The Present and the Past

Sou dane bokura atarashii jidai o mukaeta mitai de
kiseki teki kamo ne
nido to ha chotto ajiwaenai yo ne
mou ichido omoidashite

kono hoshi ni umare tsuita hi
kitto nanda ka ureshikute
kitto nanda ka setsunakute
bokura ha naiteitanda

genjitsu ha uragiru mono de handan sae ayamaru kara ne
soko ni aru kachi ha sono me dechanto migimeteite yo
jibun no mono sashi de

konna toki ni umare tsuita yo
dakedo nanto ka sundette
dakara nanto ka koko ni tatte
bokura ha kyou o okutteru

konna hoshi ni umare tsuita yo
nanda ka totemo ureshikute
nanda ka totemo setsunakute
ooki na koe de naki nagara

konna toki ni umare tsuita yo
dakedo kimi ni deaeta yo

konna hoshi ni umare tsuita yo
dakedo kimi ni deaeta yo

kono hoshi ni umare tsuita hi
kitto nanda ka ureshikute
kitto nanda ka setsunakute
bokura ha naiteitanda

konna toki ni umare tsuita yo
dakedo nanto ka sundette
dakara nanto ka koko ni tatte
bokura ha kyou o okutteru

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Tim 6:34 PM

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Mmmmm.. Life is good especially when you'd jumped over the biggest hurdle in the near forseeable future. In this case, of course, my driving. LAWL.

Well, it wasn't too bad. Took ages to complete though, I started lessons mid of Dec (law), and ended yesterday. That was just too much. All in all I had like what, 12 lessons I believe. 8 weeks is like 3/4 of a semester lol. Ah well. Did pretty alright, but I'll run ya all through the entire process, since I can't figure out what else to say anyways =P

My test time was supposed to be at 2pm. The clerk at the academy asked me to arrive at 1.30pm. So I hitched a ride on my dad's friend's car and arrived there on time. 1.20pm. The sun was blazing hot. And I was all alone there. Everyone was talking to the person beside them and I was basically staring at everything that was interesting (and that includes the bee flying about and the old guy painting the wall). JPJ finally arrived at 2.30pm and the registration process began which took another 20 mins. Done.

Then the test began. The academy has 4 cars for the internal test (hill and parking) so 4 driver-wannabes are tested simultaneously. I was the first driver in the 3rd car. Shyt. So I hopped in, turned on the engine and off I went. The hill part was done really smoothly. A complication though, you know how we look for indicators and shit to find out when to slam the brakes but there was a car beside me that totally blocked the indicator. So yeah I had to estimate -.-" After that everything was a breeze and I was vaguely aware of my left foot shaking on the clutch.

Finished part 1 of my car test, went off to go for my motorbike test, did pretty alright on the raised platform test, my time was 0.08.88 secs. Hehe. The problem I had was that I was way to excited though, and I forgot to turn on the bike before kicking the starter xD I was panicking cause it won't start until a woman in front of me spoke in Mandarin, (so that the tester can't understand I think) "Is it on?". Lol.

Finished part 1 and part 2 of my bikey test, I went into a car to drive out. Only memorable case was that the traffic lights weren't working, so the JPJ guy beside me suddenly said "Go" when the coast was clear and I went. I remember thinking that I can't fail the traffic light part anyway since they were not working. Drove at about 65 km/hr. Felt pretty good, arrived back at the academy, was told that I passed and went for the final part of my bikey test, which I passed as well =)

One weird incident though this morning, a woman failed her test spectacularly. Well, her car just won't budge and the JPJ guy beside her was looking really impatient. She couldn't even enter the first gear lol. Finally he came out, and asked impatiently, "Dia tidak pandai memandu pun. Siapa cikgu dia ha?" Lawl. Turned out that, she couldn't floor the clutch but interestingly she didn't attempt to adjust her chair. o.O

A happy belated birthday to YikShien who turned 19 recently. I'll catch up in a few months =P

*Hugs everyone who reads this post*

Tim 1:00 PM

Thursday, February 14, 2008

Happy CNY! For those who are thinking, hey, isn't that kind of late, well, CNY lasts for 15 days anyways...

Was a quiet one for me though, basically stayed at home the whole time and played Utopia and Final Fantasy VIII the whole time. And in Utopia one of my kd-mates just got provo-killed after these guys multi-ed and made new accounts to make OOW hits on him. Bleh but we're winning anyway. Definitely the longest war I've been in, it's been dragging for like 10 days and will not end till they are rolling on the floor in pain =P

Here are some Final Fantasy VIII boss tips for you guys out there, note that the guides aren't that useful, I followed them but got pawned badly.

Diablos
This GF is no pushover. His gravija damages approx 3/4 of your health no matter how high it is. Now that's painful. So basically the idea is to hack at him using GF's and limit breaks. Draw cast Demi early in the battle to damage him badly, but bear in mind that Demi gets weaker when you've used it multiple times. Use limit breaks when possible. I found Selphie's limit break to be the best of all, the Full Cure heals everyone in your party that is not kayoed to full health. Btw Renzokuken does hurt if you use it properly =P which I can't.

Cerberus
This GF beat me 6 times. 6 freaking times lol. How to beat this boss? Carbuncle GF is quite useless, Cerberus can cast Triple and triple Dispel your party. And it doesn't block quake and tornado. So how do you beat it? Junction aero or tornado to you element defense. Enter battle and start by casting Float on all your party, which protects you from his Quake. Diablos is by far the most powerful GF I've used on this guy, Diablos can deal 2000+ damage in one hit. Summon Diablos and Shiva over and over again. I used Rinoa to cast self spells whereas the other two summon GFs and used physical attacks. Oh and cast Dispel to remove his Triple magic. At the end of the battle however, all my 3 characters were affected by berserk and they just randomly hit Cerberus over and over again till he was killed =S

And I've got the shooting star for Rinoa!!!!! <3 Okay, enough of games, now for the third day in Miri before it becomes stale news. It was a Sunday, so we went to St Joseph Cathedral for Sunday mass. Rofl and I realised that I've been there before like a few years back. Then both ZQ and I went back to the hotel, had brekky again and left for the City Fan. Guess how far we walked? A freaking hour. Without stopping. The City Fan is supposed to be a main attraction area, but somehow I was disappointed to see the things on display. Taman Awam Miri was better (see post below).

A scene in the Fan

Apparently this pic looks like a scene in Japan where you get flowers on the ground and emo people looking around.

Some random pose

After walking around in the Fan we went to the Stadium Tertutup Miri. Sure brings back memories of the band competition though. Though we got our arse kicked that time but still, it was fun =)

After that we went to Bintang Plaza (again?) and Boulevard (again?) before going back to Bintulu. My rating? 9/10! Yeah, not many activities but I got to go to Miri with Zhi Qin, got to meet up with Roni and got to see these places that I've been to last time. *edited*

Mmmm... next up, CNY updates, though it will be quite short as I practically did nothing =)

Tim 2:16 PM

Tuesday, February 5, 2008

Damn life had been really busy lately. With DotA, FF8, Utopia and cleaning the house, I have no time to run around and update this blog =P

Well yeah as promised, the 2nd day of my trip in Miri.

Woke up pretty early in the morning, and went for brekky in the restaurant in the hotel, thanks to 2 complimentary breakfast coupons from the hotel staff. And yeah food wasn't that great, but hey, it was free (yeah I know it's included in the rate lol but the room rate was pretty cheap too). Ate fried noodles for brekky. Then, we set off to Imperial Mall.

On the way we stopped by Million Inn where we lived during our band competition in Miri in Form 5. Here it is:

And after shopping a bit where I bought a pair of Converse which Zhi Qin deemed as "Gothic", Roni picked me up for lunch. And yeah basically she drove me to some place which I can't remember (lol that was quite sometime ago) where I had some Japanese pork slices. Apparently the milk shake there sucked, judging from her reactions after drinking it. Lady luck wasn't on our side, however, after lunch it was raining.

So yeah after thinking a bit Roni decided to bring me to Curtin. Pretty far though, from her place to Curtin University took about 25 mins I think. Curtin's a small but pretty campus. Has lotsa interesting stuff, even a mini island which people claim to look like Australia from above.

Then we walked around and checked the campus out. And I stopped by to take photos at the entrance.

After that, we went around to Taman Awam Miri. The place was pretty nice as well. Here's a pic:

We decided to clean our muddy feet in the pool but decided against it after seeing some adults there. They would have murdered us in the pool for making the pool muddy for their kids. >.< After walking about this Taman for like probably half an hour, we head to the city again. Roni brought me to St. Joseph Miri school where she studied secondary school. Didn't get any pics though, and the security guard didn't look friendly so I did not get to go inside the school. Then, the destination was Bintang Plaza where we headed straight to Giant's to buy water. Parking there was awful though, the whole basement parking was flooded and we circled the area for about maybe 20 mins before finding one. Then we just roamed around and chatted till it was time for me to go back. So yeah I was brought back to the hotel after that. Here's a pic of us in the car, the best out of 4 attempts since I'm a noob at camwhoring =P

ZQ did not join us though, he had to buy some CNY clothes etc so that's why I did not mention him. Owh and I had no pic of him since he refused to take any during the ENTIRE trip. Lol. I'll post 3rd day sometime later, this post is freaking long already. Cheers and a happy CNY to you all.

PS: Thanks for a wonderful time Roni! (if you're reading this which I seriously doubt =P)

Tim 10:40 PM

Saturday, February 2, 2008

Damn! Checked my mail a minute before and found really sh1t news.

"You are hopefully by now aware that Week Zero is being introduced as the official first week of Semester 1 and Semester 2 at the Kensington and COFA campuses. It is the week before the commencement of the main 12-week teaching periods. All students should ensure that they are
available to attend in Week Zero."

Wtf? I booked my ticket on the 6th of March! The university mentioned about the start of the sem being the 10th and so yeah Tim the smart-ass decided to go a few days earlier and prolly effed his timetable. >.<

Well have been playing Final Fantasy VIII lately. It's really hard to pick up, especially junctioning and magic and etc. Even the card game takes a while to get a hold of. And every boss except Granaldo and the fake president has beaten me at least once. Diablos even whipped my ass three times! >.<

Veronica aka Roni happened to read my msn personal msg and replied with this:

veronica says:
how can u lose to diablos!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

veronica says:
just use shiva niah.

veronica says:
=P

<[<ραφαελ>]> **Ticket rulez** [Final Fantasy VIII] says:
shiva only 500 damage

<[<ραφαελ>]> **Ticket rulez** [Final Fantasy VIII] says:
>.<

<[<ραφαελ>]> **Ticket rulez** [Final Fantasy VIII] says:
his health is a freking 8000

veronica says:
use shiva niah

veronica says:
and magic lah

veronica says:
it's like

veronica says:
very easy leeeehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

<[<ραφαελ>]> **Ticket rulez** [Final Fantasy VIII] says:
eh he gravi-whatever once shiva nearly dead aldy =P

<[<ραφαελ>]> **Ticket rulez** [Final Fantasy VIII] says:
owh i think it's gravija

veronica says:
shiva can die one mer

<[<ραφαελ>]> **Ticket rulez** [Final Fantasy VIII] says:
can lar if his/her hp go too low

<[<ραφαελ>]> **Ticket rulez** [Final Fantasy VIII] says:
eh i seiorulsy am stumped

<[<ραφαελ>]> **Ticket rulez** [Final Fantasy VIII] says:
spent the last 30 mins trying to beat him lol

veronica says:
i serioulsy never had any problems there o.o

Rofl!!!

Next post will be on my 2nd day in Miri. Was originally planning to write on it today but yeah, whatver. Ta!

*The above conversation wasn't used with Roni's approval, but I think she'll be okay with it =)*

Tim 1:51 PM

Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Miri - 1st day

A trilogy spanning 3 days will be unfolded now. 1st part is, of course, the boring-est of the lot. Well I went to Miri with my friend, Zhi Qin and the plan was quite of a sudden as well. We're supposed to go with Lee Keong and Lynda as well but somehow the girls were busy and so the plan was called off. Then I, being bored to the extreme told ZQ that I felt like going, over dinner after thrashing "easy computer AI" on Rise of the Nations and lol, we went.

Bus ride at 12.00pm, we arrived in Miri at about 3.30pm. That was Friday, the 25/1. Felt really bad after that ride, was bus-sick and having headaches and sort. Was really happy to see the bus station at the end. And lol, that was the first time I noticed that Boulevard was really close to the bus station -_-

ZQ's aunt and uncle picked us up and brought us to the hotel, Park Hotel. Placed our stuff, and they then took us for tea. After that it was resting time @ the hotel. Took a few pics of our nice room which costed each of us only RM72.45 for 2 nights and we got 2 single beds for that price!

And about 6pm ZQ's relatives took us out again for dinner before bringing us to Boulevard. There I bought my Final Fantasy 8 game. The place didn't changed much (lol) but honestly it felt a lot smaller. After that the destination was Bintang Plaza where we wandered around aimlessly without buying anything except a bottle of water each.

It reads Hong Kong Duck Eating House, I was too lazy to go back a few steps. Our dinner venue where we had hotpot tofu, pork with chilli and bittergourd.

One weird incident though, at night both ZQ and I decided to go out, and in the dark alley some guy suddenly stood up and walked towards us, talking nonsense. I freaked out and started walking (in a running sort of manner) back to the hotel. Rofl. ZQ was freaked out too. But the guy seriously looked like he was about to rob us. Wtf. Anyhow, we went back, and instead spent the night watching a horror movie titled "Dead Birds" which I had no clue on what was going on apart from people screaming and dying.

After that, it's goodnight! Owh and I showered before sleeping =)

Tim 5:21 PM

Monday, January 28, 2008

A long debate with myself on whether I should post on Miri or Niah first but yeah finally decided on Niah since it was earlier.

T'was quite random as well, was having dinner on Tuesday night when Mariah called me up and asked me if I would like to go Niah Caves. After arrangements were made to accommodate my driving lesson (in which I'll be having a pre-test 2moro), we agreed on a time. Badriah joined our venture as well.

Took the coastal road to the caves which made the trip really short. 1.5 hours and we were there. Not to mention that we keep wondering if we were lost as we couldn't find the signboard to direct us to Niah Caves. Sarah jokingly said that we could end up visiting Miri if we couldn't find Niah. =P

IMO Niah is quite interesting. Not as gr8 as Jenolan Caves in Sydney but hey, you're paying RM 5 per entry as opposed to A$50 per entry. Well first we reached the park's HQ where yeah the fee goes. Btw my trip there was free as Mariah paid for everything =) Thanks!

The HQ

Then we crossed a river to the cave area. Lol, and that was when I found out that the reason for the dirty looking rivers wasn't like mud or anything but apparently because of tree roots. And no, I don't know what the reason is.

The non-muddy muddy-looking river

And after that, another 1 hour hike to reach the caves, first of all called the Great Cave. Yeah I've got pics of different caves but I've no idea which is which so I'll just post one up.

The Great Cave?

Then from there it's another like 1 hour walk to reach the Painting Cave. Now the Painting Cave supposedly contains ancient paintings etc, but when we reached there I just felt disappointment. Here's why...

The painting cave. Note the fence placed about 4 metres away from the wall, thus visitors can see very little of the already dismal paintings.

After the Painting Cave it was time to turn back and walk all the way to the river. Reached the river tired like hell as I had been walking for 5 hours. Then, we got lost on our way back, ended up on the old road instead of the coastal road and arrived back safely.

A stunning view from the caves. Sarawak's nature beauty is comparable to that of Australia's. Too bad I'm not one for nature =P

That's all folks, next up, Miri!

Tim 4:26 PM

Timothy Rafael Ting

18 years old

UNSW, Sydney

Utopia and pool

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