Taken from my Livejournal sekret blog to confirm that I can be too funny (to myself):

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I have a panel in my head much like the UN or the senate... or the board of executives.

They have arguments over such executive decisions as 'Pee now or pee later?' and 'Cake?'

Well for a few weeks now This argument has been discussed copious amounts of times. It's at the top of the agenda pile and is summarised as 'To exercise?'

The real answer is 'Yes,' but obviously the motion is bombarded by 'but's and if making excuses to not exercise was an Olympic sport it would be a huge irony and I would've won the gold medal... thrice... on the same day.

My biggest excuse is that the stationary bicycle is the devil and I'd rather spend some money on a treadmill, a top of the line one.

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Things I have learnt about myself (but never managed to compile):
- I HATE wet toilets and bathrooms.

Things I have to do today:
- Go open savings account in bank and transfer money to tunemoney.
- Read book (will start soon)
- Package chocolates to give to grandmum and aunts for taste test (forgot)
- Go to grandmums house with materials for Spaydrotherapy Machine (ended up just going for dinner)
- Do Urgent Evoke task 2, or at least think about it very carefully. (Finished all the quests instead)

SG-2000 Progress Report: Week 7

Week 7 (30MARCH2010):

• Che' Lang and Long Lin, my aunts, mentioned that my face has less acne and I look like I've lost a bit of weight
• Realised that the fat deposits on my ribcage seems slightly decreased
• Back pain returns but on the other side, right, this time.
• Back pain on left side appears sporadically
• No lethargy yet as PMS symptom

No vids

Hazelnut Truffles,

... DONE!

And they taste GOOOOOOORGEOUUUUSSSSSSSSSSSS... OMG WIN!

(If you have more than one you'll die from a chocolate overdose, sumpah kodok)
(also, they have gotten the nickname Taik Kambing from me because they look like taik kambing)

Next, send email to Jules (actually send her a text) and read the Tom Holt book. Stop being on the computer.
Oh, yeah, and I picked Scarpetta by Patricia Cornwell for my next reading endeavour.

Things to do during holiday:
- Make chocolate truffles
- Finish Tom Holt book
- Start another book -- Scarpetta
- Make chilli con carne again and tacos!
- make bread and butter pudding for grandmum
- Design oasis poolside for secret project 1.

So time is occupied in the most awesome ways?
Yes.

Playing 'Urgent Evoke' as a method to exercise my thinking outside the box.
It's basically an online community gaming thingy which asks you how to save the world.
The year is 2019 and the world is going to hell in a giftbasket and it's your duty to stop it by coming up with innovative ideas to solve world problems like famine, water shortages and disease.

Here's my first entry as proof that I've learnt something, it's called 'Think Big.":

Think creatively: start big, use constraints as a filter and find the simplest solutions.

- Paul Polak via Nextbillion

I had always been awestruck by how some people can manage to come up with the most supreme idea and produce it in such a way that it's cost effective and just plain works. My ideas have been, by far, off the wall and nigh unattainable because it just has too many real world constraints.

Naysayers tend to get the better of me thus preventing a potentially good idea from flourishing and reaching its intended audience. This is mainly because I forget that to think big is just a one of the key components out of a two part recipe. Filter, as Paul Polak so put, comes after the infinite magnitude of the idea. Filtering takes away the unnecessary bits, eliminating redundancies and what you're left with is the essence of the idea and a base platform to rebuild with the constraints in mind.

Cost, distribution, public awareness, public acceptance. These are some of the constraints that are feasible. We're not doing magic. We're making the world the eventual Utopia of sorts. So think big!

So yeah, here I be, waiting for my team-members to CC to me a copy of the research findings so I can finally finish the stupid report because my email hasn't received it... at all! I don't understand... :(

Edit: I sent her my part because I need to go to sleep -- I lied. I should go to sleep. I have to be up at 7AM. But. I just don't want to yet.

Earth hour and my laptop is still on because I'm running Maxwell renderer and it'll take approximately two days before the render stops being grainy. I also have the serious munchies.

But that's not the point of this post. The point of this post is to tell you, the general public, that my birthday is upon us. Yes, it has been a year since the last food-fest. So, food contents for that day is now open for discussion. "No presents, only money," will be the theme of the day since you're all just pretty much sharing a giant birthday present, i.e.: HTC Touch Pro 2, The thing I have on one of my pages of the "WANT!" book. Yes, the want book is finally working.

On a different note, I have to reciprocate Jose's gifts to me from Spain but I really don't know what to send there. Alls I know is that he is a techie who travels. Surely there must be something that he wants or needs from dear old Malaysia...

The week-long holiday is in and I have me some plans to keep me occupied and not going insane. Oh, what did I get up to for that 6-month break between my O's and my A's?? Oh, yeah... Runescape. Silence, you. I'll attempt a recipe for disaster chocolate truffles coated in hazelnut and if I'm buggered enough, will be double dipped in dark chocolate for the hard outer shell (Also only if I can find the appropriate dipping chocolate because obviously I'm not tempering it myself, takde chocolate thermometer).

For a nigh 23 year old, I still don't have a bank account so I'll be opening one, finally, this Monday morning. Wish me speed because banks are as drawly as dinners with my mother's parents -- until they start blaming each other about something which is pretty funny.

Back on course though, my suggestion for birthday nomnoms, not all will be featured on that day... Ni, you guys pilih je yang mana nak:
Roast something - chicken? beef? lamb? celebrity or person of power?
Mash potatoes
Antipasto - I haven't quite figured out which yet but it's all vege based.
Nasi goreng
Ayam goreng bibik style
Banoffee Pie
Cheesecake
Tiramisu

Can't think of anything else... cheerio, then.

You wanna know how much I love presents?
I can't tell you because it's unmeasurable.
XD

Jose, a CSser from Spain, sent me a package from Spain -- I assume a week after he went to see Soziedad Alkoholika -- and I just got it now...
SURPRISE!

A red S.A. T-shurt, S.A's album, The Eyes' album, DVD cerita Spanish comedy (according to IMDB) and dua cetak rompak dvds full of moozak!

Awesome benar!

Now then, I'm still waiting for a miracle LoG bunch of tickets. hahahaha...
Universe, how soon can I have like 5 VIP-Meet'n'Greet LoG tickets?

Still bummed about not being able to go to Lamb of God in S'pore on the 15th of April... mehhhh...

So, if anyone wants to babysit a wheelchair bound metalhead and has a free ticket... NAK?

Haaaanyway,

Am in class working... can't say anything, really.

Lecturer LOVED my Cafe idea... I am all happy smiley all around. What's left is report editing and 3DS Max bathroom. Oh malasens.

Besides, I'm pretty sure my darling groupmates aren't finished writing the paper yet. Don't expect Rome to be built in a day and all...

That said, I do quick work of a lot of things.

Add on:
- Most of the time I want so hard to have had a better teacher for art because artists like KidNotorious makes me jealous.
- The rest of the time I would like me to stop wasting time on the interfart and read or work on my drawings cos they suck shit and I have a tonne of books to get through before I kickings ze bukkitz.

SG-2000 Progress Report: Week 6

Week 6 (23MARCH2010)

• Back discomfort returns
• Resume swimming week next week as well as physiotherapy and occupational therapy at University Hospital

Haven't done any videos, honestly cannot be bothered yet

*pulls out hair*
I feel reaaaaally lazy right now and I cant be bothered to do my 3D for DS4: Cafe...

Also,
LAMB OF GOD is going to Singapore April 15th, the day before my birthday and I'm not going because I don't have money. Bladi hell.
Also, if I did get the tickets, nobody nak ikut cos I'm surrounded by pussies. meow meow.
PAH!

I might be one of those weird people you hear about on the telly or the newspaper because I listen to metal and think happy shiney thoughts in the process.

The universe loves me because I'm strange.
*feels happy shiney golden flowers*

Can you feel the earth turning?
It's fast -- so fast.
Can you hear a star exploding?
No, I'm absorbing all that awesome.
:D

I dunno what's wrong with me but I feel loved at the moment
and by no one in particular.

The presentation for Musicology ALMOST kicked ass except the computer kept on fudging up one mati at a time. But, I think if tak dapat A I will be very annoyed. VERY ANNOYED.

So now, what's left to really work on is DS4 Cafe...
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muchly unamused.

So I pretty much buried my group-mates because I'm an overachiever who doesn't overachieve.
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Musicology: How to mess up your life one decibel at a time.

I did the presentation slides so I don't have to muck about with the paper except for editing. Pandai kan saya?
Yes. The answer is Yes.

Pavlovian Mind Control

Today, a friend of mind got the tail end of an inspirational pep-talk gone sour.
Naturally, she became disheartened and I'm pretty sure she cried a river too.

Ladies and gentlemen, permit me to remind you that life is nothing short of a miracle. In other words, it sucks balls but you live through it because really, you have nothing better to do and death is totally out of the question. So, every day you wake up forcing happy thoughts into your mind -- which is what I do anyway -- because happy thoughts create good vibes even if you made it up. Playing pretend has it's drawbacks though as people don't expect you to be happy all the time. I mean, how could you smile when someone says that they have cancer? Insensitive jerk!

Wake up. Life isn't peachy. Life isn't magical -- but it could be. Life is DEFINITELY NOT all it's cracked up to be. Life is one big accident. Deal with it. Make yourself better because other people cannot do it for you. They can give you a shoulder to cry on and give you a positive pep talk though.

I should stop giving positive pep talks because sometimes it's a lie but googly eyes segway people from the truth faster than I salivate to the word 'steak'.

I'm hungry and salivating because I said 'steak' and this is not a rant.

Sekian,

SG-2000 Progress Report: Week 5

Week 5 (16MARCH2010)

• No significant changes
• Still not swimming due to assignments
• Back discomfort gone

Still no video

I am... Procrastinating. Again.

Tried doing work this afternoon but the eyelids were so heavy I went to have a sleep -- because, really, a nap is 15 minutes long -- and it lasted... Well... Really long!

So, we go back to the thing of lists because I have nothing to impart that is heart-warming and stuff:
- ARCS Presentation due 19th of March
- DS4 due 24th of March
- ARCS Report due anytime before 29th of March
- 3DS Max due anytime before week 1 of new term

Time to get working :D

I know it's a little late to realise this fact but I'm a late bloomer.

People -- in general I mean -- LOVE to dissect the love lives of their friends.

By that I mean that when we find out that one of our good friends is taking the road down to hell with their current significant other, we offer our opinions without even realising it. In fact, most of the time the opinions and helpful colour commentary is much unwarranted and almost always unwanted but we do it anyway, and mostly unto deaf ears. What's worse than colour commentary on your road to hell? Chided remarks on your single life.
Worst. Gig. Ever.

Most people grasp at straws when it comes to relationships that they're not apart of. This fact doesn't make stop them. In fact, I think it makes them want to pitch in more. I hardly understand this... Well, no, I lie, I do understand it. I just don't fall in the match-making girly squad.

SG-2000 Progress Report: Week 4

Week 4 (09MARCH2010):

• Walking gaite slightly changed
• Did not go swimming this week, had too many assignments to finish

Still no video

SG-2000 Progress Report: Week 3 and Before.

Prior to Week 3:

• Walked slowly
• Less energy
• Lethargy and extreme weakness during PMS and during period
• Swam a maximum of 50M in one go and resting before continuing another 50M

Week 3 (02MARCH2010):

• Swam 200M in one go before needing to rest
• Bong and her mum said I walk slightly faster and without so much effort
• PMS still the same but period was delayed by a week

No video yet on walking