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Nonsense. Hands up whoever wants a nonsensical post. In other words, a retarded post that makes sense to only me.

Well, there are actually already alot of people out there doing retarded, nonsensical, or random posts. So there isn't much point in me doing it as well.

Besides, it just doesn't go with the drab outfit I am wearing. (Don't ask)

So we'll do an intelligent post. About.. The circle of fifths! Which I accidentally ran into yesterday while wiki-ing "cowbell". (Don't ask)

This is the circle of fifths. It's a music thing, actually.
It looks cool, but to the extent of my understanding, it doesn't really do anything but tell you the key signatures and the relative minor of a key. So... No point talking about it.

You can read up on it if you want. Here's the wiki: Circle of Fifths.

But, as I explained, it's a long, flowery article which does not really explain anything, even at the "In lay terms" section.

We'll talk about something else.

Have you seen the "Where the Hell is Matt?" video? Phenomenal. Watch it. Love it.

I hate Grade 6 Theory. Headaches galore. Oh well.

Have you noticed that this holiday seems to pass so much faster than last year's? November is already almost over, and I haven't bought any of my books, or started on any of my homework.

Thinking about it makes my stomach qualm. I have to go do my theory homework.

Jun Shern out.

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Updates

"You know what's worse than eating peanuts? Blogging about eating peanuts."

Personally, I don't find anything wrong about eating peanuts.

The wedding bells are ringing, people! So many people are getting married. Especially yesterday.

The 21st of November, 2008. 21/11/2008.

I don't see anything particularly auspicious about this date. Do you? Why is it that there are so many weddings on that day?

First off, there's my neighbor's wedding, which we were invited to, but were unable to attend because my uncle was also getting married. So that's already two weddings.

On the way to the wedding dinner, we drove past a car which obviously held two newlyweds, because of the mass of pink and purple ribbons covering the driver's view.

The 4th wedding we saw was just next door to the hall in which my uncle's wedding was held. In the hall next to us.

Anyhow, let's get on with the post. My aunt and uncle from Hong Kong are here. How cute. Haha! Yes, I believe my aunt and uncle are cuter than all of yours out there. I mean, how many of your aunts and uncles are respectively 3 and 5 years old?


There. You see? I've posted about them before, when I got back from Hong Kong. The great times we had when my great-uncle rented us an entire yacht for the whole afternoon. He really is a great uncle. As in amazing. Not just him being two generations away from me.

Anyways, the "Yam-Seng" we had last night could've been so much better. The audience was not responding, except for our table, which holds all of us hardcore "Yam-Seng"ers.

I don't have any of the pictures now. Which is too bad, because some of the pictures of Jason(the five year old uncle) attacking us with Joo Lee's SPECTACle case are SPECTACular!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I'm hilarious.

Yeah, tell me about it.

And perasan.

At least I have something to be perasan about.

It's not a good thing.

Look who's talking.

Who IS talking?

We're both Jun Shern.

Hmm.. Okay.

Better go back to the post, or people will think we're crazy.

Will think I'M crazy.

Me too.

You ARE me, you idiot.

Oh.

Back to the post. Oh! Mcdonald's here! Later.

Jun Shern out.

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jAPs

Class party was awesome. That's all I have to say. No point putting it into so many words. Over-elaboration might spoil the essence of it all.

By the way, Madam Grace and Madam Loges are leaving school. It's really too bad, they were nice teachers. Those kinds that you can have a sociable conversation with. So... Best of luck to them, and the other teachers who are also leaving school.

Update on PEA: K Class won. (No surprises there)

Christmas was pretty fun. The Form 3's sketch was the ultimate comedy. Super funny, was their sketch of The Parrabel of Something.

The Japanese are here on their student exchange program. My sister is hosting one, and it is super blur having the Japanese around. Let me explain the situation.

On Friday, my sister and her Japanese guest went to my sister's friend's house.

What makes the situation even harder is that I don't know any of their names. Neither does my father and brother, who are the only sources of information available to me at the moment.

So this is the name chart:

Jamin=My sister
Jap1=My sister's Japanese guest
JF(Jamni's Friend)=My sister's friend, whose name I do not know either
Jap2=JF's Japanese guest

Anyways, Jamin went over to JF's house with Jap1. JF was herself hosting Jap2, so they planned to hang out at each other's house so that Jap1 could talk to someone she could understand, that is, Jap2.

Anyways, they all spent the night at JF's house, then on Saturday morning, they went to Sunway.

They were standing outside Sunway Lagoon, when Jamin and JF asked Jap1 and Jap2 if they wanted to go inside. Jap1 and Jap2 shook their heads which could either mean "No." or "I don't understand." See the problem?

So, Jamin and JF, careful not to make Jap1 and Jap2 do anything they didn't want to do, took them inside Sunway pyramid instead, where they did their shopping. (Personally, I don't see why someone would choose Sunway Pyramid over Sunway Lagoon.)

After that, they came back to my house in the evening, where the Chan family finally get to meet the Japanese student they were hosting. But to this moment, we still don't know which Japanese Jamin is supposed to host, and which Japanese is JF's. In other words, who is Jap1 and who is Jap2.

You see, Jamin has been too busy to really introduce them properly. Or maybe I simply missed the introduction while sleeping over at Dylan's place on Friday. However, I fail to believe there was an introduction, because my brother and my father both don't know anything either.

I am beginning to doubt that Jamin knows their names either, because this morning none of them were addressing each other by name, instead making incomprehensible noises, tapping each other's shoulders and using wild gestures of sign language.

And some of us had trouble telling which one was JF, and which ones were the Japs. I quote my brother's words:

"When I looked into Jamin's room, I could not tell which were the Malaysians and which were the Japanese until two of them got up and bowed."

All I know for sure about the Japanese is that they really like Koi fish. When my father asked them if they wanted to feed the Koi, both Jap1 and Jap2 looked the picture of happiness as they rushed to take the fish food from my father's hands.

I also don't know when they're leaving. Since they haven't actually been staying at my house, except for one night, then rushing off early in the morning, I can't even call it leaving, seeing that they have already left the house.

Hmm. cONFUSION.

Jun Shern out.

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Capoeiristas

I have just had the most amazing night ever. *pause* No, that's not what I mean!! That came out very wrong sounding. I mean... Ugh. Let's start again, shall we?

We'll begin with a brief introduction of Capoeira. Simply put, it's the fighting style that Eddie Gordo from the video game Tekken uses. If you play Tekken and know what I mean, you can forget the rest of the introduction and skip ahead to line 26, where the story picks up(I don't actually count the lines, go and find it yourself).

Capoeira is a Brazilian martial art. Most of the movements and attacks are from the legs, and there are no punches at all. No hand attacks, no fists. Hands are used to block the opponent's attack, and that's about it.

For a rough idea, think breakdancing. Think breakdancing being used for fighting. Something like that. Your legs will be flailing wildly in the air looking for a target to kick, while your hands will be on the floor, acting like makeshift legs.

A video would be most helpful at this point. Here, watch this.

And this.

So now, you know what's Capoeira. I just went for my first Capoeira lesson yesterday. At first I wasn't so keen on joining, because alot of people on the internet said that it's one of the weakest martial arts, and it's mainly for show. But my cousin Yee Juinn convinced me to try.

On the topic of Yee Juinn, we filmed a video the last time he slept over at my house. It has nothing to do with Capoeira, of course. But its funny and retarded.

Back to the Capoeira story. We found a Malaysian Capoeira organization online called Bantus, so we went to their studio for their trial lesson.

When we first entered the place, we saw a large, half-naked, muscular Brazilian man sitting on the couch braiding up lengths of string into colourful ropes which I suppose are the belts that determine your level, like the many different belts there are in Karate and Taekwondo.

And one more thing I noticed was how friendly everyone was with each other. They went up to each other and greeted each other loudly in Portugese(because the art is Brazilian), then proceeded with the Bantus handshake, which they all knew.

*Slap, fist, shake*

Anyways, we'll talk about the class. One of the Mestres(master/sensei) went over to the corner of the room and started banging on the kompang there. He produced a beat which we performed the stretching exercises to. He also sang along with the Brazilian song that was playing on the loud speakers. The music is specially for Capoeira. It's called Capoeira music. You can listen to some on the Bantus website.

I had thought that I would have a great head start in the class, being a bit of a breakdancer and having a black belt in Karate. But that was not the case.

An instructor(didn't catch his name) took me and Juinn to a corner of the room. For our basic training. He taught us the ginga, coco rine(or something like that), meia lua, and something parallel. The movements look simple enough, but it sure is one pain in the arse to hold the positions.

Then he made us do twenty push-ups(not too bad yet),
hold a bridge for twenty seconds(our backs were aching so much),
20 ridiculously hard exercises which I dunno how to explain(my stomach muscles began to cramp up),
another 15 rounds of another ridiculously hard exercise which I can't explain(it hurt so much),
60 sit-ups(we felt like dying by this time),
and another 20 seconds of bridge(Jun Shern Bridge is falling down, falling down).

Then we got some rest.

After the rest he made us do cartwheels across the room and back, and crawl on all fours across and back again. After another series of exercises and trainings, class was finally over.

The Mestre grinned at us and said: "Great job, guys. But there's one more thing you need to know before you become a Capoerista."

He held out his hand.

*Slap, fist, shake*

Jun Shern out.

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The X Games

Not quite the Xtreme sports that the X games usually refer to, but I mean the post-examination games.

What is the capital of Bermuda? Triangle.

The post-ex activities has been really... I dunno, exhilarating? Exhausting, disappointing, unbelievable, shocking, exciting, enjoyable, impressing. Just to name a few.

The most disappointing part of it all was football. We got last place. If that doesn't sound so bad, let me tell you that we didn't even score a single goal during ANY of the 6 matches that we played(yea, six. M, C, K, L, P, and rematch with L).

Practically, we drowned in the Nile for every game except the two against L. We drew both games against them Nil-Nil.

Oh well. At least we didn't do so badly in our other games. I don't know what placing we got for other games, though.

Anyways, the highlights of the post-ex so far are:

playing in the Leo Carnival(that was super fun),

losing terribly in the Weslympics(don't want to talk about it),

my usage of the word "nosedive" in Scrabble against C class, earning us 42 points(I think we got first place for Scrabble),

having to present our class' dreamhouse in the hall(I think it was not very good, as compared to others),

smashing L class 9-3 in handball(thanks to Tzer Chyuan and Jia En),

Li Yang missing the penalty kick against L class in football(I forced him to take it, saying I would not care if he missed),

the volleyball hitting the water dispenser and breaking the covering off while a boy was drinking from it,

the absolutely ridiculous answers that people gave during the general knowledge quiz. Like "Who invented the Thermometer?" Retarded as he is, Joel answered: "Thermometer." The Hilary Duff answer he gave was even more Hilary-ous. Hahaha!

Well, I can't really remember much of the other stuff right now. Oh yeah! Me playing mental chess with Justin! That was super cool.

Description of mental chess:
No chessboard. We imagine the chessboard and all it's pieces, then we move our pieces by telling each other the coordinates of our movements(like: pawn from A2 to A4).

Obviously, having to memorize every piece that the both of us have moved is ridiculously hard, and that's why Justin managed to win without even having to checkmate me. I made a careless mistake.

Anyways, I got my thumbdrive back from Tasdeeqa. So you can see the dinosaur which I drew in paint during computer class.

Isn't it cute? I like it. I like drawing dinosaurs. Here's one I made on my mum's laptop. Don't be so critical about it. You have to appreciate how hard it is to control the touch pad mouse that all laptops have.

And no, that isn't really my signature. I just used the curved line tool to simply make some sort of signature, for artistic effect.

Oh.. Kay.

Jun Shern Out.

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