Interest

Recently, I've just acquired a new interest. Now I can truely claim I DO have a hobby. It is probably the result of being made to go to Church so many times. The new-found hobby is in reading criticisms. Yes, visiting websites (particularly Christian websites) that post endless articles that criticise the society, the world, the media, everything. How moral values are going downhill, how wicked can lawmakers get, how mercenary and uncaring people are becoming, how society isn't like how it used to be, how the world is gonna end, Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri style, how evil and insidious the media truely is. Truely amazing, amusing and quaint, actually. Yea, I may be slightly disturbed.

No offense to Christians here. I'm not a Christian, but I truely enjoy reading all those ceaseless complaints by all those people out there. These people really have to be getting "A"s for their GP! It fascinates me how some mundane events around the world transform into very real, alarming and dramatic phenomena. How do they do it? With those very real, alarming and dramatic statistics of course! Really, maybe I could use their help in my GP.

Of course, one must not neglect the LOCAL newspapers provide similar "entertainment" in the form of "fanmail". Eg. some time ago, "Breastfeeding > Milk Powder! The notion that milk powder is good for babies is wrong because breastfeeding is natural and rocks! The media shouldn't be making milk powder advertisements!"

Also, "I am truely dismayed that [X girl from Y Drama Series] would choose [P guy] over [Q guy]. I really think [Q guy] is cuter and 1000x better than [P guy]!"

Also, "The Singapore Government should enforce laws not to allow such outrageous events to take place! Such outrageous events are as wrongful and outrageous as a wrongful, outrageous can get! It truely outrages me!

And yea, the world is gonna end. Go board the next flight to Alpha Centauri, or something.

Retick

Finally I had to be reminded to update this blog. It's not that the past month or so is uneventful, but rather it is rather hefty, and thus the conditions of this blog.

First of all, as the follow-up to the previous post, I have completed the the Hordes of the Underdark, the 2nd expansion of Neverwinter Nights in no less than 300 saves. Most memorable of the saves is probably the one I have to reload to find out different True Names that actually CHANGE with each reload! But let's not talk about that, shall we? I am once again addicted to RPGs and the like after lending my Baldur's Gate 2 away. Ironic, no?

Next, my trip to Thailand. It would be my 4th trip to the "country of a thousand smiles". Though I don't really see that many smiles, I did encounter different "smells". Yea, smells. Fragrance or stench? From the smell of newmade leather to that of local delicacy, to that of squid that I didn't catch. As usual, trips from Singapore to Thailand are mostly "shopping trips". From the Suan Lum night market to Ma Bun Khrong Shopping Centre
to a snake research centre to a leather shop to a jewelry shop... It's kinda freaky. Of course, the extra bags I bought at Suan Lum became handy to hold the excess goods on our way back.

Next, the 04S33 class chalet... It truely tests the limits of a human body's tolerance for hunger, fatigue, etc. From erratic meals to late night (Or should I say early morning) games of Bridge, Playstation 2, etc to sleeping without blankets in a frigid air-conditioned room to stupid and exceedingly lame jokes to having a picture of me with Sleeping Buddha taken (except I wasn't in Thailand) to rooms with lights that don't work to bug infestation... Really. Of course the next few days after chalet I had to stay at home to "recover". It wasn't after those few days before I resumed my normal sleeping habits.

And of course the festive season and the time for slacking has officially arrived a long time ago! Naturally the "atmosphere" became less dense, my activities changed. Movies, LAN, etc. NOT homework, NOT mugging. Just plain slacking. And falling ill and taking weeks to recover. Argh.

This post is of course one which doesn't really fit into the context of this blog... This blog is not a diary to chronicle the events that happened of course. But whatever.