oh no

forgot to do a bunch of stuff today so...

oh no.

endless road

Some pics from Tommy Emmanuel's masterclass, which was some real inspiring stuff.

Camera was tricky to use to the pictures came out all bright and blurry.


Man with the Green Thumb
















Damn camera. Looks kinda psychedelic.
















Tuning his guitar halfway through a song.


The Master surrounded by noobs.
















Signature.
















Went home and out again to meet bran and glenn for his concert.
Got too engrossed to take any pictures. From the moment he walked onto stage it was just pure magic for 3 hours. Great showmanship and flawless execution. Played lots his great songs like tall fiddler, drivetime, lewis and clark, a beatles medley, and some great stuff from his heroes travis and chet atkins. Sitting through Mombasa(with percussive drumming on his guitar) and Initiation LIVE was a blast too. He gave another 2 songs for encore after the audience gave him a standing ovation and refused to stop clapping. Can't wait to see him again if he comes around next year.

After having our minds blown out we went to eat carls jr, which was still open past 11. FATS.

Virtuoso

going to tommy emmanuel's masterclasses and concert tomorrow/today, can't wait.

I'll be learning and watching from one of the greatest guitarists in the world and trying to get my guitar and a pick signed.

BUT first, gotta prepare for OP tomorrow/today.

iPromote

not only did i get promoted, but i topped my form class in h1 physics with a D (there are only 5 ppl taking physics) and received an improvement award for my spectacular 114% increase in score for maths, improving my grade from a lousy U to a..... better U.

i was totally expecting to have status:retained at first but literature marking leniency and desperate last day physics cramming saved me from the anticipating jaws of RETAIN.

a friend once told me, i'm the kind of person who will always come out ok in the end even when everything is wtffffffff screwed up along the way. i haven't been able to prove him wrong, but i really really wonder how much this will last. shitty sloppy last second preperations aren't gonna cut it for block tests, prelims and A levels next year.

getting promoted is still only the bare minimum. ten years ago i was still like whining over how i got 99 and a HALF for my subjects and what a PITY. WHAT A PITY. now i'm happy to just get above 45 marks, even though its not even considered a proper pass. getting an E shows that you're competent less than half of the syllabus, which is really kinda pathetic. how freaking pathetic i've become.

but we can't really be blamed for this. our education system is obviously designed to demoralise. in lower primary i breezed through tests and expected to score at least 97% most of the time. i even brainstormed for ways to get more than full marks. then in upper primary the notch is upped, full marks are no longer realistic and you can just hope for band 1 grades.

but secondary school is really the turning point. suddenly getting 80-90% and above is deemed impossible and you're classified as a freak with no life if you get such scores. standards are lowered. few expect you to do better than 75 and it becomes the new 100%. anything above that is merely useless bonus. then in upper sec, the concept of RETAIN is first introduced and we start celebrating so long as we are passing. then the O levels results are out and you've jumped up to grades that you haven't been seeing for some time. oh wowweee hurrah we weren't that stupid afterall!

enter JC and everything falls apart for me again. getting a subpass gives some sort of relief. a pass deserves a little celebration. euphoria and disbelief from getting a C.

how pathetic. but a promotion is a promotion, just glad to have pulled through.

ABU MUSA

This came in my inbox today:

I presumed that all is well with you and your family. Please let this do not be a surprise proposal to you because i got your contact information from the international directory in few weeks ago before i decided to contact you on this magintude and lucrative transaction for our future survival in life. Moreover, i have laid all the solemn trust in you before i decided to disclose this successful & confidential transaction to you.

I AM MR. ABU MUSA, THE CHIEF AUDITOR INCHARGE OF FOREIGN REMITTANCE UNIT of our bank and i have had the intent to contact you over this financial transaction worth the sum of NINTEEN MILLION, THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS ($19,300,000.00 ) for our success.This is an abandoned sum that belongs to one of our bank foreign customers who died along with his entire family through plane crash disaster since few years ago. Meanwhile i was very fortune to came across the deceased file when i was arranging theold and abandoned customers files in other to sign and submit to the entire bank management for an official re-documentation and audit of the year against 2007.

Be informed clearly that it was stated in our banking rules and regulations which was signed lawfully that if such fund remains unclaimed till the period of 5 years started from the date when the beneficiary died, the money will be transferred into the treasury as an unclaimed fund. As an honour and advantage bestowed to our foreign customers base on the rules guideing our bank, it was stated obviously that if you are not a Burkina Faso citizen, you have the absolute authority to claim the fund hence you are a foreigner despite your differences from the country of origin of the deceased. So the request of you as a foreigner is necessary to apply for the claim and transfer of the fund smoothly into your reliable bank account as the NEXT OF KIN OR EXTENDED RELATIVE to the deceased.

On the transfer of this fund into your account, { 39% } being ( US$7,527,000.00) will be your share in respect of the account provision and your assistance rendered during the transfer of the fund into your bank account,{ 52% } being (US$10,036,000.00) will be my share being the codinator of the transaction while the rest { 9% } being (US$1,737,000.00) will be shared to the respectable Organisations Centers such as Charity Organisation, Motherless Babies homes, and helpless disabled people in the World.

If you are really sure of your trustworthy, accountability and confidentiality on his transaction, contact me and agree that you will not change your mind to cheat or disappoint me when the fund have getting into your account. Besides you should not entertain any fear because i am sure of the success as an insider in the bank ok.

Please reply with

the assurance, include your private telephone and fax numbers necessary for facilitate an easy communication in this transaction. As soon as you reply , call me through my private telephone number on(0022670340481) so that i will let you know the next step to follow in order to finalize this transaction immediately.

I expect your urgent communication.

Yours sincerely,

MR.ABU MUSAO

ZZZZZZZOOOOOMMMMMMGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG I'M GONNA BE INSANELY RICH!1!!11!!!1!!1!!!!1!!! I'M RUNNING AWAY WITH THE CASH AS SOON AS IT GETS INTO MY BANK ACCOUNT SCR3W ABU AND HIS CHARITY ORGANISATIONS OH YEA AREN'T I SMARTTTT!!!!!!!1!!11!!!!!!!!!!

But honestly, i really wonder what kind of dumbasses fall for this shit. EVEN if they're ignorant enough to not read the papers once in awhile or listen to the news, what kind of people really believesthat some totally random dude is just going to send by EMAIL matters regarding millions of dollars and say something like "okay i totally don't know you but i'll let you have MILLIONZZZ OF DOLLARZZZ FAST EZ CASH if you help me k thnx" It must be really embarrassing to go to the police too, saying you gave away your money to some African dude online and it didn't come back.

maybe they just wanted to help the "respectable Organisations Centers such as Charity Organisation, Motherless Babies homes, and helpless disabled people in the World."

maybe they feel honoured to be recognised by some nigerian prince and happily oblige to do his bidding.

maybe they were convinced by the professionalism shown in the writing of the email. (there's the word confidential mentioned a number of times so woaahhh.. it's confidential.)

maybe money is the root of all stupidity, even if it ironically ends up with more money lost.

whatever it is, dear Mr. Abu was right about one thing. It's for "future survival in life" At least the dumb prick will learn to stop wasting money on buying magic stones from strangers and Abu Musa gets 3 meals a day.

lasagna

$20 worth of ingredients, 2 hours to make and it'll be finished in 3 meals. i don't think it's worth making anymore even though it tastes teh pwnage.

so the promos are over. screwed up lit, screwed up econs screwed up maths.

psychedelic physics:
woke up on fri for the last h1 paper feeling totally psychedelic due to extreme exhasution. woke up at what i thought was 3.30am, realised it was 4am, and suddenly it was 5.30am and i was lying on the floor in my room. then one moment i was in my bed, then i was on the sofa, then i was in the kitchen AND the living room at the same time, with waffles and bread all over the floor of the living room/kitchen with and the walls were all purplish greenish brownish. but they weren't on the floor. the floor was on them. managed to stumble out of the house, stumble through psychedelic physics, stumble back home and stumbled back into my bed. my mind was really screwed up that morning, maybe the indonesians are burning massive crops of pot or something.

canoeing trainings resume, but now at jurong lake, which is at the end of the country. the water there is said to be full of bacteria and stuff due to a number of canals dumping into it and water being retained there for sometime before flowing out so we had to wash ourselves like immediately after coming out from the water to acoid infections and nasty rashes. disgusting shit, hope we move to seletar reservoir asap.

stuff to be done after promos:
-sort out my pile of notes on what used to be a table.
-finish watching my 5gbs of guitar instructional videos and powerlevel my guitar 5kiLx0oRZZZ.
-get a job.
-play WoW.
-play more WoW of there's nothing else to do.
-attempt studies for next year, IF i get promoted.

And if the cloud bursts, thunder in your ear
You shout and no one seems to hear.
And if the band you're in starts playing different tunes
I'll see you on the dark side of the moon.
-Pink Floyd was kinda psychedelic too.