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So, I continued my work on Mr Ball 2. Mr Ball can die now. I know it's a very unpleasant thing to say, but come on, no one's immortal right? (unless of course, you're one)

Okay, I tried to use the free 3D modeling application from the net, Blender3D. It's damn nice to use. But the problem I faced with it is the UV coordinates. What are UV coordinates? These coordinates are used when you wanna "wrap" a 3D object with a picture, or called as a texture.

Every vertex can have UV coordinates. They are just your average (x,y) coordinates, just that they are denoted (u,v), I think. But anyway, Imagine a picture. The top left corner of that picture has a UV coord of (0,0) and the bottom-right corner, (1,1). So, let's say a vertex on a 3D object has a UV coordinate of (0,0), it'll then refer to the top-left corner of the picture. So, whatever colour is on the top-left of the picture will now be on that vertex. Smart right? 3D games fascinate me all the time.

I'm not sure why, but misalignment of UV coordinates in my diamond model caused my texture to go haywire on it. In the end, I used back the old model from the first installment.

Okay, diamond down. Now what? Well, I chose to model a spear. Remember the black diamond? Okay, if you didn't play my game before, see it at the Updated Mr Ball post.

Spears are his weapons. Without it, he's nothing but a diamond. Yeah so, tried to model a spear, and you know what, it's so damn THICK! Sigh... got to go remodel. Blah!!!!

So far so good

Mr Ball is coming along great. The targeting system has been rewritten. It's not like the old lock-on system which requires you to press T to lock on to the enemy. Now, you can only target the closest enemy. So, you've got to approach them. Not good for Mr Ball eh? Another thing, this time it won't be the T on the keyboard which activates the targeting system. Just turn the mouse wheel. Move the mouse wheel forward to lock on, move backward to free the camera, ie, stop targeting. I've done this because I want most of the game play to rely mostly on the mouse.

So, I have utilised the whole mouse.

• Left click - shoot
• Right click - jump
• Move the mouse - move the camera
• Middle click (clicking the mouse wheel, usually) - Zooms in or out from Mr Ball. Zooming out lets you see more things around Mr Ball.
• Mouse wheel - targets highlighted enemy.

To know that you will be targeting the right enemy, just move close to it and a ring will appear below the enemy. Here's a picture, with a dummy boss (well, actually 2) to test the targeting system:


There he is, closing in onto the enemy, and the highlight ring appears. Notice, the enemy's life bar is also "highlighted". Don't ask why I named the bosses Diamond instead of erm... black hole. It's just for testing.So, I've moved my mouse wheel forward. The ring turns read, indicating that I'm locking onto it. Now, you can keep targeting it no matter how far away it is, until you disable the lock-on.

So far, I haven't modeled any bosses yet. Sigh... but at least, I can start making the first level soon. Right after I finish the overlay object (the object that displays the status of Mr Ball and the enemies on the screen). It's not really done yet.

Hmm... cutscenes. I'm thinking how I should do it. It's gonna be one heck of a challenge.

Sadly, there isn't any Sound effects yet.

Kitchen O Pank working! Well, sort of

My favourite game, Kitchen O Pank is erm... well working i guess. It's damn hard finding for the right plugin to play the game. Too bad though, after all that searching and configuring, it's damn glitchy. Once I finished the first level, the scoreboard refuses to load. Blah it!!!

Anyway, my progress in Mr Ball 2.
Okay, so here's a list of what I have done for Mr Ball:

• Movement and Jumping
• Gravity
• HP, MP (may be renamed later) and Power gauge system
• Modeled the water cannon for Mr Ball, but haven't program it yet
• More importantly, I've finished the camera, but it still lacks some features, like locking on to the enemy
  

And here's the task I'm supposed to finish by the end of today:

• Get the water gun ready
• Add the tendency to be pushed away by enemy attacks for Mr Ball
• Create the overlay object to draw the gauges onto the screen
• Create the damage display (the number that floats above the character after getting hit)

I'll probably create more textures for Mr Ball. Because I want Mr Ball to erm... show a different expression when getting hit rather than smiling all the time. Come on, isn't weird to smile when getting slashed by hundreds of spears?

I'm also currently planning a very stupid yet simple storyline for the game. So there's gonna be dialogues. I might voice the dialogues but that would mean adding more loading time to the game.

Oh, and the controls are very different now. It relies more on the mouse. Keyboard alone is not enough. You use the mouse to look around, something like a First person shooter, but this is third person. Anyway, they are just similar. Like FPS, Left click is to shoot. The [CTRL] on the keyboard works too. The right click makes Mr Ball jumps. Alternatively, you can use [Space] for that. The directional keys allows Mr Ball to move. It is no longer WASD keys like in the first installment.

Couldn't get GM7

I'm trying my best to get Game Maker 7 Pro, but I just can't pay USD 20 for that. So, I'm sticking back to Game Maker 6 to make Mr Ball 2. I know that it wouldn't really work on Vista, but apparently the creator of Game Maker (Mark Overmars) has made a nifty tool to make GM6 games compatible with Vista, so I'll rely on that.

You might ask, "Bee Lee, why don't you get a pirated version of the program? Like getting a crack/patch or something??". Well, I wanted to and erm... I did, but I'm just not confident that it would be safe. My computer already terkena virus and I'm still trying to track down that annoying virus. I don't want another virus to wreak havoc on the laptop.

I'm gonna start creating the game after this. Wish me good luck!

Mr Ball may be available for Vista

I just converted the Mr Ball executable so it's compatible with Vista. But I don't entirely guarantee i would work. So, if you wanna play it, you can request for it bu asking me through MSn or in school.

My first fishing trip!

I would like to thank my uncle for this! Anyway, my uncle brought my cousin and me to a fishing pond somewhere near Sungai Long to go, well, fish! This is my first time fishing, so there were a lot of erm... mistakes.

I got my very own fishing rod, courtesy of my uncle! My first few throws tangled up my fishing line. In the end, I wasted quite a lot of fishing line. Lol! It was humiliating. Then, I wanted to throw my bait further, so, I attached a counter weight at the end of the fishing line. I just tied a reef knot. I always expected reef knots to be tight. So, anyway, I threw the bait, and there were 2 splashes?? What the hell? It seems that the counter weight came off and it dropped into the pond. Sigh...

Later, when I tied another weight, I REALLY tied a dead knot, until I couldn't even take it out! Haha! And it works!

The fishing ended at 5pm. Too bad though, I didn't get any fish! It was embarrassing. All my uncle's friends, my uncle and my cousin (who is just Standard 4) got fish! And I'm the only one who didn't get any!! Not even a single fin! Only a leaf! Haha!

I guess I wasn't lucky. Or maybe my bait wasn't fresh enough. My bait was a small prawn. I really couldn't watch myself pierce the prawn onto the hook. It was a very heart breaking moment for me. Maybe I'm just having too much feelings for animals. The prawn's heart was still thumping when I skewered it. It was incredibly sad for a person like me. I almost broke down. I just couldn't bear the fact that I murdered some innocent prawns.

I got badly sunburned during the fishing trip. You can definitely see the tan line on my arm right now. I'm fearing my skin would peel later. It's gonna be unpleasant.

The next day, I went to watch High School Musical 3! Wheee! It was quite nice lah. To me, I prefer the 2nd one. The songs were okay. Hey. you can't blame me for being such a big HSM fan, right?

A "jogging" trip!

So, Hon-Son and I were having our usual jog around the neighbourhood. Like what we always did, we went friend's house hunting. First, we went to Jun Ray's house. We invited him to join us, and join us he did. Next, we walked all the way to Pei Jiun's house. Before that, we stopped by at Wai Phun's house (erm... I hope I have spelled the name correctly, :P). I yelled out his name, no response. Anyway, on to Pei Jiun's house. Hon-Son, Jun Ray and I were like wondering who would go to the front door and ask whether Pei Jiun is in. Everyone (except me) insisted that I go because I have the "guts". Yeah right!! Anyway, I did what I had to do.

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Took out my hand phone and dialed. You see, you see how I added suspense in my post?? Lol!! Okay, I know is lame. Anyway, back to the story.

I dialed Pei Jiun's cellphone. No answer. Called Shan Min to ask for Pei Jiun's house number. Then called Pei Jiun's house. Then a lady picked up. I asked "May I speak to Pei Jiun please?". It is followed by a very short silence. Then she spoke to me in Mandarin. Well, I understand a bit, only the part where she said "Pei Jiun bu zhai". So, then I said "thank you" and went off. We then thought of walking to Kai Leong's house.

Okay, it was further than we thought it would be. It was in SS2! Yeah, so I called Kai Leong to ask for his house address. We walked all the way there, then, we were greeted by his sister. It seems that Kai Leong hasn't finish bathing. Sigh... so we walked all the way back home. It's a 1/2 hour walk. But it's still a good exercise though.

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Just now I went can rings hunting with Audrey, William, Jia Tern, Jun Ray, David and Chia Sing. It was fun, unless you want to count in the horrible encounters with creepy crawlies!! Ewww! And it's all stinky. I don't even want to think how long th cans have been kept there. The Soya Bean grosses me out the most. I mean, it turned into Bean Curd (Tou fu)!!!!! OMG!! And it stinks! Whoa, luckily I have gloves!

I just only came back and now I seriously need to use the toilet!! It's gonna be a big one!

Kitchen O Pank (Kitchen Panic)! One of my favourite games!

It's not a well-known game, so it's no surprise if you don't know what game is that. Here's the opening movie of the game.



This is the PC version. I'm currently downloading the image file of the PS1 version. I heard there's an XBox version of it as well. The game's created by Panther Soft. It's a Japanese game, so everything is in Japanese characters. But you don't need to know Japanese just to play it. It's simple, fun and cute!

The basic idea of the game is to guide the potato guy to the end of the level, avoiding all the enemies like tin cans (the most common enemy) and a lot of other things that you can find in the kitchen. Yes, that's right, this game is set in the kitchen. This is one of my favourite game ever, eventhough it is so freaking old! Hey, simple games are the best!

My disc is badly cracked up and so I made a copy of it. (Sorry Panther Soft, but I got to do it so that I can "preserve" the game). You won't be able to find this game in the shop already, unless you are really lucky. I especially love the BGM.

Sigh... I hope the PSX ROM will work on my emulator! I love this game a lot! It's my favourite game since when I was still at kindergarten.

Anyway, another thing that I like the most is Phineas and Ferb!! Woohoo! It's a Disney cartoon about 2 brothers (stepbrothers to be precise) who want to do something for the summer holidays, so what they did was to invent unbelievable things. It's damn cool, and random. Well, it's not only that, there are sub-plots as well. Candace, Phineas' sister and Ferb's stepsister (I think) is always looking for ways to bust her brothers. Everytime she suspects her brothers building something BIG, she'll usually yell out MUM! But whenever her mum comes in, Phineas' and Ferb's inventions are never to be seen by their mother, well... maybe sometimes, disguised as something ordinary. Okay, something like that lah. It's just that their mother never catches them doing something "unusual" in Candace terms.

Anyway, another sub-plot is about Perry the Platypus, Phineas' pet platypus. Apart from being a mindless domestic pet, he is also working as a secret agent! His nemesis is Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz. His evil schemes are incredibly random and sometimes, kinda stupid. A lot of times, his schemes backfire.

Anyway, you've got to watch it to experience it. It's damn funny! I like it because of the randomness, especially in the music in each of the episode. Very creative!!

Goals for now and probably for the future

Man, I can't wait for Mr Ball 2! But I can't start yet until I finish planning properly. I need a better way to plan things now. My programming projects are getting more and more complicated.

I went to Taylor's College today to attend a talk on the fields you can pursue in that college and requirements for some future careers.

Many of my friends and family have asked me many times, "Bee Lee, what are your ambitions?". I don't know why I always feel very shy to say it out. I must learn to be proud of what I need to say. God! Bee Lee, you are so BLAH!!

Anyway, my REAL ambition as of now is to pursue the IT career. I'm more interested in Game development. If cannot then software engineer also can. Anything that involves software programming would do. To me, it's a very fun and satisfying thing, especially when you see your software comes to life.

Okay, before I end my post, here's one more Phantom of the Opera tidbit:

sung by Sarah Brightman and Antonio Banderas

Phantom of the Opera

Okay, I'm loving Phantom of the Opera again!!!! Well, the song at least. Oh, oh, here's a video:

Sarah Brightman singing Phantom of the Opera theme. Note, her singing is kinda different from Emmy Rossum's (the one who acted in the 2004 Phantom of the Opera, which we watched in school). I especially LOVE the organ!


And this is the one that we all know and love:


And this video is from the 80's:

Yes, that's Sarah Brightman. She's so freaking young! You can skip the first 30 seconds of this video. There's nothing much. Okay, to me, the Phantom's cape is a little too much. Lol!

Crying makes you look weak?

Most of us were told that crying shows that you're not tough. I agree with that. But, if you look the other side, crying has a lot of benefits. It cleans your eyes, moisten your eyes and most importantly, relieves stress. When you are stressed, the best thing you should do is to talk about it to your parents or whoever who wants to listen to your problem. Hugging is also a good way to relief stress. Studies have shown that people who live most of their lives with someone they love has a lower chance of getting heart attack from stress than people who live alone and isolated from the world! But that's another story.

Let's get back to the subject. These days, many tough parents are taking the freedom to cry out of their kids, especially the guys, just to teach them to be tough people. They should know that young kids are sensitive people. Sure it's good to toughen them up, but when doing so, parents should know their limits.

What I think about this is that crying may be one of the factors that lead to crimes and things like that. I mean, if you don't let some one cry to relief his stress every day, in the end, he'll be so pressured until finally, he couldn't take it any longer and let out all his anger by doing crimes and blah.

Some tough guys do cry once in a while too, just that you don't see them crying.

Learning to control crying is also vital. You don't wanna cry the whole day, now do you? If you feel too stressed out and you want to have a good cry, let it out, until you're okay already and stop. After that wash your face as your face can get a little sticky after that.

And one last thing. Don't cry for small things. It's ridiculous. If you want to avoid crying, learn to tolerate. Toleration is the key to avoid crying.

Just to let you know, this is just my opinion. Don't criticise me or anything just because you don't have the same opinion as me. I admit, I'm a crybaby myself, because of my sensitivity. It's okay to cry once in a while. But when you cry, make sure it's for the right reasons and cry at the right moment. A meaningless cry at a wrong time won't do you any good except humiliate yourself.

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Leaving that aside....

I can finally focus more of my time in finishing Mr Ball 2. I haven't started yet, but I'm gonna start soon. I've planned out my flow chart for Mr Ball 2 already:
So, there are two types of characters, Good and Bad ones. The good one is obviously Mr Ball. The bad ones, I'm not gonna list it out here. And, I'm not gonna add the level skipping thingie to the game because this time, you can save your game (hopefully). And it's going to have some sort of a storyline, so, skipping levels would ruin the "fun and joy" of the game (like it has fun and joy *rolls eyes*). I know, I know, it seems like I don't appreciate my game, but I really do. It's just that it's very lame. Who cares?? it's my hobby anyway.

Now, there are attacks. There are 2 parts to make an attack work. First, you need the animation. Before you run the animation (the runner), some settings must be set. This is the job for the animation starter. The starter then invokes the runner to begin animating. Now, as you can see, the Animation part of the Attack has an indirect relationship with the camera. Therefore, the animator can manipulate the camera, maybe to show different angles of the attack for dramatic effects. In my game, anything that involves animation and camera movement will be under Cutscenes.

The so-called "Damagers" are the essential part of an attack as they define the region where damage can be dealted. Without these babies, an attack won't really, erm... attack. There are good and bad damagers. Good ones deals damage to the good character and the bad ones, well, you know lah.

The Overlay object displays the HP, MP* (deprecated), Power gauge and all the other important things on the screen.

*The MP bar may not appear in the second installment because the only MP consuming skill is healing. Therefore, the MP bar will be replaced with a more "appropriate" bar.

The Camera is the eye of the observer. Without this, you won't be able to see the stage.

BGM, well... it's BGM!!

The Miscellaneous part consists of other things which help along in the game.

Lalala, went to Malacca!

My father signed up for the company trip to Malacca. So, he invited my sister and I to tag along, and that's what we did. We woke up at 6am to prepare ourselves. It was incredibly tiring. Places we visited:

1. Bukit Auyin
2. Bee Museum (yes, there were real bees there. You can even get close to them, well, under supervision of course)
3. Mahkota Parade (a shopping mall) fora buffet lunch, Yum yum!
4. A' Farmosa Fort.
   
5. Perigi Raja/Perigi Hang Li Po. One of the oldest well in Malaysia dug by Sultan Mansor Shah himself. It was contaminated with poison many times during the Portugese, Dutch and Acheh occupation.
6. Tan Kim Hock's warehouse-building thingie, to eat Durian Cendol. Quite nice, but in the end, got really sick of it.
7. Shopping in Jonker Street.
8. Ate dinner at a restaurant (I have no idea what's the name of the restaurant). Ate cendol AGAIN! I was so sick of cendol already, and I had said No many times, but everyone insisted that I eat it, so yeah, I ate it.

When I came back, it was already 11pm. I was so tired, after I had taken my bath, I immediately went to bed. Ahh!!

I'll upload the pictures of the trip as soon as possible. In the meantime:
You might be saying, "As if Math wasn't complicated enough!!". I'm sorry okay, I just love Math! David, you'll love what I've just done!

Anyway, I made x³ even more complicated by making a very long formula, that equals x³. I made 1 long formula for x² as well, but it wasn't long enough, so I didn't upload it. Instead, I shoved it into the formula above because it required x². The big sigma symbol (the one that lookes like an E) just basically means The Sum. As you can tell, it is a Greek symbol, like the Theta, used in Trigonometry. The Long Formula for x² is the one next to the Sigma in within the 2 humongous parentheses (brackets).

And, to make it even more complicated, I added "Differentiation" into the super long formula, just to make it longer. If you look carefully, some of the alphabets have the letter "d" in front of them. That's the symbol for differentiation. It is used to show the change in something. It's kinda cool. Go Wiki it up!

Anyway, I'm not trying to boast or brag about anything here. I'm not the smartest person in the whole world. And, I don't 100% guarantee that this formula will work as expected because I'm lazy to test it. I just took my time to derive that formula out from the harmless looking x³. I've got to say, this is one of my proudest work I've ever done.

Understand it or not, it doesn't matter as it isn't important, and you probably won't learn it in the years to come (phew!). So, that's it!

9,10 A big fat hen

The end of Geography marks the end of PMR for all Form 3s. The boss battle is finally over. Let's see what happened:

Bee Lee: Hahaha, there's no way you're gonna beat me with that kind of health.
PMR: Ugh! .....*giggle giggle*
Bee Lee: Errr...
PMR: You think you can win me? ...Invigilators, I summon thee! Bring destruction to all who'd be my enemies, for all eternity!

3 Invigilators and 1 Zombie Invigilator appeared.
PMR is invulnerable

Bee Lee: Damn you!! That's not fair!
PMR: Hello, villain!!?? *points towards self* I don't need to be fair.
Bee Lee: Fine whatever. I shall use this, Spy Lens!
Bee Lee uses Spy Lens

Invigilator:

HP: 4500
Att: 100
Def: 50
Strengths: Fire, Water, Skillful in Catching Cheaters
Weakness: Dark

Zombie Invigilator:

HP: 6000
Att: 300
Def: 100
Strengths: Fire, Water, Skillful in Catching Cheaters
Weakness: Light

Bee Lee:O...kay.... Nevermind. Erm... Ah, I know
Bee Lee unleashes a hi-ougi
Bee Lee:Holy Bible of Knowledge* (please see below)
Zombie: AHHHH!!! NOOOOOO! *poof* -99999HP SUPER CRITICAL HIT!
Invigilators: -210HP
Invigilator 1: X-Ray eye!
Bee Lee: -415HP
Invigilator 2: You-Cheater attack
Bee Lee: Since when did I cheat in PMR? -523HP
Invigilator 3: Don't-Run-In-The-Hall attack!
Bee Lee: -153HP
Bee Lee: What kind of attack is that?
Invigilator 3: Sorry, but my other 2 pals just taken all the good bits!
PMR: Die, Bee Lee! Panic Bomb!!
*BOOOOM!!*
Missed
Bee Lee: Hah! You missed me! Time to wipe out all your minions! Dark Force!
Invigilators: NOOOOOOO!! -99999HP SUPER CRITICAL HIT!
PMR is vulnerable.
PMR: Oh you $#&*%! You will never stop me. NEVER!
PMR unleashes a hi-ougi.
PMR: Eraser of Extermination!!!
Bee Lee: ARRRRRRRGGHHH!!!! My answers!!
Bee Lee's answer sheet has been wiped out. Bee Lee reshades all the answers
PMR: Hmm... look at the time, you've got only 30 seconds left.
Bee Lee: Are you mad? There's still half-an-hour left. *shade shade shade*
PMR: Well, it won't be after I cast a spell. I call upon the heavens and the earth, give me the power of time and space manipulation!
*special effects, yada yada*
PMR: Ahh!! I feel a very strong power within me!! Hahaha! I'm so powerful!
Bee Lee: *shade shade*
PMR: Hey, did you even listen to me? Sheesh, sometimes these things just annoy me. Anyway, Forward The Time!!!
Bee Lee has 30 seconds left
Bee Lee: Oh no!! Eh, wait, I have an Hourglass!
Bee Lee uses Hourglass. The time stopped
Bee Lee: *shade shade shade*
Hourglass wears out
PMR: What? You've finished??
Bee Lee: Hmph. Pass Up!
Bee Lee passed up his answer sheet.
PMR: NOOOOOOOOO!!!
Bee Lee: Sigh... that line's kinda getting old already, no?
PMR: NOOOOOO!!!!
Bee Lee: Okay, I'm getting seriously annoyed with that line. Who's the one typing this? Just end PMR's life already lah!
Writer: Bee Lee, it's for "dramatic" effect.
Bee Lee: *stares at the writer with that "look"*
Writer: Alright, fine fine. PMR, go die lah you.
PMR poofed.
Writer: Happy?

The end.


*Please note that the Holy Bible of Knowledge does not refer to any bible that are used for religious purposes. So don't criticise me about insulting any religion or anything okay. In this "battle", that Holy Bible of Knowledge refers to Text Books.

7,8 Lay them straight

Wow, KH was totally easy. I'm so happy there weren't many questions about sewing. Tomorrow's the last day! I can't wait for it to end!!

Let's resume the battle between Bee Lee and PMR:

Bee Lee: Heal!! +4167HP
PMR: LED Beam!!
Bee Lee: Uweeek! My eyes!! -781HP
Bee Lee is blinded
Bee Lee: Blah you!! 2B Pencils of Death!
Missed!
PMR: Hahaha! You're gonna fail! O mighty Transistor, unleash my fury!!
PMR unleashes a hi-ougi
Bee Lee: Eekk! -2134HP
Bee Lee: I could sure use some of these, Remedy Bottle!
Bee Lee has recovered from blindness.
PMR: Power up! Att +12
Bee Lee: How about this, KH Text Book attack!
PMR: OUCHHH!! -913HP

To be continued...

5,6 Pick up the sticks

Maths and History was somewhat easy today. A lot of what I feared did not turn up in the History test. I'm so relieved the History test is, erm... history!!

So, let's continue the epic battle between Bee Lee and PMR. Bee Lee seems to be getting a lot of pummeling today:

PMR: Hmm... very good, but not good enough. Trigonometric Beam!
Bee Lee: Eeek!! -4267 HP CRITICAL HIT!
Bee Lee's unconscious.
--Reverse Doll*(see below for details) was equipped--
Bee Lee regained consciousness.
PMR: Blah. You will perish! AURORA BEAM*!
Bee Lee: Zzzz... -912 HP Sleep!
PMR: Hahaha! Think you're so smart now huh? You'll soon be history! Muahahaha!
PMR unleashes a hi-ougi
PMR: TIME STOP*!
PMR: Now, prepare to meet your demise, History Paper!
Time Stop effects wore off. Bee Lee regained consciousness.
Bee Lee: Not so fast!
Bee Lee unleashes a hi-ougi.
Bee Lee: Super Choose-an-answer Laser Beam!
Super Choose-an-answer Laser Beam chose all 60 answers and burned the History Paper.
PMR: Ugh!! -1342 HP
Bee Lee: Too bad, eh? Protractor Slicer!!
PMR: Arrrrggghhh!! -2024 HP

Too be continued...

*Reverse Doll is an item (accessory) that can be equipped onto a character in the Tales of Phantasia RPG. It allows the person who have just died to be revived immediately. Most of the time, after it has taken effect, it'll disintegrate.

*Aurora Beam is an enemy attack in Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars. It can cause the victim to fall asleep, unless he/she has the charm for that ailment.

*Time stop is a hi-ougi from the Tales of the Abyss, and probably many other Tales of games as well. It, like what the name says, stops the time temporarily during the battle, allowing the user and his party to move around and slash enemies up without worrying about risk of getting counter-attacked.

3,4 Shut the door

And the second day of PMR is over!! Yay! I've got to say, Science Paper 2 was hard! I tembak most of the questions, mostly because I don't know how to write the answers.

Bee Lee: 1000 pencils of death!!
PMR: OMG!! -2138 HP
PMR unleashes its hi-Ougi, Science Paper!!
Bee Lee: Ouch!! -1320 HP
Bee Lee is confused!
Bee Lee attacks!!
PMR: Blekk! -1984 HP

To be continued...

1,2 Buckle my shoes

The end of paper 2 marked the end of the Bahasamalaysiaophobia. Here's the interview between me, the Director of the Billy's Rail Transit System, and Bee Lee himself:

Me: So, what did you think of the BM Test?
Bee Lee: Erm...
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Bee Lee: Screw you Paper 1!!!
Me: O-kay... very interesting. Hmm... by Paper 1, did you mean this paper? *shows paper 1*
Bee Lee: Do you want me to tear that paper up? Or rather, I'll dump it into the furnace and scatter all the ashes!! Muahahahaha!!

I know, the conversation's a little lame. But, at least you know how much I hated Paper 1. Paper 2 was okay. Easier than I have expected. I hope I'll get an A.

Bee Lee: Take that, you stressful BM Paper!!
BM: Ouch!! -1200HP
->BM Fainted
Bee Lee gets 1000Exp!!
Bee Lee leveled up!!

Sorry, I just couldn't resist!!

And to conclude today's post, my favourite piece from Animusic!!

Alkali Metals are so cool

Alkali Metals? What's that?

Alkali metals are elements that are highly reactive and can react very vigorously with water to form metal hydroxide. That's why I love them so much. Alkali metals are, in order of least reactive to extremely reactive, Lithium, Sodium, Potassium, Rubidium, Cesium and Francium. Francium is the most reactive element. Too bad though, it's incredibly rare. It is the second rarest naturally occurring element. But, it's good that it's very rare. If it were to be very abundant, imagine how many people would die from home made alkali metal bomb!!

Anyway, here's a Youtube Video showing reations of Li, Na, K, Rb and Cs with water.


it's very cool, watch it!!!

Dang, I wanna go to science lab and mix chemicals after PMR!! But I don't think my Science teacher will allow.

In Form 1, I secretly mixed some chemicals in the Science lab when the teacher's not watching. Lol! And then suddenly, 2 liquids turned solid!! I was like WTF!! Well, it seems that I have mixed Sodium Hydroxide (NaOH) with Copper Sulphate (CuSO₄).

CuSO₄(aq) + 2NaOH(aq) --> Cu(OH)₂(s) + Na₂SO₄(aq)

Hmm... does that mean that I got Copper Hydroxide and Sodium Sulphate?

Anyway, in form 2, I mixed very concentrated Sulphuric acid with iodine, for no apparent reasons. Luckily I didn't touch the acid or else I'll end up with burn marks on my fingers. I was quite afraid of the acid. What I got in the end was a very hot solution. So, I guess it was an exothermic reaction, since it releases energy in the form of heat.

Well, that's all I have ever mixed. Sigh... I wanna go to the Chemistry Lab!!

Now, Here are some sites which may help in BM!

For Paper 2:

Description of some literature terminologies

Sypnosis and summary of Panas Salju (with Teknik Plot as well)

Summary of Meniti Kaca with Teknik Plot (You've got to look for Teknik Penceritaan)

A brief overview of all the 3 novels we've learnt

A rangka jawapan on how to write about teknik plot. Note that the rangka jawapan is about Bukit Kepong.

Here's a very good blog about writing essays. Contains a lot of examples and info and some soalan ramalan

Try not to depend too much on soalan ramalan. They are just predictions and predictions don't always come true.

For paper 1:

A Malay Wikipedia article about Kata Kerja

Some examples of how to use the imbuhans

Just finished arranging the torture chamber

Today, nothing much happened in school. Okay, so maybe something happened in school today. First, everyone was called out of the class and assembled at the badminton court. Then there was a 30 minutes of blabberings. The BK021s were sent off to the examination hall, which is of course, the school hall. After that, there were more blabberings until recess. After recess, everyone went back to the hall and, well... you should know what happens next. People started roaming around the place and started talking as usual.

Okay, I'm really getting quite nervous. especially for Malay and History. I know I have said that I;m quite confident for History. But after looking at Shamand's Model Test of History, I'm beginning to panic. Ahhhh!!!

Build in Time is so fun!

Unfortunately, I couldn't record the game for you. You've just got to look for it to see how fun it is! While recording, my computer crashed and burned. Gahh! Stupid Blue screen of death!

Anyway, I watched The Elegant Universe in Discovery Science last night, and it was cool! I didn't know quantum mechanics was so interesting, even though is quite hard to understand. At first, Einstein's theory of relativity equations seem to explain everything in the universe. But once Quantum physics was introduced, the theories totally contradicts Einstein's theory of relativity because his theory couldn't really explain how subatomic particles work because they are so freaking small. Well, at least, that's what I understand from the program in TV. I have no basic idea on how all those theories work.

The equations of quantum mechanics are supposed to explain everything about the universe. Same goes for Einstein's general theory of relativity. But, there should be only one way which can describe everything in the universe. Introducing, the string theory. It basically says that all particles in the universe consist of little vibrating strings. Their vibration patterns are unique and describes what kind of particle it is, like how a vibrating violin string describes a musical note. However, this theory is still quite controversial. And if strings like those explained really exist, it'll be impossible to test it, since they'll be super tiny. Come on, we can't even see sub atomic particles yet. Theoretical physicists are now trying to find out the grand unified field theory to really clump up all those theories to totally describe the universe and, probably, beyond.

Obviously, I'm not a professor or anything. And this is just what I understand from the TV program. So what I said may have many errors.




Right, let's skip those things and talk about what happened in school. Okay fine, nothing much happened in school. There weren't any lesson, just a whole day of free periods!! Hahahaha!

And and, I just got back my new monitor, or rather, my old monitor. My other monitor died. I guess the CRT got some problem displaying images. So, all the things on screen gets clumped up at the bottom of the monitor screen. Kinda scared me at first. When it first started happening, I immediately pressed the Power button and turned off the socket, fearing that it'll smoke up. Lol!

OMG!! PMR!!

PMR is coming closer and closer every second. This is it! Another boss battle in this game of life. Too bad though, it's not like any other games where you could restart over after you game over.

As far as I know, the world stock market is going down. I'm not very sure how does the stock market works, but to me, this doesn't sound like a good news. Is this a warning sign of an imminent Zaman Kemelesetan Ekonomi Dunia No. 2? The first zaman kemelesetan ekonomi (the Great Depression) already caused quite a lot of problems, according to my History Book.

The Great Depression started on October 24, 1929, the day Wall Street crashed. I better not blab too much about these things as I have no idea how stock markets work.

Anyway, I'm getting another stupid ulcer, just right after my previous ulcer recovered. Argh!! I'm really annoyed! Why am I having so many ulcers lately? Maybe it's due to stress? From some sources, stress may be one of the factors that cause aphtous stomatitis. That's just a fancy name for mouth ulcer.

Hmm... before I start studying for today, time to go play Build In Time. It's a clicking game, where you must build homes for your customers. Your customers will ask for a specific house, wall painting, garages and other add-ons and you've got to build for them. The longer they wait, the less they will pay. It's very fun.

Dang, cooking game is harder than I thought

I didn't expect making a cooking game would be so hard. So far, the dish that you could "cook" is a cup of beer. Not very interesting, right? My graphics are satisfactory lah. God, the user interface took me about 8 hours to code, and it's not even finished yet. The thing that's stopping me now is drawing for other food. It's not that easy for an amateur artist like me. What should I do with it now? Throw th whole project away? Man, I feel so sad. I didn't really consider the sheer amount of graphics in this game. All of the sprites are mostly food. Sigh...

Anyway, I'm going to sleep over in my cousin's house tomorrow. Yay!! Counter-strike!! But I must not forget to rest my eyes. And of course, must STUDY!! I'm almost finishing Sejarah Form 2. Now, I'm so lazy to study Cahpter 7 and 8. They are so long-winded and boring. Gahh!!! I'm planning to study later. I spent my whole morning studying Chapter 5 and 6 of Form 2.

It's not easy studying with a headache. I got a slight poisoning from aerosol spray, I think. Yesterday, my father sprayed too much of the aerosol. I could still smell the aerosol in the middle of the night. So, that means, I've been exposed to it for about 7 hours. At about 5.30 am or so, I got very worried about my health. Any insecticide that could kill insect could probably kill humans as well. So, I went out of my room to get some fresh air. Ahh... fresh air!! How I loved it! For the next few days, I should be breathing in more oxygen. The body functions will naturally balance out the chemicals in the body and hopefully dispose all of the insecticide from my blood stream.

From 5.30 to 6.00 am, I got up and walked around my house searching for fresh oxygen. I couldn't sleep because of the fear of getting poisoned seriously by the aerosol spray. Then, an idea came to my mind. My cousin brother went back home, so there's one vacant bedroom in my house. Without any hesitation, I rushed to get my pillow and my blanket, went to that room, turned on the fan and dozed off. Well, not quite. Took me about 20 minutes before I can finally get some rest.

So, insecticide sprays not only destroy the ozone layer (because the propellant used in the sprays have the ozone-destroying stuff), it can destroy you as well. I hope nothing serious happens to me.