Finished watching 26 episodes of Sousei no Aquarion. Other than the fact that some parts seem missing, it's awesome for the level of animation. I enjoyed it thoroughly.

Now listening to it's opening song of the same title by Akino. Can be found at this link.

One statement in the anime struck me.. how long are you gonna keep running away? How long am I gonna keep running away?

Woke up near 12, ate 'chee cheong fun' and went to pick up my mom from work. Once home trained hermit to lvl 130+ thanks to a kind bishop and party. Trained bishop a little and then went merchanting. Reached goal of 100+ 60% glove for att scrolls (150mil x 100 = 15billion worth).

Played dota and won. Got around to changing my bedsheets and washing the fan. Near evening alternated between maple and TV after dinner. Found websites to download and watch an interesting anime called "Sousei no Aquarion", watched 3 episodes and played dota again, won them.

The end of another boring day.

I went for a jog for the first time in a long time this morning. Felt extremely giddy and as if the brain had a lack of oxygen after getting home so I wiped myself dry and slept. May have been caused by an empty stomach and little water intake beforehand, I'll find out the next time I go.

I do want to pass my napfa and avoid the additional months in ns if I were to fail. The napfa test will be in Nov.

Either my heart or the true lack of stamina is the issue now. The doctor whom I've been seeing every half-yearly since I was 12 said I'm physically fit for exercise and I shall take his word for it, so I'll assume it's the latter - true lack of stamina.

The giddiness was so bad I thought I was gonna faint and never wake up. Then I thought about all the things I haven't done yet..

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*Maple Story ahead*
My imba/godlike equipment for both bishop and hermit are complete, feels great after all the effort that has been put in. There's nothing much to do left, I might stop upon training hermit to lvl 120 for night lord or continue training either/both characters to 200. Or I can go back to dota..

How imba/godlike is my equipment?

Tirael (Bishop)
- Purple Gaia Cape (+4), Int 8, Ma 6, self-scrolled, 4 60% out of 5
- Gold Emerald Earrings (+2), Dex 2, Int 11, Ma 10, bought, 2 10% out of 5
- Red Oriental Fury Coat (+7), Int 21, Luk 3, self-scrolled, 7 60% out of 10
- Blue Marine (+5), Ma 129, Int 11, bought, 3 10% & 2 60% out of 7

Rekcah (Night Lord-to-be)
- Pink Gaia Cape (+5), Dex 10, Wa 3, bought, 5 60% out of 5
- Red Katina (+8), Luk 24, Dex 4, self-scrolled, 8 60% out of 10
- Brown Work Glove (+7), Wa 14, self-scrolled, 7 60^ out of 7
- Red Craven (+5), Wa 62, Luk 8, bought, 2 10% & 3 60% out of 7

After writing these down I realise I self-scrolled 4 out of 8 of my equipment. Back in MapleSEA I was just an average player, but in this private server I'm one of the best and richest, it feels good.

It's 1am, I gotta wake up at 6 for class. Nice eh? There's a song by Foo Fighters called Long Road to Ruin, I think that applies so much to me now.

Well.. mid semester tests on Thurs and Fri and I haven't studied for them yet. Both require memorising.

Dad wanted to check the price of Perodua Kenari, it's at 38K for auto now and the new Viva is 44K for auto. I doubt we can swap the current Dong Fong for either now as:-
1) The cash rebate we received earlier for taking up the higher interest loan has to be returned. It's like 6.4K cash.
2) The monthly installment will increase.

On the other hand, the road tax, insurance, fuel consumption would decrease. Most importantly I get my dream (as of now) vehicle.

I guess now I have accepted the fact that I'll be driving Dong Fong until I get out of ns. By then I can choose my own and pay for it. I told him I'll see whether I will drive it to school on some days after the tests.

I thought I hated my dad for choosing Dong Fong over Kenari (when it was OBVIOUSLY, I emphasise OBVIOUSLY) what I wanted. After hearing stories of (and being moved by) how people have separated from their families due to disagreements and how sad they were on the same Taiwan talk show I mentioned before, I let it go. The relationship between these two is that my dad is my dad after all, and he could be doing worse things like said in the show.

I guess I've become so numb from the stress I've received since I was born that I don't feel it when I'm awake. I only feel and exert it when I'm asleep in the form of bruxism. Please do a search on bruxism if you're interested. Google link.

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-WARNING. Boring part ahead about maple story. Please do not read if you're not interested and/or do not know about maple story as it would barely make sense.-
(mainly for myself to recap how it's been there so far)

Been spending (ok ok wasting) time playing the maple story private server (150x exp rate). Started last Wed and trained a sniper from 1 to 100+ by Sat. Next thing I know they rolled-back the server to 16 June.. where my account didn't even exist!

Fortunately they raised the exp, meso and drop rates to make up for it, the exp rate became 1500x. And I trained another sniper to 140+, a hero to 130+ and priest to 100+. Yesterday night they set the exp rate back to 150x, too bad my priest wasn't 120 yet for 4th job and genesis skill.

Soon after, I was ecstatic when I scrolled a weapon att 14 brown work glove, meaning 7 out of 7 60% scrolls passed. Screenshot here. I had made a lot of money whilst training during the increased rates. Before that I also scrolled a wa 8 bwg, which I sold later.

After scrolling this godlike glove I decided to make an assassin. After which I found out an amazing spot to farm 60% glove att scrolls (gfa) from a seller and I've been there all day. I estimate that I've gotten more than 60 of them so far and each is priced at 400m each.

Following, I bought a godlike 10 dex 3 wa pink gaia cape at 3.6bil (which is like 8 gfa only), a 0 slot wa 58 luk 6 red craven at 2.5b (later sold at 1.8b cuz I bought a clean wa 50 craven), traded 4 gfa for 4 ilbis and more.

Scrolling-wise I passed 4 out of 7 60% 2h sword att scrolls on my hero's lvl 100 sword (which I traded 1 gfa for and then realised att speed is slow), then after burning over 30 10% staff att scrolls on lvl 100 staff for my priest I got a 1st slot pass and then passed 3 out of 6 60% staff att on the remaining slots.

Gonna stock up on 60% overall luk scrolls for my assassin as I see them now, I've got all the money in the world to spend now from farming the secret spot anyway. Once I train my priest to bishop I'll decide what to do.. either start an assasin with my godlike equipments, train sniper to 200 or hunt with bishop.

-NOTE. Boring part has ended here.-

Stunned in front of the computer before deciding on what to write..

So I was driving my mom home from work and saw 4 ns vehicles travelling at about 40-50km/hr on the expressway in a row. I was thinking that I'd be (stunned here again thinking of how to phrase it) considered lucky to get something like this when it's my turn.

This led me to think about camps. Camps were something I enjoyed very much in secondary school, let's see my camp experience from joining as a regular Peer Leader in Sec 2 to becoming Head in Sec 4:-
Sec 1 - Participant in Sec 1 Orientation Camp
Sec 2 - Participant in Peer Leaders Training Camp (PLTC), Organising Commitee (OC) for Sec 1 Orientation Camp
Sec 3 - Participant in Lasallian Leadership Training Camp (LLTC), Participant in National Lasallian Leadership Camp (NLLC), OC for Sec 1 Orientation, OC for PLTC
Sec 4- Overseer in PLTC, Overseer in Sec 1 Orientation Camp, Facilitator in LLTC

The feeling of mental and physical exhaustion gave the sense of achievement, something which I have not felt for some time. After all, I feel that I was good as an OC.

It was awesome working with fellow peer leaders to make things successful. Camps were the only time where attendance was highest. As much as they did not pay attention or contribute during regular meetings, their attitude during camps were much different. I can't describe how they were (am at a loss for words), you would have had to be there to understand. There was brotherhood during cheers and songs, although there was competition during games.

Not forgetting the prefects, CCA leaders and counsellors who were a part of it too, thank you all for the experience I have had, whether as a participant or OC.

Played dota two or three days ago on my good old laptop again (no lag and won that game). One word to describe the feeling.. nostalgic. I bought this laptop in sec 4, Apr 2005. It works fine until now, in fact I'm using it to blog now and I play maple private server on it while watching tv at night. I reformatted it shortly before I bought my desktop. To think I've played so much maple, dota, cabal etc. and done so much work using this laptop.

I remember the time I spilled herbal tea over the keyboard, it was a bottle placed between me and the laptop. Once it happened, I quickly unplugged everything, overturned it and shook it for liquid to come out. Yea there was the feeling of panic as I would have definitely got scolded. Then I used a hair dryer to blow dry it. There were two problems with it following the incident. Half of the screen was slightly a darker shade, it was so unnoticeable that it was my sis who saw it. The other problem was that the shift key stopped working.

Fortunately, it was a few days before the warranty expired (so this occurred nearly a year after it was bought) and they fixed it. Ever since it has been one of my best friends haha..

For all laptops there's a small trigger above the keyboard to turn off the monitor upon sensing that the screen is closed? There was this other incident that there was no display on the screen upon reaching sch while the harddisk and startup sound could be heard. I was like "okay you're leaving already?" So I used the sch comp to get Dell's number and called them. After some troubleshooting we figured out that it was the trigger causing it as it was bent. Oh no.. it's out of warranty!

No.. wait.. the part between the keyboard and screen (where the power button, status lights and key lock lights are) could be taken out! So I did it and ta-da.. the screen was back!

I actually learnt something from my dad today. He was talking about how he saw that the gloves of a staff from China cleaning the restaurant had broken and he went to buy a pair for her. It's just a few dollars after all.

This could have made her day as she's new in Singapore and might not know where to buy the gloves yet. She may also be doing other odd jobs to make more money and simply not have enough time to go buy a new pair.

Once again I didn't get any studying or project work done. Woke up at 12pm+ and an old friend from CabalSEA wanted to pvp me. So I logged in and won all 3 duels, noticing that some of my guildmates were still training and a much higher level. Then played dota till 3 and stopped cuz if another game lasted the usual one hour I would have to leave to go to the dentist.

It was drizzling but I drove there anyway. I was early and the rain had stopped so I wiped the car dry before going in. The mouth guard for use during sleep still wasn't optimal, so what the dentist did was manually make a slight dent. At that moment I knew I shouldn't have spent $450 to make it, and instead focus on resolving the main reason why I have bruxism. Stress.. more specifically accumulated from my family issues.

Got home at 5.30 and went to buy dinner. I paid for mine and sis' Macdonalds, using the $50 dad gave to pay for his share only. Continued playing dota till late 8pm and watched tv till now.

Installed MapleStory private server (NetoverLordsMS) on laptop and trained a bowman to hunter. As my classmate said, everything is fine except that picking up of items take 1-2 secs to happen. No idea whether I'll go far, just wanted to cuz I was bored and kinda tired of noobs and leavers in dota.

If only I would do other things like I play games..

End of another ordinary day.

Forwarding up on my previous post regarding my maple mei, I talked to her on msn and she was like "huh?". So I asked her whether someone else had used her phone and she said yea, then she left for supper. So I waited and she went offline without a word. This morn I woke up and saw her sms saying that it was her friend who did it. So I replied to confirm and it ended up with a "whatever" again.

I wash my hands off her.

Well I'm not gonna "advertise" this blog link in my msn again, so if you know me and happen to be reading this blog, thank you. To the rest, thank you for reading as well.

The main reason why I'm blogging again (dunno how long it'll last) is cuz they were saying on a Taiwan talk show that writing journals (or blogging) is a good way of relieving stress (yea while listening to emo music especially).

My previous post was written cuz I was about to blow up, the posts before that were written a long time ago.

So here I am, on to the blog post for today.

After my project meeting I was going to buy a box of donuts for my maple mei as a belated birthday present as decided the night before. Perhaps it was the way I spoke when I called her to confirm the venue and time which led her to think that I was.. obsessed with her. She's 5 years younger than me. I hereby declare that I did and do NOT have other intentions, it was as simple as a belated birthday present.

I did explain myself through sms, saying that "I only thought this would make you happy, nothing else, guess my actions have resulted in the way you think now instead". Guess it didn't work out, and the friendship has ended today.

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