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Proud to be a child of God, a faithful son (I hope lol) a trying to be hardworking student, a part-time worker, a nerf/milsim enthusiast, a crafting and music lover and an awesome friend. to you :) Hope you have an enjoyable time reading about my life, as much as I have fun living it! |
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I am a university student who loves chocolate! Coffee is my best buddy when it comes to taking on my finals. I have a tendency to want to try and do so many different things at once and as a result, I've found my hobbies to be as such!
Nerfing is one of them, but aside from that, I also love arts and craft. I have my own startup, Thumbforlego at: where I sell my works! 
I love to do all sorts of crafting, so you will see me uploading posts of my leathercrafts, thumbdrives, replica guns, nerf gun modifications and gundam models! I'm fortunate enough to be blessed by really supportive parents and given the chance to explore many, many parts of the world and try out a plethora of activities. This is also how I discovered my love for film photography, videography and piano. 
The film photo above is unedited! My family loves cold countries xD. We managed to catch the northern lights twice! 
I've also gotten the chance to experience many of nature's wonders 
And my most freezing experience to date: riding a husky ski sled into the sunset (It was -38 to -40 degrees celsius and the huskies were pretty fast.) 
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Why 36000feetabove? This is the altitude that commercial planes cruise at and I have always loved the view up in the sky, being amongst the sea of clouds. :) Personally, my favourite favourite food has got to be airplane buns! Does anyone else feel the same way?! With a slice of butter and looking out of the window, I have yet to find an experience that can beat that. 
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Monday, September 21, 2015
So....we were supposed to do an essay that....is descriptive and reflective....or either or. I have no idea whether this works~ but hopefully this does??? If not my assignment will be so screwed xD still editing it though, here goes!
Never do I ever want to get out of this place, I thought, as I take a quick glance through the misty wooden-framed windows. Outside lies a sea of white, sprinkled with trees popping up through the knee deep snow. A quick peek through the frosted windows show the sun’s rays soaking through the horizon, painting the sky ombré from orange in the center to dark blue all around. Somehow, it kindles a certain sense of nostalgia within me, that warm fuzzy feeling that arises from the inside — so different from the emptying coldness that the freezing winds lashed at me when I was outside. My skin began to tingle from the fireplace heat and sensation finally began to come back to my hands as I cupped them against the piping hot coffee mug. I figured two minutes have passed ever since I laid my hands on that life-saving hot cup of coffee. For the first time in my life, it wasn’t the caffeine that I wanted, but the heat. I found it so puzzling that when I first laid my frozen-numbed hands on that mug, I couldn’t feel a thing, despite me having low tolerance for the slightest of steamy hot foods. The warm fireplace began to warm my ears as it dimly lit the cosy wooden cabin. It was furnished with light-brown wooden shelves, and a set of table and two benches carved out of trees, just enough for a family of six. The stove and oven were packed together tightly, leaving just ample space for us to walk around. They were stained-white, decorated with yellowish-burn marks around the edges and blackened stoves, telling the story of continued usage over the years. Everyone sought refuge around the fireplace as it felt like the heart of the house, continually warming its surroundings, keeping the house alive.
Minutes earlier, the local tour guide asked probably the most difficult question I have tackled in the whole of December. “Do you want to take the bus back or do you want to continue riding back? We are taking the same route, so it is about half an hour’s ride back.” As the big-sized lady bellowed like a man. I felt a faint degree of uncertainty in her speech while I reasoned to myself that they foresaw many of us giving up at the turnaround point. I still couldn’t take her seriously as to how she could possibly withstand snowmobiling in this harsh minus 35 degrees celsius weather in just her thinly clothed attire and a jumper while the rest of us look like overly stuffed soft toys. As much as I love riding the snowmobile through the challenging and scenic route, the recollection of the grueling moments of riding to the cabin was enough to change my mind. Surely I rode the snowmobile many times before in such harsh conditions but never so extreme. I recalled that as we sped through the snow and crackling over frozen rivers, the cold wind gnawed away on my hands and my visor was fogging up from the mist from my mask. I was constantly tilting and learning to keep balance with my brother behind, riding pillion and the bumpy track in front. In my mind, I likened the fogging up of my visor to that of a choo choo train, and I laughed to myself. As I veered my train of thought back on track to the looming question. I weighed the pros and cons of enjoying and torturing myself once more in the biting cold weather and the bragging rights to feed my ego with. Then, I was reminded how my brother was being all sulky as he couldn’t drive the snowmobile without a driver’s license.
“Bro doesn't even have a choice but yet I do” as I self-reasoned, coming to the conclusion that I should just “go for it”.
I glanced once more into the blue and white view outside the cosy windows as I took in the scenery and another sip of coffee. I felt so cold that I simply gave up eating the cookies altogether. “What in the world am I getting myself into.” Speaking into my head that I’ve just made a crazy decision and that I am going to regret it. As much as I knew that I would regret it, my “Just do it regret later” attitude was blaring its trumpets. Zipping up the jumper and tucking my hands into the pockets, I bowed my head and I walked into the thick snow. As I sat on the snowmobile, it felt so much more refreshing as compared to the time when I struggled to lift my numbed legs off the snowmobile,and my hands that were frozen to the outlines of the handles. I felt renewed. I thought to myself as I wore the helmet and psyched myself for the arduous journey back.
“Oh my God what am I doing.” “Why am I boarding the snowmobile?” “Yay.” While I was listlessly starting the engine, the guide came by to check if everything and everyone was alright, or rather, whoever that was left. It felt a bit like The Walking Dead: After the snowmobile ride to the cabin, only a few “survivors” were left. Our numbers halved. I overheard the conversation behind me as brother sat alone on the snowmobile, he was trying his luck on riding alone but the guide was adamant, “I’m sorry but you need to be above 18 years old and have a driver’s license to drive it.” I guess brother lost the age game. Tuesday, September 15, 2015
Last Saturday was a pretty day for me but it was a fruitful one! I managed to clear many of the things that i set out to do, such as spray painting, cleaning up my house, and also doing up a vineyard in my backyard! I've always wanted to tidy up the garden and beautify it, but when this busy schedule of mine, it is really very difficult to be able to find time for such things unfortunately. Moreover, 3 weeks into our fall semester, groupwork taskings and readings are crawling into my life, leaving me with even lesser time.
  When you dry them, they actually become a sponge! They are called melon sponges and are sold in markets actually. Like no kidding. My first impression was that these things look EXACTLY like noodles!! Then I saw the shape of it as to how the seeds are inside and realised that hmmm this actually really is the melon?! Well I saw my scouting knowledge being put to good use once again! Really once a scout, always a scout. I was a scout ever since primary three. In the photo, you can actually see two square lashings tied on the poles! ehhh it felt tiring as I stupidly lifted my arms while tying the knots instead of more appropriately, using the ladder. Instead, I used the ladder to support the other side poles.  Well... I am quite happy with how it turned out!! What do you think? :P With the very limited resources that I had, which was just four green poles, I decided to use a super long bamboo pole that has since dried up when neighbour chopped one of his bamboo trees down. and used string and went around the poles so that the creeper-melon plants would be able to creep and latch itself unto the strings for support! :) Pretty happy with how it turned out though! I AM GROWING MELONS, NOT WINE GRAPES.  Sunday, September 13, 2015
Haha guess what! im all dressed up in my kryptek mandrake uniform now just because i want to season it. Actually over time, it becomes a really nice (and warm) pajamas to sleep in. I was just asking my bro if he sleeps in his no.4 navy uniform and he says its apparently very hot xD i honestly found my seasoned uniform very cooling in fact? O.o i kinda miss NS...for the simplest of things like having a pull up bar that i could always do some pull ups before meals, i've been quite used to it i guess. credits to heng for the photo, I just realised for the past two Xplorer wars that i've been to, i....dont sleep for the previous night. Which leaves me so damn tired the next morning, after the war, my heart will be thumping like mad. last weekend was extra hectic because of my schedule filled with events and whatnot. I think i have the most annoying play style of always bashing into bushes and being as stealthily as possible. Staying alive is my main objective, over going in for a tag or whatsoever, Kinda misleading though because when the opposite team hits nearby me, the leaves make the same sound as hitting me so it gets kinda hazy. This is probably one of the worst spot to go prone since there is only a log in front of me as cover. but hey! it's outranging the other blasters here so i think i am pretty safe...? plus the view is good. erm. truth be told, i was so darn sleepy i actually dozed off halfway while trying to spot the enemies and providing info back to my team. and that black stick, is an antenna. most annoying piece of equipment especially when bashing through vegetation but realism +1. A pity i couldnt stay all the way till the end of Xplorer War 16 due to a grossly packed schedule :( Next war! I'll be back oh yeah 8-)  Well now there is one more item to add one more point to realism! and that's my new gloves hehe. i bought these mechanix half-gloves, think they should come in pretty handy for my nerfing and also for my gym, oh and body combat too! :) I think this was like $42? really REALLY good gloves in terms of comfort and how nicely it wraps around your hands. 
i shall give a better review of this glove later on, probably a month or two when i've really used this glove extensively. For now, it feels a whole lot more comfortable than all the other full gloves that mechanix offers? only one way to find out! :) my only gripe so far is that my fingers are still prone to pricks from vegetation if i choose to bash through them during nerf wars. other than that, i dont see myself bashing through vegetation on a normal sunny day.
Go away haze. Now everywhere smells like barbecue.
Saturday, September 05, 2015
Waking up from my nap on the bus, I begin to wonder to myself if I missed my bus stop, but apparently not. Heaving a sigh of relief, I checked the map on my phone and I was just two bus stops away from my destination. Everything feels so dead, so mundane, so normal. I wondered to myself how am I going to find the building in the central business district and brushed off the worries as I reasoned to myself that I would vaguely remember the place. It's been close to half a year since I've visited the dentist. It's funny how I always drive to the dentist and this time I feel so lost because I am going by public transport instead. Whipped out my ipod touch from my pocket and increased the volume of my music. Now everyone else seems so much quieter, more peaceful, although I was playing house and electro mixes into my ears. Mum deems that sort of genre as 'noise'. I do love classical and orchestral music too. Just not pop. Not really.After a few wrong turns, I finally reached the the dentist. Nothing was going in my head, its like I am blankly walking around, just knowing in my head that I have things to do. It's funny though, that in the morning, I took the Carl Jung personality test and once again got ENFJ.  Staring blankly at the results on my screen, I wondered why I got the same results when I felt like I was numbing my emotions. Guess some things never change? Or maybe not yet. I compared it with my previous results and they were still pretty similar. Kind of felt that based on the results, I became even more ENFJ, given the increase in percentages. Extravertness shot up?! Mind you I always take the test and answer the questions in a snap to give myself the best gauge.  "Hey, you're early for the appointment, your mum is coming later?" I simply smiled and replied "yeah! I'll just wait around, it's fine." 30 minutes of waiting and it is now my turn for the dentist. I was picturing the usual jovial person I am always greeted with, remembering the time I coincidentally bumped into him at the sports science clinic in the hospital. He has knee injury too. "How are you doing! Been busy in school?" the first thought that came to my mind was: what is school?! Ugh don't remind me of those early mornings that I have to wake up to... I told him how my eye bags spoke everything, that I had to wake up for 8.30am lessons everyday. "Aww come on! That's what we did when we were taking a professional degree! I had to wake up for 8am lessons and when we ended at 5, we had lab sessions from 6 all the way into the night." First thought of mine? Oh God... Sure we are blessed then! Although I still replied him "yeah but it is still such a dragggggg" dragging the last word in my sentence. This is probably the most emotionally charged sentence of my trip to the dentist. "Okay! Come get in the chair, let's start! How's the lessons though?" As I got off the chair and into the dentist chair, adjusting myself and being comfy, "lessons are pretty fun though, sometimes. Unless they are theory. Then again some are dry but yet interesting... Some, the other way round. Ah, all is good lah." In my mind, I was wondering to myself if I was even making any sense, still feeling kind of drowsy despite having a good sleep last night. "Ah okay, okay, that doesn't sound too bad, it's like that one lah! Come let's take a look at your teeth!" The assistant chuckled as she latches the headphones onto my ears and puts on these laboratory looking shades over my eyes. The music begins to play. Ah, it's Michael Bublé again. Wednesday, September 02, 2015
Soooooooo a new semester begins!! and honestly, my timetable looks really shitty. Like it's so filled up i wonder how am i even going to have time for myself. Currently, my timetable stands at something like this: aaaand they are all communications modules. heh it looks terrible to me. Put that out into a planner and you'll quickly realise that i do not really have much free time.. after planning out my schedule, it now looks like this in my planner which is quite insane xD erm 5 modules doesnt seem that bad... although i probably wanna drop it to 4 modules heh. 
I do have pockets of free time in between so i guess i could do something! Like now, i am currently blogging as i sit here waiting for my dearest friend Alicia to pop up for school tsk. It is currently 2.30pm on a wednesday. BUSY DAY wednesday. i still need to somehow find strength for gym heh.
I usually like to keep my fridays free so that i can have a long weekend, but it doesnt seem to be happening for this semester! plus i am trying to squeeze in as many modules that i can so as to lighten the load later on~
We had quite a nice long 3 weeks break to relax, at least for me i did enjoy it! especially since i did not have finals to do for the previous summer semester. I also learnt how to polish cars during the break! ehhh pretty useful skill in my opinion, at least for me, as i always complain that my car isnt red enough. It's quite easy actually! and i got the machine buffer or orbital it's called and man it works wonders! i used to polish by hand and it took so long and was really tiring. I likened it to a workout session because of all the squats and arm rotations that you will need to do. I'm pretty proud with the outcome though!! currently it's looking real good, as good as brand new, other than a few stubborn scratches that dont seem to disappear after applying 3 layers of polish ugh.
TADAAA and that's like after 3 layers of polish and 2 layers of wax heh. it looks really good, i guess the internet really does help in the learning process! erm technically its supposed to look as good as those done in the shop right....? i think i kind of replicated that. you judge! hmmm although it still doesnt come on par with the layers of waxing that they do and the mirror finish that they have, especially with shops that use that ceramic mirror coating finish thing. Not too sure what is that but sure does seem awesome! It's really quite tiring still do constantly buffer away my nights and get it up to this, but i must say it's worth it! now the paint surface has that watery-slippery feel to it when you touch it :D
i should have done a before/after photo for this but oh wells?!
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