Is there anyone that can help me?

We've all taken exams before and I for one hate the whole idea of exams but does anyone know why exams are timed? Is the test timed because people who work fast are smarter? (programmer style?) Furthermore, these results eventually decide if you get into college or university. Upon entry, colleges and universities will also look at your school transcript but that only lists the grades you've got based on other time standardized tests. My question is, if the tests aren't supposed to show who's smarter, then what do they prove?

Any comments are greatly appreciated.

Quote of the day : I cook so badly, we pray AFTER meals

Why the fuss about Harry Potter?

Probably the best looking witch around

Most people who know me can tell you I don't give a rats ass about Harry Potter. 6 or 7 books have been written and I've not read anyone of them. On the other hand, 2 or 3 movies have been produced and I've watched them all. I'd be lying if I said that I enjoyed watching these movies but I can tell you that the most interesting development in the story is Emma Watson. I'm quite sure Eug will agree with me on this. There isn't a great deal more I can say about this series of books and movies.

Quote of the day : Bitch tells me I got a drinkin problem so I tell her she has an ugly problem and I'm tryin to make it less obvious. We didn't get along so well after that.

New perk me up song

Bad day by Daniel Powter. This is the first song I played when I got home today. With classes moved to Mondays, Mondays will never be the same again.

You stand in the line just to hit a new low
You're faking a smile with the coffee you go
You tell me your life's been way off line
You're falling to pieces everytime
And I don't need no carryin' on

Cause you had a bad day
You're taking one down
You sing a sad song just to turn it around
You say you don't know
You tell me don't lie
You work at a smile and you go for a ride
You had a bad day
The camera don't lie
You're coming back down and you really don't mind
You had a bad day
You had a bad day

Well you need a blue sky holiday
The point is they laugh at what you say
And I don't need no carryin' on

If I were to become a politician

Yea, you guys would laugh. Probably laugh till you all fall of your chairs. It's nice and quiet now. Now is that little time between 'damm, that weekend blew by so fast' and 'shit, there's work tomorrow' time. It's a great time for me to sit down to compose and collect my thoughts. I suppose that would be one of the purposes of this blog besides ranting away.

I just got back home not long ago. Had one of those more pleasant drives home. You know the kind where there are fewer cars on the road and ALL the traffic lights aren't out to slow you down. Yea, thats a nice drving experience to have. The Gods of traffic lights were looking the other way today. No more then 5 seconds at each red light. Most of them even turned green before I had to slow down. Thank you. Thank you. 12 minutes flat from carpark to carpark was all it took from Ang Mo Kio to home. Sometimes, I really wish they would change the name of that place. How bout Eurobridge? Since thats literally what it means. Then again, I was never too good with that language. Goodnews for the sports inclined people who can keep up with the paper chase. The newspapers had something about the sports school accepting students who don't do so well academically. I always knew the paper chase was stifling the growth of most potential sports talents and there are many hidden jewels amongst the school skipping void deck soccer players. It's better to be good at something then not be good at anything at all. Even if you're good at both sports and studies, more often then not, you'd eventually have to chose one over the other in this non compromising society.

Before I forget, I'm not sure if this is more outstanding than a singh in a pink turban but I'll share this with you guys anyways. Mercedes driving in 2 lanes + woman driver + indian. 1 hella freaky combo don't you think? Beats the 'a-chi + so called' combo anytime.

Quote of the day : My band is called Imation CDR 74m 650 MB....have you seen our CD's?

One of those days........

When they said life wasn't fair, you better believe it. I got my ass whipped nicely while bowling in the league. It ALL started to go wrong when I went early to check out my lovely 25 pin handicap. Calculated by some Sonias last week. I knees almost gave in when I saw a single digit there. Small consolation that it was closer to 10 than 1. 8 pins handicap ONLY! SCREWED! Plan FAILED! Then things took a turn for the worse, I was made to be the anchor bowler. Last bowler to bowl, the pressure position, my least comfortable position. I hate playing catch-up. I had the highest average in the team today from the previous rounds. BIG time SIGH!

My opponent today was a Phr3aking lucky sumbitch! This malay dude, no personal equipment, nothing! Uses a 10 pound house ball and just aims for the head pin. With all of Allah's goodness shining down on him, he had more strikes then splits. I only managed to beat him in the 1st game where I scored 171. 2nd game was a foregone conclusion with a measly 149. My lame excuse would be the changing lane conditions. The 3rd game was a thriller. I was leading and we were even till the 7th frame. Then Allah's gentle breath would blow the last wobbling pin down for him but not for me. I consequently missed the spare due to a poor mental state of mind. He finished with 225 but I overcame a smaller amount of pressure to get 195 and win the series score for the team by 7 pins. Goddammit!

In other news, exams results are out. 1 distinction and 1 credit ended my anxious wait. My heartfelt thanks goes out to all those who screwed up International Trade so much more then me which helped push me into the next grade bracket. I'd also like to thank those that helped push me into the distinction bracket for Information systems. I'd like to congratulate myself for overcoming biased tutorial results, a shitty project and a even more shitty class test. Keep in mind that despite my final paper heroics, I still couldn't have done it without you peeps.

Quote of the day : Consciousness is that annoying time between naps.

Ain't lookin' for nothin' but a good time

This song by Poison is constantly playing in my mind like a spoilt iPod with a jammed repeat button. Sad to say, life just ain't meant to be like that. Other thoughts that ran through my head include 'I don't wanna work', 'are we bowling tonight?', 'why does time pass so slowly in the office?' and the list goes on. I'm pretty sick of hearing about Harry Potter and the Bloody Prince and how JK Rowling is worth a billion dollars.

I spent some time at work reading Rockson's blog. Too bad he had so few posts but then again it got slightly stale after a while. He also had links to other 'famous' bloggers which led me to talk a peek. He also had this picture of some girl in a pinafore. Nope, she wasn't a school girl, at least not anymore she isn't. She has her own blog going, didn't interest me that much. I must admit it got my imagination going for a while. Nah, not quite the ideal person in that uniform for me though Eug might think otherwise.

Just dropped my brother at the driving school. I wonder how anyone can learn to drive at night, except illegally of course. Prolly have a higher chance of backing over some injun rather then into the parking lot. Bowling was cancelled. Some potential practice flys out the window but I'm not too bothered. The Sonia's have informed me that I will be bowling for em tomorrow. I wonder why they're putting me up against such a strong team.

Quote of the day : Smuggling drugs into Jamaica is like smuggling slimfast into Ethiopia

Woo, a double post!

I was gonna go to bed already but this can't wait. I was trying to confirm a bowling appointment with a fellow bowler and he gave me this link. Hilarious I tell you. Kai and Eug, you may not wanna read this at work but I encourage you both to read it anyways. Pan, take it as it is and don't gimme any smart mouth comments. To the rest of my visitors, I'm sorry if you can't understand whats going on but believe me, some of us will find this quite funny. You couldn't imagine how many quotes I could get off this guys blog. If I continue reading, I'll be laughing while driving to work tomorrow. Woot! Something to burn up some idle time tomorrow!

www.rockson.blogspot.com

Also I've added a link to PC's blog. Been putting it off for quite a while but it's there now. Thanks for visiting dude.

She filled out all right!

Alba-licious weekend

I been pretty lazy lately. I wish I could spend the time at work more fruitfully by updating the blog but I rather not. We watched Sin City over the weekend, the group of us. Most of us were willing to oblige The Pan by watching it together or so it seemed. Pretty decent movie to say the least. It was a kinda artful display compared to the usual superhero comic book adaptation. This movie was mostly in black and white with little hints of colours all over. Dinner, bowling and supper rounded up the eventful day. Bowling was a little sad. I haven't quite gotten used to my 'new' bowling ball(Excuses). For the 2nd game, The Pan and I decided to handicap Eug and Annabelle by 50 pins. We were playing for drinks. The game plan was simple, I beat Tiny by 50 pins and Andy will take on Eug. In the end, I beat Tiny by 60 pins! Yahoo! Andy lost to Eug by 40 pins. Bah! You do the maths. Supper at a late night food centre was good and I got lucky. A few more minutes spent chatting would have resulted in a parking ticket from a parking attendant doing overtime. WTF are parking attendants doing out at 2 am?

As for today, work + school. Nothing more to it. Oh yeah, supper. A quick fix because Eug and I skipped dinner. Interesting conversation in the car. Looks and personalities. Both gotta be right or else the answer is simple. NO!

Quote of the day : You don't want to have a situation where there are too many Indian chiefs and no Indians running around.

I did it for the team.........I think

Today was my first day at the Sonia's league. Yep, the FBCS Mixed Doubles handicap league. This isn't exactly my first time bowling league and I have some hazy memories from years back.
So I hurried home from work, did the necessary, showered, changed, prepared my equipment and reached the bowling alley about half an hour before the roll off. I sat down near the entrance to admire some little kid bowling. He looked no more then 10. He had his own stuff, coach and looked like one for the future.(not that I give a hoot about my nation's future in this sport)

I didn't know exactly what time the league kicked off but the hustle and bustle began to pick up. Sonias hurrying to and fro taking their equipment out of their lockers. Some looked really professional. To my dismay, I saw 2 of them on my lanes. Gawd dammit. First day out, no handicap and up agaisnt the pros. It took me a while to figure out that I could beat them with their handicap despite not having any of my own. Yahoo. Things were looking up. Then the breaking news came. "Hey Doug, just bowl about 130 so you get lotsa handicap." Its team strategy........like whoaaaa......seriously. Ok, so I started concentrating on just 1 lane while I screwed up like a clown on the other. Final score 149.

2nd game, the instruction was to play catch up with the first bowler. "Doug, you just follow. If she breaks, you break also." Ok simple game. Then it got confusing, "Doug, now you follow the 2nd bowler." I was like WTF WTF WTF although I didn't show it. She had 16 pins handicap on me. Oh wells, 148 final score and beat her by some ways as well.

3rd game, finally some decency. "Doug, go get maximum score." I was like yahoo! Finally some space to do my own thing. Started of with a lucky 4 in a row. No open frames till the 8th when they said' "Doug, you're doing too well, please miss the last 2 frames to maintain the handicap for next week." I was slightly flabbergasted but not totally shocked that they keep changing their minds. So I intentionally missed and made it look so real they were clapping at my 'kelongness'. Final score 207. They happily calculated my handicap for next week which was the maximum of 25. Whoohoo! I know what that means. Bowl 170 pins means 195. I was like whoaaa as the thoughts set in.

New action performed today : Sandbagging.
Meaning : To downplay or misrepresent one's ability in a game or activity in order to deceive (someone), especially in gambling. Doing badly while the stakes are low.

Quote of the day : Good looking women are like parking spaces. They're either taken or they're handicapped

You could make a decent weapon outta these

Would Mister Pan like some?

Despite being known as the King of Fruits, the durian is not liked by everyone. I suppose that goes for most Kings including the King of Pop. Its distinctive features are a hard outer husk which is covered with sharp, prickly thorns and a strong, distinctive odour which emits from the flesh within. Some regard this odour as fragrant(thats some of us), while the uninitiated may find it overpowering or even offensive(thats you Mister Pan). The thing is, this smell often puts people including myself off. I dislike the way it remains on your fingers even after washing it countless times with soap. I'm currently in the process of experiencing this because I just had some last night. The same cannot be said about the taste. Some Westerners have described it like eating custard in a public lavatory. It seems to me that if you can get past the smell, you wouldn't mind eating the fruit itself. This drives me to find out what makes the durian smell so pungent to some, bearable to some and even likable to others. What is known about the durian is that the ripe flesh is a complex hybrid of volatile sulfurous compounds, not all of which have been identified. These compounds oxidise upon exposure to air and are responsible for the complex flavours that develop. Tah dah! That is the answer.

Quote of the day : I'm gonna make my thesis opensource so developers all round the world can work on it for me.

The weekend goes on

Sue Storm NEVER looked this good in the comics

Yep, I took leave from work. No Monday blues for me this week. Saturday was jam packed with stuff to do. Got woken up by The Pan at unearthly 7.50 am to get up to go to school. Damm school lasted till about 3.40 pm. Painful painful but not the worst ever. The lesson learnt; class geeks will always be f-ing class geeks. They freaking beat you to everything except being you. Damm these freakos. A bunch of us watched Fantastic Four after class. Decent show to say the least. Having Jessica Alba made it all the better. Then it was off to bowling again. I was convinced to go bowl by an ex-team mate. First mistake was to use 2 totally unfavourable balls. I dragged 2 of the oldest bowling balls to the bowling alley without thinking why I never liked using them in the first place. They were uncomfortable as hell. I averaged about 150 winning a couple of bets in the process. I love winning free drinks.

The only thing about the movie that kinda dissappointed me was Dr Doom. His story somewhat differed from the comics. As to how he got that scar and the mask, it goes something like this. I borrowed this from wikipedia.

The focus of Doom's research was to construct a trans-dimensional projection device with which he could communicate with his dead mother. There was a flaw in the design which Richards pointed out to him, but Doom's pride prevented him from accepting Richards' advice and fixing the device before testing it. The machine worked perfectly for two minutes and 37 seconds, in which time Doom discovered that his mother was trapped in Mephisto's Hell. Then the device exploded, permanently marring his right cheek with a long, jagged scar. Other Marvel stories have advanced the idea that Doom is massively and permanently scarred all over his face. Whatever the truth about his appearance may be Doom refused to acknowledge his own fault in the matter and blamed Richards for the accident, finding it easier to believe that Richards had sabotaged his work out of jealousy than admit to his own imperfection.

Doom was expelled from school afterward, and traveled the world searching for a cure for his scarred face. In some versions the scarring was not particularly severe, but Doom was overly sensitive about it as a symbol of his failure. Eventually Doom discovered a village of Tibetan monks amongst whom he lived for a number of years. They assisted him in crafting a suit of body armor that concealed his "deformity," and in some versions of the story (small-scar Doom) seriously burning himself when he ordered the mask be put on while it was still red-hot. This suit would become his trademark, and thanks to his technological enhancements puts him on par in terms of personal power with most superheroes in the Marvel universe. He then returned to his homeland, overthrew the standing government, and crowned himself king. Ruling with an iron fist and an equally strong will, Doom began to redirect the small nation's resources to help him realize his goals.

As for the Fantastic Four, their story was just a lil bit off. The movie describes them as going to space in one of Victor Von Doom's inventions. In the comics, it goes like this.

The Fantastic Four acquired their superhuman abilities after an experimental rocket designed by the scientist Reed Richards passed through a storm of cosmic rays on its test flight. Upon crash landing back on Earth, the four occupants of the craft found themselves transformed and possessed of bizarre new abilities.

Jessica Alba makes up for all of this. I'm looking forward to Part 2 of this movie if ever there's part 2.

Quote of the day : It's clobberin' time!

Skool's in......

Back to school once again. Same lecturer, same wry humour which no one in class seems to understand and same strict time constraints.

Things that happened in the last few days :

1. Was invited to bowl in a Filipino bowling league (Them Sonias are good)
2. Left 1 bowling ball in the shop to be re-plugged (KIV the rest of the balls to follow suit)
3. More last minute work
4. Got blocked from commenting on Annabelle's site while using the office PC
5. Got paid
6. Slightly aggrieved by a combination of factors

Quote of the day : The Middle East is similar to the US because it has societies that treat women as totally inferior while America's got Maxim, Stuff and Eminem.

Oh dear me, where did the weekend go?

Jeez, one blink and it's over but 9 hours at work seems like eternity. Bowled on Sat night with my old bowling pals. So nice to see em again. Especially when I bowl better them them. Sadly, I lost in the second game by 1 measly pin and had to buy drinks all round. Overall decent with 155.5 average for 4 games. I hope it gets better because I promised too bowl with them again soon.

Sunday flew past in a hurry as well, spent a good part of the day watching the World Pool Championships on telly. What a waste, 1 whole week of good pool and I've got work. I like what Kai says. The Pan is becoming a freaking tour guide. We'll see what other places of war interest he posts next. Come on dude, almost 400 hits on your blog.

I found out today that if you make coffee with luke warm water, the coffee mate doesn't dissove and you get a cup of sour coffee. Yucks. Also, I accomplished another honey prata + ice cream to WC race. All the creamy goodness......

Quote of the day : If you're approaching a fat person from the front, as you get near, start drifting towards them, going "WoooaaaH' then start circling around them, screaming "I CANT BREAK ORBIT, CAPTAIN!!"

Why the love for last minute work

Friday is 5.30 day. Not just for me but for everybody in the office. But at 5.30pm sharp, as I was about to scoot off from the dreaded workplace, I got called back from the lift. WTF! Given a stack of papers and a set of instructions. Well, 2 hours of overtime pay isn't too bad but I'm not used to leaving the office after the sun sets. Not cool at all. The bus was relatively empty but still took a whole hour to get to my bus stop. Couldn't they have said anything earlier? Or were they just too lazy to walk over to my desk. This could be the one disadvantage of not having a phone at my desk.

So I've scoured the internet for stuff to read and today I chanced upon this article on msn.com about getting fired for blogging. The best news so far is that I never EVER access my blog from work. Not to post, not to edit the template, not to view anything. I don't reveal sensitive information about the company I work for and thats where it stops. Does my company have blogging policies? I don't think so. Do I wanna ask the boss if it's ok to blog? Hell no. I wouldn't want him reading my blog. Apparently you are also not supposed to badmouth your co workers or something to that extent. The next question and answer would seriously put me in doubt. Although it refers to the law in New Jersey, whats to stop it from happening here?

Can my employer fire me if I blog from home on my own time?
Yes. The odds of your company perusing your blog is slim. "But if your boss should see your blog and be offended by something there, in most states you have virtually no protection against being fired," says Lewis Maltby, president of the National Workrights Institute in Princeton, N.J.

So much for free speech..........

Quote of the day : Swedish rodeo is like taking a hot swedish chick from behind, bend over to her ear and whisper "i have aids", then try to keep your penis inside of her.