抱佛脚

My sister swings a flashlight/phone/MP3 player in my face.

"Tomorrow," she intoned " you shall wake up and than brush your teeth."

"But I do that every morn-"

" You will put on your uniform and than go to school."

"But I-"

"You will do those things because I made you do them."

I watched the swinging light.

"Well, while you're at it, could you make it so I become a really good in Chinese essay writing?"

The light stopped swinging.

"Hypnosis can't do the impossible."

O Levels
are impending. Really, every time I think about the choices I have to make, the mulan song goes off in my head like a broken record leaving a tendency to be melodramatic and a fervent wish to dance.

A Reflection

I don't remember half the things I say but the things I do,I usually remember and they were probably a low petty whisper that no one else could hear.

I did do Iroh justice. Which gives closure to my involvement in the Avatar Community.

Here guys, have a quote

Iroh:-face contorts in disgust- This tea is nothing more than hot leaf juice!
Zuko:Uncle, that’s what all tea is.

Wishlist

I've never made on these before, perhaps because I thought they were kind of obsolete. But if it helps -shrugs-

$100 and beyond

Better graphics card, larger memory etc etc.
A joy stick
Wacom tablet
Production Premium CS3
Sims 2 expansion pack collection(only if you are going to buy me the above)
Disneyland
Volkswagen Beetle
The Universe(look it up on eBay)

Under $30

From The Red Jewel
Rapunzel's Promise(Necklace)
Pandora's Roses(Bracelet)

Kanon Wakeshima's album (Just how many singles does one need before releasing an album)

Under $20

A fish(guppy or a nice-looking goldfish), in a nice glass bowl, swimming. As in alive. If you're going to give me a fish. Please, advance warning.
Books. (non-specific here.English ones preferably but everything else is not important)
Socks
Nice boxes
Across the Universe Soundtrack

Tip of the Day

I should write tutorials, share tips etc because it's selfish to keep information to oneself.

I'll start small.

Youtube now allows high quality videos to be posted. While for some videos you are able to select High Quality as an option, there are others which don't reveal the choice.

To watch videos in the quality they have been uploaded, simply add &fmt=18to the end of the url. Refresh and you have high quality viewing.

Hiatus

A word clearly stamped across the page. I'm sad not to be writing too . The next scheduled posts are on the 7/9/2008 and 14/11/2008.

End Transmission then.

Here comes the mandatory self-ban from the Internet. I will be back to tie loose ends and stuff next week.

In the meantime here are the things that I wish I could elaborate on but really, I've got to stop heeding the siren calls of the world wide web:

1. Beijing Olympics: Am I glad it's in sync with our timezone.
2. YEAH GO SINGAPORE! Watching the table tennis finals match in a coffee shop(part of it) was a Primary Six composition in motion
3. Michael Phelps is the third most searched person and it's not hard to see why. Did you watch his 100 m Butterfly triumph? It was like,woah.I have got to stop saying that.
4. Oh Olympics
5. Next week's post will include the Olympics(yey!) some icons perhaps some whining and then an official hiatus. I just like to tell you this so that I can remember and feel pressurized to do so.

And here we go.

Oh god, I wish I had a camera.

Walking by nonchantly, like he didn't know he owned one of the coolest
t-shirt sequels that I have ever seen:

"I am no longer with stupid"

Happy Birthday Singapore! 43 years. Wow. And you haven't even gotten to the part where your start the receding hairline thing!

While we soak up the festive atmosphere and warm the cockles of our hearts lets just get a little fuzzier with this tree-hugging video.



Aw. I love the world too.

Guesswhatwise

Knitting,tap-dancing and bugs? You're a freak.-don't forget the lyrics

Who knew the devil's TV could be this weird and funny?

Enoughwise

It is becoming increasingly frustrating to lounge around waiting for the O levels(death sentence?Oh the analogies it could spawn.) to arrive.

Sure, I'm studying. Very grudgingly.

It pains me to say that the O levels just happens to be a very inconvenient boulder of no consequence but must be dealt with (pushed off the road and into the sea preferably where it will become this little footnote in my life)if I want to move on.

Well I have some place to go so will it just budge already.

Thismakesmealittlehappierwise

I was finally able to make a tribute to Mako who brought life to one of my favourite wise old man with a white beard.

I was satisfied with the essay and I can only I have done justice to his character as he would have if he trespassed upon this age and time.

Oh and also, writing speeches to convince the class to go for a class outing at East Coast Park.I think I threw tone, purpose etc out of the window and it made for a wonderful little lolfest exercise.


"How many couples have cemented their love while watching the sun set? We may not love each other with fiery passion but watching the sun set would certainly be a great memento..."

"We made the choice and if you have objections please kill Cha Cha instead.He insisted."

I may have gone overboard though.

Reviewswise

Reading yey. So, for the past few weeks I have gotten really acquainted with some books and I would like to introduce them

This isn't for light reading and I feel vast improvements can be made.

First of all, the "bigger I am the more intellectual it makes the reader" has to go. Not everyone appreciates books which are as big as their faces.

The pictures are nice, illustrations are vivid. However, the literally possibilities are never fully explored. For example, instead of simply telling us that the mitochondria is like a factory, a story or perhaps even a character narrative on life inside the factory would have been insightful and we would gain something other than the fact that they carry out aerobic respiration so on and so forth.

If that is impossible. It could be a little more concise. Instead of droning on about molecular genetics and expecting people to understand what they mean when the chromosomes tango, more effective diagrams can be used.

It would have saved a lot of trees.

Okay, I've run out of criticism for school. Moving on.

Realbookswise

There is nothing better to do on a Saturday afternoon than to sunder into your least favourite neighbourhood library expecting to find a bored teen convention and then chancing upon a whole shelf of books that you've been wanting to borrow but were always on loan.

I took almost all the Neil Gaiman books. (yey!) Halfway through Fragile Things which is fantastic so far. The only complaint is that most of the stories seem left hanging in mid-sentence like the author was suddenly distracted by something else. Maybe they fit together in the end? Like a fragmented Ming Dynasty vase?

Sophie's World is finished. After speed reading the first time, I read though the philosophy lessons again. Granted, it's great introduction to western philosophy but it doesn't really reach any depth. Philosophies sometimes intertwine with science which just makes the entire thing even more muddled than before.

The protagonist is strange. If this really were to be considered wholly a fictitious books, it's one of the few that I have read which uses characters as vessels of information instead of letting them grow. Granted, the development is there but mostly as an afterthought.

Also, I suck at reading mystery. I flip to the back, figure out the entire thing and then it makes me feel antsy waiting for the ending while reading. Serves me right I suppose.

Ah, the second twilight post to grace this web page.

Ms Meyer says this book alluded to A Midsummer Night's Dream by Shakespeare. However, I remain skeptical.

I have read MSND. I have taken notes for it. I think I know the play. I have also hated it.(another topic for another day)

I don't see what she's trying to get at. Unless, by quoting that 'truth,reason and love keep little company these days' she meant her books which I must say, is a very apt way to describe her latest stab at young adult fiction.

Basically, it can be summed up as such.

Book 1: Sex and Swimming with dolphins.

Book 2: The thing that came from the uterus.

Book 3:Perfecting your Mary Sue and more implied sex. Also, how to end your ties with bad vampires diplomatically

You know what's worse than reading a bad book? Reading a bad book with potential and the author never once noticing it despite having written an entire series.

Windingwise

This post has been different. I haven't said so much in ages. It almost feels like posting thousands of pictures of myself with fake eye-lashes or eyes. Whatever it is people are pasting on their face nowadays.

Otherwise
Quick, what is the square root of -25?