Driver's Seat
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
im not getting time to post... its been a while. ive had exams (still continuing) and plenty of projects. i'll be back soon with a long post with plenty of pictures and things.
AJ sped off at |11:02 PM|
Friday, July 18, 2008
this post dedicated to batman misc stuff. may contain spoilers.
1. tumbler. the new tanklike batmobile. appears in the beginning of the movie for the effect. is later used as shield to protect a van carrying harvey dent. against a rocket. i mean admittedly its the tumbler, but it got hit by a rocket and then smashed into a concrete pillar at some insane speed. even the tumbler cant take that. when it finally came to a stop, the computer inside said damage: catastrophic. just before it self-destructed, batman ejected from it in the
2. batpod. this 2 wheeled thing ejects from the batmobile. its kind of a secondary escape vehicle thing. by the way, i dont thinks its mechanically possible for the batpod to fit in the batmobile the way it did. the pod is described as having 2 radial engines, 1 in each wheel, which rotate with the tyres around a fixed axle. the batpod shares these wheels with the tumbler. however, the tumbler, has some huge displacement v8 engine in the back, along with the jet. no mention of radial engines in the wheels. and it was rear wheel drive. also, the tumbler uses different front and back tires, while the pods tires are the same. it doesnt match. well, thats my theory. anyway, the batpod has machine guns and cannons and things to shoot traffic out of the way. it also can raise or lower itself for various purposes, such as looking cool, or whizzing under semis. which is what it does. batman trips up the jokers truck using the pod and a rope. that bit is awesome.
3. the jokers truck. the joker uses a huge semi as his vehicle of choice for the epic chase scene. it says laughter is the best medicine on the side. but the joker, being the joker, spray painted an s in front, so it says slaughter is the best medicine. the joker is in the back, with a machine gun. the swat van that hes shooting at contains harvey dent, who has lied to the public that hes the batman, and a random swat dude. the random swat dude tells dent that the joker needs something bigger to damage the van. it just so happens that the joker realises this at the same time. so he brings out the rocket launcher. then the tumbler does its protecting thing, and gets smashed.
4. the new suit. the suit has all kinds of funky panels and things. bruce wayne says in the beginning of the movie that he needs a lighter suit. so he changes to the new one, which incidentally allows him to move his head. which is something none of the previous batsuits allowed.
5. theres a lot more. i'll be back to edit this post when i can think of more stuff to add.
AJ sped off at |5:07 PM|
okay first the minor stuff. i finally ran out of space on my phone's memory card. now i have to categorise my songs and remove the ones i dont listen to. bleah. i also did parkour for the first time in my new minimalist rbk shoes. the grip is a bit lacking, but the flexibility and fit are good. and i dont really bother with cushioning, so its nice on the whole.
now the important stuff =P. i just came home after watching the dark knight. it was awesome. like AWESOME. oh man. there were so many awesome things about it that i cant begin to describe how fantastic it was. but heres one thing. you want to watch it in the theater, on the big screen, not at home. your home system is not gonna do justice it. the effect just wont be there.
well the acting was fantastic. the heath ledger guy as the joker was really hatable. which is a good thing. the plot was insane, and completely unpredictable (unless you went and read it on wikipedia). the sound and background music were out of the world. the action was mad. other than the fact that the tumbler got trashed, it was great. everything fitted together perfectly. like nothing negative can be said about it. just go watch it. in the theater.
i'll be back when a better movie comes out. o wait, that might take a while. maybe a bit sooner then.
AJ sped off at |4:11 PM|
Thursday, July 17, 2008
ok im back home. had to post again cos we went to the gym after icc. i finally managed to do a backflip again. after the accidental one during the parkour workshop. so cool. so i did it again. and again. until i got tired and dizzy. and then i did it again.
o yea, i also got buried in sponge pit. they covered me until i couldnt be seen at all. it was wierdly fun. lots of small sec2 ppl came to the gym and were introduced to the wonder known as the trampoline today. they were thrilled as anything.
so yea, had a lot of fun at the gym again.
i'll be back... eventually
AJ sped off at |4:11 PM|
im blogging. from school. yay. the school wireless is secured, but i have a lan cable, courtesy of shreyas. thanks. im supposed to be having icc practice. thats happening too. in another tab. we are arranging music for our final icc orchestra performance. this is gonna be our last icc nite in ri, and we want to go out with a bang. though at the rate we are going itll probably be more like a pop. or a fizzle... oh no. need to be more task oriented.
meanwhile. the little ppl are running around making a lot of noise, but our great icc chairman doesnt have the guts to admit that he needs help in keeping them quiet. he also doesnt have the guts to tell them to shut up. so yeah... well the teacher is here now.
i'll be back after i finish icc stuff for today
AJ sped off at |10:24 AM|
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
ok. now for an epic tale concocted by al and surya, and narrated by surya over msn. first, a little background info. we did an ss project which had to be handed up at our ss teachers home letterbox. al and surya went to do the honours.
surya:
picture this scene
me and al walking towards then letterbox
lyk woah finally
aft a long journey
the game finally going to end
we gonna finish the mission
then out of nowhere
the villain appears
ykm
hes lyk
5 times his size
(no it dint happen
its just a story)
listen
5 times his size
and he laughs evil
and says
HA YOU ARE LATE
LATE LATE LATE
and we make a rush for the letter box
we start running
slow mo.
hes behind us
but hes faster than us
he overtakes us
hes almost at his letterbox
we make a mad grab forward
and then we throw the cd
shoowh
it spins and flies forward
spin spin spin spin
slow mo.
it passes ykm's face
he looks at with a look of surprise
a look of awe.
but doesnt give up
he reaches for it
but its too fast
he trips
and falls
and the cd hits the letterbox cover.
goes inside.
and falls down.
and comes to a rest.
and then
a scream
of NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
is heard.
and me and al.
slowly
walk away
Mission Accomplished.
Game Over.
me:
what happens to ykm?
surya:
he failed in stopping us from passing up the work on time.
its game over
if u wanna know wat happens to him
wait for the sequel
o yeah. what really happened was surya and al walked in, found the letterbox, put the cd in, and walked out. hmm... shows the effects of boredom on a creative mind, doesn't it?
well surya and nishanth went to the gym today, and the rjc racist fool was there again. he tried to throw them out, but evidently they were so bored that they actually bothered to argue with him. they gave him all kinds of philosophical reasoning until he gave up and went off. or something. thats what surya told me anyhow.
theres a new game called mirrors edge. its yet to be released. its a first person PARKOUR GAME. how awesome is that? you get to be a traceuse as she runs around on rooftops evading the cops and delivering messages or something. i cant wait for it to come out. this will probably be the best game ever. lets see. for parkour i actually tried assassins creed first, but it lagged so badly on my laptop that i seriously couldn't play. bleah. and my laptop's specs are far from lousy.
and yeah. i got snake on my desktop! the ancient game that used to come with black and white nokia phones. i have it as a sidebar gadget. so fun.
i'll be back when i'm not playing snake on my desktop.
AJ sped off at |8:06 PM|
Friday, July 11, 2008
hahahaha only ri ppl are on msn right now! yay.
the 10 day break has begun. today is a holiday cos the rjc ppl did something great and won dunno how many competitions and all. so we got a free holiday. oh joy. the next whole week is a holiday cos we are hosting some asia pacific convention on giftedness or something. but of course the teachers had to drop a truckload of homework on our heads. i mean after all, whats the point of a holiday if you are not forced to waste it doing homework and studying non-stop, right?
mufti day was pretty fun. bryan choong actually turned up wearing a costume from some anime. with a white wig and everything. this is the same guy who came for mufti day in a full suit and tie in sec2. i dunno what he wore last year though.
well anyway... i was surfing youtube when i came across random bubblegum pop songs by aqua. i used to listen to it when i was like 5 or something. well, it took me waay back, to the time when high pitched voices and kiddy lyrics with double meanings were funky. but after a while i slowly began to get the feeling that my iq was decreasing with every second i spent listening to it. so i stopped. and blasted heater for some time, of course. then i felt ok again.
yesterday gym was fun. funfunfun. i finally worked up the courage to try a backflip on the trampoline again. i had been hesitating after i fell on my head the last time. its really scary when you are 8 feet in the air, upside down, with no idea how to turn right side up. and it hurts like anything when you land, too. so i put the mat and all the protection and started again from scratch. i made a start. not a very big start, but enough.
we got 2 days extension on our ss documentary. thanks sir. i think it was quite fair, considering that the camera we had borrowed was taken back and sold halfway through our filming.
i'll be back when i finish subtitling the documentary.
AJ sped off at |10:15 AM|
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
today we had probably the most fun ss lesson ever. we were supposed to be sweatshop workers making "nike" shoes (paper cutouts with designs on them). there were also the tnc guys ("nike" guys who bought the shoes from us), the rent collecting dude (who came around asking for a thousand bucks every 5 mins), the cop (who was supposed to make sure nothing untoward happened), and the government (the teacher, who announced changes in the economy). it was essentially some small scale economy, with trades and transactions and whatnot.
well, if we were sweatshop workers, my group must have been the funnest and happiest sweatshop ever. we flicked everything that could be stolen (paper, scissors, templates, money, shoes, etc), we fooled everyone who could be cheated (the tnc guys, the rent man, the cops, the government, the other competitiors, etc), and essentially we did everything wrong that could be done wrong. and we had fun.
we started out like everyone else, desperately drawing and cutting out shoes. then we found we were losing money faster than we could earn it. so we decided to "borrow" some shoes. but from who? who else but the tnc, who was happily ripping us off, paying us half the cost price of the shoes. so we sold them the same pairs of shoes about 4 times, before they got wise to us. the tnc got so miffed that they started marking the shoes that had already been sold to them. we got kinda jacked because we tried to resell them some marked shoes. so the cops showed. and tried to get us to pay up. but we obviously weren't gonna. i tried to offer a bribe, but it didn't work. so chester volunteered to go to jail. and once the cop went away he broke out of jail and came back.
in the meantime, our other guys were flicking raw materials, money, equipment, anything we could get our hands on. we were also happily underdeclaring our income to the rent collector and defaulting on rent too. then the tnc boycotted us, the rent collector almost turned up with a pig head, and the cop would have brought a gun if he could. and we were all rolling around on the floor laughing our heads off.
afterwards was re. re was gym as usual. and we got a lot of work done too. yay. the racist rjc guy came again, but he dint have the guts to say anything this time after the entire icc ganged up and drove him off the last time.
tomorrow is mufti day! yay.
i'll be back when i figure out what to wear.
AJ sped off at |8:42 PM|
Friday, July 4, 2008
our form teacher is migrating to canada. so we had our farewell party thing duing todays extended recess. we got like 8 pizzas from canadian pizzan (hahaha canadian) and happily whacked. there was also a mountain of h-two-o (literally) and pepsi. we made ms. morier give a leaving speech and took lots of photos and vowed to keep in touch and all. then i came up with the bright idea of decorating the free mug that came with the pizzas and giving it to ms. morier as a secondary gift memento thing. but i dont think it worked out ok cos the marker kept smudging.
anyway, mark chong became the subject of much discussion after he ate like 86249863 slices of pizza, (fine. 4, actually) including 2 slices of the vegetarian one, thereby depriving kaushik and me of the chance to eat to our hearts content. so everybody shouted at him. and he was like "what, i only ate like 2 more than everybody else". which gave rise to more shouting. yeah. we had fun.
o ya, the english presentation that i was frantically arranging music (pachelbel's canon techno remix) for yesterday night did not take place after all. its a long story which i shall do justice to at a later date. or not at all.
after school, lunch was provided by our dear icc, in celebration of our sorkalam win. the food was pretty good, but i didnt feel like eating rasam satham after a recess of pizza. so i had a little bit of sambar vadai and left it at that.
after this my history group members rushed off for history presentation, which is actually long overdue. we couldnt do it earlier cos of various absentees and stuff. anyway, we pulled off a fantastic skit although nobody knew the script at all. my group members acted as extremely dumb soldiers who had forgotten the plan, and had to be given a script in order to remember it. i dont think anyone would have recognised that the script passing was actually to let us read our lines.
after the presentation we rushed off to listen to some tamil talk by some dude called ramana who it seems is some cool ultra-mugger dude from henry park, ri, rjc. he was a pretty engaging speaker and ppl actually listened to his whole talk.
anyway, our ss documentary is now on hold. shreyas has decided to sell the old camera that he had lent me, and now we dont have a handycam. we are stuck and we dont know what to do.
i'll be back when this problem is solved
AJ sped off at |8:10 PM|
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
today there was re and re = gym. surya, wen yu, han yang and me invented the funnest game of the year, balance beam gladiator. you get a sponge brick as a weapon and you have to push the other dude off the balance beam with hits to lower body only. but the first challenge is getting ON the beam, as expertly demonstrated by wen yu.
the fun bit is whacking a guy repeatedly once he has lost balance to prevent him from regaining it. which is what i did to surya. surya is still thinking about it and laughing at the moment.
there was also sponge pit racing, which involves frantically scrabbling through a pit filled with sponge bricks while random people (read: i) throw large and heavy objects made of sponge at you and flip off the sides of the pit onto your head. taupoking is a random recreational activity which may take place at any point during the race.
i took some time to practice my flips on the trampoline, and in the end when the gym coach came in, i showed him some moves, and he said i could join gym if i wanted to. i jumped at the chance, cos theres nothing i have achieved or can achieve by staying in cricket anyway. and after discussion with my form teacher (whos also my pe teacher) i decided to pursue the matter. but when i met the gym teacher in charge, she told me that it won't be worth switching for just 3 months, cos after that there are the end of year exams and whatnot. so i have been told to come back next year, and join rjc gymnastics. im still in cricket for the time being. durnit.
also, i seem to be hopelessly addicted to "heater" by samim. probably the best song ever.
i'll be back when i dont have the song stuck in my head.
AJ sped off at |8:15 PM|
