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*peeps out*

Good, no one arou-ARGH!!!

*stabbed by Hanzo*

Hanzo: Where have you been...?

*cough cough* I can explain...*dies*

Alright ladies and gents, got no BJE for you, so the only thing I can say is:

At first I got really busy with my college, then after that I got hooked on Devil may Cry 3. Yeah, I'm really sorry and I'll try to update more often...

Anyway, a basic update on what i've been doing:

College: Damn, I've still got lotsa work. Sat for another Accounting test last Tuesday but this time I fared better, partly because I really studied this time. My Maths could use some work though...I have yet another maths test up ahead on the 30th on a topic that I'm really bad on, and my text book doesn't help me AT ALL...maybe I should go and ask my teacher for help? Trying to make sense of my Computer Science stuff too, though I think I'm getting the hang of it. I think...not really happy about my English either. Must everything have a hidden meaning? It's getting very trying to try and peel every layer in a book/movie to see what the secret is. other than that, I have to finish reading and writing about one book that I have to select. Knowing the Orientalist in me, I picked Amy Tan's Joy Luck Club. Did around 3 chapters worth, still have 23 left *sigh*

Driving: Hmm...could be better, though not as putrid as I thought it would be. Funnily enough, I've only had a single driving lesson after the one I mentioned in my blog. During the last one, mr. Lim took me all the way to Cheras. And along the way there and back, I learned why people complain about the manual car...I got stuck in a traffic jam both going there and going home, so I had to juggle my gears. Between switching from Gear 1 to 2 and then back, and releasing and pressing my clutch, I'm quite surprised I managed to get the car back in one piece! And at least 3 times on the road (MAIN ROAD AND HIGHWAY!!!!!!) my car stalled because I released the clutch too fast. Let's hope for the sake of humanity that I get this right, or else there'll be another dangerous driver on the road...

Violin: Oddly enough, my violin is getting better. Currently I've started practising this year's Grade 7 pieces, so that's a good sign (REALLY GOOD) that I'm getting back to my old standards.

Kenjutsu: One word...PAIN. Last Tuesday I had a "stamina training" session. Basically, my Sensei asked all of us to run up and down the staircase from the 4th floor to Ground floor 4 times...I was clocked out at the 3rd time but somehow I managed to drag myself for the 4th time...after that my legs gave way. Couldn't even walk properly because my knees kept buckling underneath me! So now I've got a regime (that I can't really stick to because I am so lazy T_T) wherein I run up and down the staircase in my college twice everyday from monday to Friday. I think it's working, I don't really feel that tired these days. Today though there were three new recruits at kenjutsu class, so me, JL and KR (my other friends in kenjutsu) didn't get to do much of anything new while we showed the new girls some stuff like stright cuts down and evading. Thankfully near the end, Sensei decided to train us in something else. No, not another "stamina training" (thank goodness), but we had to practise a breathing technique. This required us to kneel on the ground and close our eyes while taking deep breathes. The difference between normal breathing and this one is that we have to breath in through our nose and expand our stomachs when we breath in, while when we breath out we have to flatten our stomachs. This is supposed to be good for our insides, but to be honest I didn't feel any better. Than we sorta meditated after that because we were supposed to continue to breath like that and keep our eyes closed. That way we could train our "natural aura" to detect stuff. I'm not too sure what this means, so I'll ask my Sensei for better clarification next week. After this whole "breathing training", I got severe pins and needles and had to get help to stand up. Man do I suck...

Family: My older brother went back to Sydney, and my younger brother and I developed a love for Left 4 Dead. =)

Games: As you can guess from above I'm currently playing Devil may Cry 3 Dante's Awakening on my PS2. But I am completely getting destroyed by the AI in this game for some reason. Seriously. The second boss took me more than 20 tries to kill (to both the amusement and annoyment of my younger brother), and I'm really struggling to finish this game. Testing both my patience and my ability to react, DMC 3 is really difficult. I'm not even playing the hard level! Or maybe too much levels of Hack & Slash in Dynasty Warriors has zapped my ability to dodge properly. Whatever it is, I highly doubt that I'll be able to finish this game anytime soon... Othen than DMC 3, I've also discovered another cool game called left 4 Dead. Yeah, that totally awesome first-person shooter game in horror genre. I played it with some buddies from college (Ally, Sairou and one of their friends) last week and I can't stop thinking how cool it was! However I think I did more to hinder than help. I kept shooting my friends accidentally and I always required saving PLUS I think the Boomer hates my guts because he always targets me. ALWAYS. I've also been watching some really funny videos on Youtube about left 4 Dead, look for this guy called Kilplix. He has some really amazing Left 4 Dead recordings, both funny and entertaining. Can't wait to play next week!!

Me: Well, biggest news about me at the moment is my SPM results. I got stright As, 8A1s and 4A2s. Funnily enough I don't feel that happy about it. It's more of relief that I'm feeling. A sense of accomplishment and completion. A huge weight has been lifted off my shoulders, though sometimes I can't believe that it's over simply because I got such good results. I can't really feel happy though, because some of my friends didn't do as well as they wanted. And of course, my friend JV (can't think of a good code name for her yet, but you know who you are JV!!!) got her straight 13 A1s, and my other pal Durian got straight 12 A1s. There was also Puppet, who got her straight 11 A1s, so all in all we have 3 people with straight A1s in my school, and about 6 of us with straight As. So it's pretty good overall. A BIG CONGRATULATIONS to JV, Durian and Puppet for their amazing results!

Well, that's my update for now. I'll post something new in two days time, so look out for it!!!

*gets stabbed again*

Hanzo, I said I was sorry!!!!

Hanzo:...Dissapear...

ARRRRGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! *runs away*