Facebook : Waster of time, eater of souls

I'm not bothering mentioning to everyone that I'm posting stuff on my blog simply because I expect I'll stop soon enough. Plus these are barely long enough to qualify as posts.

God damn facebook kills time so easy. Just bouncing about wall posts can take well over an hour. Worst thing is, with facebook you don't expect to spend that much time. At least the days of bouncing about wiki was educational. The internet is going to be the death of me.

Can't wait till the holidays start and my friends come back here. Completely not in the mood to bury myself in books right now.

Suddenly feel like doing a shit load of sports. Running circles around my neighbourhood used to bore the hell out of me, but now I actually find it quite enjoyable. Also made me realise just how weak my lungs are. Bah. -.- Stamina has always been my weak point.

I need a study partner, a gym partner and a frisbee partner. I've suddenly found myself in need of proving much to myself. And I've wasted far too much time deep in thought for my own good. I just hope I manage to get by these exams alright. Then I'm sure things will be fine.

Sigh..

When you think too much, and try too hard to remain open-minded, introspection is about as pointless as playing rock-paper-scissors with yourself. =/

When you've travelled the world..

Looks like I won't have a need to tape my excess money into a roll and use it as toilet paper. Here's something far more worthwhile to piss it away on instead.

Turns out space tourism is a dream no more. Scheduled to be up and running by 2012, the orbital hotel lets you experience romantic sun-sets 15 times a day and you get to round the world every 80minutes. Truly a worthwhile investment. Because nothing says "I'm better than you" more than a 4million USD screw-you-world! xP

Paradise soon lost

Due to some coaxing from all the right people, I'm back to blogging once more. With just a measly 6 posts before this, I guess I can't say I really got started to begin with.

A year has gone since my last post, and I have to say, what an amazing one year it has been. It is said that college years are the best years of your life. I guess that's arguable, but in a sense it's hard to deny. For me, so far it has been the most memorable days of my 19 years alive. The company is hard to beat, both new friends and old alike. To be able to get to know them all on a deeper level, I can say confidently and without the slightest of doubt that I have found some friends that I'll keep in my heart, and definately try to keep in contact with for many years to come. A lot of which I've gotten to know from frisbee, and one of which holds a very special place in my heart. And will always.

I guess that's the thing about Taylors A-levels. Unlike HELP's system, we don't get to meet many people in our time at college simply because we're always stuck in the same class and rarely get a chance to meet new faces. On the other hand though, we get to know our classmates a whole lot better. Spending about 8 hours a day, 5 days a week with people really gives you plenty of time to get to know one another. One thing is for sure, I would wish for no other class to be in. 0501PE2, you guys are the most insane and fun class ever! Viva la PE2!

It's definately a blessing that so many of my CHS friends ended up in the same class as me. Ultimately I owe the great time I had in Taylors to Harold, Alex, Kuok Yuen, Kah Fai and Tian Ping. I know I rarely show my appreciation for you guys, but in a totally heterosexual sorta way, I love you guys. Thanks for all the support you guys have shown me, all the crap you shared with me, and for just being the retarded assholes that you are. T'was fun.

As for the rest of my class, I can honestly say that I regret not spending more time with you guys. You guys are a bunch of wicked fun people to hang around. Always laid back, sporting in every way and holding the class together despite the little cliques we so naturally divide ourselves into. Thanks for an awesome trip. One that really wouldn't have been the same without you guys. With all your crazy antics, mad obssesion with gambling and of course lets not forget the bottles of liqour. ;) Ah Kah Fai. You'll always be remembered for that last one. XD

It breaks my heart to know all these wonderful friends I've gotten so close to will be leaving soon. Most of which I might not see ever again. But I guess that's life. We'll meet many amazing people along the way, people that you never want to leave your side. But sooner or later, we have to accept some things aren't meant to last. We can only cherish the time spent with them, hold onto the memories tight and move on.

Random rant about religion and stuff

Wow.. the Harold's comment section has turned into a forum.. =)
This was meant to end up on Harold's comment box as well but was thinking since my blog hasn't been touched for a while I might as well..
Plus no blog is complete without a random rant about religion and stuff right? =P

I really don't think much about predestination. Like all things to do with religion, you can dispute about it for an eternity and you'll still not be an inch close to "the truth" as Joshua puts it. Basically I just get the "hah! I knew you'd do that!" feel whenever I hear talk about predestination. Like the same way Neo wonders if the Oracle knew if he would take the sweet or not. If you take it, she would've known that you would. And If you think about the fact that she would know, and decide not to take it, she can just say "hey, I knew you wouldn't take it". It just annoys the crap out of me to believe that my life is set out for me already, and there's nothing I can do about it. But my point of view is supported purely by what I want to believe in this case. =P

Anyway, predestination as stated by Christianity doesn't really make sense at all.. whether you're gonna look at it in terms of absolute freewill, freewill within boundaries or whatever. Take the city of Sodom for example. If everyone is Sodom was predestined to be a bunch of useless monkeys that deserved to be smited down... then why did God predestine that for them then get pissed and destroy them after that? Even if it was just the end that was predestined and not the whole thing, the scenario doesn't make sense... And if they have absolute freewill to change their ways but all of them failed... what's predestined at all? Right now I can practically hear the fundamentalist screaming "God works in mysterious ways!" into my ear. >_>

I never thought I'd actually agree with Joshua on religious matter (no offense Josh =P) cuz I've always saw him as a fundamentalist up till now. =) In terms of standpoint about religion, I don't really differ from him at all too much. Except that he takes Christianity as a base of his beliefs perhaps. I believe in God, but not really in religion. Religion does well as guidelines, but many people fail to see that and end up blindly following something that they don't even really understand. I've lost count of the number of people who claim to be Buddhist but pray to Taoist Gods.. and had quite a few differing explainations as to how Christianity works out.

Me: So.. basically Noah fit every single species of animal into an Ark that he built.. o_O
CG(Christian Guy): Err... yeah
Me: that's a lot of animals.. what did he feed them?
CG: Dunno..
Me: So how did the animals move from the ark to all over the world after the flood?
CG: Dunno lar.. apparently only part of the world was flooded.. not the whole thing..
Me: So what exactly was the point of the ark if there are animals everywhere else?
CG: .....

Well of course there's a possibility that there were only a few major species that later evolved into different... oh wait.. they don't believe in evolution.. Hmmm..
End story : Noah's ark is just a fairy tale larrr... not part of the REAL bible..

And what is it with heaven and hell anyway? How does one even begin to believe in it? Imagine.. if heaven was a place only for saints, then we sure as heck aren't getting there... and if heaven is a place for Christians ONLY (no matter how naughty or nice they've been), then wth.. you're gonna be spending an eternity with people who might very well be sinners, no exclusions.. Think of the population count to boot.. you go in, but you don't come out.. Welcome to heaven! Slogan :It's just like earth... only more crowded!
Ok.. maybe the view is great and all.. and you float around with a lil' halo over your head and watch over the world.. but an ETERNITY... quite a long while... and eternity of floating around and feeling good... Erm.. riiight.. no matter how I think about it, an eternity of anything is Hell... >_< You'd definately get bored or something.. what's the point of existing if you don't have anything to do.. nothing to challenge? no obstacle to overcome? But that is thinking about it in the worldly needs point of view.. then again, even if say you bask in God's greatness, not in a physical form or anything... err.. and then? it's about the same thing as non-existance.. you don't do anything. Hell is a little bit more believable.. But I think even Satan would cease to see the fun in burning human souls for an eternity after the 1,000,000,000,000,000th soul to go down just to be tortured forever.. I know he held a grudge against us but still... that's a lot of souls..
Reincarnation is a lot more believable =) but the whole repent by being an squishable ant/ugly toad/poor beggar in your next lifetime.. erm.. well maybe.. but if you don't remember why you're in the predicament.. then what exactly do you regret?
*Imitates evangelist* "Aiya... of course larrr.. Heaven and Hell is beyond human understanding! you're still tied down by your worldly desires! For that you will BUR... err... heheh" =P

There's ALways more to say about religion, but I'll save it for another post/comment perhaps..

Disclaimer : No, I do not have anything against Christianity or any other religion for that matter.. I'm just justifying why I don't believe in them. Ok... maybe just a bit.. but that's only because of that occasional air of superiority and glances of pity (it's the OMG.. poor kid is going to burn in hell look) I get from some 'strongly religious' people.. or maybe they just think I'm malnourished... >_> either way... =P

note: A lot of substance got lost in translation between my brain and my hand.. Blame it on my crappy english. =)

Some personality test thing

Was bored... seems this thing has been pretty accurate so far.. for others.. not sure about for me.. You be the judge =) But I'm thinking that it's not at all too far off if anything.

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Damnit there's supposed to be comments at the end of it but I did this test last night and only copied the chart section =/

Blogging feels like a hassle to me.. contemplating deleting this blog sometime.. but ah well =)

Holidays = Unproductivity

Wow... I planned to do so much during the holidays... but in the end all I did was eat and sleep mainly.. O_o

PK's list of things to do for the hols :
1) Study
I really have to say I'm not the least bit suprised this didn't turn out the way I wanted it to this holidays.. >_< or any of the previous ones.. Well I didn't really intend to study.. just not get out of the mood completely... So much for that I guess.. *sigh*

2) Update blog frequently
ERrr... *glances at last blog update* To think I update more during my exam week.. =/ I wanted to.. honest.. but my bed calls out for me everytime I try.. the voices!! THEY KEEP SPEAKING TO ME!! *drawn to bed*

3) Exercise
Hmm... this is one of the few things I managed to do... Not at all too frequently... but some nonetheless =) Also got more done during normal college days... Good thing for Ultimate Frisbee. Plus it's getting a lot more enjoyable now that there's a big bunch of us down at Astaka on Saturdays.. ^^

4) De-stress
It was going all well and fine.. Seriously.. Within the first few days my 2 weeks worth of releasing stress was already pretty much complete.. then my grades just had to come along... On the bright side I had prepared my parents for it since the start =P Of course it'd be a lot better if I just got better grades instead =) So yeah.. de-stressing failed...

5) Go for a trip somewhere... anywhere (except PD)
Yeah... this one.. It was just one thing or another. Kept getting cancelled.. from Redang, to Sabah, to PD... not too keen on PD.. got something against the place. Anyway I heard it was fun all the same. Ah well... end year I guess.


So yeah... what a waste of free time... I did manage to catch a few movies though.. Mr. and Mrs. Smith was good.. lacked plot but made up in other ways ;) Batman Begins was a lot better than I expected it to be... And h2g2 will be tmr!! XD BRING ON THE TOWELS!!!

DArnit.. all that bumming around and I still haven't put on any weight.. >_<