In Effect

Intentionally was a flamer last night, instead of the quiet rage I became accustomed to after awhile. I hope that makes you all realize you really don't want me to be playing with you people.

The reason I play DotA is because I like the competitiveness, which is stuff Singaporeans generally have. On the other hand, you guys aren't inclined towards the competitive side of DotA. Heck, I'm sure I've said this before. Since I only have fun when it's either really hardcore, or I win, and that I bring you guys loses all the time anyway, I don't really like to play.

Well, whether you still ask me to play is up to you but I certainly am not expecting it. ;)

this post is a reply to Dornel's 'Maybe it's just one person' post

-Haruhiist

Singaporean attitudes

If you missed the '2 Good Points' post where I complimented like, everyone, then scroll down.

Back to this post, why are Singaporeans so fucked up? I mean, I know I am one. But still, Singaporeans are, in general, egoistic, arrogant, insensitive and have no integrity. I was just on Maple for about 2 hours, playing Monster Carnival which is where you kill monsters for points and the party with more points wins. Usually Singaporeans play swap wins where the parties take turns to let the other win, so that both can get the 3x-4x reward EXP that comes with winning.

In those 2 hours, me and my party got scammed almost every single time we played swap MC. Until I had to resort to spamming stun spells on the other party to make them unable to attack so we'd win.

This is ridiculous. I'd say scammers and cheaters are worse than those flamers in the DotA community, though they may actually be the same people.

What causes Singaporeans to have no honesty or integrity?

Is it because their playing with people they don't know?
Is it because they can't get reported for scamming like that?

I've never experienced this kind of thing when I was playing Global, at least until they shut out SEA players. Even then, my friends who play Global (from overseas) never complained about this kind of thing when I asked them.

There are just too many Singaporeans who are total asshats.

-Haruhiist

2 Good Things

Since I got a chain mail recently (from someone I don't know), something about how a teacher made a class write one good thing about each classmate and compiled the good things and gave them to each student and it made them really happy or something. Well, I'm bored and I figured I might as well try to brighten your days, so I'd do this. Since I only have like 6-7 mentionable friends, I'll do two each.


Darren
- Trustworthy
- Loyal

Dornel
- Sense of friendship
- Actions with good intentions

Samuel
- Keeps a conversation really lively
- (aggressively) Protective of friends

Merrill
- Can be serious about serious things
- Loyal sense of friendship

Thomas
- Fun to be around, sometimes
- Takes a lot of insults with a laugh

Jon Wei
- Jokes
- Mature about some things

Randall
- Trustworthy
- Keeps even one-sided conversations lively

Jerald
- Trustworthy
- Very friendly, warm etc.

Bristan
- Kind
- Insightful

Danyal
- Does his job when he has to
- Easy to approach

Zong
- Hospitable
- Loyal sense of friendship
- Doesn't mind spending money for friends without return ;)

...feels like I missed someone..

-Haruhiist

What is this madness

As I start out this post, I'm listening to a Chinese guy singing a Chinese New Year version of Poker Face.

Yes, it is, in fact, a link.

So I did a personality test Dornel wanted me to do. I'm apparently 89% introverted in contrast to 11% extroverted, 58% sensing, 79% thinking and 53% judging. I got the 'Examiner' personality type which is apparently someone who is loyal, dependable and faithful while putting high value in integrity and honesty. Honestly, I think I'm dependable, if you give me something to do (that I said I would do), I'd do it. Though, putting high value in integrity and honesty is something.. not so me.

Anyway, temperament is Protector which is.. not really like me.

Then he showed me this relationship type thing.

So my, uh, recommended personality types to have relationships with are both extroverts, noisy and social type, you know.

Opposites attract. Hurr hurr.

-Haruhiist

YFSGCO: Green Forms

Because I am supposed to be studying the Cold War now, but got bored after trying to create a mindmap for a History topic, and then wanted to do my Chinese but got bored before my pen touched the paper.

So, since I took a green form today I might as well do this now. Taking green forms is actually very easy, but there are a few certain things to look out for, depending on how paranoid you are and how you want your teachers impression of you to be. If you're like me, you are pretty paranoid and want your teacher to have a good impression of you so you can get out of things easily. In that case, follow this guide! For those suicidal don't-give-a-shit-'cause-teacher-is-retarded-anyway people, do it your way.

Note that after repeated green forms, that your teacher will get suspicious. Some teachers get suspicious faster than others, for example Mdm. Phua was very easy to take a green form for. On the other hand, Mdm. Kaur is easy to take from once or twice, but she will catch on quickly. You'll generally be able to tell from the feel of the teacher.

Traits of a Easy teacher:

- Gullible (VERY EASY TRAIT)

- Easy to Fool (VERY EASY TRAIT)

- Busy all the time

- Not strict during lesson, or very strict during lesson

- Cannot enforce rules for life, or very strictly adheres to the rules

Traits of a Difficult teacher:

- Sarcastic

- May seem easy to push around, but can hold his/her own in class

- Seemingly slack but is actually decently strict (VERY DIFFICULT TRAIT)

- Obviously has some brains in dealing with students tricks (VERY DIFFICULT TRAIT)

Just some things I noticed over the years. If your teacher is VERY EASY, you can take whenever you want. Even up to 3x a week, but of course if you're going to take one everyday even the stupidest of teachers will get you. If you're going for an EASY teacher, maybe once a week should be okay. For a DIFFICULT teacher, once every 3 weeks as well as some acting skills will be required. Finally, for a VERY DIFFICULT teacher, maybe once or twice in a term, preferably with a few weeks separation. You will also need to look sick. Get a friend to carry you or something, though it's only needed for the 2nd green form onwards.

Another thing would be picking which day to green form. You want to pick a day where there are preferably no practicals, and nothing important. Try not to do it on a day where you have a test because you might have to stay back the next day to do it. If a teacher, a CT especially tells you ON THAT DAY ITSELF that you must stay back for something, you SHOULD NOT take a green form. I have seen someone attempt it and it did not end well. If you want to skip CIP, then you should just not come to school, teachers tend to be a bit more persistent if you have a class activity like CIP after school.

Do not EVER go together with other friends to take a green form, the office lady will also get a bit angry, and if three or four of you go to take a green form at once, the teacher will surely get angry. I have seen this happy before my very eyes thanks to 2 very smart classmates of mine in Secondary 2. The most you can pull of is 2 one after the other, going at the same time is VERY risky and can only work on certain teachers.

Any other questions?

I could do a ranking list of all the teachers I know (I was halfway through it) but then I figured I'd rather not. This post is long enough as it is.

-Haruhiist

Exhaustion? Hell, even I didn't realise it.

You know, I took a green form after Scouts Day today. The point was mostly to get my homework done and go home, but while signing the form at the office, Mr. Patrick Soo saw me and I think he was just scolding like 4 other Ventures for taking green forms ALL at the same time. Talk about being lousy at committing offences. Anyway, he told me to get a MC and walked away before I got a chance to really say why I was going home - because I was tired. Yes, it was not because of any illness or sickness, but because I was tired.

Anyway, my mom came to fetch me and I went home. Now when I said I was tired, what I meant was that I wanted to lie down for awhile and take a break. I totally did not expect that when I got home, I collapsed on my bed and fell asleep from 11-2, when I woke up for lunch and a pear. Mm.

I guess even my totally fucked up body system can't take only 2 hours of sleep combined with continuous vigorous exercise...

...

I'm talking about MARCHING.

Well.. yeah. And in response to Merrill's comment:
Come back online or offline?

-Haruhiist

What!? You skipped another outing!? You.. you.. you WHORE!

No, really wut.

Nah, I messaged Dornel so I figured he would've told you guys why I didn't come. Basically the SMS said..

'My excuse is that I haven't done my homework. The reason is that I am feeling quite sian and just want to spend the day at home sleeping...'

Since someone (I can't remember who) brought up the 'so you were sleeping, huh' thing with me, I guess he did tell you guys.

Yeah, I'm just feeling quite sian nowadays. I woke up around 8, then sat around doing nothing so I might as well have been sleeping. Finished up a PS3 game by 1230, then the Starhub guy came and fixed my modem. I surfed netz for awhile before starting up Maple around 4 or 5, then played until 8. That's when the guys called me to DotA. Played one game and took my leave.

I'm not totally sure why I only will let myself play one game per night, it has to do with me being sick of DotA I guess. I enjoy the winning, I don't mind the losing, but I hate the stupidity of it all when I have to deal with.. stupidity.

Anyway I did all my homework except for the 2 A Math questions I couldn't do. Doing good with Trig, A Math looking good this year. Now I need to work on my Bio and Chemistry.

-Haruhiist

Taiga Pics

My shiny picture of Taiga

Loving this figure, although the base is horribly plain which is the part of the figure I dislike the most. Other dislikes include the flat face, I think the hair should hover over the face a bit rather than just lying on the face which makes it look really flat for a 3D figurine as well as how after detaching the body from the legs the first time, it becomes very loose and shaky.

I have one pic with the skirt removed, if anyone wants to see.

-Haruhiist

In regards to me walking away

Some of you may not mind me not going with you guys, some of you may think I'm an anti-social faggot for not going with you guys, some of you might not give a shit about why I didn't go. But whether or not it affects you guys, I for some reason feel obliged to write out my reason why I didn't go. Personally I think all of you are people who can understand reasoning to some extent, although there are one or two of you who won't give a shit about what I think, hopefully this is reason enough for you people.

Basically, what I learnt from December to January, especially when my friends from overseas came to Singapore, is that I shouldn't force myself to do things I don't want to. When my friend from overseas came, I was supposed to meet her (along with another guy that I had met before) and spend the day with her. The night before, they sent me an SMS saying that they were going to attend a dance competition in Punggol and that I had to meet them at 11AM at Punggol MRT. Now, I was like 'What the Fuck' because I had to switch trains 2 times and Punggol was at the end of the purple line. After consulting a few people, I finally chose my decision - that since I probably wouldn't have fun, I shouldn't bother going. After all, I'm not the kind of person who will enjoy watching a dance competition.

In more related news, the reason I didn't go is because I figured I wouldn't have fun. That is right, I don't think I will have fun spending 2 hours just going to Dornel's house to get controllers as well as the ride to Zong's house, and then followed by 2 hours of BANG BANG PEW PEW. You guys might find it fun, but I much rather stay at home and play on my own PS3. I also recently have much more homework than I'm used to (it may be regular for you guys now, but I never needed to work this hard to keep track on my homework), so I kind of want some real rest time for this holiday.

And as we all know very well, rest time =/= party time.

I hope you understand, this is truly what I think. I'm kind of becoming like Bristan, I suppose. He was quite sian whenever he went out with us, or so it seemed, whenever we went to LAN. Right now I'm feeling the same way, what would be the point of me going if I'll be bored? I'll only piss off the people that are having fun, right? I don't see a point in being there just to.. be there.

If anything, that sounds like a waste of time.

-Haruhiist

FDParade Rehearsal + Miss-Con Taiga

First I'll have a short little section about my new figure which I talked about in my last post. I have no photos because I'm dead tired and can't bring myself to go get the camera and take pictures. Basically, it's my most expensive figure at $122, it's really pretty and because of it I had to redo my figure positioning again. I love it very much.

That's all on the figure.

Today I went for the first full dress rehearsal, had no time to eat or drink anything because Ethan and Winson were camping the classroom so I had to wait there since I had the class key. In the end, I almost fainted during the first practice and now I realise I still owe Mr. Patrick Soo his $4 he lent me to go eat. Second practice was fine since I had eaten and it was in the shade.

Ah, I really have nothing to write.

I guess, if anything, the fact that Dornel has stopped bringing his PSP to school makes me incredibly bored. I don't even get to practice the new skill I'm using.

-Haruhiist

What a hectic life

I went for school, then I went for Scouts after school. I thought it'd be hardcore from what Andrew told me, but I managed to get a slack job which is just holding the CD player to blast the marching music. That's more or less what I did for the whole 1 hour 40 minutes, until 5:10 or so. Then I called Samuel several times, and then called Danyal because I had to find out how to get to KKnM because they had sms'd me that my figure finally arrived - which I was so bloody excited about when I got the sms during Geog Core; I was literally grinning and super excited in my seat - since I forgot which bus to take.

Eventually Zong called me and I asked to speak to Samuel. After some delay, I finally got to talk to him, and he told me 166. So I took 166, and I realised I forgot to cross the road. Facepalm moment much. I got off at Clementi MRT and took 105 to Dover MRT where my mom told me to stop so that she could fetch me. She brought me to KKnM and I got my figure, got a bit surprised when the woman from KKnM told me that the $102 wasn't paid through credit card, it has to be paid through cash. So I'm like, shit.

So now my mom owes me $112, $10 from allowance and the $102 because last year I paid her the money for the figure in cash in exchange for buying it for me using her credit card.

Life is pretty boring as a whole, tomorrow is that gay Founder's Day rehearsal. I hope it's cloudy but doesn't rain.

-Haruhiist

Your Friendly Sheep's Guide to Committing Offences (YFSGCO)

I'm bored, I wonder how far I can take this. This is the first post for YFSGCO, and the topic will be on listening to music in class. Some may be criticizing my definition of a offence, maybe it's not hardcore enough for you, or maybe it's too overwhelmingly offensive for your poor little mind to comprehend. But either way, screw you, I'm running the show.

Now, depending on your teacher, this can be very hard or very easy. I can pull this off even in Mr. KT's class, so I figure it should be fine. What you want is:

1) A jacket.
2) If no jacket, then you will want white earphones.
3) A small backpack, slingbags are harder to use for this purpose.

It's actually quite simple, just put your MP3 player, PSP, iTouch, whatever you use to listen to your music, and then plug an earphone into the ear which is facing away from your teacher. Put your MP3 player inside your bag, and then hug it while resting your head on the table, with the wire barely being exposed between the top of your bag to your chin. If you're wearing a jacket like the Drama jacket with a ridiculously huge collar, you can even cover your ear and sit up straight. In that case, you can also put them on for both ears, but you're fucked if the teacher asks you to stand so it is not recommended.

This has worked for the following subjects, I hope you know which teachers teach me what classes:

- English (2009)
- E Math (2009)
- A Math (2009) - not that I needed to
- Biology (2009, 2010)
- History Elective (2009)
- Social Studies (2009) - not that I really want to
- Chinese (2009, 2010)

I wonder what to do next..

-Haruhiist

Take a break, have a kitkat.... NOT

Okay, so I just negotiated with Jerald to let me skip tomorrow cause of homework issues, and just came out of tuition so I'll take a short break to write this post and eat my pears.

Recently I haven't been playing DotA with the group, there are 2 honest reasons for this.

1) Homework. Dornel may not be so affected by this, I'm not sure if he's playing with you guys or not, but our teachers are throwing loads of homework on to us. At this current point of time, I have 2 Biology worksheets, 3 Chinese exercises including a composition to do, English comprehension as well as composition and a Geography essay worksheet. Chinese actually makes up most of the homework that gives me trouble, so I have to spend quite a bit of time on it, and since I'm pretty lethargic and need a bit of extra sleep, I don't have time to play with you guys on a daily basis anymore. It's like being involuntarily serious about my work, because I don't like CWO or Detention Classes, or taking chances.

2) My skills are degrading. This may be related to me playing less, or it might also have to do with how I'm losing interest in the game. I think what I liked about DotA was the competitive nature, how you fight to win and work together to win. I know when we play together we play closely compared to most pubs, though occasionally there are randomly formed pub teams that work together. But the way you guys talk in game and how you act kind of gives off this sense of not caring about winning, which represents DotA's competitive nature. As I said, what I like is the competitive nature, so when I play with you guys with seemingly not serious attitudes, it makes me lose interest. Hence, I'm starting to not really care anymore, and so I'm doing worse. You guys are better off winning without me than losing with me, especially since I irritate so many people with bitter comments.


I think having such a load of homework is making me a lot more sober, I'm tired and lethargic everyday. It's like I'm dragging my feet through life.

BLASTED O's, at least I have nice friends like Jerald who cut me some slack in this hectic schedule.

I remember I wanted to post about something else... but I can't remember what it is, so blah.

Hot damn, I made it through an entire post without a single vulgarity.

-Haruhiist

Cornelia 2010

My second Dissidia tournament, this one actually has prizes. Entry fee was $8. The prizes were pretty neat, first prize being a wifi adapter that has a in-built system that lets you use xlink to play online from your computer (hence, Dissidia Online). Second prize is a pretty good quality little portable speaker, it's lightweight and runs on 3 AAA batteries. Last one is a alarm clock that runs away from you until you catch it while making obscenely loud noises. Tournament this time around has 4 less participants due to school stuff, so from 20 it became 16.

Nothing too interesting, my first round opponent had Bio SPA so he couldn't make it. So I got 'seeded' to the second round where I lost 2-0. But since the tournament is in the double elimination format, I went to the Loser's Bracket instead of being totally eliminated. When I got to the LB, I just plowed my way through. Dornel also got sent to the LB in the 1st round, but fought for 2 battles I think. Then by some screw of fate, I had to fight Dornel, then I won, though seriously I think he was a bit jumpy during the whole thing, and that affected the fight. After that, fought another person whom I beat in the last tourney, and then fought the same guy who had eliminated me in the first round.

Intense 1st battle that I won in the end, then during the 2nd round (the Tournament was Best of 3 for each match), he barely beat me. I switched to Shantotto and won, since I wasn't too confident about using Tidus against Cloud of Darkness again.

Finally, Finals round, I beat him 2-0, but he said he had the wrong skill equipped and I said 'okay, we can redo that match'. It didn't matter anyway because I had to fight him twice, since he was in the WB and he lost, he went into the Finals LB which is basically a second chance. He beat me 2-0, and I now I know not to fight Kefka on Pandemonium. So I won 2nd place and a nice speaker which I am now using as a permanent speaker instead of a portable one. It's plugged into my computer and has pretty good quality, it doesn't go all static when I play high-pitch and low-pitch songs (e.g. Piano songs).

Yeah. 2nd Place, woot.

-Haruhiist

Chinese test, otherwise.. meh.

So I have my Chinese Common Test (0% weightage) tomorrow, and somehow I lost my Cheng Yu book as well as forgot to bring home my chinese books. This means I'm going to fail the memorize questions, oh fuck. Whatshisname is going to get so pissed off at me for getting 0 for that section, and maybe I'll get 20% total for the whole examination if I'm lucky. The only thing that pulled me up last year was my A2 bao zhang bao dao, which I think was really lucky for someone of my standard to get.

Nothing else interesting, I have gay Scouts tomorrow, praised by my teacher 3 times now for being neat in my work, planning on keeping files so my Shana folders don't get stretched out and worn out too badly.

Ah shit, still worried for my CL paper.

-Haruhiist

Usual shit, boring mundane life yadayada.

I went to school. I paid attention, for the most part. I went to Scouts after school. I did nothing worth going for. I wonder what the hell I'm doing every day, I go to school, I do the usual good boy antics like paying attention, or at least looking like I am, I either go for CCA or go home. CCA is boring, and when I come home I play games - which is probably the only non-boring thing in my life because I just got a new game.

I played my first DotA game today for this week, not counting the ones that ended prematurely, it was real good. Getting owned and shit, but thanks to last minute team work we managed to pull through with Jon Wei acting as team anchor with his Slark that the enemy team just seems to not want to kill. My Invoker was 5-10-13 or something like that but I think I did okay considering I gave up on offense and turned into disable Invoker and did well with that, nothing exciting for me though. Just throwing out Deafening Blasts and Tornadoes with some Meteor at the side. Jerald and Thomas were also like me, a bit background, though Thomas' Astral Prisons did quite a bit and Jerald's heals and impetus' did a lot of damage too. Jingsen was probably least useful, though his poison helped once in awhile. Games like that are fun, when it's not one-sided and you kind of need to work (play properly) to win the game.

Yeah.. still waiting for my Taiga figure.

Hm..

If it comes on Friday, I will shoot myself, Scouts and all.

I should get started on the CD poster now.

-Haruhiist

This happens too often, I think I'm delusional or just that desperate.

Maybe I'm just imagining it now. I'm sure all of you have heard of at least one of my stories of a girl looking at me/knocking into me on the bus or MRT. Some of them are like the one where the bus was rocking and then the girl kept bumping into me on the pole, the one where me and a girl were just staring at each other for awhile right before my stop, then I got off, and finally the one where a girl walked up in front of me on the MRT since I was at the door, and stood in front of me for a second, looking straight at me while I looked up and down and left and right but not at her directly. That ended in her mom coming up to me and saying something with an angry face, but I didn't hear since I was listening to music.

Today, on the way home, I decide to sit down for once. I'm sitting at the back of the bus where there's a small little slope going upwards right, and then at Commonwealth station, 5 girls come on to the bus. 4 of them sit around me (there's a woman on the seat to my right, so I'm on the outer seat) and the last one wants to sit where I am, and I almost offer my seat since I'm getting off soon but she sits down. For the time that those girls were there, the girl that wanted to sit in my seat was looking at me. But I was just looking stoned, looking straight ahead, mostly because I suspected she was looking at her friend behind me, not me. Why would anyone look at me?

Fuuu-

I think about this too much. I wonder what they were laughing about. Maybe next time I should put on earphones but not listen to anything, just to see if there is anyone talking about me thinking I can't hear them. Then I can give them the Fuck You face.

One other thing also, when I was walking to that seat, there was another seat with another girl and she nodded to me while I was walking there. I have no idea why.

-Haruhiist