Saturday, March 31, 2007 Y
Well....it's official. I'm sweating like nth today... badminton date with Adeline turns out to be a swim in sweats. Today's weather was a killer... By the time we ended our 1 hr game of badminton in Thomson CC...I felt like I'm wearing my dry-fit sports clothes like it just came out from the washing machine:Wet! & It stuck to me like a second skin, esp at the sleeves andat the back! Wooh!Today's game...though I'm sweating and panting and looking like a crazy mad lady(my hair was a mess!), I had great fun! Probably cos my opponent is Adel... She hits, I hit, she hits, I hit, she hits, I hit etc etc..... Sometimes I missed, sometimes she missed... The pt is, I could felt the heat(from the sun and from the stuffy hall, & of cos from the game), and I just played like normal...Today was tougher than that day when I went with Miki and Adel..cos that day it was double, 2 ppl handling one side of the court. Today's singles: 1 person handing one side of the court, each. So we ran here, ran there, left, right, centre, back, front, diagonally... You name it, we got it! ;)After that, the same thing..we lost so much calories, and we put them all back, today was the least of all... Adel had a chicken chop rice with veg and egg, while I had lemon chicken rice with baked beans(which i totally hate!) So the calories aint as much as the Swensen, though it's still chicken. Buack buack buack! Seriously, a chicken's calories, whether fried, stir fry, boiled, steamed, roast, BBQ...Calories content remains(if i rem correctly).Even after the game, after i changed out from that wet dry-fit sports clothes into the sleeveless vest, I'm still feeling the heat, even when dining in an air-con shop. Phew! Reached my paino teacher's house like 20 mins early..took a power nap n almost overslept, ALMOST but din. :)Good times, hls ending soon..but what the heck. I had my share of the fun for like a mth or so....probably more, listening to Louis almost everyday, and also Heath, Kori, and Diana(once when she told her story live)...Gonna have such sweet dreams these days though hols ending...cos bostonpete, the place where I placed my order for Louis Landon's CD Unwind, they had processed my order and had informed their vendors....All I gota do now is wait...Even if the wait is killing me..... Sigh!
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10:24 PM
Wednesday, March 28, 2007 Y
I love SL, but it SUCKS! Freakingly friggingly sucks like hell!!!!!!!! Been crashing like hell for the past few days...and it's getting worse, increasingly TODAY! Y??? Y??? Y Y Y??? Y DOES IT HAVE TO BE TODAY!?!?!? Missed 45mins of Louis' concert cos of the stpid lag and stupid crash! Been crashing since 9+ onwards to 11am. The intervals between each crash was like 15mins. Since 11am onwards, just before Louis starts his concert, just when he was plugging in the stream from RL into SL, i've been crashing like crazy. SL Hates me, especially today!!! ARGH! >:[ The intervals between each crash was worse tha before... 2-3mins per crash! 2-3minutes, CAN U BELIEVE IT!?!?!?!?!GAWD!!!!!!!!!!!! Infuriating!And I promised to dance with a friend of mine...cos she's on my friend list, so she keep seeing me logging in and out and in and out. She knew what was going on, cos she suffered a major crash too... At least i kept my promise to dance with her, even just one dance.....(in SL i'm a guy(Wyatt), and during the last concert i didn't dance with her so this time was a make-up dance)...That one dance was great, I kept my fingers crossed and kept on chanting, "plz dun crash. plz dun crash. plz dun crash" throughout the whole dance. I said something like, "Oh god, the crash seems to be coming any min now."when we were not dancing as one, nt synchronizing... And she was like, "Imao wyatt, just hang in there a little while longer." Lolz.... And guess what? While Louis did an encore, one of his songs from his CD Unwind--Freefalling, I crashed again! AGAIN!!! Man! I think I've crashed 10times today, OR EVEN MORE THAN THAT!!!SL is fun to play, met alot of cool and wonderful friends in it, and it's where I spent most of my vacation, but the crash and the lag is killing me & my pc! I found out from one of the players that my pocket loss may be the prob...and it is! The percentage of it shouldn't be more than 1%, but mine hit up to 2.5%, and all i saw on the screen were alot of gray ppl, and everyone's eyes, including mine were as black as the black hole. Gosh!Think i'm giving up on SL for today... hopefully everything's gonna be fine tml or on Friday. ESP FRIDAY! Cos Louis is performing another concert on friday and he's singing...Havent been recording his songs cos of the stupid suddenly lag or crash in the game or the stream... =.- Think im gonna faint... Sigh!
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1:19 PM
Sunday, March 25, 2007 Y
Monday, I was feeling fine!
Tuesday, you were on my mind!
Wednesday, I can see the clouds above!
Thursday, I was feeling blue!
Friday, I finally came through!
Saturday, I went to see my friends!
And Sunday, I never want it to end!
This song is one of Hi-5's songs.... And one of my favourites!AND This is how I feel today! Sunday! I never wanted today to end! Loved today, it was totally STRESS FREE!!! WooHoo!! Went out with my favourite aunt and my 2 adorable and favourite cousins(yi hong and yi jun)! Man, what a time!Mr Bean's Holiday: Boy, amazing show! Rowan Atkinson really is an amazing stand-up comedian. This show was off the hizzy!! We had such a fun time and we laughed till our faces turned blue...Ok, not exactly blue but it was so hilarious that we all(the whole cimena) couldn't stop laughing. Even after watching so many times of the advertisment, when it came to the real thing, it still managed to get me laughing like crazy. Unlike Epic Movie, after watching the trailer, when came to the real thing, the "kick" wasn't there already. But for Mr Bean's Holiday, the "kick" was still there... It was the "REAL" stuff!!! WwwwoooooooooooHHHHhhhooooooooooooo!!!!!!It was such an amazing show and such a popular show that it was full house for our timeslot(4.40pm). We wanted the 3.10pm one, then the 2.30pm one, but both slots were already sold out when we got to the ticket booth. So it was like....we reached there at 2.15pm, and bought the 4.40pm show slot of 4 tix!!! We had 2 full hours to spare!!!Wad do we do? We go arcade! Woohoo! Yeah! It's been a very very very long time since I last stepped foot into the arcade... My aunt topped up bth my cousins' cards and i shared with them, a few games: 2motorcycle races(against yi jun. He won the 1st one and i won the 2nd one) and 2 shooting games(with yi hong) and 2 basketball matches(against my aunt and yi jun. Each of us played 2 games). And a game against yi jun...the game is where we stood at each end and try to "shoot" the flat thing into each other's goal, sliding the flat thing on the table. Then yi hong played against yi jun, with me and aunt cheering for both of them! Hahahs!! :DThe shooting game was fun! 1st time play and I loved it! I took over yi jun's place when i died and played with yi hong... Of cos i'm nt that pro at it and died 1x...So i bought a card and topped it up till $4, and continue with the game....Also cos yi hong's card ran out of value also. The shooting sensation was amazing, esp when using the machine gun and fring at enemies, with the gun shaking in your hands. Wow! It's been a long time since I held a gun... I held a real one when I was still in NPCC...now this one is a toy gun... ^^ Still, it's a gun, only one is the "real deal" and the other one is made of plastic... hehehes.After that yi hong went to the comic shop and yi jun, my aunt and I went to Mac for a little ice cream. By then it was like 3.30pm. We spent 1hr in the the arcade! WOW! And we chatting in Mac while waiting for yi hong to join us for the movie. When he came down from the comic shop, it was exactly 4.15pm... Time flies when you're enjoying yourself! Oh yeah! & then we headed for the cimena for Mr Bean's Holiday!Boy oh boy! Today i ate so much junk food! Before the movie it was the ice cream. During the movie it was a large ice lemon tea and a big pack of BBQ Lay's Chips shared with my aunt. Both my cousins shared a big pack of Sour Cream & Onion Lay's Chips. And after the movie, back to Mac for dinner! Mac was nice, but eating it that often for me...the food, or rather that place freaked me out abit, abit of a phobia right now. Anyway, my aunt and I ate the Fish burger meal, yi hong ate McSpicy meal and yi un ate the McWings meal. 4 packs of fries(2 reg & 2 med), with 4 cokes(1 each)...Loads and loads of junk food!A few days ago lost so much calories and put back the calories....today, putting on alot of calories, so tml gonna lose them ALL OUT! But i had my share of fun! Really enjoyed their company and talking to them and all. No idea why but since very young we've been very very close together, and still going strong. Yeah baby! >.<>
Yi jun wanted me to go to their house to play Dynasty Warrior(it's been a long time since we played PS2 together), but i rejected it, cos tml's a sch day... So gotta wait for the next time, if possible. It's kinda hard when they're studying while I'm having hols, and I'm studying when they have hols...Maybe Christmas...hahahas! ^_^
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9:03 PM
Thursday, March 22, 2007 Y
Wow! Can't believe i had a 2days straight outings.... and i missed 2 of Louis concerts in SL.. :( So sad.... *sniff* And I'm gonna miss another one on Friday... Wahhhhhhh!!!!! At least I could attend the one on Thursday, sorta a consolation.Yesterday went out with Miki, Adel and Hui first to AMKSS for Miki's spects...End up Adel also made a pair for herself too... *snigger* 1st we went to Moss Burger for lunch. We were all starving!Den we went on a "Spectacle shop search"! And came to this shop and viola! And we went for the "badminton racket hunt" for Hui and Hui bought 2 rackets n a box of shuttlecocks.After the AMKSS walk we went for the BUGIS walk, at BUGIS STREET, for Miki's bag. Hui gotta go so only the 3 of us went there. I've never been to Bugis Street before...in Bugis, all i went to was Bugis Junction n the shopping centre we went later. We walked n walked n walked n walked....see n see n see n see and settled for one white one....really her style. Lolz! :)After that we went to the shopping centre and Adel n Me bought sports outfit(kinda for our sports date today)... Miki was like "Eh, FW today also got buy things." Lolz...usually they shop, i give comments... quite the SOP(standard operating procedures) most of the time when we go out... Hardly the buying...more on giving opinions.. Hhahahahas :DThen we set a date to do gym. Next Miki brought us to eat Qi Ji(Miricle) Popiah...Yummy, it was delicious! We ordered 1 yam cake, 2 soon kuehs, 3 popiahs, 2 barley and 1 ju hua cha.. That was our dinner! And boy, were we bloated! We ended our day with confirming our trip to the gym the nxt day at Yishun Stadium at 11am...******
The day at gym... Was fun fun fun, and tiring though. Heed the doc's advice: only light running, no jumping, no stomping, no squating etc etc etc...And i did wad he said...I only did light running on the threadmill....walk+run=2.5km in 30mins...Nt bad, bt if it were NAPFA, i'll flunk like hell! But at least I did nt feel any pain while on the threadmill....
Did the pacing.....FAST pacing for like 5mins before i felt the pain....so stopped...cyced for 10mins slowly, with 3 pauses in btw and stopped when the pain returned....Did ALOT of stretching facing the walls/posters... Lolz :D
The gym was big...bigger than the one i had at the clubhouse, but smaller compared to OCC gym... Lolz... I did the pull thingy..... something like pull-ups.... and did the dumb bells...Spent like almost 2hrs in the gym...
Then went to Swensen.... Yummy, it's been like ages since I last stepped into Swensen... We had soup of teh day(cauliflower chowder soup, which turned out pretty nice, nicer than it first sounded), deep fried mushroom, salmon baked rice, curry aked rice, chicken culet, a small ice-cream(it was adel's but miki ate it cos adel n i dun wan it).....Yummy yummy yummy!
Hhaahhahas...we're totaly weird, after such a long work-out, with all the burnt calories, we added more calories to our bodies than before...Hahahahahahs....Weird! :D It was fun n still fun though we're like so tired after the gym. We were in fact, tired even BeFoRe the gym..HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHS!!!! :D:D:D:D:D:D
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12:29 AM
Thursday, March 08, 2007 Y
New blog song! Fly Me To The Moon. It's abit soft, mostly the vocals can be heard, the music seemed to be like background. Enjoy! ;)"Fly me to the moon, let me play among the stars. Let me see what spring is like on Jupiter and Mars. In other words, hold my hands. In other words, baby kiss me." A little something from the song ;)My favourite song, one of my favourites. I've been listening to this song for quite alot of times.... on SL...Lolz. It was sang and played on the piano by Luigi(Louis Volare's another personality of jazz singer), and also sang by Paisley with her husband on the guitar(Leonie Smith)...And I fell in love this song even more. Oh yea, and this was the song my mom heard over the phone when it was being sang by Luigi...She only heard the piano pieces before, so that time was a great experience for her.... For me too :) It just so happens that that day when i was letting my mom listen to his singing, he did a back-to-back and it was long. So that was my mom's comment of it, besides the fact that she said it was great performance. She could hear a little softening of the playing while the music went from the tune of the 1st music to the 2nd music. But there was no stopping or breaking or whatsoever! Rem I said, Luigi sings and plays on the keys? Yep, he was playing and changing the keys until it was flawless(except for the little lower down on the volume when the keys were changed for the 2nd song).Then I was thinking of changing my blog song, and this song came flooding into my mind...And guess what? Luigi aka Louis said to us before that he learnt how to sing as he plays the tunes on the keys from a guy, Frank Sinatra. It's different when u sing it and play the song...as in the pitch and tones...AND I've found his version of "Fly Me To The Moon" on iwebtunes..Ain't that great? Too bad there isn't any Luigi singing version, but his 'teacher' would be a consolation prize for my disappointment. It's great vocal and great song :) For sure! You listen and u will agree :)
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4:50 PM
Thursday, March 01, 2007 Y
My dad introduced a game to my sis. Sounds weird? Oh yeah, it is. But that's the truth. Turns out, my sis heard of this game before...Both of them knew of this game, except me. Until now. It's call Second Life(SL). I explored a little of it during my exam times, as a form of destress, and REALLY played it after my exams.A little about the game. It's an online game, where u have to download it and play. It's something like SIMS. You create a character, and u can customized the clothes, hair, body, accesories to whatever you like. You can create someone who looks like you or someone who is entirely different from who you really are(like me). You can be a guy or a girl in the game, regardless your real gender in real life(RL).No one will know who u really are as the first name is whatever you wish to be called in the game. For the last name(surname), you get to choose from a long list. So dun be alarm when there are people who have the same last name as you. ^^ It's actually pretty cool. The other really awesome thing in SL is YOU CAN FLY!!!!!! WHEE!!!If you guys actually play the game, I'm actually known as Wyatt Carter in the game instead of who you know me as. But the personalities remain, whether or not the name changes. Personality is something that is innate, you can't just get rid of it, and it'll be shown through your actions, words and thoughts. So even the name change, personalities don't.In this game, you get to work different jobs. Dancers, greeter(my job), campers(my job), escorts, hosts, djs, casino dealers etc. There are thousands of jobs for you to choose from, and they play Lidnens(the money used in SL, nt sure if thats the spelling...what the heck)... Not only do you get to work, you can get free stuffs from places that just provides things for free, and not to mention free money hanging down from the money trees. Or you can just chill and relax at beaches, chat with friends or play at casinos. And believe me, THERE ARE ALOT OF CASINOS IN THE GAME, AS WELL AS BEACHES, PUBS, BARS, LOUNGE, CLUBS.There are places of mature contents, and there are places where don't categorized under the "mature" category. It's an adult version of SL, so u can expect more than just the usual. There's a teen version, but it's only until 17 years old, and I didn't know there's a teen version until one of my frens in SL told me about it. You can also join in clubs which are free of charge...I'm in about 6-7 clubs already, and they're all because my frenz invited me into the club or i joined them myself(like Louis fan club, Diana's passionate books club).Oh, and did I mention there're live performances??? Well, there ARE live performances by RL artists, like Louis Landon(aka Louis Volare in SL, who's on my fren list and is my new found idol) and many more. I'm really addicted to his music, and wanted to buy it...sads....no credit card, so can't order it off CDbaby.com... The more I listen to his music everytime during live performance, the more I wanna get my hands on his cd. Not only does he play the piano well, he can sing too! You guys may think like my sis: What's the RL performer(s) doing in games like SL? Don't they ahve anything else better to do? Are they that free to be playing games? Well....believe it or not, that's really true. I dunno how to explain so that you guys will believe me, but you will believe me if you see for yourself. It's just a feeling in me that they're nt juz regular hokey pokey stuff who cheats n lie off in the net. Rather, they're really who they claimed to be in RL. It's just a feeling, and it's strong enough and convincing enough for me to believe. Call me naive or simple-minded, or soft-hearted, but I truey believe they're true.SL is a great place for publicity and promotions, and alot more artists play SL and use it as a form of connecting to their fans and promoting their talents. What other ways can you spread and influence ppl from different parts of the globe but thru the net? And during the live performances of Louis Volare(aka Louis Landon in RL), he not only plays the piano in RL and stream it into SL for us, but he also has a mic and talk to us, like DJs in radio station.Another new found idol of mine is Diana Hunter(aka Diana Allandale in SL)...Yep, I also met her in SL, and it's really amazing. I love music and I met Louis Landon in SL as Louis Volare. I love to write stories(i'm writing one currently for fun) and who do I meet in SL? Diana Hunter, a RL author! And she's on my SL friend list too. I chatted with her, and read some of her stories in SL. Her stories in SL are excerpts of her RL books. Excerpts meaning, only a small part of the story is being extract from the whole storybook; about a few paragraphs. I've read all her excerpts and I wanna get my hands on her books. She's a really amazing author, her descriptions are so vivid that you can picture it in your mind, the more you want to read further on.She majors in errotic romance stories, about the other side of human, the dark n sexual side where many try to hide it. So unless you're alright with such books, you'll condemn her writings and push it aside. There's only one thing to say about her writings so far from the excerpts: They're really a masterpiece, each and every one of them. Her books made readers broke off from their comfort zone.Same thing like Louis' music, I wanna get my hands on Diana's books as much as I wanna get my hands on Louis' music...I've asked around in RL, yet I cant find a book on sale, neither can I find Louis' music. I told Louis about it and he said he don't thing his music is being sold in Singapore. So my next best chance is to order online..again. If i were to choose between Louis' music and Diana's books, I cant decide which one I'm willing to give up, because I don't wish to give up on either one. I wanna have both, if possible.I can't believe I could actually meet and make friends with RL solo pianist(Louis Landon aka Louis Volare) and RL errotic romance writer(Diana Hunter aka Diana Allandale) in SL. Such games really creates wonders and add spices to life. The net is really a weird place. It can be a terrible place but it also can be a good place. For example my acquaintance with them 2 and others...It brings people from different countries closer, bring strangers together to create a friendship, or rather to illuminate the hidden friendship that was there before.I'm really glad that my dad told my sis about this game,which I happen to hear from him. If not for the 2 of them, I wouldnt have meet up with 2 wonderful artists which are living half the globe away from me. I love chatting with the two of them, and I learn alot from the 2 of them indirectly. From Louis, he became my music motivator to complete my Piano degree. From Diana, through the conversations that we had, she taught me how to write good stories and used Louis' music as a guide(we had one of the conversations during Louis' live performance, and they're frens too in SL). "Play around with the words" that's her tip for me. Meaning to think out of the box, feel the story. And I read and got this from her blog: Talk to the characters, make them talk to you, so that your characters will be 'alive'. Another tip is to "Add Visual Image", meaning, let the readers picture whatever the characters are going thru.This game sucks, seriously. Why? Cos it's so darn popular that I often get lags and my pc had crashed for like at least 10 times since I've started playing. It's a game that was so popular.... Gosh! But though this game sucks during lags, it's really quite an interesting game. I never regretted playing or downloading it for that matter... Even if it crashed m pc and lags it like hell. :)Now one of them is my music motivator, the other one is my story motivator. Who are they? They're Louis Landon and Diana Hunter respectively. And I've also known more than just the 2 of them. I've mingle around and chatted, chilled with other players and some of them became my frenz in SL, and we really clicked. Well, they're older than me, but they're still so fun to hang out with. Ppl like Howdy, Thistle, Truus, Gayle, Louis, Diana, Blu, Aurora, Robin, Stv, Barb and more...they're really fun to hang out with. If there's a chance where you really play SL, I'll introduce them you guys..Who knows? :)
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11:07 PM
