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"The sower, Arepo, holds the wheels with care."

whoa... that is the uber palindrome... can be read horizontal, vertical and backwards

anyway yesterday went to watch TMNT... i advise u not to spend money on it... or at least dont have too high expectations. today... read the life section and bam! found out that zhang ziyi big hollywood movie star has a role in a cheaply made 3D cartoon.

so the annoying hongkong-accented ninja was zhang ziyi... didnt know their budget was THAT big. well we were all saying that it was gong li from miami vice all over again so zhang ziyi was pretty close i guess...

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"In a regal age ran I!
Raw was I 'ere I saw war!
Oh who was it I saw, oh who?

Too far away, a war afoot.
Are we not drawn onward, we few, drawn onward to new era?
No, in union,
Name no one man.
Now do I repay a period won.

Draw, O Caesar! Erase a coward.
Evil is a name of a foeman, as I live.
Live not on evil deed, live not on evil.

Draw noses onward!
Dump mud! Dump mud!
Draw putrid dirt upward.
Puff in, sniff up!
Pull up if I pull up.
No, it is open on one position.
Stop! Murder us not, tonsured rumpots!

In words, alas, drown I.
A day, a day... yada yada..."

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posting tmr... wish me luck. i wanna go ocs but... im afraid of it being uber shiong.

err ok watched 300 and music n lyrics... will reccomend both. all very entertaining though not very deep. slow-motion panning fight scenes and british accented one-liners ftw.

today i bought a t-shirt from zara. i alrdy bought a topshop shirt a while back. now all i need is an article of clothing from mango and i will officially be a faggot.

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i think i mentioned a while back abt an annoying problem with my hacked undub version of tales of the abyss. halfway through the game the voices went out of sync with the text and everything got screwy with little girls talking in deep manly voices and such.

well imagine my utter orgasmic joy when i found a patch that is supposed to fix the sync problem once and for all!

the patch really worked! amazingly so!

after applying the patch, the voices were no longer out of sync. in fact they werent even there anymore! so thank you very much for putting up a file for me to spend half an hour dlding to do something that would have taken me 5 seconds in the config screen in the game.

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it cant possibly be a coincidence.

within the space of a single week, i have read a total of 4 references to an obscure thought experiment known as Schrödinger's cat.

1) Reading Douglas Adam's "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency"
2) Reading a wikipedia article about transformers (something abt an object in the cartoon called the Schrödinger's box
3) Reading "The Best of Spider-man volume 3"
4) Reading Terry Pratchett's "The Last Hero"

just last week i wouldnt be able to tell u what Schrödinger's cat was. in fact i probably would have mixed it up with that experiment where u ring the bell and the dog starts drooling, thinking its gonna be fed.

its FREAKY. not just the coincidence itself but also the experiment, which talks about giving a kitten a 50-50 chance to live, locking it in a box, (possibly) gassing it with cyanide and turning into a quantum parareality zombie kitty.

issit possibly some kind of sign? that i must study this Schrödinger's cat experiment? use it to save the world? or issit just that i like to read material written by a group of authors that makes the same few pop-cultural references over and over again?

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POP is day after tmr! freeeedom!... or not... still have 1 year 8 months to go. by wednesday i will officially stop being a recruit and become a private. which would still make me the 2nd smallest fish in the SAF sea.

anyway im back from camp on a tuesday cos 200 recruits managed to convince 1 lt colonel that we needed time off to fill in our scholarship and uni applications. anyway its all fair cos we got confined over the weekend to do our grenade throw and singapore discovery centre visit. SDC is totally different now. no more mcdonalds and large silver-ball-rolling-up-and-down-ramps machine in the centre of the canteen.

grenade was not as scary as i imagined. the explosion was small and the shrapnel was non-existent. i expected the ball-bearings to whizz through the air, striking the glass at the observation deck with thousands of piak-piak noises but it was just a little dinky explosion that prob would not have killed me if i decided not to duck down behind the grendae bay. omg i just spelled grenade grendae. i walk the lonely road etc etc.....

anyway i pity the ppl who had to wait for the first blind, then the officers to eat lunch and then the 2nd blind all in one sitting in the afternoon sun. i only sat through lunch and the 2nd blind at that hot as hell zinc roof shelter but it was bad enough. one of my bunkmates, chang jie, is serving confinement for the blind even as i type this.

another highlight of the past week: games day! our mascot rocked. it proved that LBV with swimming trunks did actually work as a suitable uniform. LBV + swimming trunks + jockey cap with red tape "HG" lettering + black swimming goggles + half gloves+ boots + garters at thighs and upper arms = HAWK GAY!!! HOOOOOOOOO!

aw man it was awesome. jun jie ran out and shook his hips at the OCs! lol. all the 1lt looked amused while the warren officers looked annoyed. LOL

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THE SKY IS GREEN BECAUSE OF POLLUTION
Yet the picture is still beautiful. Therefore pollution is beautiful.

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joshua chin
NUS law
21 years old
April26 1988
Singapore