Mundane.

As with most posts, I post past midnight so technically this one should take place one day earlier than indicated date, lol. :)

I'm pretty cool with my new job, all I hate is its mundaneness. As in, like waking up at 7am each morning, coming home at 6pm... I guess life's going to be like that for like, forever now, no? And so many things to do when I get home, to play and such, haha. :)

Anyway I just decided to write some bit. New about Hsu Wei-lun's death is quite... I don't know, Shocking. Just like U-Nee's suicide recently, bright young stars (pretty too!) snuffed out just like there. There's a million and one ways to die, man. News reports say a reporter found that the magazine she had with her in the car she was travelling in was flipped to a page with the DeathNote advertisement on it. It was splattered with blood, and the reporter took a picture of it I think. I can imagine the picture... it so brings out... "death". Hmph.

In today's episode of Amazing Race Asia, the Indonesian brothers (Mardy and ??? -> never got the names right :P) were ousted in the Dubai leg of the race. Pretty sad, they were one of the teams I was rooting for (lucky fellows all this while, very amusingly cute and genial yay). One of the other teams (Francesca and boyfriend?, which country?), they were joking about Allan Wu's pregnant pauses whenever he's announcing the results. How funny. :)

China, vulnerable by doing anti-satellite test?

And so ends yet another random post.

o.o (new emote I learn to use :P)

I found another job, working as a temporary support staff for the Human Resource Department of People's Association. First day at work today, hmm. Much to learn while sifting through paperwork, including taking a peek at how the world of HR works, through the comments left behind by various interview panels. (*hopes this won't get me into trouble* -> there shouldn't be a problem with viewing these documents right? After all, I was tasked to suss out the records of an applicant...). Coincidentally, I met Ouyang Xiaohui (three years my senior, I knew him back in DHS Scouts :)) while at PA! Still the nice guy ever. :D

Was pretty good I guess. Felt bad for not taking the initiative to notify the bus driver of plastic bags left behind by two Indian passengers on my way back. I was too sleepy to react, heh. Ah, shouldn't stress myself too hard eh? Heh.

There was a pretty wonderful show on Discovery Channel just earlier (finished at 2100, timecheck at posting time is 2127) ranking the 10 greatest fighter planes of all time. I started watching from No. 6. Although I don't quite agree with the positions of the aircraft (how do you compare these things, each of them are so different!), I agree that they were all great, and the greatest is indeed, in my opinion (perhaps swayed by the programme?) is the North American P-51 Mustang. The other ranked include the Supermarine Spitfire, Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 'Fishbed', North American F-86 Sabre, Messerschmitt Bf 109, and the Boeing F/A-18 Hornet )with emphasis on the E/F Super Hornet versions).

The interviews with aces, young and old, were wonderful too. Niiiiccce.

Thus ends this seemingly pointless post.

*sighs*

This blog is officially 2 years and 9 days old! 3563 hits at time of posting, giving an average of 4.821 hits per day. Although I think at least 20% of the hits were generated by myself since I like to view my blog after each post and modification to ensure that things turn out well, hehe.

So, what have I been doing since the past post? Slacking around, basically. I crashed VJC's O1 (Orientation 1) again, going back first on CCA Walkabout Day (Thursday, I think) to check things out, as well as collect my EAGLES Award (Edusave Award for Achievement, Good LEadership and Service) from the school. I heard from my juniors that there were tons of girls this time round, and boy, was it true! Not going to comment here about how each and everybody looks like, lest I get swamped tomorrow by like, everybody, so... yeah. :) Met up with teachers here and there, oh, and I saw the new principal too! He was the very first person I saw (excluding the security guards, who have no recollection of me at all -> wish the previous Indian guard was around, was pretty friendly with him :D) upon my entry into VJC. Short, and slightly rotund, Mr Chan gave me pretty good first impressions: Friendly and all. But he has a lot of work to do, filling in Mrs Chan's (not related, both of them) shoes being the primary one.

So I went and gawked at various CCA booths, trying to spot for fake ones and failing (not attentive enough :P), and saying hi to friends and juniors alike. Yay! I was dressed pretty conspicuously that day, since I was wearing my yellow Air Rifle Club T-shirt.

Think I caught Death Note 2: The Last Name sometime around that period too, don't exactly remember when. It's pretty good, the 2nd instalment, since it all builds up to the final conclusion, which was resolved way faster than the manga/anime from what I've heard. Everybody's acting seemed to have improved, even Light (Fujiwara Tatsuya) and L (Matsuyama Kenichi) look less emo (maybe it's just me)! Oh, and Toda Erika (as Amane Misa) is like, cute! OMG! :D I have no idea why, but I like Yagami Soichiro (Light's Dad, played by Kaga Takeshi) the best. Maybe because he stands for true justice amongst all the characters in this series. Kudos to Matsuyama-san, who probably had to endure ton after ton of sweet stuff throughout the entire production of Death Note, he must have developed a phobia for such after the end of filming! I mean, like, if he NGs (No Good) and retakes the scene... oh my. Hehehehe...

Monday was Sea Regatta day, which I planned on going for, but ended up reaching late and missing out on the fun because of time wasted at an NTUC Interview, because I had accepted a job as a proof-reader at EPH (Educational Publishing House, people who publish assessment books and such, don't we love them all? *sneers*) earlier. So I basically lurked about the school looking for an OG to crash, ending up eating lunch with some Air Rifle juniors, then heading off to Katong Shopping Centre alone for LAN gaming, alone, to pass time until the mass dance at Suntec City's Fountain of Wealth. Managed to find a group to stick with then, some Icarus group thingy I think. Lots of us Year 3s (so fast, now, heh!) were in that group, and the running joke was that the average age of this OG had become the highest with all of us 'oldies' around.

Started work at EPH the next day, travelling via company transport all the way to the office in Jurong East. My job was to check manuscripts of yet-unpublished assessment books and guidebooks for errors in grammar and such, and also the answers of the various exercises. It reminded me of my childhood days, where Mom always asked me to do assessment books, only this time I had to rush an entire book in just a day. Pretty novel experience, but short since my services were terminated (to put it nicely) after just 4 days. The official word was that there wasn't much left to do, but if I wanted to be cynical and such, I'd think I was fired (which I think I was, anyway :P). So back into unemployment I go. *sighs*

Got addicted to Ghost Squad soon after, its a pretty cool arcade game (a shooter) which keeps you going back for more once you get the card and can keep your stats and stuff. It's a huge burn of money and I really think I should stop. :P I think I'm showing some signs of game addiction anyway, so... yeah haha. Which brings me back to my worry for my 'A' Level grades, again.

Anyway, I can't be talking too much here can I? It's a public space easily accessed by everyone, and pouring my heart out might attract trouble. So Jamal must clam up and keep his secrets elsewhere... muahaha!

Whee! 2007.

Back to bloggng, once more. But I have lost steam, really, so I'll make this short. Don't even know if I want to blog about Italy, hehehe! It was nice and all, then slacking till Christmas, getting spammed here by my cousins on Christmas Eve, and spending 31st December with some DHS 2A/2002 classmates. Watched Chu Kian slip into semi-delirium after consuming vodka. Gosh, drunkenness (even if mild) is scary...

And then there were fireworks. We sent Cai Ping home after that, and spent the rest of our time at the MacDonald's near the national stadium. I didn't sleep, unlike others. Then the few of us who remained split from there, and I reached home at what, 7am. :) Woot.

And then packing, slacking again till now. Boy, do I have to find a job...

EDIT on 2/1/2007: Oh, and they finally charged us adult fare... No more concessions, heh. Wasn't like that when we took the MRT ride, but then when I boarded bus service no. 196 at about 0650 yesterday, the almost foreign sound of the "beep" of the card reader instead of "doo-doot" reminded me of that fact. I'll miss being charged around 45 cents for all them rides on public transport. *wails*