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Friday, October 31, 2008 | 6:09 pm
HAHAHA today so funny, here's why:
1) the 2 xls today came to my house. I told them to wait at the bus stop outside tm. In the end they overshot to the one outside the MRT. They claimed that I should say cs instead of tm.
2) xiuling apparently thought that henry and I have the same hp number. Both henry and me under her contacts has the same number. If any of you receive a call from her but she says she did not call you, you know what it means.
3) I pressed the button to my house which is on the 6th floor and xiuling happily told xueli we are going to the 8th floor.
4) the 2 xls cannot play crash bandicoot racing game; they mostly finished at 7th and 8th, xiuling always finished last.
5) then they tried to play Lord of the Rings. It all went well at first, xueli even managed to kill 5 enemies against her alone by randoming pressing the 'x' button. But they lost in the first stage cause xiuling died and xueli could not survive for 1 more second for xiuling to revive
Ok back to my wrestling program.
*edit: I forgot to mention that when I was playing dynasty warriors 5, the 2 xls kept saying out the commander and general name whenever it appeared in the screen and tried to guess their occupation. eg, Ma Chao they say he tend to the horses, another guy call Niu Fu they say he tend to the cows. They seem to find that extremely funny and entertaining. Another point worthy to note is when I was watching cyber sunday and showing them this woman yw likes. After that they were laughing at this other woman that come out. I mean, who would'nt? Imagine it is a Halloween costume contest and this woman in a banana suit came out and said,'Hi, I'm Victoria, your big banana.'*
Wednesday, October 29, 2008 | 6:46 pm
I kind of envy the french...their lifestyle suits me. Today's lecture ended with some brief information about their culture and stuff, and here is some facts:
1) In France, it is illegal for employers to make their employees work more than 35 hours per week. (isit 36? 35? can't remember lol)
2) Even if for some specific jobs it is required to work more than 35 or 36 hours per week, the OT pay will be 1.5 times higher the normal pay and it MUST be paid of course.
3) Annual leave is like minimum 30 days. WTF?
4) During October (I think), everything, all shops, schools, whatever close down. All go for holidays, bye bye! Of course the supermarkets will take turns to open, meaning they will have their holidays anyway LOL. Is that how Germany managed to take over France within 1 month? Their army must have went out for a holiday as well...
5) Let us say, that for example Deepavali falls on a Wednesday. So, the French would just tell you,' OK, since wed is a holiday, tell you what. Don't bother coming to work on Mon and Tues. Keep up the holiday spirit.' Bet they all wished that all public holidays fall on a Friday. Of course you still get paid -.-
6) Forgot to mention that even if you go for annual leave, you still get paid. $$$
7) Now for schools, let's start from October. So, I think after Oct there is a 2 weeks break after a semester I think. Next, it will be Christmas, so they enjoy another 2 weeks break after that...
8) Looking at the calendar, the next holiday will be Easter, 4 freaking months with no break WTF!?!?!? It's inexcusable for the French, thus they declare Feb a winter break, another 2 weeks off...Btw, Christmas is not winter, even though it will be snowing I think, Feb is more of the traditional winter I guess. Excuses...
9) Ok happy Easter! 2 more weeks of break...
10) Walao after Easter have to wait all the way til Halloween? No way man! The students need a break from all the stress! So, there is a summer break around June or July (I think). Not 2 weeks, 2 FREAKING MONTHS.
11) And the cycle continues...
Of course all these good things can't be for free right, the french lecturer only gave 1 bad point only.
-1) Tax rate is 19.6%
Who cares about the tax rate! I can only think of the holidays...
So, to pull all of you down to the harsh reality, welcome to Singapore. After International Finance it should be home sweet home time but since yq wanted to wait for henry and yw to play billard, me being the great brother that I am, I accompanied him. So we were talking blah blah blah in the library. XL made an agreement with me that we attack the other xl and we stop disturbing her with allan. Fine lor, I think allan will kill/damage/pulverise/disintegrate/destory/erradicate/terminate/attack me more than yw anyway. It's a good trade. Then nxl said she had a facebook a/c. Hey, joyous days! yw also have 1. Hear that yw? Your opportunity is here. I told her to add Dickson also, he very entertaining. Everyday will poke you. I swear everytime I login to facebook I will get poked by him. And someone said she is a stalker too since she read blogs but don't comment. HAHAHA let's make her comment.
NXL SUCKSSUCKSUCKSUCKSUCKSUCKSUCKSUCKSUCKSUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Feel like commenting now? Do you, do you? HAHA no? Damnit.
Tuesday, October 28, 2008 | 9:31 pm
Goes to show how dumb some people in the world can get:
WESTFIELD, Mass. - With an instructor watching, an 8-year-old boy at a gun fair aimed an Uzi at a pumpkin and pulled the trigger as his dad reached for a camera.
It was his first time shooting a fully automatic machine gun, and the recoil of the weapon was too much for him. He lost control and fatally shot himself in the head.
Now gun safety experts _ and some gun enthusiasts at the club where the shooting happened _ are wondering why such a young child was allowed to fire a weapon used in war. Local, state and federal authorities are also investigating whether everyone involved had proper licenses or if anyone committed a criminal act.
"It's easy to lose control of a weapon like that ... they are used on a battleground for a very good reason," said Jerry Belair, a spokesman for Stop Handgun Violence, based in Newton, Mass. "It's to shoot as many times as you possibly can without having to reload at an enemy that's approaching. It's not a toy. It's not something to play with."
Police said Christopher Bizilj (Bah-SEAL) of Ashford, Conn., was pronounced dead at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, Mass., on Sunday afternoon, shortly after firing a 9mm micro Uzi submachine gun at the Machine Gun Shoot and Firearms Expo at the Westfield Sportsman's Club, co-sponsored by C.O.P. Firearms & Training.
"The weapon was loaded and ready to fire," Westfield police Lt. Hipolito Nunez said. "The 8-year-old victim had the Uzi and as he was firing the weapon, the front end of the weapon went up with the backfire and he ended up receiving a round in his head."
Nunez said the investigation is continuing.
Christopher, a third-grader, was attending the show with his father and sixth-grade brother, Colin. Christopher had fired handguns and rifles before, but Sunday was his first time firing an automatic weapon, said his father, Charles Bizilj.
Bizilj told the Boston Globe he was about 10 feet behind his son and reaching for his camera when the weapon fired. He said his family avoided the larger weapons, but he let his son try the Uzi because it's a small weapon with little recoil.
"This accident was truly a mystery to me," said Bizilj, director of emergency medicine at Johnson Memorial Hospital in Stafford, Conn. "This is a horrible event, a horrible travesty, and I really don't know why it happened."
Police are calling the shooting an accident but are investigating whether everyone connected with the incident had proper weapons permits. Massachusetts requires licenses to own firearms, and the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives issues different licenses to possess machine guns.
The machine gun shoot drew hundreds of people from as far away as Maine and Virginia. An advertisement said it would include machine gun demonstrations and rentals and free handgun lessons.
"It's all legal & fun _ No permits or licenses required" reads the ad, posted on the club's Web site.
"You will be accompanied to the firing line with a Certified Instructor to guide you. But You Are In Control _ "FULL AUTO ROCK & ROLL," the ad said.
The ad also said children under 16 would be admitted free, and both adults and children were offered free .22-caliber pistol and rifle shooting.
Massachusetts has some of the strictest gun laws in the nation. It is legal in Massachusetts for children to fire a weapon if they have permission from a parent or legal guardian and they are supervised by a properly certified and licensed instructor, Nunez said. The name of the instructor who was with the boy at the time was not released.
"We do not know at this time the full facts of this incident," Nunez said Monday.
I wonder who is dumber, the instructors or the father. Both are dumb. I can only imagine how proud the father must be of letting his son shoot a gun at himself to send himself to heaven. And the instructor is proud cause he did his part to aid the process faster. Good going guys, have a good night sleep, knowing you all have unwittingly killed a young innocent boy.
| 6:48 pm
Sunday marks the end of Jericho's reign as World Heavyweight Champion...
It was a sad day, indeed on Sunday. Jericho is a deserving World Champion, and he has to lose it due to 'unbiased' referees and the hypocritical fans that voted for them. Yeah, cheer all you want for Steroid'tista, Crap'tista, the Manimal. You will never ever get a better and more deserving World Champion than Chris Jericho.
Every beginning has an end, and an end just marks the start of a new beginning. Chelsea lost to Liverpool in their almighty Stamford Bridge on Sunday, which marks an end to their 86 match unbeaten run in the BPL, an impressive (hate to admit though) 4 1/2 year streak. The end of this streak signals the start of a new beginning, a beginning in which Chelsea will now forever be chasing shadows...shadows of Arsenal. Take heart, Chelsea...for you can never...everrrrrr be better than your illustrious London neighbours Arsenal, the upcoming and soon-to-be BPL champions.
Some books can't be trusted, or can they? There was this weird psychology book lying around outside business school so we were reading it. Lyn started asking us various questions in the book. Quite accurate. For my results at least. I can't remember much of the answers and questions though, there were so many of them. I do remember that the book says that I am a person who loves to win, do not enjoy listening to people but feels that people should listen to me, I will use any methods, be it despicable or unscrupulous or callous, I will use it to achieve my means. I have no morals whatsoever, no principles. Well, I agree with all of it. Sebastian Rai is a man that lives to win, and never to be second best to anyone. I will never ever live in someone else's shadow. I will use any methods, oh yes I will. The end justifies the means, don't let anyone tell you differently, people like xy for example. I have no morals blah blah, well, the entire universe revolves around me, I set my own rules, my own standards, I don't care whether I am in what society defines as good or bad, let others judge me for all I care, I know who I really am. And I really don't like listening to other people too, except for some speeches by Chris Jericho, he talks well. Think I sound like some immature, spoilt, evil person? Think again. I am a good person. I am a honest man. I am a righteous person. Am I convincing enough? No? Good enough, I don't need your opinions anyway HAHAHAHA.
Friday, October 24, 2008 | 4:13 pm
LOL, never would have thought that something so ridiculous could happen. Read this:
TOKYO - A 43-year-old player in a virtual game world became so angry about her sudden divorce from her online husband that she logged on with his password and killed his digital persona, police said.
The woman, who has been jailed on suspicion of illegally accessing a computer and manipulating electronic data, used his ID and password to log onto the popular interactive game "Maple Story" to carry out the virtual murder in May, a police official in the northern city of Sapporo said Thursday. He spoke on condition of anonymity because of department policy.
"I was suddenly divorced, without a word of warning. That made me so angry," the official quoted her as telling investigators and admitting the allegations.
The woman, a piano teacher, had not plotted any revenge in the real world, the official said.
She has not yet been formally charged. If convicted, she could face up to five years in prison or a fine up to US$5,000.
Players in "Maple Story" create and manipulate digital images called "avatars" that represent themselves, while engaging in relationships, social activities and fighting monsters and other obstacles.
In virtual worlds, players often abandon their inhibitions, engaging in activity online that they would never do in the real world. For instance, sex with strangers is a common activity.
The woman used login information she got from the 33-year-old office worker when their characters were happily married to kill the character. The man complained to police when he discovered that his online avatar was dead.
The woman was arrested Wednesday and taken 620 miles (1,000 kilometers) from her home in southern Miyazaki to be detained in Sapporo, where the man lives, the official said.
The police official said he did not know if she was married in the real world.
Bad online behavior is usually handled within the rules set up by online worlds, which can ban miscreants or take away their virtual possessions.
In recent years, misbehavior in the virtual world has in some cases had consequences in reality.
In August, a woman was charged in the U.S. state of Delaware with plotting the real-life abduction of a boyfriend she met through the virtual reality Web site "Second Life."
In Tokyo, a 16-year-old boy was charged with stealing the ID and password from a fellow player of an online game in order to swindle virtual currency worth US$360,000.
Once again, LOL. I mean, I know Maplestory is bad...but seems like the players are worse. Yahoo news can really spring up surprises. I knew setting it to my homepage was a good idea =). Anyway, it seems that every thursday yq and I would have a undesirable 3hr break cause of french tut being so late at 4. But, after enjoying ourselves by playing basketball during the break, maybe that would be our activity to pass time. Play sports. Lol. Not Maplestory. It's traumatising.
Monday, October 20, 2008 | 9:34 pm
Good things happen to good people...
So, communication skills 2 was the first lesson. Very nice teacher, cept for the sad fact that he does not like chris jericho. Humph. Loser. And when he asked for our team to have a name, Jon said TeamSmartOnes. The teacher, Julian, took it upon himself to improve on the name, he named it Team Cerebral. Lol, sound so cool. Then we were to be allocated time slots. I asked for the last slot lor, but then everyone also wanted the last slot so Julian said ok let us have lottery picks. In the end, I still got last slot -.-
Then after CMA2 lecture, henry and yw wanted to change their CDS. In the end yw remained with his fashion CDS and henry changed his from hospitality to water tech??? Yw is still happy with his fashion CDS, hope his class are all males. See how happy he gets. This reminded me of a story I read long ago. It was about a bear and a rabbit receiving 3 wishes each. The bear's first wish was to have a female mate. The rabbit's first wish was then to have a helmet. Then the bear wished for the forest to be filled with female bears. Then the rabbit wished for a motorcycle. The bear felt that the rabbit is wasting his wishes and silently thought that the rabbit is extremely dumb. The final wish for the bear was to make all the bears except for him in the world to be female. The rabbit then took a deep breath and proceeded to wish that the bear is a gay and quickly rode his motorbike to safety. Maybe that is yw's fate? And xy and ly said I'm evil. I deny that. I'm a good person. I just found it funny. The rest thought can just anyhow pick the CDS and if not happy with the selection can always just change. You eat what you are given, I suppose. And I, got french, same class with YQ somemore.
Then, the guys wanted to play basketball. Fine, we have to wait for an empty court so yw showed us his 'wonderful' tricks with the ball. So he kicked the ball and dribbled past me and apparently FELL DOWN BY HIMSELF. Henry, allan and I was laughing so loudly. Don't listen to what yw says. He claims that I tripped him when he got past me. He is just giving excuses. I'm a good person. I don't trip people. So when we finally found an empty court, we went to play the ABC game. It's like this:
So we started with 2 persons at each sides. Allan and me took 1 side, while yw and henry took the other. The aim is to start from A, then when you shoot in the basket, you advance to B and so on. So you will shoot 1 round from A to the other side of A and then you have to shoot 3 times on the first red circle, 2 times on the 2nd circle, and 1 time on the outermost circle. It sounds easy but the problem is if you shoot an air-ball, which means the ball did'nt touch anything at all, no matter where you are at, you have to go all the way back to position A. So, Allan and I was winning. I mean we are already at the opposite sides while yw and henry are stuck at their own side still. But, Allan was quite sad. He reached the opposite side. He could be the first one to complete the first round before moving on to shoot the red circles. But....disaster struck. He air-balled and have to go back to his opposite side A HAHAHAHA. And I moved on to the 2nd circle before they all stopped the game. I win. I always win.
Good things happen to good people, and I am a good person. Oh yeah.
Friday, October 10, 2008 | 10:50 pm
Yw is just like my grandpa sometimes, I saw him in TM today and walked past him even and he did'nt see me at all, just kept walking straight. The piece of paper he was reading must be of importance, imagine ignoring my regal presence. MSN he explained that he was there to buy an Ipod touch lol. I remembered his previous msn nick, it was about how cute someone was even when the person is sleeping blah blah. So I asked him who the mysterious person was and guess what? He told me it was me and that I'm cute. Well, I understand, but I don't swing that way. Sorry yw, go find someone else. HAHAHAHA. May god bless all of you, god bless Singapore (economy please recover!!) and most of all, may god bless me. Thank you.
Joke of the day: What's the difference between Spurs and a triangle? A triangle has three points. (This joke will only make sense if you watched football. If you don't, don't waste half of your day trying to figure this out, cause you won't)
Thursday, October 09, 2008 | 4:40 pm
Arghhhh...lately I've been waking up so late, as late as 1pm even though I've been sleeping quite early around 11pm? Must be me working too much yes. What work you ask? Eh, the usual. Making sure the everything is up to standard, life as quality control manager is tough. Yesterday was ridiculous, one of the braces piece came off during lunch and uncle managed to fix an appointment at 4. So went all the way to Orchard to fix the problem. Mum and uncle were quite happy anyway, they had to come Orchard to attend a forum about some eye problem. I accompanied them all the way throughout, from 4-10, for me just to fix that one braces piece. So tiring, but I got the good stuff, nice coffee and nice dinner. And yes spending time with family is nice too, as long as there is always good food to come along, it's always good oh yeaaah. They say I tag along just to reap the benefits only which is the dinner, which is sooooo not true. I'm a good person. I don't have all that ulterior motive! It just pains me to hear such accussation. Meanwhile, watching No Mercy PPV has been great, even though the PPV itself was not very good. I could predict all the results of the matches correctly hehehehe. Any PPV with Chris Jericho winning is always good, so No Mercy is good yea. Still World Heavyweight Champion, people. And the song they used for the PPV is nice too. All Nightmare Long by Metallica. It's metal but it does not sound metal? Instruments are hard hitting but no screaming. Since none of you appreciate hard rock or metal, I shall not bother putting it up on the blog or imeem, it's so troublesome anyway. Think all of you would be so thankful to me as well. And as a parting note, this is only for Alvin Keh only, despite him not reading this (I think)
It's not about DX, Alvin...just remember about the 'X' force hehehehe. Whenever TSL does that it reminds me of power rangers....And he tried to find my blog using google -.- nice try chump. Go find yourself a pot of gold instead of the usual silver would ya? Hehehehe, I'm so cheap, blasting them using my blog because they are not reading this.
Wednesday, October 01, 2008 | 10:33 pm
I know I have not been updating, so now I shall just write one brief summary since my last update ok? It's not as if I got so much to tell all of you anyways. My entire life (excluding weekends) til now can be easily summarised as such : *gym, slack, sleep, eat, slack* Yea yea I can already see it in some of your eyes now,'Seb goes to gym??? WTF man, the world is going down.' Eh, I know I'm quite a slacker but I at least make it a point to exercise sometimes ok. The world is going down? Well, it is, everytime I go online the news headlines that are staring back at me are always about the US markets plunging blah blah and now the increase in electricity bills is adding to the amusement. Ok it's not funny about the increase in utilities seeing as to how I spend 80% of my life with it but this is ridiculous! Next you will see that going to those coffee shops downstairs and buying a cup of coffee would cost about $2 and some preachers would be singing 'The End Is Here'. I would recommend to those preachers that they sing Alter Bridge - The End Is Here, it sounds better, much better than those songs about Satan coming to claim our souls. While we are at it, why not add in the Grim Reaper as well? Btw, Billy and Mandy cartoon show is not nice, don't watch it. Then as a last resort, US president would go mix sugar, spices and everything nice (and chemical X I forgot about it) to create the powerpuff girls to save the city of Washington and fight the forces of evil. Haha I'm getting over myself, ok let's stop. I heard that the failure to have the bailout plan is due to disagreements between the Democrats and Republicans. My god, and I thought my sis was childish, those 2 guys are worse. With the financial markets crumbling, Obama and Mccain still can't put their personal glory and ego aside and work together to try save the financial crisis. Even putting plasters on the cracks of Wall street would help too. Bunch of hypocrites. And what is more childish is this, imagine my surprise when I merely wanted to find out the latest CL results ( btw, Arsenal thrashed Porto 4-0 woohoo!!) and instead, the first news I saw on yahoo was that Ferrari is blaming Singapore for their loss. That was funny, I was rather bemused. I did'nt watch the F1 race but I know Alonso won and that Ferrari lost due to some pit stop incident but blaming it on Singapore is world class. That's right champ, now go get somemore losses on your belt and then blame the respective countries for your losses, and if you did win, I hope you get stripped of the title which happened to Lewis recently. It's like blaming your pet hamster when your GPA is a miserable 1.8. And no, my GPA is not 1.8, don't go to MSN and start giving me well wishes. I'm not that dumb -.-
*Oh yea some of you may be confused as to why I put slack and sleep separately, that's cause slacking just means playing and listening to music and watching youtube yea...Slacking is an art, it should not be taken lightly, I'm proud to say that yours truly has perfected the art of slacking, anyone who wants to challenge me may do so at their peril.
On a sidenote, Allan created a new blog. Good going boy, I knew leaving your old link there was not a mistake, saves me the trouble of writing the entire code when I could easily just copy the new url and paste it. Hope your new blog would last longer than your previous one. It lasted at a record breaking 1 week?