A Measure of Value

I've recently developed a sort of idea that tests a person's measure of value on personal items....
Basically, when you drop an item, any item whether it be a watch, a pen or a measly piece of paper. An item's personal value to you would be inversely proportional to the time you take to pick the item up.
Take this example, if i were to recently purchase a IPOD Photos 60gb and dropped in within weeks of purchase, i would immediatly scramble furiously to pick it up as it probably means alot to me. However, through the ages of wear and tear, as my Ipod gets worn down, scratched and probably outdated, when i drop it, i would not react as quickly as i did before.
This is similair to the when a piece of paper is dropped or some wrapping paper, i'd probably take weeks to pick it partially because i'm lazy and because it aint work squat to me. Basically this theory works with a variety of items ranging from clothes, jewlerry, homeworks, phones and gadjets but are exclusive of food items, smelly socks and underwear.
Of course this probably wouldn't work on the extreme compulsive individuals or the extremely couch potato-ed but would probably apply to many people over the world.

Its funny how this all arised when i dropped my somewhat old glasses in the shower and only bothered to pick it up after i've finished when i would rush to retireve fallen spectacles when i first got them. =)

anywayz.... thanks to GIn Jhen for being a gr8t gr8t host during my stay at meleka and for all the FOOOOD......cuda fed a whole tribe of orphans or soemthing. Hhehe thanks thanks.... i hope to welcome you to brunei!

and... on another note.... FINALS ARE COMINGGG.... praying that all goes well and that chem finals arent evil like physics.

on a final totally unrelated note.... my penis nickname accoridng to www.bloglists.com is 100% All-Beef Thermometer..........
thats nice....

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Exclamation_popcorn reflected on life at 1:55 AM

Before , the longest word to me was Supercalafragilisticexpaladacious
Now, after my chem class the longest word to me is

1,2,3-trimethyl,4,6-diethyl,p-isopropyl,n-propanolcyclohexaldehyde

and

monoaquatrichloro(iii)dicyanideferrate(ii)tetrapotassiumhyrdo sulfate ion.


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Exclamation_popcorn reflected on life at 2:04 AM

Lists of things to do over the holiday that i probably won't end up doing but i might as well try..

1. Get John Mayer's Continuum Album
2. Download a whole lotta stuff from U-Torrent
-Survivor Seasons
-Real World/Road Trip
-Possibly Roswell, Scrubs, Angel
-X-men
3. Update Your Music Library with complete ID3 tags because your that jobless.
4. Meet up with Sara, April, Al, Daniel, Von, Jun, Rally and others and have a
really good time
5. Get High...through drinking, smoking, drugs... your choice
6. University Applications!!! University of Wisconsin, Madison and Ohio State
University! C'mon, you know you wanna accept me.
7. Rearrange and sort that big box of memories you got over in Brunei.... Possibly
make a scrapbook if you ever get the chance
8. Gym with April and Daniel? Get Fitter? Learn More Yoga?
9. Swim at least 2-3 times a week, jog 2-3 times a week.... you gotta get back that
stamina man.
10. Squash with Von and Al and kick their ass (hopefully ...x.x)
11. Tennis with Ade and Fern and Von if she doesnt fall asleep again
12. Stay in touch with the Inti Peeps.... tell them how much they miss Maxim =P
13. Eat sushi with parents... its become like a holiday tradition. Haha
14. Plan for year-end Vietnam trip
15. Meet up with Hui Jia, Ee wei, Ting Yao and Ric when i'm back at JB
16. TOEFL!!! Prepare and take it.
17. Pool party at my house? Better Invite people who don't hate each other......
18. Cook! Learn to make one kick-ass pasta, macoroni and cheese and salad.
19. Watch all those movies you wanted to watch.
20. Get that darned mofo printer fixed!
21. Buy the following stuff
- Garnier Facial Wash
- Decent Earphones
- DVDs
- Shampoo
-Stapler
-Anything else i can think of
22. Design cover for Phone
23. Eat at Fratinis! You know you love 'Pollo Al Fungi' =)
24. Put a proper tagboard on the site.
25. Neverwinter Nights:Hordes of Underdark... finish it?
26. Do that thing... you know what i'm talking about ;)
27. Study on PhI101
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Exclamation_popcorn reflected on life at 1:21 AM

I'm sorry am i yapping again?

Perhaps its the midnight boredom... or the fact that everyone has choosen to abandon me in a lonesome town or maybe the fact that i'm being all nostalgic and blog-driven....but this is the third post in an hour.

Theres so many imperfect little things i want to fix in this somewhat blessed/shitty life but can't pull myself to do them because 1. i'm a natural procrasinator and 2. i'm a big purple chicken.
There are people i've pissed off that i havent made amends with, people i havent told to screw off, old friends i havent patched things up or reconciled with, new friends i havent bothered to know better, family members i havent taken the time to concern over, people i havent told the truth to and people i havent got myself involved with. So many many things so where do i start?
As much as i would love to crawl back under my safety blanket of blogging about things that suck, thigns that get me mad and things that get me depressed........... its about time to man up to everything.
Because some day.... i would sure love for that simple life again.

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Exclamation_popcorn reflected on life at 1:05 AM

Coffeemanic

On a totally seprately non related note...

"You don't have to pretend to be my friend,
i know who are true and whose gonna be there when it all ends'
-To plenty of people

andddd

TO Gin Jhen: Many thanks for being my very captive audience of one. Eventhough its pretty pathetic, i rather you than thousands of unknown people (however hot) reading my blog. So mighty thanks to ya and remember my chicken rice ball =)

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Exclamation_popcorn reflected on life at 12:55 AM

Sensitive is a Sensitive Word

Among the world's cliche includes the fact that everyone thinks girls are more sensitive than guys. MYth, myth, complete myth, cuz when it comes to certain things, your gonna strike a guy's sensitivity like a peircing arrow through those graphic hearts. Basically, IMO, 3 things always strikes a guy's sensitivity the most out of everything else

1.Girlfriends, Spouses and significant others
oh haba, i wud never tell a guy, even my best best super best best that his girlfriend looks like the creature from the black lagoon. That is just an uncool thing to do and totally unecessary, obviously he sees some beauty in his gf that you dont but tell him the unecessary and expect to get a big punch/slap/groin kick cuz its gonna hurt his feelings... (as well as the girl's most liekly)
And possibly, he's gonna start looking more detaily into all those couple photos he took before. =P

2. Clothes
No, no, no,no noooo please don't tell a guy his outfit looks bad, makes him look fat, looks stupid..... please please cuz its gonna damage a guy's self-clothing esteem. Very often, a guy is told a shirt makes him look wider and poof, he looks at the mirror for 10 minutes than decides not to wear it ever again... even if its his fav shirt. Even i do this sometimes because sometimes its jsut ncie to wear nice clothes that makes you stand out from the crowd.

3. Physical Appearance
Basically, your gonna be poking a guys sensitivity when you mention the words: 'fat', 'irregular', 'tyre', 'tummy',, 'short', ' 'ball-shaped' etc.
Maybe its just me but some guys are really shallow wanting geat hair, physique, 6-pac ... you know the stuff....

Turth is at times overrated, cuz a white lie goes a lnog way in a friendship. And for me, when it comes to these three things, my true friends are the ones who lie abt it (or not necessarily lie, but sort of not mention it, or just nod in silence ;) )... even if i seriously looked bad. =)
So girls, next time a guy wears pocket protectors, has a sharon osbourne girlfriend and looks like the spare trye storage of a Michellin workshop... have a heart.... tell him he looks fine because sometimes, guys just need to be lied to .

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Exclamation_popcorn reflected on life at 11:22 PM

张哲一

I Thought it was interesting to note, eventhough i only recently realised, that my choosen name literrally means philosophical one. Hmmmm fate at work again??? =) |

Exclamation_popcorn reflected on life at 12:59 PM

Les gens que regarder, mais non voire pas

Basically in broken french, it means the man who looks but does not see.
Man is blind. Blind that he fails to see the real world that lays before him.
The pain, the suffering, the joy, the wonders... all overlooked.
We fail to see the beginning of the end ... the start of all that is going to end. We fail to see the suffering of the millions, and with suffering we also fail to withness the compassion that follows.
We fail to see the miracles of life, the miracles of birth and the miracles of friendship.
Instead we are blinded.... blinded by the illuminating glaze of all things wrong and unimportant in life. Things that have such temtping shine, but yet presents nothing useful in its interior.
Perhaps one day, when man retrieves his glasses to cure his shortsightedness... he will see his own undoing...
so everyone, cast on your glasses! andbehold the world that spreads from the horizons.... and see that life is what it is...and nothing more

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Exclamation_popcorn reflected on life at 1:28 PM

Dilbert

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Exclamation_popcorn reflected on life at 6:25 PM

Truths

Those looks, those whispers, those quiet remarks..... i understand them all, i recognize them and i know whats going on. I'm not stupid or oblivious that i fail to detect the signals alot of people have been making about me(though not always in front of me). Its so obvious yet they try to conceil them but i know. I always know but its always better never to question and denounce but rather keep things inhibited.... because conflict always arises from the truth. Yet for a while i've been starring at the truth, wondering who is real and who is fake.... who truly has capacity for friendship and who is simply miraging themselves as regular companions. Even so, Turth and emotional displays are never pecieved well.... therefore the ones who socialize and applease the most people are those who conceal their true thoughts and emotions so that everyone gets appleased. But the lingering prblems still remain...those are the people who have a shining layer of non-problems and simple life but are turly yearning for a better existance.
When life bites you, it bites hard

On a brighter note..... i got 50/50 for my bio test 2 =) |

Exclamation_popcorn reflected on life at 12:58 AM

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solagome tiligimes iligi thiligink iligim alage relegeliligy balagad frilegend....

iligisiligit trulugue?............. |

Exclamation_popcorn reflected on life at 9:37 PM

hmmm

hmmmmmmmmmmmm................

guess someones been written out alredy........... |

Exclamation_popcorn reflected on life at 9:12 PM

Cameroon Trip Oct 2006

Here are the pics.....


On the bus with isabelle


Mei Kin and a very sleepy Alex


scenery view of the place we stayed


The meal that costed $16..............X.X


Group photos!


This is what we were in Cameroon for..... and I bought alot! spent $50 on strawberry snacks and chcolates.


Night of drinking??? 0=)


coincidence? Spiderman, Batman and Pink Ranger all at Cameroon


Strawberry farm


Lunch at Cameroon


ANd more photos fro Halloween Night recently


Me and Seleqne


Me and Mei Xin


Playstation and me hehhehe


Me, Alex, Yon SOon, Josephine (dressed as uneffective pornstar......???)


Me and brokeback Lut.....^^


Me and Jun Yi

hehe

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Exclamation_popcorn reflected on life at 10:40 AM

A Mood-swinging Male's Rantings...

This is written yesterday because the good-for-nothing inti connection was not working yet again

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I was thinking this the other day, when I was feeling slightly down (cuz I’m been a tad moody these few days…. Male PMS I guess…..). Basically, I was orchestrating the thought that Everyone might think that by working hard we can achieve anything but this is rarely the case or more of a bittersweet dream. Working hard brings you squat, because life is full of bias outcomes that favors people with more money, better looks and people who are more intimidating or street-wise. People rarely achieve their ultimate goal just by working their ass off for the one thing they desire, I always wanted to play professional tennis but if I play extremely hard does it mean I’m gonna make it? Nope, fat chance because there are people who dun believe in your capabilities and to hell with them. But yet it does nothing to help you achieve any of your unrealistic dreams that will never be fulfilled even to the day you cease and decease. Life is cruel so so cruel and unfair but I guess its all about dealing with it rite?
Take Jeremy bloom, who is so talented, and so determined to play in two sports professionally at once that he spends limitless hours in the gym or on the training ground, but ultimately, he never got his opportunity as some dumb football association denied him sponsorship if he continued skiing professionally. In the end? He could also perform one sport at a time, severely cutting his potential for supersport stardom.
Well I guess it pays to try and I guess SOME people do get what the deserve in the end…. Maybe I’m being a tad pessimistic but all I’m basically trying to say is that sometimes we have to be realistic, because not all ours lives will live our the fairytale endings they should. Fairytales belong to those who cling on to a better future but are too blind to realize theat reality is severely disappointing that it sometimes questions our motives to live in this world.


On a different Note (pms I tell ya)……….. I was watching A Walk To Remember again…. And just wanted to take a quote from that movie that you may very well plagiarize onto your sloppy love letters…. So desperate male love-fools…. Enjoy and amaze ur girlfriends/boyfriends with this.

"Love is always Patient and Kind.
It is never Jealous,.
Love is never boastful or conceited.
It is never rude or selfish.
It does not take Offense and is not resentful"
-Jamie

its also very similair to this passage from the bible.....

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails
(1 Corinthians 13:4-8a, NIV).


-- Truly Pms-ed--

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Exclamation_popcorn reflected on life at 1:05 PM

Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening By Robert Frost

I might not be very poetic or must of a poem-phile but there is one poem that i do remember is the symbolic poetry by Robert Frost..... it might not be as flowery as others and mite not be so mind-numbingly confuisng with all the metaphors and double meanings that it leaves the reader puzzled and catatonic.

THis poem is simple and clear but yet it can be intepreted different by different people. To me, its basically about escape from the realities of the world which the woods refer. Since its not somewhere hes been before indicated by the horse who 'thinks its queer' its shows that it is something unfamilair or not in his usual routine.............
For me, the woods represents escape from our daily lives for simpler things, it could possibly represent escaping to a carefree world... which can be so 'lovely, dark and deep'.
But in the end, he resists temptation for he 'has promises to keep' and miles to go before he sleeps (basically death)
great poem

Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village, though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it's queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.

He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there's some mistake.
The only other sound's the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

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Exclamation_popcorn reflected on life at 10:39 PM

You Wasted Life, Why Wouldn't You Waste the Afterlife

Just got bak fro Cameroon whichw as fun overall had good times and giving props to all those that made it a fun weekend. =)

Anywayz, have been enduging myself in classic Modest Mouse which is really my favorite Indie band. This song 'Ocean Breathes Salty' really a strong song with powerful messeges about life, death, religion and possibly a lvoed one. Theres symbolism everywhere you look so quick! go downlaod it!

Your body may be gone, I’m gonna carry you in.
In my head, in my heart, in my soul.
And maybe we’ll get lucky and we’ll both live again.
Well I don’t know. I don’t know.
I don’t know. Don’t think so.
Well that is that and this is this.
You tell me what you want and I’ll tell you what you get.
You get away from me. You get away form me.
Collected my belongings and I left the jail.
Well thanks for the time, I needed to think a spell.
I don’t think a while. I had to think a while.
The ocean breathes salty, wont you carry it in?
In you head, in your mouth, in your soul.
And maybe we’ll get lucky and we’ll both grow old.
Well I don’t know. I don’t know.
I don’t know. I hope so.
Well that is that and this is this.
You tell me what you want and I’ll tell you want you get.
You get away from me. You get away from me.
Collected my belongings and I left the jail.
Well thanks for the time, I needed to think a spell.
I had to think awhile. I had to think awhile.
Well that is this and this is this.
Will you tell me what you saw
and I’ll tell you what you missed,
when the ocean met the sky
You missed when time and life shook hands and said goodbye.
[You missed] When the earth folded in on itself.
[You missed] And said “Good luck,
for your sake I hope heaven and hell
[You missed] are really there, but I wouldn’t hold my breath.”
[You missed] You wasted life, why wouldn’t you waste death?
[You missed] You wasted life, when wouldn’t you waste death?
The ocean breathes salty, wont you carry it in?
In your head, in your mouth, in your soul.
The more we move ahead the more we’re stuck in rewind.
We’ll I don’t mind. I don’t mind. How the hell could I mind?
Well that is that and this is this.
You tell me what you want and I’ll tell you what you get.
You get away from me. You get away from me.
Well that is that and this is this.
Will you tell me what you saw
and I’ll tell you what you missed,
when the ocean met the sky.
You wasted life, why wouldn’t you waste the afterlife?

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Exclamation_popcorn reflected on life at 12:35 AM

Peculiar Postings

Revengful? Spiteful? Have a grudge agaisnt something....
do what this man did!
Click here

adda show them!

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Exclamation_popcorn reflected on life at 2:19 AM

"The Brave May Not Live Long, But The Cautious Do Not Live At All"

This is somewhat true but very relatable with what we do everyday in our lives. Living is never simple....instead its often a series of complicated yet coincidental events that somehow intertwin with events of the other 6 billion people in the world. But in cases, to truly live is to be brave and couragoues. Now i'm not asking you to go whip lions into puppy dog positions but rather i'm saying take risks in everything you do.... even the small things like choosing which shot at the pool table or what food your going to have for branch. To really live is to do things you;ve never been comfortable doing before and to face challenges head on rather than cowering away behind the staircase. People who 'play it safe'
will never truly understand the excitment and thrill you get from living on the wild side of the tracks without ever going overboard.

PErsonally i'm never going to be that guy who wakes up with the same daily routine of black coffee and paper desk work. That will never be the life i desire and i hope others don't end up with monotonous robotic lives becuz that isnt living. Living takes a little guts.....afterall, bravery is always awarded with medals......

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Exclamation_popcorn reflected on life at 2:34 AM

Easy as ABC

Steps to make your problems go away
1. Go to a sports store and obtain a baseball bat. $14.99
2. Bash whatever causing the problem with quick repetative actions. You get the pwoer from your wrists.
3. Clean the blood/sticky goo/vomit witha towel
4. Repeat if problems persist. Upgrade to a spiked club if necessary.

Another Advice from Docotor Phillop. T. Z. |

Exclamation_popcorn reflected on life at 1:11 AM

Charra, Hoorah, whooopeee do =

after one loooooooong month of waiting, i fianlly got back my beloved and dearly misssed laptop from the dreaded clutches of the Hp factory. But now theres no more annoying white line on the comptuer screen but a consistent solid white monitor thats shoots radiation that eventually turns your eyes to mush.

However, as excited as i was to finnally get to use the laptops entertaining and efficient features.... i found that there was not that much to do anywayz..... Sorta disappointing in the end since i was expecting to be engrossed in computer mumbo jambo for the next week but instead i've already run out of things for the lone processor to process. Sorta those raise your hopes up and dash them quite explicitly situations.... but hey.... enough complains.... at least now i dun have to sutdy rite?

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Ohoh.............

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Exclamation_popcorn reflected on life at 12:53 AM