Goal: Getting Geeky

Though it's coming near to the mock exams and every teacher is giving time for revision -being the idiot I am- I decided to read The Hobbit to finally get that poor book back to its place in the library and get more space for later revision guidebooks my teachers may plan to give me. Unfortunately, it wasn't the best decision ever. Almost immediately, I fell in love with Tolkien's story-telling and I'm now halfway through The Fellowship of The Ring. I now plan to read the flippin' saga of LOTR. Furthermore, this set of mind has me hoping to even finish reading all of The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes (which I stopped due to tons of homework) and even start on The Game of Thrones. 

(I even drew in honor of The Hobbit)

Yes, I'm a bit late on catching up with the Nerd clan but you have to consider: I was only 7 when LOTR was popular. I probably would've been more interested on Barbie (sadly) and origami (not so much). But I guess I have to blame Tamagotchis from barricading me from all the awesomeness. Back then, it was all the rage at school... until they were banned. (I know a friend who has all the generations up to vers. 4. We were sad.) 

But yeah, I probably will have this goal of reading these books throughout the year. Luckily, the school provides us a study leave longer than needed. By then I can happily read my books of gold.

Families (RIP, gran.)

I've never mentioned this before but being an Asian, I come from quite an extensive family - which I am quite proud of being. I enjoyed the busyness when the family reunites on special events. I enjoyed the smiling faces and the laughing children. I enjoyed the buzz of commotion and various different conversations all shared on one round table. Unfortunately, due to people moving to foreign places (one went to Beijing, another moved to New York and I, as well, started boarding in the UK) and my grandmother's gradual but failing health, the reunions grew rarer over the course of the years.

Yesterday, I just learnt she finally took her last breath and died peacefully from old age. Though many hearts were and will be broken (my uncles are are waiting for the right time to tell my grandfather...), I believed her death brought us closer as a family. Dotted across the world, she somehow was able to burst our bubble and remind us (as cheesy as it sounds) that we're family. I could go on all sentimental but I don't think its worth your time or mine. When there is life, there is death. Though we may never be the same, life still goes on.

At an age of 98, we shouldn't mourn her death, we should celebrate her strength for living at such an old age. Rest in peace, gran.

Mass Snacking Time (MST)

On a rare Saturday afternoon, I could persuade myslef to make use of the good weather (which was always good on the weekends, for some reason.) and walk downtown withmy friends. As per usual, we never come back without a trip to Co-op/ Saisnbury's before retreating back to house. This is when a certain time kicks in: 'Mass Snacking Time' or 'MST'.

There is a reason why I usually keep my food storage to the smallest. It's because I don't have any discipline over my cravings. If there's food, I'll eat it until there 's nothing left. First the chocolates, then the fruits and finally the cereal. (Yes, I can snack on breakfast cereals.) By this time, I'm still snacking, but i try to snack as slowly as possible in order to stop myself from eating everything. As weird as it sounds, I have a soft spot for gooey and mushy foods. (So pureed pumkin and thick vegetable soup would be foods from the heavens.) So in order to slow down the snacking, I would mix the cereal with water (because I'm too lazy to go down two floors and get milk) until its consistency is like wet Weetabix and eat away. You're probably thinking 'Eeew.' or 'Meh.' because you have another absurd eating habit to match up. Either way, I end up regretting ever going to town in the first place with a full tummy at 17:00.

Fortunately my laziness overweighs my gluttony so I can force myself to only eat apples - 2 a day - and nothing else if I leave my food storage as bare as possible. This plan works until i go to town again. Huzzah.

Playing with Post-its

Dear Internet, I have something to confess:

I'm obsessed with post-its.

okay, nothing biggie there - I can tell I'm not the only one as seen here, here and here. But if you put it this way, you could say I have a fascination for pads of paper printed in a wide range of colours and don't actually stick on walls properly but looks great and awesome. Never mind, they're cool in any phrase of explanation. Praise the post-its! 

Why? Well last year, I found an awesome video that inspired me on how to decorate my plain walls since I didn't have enough posters or photos to stick for the world to see. So... post-its it was! Mixing in with my love for games (though I must say my knowledge of them are too limited to be considered a geek. Being called one would be shame to the geek community.) I made a pac man ghost on the wall! 

Later that term, I made a habit of leaving post-its with a character named Mr Scribbles - a pedophile who flirts with girls - around my boarding house. Slowly, I even made him say cheesy lines and have a 'suave' personality. (Though I personally found it weird, many loved him and so encouraged me to post more.) Now, I'm still continuing this tradition of Mr Scribbles and on the process of decorating my room with more post-its. *hint hint* Invaders! *hint hint* Whatever happens, I hope to keep up with this obsession of coloured pads of sticky paper!

Abyss of Abandoned Accounts...

So... It's been a while. The summer's over and... it's four weeks over the start of term. hello world. I'm back from leaving blogs behind into the abyss of forgotten and static sites. I hope not to do so again for some time... (hopefully.)

I swear I do this almost every time i commit myself to something online. Three years ago, I promised myself i would take care of my avatar in Playfish's Pet Society and a year later it's probably now dead. (As much as depletion is represented in a kid-safe game.) Next, I promised myself to play Fantasy University (really cool game though, now that i look back.) but i left it after i got stuck on Lvl 20. Unfortunately I can't go back and play it now because they closed it earlier this spring - probably because of masses of people like me left the game at an early stage.

I really miss being an Emomancer :(

This situation happens to my Deviantart account, my Meebo, my Marapets most likely died (I didn't want people to see me play Neopets, which would be easier to recognize.), my Bebo account... the list is endless. Basically, don't ask me to take care of your virtual pet and you'll be fine.

 how my pet should like now....