The end of time

No idea what to expect nor to hope for, but I think it's time to end the year with a total blast. Newcastle here I come!!!

The end if 2010

I seriously wonder if 2010 has been a good year? It's a year filled with mixed emotions, meeting new people, new experience and rediscovering stuffs.

As the new year countdown draws closer, the winds of my life blew harder, as if it's trying to tell me something. Maybe I am leaving some unfinished business unfinished, or perhaps it's just giving me that one final blow, knocking me down for one last time, just before I embrace the new year with a stronger heart, mind and spirit.

But as of now, Bon voyage 2010!

First time FNM win =)

My first FNM was in 2006 and being a student I was on a budget deck. Simply just Boros with NO RARES in the deck at all =). Best achievement was 2nd out of 8.

17th Dec 2010

Went off with a bad start where in a practise duel I lost to twice to Tzong Tay (Valakut) and once to Ming Ken (Life Gain Weenie).

I was joking that I should switch to my Elf deck since my Goblin Deck was kinda PMS-ing with me. But I eventually went on with my Gobbos =)

1st Match vs. Pyromancer Ascension

Game 1

He won the die roll and choose to start first. Most of the time it was scry, draw , bolt ish. The pyromancer didn't got active during game and it ended fairly quickly.

Game 2

Was kind of hard, I sided in Jinxed Idol in but he kept mana leak, bolt, burst lightning and into the roil my creatures. In the hand I ran out of gas and surprisingly we just ended the turn for around 4 turns without doing anything.

Ended with a memnite down and sacrifice to jinxed idol for lethal. I really wonder whats in his hand.

Memorial match was that my Memnite got killed of by pyroclasm when it was the only creature on board.

2nd Match against G/W ramp?

Game 1 

Won the roll die and started first. Kicked off with Kudoltha rebirth and Goblin Guide. He cast some bird of paradise and garruk but wasn't fast enough.

Game 2

I didn't expect much creatures so I didn't sided in my Mark of Mutiny and Act of Treason. Turn out he sided in some artifact creatures.

The scenario was like this.

He cast Masticore, I kill it, cast Masticore, kill it again, cast Wurmcoil Engine. I scooped. I simply just don't have enough kill spells

Game 3

Started of with turn 2 panic spellbomb and kudoltha rebirth.

Turn 3 bushwhacker (hit for 8)

Turn 4 teethering peaks, bushwhacker and panic spellbomb as he had one blocker and hit for 12 =) Ended fairly quickly!

3rd Match WW Relic Quest

Game 1 - Ended up fairly quickly to turn 1 and 2 kudoltha rebirth and bushwhacker on turn 3 and 4

Game 2 - Scooped as I kept a one land hand and he argentum armor me on turn 3, destroying my land

Game 3 - Didn't board in my Perilous Myr so was shocked when I see Kor Firewalker. >.< Almost gave up but the my Spikeshot Elder was hitting him for 2 each turn while he was trying to stabilise the board.

Ended up the game with 8 Goblins whacking with kicker from Bushwhacker and +1/+1 for the chieftain and 2 5/5 Devastating Summons for 36 damage if unblocked. He could only block 3 so 24 damage pass through =)

4th Match against Caw Go

Its Eric again! I lost to him last week (My only lost). This week he was playing Brian Kibbler's Caw Go Deck with a few modifications of his own.

Game 1

Lost quickly to counterspells and Baneslayer hitting the board on turn 6 when he was on 7.

Game 2

Won due to Spikeshot elder, Goblin Guide hitting him each turn (after getting Ratchet bomb and Day of Judgement several times)

Game 3

He kept a Preordain, Jace TMS , Gideon Jura and 4 lands. It was a definite keeper but sadly for him he kept drawing lands for almost all of the draws till the end. (Except one Mana Leak and this was when my Goblin Guide was giving him a land each turn!)

=) Pretty Glad I boarded in Spikeshot Elder. It has helped save me from losing to WW and winning games against Eric, which I am really scared to face. To make matter worst, we sat on the same table in which I lost last week. He told me he specifically chose that sport for that particular reason. >.<

My Turbo Goblin Deck with my FNM 1st Prize Foil : Wild Nacalt for December

Insanity Boredom

What if the girl you liked, liked you back?

Such fairytale do exist, although they might not last. But seriously? ZOMG! :D

When did you last drop your phone?
Can't remember. *Scratches head for his phone and looks around for it. Knocks over something. 'HEy thats my phone!* So I guess the answer is now?

PS: Get a Nokia. They are very very durable!

Can money buy happiness?
Money can't buy happiness but they DO ASSIST it a lot!

Do you think women should work or stay at home?
Whatever they want as long as they don't be workaholic

Do you believe that if you want something bad enough, you'll get it?
I believe in 99% in that, as we will work as hard as we want for that. 1% is just something that is beyond our control.

How many people do you trust one hundred percent?
Truthfully I don't know

How many times do you hit the snooze button in the morning?Till its 15 minutes before lectures =)

Do you ignore people when you're mad/upset with them?
YES.

Do you sleep with a fan on?
Yes PLEASE! But right now since it doesn't exist in my room and its so cold... no.

How many people have you kissed who's name started with an M?
0

Have you told anybody you loved them today and meant it?
No.

Do you think you can last in a relationship for 3 months?
Yeah, but it depends,

How old do you think you will be when you finally have kids?Ideally the plan used to be get married at 28 (finance should be stable by now), then have kids at 30.

Whose hand did you last hold?Can't remember, been such a long time. Maybe one of the girls during ice skating the other day.

What if you dropped your phone in a puddle?Picked it up, wipe it, test if it works. Done

What is your mom saved as in your phone?Mum

Do you know who your real friends are?
Yes I do =)

Would you change your eye color to blue?
Contact lens!

Would you date a 13 year old at the age you are now?
Would be cute but I think it would be dead awkward so NO!

Is it ever too late to apologize?
Its never to late, but some things just doesn't stay the same.

Who was the last person who left your life and hurt you?

You know who you are, I just wish you all the best.

Do you think things will change in the next few months?
Doubt so, but life goes on =). Oh Exams! Darn it!

What's the last taste in your mouth?Milo =), its great having it when its cold

Do you know any of your neighbors?Yeah all of them :D

List three things near you:
1. My watch

2. Food

3. Laptop?

What was the last thing you watched on the TV?
X-Factor 2010 Final, it was showing at Pizza Co

What was the last thing you looked up on Google?
DFD-based context model of Amazon’s internet system, was trying to find if its on the net or not.

Is there snow on the ground where you are?
Yes, just some trickle


Do you like when people play with your hair?
Certain people but normally I don't mind unless its awkward.


What color is your hair?
Black.

What's the last thing you "aw'd" at?
Normally its an ooooo but does awww man counts? :p

Where is the person who has your heart?
Right where I am, Me =).

What do you hear?Vague electric static.

Congratulations, you just had a baby boy! What's his name?Lassie! Or Beethoven

What are you craving at the moment?
Holidays to come!

Are you in a complicated relationship?
Not even in one. <- I like this so I'm gonna keep it

Who was the last person you said I love you to?
See Tian Feng. Haven't uttered that in months. Not even to my parents :p

What's your favorite thing to do in the summer time?
Travel around!

Do you like silver or gold better?
White gold!

Would you ever dye your hair blonde?
Thinking of it :D but then again.

Whats the latest you've stayed up in the past week?
7.30am

Is your birthday in less than 6 months?
Nope, it was 3 months ago

Would you consider yourself open-minded?

YES

Are you wearing anything that doesn't belong to you?
Nope

Do you hate when people call you when you're sleeping?
YES....

What woke you up this morning?
A phone call..Grrrr

Where were you an hour ago?
Gray's Kitchen, Grosvenor Street Building

What was the last drink you had?
Milo!

Have you ever felt like you literally needed someone?
YES

Did anything annoy you today?
Read the 4th question above this

If you could, would you punch the last person to hold your hand?
I could punch any of the girls during ice skating anytime I want. I just need to run afterwards. ^^ 

Know a secret?
Yup

If your ex was in trouble and you were the only one that could help him/her, would you?
Sadly its my nature. Can't say no =/

When was the last time you felt like crying?
24th November 2010

Your bf/gf cheats on you. What do you do?
Let her go. If they cheat on you, you know that she doesn't really care about you.

What were you doing this morning at seven A.M.?
About to sleep!

Do you have anything that belongs to a Girlfriend or an ex girlfriend?
Yes, a key ring with my name on it.

What would you say if someone told you they were in love with your brother?Sure go AHEAD!

How many kids do you want to have?
3

This time last last year were you happier then now?I certainly was!

Have you ever been called a bitch?
Nah, it doesn't apply to guys.

When is the next time you will kiss someone on the lips?
Does stuff doll counts? Come here Husky!

Have you ever had stitches?
Yeah, some spots on my face.

Are you giving up on someone?Already did

Do you spend more time on myspace or facebook?
...facebook, myspace just looks creepy.

Do you crack your knuckles?
Yes

What were you doing yesterday at midnight?
Coursework T_T

Your phone is ringing. It's your ex. What do you say?
Hi? 

I bet you miss somebody right now.
Terrible, I miss the old me.

Do you think you're wasting your time on the person you like?
What better thing to waste time on?

Whose clothes are you wearing?MINE!

Do you wish things were different with someone?
Secretly, yes.

Are you easy to get mad?
Not quite.

Do you believe ex's can be friends?
Its possible given the right circumstances.

Do you think you will be in a relationship 3 months from now?
I told myself I wouldn't love another. So unless I am suddenly with those from the past. NO. Though in 3 months time my 8 months time limit would be over! Interesting.

Has a guy ever let you wear his jacket?

Nah, I wear my own. :p

The last person you had a thing with comes up to you and says "I'm sorry...".

Well its about time you say that FACE TO FACE! Thanks, now go away! =)

A random signal or is it that fate's clock has decided to turn?

I don't even know where to start. ;D

I was shrugging myself out of bed on a Tuesday morning, as I have to meet Kieran, Stannah and Ivy at half past 9 for our group presentation. It went sorta okay I guess. Should have more practise but considering that according to Stannah, Kieran is 'crap' at presenting and Ivy just speaks so softly most of the time. It wasn't that bad, but wasn't what I was used to.

Note: Kieran wasn't bad at all, its just that he sometimes forgets what he was suppose to say but making him repeat it multiple times, that was all it took.

Financial Reporting and Accountability workshop was next. Our Mr. (Prof) Xavier [I have the tendency to call all our seminar leaders professor as most of them are PhD students, but apparently he was actually a chartered accountant who volunteered to handle our seminars. It kinda stuck to me anyway but its no offence at all. As a matter of fact, he like being call professor :p] was explaining us on how to consolidate balance sheets and as usual, I'm the one that answers his questions and give him the figures. There was once he ask, can anyone answer this? *looks at me and says* ' Except for Adrian, someone else please. =)


Nah, this blog post isn't about my seminar leader and the 'lazy' people that won't response to his question whenever asked, but rather about something else.

You see, there's this girl (Why does it always has to be ' there's this girl?' when its a boy's story?) that I noticed in our seminar. She's always been there but I had just choose not to notice her (This was the same for everyone for the past 6 months). So today she sat in front of me wearing a light brown trench coat. (My favourite! Don't ask me why, light brown trench coats just affects me much) I then notice her face, features etc and for the rest of the seminar, I kept sneaking a peak at her whenever possible. Not so hard considering she's sitting in front of me, one seat to the right.

Call it a slight crush but she reminds me of the character Black Rose, the original and old one

But her face kinda reminds me or someone else, couldn't really figure out till I went back to my room that day.

So I ran a search and ask Mr. Google, but alas to no succeed. How can I find something that I have vague memory of?

But Lady Luck was smiling on me I guess, I somehow bump into the song Dandelion Promise or 蒲公英的約定 song from Secret and tada! The mystery person was revealed!

Yes! Its Kwan Lun-Mei =), this reminds me of the movie The Most Distance Course or 最遙遠的距離 which really touched my heart back then. Made me cry to be honest :'( (Currently in an attempt to download so that I can watch it again)


Forward to today,


9th December 2010, there was the MBS social. Yin didn't want to go when I asked her last few weeks. I was like, free food , free drinks at HARD ROCK CAFE! Why wouldn't you want to go? I myself didn't had any reasons to go there as in my mind : keep repeating mantra: Hard Rock Cafe is an expensive place, its an expensive place. This was based on my experience in Bali. >.<

Anyway went there and saw Terry (My old flatmate). Went around but no one else recognisable was there (apart from Vivien [lovely person] and the 'evil' Gail Hail which didn't want to give me my Student Rep certificate! Grrrr).

Amed (I think this is how you spell his name?) came later and we talked about our CSCW presentation and about BTP Presentation tomorrow (which is as of time of writing, TODAY!). Went upstairs cause it was getting a bit stuffy as well as we had to stand!

We were just talking and was almost leaving when a group of first year girls approach us and ask if they could sit there. We just smiled and say 'Sure'.

Amed and I continued talking but after a while to stop ourself from being rude, introduce ourselves to the girls and started a conversation. Apparently one of the girls is on my course (AMAIS!). She initially wanted MAIS or ITMB (Amed's course) but was only accepted to AMAIS. (My fault xD, we voted to stop the MAIS Programme as there was too little people in it last year while I was still the Student Rep).

There were some Chinese girls as well. One whose name was Miao and another Ariel. Oh and the girl in AMAIS, her name was Stephanie. There was a Josephine as well. Most of there were Management Students. I didn't get the name of the other two but maybe Amed did.

The interesting bit is for the rest of the night, I found myself constantly looking in Ariel's direction. (She does look like Kwan Lun-Mei a bit) I don't normally do this as I told myself that I wouldn't fall again for another. [Makes a nice escape route in case I ever fall again as I can fall for those I have fallen before, but no one new =)].

Okay so maybe up till now you might think that this post is dedicated to writing that I have had not one but in fact noticed TWO girls in one week. Where I have failed to make myself noticed any girls at all for the past 6 months, even when so many pretty innocent looking girls are around. (Due to the fact that I just couldn't be bothered to because A: Fragile Heart, B: My Promise to myself C: Looking at another girl just makes me recall sad moments).

Is this a sign? Or something to tell me that my subconscious mind had moved on? Truthfully, I'm not interested in any of the above two. But is my heart done sulking and has it put on a new set of armour for Round 2?

I seriously don't have a clue

Or maybe I'm just attracted to Kwan Lun-Mei so much that I started seeing her in other people? But wait, it was the girl at the seminar first that led to Kwan Lun-Mei then Ariel. So now what?

Gosh, I sound so stupid in this post! I should just stop and get my sleep so we would be prepared for tomorrow's presentation.

Which I will do now, so Good Night and Toodles!

FUNKY MONKEY BABYS「希望の唄」

あなたがいて　あなたといて

もしこの世にあなたが　存在していなかったら
100ある笑顔のうち　少なくとも40は無くなる
もしも地球の裏側　あなたがいると分かったら
無くなった40の笑顔　取り戻すため海を渡ろう
あなたの涙が雨になる　あなたの言葉が風になる
諦めかけて乾いた心に　希望という花が咲いた
ああ気付いてほしい　この歌の意味を知ってほしい
僕にとってこんなにも　大事で必要な人

あなたがいて　あなたといて　こんなに幸せになるよ
忘れないで　そのぬくもり　他の誰でもないあなた
あの涙も　その笑顔も　あの涙も　その笑顔も

この無数にある出会いの中　偶然あなたと繋がった
もしも出会えてなかったなら　夢すら持ててなかった
いつの間にかあなたの笑顔が　変わらない本当の居場所
心から支えられている　だから僕は笑っていられる
ともに遠回りとかもしたけど　辿って来た夢の足跡
昔から変わらず今でも　沢山の勇気をありがとう
振り返らずにまた前へと　これからも重ねて行く年
僕には歌しかないけれど　ずって見守って欲しい

※あなたがいて　あなたといて　こんなに幸せになるよ
忘れないで　そのぬくもり　他の誰でもないあなた
この世界で　一人だけの　あなたに出会えた奇跡が
こんな僕を　勇気づける　力があなたにはあるの※

いつも愛してくれた人よ
僕に今　何か出来るなら
探していた　未来の灯を
あなたと分かち合いたい

(※くり返し)

あなたがいる　あなたといる
あなたがいる　あなたといる
La La La La…

I want to Fly~

Wo Yao Fei Fei Yue Shang Bei Yi Zhong Jie Jin Guang De Gan Jue
Zi You Shi Meng Xiang Wu Bian Wu Ji De Neng Yuan
Wo Gan Fei You Meng Jiu Zhui Yi Zhong Jiao Ao Zun Yan De Mei
Ju Da De Kao Yan Xian Zai Jiu Yao Kua Yue

Fei Fei Fei Fei Fei Fei Wo Xiang Fei
Zhui Zhui Zhui Zhui Zhui Jue Bu Hou Tui
Fei Fei Fei Fei Fei Fei Wo Xiang Fei Ya (Wo Xiang Fei)

Wo Yao Yong Li Fei Bu Guan You Duo Yuan
Chao Y? Le Ji xian TIao Zhan De Mao Xian
Wo Yao Yong Gan Zhui Ben xiang Dao Zhong Dian
Tong Guo De Lei Shui Huai Lai Shi Tian Mei

Wo Yao Fei

Wo Yao Fei

Dear the man in the mirror,

You did not just simply choose the name Zephyr for yourself for nothing.
You wanted to fly free, following the gentle west wind around the world.
You wanted to see the world, explore it's magnificent wonders endlessly.

Without bound,
Without chains,
Without worries.

But why is it the higher you fly, the more you want to be chain to the grounds?
Perhaps I am more like a kite, the higher I go, the more I see.
But once I lose my ties to the ground, the wind will no longer carry me above,
But drop me down to the harsh and solid earth.

Which is a good thing I guess. Once cannot be too carefree after all.