Thursday 8 October 2009

79. Delayed: Smooth Holiday Operation

Personal/Ideals
"Befriend our Earth & Universe: Earth, rotating at its own axis, partially receiving the ray of sunlight with the Moon to accompany its journey round the Star. So we have day and night. After each night, you cross out a slot from the calendar. Make the crossing meaningful, enjoy every single hour you have having fun with friends and family. I did it, my one week holiday feel like one month worth of joy. Feel good cheers."~wallpost from Facebook

Back to you KCH, Rooster for yer. BB and SRV for YW and all of us. And Mustaine to crush all of you guys.

I have to post this a little later than maybe expected due to internet connection problem, courtesy of Streamyx. And... this is quite a lengthy one. It's personal journal. Or activity story-telling.

"Imagine, you see stars shining and lights shimmering, but there is no god to reach for"

Just a quote that I'm referring to to the modem internet signal lights blinking with no line coming in.

So yeah, I had one week of great fun. If I were to compare blindly the activities and amount of joy shed from this holiday to any previous holidays, the latest would definitely fall short and abrupt. But let's count the satisfaction rating that is conceived in the heart and the brain.

This latest holiday week would be the best...though I forgot to invite Razeen for football the second time when he could actually make it already(i think so).

Why would I claim that this time the fun is as or more exhilirating than the rest when it's only 1 week long. I believe it's the outcome and post-fun satisfaction..whatever you could comprehend. I believe I end all the activities moderately with the feeling in the guts saying, "nothing lasts forever". Whereas the other times I had fun blindly, and were fun-thirsty for more. That explains the karma-ish perception of fun.

This time, I enjoyed and in my heart I said, "well, let's have things in balance. For friends and family. I know time is limited. So spend it wisely." Furthermore in my head, with the rest of my studymates we already had a common plan to have a job training this coming end of the year after the final exams. This reserve of time and emotion has a good onset to the settling down of my play-hard-non-stop guts.

So it shows, that I'm ready. It's not all just about having fun all the time. If you want to work with the extremes, then "Work hard, Play hard". But I supposed, there should be of moderation.

I did say too recently on spending up the holidays, I want to relax more. Anyway, back in Penang friends such as Hooi and KY have STPM on their way. Thus, I balanced my holidays spending balanced time with my family and friends. More meals together with family. More time spent back in the house, the presence of me completes the family home sweet home. As my mother quoted, "we could see Jared more often this time".

Partly also because I grow more mature as a person who comes back for holidays regularly already since last year. We actually had more than enough fun already, come to think of it. It's in the growing maturity, the essence of our youth that is. Hopefully wise youths like you reading me now agree with me.

"We'll live to see your god standing alongside us someday"

How so? We're going to outlive and outgrow the holy image someday after living and learning long enough to be able to stand by ourselves. Maybe I'm denying your maker. But give me the benefit of doubt, I shall live the way I could with principles.

zap zap zap god strikes wrath zap zap zap

This is for the 8th time I come back home since I left home sweet home in July last year.
So I had this so-called reunion. This time it's simple. It's not like any other time we could get together and actually appreciate it. We did it this time, at least to my eyes and heart. We have: Hooi, YW, KY, Jonathan, Jon and me myself. The basic brotherhood of mine. I didn't really care about what activity we're gona do. As the "playmaker" hahaa I just just wana make sure that we get along in something fun even though the planning is messy.

Here it goes:
1. the not-so-successful Dim Sum breakfast, nevermind cos it feeds [Me, KY, Jon + g]
2. Main course: Bowling [All + g1 +g2] - The Singaboy Jon pwns with the highest points scored
3. the confused-plan Sushi lunch at Queensbay, nevermind cos it feeds again [All + g1 + g2 - KY]
4. Spontaneous plan: Movie: The Ugly Truth [same] - good movie that could make me laugh
5. Simple dinner at kopitiam [Me, Jon, YW, Hooi + g] - I enjoy the chicken feet
6. Reunite - CC Dota challenge cos we have 3v3 [All + g]
~Dota score tally: YW-3, HOOI-2, me-2, JON-1, JONA-1, KY-1 [3 games]

- g stands for girl for privacy purpose heh.

And yeah, we had our overnight reunion too YW's. This time KY and Jona were the ones pia till morning on a PS3 game, Resident Evil 5. For your information, the previous games were Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas and Siren 2. Graphic and shocking games in the darkness. Oh yeah, Little Wing jam has been a great start. We'll work further on improving it.

Guitar Hero:
Jona - vocals - fail (on Michael Jackson - Beat It)
Me - drums - fail (on Linkin Park - What I've Done -Expert) haha

heyy, but YW and I did great on Seven Nation Army. I realised I have to get high as in high on drugs on the beats to stay in-time. shux.

The rest: Football, Hiking, Football, Batu Lanchang Market, Esplanade Mee Sotong, Argyll Road RC and Swatow Lane.

And, here's to something fun and really random. I missed a turning to Hooi's house after leaving Esplanade. I was on the right lane and mentioned about the ferry. Hooi simply suggested, "wana sit ferry?" Oh? Alright, let's go then. As the traffic light turns green my left signal blinked furiously and I received honkings from all directions as I cut into everyone's lanes into the port. So there we YW, Hooi and me myself were. A Viva la Ride on the Penang ferry service. To Butterworth. uhoh.

And then, that was my first time driving on the Penang Bridge. YW snoozing away quick. All tired from the whole day worth of hike, sky-praising, mee-sotong and ferry cruise.

Appall for the anti-Nikes. I bought a Nike goalkeeping gloves. At a low price, my dream finally came through after 7 years of wanting one. Comfortable and superb, as commended by Jason.

Updated: Rock-@$$ a.k.a Ass-rock (in my roll of links.

I think, my next demo recording may be a Happy Birthday song. When, subject to how free I am. How, it's gona be a 2- or 3-track recording. Hopefully, I will be successful in tackling the timing setback this time.

Ambition no.3: Sound Engineering - in recording and production.

New ambition plan: Join the Air Force (RMAF).