bad luck..

Damn.. I really think this year is not going to be a good one. My luck this month is totally terrible. Been playing poker outside with my friends and on Facebook quite often recently and my luck is just unbelievable. Most of my hands are always unsuited cards of 2 and 7, 2 and 8, 3 and J... Cards that are impossible to follow unless you're trying to bluff. Even when I get a good hand like pockets or a straights on the flop I'll lose to a bigger hand. I've lost count on how many times my straights lost to flushes. There was even a game where I had full house on the flop but went on to lose to a 4 of a kind. Gotta minimize my gambling this year... =(

We've finished New Super Mario on Wii! Spent quite a few nights after dinner in Kenneth's house to finish the game. A damn fun game, Wii owners should try it out! It's easier to beat the game with only 2 people as stages may get a bit complicated when 4 are playing but where's the fun in easy games? =D

Brown Eyed Girls - Sign

Ahh... looks like my year is not starting really well for me. No luck with job applications and been dead bored here at home. The connection sucks during the afternoons and loading a short MV could take 10 mins.

Somebody save me from this pointless days that I'm going through~~~

Signing off with the lamest thing I've heard since 2010 started:
"What do you call a door seller? Sailor Moon!"
Goo Hara's (Kara) Yoochiri Immature Joke Episode 8 #1

Don't understand it? Try saying it in Chinese or Korean! XD

2009 to 2010

So 2009 has finally ended. I would say that 2009 was neither particularly bad nor good. There were many goods and bads that happened through out the year but the most notable thing was me failing "Colors and Vision" which inevitably led me to another semester in NUS. Then again, it was because of me repeating 1 sem that I was able to take Korean 1 which turned out to be 1 of my most enjoyable modules in NUS (didn't get a good grade though).

2009 was also the year that I got into the Korean craze. It was early this year when I first came upon Girls' Generation's Gee and believe it or not, I actually thought it was annoying but the pretty girls from the group caught my eyes leading me to searching more videos of them. Watched their debut single Into The New World and got hook instantly. The more songs I listen to, the more I got addicted to the girls. Which in turn led me to watching every single variety show and dramas that the girls appeared on. One thing led to another and I got hooked on many Korean variety shows and dramas even if the girls are not in. From the girls, I moved on to the other artists and I found myself drawn to Korean music. Doesn't matter whether it's the hot girl groups or the macho guy groups, I love their music and their stage performances.

So how did I spend my last day of 2009?
I went out with the same usual gang that I hang out with to The Curve! Went to Tony Roma's for dinner. Never expected it to be so expensive, caused us 80 bucks per person and there wasn't even any pork ribs. Food wasn't bad but I wouldn't say its very good either. Given a choice, I would not choose to go back to Tony Roma's in Malaysia anymore but I'm still aiming for the pork ribs in Singapore. Watched Sherlock Holmes after dinner. The movie finished nicely at 11.45pm giving us 15 minutes to walk out to watch the fireworks. Fireworks this year wasn't that spectacular but then again, I never did enjoyed fireworks. It always looked the same to me. I guess the highlight for the night was the foam spray. I've always been safe from foam during every countdown but this year the people were merciless. So many people were spraying, it looked like it was snowing the whole time we were out there. To a certain extent, watching white stuff flying down was a pretty nice sight =) Left The Curve right after the fireworks ended and as expected, we were stuck in the jam for about an hour. Ended our night yam cha-ing in a mamak like we always do after every event.

New years day?
Spent the whole afternoon watching Full House with my family and then went out for dinner with the same gang again. Dinner was at some restaurant in Kuchai Lama. Food wasn't very good and was a bit pricy too. 30 bucks per person. Headed off to Kenneth's place to wii after dinner. Played a 4 player Super Mario and had loads of fun. We laughed so much till our heads and stomache started to ache from the laughing. Haven't laughed so much in awhile. Love the Wii, it's probably the only game console that is able to give such enjoyable times to a group of people.

Kim Yoo Jin / UEE

This has to be the hottest picture of After School's UEE (yes, her stage name is UEE, said out as yui) available now on. =D

And so it ends...

Got our results today, everyone was making a big fuss about it and were practically staring at the screen spamming the login button but I couldn't really care. It gets tiring you know to wait in front of the screen till the very second it is released and then try to spam your way through the heavy traffic because everybody else is trying to log on. I checked 2 hours after it was released and managed to login with only 1 try. Everyone was complaining about the shitty system but if they were just a little less kiasu (like me!) nobody would have burned and fuses trying to check their results. To NUS defence, I think they did a good job with the new ISIS system. Practically everything you need to know is available in there. It's so easy for those kids nowadays and yet they're complaining.

My results? Lets just say it was good enough to end my terrible journey of studying in NUS. Pretty satisfied with my econs but was a bit dissappointed with my Korean. I could have gotten a better grade if I didn't panic during the oral and well to be honest, our play didn't come out well too. No props, no usage of the projector, no audio, no costume... definitely could have done better. Haven't tell my parents though, but they'll probably find out after reading this =p

Anyway, everything is done.. It's all over. Actively looking for jobs now. Been sending out some application the past few days and just have to pray hard something comes my way.

I've got nothing to do this Christmas (eve). Our annual Christmas barbeque was held a few days ago because some of them couldn't make it on the 24th. Any ideas on what to do?

9

Ahh... I should be updating but I'm really too lazy to write.. there's a lot in my mind and writing them out in details will mean another long wall of text so here's a summary of what's in my mind.

1) Post-Bangkok: Went to Bangkok with my family few days back. Followed a tour so everything was planned out and we just had to follow. It was ok, not my best trip but quite fun. Didn't shop much, I hate to shop.

2) Movies:
2012 - sucky plot, sucky directing, sucky writing, not bad effects
Ninja Assassin - pretty cool fight scenes, sucky plot/directing/writing
Storm warriors - TERRIBLE, too many slow mo fight scenes, disgusting plot/writing/directing
Avatar - Great but not perfect, beautiful background, solid directing, plot and characters looks recycled and some doubtful writing but thats only to over-critical people like me, if watch please watch in 3D, no 3D = stupid you.

3) Football - Benitez will get sacked soon. Nuff said

4)Kpop - Very into After School's "Because of You" now. Without a doubt it will dominate Kcharts for many weeks to come. T-ara's Bo peep is quite funny too, it's not a great song but the repeating bo peep bo peep bo peep is definitely addictive.

5) Girls' Generation/SNSD/So Nyuh Shi Dae - Am really regretting not being in Korea to see the girls' first ever solo concert. According to other Sone's that were present, the girls were epic. All 9 of the girls shined and delivered flawlessly. With that said, if time permits, I'll definitely be going to Bangkok to watch them. Hope to gather other SG sones to tag along. I'm such a fanboy but that's not something I'm embarassed about. I love the girls =)

Kat rumah

Ok, so I've been neglegting the blog since my exams were over so here's another wall of text.

I've actually wanted to write on many things for the past month but was just too lazy to actually think of the content and structure of the stuff I want to write. I'm actually quite particular about the grammar and spelling of the stuff I write here because I believe it helps keep my English from going rusty.

Firstly, I wanted to write about the big controversy going on between SM Entertainment and Mnet in Korea but that was during my exam period and I really didn't have time to look up on more facts to back up my knowledge of the controversy. I have all the time I need now but I figure there's no point writing an outdated article about the entertainment industry in Korea when everybody that's reading this crap is not interested.

Then there's the post-exam summary on how I did for my Macro. To keep it short, let's just say my fate is decided entirely on the bell-curve now. I've done what I could and I'll just have to wait till the end of this month to see how well/bad I did for the paper.

Ahh, jobs... Been looking at the job market throught JobsDB and I'm seeing a lot of job openings for Engineers but the thing is most of then are looking for experienced engineers or diploma graduates. Have already send in applications to those few that were looking for fresh degree graduates. Hope I get some good news by end of this year.

Going to Bangkok on the 13th. I'm not really into shopping and since we're following a tour, I guess we're gonna be moving from shopping spots to popular landmarks to shopping spots so I'm not particularly excited about that. However it'll be good to spend time with my family on a holiday. =)
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The grand finals for SMM Grand Dota Tournament (SGNDT) was held in Melaka last week. For those who don't know, SGNDT is probably the world's biggest Dota LAN tournament in the world with a total prize value of RM135,000. Malaysian teams are required to participate in state qualifiers for places in the grand finals and big teams from around the world were invited to take part in the lucrative event.

China turned out to be the biggest winners of this year's tournament taking first, second and third place with all top 3 teams drafting and playing amazingly well. I watched a few games live via GGTV streams and really thought Kingsurf (Malaysia) had a big chance of taking home gold because of Yamateh's godly performance and Chuan's huge improvements from the past but they lost out to eventual champions sGty in a great game that lasted more than 70 minutes. The game was pretty close and Kingsurf looked to have won the game when Papaxiong stold the opponents relic while they were leading in kills and towers but the Chinese continued playing with great determination and eventually won the game.

After watching a few of the replays of the teams from China, I realized that the Chinese teams are actually very smart and it's no wonder that they took home the top 3 prizes. Their drafted well and stuck to the plan no matter what happened without losing confidence eventhough being down on kills early. Europeans may complain that the way the Chinese (or to some extent, Asians) played were purely based on farming and delaying the game till their DPS is buffed enough to win the game, but it's undeniable that it's the best and most effected way to win a game.

However, the Chinese took farming to a whole new level. It's normal to have 1 player being able to farm incredibly well in a team but having 3 players farming at the same time and all 3 of them are coming out with items at incredible speed is just incredible. The whole team is working as a whole, and everyone is playing their roles to perfection. In the Finals, there was actually fierce 5v5 battle happened in the middle lane and after every hero has spammed EVERY spell and ulti they have, nobody died. Now it may seem like nothing to most people but to us we see it as 10 very smart players in a very skillful and intelligent engagement.

I was disappointed at Kingsurf's lost because Yamateh really played very well through out the tournament but I can't deny that the Chinese teams deserved the top places.