Prerogative

So here it is. I have highlighted Caleb's nickname so as to avoid confusion between mine and his, I should colour each of our names, but nah, I'm too lazy and I have other work to do tonight.

TRYNAMIC TRIO says:
doo dee doo

jianwei says:
are u guys goin to do this again?

TRYNAMIC TRIO says:
no
just to sit together in a circle and cry together

jianwei says:
what ever for my friends
why cry at such times

TRYNAMIC TRIO says:
because it is a sign of sadness

TRYNAMIC TRIO says:
o shern where for art thou shern

jianwei says:
be still my heart

TRYNAMIC TRIO says:
uhhhh
totally wrong saying

jianwei says:
haha
u guys sounding all shakesperean

TRYNAMIC TRIO says:
?

TRYNAMIC TRIO says:
to shern or not to shern

jianwei says:
that is the question

TRYNAMIC TRIO says:
doooooooo

TRYNAMIC TRIO says:
shern it baby

jianwei says:
lol
oki lemme c

TRYNAMIC TRIO says:
like i told him....
we're all gonna look at the same moon

TRYNAMIC TRIO says:
but 12 hours apart
coz if u were looking at the moon and asking him to do the same
he would turn blind

jianwei says:
lame

TRYNAMIC TRIO says:
u can still see the moon in the morning sometimes
when the sky is still purple

TRYNAMIC TRIO says:
i know

jianwei says:
against the azure blue radiance of the say
day*
or the dark velvet sky...forms a deluge of nothingness
like the void left by shern

TRYNAMIC TRIO says:
the sky is hardly nothingness
look at it for the peace... the peace of something so intangible yet so existential

jianwei says:
but the dark..oh no..the dark night

TRYNAMIC TRIO says:
nic go post this convo in ur blog

TRYNAMIC TRIO says:
hahah

jianwei says:
lol..i cant..too many big words

TRYNAMIC TRIO says:
fear of the dark, and ultimately fear of the unknown... is the penultimate weakness of humans
overcome it to inch further to the discovery of inner peace

TRYNAMIC TRIO says:
what is the ultimate?
spiders

jianwei says:
omg..random philosophy

TRYNAMIC TRIO says:
the prime disability of humans? that is up to each individual self

jianwei says:
it cloaks and devours the brilliance of light

TRYNAMIC TRIO says:
generalisation will not help in that area

jianwei says:
stealth and mysterious beyond the comprehension of the simplicity of the human mind

TRYNAMIC TRIO says:
to err is human, to stray into the unknown is divine

jianwei says:
it watches with deviant intent..scouring for the victim
to be clasped into it never ending vortex
this is getting complicated

TRYNAMIC TRIO says:
indeed

jianwei says:
leb..add in some crap too

TRYNAMIC TRIO says:
its hardly crap
hahah

TRYNAMIC TRIO says:
to think, is to disrupt
hence, dont think

TRYNAMIC TRIO says:
instinct is the true instrument of logi
logic*

jianwei says:
the intrinsic part of every man is to err
yet if ignorance is bliss, to err is nothing

TRYNAMIC TRIO says:
hahahah

jianwei says:
means man is nothing

TRYNAMIC TRIO says:
therefore?

jianwei says:
our existence no matter how much we work for it..is for nothing
i sound like kw

TRYNAMIC TRIO says:
should we give up then?
should we throw everything aside and jump off the cliff (or 10-storey building, whichever is nearer)?

jianwei says:
how high is the building?
have u ever imagine falling from startling heights..and wake up ..and it is just a dream?
or have u not considered that it has actually happen..and that u're living a dream

TRYNAMIC TRIO says:
that has like been explored too much edi this generation.... stupid Matrix, commercialising philosophy

jianwei says:
dang
wei.this talk ought to be posted la
hahaha

TRYNAMIC TRIO says:
should we?
consider the opportunity costs

TRYNAMIC TRIO says:
do it do it

jianwei says:
lol...i feel embarassed

TRYNAMIC TRIO says:
i can post
but nick's blog reaches a wider audience

jianwei says:
hmmm>>it does?

TRYNAMIC TRIO says:
obviously
comparing tagboards
i actually told only 1 person i had a blog
notice how narrow my audience is

jianwei says:
comparing tag board?

TRYNAMIC TRIO says:
i didnt put it in my msn nick

jianwei says:
u shud
c

TRYNAMIC TRIO says:
whatever for
im happy with the 1 person i told
it has spread about as far as i wanted it to

jianwei says:
a blog is a means of publicly displayin ur life
a commercialised effort made by a single person to get attention

TRYNAMIC TRIO says:
and i am... except my public is more like private hahaha

TRYNAMIC TRIO says:
touteimou

jianwei says:
i brb
wanna take a batrh
bath
and i need to study

jianwei has left the conversation.

Teehee.

Trynamic Indeed

There were three friends
Discussing life.
One said:
"Can we live together
and know nothing of it?
Work together
and produce nothing?
Can people fly around in space
and still forget to exist
World without end?"

The three friends looked at each other
and burst out laughing.
They had no explanation.
Thus they were better friends than before.

Nostos

How are you man? How's Singapore?

It's fine, really.

Every person who could possibly be reading this post is probably already aware of this fact: I went back to Malaysia for the weekend. Every person I met over that weekend, quite predictably, asked me the question above. Well, I can't say that I'm complaining over the lack of bad manners within my social circle, but hey... it really is fine. You're asking out of common courtesy (perhaps a tinge of concern), but I'm not answering out of courtesy, I'm answering it the way it actually is. Things weren't feeling so good perhaps for a few moments within the first week or so, but from then on, it's seriously turned real fine. Met some nice people who I could hang out and have a drink with, without having awkward pauses in the conversation which, to be frank, really feel weird sometimes. Yes, yes, first criteria in meeting people: no Awkward Pauses™. In fact, let's all pause and wiki up awkward pauses now:

"How heavy does a polar bear weigh?"
"How much?"
"Heavy enough to break the ice."

Anyway, I didn't technically just go back for the weekend, I stayed until Tuesday (but you probably already knew that). Since my A-levels results were just out last week, there was an award ceremony on Monday and I went for that (another very obvious fact). I'd like to use this space here to thank all the people who clapped for me as I went on the stage until Ms. Jeganathan (sic) herself commented on the hearty applause. Of course, the cheer for Jian Wei after me was much louder, and definitely more weight was added by it being announced that he's going to Cambridge. I had to force him to write Cambridge on the slip which was to be given to the MC; don't shy away from declaring your to-be-university anywhere and anytime man.

Other highlights of my trip back home: Crab dinner at Kepong, home-cooked food after 2.5 weeks, two visits to Wong Kok, salmon sashimi salad at Rakuzen, watching a Jay Chou romance movie with just Jun Sheng, awesome mamak/breakfast yumcha session before leaving.

Okay fine, main highlight of trip back home: Meeting friends and family again.


Cheers.

Blue, Black, and Red

Today is the Lion City's national day, and I spent the whole day lazing around in my room. A well-deserved rest, actually, as the past week has been really fantabulously tiring. When I received the academic calendar for NUS a month earlier, I was quite surprised to see an entire week of orientation. I had guessed that it was to initiate the freshmen into a new system and into studying in the university. Boy, was I wrong.

Spent Saturday awkwardly trying to join in with my engineering orientation group's chats about anything singaporean, while rushing around the faculty building playing continuous icebreakers and group games including but not limited to charades, treasure hunts, and drinking Really Disgusting Stuff™. Result of the day: bruises on my legs thanks to enthusiastic slaps by group members.

Spent Monday awkwardly trying to join in with my engineering orientation group's chats about anything singaporean, while rushing around a big running track, soccer field, and two tennis courts playing continuous icebreakers and group games including but not limited to 15 people tied to each other and dragging themselves across the floor using just their hands in a poor poor imitation of the handphone classic favourite game Snake. Also, walking around blindfolded with a set-up literally blind date, while getting flour water and oreos being thrown at self. Result of the day: realising that sometimes blind dates make you wish you were blind and couldn't see her. Cough.

Spent Wednesday awkwardly trying to explain things during my engineering orientation group's chats about anything malaysian, while rushing around a beautiful beach on Sentosa playing continuous icebreakers and group games including but not limited to carrying seawater in the mouth, taking off pants and dancing in the sea, and playing dodgeball with fruits. Also, playing word and mind games like "How many sheep jumped over the wall?" while eating icecream and thinking about how singaporeans seem to have too much time on their hands to invent such lame word games and why the heck didn't we play this back in malaysia. Result of the day: Sunburnt.

Hm, spent Tuesday awkwardly trying to explain about why I was late, while rushing around the city area wearing a pink shirt, asking for donations for charity from aunties, uncles, white, black, and colourless men. Also, was real glad I didn't follow the other group members who stayed over at the faculty building the night before and had 5 minutes of sleep each. Result of the day: People hate me as much as they love their money.

Singapore has bad food.

Singapore has nice sights.

Sidenote: Congratulations everybody! 0601PE1 turned out to be even more gay than the transvestite I met on the street.

Durian

Ever wonder what it feels like to explore new places alone and not have any companion/s beside you to share snide comments with when some aesthetic-deprived face with a miniskirt walks by?

...

Just ask me, and I'll tell you.

Anyway, managed to check-in without problem on tuesday afternoon into my new room (hiding-hole for the rest of the year). When I stepped into the room, boy did I suddenly feel the loss of the 3 dimensions... Not that I'm that big of a person or that I need more space, but probably I just need time to adjust sleeping and living in such a small compartment. It was quite filthy as well, but my mum took care of that. Now I sleep to the smells of Dettol.

So there I was, the next morning, got up all early and ready to start on a brand new adventure. Enthusiasm was boundless as i roamed around the block of apartments that I now have to call home. However, as soon as I found and entered the canteen, and took a look at the bread and bihun on sale.... I decided that I had about an appetite of a shrunken tortoise, and proceeded to head back to my room to munch on biscuits. Guess being alone affects more than your mental health. Damn nerves.

Well, parents met up with me during my free time yesterday and today, and I managed to get a look around Singapore. Went to some Buddhist temple. Went to some Esplanade thingy. Had some Häagen-Dazs ice-cream. Both places were quite beautiful really, something I never expected from a country famed for being, I dunno, just "full of rat races". At any rate, the whole island seems to be screaming for more land. The lack of space seems to pop-up in the most obvious things, like the masses of high-rise flats situated around the city, to the less obvious things, like people always parking their cars until the wheels hit the curb because the lots are small (and even if the lots are big, they do it due to force of habit).

At any rate, wished I had a camera with me for the past few days. Well, I did actually, but I forgot to bring the transfer cable so I can't post photos or even save them in this computer. I took some pics with my mum's camera phone, but I don't have the cable for that either, and I'm just too tired now to fiddle with bluetooth.

Orientation sucked.

It had its interesting bits, sure, but overall, it felt too much like a redundant marketing campaign delivered to the wrong audience. Hopefully it gets better next week.

Walking amidst throngs of people all having fun and laughing and talking, it's not easy. I keep seeing half-shadows of people I know when I look at the crowd, but I know theres nobody I know here. Even the few people I met and talked with, seemed to be reminiscent of my associates in the past. A guy who looks like Ting Feng. A dude who reminds me of Chiam. It's all really weird saddening stuff. And studies haven't even started yet.

Tsk.


EDIT: If anyone's interested to know, TFK and Chiam were the first few people I met from my A-Levels class in Taylor's. The correct order would be, if memory serves correctly, Chiam then Yuva during orientation day, TFK and Nicole during the first class. And then Choe during the next class. After this, it all gets a little bit fuzzy, sorta like a television set with its aerial connection pulled out. Aardvarks are cool.