THE AVENGERS

OK SO I JUST WATCHED THE AVENGERS A FEW HOURS AGO. Words cannot even begin to describe how long I have anticipated this moment. Ever since the foundation was built in the form of the end credits of Iron Man, the anticipation began. That was FOUR YEARS ago....and now it all came down to a good solid 2 hours and 30 minutes. Absolutely incredible.

Too amazing for words....I cannot comprehend all this. If you expected a long post, I'm sorry to disappoint. It was just too damn epic. I'm at a loss for a detailed explanation.

GO WATCH IT.

band tribute #3

"A concert is not a live rendition of our album. It's a theatrical event." Freddie Mercury, Queen

KY: how to survive triples

If anyone watched Misfits, you would've seen an episode where the guy says he tripled himself, which meant puking shitting and ejaculating at the same time. Totally irrelevant but I thought I'd point that out because the word reminded me of that scene. Anyway, in KY lingo, triples are when there are triple blocks--three consecutive periods of a class...2 hours and 15 minutes of pure torture. I blog this for the faint of heart, to those who have been sleeping or find them too hard to get through. Never fear! Just follow these simple steps:

1. Bring sweets. Chewing on something sweet keeps you preoccupied and more awake! (but bring a lot)
2. Drink COFFEE before the class! Doesn't work all the time, but it has its effects.
3. If you're nodding off to sleep while taking notes, and your writing turns out to be sleep writing(where everything you write turns out extremely illegible when you read it after), write with a RED PEN! Bright colours keep you awake just as much as sweets do.
4. If your lecturer is boring, make them interesting! Ask questions, get involved, etc.
5. If you really can't take it, and you HAVE to take a little doze, put your head down and take a 5 minute power nap(especially if the teacher gives a break). Continuous sleep in short doses are better than micro naps during the entire period!
6. Use the power of pain. Inflict some pain on yourself, like a pinch, to get your systems running again.
7. DON'T LOOK AT THE TIME EVERY FEW SECONDS. IT DOESN'T HELP. AT ALL.

And thus concludes today's lesson. Remember, triples are when teachers take the opportunity to teach the stuff that needs the most teaching, so they're pretty important. Write down every important fact they say, and ask as many questions as you can. 

...and its 1 in the morning now. ok better sleep....which brings us to tip #8, have enough sleep the day before. I'm a hypocrite that way. Goodnight!

stormtroopin' in the rain

New day, new chances

Today was a relatively bland day, but turned out to be a pretty rewarding day as well. I stayed up til 4 in the morning, after a night full of COD and poker(I've been doing that a lot recently), so I woke up late. But I was in time to get ready for lunch at Tg. Malim with my parents! The whole family came and it was really nice to see them. Naturally, we went to Yik Mun Pau and I ate another zillion paus enough to feed Ethiopian families 3 years over.

Anyway, I GOT MY NEW GLASSES! After what's been like 6 or 7 years of using the same old small sized glasses, I finally have a new pair. It's Lee Cooper, it's more glassy and classy, it's bigger, and it's better quality lens. Lol I know, such materialistic enthusiasm but hey, these are concerning my eyes! So it took the whole day getting used to these new lenses. I was walking around ky and actually said to myself, "so this is what it's like to have 20/20 vision". Well not that I'd know, but I feel like my eyes have been reborn and every smallest detail in this world can be seen by my eyess

Also, later at night, I got an invitation from Axiata scholarship for the first assessment. Nothing special, but I'm still thankful I was even shortlisted. I'm not exactly the freshest pear in the fruit bowl, or whatever you call it. This is the first time I'm doing something scholarship-related in real life, so there are definitely nerves for this one. Wish me luck! OH and brandon said, "I heard that even if you pass the first few stages but still not get a scholarship offer, they'll give you an ipod". Small compensation, Brandon. hahaha. Why la like that? I know they have good intentions but it's like, "Oh sorry we didn't decide to give you an offer that would secure a successful and happy future for you beyond your wildest dreams, so here's an ipod. Knock yourself out." You know what I mean?

But in all seriousness, I really hope it'll go well. Ya Allah give me stregth.

AvX 1

One of the most anticipated epic events in Marvel history have begun! The two teams comprising of mutants and superheroes are battling it out in Avengers vs. X-Men. I don't know what's going on so far, but I know it's concerning the Phoenix force and Scarlet Witch. Both teams are having a conflict concerning who should be responsible; very Cold War-ish. But Marvel's always been good at that (such as Civil War and The Ultimates). Hope to be reading a copy soon! Here's a panel of my favourite Marvel hero, Cyclops, showing Steve just who he's dealing with.

Get the fuck off my porch!

Post-Trials

So I just finished all my trial papers, yay! I think overall I did okay, except for the maths papers(P3 and P1) which were total bitches to me. Today I celebrated the end of trials by doing the worst thing any A Level student could do: not study.
I have also recently been hooked on an obsession worse than any kind of drug: Football Manager 2012. This has definitely achieved first place for the 'games I've been most addicted to' list. It's on the back of my mind 24/7, all I can think of is the next match and preparations and new players to buy and new tactics and so on... its the kind of game where you go "Okay, I'll only spend about half an hour on this, then I'll study" then BOOM THREE HOURS GONE and you're like "WTF HAPPENED TO THE TIME"

Simply put, it's a whole new universe whenever I play. I don't talk to anyone, I don't go outside, and I forget what life's like...

BUT ITS SO FUN HAHAHA. Imma go for another half an hour now hehe. peace and love

ENFP

I took this humanmetrics test on a website that Tariq tweeted. It seems pretty accurate, and it's only about 70 YES or NO questions. My personality results were ENFP: Extroverted iNtuitive Feeling Perceiving. This test is so cool, it gives various elaborations on your results. Here's one:

ENFPs are both "idea"-people and "people"-people, who see everyone and everything as part of a cosmic whole. They want to both help and to be liked and admired by other people, on both an individual and a humanitarian level. This is rarely a problem for the ENFP, as they are outgoing and warm, and genuinely like people. Some ENFPs have a great deal of zany charm, which can ingratiate them to more stodgy types in spite of their unconventionality.

ENFPs often have strong, if sometimes surprising, values and viewpoints. They tend to try to use their social skills and contacts to persuade others gently (though enthusiastically) of the rightness of these views; this sometimes results in the ENFP neglecting their nearest and dearest while caught up their efforts to change the world.

So cool. Sure, I could be speculative about it like how I am with my horoscopes, but I can't deny that it is pretty spot on. Some famous ENFP personalities are Mark Twain, Bill Cosby, and Oprah Winfrey. It even gives you recommended courses and institutions fitting for your personality! Well, the institutions are mostly American, but still. Go ahead and try it!

Click HERE to score your personality.

Yaya tweeted this quote and I HAD to put it down somewhere

"Missing you gets easier everyday, because even though you are one day further from the last time I saw you, you are one day closer to the next time I will."


- Source Unknown

band tribute #2

"If people think we've lost our minds, I think we're doing the right thing."

- Kirk Hammet, Metallica

band tribute #1

"It wasn't supposed to be a pretty thing."

- Robert Plant, Led Zeppelin