insignificance (to be cont...)

'Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.'

- Mahatma Gandhi

Do you ever stop to think about the universe, and how small we are in it?

[PS no moar updates til the end of exams. which is in a week! YAY. more updates to follow =)]

水調歌頭

明曰幾時有?

把酒問青天

不知天上官闕, 今夕是何年?

我欲乘風歸去,

又恐瓊樓玉宇, 高處不勝寒.

起舞弄清影, 何似在人間?

轉朱閣, 低綺户, 照無眠.

不應有恨, 何事偏向別時圓?

人有悲歡離合, 月有陰情圓缺,

此事古難全!

但願人長久, 千里共嬋娟.

This is a Chinese poem, written by..well..if you can't read above, then its probably useless to tell you, and if you can, you can Google it. Anyway, I think what my dad told me about this poem is that it was written by a guy who was very far away from his family in China. He lived as a prisoner (?) a long way away from his village, and wrote this poem. It talks about his wish to be back with them, even though he knows he never can be. And the only thing that he can do is watch the same moon as them, and know that they're doing the same thing.

Its a beautiful poem in Cantonese, and is totally applicable for Mid-Autumn Festival (which is today). I definitely miss my extended family around the world...and I hope they're missing me too.

Happy Mid-Autumn Festival everyone. Hope you have awesome mooncake eating time =)

the unfairness of being

Life is unfair. You put someone first who puts you second. You study your ass off for a final only to get a B in the class when you deserved an A. You give 110% to someone in a relationship when they only give 40%. You’re there for your best friend at 3 a.m. when they need it the most & the next day they don’t pick up their phone. You give something your all & sometimes get little to nothing back. You care so much about someone who doesn’t care enough about you to say hi once in a while. You give someone your time & they give you “sorry, I’m busy”. It seems like you’re giving everyone everything & they’re just walking away with it.

-via (chloe-e)

damn tumblr you're good tonight =)

how nostalgic

So I'm re-reading all the Harry Potter books. Started today. Came across this:

Professor McGonagall: 'He'll be famous - a legend - I wouldn't be surprised if today was known as Harry Potter day in future - there will be books written about Harry - every child in our world will know his name!'

Let me tell you, that was one epic moment when I read it. =D

teenagers ahoy~

Being a teenager is hard, harder than some can imagine, harder than some can remember. It’s those years you’ll never forget though you sometimes wish you could wipe them away. They seem to last forever, but when you look back, they went by so fast. Being a teenager is falling in love too fast, and too hard, talking for hours on the phone to your best friends, being talked about and talking about others. It’s being guilty when you’re innocent, it’s standing out and fitting in. It’s when you have a million questions that will never be answered. Being a teenager isn’t something you can really describe, unless you’re living it at the time. It’s dealing with life when it crashes on you, and trying your hardest to live through it. Everyone has their tough times. Everyone goes through something, but being a teenager, that’s when you feel everything at once. When you’re in love, you’re really in love, when you hate someone, you despise them, when you’re lonely, you’re miserable. Being a teenager is something you always have to go through, and it’s the best and worst years of your life. Being a teenager isn’t anything-it’s everything. It isn’t a big deal-it’s a HUGE deal. And while you’re being a teenager, you ought to live it up, because this is the one chance. The one time, you’ll be young, and free, and careless, as teenagers usually are.

- little quirks

you guys know who you are!

What defines a best friend? What are the requirements to be a good best friend? How many hours a week does it entail? Stupid questions that have no answers. A best friend is not defined by how many times they talk on the phone, or how many hours they hang out together. It is not defined by how many sleepovers they gossip at, or how many inside jokes they have. There are no requirements or laws that state that a good best friend must hang out with them every weekend, or tell each other every little detail. A best friend is a matter of opinion. It is the person who has been there for you through everything, not just through the fun things, or the little things. It is the person that you call when you are at your absolute worst, it is the person who saves you when you didn’t even notice that you needed saving, mostly it is the person who accepts you for who you are, and the person that you are becoming.

-Anonymous

pretty deep for a youtube comment...

The darkness will always be there at the edge of even the brightest light. It's why we love the light so tremendously.

- random youtuber

Happiness in the form: HOLIDAYS!!!

YAAS! The holidays are here, and I'm as happy as....the LOLcat - who is always happy. It means a few things. Here's a list of what stuff's happening on mah holidays.

1) No more school: DUHH!! This is a really big thing, although its only for 2 months. Without the stress of year 10 work and all, I can relax for a while! Mum has ordered a week's worth of cooking from me though...==" I have to make all the dishes...and probably clean them too.

2) Catch up on gaming time: I downloaded a few games for PSP that I haven't started at all! Holidays are the time to game. I might also go out lanning with friends in the holidays. LocoRoco 2 and Patapon 2...HERE I COME!!

3) Catch up on books: As above. Bought some new books, haven't started any...want to start soon! These include the new Terry Pratchett : Folklore of Discworld (A favourite author of mine) and a collection of Arthur C. Clarke short stories.

4) CHRISTMAS!!: This is always a good thing. 'Nuff said.

5) Hong Kong trip: From 30th Dec - 24th Jan, to Hong Kong I venture. I go (nearly) every second year to see my dear relatives and to totally waste away the days. I usually eat lots there, because I have so much free time. But the shoppping is never enough...

6) BLOGGING: of course...that's what holidays are for, right? But then again, there might be not much to blag about, so don't be worried if I don't update in January or actually update much at all.

Update on speech night, if you guyz care - it was lol. I reckon it was worse than last year but this isn't about that. I tagged along with some of the asian guys in the orchestra to go bum around at MC for about 3 hours. We didn't do much...played a bit of pool and found out that Steven was uber good whereas I paled in comparison; Kevin and Steven, after a long browse around the shopping centre, decided they couldn't decide on what to buy. And I, the crazy asian kid, suddenly went high. I have no idea why and Steven kept calling me drunk. I laughed for no reason manically at some random stuff, but the quote of that day was this, while we were walking back to the arena:

Steve: "What's wrong with you?!"
Moi: "I'm not stupid!" (said in a rather drunken way, I do believe, and with inflections and tones that made me sound really weird.

Anyway,

Quote of whenever:
"The least of learning is done in the classrooms"
-Thomas Merton

My sentiments exactly. We don't learn nuthin'; we're just taught it...=X

So, until next time (when I can think of anything to blog about), have fun, and don't get eaten by the velociraptors...they're coming for you.

Baii~!

Speech Night = phail

Sorry for the post of late. I've been overprocrastinating (is that a word?) and I couldn't really think of stuff to blog about. Obviously - EXAMS ARE OVA!!! But that was ages ago. And now we have transition, or not really for me - too many Music Rehearsals....

These two weeks have been half-bludge half-tiring. These music rehearsals every single day is damn killing me. Of course, watching movies on my new Ipod (!!!!!!) has been pretty okay I guess. Even better was today's Spoons game with my Year 11 friends in the musik department - helped EJ and Hungy to victory maybe twice? It was good, it was fun. Especially how afterwards we coerced Karlgren into the chocolate that we deserved. BWAHAHAHAHA. I've been overbusy for the last few weeks with exams and suchlike, and nowadays with all these stupid music rehearsals which are a tad overkill, I haven't had much time for anything. I really need to wax lyrical more often on this blog...I loves it!

To all those of my friends, I am eternally sor- actually I'm not sorry. It's the schools fault I can't go to VA. Screw those assholes. Damn school cuts into my free time. Especially how I a) can't go to transition (which is probably bludge anyway) and b) can't go out with friends or go home early - at all. Note: did you know there was a VA in Box Hill? I didn't - thanx to Dawei and Hungy for actually telling me...=P

I played around with the settings a few days ago after seeing some random blog with such a wide post area. I wanted it and I got it! If only I had had that earlier, all these formatting phails would be wins. Alas, it was not to be. And about that earlier post with LocoRoco 2, it seems my downloaded CSO file won't work - which forces me to actually go out and buy the game. THE HORROR!! Well, I do believe in supporting the developers (*cough cough) so I probably will beg my parents to buy it for Christmas ==".

Manga Releases:
Kuroshitsuji: That Butler, Different Talent
Liar Game: Clairvoyance
HunterXHunter: Praise
Bakuman: Send and Reply
Hitman Reborn: The Truth
Naruto: Hatake Kakashi
Fairy Tail: Barrage Swordplay

Quote of the Whenever:
Things are only impossible until they are not.
Jean Luc-Picard

Like...a flying car?! Pah - that's stupid, especially if there are 3 million of them in the sky at the same time. How the hell would that work? They'd have to fly traffic lights into the sky... and traffic updates would be so weird.

"Its a bit busy on the Eastern Freeway, as there has been a 4-car pile-up that has dropped from the sky at peak hour, leading to destruction after an oil tanker smashed into this burning wreck. May take forty minutes to get to the city."

I'll try to update more...to anyone to reads this =P

Baii~!

Exams: 2, Vincentjr: 6

BLAH! I have had exams for the past week, so there haven't been any updates (duhh...). I feel really guilty about not feeling stressed about exams. LOL! Is that weird? I keep hearing people say they're so 'stressed' and that exam periods are supposed to be really, really serious. Like, seriously. I mean it. But for me, I've been just coasting through these exams. Obviously I did some study, but that wasn't too hard either. Maybe I'll feel more pressurized when I finallyhave to do my Unit 3&4 Chinese Exam next Thursday. Haven't ever done a VCE exam under those conditions, so I look forward to it with trepidation.

If you're wondering, the two exams that really raped me were History and English/French. As in, I think I did uberly well in English, but my teacher is a really hard marker and if you don't do EXACTLY what he wants, you get bad marks. For French, I think I really owned everything except the essay, which is pretty important. So yeah. Should be 3, but I feel better if it's 2. And yes, we haven't had the upcoming Maths exam on Monday, but I decided to put it up there because I'm so cool. Nah, I just feel really confident about this Maths exam. And if I seriously do screw it up, I'll update with the news. But don't expect to get one =P.

News for the PSP lovers (ie probably just me) Locoroco 2 and Patapon 2 are coming out! =). After next weeks exams I'm going to game probably every day, especially in Speech Night rehearsals. I have so many games that I have to catch up on! If you're wondering about what these games are, here are the PSP front pictures, and go look them up if you're so excited by them. Locoroco is a kind of platformer type game, whereas Patapon is a rhythm-like RPG game.

<- Patapon | Locoroco ->
Sorry the format is a bit screwed up, first time posting up these pics from the net (not first time posting pictures though!)

MANGA releases at time of writing blog:
Fairy Tail: Four Remain
Kuroshitsuji: That Butler, Freeloader
Hunter X Hunter: Main Body
Bakuman: Chocolate and Akamaru

Hopefully, above will become a regular thing on this blog. Obviously, I don't expect many people to read these, since they're the most recent updates. But maybe I may help people on to the road of manga-reading...

Anyway, a rant about my PC gaming skills. As most you know, Counter-Strike (CS) is very well known and a popular game with much of the teenage population. As a young, testosterone-fueled teenager, I also feel the urges to partake in such activities. And yesterday as we were changing maps from de_dust to cs_office, I felt pretty happy with myself, with a kill:death ratio of 22:17. And then I got totally owned. In cs_office, for the first 15 rounds, I didn't get one kill. My ending kill:death ratio was 3:25. Is that not fail? For those who don't know how to answer that rhetorical question, the answer is: yes.

Quote of the Whenever:
"The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced."
Frank Zappa

HA! I got back at America. =P to all the dissenters in the chatbox

And yes, if you're wondering why I put that lolcat there (you shouldn't) it's because I'm so excited about the weekend! It means I am one more week closer to my January Holiday to HK!! And with that, it is time to go.

Baii~!

Ah, McCain, you've done it ag- oh wait..you haven't...

Okay, okay, so I said that I didn't really care about the American election. But this news is BIG! like...REALLY BIG!!

That's right people. If you don't know - Barack Obama is now president. Wow. First Black President in US history. Why did it take so long?

Found on Internet somewhere...so quickly they make these things. Anywho, this election was probably finished as soon as Barack became elected as the candidate. I mean, there are so many black people in America, if they voted for McCain, they'd probably have the shit kicked out of them by other black guys (no offence whatsoever).

But it was very funny to see in the paper at around 3.40 today as I was traveling home, that the winning margin was Obama: 270 to McCain: 64....okay maybe that's wrong, but its as near as I can remember. Maybe its changed since then, but meh, that margin looks damn big. Weren't the polls saying it would neck and neck? I don't think so. =P

On a darker note, nearly everyone I talked to on the way back home today was saying that Obama would be assassinated. They were even taking bets on when! Most said on Inauguration Day, January 11, when he's officially sworn in. Others were saying not even a week. I say he's not too bad, and even when we do find out that Palin is behind the shootings, he'll be a hero in our minds (maybe?), just like Martin Luther King Jr. Now to wait for the hype in another 4 years when Barack Obama wins again. XD

Last few days have been pretty tiring. Got exams in less than a week, and still a few assignments to hand in. How to do revision at the same time? Got alot done in the last few days and is very proud of it, but becoming very stressed at what is to come...EXAMS!@# Example A: Civics and Citizenship, some gay assignment, is due on Monday. It's some random presentation on 'what it means to be Australian'. Lykwtf? A conversation on the bus:

Justin aka Koo-min: "Screw that man. I'm Korean. I don't care about Australia."
Dan: "Then why don't you go back to Korea?"
Justin: "Err, my parents don't wanna."
Jason: "Then get a job and save up enough money to buy an aeroplane ticket to go back to Korea!"
Justin: *Silence*

Riiiiggghhhtt....anyway. To the (inspirational? motivational? humorous? serious?) quote!

Quote of the whenever:
God runs electromagnetics by wave theory on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and the Devil runs them by quantum theory on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.
Sir William Bragg

Ahh, no wonder scientists can never get it right...

And that's another ten minutes of my time wasted on blogging.

Baii~!

Testing, testing

Just like the kitteh, I am tired. It is called...barely surviving. Blearh...exams in just over a week, with a 5-day holiday to study study study. Bringing home so many books is heavy and damn tiring, and after two hot and exciting matches of soccer/futsal, that kinda sucks. Blah again.

LOL about soccer. Yesterday at lunch, was playing soccer with friends on the hockey pitch. No black shoes allowed...how racist...but anyways. So one of the guyz is going for goal after a magnificent cross by our good friend Kento (or Tom?) and it goes OVER the wall next door. Imagine how we would feel. No more ball for us to play with...T_T party over. Then, with a large amount of visual acuity, our good friend Alex spotted a hole in the fence that we could climb up to. But how to get over? We had no clue about what was (cue dramatic music) over the wall. So one of the other guyz (dunno his name) climbed up and found that the ball could be easily gotten because the floor (of the building next door) was level with the hole (which was about two or three metres above the hockey pitch). Blearh...another random rant about stuff...insanity meter all gone now...

Trying out this video thing...I don't know if it works. I'm kind of new to this embed video from youtube type stuff, but when I get the hang of it, there'll be more coming! This video is a sketch from the timeless comedic genius that is Monty Python. This is a favourite of mine - if you watch and think its weird, either:

- I'm weird, or
- you are not intellectually capable enough to understand the jokes involved.

In many cases, it's probably the first option. Everyone will agree that I am a pretty unique type of guy. And that uniqueness has led to certain friends insinuating that I don't actually have any and have to pay for them! AS IF! That $20 was just...a gift...for something else. NOT friendship at all...=P And those particular friends have approached me to ask me to buy something from them...*hint hint*

Quote of the whenever:
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time
H. L. Mencken

This quote really does kind of reflect what I think of the US election. True, I may support one of the candidates, but the race has taken over the whole world's media. I see these Americans on the screen....ALL THE TIME!! I'm kinda fed up with the whole thing. Even after November 5, when they actually start voting, there'll still be lots of 'wow look its so-and-so', 'he's gonna be such a great president' until January 11 or whenever the 'swearing in' day is. So maybe the USA has been 'good friend's' with us for a while, and so maybe they are our greatest ally. But they make the whole world look at them, and Americanism has taken over the whole world. True, they produce good stuff (like Heroes =P) and maybe they have good 'monuments' and 'history', but who cares? The whole world is enraptured by this upcoming election. I'M NOT, and I'm pissed that they keep showing things that won't directly affect us.

Anyway, revision time for the amazing one, me

Baii~!

A post of boredom

A cheer-up Lolcat for friends who have had a bad day......that may have been directly or indirectly caused by me. =P. Please cheer up, and don't blame me!

Those lolcats won't live forever....until I find something else to put there...or maybe the Lolcats will just stay there every single post! How would you, the viewer, react to that?! I like Lolcats, and this is MY blog of JUNC so you can't do anything anyway. XP

So today was traversed in a state of half-asleep/half-awake/half-elated/half-depressed (Yes, that's the new and improved 2 of me) Anyway, since I finished my Chinese Oral Exam yesterday, I feel I should be so much more happier...but it came and went and I didn't feel any different. Everyone who did it is really happy and w/e other stuff...I'm just fine...I never actually took it too seriously - which may be bad on my part, but meh...I did my best...I think.

What else did I do today? Ah yes, Photography class in the afternoon was a breeze...no work whatsoever. Teacher did not have a care in the world about us...supervising us doing nothing, although when Student Learning Co-ordinator came in, looked like was teaching us stuff ==". What a failure...

Played around with Photoshop a bit as well...sorry to those whose pictures may be a little stuffed because of the tweaks I did...[NOT]. Last night was stuffing around in Photoshop doing practically nothing, but doing it with style - see panoramas below. Pretty big and the quality isn't 100% good. Picture taken of Lake Bled in Slovenia last year...lazy me only put it together yesterday...and I learnt that Photoshop Photomerge is really weird...T_T IMO, the second panorama is better. I think I really screwed up the clone stamp tool in the first...the lake looks way too fake...T_T Need more practice =X

Quote of the whenever:

- But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

Carl Sagan

Errr....yeah I don't know why I put that there...probably a quote I found while trawling the nets. I was going to put a different quote, but I couldn't find it in my library of books =.="

EXAMS IN TWO WEEKS [Nov 11]....meh...should I start revising yet? [I have, btw]

Another post down....deadly dose of pictures and quote [check!]. I'll see if I can blog better stuff next time =X

Baii~!

Furrst Post

...yes, that is correct. I have writer's block...or maybe it's called blogger's block. I have no idea what to talk about. But this is my furrst post (haha punny! no not really) and I should say something very D&M. This is a blog of stuff. Enough D&M for you?

News: Finished VCE Chinese Oral Unit 3/4 at last...what a failure I was...night before was fretting over wtf to wear...how stupid of me...

A quote (for those who care about stuff like this):

The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.
- John Sladek

Orly?! Yes. Maybe. NO! Honestly though, why would scientists say the future is more expensive? They'd be like, "OMG the Earth is dying" and the people with money will be saying, "NO MOAR MONEY?!"
Errr...shit...what did I just write? Damn....my daily spasm of insanity has to be when I write this blog...=.="

AND with your lethal dose of lolcats and quotes, I do believe it is time to go!

Baii~!