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BIRTHDAY!!

2010-09-02T05:11:00.001-07:00

HEY GUYS
I KNOW I MISSED THE AUGUST POST...AND I'M SORRY FOR THAT...
BUT TODAY, IS MY BIRTHDAY!
SO I'M POSTING
AND ITS AWESOME SO FAR!!!

ZOMG ZOMG

MY CLOSE COURSEMATES, GOT ME AN AWESOME PRESENT!!!
Its a somewhat Limited Edition Halo3 Action Figure!!!
EVA armour, 2nd Generation McFarlane action figure
ZOMG!!!

I'll get a picture!!

THERE YOU GO!!!
NOT WHAT I REALLY WANTED...BUT HEY, ITS A PRESENT... WHO AM I TO COMPLAIN???

July post

2010-07-26T06:24:00.000-07:00

Hey guys,

Hahaha... I'M REALLY trying to put up at least 1 post a month.

Not easy

Let's see...what i've done since the last post

Oh, i got a new game... Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

Excellent game

It runs faster than L4D2 on my lappy...and better graphics than L4D2 too!

It has a really engaging storyline.

It almost felt as if i was playing the Halo game for the 1st time again...

Good game, great atmostphere...awesome music...XD

I'll elaborate more...

OH OH!!

I FINALLY PLAYED FOR YOUTH SUNDAY!

ITS LIKE THIS DAY ONCE A YEAR WHERE THE CHURCH YOUTH'S TAKE OVER THE SERVICE!

XDDD

Someone said i played well! XDD

As the guitarist...

Hmmm...

I shall talk about COD:MW2 (we shall call it MW2)

Well, the game is set somewhere in the near future...in the year 2013 i think...

Guitar amp settings...

2010-06-16T01:27:00.000-07:00

Hey guys,

Just posting something up here so that i'll remember it.

I was just playing with guitar amp settings the other day and i believe i found the sound that i wanted.

Guitar:

Bridge Humbucker/ Tone maxed/ Volume Maxed

Amp:

Treble max

Middle 1/4

Bass 1/2

Overdrive:

Gain - 1/3

Ciao

*Guitar Randoms*

Well then, my first poly school holidays...XD

2010-06-13T06:24:00.001-07:00

WELL THEN PEOPLE,

THIS IS OFFICIALLY MY FIRST POLY HOLIDAY

AND ALSO, THE MIDDLE OF YEAR 2010!!!

And also, to update....

I'VE TRIED THE HALO: REACH BETa

ITs awesome, my friends...graphics are AMAZING.

New Armour abilities, PWNZORD...though i think the old Equipments would've done fine.

I love Armour Lock, It locks down your armour and shields, rendering immobile and INVINCIBLE while the lock is on

and the plus side? the armour lock will continue to charge while you stay in it...when it reaches a certain charge, releasing it will send out a EMP wave... As we all know, EMP waves disables ALL unshielded electronics...

While your armour is shielded... what shields your shields from shielding themselves?

Therefore, shields are wiped out as well, but leaving your "electronics" system intact.

Now the downside, Armour lock renders you immobile...And also, your shields can't recharge while you're in the lockdown.

But IMO, it has more pro's than con's..

Imagine this:

_________________________________________________________________

Jack jumps off from a ledge, and runs across the large open field.

Suddenly, across the field, incoming fire came in a stacatto of hailfire. Hammering across his helmet's screen and draining his shields.

He raised his sniper rifle, and sighted through the scopes, ignoring the shots that were peppering his already draining shields. He saw the enemy through his crosshairs, and held his breath.

He fired.

The bullet caught the opponent in the neck, taking him into a somewhat graceful spin before setting him down. Dead.

Jack paused, to reload, before realising he was out in the open. A slight blinking light appeared on the bottom left of his HUD as his motion tracker revealed a fast moving object behind him...

Jack slammed the clip back into the rifle, and in his mind, instinct took over.

In a split second, he dropped to one knee, and slammed both fists onto the ground to brace for impact.

And activated Armour Lock.

Blue light exploded from his armour, and bright crisscrossing lines resembling electrical currents cackled from his armour.

His shields were down. But in the meantime, he was safe in his armour lock.

The driver behind, who was about to run him down, however, wasn't so lucky.

Jack shut his eyes, dug his fingers deeper into the soil, and braced for impact.

The Warthog Jeep slammed straight into the lone Spartan...

...And split in half from the impact.

It exploded into smithereens, taking the driver along with it.

___________________________________________________________

See what i mean?

This is indeed a "freakin'" breakthrough.

What i didn't tell you, however, was what happened afterwards:

Take a look

_________________________________________________________________________________

Jack deactivated his armour lock, and stood up. Only to have his world go blank a moment later when a sniper, who had his sights on an immobile body in the middle of an open field, opened fire.

_________________________________________________________________________________

Alright, enough with Halo!

I'll talk more about guitar stuff on my next post...

Got my TV show on now...=p

CLT Jackie

2nd Lieutenant Halo3 Ranking System (Attained Katana)

OMG...TRULY A DEAD BLOG...DEFIB!!!

2010-05-31T03:01:00.000-07:00

Right guys

Sorry i haven't been posting for AGES (understatement)

Blame facebook, its addictive...and more convenient than blogging to update my status...

But i'll try to fix this...scheduling i should say

So...

What's be going on?

Well...i've not been updating for SIX FREAKIN' MONTHS

So....weeellll

I got into Singapore Poly

And well...

My course has been pretty fun

I've been:

1. sabo-ed

2. Voted

3. Chosen by my teacher to be voted as class Rep (similar to class chairman in secondary school)

Man, its such an honour.

And oh oh!!!

My whole class are L4D2 junkies, isn't that nice?

So (with reference to the title of this post), i guess you'll know what's up.

Its really addictive...in a good way

but i've fallen into game addiction trap before...so i won't again, I'll try

AND OH

There's this new game called Alan Wake on the Xbox360 (by the time this post is up... this would've been old news...see how long i've been away from the blogging world?)

We've had the honour of one of the people from the games to come and give us a talk on the game

AND HE FREAKIN' PLAYED THE GAME IN THE AUDITORIUM IN THE HUGE SCREEN

ITS LIKE WATCHING SOMEONE PLAY AN XBOX GAME IN THE CINEMA...OMG

I ALMOST FAINTED WITH PURE "DELIRIOUS-NESS"

Ohoh

And i also went trying out my guitars

I went compiling a list of guitars that i think i'll be getting

It was... i think 1 or 2 weeks before school started

I went testing guitars to see which one i would eventually buy

Went to test some high end guitars so that i could benchmark

For those benchmarks (not necessary good guitars)

I tested a:

Squire Telecaster

Fender Telecaster

(a few) Epiphone Les Paul Customs

Squire, and Fender (Squire is the lower end guitar)

Could totally tell the difference

The Squire's intonation's off at the higher frets... as in...the REALLY high frets

so i guess that's fine

But in overall sound...Fender owns (quite obviously...there's like, a 1 thousand buck difference in price)

Then for the guitars that i was gearing to get;

i tested:

1. Epiphone DOT

2. Hamer Echotone

3. Wanted to test this guitar...but it wasn't in stock (Craftsman TL40)

I went there with high expectations for both the DOT and Echotone

The $800+ DOT was tested through a $200 Fender Amp...

The $500+ (after discount) Echotone was tested through a $150+ Line6 Amp

The Echotone didn't disappoint

The DOT did

I really apologise for the Epiphone fans out there...but this was really my opinion

The reviews on both guitars i read were accurate.

The DOT does have an INSANE amount of decay and sustain (which is good) ...BUT...it lacks in tone, and the sound... was so-so

The Echotone didn't have the Sustain that the DOT was so famous for...but it did have the regular sustain time...and its sound was WAAAYYY BETTER....

As in, there was an OBVIOUS difference...even though the guitars both look exactly the same

So now, i'm saving up for that electric guitar and amp

Now for the effects rack

I'm thinking, (although i like Analog pedals) to save money...i should get an MFX

But enough on this topic

OH HEY

Speaking of guitars

I've been teaching Alyssa guitar for the holidays to earn pocket money

She's an awesome student

And her mum's real funny

She's those kind of "IN" mums...who know what internet and facebook and stuff...and also being able to be "Mums"

And Alyssa's pretty fast about learning the guitar

She's a good student

Said i was a good teacher too

That i had the patience

And i explained really well...but just sometimes moved too fast

That i'm not doing it cause i need the money (for guitar fund) but because i love to play the guitar and teach

*SWOONS*

Anyway

Sam has migrated

And we're all missing her

I still keep in touch with her though

Canada's an awful place... or so she says

What else to post?

Oh oh, classmates are awesome!!!

I tried to get the class together by organising a class lunch

But didn't work out

except, maybe for my table

damn, all the outgoing girls are in my table

LOL

And for the 1st 3-4 weeks...we've been having new classmates the whole way

interesting...a new classmate every week.

And also

During the Pre-orientation briefing

The guys and i sorta formed a Class band

ROFL

Really cool

But we've yet to go jamming

No time, and we're really busy

What else...

OH OH

I've joined the SP Primers (BB for tertiary education)

ITs really cool

And because i was one of the ... 5-10 who turned up for their 1st event...

I'm sorta real friendly with them already

So long, CIAO

CLT Jackie (That's right, CLT NOW)

LTA Spartan T93 (Halo3)

Doraemon (Class nickname)

December's post...

2009-12-20T06:35:00.000-08:00

Haha,
So much passed in the past month
Big stuff
Church Camp...MASSIVE

Uber Fun, i must say for the church camp
3 cheers for camp comm!!!
Haha, many people forced to sign up to facebook because of church camp...to get their photos...

i'll give you a rundown of the whole event.
The 1st day....

Haha, sad to say... I was late (in a way)
Groups leaders were supposed to assemble by 7.30am.
Lol, but i reached there by around 7.45
And instead met up with the non-group leaders group
Haha...
And when we finally reached there...around 8.15
I realised, even though we only saw very little people at the MRT station (potong pasir)
and it was still kinda early

MANY PEOPLE were already there and gathered...
As a matter of fact, most of my group members were already there
My group was Team Joseph =)
YESSSS...

Joseph! *Ref. to my drummer*
Group members were mixed, from different churches.
This is the reason why this church camp is so different from the others... This is a combined youth camp

QLC YF:
Me =)
Gordon (Lamborghini Addict)
Fabian
Andrew
Elsie

JCC Youth:
Sacharissa (Finally spelled her name right =))
Clifford (Fabian's horse/mustang/stallion)
Kelvin (Quite an interesting and outgoing fellow)
Stephanie (Dep. Camp Commandant's sis =0)

YCC Youth:
Christine

Very little people who attended from YCC.
In fact, i think out of the entire camp...
Only got 3 YCC youth, we were fortunate to have 1 in our group. =)

So we spent much of the morning with icebreakers...
Gotta admit, birthday boy had most of the attention

*TAO POK*

Hehe, shan't elaborate
Ice-breaker games focused more on getting to know our teammates...
yep
Haha
Then afterwards lunch
Haha, our group in-charge of lunch duty
So end up i supposed to say table grace,
But then Bishop in the end help say.

Haha, i think i was taking too long to get the instructions out...

KKK, so after lunch...
Was the Message! a.k.a. Lesson
JCC's youth pastor made us lie down for about 15 mins so that we wouldn't be sleepy during his talk
HAHA
*Funnily enough, it worked*

Then we had games later,
1 of the games, we played Captain Ball with veggies...
YEAAAAAHH!!
I liked the cabbage, throw until dunno which "leaf" is counted as the ball.
LOL!
And the tomatoes...=p
*Gonna recommend Durians and Watermelons next year.*

then we did prayer...Sort of an amazing race thing

Then dinner...

Then erm, 2nd Message
Haha, Pastor Soh:
"Very good.... But no tick!"

<>

O Levels over... Prom Update

2009-11-17T06:01:00.001-08:00

Haaha...
Hey,
O levels are over...

Now here's the weird part
I Don't feel free at all...
Strange isn't it?
To be told by your teacher's and friends and parents
To study hard, and play hard afterwards
But when its all over...
the only thing worth fighting for...
Freedom... Isn't there anymore

That's me...
*hope i'm not turning emo*
*like what Darren says " EMO kids don't get cuddling sessions*
(Sorry, inside joke)

YEah...
So i tried looking for a job today
several promising interviews...
Will tell you more next time

So....
Now, about the past few days
Not much
just looking for ads in the news paper
And...
er.
Xbox-ing... (Plenty!)
guitaring...
let's see...
Table tennis...
What else have i been doing?
Church
just plain reading...
haha

Like many people complain, its boring
But it ain't boring if you use your imagination =)
Creative and Flexible people do that... =)

Cool right?
Using your imagination... You can do ANYTHING!
but about prom...last night

Graduation Dinner '09 A.k.a PROM

I kinda reached there a little late....
Got a little lost
Missed the cocktail reception
Just in time for the event to start
Must admit everyone looked glam...
I looked to so "out of place"

haha

Left at around 11.30
Wished i left earlier...
Almost missed the last bus and train
haha

will post more
Got a volunteer work at pei hwa tomorrow
have to sleep early
ciao

Happy Birthday to me

2009-09-02T06:03:00.000-07:00

Today's the DAY!!!

HAHA...
First birthday in 4 years that i get to celebrate out of a camp!

Dunno whether to be happy, i still miss BB...

Yea,
Class sang a surprise birthday song for me today
Really touched, thanks J-ing...

you're gonna notice my posts getting shorter and shorter these few days...
Exams are here...gotta study =)

ciao...

- Staff Sergeant Jackie

September...Teacher's Day

2009-09-01T06:55:00.000-07:00

Whooo!!!
Teacher's day

i gotta say,
i'm pretty excited its September,
Haha, my birthday

MY 1st BIRTHDAY THAT I DID NOT CELEBRATE IN A BB CAMP FOR 3 YEARS!!!

exciting isn't it?

BTW, Halo: ODST is coming out on 22nd september!!!

haha...

teacher's day concert.
My friend thought it was awful
no offence, but for the Preamble, their lead singer was kinda nervous.
4E4's band, my friend thought they were better

It was only after i told him that he was like... " The Preamble's more experienced?"
His ears were like, bleeding after their performance, he said it was that awful... so sorry guys =(

I'll post more next time...
Prelims coming right up
GOD BLESS THOSE YFers TAKING O LEVELS THIS YEAR!!!
WE'RE GONNA MAKE IT!!!

- Staff Sergeant Jackie

august and...July

2009-08-01T07:57:00.000-07:00

Aw Crap
i didn't post for july
anyway...here's the big news

I've POPed
means Passing Out Parade
yep, i've passed out from my CCA
and from passed out, i don't mean faint

Its pretty sad, after you realise what the BB has done to your life for all this years
if i hadn't joined a UG...at least....i wouldn't know what kind of person i'd turn out to be now
Pampered? maybe...likely not.

Without BB, i wouldn't have known the church i attend now
It brought me back to my Christian Life
Pretty amazing
If God wants to save you, HE WILL.

yea

Anyway, i'm missing the BB already
A week away and i can't bear it
I'm actually bored.

Btw,
From the POP dinner
one of my seniors told me of someone who's selling a 2nd hand Epiphone AlleyKat
Wow

AlleyKats are known to be good enough to compete with high end Les Pauls.

I mean, an AlleyKat is a Semi Hollow electric
just like the DOT
But unlike the DOT, the base price is 800
this guy's selling it 500
Furthermore its an Korean made Alleykat
Only 1999 Epiphones are made in Korea, after that, all made in China
and china Epiphones are known to be awful, if not reliable

Its a really good buy
here's my problem
i don't know the condition of the guitar
and i don't have the cash now
therein, my demise...

*i seem to have a liking for Semi-Hollow Electrics...*

Hm,

oh, i'm not playing for teacher's Day anymore
don't think there's gonna be a band thing anyway

plus, i can play This Is Me now...hehe mastered the intro (actually, mastered it on the day i posted the last post)

Trying A Thousand Miles on Guitar now

Ciao
~SSG Jackie
Spartan 293
Praise and Worship Leader
Ex-BB Praise And Worship Leader

Stuff

2009-06-02T05:43:00.000-07:00

Hi there!

Holidays are here
This means more revision, need to catch up
and more time to JAM
hehe...

Watch the movie Camp Rock last Sunday
I MUST say, its one of those movies that i WANT to watch over and over again.
Really memorable
Like A Walk To Remember.

Its a good movie
One of those that reminds you of something
This movie reminded me of my love for music, and guitar.

You see, the song in the movie; This Is Me
I did a cover on the song once.
In fact, this was the first song i remembered doing a cover for.
And it was done because of a friend request

Before she asked me, i had no idea of what Camp Rock was (other than it was a new movie)
She only sent me an Piano Version of the song to try and figure it out on the spot
Had to tell you
I played around with a few chords

coincidentally, i figured out the song, but i didn't know this cause i haven't heard the full version

I only found out later after i searched the net for the song, that i realised that the chords i tried the other day, were in the wrong order, but correct key.
Which was pretty close in figuring out a song.

Haha,
till now, i still think its the best cover i've done
although it isn't completed (cause my MP3 ran out of memory)
and i returned the capo (which is required for the song) to my senior.
so i can't do another cover.
Although i can try to transpose it. But the chords are too troublesome to switch efficiently
And as a downside, the capo also increases the pitch a little.

Anyway, back to the movie
I love the camp
If there were such a camp, where all I gotta do is to learn performing tricks, compose songs and jam all day
I WOULD GO

sorta reminds me of the Church camp last year
Jamming in church at the camp for worship
i've yet to perform with a full band for non christian songs...
Hope to do it soon
Preferably, to perform on teacher's day performance.
I know i have my national exams this year
But i've already figure out the songs

I can already play the full song of Love Story (Including the Riffs),
So can my drummer
Vocalist, i've yet to find. But shouldn't be difficult.

I'm thinking of playing Breakaway by Kelly Clarkson too
Seeing its an easy song and virtually no riffs in that song.
As a plus, that song doesn't need much instruments to make it sound good.

I'm thinking of playing A Thousand Miles by Vanessa Carlton too
But the Piano in the song is a problem
Its doesn't sound difficult, neither does it sound easy.
Our REALLY gifted keyboardist in church says he can't play it.
But he knows another church keyboardist who can play the song.

And the last song i'm thinking of, Maybe...Just maybe;
This is Me by Demi Lovato
This is sorta my trademark song... my Favourite to play on the guitar (besides Breakaway)
Its a great song too,

this one, has pretty much some problems
I can play the Intro, with some difficulty.
The bridge riff, i haven't tried figuring out
I don't know who's gonna sing Joe Jonas' part in the song
Maybe me, haha, i sing for church band
But if school's the type that's sensitive about voice sounding, then maybe not.

Awww man...
I gotta brush up my guitar skills
Wanna reach Lincoln Brewsters Skill level (gifted)

So Long Ciao
~Staff Sergeant Jackie
~26th Coy Praise and Worship leader
~Squad Sergeant
~*Currently Not On XboxLiveGold*

I Got GEARS OF WAR 2!!!

2009-05-27T03:34:00.000-07:00

Hey guys
Its almost a picture perfect postcard.

Dear Sarge,

Kicking alien ass down on a distant underground location. Wish you were here. Blew up a Brumak today, lovely bloodbath, shot its brains out.

Love,
Sergeant Kirage

P.S. OH OH! We met a new boss, welding two chainsaws on a staff. Looks kinda weak...

Post of April...

2009-05-23T00:15:00.000-07:00

Hi guys,
I'm regular this time,
i try to churn out a post per month

I've decided, i'm getting the Epiphone DOT
the Les Paul Special II had the same rating and almost same problems as a Yamaha i borrowed from my senior. (Yes, i checked the reviews to compare them both)
Between that les paul and the Yamaha, i can't decide
and i don't really like the sound of the Yamaha.
Its good, but i've heard good guitars before, so no to this.

So i'm aiming for the DOT
it looks good too right?
the colour choices are:
Natural, Cherry Red, Black, Maybe blue...

1st Post of May, recounting April

2009-05-01T01:53:00.000-07:00

Hiya people

wanted to blog yesterday as a last post for April

MAJOR EVENTS FOR APRIL

- Promoted to Staff Sergeant (that's right fella's, its SSG Jackie NOW)

- Asked lots of questions about the electric guitar

(that's right folks, no more debate on whether to get a plug in acoustic or electric)

- Asked even more questions about MFX's and Analog pedals

(sorry, its GuitarLanguage)

- Choosing Amps (although there aren't many to choose, from my budget)

We had our enrolment parade/ Promotion on Easter day at church

The Praise and Worship team was supposed to perform, but didn't =(

We couldn't agree on rehearsal dates.

and also lots of other problems.

when i was promoted to Staff Sergeant,

the other sec 4's were all joking that the were finally of the "same rank" as Chuan Huat (RSM)

but we already knew he was going to be promoted to a Warrant Officer (WO)

but for that few minutes, WE WERE FINALLY THE SAME RANK AS HE WAS !!! hehehehe

then back to the electric guitar thing.

I did much research

borrowed a book from our school library

as the book was published in 1991

it only had history of guitars up to then.

but it was still interesting to read up on the history. learned many new things

- the famous guitar company Gibson laughed at Les Paul when he tried to show his invention the electric guitar (it used to be called an amplified guitar), calling it a broomstick with pickups.

- it was only a few months (or was it weeks?) later when another famous company Fender started churning out the a full solid-body electric guitar, did they realise that Les Paul's invention had potential after all.

- in an interview with Les Paul, he said when Fender started making full bodied electrics, Gibson

was like, "QUICK! find that guy with the broomstick and pickups on it!!!"

and...

- Did you know that Fender invented the Bass Guitar?

- That Gibson was never as successful at Bass guitars as with their other guitars?

- Did you ever realise that Ibanez was actually a company that got so good at making copies of high end guitars, they started making their own?

- Did you know that Ibanez is a Japanese brand? Like Yamaha?

all these cool facts about history! In that glorious book!!!

right, now to the electric guitar.

I need help choosing an electric guitar

one of my choices would be a Les Paul Special II

It looks almost like a regular Les Paul, it has the shape

i read the reviews,

It states that for a beginner guitar, it was definitely worth the money

it costs at about SG$ 299.60

(i haven't heard it yet, remember, all this are materials found on the net)

they say it sounds good on all kinds of distortion

with effects as well

here's a pic on it

And the second guitar, the Epiphone DOT

it looks great

and its the kind of guitar i would want

people on the net says its a great overall guitar,

built for live playing

but it doesn't sound good on distortion

the rest is good

but it also dents easily.

seeing its a semi-hollow

its a whopping SG$599.20

I'm gonna leave it to you guys out there to decide which guitar i should get

Please Leave A Tag Of Your Vote On What Guitar I Should Get

(it doesn't matter if you have no idea how it sounds, design matters too)

ciao

Will talk more on MFX's and Analog pedals on the next post, if i remember...

~ Staff Sergeant Jackie

~ BB26th Coy Praise and Worship Leader

Clone Trooper Lego Band

2009-03-13T06:24:00.000-07:00

Hey guys!

I built a lego band today

Members are from my Clone Trooper Squad

Here are the photos

Here's the Squad Leader on the Guitar!!! (Haven't decided whether he's playing lead or back-up yet...

Here's Scout On His Guitar!!! I know, the guitars here don't really look like the real deal,

BUT ITS THE CLOSEST I CAN MAKE IT!!!

This is Seth on The Drums... I know, some of them are wrong, I just can't find the correct bricks

And the blue thingy, that's the hi-hat.

Was too lazy to find the gold/ yellow version of that brick

Full band photo

I know, i'm not good in photos (its the first shot with the vocalist) That's Pilot as the vocalist

But believe me

I know the positions and what each represents,

Having performed in a real band before

hehe

so long

~SGT Jackie Tan

Praise and Worship Band Leader

Composition i typed out for class assignment

2009-02-15T00:46:00.001-08:00

Hey guys,
here's an essay i typed out for class.
don't know if its good
up to you guys to decide.
Please,
tell me if i should do i continuation,
on this blogsite, i meant
i'm still not sure

Here we go:

Essay:
Topic: Dumbfounded
Sweet revenge

Daniel hung his head to down in shame as another student from the academy walked past, portraying subservience and respect for the other. He had to keep up the pretense. Many would not have thought of how powerful and skillful he had grown in the past months after Shane had beaten him in the dueling ring, left him bleeding and close to unconsciousness there. He had been immediately taken to the medical center where he had spent the next two weeks healing. When he got out, the first thing that came to mind was that he wanted Shane to pay for all he did. He wanted him to hurt, to feel all the pain and humiliation that he had inflicted to him all the past months.

He may have wanted revenge, but swordsmen did have a code of conduct they had to follow at the academy and Daniel did most certainly not want to be expelled. Although Shane had been warned many times and had come close to killing a few students, many of those who had been defeated by him would not dare stand up to him.

The instructors liked Shane too. He was their pet student and all the instructors wanted to claim credit for the powerful swordsman that they had trained. Alas, the empire needed every knight they could to defeat a neighbouring land at war and could not afford to expel the best student, even if he was the worst behaved.

For the past months, Daniel had been pushing himself beyond his limits. At every dueling lesson, he paid crucial attention to the detail in the moves that their instructor was teaching. Every angle, detail and strength emphasized behind each blow or parry. He studied Shane’s movements and style every time he went into a dueling ring and defeated another opponent, slowly climbing his way up to the ranks of the Masters. Daniel carefully plotted his move, and the day that he would take Shane down.

Another student walked past, Daniel bowed his head down again in pretense. He smiled under his the hoods of his robes, victory was near, and Shane’s defeat was drawing close. He made his way towards the dueling ring, in anticipation for the lesson to start.

The clouds of gray gathered as the students in the academy formed a circle around the open ground. Moments later, raindrops started pelting their skin and robes. Their instructor for the day strode out and announced that it students could now call out their partners for dueling in the circle. Before anyone could call out, Daniel shoved his way to the front and shouted:

"Shane! I challenge you!”

There was a shocked murmur in the crowd and the reply “I accept” came.

Daniel stripped off his wet robe and drew his training blade. It was shaped like the hand-a-half sword that he preferred; only that it was severely blunted at all its sharp edges. Shane had entered the ring by then and too drew his sword, the same kind as the one that Daniel preferred, and stripped his robe off. Daniel faced him with hatred, wanting revenge, but careful to tread lightly. Revenge could blind him to common sense. He recalled what his instructor had taught him during their painful duels.

Never turn your back on your opponent

Both men circled the edge of the ring, waiting for an opening.

This time, it was Shane who initiated the duel, closing in the gap between them in a few strides; he brought his sword up from waist level, swinging it towards Daniel’s sword hand, hoping to end the duel early. Daniel deflected the blow easily with the pommel and parried the blow away. Both men backed off a few steps. And then the air was suddenly filled with sparks as both blades crossed each other in a flurry, neither gaining advantage of each other.

Daniel kept his fury within him, letting his instincts guide his sword. He could sense Shane’s frustration as he tried again and again without avail to break through Daniel’s defenses. The class gasped at his newfound skill. His instructor’s words rang in his mind again.

He, who stands like a pillar in combat, crumbles early!

He skipped away from Shane’s swing’s, some missing by mere inches, moving so fluidly and with each movement linking to each other so flawlessly he looked as if he were dancing. He kept the fury building, his sword flashing through the rain. He had enough of pretence, he was ready to show what he REALLY had learnt for the few months. He ducked under the attack meant for his head and made his switch to offence.

Speed is what determines the result of close-up combat, not strength

Then the crowd really gasped, for they had really never seen anything like it. Daniel’s blade was suddenly everywhere at once. A viper striking at every opportunity it could find. The hunter had, suddenly, become the hunted.

Shane’s face was crimson with embarrassment and frustration, suddenly looking as if he had an important meeting somewhere else.

Anywhere else.

Daniel wasn’t going to let him off so easily. Even with his newly revealed skills, Shane was still a formidable opponent. Shane could not break through his guard and neither could he break through Shane’s, although he was beginning see that the initial surge of attacking him had weakened Shane. His slashes were no longer strong, his thrusts no longer precise. It was only a matter of time before he made a – fatal miscalculation.

Daniel had enough, releasing all his pent up frustration and fury, he unleashed it in a single attack, swinging his blade in a circle and breaking Shane’s wrist upon impact. The swordsman barely had enough time to register the pain when Daniel brought his sword back, and plunged it like a knife into his leg.

Shane screamed as white bone split across the skin, jutting out from the flesh. Blood spilled across the floor. The instructor immediately rushed forward to administer help.

Shane looked up at him, pale with shock and dumbfounded.

Daniel grinned into the sky, his classmates stared, thunderstruck about the awesome duel they had witnessed.

Ah, he thought, sweet revenge!

1st post of the Year 2009

2009-02-02T03:04:00.000-08:00

Hi guys
I won't start off the first post of the year with sad stuff
although i did recieve something that struck me really hard
I will probably mention it later in another post.
But here.
Watch this Trailer about an upcoming movie:

Ciao...

Promotion to Sergeant =)

2008-12-31T23:25:00.000-08:00

Hey,
I'm a Sergeant!!!
A Squad Sergeant to BOOT!!!

And
My squad leader is now the CSM of the company!!!
YEAH!!!

~SGT Jackie Tan

QLC youth church camp (Aha!, not exactly the last post is it?)

2008-12-31T11:37:00.000-08:00

I arrived at the church at around 2 and met up with Nevin
He went for lunch, I joined him for a while,
then went to join the YFers at band practice.

Then the camp started
most of the BB boys hadn't arrived yet
Only me, Nevin and Joseph

We were split up into our own groups and went to play some ice-breaker games
I think, among all the groups for the camp
Our group was the only one without BB boys in it, to the exception of me (Cause i'm both BB and YF)

We had to choose our group names based on the letters of LOVE.
Our group name was Eunice
the same name as our group leader...lol
It was kinda amusing to see how she reacted to it.

Afterwards was dinner.
Most of the boys were kinda worried because the food IC (Elena) was a vegetarian
But... dinner was Subway.
I was my first Sub and i must say that it is kinda nice.

The assigned group did not do their duty of clearing up...

I took the liberty to clean everything up. Joseph kept asking why i had to do it.

(Hey! We're BB Boys! Its in our blood!)

I take it that the YFers were grateful

After dinner was free time and then...
MOVIES!

We watched the Dark Knight
It was pretty gross/cool

Like the part where the Joker says...
"Why does everyone freak out when they see me? How about a magic trick?"
He then flourishes a pencil in front of the mafia bosses. One of the bosses calls his men to take the Joker down
"I'm going," waves dramatically at the pencil and sets it upright on the table, "to make this pecil disappear."
The man grabbed the Joker on the shoulder...
The Joker grabbed HIS opponents shoulder and slammed the guy's head onto the pencil, the poor dude falls to the ground.
"See?" looking astonished, "its gone!"

There should be more bloody bits. I just try not to remember them.

I didn't exactly finish the full movie either,

I was up and around finding people and getting some of the boys who were coming in late for the camp. Cause we watched the movie after 9pm.

So the rest were like, coming late?

And, while wandering around, i found Nevin and Joseph practising for the Praise and Worship that the BB Praise and Worship team were supposed to do on the last day of the camp. They were singing the songs that we would be playing. I had asked Nevin last minute (only at the camp itself), to be one of the singers for our band. He's pretty good.

I joined them for a few songs and completed all our songs. Cleared most of the mis-understood parts or the songs.

After that, we went up to continue watching the movie.

towards the end of the movie, i think roughly, halfway through. Wei Kang arrived and i led him up to join us in the movie. Then Garrick arrived about the last 20 minutes of the movie and me and Wei Kang went to "usher" him in.

Wei Kang went back up first,

Garrick hadn't had his dinner so I told Christine (or was it Elena?) that we were going out to get something to eat and then left.

Garrick didn't want to eat food from the opposite market, it didn't look like it was open at this hour anyway. We hiked to Holland V for his dinner. On the way I sorta "briefed" him about the camp. We then talked about what I missed out for the last day on the Fancy Drill camp.

We got back in about 1/2 hour to 45 mins.

The movie had finished by then and the YFers were getting about with their showers.

Yan Keng had arrived too

I went up to see the YFers do one of their final rehearsals.

I went to shower and hopefully do my own rehearsal later.

But alas!

We had to sleep... =(

It was already 1+am by then

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I woke up,

actually, i woke up many times during the entire night.

It was far too cold to sleep.

I checked my watch, it said 5.30

"Ah heck," i thought, "Just get up, i don't feel like sleeping anyway."

I got up and went down,

Christopher and Gordon were already up.

Guess what they were doing?

Spamming buttons on their PSPs

Ai...

See the difference a PSP makes to your life?

I tried to take a shower, but failed. It was too bloody cold.

I did some 5bx on my own,

A bit of stretching and our traditional "push-ups"

I saw Steffi and Melissa already up. So was Jimmy

I sat around for a while, then thought of sleeping.

as upstairs was too cold,

I brought my sleeping bag down.

Rested it on the short table and tried to sleep.

Failed too, i decided to roll it up.

Then saw Melissa out as she had a Netball match later.

said bye.

Then Gordon left too

so did Joshua, i think.

Played on the playground swing till daybreak

Chatted with Christine and Steffi about some of my concerns for the camp (BB Boys, attitudes... stuff)

Then it was around 8 and we decided to wake the rest up.

heheh.

then,

BREAKFAST!!!

as usual, the other fellas were scared of vegetarian food again

But...

It was bread, kaya, peanut butter and bananas

I made a peanut butter and banana sandwich. Great tasting,

Then Gordon called me to do the projector for the YF praise and worship.

I did the clicking up in the "DJ room"

But got carried away and pressed the button late a couple of times.

SORRY GUYS!

I TOO DARN LOVE MUSIC!!!

BTW, you guys are GOOD!

Then we prepared to leave for Sentosa.

We had much fun in sentosa. Had packed lunch there courtesy of our food IC; Elena =)

Then we played the amazing race, was pretty funny

One of the stations was very humiliating... lol

I ended up with tic-tac-toe on my face.

Afterwards was free time.

I went cycling with;

Yuki

Clarence

Jimmy

Evie

Christine

Elena

I think Mavis too...

We went cycling, but

Elena and Christine went uber-ahead of us

Me and Yuki stayed behind with Jimmy, who lost touch with his cycling.

poor guy,

Poor us

Yuki was also hurt,

We was riding around without hands in circles,

and he fell down.

We returned the bikes an hour later....

Then went around playing and eating for the remaining 45 minutes.

Then we went back.

Got a nasty shock when Brandon told us he couldn't come back to help us with our rehearsal that night.

You see, Brandon's our drummer for that camp.

Our temporary replacement for Joseph,

Cause Joseph can't play most of the songs.

Then we decided to use Joseph for drumming, for the songs we knew only.

When we reached back,

Dinner was of BB style.

Outdoor cooking with mess tins...

loved it.

Chef-Of-Honor;

Me and Wei Kang

(Most of the other BB boys were usually on their PSPs or playing. i don't know about Nevin though)

Elena kept asking me if she was missing anything for the cooking...

Guess she never cooked our style before... heheh...

Should be an unforgettable event/experience for her.

We started cooking.

Other groups just cooked the stuff as they were

Me and my trusty Swiss-Army knife were there to help.

opening Packets of food or Mushroom cans.

Me and Wei Kang made omeletts(is it spelled correctly?)

So it was pretty delicious dinner.

Elena's group seemed to be having some trouble,

So me and Wei Kang went over to offer help (Well, it was her who actually asked for help)

They accepted, or at least, Elena and Elsie did.

We made our trademark omelett.

But it was taking too long...

I had to go at 8pm as my band members were pestering me to go for practice... =(

I didn't get to taste it

I didn't even help with clean up

WHAT KIND OF BB BOY AM I?

Later, Well...

Much to my surprise

Joseph learnt to improvise really well....

He learnt Tell The World...

We were practising really well...

Gordon was helping out with the sound stuff...

We played till One Way

And most of the YFers came up to join us for the outro of the song.

We then did more of Now That You're Near. Cause we really sucked at that song.

Then we decided to end our practice,

cause Christopher was itching to get off and play with the other YFers,

Nevin was dying

Joseph/Garrick/Me were tired

I went to play the instruments around for a while. Mavis and Darren came to join me, We played Hosanna.

Then Christopher later reminded me that i had to do the slides for our Praise and Worship for the next day. I spent all the way to 1am doing that kind of stuff.

Then i went to shower. It was FREAKIN' COLD

Nevin was then asleep hours ago

I then watched the Dark Knight, all the parts that I missed on the first day.

Elena was probably the only one who was asleep by then.

The guys were playing ball games in the same hall as she was and were making a hell of a noise, Had to tell them to tone down, they almost hit a sleeping Nevin once.

I finished with my slides, saved it. Showered

Found;

Yuki

Gordon

Christopher

Mavis.

They were preparing to sleep

I needed somewhere warmer to sleep.

They were thinking of the Sanctuary, the place where we do our Praise and Worship.

I grabbed my sleeping bag. Spent the night beside the Keyboards and Guitars.

(BTW, the carpet's pretty warm and comfy)

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I woke up the next day from a call from Brandon informing me that he was on his way to church.

Mavis also got up at that time.

The sun was streaming in and it was already 8.

But everyone was still asleep.

I went down to drink some water to calm my ulcer (It still hurts)

Gladys didn't look so well

Steffi came to ask if i had sweets

I asked, "Who's nauseous?"

Gladys

I quickly went round asking those who were awake for sweets.

Thanks goodness Jonathan woke up at that moment.

He had a bar of Mentos with him.

I gave it to a grateful Gladys.

She looked alright afterwards...

Then Elena woke up and came by asking

Then Breakfast!!!

Peanut butter, and then it was up for last minute rehearsals!!!

But...

due to setting up, powerpoint slides and stuff

We didn't have time to practice.

By then time everything was set up, the YFers had all arrived.

Darn! We only had 1 FULL REHEARSAL and there we were, playing

I meant, we did do guitar rehearsals before, but only 1 with Drums!

So i was pretty scared.

I have no qualms about standing in front of a crowd and singing,

I'm just afraid the band will be lost halfway in the song. Even though we devised hand signs the day before.

We started with "Tell the World" (You can listen to the song on my blog, it should be the 1st one)

It was an awkward beginning.

I still remember my exact opening words.

"Yan Keng, please put that away, i meant the PSP, " I had said...

the people around him had grins.

Then i asked them to stand, the usual stuff.

"Right, our 1st song will be Tell The World, so erm," I cast a glance behind at our Bassist, Garrick, "yep"

The bass drum started

The Bass guitar entered. 2 cycles

All guitars come in. 4 cycles

Ready? I gave Nevin the thumbs up

F# D C#

Don't want to stand here and shout Your praise

And walk away and forget Your name

I'll stand for you if it's all I do

Cause there is none that compares to You

And all I want in this lifetime is You

And all I want in this whole world is you, is you

YEAH! C'MON! TELL THE WORLD!

Tell the world that Jesus lives

Tell the world that, tell the world that!

Tell the world that he died for them

Tell the world that he lives again!

(I messed up the interlude part i think)

No longer I but Christ in me

Cause it's the truth that set me free

How could this world be a better place?

But by thy mercy, by thy grace

And all I want in this lifetime is You
And all I want in this whole world is you, is you

Tell the world that Jesus lives
Tell the world that, tell the world that!
Tell the world that he died for them
Tell the world that he lives again! (x2)

C'mon, c'mon we'll tell the world about You (x6)

(Chorus)

C'mon, c'mon we'll tell the world about You

Tell the world that,

Tell the world that (x4)

About You!

"Our next song will the Blessed be Your name."

We had no problems with this song, except that the drummer was slow at the beginning, but he caught on really fast and we were OFF!

"Right," *coughs*," As you can see from the slides, our next song is "Till I See You"

This song was done beautifully, Drummer was good,

This song also required the most amount of improvisation.

Towards the ending, we were not sure of how to end, we actually started at the Chorus again before realising that the YFers did not have the lyrics to the next slide, so i ended it right there, pretty awkwardly.

"Hehe, " Nervously glances at the audience, "'Now that you're near' guys"

1...

2..

Hold me in Your arms

Never let me go

I want spend eternity with You...

This one was good,

personally,

Its my favourite of all the Hillsong songs.

Its fast and focuses on acoustic

The final song. One Way, was pretty confident by then to do a little dancing

I swapped Joseph with Brandon for drumming for this song as Joseph knows what i'm up to, my preferences.

It sounds exactly like the one on this blog's music player.

The ending was very good.

Then our worship was done.

We went on with some reflection on the past few days and then spent the rest of the days playing games. The YF band and me occassionally played songs when there was free time.

Then it was break camp and Josiah wanted to see me and the Comittee for debrief.

We had to see what didn't really go well

Bye

I gotta go for my BB promotion/ Birthday party

I Will get promoted

like i said in the previous post

The last post for 2008 (Probably)

2008-12-31T11:00:00.000-08:00

Hi guys
To top the last few days
Christmas
Last minute band practices
Last minute meetings for the church camp
Fancy Drill camp
QLC youth camp

So here.

I'm back from my 3 day QLC camp.
the last week of december was pretty hectic.
I didn't have much time
luckily i completed all my homework a week earlier.
i'll let you know my schedule for the past week

Monday - Fancy drill practice and church camp meeting in the afternoon

Tuesday - Band practice for the church camp.

Wednesday - Was supposed to be the birthday party, but it was moved to another date, so i'm free on that day

Thursday - Christmas, didn't do much except going out to church for volunteer work and CIP hours.

Friday - Started our fancy drill camp

Saturday - continued with the camp, i left at night cause my parents want me to rest before going to the church camp.

Sunday - Started with the church camp. (WAS VERY FUN)

Monday - Went to sentosa, Outdoor cooking at night

Tuesday - Broke camp, Band performance was at the morning.

So you can see, especially the last 5 days, i have been very busy.
I didn't even have the time to buy my Christmas present.
In fact, i didn't feel a need to buy one at all.
I have changed...

I shall start with Monday (the first monday you see up there)

I went for the chruch camp meeting and saw the YFers doing their band practice for the camp.
I did a recording of their songs...
It was very funny
Then i joined them for a casual version of One Way.
They behaved like a punk rock band for the song.
Cool.

Tuesday was my own band practice
Our drummer couldn't make it
so we used our ex-drummer (Joseph)
We did One Way, blessed be Your name with the drums
the rest were acoustic and electric.

Wednesday was just homework and preparation for camp.

Thursday was Christmas
I did a little volunteer work and for come CIP hours by delivering rice and oil to places around the surrounding areas.

Friday was the start of my BB Fancy Drill camp. (CCA open house preparation camp)

Saturday, continued with the camp. i left early cause for the camp the next day

I'll post about the church camp in another post...

2008-12-09T23:20:00.001-08:00

Reporting

2008-12-09T20:23:00.001-08:00

Hi guys,
I know i've not been blogging for the past one month.
So here,
I'll just give something brief.
Which is sort of a joke...
Since none of my posts are kinda short.

So here.
I think i'm pretty profecient in my guitaring right now.
I can play almost any song you throw at me.
Provided that i like it.
and that the songs has a pattern to it.
cause i tried to play "I Am" by Hitomi from Inuyasha.
And the chords changed too fast.
Also, no specific pattern to follow.

Another song that's hard to follow. Although it has a pattern... would be:
Part Of Your World by Skye Sweetnam.
But its a ROCKIN' good song!!!

I should do a cover on it.
BTW does anyone know how to upload download links up on blogs.
Like a download link to download a song...
To download a song that you uploaded yourself.
tell me if you can find one
Thanks.

Btw.
We have started our band practices.
at Joseph's place.
Though most of our band members are kinda not regular.
Say... Yan Keng.. Or Jerome,
even if they come, both have their problems.
Yan Keng - Plays Wii
Jerome - Plays XBox

but on overall.
we can play 2 songs now:

Blessed be your name,
and One Way. (the song that's playing on the music player on my blog)

It sounds okay.
Considering that Joseph learnt drumming for that song in 2 days. which was kinda fast in my opinion.
If i can, I'll record and upload...
I just need a programme to upload stuff and post a download link on my blog. ONLY.

Now...
We need a band name.
I got a few.
But among all i think "Addition" still makes sense.
Our "band manager" Benjamin thinks its wise to choose a name that reflects us.
Kinda.
What does the name Addition tell about us?
Well, the band started off with just Benjamin and me.
Then Benjamin left.
Garrick joined
Joseph joined.
Jerome and Yan Keng *kinda* joined.

So in a way... our band isn't always the 5 or 4 or 3 people we have now.
Its a add-on of interested people.

But "Addition" sounds a little... I don't know... Corny?
So Joseph suggested:

26th Theory
or something with Theory behind...

Hm...
But i'd rather take a name that doesn't really associate ourselves with 26th coy.
although its quite okay...
but i'd rather not associate names with other organisations.
It just doesn't sound original.
and, if we were ever to break out,
What would people think of the word 26?
"Why 26?" They would ask.
Then comes the tedious task of explaining.

So a few more weeks of thinking and i came up with:
Astray Add-On

I know, it sounds kinda extreme.
but lots of people have approached me to ask if they could join my band.
but for now. Its strictly a BB band.
No outsiders,
although it MAY change in the future.
So applicants! Don't worry, we might be open in the future!

That's why the word "Astray".
Another reason:
I actually had this crazy idea of taking anyone, who, can or cannot play a musical instrument, but are interested, to our band. And then teaching them an instrument.
Something like Hillsong, who has at least 10 and up to 20+ members on the stage on any one time.

Add-on is just another word for addition.
although it does stray away from the real meaning of the word.
But...
you still get the idea.
I just thought that Astray Addition would only mean one person would be an "astray"
then if it were changed to Astray Addition"s" it would look...
Hey, its actually...kinda okay...

but nevermind.
here's this post's challenge:
I need a band name.
Suggest anything, as long as it ain't obscene.

gotta go.
bye.
ciao!

OH YES!!!
ANYONE interested in signing up for the QLC church camp, come find me!
I'm posting this here cause some of the seniors don't know when it is.

bye...
-SGT Jackie (Technically a Sergeant. HQ recognises me as one. i saw it in the attendance list)
~PRAISE AND WORHSIP BAND - LEAD POSITION
~SPARTAN T93/280708/293

The following update about the AEM aeronautics and Today's X08!!!

2008-10-25T02:19:00.000-07:00

Woah,
For the past few days.
I've been going to the AEM aeronautics.

Its teaching us on what we can do on designing planes.

I've got some photo's,

So i'll just upload some to let you guys see

Us trying out our plane in the Singapore Poly Field. There were some students watching us from the cafeteria.

Were checking out the parts of the plane and how it works. Here you see the Tail, which comprises of the rudder, and the elevators.

*Notice that there's another mini elevator flap cut into the bigger elevator, that's for tuning.*

Aha! This is the Control Panel. Pretty Cool Huh?

This is the Pulley Mechanism that runs the Ailerons. (In case you don't know what that is, the ailerons are the parts the control the roll and turning of the plane)

I've got more pictures. But i'll show them some other time. Friggin' blogger is hard to put the images up.

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So here we are.
Today i went to X08

In case you don't know what that is, you need a reality check

*just kidding*

Its the Xbox convention/ Exhibition of the year.

It show cases all the new and latest stuff for the Xbox, and plenty of freebies too!

Lemme see if i can find some pics.

Ah, I like this one. Many people playing. LOL.

Next one...Hmmmm...

There was a "Rock Band" competition down there. And i don't mean a real rock band competition. I meant a competition of the game "Rock Band"

AAAANNNDDD....

While i was one my way back to tuition center, look what i found?

Its an Toyota AE86 Trueno!!! And from where the picture was taken, you'll see that it was from Jurong East!!! These cars aren't even in production anymore!!! They're one of the best drifting cars a professional must have.

A close up of the picture:

You can zoom in and see, it has the words Trueno on the front. Its an authentic. OMG!

And on the Right side, (i didn't take a photo of the right side) it has the exact same words that you'll see on Takumi's car. (The guy from initial D)

Something i found posted in a youtube page...

2008-10-14T06:40:00.000-07:00

Look at this guys:

"No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good. A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is. After all, you find out the strength of the German army by fighting against it, not by giving in. You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down. A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness - they have lived a sheltered life by always giving in. We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it: and Christ, because He was the only man who never yielded to temptation, is also the only man who knows to the full what temptation means - the only complete realist."- C.S. Lewis

Halo update

2008-10-11T01:42:00.000-07:00

Hey! HEy! HEY!!!

On 10 October 2008
Bungie Studios released the official announcement trailer of their new game.
Get that?

ANNOUNCEMENT TRAILER

Which means that they're creating a new game!
YES!
Its called Halo 3: Recon

Here's the trailer:

YEAH!

And look!
On another day in the same week,(possibly the same day)
Ensemble Studios released an exclusive scene from their newest game Halo Wars.
Halo Wars is the first ever game created by another company other than Bungie Studios and its also the first ever Halo Real-Time Strategy game. (Think Halo, and StarCraft)

Here's video. Awesome stuff. *BTW, The AI (Artificial Intelligence) is called Serina. LOL.

HALO 3'S ANNIVERSARY!!!

2008-09-25T06:58:00.001-07:00

TODAY IS HALO 3'S ANNIVERSARY!

HAPPY HALO 3 DAY!!!

LOL!

In case some of you don't know, Halo 3 is the Explosive Conclusion to the world's greatest Science-Fiction XBox game EVER!

25th September 2007 -was the date the game was released.
It broke the record that Spider-man 3 took for the "Biggest Media Release" in terms of sales

If you want, i'll elaborate why i'm so obsessed and the background story next time.
Hopefully...

-CPL JACKIE
~PRAISE AND WORHSIP BAND LEAD POSITION
~SPARTAN T93/280708/293

Drifting, Lesson 1

2008-09-16T06:52:00.000-07:00

Here we go,
I'm back again.
This time, i'm gonna talk about drifting.
Yep,

Drifting,
What is it?
Most people consider it a form of driving
Others, A form of ART.
The Truth?
Its Both.

You require both dexterity and the ability to multi-task to execute a good drift.
Real life drifting is nothing like what the video games offer,
and i'm not talking about graphics and the "feel"
Its nothing like the real thing as in;
The ways the video games let you execute drifts are all so unreal, or novice.
They don't let start drifts the way the real world to.

In the world of drifting.
There are 3 components when going for official races that allow drifts
First.
The first kind of category of competition is "Drift competition".
The objective of this?
Its to drift the best you can.
These are usually the judging criteria:
- Amount of tire smoke.
- Point of initiating the drift and keeping it (especially for early initiations- they will give you lots of points)
- Loudness of Audience applause.
These competitions are for the "Show" and "Entertainment" factors

Second.
Would be speed.
Objective?
Keeping your speed, pretty much just racing - and including drifts in it.
This category of drifting is to show the judges on how you manage your speed when you enter and how you maintain that speed when you exit the drift.

Lastly
It would be... I'm not sure what you call it, but its something to do with...
Ah, its called synchronised drifting. *I think?*
Objective is to...
Keep your racing line with the lead driver and overtake him when:
- He slows down
- You see an opening
You lose when:
- You get too far away from him.
- You got out of synch and that will lose points for you.
Acceptable overtakes only occurs when you Overtake an opponent at a turn and not forcing or manipulate your opponent to give way for you to overtake.

Why I say that video games, even the simulation ones, are unreal compared to the real one?
Its because they lack the clutch.
(I hear many people wondering what a clutch is)
A clutch is a pedal for a Manual Driven car, used when a driver needs to shift gears.
When you press the clutch pedal, the gears are released from the wheel,
therefore, you don't accelerate, no matter how hard you hit your accelerator.

But, the thing people don't know,
is that the clutch can be very useful in initiating drifts.
See,
one of the ways professionals use to initiate drifts would be to
- Hit the clutch to release the grip on the accelerator.
- Keep your accelerator pedal pressed down.
(When the clutch is released from the gears and the accelerator keeps going, the engine RPM goes up)
- Depress the brake gently to slow the car and turn slowly.
- Release the clutch.
(What the tires will do now when they're hooked up to a high RPM engine is that they will suddenly accelerate to speed beyond your current driving speed)
- This induce a grip loss and the car is able to swing out better.

The above technique is called the "clutch kick"
That's only one of the methods of starting a Drift.
Maintaining the drift is another lesson you'll have to learn.
Pulling out from a drift is also another lesson you'll have to learn.
But for now, that's all i'm going to write.
I'll talk about drivetrains in my next lesson.

-CPL Jackie
~Spartan T93/280708/293
~BB 26thCoy Praise and Worship Band leader - Lead position

Power can be a downfall

2008-09-15T07:16:00.001-07:00

Hi guys

People sometimes say, that if we were gifted with too much power, we may soon turn to abusing it.

It is inevitable to almost anyone.

It will happen. Because that once we recieve that power, we will slowly grow to crave it.
Although we would feel awkward with so much responsibility at first,
situations that arises will force you to use that authority of yours to settle them down.
Situations such as when:

Friends with other positions similar and lower to yours might pressurize you to use the power to help them solve a problem. Such as keeping your juniors quiet and for them to behave during a camp.

I've almost fallen into that trap before.

What happened was the juniors were all pretty much noisy, and a fellow friend told me to use my power to keep them under my control.

I won't shout at my juniors, not unless neccessary.

Have you ever read the Aesop Fable about the Sun and the Cloud?
Both of them were debating on who was stronger.
The Cloud saw a traveller and chellenged the Sun that the first "person" to get the man to take his cloak off, would be the stronger one.
The Cloud started first, it blew hard at the traveller
What is was trying to do was to blow the cloak off the guy.
But as the Clouds gathered more wind and gale to blow the Cloak off,
The traveller held on to his cloak more tightly than ever.
Soon, the Cloud gave up and told the Sun it was his turn.
The Sun went over and shone with all his might,
The man was surprised and relieved at the sudden change in weather and continued walking.
After a while, he began to get hot and took off his cloak to in the hot weather.

Moral Of The Story?
-The Cloud was the one using brute force to make the man take off his cloak.
-The Sun only used his gentle rays to "persuade" the man into taking off his cloak.
-Among the two of them, the one who didn't use brute force was the one who WON

Translate it into the above situation:
I will not shout or use uneccessary force on my juniors because i believe in not forcing them to do things. I'd rather coax them into doing it.

Which was why, for my SDC camp, I didn't use shouting as a form of control at all.

And I Still Managed To Run The Camp Smoothly...

See the difference?
See what i was trying to prove?

Which is why what CPL Yan Keng said the other day made a lot of sense.
Captain asked him if we should hold a promotion camp.
His reply?
"No, It is because the Sec 3's are simply lusting after their Sergeants ranks. Which is the reason why they want this camp."

I Half -heartedly agree with him.
It is because i still want to remain a corporal,
But if i become a Sergeant,
I'll have power to MAKE A DIFFERECE.

Power is meant to by used correctly and not abusively.
People abuse power in/when:

-They ask you about the situation when they won't even tell you what was happening in another similar situation some time ago.
- Arrogance

Its hard to spot arrogance,
some of us might not even know about it until it slaps us in the face...
When you piss people off, then you'll know that you did something wrong...
Or unpopular.

That's all i can write about now. For now,
Just follow this guide-lines,
Fill your heart with compassion
And let God guide you...
Bye.

-CPL Jackie
~Spartan T93/280708/293
~BB26 Coy Praise and Worship Band- Band leader/ Lead position

My Birthday

2008-09-10T06:39:00.000-07:00

Wow,
The September holidays,
come and gone,
fast... ain't it?
(Almost no days to do homework...)

Well, 5 days of the camp were already spent on our CQ preperation camp, and another CE camp.
I was the CE camp commandant.
But overall, i didn't find it that hard. (No insult)
My birthday was celebrated during the camp, along with 3 other boys who recently had their birthdays.

It was already a birthday gift to know that we made history on that day.
Earlier that day, during lunch,
one of the instructors told us of the many funny groundbreaking situations when he was in the Boys Brigade.
He mentioned that his squad made history doing something really funny and incredibly dumb. Actually quite worth recording down, if i could just darn remember what it was.
He also mentioned that scarcely, later, that although the sun looked bright now, it might be raining later.
I said:
"Touch wood" With a grin...
And he went on to mention that if it did rain, and we were stuck barbequeing out there in the rain, then... HISTORY WILL BE MADE (In our style, I meant)

Well, to us, doing something "Incredibly Dumb and Funny and getting ourselves in Groundbreaking Situations" deemed making history for us.
Well. Fact is,
We spent the whole early afternoon till late evening preparing the barbeque.
Hold on guys,
That's not the GROUNDBREAKING thing.
The GROUNDBREAKING thing was that we did it in the HEAVY RAIN...
So that means:
No breaks, No Reservations, No Hard Feelings, Not much dry food, Plenty of Slippery Floors.

In fact, i think i understand how hard it is to be like a waiter now.
I was the one carrying the cooked food, sheltering it with my body and other paper plates and bringing it indoors for our juniors to enjoy.
While our juniors were watching TV, we were out doing barbeque in the rain.
But i don't really blame them.
After the "Not-So-Unpleasant-Experiences" we had for the past 2 years.
We thought that we would be better off doing it our own, the Sec 3 way.
We were pretty much the last ones to start eating

After that, was clean up period.
Well, not really clean up.
It was the Birthday celebrations first.
Then clean-up
Well, also not really clean-up.
It was more of toasting to each of our birthdays ( YUUUUUUMMMM.....SEEEEENGGG!!!!!)

*Actually it was an excuse to clear the water jug, it was still nearly full, but good excuses. Anyway, who'll refuse a cool free drink (And water parade) and a chance to slack off?*

So there, I got my shirt wet cause I Andrew splashed me with juice.
Dang.
The other birthday boys were also splashed. After me.
But since i'm the camp commandant...

Lucky Number One I Guess

We watched digimon movies on Wei Kang's laptop.
Then fell asleep.
Then the camp was over.

The next few days.
Spent going out to help with church activities.
and cooping up at home doing homework and plenty of
JAMMING!

K.

Then school starts
and we're back to our hectic schedule.

Before i sign off...
I'd like to Thanks Josiah from Church from helping me find and tell me the timing of instructors for the CE camp.

And GUYS?
WATCH THIS VIDEO:

GOD BLESS!

-CPL Jackie
~Spartan T93/280508/293
~BB 26th Coy Praise and Worship Band Leader

Ciao!

Ps. I'll start posting stories in episodes in my next post onwards. Most likely about Star Wars

Teacher's day rehearsal - First band practice that involves the electric guitar

2008-08-27T06:33:00.000-07:00

Right guys, this is what's up
I stayed back after school today for guitar lessons and practice with yan keng.

Anyway, this morning, they made this delightful announcement that the new books that we had requested, the library had bought. I went there after lunch, and to my utmost disappointment, i didn't find the books that i had requested.
But i found some other good books too!

But before that,
We watched Transformers in our class for BASICS
and we celebrated birthday's for the past few months.
I was the acting guitarist.

Then after Transformers,
There were pretty much lots of people who i think have not watched the movie yet, cause they were squealing at every scene that looks cool to me.

Right, back to the topic
After Transformers, the class left before teacher could release us all.
So i stayed back, to fool around with my guitar
Was really bored and i didn't want to be involved with the noise in the BB room, since they were rehearsing for the teacher's day performance.

So, like this:
I stayed in the classroom, at my seat,
and played at my friend's requests, like the songs that they want.
The songs i played are, i think:

- Picture of You
- The Great Escape
- Save Tonight (didn't complete the playing the song)
- The Call

Then those bunch of girls left and me, Suyi, and Reena remained in the class.
Suyi was listening to her music and then she stopped and came over
Then she made me play the same songs i played just now, plus:

- Welcome to my life
- Perfect world
- Your love is just a lie
- Now that you're near
- One Way

And then Reena shut down the computer she was using and came over, and said that the "Your love is a lie" was pretty nice.

By then i was pretty much in a rush, so i just played one round of the simple plan song and
- Breakaway
And they said it was really good.
Then she asked a question that made me really happy:
"Are you performing for teacher's day?"

And usually, when people ask you this question, they probably think you will/ got the guts to go up on stage or, play very well, in their point of view.

LOL, then afterwards, went to BB room to put my bags down
they were clearing up the room
So i quickly eat and went to the library.
Then i saw Angelina, she was reading a book, and i thought best to say hi to her
i kinda forgot what she did,
but it was pretty amusing,
i mean,
SHE REMINDED ME SO MUCH OF MYSELF!

Whenever I read a book, i usually don't like people around me to disturb. The usual reaction will be to ignore, or just act like you're listening. Or to eliminate the trouble.

SHE DID JUST THE SAME! (except the elimination part)

Well, anyway, went to the library,
Saw the new books,
was disappointed, didn't find the halo books.
RATS
BUT I FOUND STAR WARS INSTEAD.
PWNS!

YAY!!

but i didn't borrow any of 'em
so i went back to the BB room,
passed by Angelina again.
Decide to test her, just, in, case, she was faking it...
well, no difference.
I was almost awed...
Maybe,
but i don't really see her reading often,
as in, i don't see her as the reading type.
But, haha, looks can be decieving,
and you shouldn't judge a book by its cover (BOOKS? GEDDIT?)

Then i watched the teacher's day rehearsal
not bad,
won't say it was good too
only 2 of the bands were good
as in, i liked 'em
especially the last one.

So practiced until benjamin came at 5
Then played Save Tonight on the guitar
along with his electric
whoah, had lots of fun
we were like a real band, just missing the drummer and vocalist
i was playing backup guitarist.
Benjamin was lead.
Yan Keng was bassist.

AWESOME.
almost sounded like the real thing.
So that's all,
won't be writing anymore,
its late.

- CPL Jackie
- Spartan T93/280708/293
- BB Praise and Worship band - Lead position

Finished The Fight

2008-08-25T05:38:00.000-07:00

I've Finally Completed Halo 3

August 24, 21 45 hours

YEAH!

Its such a dramatic ending,

expecially the part where Chief rescues Cortana.

And also when Chief fulfils Sergeant his death wish, by allowing him to die on the Ark instead of being brought back to Earth after being wounded by 343 Guilty Spark in a fight.

I'll put an extract of what I've played

Spartan T-93 Mission Log:

Time 2008, August 24, (unknown time)

Level: Halo - Control Room scene

Spartan T-93 walks over to the entrance, the flood forms all falling around him. Rifle spitting out their armour piercing rounds at speeds of 15 rounds per second. Arbiter was by his side, taking down the Tank forms with the constant booming of his Fuel Rod Cannon.

True, they were being overwhelmed. This was certainly one of the worst times they had faced the flood together, the last being the rescue of Cortana. T-93 was relieved to have her back, but still annoyed at her usual chatter.

He deplyed his Automatic turret in desperation, trying hard to take advantage of his extra "ally" for just an extra minute. It took care of a few flood, long enough for both the Arbiter and the Spartan to reload their weapons.

But their elation was short-lived, a regular combat form swung an arm and transformed their auto cannon into a pile of molten scrap. At this point, both were spraying the rounds all over the place in desperate counter-strike.

However, the duo prevailed and the many flood forms that had tried to take their lives, lay dead at their feet.

"C'mon you lub-lubbers! We got work to do!" Sgt. Johnson hollered from the doors that the group were so desperate to break through.

343 Guilty Spark hovered over and opened the doors with a short burst of its blue optical lasers. The doors opened and the duo trudged into, wary of anyone- thing waiting in ambush.

The final door opened for them, and they stepped into beyond.

Ahead of them, was the control room.

Chief ejected Cortana's chip from his helmet and threw it towards Johnson. He then turned to guard the door.

"I'm not gonna lose her again...," he muttered as he walked over to the control panel.

_________________________________________________________________

343 Guilty Spark trails over, it flared blue and announced in a happy tone:

Oh! Hello! Wonderful news! The installation is almost complete!

Johnson continues walking, "Terrific..."

"Yes, isn't it? I have begun my simulations. No promises, but initial testings have indicated that the facility will be ready to fire, in just a few more days!"

"We Don't have a few more days!" Johnson shot back.

"Bu..bu...But, a premature firing will destroy the Ark!"

"Deal with it"

"You destroy this installation..."

_________________________________________________________________

Chief was looking the other way, he never say it coming, until the very scream of Johnson told him that something was wrong.

343 Guilty Spark was now against them.

His first instinct was to check on Johnson and to question Spark. He had no doubt that all his weapons would be ineffective on it. As proven on their first encounter.

"Unacceptable! Absolutely unacceptable!" Spark was bellowing, it had taken a reddish glow.

A red beam of light, as opposed to the blue one that 343 Guilty Spark normally used fired from its optical lasers and blasted the Spartan off his feet. His shields had been completely drained from that single attack and every muscle in his body burned.

"Protocol dictates action! I see now that helping you was wrong!"

The Arbiter wanders round the corner, wondering what all the commotion was about. Spark blasts him to the ground. Chief attempts to stand, his armour still smoking from its recent beating.

343 blasted him again. He dropped to one knee.

"You are a child of my makers, inheritor of all they left behind," 343 had turned back to blue,"You are, A Forerunner."

Chief looked up, Spark was almost face to face with him. "But this Ring..." His colouring morphed to red,"is mine..."

_________________________________________________________________

343 Guilty Spark emitted a force field that shoved off the Spartan and the Arbiter off their feet. Both tried firing at the Monitor, which had no other effect other than a bemused response.

"Your weapons cannot harm me! I will not allow you to reach the activation panel!"

Somewhere behind Spark lay Johnson. Using the remainder of his strength, he lifted up his Spartan Laser, and hefted it. "Not today sucka," he coughed.

A bright red beam, similar to the one that the monitor had used on them blasted from the barrel of the Spartan Laser, stopping the monitors force field and knocking it to the ground.

"Here, take this," said Johnson, shoving the cannon into Chief's hands.

Chief took hold of the Spartan laser, each shot took 20% of the battery and it required 5 seconds charging time. A laser sighting appeared and rested itself upon Spark.

A single bright red beam erupted from the end and knocked 343 Guilty Spark to the ground, again. He started to get up when the 2nd blast knocked it onto the ground again.

Spark managed to lift off the last time before the final red beam struck it dead center on its central eye. Spark gave one more high pitched scream before a bright blue explosion took it apart.

343 Guilty Spark existed no more.

Chief knelt down beside the dying Johnson. "C'mon, I'll get you outta here."

"No, i want my final resting place to be here, send me out...with a bang. And chief, fulfil this one last promise..."

Chief nodded.

"Promise...That there will be a sequel, that there will be a Halo 4... Let's start...another fight..."

Hi again

2008-08-20T03:47:00.000-07:00

Here we are,
The exams are now OVER! (for me, that is)
So, i've got a few surprises up my sleeve,
Won't talk too much about it,
You'll come to know about it soon...(I think...?)

Yep, so
Hmmm, Any questions now?
Anything to blog about?

Oh Yes!
I finally got my XBox 360
After 2 years of waiting!

I've got the following games:

Gears Of War
Quake Wars: (something...)
Halo 3! (YES! WHO CAN FORGET ABOUT MY FAVOURITE GAME SERIES OF ALL TIME! GREAT STORYLINE! GOGOGOGO. HALO PWNS, OWN...WHATEVER!)

I've almost completed Gears Of War, but stopped... cause i realised that creating an XboxLive account would delete everything i achieved so far.

Same goes for Halo 3,
But i still continue with playing, cause its easier to play and complete the levels than Gears Of War.
There's another reason...

My Blue Spartan keeps running off with my controller...(guess he's addicted too, can't blame him, he's been waiting for the game for so long.)

Plus!
I made a new friend today
Well, not exactly,
I meant,
I already know her name, and stuff today... Soooo...
I don't think i can count it as making a new friend

So long guys,
I think i'll reveal the surprise at my next post or the one after that....
adios

-Cpl Jackie
~ Spartan T93/280708/293
~ BB Praise and Worship Band leader - Lead position

Waiting for the Third Stripe... Waiting for the Third Stripe... Waiting for the Third Stripe... Waiting for the Third Stripe... Waiting for the Third Stripe... Waiting for the Third Stripe... Waiting for the Third Stripe... Waiting for the Third Stripe... Waiting for the Third Stripe... Waiting for the Third Stripe... Waiting for the Third Stripe... Waiting for the Third Stripe... Waiting for the Third Stripe... Waiting for the Third Stripe... Waiting for the Third Stripe... Waiting for the Third Stripe... Waiting for the Third Stripe... Waiting for the Third Stripe... Waiting for the Third Stripe... Waiting for the Third Stripe... Waiting for the Third Stripe... Waiting for the Third Stripe... Waiting for the Third Stripe... Waiting for the Third Stripe... Waiting for the Third Stripe... Waiting for the Third Stripe... Waiting for the Third Stripe... Waiting for the Third Stripe... When will I get my Sergeant?!

New SKin

2008-08-18T04:09:00.000-07:00

Hi Guys,
Sorry for not posting in SUCH A LONG TIME
but there's much to do and plenty to see...

Ah,
Betcha most of you have noticed my new skin
well lots of things have happened in the past few months
(notice my new signature at signing off messages now?)

But i'm not really free right now (And these few days),
so i won't elaborate more than just talk about me with my changed blogskins
and stupid exams

Ah, (Or is it Argh?)
the stress of exams

Good thing L is there to keep me company.

-CPL Jackie
~Spartan- T93/280708/293
~Praise and Worship Band Leader (Playing Lead position)

The Dark Is Generous...

2008-06-11T02:30:00.000-07:00

This is an extract of Darkness from a book i was reading...

You might find it interesting

Part 1

The dark is generous.
Its first gift is concealment: our true faces lie in the dark beneath our skins, our true hearts remain shadowed deeper still. But the greatest concealment lies not in protecting our secret truths, but in hiding from us the truths of others.
The dark protects us from what we dare not know.
Its second gift is comforting illusion: the ease of gentle dreams in night’s embrace, the beauty that imagination brings to what would repel in day’s harsh light. But the greatest of its comforts is the illusion that dark is temporary: that every night brings a new day. Because it is day that is temporary.
Day is the illusion.
Its third gift is the light itself: as days are defined by the nights that divide them, as stars are defined by the infinite black through which they wheel, the dark embraces the light, and brings it forth from the center of its own self.
With each victory of the light, it is the dark that wins.
___________________________________________________________________
Part 2

The dark is generous, and it is patient.
It is the dark that seeds cruelty into justice, that drips contempt into compassion, that poisons love with grains of doubt.
The dark can be patient, because the slightest drop of rain will cause these seeds to sprout.
The rain will come, and the seeds will sprout, for the dark is the soil in which they grow, and it is the clouds above them, and it waits behind the star that gives them light.
The dark’s patience is infinite
Eventually, even stars burn out.
___________________________________________________________________
Part 3

The dark is generous, and it is patient, and it always wins.
It wins because it is everywhere.
It is in the wood that burns in your hearth, and in the kettle on the fire; it is under your chair and under your table and under the sheets on your bed. Walk in the mid-day sun and the dark is with you, attached to the soles of your feet.
The brightest light casts the darkest shadows.
___________________________________________________________________
Part 4

The dark is generous, and it is patient, and it always wins –but in the heart of its strength lies weakness:

One lone candle is enough to hold it back.
Love is more than a candle.
Love Can Ignite The Stars.

___________________________________________________________________

HillSong Concert

2008-06-01T03:27:00.000-07:00

about the hillsong concert,
it rocked
Awesome,
simply awesome
better than i expected it to be.

some of the songs that they played
Take it all
Hosanna
Tell the world
Saviour King
Everlasting (?) "From the Inside out"

So, yup, Josiah's birthday

2008-04-21T18:40:00.000-07:00

so ,
yup, Josiah's birthday.
reached there late because of enrolment service. (GoGo Sergeant Mark!)
roughly around 8.30? but way ahead of schedule.
so stayed there for a while, and ate some food

then Josiah started opening his presents,
made some funny comments,
made us laugh

then in the end,
he told us
that there was a reason for the party to be held at the multi-purpose hall
he would also explain to us why there was no birthday cake.
he said:
"Some of you might notice, that everytime the birthday boy cuts the cake, it doesn't always neccessarily ends up in the mouth?"
then he proceeded to explain why it was held at the second floor of the multi-purpose hall.
"You see that swimming pool out there? (Points out the balcony) Sometimes, due to unseen reasons, the birthday boys ends up inside too."

(all ends up in laughter)
spent some time there
then went looking for Ivan and his guitar
found him and Mavis rehearsing for the next day's praise and worship.
so yup, joined them for a while.
dunno why
stay until very late,
have to rush to get home before 11pm (curfew)

______________________________________________________________
And now i'll elaborate on that nightmare i had
think of the setting as the early morning, before the sun rose,
and that it was soemwhere out in a ruined city, very little buildings,
lots of fortresses.
something like out of lord of the rings.

it was very bizzare, very real.
I knew that it could not be true yet, i found myself walking down the stone steps.
People walked passed me, all in a daze
preparing themselves for the battle ahead (don't ask me how i knew that there was going to be a battle soon, its just a dream.)

Someone jogged up to me and shouted," sir! we have equipt our men with all the weapons that we own. There is nothing else left, the remaining people without weapons will have to fight using whatever they have."

I nodded and continued my walk.
then someone from the sentry post screamed
"the vampires are coming! they're here!!!"
I had this feeling that i knew why they were here, but somehow i could not recall why.

Someone yelled, "Get to your battlestations!!! String up your bows and arrows!"
I saw people rushing out to the firing slits on the "castle's" roof.
I joined the crowd and watched as the cloud of vampires come closer and closer
I saw myself raising an MA5B assault rifle.
Looking out into the horizon, I screamed the order to fire
Arrows and gunfire erupted from both towers and the platform in between.
gunfire poured from my rifle.

(everything fades away,a new scene appears)

I am sitting on one of the staircases of the castle, doing something with my guitar.
I stand up and let the guitar rest against the wall.
I walked towards the platform.
There is this girl watching me, stringing up her bow at the same time
"you're Erika right?" I felt myself talking to her
she nodded and smiled
"You're very good at far range. When they return, i want you to shoot the flying ones down first."
I remembered she said something but I can't remember what.
Somehow, i feel that she is important... in? I don't know....Just a feeling.

Somewhere, the alarm is sounded (a horn blowing)
everyone is rushing, blocking up the doors and windows, creating barricades.
I started firing, So did Erika.
i don't see the rest now, only me and her shooting the vampires.
Someone screams," they've breached the west gate!!!"
I hear lots of screams, told Erika to stay put and dashed off to help.
What i saw froze me.
The vampires were killing as efficiently, better than they should be.
I raised my rifle and started picking them off the stairs.
Some fell, most of them giving up their lives just centimetres away from my blood-sodden boots.
More allies joined me in forcing them back.
My rifle clacked, out of ammo.
I slammed the catch, watched the spent clip fall and slapped in a reload.
Continued firing.

Until i heard Erika scream

I had no idea how i managed to run so fast up, how i managed to get there in a few seconds.
my rifle had run out of ammo by then so i took out a pistol instead, i had a long-knife in the other hand

she was still there, where i had left her, but this time, there were a legion of Vampires behind her. One of them was holding her in a stranglehold, the other one was staring at me.
I remembered that we talked for a while,
i can't remember what, but i think that the eastern gate was breached too, that was how the vampires managed to get her.

(At this point, i'm watching this like a movie)

Vampires surrounded my back and some grabbed me.
She called out my name, i shuddered.
I remembered that females had to have certain requirements before being turned into vampires.
So i asked her,"Are you a virgin?"
She stared at me with big eyes.
She took a lifetime to answer, as if she was ashamed.
I cocked my pistol
She shook her head
"I'm gonna kill her, then you,"the vampire holding her said.
"Not...Yet" I whispered.

I started to slash and cut,
broke free of my restraints.
from my angle
i saw the vampire getting ready to claw her up,

I raised my pistol, loaded and fired.

Headshot.

He fell, she ran towards me.
I grabbed her hand,
we both ran, down the stairs, both of us
Vampires tried to stop us
I remembered that we were being overwhelmed

(fade-out)
I think i dream more but i couldn't remember the rest as it was talking, with Erika and the Vampires, but we were all sitting down peacefully at the stairways and chatting like old friends.

Then my mother woke me up.

I had another nightmare today. I think i have enough time to write about it.
Something set in my old school's parade square
me and my squad were dressed like we were marines from StarCraft.
I still remembered i was issued a C17 Gauss rifle
we were deployed there to plant a bomb.
then HQ would strategically detonate bombs placed islandwide to wipe out the zerg infestation.

I was inside the classroom.
We were resting
WE sent the second squad and the sergeant to go check on the canteen.
based on what we heard, they were in trouble.
minutes, or was it hours later,
we decided to help them,
then we heard a rumble.
we all ran out to the parade square.

Motion sensors indicated that something large was coming our direction.
since we couldn't see it,
we assumed in was underground
and it was fast
which meant one thing:
Zerg

They were here, they were going to sabotage our bomb,
we started to jog back
Don't know why, but the distance from the parade square to the building suddenly seemed like kilometres.
we saw firing inside
HQ was screaming inside our helmets, detonate!!!
WE did
the bomb exploded.

The island-wide map still showed the Zergs still alive
Millions of squads had given their lives to plant the bomb and...
they were all dead.

the zergs had merely sacrificed a thousand out of their billions to self-destruct each bomb.
I remember HQ calling us to fall back to their position when Mum woke me up

I remember this dream having a few versions (the one above was the one that i had after these versions):
one was that i remain in the classroom, with the bomb, and the zerg would try to bring it down, and i would die firing and fighting.

the second one was that i would run to the canteen and try to help out the second squad.

the above "long story version" would be the third one.

Before mum woke me up.

enough of nightmares

so yup,
i managed to drift my AE86.
and i can play With Me by sum 41 on guitar!!! (but its not very good)
Adios
-CPL Jackie

Sorry!

2008-04-18T20:18:00.000-07:00

i'm so sorry,
i've not been blogging in a long time
haven't got much time where i get to sit in front of the computer and start typing like this

So,where to begin?
yes, yes, the guitar lessons are coming around fine, so are the drifting lessons.

I'll start with the secondary 3 camp.
well...
It ROCKED!!!

I won't elaborate much, but i'll go through the camp in as much detail as i can.
Since i'm sick, typing this stuff out of the computer right now, and trying to learn a new song at the same time.
so... right,
We started the camp, in our groups
i was in cypress group 3
so yup
our instructor was Mei Zhu, (if i'm not wrong, the St Johns would know who she is)
on the way there to Jalan Bahtera (home Sweet Home!)
we introduced ourselves on the way.
but it was mostly Mei Zhu who did the talking,
we asked her lots of questions.

we got to the campsite
ahhh, blisss, EMBRACING NATURE!
so, we reached Jalan Bahtera (AGAIN, remember the church camp?)
we got to our bunks
argued over our sleeping spots.
and changed into our shorts/ bermudas.
if i'm not wrong...(lemme try to recall)
We started off with Kayaking...
wait, no
i remember that campfire preparation was before kayaking
so what was before that...?
I think it was, lunch?
Perhaps, but for now, we'll stick with lunch.
So after lunch, it would be campfire preparation
dunno, why but its me who ends up leading the campfire preparation
though it didn't go too well.
There was this Girl called Jamie, very enthusiatic and kept cheering me (c'mon Jackie!)
then we all went kayaking (at this time throughout, from the campfire preparation, we were with gorup 4)
So fun, but 1 1/2 hours passed by so quickly
was extra hyper after the kayak, the water woke us all up (i think?)
we were allowed to do something that BB has never allowed us to do in kayaking before!
they let us stand on our kayaks, hold hands, and sing songs!!!

So campfire perparation,
was very nervous,
then i learnt that i could actulay bring a guitar to this camp
i mean,
THAT THEY ACTUALLY ALLOWED US TO BRING?
"provided that you can carry it, of course" said the instructor
NOOO!!!
changed out of our wet clothes
and then yup, prepared ourselves?
sorry, i'm not thinking clearly
then dinner, and the night game? followed by supper and wash up

The next day,
We did high elements (but i didn't, haha)
then rock climbing
then lunch
then it was more campfire preperation,
this time the group was a little more co-operative. managed to get something out of them
and settled at a skit.
then we did flying fox,
faiz was very funny here,
he was trying to high-5 us as he came down.
More campfire preparation,
then dinner.

(Note)
Now that i'm typing all this out
i notice that the camp is mostly campfire preparation

After dinner
THE CAMPFIRE!!!
we saw many other groups doing the skit
ours, i think it was the funniest.
we did a talent show,
i was the host

this was what happened
i was to introduce the judges and the contestants
Judges:
Ms Yes (Farah)
Mrs CJ7 (Annabelle, apologies, i don't know how to spell her name)
Mr Gatsby (Wei Kang)

And the contestants were made up of groups.
They were:
1. Twinkle Twinkle Big Big Star (Ken, Yun Ting, Abigail, and one more guy whose name i can't seem to remember)
2. Alvin and The Cheapskates (Alvin, Jamie, Sharon, Jeanine, remember got more people but can't remember)
3. The SexyBacks (Faiz, LTY, Sem, 1 more person who i can't seem to remember)

It starts of with the TTBBS, which did pretty well, but got yelled off stage by the judges
Then LTY and douglas did the Mocca Ad ("Hi i'm selling my house!")
(here i made a mistake, i said Alvin and the Chipmunks instead of Alvin and the Cheapskates)
Then Alvin and friends came out, sang a duet with Jamie (At The Beginning)
Followed by SexyBacks (Much applause)
Lots of Adult content for the SexyBacks, so won't exactly elaborate. (i'll think about putting more in the future)
We would let the audience choose who would be the winners by cheering
and the results would be announced after the commercial break
WE did the FedEx ad,
"MR zhang, delivery for you!"
and from behind the audience came out the entire group, chasing poor douglas!
back to the show*
SexyBacks won of course
and the audiences wanted an Encore
i couldn't give them one, because of time constraint.
and chief Eunice(camp IC) whispered to us
"If you want to do an Encore, do it without the underpants"
(whoops, so you can probably guess what happened)

last day of camp,
spent the day packing up and clearing
our instructor told us some jokes while waiting for the cleaning equipment
then we went cleaning the toilets and singing our group cheer
for some unknown reasons,
at the end of the clearup session
the entire group was soaking wet
(guess what happened)
we sprayed a little water for fun to the girl's side,
And they "DECLARED WAR!"
so yup
ENd of School camp
then reached back school, said tearful bye byes, and proceeded to fall in for CCA!
I'll elaborate more on Josaih's birthday and an amazingly vivid nightmare i had next time(next post)
Bye!
-Cpl Jackie

Our new class

2008-02-19T02:13:00.001-08:00

I can't remember much over the weekends so i'll just talk about chinese new year
During the CNY celebrations, we went to many of our relatives house (LIKE DUH)
We got lots of Hong Baos (LIKE DUH)
We got Attacked by licking dogs! (LIKE DU...!!!Wait a minute, this didn't happen last year!)
Okay, the dogs that we met were pretty cute, loving and nice, the first one was very
interesting, it was very obedient and the STUFF...Yeah
The other one, tried to ATTACK MY BROTHER!!!
it was licking him all over, just like those kind of lickings you see in movies.
i was trying to get the dog off my bro...
...and it came after me instead,
luckily i was able to hold it off.

Then came the "back to school period"
I still remember 1 of the maths lessons we had, real funny
Our maths teacher was teaching as usual,
when she suddenly perked her head up and yelled
"are you going to paste that one youtube or something?!"
We all turn around to see Shawn (the class prankster) lowering something with a cheeky grin on his face
Based on my chain-of-reasoning,
i would say that it was a camera

The teacher then strode to the back of the classroom, where Shawn sat and said
"Hand it to me"
Shawn kept protesting that he did not take any pictures at all
In the end, he succumed and dropped his phone in her hand.
when she turned her back on him and walked back to the teacher's desk,
Shawn said in chinese:
"Don't Worry, 2 Megapixel, With AutoFocus, still can take photo"
And with that sentence, he raised a cybershot phone
The class rang with laughter as our maths teacher said,
aiyoh, Shawn, please speak in english
we were laughing too hard to tell her what was wrong.

Then came the Church CNY celebrations
Me and my sis went there early in the morning for a study group
Stayed there till 3,
then went for praise and worship
then after that
went downstairs for a game of Taboo
then we started the steamboat dinner
i'll elaborate more next time, right now i have my homework to contend with

CPL Jackie

First post of 2008 (Well, presumably. The previous post reistered an error

2008-01-14T05:44:00.000-08:00

About the previous post,
i told you about a church countdown party i was rushing to go
right?
so here,
i'll tell you what happened

right,
me and wei kang reached there late,
and we didn't know what exactly to do
so, we played cards downstairs for a few minutes
and then, on nice guy told us that the rest were upstairs
listening to the pastor talk

we went up
listened to te pastor talk till 10
(we went there at 8.30, i think)
Then,
THE COUNTDOWN PARTY STARTED

the adult played their games
the BB boys
(that includes Me, Wei Kang, Nevin and Yan Keng)
stuck together.
later some of us went out to buy some strepsils for Nevin
who was coughing REALLY badly
I stayed with him
after the games, we listened to the radio
for the countdown
all of us were given party poppers
HOORAY!!!

12 MIDNIGHT!!!
"BOOM!"
*all turns heads*
"whoops," i said, a blown popper in my hand.

(the paragraph above is mostly bout crap)

So at 12 midnight
the singtel lines were so filled
i couldn't send a single sms or make a call
we played with sparklers
then the adults started to leave.

so they left the church youth in charge
YEAH! Around 15 of us left in the church
so we went into the control room to play cards for a while.
Then went into the bolm hall,
to chat with the rest and to use the laptop there
but the internet freaked out at the last moment.

so i just went around eating snacks.
then at around 1-2 am.
someone called us out of the bol hall
we went to the basketball court

someone had bunched up a group of sparklers together (roughly 20+ sparklers)
in the middle of the sparklers
there was on taller than the rest
we gathered around it
not everyone, some of us weren't interested
then, they lighted the protruding sparkler
it started to "spark" slowly down
then when it reached the bunch
it suddenly flared up
there was a giant fireball
lots of people were screaming.
someone showed me a video on his camera phone.
there was a small light
(phone camera's aren't exactly night-vision)
then a giant flare up as the entire screen became white
lots of screaming from the speakers

i watched another guy's one
he was standing so close to the "bomb"
when it flared
he fell back
you can probably guess the power and heat we felt.
there was a giant cloud of haze around
and it floated away

we got bored
made a few sparkler rockets
blew up a few trees (just kidding)
i went to the playground at the miniature field at the back of the church
we played there for a while
made A LOT OF NOISE
no wonder the police came
and asked us to tone down.
no one called the police, it was a regular night patrol

at around 2.30am
we decided to make a Heroes parody
really funny
but it wasn't finished,
a quarter of the filming crew fell asleep before we finished
our "Nathan" fell asleep.
We needed a Clair

Ah heck
i gotta go,
i'll elaborate on my later posts.

The Last Post For 2007

2007-12-30T19:30:00.000-08:00

Here's the post for this year

since i haven't blogged since last month, i think i'll start with the class party

Okay

We went to VivoCity at late morning, kinda near 12, i think.

Then, cause, like what jaslyn said,

"people have no sense of timing"

i was like, the only boy there.
so i waited

and waited

and waited...

and got tired of waiting.

so we went to the monorail to wait for the rest of the class

an hour later...

finally! boys start appearing!!!!

YESSS!!!

but, enthusiasum was dampened,

"SO LITTLE BOYS?!" i was thinking

only, like 7?

while girls, 20?!

then,

we waited for some a-hole latecomers

the girls got tired and they went onboard the monorail first

then, me

Kristoffer,

Sem

and Elton

waited for 3 more people; Johnny, Eriza and Keegan
so we played Go-Fish

Eriza and Keegan appeared half-an-hour later

then, we went mad and decided NOT to wait for Johnny.

on the monorail ride,
i was like, the peace-keeper

they were yelling their heads off (well, not really. but spouting bad language)
it was really funny. (well, maybe not...)

reached the beach,

celebrated melissa's birthday (with a cream cake that went on her face)

then played water bomb (with syrup mixed with SALTWATER!!!)

they MUCKED my groundsheet (with the waterbomb concoction),

I murdered them all.

Just Kidding.

Kristoffer was a big target.

But he was smart,

he hid behind the girl's bags (the girl's were the aggressor)

No one dared throw at him anymore.

But they still mucked Carmen's groundsheet (LOL!)

So later, went to 7-11 to buy lunch
microwaved food.

SO HOT!!!

And later, went for the Luge ride,

by then it was 6 plus and most of the boys had left

only leaving kris and sem.

After the Luge, around 7

Kris and sem left

Called mum, she said that i had to eat with my friends,

"you do have friends eating with you right?" she asked

"erm... yeah," glancing ironically at my remaining FEMALE classmates.
So there i was, the only BOY among a group of girls

must've been a weird sight.

Fast forward a week later, Carmen's Birthday.

And the Day for our lifeskills camp.

not that bad lah, at least we went to watch a movie on the second day.

and to be speciafic, we watched; Enchanted

Ms Chai treat us (thanks)

Seriously speaking,

that was the first time i saw Yang Peng laugh so much in 2 hours. LOL

Only tap water to drink for 3 days straight.

After then was the fancy drill camp

which we prepared for our CCA open house.

not going to say much here, don't want to spoil the surprise.

And then, I FELL SICK!!!

Crap You, Restaurant, YOUR FOOD SUCKS!!! (no offence)

most severe food poisoning i had in years.

recovered just in time for the BBSGB.

and i had to eat unfresh food again... +_+

then had to go again.

Great,

this post is taking too long,

I am SOOO gonna fast forward to the Church Camp; Camp Christine!!!!

YEAH!!!

the camp OWNS!!!

loved it.

made so much friends.

the last day was "fun"

watched a movie in our bunk. (alien versus predator)

sorry to all my friends who wanted me to play at the last day.

I'M REALLY SORRY!!!!

I REALLY AM!!!

FORGIVE ME

the camp also taught us to PREPARE THE WAY

and i was nicknamed 2IC.

Cause i was the second IC for my group in the whole camp.

i'll post more about the camp next time cause i'm really tight on time.

i'm rushing for the countdown party at the church.

I'm gonna type an memorial for my mechanical pencil that i had since Primary 2. Cause i am about to throw it away... *sniff*

My pen's Memorial

I got my pen when I was primary 2, it was because my piano teacher requested that I use a mechanical pencil for precision. I had it throughout all my piano lessons. And I often used it as a drawing pen. It had become part of me. I loved it as if it were my brother. Before i transfered school, i still remembered the time when i broke part of the pen, the part which you use to hook on your breast pocket. Savvy? It was in a tuition. A chinese tuition, to be precise. I snapped it off accidentally. Then, it was primary 4 at my new school. I remembered, when i used up my Pencil Eraser, (the one at the end of the mechanical pencil). I lent it to Clara for a while. Then, without knowing it, she pushed the remaining pieces of the eraser so far in that i had a hard time getting it out. Its no longer there (the eraser). I still remember the times when i used to use the cap of the pencil as a Beyblade, beyblade was all the rage then, remember? Then, i got a new pencil in primary 5, but i used it only for doing work, the old one? i kept it for doing the fun stuff. In Primary 6, after the PSLE, My friend was fooling around with the liquid paper, and he spilt everything into my pencil case. My pencil was scarred with white smears of liquid paper, and attempts to clean it only made it a little better. I'll post a picture of it later. Then throught sec 1. It was only in sec 2, after the year end exam; when i realised that it had broken beyond repair. i couldn't find the same model. I was pretty sad.

I loved it like a brother.

//End Of Tribute//

Oh, and, i'm promoted to a CORPORAL!!!

You have shown me the way, My God...

Tactical Real-life Gaming.

2007-11-18T00:23:00.000-08:00

Hi Guys,..

yesterday,
we went out with the church for a bit of... Action
We played this game called:
"Tactical Real- Life Gaming"
TRG for short.

We KENA Tio OWNED!!!

I'll post the pictures
If i can get my hands on them first...

Here are the rules,
we form groups of 4.
our group included:
Squad Leader - Nevin
Support - Jackie/ ME!
Sniper Support - Wei Kang
Sniper - Yang Peng

We were group 4
6 matches in total
0 matches won

And there was another BB team
they later betrayed us when we played 3 team battles.

EARTH \ AFTER-ACTION REPORT \ UNSC-NAVSPECWEP
OPS, FILE EHY-97
SUBJECT: TEAM 3 COMBAT SKIRMISH REPORT (3RD PERSON VIEW)

"You people are each given a 30 seconds countdown! The moment it runs out, the game starts," the commander yelled, spraying spittle into the faces of the many recruits facing him. "You people are required to run, and I mean RUN! Not skimper like innocent sissies, if you want to survive. You are authorised to use any cover and your weapons issued to you. Be smart, find places to hide and use tatics! Now, GO! Your countdown starts NOW!"

8 soldiers, roughly in their teens launched themselves from the Pelican pad. Each squad quickly fanned out professioally and moved out to their hiding spots. Team 4 moved into the open park while team 5 moved behind the small outpost.

Nevin signalled the squad for a weapons check. Each member of the squad had been issued a Guardian rifle which they gazed down at its display. The squad only had 15 more seconds to position before the game started. Each gun was fitted with an infared laser that fired in a cone shape and a grenade launcher under the gun. But the grenades were taken out today for safety reasons. There was a reciever at the top of the rifle to recieve the beam. Then, it would then make a sound and flash, to indicate that the member of the squad had been hit. Friendly fire was switched off. There was no melee in this session.

Wei Kang dived into the sandpit got behind the Rock wall. Yang Peng made a mad dash to the trees. Nevin ducked behind the cover box a few metres away from Jackie, who adjusted the butt rest of his rifle and, satisfied, rested it on his shoulder. It gave a beep to indicate that the session had started.

Yang Peng peeked around the edge of the tree, rifle at the ready. The opposition saw him and started firing. Damn, he thought, they were in perfect flanking position. Over at the other end of the park, the rest of the squad opened fire.

Upon recieving fire from a more superior force, team 5 ducked behind the outpost... and came up from the other end. Spraying the rest of the squad with supression fire. Jackie, who had moved out of cover and moving towards the outpost, had to retreat. Nevin, who found out that he was being flanked, and hurting badly, jumped up from his cover, running as he did so. Wei Kang was firing nonstop, and ducked back behind cover, gun smoking, and "overheated".

Yang Peng, at this moment, decided to run back to Wei Kang at the wall. Fortunately for him, team 5 was at the other end of the outpost and were too busy facing the rest of the squad. He made it to the sandpit without much trouble. Wei Kang then decided to get up close and personal and Jackie had just reached the metal sign, having realised that sharing the same cover with Nevin would be a bit crowded.

Jackie finished his reload and looked at Nevin, who, like the rest of the squad, was panting and soaked in sweat. He yelled, twice before he got Nevin's attention.

"What should we do Nevin?!"

Nevin shook his head, to clear the disorientation. Jackie yelled again. He had to focus, focus on the game, or die. On the other side to Jackie, Yang Peng and Wei Kang, who had decided to come back, were looking at him. Team 5 had ceased fire

He pointed at Jackie and gave the circle round signal or also known as the flanking maneuver. Jackie nodded, he held up his fingers to give a countdown.

3...2...1...

Jackie broke from cover, and made a mad dash towards the other small structure beside the outpost. The rest of the squad moved over their cover to provide cover fire.

So far so good, no one had spotted Jackie yet.

Jackie ran to the other end of the outpost, where there were the enemy had ceased fire. He ducked into the small structure and raised his rifle. The leader of team 5 peeked over the edge of the outpost and started firing at team 4.

Jackie sighted the enemy through the gunsights...

"Gotcha"

He fired from his fixed position. Team 5 leader's gun registered a few hits before he found out where the oncoming fire was coming from. He raised the gun with a single arm and continued firing at Jackie, along with his team mate.

Jackie ducked away and requested for cover fire.

Nevin had moved into position by that time and expertly shot the other team. Unfortunately, he was out in the open and got hit.

At this moment, the buzzer sounded to end the session.

Both team 4 and team 5 went for a break each while the other teams started their game.

/CLOSE FILE/
/CLASSIFIED - EYES ONLY/
/END REPORT/
/TO BE CONTINUED..._

Flanking from the sides of the metal post. Nevin is lying down, kinda blocked from view..

That cover ain't big enough for the 4 of us... Run. Run. RUNNNN!!!!

Benjamin decides to camp on top of the rock wall.
Get a few kills.
And make himself a Giant signpost that says:
HIT ME! I'M UP HERE!!! I'm vulnerable!!!!

And then Andrew says:
BACK OFF! HE'S MINE!!!!

Here we go,
I finally got some pictures up.
I'll get more when i have the time

About the embarrassing soccer match be had last Saturday

2007-11-11T17:03:00.000-08:00

the soccer match last saturday was a disaster
we lost by 1-5
so what?
the opponent only scored 2 goals
the other 3 goals were done by our carelessness
not to mention; shermond shot another one of his own goals
kinda sad isn't it?
both soccer matches,
each with one own goal
so long, see ya,
i'm still praying to get into 3E2
really hope to go in,
i am seriously sincere

-LCP Jackie

Time

2007-11-04T17:53:00.001-08:00

Hi again,
now that i know how valuable time is,
I am willing to make the fullest of it.
I still pray that i will get into 3E2

So, here's a little story to show the importance of time, and the past.

"We don't want to change the Future. We don't belong here in the Past. the government doesn't like us here. we have to pay big graft to keep our franchise. A Time Machine is finicky business. Not knowing it, we might even kill an important animal, a small bird, a roach, a flower even, thus destroying an important link in a growing species."
"That's not clear," said Eckels.
"All right," Travis continued, "say we accidentally kill one mouse here. That means all the future families of this one particular mouse are destroyed, right?"
"Right"
"And all the families of the familiesof that one mouse! With a stamp of your foot, you annihilate first one, the a dozen, then a thousand, a million, a billion possible mice!"
"So they're dead," said Eckels, "So what?"
"So what?" Travis snorted quietly. "Well, what about the foxes that need those mice to surviv? For want to ten mice, a fox dies. For want of ten foxes, a lion starves. For want of a lion, all manner of insects, vultures, infinite billions of life forms are thrown into chaos and destruction. Eventually it all boild down to this: fifty-nine million years later, a cavemen, one of a dozen on the entire world, goes hunting wild boar, or saber-toothed tiger for food. But you, my friend, have stepped on all the tigers in that region. By stepping on one single mouse. So the caveman starves. And the caveman, please note, is not just any expandable man, no! He is an entire future nation. From his loins would have sprung ten sons. From their loins one hundred sons, and thus onward to a civilisation. Destroy this one man, and you destroy a race, a people, and entire history of life. It is comparable to slaying some of Adam's grandchildren. The stomp of your foot, on one mouse, sould start an earthquake, the effects of which could shake our Earth and estinies down through Time, to their very foundations. With the death of that one caveman, a billion others are yet unborn are throtled in the womb. Perhaps Rome never rises on it seven hills. Perhaps Europe is forever a dark forest, and only Asian waxes healthy and teeming. Step on a mouse and you crush the pyramids. Step on a mouse and you leave you print, like a Grand Canyon, across Eternity. Queen Elizabeth might never be born. Washington might not cross Delaware, there might never be a United States at all. So be careful, Stay on the Path. Never step off!"

Adapted from "A Sound Of Thunder", a short story by Ray Bradbury

And that's that, I guess.
If you want to know the ending of the story, tell me.

Regret... Regret... Regret

2007-11-04T06:46:00.000-08:00

Hi Guys,
I'm pretty depressed right now,
i know what i did
and i know what i did was wrong

Stop right there. That's exactly where I lost it.

i didn't study for maths
i'm sorry for that
now i can't take A-maths
can't get into the class that i want

See that line. Well I never should have crossed it.

you know, its pretty stupid when you think of it
when you had nearly all the time in the world
and plenty of time to study
you take it for granted,
lost my opportunity...

Stop right there!
I never should have Done that, it's the very moment that I wish that I could take back.

Now i only have my appeal to rely on
that was pretty stupid of me
all i can do now is to hope and pray that the appeal gets through
and that i get to 3E2.

I'm sorry for the person I became.

Pray and Hope
the two things i have with me right now.
I am willing to Change.

I'm sorry that it took so long for me to change.

I Promise and Swear to God that:
If I ever get into class 3E2
I'll will change into a better person
and I'll treasure every opportunity I have,
so that I will not regret it
at the end of next year.

I'm ready to be sure I never become that way again

Regret... Regret... Regret...
Just to cheer some of you up, here's a little dialogue from Halo2

CORTANA:
The message just repeats. 'Regret, Regret, Regret.'

MIRANDA:
Catchy. Any idea what it means?

SGT. JOHNSON:
Dear Humanity... we Regret being alien bastards. We Regret coming to Earth. And we most definitely Regret that the Corps just blew up our raggedy-ass fleet!

PILOTS (in unison):
Hoo-rah!

CORTANA:
Regret is a name, Sergeant. The name of one of the Covenant's religious leaders. A Prophet. He's on that carrier, and he's calling for help.

Here's the CutScene Video of the above:
Enjoy.

Happy HALOween !!!

2007-10-31T00:00:00.000-07:00

Exams are finally over,
ROCK ON PEOPLE!
but there is a little snag to that...

i don't get to see my classmates everyday :'(
and furthermore, i couldn't get into Zero 2 Hero
Thanks a bunch suckas
cried over it.

here's the second snag:
SSO Chuan Huat is killing us with more drill lessons
sian-zination
ARGH!

So, today's Halloween
any celebrations?
if you do have any parties,
tell me.

Can't wait for my Xbox360
maybe can't get it though
too expensive
Damn
but i'd love come over and play Halo3

LCP Jackie

P.S. If any of you are going treat tricking today, CALL ME!!!

2007-09-24T05:31:00.000-07:00

1 MORE DAMN DAY!!!!
CANNOT WAIT SIA!!!
I NEED A COUNTDOWN TIMER
SO FAR MY WATCH SAYS...
00 days, 23 hours, 27 minutes and 44 seconds
HERES A VIDEO TO SATISFY YOUR THIRST...

1 More Week To Halo 3!!!

2007-09-18T06:31:00.000-07:00

To Dudes and Dudettes who love Halo

This is it fellas!

1 more DAMN week till Halo 3 arrives!

can't wait!

Can you?

haven't been blogging for some time

sorry fella's

been banned from the computer,

so now,

i'm gonna give you a nice sweet versions on some interesting things that happened so far

'Bout the September Christian Education Camp

not bad, considering that i celebrated my B'day halfway through

parents came over to send me a birthday cake

then,

a day before that,

Ms Chai brought us to this band competition called Zero To Hero

as its name suggests,

you must know nothing about the instrument that you are/wanna play

then,

with 4 other teams ( 5 teams in total)

you will pratically kill yourself ever training session

to train for the competition at the end of the 4 months

the concert that we went to watch,

was the product of everything

they did pretty good too

better than our school's TSS Idol

they make our school singers look out-of-tune

(No offence Min jia, your singing's still pretty good, Rock on!)

BB joined the last Zero To Hero competition,

got 2nd place

awww....sad =(

a friend of mine wanted to start his own band

needs at minimum a :

Singer

Guitarist

Bassist
Drummer

Keyboardist

anyone interested can ask me or Rachel for more details

NOTE: you must not know how to play the instrument or have not recieved any official training of that instrument before.

14 September 2007

BB once organised an overnight tour for the QLC(queenstown lutheran church) youths
now it was their turn to organise one!

they called theirs,

the amazing race

i was paired up with 2 QLC girls

a sec 2 and a sec 1

we were in teams of 4,
For some insane reason,
I was elected leader

and whaddiyah know!

coincidentally, it was the sec 2's birthday!

So we gave her a birthday wish

and got second for the amazing race

the prize?

was 2 GV movie vouchers! WHEEEE!!!

then, back to school

sianzzz...

BUT ONLY 1 MORE WEEK TO HALO 3!!!

WHICH MEANS 7 MORE DAYS!!!

AND ONE MORE THING...

SARAH! HURRY UP WITH THAT BLOGSKIN!!!

Tribute to HALO3

came back

2007-07-31T14:02:00.000-07:00

yesss!!!
after so many weeks, i'm finally using the com!!!
sorry for not updating my blog
some people begged me to update it.
btw, sarah, i'm getting a bit impatient waiting for the blogskin!

YESSS!!! I DID IT!!!

2007-06-21T08:31:00.000-07:00

yaaaay!!!
i finally changed my blogskin!!!
BTW, i started a new blog
http://chronicles-of-halo-crazy.blogspot.com/
its about a collection of stories that i collect about halo and paste it up there
you can also give me some starting parts...and i'll continue the story

bloody camps

2007-06-10T02:10:00.000-07:00

hi,
recently went for a BB Adventure camp a few days aga
and..to top that up, i just recovered from flu!

on the first day
we had no sleep at all
31 hours straight, no sleep...6 hours spent on hiking throughout the night from 1am to 5am...then slack at macdonalds until all the teams arrived
from start of camp to next day afternoon
only caught about 1 hour sleep

then got cooking competition
got sore throat after that
damn
came home after 3rd day
...sick...

btw
anyone know how to change blogskin?
i'm a little stuck
can't change
damn you blogger...

-LCP jackie

2007-05-13T04:02:00.000-07:00

MYE, ahhh...
mid-year exam come liao, so sian...
especially mathssorry never blog in a long time...
need to study
and even if i free, i forget
sorry
friday the MYE break time

very funny
donavan was wrestling keegan
and firdhouse asked me to pass a water bottle to him
he then threw it...
...and...
it hit donavan's butt!!! PWNED!!!
firdhouse was later thrashed
bb
GTG sian. bye

- LCP Jackie

Monday

2007-04-23T03:25:00.000-07:00

today was fun!!
well,
not that fun
okay...
still got the usual lecture from SGT for asking us why the rest never come for drill practice

oh BTW!
last saturday who got go jurong east?
there was an army exhibtion over there
lots of free crap!!!
those who missed it,
mwahahahaha!!!! =p

watched death note 2 last night
eheheh (my blog...)
anyone who hasn't been using his/her real name?
better let me know....

LCP jackie

Don't Turn Your Back On Me
I Won't Be IGNORED!!!

Tuesday

2007-04-17T03:50:00.000-07:00

waaaah
Donavan!!!
why never tell me got drill earlier
make me fell so sian
and last night i also sleep late lor!
so when i do drill,
i was like ZZZ...

After drill very funny lor!
Donavan was walking when he saw abigail walking past
then when she got into her mom's car
he yelled:
I Love you Abi!!!
its an obvious joke
but a slapstick one
so long

LCP jackie

Don't Turn Your Back On Me
I Won't Be IGNORED!!!

Enrolment Day

2007-04-15T05:51:00.000-07:00

Enrolment day was both funny and sick
first of all
we were ordered to hand in our BB dollars,
since i forgot mine, i was dead
then we went to the bolm hall
was in there until 6pm where we had to change into full-u
then dinner and finally promotion!
but then....
impossibly and unbelievingly
Donavan was promoted to a Corporal
i was soooo mad!!!

they said the only thing i was lacking was that i had no confidence.
then,

i will get a promotion next time!!!
i willl!!!

LCP jackie

Don't turn your back on me
I won't be IGNORED!!!

Friday The 13th

2007-04-13T15:09:00.000-07:00

Today was good so far
not as unlucky as the other years
that was until i got home
my mum caught me doing something i wasn't supposed to do
and now...
i'm grounded for a week
plus...
hell lot of scolding

that was worse than last year
and tomorrow's enrolment day
who wanna come see the BB boys?
at queenstown lutheran church
we start at 2.30 but its better "if" you guys came at 5+

so long...shall stop here

-LCP jackie

Monday

2007-04-09T06:40:00.000-07:00

waaah...
the usual school day,
only more crazy
our PE teacher wanted us to run 6 rounds around the clementi stadium
why?
NAPFA test....sick man
i run like siao
i didn't even know i passed lor
girls are so lucky...
our passing timing is their "c" grade lor!
if a girl ran in my time, she would have gotten a "b" or and "a"
before the NAPFA test
the teacher is so damn sick man...
he ask the boys to line up in 1 row and the girls in another...
then he say:
"the person beside you becomes your partner!"
everyone was groaning...
then got fed up and said:
if you don't choose a partner!
i'll ask you to hold the hands of the person next to you!!!
and so...
i got stuck with another girl from another class...

at the last lap...
Donavan suggested:
why not when we running towards the finishing line,
we all hold hands, sing a song and chiong to the line?
We all thought there was something wrong going on...
then at the final sprint...
i ended up the last in our small little group,
but still passed by two minutes
wahhh...
at the end hor...
i dunno why,
i suddenly felt tired
and i suddenly, i had this stupid thought:
wouldn't it be nice to fall down?

...that was what i did, with the witnesses all going "ooooooh"
like their favourite soccer player just got a red card.
and i dunno why, i instinctively curled into a ball
then released myself and laid on the ground
until my partner told me my time.
and i huh?
and slipped back to sleep...haha...ZZZ

the rest of the day was suicide
i couldn't keep myself "alive" at all
went home with muscles aching...
big headache

shall stop here

- LCP jackie

Happy Easter!!!

2007-04-08T06:17:00.000-07:00

Easter was boring...
woke up
go tuition
then go home,
do homework

watch TV, and now this

that's all

-LCP jackie

Saturday

2007-04-07T08:50:00.000-07:00

Today got BB
sian, have to reach school by 9am
then we teach sec 1's how to do opening and closing parade
then we all went up to do drill lessons while sec 1's do test
Yang Peng say that he think's Jamie is "pretty"
but dosen't like her
weird eh?

after BB
go home
tired like crap
sleep until 6pm
woken up by mum to go concert
concert not bad lah
until 10pm
then later eat supper,
reach home at 11.30
wished i'd never gone...(but not bad)
now just came back
typing this NOW
that's all
Bye

-LCP jackie

Good Friday

2007-04-06T08:30:00.000-07:00

Today was good friday,
not a bad day
considering i spent about the WHOLE DAY DOING MY TUITION HOMEWORK!!!
very sian la
kept walking out of room,not concentrating sia
keep thinking of someone...

sis playing maple
aiyah
ty to aaron for helping me train
my sis now then realise that mage train very fast
then overtake me
then i create my own mage,
and overtake her
by about 9 lvs
now lv 41
wan be priest....sian have to wait to long
errr
gtg
playing maple...
that's all

bb
and a very GOOD FRIDAY TO ALL!!! (can't wait for easter day...

-LCP jackie

Boring.

2007-04-05T07:06:00.000-07:00

today got BB again...
sian,
need to teach sec 1 to do fall out
after that, benji give me a weird tip on how to court a girl
stupid...but works for him
today heard jervais sing in a very long time...
nice sia.
he and minjia make a good duet partner
but, still considering that relationship from their past
highly unlikely...but possible...
gtg,
will add tagbox soon...
bye

- LCP jackie

Boring

2007-04-04T06:13:00.000-07:00

the usual crap
no fun

boring, was wondering what to do...

decided to make an origami crane, those that can flap their wings?

too easy, learned it in primary 3, (but origami's still fun)

but girls seemed to by charmed by it.

especially rachel...

asked her why?

she said it was fun to play

i nearly laughed out.

was sweet in class

wendy kept lying down, had to nudge her to get her up...

hello?!

i mean!

its everyone's streaming year!

we have to be in tip-top condition

(btw, its really boring at some lessons)

why is she like this?

sleeps late i guess, reminds me of another friend...=)

so long, suck in dance

but like it

i nearly regretted not choosing singing for music

why?

not sure, cause i think i was afraid people would laugh at me...

love singing, but now voice not high pitched enough

puberty...hmmmm...

last time can sing as well as anyone else!!!

even avril lavigne! (just kidding, bit outta tune)

true enough, when i told my friend what i really wanted for music

glenn screamed in my face:

OMGoodness!!! (i will not use the lord's name in vain)

you want singing?!

and he literally went telling everyone who would listen about it.

only a few friends would listen - lucky me

that's all...

-LCP jackie