Hey erm...

For those of you who are reading this, do me a favor. Please leave a message or say hi or something!!! I know there are quite a few people out there who's reading all these babblings that I have written. How do I know? Cuz the counter is ticking~! Oh and I have a way to check, so, yea, don't buff~~~

Oh and why is my grammar getting from bad to worse? -.- I kept spotting grammatical mistakes and even extra words... Blehx, guess I've been reading too much. Schoolings do drive nut-head nuts...

No racism, but textbook teaches otherwise

I never wanna say this but... you know something...? I don't, in particular, dislike other races or whatsoever (even if my attitude says so, it's just because i don't like that particular person) but after a month in a module that teaches African literature, I started to think otherwise. Ok, everything's in your culture: war, casual sex, the washing and reusing of condoms, nudity, big bellies... Fine! I won't dislike someone because I find washing and reusing of a condom is entirely gross (Imagine someone walking into a drugstore and asks for a condom, and the dude replies with something like "Sir, would you like a new one or a 2nd hand one?" ... gosh...what's wrong with this world...?!). Oh well, yea, I admit it, my likeness-o-meter of such has gone slightly negative. Slightly, like -1 or something (if it's countable).

Then there's the names that the prof want us to remember. Well, seriously, when you try to pronounce such names, either you're a native or your English literally sucks if you are capable of pronouncing them correctly. Trust me, it's worse that all those funny languages that exists combined. The likeness-o-meter goes down here a bit, too. Just a bit.

Then there comes the language. Funny phrasings, fine. Native languages, fine. But... some of them are not English!!! I won't be studying English if I am interested in anything that is NOT English, eh? As if I understand native African ... makes no sense... Likeness-o-meter got lowered again.

And theres the French movie. Yea... FRENCH. Well, I have got nothing against french as long as theres the subtitles, but theres this potato head that is so freaking tall and big (head) and he sits in front and the subtitles are at the bottom of the screen. Cool. I would have shot it if I had a gun (a little glock will do) in my hands -.- Oh and did I say that the story ends with 3 dudes peeing in the rain along a grass patch? Nice ending, eh? No one normally ends a day pissing in public.

Oh well, everything sounds fine, eh? Well, I won't say anymore but... yea... you get the picture...

Reading list

- "On Photography" - Susan Sontag
- "Girl with a Pearl Earring"" - Tracy Chevalier
- "Heart of Darkness" - Joseph Conrad
- "Utopia" - Thomas More
- "Girls at Wars and Other Stories" - Chinua Achebe
- "To Kill a Mockingbird" - Vintage Lee

... hell... what got me into this???!!!

CNY

It has just occurred to me that this is my first Chinese new year in hong kong since in like somewhat 9 years. Well, I was in Singapore for quite a while (7 years, pretty long to be called "a while" eh?) and I spent the last two CNY in Beijing and Singapore respectively. So... yea, that explains why I have not had a "Hongkish" CNY for like 9 years.

Nothing much. Walked down the street and the whole darn world is on holiday. And theres this drizzle... It suddenly feels like an apocalypse or post-apocalytia (Fallout 3 style). Lets not use the word "apocalypse" for CNY though, but the street is, for sure, filled with a certain creeping blight that seems to kept it empty.

Went to a few temples to say my prayers with my dad. If my memory is not mistaken, I haven't been to a temple on the first day of CNY, mostly because it's hell crowded. Yea, they still are. The amount of people cause one to feel the effect of growing population. Not to forget, there are joss-sticks and incenses everywhere, and you need to dutch those falling sparks, or else you can say bye bye to your clothes.

My dad got me one of those "divine labels" (i dont know how to translate it properly, so lets keep it that way) and its supposed to write your future or some sort (words of advice, I'll say) on it. Whether it works or not, its up to you. But then and again, its free, so why not? I won't say what's on mine (secret =D), but its not bad =)

Yep, nothing much of a new year. I don't really care about red packets... maybe I've grown out of them. Anyway, just hope that I can sleep more in this little escape from the morose little semester.

To do list

Courseworks

-Readings x N (a few novels + a few stacks of photo copied crap)
-One essay on literature and art
-One stupid journal entry
-One fill in the blanks worksheet

Sch stuff

-souvenirs (concept + design?)

Domestic stuff

-pack my room (its in a mess...)

Others

-Game, and some other practices
-Do more exercises man... getting more "pooi"

Not much of a holiday... eh?

Erm... what should I call this?

After drawing that logo thingy, well, the first thing that came into my mind is that... is it really suitable for hoodie/t-shirt designs? And considering that the previous one was a trashy piece of work... well, even if we get it printed, it wont be good enough for shirt designs. So... I came up with another thingy, this thingy. Seriously, I haven't thought of what it should be, or what to call it. It look like a ghost, but I believe that it is a bubble of some sort. Oh well, leave the name aside. guess this will look fine behind our backs =D

Symmetrical version (the middle line is supposedly the zipper)

Vista Antivirus Pro 2010

When I switched on my comp today, theres something extra (or rather, many extras) that popped out. Well, somehow, a program called "Vista Antivirus Pro 2010" has found its way to my comp. It does nothing but telling you that your comp is infected with this and that. I wont want to say it but I have ran a few adaware scans before hand and it is not really possible for my comp to have THAT many viruses (a few hundreds it says ...) when adaware says 0. Anyway, I clicked "delete infected files". It prompted for license... wth?! So it's asking me to pay, eh.... Guess Microsoft learnt something from google ad =.= I then googling our little antivirus friend here. Guess what? It says firefox is a high risk item. IE then ... another high risk item. Well, somehow I managed to get into firefox after a few task manager shutdowns. Googled the programme, and found that the first page consists of only instructions on how to remove it. Hell fishy, eh?

Anyway, here's a little something that I've found while googling this little antivirus or so-called. http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/combofix/how-to-use-combofix

It's a useful cleaning program. Try it if somehow u got that retarded "Vista antivirus pro 2010".

logo

Finally...! After almost three darn weeks, I've finally completed this little logo. Man... seriously, I'm not going to do anymore digitalized toning work on the comp until I get a tablet and gadgets of those sorts. Well, at least I've did my share and I don't care what others think but this is kinda satisfactory, though not the amount of time and effort put in.

Anyway, these are the explanations which I gave for the logo.

When it comes to logo designing, there are plenty of ways to create the symbolic image that one wants. The most conventional way is to design a simple picture or diagram that represents whatsoever it should, and then have the name of what it represents written somewhere near the picture (and maybe including a tagline of some sort). Another way is to simply write out the name in an artistic, special or weird font. Such designs should be consisted of 5 colors or less. Well… that is the conventional way…

For our ‘Shawprano’ logo, I did not follow such rules which many MMCs have used for their logos. One thing is that this logo will only appear for a few times, so who cares if its simple or distinctive in whatsoever sense? Another thing is that this logo might be used for t-shirt designs or something in the future, and so the more it should be complicated and expressive.

Concepts

Theme

-Ice/Crystal fragments
-Curved lines

Techniques

-Thick lines are used to segregate the main structure of the logo (such as word formations and backbones) from simple fragments.
-Color fills and toning are done at the spot between two intersecting lines so that a crystalline effect of some sort can be achieved.
-Lines do not bend, but rather curves and intersects
-Two layered toning and coloring are used to enhance the tone range

… that’s about it…

Symbolisms

-The ice fragments represent harmony. The many different crystalline fragments defines the different attributes that we all have, such as backgrounds, physiques … … etc.

-The lines represent the complex and all rounded ways used when dealing with related matters.

-The lines that stuck out represent how protrudent the society aims to be.

… more to be added …

Yep, that's for the explanation and below is the logo. Enjoy~

Pencil Sketch

Outlines

First layer toning

Finalized version

Flip colour~

Colourized in four different colours

O.o

Ya ya... Sch's starting again ... Day after day, year after year, cycle after cycle ... it's the same ordeal ... I'm not hoping for an end to these though, nor am I trying to look for some changes, cause every time, its different people, different lessons and a different experience. No wonder there still are dudes playing counter-strike and warcraft III. Hmmmm... It still seems odd to me. Why are these dudes playing games all day? I mean, you won't get anything out of it, physically that is. But who cares? It's fun~ It's interesting~ Gosh, now I know why some of my friends (I used to call them retards and I still do) gave up on studying and went full time gaming. Well, I think I see their point. As long as they can feed themselves, who cares, eh? Well, I won't exactly say that I like to study (who does?), but I can find a point of interest in whatsoever I am doing at that point of time (unless I got fed up and tell myself 'screw it', that is). So... I guess this coming semester won't be boring at all =)

陌生

我諗呢篇野我應該都係用粵語黎打吧
因爲我唔想某人睇得太明
唔睇就最好 =D
(看不懂廣東話的請跳到最後一段)

anyway
大概一個禮拜前
有個算得上係朋友既人黎呢度玩
幾日後 佢飛走既時候
除咗 "甩難了" 我腦裏面咩都諗唔出
點解?
明顯地同呢幾日有關喇~

首先講下呢位算得上係朋友既人先
佢大過我七年有多 係異性 (大佬們... 唔好諗太多)
平時當佢係傢姐咁
至於點認識 其實係打機時認識既 (我有N個網友 - 正常果只)
不過其實之前佢已經話想黎
話咗兩年有多架了
不過我成日搵唔知咩理由黎推佢
通常都話要讀書吧
而且我返新加坡時我都唔會搵佢
其實講真 呢次之前佢畀我既印象已經好差
成日嫌呢嫌嚕 又成日話全世界都針對佢
仲成日埋怨呢樣果樣
大佬... 関我屁事吖?
不過算喇
既然依傢放假 你話想黎 咪陪你幾日囖
反正冇下次

好喇
條友黎喇
第一日 佢話佢點半機
我大概點九到到機場
等到兩點半 放棄
去咗食飯
邊食飯邊隔兩至三分鐘打一次畀佢
然後三點 我開始燥低 (過幾日先發覺我燥低得太快了 因爲仲有大把機會)
再等... 冇意義喇
我搭車閃人
好喇 到到三點三 坐緊車
條友終于打黎
話佢打緊的去酒店
話搵我唔到
咁我問佢點解唔打黎
佢話霎時間唔記得我既電話儲存咗係邊
... 好野 你贏 ... ...
到到迪士尼 已經係唔點半了
好彩迪士尼冇咩行
冇所謂喇 可能之前溝通得唔好
不過呢個只係第一日...
後面既仲精彩...

好喇 到到第二日
本來約好咗九點係地鐵站等
因爲佢話八點起到身
我九點兩個字到到約好咗既地鐵站 (唔係常去 所以我唔熟 遲咗)
一開始我都戇戇地咁以爲自己遲咗 會唔好意思
不過去到唔見人
等...
到到大概十點兩個字
條友打黎話啱啱起身
話自己電話冇電 唔記得叉電
冇野講 ...
係度白等咗成粒鐘 而且仲係地鐵站
條友又冇用得既手機 所以我又行唔得開
唔可以去商場行下或餐廳坐下 (當時未食早餐... 而且天氣鬼死咁凍)
只好好似個電燈柱咁企係度
好喇... 既然條友話出緊黎 咁唯一可以做既係...
...再等...
到到大概十一點九個字
條友終于出現...
話唔見咗房鎖匙...
算 我唔同你計較
至於剩餘既時間 大致上都算得上係和平
除咗條友成日投訴話唔鐘意逼之外
都冇乜大事發生
不過好戲在第三日

呢次我冇咁蠢 再約時間了
我叫佢出門時打黎一次 到地鐵站時再打黎一次
九點八打黎 我十點出門 佢十點二再打黎 我十點四到
要佢等十分八分 縂好過我等成粒鐘
好喇 換酒店 去廟拜拜
到到新既酒店 放低行李 搞下呢搞下嚕 兩點半出發
第一站 女人街
去到女人街 行咗大概半個鐘 我同佢講話轉頭再返黎買野
費事攞住一抽二掕周圍走
本來諗住同佢行埋廟街同柏麗大道
不過一出到去就問我 我係唔係搵緊地鐵站
咁我就話我諗住行去 順路可以睇多啲野
佢就話 搭車去第二個景點 唔好曬佢時間...
...我已經浪費咗幾多時間係 "等" 上面了... ...
算 唔同你計...
搭地鐵 條友開始畀面色我睇 ...
到到尖沙嘴站 我就開始番我"導遊"既呢份工作
一出崇光 (去海旁嘛~)
第一個見到既係太空舘
我就開始介紹 然後問條友去唔去
佢便回答 你帶我黎呢度就係爲咗呢個?!
... -.- ...
然後再過多幾步 到到海旁
好喇 再做番我既 "導遊" 工作
佢今次就話 "你咁早帶我黎做咩吖 都未天黑 我寧可去買野"
... -.- ...
... 帶你周圍走 係你叫既 ... 咁勁就自己一人行喇 -.-
好喇 我都開始起火 既然佢以爲我趕鴨仔搵佢苯 咁我就黎真蹬佢波鐘囖
我就同佢講 我依傢帶你黎 係想你日抖同夜晚既景都睇到 因爲等陣我地會坐渡輪來回睇景
佢信...
然後再帶佢去星光大道 再蹬多啲波鐘 (反正唔使入場費)
好喇 佢心情好返啲 我都易做啲

跟著天黑了 去食飯
佢話肚痛...
大佬... 肚痛咪屙屎囖
同佢講話去九龍公園
佢話唔鐘意公園廁所
唔緊要...
然後就要去隔離警署既廁所...
... 大佬 玩野吖? ...
咁我就緊係喪叫佢去公園既廁所喇
ok 終于畀我説服佢去公園既廁所
又再等多半個鐘
出黎 諗住好地地去食碗雲吞面
一去到 我就問佢要唔要試下魚蛋
佢一口就話佢唔食魚蛋
點解? 因爲如果魚蛋臭 佢會成碗唔食
大佬... 呢度係香港吖...
好喇 叫咗野喇
條友又開始埋怨
話食錯野之類
我好心問佢 好返啲未 佢一句就剷過黎 邊有人屙一次就好架
...
我就話 我係咁
佢就再剷多一句 個個人體質唔同
好囖 我唔出聲囖 多講多錯 少講少錯 唔講唔錯
食完 睇黎條友好似覺得雲吞面唔錯
因爲心情好番 (我未)
佢就開始睇髮夾
五蚊一只果種
睇咗成粒鐘
算 你唔好發脾氣就好了
好喇 再去返女人街
行咗幾行 買咗少少野
然後就話對呢度好失望
因爲買唔到平過新加坡既野
大佬... 如果新加坡有而香港又有 你買黎做乜呢...
特登係香港買...
算 我唔同你計
好喇 返酒店喇
約第四日點
呢度就真係頂唔順了
問佢幾點 佢就話應該係我決定至啱
... 第二日你好似遲到遲咗三個鐘喔...
然後佢就又開始埋怨話 一日都係我搞到佢買唔到老婆餅
.... -.- ....
ok 咁就九點囖
我就講話我可能會遲到 因爲酒店比較偏僻 (大角嘴)
佢就大聲話 唔緊要 佢九點就會咗係度等我
如果早知佢咁講 我就同佢賭一分鐘一百蚊...

好喇 閃人
但條友話明要老婆餅
無所謂 你黎香港 我係有責任招呼你
但係十二點 要去邊度搵老婆餅吖 大佬...
好彩我住佐敦 因爲廟街附近有間餅屋未關
雖然得兩個老婆餅 不過算喇
好過冇
然後到到最後一日
好喇 條友應該訓夠喇
因爲如果賭一百蚊一分鐘 我應該可以賺到三千蚊
條友果日心情好明顯靚過前一日好多
因爲佢開始講扮好人 好似尋日冇嬲過咁
咁就一直到到機場
直到佢入閘
直到我同自己大聲講 "甩難了"!

唉
條友都係有問題架喇
因爲我同佢講話香港咩都有翻版
就連廁紙都有翻版
而tempo係正版
條友有病到去買兩條tempo返去做手信...
講真 收到呢份手信 真係唔知笑好定喊好...

講真
你來到香港玩
做朋友的 也只想你玩得開心點
這也就夠了
要我白等五六個小時 我無所謂
要我這幾天花千多塊 我無所謂
要我每天睡三個小時 我無所謂
要當我的話是耳邊風 我無所謂
要我淩晨去找老婆餅 我真的無所謂
可是要是你發我脾氣 我就真的受不了了
回去後 你所道的謝 你所讚的美
我在裏面只看見了你的虛僞和無知
別以爲我稱你一聲姐 你就可以爲所欲爲
抱歉
我們之前只是最普通不過的朋友
而現在呢
我們只是互不認識的陌生人罷了
若你看到
以後別找我 跟我講話 或寄信給我
以後別來香港
以後我去新加坡你也不會懂的
因爲
我們只是互不相識的陌生人罷了

Puke

Been long since I've posted something here. Well, when writing is all that you do, the fun of it seems to be missing somehow... Yep, hope that I can write more in the future (though I highly doubt so).

Anyway, remember how they used to tell you school not to use singlish words while talking to a foreigner (Caucasians) in English? And how the word 'puke' is labeled as a 'singlish word' where Caucasians won't understand a single bit of it. And remember how its shown in 'child not stupid' (小孩不笨) that this particular word is a word that all foreign Caucasians won't understand? Well, here's the good news: They are all WRONG!!!

Why? Well, as a matter-o-fact, this word originates from the west itself. Here are some quotes from dictionary.com:

Puke verb, puked, puk-ing. noun
-verb (used without object), verb (used with object) Slang
1. to vomit.

-noun
2. vomit.
3. a. any food or dink that is repulsive.
b. anything that is contemptible or worthless.

Word Origin & History

puke (v.)
1600, probably of imitative origin (cf. Ger, spucken "to spit," L. spuere); first recorded in the "Seven Ages of Man" speech in Shakespeare's "As You Like It." The noun meaning "material thrown up in vomiting" is form 1961.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/puke

So... Here you go~ Puke is not a word that originates from Singapore, so you dudes out there teaching or whatsoever, don't be so full of yourself~~~

And how come all of a sudden I've thought of such an repulsive word? Well, as a matter-o-fact, this word appeared in the game left 4 dead 2 (an American one, obviously). It so happened to describe an item that is of a bottle containing some vomit of an infected called "boomer". One of such appeared in the following quote:

"Is that a bottle of puke?" - Nick

So if some idiot ever tells u that "puke" is a singlish word", punch him.

Suggested references

From Question Paper:

On conversational Maxims:
- p.129 – p.130 of your textbook.
- Grice, P. (1989). Studies in the Way of Words. Harvard University Press
- Mey, J. (2001). Pragmatics: An introduction, page 76-77. Blackwell.
- Wardhaugh, R. (2006). An Introduction to Sociolinguistics. Blackwell.

From Wikipedia:

References

1. Mey, Jacob. 2001. Pragmatics: An Introduction, page 76-77. Blackwell.
2. Wardhaugh, Ronald. 2006. An Introduction to Sociolinguistics. Blackwell.

Well... I'm not trying to say that the tutors are slacking or whatsoever, but then... even if you wanna copy something from wiki, don't make it so obvious that the page numbers are kept... I mean, it'll only make it much less convincing when profs are saying that wiki sucks or whatsoever ...

... Man, I better find my own references...

D+

其實越低分越好
最起碼證明我沒被牽著個鼻子走

喜歡的 只是即興與自由
不喜歡 也只有規範與束縛罷了

也許會覺得我高傲自大
怎麽看 悉隨尊便吧

但 請別忘記
就是這麽一份自大 才承托得起那麽一份自尊
也就是那麽一份自尊 才會讓一字一句潤而有力

好多時候會覺得
槍和筆 其實沒區別
要經過磨煉 要對準目標
還要一份堅定的自信
才能使一切直入心扉

當對自己的能力有所懷疑時
抱歉 一切已經太遲了

所以說 別的科
若派爛分 我還會有點感覺
可這門課 說真的 我一看到我的分...

笑了

笑
是因爲這分並沒代表著我的能力
笑
是因爲這分沒有削弱自我的肯定
笑
是因爲我所經歷過的地獄 並不是一兩個膚淺的成績可以印證的
笑
也是因爲能更清晰地回顧以前的一切

回顧爲何總是討厭學校的那麽一個規範
爲何總是不能認同別人的觀點
爲何總會尋找那麽一個 "這不是絕對的"

抱歉
還是那麽孤傲
還是那麽任性
還是那個自我
還是那麽一句

就算與天為敵 就算遍體鱗傷 最後還能笑著走出來 已經夠了

的士

久違一次的搭的士會學校
要不是因爲今天得交功課
要不是因爲我坐在電腦面前超過二十個小時
弄到腦袋有點麻麻的
我也許也不會這樣的豪吧

上了的士 很快地便和那司機聊了起來
也許我那麽一個習慣到現在都還沒改變吧
可我還是那樣可以跟任何人閒聊

那司機一開始便問我爲什麽搭的士
好奇怪的一個問題哦
說真的 這位大概大我三十餘年的司機
講話未免太直了吧
我便回答了幾句
然後這司機便提到所謂的 "緣分"
... 幹嗎好像進了佛堂似的... ?

然後當這司機知道我是學生的時候
便開始講了很多關於自己的東東
例如他怎麽喜歡讀書 可有因爲錢而沒辦法繼續 之類的
我覺得 還好吧 讀書不一定是唯一的出路
然後他便問我 我將來有什麽理想 (好有小學 feel...)
我便蠻坦然地會答 我喜歡讀書 (我承認 我當時沒睡醒)
然後那司機便說了一大堆關於讀書有關的東西
然後便說 我這年紀的人 很少會像我這樣
他說 自己喜歡讀書因爲自己喜歡寫作
我自己也認同了我是這樣一個人
可他也說 我這類型的人 人生應該會蠻孤獨的
我笑了 孤獨這個詞 對於我來説 一點都不陌生吧?

再來就是什麽學科該讀 什麽學科不該讀
他說 他只有唯一一個學科他推薦 - 哲學
因爲 你讀完了你最起碼學會做人
最起碼你看懂了這個世界
也問了我爲什麽我不去讀哲學
我便回答說 文學也是差不多吧?
(我當然不敢講說我認識一個因爲成績爛得可以才進哲學的人...)
然後他也講了一科他最鄙視的 - 法律
他說 律師只是有錢人的"狗"
會爲了錢而不顧一切
我不能否定他啦... 可還是覺得 法律跟哲學 未免也有點雷同吧?

然後講到這個社會 (奇怪... 15~20分鐘的車程... 談到的東西也未免太多了吧...)
我說 不說你 連我這二十初頭的都已經看透了
這社會 累了 也已經變質了吧?
可又有誰又能力去改變這一切呢?
能做的 想做的 只是一個無名的旁觀者
我也說 我很久沒看報紙了
不是說我不想跟著這塵世的脈搏而跳動
只是 看到的 有多少真假 有多少虛僞 能分辨嗎?
重要嗎?

那司機便聯係到宗教
他說 他很崇拜宗教的哲學
他是無神論者 可他能看出宗教的真理
社會上 假如每五百 每一千個人
只有一個被感化了 只有一個沒變質了
宗教也會盡量去挽回那麽一個人
也會感到值得

還好吧...
下車時 不懂爲什麽 這司機講了一句話
就算以後感到孤獨 也不要難過哦~

嗯嗯
說真的
這司機 對 他以前是沒有讀什麽書 他的世界也許也只有那麽一個狹窄的空間
可他的人生觀 他的人生哲學 並不會比任何一個我在大學遇到的人遜色

未

一把未曾彈過的吉他
一只未曾玩過的遊戲
一幅未曾畫好的塗鴉
一座未曾整好的模型
一篇未曾寫好的文章
一間未曾整理的房間
一頓未曾吃完的晚飯
一套未曾看完的劇集

還有...

一些未曾兌現的承諾

... 你們 ... 還好嗎?