superhuman control

what could have been a very long weekend became.. well, just a long weekend.

was supposed to book out yesterday afternoon.. but my OC kept all the sergeants back cos we couldnt answer some of his ridiculous questions on the various places we were guarding next week (yupyup, i'm going on deployment again)
("if i told you there was an incident on belt 3 at terminal 1, whats the fastest way to get there?." -_- yea sure sif YOU'll know the answer either. )

wow, the moment he said that we were not booking out yday (the rest of the company booked out at 4pm) .. i felt the TWAAANG on my heart string.. like a guitar string yknow. when you just pinch it and release it quickly it goes TWAAANG.
then kenny next to me started cursing and swearing after the OC left.. going 'i had things planned, i had things planned'. well yea so do all of us.

which brings me to my point - i was surprisingly calm.

it wasn't that i was NOT angry, and didn't mind staying in like the PCs (who tried to defuse the situation by talking to us calmly and trying to explain it) i was angry! it felt like my heart was a volcano and it was going to erupt. like wtf, we were waiting the whole morning doing nothing (well, besides SOC test, which i failed with a time of 10.16 though i ran my best but thats not the focal point of this entry) to book out then suddenly drop this bomb on us.

but i think i have a special power, yknow like superheroes do. Like in Heroes, where Hiro can stop time and Claire can regenerate and Nathan can fly. i can control my emotions pretty darn well. Such that even when i am super -insertemotionhere-, i can give an expressionless face and look normal (or like i'm stoning, whatever)

so i didn't even complain much yday, (well ok not to my frens there, but i DID whine to bestie via sms, but that's what she's for, for me to whine to :p ha) and tried to focus on learning more about the airport (yes, i'm going there next week)


i also recall one incident in secondary school when there was a medium sized thumbtack on the desk, sharp point facing up. i was walking around then decided to prop myself up to sit on the desk, and i didn't see it..
.
.
so i just slammed my palm on the desk(thumbtack) for support and leapt onto the table.


As you can imagine, the thumbtack pierced right into the fleshy part of my palm.

ZOMG PAIN.

But guess what? i didn't even exclaim out loud. i was just shocked by it and after the split second of realising what just happened i just yanked it out. somehow, it didn't bleed, but there was the pin sized hole there.
can you pierce a thumbtack into your palm and not make a sound or show any expression?


then you know like, say in school, you are laughing about some joke your friend told or ... you are just playing around in class. Then your ultra-uber-fierce discipline master /principal suddenly walks past.. then you need to suppress your laughter and give a straight face?
I AM DAMN GOOD AT THAT CAN?
i can just .. stop laughing. even though my brain and my heart and my body is laughing, my face is just.. straight.



and you know the game 'Honey if you love me please smile!' When one person is 'IT' then he/she goes up to any person and says 'honey if you love me please smile' and tries to do whatever he/she cans to make that person smile/laugh. This can be in the form of funny faces.. say stupid stuff, act stupidly.

I'm a pro at that game too ok. :p
seriously, i've never lost. there was one time during some BAY outing when we played this game at the beach. then in the group everyone already smiled somehow except for me. Then they got the whole group to try to make me smile.. but nothing could stir my emotionless face. -beams proudly-
i'm quite proud of that ok. (i did come very close to smiling when victor did some face twitching thing which resembled someone bursting into laughter)

I think the only time i'll lose this game is when i have a gf then she comes and says the game name to me. then of course i must smile right! later she angry how.


so i conclude, i have superhuman control. =) oops, did i just smile?

code

How many code deCoders are there reading my blog?
How maNy actually Bother tryIng to craCK a code if i say there is one?
So let's saY i say the code starts aFter this linE
_
woUld yOu believe what i said? whY? do you think you can actually crack a singlE line of my puzzle? do you belieVe that there is a cOde in the first pLace? I think sometimes, you just have to go by instinct.
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indeed, there IS a hidden phrase in the above text. highlight below if you want to know
As i said, the code starts after the line. so ignore all the CaPiTaLs before the _ line. Then after that, if you took out all the CAPITALS from that paragraph starting with 'would' and ending with 'instinct', you get UOYEVOLI.
Flip it, and you get ILOVEYOU
easy right =)

So try this:

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One of my favourite puzzles is the substitution cypher. In it, each letter is substituted for another letter. For example 'chicken is sweet' could become 'dijdlfo jt txffu', in which the 'key' to solving it is just the letter before it (e.g. D is actually C, I is H, etc)
Here you go:
taf is hot.
OAZSDMFGXMFUAZE AZ TMHUZS FTQ OAGDMSQ FA MFFQYBF FTUE BGLLXQ!
U'Y MYMLQP DQMXXK, FTMF KAG IMZF FA FDK.
IQXX, KAG IUXX NQ DQIMDPQP, AZOQ KAG TMHQ EAXHQP FTQ DILLXQ.
NQOMGEQ KAG WZAI FTQ SUDX U WQQB FMXWUZS MNAGF? FTQ AZQ U IDAFQ FTQ XAHQ APQ RAD?
IQXX ETQ UE IUZEAYQ. KQE, YUEE RAAXUZSKMZ. U FTUZW ETP UE TAF. ^^
TAI PA U SQF TQD FA XAHQ YQ?
EUST U XAHQ TQD EA...
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i'm not gonna give you the substitution key.. but maybe i already have...

needs vs wants

i've decided to conduct a little social experiment on myself.

You know the old topic about needs and wants. Alot of us fortunate chaps have lots of wants and are not satisfied when we already fulfil all our needs, and instead want to pursue more wants. (human nature of unlimited wants keeps the world economy going :p there's some econs law abt this but i forgot)


And on the other hand there are people in the world who can't meet their basic needs of food, clothes, etc and are starving and all.



brr this is just scary. and sad :( (the irony is that the website i got this pic from was called 'godlovespeople.com'. hmm. )

SO ANYWAY. since enterring army and getting much more money than my entire life (yes, i only got meal allowance in the past.) .. i realised that i've been spending pretty extravagantly!

Just look at my extravagant lifestyle this year.. im gonna just go through my photobucket/blogger account to search for such evidence and things that i bought, etc.




















S&K Cargo pants @ around 50 bucks? lol sorry i dont have a picture of it.




LP Jacket which i




Espirit shirt. which technically i didnt buy, it was a present from manda. but still, it's an indulgence. :) esprit is no cheap brand yo.

Of course, my lovely sleek black PSP which i still play.
This was on total impulse. Just one day i was thinking about how everyone had a PSP and how i wanted a PSP too. the next day i went looking for it . (after some research the night before la)

AND from taiwan, many many things bought such as :

This outfit (the brown stripes + brown outer shirt) was from taiwan

This sweater hoodie outfit was from taiwan too.


this cap was a literal last minute buy - on the last day of shopping with like 10 minutes left i wanted to spend all my taiwan currency so i just grabbed something




frequent suppers such as this lovely mushroom cheese from thomson prata house =)

and swensons =)

=)..
(drooling)



my 21inch monitor which i got after my old one spoilt.

Of course, my lovely c902 which took all these pictures

prom! spent on:


haircut (my first haircut above 20 bucks)

handsome prom outfit :p
on a random note.. katie kang pei pei (this girl) is now a model!! omg la. totally didnt know till like several days ago when i randomly searched her name on google. she did model before in the past, but i never thought she'd go so far as 2nd runner up in ms singapore world! (or so says clara.. dunon whether really 2nd runner up, just know katie did take part in many pageants)
http://talkback.stomp.com.sg/forums/showthread.php?t=38432
here, go ahead, take a look. scroll down all the way for the chio up-close shots



buying alcohol when i can't drink at all.
(after half a bottle of this i was tipsy already. the next day i got rashes =X)



NYNY ribs =) pure indulgence

possibly my favouritest dessert ever =) mudpie from NYNY!

and the most recent expenditure, an ipod nano 4g =)

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okkk i think i digressed alot. and some of those arent even from this year , like prom =X hahaha. but yea u get the idea, those were luxuries that i could probably live without but i still had. and this year i had exceptional amount of luxuries

which probably explains why my bank account never had more than 2k at any point of time, and i havent been able to have above 1k just before payday. (right now it's below 1k already)
:(

so ive decided.. i wanna save! so i'm going to do something that seems entirely paradoxical - whatever i want, i'm going to deliberately not get, and just satisfy my needs.
So for example, i want a pair of Levi's jeans now!! they got this awesome offer that if you give them an old pair of jeans they give u $50 off any pair of Levi's jeans! (that is above $100)
but according to my new logic, i'm going to NOT get them on purpose.

This way i save alot of money yknow! and well, i guess another word for this is thrifty.
Ok let me make a list of things that i want (yes i still want stuff, im such a greedy splurging pig.)
1) Levi's Jeans
2) mike! + headphones (for talking while playign games)
3) camera (im getting irritated with all the 8MP phones coming out.. just after i got my 5MP one. ok not JUST after. but. relatively )
4) new RAM. my com's lagging like shit. (this may become a need soon.. if my com continues to lag like mad and starts frustrating the hell out of me)

but...
i wont get all of this!!!

:S i hope i can .