Whee-hee~

Thank you to all the humans last night who tried to cheer me up when I was feeling super down.
=)

Derriere, Ling, KC, Nicky, Jeanette and Sash.



Or so Nicky said. Well, he succeeded by making me crack up by relating his and his friends' antics - SIX of them ganging up to try and get ONE girl's number.
GG. Chickens. XD

KC gave me this link earlier on in the night:



It's a gorgeous acoustic version of Chris Brown's and Jordin Sparks' No Air by a member of the group Boyce Avenue. His voice is a little rough but the song is great. *tear* I checked out their other videos and I spent a good half hour singing along. (Did I mention guys on pianos are awesome? ;D)

Anyway I felt much better after it all and managed to sleep peacefully before 1 am (miracle!)
Thanks people. Didn't know you cared. =)

***

Today I went takei with not only Julian and Viv - but with Whay Ying, Kenny, Tung Herr and Sheng.

Me, Julian, Viv and Whay Ying vs Kenny, Tung Herr and Sheng.

(Fill up the rest of the slots with strangers from ftz.)

Omigod, we got pawned.
BADly.

T_T

But it wasn't really an even playing field - even with 3 friends versus 4.

Whay Ying had only had 30 minutes DotA experience prior to today's match - and that was jstu yesterday. Viv was handicapped as she spent half the time teaching Whay Ying how and when to run. (Ying was using Crystal Maiden - one of my first heroes too! XD)

And it WAS. NOT. FAIR!
The three boys CLEARLY knew Ying didn't know how to play, yet they hunted her down and fed off her. =_= Was is any surprise, then, that they were so fat and pwned us to death?

There was a funny part where they were all missing and I ran off to Roshan just in time to see tidehunter walk in and initiate a fight. Just as I suspected, the other 4 arrived soon after.

So, my cute little invisible Rikimaru sat there until they finished Roshan-ing so I could loot the aegis.

BUT I FAILED!
Stupid big fatass tidehunter stood between my and the aegis, all I managed to do was whack the ginormous strength hero once on his butt before they all turned on me, surprised.

LOL
NOOOOOO
o well
i tried
T____T

At least I didn't die. .That would've been tres embarassing. =x

stupid th! block my way!

ahahahahahaha!
th so skinny how to block? LOL
not tung herr la! fat ass tidehunter! -_____-
i where got fat? thin nia
the hero is obese la! not you, swt. you damn thin only

Nevermind. I got back at tidehunter by running into him farming level 6 neutrals and killing him together with Viv.

revenge! ahahahah!
what? just because i'm fat?
yala, i don't like fat people. hmph. thin only cute!
LOL she's talking about you tung herr!
wahaha

Warao, this Viv made it out like I'm flirting with Tung Herr. HAHAHHAA!
GG.

Sei lor. After that, in class, he kept calling:

Rikimaruuuuu! Heh heh!

I flipped him the finger.

(So not classy, I know. But I couldn't exactly scream FUCK OFF - however jokingly - while Puan Nor was standing in front, could I?)

OMG tung herr! She just gave you her middle finger! She wants to 'middle finger' you, omigoshhhh! Tonight sure cannot sleep d lo! Wahahahaha!

I burst out laughing while he blushed and looked away.

HAHAHAHAHA!
Why la? Viv can manipulate guys so easily - I didn't even need to do anything!
Rofl. Damn funny la. Suckers.

I might even have found him interesting if not for the fact that I have the image of Kenny slapping his ass and sharing Starbucks with their arms over each seared vividly into my mind.

They chose 'Homosexuality' as the topic for their Moral Project - we had to film a video and show it to the class.

Omg, I don't think my class will ever forget Kenny pinning Tung Herr to the wall of an empty classroom, tearing his shirt off. LOL.

The hair in the back of my neck stood at the mere thought of it.
Well, don't look at me that way - wouldn't yours?

>_<''

Oh my gosh, Sheng pawned me twice while playing just now.
TAK PUAS!

sheng you gay la
no, i'm 100% straight
well, your shirt isn't, HAHA

(he likes tight fitting shirts, and he doesn't exactly have the shape of a bodybuilder =/)

Well, I forgot what we were talking about but suddenly I typed:

MAN BOOBS! HAHAHHAHA!

Julian, Viv and Whay Ying (who were the only ones close to me) screamed with laughter.

What the fuck? So off-topic! HAHAHAHA!
But I thought you were talking about curves or something...? Then you were saying Sheng's shirt was gay!
NO LA. OMG I WAS TALKING ABOUT POTM'S ARROW LA! HAHAHA! Then you suddenly, MAN BOOBS! WTF LA YOU HAHAHAH!
But...but...it's true! T_T
LOL!

XD GG la. It's so fun playing with friends. No stress and somehow I always lari topic. =_=

Man boobs.
Indeed.

Later, Kenny came to me and whined.

"So sad la...I didn't kill anything."
"Eh? What hero were you again?"
"Beastmaster."
"LOL! YOU were the one who stunned the ground? HAHAHAH!"

My Rikimaru was running around him in circles, whacking him at every oppurtunity just to annoy him and lower his life gradually.

He got so frustrated, he just cast his ulti - ON ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!
Not even creeps!
Well, to be fair, I was caught right at the edge of the shockwave, so I ran around for a while with a little spiral over my head (like I was dizzy XD) but I received no damage at all, lol.

Viv laughed like crazy.

"Yala yala! Top lane right? Steph's SA was BACKSTABBING him and he stunned IN FRONT of him! Walao damn funny la wei!"

Kenny: *covers face*

Yay, it's comforting to know I'm not the only noob around. ;P

We should go together more often. =)
Bonding between classmates is good, right?

***

Have you ever tried swinging a moderately heavy object right into someone face, stopping a mere 3 inches from their nose?

It's funny!

I started doing this in secondary, I believe.
I swung a hard-cover storybook (I believe it was Dick King-Smith's book of animal tales - don't ask me how I remember) at Lyana.

...180 degrees and I halted its arc RIGHT in front of her face.
In fact, it can be said the the doggie on the front cover of the book was kissing the tip of her nose tenderly.

The expression on her face was PRICELESS!
Sabrina was laughing like crazy.

But my day did NOT end well, despite that amusing incident - some people just don't have as good a judgment of distance as I once did.

Sabrina later tried to pull off my smooth move - and slammed her book right into my nose.

OMG I'm SO SO SORRY!
...thank God it's soft-covered. =_=

Today I tried the same thing again, after hearing:

"Rikimaruuuuu!"

I grabbed my file and swung it violently, stopping a few inches from Tung Herr's face - he was standing behind me.

He flailed a bit and stumbled backwards, and the look on his face was exactly the same as Lyana's once was - priceless...and thoroughly amusing.

My other friends stared, open-mouthed, eyes wide in amusement.
They thought I was really going to hit the poor guy in his face. (I'm known for my fits of violence in college already =_= Thanks to me slamming a certaing classmate into the wall with the classroom door he was leaning on.)

I gave an evil NYAHAHA and walked out of the classroom in search of food.

You should all try it.
;D

Beginners should try with their open palm, nothing else.
(If you use a heavy/hard object and permanently disfigure your victim, don't say you weren't warned.)

You should aim for stopping roughly 5 inches in front of their nose - this is enough to startle them and cross their eyes in confusion. (And allows room for error, mwahaha)

As you gain more experience, you can move on to flat, semi-heavy objects such as storybooks and files.
However, take care to stop earlier as these items have more momentum than your hand and will be more difficult to stop in its tracks.

When you're confident that you can handle the above objects, you move on to pointed objects (blunt, PLEASE) such as water bottles and pencil cases.

This will be even more traumatising as you make your stabbing motion towards their faces.

(People tend to fear small, pointed objects as compared to big, flat ones. Would you rather a 2v4 plank of wood slammed into your face, or the end of a baseball bat?

Exactly, I thought so.
Neither.)

...But I digress.

When using pointed objects, stop EVEN EARLIER.

The object is no longer flat, and if you try to stop the object's motion using the position of your hand as a judge - I pity your victim who just got stabbed in the face by a protruding object.

=/

Okay, that was quite pointless.
But quite a skill to train for all those wu liao people out there.
It can be amusing, provided that it is carried out the correct times without error.

(Don't try it when your friend is raging mad, or in tears, you idiot.)

Also, do not attempt it more than twice on the same victim.
You will find that he or she will no longer find it amusing (after the initial shock,) or, *gasp* they will become immune to it! The tragedy!

Worst-case scenario:
The victim will develop a reflex action the moment he or she senses something headed towards their head.

This happened when Abby and Sui tried to tickle me once to many during secondary.
I developed a nasty reflex that made me slap the tickler the moment their hands reached toward my torso.

It happens without thinking.

Once, a girl was trying to adjust my crooked shirt and I immediately reacted by cuffing her on the shoulder, hard.
HAHAHA!

Too bad.

Now, go and practise the halt-slam move I just taught you.
=]
Shoo, doggies.


Song of the Day:

"Darkshines - Muse"

Lalala.
Related wu liao thing here.

Warrrghhhhh T___T

Last Friday, my ESL group had to do a powerpoint presentation and essay on tourism.

Should tourism be supported?

Well, on Friday I felt like a lazy traitorous pig so I didn't do anything except correct their grammatical mistakes in the essay. I told them that I'd do the powerpoint presentation, no worries.

On Sunday, no, Monday at nearly 3 am (after a DotA game and shower) I realised that something wasn't done.

HOLY @#*&^&@^%# ESL PRESENTATION!

So, at roughly 3 am on Monday morning, I sat down in front of the comp to do my assigned work.
Hell, if it weren't a group project I'd say, screw it all, I'm going to sleep - Math's exam in 7 hours.

I finished within half an hour and went to sleep.

I woke up at 9 the next day, missing my first class and barely made it on time to sit for my Maths exam.

I asked Swarna:

"Our stand on the tourism thingy was no, right?"
"Yeah, why?"
"Nah, just checking. I was up at 3 am doing..."
"OMG YOU'RE KIDDING! Say you're kidding!"
"-_- Not. Anyway it'd be really stupid if the powerpoint was against tourism and the essay was supporting tourism, haha."
"Yea man, lol!"

Second last period - IT - was right before ESL period.
I sat down and asked them to show me the essay.

"Oh, er it's too short! We haven't rewritten it yet..."
"...you didn't do it over the weekend?"
"..."
"Wtf. Fine. Just give me what you've got."

I opened the Word file, and discovered - as my gut instincts told me - that the stand was YES, we support tourism.

My powerpoint was NO, we do NOT support tourism.

Fail. =_=

"Hey, guys, my powerpoint's stand is the opposite from the essay, haha."
"OMG! SO HOW?"
"Huh? Just redo the powerpoint la. No biggie."
"Oh."

I read through the essay, and it was HORRIBLE. There were BARELY any points, and it was terribly put together - the result of many (4) people contributing various parts of the essay and simply gluing it together.

I told them, forget it, I'm going to rewrite the whole fucking thing to match MY powerpoint cause basically, it sucked.

They were insistant that it was ok, I don't have to - just let them elaborate a bit more to meet the word limit. (It was 300 words long - we needed 500 words)

I told them no, I'm writing it, I'm fine.

So I sat down for about half an hour during IT period writing the essay from scratch.
I completed it, with time to do the IT homework that was given on that day itself.

So, essentially, I did all the work - although it was purely my fault that my powerpoint was wrong.

However, I CANNOT stand shoddy English work, so I would've rewritten the essay again even if my powerpoint was correct.

Then I told them, 'you guys present, ok?'

"No la! You speak so well! You should present!"
"No."

I walked off, annoyed.

Dahlah I've helped them with the powerpoint slides, rewrote the essay to meet teacher's standards - now they want me to PRESENT as well? Forget it la, ladies.

Fine la, I stayed up til 3.30 am (my bad) to do the presentation slides from scratch.

They finished their Frankenstein essay on Friday and had the WHOLE fucking weekend to do it, but neglected to do so. All they had to do was elaborate a bit more and they'd be fine.

Do NOT tell me that they had NO time to do it.

I mean, I know I left it til' the last minute, but I STILL took the initiative to COMPLETE my part because it was group work and there was more than only MY ass hanging on the line. Apparently, they don't give a shit.

Screw them la, I finished the whole thing in 30 minutes, so what's THEIR excuse?

Worst of all, we didn't even GET to present that day.
I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

Anyway, what REALLY pissed me off - and made me begin this post - was today's IT class.

Ms Sue gave us two skill tasks (basically practical revision, applying knowledge we have obtained through past lessons) which required knowledge of yesterday's class. (The one I had to do the ESL essay in.)

And the fucking stupid thing was that my classmates actually came to ask ME how to do the freaking skill task because THEY HAD NO TIME TO DO YESTERDAY'S IT WORK.

WHAT.
THE.
FUCK.

Yesterday, I sat there writing the whole freaking thing during class AND managed to take down notes from class AND I finished the today's skill tasks within 5 minutes.

And they fucking DARE ask me to help them, because 'they had no time to take down notes yesterday?'

WHAT THE FUCK WERE THEY DOING DURING CLASS?

Oh my God, sometimes I hate my classmates.
Just now another one just asked me to send her MY work over Msn so she could 'see' it.

I refused.

I mean, if you're totally clueless, I'd help you.

I helped Swarna finish her skill tasks today - although I was rather annoyed cause she obviously wasn't doing ANYTHING during yesterday's class (I know cause she was sitting beside me) yet still did not know how to do it.

But still, I'd show you my work if you take the initiative to try and code it yourself and debug your program.

Okay, if you're clueless and the assignment had absolutely no marks, I'd give you my work too.

Or if you have done me a favour before and allowed me to peep at your work previously, I'd return the favour and let you peep at mine too.

But if you CAN do it, but are too LAZY to try and USE your brains...screw you la.
I'm sure as hell not going to layan you.

=_=

Diu la. These people are pissing me off.
ARGH!
Even Swarna, who I normally like so much, annoyed me today by coding irrelevant stuff.

My whole coding was roughly 7 lines long, and hers was already a full page worth of utter nonsense and it STILL wasn't working.

BWAHHHH!

*tugs violently on hair*

Are my annoyances justified, or am I just grumpy?


Song of the Day:

"Another Brick in the Wall - Pink Floyd"

Geram! ZZZ. Stupid wannabe freeloaders.

-_- Fail. Nails.

I've been 'painting my nails' since 2pm today. And I just realised I still had my toe seperators on 10 minutes ago. HAHA. That makes it 2 hours since I put them on. -__- And I never noticed. Nick said that dark green was not his thing and I insisted that it was nice! So I took a picture and showed him. ;D (Sorry, couldn't get it to focus properly.)




roT.Ten- *unicef NiCh0l@S <3>
haha
ur fingers r photogenic lolz

[Stephanie] says:
psh

roT.Ten- *unicef NiCh0l@S <3>
though they do look enlongated form this angel

[Stephanie] says:
if only i were
ahaha

roT.Ten- *unicef NiCh0l@S <3>
angle*

[Stephanie] says:
i wonder how long they are
hmm
lemme measure!
go measure yours!
xD
ahahaha

roT.Ten- *unicef NiCh0l@S <3>
i tihkn that'll hurt my feelings haha

[Stephanie] says:
whaaaaaat
they're jsut fingers
T_T
i appear
to have
misplaced my ruler
zz
wait a sec
o thank god for spares
tmrw maths summore

roT.Ten- *unicef NiCh0l@S <3>
haha
got mine d lolz

[Stephanie] says:
index finger?

roT.Ten- *unicef NiCh0l@S <3>
middle

[Stephanie] says:
ok
top of knuckle
til the end of the finger
no nails

roT.Ten- *unicef NiCh0l@S <3>
ok

[Stephanie] says:
kk
lol
like some competition
xD
so wu liao!

roT.Ten- *unicef NiCh0l@S <3>
haha
we're wu liao ppl lolz

[Stephanie] says:
3 and 3/4 inches
haha
wu liao T_T
like my sis
hehe

roT.Ten- *unicef NiCh0l@S <3>
hm...

[Stephanie] says:
she's known as the wu liao queen (HAHAHA)

roT.Ten- *unicef NiCh0l@S <3>
mine goes by centi meter

[Stephanie] says:
oh

roT.Ten- *unicef NiCh0l@S <3>
hasha

[Stephanie] says:
ok lemme remeasure

roT.Ten- *unicef NiCh0l@S <3>
wu liao girls r fun to hang with

[Stephanie] says:
9.5
psh!
cm

roT.Ten- *unicef NiCh0l@S <3>
eh i won haha
10

[Stephanie] says:
nuuu!
T_T

roT.Ten- *unicef NiCh0l@S <3>
haha

[Stephanie] says:
zz

roT.Ten- *unicef NiCh0l@S <3>
uh..
u're 0.5 less lolz

[Stephanie] says:
soooo?
>_>

roT.Ten- *unicef NiCh0l@S <3>
haha
that's rare enough

[Stephanie] says:
no fair no fairrr
T_T
you big handed monster
sniff

roT.Ten- *unicef NiCh0l@S <3>
hahaha
wait
i remeasure
i think i'm wrong

[Stephanie] says:
._.''

roT.Ten- *unicef NiCh0l@S <3>
eh
wrong d

[Stephanie] says:
. . .

roT.Ten- *unicef NiCh0l@S <3>
9.7

[Stephanie] says:
!
-.-

roT.Ten- *unicef NiCh0l@S <3>
give or take a few millies

[Stephanie] says:
psh
-remeasure-
STILL 9.5
T_T

roT.Ten- *unicef NiCh0l@S <3>
i think the thumb is the most accurate lozl

[Stephanie] says:
sniff

roT.Ten- *unicef NiCh0l@S <3>
haha

[Stephanie] says:
i have long thumbs
COME
MEASURE
i will win!
T_T

roT.Ten- *unicef NiCh0l@S <3>
haha

[Stephanie] says:
laii
6

roT.Ten- *unicef NiCh0l@S <3>
ok done haha

[Stephanie] says:
hehe

roT.Ten- *unicef NiCh0l@S <3>
eh i won again !! haha
6.5

[Stephanie] says:
NOOOOOO

roT.Ten- *unicef NiCh0l@S <3>
LOL haha

[Stephanie] says:
okok we can't compare girls hands to guys'

roT.Ten- *unicef NiCh0l@S <3>
haha
lolz

[Stephanie] says:
that's unfair!

roT.Ten- *unicef NiCh0l@S <3>
din noe my fingers were that long

[Stephanie] says:
so i win. bluek

roT.Ten- *unicef NiCh0l@S <3>
yeah
this is a veyr wu liao and imbalanced compo (comparison) haha
nyek

***

Cause I feel like posting photos, hehe.



A grainy picture of yet another sunset from my sister's window.

But you can see the rays right? It was much more intense than what I could capture with my camera, but oh well. It'll have to do. (Plus I spent a precious 5 minutes of gorgeous sunset hunting my camera down. x_X)


Remember this picture? I used to use it for my profile pic on Blogged until I thought the haircut was outdated.
(Mom keeps changing it every month =/)


Boo! Deja vu. Haha. This was taken a good whole year later. =/

We're so boring laaa. Same restaurant, same people, same food. xD
(NEW PHONE! WAHAHA! I wonder whose message made me smirk. It was taken on SPM results day, lol. Whoever it is, thanks for making me smile while I was emoing. Haha.)

And pics for Turtle-Michelle, lol:



Hope you don't mind I stole your turtle, Sherm!
(Too cute not to save x_X)



And my turtle. ;D

Hehe. Okay, enough with the random pics.

***

I'm giving Zerick a third chance cause I'm feeling rather generous.

I just hope it's not a mistake - the same thing I did with Kayshaan to try and satisfy Terence.
(Fail. Hahaha. Really cannot tahan that asshole la.)

._.

So far he seems alright.
Rather childish and perasan - but in a likeable way.
Whatever. I hope it makes Nic happy to see us making peace after 3 months.
-_____-

I was just thinking that we're both alike in one aspect.
We can be really good and loyal to our friends, but if you piss us off - oh man, screw you to high hell. Poor you. (And we both have short tempers. GG. -.-)

Wish me luck on this one. =x

I really hope it turns out well.


Song of the Day:

"By Myself - Linkin Park"

Wouldn't you rather have a loyal friend than a vicious enemy?
Yea. Me too.
And I'm tired of fighting and seeing Nic caught in between.

Well, that was a good effort.

I woke up today at 1pm to a message from Nicky.

"hey steph. game?"

I had my lunch and we embarked on an epic 5 hour DotA spree with Jie and Josh.

*mutters*
So much for cutting down my hours.

Anyway we hardly finished any good games - we decided to go with combos.
A full team of stunners and disablers and basically heroes that go perfectly with each other. =)

Sven, Rylai, Darchrow.
GG.

Most of the games ended by the 25-minute mark.

-___-

Well, anyway, mom bought my 'popcorn chicken' from Tesco - something like the one from KFC.
KFC ones used to be nicer, but since they have deteriorated over the years, the Tesco one is nicer. ;P You should try it, Ayamas. =)

*

LOL. We are such geeks!

[Stephanie] says:
one day
i'll show you a kl sunset
through webcam
wheeeeeeeeeeee ;D

roT.Ten- *unicef NiCh0l@S <3>
haha
well that'd b kinda romantic lolz haha

[Stephanie] says:
wow
through
a webcam
HAHAHAH

roT.Ten- *unicef NiCh0l@S <3>
ppl bakc then watched it fomr the moutnain

[Stephanie] says:
rofl

roT.Ten- *unicef NiCh0l@S <3>
haha we modern ppl watch it through a webcam
lolz...
not that sounds weird haha
now*

[Stephanie] says:
o.o
lol

*

...It's good that KC is being normal again.
But.
Have you heard of TMI? =_=''

† KC † - nubcake` says:
rofl
hahah
cool
later ;D i need to poo poo ><

[Stephanie] says:
>_>

† KC † - nubcake` says:
too full

[Stephanie] says:
wow

† KC † - nubcake` says:
rofl

[Stephanie] says:
did
not
need
to
know.
-.-

† KC † - nubcake` says:
too much info
/gg

[Stephanie] says:
tmi
exactly

† KC † - nubcake` says:
/gg
brb

[Stephanie] says:
>_>
enjoy
the toilet

† KC † - nubcake` says:
while reading comic
/gg

[Stephanie] says:
. . .

Well, now you've heard. =x
(I just passed on TMI to you *pulls face* Nyehhh!)

Ok then.
Being the geek that I am, I shall now have my dinner in front of the computer while watching the sunset safely behind a mosquito net with Muse playing in the background.

Then later maybe, just maybe, I'll take a dump in the toilet with a comic book in my hand.

I bid you farewell for now.
Muacks to you too! xD


Song of the Day:

"Take A Bow - Muse"

Yes. It is SUPPOSED to be random.

Lolpets!

My posts have been waaaaaaaaaay too wordy lately, so I have decided to be kind on your eyes and give you some LoLpics. ;D

Lingling gave me this website a long time ago when I was bugging her no end to entertain me.

Lolcats and Loldogs. xD

They show funny/cute/touching pictures of all sorts of animals, not only cats and dogs. But of course those two are the main animals. I handpicked my recent favourites just for you.

A picture is worth a thousand words. =)



































There. My favourite one. Hehe.


Song of the Day:

"Superman - Stereophonics"

(That was a 34000-word essay, holy shit! XD)

._. Addicted.

*

Non-DotA readers, skip to the next red star.

Ahaha. I'm back in X|MoD. Don't ask why, it's only temporary, hehe.

I managed to random troll twice in a row today. -_-
First game we were one person down, and Dirge was pumping me.
Eaglehorn, Claymore, Helm of Iron Will.

And being the noob lagger I am - I have taken to leaving my music on while playing, it keeps me calm - I still couldn't save my team from being owned.

It was something like 8-6.
-_-?

What can I do if they all aimed me? T_T

But nevermind. Still noob la.
I was surprised that Jie even wanted to play with me again after that - being Nic's and Zerick's friend I thought he'd run off with them the moment they finished their game.

But no, he said it's ok, he'll play if I play.
So ok.
I got troll again.

WALAO I DUWAN TROLL!
Nvm, you pro ma.
WTF YOU GOT SEE ME FEED EARLIER OR NOT?
...lol

I was spiking even worse this game, but thank God everyone else was lagging, so we had an even playing field. =)

As usual, I did my last hits like crap (or actually, I just don't bother, since the enemy doesn't) so luckily I managed to get first blood and kill a few more early.

Hehe. Ended up 17-6.

Same amount of deaths, but double the kills, hehe.
Maybe cause Jie lagged out and I stole his SnY HAHA.
But the other team had 3 leavers and we had 2.

But then again, late game troll is basically a piece of cake - just melee it and bash them to death. =/ If they run, range it/lothar/rampage and kill them. (This is provided you're not disabled/hexed to death in the first place - I was lucky Enchantress didn't Guinsoo up.)

Nevermind, I shall practise more and try not to feed ;D

*

I think I have lost 80% of my DotA games the past two weeks.
Haha. And I've stopped caring already.

I think this is because I'm weaning myself off DotA and going back to my past interests like reading and drawing.

That day I spent 90 straight minutes on the piano. =x

Thank God for thunderstorms and Viv's insistence that I stay at her place to 'study.'

I still love doing crafts. =)
Take me mom's tax manual as proof - I think it's still covered in my little cutouts. Haha.

Now Ling has to teach me how to make that origami lamp!
Okay Lingling?

Then I'm going to take out all my new books and finish them.
I've been reading at a constant rate of one book a day lately.

Wahaha.

Maybe that's why I rejoined the clan. Petty arguments over who was being a noob and bitch doesn't concern me as much anymore - I'll just ignore them.

Besides, Arief seems damned pleased and I won't put a dent in his happiness for now by leaving and/or running off to Viv's clan. (She told me she immediately kicked the 2 people who nudged while I was in game and that I can come back now, but I still said no, it's not necessary.)

It feels like DotA has been an uncontrollable addiction this past two years, and I'm glad I'm seeing that there are still other things that I love doing besides playing.

I've come to realise that this ridiculous DotA obsession has eaten up a major part of my life - whether I deny it or not.

For instance, there was a time where I couldn't sleep at night without at least playing one game to satisfy my craving - whether it was already midnight and I had school the next day.

I sometimes opt out of weekend outings with my mom to stay home and play.

I'm always in a rush to come home and play some more.

._. I played throughout my SPM.

My sister and her friends started saying I'm going to get my first boyfriend off playing DotA. People started seeing me as 'that girl who DotA's all the time.'
When asked about my hobbies, I'd reply 'DotA.'
...
I injured my wrist by excessive playing 2 weeks before SPM. (-_- Leaving my to do my pre-SPM tests with my left hand.)

It's kind of freaky, knowing that a simple online game can influence your life so much.

Now I'm determined to make it a smaller part of my life - though not to wean it out completely (you KNOW that would NEVER work.)

I've taken hiatus-es, and the longest I've ever managed to stop completely, voluntarily, in this 2 years was one week. One freaking week.
(Not including inevitable circumstances like a 3-week holiday to US.)

I've seen my friends severely affected by online disputes - Nic, who gets upset when he gets trashed in game - and I realise that I too, get affeted by these matters.

=] I've seen my friends quit - KC, who stopped playing after I started ignoring him - only to come back just as addicted as they once were. (Now he plays with me every night again.)

I KNOW I've just written my ESL investigative studies on video games, and discovered that online gaming CANNOT, in fact, be considered a legitimate addiction.

But what is this, if not addiction?

=/

You tell me.

Anyway, I've decided to cut down on my DotA hours, or spend stop cutting myself off from other people and start resuming activities I love.

Drawing and reading ftw. =)


Song of the Day:

"Gimme Gimme (A Man After Midnight) - ABBA"

Help me. xD

Today. I.

Today, I:

1. Sat for an IT pop quiz, lost half the marks haha. (Thank god this is counted for our exams.)

2. Ditched my ESL group to go eat lunch with Viv and Swarna.

3. Laughed openly at a couple's failed PDA (girl melted all over guy, guy squirmed and tried to escape, rofl)

4. Fed 6-10 with my Crystal Maiden as I watchedly amusedly at the sight next to me - Viv popping Panadols Gary bought for her while he massaged her head. Damn layan lo, summore told him to 'press harder la!'

5. Recoiled in shock at the fact that Tung Herr smoked.

6. Watched Deny do the funniest and most irrelevant ESL presentation ever.

It was about tourism - whether it should be supported or not, and the impacts towards the environment and socially.

"When the tourists come, they bring like, foods, and handphones."

Someone points out that no one THROWS their handphones away.

"Wait, wait, let me continue...and yah, their foods and handphones right? And cause there's no garbage bin in the jungle right? Very hard to find garbage bin in the jungle...so, they throw the rubbish into the river, then, then, all the fish die."

Everyone bursts into laughter.

"Ok, ok, SOME of the fish die, and then ah. You know tourists, they come and they cause pollution because they chop down the trees, to, to, make firewood...to cook their fish!"

*more laughter*

"And then ah, also, tourism is not good for the animals. Like Malaysia, they got Orang Utans."

*someone says something*

"Yah, in Indonesia also we got Orang Utans. But ours ah, are smaller."

*gestures at waist height*
'Why are they small?'

"Because! They kill the big ones! So only got small ones left!"

'Why do they kill the big ones, and what's that got to do with tourists?'

"You see, the big ones, they are very strong. So, so, they kill the big, scary ones because they are dangerous to the tourists!"

He continued.

"And then, when tourists come, like, to Indonesia, they ask the locals to chop down trees...burn down trees."

'What do you mean tourists?'

"I mean, I mean, WE chop down trees and then, we...pollute the air."

'Yea man! And then the haze comes to Malaysia!'

"No? No la! Where got? *stops to ponder* I mean, yes, yes. But that's not my point! My point is, my point is...ah! Nevermind. T_T"

Laughter all around.
Even teacher was smirking.

"And then, cause, as I said, cause the trees are cut down, chopped down, no more, there will be soil er-ero-erose...?"

'E-ro-shun!'

"Ah yes! *snaps fingers* Erosion! And then cause there are no trees, the soil will easily e-erose...?"

'Erode!'

"Yea! Erode!"

Wah, the fella damn cute can die wei.
He's Indonesian Chinese and his manner of speech is adorable. And they way he gestures and and stammers and searches for the correct words and pronunciation...XD

Safe to say la, he's a very likeable fellow.
I remember when I won this nice black t-shirt from fly.fm a couple months back when he was still the new guy.

The t-shirt was huge, and when I put it on in class I decided that I'm probably going to find one of my guy friends to give it to (or wear it as pajamas.)

Then, when I was pulling it off, he was like:

"Wah! Where did you get that shirt? So nice one!"
"Oh, you want? I can give it to you! I can't wear it, haha."
"Huh? Really ah? You sure ah?"
"Yea, haha."

I held it up to him, and it looked fine.

"Nah, take la."
"Wah, thank you. You sure ah? Tomorrow I wear this to school, you don't come after me and say 'Deny you have my shirt, you took it from me yesterday, I want my shirt back, take it off!' And then you don't come and scold me oh!"
"...Walao, no la! Hahaha, just take it la, aiyo!"
"Thank you! Thank you! Hehe."

Wah, how not to laugh man? XD

7. Learned how to tie a tie (finally!)

I saw Shaun with one slung around his neck and I marched over and demanded that he show me how to tie it. He was like no, no, YOU do it, and slung it around my neck and proceeded to demonstrate how to knot it nicely. Then he showed me how to remove it and asked me to try - and I did it! I tied my first tie! WHEE!

I remember playing with my dad's ties when I was younger - I'd tie it in a dead knot and wonder how come he could get the nice triangular shape and all I got was a big fat fugly-looking knot. T_T

Now I can do it! Whee! Now all I have to do is learn how to cook yummy food and take care of kids and I'd be the perfect housewife in the future...HAHAHA!

What a sense of accomplishment I feel. =)

8. Read a children's picture book from start to end at Borders.

The magical world of monsters! OMG I loved it! Buy it for me! XD

9. Did a collage out of rejected timetables (printed in the wrong size/orientation) and pasted on my mom's Tax Manuals.

HAHAHA! So wu liao!
I remembered people cutting out human's profiles to make money - they could do it in a matter of seconds and it'd look totally real! And people pay for them!

So I tried cutting out a random profile - I made the nose a bit hooked, so that one became a guy.
I tried again, hopefully to make a girl with a pointed nose - but I screwed up her lips and I turned her into a witch.

With the witch's pointy hat and all! (But I accidentally sliced off half the hat so it looks a bit retarded, but nevermind. -.-)

Then I had a bright idea to make a scene inspired by Wicked!
Hehe. I cut out a crescent moon, clouds and stars to paste above Elphaba and Fiyero.
I was cutting out a white cat when mom said we had to leave. =(

(I sheared off a bit of its butt, but who cares? =x)

I stuck it on the black tax manual and took a few pictures for good meaasure.

Then I refused to let my mom take it down!

"Hey mom, how often do people read these manuals?"
"Quite often, why?"
"Oh. Cause I, er, stuck pictures on them."
"...HUH? WHY?"
"Cause you said, 'do whatever you want baby,' when I asked you."
"...which one is it?"

*I point at some boring title*

"Oh, okay, that one not so many people read."
"So I can leave my stuff on it?"
"Yea."
"What if they decide to borrow the book and see sellotaped pictures of a witch and cat on it?"
"So? Who cares?"

HAHA. My mommy rocks hor?
I'll post some pictures up as soon as I get my phone cable back!

10. I played a very silly Skeleton King today.

First item: Arcane
Second item: Boots
Third item: Perseverance

Hehe. I spammed my stun and ran past two towers just to get my kill. XD
My ulti is imba! (But I died twice trying the same trick T_T The person called the rest of the team to gang up on me and waited until I revived to perma-disable me. Sniff.)

Oh well. Nicky was happy in the end, so I'm happy too. (He was emo-ing like crazy and threatened to quit DotA OMG, but I managed to get him to play one more and he was alright after that. ^_^v)

11. ...Zzz.

Good night.


Song of the Day:

"Without You - Mariah Carey"

I kenlee, tulibudibu douchoo~

Again!

My modem died again!
Two days ago!

And I hopped over to Viv's place to stay again, haha.
On the pretext of 'studying accounts.'

Well, we did, but I didn't get that much done - I did most of my revision the next day, and I was fine during the paper, so it's all good. =)

Viv was teaching Julian about accrued and prepaid accounting and I was just lying down listening.
Viv remarked that I was lucky that I could learn through listening, whereas Julian was sitting there writing everything down on a piece of paper so that it stays in his head better.

I guess everyone has different ways of learning things - I'm just glad mine doesn't have anything to do with physical work. Ahaha.

Before Julian came, I watched Viv play a practice match her all-girls team and they nearly drove me nuts.

I mean, I'm no pro, but watching them made me laugh and shriek with horror alternately.

=_=

Viv went down for 3 minutes to open the gate for Julian and left her Lina in my care for the same amount of time...and I died straightaway.

HAHAHAHHAHA!

It was partially my fault - I have no idea what she did with the settings, but the mouse was SUPER sensitive. I moved it a bit and the whole screen jumped around and I lost my hero. o_O To make it worse, she didn't have a control button for her hero, so I had to look for it manually.

LOL.

But that was not the reason I died.

Imagine me using Viv's Lina and Sand King comes.
Zeus is in front of us.

Sk stuns, I walk forward.
...only to discover that it was a feikei stun.
Zeus promptly double-killed us.

HAHAHAHAHA!

"Your hero didn't die. No no no. She didn't. ^^"

After that, we made Julian stay over so that he could drive us to college the next day - it started at 9am, otherwise we had to wake up around 6.45 to catch the 7am bus. -_-

What happened was...we woke up at 8.55 am.
Us, being Viv and I.

Julian was up since 7 studying, and was trying to get us two lazy bums to get up and out of bed since a little before 8.

"Wake up."
"Wahlao, you crazy ah? So early. Go back to sleep."

10 minutes later.

"Wake up ahhh, later jam wei."
"I show you shortcut and highway, go back to sleep."

10 minutes later.

"WOI WAKE UP LA! Later cannot find parking la!"
"I show you place to park, come and sleep la, haiyo."

10 minutes later.

"Fuck it la, WAKE UP LA WEH! We're gonna be late la!"
"Still early la. Come. Sleep."

*pats flat expense of bed in between her and me*

Julian gives up.
I feel a heavy thump and we all went back to sleep.

Next thing you know:

"OI WAKE UP! 8.55 already! Shit man!"

Viv gets up laughing while I rubbed my eyes.

"Sleep until around 9 only I happy de, ahahaha!"
"Mmmph...*mumbles*"
"*@(#^&@^! My IT attendence fail la!"

Poor boy was panicking. I felt a bit bad for him - we spent the better part of the previous night playing on the comp and we went out to eat mamak at midnight, coming back only at 1 am.

That was when I took a shower while he and Viv played another game of DotA.
-_-?

And then the next day we both refused to get up, AHAHA.
We were all marked absent for being late - we entered class at 9.25.
He was swearing like hell. And I was just staring at my screen bleary-eyed - not caring cause my absences are 3 and below (including MCs) except for LAN.

Anyway, the college can report to my mom about my absence/lateness/sleeping in class all they want.

I tell her everything anyway, so they have nothing on me.
Wahahah!

"I was late for class today."
"...why?"
"Oh, Viv and I refused to wake up. Ahaha! Julian was screaming at us and we were like 'nvm nvm go back to sleep, still early!' Then we entered class at 9.25."
"-_- So how was your accounts?"
"Okay, I could do it. =)"
"Oh. Okay."

Yupyup, take away the college's only potential tool of control over me. Whee.
She knows I skip all my LAN classes, that I sleep during Accounts and Maths and that sometimes I miss my classes/are late because I go takei-ing with Viv.

I'm sure she's concerned, but she doesn't really care that much as long as my grades don't fall.

That arrangement is fine for me.
Perfect, even.
Thank God SAM is relatively easy - just do your work and there will only be minimal studying to be done. ^_^v

Anyway, today I had my first whiff of pepper spray.

WTF, you say.
PEPPER SPRAY IN COLLEGE? HUH?

I wasn't sure if it WAS pepper spray - I didn't hang around long enough to confirm the fact.

We had just finished our individual Maths directed investigation (easy, but we definitely flunked yesterday's group work -.-)

I was talking to Arjun when one of my classmates backed into the partition dividing our classroom with the one next door.

The partition swung open.
My class was overcome by fits of coughing.
I think I was slow LOL.

I was just standing going '...ah?' while people hurriedly gathered up their things and evacuated.
Puzzled, I bent over to retrieve my bag from my drawer when it hit me.

The scent, I mean.
It wasn't so much a smell than a feeling.

A painful, intense burning feeling that seared the back of my throat, sent daggers of pain through my nostrils and made my eyes water.

Immediately, I stopped breathing and made hasty grabs for all my belongings strewn all over the desk.

"So, you could do it ah?" Arjun was asking me.
I nodded, grabbed my stuff and fled as the pepper spray finally got to him and induced fits of coughing.

"What the FUCK was THAT? Pepper spray? What the hell, it BURNS!"

Excuse my language, but it was HORRIBLE.

"Pepper spray. I kena once before, definitely pepper spray."

I exhaled sharply and inhaled minimally until I felt the substance was gone from my throat.
Man. It BURNED.

All my classmates around me were going WTF WTF WTF WAS THAT? around me, after we were safely 2 floors below our classroom.

-___-

And I'm pretty sure the substance wafted in from the neighbouring classroom - though none of us hung around long enough to confirm that fact.

All I could think was, if this is merely residue of the actual pepper spray...God help the poor bugger who got hit face-first by the nasty stuff. =/

Bleagh. Now I know what it feels like.
It's like inhaling pepper - I've done THAT before, having been the stupid, overtly curious child I once was (is that redundant?) I've sniffed a bottle of black pepper that sat next to my porridge once.

It was not pretty, I can tell you.
This felt the same, only increase the intensity of the burn 10 times and add watery eyes to that effect.

Whew.
Some sick part of me is exhilarated that I have finally experienced some, however minor, effects of pepper spray (I've always wondered what it feels like,) while the other part of me is thanking the sky and the earth that the thing wasn't sprayed in OUR classroom.

I pity the students who WERE in that classroom, however.
._.

Anyway, SOMEONE just confessed to me about her crush on the SAM vice student council president.

"Steph."
"Yea?"
"I have a crush on a boy in our college."

"Really?" I say with a mouth full of spaghetti. "Who?"
"His name is Darshan Kumar. He's in our LAN class."
"OUR LAN class? You're not even SUPPOSED to be in MY LAN class! NO WONDER YOU KEEP GOING FOR LAN LA! HAHAHAHA!"
"..."

She's an international student - LAN classes are required for Malaysian citizens only.
At first I thought she came just to keep my company.
Until I started skipping LAN to go takei with Viv and Julian.

...She still continued to go for LAN class.
-_-?
Viv and I were like, 'fuiyoh, you love LAN so much, take the exam for us la!'

NOW I KNOW LA!

She went for LAN all this time to check out the cute guy!
WTF and I thought she enjoyed my company! T_T

"Huh? Who is he?"
"He's our SAM student council vice president. I mean, he's kinda geeky - but he speaks really well!"
"No kidding. You love geeks? ME TOO AHAHAHAHA! I love them. SO SO CUTE!"
"-_-?"
"Summore Viv always laughs at me when she's busy checking out la-la guys and I'm looking at geeks. Yea man. Now I can tell her I'm not weird. Ahahah!"
"NOOOO Don't tell her!"
"Won't la."
"Phew."
"I'll just make YOU tell her. Mwahaha!"
"..."

I saw him today.
Or rather, his side profile.

"Hey Swarna."
"Hey Darshan!"

(I think that's his name, can't really remember - whatever la haha)

I walked past, staring blankly ahead - stoning as my classmates would say.

"Steph!"
"What?"
"That's the guy! It's HIM!"
"WHAT? WHERE?"
"The one who just talked to me!"

-_-

"He walked past already! You should have said so earlier!"

I started to walk back up the staircase to check him out.

"No, no. Don't go. -_-"
"Is he tall?"
"He's taller than me."
"Me?"
"...he's just a bit taller than me."
"AHAHAHA!"
"..."
"Sorry la, I like them tall."
"But he's cute!"
"Yea, he is."
"You haven't seen him yet."
"Hm. True."
"..."

Haha.

Anyway, this guy at the next table was staring at me today.
He kept turning around and staring, but whenever I glared at him he looked away.
At one point, he whispered to his friend next to him and they BOTH turned around to stare.
I was like WTF?

I mean, I'd say they were checking me out - only I looked like utter crap today, so THAT notion is ruled out.

My hair hadn't been washed in 2 days - it was a fluffy, greasy mess; I hadn't bothered to put on my contacts cause I slept late the night before and my eyes were dry.

Heck, I wasn't even smiling - just staring blankly into space/at the table/my fingernails.

So of course I felt really uncomfortable - what the hell was wrong with the way I looked today?
I fidgeted slightly and tried to ignore him.

There should be a rule against staring.
-_-

I mean, looking over and smiling is ok - that means you look good today.

That day I was looking at a guy playing table tennis that Viv pointed out.
"Geek playing table tennis there."
I looked over and he waved at me with his ping pong bat (racquet?)
"Gahahaha so cute!"
"Yea man."

Looking over and smirking/chuckling/laughing incredulously is also ok - it means you look ridiculous/fugly today.

I'm no stranger to receiving weird looks - mostly from girls primping in the bathroom - on the days were I just don't give a crap about my appearance (mostly due to lack of sleep/bad temper.)

I mean, I'd be staring too if I saw a tall gangly girl burst into the bathroom slouching, with her hair all over the face - distinguishable from the back of her head only by the glasses-shaped bump of her hair. Then imagine her ripping off her glasses, running wet fingers through her hair and splashing her face and with cold tap water, then leaving the bath room, dripping wet - scowl/blank stare clearly visible now that the hair has been slicked back.

Heh.

But staring blankly at you?
With no emotion whatsoever?
THAT IS FREAKING CREEPY OK!

T_T

Oh. Maybe they were wondering whether I was a guy or a girl.
HAHAHA!
Some people are so stupid. xD

Anyway, I went to the bathroom after that to check my appearance out.
Normal what, albeit a bit on the pale side. -_-
Until now, I'm still puzzling over it.

Was there char koay teow flecks on my face?
Was my hair sticking out 45 degrees out from my head?
Was there a scary insect crawling up my nose?
What?
WHAT?

T_T

See how agitated a simple blank stare can leave me?

Now I'm going to practise my blank stare and leave my poor victims squirming in their seats.
Never mind that they think I'm a freak - most people already do. Ahaha!

Gtg.
Finally made up with stoopid KC.
Play now.
Chao.


Song of the Day:

"Church - T-Pain feat. Teddy Verseti"

Nicky gave me this song, despite my assurances to myself that I dislike hip-hop.
Omg. I'm addicted to it now. That bugger! T_T