Holidays!

Yay holidays. And that marks the end of year 5 or IB year 1. Yay. Okay i was thinking of writing some long reflective post about the year, but screw it, if you want to read those go read other blogs.

Question: What's red and green and goes around and around in circles? (and gets redder)
Answer: Frog in a blender.
Or a loli swinging a green lolly/ice cream that is actually red in the sun (answer vaguely similar to JY's (guest poster aka. cherilyn) answer)
Or a parrot nailed onto the end of a spinning stick (don't ask me why or how Mark thought of this).
Or a radioactive bleeding hamster (Thanks to herrick for this, it's actually quite a good answer)

Okay back to business, Why have I not been updating? WHY? Err, dunno, lazy i guess, or maybe just because. O wells. Sorry.

K next thing: In the face of an economic downturn, worldwide recession, high inflation, high rice prices and high fuel prices, there is still a stall in Bedok who sells yong tau foo at $1.50 for a bowl. Can you believe it? Even school food which is meant to cater to poor students costs at least $2 for a decent meal. It's $1.50 for 7 pieces of random items plus noodles... and sauce. And chilli sauce if you like. Which I do. So I bought one packet today. Then after bringing it home and leaving it in the kitchen till dinnertime, I went to eat it. My mum koped some of my food, so I had half a bowl of yong tau foo left. Then when I was eating it, I was counting the items, and I counted only 6. On closer inspection, I realise my meatball was gone. WHERE DID IT GO? I asked my mum, no she did not eat my meatball. Then my dad confessed that he ate my meatball :'( There goes my meatball. Yesterday, my mum said she was at the bak chor mee stall, so I asked her to buy food back, so when I went home I was expecting meatballs, but she did not buy any back for me =( Dammit I want my meatball. Q_Q

Okay on to other matters. Let's see what my guest poster has been posting... Oh Ya! Machine Girl! Okay, here's an advice to my legions of fans who read this blog: Go and watch Machine Girl (2008). You can download it, or ask to get it from me, or stream it or smth. Before November 5 you could have asked Herrick, but ever since we watched it at his house he has deleted it and has promised to never touch it again. That's a testament to how good it is. It is sooo bad it is good.

I'm bored, what should I write about? Okay I shall give real life situations and you tell me what each person should have done. I was taking the bus home one day a long time ago, then on a stop this lady carrying a fat slinging bag and 2 handcarry fat bags decided to board the bus. She told the driver that she was only taking one stop, and asked if she must pay. The driver said no you. So she went down, not before scolding the bus driver and telling him off for being unkind. On another day, I saw this lady again, and she managed to succeed taking a stop without paying, because that driver was a niceguy. So guys, what should you have done in this situation if you were the bus driver?

Oh ya, and on the train one day two to three weeks ago, I saw a public quarrel. It was frankly quite hilarious, and thinking about it makes me laugh. Okay here's the situation: Group 1 consists of a guy and four girls, all young adults. Let's call the guy G, because well, he's gay. Now you would be thinking, a guy having four girls by his side could not possibly be gay, well by gay I mean those effeminate girly guys. Hrmm, who to use as an analogy, okay guys, think of gurren lagann, now think of the gay technician dude, I mean gay technician girly dude, yea that one, that's him alright. Okay, so now that G is well introduced, let's move on. Girl number 1 would hereby be refered to as B, for reasons yet unsaid. Girl number 2 would be E, and Girl number 3 would be X, well, because they are extras in this play. Girl number 4 would be L, cause she's a leaver. Okay so I boarded the train at bugis, lalala, minding my own business. At Lavender or Aljunied Group 1, aka persons G B E X L came in and stood at the center. Then they proceeded to talk fairly loudly in the train. Note that as always, I'm a totally unbiased, and very very objective person when recounting this incident. I was busy reading my book (reader's digest), but they were slightly distracting. Not that I minded alot, cause it was kinda entertaining. From their conversation, I could make out that they just watched Mamma Mia the movie, and were highly inspired by the movie and songs. So girly G and his gang of girly girls proceeded to sing their own renditions of ABBA's songs, which was not bad to say the least. And the conversation proceeded to random songs and stuff, and I could remember one of the girls saying "I know a song!... (insert dramatic pause)... "I'm popeye the sailor mannn...."" at which the group followed along for a very short while, before bursting into laughter. Haha, okay so they are abit childish. Okay so I had to endure this till Kembagan, which was around 5 stops. At Kembagan, someone got up from the seat, the two seater seat beside the train connector, so I koped the seat. Found item: Seat. Oh ya I forgot, before Kembagan, at Eunos, little miss L left the group. Leaver!. But ya, not before giving hugs and kisses all round. All round the group only though, I didnt get a hug nor any kisses =( oh, and G said "Bye, darling..." in the most girly man sort of way you can think of. Ya, back to the story. At Kembagan, Group 2 appeared! Group 2 consists of a guy who shall be refered to as SG for his awesome remark of "So gay", and SG's friend who was mostly silent except for his awesome remark of "Shut up, Bitch", so now he's SuB. So at Kembagan, SG and SuB were leaving the train, and at the train door, SG played the part of an irate commutor who had his 10 minutes of peace disturbed by "Mamamia, here we go again, my my, how could I resist you..." and "I'm Popeye the sailor mannnn....." and told Group 1 off for making alot of noise. This story shall now turn into conversation mode: (note that because of non-perfect memorization ability, the following statements are written to give a gist of the event, and are not word for word correct) [Oh, and my thoughts shall be written in these]

SG (with one foot out of the door, speaks politely): "Hey guys, could you please keep it down, you're are disturbing everyone here." [Wah nice one lah, go you for speaking up for everyone else]

Group 1 is taken aback, they are shocked, flabbergasted by the nerve of SG to make such an aweful remark. They must defend themselves, take up arms against these intruders of their private space.

B (who happens to be closest to the door and to SG and SuB): "Who are you to make such comments? We can do what we like." [spoilt brat]

SG (still polite, in fact, he is calm and polite throughout the quarrel): "I am just speaking for everyone, could you please keep it down?"

Everyone else from Group 1 rallies behind their brave comrade.

Random person from Group 1: "No we shall not keep it down"

Mrt Announcer: "Doors are closing, di di di di di"

B (hautily): "Doors closing already, go away"

As the doors attempt to close and prevent the fateful quarrel, SG makes an important decision, he steps back into the train, and his friend SuB follows. Group 1 is shocked at the amount of committment Group 2 have. [+1 to Group 2, score now is 0:1]

B (pre-emptive strike): "Now, who are you to say such things? You and your friend were just standing there (points at the train connector) the whole time, and as you walk past you have the cheek to say "So gay" at my friend. You have NO RIGHT to say such things about my friend" [wah, I didnt hear the "so gay" phrase, but well, it's true what... he IS gay]

SG: "Wah, your friend can not stand up for himself ar?" [lol, good one there. +1 to group 2, score is 0:2]

At this point, G finally says something in his own defense, but because it is too insignificant, I forgot what he said.

SG: "Now people, let's not be childish here, all I'm asking is for you people to be quieter during the train ride" [that's quite reasonable of him, what a reasonable request]

B: "This is a public area, we can do what we want" [what flawless logic]
E or X: "Look who's being childish" [I'm looking all right, and currently the only childish ppl are you guys in Group 1]

SG: "Exactly, it is a public area, that's why I'm asking you ppl to quieten down abit"

B says something sarcastic, and this causes E and X to burst out laughing. I dunno if G was laughing or not, but if he was, it was too girly so it blended in with E and X's laughter.

SG reiterates his main point, all the while maintaining his cool.

B was going to rebutt with her flawless logic, but...

SuB: "Shut up, Bitch" [YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS. +999 to group 2, score is 0:1001]

Everyone is shocked! Including SG and especially little miss Bitch herself.

G (s/he speaks again! zomgz): "You have NO RIGHT to call my friend a bitch, I shall call the police" [appeal to authority moar, oh noes I scared of police, I'll give you 10 points for that 10:1001]
E or X: "Wallow, you can't go around calling my friend a bitch, why are you SO FUCKING RUDE?" [CONGRATS THERE, you managed to say the F word in public!, do you want a prize? Then again, you get 900 points for this... 910:1001]

SG (still calm O_O, this guy is awesome): "Calm down people"

G or E or X: "We want to know why/how he (referring to SuB) can say such stuff, and we demand an apology."

SG: "That has nothing to do with me, you can deal with my friend on that matter later, but all I'm asking is for you to quieten down" [Nice pang seh there, nice dodge, -11 points... 910:990]

And so the quarrel goes on, but 1 stop is up and Bedok here I come. If you analyse the situation properly, you realise that Group 1 has nothing to base their argument on except for the 'You can't call anyone of us gay or bitch' argument while Group 2 is just asking nicely, in fact, very nicely for them to be less of a public nuisance. Hrmm, who's side are you on?

Riddle

There are ten frogs on a log. Three decided to jump off. How many frogs are there left on the log? (Answer will be given soon)

Run, Random thing I like, Riddle

This blog is like a run, you start off fast, then tire as you go along, then slow down to a crawl, and finally you start walking. You may even stop, and just give up. Well, the sprint's over, writing long posts is both bad on the eyes of the readers, and it takes up too much time of mine. Let's start walking... Speaking of which, I signed up for NIKE's 10km run on August 31st. It's 10km. I am soo going to die. But I'll be running with some of my classmates, so everything will be okay. I hope.

Anime
I like animes. Though I don't understand Japanese, save for a few common phrases, I still like them. There's always subs. Hrmm, this season's animes are said to be not that interesting, with the best rated anime by a certain blog being one of those less hyped about shows. O well there's always surprises in the anime world. As for the genres of animes I watch, they tend to include everything, except for yaoi and really fail shows. So far, I've watched probably only around 20 series and quite a number of ongoing series, amounting to roughly 240+160 episodes, which is 200 hours worth of anime watching. That seems alot, but is actually quite little compared to other people. Hrmm I have been wondering, since I recently found out that certain animes and mangas are practically the same thing, with the mangas being superior to the animes as not everything can be animated (an example of film/animation vs book is the harry potter series, where the book had situations and settings that had no role in the plot, and thus were too expensive and time consuming to act out), would be it more efficient to read the manga instead? But then again, my reading time is quite long, and I take forever to read mangas online, so maybe it's just wiser to watch the animes. You can listen to voice actors and actresses too as an added bonus.

Riddle
Imagine you are an MRT train driver operating from Bedok to Dover.

0. Before Bedok, you had 7 passengers on board. They were the ones who were too tired to get off, so they camped overnight since yesterday.

1. At Bedok MRT station, you pick up 18 passengers because it is a busy old town, with lots of good food. One of the passengers is a schoolboy studying in a school in Dover.

2. At Kembangan, a lone schoolboy studying at a school in Buona Vista came in, and recognized the schoolboy-studying-in-a-school-in-Dover as his primary school classmate, but didn’t feel like saying hi.

3. Passing along Eunos, you pick up 2 passengers and let down 7. What a let down.

4. At Paya Lebar, the schoolboy-studying-in-a-school-in-Dover looked up from his psp and recognized the schoolboy-studying-in-a-school-in-Buona-Vista, but was too lazy to say hi.

5. At Aljunied, a woman with her crossbred dog went in, otherwise known as a Golden Bull Poodle, illuminating the carriage.

6. At Kallang, a group of dragon boaters from a 14 seater dragon boat came in, carrying their boat on their shoulders, they took up the whole of carriage 4.

7. At Lavender, a sweet smelling girl walked into carriage 5, and her perfume was so strong that 4 of the closest dragon boaters were enticed into walking into carriage 5, releasing their support on the boat, which fell and created a dent on the floor.

8. At Bugis, you picked up multiple groups of arcade players numbering 31 in total, and a pregnant woman. The dent became deeper.

9. At City Hall, no one likes the red line so no one leaves your train, but you pick up 13 more blue-collar workers, and 2 old men. The dent became a tiny hole.

10. At Raffles Place, 2 workers forgot their briefcases, so they went down, while 4 people decided the red line wasn’t so bad after all, and left your train for redder pastures. The tiny hole grew larger.

11. At Tanjong Pagar, the awkwardness between the schoolboys were finally too great to handle, so the Buona-Vista schoolboy decided to leave the train to take the next one, which was 8 mins later. The small hole started leaking passengers out of the train (they accidentally walk into the hole, falling through the floor of the carriage and into the tracks below), at the rate of one person between each stop.

12. At Outram interchange, some of the arcade players started a fight in carriage 2, so you kick them all off, even those who were not involved.

13. At Tiong Bahru, three single mothers came in, with their 9 children in tow (don’t stop at 2). One of the child slips and falls into the gap between the trains, but was unnoticed by all.

14. At Redhill, the pregnant woman gives birth to triplets in your train, assisted by one of the blue-collar worker who happens to be studying medicine part-time.
15. At Queenstown, 8 people came in, and 5 left.
16. At Commonwealth, one commuter decides that wealth should be shared by all and decides to rob the 2 old men, leaving one cashless and another one dead from a heart attacked caused by the excitement. At the stop, two police officers dashed into the train to capture him, but he ran out instead and the doors closed, locking the police officers inside and him outside. The hole widens, now leaking 2 passengers per in-between-stops.

17. At Buona Vista, the Golden Bull Poodle bit the sweet smelling girl, for smelling too sweet. She screamed in pain while writhing on the floor, but the announcement of “If you see any suspicious articles or persons, please inform the train staff or call εννεα εννεα εννεα” drowned out her cries. The surrounding people pretended not to notice her flailing away on the floor, while enjoying their death metal music while touching their iPod Touches. She turned gangrenous and died a short while later.

18. At Dover, the train derails, caused by the multiple bodies below the floor of carriage 4, and also due to the fact that the Dover mrt doors open on the wrong side, flinging 6 random people out from the front of the train, and 2 out from the back, leaving the rest of the people inside to burn until chao tah (pronounced Kris-Pee).

Now on to the riddle:
a) How many charred bodies are there in the train?
b) How many people fell onto the track?
c) Where does the train driver stay?

Answers:
a) Anyone guessed 45 or 46? No. It is 48.
b) 9 + 6 + 2 = 17
c) You don’t know? Well, I don’t know either, but it depends. Go find a map, and mark out where you stay, then mark out where your school is (put your workplace if you are not studying). Now, estimate the distance between your home and your school on the map (lets say 30cm). Now to properly use a map, find the conversion ratio between distance on map and real distance, then divide the distance by the ratio (e.g. ratio is 1cm: 10 000cm, so you divide 30cm by 10 000 to get 0.003cm). Starting from the point of your home, move 5 home-to-school/workplace distances (e.g. 0.015cm) up north-east, then find the district of that point on the map. That would be where the train driver stays. I’m serious.

=)