Sigh.

Damn. Didn't get into Overdose. Oh well. I knew it anyway.

Post-UPSR Post

Phew. I've had enough taste of life after UPSR to talk about it now. And yeah, it's hectic.

It's been really crazy, actually. Let's see. How will I do this post? I'm not interested in talking about and elaborating on everywhere I went, and you aren't interested in reading it, either, so I'll just make a list:

Thursday the 15th:
Band practice after school.
Sleepover Dylan's house.

Friday the 16th:
Audition for The Guitar Store's annual concert.
Return to Dylan's house to stay the night.

Saturday the 17th:
Naveena's party in the afternoon.
Mun Keat's party at night.

Sunday the 18th:
Band coaching session in Cheras' The Guitar Store for the concert.

Monday the 19th:
Ashwin's house, sleepover.

Tuesday the 20th:
Rachel's house.

Thursday the 22nd:
1U with primary school friends.

Friday the 23rd:
Band practice.

Saturday the 24th:
Double auditions-
Overdose auditions in the afternoon,
then back to the Cheras guitar store for final auditions.

So that's it so far. It's Saturday night now. I'm kinda worried about the auditions. The Guitar Store one went pretty well, I think, but Overdose not so.

It was mainly my fault, though. My guitar was kinda softer than the other instruments, so the all-so-important riff from Stars(Switchfoot) was lost amidst the Jeremy's drumming. Plus, for some reason, my effects weren't on the right settings, and I only realized that halfway through, since I couldn't hear myself playing. Sigh. We were so much better during yesterday's practice.

Can't wait for the results. Oh, and by the way? Guess who else is playing in The Guitar Store's concert? Our old friends, Kip Chean and Phoebe. Well, I wasn't really close to them while they were in WMS, but yeah. What a coincidence.

I'll give a better post next time. I'm dead tired now.

Jun Shern out.

*Static*

We're finally back.

Honestly, these are some of the best days of my life. And the holiday hasn't even begun. I mean, we still have two more of our form 4 entrance exams tomorrow. And yeah, today's exams were extremely easy. Especially maths. (note tone of voice which is really dripping with warm, delicious sarcasm)

But hey, what do the entrance exams matter? According to school history, nobody has ever been kicked out of form 3 for having terrible entrance results. So all that we have to worry about is the streaming. And honestly, I'm fine with either one, although my family expects me to go for Science.

While we're on the topics of streaming, there were actually several jokes about that...

Mano, while briefing us about streams:

"You should choose your streams according to what you want to be. Tzer Chyuan, what do you want to be when you grow up?"

"I want to be a rich man."

"He can go to the money stream, then. Sungei Wang!"

And earlier today:

"Hey, Justin. What stream are you joining next year?"

"Hmm. Probably main."

Mainstream, see?

So as I was saying, no point worrying about the entrance exams so much. The way I see things, we're screwed even if we study or not. So now, I officially declare the stad of holidays.

And, I also declare that English, Maths, BM, Geo, KH, Science and History are:
And yes, I'd purposely left History as the last to be named. Just to have the privilege of saying History is History. I'm rather proud of all my new ambigrams. I think they're pretty easy to read, compared to those I've made before.

See this next one.
Heart, as you can see.

And this one, which is my favourite:

HeArTS on one side, SPaDe on the other. Amazing. But the colour doesn't look so good on here, does it? The Heart one worked better. But I swear, this one looked great in photoshop. Sigh.

I made all these during my geo exam. Except the History one, of course. No prizes for guessing which exam I did it during, though.

By the way, watch Glee.

It's just about the best thing ever. I started watching right before the PMR, and have not missed an episode since. That's how good it is. And watch Community, too. Which is from the director of ARReSTeD DeVeLOPMeNt. If you haven't seen Arrested Development, you should go check that out too. These are among the best TV shows of our time.

But seriously. Glee kicks butt. Here's a trailer.

No, just because it's a show about music doesn't make it a new High School Musical. I'm not one of those who hate High School Musical, but seriously, Glee is uncomparable to High School Musical. It would be like comparing a pronticle to a hirten. And THAT is impossible, because those two things don't exist. Haha!

By the way, I haven't seen the trailer myself, on account of my Youtube not working, but I am confident that it's a good trailer, because all they have do is take any 2 minutes from the series, and it will surely be good. That's how great Glee is. If you happen to run into the soundtrack of the series while at Youtube, don't. Those are the best parts of Glee, and it wouldn't do to spoil it.

If you can't find it anywhere online, and have trouble torrenting the episodes, I'd be happy to lend you a thumbdrive full of glee.

So anyway, I'm just about done here. Let's wrap up with a nice joke. A KH joke? Awesome.

What do you call a kuprum with a pet?

Kuprum berenamel. Beranimal, get it? If you don't know what kuprum berenamel is, go study your Form 1 KH.

Looks like we've reached the end of the post. Look below, try to understand the joke.
If you don't get it, try looking back to the stad of the post. Ah, now you see light.

Jun Shern out.

*Static*

GO, TURTLE!

Or tortoise. Turtle? Tortoise? Ah, tomayto tomahto. (Go turn on your TV and go watch channel W. You know: W-TV. Wha. Te. Ver.)

If anyone DOES know what's the difference between a tortoise and a turtle, please tell me, cos I feel like this is something one should know, more importantly than learning about Orang Tua(s) in Sabah and Tuai Rumah(s) in Sarawak. Directed to the form 3's reading this: If this question appears in our PMR, you should all be taking turns paying for my Nasi Lemak Wedges every lunchtime.

Anyway, I think I'll go check out what the difference is myself. Okay... Lemme see. You gotta appreciate the efficiency of Google at times like this. Aha! Here we are!

Our answer lies here. Or here. The latter is shorter, but the first one gives a lot more info, for the hardworking.

To cut a long story short, turtles usually live in water, and tortoises usually live on ground near water.

So based on what we've learned today, this guy right here is a tortoise.

So next time some one asks you: "You know what's the difference between a tortoise and a turtle?", you'll answer them, gain some rep, and thank me later by buying me a syrup in school.

So why all the turtle-talk? Well. Have you guys heard of Lonely George? The last Pinta island tortoise to grace the Galapagos Islands. And yes, that's the place were all the iguanas live. Apparently they have tortoise-eating goats, too. *shudder*

But anyways, some few years ago I read about him, he who was the last-surviving Pinta tortoise of the Geochelone elephantophus abingdoni species in the world. Here he is.

A star in his own right after being dubbed "the most endangered species in the world", he was, unfortunately, believed to be impotent. Even after all these scientists stuck him up to watching turtle porn and took him to Tortoise's Chow Kit, he was still unable to successfully produce offspring. Why?

As the article I was reading says: "Perhaps the tortoise is too old, or pehaps too disinterested, or perhaps decided that the world was going to the dogs anyway so why bring in more of his kind if their fate was to be turned into souvenirs for spanish housewives? Or maybe he doesn't even like kids."

Well, let's wrap this one up, since I should be getting back to my studies soon. All this I was reading about many years ago. But I suddenly remembered him earlier today, so I decided to check if he has finally kicked the bucket. Or bought a farm. Bit the dust, conked, cashed in his chips, croaked, expired, went belly up, went to the wall, went west, met his maker, gave up the ghost, went way of all flesh.

Whichever euphemism you want to use. Feel free. I personally went to check up on those so as to avoid you feeling uncomfortable of a certain one.

So anyways, I typed "lonely george" into Google. And WOOHOO! Read the article! Here.

So what do ya know. Next time we take a picture of the Galapagos Islands, it could turn out like this one.

(imagine all iguanas to be replaced with identicals of not-so-Lonely George, woot!)

Jun Shern out.

*Static*

Back To White (Back, Not Black)

Woohoo, I've fixed the brown background. There were some coding problems, but that's now the past. So we shall look to the future!

And the present.


You know what? Mr. Balan would make a great tightrope-walker. All he'd have to do is change into a punjabi. Cos then, he'd be...

BALANSINGH!

Get. It? Balancing.

If you don't get it, then you're terrible with jokes. As Li Yang is. You know I'd wasted a completely powerful joke on him? Here's how it went.

For some reason or another, our friend Mr. Lam was talking about punjabies(plural, anyone?) to Madam Mano. So anyways, he pronounced the word as "poonjabi". Fussy as she always is, Mano immediately corrected him.

"It's pun-jabi, Li Yang. Pun, not poon."

I suddenly laughed and said to Li Yang: "Yeah, no pun intended."

If you don't get it, I'd advise you to go and jump off a bridge. I hear it's really fun. With a cord around your waist, of course. I'd really love a chance to do it. Bungee jumping.

It's actually been a pretty lame week. What was that other joke? Ah, the one about our pra-PMR papers. I've told this one to Shabnam:

"Madam, what do you call the model PMR test papers that all the form 3's are doing this month?"

"Em, tak tahu. Kertas soalan PMR?"

"No, KERTAS RAMADAN PMR!"

Kertas ramalan PMR, you know? I hope you DO know. There's no point thinking of all these jokes if there's no one around to hear it. Especially if the few who are around don't understand it.

I think I'll close with a final joke. Hmm.. Which one? Ah, the one Alistair told me. Well, I've got just one thing to say:

"The angkasawan meninggal dunia."

HAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHA!

Think about it for a while, and you ought to get it. Haha! Until next time.

Jun Shern out.

*Static*

New Stuffs

I haven't been blogging much at all. But look. I have a good excuse: I have exams coming up. The big three letters: P, M, and R.

Admittedly, that isn't why I'm doing nothing. I haven't been studying that much either. I'm just lazy and uninspired.

*picture fat, balding old man whining about his remote control being too far away*

Anyway, I decided to just come up and post SOMETHING, or else y'all will think I've died or something.

So here you go. My newest artworks. First one's supposed to be me. Though it doesn't really look like me. I guess that looks like mine just can't be put down on paper, yeah?

And this one's my hand drawing my hand, drawing my hand, drawing my hand, drawing my hand... And I've lost count. But you get the picture. Literally, I mean.


Eww. I need a better copyright. Seriously. The little "Madness" box at the bottom of my pictures are spoiling it. I should just write my name at the bottom in grey or something. Sigh. Maybe next time.

Oh, and by the way. Are any of you experiencing problems with the background colour of my blog? Cos I haven't seen my usual white background in.. forever. The background that comes up on my computer is brown. At first I assumed it's just my internet with loading problems, but I thought I'd better check. Let me know in the Cbox, yeah?

Jun Shern out.

*Static*

The Calm Before/After The Storm

The trials are over, and now all I'm doing is playing with the Big Red Button on Gwen's blog. It's not as if I've never played it before. I've even had one up here on my blog a couple of years ago. One or two, that is. But the point is, I'm bored. And the creator of the Big Red Button must've been SERIOUSLY bored. At least I'm going out soon. Miriam's coming back again. Wait. Wasn't my last post about Miriam? Whoa, and she's already back. Has it been that long? Seriously? One month, exactly. Hmm. Okay, then. I'm going out. Occupy yourself with the Button. At the bottom of the page. Scroll all the way down. And have fun. After that, go watch Digimon or something. Youtube has every episode, and even the movies. There. Congratulations, you are now equipped with enough useless entertainment to last you the rest of the weekend. Notice the lack of paragraphs? That's thanks to having a broken "enter" key. Jeremy ate it. Did he really? Nah, just kidding. My "enter" key isn't even broken. I just don't feel like making paragraphs and spaces. Makes it more fun. Yeah, well. That's all. Jun Shern out. *Static*