Here is how my recently deceased holidays were spent.
Sleeping- 40%
Reading- 18%
Growing fat- 20%
Doing useful things- 5%
Did i mention sleeping?- 10%
Other miscellaneous activities- 7%

If you drew a pie chart, that's time well spent.
I love reading, so i'm going to tell you which are the books you absolutely must read in this lifetime!

1) Riptide Douglas preston & Lincoln child

This is one of the most awesome thrillers i've read. The plot and scientific explanations behind it are just mind-blowing. Riptide makes you think that the situation and mysteries surrounding Ragged island are truely supernatural before bashing you with a revelation that's not only believable but wildly fantastic.
No cookie-cutter plot here. It's so good it borders on being terrifying.

2) Killing Floor Lee Child

Gore. Blood. More gore. You can almost see the claret flying all over the place in this. The main character is really cool. Cooler than Alex Cross by a continent. Cooler than Neo or Justin Timberlake. Or any damn person you can think of.

3) Life of Pi Yann MartelKilling Floor is brutal and sadistic in a loud way while Life of Pi is brutal and sadistic in a way so subtle the only way you'd realise how sinister the plot is is after you've read to the last page and ruminated on it like a cow.
How can a book about a boy in a boat with a zebra, a hyena, an orang utan and a bengal tiger be any sinister?
It is. And it's a great book.

4) Road to Perdition Max Allen CollinsIt's a graphic novel. Nope, it doesn't have whiny teens with incredible eye-sizes, ridiculous outfits or hairdos bigger than Amy Winehouse's. Or robots shooting rockets out of their knees. This is a tale about a father, a son, a cute car and buckets of bloody revenge.
Moving, gritty, tragic and wonderfully good.

5) Assassin's Apprentice Robin Hobb
My favourite fantasy series. It's so humane it could almost be a history book. The book is brick thick and wordy and damnably hard to break into. Yet the pay-offs for perseverance are immense.
I've read a ton of fantasy books and this series is..... .... simply... ... the best. *chokes*. It's the best.

6) Vlad Taltos Series Steven BrustAssassin's Appentice is a soulful, heart-wrenching and philosophical whirlwind of emotions. The Vlad Taltos series is just great fun! Fantasy books aren't really fun in the first place. Moody and filled to the brim with old men in beards. This series manages to be eccentric and ridiculously entertaining.

Yup, go read these books now!
As you can see, I'm an exclusive fantasy and thriller reader. No other genre sully my eyes.
So, if you're the kind who loves romance or drama or, god-forbid, biographies, you might find these books utterly unattractive. So forget all that i've written and carry on reading your Nora Robert or whatever.

My windows com got wiped-out. Again.
I went out with my sis recently and "won" a stuffed Stitch toy from that coin-sucking, curse-inducing toy grabing machine in a sleazy arcade. Yeah, the kind with pincers so flexible you'd think they were screwed on with bluetac. And yet it still attracts hoards of dumb people willing to blow $20 trying to grab a furry pencil case when you can get the same thing for 7 baht in Thailand.

Anyway, that Stitch cost $10. And we didnt even really knock it down the gutter. It's bloody head was so big it got stuck.
Yeah, i think that's why they make them heads so huge. Like tweety bird or Doraemon. So that when you drop them down the hole, their nauseatingly cute mugs will clog up the hole and Lo'! stare back up at you with their gigantic eyes and impossibly smug grins. Taunting you to smash the tofu pincers in their synthetically stuffed faces while your wallet gets violated 5 times over.

Oh yeah, so its head got stuck and while we were considering tipping the machine over with the excuse of dropping our keys underneath, a really sour faced lady who was in a rush to do "maintenance", gave us godly sympathy, opened the glass casing and tossed our stuck friend to us.
What an adrenaline killer. But that's ok. My sis was happy enough. She loves Stitch.

Well, happy holidays! For those who don't have it now, nevermind, your turn will come.

Yay! CNY is here!

Prepare to get rich and unhealthy. Unless my parents decides to keep my ang baos again, in which case i shall be forced to kick up a huge fuss and make my CNY as miserable as possible.

Truth is, i don't know what i want to buy with the money. I don't have any thing i really really desire now. Like a spanking new laptop (which i know i need) or a better mp3 player (cos my zen is just about dead) yet i don't feel that i want to get them.
I'm hanging in the oblivion of needing things and not wanting them. Sigh..... ....

Oh yeah, my wisdom tooth is coming out, so that probably means i'm getting smarter and more knowledgeable of the astro physics of this confounding universe.
Wahooo! If the tooth continues to grow, i'll wear a white turban and levitate myself 2 meters off the ground and answer any questions for the simple price of your liver.

Oh. It's frikking painful anyway. Oww..... right in CNY too. *cries*

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5 hrs of linework + 5 hours of shading = 10 hrs of complete misery

I shall never ever draw another drawing this emo. Should have picked a better topic. Drawing the pirate assignment was way more fun than spending i++ hours looking at wires and no-gendered-humans.
Gaaarr... and i had really little reference for this, unlike the pirate one. So many times I'd spend 15 mins doing nothing but staring at the paper thinking "where the hell should i shade next?".

Speaking of i++, i know the only way to pass my authoring test today if is i became god and can shoot fireballs out from my retinas.

In other words, not bloody likely.
Mr Choong should have made a pre-recorded mpg that played at the beginning of the test wif a digital-rain shot of his face saying "Failure is inevitable! Do not be optimistic! Do not click onMouseEnter me! Do not pass Go and get $200! There is NO boolean! There is only } else if (FALSE) = GoToHell{ "

That way, we can all give up on authoring and go back to our lives of being mitochondria.

This post is getting more and more boring. So i'm adding a pic that could brighten up your day!


My favourite flavour is red bean. My most hated is corn.

Yes! Got my ram upgraded!

Now my com runs faster than Forest Gump. Slow poke Photoshop takes like 7 secs to start up now compared to the 10 years it took last time.

iTunes starts in 3 sec! 3 sec, even with PS running. No more spinning lollipops of doom or frozen screens.

Best part is the 2 gb ram price. It's only $72!!!!!

That's like dirt cheap compared to what they sell at the Apple shop. When i asked the guy there how much for a 2gb ram stick they whacked me with a $600 price tag!

I ran out before they could rape my wallet.

Now, where did i get that $72 2gb apple ram with life-time warranty?

This very nice shop called Questek.

The receptionist was also uber pretty. And they had a cute fountain in their office. So go there to get affordable, good memory and stuff instead of snobbish Apple store manned only by cardboard looking guys who like to reel off astronomical prices with a bland smile.

Ever wondered why we joined Digital design instead of Industrial?

That's cos we don't want to hold a stupid saw, of course. And that's what this assignment required of me. And a drill. And some screwdrivers. Grrrr....
I sat on the storeroom floor for 3 days to make the cube that looked really easy in theory but was an absolute bugger in real life.

Anyway, if you want to make a cube like that, these are the materials you'll need.
When i tried to coil the wire for the spring, it sprang loose and cut my knuckle and my eye. Terrific.
My knuckle bled a bit, i didn't know it until the blood dripped onto my precious box!! Fortunately i managed to get most of it off. The remaining spot i intend to add petals around it and turn it into a flower. Yay. See? Genius me.