Muse, Resistance, Tattoos and Teachers' Rantings.

Muse is back!! If you judge the album by the cover , this certainly looks very MUSE indeed!
Their new single , Uprising ( Single Release Album covers up there, I prefer the cartoon teddies)
is totally Muse! This album includes tracks like Uprising , and the Exogenesis "Symphony" consisting of 3 parts - Overture , Cross Pollination and Redemption . There's also
"United States of Eurasia + Collateral Damage " - which is reminiscent of Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody ( first , slow singing , then sudden Bang!! ) and there's this Arabic-desert kinda tune at some sections . At the end there's Chopin's Nocturne Op.92 , slightly edited and with sounds of children playing and jets flying and missiles..
Other tracks include- I Belong to You ( quite upbeat and funky :D ) , Resistance , Unnatural Selection , Mk Ultra ( nice electro-guitar opening)

MUSE!!!!!!

somebody out there quickly transcribe the piano scores for Muse's awesome album!! Please!
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Shaarvin slept in school today . Covered his face with the science paper from MRSM . Then I had this idea to draw on his hand.. Shafiq supplied the Sharpie marker and I drew a "MOM" heart tattoo . Yknow, like the sailors have. Mom in the heart and the arrow going through .
Right elbow . On the left arm I drew a scar.. yknow the stitches:D

Wanted to draw skull and star and anchor but he woke up:D

Shafiq and I laugh so hard he checked his whole body for tattoos!!!! WE HAVE SIX-PACK NOW COZ WE LAUGHED SO HARD!!! He conteng Shafiq's Agama Islam book and my correction tape ( he was gonna take my pencil case) as revenge.

SJAM AGM this Saturday , before that , Meeting for NCO candidates @ Seven Spice@ Danga Bay. Seven Spice!??! Sapede or Kudi? ( eat or drink? ) :D Alex belanja ah..?
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Today I hacked into a teacher's mind.. (excuse the tatabahasa,this isn't a BM teacher.)


Ah.. jadi cikgu memang susah . Apa lagi kalau mengajar kat EC? Tapi memang benarlah , EC bukannya banyak gangster..tapi..alahai...
*haih.*
PMR dah nak dekat, aku bagi kertas dah la tak nak buat ! Budak yang nak buat pun pandai sangat .. aku terbagi jawapan salah malu pulak..isy isy , tapi bagus juga , ini tanda budak dah bersedia untuk menghadapi PMR!
Duduk kat mini auditorium buka radio sambil belajar.. sekurang-kurangnya ada buat kerja la , tak berapa teruk sangat..
Budak SPM pulak tak boleh control.. dah lah budak besar, cikgu takut nak marah pulak . Lepas ujian terus cabut sekolah , hilang terus.. cikgu duduk dalam kelas dah lah tak masuk , nampak cikgu lari pulak! tapi tu budak kelas belakang lah , yang baik semua memang baik..duduk kat kelas, ulangkaji..legalah hati cikgu !
tapi tension jugak lah . semalam pulak perasan ada banyak uban... aduhai!

Books and " Atomicus "

Fellow form 3s , we are barely few weeks away from PMR and I don't feel this rising tension I felt back then during UPSR where we sat in the hall and dilligently doing practice papers given by our dedicated teachers , fast forward to 3 years later a few weeks before PMR and we are in the mini auditorium fiddling with a radio and trying to get 987fm when Good Girls Gone Bad starts playing on Hitz.Fm so we settle for that. Some anonymous people are throwing plastic bottles at each other while many are caught in the crossfire and they retreat to the back of the hall where some are playing cards ( Chor Tai Tee ) and -censored for security- .

Excuse the uh.. lack of punctuation ,

Ever had the chance to whip out your old UPSR papers and laugh at the simplicity of the questions compared to what we are doing now? ( I gave my papers away except for the Science Paper 1 . I improved one mark ( from 29 :D) from 2006 when I re-answered the paper on the 8th of September 2009 .

And remember English ?? They had the Picture and you had to make Five Sentences from them . Because it was such an easy straightforward thing to do , they came up with this Format so us students and our teachers as well had to adhere to the format therefore making less simple .

Same goes for BM .


I don't think I remember the format - something like , write what you see in the picture.
For instance , writing for the picture above.

1. The picture above is Salvador Dali's " Atomicus " , photographed in 1948 . (wrong)

1 . The man,water, cats and objects in the picture above are suspended in mid -air ( correct)

came across this picture a few days back ! Taken by Phillipe Halsman , it explores the idea of suspension . Salvador Dali , the cats and the objects are actually suspended by thin wires
(zoom in on the picture ) , and the water you see there comes from a bucket which was sloshed when Phillipe gave the thumbs-up on one hand and pressed the shutter with the other.

It took 28 attempts for Monsieurs Dali and Halsman to be satisfied with their work .
Result :

1 . Superb picture .
2. Fame
3 . Satisfaction
4. Three very scared cats
5. A Very tired assistant ( you can see his hand holding up the chair prop on the left)
6 . A very wet studio
7 . Dali with tired cheeks ( he smiled the HamSapLou smile for 28 tries )

Moral of the story
1. Never be satisfied and complacent , except for the best and only the best .
2. Never give up .
3 . Vision without action is nothing.

Now, to another topic. While most people are reading academic reading material...


Nightmares and Dreamscapes - Short stories by Stephen King .

* thumbs up*

superb stories. A safe read compared to Carrie .
Dolan's Cadillac , The End of the Whole Mess, Rainy Season , Suffer the Little Children , Chattery Teeth , The Moving Finger , Home Delivery , The House On Maple Street .

Just to name a few.


Reminiscences Of the Cuban Revolutionary War - Ernesto Che Guevara.

An account of the CRW from when the ship Granma carrying the 80 + revolutionaries landed on Cuban shores and were ambushed and escaped with barely 12 men , to their first victory against Batista's army , their days in Sierra Maestra and their victory at Havana - the realization of Cubano Libre - a Cuba free from Batista's dictator government .
It's like reading Kanang and Sejarah - Bab3( Komunis ) . But better.
Don't know who Che is??


There ! Don't tell me you've never seen this pic .

When Alex's hair grows back lebat as ever , we'll get him to pose like that with the SJAM beret and print it on the 2010 Division One shirt ( joking )




The Life of Pi - Yann Martel

This book is quite well-known and once you read it you'll know why .
It tells the story of Piscene Molitor Patel ( who wishes to be know as Pi Patel , because most people call him Pissing Molitor Patel . The Piscene Molitor is a famous swimming pool in France)
from his days in Pondicherry , India to his family's migration to Canada and his 227 days at sea with Richard Parker as company . ( FICTION!! )

Richard Parker is that tiger on the cover by the way .

Overall it's an enjoyable book , one of my faves now. Thumbs up!

oh and someone explain how "(Y) " can mean " thumbs up"??
Because it seriously looks WRONG . It looks like someone's ass and Justin just drew that on the notification for SJAM Div. One AGM 2009 .

" Yes la is thumbs up ."
" HOW? Looks like someone's ass la seriously . Like (Y still not that bad la . Can see somewhat of a thumb"
" yes la , you type (Y) on msn will come out thumbs up .."


OH. I have been enlightened!
means :[ = Bat
and ( sn ) = snail.

WTH.

Light

Nowadays I'm just lazy to blog , don't even mention Twitter!
( Yes I have twitter but I hardly tweet :D )

Not that I have nothing to blog about , it's like whatever desire to blog just dissipates when I uh , get down to blogging .

Anyways the weekend has been a very lazy weekend . I'm still like in the holiday mood . Slacking quite a lot , trying to fit back into the hectic tension which I managed to get myself into prior the trials..

Tension and stress actually has a positive effect on us , like yknow , get off your ass and go and study , PMR is next week . It pushes us and it's like motivation . Only that it's the Do-or-die kind.

Plus , i'm sick . I don't know if it's coincidence that me , shafiq , justin , hebron and jeyaraj , just to name a few , are sick.

Theebban is in the hospital for h1n1 . THE CULPRIT!

Happy Birthday , Malaysia

As Malaysia enters her 52nd year of Independence and we the citizens of Malaysia , see it with anticipation and hope for an even better future. May we work towards this dream that the Malaysia we see today will be nothing compared to the Malaysia of tomorrow . A Malaysia even more prosperous , even more harmonious . A Malaysia we will be proud to call home. A time where our hearts will swell with pride as we walk with our heads high and say ,

"We are Malaysians . We are One. "



Unity is the key . My hope for tomorrow is that 1Malaysia remains and becomes a reality , not just words and something patriotic which we can use to write a nice essay .
We must rise to the call of 1 Malaysia , regardless of race and religion . Let us not be skeptical of our fellow Malaysians, let us have trust in each other .
Let us be as One, One Malaysia.


Selamat Hari Merdeka .


* btw I did the pics myself :D

Happy Birthday Shafiq and Justin! ( LATE POST)

Happy Birthday Shafiq ! First a proper picture of you saluting the officer like an excellent NCO .

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Happy birthday Prebet Justin Low! also saluting the officer, with hair sticking out from his cap.



Justin turned 15 on the 23rd of August, and hopefully as a 15-year-old he will learn how to blacken his shoes properly and not just blacken the front , with a feeble excuse that "my pants will cover the back of the shoe , see so blacken the front is enough.



OH SHEEEEET. Duduk kaki terkangkang nanti seluar koyakkk ahh.
Oh no , constipated!!! If later halfway marching shit memang problematic .



"OH SHEEET I SHAT IN MY PANTS FASTER FASTER I NEED TISSUE"
well at least not halfway marching.. hehhe



Justin with the mangkuk head saying something like ,
" REALLY? sure? confirm? "

Esok , Lusa and sebagainya .

Tomorrow is our NCO exam , lets hope no one LAUGHS or screws up and edwin doesn't do his cockface . And remember everyone , do not look at Prebet S. Pillai's dancing eyebrows when he commands .

Remember KALIS , that's what EC is good at !

Trials on monday , yay!
So excited
I cant wait
ha .

lazy to blog nowadays . After trials I will blog about our NCO exam maybe , and marching terms such as ASIMO , turtle , chicken wing , horse etc etc .

Yahoo

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From Dec2006 ~ July 30th 209
Yahoo just died an hour ago , we just buried the poor fella .
went missing on saturday , found him on Monday ,
Thanks to the guard who helped us search the compound .
Thanks to the gardener who helped us dig the grave (he refused to accept anything)
Thanks to the office admin , Pn. Fauziah ( " Gee" ) who went out of her way to help us
Thanks to the vet who.. helped us get the medicine (wasn't in stock ) even though there was "little hope left"
For those of you who never had the chance to see him , well , it's a pity .
R.I.P , go on to a better place :)

Excerpts from a Diary .

A friend is a friend ." A friend in need is a friend indeed " , " Friends are siblings God forgot to give you" . Apt indeed . Real friends or sham friends ? Close friends ? Acquaintances ? Mere contacts ? Or a close bond, special , lasting and amazing .

Now, to the topic of raging hormones, love enters the picture . Like , and love , are two really different but similar things . You can like, and nothing much would happen . Nothing complicated. When love comes into question , "Friends" take a whole new perspective as "Couple" , commitment and affection become sort of a contract or more like, an obligation . Of course, this the common and typical but common and typical are not always the order of the day .

Then again , grow up. Love is about caring. Love is about affection. Open your mind, love everything which you see fit to be loved . Love what you want , love what needs love , love with your heart.

A crush is just a fleeting emotion. Commitment isn't there yet . At our age , puppy love is common. But what would it commonly lead to ? Premature breakups , disillusions of "forever love " and attachment . I believe in Always , not Forever. There is not Forever . But there is Always .

To anyone who reads this , I am speaking from mere opinion , not experience . I believe what's necessary , what's right , will come when the time is right . Prioritize , prioritize , prioritize .

Then again , when that fleeting emotion comes, these words will just be mere graphite on paper .

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Excerpt from my diary . It's written in pencil , so I say "graphite on paper " .
Do not misunderstand . As I said , I'm writing based on opinion . Do not assume .
I blog about this to share what I think , to share my opinion.

Hope this makes good reading .

Reflection

Are life's secrets just waiting to be debunked by the miracle of modern science ?
Or in reality is life just laid out stark, bare and straightforward? Can we define life through intuition, thought and reasoning?

Take for example how life isn't always fair . For some of those who are constantly under fate's hammer, it is never fair . While for some you just always get things done your way .

Talk about habit , routine and "fate" . Underline the relation among these three . What you do often is a Habit , and it becomes a Routine , reoccurring in your life . Are you , as a person , Fated to do all this? Is something which you do not do counted in your Routine life? For example , is it your Routine and Habit to fall ill when an important event is approaching ?

It is inevitable that all of us would interpret this differently . After all , the human mindset believes what is Concrete , what is backed up with Solid Evidence and not Thoughts , Ideas and Philosophy . Thus , this Area of Life is open to interpretation , with everyone living life the way they want it .Some attribute it to Bad Luck , while Fatalists leave it all to Fate , and that everything is Fated and we can't change it . Religion comes into the field with guides and rules to life, How to Life and the Ethics of Life . Every religion implores its believers to do good , contribute to peace and so forth .

So the scenario here is , would someone be able to break this chain of Bad Luck / Misfortune / Negative Energy /etc ? A Losing Streak for example . Would someone fall into a losing streak just with one loss ? Or would someone , victorious for once in an extensive losing streak , be able to go against all odds, turn the tables and enjoy a winning streak ?

Because if We try , we can . If we have the Faith , Belief and Confidence, We can. Winning even once shows that you are Capable of doing something. To be able to attain a certain level of achievement , tells you , " I can. "

Then again, Life isn't that simple. Would an individual , after achieving something beyond their average , be frustrated and disillusioned if they fail to achieve it ? Falling back into the average range , while their minds constantly dream of the Past Achievement . Would they use this as Leverage to succeed ? As incentive ? As a Goal ? A Benchmark ? Proof of their Ability ?

Or would they just resign themselves to Fate , adopt a Loser's spirit , believe that one has failed, and just -

Give it up ?



After all , it is all a matter of personal interpretation . Science never gave us a theorem to determine our achievement . It was all up to the individual to exploit their ability , to seize opportunity , to strive against all odds , to never give up , and to rise up above all .




What about you ?



We vary in different ways . Our mindsets and personality , all cast in our Psychological DNA , define who we are, what we are and the way we think .

The way we think defines what we achieve .

Ultimately it defines who we are.




- Originally by ME . Written not from experience but from what I think .

Grapevine Fires

When the wind picked up, the fire spread
And the grapevine seemed left for dead
And the northern sky looked like the end of days
The end of days

And a wake-up call to a rented room
Sounded like an alarm of impending doom
To warn us it's only a matter of time
Before we all burn

Bought some wine and some paper cups
Near your daughter's school when we picked her up
And drove to a cemetery on a hill, on a hill

We watched the plumes paint the sky gray
She laughed and danced through the field of graves
And there I knew it would be all right
That everything would be all right
Would be all right
Would be all right
Would be all right
Would be all right

And the news reports
On the radio said it was getting worse
As the ocean air fanned the flames
But I couldn't think
Of anywhere I would've rather been
To watch it all burn away
Burn away
Burn


And the firemen worked in double shifts
With prayers for rain on their lips
And they knew it was only a matter of time .

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Grapevine Fires , by Death Cab for Cutie . I posted the video of DCFC playing live instead of the official MV , to leave interpretation and imagery free to the mind of the viewer.

It has an apocalyptic feel to it , like the end of everything . Clearly it depicts a wildfire (Listen to it! ) . The song is filled with imagery , and what comes to mind is a scene of desolation , but there is a certain sense of satisfaction, of being contented (But I couldn't think Of anywhere I would've rather been To watch it all burn away) . Picture the imagery of the fourth verse (Plumes paint the sky gray,as she laughed and danced through the field of graves) , and a picture of innocence and hope , shining through times when it seems all hope is lost.

You could paint a picture with all this in your head . The scene stays there in your head , and stays there.