N is for Nigel!

My trip (day 3)

2006-08-21T22:55:00.000+08:00

Day 3

In a blink of an eye, my final day of my trip arrived. After breakfast, we packed out things, got on the boat, got on the bus (yes by bus, since there were no flights) and here I am, updating, blog. It took like 10 hours in total. I wished we could have travelled by flight. T.T

My trip! (day 2)

2006-08-21T22:42:00.000+08:00

Day 2
Was waken up by a morning call, and I went to have breakfast after washing up. There was a snorkeling trip at nine-thirty in the morning, so my dad and I went to rent some snorkel equipment. Before the trip starts, we were required to walk to the jeti. From there, we will be transported by boat to another island (I think).

Once I reached there, I was quite a few people snorkeling. Of course, I joined in the fun soon after. The fishes can already be seen although I haven't started to go to the deep part of the sea. From there on, I saw lots of corals. Dead corals, living corals. Just lots of them. Some fishes were hiding in it. One thing about the fishes is that they aren't afraid of humans. Getting used to us I think?

Goin farther again, some dudes from the hotel pulled me and said they were taking photos. I agreed of course. They pushed me down towards the abyss(I was wearing life jackets), towards the corals and took a total of two pictures. I'll post them later, if I have time.

We got back to the reasort after we had have enough snorkeling. I played pool with my relatives (again!). It was really addicting, I must say.

Evening was great. Went to the beach to fly a kite I brought. Also, I got to play volleyball with some dudes from another country. ( forgot to ask them where they're from though). They're pretty good. Two hotties joined in the game afterwards. haha.

At night, I wanted to go karaoke-ing, but was to tired to do so, so I slept.

My trip! (day 1)

2006-08-21T22:27:00.000+08:00

Day 1
I went on a trip to Redang Island on Saturday, which was the first day of my holidays. I was boarding an 8.40am flight, so my family and I reached the Kuala Lumpur International Airport at about 7.00am. I went to KLIA before but never had a good look at it. The airport is HUGE. Thing is, a cup of coffee costed like RM 8, which is heartbreaking =( lol. There was also a nicely decorated stall whichi sold chocolate of all kinds. Cadbury, Kit-kat, M&Ms and some imported ones.

The plane reached the Terengganu aiport at 9.40. Comparing to KLIA, that airport was like a badly built chicken's den. The bus of the resort picked us up to the jeti, which we then had a one-hour-ride to Redang Island. Redand Island is an island on the east coast of Malaysia, and is also the setting for the movie "Summer Holiday" (夏日的么么茶）. I got to see the house the characters live in. The purple/ pink one.

We had lunch when we got there, then I played pool with my bro. Actually I wanted to surf the net but it was RM 10 per hour so I guess not...XD

Went to the beach, jumped into the jacuzzi of the swimming pool of the island in the evening. There was a bar by the pool and it served some nice "Ice Kacang". Yum...

The N parade! =)

2006-08-17T21:41:00.000+08:00

As some of you might know, I am a guy who uses photoshop. Well I'm not a pro photoshopper, you can own me single handedly if you were one. I've designed a few avatars, or better known as display pictures, since I started. They were mainly used in msn or in forums. My initial "N" is featured on all of them. And now, I'm gonna show you my so called "masterpieces". =p

(The pictures, from left to right, that means the "glowing" pic is 1, silver 2.. circles 8)
1- This is the very first picture I made, did it december last year, and I used it for a very long time. See the glowing spikes at the background of it? I loved that effect. Learnt it from a tutorial, but I forgot how to do it now.. haha.

2- A silver metallic puddle with an embossed "N" on it. I got this idea from chemistry. In chinese, mercury is called "Silver water"(er.. it's a really bad translation), and I made some "silver water" rightaway. You can see the "N" making some sort of "ripples" on the surface.

3- The rainbow. Made in July 2006(or June?) I think. Used some gradients and achieved this special effect with ease. The text is just simple but outlined.

4- A darker version of the rainbow. I just added another layer on top of it, played with the opacity and got this pic.

5- Ehehe. I don't know what I'm drawing in this picture. Messed around with the filter, swirling everything in sight, rippling the text, and then glowed the edges of the picture. My bro says it looks cool, but I think it's kinda funny... hehe

6- My very first grunge artwork. I always see grunge-styled siggys at forums, and always wanted to do some grunge, but I didn't know how. Only recently I knew that you need some grunge brushes to do it lol. The font is special. It's called "trasylvania".

7- Similar to 6, only I subtracted a few layers from the original grunge N and it seemed to turn out great!

8- From past to present. I made this today. In the picture, you can see semi-transparent circles overlapping each other to produce quite a nice effect. I got this idea from set theory. (well kinda). Sets that are somewhat related overlap each other. So I decreased the opacity of the circles, and it overlapped with some pretty colours! =)

As for the background, I did it from a tutorial. I would like to give credit to the author of it. Also, I even made a pen insert from this particular background. People said it was nice... haha.

Wow, this is a pretty long post. I'm still making more avatars at the moment, and looking for ideas too. Peace out.

Coupe de Boule!

2006-08-06T14:40:00.000+08:00

It means headbutt. Some funny French guy made a song about it. I think it's pretty funny, even though I don't know any French... haha

If it doesn't load go here.

And I found this. It's the English translation lol.

Watch out, it's the headbutt dance!
(Headbutt, headbutt)
Headbutt to the right
(Headbutt, headbutt)
Headbutt to the left
(Headbutt, headbutt)

Go Blues!
Go,
Zidane, he hit [him], Zidane, he slapped [him] (Headbutt!)* 4x

The guido, he was hurt
Zidane hit [him]
The Italian's not doing well
Zidane slapped [him]
The ref saw it on the TV
Zidane hit [him]
But we lost the World Cup
We had a good laugh anyways

Zidane, he hit [him], Zidane, he slapped [him] (Headbutt!) 4x

Trezeguet didn't play
When he played he sucked
He screwed up everything
We lost the World Cup
Barthez didn't stop anything
And it's not even complicated
The sponsers are all angry
But Chirac was eloquent

Zidane, he hit [him], Zidane, he slapped [him] (Headbutt!) 4x

Watch out, it's the headbutt dance!
(Headbutt, headbutt)
Headbutt to the right
(Headbutt, headbutt)
Headbutt to the left
(Headbutt, headbutt)
Headbutt to the front
(Headbutt, headbutt)
Headbutt to the back
(Headbutt, headbutt)

And now it's the penalty
Attention please, he's gonna shoot
One, two, three...he missed!

Zidane, he hit [him], Zidane, he slapped [him] (4x)

We had a good laugh anyways
Zidane and Trezeguet
We lost the World Cup
Zidane and Trezeguet (2x)

And Trezeguet...and Trezeguet...and Trezeguet-guet-guet
Trezeguet
(Headbutt, headbutt)
and Trezeguet
(Headbutt, headbutt)
and Trezeguet
(Headbutt, headbutt)
and Trezeguet
(Headbutt, headbutt)

6 minutes

2006-08-04T17:55:00.000+08:00

What can you do in 6 minutes? Not much, but I just made my 6 minutes seem like 30 minutes a few days ago.

I broke the guinness world record by reaching my house in 6 minutes time. And if you're from my school, you'll know how impossible that is, because it jams like hell just after school.

Sigh... One more week left until the trial examinations. One more week. How many 6 minutes are there in a week? Much? Just enough? Not much? Hmmm.. who knows? Time isn't counted in minutes or hours. It is counted by the how much work you have done. At least that's my opinion.

Peace out.

Me

2006-07-29T23:56:00.000+08:00

I messed around with paint late one night, and look at what I drew XD.

This is what happens if you do diagnostic tests too often

2006-07-24T20:37:00.000+08:00

GIRLS.. WOMEN...they are one. Look below:

Haha.

New layout XD

2006-07-24T19:08:00.000+08:00

Just installed a new layout for my blog, thanks to my friend Ding for telling me the gecko site. I love the bubbles don't you? :p

"I am supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, honorificabilitudinitatibus and nice."
I don't know the meaning of the front 2, so i'm nice. Get it?

Anyways what I typed here was typed out using the damn old on-screen keyboard. My faithful keyboard was confiscated. I miss my dear keyboard :( O well, at least I still have a mouse, which is in my hand at the very moment.

Bahbah Bahbah Bahbah bahbahbahbahbah!!!11!oneone!1!!llII

The diagnostics

2006-07-23T09:00:00.000+08:00

Bah... Had a few "diagnostic" tests during the week. And it was fun. Those questions could make me laugh, it could make anyone laugh. There was a question when it gave you a picture of an eye, and it asks you what is it. Lol...

According to google, the word "diagnostic" means this:
A test or kit used to diagnose a disease or medical condition.

Hmm funny. Are we all having a disease?

2006-06-30T18:49:00.000+08:00

Boo. I'm back from a long time no posting session. Got into card throwing recently, which is quite a good thing to do when you're bored.

Haven't posted for a long time, but that doesn't mean nothing's happen. Life is soo hectic now. So many papers, so many assignments.. Duh. Now that's enough rambling's of me life.

Looking forward to the weekend though (oh gosh it's tomorrow!) England vs Portugal. That will be exciting. As always, I'll be rooting for England. They have more than what it takes to go thorough and get to the semi finals.

*ps: The defination of "dude": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dude
Check out the first paragraph. This is for someone who thinks he/she knows the meaning. I pwn you now. BUAHAHAHA

The O Rly Family!

2006-06-17T16:26:00.000+08:00

Check it out. Tada!~~~

george bush O RLY

Emma Watson.

There's more. These 2 are my favs.:p

and

We lost again in basketball

2006-06-14T17:26:00.000+08:00

Well, the title says it all. We were in the semis. It really looks like we could get a medal this year, but just after 2 days, everything changed. We lost in the semis, and lost out spot in 3rd place. We'll still be medalless after 3 years at our school.

For now, I just hope England doesn't suffer the same fate as our class. Go England go!!! Win the World Cup!

The day before the day

2006-06-11T10:23:00.000+08:00

Hmmm.. What a beautiful Sunday morning. Too bad it's the last Sunday of the school hols, gonna go back to school tomorrow to resume the hectic life at that horrible place.

If you happen to be freom Europe or America, then I envy you. Summer hols will be starting. 10 weeks. That's a great deal of time to sit back, relax, turn on the TV and watch some world class soccer. No more soccer for me, unless I wake up at the middle of the night to watch the live telecasts lol.

School is not cool.

Admit it Zoe, your birthday's over =)

2006-06-10T23:40:00.000+08:00

Yay England won. Woooooot woot w00t vv00t haxxorz 1337.
It's 11.40, 20 minutes till your birthday ends. I'm counting... Better perpare to be sad once more.

By the way, here's something funny for you guys.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KojQ3dEXWc&search=mapalas

The one on the right in the video is my frien, Aaron.

It's all her fault

2006-06-09T22:57:00.000+08:00

Dang.

I spent a great deal of time looking for the blog link. Gonna kill her when I see her. Wasted my time. XD. j/k

The World Cup started! Hooray! England for the win!

Those who have their birthday during the world cup would be very very unlucky. Nobody would ever bother with presents. The best thing they would get would be a lifetime supply of footballs. Go figure. XD

The post after the post that was posted after the post's post

2006-06-09T22:52:00.000+08:00

Came back from camp. The camp was kinda great. Thing is, I hated the food, and I love eating (well that is not true), but imagine those who hates eating, and facing those food. Sigh... Those who live in the hostel would have starved to death man.

Luckily we won some snacks at the end of the camp. Those cured my hunger.

June

2006-06-01T17:55:00.000+08:00

June has arrived!! muahahaha

Map

2006-05-01T17:55:00.000+08:00

May has arrived!! muahahaha

Chocolate

2006-04-06T17:37:00.000+08:00

Well. I love chocolate, what not to love? Chocolate is good. Don't believe it? There's even a colour named after it.

There's a saying for wine "Good wine ruins the purse, bad wine ruins the tongue". Chocolate is like wise. Tasty chocolate is cool but bad choc? It ruins my day.

Now if only I had a buck or two to spend on some chocolate bars at 7-11...

Test 01

2006-04-05T21:05:00.000+08:00

Ok this blog is up and running. A test post to see if everything works.