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Failure made the climax of my day
31 March 2008, 10:43 pm. 42 Comments. Filed under Internet, Miscellaneous, Personal.
I thought all grown males (at least through the Internet) would have become accustomed to such scenes under their own volition over their high school years? But perhaps modern males have not failed that far—yet.
A couple of years ago, searching "failure" in Google would produce something along the lines of George Bush for the first result. Today, though George Bush no longer grins back at the first instance as Google thinks "failure", the fun has not just yet ended.
Not far down the Google search results page for failure...
Me: *eyes brighten up* OoOoOoOoh
Boyfriend: Don't click it...
Me: *clicks*
...
*watches boyfriend run for his life (literally)*
*LOL*
Three hours later... That mischievous boyfriend of mine decided to pull the prank on his friends. So there I was, tapping f-a-i-l-u-r-e-dot-o-r-g into the address bar on Jason's laptop. But four guys at the table, and none of them wanted to tap the final "Enter" key. Eventually, Jason's own finger triggered the last step of the prank.
Before the page was fully loaded, one of the guys shut the lid of the laptop at the sight of... Mmm. Well, and there we were, a group of psycho-maniacs ROFL-ing at lime green and crap.
Oh hail to the start of uni
4 March 2008, 10:32 am. 21 Comments. Filed under Personal, Rants, School.
It was the first day of uni for 2008 on 3 March. I can't believe just how excited the first-years are. During the second half of the year last year, the whole campus would be deserted before 8am. Well, yesterday was the first time I have ever seen so many students on campus at 7.30am.
Well, good on them freshmen. I've been hit with bloody thick coursebooks double the size of last year's plus a deadly uncomfortable cold. Even on this day-off when I could rest to heal my cold I'm forced to sit here and digest a crazy load of law readings. Yesterday during break, my first-year friends decided to sit down at a table and study together excitedly. (Just wait till they get their first wave of assignments and tests next month they'd be crying "Fuck law readings".) In contrast, I dozed off during my first public and criminal law lectures. I only used to do that during stats and maths lectures. 
How do you feel towards the start of a new school year? I used to be excited at the start of each high school year because I'd feel like I'm moving up the school hierarchy, and indeed we did get to tell off the people below us. But now it's like... it's like... daunting... just looking at the course content ahead of me... 
Sooner or later I'd make the local headlines by jumping off a cliff with a bunch of textbooks and coursebooks.
Significance of Valentines Day
12 February 2008, 10:02 pm. 25 Comments. Filed under Holiday, Miscellaneous.
There's always been two different types of female mindsets in relation to couple relationships and Valentines.
The Pragmatist
My sister thinks Valentines is really nothing so special. Why go out when it's so crowded in restaurants and you're going to get crap food and service? (She's not just bullshitting either. She's been going out with her boyfriend for seven or eight years.) Plus it might get pretty awkward when the guy next to your table start proposing to the girl.
The Idealist
Here's the type that expects men to do all the work. And it's also commonly the type to think that Valentines is a must-date day. Because if you don't date on Valentines Day then you're not a couple and you don't like each other. (I'm not making this up either. My friend actually said this to me and it made me feel like crying. )
I'm surrounded by the second type of girls who make me feel emo by talking about how a guy is supposed to do this and that for a girl. Basically, a nice "surprise" Valentines dinner date with red roses and a box of chocolates. Thursday was meant to be the first un-lonely Valentines in my life but I'm going to start my salsa classes on Thursday. Yay?
So how important do you think spending Valentines together is for a (new) couple? And how do you think it should be compensated if they don't spend Valentines together?
