14.10.10

My home television has spoiled.

It is 23" Tv which I have already been using it for 5-6years.

I am thinking to replace it with one that has a larger screen.

I wonder how much will it cost me,if the price is high,should I lower my expectation and get a TV with the same screen size as the one currently that is spoiled?

Right now my budget for a Tv is around $300.

Maybe I should go out and look around some electronic stalls to check out the latest prices for TV on one of my off days.

It is almost mid of October,the year is coming to an end soon.

Every year has been the same to me:me growing older,having more friends and celebrating the year-end festivals with them.

Nothing has changed in my life except I am the only thing that changed.

By the way,I do not think I would be celebrating any of the festivals this year,including birthdays,save your breath asking me why,I just do not feel like doing it.

Could it be I have become matured?

Beats me.

I like to listen to all kind of music,be it rock,pop,classical,country,techno and many many more,as far as anything that comes with rhythm.

Among the above music types and those that I did not mentioned,my favorites are the ones that I could play it over and over again and I do not get annoyed by it.

Example you ask?

Like the one I embedded in my blog currently,it is a sound track from a video game called"Final Fantasy XIII",the music is called "Hope's Theme"("Hope " is one of the main characters featured in the game.).

I listen to it when ever I get heat up, cannot sleep,feeling anxious,or have the urge to listen good music.

It has a calming,peaceful and healing effect on your dark side,and it will guide you back to your own self.

At least that works for me,but could also be me went overboard.

Try it and see if it will work on you too.

Yesterday,when I am in office at my work place.

I started to feel cold in the after noon,I was thinking maybe I got a fever.

The coldness extended all the way till 1am,when I was going home after playing computer games.

Still,till I was asleep,I could not figure out what was causing me to have the fever.

But today,I remembered that I had been sitting in the office with a air-con adjusted to 25c above me for the whole afternoon yesterday!

I guess that is it for today,thank you for reading.

Words that I learned today:

Raffle-A lottery which a number of persons buy chances to win a prize.

Enamel-A vitreous,usually opaque,protective or decorating coating baked on metal,glass,or ceramic ware.

Opaque-Impenetrable by light; neither transparent nor translucent.

Ubiquitous-Being or seeming to be everywhere the same time; omnipresent.

Conclude-To bring to an end; close.

Inclement-Stormy.

Descend-To move from a higher to a lower place; come or go down.

Straddling-

Sever-To stand or sit with a leg on each side of,bestride.

Fuselage-The central body of a aircraft,to which the wings and tail assembly are attached and which accommodates the crew,passengers,and cargo.

Accommodates-To do a favor or service for; oblige.

Clip-To cut,cut off,or cut out with or as if with shears.

Succumb-To die.

Devise-To form,plan,or arrange in the mind; design or contrive.

Gravely-An excavation for the interment of a corpse.

12.10.10

I read a news that says in Chile,33 miners are trapped in a under ground tunnel severals hundreds meters below.

Hope every thing is going to be fine for them.

I have been searching for a file which is used to put my stationeries,some notes and a English text book a friend gave me which I used for studying English.

I remember it is stored inside a storage room in my house,but for whatever reason I just could not find it.

Might be me accidentally threw it away.

Well,I am just hoping that I did not actually do that,I want to find the file back so badly,because it contains the English text book which I really hope I can get to read again.

I have Been eating Dosai as supper for a few nights this week,I shall not be doing that next week.

As for my lunch and dinner,I also try to take less meats and more vegetables,in order to control my daily calories intake.

Yes,I have been trying to work some weight off.

Although,I have not been pushing myself too hard on that,I just let it go as natural as possible.

By the way I read the Left 4 Dead comic;the storyline,the art and the conversation of it were nicely done.

At the point when Bill sacrificed himself in order to let the rest get away had me touched,and so Bill was made a hero in the series.

I like Francis humorous and sarcastic speech,too.

Today is the day which I will work in the morning again,I am looking forward to playing BlackShot at night with the rest.

Even though Jerii and Darren suggested going out after my work,I think I still want to play BlackShot as I have not got anything need to be bought at the moment and I am also not in the mood of putting myself in the midst of the town's crowd.

I decided to write blog when I am working instead of when I am at home,by doing that I could spare myself some time to read a English text book which I bought recently while also doing those homeworks given by it.

I hope that will work for my learning of English.

I found out something,whenever an adult says "I love you" to me,I would not know if I should take it seriously or not,but if it is heard from a kid's mouth,I always got the feeling that he really mean it.

Am I weird?

Words I learned today:

Simpleton-A person who is felt to be deficient in judgement,good sense,or intelligent; a fool.

Conclusion-The close or last part; the end or finish.

Endorse-To give approval or support to,especially by public statement; sanction.

Nostalgic-A bittersweet longing for things,persons,or situations of the past.

Preach-To advocate,especially to urge acceptance of or compliance with.

Fable-A usually short narrative making an edifying or cautionary point and often employing as characters animals that usually speak and act like humans.

Ineptitude-The quality of being inept; ineptness.

Riddle-To spread through out.

Go overboard-To go to extreme,especially as a result of enthusiasm.

Reprimand-To reprove severely,especially in a formal or official way.

Rag-A scrap of cloth.

Delinquent-Failing to do what law or duty requires.

FT-Full-time

Conspicuous-Easy to notice; obvious.

Welfare-Health,happiness and good fortune; well-being.

11.10.10

(continued from part one)

I started to feel Yoshi was restricting my own free time. I had got a lot of personal things needed to be done.

Some of those includes: learning Japanese,to do more exercise,to be able to have more sleep,and most importantly-be prepared for my National Service.

Because of that I decided to resign Yoshi for a temporary job.

I began searching for it and I came by QiShan shop-a shop that sells gaming consoles,and it was in need of a replacement for its current worker as the worker was about to leave the shop.

Not surprisingly,I got the job fairly easily as its job requirement was not high.

Then I handed in my resignation letter to Yoshi and work for two more weeks before I would be officially leaving Yoshi.

I started my work at QiShan's one day after I left Yoshi.

I make it short here-Qishan's mum did not really like my working style,she had been very picky on my behavior and so on.

I resigned two weeks after working at QiShan's.

That year was of 2008.

That month was February.

Damn,I started to feel that this chapter is getting longer and longer and is losing it's interesting element.

I got to end it quickly.

I am currently working at a lan shop,I got this job on February 2009,I do not want to talk about what happened in the 1 year between 2008-2009 here.

What I know is,that was the year when I was dreamless. It was a terrible,dreadful,and sorrowful year to me,and it still is.

Anyway,what I want to remind you here is that having a dream at all time is very important.

Do not forget that.

Words I have learned today:

Plunge-To throw or thrust forcefully into a substance of place.

Hinder-To be or get in the way of.

Disarray-A state of disorder; confusion.

Seize-To grab suddenly or forcibly; take a grab.

Vital-Of,relating to,or characteristic of life.

Exuberant-Full of unrestrained enthusiasm or joy.

Exhilarating-Causing exhilaration; invigorating.

Wayward-Given or marked by willful,often perversed deviation of what is desired,expected, or required in order to gratify one's own impulses or inclinations.

Motley-Having elements of great variety or incongruity; heterogeneous.

Overshadow-To make insignificant by comparison; dominate.

Cower-To cringe in fear.

Gale-A wind with the speed of from 34 to 40 knots, according to Beaufort scale. Also called fresh gale.

Transcend-To pass beyond the limits of.

Ginormous-Very large.

Shamble-To walk in an awkward,lazy,or unsteady manner,shuffling the feet.

10.10.10

Did you have a dream when you were little?

Do you still have them?

I remembered when I was little,one of my dreams is to be a Police Officer.

Catching all the bad guys,questioning them,and having some gun fights after that,I thought that the job was really cool.

But then I found out that,what they have to do and are doing are helping others to find their pets back,driving and patrolling around the neighborhood,doing some screening at nights,etc.

Not that I am saying whatever they are doing now is irrelevant to their job,those are also something that need to be done,too.

But,from the time I was told those are also the things that Police Officer do,my passion burnt out.

I had multiple dreams,Police Officer was one,then Basketball player.

I cannot deny that I was influenced by a comic called SLAMDUNK.

Some of you must have had the same influence source as mine.

By the way,there was a period of time when I would go to the Basketball court everyday in the afternoon to practice my skills in Basketball.

Quite tough to me at the time,due to me was overweight(I still am),I had to eat lesser to control my weight while having large amount of exercises each day.

I slimmed down quickly.

The time was fruitful and fun,I met a lot of friends,knew what was my weak points,and had a strong body.

But then I stopped playing basket was when I was forced to shift my house,to a place that is quite inconvenient for me to travel to the same old court.

Another dream vanished.

The time I moved my house was also the time I started playing Magic:the gathering trading card game (Magic) more seriously.

I used the free time which was used to play Basketball to go Ginza Plaza and play

Magic.

Magic involves lots of trading,buying and selling,if you are smart or lucky enough you could even earn from it.

Thats is what I had been doing too.

From just a newbie player to a experienced card dealer,I had learnt a from it.

Oh,and I forgot to tell my dream when I was playing Magic at that time,my dream was to become a card dealer which I could rely my living on.

But eventually,for some reason I found out that I dislike businessman.

No offence to anyone.

I stopped playing Magic when my friend introduced me a job which has a more stable income.

That was Yoshinoya Fast Food Restaurant(Yoshi).

I started as a kitchen helper in Bishan branch,had been learning on how to handle food everyday.

Met Joycelyn,Jemin,Joan,Bernard, and many many more that I cannot remember,that was the happiest time among the time I in Yoshi.

Then I got transferred to several branches,and I end up the branch in Takashimaya.

My dream when I was at Yoshi was to work hard and try to get promoted fast,hoping for salary raise,and eventually the job could feed my whole family.

But then some silly thoughts of me made me resigned the 4year-or-so-old job.

(continue in part two)

Words that I learned today:

Bloom-Flower of a plant; something resemble the flower of a plant.

Lucid-Easily understood; intelligible.

Doth-A third person singular present tense of do.

Pinnacle-The highest point;culmination.

Farewell-An acknowledgement of parting; a goodbye.

Afflict-To inflict grievous physical or mental suffering on.

Pitter-patter-A rapid series of light tapping sound

Amid-Surrounded by; in the middle of.

Scramble-To move or clime hurriedly,especially on the hands or knees.

Do over-To renovate or redecorate.

Immense-Extremely large; huge.

Array-An orderly,often imposing arrangement.

Slaughter-The killing of a large number of people; a massacre.

Untapped-Not having been tapped.

09.10.10

I do not really watch much sports,unless it is Basketball,and when I am feeling bored.

Not surprising,things have exception.

On Thursday after,the TV was broadcasting some Water Ballet performances live from the Commonwealth game.

I do not know if it is a rule that the Water Ballet performers have to provide their own music which would be used as the background music when they are performing Water Ballet to the officials.

By the way,Water Ballet is also not in the list of sports that I would watch until I heard a back ground music from a performer during this Commonwealth game.

Some one chose Evanescence's "BRING ME TO LIFE" as the BG music for her performance.

I watched the whole performance from the start to the end;that was also the first time me watched a complete Water Ballet performance.

I think the performer(Sorry I did not record down the name) did a pretty good job as I heard even the commentator said the music was a "Great choice of music".

Sweet,music brings the whole world,and those with unrelated interests' people together.

This entry was kind of difficult for me,as I do not know enough vocabularies in sports so it was a challenge to write in the way that would look vibrant.

However,I have given my best,hope it turned out nicely.

I will continue the rest of the entry with things happened in my regular life.

I found a good way for me to practice my English by listening,and to sing English songs.

By listening,I will be able to make my ears get used to how English syllables sound more.

And by reading the lyrics,I could make myself familiar with the grammatical structures of sentences,and to know more vocabularies.

I think this method would be a slow and steady way for mastering English.

Ganbatte!(opps,thats Japanese!)

Today,some one said a it-is-been-long sentence to me,

"Hey,did you slim down?where have your big stomach gone?"

ohhh!ureshii!(opps,another Japanese word!)

Well,slimming down to my desired weight is also one of the things that I have been trying quite hard to achieve lately.

My goal is 68kg.

With my height of 173cm,I think that should be nice enough.

Cutting down oil,salt,and sugar consumption each day is what I would be doing at this stage.

Another slowly and steady work,eh?

I find that I like Final Fantasy series a lot,I really do.

Especially those music from the series,they give you the feeling of peacefulness,calming effect from them will make you think that are they made from music instruments from the above?

I am not exaggerating,I am just fantasizing it.

This should be all I would write today,see you around.

Words I have learned today:

Grudge-A deep-seated feeling of resentment and rancor.

Rue-Sorrow;regret.

Defy-To oppose or resist with boldness and assurance.

Fall out-To quarrel.

Cordon-A line of people,military posts,or ships stationed around an area to enclose or guard it.

Unclear-Not clearly defined;explicit.

Eccentric-One that deviates markedly from an established norm,especially a person of odd or unconventional behavior.

Sink down-To sink or submerge.

Out of character-Unlike one's usual behavior.

Galleon-A large three-masted sailing ship usually with a square rig and two or more decks,used from the 15th century to the 17th century especially by Spain as a merchant ship or warship.

Pull over-To bring a vehicle to a stop at a curb or the side or a road.

Rip-To cut,tear apart,or tear away roughly or energetically.

Experiment-A test under controlled condition that is made to demonstrate a known truth,examine a validity of a hypothesis,or determine efficacy of something preciously untried.

Cultivate-TO improve and prepare(land),as by plowing or fertilizing,for raising crops;till.

Conscious-Having an awareness of one's environment or one's own existence,sensations,and thoughts.