You took the words right out of my mouth

On the way home today, I was on the train with Celest(Len) and Eunice and we were kidding around, making some idle banter. So I made a joke that began like this,

You know, I feel hungry when I'm fasting but when I see your face Eunice I feel so disgusted that I don't have an appetite.

She gave me her best impression of a constipated smurf.

Then I went on to say something stupid.

How long are you going to stay at your auntie's house? Cause I feel like so depressed taking the train with you everyday. Sigh why do I have to take the train with you?

So Eunice alighted at Yishun without saying a word. The doors are closing and she's still not boarding. Is she serious? I didn't know my teasing had such a grievous effect. I was dumbfounded. OMG did I hurt her feelings? I felt remorseful for making such a stupid joke.

Following Celest's advice I alighted, to take the next train so that I can apologize to Eunice. Unfortunately I didn't managed to find her. Coincidentally I found Wen Ping instead. She didn't take the train with us earlier so I was surprised to have stumbled into her.

I saw her running furtively before we exited NYP so I initially thought she was working. So I asked her why she had ran off without informing us. She replied that she had forgotten to take something from the class room.

Suddenly Celest appears from out of nowhere. She alighted too. According to her, she said that she was worried that Eunice and I had a heated argument.

The three of us started discussing about Wen Ping's disappearance.

I thought that you ran off because you had your period.

Wen Ping Looks at me incredulously and horrified. She flees in terror.

(Oh yeah BTW Celest commented that I had an evil laugh.)

So the journey continued with this awkward conversation of PMS and periods. Wen Ping couldn't stop giggling.

I didn't stop at Choa Chu Kang and impetuously decided to make my way to Jurong East so that I could locate Eunice and apologize.

By some miracle, I saw Eunice among the frenzied crowd of human congestion. I exited the station and ran towards her. I swore, i thought I had looked directly at her and she didn't even flinch. Was she furious?

She didn't slow down her pace until I caught up with her.

Are you angry Eunice?

THE ANTICLIMAX:

1)Eunice blurted,"Hisyam where did you come from?"

2)No why would I be angry? It takes more than that to piss me off.

3)Somehow she meant it to be a prank when she alighted.

THE END

Yes it's a happy ending.

Everybody's Fool

I was measuring a broken piece of tile which was scattered in front of my studio class. So I was thinking maybe I can use this as my base. Of course this was all just done in jest. I took my metal rule and started measuring when I heard a familiar voice behind me....

"Don't pick up that tile."

Just like those movie scenes where the star gets a rude awakening when he realises his worst nightmare is just behind him. I turned around and it was Jimmy 'Kang' Kang. Eeep! Where did he come from....

Uh-oh.

"If you take that tile the school will deduct from your school fees."

He was joking. At least I think he was.

Then he made some other comments and I explained that it was broken and I was recycling it. Fade into the background....I told myself repeatedly.

I seriously need to get myself some Spider Senses.

The Little Bustard

Sample of MSN script.
5tUD!0 PR0J3Ct!!! is Yaoguang
A rose by any other name smells just as sweet is Myself

5tUD!0 PR0J3Ct!!! says:
friday got studio proj den ur prayer how?? in e campus???

A rose by any other name smells just as sweet says:
i think i just tell jimmy kang to kiss my ass then i go to the mosque

5tUD!0 PR0J3Ct!!! says:
haha ok. he ask u read e text

A rose by any other name smells just as sweet says:
i ask him to jump down from level 6 cause he's an idiot

5tUD!0 PR0J3Ct!!! says:
GOOD

5tUD!0 PR0J3Ct!!! says:
his e bird we found on the book...............GREAT BUSTARD

A rose by any other name smells just as sweet says:
i think he's screl loose...ask him question then he ask us to read the paper...what a nutcase

A rose by any other name smells just as sweet says:
its not in the paper lor you little bustard

A rose by any other name smells just as sweet says:
hes not great

5tUD!0 PR0J3Ct!!! says:
ya lor den why is he here for ...to tell us to read e notes ?? tink i duno english izzit??

A rose by any other name smells just as sweet says:
no wonder ppl fail...he's so stupid...other lecturers not like him...so lost cause

5tUD!0 PR0J3Ct!!! says:
worst than bakta

Enuf said...

What is that studio project leader trying to prove? We are trying to ask him questions and he tell us to read his notes. The point is, his notes are vague and we are trying to clarify our doubts, so what's the deal you fart-head?

Look Out - Water Hazard

Oh no! I made a mistake when I was doing the cover piece. (Refer to Ready, Set -Draw)I took the piece of paper that was lying on top of the watercolour pad thinking that it was watercolour paper. So without suspecting anything unusual in the texture of the paper I drew the layout and even started painting before I realised that it was catridge paper.
I took two hours doing a mistake. What a colossal waste of time. Moreover I believe I have the class record for having the most amount of paper signed (we have to sign the unused paper in class to avoid cheating) cause I probably have the most amount of rejected/failed drawings.
We are having the communication skills test tomorrow after the studio work. The question I'm asking (rhetorically of course) when am I going to break fast? I wondered if they spared a thought for the muslims(moslems). OK time to start revising.
48 hours left. Stay tuned for the unfolding drama or comedy....

Ready, Set - Draw!

Studio project begins today. It looks like I'm going to be busy again this week. Hurrah! I never liked idling that much... but it doesn't mean I'm a workaholic either. The truth is work keeps me occupied and its a good distraction in my social life or rather the lack of it.
The instruction manual and specifications seem simple enough but I just realized how complicated it really is. I hope I don't botch up this assignment. Otherwise I might be withheld from progressing to the next semester.
I decided to start with the 5 drawings. Jackals are really hard to draw. The obscure printout images which I had for reference didn't help also. Drawing animals is definitely not my forte`.
Some of my drawings are unsatisfactory. However I cannot allow myself to dwell on the flaws for too long. 8 days is not really a whole lot of time. We only have about 56 hours left. Its the "FINAL COUNTDOWN"!
Tomorrow I'll be doing some painting. 'Caution' Things will get messy.

Wish me Luck!

Admission Admonitions

At the end of the mass briefing pertaining to the Studio Project assignment, we were randomly given different locations (The Singapore Zoo, Jurong Birdpark, Insect Kingdom) and animals for subject matter. I have to complete a minimum 25 sketches by tomorrow as research material.
Apparently we have to be there from morning till late afternoon. Unfortunately since my animal is the black bucked jackal, which is situated in an open environment albeit with wide barricades of course, this means i have to be outdoors all the while.
This is however, not the crux of my dilemma.

I don't want to pay $14 to go in....*sobs* thats like daylight robbery especially since I'm just a student. I can't use my SPANS(Singapore Police Association NS) card benefits to acess the zoo for free because I have to inform them 3 days in advance! The problem is I just knew the details of the project today.

a$d#f$g$! Frickin' leechers, I'm just going there to see one animal for the entire Prickin' day. This BITES!

Feel Free

So these past few days have been blissful.
Blissfully BORING! Well I've been lounging about the house, reading some books, counting the number of hair follicles on my head. I should probably do some work on my portfolio though...nah!!

How listless am I?

ANS: I'm not even going to finish this sent....

Eternal Gratitude

Its time for a little confession. I know, i keep moaning about how boring my National Service was and how boorish my supervisors were. Actually there were silver linings too. Towards the end of my service I was transferred to Team Charlie. It was mostly work around the police station. No patrols except for dispatches, escorting criminals and sometimes routine neighbourhood rounds.

I am grateful to have had friends who were very supportive and trustwothy. There were of course some people whom I thought were friends but later proved to be otherwise. (But thats another story for another time perhaps?) I didn't expect them to be nice to me. They were regulars so in other words my superiors.

I didn't realise it then but when I recall those etched memories of a pivotal moment in my life now, I recognise it was more than just friendship. We were like a band of brothers.

I never had an elder brother or sister. But these people were family to me. We saw each other more often than we would like to. (LOL) They gave me guidance and confidence. Furthermore, a cherished farewell.

Truthfully, I was heartbroken when I left. I hated being in NS but the moments we had were pure euphoria.

I'll aways remember the times that we had.
NS Sc/Sgt Hisyam.

Paperballs Wars

Paperball Wars: A New Hope
(with sincere apologies to George Lucas)

A long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...

The Module empire was bent on destroying the fragile confidence of a young apprentice who had in the past few days had been emasculated by the long nights and influenza. He felt like his body could not take the strain of the assignments. He had given in to his fears and was almost consumed by the dark side. He woke up late yesterday and missed his Colour Theory test. The rebellion spirit however remained strong in him. And suddenly the young padawan remembered - Use the force dummy!
He turned the tide of the war in his favour and handed in both assignments albeit reluctantly because he felt he could've done better.
"One step at a time, you must take, Yes. Hmmm other chances, you will have." Yodels Yoda.
Coming up NEXT: Bhakta Strikes Back and Return of Reject

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I managed to complete my assignments and handed them in today. I felt that I could've done better if I had more time. I guess you take what you have and make the best out of it. After 'Design Fundamentals', some of my friends and I lingered in the class waiting 'Drawing' which begins at 3pm. We had about 2 hours of spare time so we fooled about in class. I started taping up paper balls for target pratice and before I knew it, we were having Paperball Wars. Nobody was spared. Eunice, Yaoguang and Jonathan : Team A. Haru, Inez and I: Team B. Team A + Team B= recipe for disaster. It was a nice way to wind down after a incredibly tiring week.

Driving Anthems

From 10 am till 5 in the evening yesterday, Yaoguang and I hastened to finish our Creative Process assignment. The deadline was at 6pm and we were still queuing up at the printing shop one hour before the cut-off time. I saw few of my friends yesterday when we were at the computer lab. I wondered if they had completed their work at home.
Then there was a mishap in our page arrangements and the printers could not publish double pages. Time was running out so we ignored the ill-timed mistake and handed in our work anyway.
I can’t believe some of the assignments that was sent in, were the product of students.(Wen Hao from Group 5 showed me some samples) NO really, this isn’t a compliment.I saw some of their finished articles and it looks like most of their pictures were ripped off from the internet.
This is so bogus. (80’s vernacular term for lame…LOL) I mean we worked so hard to get good shots and these people just 'cut and paste'. The agony!! You know what I’m talking about. I’m saying that cheaters always prosper. I’ve seen and experienced this more often that not in my short existence. And you know what else? They’ll probably end up getting A’s too. Sigh~.
At times like these I wish I could live alone up in a mountain far away from civilisation.
So I went home feeling like a chump. On my way home, I decided that this was the perfect opportunity to buy a new CD. So I went to Lot 1’s Sembawang Music store and bought myself ‘Power Ballads’.
I’ve been browsing through the tracks and I like it. Its even managed to restore some of my vibes.


I guess it must've been "The Power Of Love".

Netsky Worm

The W32.Netsky.Z@mm worm is a Netsky variant that scans for the email addresses on all non-CD-ROM drives on an infected computer. Then, the worm uses its own SMTP engine to send itself to the email addresses that it finds.
The From line of the email is spoofed, and its Subject, Message, and Attachment vary. The attachment has a .zip extension.

-Taken from Symantec

My net connection has been laggy lately. I suspected that it had been a victim of some virus attack and I was right. A worm called Win32 Netsky has been infecting my local drive. I received an e-mail from goshcat whom I thought was Catherine. But when I opened the e-mail which had set itself on high priority, it opened a zip file and installed the worm unto my C:/ drive.

Do not open e-mail that have high priority set or e-mail addresses of people, whom you do not know. Messages like theses will give excuses like the mail has returned due to some transcript problem or something similar. Just delete these messages. Even if you have received it from your friends, be careful it might be the worm replicating itself. Luckily this worm is not malicious and my system still works.

Just some friendly advice.

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I didn't play badminton today cause I fell sick. I didn't go to the doctor's though. I have had some bad experiences with doctors in the past so I made a promise not to consult them whenever I get common diseases like flu, cold even fever. You might say that I have lost faith in General Practioners. I hope I'll get better soon.

It makes me ILL

I’ve been sick these few days and I really wanted to have a good rest. But I have so many assignments to do. It’s just not possible. I really wanted to claim medical leave today. In the end, however, I decided to go anyway because of the Drawing test.
I didn’t want to end up doing the test some other day by myself or with other people that I hardly know.
Furthermore I didn’t prepare anything for ‘Colour Theory’ or ‘Design Fundamentals’ class. The only work that I did yesterday was the weekly portraits. Guess what? Nobody handed that in, so I didn’t either. Maybe I should have use that time to work on my greeting card assignment.
During the ‘Design Fundamentals’ class everything was fine until Mr Baktha told Yanashi (Shan Shan) to redo her card. I was seating adjacent to her so I saw her placing her head down, obviously dejected by the result. I heard that she had laboured for over 7 hours on that card.
I didn’t expect her to cry though. It really caught me off guard. In my opinion Mr Baktha should have been more sensitive about the situation. He seemed quite nonchalant. Geez…I dunno what to make of this predicament. It really soured my class’s mood.
Right about now, my friends probably find Mr Baktha as likeable as Osama Bin Laden. And that’s probably an understatement.

Everybody’s sore including my throat.

*Yawns

I feel so weary and sleepy today. I woke up at 12 am and I didn't managed to get some rest until 3pm.
During drawing lecture today, I saw an animation clip entitled 'The man who planted trees'. Its really inspiring. One man can indeed make a big difference. I made a google search on the net and found out that this cartoon was adapted from a book authored by Jean Giono. Maybe I will try reading it some day.
After 'Understanding Media' class I went to see Mr Baktha to get some opinions on my card. As soon as that's settled I went to Art Friend (located at Bras Basah Complex) to buy a new pad of watercolour paper. I decided to buy some Aquafine watercolour tubes(FYI cheaper than Daler's Artist...which is unreasonably expensive and smaller too). Then I went for broke and bought an A2 portfolio as well. I didn't buy the Zipper Drafting Bag which costs S$23, instead I bought Florence. Its twice as expensive...



shrieks: "Why??? Was it imported from France?"



I hope that it's durable and will last me for years to come though.
Grumble grumble..lol . I'm such a scrooge.

"Are you not entertained?"

I slept late again at 4am yesterday cause I was trying to finish the mock cards for Mr Baktha (Design Fundamentals). But OMG I waited at the wrong place for him. So perhaps today I'll go seek him for his consultation.
In the morning Yao Guang and I searched the trees and bushes behind the Tennis court (beside Car Park Lot 10) for some lizards. We were quite successful in our approach and managed to take plenty of good shots.
The late nights must be taking a toll in my health. I think I'm still at stage 'blocked nose'. I had a relapse of wild sneezing during the oral presentation. I felt very ill afterwards.
During the oral presentation I discussed about "How to be the next IDOL reject". It actually received a good response. Honestly I didn't expect that my friends nor Mrs Ang would actually be so entertained. Len said that Wen Ping had laughed so much that she cried.
She reminded me of an incident that happened sometime in Primary School. I told my classmate a joke in the canteen and he found it so funny that he choked on his drink and it dribbled from his nostrils because he inhaled it.


Gross.

Burning Up

I'm feeling worse than I did this morning. This flu is gone but now I have a runny nose and a sore throat. These are usually the symptoms that happen before I get a fever. Its always the same.

I get infected from someone.

I start sneezing wildly

Later the sneezing subsides.

Then I have a blocked nose.

Afterwards a sore throat.

Lastly fever.

This is such a bad time to have a fever. I have to present Mr Baktha two mock cards for my Design assignment. Besides this I have a presentation for Communication skills tommorow.

I dunno. Should I take MC? Its really bothersome to be delayed. On the other hand I think my fever will compromise my work.

I'm burning up...

Dude In Distress?

Its 1:13 am. I have yet to study for the test later today.

But I'm not afraid that I'll fail. I'm just going to read the notes once and I know I'll pass. Somehow I just do. It's not arrogance or overconfidence. (Though maybe presumptious.) I don't really know how to explain it...yet.

I've been sneezing since morning. I've took two Panadol Pills and now I'm feeling a wee better.

I did some work on my assignments this weekend. However its still incomplete. The pressure is slowly mounting and I sense that my friends feel it too.

Today is the beginning of week 14 in my timetable. Following that I will have to hand up 4 assignments and quite possibly take the Communication Skills Exam too.

My friends invited me to go join them in watching movies, karaoke, soccer but I turned them all down. I hated doing that. But I have to focus. SO I'm sorry. I had to refuse.

I can't blog that often but I'll try.