I'm in School.

It's already the second day since school reopened. Here I am, at 1735 hrs, sitting in school and tapping away at a school computer.

Mr Chiu just asked me what day today was. I confirmed that it's Tuesday.

Tuesday. Already.

Sorry, SRB (School Reopening Blues) is still setting in on me.

I'm still in school at this time because of the 88th Anniversary Dinner rehearsals. I've already had my rehearsal just now so for now I'm just sitting in the Media Hub and wondering if I should go home yet.

The GO, apparently, has turned off the air-conditioning supply in the Media Hub. Poor us have to rely on a fan, apparently.

Mr Chiu asked me today about the National Interschool Blogging Competition. I've already registered and confirmed an account and a personal blog on Campus MoBlog, but the competition is for a group and I've currently managed to rope only Pheng Heong in so far. Hopefully I'll be able to get more people to join.

I've named the group the Ouroboros Circle, the "Circle" part courtesy of Pheng Heong. Thanx!

Please, I need more people to join...

Frankly, I'm actually still deliberating if I should join the competition or not =P

Eeps.

Hmm, 1740 hrs. I think I'd better go.

Wow, I took 5 minutes to write this short entry. I wonder how I'll do for a half-hour write-a-thon =]

Imperial March.

That's it, all. It's 2352 hrs, 26th of June, Sunday. The clock is ticking and eight minutes later the Period of Great Bliss (TM) ends.

School reopens tomorrow.

*hears Imperial March playing continuously in background*

Ok ok, enough of the dreading.

Well, the first thing I want to do in this entry is to first apologise to Zis and Zil for being such an ass on Saturday. I want to say sorry for being such a total nickass - sorry 'bout my pestering on the Chinese songlist! I seriously don't know what went wrong on Saturday with me - perhaps stress was setting in on me or I simply was being an ass.

And Zis - that day I freaked out when you said "Oi!". I guess you didn't mean it (or can remember it) - nonetheless if I was an ass on Saturday I really HAVE to say sorry.

Erm, next, sorry Nic! Didn't know you were almost alone at West Coast Park. I thought that Council had enough members to be there, but apparently most of us were in school anyway. I thought MAD was really low on member-count, so that's why I popped up in school instead. Sorry!

Phew, that was better. Getting all that out of my system. I've been feeling guilty since.

Ok, so school reopens tomorrow, and I'm really freaked out because I haven't gotten Kai Shuin to send me ANYTHING yet. I hope the project isn't due yet, and I seriously hope Kai Shuin won't murder me. Another apology to dish out! I seriously think I've outdone myself in terms of being an idiot and ignoring his message (yes, I did receive Kai Shuin's message about the Chinese project) is simply the worst I can do. I need to go to school to apologise and hope he forgives me.

Well, the stress is getting on me and I must be freaking out real bad. Only two more minutes left, and freedom flies away and works gets its steel and titanium shackles on me again.

So much for holidays. Bye, June, and welcome, school!

(Hope I'll see the holidays again soon. September calls!)

Oops!

Oh dear, my apologies to Clarissa and Leru. My observational skills are getting from bad to worse - I should've realised that the two of you are in 1/6 =]
And seriously - I'm still shocked that my blog got found at all =]
Ok, so anyway, it's already 0016hrs of the 21st of June, Tuesday, and I'm still tapping away at my computer. I have Maths tuition tomorrow morning and here I am wasting away precious time for my beauty sleep.
Well, I've been reading largely about crytography and I think it's all been very interesting. I still have to get my terms right (crytography/cryptology/cryptanalysis/etc.).
And I'm still trying to learn CangJie. Too bad my keyboard doesn't show CangJie characters.
I watched quite a lot of Alias episodes today. Around four I think. I've gone so mad about it.
*obsessed about Alias*
Erm, sorry if I'm typing very little today. I'm quite tired *sigh*

I am wondering.

I am wondering - how did Clare and Leru (I presume they are my juniors in council) find their way to my blog? I'm really wondering because I didn't distribute my URL to anyone. I may have written it somewhere, but I don't really think that's where they got the URL from.

Be careful with my URL, people. My blog bites, and when I say "bite", I mean it. You will get infected with boredom reading my blog and suffer from it. You will start see the words on the page swim in front of your very eyes and you might start to feel very VERY tired. Or the Mona Lisa on the page might start winking at you and making faces.

Beware.

Ok, I've done the psychological programming to keep people from distributing my blog URL.

I can almost imagine:
A: Hey, I can give you Edan's blog URL if you
B: Ok, but can I
A: I might consider, but you must spread his URL to other people.
B: Ok, I'll do it. But can I still
A: No, only if you
B: Hey!
A: What?
B: You -
*biff boff bash*

Ooh. o_O

Ok, enough of this hocus-pocus. On to the blog proper.

So anyway, I'm still in HK, but I'll be leaving two days later. *sigh*

I bought a lot of stuff. I'll talk about them later.

Still though, I haven't gotten any of the stuff on my wishlist. I really want the iPod mini, but I'm still three-digits away from what I need to get it. It'll take at least two months *sigh*

Yes, the second sigh in this blog entry.

I'm trying to get myself active again in fandoms, but apparently I can't stay interested long enough. Star Wars has been okay, and I've been looking around in the forums on TheForce.Net, but for som reason I wasn't able to access it yesterday. Then, I'm currently trying to write an Alias fanfic, and I even managed to get Jalyn to beta the first five pages (or, the only five pages) I managed to write. I'm a bit stuck, however, and I really want to continue writing. And then, I started participating in an activity on the Lord of the Rings Plaza (a paraphrase-a-paragraph-from-Tolkien's-writings sort of contest) but there hasn't seemed to be a reply from the contest organisers yet. I really hope to get a response soon.

And I haven't been doing anything ever since I made June my Learn Russian Month. I guess I'll have to change it to Learn Korean Month since I've been reading a lot more about Korean instead. Or maybe Huttese (yep, Star Wars ^_^).

I've also been trying to learn how to type Traditional Chinese using CangJie. It's not very easy because you have to know what writing strokes each character in CangJie represents. I guess there'll have to be some memory work involved here, don't you think?

I feel like getting back into Tarot work again. I might start an online Tarot journal soon, or even a discussion board for people to discuss about the Tarot. I might need to get a more portable deck though, maybe one that is palm-sized (literally). Those don't come cheap though, and I'm really worried about my pocket *sigh* My current Ryder-Waite deck comes across as being a little too big and bulky *sigh*

Ok ok, I've made four sighs already.

Another funny test!

I'm here to post the results of a test on finding your Star Wars twin. I think either Palpy or Chewie are my likely twins =]

Click to see my Star Wars Personality!!

Don't care.

Shit, Blogger fucked up and my last post didn't get published. Fuck blogger. I don't have the energy to repost what I wanted to post. I'll replace it some other day. In the meantime, fuck blogger.

The Day After the Media Camp

It's been a day since the Media Camp ended as I enter into the folds of the night of the 4th of June 2005. I'm listening to "What You Waiting For" by Gwen Stefani and I can hardly hear the whirring of the air-conditioner among the bass and vocals of the song...

My foot itches. It must be the moisture trapped between the toes. I must have forgotten to wipe it dry after showering. Probably during the Media Camp.

Sleep bites away at my eyes and clutches away at my joints. He sends wave after wave of sleep-sand into my eyes but I fight to keep myself awake. The music has stopped and all I hear now is the whirring of the air-conditioner and the fan.

It's time to continue blogging now. I write this as my mind dwells back to the three days of camp I had.

A sound emits from my computer and a message from Shaun flickers up on my screen.

Which leads me back to the three days of Media Camp, again.

I arrived at school on the 1st of June 2005. The morning sun didn't throw any tantrums or play any tricks and I felt pretty okay that morning. I stepped into the school building and went straight up to the third floor.

The AVA Room. Same place the camp was held last year.

I entered the room, the room cold with air-conditioning.

At this point, my memory fails me.

The rest of the camp flashes by in my pen-"sieve" of a memory - I remember meeting Zis, Ziep and Ztak and talking to them. I do recall meddling with Zis' and Ziep's laptop, tapping away at a Slavic conlang I did on the spot on Zis' laptop. Then I remember rushing off for Life Sciences Camp, which was so boring I wish I was back at Zis' laptop or sleeping. I then remember dinner in the camp, washing up during the camp, staying up during the first night till five in the morning, waking up at seven plus and then realising we had no time to do MAD Vibes, the morning exercise led by Justin (who, frankly, appeared very energetic that morning), the mission in progress that afternoon (Es' group did so many interviews - TWELVE in less than two hours - I am SO proud of my nü-er), the three-hour compiling session that night, the late nights again, me sleeping at three, me waking up at around seven to realise that I had missed the editing, me doing MAD Vibes (at LAST!) with Zil, the presentation of the articles done by the groups, and finally the closing - *sigh* - what an awful lot of events.

Yes, I slept only six hours in the total of two nights. I was supposed to have slept sixteen. Immediately when I went home from camp I washed - and the first impulse I had was to blog, surprisingly. I thought the Sandman had better things to do - i.e. make me sleep. Apparently he had other plans though, and after I blogged I made an attempt at designing a web layout - and the Sandman finally set his plans to work. I began to nod away at the computer and realised that I couldn't anymore.

So off to bed I went.

I slept for a total of sixteen hours.

Strangely enough, this afternoon I felt sleepy. *sigh* I guess I really need to sleep away the remaining three or four hours I owe.

It's already eleven though. I wonder how I'm going to pay off my sleep debt.

LCAMC (Lights! Camera! Action! Media Camp) 2005

I am shocked.

At myself.

I lasted three days with less than six hours of sleep in total.

Or five hours.

And when I reached home, first impulse after bathing wasn't to sleep.

It was to...

...blog.

Yes, I'm lame right?

Hey, blogging's cool 'k.

Oh no, I think I've been sticking around the Z-clan for a bit too long. I'm getting influenced by the likes of ZisZis and Ztak. *wiggles finger at them* Tsk tsk tsk.

Haha, ok, maybe I just miss my computer.

Wait, that couldn't be just it. I even have this impulse to...to...to...

...design a new layout.

NOO!!!!!!!!

I am shocked!

Dagh!

Ok ok, never mind about the post-camp activities first. The camp.

Standard stuff, bright Wednesday morning, reached school at around 0730 hrs, etc. etc. etc.

We had to do some last-minute preparations for the camp - churned out some things and managed to get the registration smoothly. Hope the participants from other schools didn't sense a thing. Please don't.

Then, after the usual opening address (proudly written by me! - though it's edited of course) and the opening declaration, the camp participants (NH MAD seniors aside) went off to Ngee Ann Polytechnic for workshops with their more experienced speakers to learn about the media. I had Life Sciences Camp from 1400 to 1800 though and I couldn't go *sigh*. In fact, every senior was involved in something and that morning, there were no seniors going to Ngee Ann Polytechnic at all.

Eeps.

Skip a few standard procedures each camp timetable would have (bunk allocation and so on) and we come to the planning session for the actual Mission Lights! Camera! Action!. MLCA is actually a project by the groups (made up of students from different schools) whereby each of them had to think of a topic related to teenage trends and do an article and video presentation based off questions, surveys, and interviews with people on the streets. There were two "feeding" spots - Heeren and Far East Plaza. A majority of the group went to Heeren (four groups in fact) and the rest went to Far East Plaza (two groups). As a "handler" (a term which me and ZisZis had so fandom-ly and easily labeled ourselves as - yep, it's Alias fandom) I picked and tagged along with Es' group. Their topic was on movie trends among teens and young adults. Es and Co. were a little reluctant at first to interview people - I didn't want them to take on a passive role though so out of despair I literally pushed Es towards a few girls to interview them.

Whoa, many of the girls HATED to be filmed. Low self-esteem? Bad complexion? Vampires? I don't even understand why. I guess it's the low self-esteem thing, since people who truly, deeply, and madly believe in themselves as NOT photogenic will NOT be willing to go on cam. Even those who are probably don't love themselves too much.

Sorry if I'm talking incoherently (quote Ziep). I am utterly crumbled with less than six hours of sleep in two days.

Darn, I'm beginning to complain 'bout the camp, ain't I?

No way, 'kay?

Argh, sinus. My nose is getting block'd again.

And I'm feeling sleepy already.

At 1635 hrs. *sighs and shakes head*