10 Things You Might-or-Might-Not Know About Me

I haven't been updating my blog for a few centuries days already (close to a week there), and I decided, why not tell the readers a little about me? These aren't the darker secrets that I harbor, but it'll do. After all, I'm absolutely positive that you do not want to know what goes through my mind.

1) I multi-read/multi-watch
This might not come as a surprise to most of you I think. Apparently, some books are either too long-winded, boring or under some circumstances, not readable at that time (very scary ghost stories are not to be read at midnight), I will divert my attention to another book. At that time, if another event like the ones I mentioned above happens again, I might switch to another book. I can read up to 4 books at once and not get confused at their plot. Of course, I have to frequently cycle through them to prevent confusion in the plot. Same goes with anime and manga. I am currently watching 4 different series of anime and 27 manga series. I know, and you wonder why I always say I am busy when I have that many stuff to read. I wonder as well.

Note: Multitasking may cause the person to grow more than three arms which may or may not be under the person's control.

2) I can't hold a grudge no matter how hard I try
Ok, I might say something like, "You are evil and I don't want to talk to you again," or somehow give you the silent treatment and stuff, but trust me, if I consider you a friend, it won't last, at a maximum, over three days. I just can't keep grudges and stuff. After all, I like making friends. Of course, everyone's not the same and people might not be so forgiving towards me...

3) I think I have slight hyperactive disorder
I can't exactly say for sure, but I think I have SHD (Kids, I made this up). I have several evidence of this and I assure you I am not making this up (except for the name of the disorder). I appear to be unable to sit/stand still while talking on the phone. I will almost always walk around the house, from the hall to the kitchen then to the bedroom where I will make little circles there. Then there is about sitting still. I have a habit of shaking my legs whenever I am sitting down and not using them. Even when I'm doing my homework, my feet will decide to do a little dance on their own. At home, doing nothing unnerves me a lot. Keeping me in one place without anything to do is baaaaaaaad...

I just found this picture rather classic.

4) I have very, very frequent mood swings
First I'm all calm and peaceful; then I start raving about something and laughing maniacally. I could be smiling and being the happiest person in the world, then I'll stare into space or become mad at something minor. All of that is normal, considering me. I didn't really realize this until about a year ago. There was one time when I was doing my homework normally when somebody said a really lame joke and I couldn't stop laughing. And of course I became sullen after that. I wouldn't call it a bad thing, but sometimes it freaks people. I guess this has some relation to me being really, really high most of the time.

Aww, I wish I can have this indicator around.

5) I tend to repeat myself
I usually repeat something unnecessary a lot of times. For example, I found a cool joke/thing/incident somewhere, and I say it to A. After a few minutes, I laugh and say the same thing again to A. Needless to say, A was not amused. In turn, he made me bemused. Therefore, repeating myself is bad. Therefore, repeating myself is bad. Therefore, repeating myself is bad.

6) I have a very short attention span
Unfortunately this is 100% true. I usually to space out when someone is telling me something (usually if it's unimportant), my mind having drifted away. This is especially bad during study or classes. When teacher is talking and my mind wanders towards something else, I will find myself struggling to keep up as the last 10-15 seconds have just flew by. Luckily, when there is something that I am interested in, even slightly, I will not be afflicted by this problem. Say, what were we talking about again?

7) I believe very much in the supernatural
Yes, believe it or not, they do exist. At least, in my opinion. You see, I believe in the existence of the soul and life after death. So, if after going six feet under, where does your soul go? Why, to the afterlife of course! And then there are those who get stranded on the mortal plane and become what you people called spookies or ghosts, ghasts, ghouls or spirits. Then about the yeti, big foot and all, why not? They could be just very rare animals with a certain amount of intelligence hiding in sight because they are extinct. That or I'm a little high right now. As for vampires and werewolves, I have no comment. And aliens DO EXIST! The galaxy is so, so, so vast! Do you actually believe that we are the only sentient being in the universe? In our own galaxy, maybe (a very minuscule chance) but in the universe, no. Never! As for the spirits around us, I can say that I am quite frightened by them, although I am slightly interested in them. Just slightly, a small pinch.

A flying man! What could be the cause for this phenomenon??

8) I'm a person who sometimes do things at the last minute and I am really, really paranoid
I am a lazy person, that I can't deny. I procrastinate a lot, and I sometimes (by sometimes, I mean most of the time) I study just a day before the test (Note: I said test, not exam). As you have noticed in many of my previous posts, I am afflicted most heavily by the sin sloth. Come to think of it, why is it a sin? If you're lazy, you're lazy. It's not like you'll be bad person after being lazy. Besides that, I get really, really freaked out at stuff easily. An example would be: after reading a book titled "The Ways in Which We Go" (A book about how we can die, and how would it feel like dying that way eg. being eaten by a komodo dragon causes excruciating pain, I started having phobia of literally everything. I washed my hands more than 10 times that day. I gotta learn some common sense once in a while. It's not like every disease is out to get me. Right? Right??

9) I have a problem of talking before thinking
I may have offended you all once or twice or maybe more than ten times, that is for certain. I have a tendency of saying something before interpreting how it would hurt the feelings of others, irritate them or just plain piss them off. It's just that I have a rather fast talking speed and the words come out first before my mind can think it through. I often get into arguments with my friends and parents. And due to my rather bad nature, I always tend to think that I am right and just go along arguing. But I will cool down, and if it is my fault, I will apologize. And due to number 2, even if they say something rather hurtful, I don't think I will put it to heart. For those that I have offended in the past, I sincerely apologize and hope that you may tolerate me in the future to the best of your abilities.

10) I am really afraid of being lonely
It may sound very melodramatic of me to say that, but I'm afraid it is completely true. I am afraid to be all alone by myself. I treasure my friends (though I sometimes do not act like it) and am afraid to be left alone in this world. No matter if you're a classmate, a hi-bye friend, my best friend or someone I don't really know, I cherish all of you. I may appear to be selfish, annoying, cold-hearted or just an ignorant person who does not care about people's feelings, but deep down inside, I really do not want to lose any friends (although there are several people that I might not call friends, but that's a different story). In fact, making friends is good, and I, being a worrywart, fear that I do not fit in sometimes. Due to some things that I have done, some individuals might have distanced themselves from me. I don't blame them; it's just me. I do some bad things from time to time, but I hope all of you have the heart to forgive and forget.

Sigh, I guess that was a little dramatic of me, wasn't it? Seems like I'm looking for pity or something, but this is what's deep down in my heart and nobody can change that (except for the guy who lives across the street who has a brainwashing machine). You might understand a little bit more about me now, and in turn, I get to pour out what's in my heart for so long. Just to say, thank you all readers!

YC, signing out.

What Happened Recently

Hey, everybody. It's been awhile since I last posted here. Recently the workload of form 4 has been pushing me to my working limits (which is very little) and the time in which I should be updating my blog was filled with the time in which I am needed to do my work. And I am lazy, so there.

Ok, let's start with what I said last post. You do remember don't you? Yes, you're right! A caterpanzee! A group consisting of Jonathan, Bryan, Khai Xiang and me have rushed and crapped out some weird-ass drawn out worm/snake/dragon/eel thing we decided to call a caterpanzee. We decided it would be sort of an apex predator when teacher said it had to be a person.

By that time we were pretty much screwed.

But we had no choice, we had to present it in front of the whole class how this pack hunter--err, civilized alien--moves, what he eats, his life cycle and such. But I'm going to reduce it back to creature level. That's right, evil me.

Anyways, the caterpanzee grows up to 50 meters 5 meters in length. It is a carnivore herbivore omnivore that feeds on mostly everything. It thrives on the planet Braxis where trees are able to run and escape from predators. However, unlike most herbivores, a caterpanzee maintains a symbiotic and prey-predator relationship with a tree.

A caterpanzee has nimble legs which allows it to climb up trees and scale walls. The sharp end of the claw can also be used to pin down running trees in order to prevent its escape. The caterpanzee also lives up in trees, where its green colored carapace helps it blend in with its surroundings.

Due to its unique diet, the caterpanzee has a set of powerful jaws as well as venomous saliva to help in quickly immobilizing prey. While strong, powerful, agile and quick, the caterpanzee is not without enemies. It has sharp barbs on its back to help protect it against predators, and most carnivores foolish enough to eat this creature will find itself wishing it didn't as the caterpanzee will create a chain reaction within its body to explode and send its spikes flying in all directions, inside the predator's mouth of course.

However, some even larger and more dangerous animals, the brontofrog, the frogasaurus and the frotoadestroyer (Ok, I made the last one up. Just the last one), have special enzymes in their saliva to counteract the chain reaction. Bye bye catrepanzee.

While they are not intelligent, caterpanzees are cunning and sly, often hunting in packs to bring down large prey. They live a short 20 year life and while not very social, they communicate with various growls and hisses. At least they turn into a beautiful butterfly once they die of old age...

Yes, yes random much, but I ran out of writing material.

Next, there was a Leo Installation last Saturday (23/7/2011) which I attended. I was in charge with Food and Beverages (Bryan and me) as well as security (Ian Zhan forced me in), so I had to go early. I helped in things like moving and arranging chair and so on, but I was actually really free.

I stole this actually. What, it's shiny!

Whatchu looking at?

We get to watch the various performances and the new Leos being installed as well as the upcoming B.O.Ds (Board of directors) go on stage. Then it was time to take the food.

The Leos doing their pledge.

Bromance!

One of the Lions that attended the installation.

Being in charge of Food and Beverages means that Bryan and I have to directly oversee the entire operation and make sure the food gets handled properly. Along with the help of several buff and strong Leos, we managed to bring the food to the hall without any incident. We had to arrange the tables for the VIPs (Tell me you know this...) and set up the food placement.

And for hygiene purposes, we couldn't let the Leos take the drinks themselves (It was in a large tub/pail/tall and cylindrical pot/flower vase) so I had to be in charge of serving the drinks. Oh boy. There were at least more than 50 Leos and they come for refills all the time. My hand was aching by the time they were done. I ain't complaining, as I find that the installation was a pretty big success, aside from the point that most of the food that we ordered were wasted.

Me and my good friend Jia En.

I caught a ghost on cam.

Now I await at home, waiting for my doomsday aka the next Leo committee meeting. I wonder what will Puan Chung say after seeing the mountain of leftovers. At least Bryan will die with me.

On a side note, I really miss my friend in Australia, Jarren. I didn't get to talk to him much recently, due to my workload and GAMES! But I do hope he is coping well in Australia and making some new friends.

It was his birthday recently, 29th of July. Although I didn't get to celebrate with him, I saw that he had loads of fun with his family at Australia through Facebook. Ah, what wonders does the internet bring. I hope that we'll always keep in touch.

P.S: My camera isn't the best, so the quality aren't what you'd really find as nice. I hope you don't mind!

YC, signing out.

Expressing Imagination

I believe that all humans are born with imagination, and a vast one at that. There is no limit to it, for it is within our minds that we are able to create our own world filled with the funniest and most creative (and sometimes obscene?) things, from flying trees to sugars that attack people.

Seriously though, everybody can use their mind to think of something that doesn't exist. Namely things like a caterpanzee. Don't know what's that? Use your imagination. Use it wisely as well: create a world of wonders and amazement, a world filled with life, fun and obscene things. Err, I mean creative things. So, here's a nice little spot for you to imagine something from the deepest darkest crevice of your mind:
























So, how did it go? Had fun staring at a blank area for over 10 seconds? Now before you start getting angry, remember that I am doing this for your own good. Release stress a little. Think of a world filled with rainbows and unicorns and flying saucers with OHMYGOD A DEATH LASER ANNIHILATING EVERYTHING IN ITS PATH!

Sorry, got a little sidetracked there.

Anyways, hope those of you peeps who are really stressed and pressured (like me) have released their pent up steam. Enjoy. Oh, and if I do get the chance, I'll show you what we did in class: a real life caterpanzee!

YC, signing out.

Times Sure Flies

Sigh, I can't believe 2 weeks have just past like that. Before my good friend Jarren came back, I was moaning about how slow time moves, and counting down every single day was one of the most torturing things to do.

Well, when he came back, I apparently got my wish and time seemed to zip past me. Let's start from the beginning then. On 9/7/11, Jarren's mum and brother brought me along to the airport to fetch Jarren, his dad and Jomei, his sister (Really annoying one, at that).

I was really happy to see him, and I am sure he was happy to see me too. Of course, we started talking in the car all the way back to the condo. Needless to say, Jarren's mum wasn't pleased. There were many things that we planned to do, and swimming was one of them! (There was a swimming pool at the condo, and it looked pretty. Not to mention that there was a waterfall and an extremely deep kid's pool which sorta reached my ankle)

However, I had made plans beforehand. Before Jarren came back, I already booked tickets to the awesome, totally spectacular, on-demand Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon! At first, it was just Jarren, Jomei, Shyue Chyn, Yi Yang and me. Then Yi Yang (dum dum dum) brought a new group of friends dubbed "Yang's Army". Well the company wasn't really a problem, but the money was. Apparently after collecting money from everyone, I was still RM 1.50 short. Which was weird, considering that there was actually no way I could be RM 1.50 less. So I told them one of them must pay up, and alas Yi Yang had to do it.

This is part of Yang's Army

During the One Utama, Transformers trip, we also went to the arcade. It was extremely noisy there, and everyone had their turn playing all sorts of games. There was a random dude who was very good at the drum games that we were also keen on trying. Of course, we didn't even reach 1/10 of his skill level.

Besides that, me and Shyue Chyn also played an arcade game which involved shooting giant man-eating spiders, flies and dragonflies. Shyue Chyn was extremely hilarious, and I will let the video below describe it by itself. Well, it involved him screaming and me shouting.

After that, we ate crap load of fries from McDonald. It was a nightmare.

This is the first of many waves of fries.

However, on that weekend, disaster struck. Jarren had to go to Kuantan to eat durian, see dogs and eat wet kuay teow. I was stuck at home playing computer, and going out to a trip with my school friends and watching Mr Popper's Penguins.

Time passed really fast when Jarren was here. I was really sad to see him go back, but with the technology nowadays, I am sure that we'll not lose contact. And anyways, he will be back by this October. I just hope that he will make some good friends there in Australia. It's a tough country there. With the frozen snow and chilling ice. Just like Russia.

Jarren, me and Yi Yang.

I am Artyom.

YC, signing out.

I Shall Postpone the Kuala Selangor Trip Article

Meh, enough said. I was desperately busy the last few weeks and I do not have the time or will to type about the Kuala Selangor trip. It is long, that I can say confidently. There are a ton of pictures, and I would like to talk in detail about everything on the trip.

After all, we went to many places, and we did a lot of stuff there. OK, so I am lazy to write it, but gimme a break! I just finished like 3 projects...

SLOTH RULES!

YC, signing out.