Who's gonna tell you when, it's too late
Who's gonna tell you things, aren't so great
You can't go on, thinking nothing's wrong
Who's gonna drive you home tonight

Who's gonna pick you up, when you fall
Who's gonna hang it up, when you call
Who's gonna pay attention, to your dreams
Who's gonna plug your ears, when you scream
You can't go on, thinking nothing's wrong
Who's gonna drive you home tonight

Who's gonna hold you down, when you escape
Who's gonna come around, when you break
You can't go on, thinking nothing's wrong
Who's gonna drive you home tonight

You can't go on, thinking nothing's wrong
Who's gonna drive you home tonight
Who's gonna drive you home tonight

- Scorpions

12 days

just came back from SJI scouts annual camp. i had a lot of fun in this camp and learned a lot. Every camp has it's own set of problems. I'm quite happy because the QM's did a good job during this camp, being able to accomodate almost all the equipment requests and even being able to account for all their equipment at the end of the camp. A lot of things may change in the scout unit so the next year or so may throw in some interesting surprises. Didn't really sleep much during the camp, most probably slightly more than 8 hours for the whole 4 nights. meetings always drag so there's nothing much i can do. Hooking up the laptop to the classroom projector, we watched Big Trouble in Little China, only one episode of 24 season 3 and a bit of The Rock. Playing warhammer on the projector was awesome. huge-mungous space marines and khorne berserkers. Should have tried warcraft on it. Didn't play zombies in the end because there was no space and time.

Unlike some other people who are so free to blog all the time, i have been busy.. haha. Things have been going fine. Having lots of fun during the first month of holidays. It's been filled up with Powerboat course in the first week of may, then it's been scout camp prep every 1/3/5 of the week. plus the misc stuff like going down to chinatown to buy $774 worth of kitchen utensils for the scouts, going for dim sum buffet with NUS/SJI guys, watching X-Men 3 twice, The Da-Vinci Code and MI:3 which i would say were pretty good movies. Saturdays were outings with the SJI guys and the too few outings with S11 people who are on holidays. Passed my powerboat theory and my practical is on the 10th. hoping to pass it the first time to save money.

Now with scout camp out of the way, looking forward to a short trip to malaysia and gillian coming back. Xbox 360 is highly tempting but no money yet. and also have to think of a way to get rid of the old one with 4 controllers. haha.

well, so just basically an update of what i've been doing the past few weeks in case anyone was wondering. time to go to sleep and catch up on much needed rest.

good luck for your exams babe, just a little bit more

dinesh - nice headphones :)

ETA 38 days

well, end of first week of holidays. don't really feel like blogging because so much has been on my mind.

exams felt like bleargh... but it's over, and i am trying to enjoy my free time. lots of warcraft and xbox, together with small outings to the movies. i seem to be getting less sleep during the holidays compared to school time. go to bed at 2something wake up by 9? but if i have to call gillian then it's go to bed at 3somthing. but hey, less sleep means i can do more things and i like that. plus playing the umpteenth soccer match on xbox or warcraft game the 500th time doesn't really take up much energy.

serious sam is as mindless as niron. point, shoot, jump. wow... but the amount of monsters you have to kill... ridiculous... i guess that it's just a time killer for me right now.

about jan's post on romance, i think i've fallen into the "buying stuff only when things go wrong" category already. man, i miss those times when it was easy to be nice and sweet. it's a lot harder now, everytime i buy something it's usually a sorry thing or some other meaning behind it other than the "oh, i was just thinking of you". postage doesn't help, and as some people have said, singapore chocolate got no standard (and i don't think they'll last in the post). blah blah blah... yay, i am a boring unromantic singaporean, who doesn't know what the hell is the grand gesture(i had to read it up) and some other stuff the girls were talking about in the car that day. oh yay, i feel so great right now.

contrary to popular belief, i find my angry man music very relaxing. thank you system of a down, dream theater, avenged sevenfold, drowning pool, rob zombie. the louder, the harder, the better. i'm sure there are other ways to deal with problems, but for now i only have my music.

nesh and the moustache


if you were here with me that day


wished you were around


and that you could have seen this



i think i can still remember the damn songs... and that video of dinesh pretending to sing the chinese song... priceless!

well, aren't we in a self destruct mode today. go, push the button.

dan brown fans, you can't agree with this argument. "If such kind of things have been suggested to exist in the Koran or the Holocaust, they would have justly provoked a world uprising." Instead , if they are directed at the church and christians, it becomes a hit. why? is it ok to say these kind of things about christianity but when you talk about the koran, it's not ok? lets see whether they would even write a fictional book about the koran. don't go all "sensitive" and crap about it. Maybe christians should get violent too.

yay

4 papers down, 2 to go and i feel like it's already over :) yay! 2 more days, 2 more days, 2 more days!!! make sure you read the previous post about the guy code!

THREE NAMES YOU GO BY:

1) big guy
2) brother bear
3) reuben

THREE SCREEN NAMES YOU HAVE HAD:

1) boredgiant
2) reubenhendriks
3) reuben

THREE PHYSICAL THINGS YOU LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF:

1) my smile
2) my size
3) my eyes

THREE PHYSICAL THINGS YOU DON'T LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF:

1) crooked teeth
2) my big feet. buy shoes by size, not design :(
3) my fitness

THREE THINGS THAT SCARE YOU:

1) losing gillian
2) losing my family members
3) being disabled

THREE OF YOUR EVERYDAY ESSENTIALS:

1) my handphone
2) gillian
3) internet

THREE THINGS YOU ARE WEARING RIGHT NOW:

1) vj track shirt
2) army black shorts
3) my ring

THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE BANDS OR MUSICAL ARTISTS:

1) coldplay
2) hoobastank
3) linkin park

THREE OF YOUR FAVOURITE SONGS:

1) Home, Dream Theater
2) Sweet Child, Guns N' Roses
3) Adagio for Strings, DJ Tiesto

THREE THINGS YOU WANT IN A RELATIONSHIP:

1) a friend
2) someone who likes me for what i am
3) loyalty

TWO TRUTHS AND A LIE (in no particular order):

1) I like studying
2) I love my computer games
3) I am a patient driver

THREE PHYSICAL THINGS ABOUT THE PREFERRED SEX THAT APPEAL TO YOU:

1) tall
2) long hair
3) tanned skin

THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE HOBBIES:

1) playing games(computer, board, xbox)
2) catching up with friends
3) listening to music

THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO REALLY BADLY RIGHT NOW:

1) gillian.. very very badly
2) xbox 360
3) a car

THREE CAREERS YOU'RE CONSIDERING/YOU'VE CONSIDERED:

1) teacher
2) pilot
3) computer game tester

THREE PLACES YOU WANT TO GO ON VACATION:

1) Australia
2) UK
3) Anywhere in the mediterranean

THREE KID NAMES YOU LIKE:
(excellent, 3 kids, 2 girls, 1 boy)
1) natasha
2) naomi
3) isaac

THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO BEFORE YOU DIE:

1) raise a nice family with 3 kids
2) to travel lots
3) give something back to SJI or get a faculty in NUS named after me/bar all foreigners

THREE WAYS THAT YOU ARE STEREOTYPICALLY A BOY/GIRL:

1) I am like so creative la
2) I don't cry
3) I pee standing up

THREE WAYS THAT YOU ARE NOT STEREOTYPICALLY A BOY/GIRL:

1) ha? where got?
2) pls fill in
3) if you dare

The Guy Code

Obviously lifted from somewhere but i can't cut and paste. so i'm going to type it out. considering i have so much free time in between my exams and my paper tomorrow.

"Read any non-male magazines such as Her World, Cosmopolitan and Vogue, and you will get the inpression that a man in a relationship is like a drunk staggering around at night in a confined space.

The way the gals see it, a man has only the vaguest sense of where he is and where he wants to go, makes a complete nuisance of himself and falls down a lot. As a female friend once put it:"A man meanders blindly in the apartment of human interaction, banging into the walls of impropriety, hitting his shins on the table legs of rudeness and spilling beer on the Persian rug of insensitivity."

Granted, her descriptions hold some truth but - believe it or not - guys are not completely clueless.

We have rules - unspoken, unwriteen but, yes, rules that cover all manner of ettiquette concerning guys and their relationships with the women in their lives, romantic or otherwise.

And although you never hear us men discussing these proper procedures, as it were, every man worth his salt knows them - even if, ultimately, he chooses to ignore or breach them at times (from speed limits to the expiry date on canned food, men see rules merely as suggestions).

How men come to learn of this code is still a mystery, even to them. It's as if a guy was born with a chip in his brain that constantly intones him with such taboos as "You are not allowed to have any sort of physical contact with a friend's girlfriend unless - and only unless - she is hanging off the ledge of a skyscraper and you have to pull her up to save her life. Even the, if you have time, you should put on gloves."

So runs what the male of the species calls The Guy Code.

I became acutely aware of The Code during a recent get-together with a group of guy friends, One of them, Sunny, mentioned casually that he had started dating the ex-girlfriend of a friend. Qustions flew fast and furious, "Does he know?" "How long have the broken up?" "You told him right?," We hadn't planned to carpetbomb him withqueries but everone of us was bent on assessing if, and why, he had broken The Code.

First thing ladies, if a guy has the hots for a friends' former squeeze but said friend broke up with said squeeze less than a month ago, then said squeeze is out of bounds. It's a sign of respect and, well, protection against being beaten up by said friend.

If it has been more than a month since their breakupm the right thing to do is to ask the friend first. By the same token, the friend is obliged - no matter how he feels - to say yes. In the unlikely event he says no, one can still go ahead and do what one wants because The Cose has been heeded.

Here are some of The Code's other tenets:

If two guys have the hots for the same woman at the same time, all is fair in love and war. "Same time" here means that they met and fell for the gal within 24 hours. Potong jalan really only happens if one guy has a considerable headstart on the other. Now, potong jalan is a cardinal sin. If you are the one committing it and you end up black and blue, The Code stipulates that your friends cannot sympatise with you. You didn't follow the rules.

A friend's sister is off-limits - forever. Here, "friend" is anyone you have known for more than a day. The Code also stipulates that no negotiation is possible on this.

A guy is allowed to exaggerate - within certain limits. Anyone within earshot is allowed to call the show-off's bluff if the show-off is exaggerating the story by 200%. If the exaggeration has been fueled by alcohol, the show-off may go up to 300%. If there is alcohol present and he is exaggerating to impress a woman, then the MAB (Maximum Allowable Bull) limit shoots up to 500%.

A guy must not rat on a cheating friend. This is the most sacred and most famous of all the rules in The Code. You can go as far as respectfully voicing your disapproval, but that's about it.

Of course, The Code has some rules that do not involve women. But ladies might find these interesting.

Two men who are caught in the unfortunate situation of having to pee side by side in a public toilet must at no point make eye contact. In fact, their eyes must always lock directly ahead even if that means not being ablt to hit the target. A subsidiary clause to this rule is that no 2 men may pee side by side if there are available urinals which would put them further apart. A guy in the midst of doing his business is very territorial: how many times have you heard a male say to another male: "I'm going to the toilet, you want to join me?"

Hugigng between 2 straight men is completely prohibited. Exception 1: Both are mobsters and one is about to shoot the other. Exception 2: One of the two men has just accomplished a remarkable sportion feat like, say, scored a goal in football. Exception 3: There is no Exception 3.

At this point, our better halves might well ask if The Code says anything at all about how a guy should relate to women. Unfortunately, in that, The Code is silent."

back to studying!

this aint no april fools joke

In today's straits times, ACS(I) boy bites SJI boy during rugby match. Another SJI boy was kicked in the head.

nothing can make me see the good in these bastards anymore (level of hate only slightly lowered because of stupid acs-mgs affliation). all acs haters unite... fucking bastards.

wow

I usually don't link to jokes, but this blond joke had me laughing.

now that i have just posted like 4 posts, looks like i won't have to post till after my exams... unless something happens...

our threat to the chinaman on our floor worked. we slipped it under his door and the results i must say is satisfatory.

"Dear student,

Pls show some respect to your country of rescidence and remove your (China) flag from outside your room."

songs

i got tagged by jan

1. A song by a Beatle/the Beatles:
Imagine, John Lennon

2. A song featuring piano as the main instrument:
Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do), Christopher Cross

3. A song with a woman's name in the title:
Jenny was a friend of mine, The Killers

4. A song with a man's name in the title:
Dirty Harry, Gorrilaz (this one took some time to think of)

5. A song about money:
Money! Money! Money!, Abba

6. A song with weather in the title:
NOVEMBER RAIN, Guns 'n Roses

7. A song with parentheses in the title (these are parentheses):
East Of The Sun (And West Of The Moon), Al Cohn & Zoot Sims

8. A song made by a punk band:
Blitzkrieg Bop, Ramones

9. A song with the word "song" in the title:
The Love Song, The Death Song, The Fight Song, Marilyn Manson

10. A song you love so much you stop and listen whenever you hear it:
Can't Take My Eyes Off You, Andy Williams

now i have to tag someone... gillian, rubin, daryl, haran and somebody else la