Words

English, a language made of words. What's the definition of words - go check it out yourself. How does one master a language? By learning all the words? Or by learning how to use them? Nevertheless, there are many things that I want to talk about words.

My vocabulary is supposedly good, as mentioned before by my siblings. But I do not think so. I used to read widely, or so I thought, till I found out the breadth and depth of literary works which my friends have explored; I read wayy too little. Then again, when asked with the meaning of a certain word, a gist of the meaning of the word would form in my mind, like an intuition or gut feeling, and it is more often right than wrong. Does this happen to everyone? For example, when asked of the meaning of the word "portend" what do you think it means? It means to signify or to mean something.

In Theory of Knowledge (ToK) lessons, we learn that certain words carry emotional baggage. Because of this, there are words which sound nicer than others, when both have exactly the same meaning. Short <--> Vertically challenged / Died <--> Kicked the bucket / Dneo <--> Awesome / Prostitute <--> Call girl / and so on and so forth. My point is, the objective of words is to bring across the message, and how you do so shouldnt be that important. Does phrasing certain things in a nicer manner change the effect of those things? Not one bit, but it does show that you make an effort. Thanks

I once read a newspaper article, that we should say things in a nice manner, because it is always better. As an example in the article, the word weird becomes unique/interesting. This substitution works in most events, and I've used it in my daily life since then. However, because of it, my view of the word unique/interesting has changed to include the meaning weird. So when people use the word unique/interesting, I may intepret it as weird... which I shouldnt. But then again, it is beneficial when people call certain categories of people of which I belong to weird, which I then intepret to mean that I am interesting and unique.

In other news, my text twirl skillz sucks. I can get to like, 3 words before I die. So I enlist the help of my friends, and we go on and on and on, until the application gets overloaded and cant load. The buggers who created the program should be shot for not maintaing their server load well. =(

Nothing matters anymore

Recently, I said this phrase, and was reminded of a past event. I remembered the time I last used this, it was a few years ago. My life revolved around an MMORPG, and I had a friend I had never seen in real life before. I met him online, and he helped me out. We became friends, and we played together alot, helping each other through the long hours of grinding, making it bearable. Then one day he said he was quitting the game, it wasnt fun to him anymore. I was shocked, my world collapsed around me. I added him on msn, but it just wasnt the same as ingame. We had less things to talk about, we grew distant, we eventually stopped talking. He's still there on my msn, an old friend, but he's hardly online now. I started to emo (I didnt know this term then), nothing mattered anymore. Looking back, I was stupid, it's just a bloody game dammit, why so serious?

Fast foward to the present, it's a totally new situation, it's a no longer a game. Nothing matters anymore now. In the future, will I look back and think that I was stupid for thinking like this now? No. Oh wait, maybe. But since when did it matter?

Things that happened

After a long break, here's a short recap on the things that happened since wednesday:

Wednesday: Forgot what happened at school, went to first ever photog meeting till 5. They actually have my name on the namelist, woot. Was really really tempted to tick my attendence for the last 4 meetings, but the senior was looking. O well there's always next time.

Thursday: There was this captain's ball event for the second intake students. The balls they used were, to say the very least, interesting. What's with eggplants, exercise balls, pineapples and raw whole chickens. By the luck of the draw, we got the raw chicken field, by even more luck, we got the field again. I believe that playing captain's ball with a ball that is slimey and disintegrates halfway is quite an unforgettable experience, hurray for the student council for even thinking of such an absurd idea.

Friday: Highlight of the day supposed to be the picnic, it failed terribly. New highlight of the day was the double movie @ 6 bucks each @ GV Plaza. Went to watch CJ7 first - 5 words: IT IS A HORROR SHOW! Whatever newspapers and magazine reviews you read about CJ7, don't be fooled, for it is a horror show. Of course there's all the sad touching bits, all the comedy parts, BUT IT IS STILL A HORROR SHOW. I think it is just me, but i still get freaked out thinking of CJ7.

After that horror show, i stayed in the cinema for about half an hour, changed to another seat, and watched jumper. Nice show, nice action, nice mr. snakes-on-a-plane, and nice uber-cool-accent irish dude. I now have yet another ambition. When i grow up, i'm going to learn a perfect irish accent. Yet another thing to add to my list of when-i-grow-up-what-i-want-to-do list.

Saturday: passed so quickly. Nothing ever happens on saturdays, it's like one of those days meant for people to catch up on sleep.

Sunday: EVERYTHING happens on sundays. On normal dneo sundays, theres always the homework after 12am. More importantly, there's always the build-up to homework which happens before 12am, which is more taxing on the brain and body than the actually doing of homework, cause i dont actually do the homework.

But this sunday, someone close to me died. He/she had been around me since 2005, and i would see him/her everyday. Even in the dark mornings when no one else would be awake, sometimes i would see his/her bright face shining in the darkness. When i was feeling emo or hyper or happy or sad, and i needed someone to communicate with, he/she would be there for me, always absorbing information, giving interesting replies. Lately, his/her health started failing, there were times when he/she would not respond when i wanted him/her to. These were signs, which i overlooked, and at last it came, The End... of my computer :'( Farewell o computer, you have served me well... so stop slacking and start serving me well again dammit. Anyone who knows anything about Kernel_data_inpage_error or Unmountable_boot_disk please please please contact me and help me. It would be greatly appreciated.

Oh ya, i'm screwed for my Chemistry and Physics tests. Oh noes =( nvm, there's always next time, let's hope this will allow me to get a good progress award =)

The End. Why is cj7 a freaking horror show?!?!?