Time Passes

When was the last time you looked back and realized all those moments that you actually missed?

I've just had one of those moments. I look at where I am now, being able to learn to drive this year and I remember like it was yesterday when I was excited that I have my brother who can drive me around now. It was a time when I remembered saying to myself "I have to wait a few more years then I can drive" and just now I realize I can learn to drive this year. So where am I headed, you may ask... Its simple... Time flies!

I know my blog is often about posts like this and I'm glad I'm back to it, you know why? It's because it's who I am. The year 2012 has changed me more than I remember and all that change in one year. That one year where I left VSG and became a normal VI and the things I've learned in UK has changed me a lot. So, in that span of one year I've changed a lot and that year seemed to be the longest year I've had in memory. In that one year, I've grown more arrogant, charismatic, athletic, confident, rational and more knowledgeable. That short one year that I used to say "Oh, one year has passed. That was fast!" every single New Year but I still have not gotten used to the year 2013 possibly because I am still stuck in the year 2012 because that year was the slowest year I can remember and it made me realize something.

4 years ago, I was sitting in front of the same laptop and in the same room just as messy as this and doing something similar to this which was probably playing some game at that time (AC, I believe...), but what I didn't realize is that I would be in the same position after 4 years, so I ask myself one question: "What have you done in those 3 years of VI?"

The answer is simple...

Nothing...

I did nothing. Those 3 years of my life had passed without much meaning. Each day from then till today has been nothing more than a usual routine. I would wake up at 6:30a.m, get ready for school, go to school, stay back for scouts or some other activity till 4:30p.m and get home about 5p.m and from there I would sit in front of the same laptop for the rest of the day till around 11 or more. A simple routine 5 days-a-week, practically for the whole year and on weekends and weekends, it was pretty much stare at a screen again. Sure, there was some times where I had great memories and proud moments but overall, my days were wasted. So where had my life gone?

Nowhere...

3 years of my life vanished like a breath and now I see life and where it goes... No, not my life alone but

OUR lives!

We spend each day of our lives idling around in front of screens, gadgets and things that we do not see beyond our horizon. How many years of your life have you wasted? I've not lived many, yes, but I can say that our lives are really really short lives. Think of the many years you have lived now and how fast it swept by and realize that when you reach 60, it is already a miracle you are standing there alive.

So my solution is simple. Rise up, look out the window and think for a moment. What can you do to actually make your life worthwhile. To not look back and say "One year has passed. That was fast!" Take life slow if you have to and enjoy each hour that you live that you still have left. Words like Carpe Diem and YOLO have often been used but really... "Seize the Moment" and live a life where moments are created and the years pass slower. That is a life where you can live in a different time than everyone else and where you can enjoy life to the fullest.

*time = perception of time for a single person

P.S. This is why I like time. Cause it screws with logic a bit

Happy Chinese New Year!!!

Hello, people!

So today is Sunday, 10 February 2013 (though my computer clock is 8 hours faster than where I actually am and its Monday, 11 February 2013 now), and it's..... CHINESE NEW YEAR! 

Oh, yes. It is awesome to be Chinese, though I begin to doubt that racial term now but I get to celebrate New Year's Day TWICE a year and its just awesome! And in the space of a month from each other-- sometimes less, depending on the lunar calendar! What is a lunar calender anyway? Space tortoise?
As always, the celebrations are a blast of fun because of the food, the fireworks, the angpaos and family gatherings, but mostly money of course! Some people even get to travel outstation to their hometowns which is like a mini-holiday. But sadly, being the overseas student, I've forfeited an authentic Chinese New Year for the third first time already. Le sigh.

If you're an overseas Chinese yourself, you know where I'm coming from. And if you're a not, good for you. I so jealous, but maybe not, I am after all too awesome to be jealous (I lie! Deal with it!)

By the way, I have a question for my non-Chinese readers... would you ever convert and be... 

Whoah, whoah, whoah... Hold on a second, the next word probably would have been "Chinese" and more yabber about how great and awesome being a chinese is, but... I'm sorry... I should probably continue on with the flow

...Chinese?  I mean, it's FREE, and you won't even need to get our yellow skin and tiny eyes. Plus, think about the benefits!

Like...

Okay! I just have to stop it there. Don't get me wrong, but I'm proud to be a Chinese and will forever be proud in that but isn't that going a bit too far, I mean talking about conversion like its a religious sort of thing I mean... Hey, that ain't right... So anyway, let's just use my newly found knowledge about the world and mostly geography which I am absolutely rubbish at to turn that question around. Let's see how Chinese fares against Russians. So, here goes...

...By the way, I have a question for my non-Chinese Russian readers... would you ever convert and be Russian? I mean it's FREE, and you won't even need to get our awesomeness and bad ass skills. Plus, think about the benefits!

Like...
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• a second Valentine's Day  a second Birthday

• culturally exclusive food (its Russia, baby!)

• wealthy Russian in-laws (let's be honest. Who doesn't want Russian relatives)

• utmost reverence -- we Chinese Russians love non-Chinese Russians who love our culture 

• a wider shallower, but more expressive creative vocabulary of swear words (like ma hai, cibai, lan chiao, sue lei to lat fu...etc сука блять = sooka blyat)

and of course...

• FREE money on CNY (only for the unmarried)  

 I lose for that bit... Not sure what Russians have besides Old New Year, a special celebration which I hope I'm not wrong about. They do however have...

• Winter as cold as -40°C
• Summer as hot as 40°C  
• Spring and Autumn full of snow and harsh winds :D

So what now? Want to be a Russian? Its just as awesome as being a Chinese just with not so much similarities. Anyway, I'm mostly joking about all these stuff. I'm purely Chinese and not Russian in any way and I am interested in Russia and its residents but not to the extent of conversion (though I do not think its possible... In the aspect of race, I mean). But anyway, I've had my fun teasing the post of my dearly beloved sister who claims will disown me if I ever call her... What's the word again? Oh yes! Noobshyt*.

So after all that, I hope you might learn a bit about Russians although to be honest, I barely know anything about them but I mean NO OFFENSE in this post and sincerely apologise if you are, though I doubt anyone would read it besides people I know. I take my claim of "no offense" back if you are Miss Kingyo, though, she can kill me if she want to. She has all the time to do that after all.

Anyway, this post was sort of a spoof of a post by Miss Kingyo and I hope that you'd read her blog. Lastly,

 HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR!!!-Zerg'13-

Also, in preparation for Dead Space 3 which came out already but I don't own a copy of it, yet, I made this...

Yes, yes! It's Iron Man's!!! But you have to admit, it is sort of suitable for it right? No? Well, deal with it! Anyway, the only reason why I'm blogging is cause I'm at my guardian's house for half-term break. That's why...

An Update Just for Fun

So, I got bored and decided to update. There is actually much to tell in my daily school activity life but there is this particular event that occurred recently, actually yesterday. It was raining the whole day and we had a Physical Education class. So there were a few options, prep (homework), gym or activity in the sports hall. So I decided, why not follow some of the Hong Kong boys and join the activities in the sports hall, and guess what, it was a game I've always wanted to play... It was DODGEBALL!!! Unfortunately I have no pictures of the event.

So it started off pretty easy with white shirts versus dark or other coloured shirts and it was pretty fun. I managed to not be a target and didn't get hit with a ball, but unfortunately I was out because I threw a ball and someone managed to catch it. Apparently there was a rule if you caught the ball, the person who threw it goes out and someone from your team goes back in. It continued on like this with me dodging random balls being thrown at other people which are closely in my direction. It was fun until a certain point where the teacher said switch teams time. And the teams were England v.s. The rest of the world!!!! Hooray!

And that meant I was stuck with not so good dodgeball players, which to my surprise actually was quite good, but for some reason, now I was notorious... And this was a particularly epic moment. My infamous status made me the target of everyone in the opposite team when they had all the balls. It wasn't much actually, just 5 or 6 balls being targeted at me, but here's the awesome bit. I dodged them all!!! They were thrown at me simultaneously and bloody 'ell, I bet nobody could best me at that but I dodged 'em all. Of course it was not easy, but hey, if you got skills, you got skills. This was truly an epic moment for me but they did it again after a while and I just cowered after that. I would say I could have dodged them but I don't think I could even if I didn't cower.

Anyway, while that truly was an epic moment for me, it was not the only epic moment I have in this school. Another would be me and my guitar with my lil ol' tramp hat going like a tramp playing songs and stuff in the boarding house. It's fun... Trust me... It is and I actually got £0.73 from doing it once. Forgot which kind soul gave me those coins and pennies but it definitely made my day. I might do it again and ask for a photo be taken just to prove that I do do random stuff like these.

Back to School

I should have posted this post around a week ago, but I was lazy to blog and so on... But anyway, well I'm now back in school after my half-term break and although most my friends in Malaysia are having holidays right now and probably having lots of fun, I'm not doing too bad here. Other than the fact that I have to get up every morning at 7:25 and go to class and study till 4. Well... It's not too bad actually. Considering I have actually about 6 periods which lasts for around 50 minutes before the end of school. I have a break session after the first 2 periods and lunch break after the next two, and after that another break after the end of school till my evening activities. I would post a timetable if I could but I'm too lazy to take a photo anyway.

So, coming back to school and all of this just means that I might not have all the time in the world to do nonsense anymore and the blog was something I would never really prioritize unless its a long time since I posted anything or I wanted to update something like now, so it would definitely be stroked off immediately. However today I feel a bit special and although I do kinda want to post some rather fancy stuff with pictures telling of how life is now and how supposedly awesome it is, I won't! And why?

Cause I'd rather type a whole lot of nonsense so that the people who are interested in this blog might get a bit irritated at what I'm trying to get to. The overall is actually that I am supposedly enjoying life here which is filled with activities from morning to night and although I am supposed to go to the gym most of the night with my Spanish friend, Alvaro, I'm actually going to play badminton soon, so I guess I LIED!!! So what? You gonna sue me or something? No? Then DEAL with it... 

Okay maybe not... Just stop reading if you want to and have fun

Halloween!

So being a Malaysian I have no idea how Halloween felt like properly and today being Halloween night, just gave me my first experience of Halloween and guess what? It felt awkward... So, I'm here staying at my guardian's place during the half-term break here and tonight's Halloween. One might expect me to dress up and walk around the neighbourhood stalking people and knock on people's doors saying "Trick or Treat" but guess what?

Nein!

And do you know why? Cause I ain't got a bloody costume and why? Cause I never really expected to celebrate Halloween, though Slender Man was an option for me but I didn't have white skin and I had a face... So without a costume and no experience of Halloween and to avoid awkwardness and etc, I decided to stay on my bed and well stare at a screen flashing Red, Green and Blue lights into my eyeballs. Quite enjoyable for a person like me, but there's a catch! And its a good one!

- My guardians sent me to be the doorman -

And so I had to... And whoop de doo was it fun... Other than the fact it was totally awkward when three little kids stood at the door saying "Trick or Treat" and staring at some Asian kid with some pedo looking face when he smiles. So it was an entirely awkward moment and I just said some random stuff and gave them candy and I absolutely hated that moment, and I thought if I had to do this the whole night I might as well put on a costume and stuff, so I went back to my flashing screen and had a chat with my sister and she suggested a Chinese Mafia =.="... And I could pull it off, just with some hair gel or something but I didn't want to change and just waited to see if anyone else would come to the doorbell and ring it.

So I waited...

And waited while staring at my screen...

And continued to wait...

Until suddenly my guardian comes up to me saying "Okay, good night then! We are going to bed now." And VOILA!!! I was free and didn't have to say anything else to any strangers and no more awkward situations tonight! Hooray XD

What an experience...

This story should end here but while I was waiting and stuff I got bored and decided to do some Photoshopping and so I ended up editing a photo of my sister, Miss Kingyo, in her Alice Madness Returns costume. And this was the result

-Not too bad if I were to say-

This was all fun and stuff but since it is Halloween and there's supposed to be spooky stuff so I'll give you guys one. I came across this when I was playing with film grain which I later removed from this photo.

So yeah... It is pretty freaky and well I don't like it too much but it is generally the same photo and well it is a screen shot and I didn't bother to do anything further as I was focussing a bit too much on the main product.

So anyway, it was an interesting Halloween experience and I think I get an idea of how things are ran during Halloween and am expecting more next year. Also if I might get a white morphsuit I might dress up as Slender Man and start stalking people at night just for fun.

Update

As some people have seen this blog before I'm guessing you have seen a dramatic change between what it was last time. Blogger definitely changed from the last time I used it which was for a Formula 1 in Schools team blog which wasn't a huge success as there was not a lot of effort put it in but ignoring that the last time I would have checked blogger would have been a year now. I have definitely noticed that blogger is almost entirely different to what it was when it started but I guess that should happen or else it might be something wrong. The first time I saw Blogger after a year my immediate reaction was none other than this

Le Confused Gandalf Meme

None other than the Confused Gandalf meme would explain the feeling of seeing a whole new blogger. Having my own blog up and running again made me wonder why I ever stopped blogging, but then I remembered why... It was because I was too busy with ridiculous nonsense, but although it is not like I have plenty of time to update my blog I do see why my sister now enjoys taking a lot of photos and promoting her blog and etc. To be honest I think I said once that I never understood why people love to take photos of themselves and go "OMG, Look at me! I look so cute/fluffy/".

However... Now I think I get why, but as a teenager and through the eyes of most stereotypes I guess I am just another teenager trying to find out who I am, so bear with my randomness if you want to.

Life just being life

Actually this story is of no relevance at all but I decided to type something. It's actually 4 in the morning now and I should be asleep but I decided to write something before I slept. A few months ago I really wanted to gain the opportunity to play in the closed beta of an upcoming MMO game known as MechWarrior Online and guess what? Checking my e-mail today I found an e-mail stating I can finally play the Closed Beta of MechWarrior Online!

YAY!

But guess what?

Life decided to just be life and there was another e-mail from MechWarrior Online. o.0... And what does it say? It says starting tomorrow MechWarrior will be Open Beta! Hooray!!! Well, NO! Not hooray cause I've been waiting months to gain access to the closed beta and once you gave it to me you decided to go Open Beta! Fine... My fault anyway since I did not check my e-mail earlier, but its alright cause I do not think my laptop can support it anyway. At least I have Hawken's closed beta to play still :P

Moral of the story? Life likes to throw lemons at you.

So what do you do with lemons? You make combustible lemons and throw it at Life's house! Don't make lemonades, take Life back!

P.S. That was from Cave Johnson from Portal 2. He says something along those lines