Abstract Picture?

Geez, I don't know why did I do this.

Here's my first ever abstract picture - created entirely by myself.

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PhotoShop - a waste of time perhaps?

Whatever, to me, PhotoShop still rocks, especially with what I'm going through in life right now..

*Edit*

Here's the to-do list I made for myself on the 10th of January.

= Have another 90+% in my English paper. (Unachieved yet)
= Learn up a new instrument. (Started - Flute)
= Join the choir. (Plan cancelled)
= Get a nice position in whichever organization / society I'm joining now. (Is deputy chairman considered okay?)
= Have a frisbee pickup at least once this year.. (Achieved)

The Fascination of Teaching

Yes, I wrote that right, you saw that right - teaching.

And I found out the fascination of teaching - the contentment of teaching, only when I got into my Form 4 life.

How so?

Well firstly, me and Jail - my band electric guitarist - had a plan early this year: That is, to start up a guitar class so as to get more people interested in guitar. The want to "make-another-person-good-in-guitar" feel is one, and the want to earn extra income is another.

Actually, the fees weren't my idea - I don't want money, I don't crave for money. But oh well, seeing as quite many people were interested in learning up guitar for RM15 instead of the pricey fees outside, I'm not complaining am I?

How did we do it?

Just last Valentine's-day-cum-school-sport's-day - 14 February - we had our first meeting at my house at 2pm to 4pm (But they went home around 5 something). And I could only say it was quite successful - where new learners learn up REAL fast.

Imagine this situation - 7 monkeys people having a guitar in their hands each, strumming a different tune, trying to learn the chords of different songs.. Ever heard of pandemonium?

We had Theh - who already has the basics already, so we're teaching him some power chords and singing while strumming.
We had Chiayong - a new beginner who's.. Uhh well, a beginner. Not familiar with the chords yet, but will be after practice.
Next to come is Megan - who owns a pretty shiny classical guitar. Uh-uh, not so good for strumming ain't it? Her guitar skills are not bad, but I think the main reason she came is only to use my internet.
And.. we have Andrea - a new learner too, but she's a real quick learner - what with her perseverance and patience, it's no wonder she shot up faster than Chiayong.
The fifth and last one Jane - who had some learning experience already from her brother, but still needs guidance. Quite okay.

While at the same time in school, more and more friends are interested to learn up guitar already.

Fees or not, I'll teach those who're willing to learn from an amateur like me.

Just for the sake of teaching - and the satisfaction of teaching someone something.

On the other hand, I'm beginning to learn up some violin and flute already, XD.

Catch y'all later.

Pointless, Pointless..

I wonder whether I agree with too many things without thinking.
I wonder whether could I say "No".
I wonder whether I'm torturing myself.
I wonder whether could I manage all these.

Lol.

Looking back this past month, I've been accepting many responsibilities that are assigned to me.

Did I actually consider rationally? Did I not?

"I've picked you as the deputy-chairman for our team this year, do you think you can manage it?"
-My Firefighter-team chairman.
"Sure thing."

"Ruiyou, you're the deputy-chairman for the librarians this year. And here's the list of the other AJKs."
-Our school's librarian teacher-in-charge.
"Uhh, okay."

Form Teacher: "Siapa nak jadi kelapa?" *Ketua Lagu Patriotik*
Class: *chants* "Ho Rui You, Ho Rui You, Ho Rui You.."

Class Monitor: "Hey, you're good with PhotoShop isn't it? Here's what you should do - design at least two front-cover designs for our school magazine this year."
"I'll.. try."

So now I'm stuck in my computer chair, multi-tasking -
On MSN discussing library matters with two other members;
Adding a few finishing touchs to my completed patriotic song;
Straining my poor brain to think of an idea for the cover-page of the school magazine.

Now, I actually offered to do the cover-page designing job myself - as they're giving RM100 cash for the first prize.

Idea + Renders = RM100, isn't that worth it?

So I started PhotoShop, started Opera - http://google.com, typed in "SMJK Sin Min", and..

The only damn sites that's totally relevant to the school are:
kdsinmin.smjk.edu.my and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sin_Min_Secondary_School.

I mean, what on earth?

I tried searching for Sin Min's school logo..

.. and the best I found is a low-quality 140x150px ugly logo.

Geez, no choice but to rob the teachers in school of some school photos.

And, of course, a large high-qualitied school logo.

Oh yeah, whoever (I don't think there'd be any) feels like contributing ideas for the magazine cover, ideas would be greatly appreciated, mwahahaha. Just send a mail to iceglacial@yahoo.com, and I'll TRY to change your idea into a picture.

Signing off - many sheeps waiting to be counted yet.

The Start of A Stressful Life

Well, this is actually the first time that I've been able to sit in my computer chair and ponder about my Form 4 life experience. To be honest, in the first month of 2009 - things, events, homeworks have completely deleted the presence of the terms "Computer", "Internet", and "Blog" from my mind. Completely.

Oh well, after settling down with my newly-recovered-yet-memory-lost computer, and my newly-recovered Internet, I've finally returned to the time-demanding yet stress-relieving world of blogging.

Oh... Where should I start..

.. Let's start from my first month.

I'll just put my notes in point-form first, as I've already forgotten the order when they happened.

Hmm..

- Monitor smashed into microphone
- HDD shutdown (Mobo error)
- Unsubscription of telephone line
- Friend-friend friction
- Fright at the new formats of Form 4 subjects
- Amazement at the speed of how the Do Re Me lecturer speaks
- Shocked by the appointment of this year's deputy chairman for Bomba and Pengawas PSS
- A lil' sad of our New Year celebration, which wasn't as.. "fun" as past-year-celebrations
- Celebrated the third day of Deepavali Christmas Chinese New Year with a few close friends

And that pretty much sums up my first month of Form 4 - some downhills, and some uphills too.

Chinese New Year.

I wonder whether it's only me, or its a true fact - celebrations among our family and relatives are getting less and less "熱鬧" by every passing year. Well, last year it started to go downhill when my gramma fell sick during CNY, and the atmosphere then was tensed instead of relaxed.

But this year, though..

With the absence of our queen and prince of entertainment..

The celebration doesn't feel the same as it was anymore.

There's surely a small twinge in the depths of my stomach whenever I think of the two special persons who were supposed to celebrate this CNY with us, but are unable to.

Gramma and my uncle.

Though the passing sands of time have already erased their looks, their smiles, their words, their presence from my memory - it all came back during this CNY.

Looking through past-year CNY celebration photos in my sister's cameraphone, the familiar faces looked back at me, smiling.

..

Sigh, I know I shouldn't have reminded myself about those old memories..

Well, to sum up my CNY this year, I just took it as a chance to be able to get online - using my cousin sister's laptop, and my aunt's wireless connection.

The third day of CNY was more bearable - where close friends of mine (CN, CH, and Inn) came for a new year visit to my humble home, bringing all sorts of weird stuff - uhh.. New year cards, guitar, sparklers, mandarin oranges, fireworks, etc etc. The morning, was devoted to us playing different instruments at once (Flute, piano, guitar), teasing Balbloo the Punjabi dog (My neighbour's puppy, which we carried to our house, mwahahaha), exchange of hand-made New Year cards, and of course - plenty of chatting.

While at night, I spent my New Year with another group of close friends, to celebrate JW's birthday. Everything was just as an average birthday party should be - the food were nice, the atmosphere was nice, the cake was awesome, and JW's dog was delicious. friendly with us.

Monopoly, chatting (again), and finally, 10pm marked the start of - fireplay!

There was still 3 of us invitees left at JW's house - Me, CCM, and Zhihuei - so JW took out her armoury supply of unused "mini-dynamites" and sparklers.

And.. we played.

*Ka-zaat*

The rest of the birthday-cum-new-year celebrations though, needs no further elaboration - it was only 4 of us playing childishly with the supply of sparklers (and emptying out the powder inside to create a cooler effect too), and playing with Tabby the female dog (Tabby's supposed to be a cat's name, oh my god!).

Photos - if available - will be uploaded in the future.

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And after the New Year celebrations, I went back to my stressful life in school again, where everything is like how a MMORPG should be.

* Evade the one-hit-kill discipline teacher at all times - if he / she sees my hair, im toast.
* Farm for gold everytime killing the same old monsters Listen to the same old teachers each day, and even worse - some teachers' voices are magical in a way that they can put you to sleep in like 3 minutes.

But of course - there're still new, and quite nice things that happened this year.

Well firstly, I've managed to call our first frisbee pickup on the 30th of January - quite a HUGE achievement.

Secondly, I'm about to attend our first badminton pickup later in the noon.

Thirdly, me and Jail are setting up a guitar "class", for those who wants to learn up guitar. Venue - my house. Fees - undecided yet. Day & time - undecided yet. Still recruiting. Those who're interested, look out for me or Jail.

Well, that's all. I wonder whether I'll forgive myself for this lame way of blogging - no choice, have been absent from the blogosphere for way too long..

Cheerio,
IceGlacial.

"I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar."