This might be a little late. But i’m just writing a note that i’m taking a break from blogging for a while. Will be back after my SPM, that’ll be around mid-December.

Yeah i know i’m already behind in my studies, but this is my last year in high school, so what the heck. I might not have the opportunity to participate in debates when i go to college or university, where they have debate team members who are highly experienced, who are trained since they’re young.

Me? I only started this year, my Form 5 year. It’s like my last chance to give debate a try.

Our school had a debate society once, but it only lasted for a few years. Then the education ministry made Kelab Setia compulsory and there weren’t enough teachers to manage the debate team. Only this year, a particularly enthusiastic teacher started a debate team once more. It’s not a society yet. Best to take it easy, our teacher said.

She will start training the young ones from Form 1/Form 2 for when they’re older they’ll be able to represent the school. For now, we have a couple of Form 3 and Form 4 students who have experience in Malay language debate. They basically know about debate stuff since a long time ago when they were still juniors. Then there’s this Form 4 girl who only came to our school this year. She was a substitute on the debate team of her former school. She’s pretty good. Better than most of us anyway.

So there’re just 3 Form 5 students that are in the running for the debate team. Me and another two girls. We’re older but what the heck, we know absolutely nothing about debates when we first participated in the debate practices our teacher just started this year. Dad says i don’t sound confident that i’m going to make it on the debate team. Well, yeah. Hello? I’m competing with people who have years of experience and a good foundation in Chinese. I myself only a month ago knew that Chinese debates exist, and can only stutter in Chinese, being more fluent in English.

So here’s our schedule.

12/04: A debate to choose a team of 4 who will represent the school on
26-27/04: A debate competition with other school.

That’s how long we have to prepare. Not to mention we only started basic training a month ago while those ‘other school people’ started since they’re in From 1, trained by highly accomplished, qualified and outstanding former debaters who have represented the country in the past. They bagged the National Champion last year, if i’m not mistaken.

By the way, the debate competition at the end of this month is a parliamentary debate, (国会式辩论) which is fairly new in Malaysia. I don’t have much past debates to refer to, which is a problem for a newbie like me.

Basically, a parliamentary debate round has two teams with three debaters each. One team represents the Government, while the other represents the Opposition. The Government team is composed of a Prime Minister, and two Members of Government. The Opposition team is composed of a Leader of the Opposition, and two Members of the Opposition.

That’s the rule in Malaysia anyway. I googled it online and saw that it is slightly different in America and some other countries.

It’ll be highly entertaining if they come out with topic like whether Luke Skywalker should have joined the Dark Side of the Force. Too bad that ain’t gonna happen.

Hey dude,

So i haven’t been blogging for some time and i haven’t been checking the sitemeter. (What’s with the isp thing anyway? I have no idea that you could check for isp addresses using Webstats4u, which is what i’m using right now.) So what?

My English isn’t that good, so correct me if i’m mistaken here. You said “Just because you have a life outside doesn’t mean other people have it”? You’re telling me that you don’t have a life?

I’ve been blogging since like, 2004 and all the time i write for myself. Being the only child and all, i sometimes feel like talking to someone but have to wait till next day when i see my friends at school, so i wrote it down instead, or rather, type it.

I still feel like that sometimes, you know, the urge to blog. But either it’s because by the time i get to go online when dad brings his laptop back after work at night, i don’t remember much about what i wanna write down or say in my blog. The excitement of whatever happened is gone. So it’s like, oh well, forget it. Or it’s because i simply don’t feel like writing. I still have tons of homework unfinished (and i’m beginning to feel tired of having to say ‘i’m very busy with school’ all the time) while writing this. Tomorrow school re-opens, mind you.

Also, how would i know my blog actually has frequent readers when those frequent readers never lemme know they read frequently? I really didn’t expect anyone at all to be interested and wanna read my blog, at least not frequently. Like i said, i just blog to express my feelings to no one in particular except myself. So not blogging for some time, i didn’t think anyone would even notice.

Hehe, i checked the definition of commitment by the way.

Commitment: the official act of consigning a person to confinement (as in a prison or mental hospital)

Yikes.

I’ll probably keep blogging, when i feel like it.

Thanks for getting me back into blogging, my angel. (Urghhh…)

So, Dutch Lady? Fernleaf? Anmum? Anlene Gold?

Got the email. Sorry for neglecting my blog for so long. Am leaving for a National Chinese Debate in a couple of minutes. Not to participate, of course, but to watch the debate. Won’t be back home until late night.

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Some pictures dad took in Bangkok, Thailand.

Stumbled upon Terragen today while browsing around at deviantART. Seems like a nice little software to me, so i decided to download it and try it out.

Googled around and saw that people created really awesome pics using this sofware.

Didn’t have much time to practise. Only did a couple of renders. Here goes:

I know it’s crappy and it looks like shit compared to what others created but i sure improved, right?

:::Most Expensive Penthouses 2006::: < -This is so damn cool.

© Brown Harris Stevens

My dream house has been a penthouse ever since i found out what a penthouse is. Terraces are more within the limits, but hey, lemme dream.

Normally it’s just the highest unit of a condominium, which is more expensive than the lower units. In a dream, the price doesn’t really matters.

Me, being highly interested in astronomy, wants a house with a open rooftop/wide balcony, or even better, glass-roofed. So at night when i’m free i can stretch out and just gaze at the stars… Without mosquitoes all over me. At that height, probably not many mosquitoes, i think. But this would do.

© Brown Harris Stevens

This particular penthouse at the Pierre Hotel in New York is priced at 70 million US Dollars. I don’t know, that’s like too many zeroes. I don’t know what to say.

– See listing at Brown Harris Stevens -

Arrived home today from Triang, Pahang, my mum’s hometown. I hear it’s now called Daerah Bera, along with Kerayong, another much smaller town.

The second i get off the car, i saw some dog’s poopoo in front of my house’s gate. Told dad about it. his response? “Good loh. Ong mah, this year is Dog’s year.” ROFLMAO

A typical Chinese New Year this year, nothing particularly exciting, except for the fact that my 5th aunt brought her boyfriend back ‘officially’ for the first time. I’d promise to upload a photo of them together but i’ll most probably too lazy to forget about it.

Her boyfriend, is so not cute at all. And he’s kinda shy, at times. Still don’t know him well yet, but as long as my 5th aunt likes him…

So i didn’t make a blog header for Chinese New Year. Screw me.

Did that in 3 minutes, so please forgive me. I know it’s crappy.

Pic cropped and edited from a deviation by Gilad Benari, one of my favourite conceptual artist and photographer.

My excuses for this crappy masthead:

1. I don’t have much free time. My schedule is packed. Still have 2 unfinished BM essay due tomorrow,
2. I’m using a Graphics Gale Free Edition software.
3. 64Mb isn’t exactly sufficient hardware for image editing.
4. I’m planning to make a nicer Chinese New Year themed masthead as soon as i can get my hands on dad’s notebook.

How’s that?

Two women friends had gone for a girl’s night out. Both were very faithful and loving wives, however, they had gotten over-enthusiastic on the Bacardi Breezers.

Incredibly drunk and walking home they needed to pee, so they stopped in the cemetery. One of them had nothing to wipe with so she thought she would take off her panties and use them. Her friend however was wearing a rather expensive pair of panties and did not want to ruin them. She was lucky enough to squat down next to a grave that had a wreath with a ribbon on it, so she needed to wipe with that.

After the girls did their business they proceeded to go home. The next day one of the women’s husbands was concerned that his normally sweet and innocent wife was still in bed hung over, so he phoned the other husband and said, “These girl nights have got to stop! I’m starting to suspect the worst.. my wife came home with no panties!!”

“That’s nothing” said the other husband, “Mine came back with a card stuck to her butt that said… ‘From all of us at the Fire Station. We’ll never forget you.’”

[Credit to anonymous]