Smoke

Smoking is bad for your health.

Many people who smoke are aware that smoking causes cancer, emphysema, heart disease and that it shortens one's life by ten years or more. Besides that, the habit can cost a smoker thousands of dollars a year. This may make you wonder: Why do people still continue to smoke?

So on and so forth. If you really want me to do a "Tak Nak" post, let me know. But otherwise, I'm sure you've heard more than enough about the hazards of smoking.

(That introduction was from my oral last term, by the way.)

I want to post on smoke, but not on the hazards of smoking. I want to post on the art of smoking.

Quite WTH, right? Not really.

Ladies and gentlemen, I present you: The Art Of Smoking. (As seen on Blogger play. Pictures taken from Life Is Beautiful, the blog.)


Look, I'd love to stick around to elaborate, as Mdm Shirley would ask me to do on my compo's, or add captions, as Mdm Santha would request for in my Sejarah project lampirans, but something has come up.

May I be excused?

Jun Shern Out.

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Four In The Morning

"Yeah, we're feeling so good, just the way that we do, when it's four in the morning."

Was yesterday night the most brilliant night ever, or what? Yee Juinn and Wei Yi stayed over, and wow. Super fun.

We started the night watching Kung Fu Hip-Hop.


Pretty hilarious, y'know? But you probably don't know.

The best and funniest part was at the end. The rest is pretty stereotype.

After watching, it was about eleven o'clock. We started watching Indiana Jones, but we didn't like it, and went downstairs to hang out.

We were extremely bored at this point, so I brought down my acoustic guitar.

Then my sister brought down her drumsticks.

Then I brought down my electric guitar.

We started making up songs about not going to sleep and Yee Juinn's friend whose name was Jing Yu (which means Goldfish in direct translation).

So after making a series of stupid songs, we decided: Why not try make a band, for fun?

Thus began the namehunt. Here are a list of our best names:
1. O2H (stands for Oink-Oink Heroes)
2. AK.7 (I heard AK47 wrongly then decided AK.7 is much nicer)
3. 22/7 (apple pi, anybody?)
4. 3.142 (how about sheppard's pi?)
5. Milky Way (we drank WAY too much MILK that night)
6. Local Heroes (the origin of Oink-Oink Heroes)
7. Chicken 07 (my personal favourite: James Bond's pet chicken)
8. PHI (the golden ratio-either search the net, or read Da Vinci code to understand)
9. 3-pin plug (every live performance needs electricity)

Nice list, but we can't choose. Anyways, back to the story.

After that, we played Burnout 3. Definately a golden oldie. My favourite game all around.


However, Wei Yi and I got a little caught up in photography halfway through.

Wei Yi was the mastermind behind all this. It all started with a motion blur. Then, it evolved into some of the coolest photography I've seen in quite a while:

Can you spot me?


Remember: It's the month of the Ghosts, people. Better not fool around too much.


Look! It's Me, Myself and I! Haha!

We spent an hour trying to perfect the photography. And when we were satisfied, it was 2 am, and we made Maggie Mee.

My Maggie Mee was a disaster, and I'd rather not talk too much about it.

Let's just say the noodles were over-cooked, and the soup was comparable to Madam Mano's complexion. I'm not trying to be mean, honest. I am saying that in the most respectful manner possible.

We went to play cards.

Eventually, the clock striked four. Then the ghost appeared. Well, she did what ghosts are supposed to do. She scared us.

My maid was standing where I was sitting on the floor in the pictures. She was already awake, maybe she had planned to wake up early to mop the floor, or had been awoken by us. Take your pick.

So she was just standing there, staring at us in disbelief. She rubbed her eyes twice, then turned around to read the clock. She turned attention back to us, then shook her head and muttered as she walked away:

"Aiyo."

"It's four in the morning and our strengths are falling and we wanna go straight to sleep."

Jun Shern Out.

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Google Gadgets

I signed in to my account like any other day, but today, something catches my eye in the Blogger Buzz section. Hmm? What's this?

Google Gadgets? Huh?

Here's the article.

Here is the screenshot. We've got everything from online games to weather forecasts in this new Google Gadgets thingy to be added on to our page.

What's this all about? It's uncharacteristic of Blogger. Kinda Facebook-ish, doesn't it seem?

Still, I guess it's rather interesting.

I like some of their gadgets, like blogger play. Actually, Blogger Play has been on for quite a long time, but I never gave it much attention.

Now, I've added a Blogger Play at the bottom of the page, so it won't disturb you if you don't like it.

Personally, I find it's a pretty nice way to waste time. Staring at people's pictures, finding interesting pictures and blogs alike.

So far I've already saw Pakistan war victims with missing eyes, and a man who looks like Tony Stark, even with the Jericho missiles blowing off behind him. He's a real soldier with one hell of a good, quick-reactioned photographer.

By the way, how do you guys like the new banner? Drop me a comment on ye olde Cbox. I don't really feel like adding to the rest of the blog. White is nice. The way all that backgrounds should be.

I don't have anything more to say for now, so... Ciao.

Jun Shern Out.

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C-O-O-L

COOL. I have just had the most amazing eye-opening animal prey-predator survival of the fittest journey through Youtube that is totally unbelievable and wowing.

Credits to Jeremy for finding the centipede eats rat, of course.

Okay, okay. Let's just go straight to the videos.

Unfortunately, for the first video, the one that Jeremy gave me, the embed code is locked, so I can't help but to leave you with nothing but the link. Watch it. A little bit disturbing, but totally intriguing.

Thank goodness these are allowed. Just watch em. Quite short, so I daresay you won't be wasting too much of your life. Besides, this isn't wasting time, this is educational.

Sort of.

Here we go...



This one is actually more disturbing than the other one. It's also centipede+mouse, but with closer angles.

Next up, Doc Ock battles the Sharkman!



This one has a pelican swallowing a duck whole. Crazy.


Completely wacko. Now, my favorite. Prepare to be blown away. The almighty cow eats a mouse as if it were just another mouthful of grass.



Having fun? It ends here. Gotta go.

Jun Shern out.

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08/08/08

The day began with Kheng Yew, Steph Khoo and Yen June singing the Olympic song.

At first, none of us knew what they were singing, nor why they were singing a Chinese song in a school which so strictly bans Chinese.

Eventually we figured it out. 08/08/08. Of course! It's the opening of the Beijing Olympics today!

I'll skip ahead to the lunch hour of this very auspicious day. When I got down for lunch, there was a very tall guy. Very very tall guy. Very very tall Australian guy.

Taking a moment to describe our awe at his height...

We were all waiting eagerly for the man to stand up. He was taking his sweet time, sitting down talking to Mr Ganesh.

Eventually, he did stand up. And when he did, we squinted to see his face. Nah, just kidding.

The whole canteen was excited with the tall man walking around. My group, especially, was quite excited with the man who was almost twice our heights.

"We should ask him to do a slam dunk later! I'm sure he can!"

"Nah, I tell you what. We get Tzer Chyuan to challenge him to a basketball match. When Tzer Chyuan shoots, Tall Guy will reach up and cover the hoop with his hand!"

"Yeah! Then Tall Guy will take the ball, and without having to move his feet, stretch across the whole court and easily put the ball through the other hoop."

"Then he would pick up Tzer Chyuan and put him through the hoop, too. Upside down. With legs flailing in the air."

"Only problem is that, unless he can stretch all the way to touch his toes, he won't be able to reach down to Tzer Chyuan."

"He can la. His bones must be flexible, like the coconut tree's trunk, so that when the wind blows, he can remain upright."

"And he must have alot of experience bending down. Did you see him in the bathroom? He had to crouch the whole time."

"You know, we could put Faridah Salleh on Robiah's shoulders and she still wouldn't be able to touch his chin."

Etc,etc. This kind of talk went on all the way until the bell rang and we went to line up.

After assembly, Dylan, Jeremy, Li Vern, Jin Yi and I went to attend the Tall Guy's talk on Queensland University, Australia.

The talk was uneventful, and more boring than most of the other Career talks I've attended this year. So we'll skip that, too. We now fast-forward to the moment in time when we go to the performing arts lecture.

We got to 5C early. There were several of the cast of Romeo and Juliet there, like Gregory, Yohann and Jasjeet.

This was by far the best field we could have chosen. He made us try some performing.

He first asked Jasjeet to tell the class what he had been doing before he came in to the talk.
Jasjeet was in the office with Madam Matthews and Goh for incomplete work.

That would be our storyline. He called several of the people in the class to take part in the play.

First, the director was chosen. Who else but John Tay?

Then there was to be a producer. Gregory Sze.

The cast: Lyanna (as Jasjeet), Jasjeet (as Kimberly), Timothy Tai (as Matthews), and... erm... some guy(as Goh).

Lighting people: Yohann and Sandra.

Sound effects people: Joanna and... some girl.

Set/Props: Jeremy and I.

There were also some girls to help with crowd control and all.

The audience was sent out of the class for 5 minutes while we prepared. 5 minutes was not much time to prepare, so we rushed it.

After 5 minutes, the ushers usher the audience in.

The play begins.

The room is dark. The audience find their seats, and it starts.

The lights in front are switched on, focusing on 'Jasjeet' conducting titration in the science lab.

The sound effects people are making drippy noises.

'Kimberly' enters the room.

"Jasjeet! Madam Matthews wants to see you."

Jasjeet drops the test tubes, sound effects go "PING!".

Lights turn off.

Lights come back on, the scene is at the office. 'Madam Goh' stands by the entrance, holding her usual pile of books in her crossed arms.

"Jasjeet, please come inside."(in her nasally voice)

They enter Matthew's office. 'Matthews' sits at the table.

"Jasjeet, Jasjeet. I've been hearing complaints about you. Your teachers are not very happy with your work. Is that correct?"

Jasjeet mummers incomprehensibly.

"Ms Teng, especially, is displeased with your work. Why is it that you have not completed SEVEN exercises of her work? Do you think that that is the right attitude?"

"You know, Jasjeet. If you continue with this behaviour, I will have to ask you to leave. Everyday, I have to talk to parents who are begging me to let their children into the school. You know why?"

Jasjeet rolls his eyes.

"They tell me that this school is the best, the students are all so well behaved. Wesleyans are role-models. Do you think that your attitude is suitable for this school? Is your attitude that of a true Wesleyan?"

Jasjeet stands, military style, hands behind his back and eyes down.

"No, madam. I'm sorry, madam."

"I want you to go and complete all of your work, and change your attitude. Now you may go."

Jasjeet walks away, cursing Matthews silently.

Matthews turns to Goh, sighs and says:

"Incorrigible."

Actually, Timothy Tai's acting as Matthews was da bomb. I cannot describe it as well as he acted it, obviously. His impromptu quotations of Matthews and her stereotypical lectures are one of the priceless moments of hilarious school life I can't forget. Brilliant, Matthews. Brilliant.

Jun Shern out.

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