Haha I was given the Asst. Chief of Photog post. Gratz to William though. And the rest who got nice, big, red, executive, cushiony seats. While others get to sit on chairs too. Except those plastic ones with holes where you butt is for fart to get out. Executive seats preserve your gas. Yum.

Yeahh asst chief... Ego sure took a blow. I guess I can focus on my studies more huh.

Fist fight fist fight fist fight fist fight.

>:c

I'm feeling irrationally pissed.

crazy tired. I feel like I'll fall asleep any moment.

I want to play "Splinter Cell: Conviction"

I feel different.

Tears in Heaven.

I feel betrayed by society after writing my own essay on "Do what you love" or "Love what you do"

I don't like "different".

I'm going to sit here and not move and not remember anything and not do anything and not plan anything and not decide anything, and there's nothing anyone can do about it! - is what I really want to do. Too bad that bubble's still holding.

Good thing Singapore has laws.

Says my ancient clipboard. It's so ancient, the corners of it have turned into dried paper mache. But I like it because the semi-soft backing is good to write on. I remember when I used to clip all my done homework with undone work, all the school's notices and all the consent forms onto this very clip board, and I'd hand carry it around with me. That was 3 years ago... Wow time sure flies. 3 years in a snap. I wonder why I stopped using the clipboard.

Haha I remember why I started using it though. It actually started off as an effort to get organised. But it failed miserably. At least the filing thing is going pretty okay for me right now. Though homework + pw + CCA is starting to pile up. And I complain I don't have enough space. Now my free time is running out too.

Somehow it seems that mee tai mak was specially made to flick sauce into your eyes when you're eating it. I think maybe the people who invented them tasted food with their eyes. I wonder what chili tasted like to them. You know with their eyes. I tried it, whatever it tasted like to my eyes made them want to water. Blinding taste!

Like a business or a company, you start from nothing when you meet a new group of people. Slowly but surely (maybe) you start to earn rep with that group. Rep is the currency of social status. If you meet the new group of people with a friend or two already, you have an advantage. Compare it to trying to set up a company: It's definitely much easier setting up the business with some capital rather than none - Your friends already know what you're like (with them) and help you build your rep, while you help them build theirs.

Stragglers who do not yet know any one benefit when they join the group. The more people you interact with, the faster your rep goes up, and the more people will know about you in time ("friends"!).

Nicknames and inside jokes do particularly well in boosting rep, if they're taken well, or if you live by your nickname lol.

Generally, the longer time you spend with your current group of friends, the more chances you get to boost your rep. So that basically means: eat together and eat slow so you have more chances to talk, walk together and walk slow for the same reason.

Extra credit for cracking jokes, despite the fact that very often, these jokes aren't particularly funny. BUT you get extra points for laughing at jokes to, so bad joke audiences don't mind the bad joke, and laugh anyway to get extra points.

Exaggerate physical ailments to gain pity points, or simply for that extra social point when your buddy asks you, "Are you okay?"

Mock other people and laugh about it with your friends. 2X points when the guy you're mocking is watching.

Yeahhhh that's about it. Tell you when I have more.

It feels like for the past couple of months I've been recovering from physical injuries much slower. Or maybe it's that I'm beginning to value my time more. Because Work + Physical ailment = Unproductive. Doesn't look like it adds up, huh hahaa.

I'm always haunted by the thought that everyone was born with a limit to how much they can achieve. I'm sure anyone who's striving to be the best at whatever is aware of this. Unless you're already at the top of your game, looking down upon the puny and weak clamoring to surpass your greatness. Lolll. It's the nature versus nurture thing that frustrates me ya'know. It's not like Maplestory where everyone who starts the game gets a fixed number of Attribute Points. In real life. Some people get EXTRA points! WTF how is that fairr?!

It's "kinda" statistically proven that if your parents are successful, there's a higher chance that you'll be just as successful. So in the end people who don't cut it die out. Natural selection lol.

See what I saw this week. (while I get acquainted with flash photography.)

hamstah

gangstah

Whoa flash photography does more good to photos than I thought! I should use the flash more often.

Yup and I've officially lost all my momentum. I didn't do a crud over the weekend and my excuse is that I can't remember what I'm supposed to do. Even though I do know what I'm supposed to do. Yeah that's not so good huh.

But I watched hairspray for the first time ever and it rocks! I wish music didn't evolve.

Also I'm fully aware that that first picture exaggerates my pimples and makes my face look like the dunes of Mars or something. Haha you might expect a giant duneworm to suddenly pop out of one of those craters. Lolll. (I chose this side of my face because the other side looks like corn.)

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OMG WTF I ACED MY FIRST TEST IN JC! LOLLLLOLOL GUESS WHICH SUBJECT IS IT?! OMG IT'S ECONS! HAHAAHAA. Like wtf man. Don't even know how I did it. Something tells me this is gonna be very short-lived.

I think people learn to be vague/lovestruck (not saying that I'm vague/love stricken[whoa typing stricken makes me think of chicken{what's this? Sidetracking in my sidetrack thought?!}]... OR AM I?!) from songs like these hahahahaha.

Is the nicest way of putting it. I'm the official photographer for the ISLE China trip and I'll need an "assistant". HAHAHA. I'm still not entirely sure about the job-scope of an assistant but as far as I've gathered, he basically just carries my equipment for me, and helps me with taking pictures as well. Well, actually everyone will be taking pictures, just that my assistant and I will be taking pictures more often than the others. Which is the same as saying, "dood, you'll carry my stuff for me." HAHAHAAAA. Well I'm supposed to find an assistant for the trip, but I'm not sure how I'm supposed to advertise this post. Who the hell wants to help me carry equipment for the whole damn trip? I should just lie to them right hahahahhahhaaa.

No use trying to recruit anyone on this blog anyway, since no one in ISLE reads this. OR DO THEY?! I'm sure people want to know more about boring old Damien and his boring blog lollll.

Anyway, for the ISLE trip anyone who's interested and would like to know more about photography are encouraged to opt to go for a photography workshop that is to be scheduled in the near future. (or not so near, depends on the teacher) (which also means that you don't get anything out of being my assistant, other than maybe bigger muscles from carrying photography equipment.) (if you're unlucky I may decide to make you feel uncomfortable by telling you where your photos have gone wrong, and how you can improve them.)

So the point is that there's no real incentive to being my assistant, but if you find that I'm a nice guy and you want to hang out more with me, and also carry my stuff, then by all means, give me a ring or something *phone gesture with hand and pervy wink*!

I think it's about time I started to learn some decent people skills. Apparently people are offended by various things that I'm accustomed to doing. When I went for my photog outing, we had some kind of dinner break, and it was 'free and easy' so we could go around and find our own food. So I went off myself to get some grub, and the rest of the group were a little ticked off that I went off alone. Funneh. I mean, free and easy right?! Anyway, afterward, when I met back with the team, the teachers that were accompanying us lectured me, saying something about having people skills will help me in future as a leader.

Yeah then over the week I was being pretty enthusiastic over ISLE stuff, making some designs and stuff, and I sent this crude proposal to all my team mates, hoping for some decent response since the logo was already overdue and was... uhh... not really up to my expectations***(note tact!), but I guess other people weren't as concerned with the design of the logo and team name as I was. So I got a little agitated and sent out an angry (sounding) sms. Which I think is a liiiittle too rude to post up here just in case some people (teachers mostly) find it inappropriate. But here's the proposal:

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS IS JUST A PITCH (proposal)!!! You don't HAVE to choose any design right now but it's definitely a plus if you do. Burn me if you want to, but I am strongly against having a pink heart with doraemon arms hugging itself on the back of my shirt when I go for the expedition. We can do better than that.

Obviously, if we want things to be done BY the next meeting, we have to be proactive even when we're not having meetings. So here I'm making my contribution.

If you've already quit and didn't want to receive this email, well I apologise because I couldn't remember who quit and who didn't, so I painstakingly copied and pasted everything from the old contact list here.

Anyway comments are not just welcome, comments are COMPULSORY. Lol no lah I appreciate if you drop comments

yeahhhhhh... I also posted this on the ISLE blog tagboard:

"The contact list is screw'd"

(I don't think these were the worst. The sms.... hahahhaaa) Thinking back, It feels like I did it out of frustration, rather than for anything else at all. It is inappropriate. If any of you ISLE mates read this blog at all, I am sincerely sorry if hurt your feelings with my crude remarks, I'm aware of it and I am willing to change. So much so that I'll be writing a guide to establishing relationships with peers.

LESSON ONE: TACT!
Which in brief means - DON'T SPEAK YOUR F*CKIN' MIND. People don't like that. Hear what you're about to say in your head first, then translate all strong, emotive words to milder descriptors.

LESSON TWO: STAY WITH THE PACK.
I have no idea how this works (yet). But it seems that the more you stay with the group, the easier it is to build relationships with your peers.

Well that's all I got so far. Hahaaa. There's this serious vacuum in my brain where my emotional centre used to be. Actually I never really learned how to work with new people in VS at all. In fact, in VS I only worked with people I was familiar with. Which explains for my severe lack of (new)people skills.