It's Been a Long While

After much observation, I have come to a conclusion that I am getting lazy and that the blog has not seen activity in a long time. Spending countless seconds mulling over it, I have come to another conclusion that it was true and that I wasn't really paying attention to my readers and my blog. For that I apologize. Well, I hope this will be a long post that would satisfy all of you in the mean time. Note: This is a long post, and hopefully you have the patience and that your eyes can stay in their sockets.

Let's all begin with the unexciting start of the holidays. It was a wonderful thing that holiday has finally descended after the horror that is the year end exam. Now that homework was a thing of the past (for now, I regrettably add), I have been camping unhealthily in front of the computer. I could be spending time playing with the basketball or reading some of my form 5 notes, but such thoughts were unappealing when one is in the thralls of a holiday fever.

Fortunately, I have been digesting books at a fast pace during the holidays, and till this date I have already finished five books, which all proved to be delightful reads. Two of them were Warcraft books, the rest of other sources, including famous authors like Jack Higgins and Darren Shan. The latter's book, The Thin Executioner, proved to be a very, very satisfying read, and I was surprised as I was not much a fan of his previous books. The Thin Executioner gave me mixed emotions and I was quite saddened by the tragic death and fascinated by the tale told by the characters of the book, and I would recommend all to read it (The book is a little detailed on the gruesome parts though. After all, he is the "Number One Master of Horror").

Note the ugly, malefic mountain. And the skulls.

Well, I did not stay at home every single day, alright? I do go out, rarely, mind you. I just went back to my hometown at the start of the holidays, and most of the time was spent on a book my friend borrowed me, and a little time spent listening to songs and counting how many spiders had woven their webs before dying of hunger at the corner of the room as I wait for the computer to start. Yes, that computer. You know, speaking of my hate and dislike towards the computer had seemed like a parody on my blog now. Damn that @#$% machinery!

In other news, I went to Midvalley with a friend of mine to take a look at a PC fair. Or sorta. There's a different name for it I guess. After some blunder, I had to watch Tower Heist with my mum while he waited in line to buy a 500 GB portable harddisk for only RM 139. Yes, RM 139. I am not joking, it is cheap, and as much as I wanted it, I prefer the movie more, and I don't really have a use for a new hard disk. Tower Heist was one of the best comedies I have ever watched, and it made me laugh from the start till the end. At least it has a decent plot with quite a few twists.

The RM 139 treasure. NO JAMS!

I also have taken the time to watch with my cousin The Warrior's Way, and being an action movie, it lacked rather much action and was instead replaced by mild comedy and the gore and blood that was almost everywhere in the movie. Everywhere Jang Dong Gun went, somebody died, either it is through a pair of chopsticks or a frozen miniature sword fish. No, I am not joking about the sword fish. Conclusion, the movie wasn't as good as I expected, the animations were poor and the main character emotionless, even till the kissing part (which somehow irritates me). The story was also bland and the plot predictable. I would recommend a look at it, but it probably isn't worth your money to watch it in the cinema or buy it as a DVD.

As I said, it is funny. The start and end of the video might brighten your day. Shunpo, anyone?

I also watched several other movies recently. On one outing, we went watching In time. The show was epic. The plot and details put into the movie was extremely good, leaving out little or no detail, and arousing very little questions in the audience. Justin Timberlake's acting was better than I expected, and the action scenes were superb, and the show constantly left suspense to gnaw at the audience. The story had a very interesting plot and I paid for the movie happy and contented.

About to eat.

Food is coming!

Those cooks must be slacking.

We also visited Secret Garden at the roof of One Utama (Not so secret, actually. Ironic isn't it? Mmm, yes). There were many types of plants, some never before seen, some only heard of or read in books, and some entirely unexpected. We had a long tour of the gardens above and that trip ended with us getting slightly wet from all the sprinklers in the garden.

We enter to our doom.

A palm tree. Must be a real "handful".

Gourds are a rare sight.

Cacti.

If you notice, the water is actually sludge.

A new species of plant. Jokes aside, he's a good friend of mine.

I'm a real "fan" of these plants.

Roses are red, and so is this too!

A species of orchid.

For those who can't tell, it's a droplet of water on a leaf.

I have no idea what is this.

Some kind of plant that looks absolutely normal.

Passion fruit?

Blood orchid. Wonder if there are any anacondas around?

Padi!

Rice!

Porridge! Wait, no some kind of plant.

Purpley purple!

Like something out of a swamp.

A man-made waterfall!

The sludge.

It looks like a... candle. Yes, just a candle.

I was looking at the cacti.

This doesn't even look like a plant.

Next, I went out with another bunch of friends to karaoke and shoot a few arrows. Yes, arrows. Not those real, armor-piercing ones. Just a few that one can practice for archery.

There wasn't much to say; most of us sang till our throats were sore, and archery was fun but sort of a let down (no surprise... since Bryan was the only one who knew how to play!) because we can't go skating due to a condition of my friend. It's not her fault though, and I don't blame her! I was happy enough already. And speaking of skating, you should know that we are at Sunway Pyramid! Red Box and archery and a little shopping ended our fun day there...

Yes, the six of us.

Guess what song is this?

Bryan doing add maths. Actually no, he's ordering food.

Must be my song. Nobody sings my song :'(

And speaking of Sunway Pyramid, there was another outing at the very same place! It was around a week later though, and this time, we got to skate! Ice-skating was more fun than I imagined, although starting was a complete nightmare where standing straight up was near impossible. Note that I did not actually skate for more than a few inches at a time on each foot, and it was fortunate that I did not fall down, although they say falling down is the fun part. Tried falling down once. It only felt cold... and wet...

The receipt for the ice-skating.

I also watched Breaking Dawn, which was surprising. I never liked Twilight in any way, and I got extremely disinterested after the first movie (B-O-R-I-N-G, no offense of course, just my opinion), but after watching Breaking Dawn, I can say the fighting part excited me and I fell in love with giant wolves ever since. Well, not the actors, but the wolves. I just like wolves. Needless to say, the plot was rather interesting and I can't wait for part 2, even though I barely know the story of the Twilight series.

We took the bus back to KJ LRT station.

Besides that, my MSN just died on me the other day. I couldn't login, and the entire computer would freeze after the error message appeared. I tried searching for solutions, reinstalling it, and even downloading Windows Live all over again. My friend, who I believe wishes to be anonymous, told me to "Live with it." (You know who you are...). I tried to, really, but I didn't last for 2.33 hours. And so, I had to delete my computer account, and create a new one.

It was a tiring job, and if you have over 60 bookmarks at websites to remember, both for Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox, I recommend you to not do it. It took me a lot of time an eternity, and when I was finished, I just realized, hey there are some programs, files, songs and data that I also need to move to my new account! I went to sleep while waiting for the files to transfer.

So, now I am using my new account, and is in fact typing this post with it, and I am pleased that it was much faster than the previous one (less crap in it). Unfortunately, there are several things that will be missed, such as the Remembered Passwords and Username for my Chrome... And of course, getting youtube when I type 'y' in the address bar for Chrome. Darn thing keeps popping out the website for my blog instead.

All in all, I guess changing once in a while is a good thing. I should be grateful that MSN works on a different computer account, albeit I deleted MSN Plus just to be on the safe side. Now, the computer goes much smoother and Skyrim is now much, much faster! Quote: I used to be an adventurer like you, then I took an arrow to the knee. Darn game.

As I write this, I am listening to an amazing piano play by a recently-discovered youtuber called Animenzzz, and his videos are amazing. He makes transcriptions of anime songs and plays them out emotionally and beautifully on the piano, and some of them are so nice that I was at a loss for words.

He has one hell of a talent. Just to give you a taste:

You can visit his blog by clicking here.

My best friend will be coming back to Malaysia soon, and for a whopping 2 months! That's right, folks! Two. Freaking. Months! I hope he would be able to come with me to KL during the next 2 weeks, and that we can have loads of fun in the meantime! Think of all the things we can do!

We can like, eat and sleep, and watch TV, and play games, and walk, and like, eat and sleep, and eat, and eat, and eat, and eat. Did I mention we were eating?

Dr. Who marathon, anyone?

YC, signing out.