i seem to recall 'rat' as the answer but it suddenly occurred to me that it made no sense... btw, if you're wondering where i got the inspiration for this post from, it was becos i saw all 3 of my neighbours' cats perching on the roofs and fences on my way to the mailbox just now...
Reading 'The Gatecrashers' by Alexander Fullerton, having bought it for no other reason than it was 3 for 5pds and it seemed to be about WWII sea battles... It's a bloody fantastic book! Honestly, i have no idea abt Fullerton's background but he writes about naval battles like a pro... More importantly, his book is not so much about the actions and interactions between ships and other combatants, as some authors of this genre are fond of writing, but about the actions and interactions of the people in charge of those vessels, which is infinitely more interesting...
Tactically, of course, it's the units in a battle that are important but when it comes to novels, it's definitely the officers and ratings manning the craft who are more exciting to write about... When you have a meal, you look at the dish as a whole but you always taste and smell its included ingredients, either individually or with other ingredients..
Anyway, here's another gem from Kingdom of Loathing:
Like i said, i was pretty bored yesterday so i surfed the Net like crazy to look for fun and free stuff... Amazingly, i found 2 online MMORPGs both of which are free and have the abbreviation KOL...
Actually, the second one wasn't so much found as it was remembered... Sometime ago, when i was still playing Maplestory, Justin the Tower introduced me to this game called 'Knight Online'... Turns out that they have a Malaysian server so i thot i'd give it a go... After many hours of downloading the program and installing it, turns out i can't connect to the server... and no, it's not becos you need to be in m'sia to play... haha.. that's a fine piece of 'Boleh' engineering for you...
Anyway, i then tried the international server... Turns out to be quite an interesting game... the usual knights-fight-monster-rescue-kingdom storyline... Pretty good graphics too... However, the gameplay was rather hard and not very intuitive at all... Then again, this being a Free2Play game, i'll say it's worth playing... If you're interested, go here.
So anyway, it's this first game i found which i really want to blog about... It's a turn-based, black-and-white game that's super hilarious!!! The name is called 'Kingdom of Loathing', from which you can already sense a potentially lame, mindless and pointless game... The type i like! =D To illustrate my point, check out this screenshot:
If you read enough Douglas Adams, you will also agree that the writing is very 'DAdamseque'... Anyway, i totally recommend this game to anyone with abit of free time and a sense of humour... Of cos, it may get stale after a while but it should give u a good few hours of fun... You can just play it here.
p/s: while editing this entry, i realised something.. Turns out that i've used a lot of 'turns out' in my writing... if you noticed before reading this, you're SHARP.
Squeeze a poem out Like how difficult is that Rather write haiku
On an entirely separate note, i am contemplating buying 'The Storm Inside' by Laura Michelle Kelly, which contains her fantastic sounding cover of 'Somewhere Only We Know'. Principal considerations: 1) Can i get the CD more cheaply in SG? 2) How silly is it to buy a CD becos of one song?
Holland beats Cote D'Ivoire and goes thru to the Top 16!
Anyway, if there's anything that was stopping me from actively blogging the last few days, it was unfortunately not, as widely expected, the World Cup... i mean, soccer is great fun to watch, especially when you stay in the right time zone but the qualifying rounds just dont quite cut it..
In fact, it was because i was reading my book, a nice 'TWO Bestsellers in ONE Volume' thingy which i got at 3 for 5pds at The Works, containing 'The Kremlin Device' and 'The Watchman', both by Chris Ryan.. The first was ok, some spies-and-special-forces book that was trying really hard to be a thriller but failed half the time.. 'The Watchman', now that's the interesting one... It was also abt the same kind of stuff (i think Ryan is into this genre) but it was really gripping... So gripping, in fact, that i finished the book in one day with the tv in front of me showing Argentina's 6-0 demolition game... And although i'm not the world's least avid book reader, this is a new record...
So that's y no entry for last few days... Anyway, i've mentioned more than once that my blogging style is always very affected by the stuff i read at that point in time and i think i'm moving on to some dry 18th century sailing nonesense... So that's a warning, trooper...
Mingwei: Yalor, too bad you couldn't join us but had to spend the time with some girl... i guess we've all been there... =p
Wah lau eh! Now i know why we cannot solve the spam problem by arresting spammers... They live in the future! Hmm... i think this raises interesting tax and income issues... Do they earn money in the present or future?
This is officially the Bestest BBQ ever, becos it was organised by me! bwahahahaha! No actually, it's not the first BBQ i've organised but this one was really good becos i was very thankfully able to avoid several potential BBQ landmines by pre-cooking the meat the eliminating sweet potatoes from the menu...
Anyway, this is definitely one of the last instances where we could actually gather so many LSErs... i must honestly say that i felt a tinge of sadness to see people off that night not knowing when will be the next time we meet again. i guess that's the not-so-great thing about studying abroad, you make frens who may not be working/living in the same area as you are after graduation...
Hopefully we can pull off another gathering before more pple leave UK...
Day 2 : 8 June 06 - "Korean BBQ"
Met Andy in school today to chat and pray... Caught up with RR one last time to pass him the bags he left at my house from the BBQ.. Realised that this may really very well be the last time i see him becos everybody knows tt once RR arrives in SG, he disappears under the radar and the only chance anyone has of seeing him is to bump into him and his gf at orchard... Anyway, we took pict together but basket the pic is in his camera...
Anyway, went for Korean BBQ with Chang Yate and Fangting at 'ARANG' in the evening... i dunno why i keep pronouncing it as 'Ah-Rung' but Chang Yate insists it's 'Er-Rang'... it's my first time having Korean food outside Korea so i didn't really know wad to expect... Anyway, Chang Yate was buying the meal so we let him do the ordering... He ordered so much food!!! Yet more proof of how generous a person he is.. haha.. We had like dishes and dishes and dishes which kept coming non-stop... Anyway, i tried to 'blinkymummify' my blog so i took like 50million pics of the restaurant and the food.. it actually felt quite weird... Anyway, the dinner was fantastic! The dishes were actually quite SEAsian in taste, some of them even tasted suspiciously like they had sambal belachan in them... However, the dish which i found most interesting was the fruits at the end of the dinner... The kitchen was innovative enough to serve sliced oranges by cutting up the orange into half, erm... it's like damn hard to describe so i shall just post the pic below and u go figure...
We walked Fangting back to her place after dinner... Along the way, we passed the Central Saint Martin's campus along Charing Cross Road... CSM is actually some fantastic arts college which is part of University of the Arts London and this campus has 2 display windows facing the main street, where they always feature some interesting exhibit.. So anyway, this is the more interesting one this time:
Then, sharp and observant Chang Yate noticed this:
Wah lau, even SG also hard to find this liao leh! Basket the Brits use for this kind of thing...
Day 3 : 9 Jun 06 - Leftover BBQ
Nothing much lar... actually i was quite tired from going out for the last 2 days so i just stayed home today to rest and relax... Kenny decided that since we have leftover coal and food from wed, we might as well have another BBQ... So here we go, my first authentic Ang-mor World Cup experience, although the food was extremely limited and the match was crappy (Ecuador v Poland)...
If you stay in London, you can take Service 91 (towards Croch End), 259 (Towards Edmonton Green) or 17 (towards Archway) from Central London and get off at the bus-stop in front of the station.
If you stay in SG, get on some BA or SIA flight, alight at Heathrow and take the Tube to Caledonian Road Tube Station.
Yes, it is about time my uber long exam period ended... i dunno why but this year's exams seem to be the longest one i've ever had... could be 'cos i started revising really early... =D In any case, i'm so glad it's finally ended...
It's also quite interesting my last paper was on the 666. As some of u may know, that is the number given in the bible as the number of Satan... This has made some pple quite afraid of today... Not so with me, i am freaked out enough by 'EC321 Monetary Economics' as it is...
Anyway, i was seriously entertaining the thought that Jesus may come back before the 666, which, for those of us not in the loop, will mean that i will disappear and wouldn't have to give 2 hoots abt the exam... Then, at about 7pm on Monday night it suddenly occured to me that it was already 666 in Aust/NZ, so it was quite unlikely that Jesus will come before my exam, since that will mean this huge mess over whether this guy is actually Satan or the Son of God. i mean, i know Jesus quite well and i think this is one mix-up he'd be happy to avoid...
So anyway, the 666 came and went without too much incident and here i am after my exams with much more free time in my hands then i'm used to. This is very likely to mean that i'll soon start doing much more boliao stuff then i've done in a while, which to some pple may be more scary than Satan himself.
p/s: yes, i've noticed it too. i seem to have lost my sense of blogging.. then again, it HAS been quite a long while since i last wrote anything which did not involve the mathematical operations, exchange rates, money or price levels... Dunch worry, i'm sure i will find it back again soon...
On an entirely separate note, i am contemplating buying 'The Storm Inside' by Laura Michelle Kelly, which contains her fantastic sounding cover of 'Somewhere Only We Know'. Principal considerations: 1) Can i get the CD more cheaply in SG? 2) How silly is it to buy a CD becos of one song?
