sanity...
is something that i will be losing very soon

bloody hell i hate children

especially young snotty nosed children

especially if i have to endure 2 hours every week trying to make them learn how to use an abacus.

especially if i can't beat the shit out of them (technically i can, but the consequences...... just goes to make everything more frustrating)

today i started class 20,
repeat for emphasis
twenty
dua puluh
minutes late, due to swapping students with my colleague who has a lot of higher level students and who doesn't want to have to deal with standard 1 kids

damn
she's smart


between having the elections on the 8th and school holidays on the 15th
i haven't seen the kids for 2 weeks, which explains why i have been in a relatively "unblack" mood lately.

it's quite surprising, how do kids have this knack for forgetting?
is it an inborn talent or something that their parents subconsciously implant in their minds just to make us teachers' job that much harder, not that it was easy to begin with.

suffice to say the 1st hour was spent revising everything we had done for the past 4 weeks.
i mean everything.

the last hour was a case study in how to raise a person's blood pressure 200 fold in as short a period as possible.

imagine this
i tried to teach them just a simple formula for addition
+9=+10-1
i showed them that i have ten fingers, and closing 9 fingers, the remainder is 1
i asked them to do it too, and they happily did.
so far so good.

next i asked them to repeat the formula, chant it actually,
really chant it
like "plus 9 equals plus 10 minus 1" for more than 20 times

then i gave them some rudimentary exercises on the abacus, which they did

so far so good

now begins the nightmare

asked 1 boy (name omitted) what is +9, and he gives me this sweet stare, as if trying to say "teacher, i'm here to raise your f%&*ing blood pressure by being f%^&ing forgetful, what you gonna do about it?"

ok

asked them to chant the mantra again.
another 20 times
which being little kids, they do, almost over-zealously.
i need new eardrums

ok

ask another girl, "what is +9?"
at least she was kind enough to "just" give me a blank stare.

damn it all
really

you f$%^ers just chanted the f@#$ing formula 40 times and i ask you what is +9 and you stare at me?
i prompt you with the next few words and you still stare at me?

what the f%^&

i have never cursed so much inside without actually verbally cursing

god save their parents if they are like this at home

i need an ice pack.


seems like a good time to take a tangential thought on how we are at our most expressive when we are pissed off..
not much to say when we are happy right?
comments welcome.

another dismal performance.



at least this time i had koo and melvin to accompany me instead of being the 'only one' there. having friends is not so bad you see.

on to the report.
Round 1 i was paired against kevin playing monogreen elves.
bad news.
very bad news.

so far i have never managed to take a game from him while playing uw merfolk.
the raw speed and disregard for conventional big spells make for very hard times for my deck which relies on cheap creatures which beat while i handle whatever you throw my way with counterspells.

bad news.

game 1 was a rather boring affair.
he got out a wren's run vanquisher early with a lot of little guys for backup
i get out double silvergill adept and a lord of atlantis, trading my adept for his vanquisher.
i then try to swing to try and kill garruk which would be active for an overrun next turn.

then he drops the hammer.
maindeck cloudthersher.
let me repeat that.
maindeck cloudthersher.

he blocks the adept with his cloudthersher.
i knock down my life total to 17.
next turn i am tapped out.
he casts overrun and activates kill garruk's overrun, letting him bash in for 20+ damage off just his cloudthersher and a boreal druid.
i scoop up my lands and move to game 2.

sideboarding makes things interesting as i bring in 4 moat effects, 1 teferi's moat and 3 magus of the moat, as well as 4 flashfreezeflashfreeze for rune snag's and sunlances.

game 2 i get an aggro hand and dump out 4 merfolk in 1 turn on turn 4, killing off his garruk, and a cryptic command off the top of my deck on my next turn tapping all his blockers and swinging in for lethal damage seals a blazing fast game 2 even though he casts lignify on my lord of atlantis.

i made a possible misplay in this round.
instead of dumping all my merfolk on the table, i should have left a tideshaper mystic in hand to use it to tap down blockers on my next turn since i had 2 merrow reejereys on board.

no changes to the sideboard and off to game 3.
now this was probably one of the most embarrassing games of magic that i have ever played.
numerous brain farts
just the highlights then
resolving turn 4 magus of the moat should have been gg.
but he plays lignify on it and swings.
i take 5.
next turn i cast cryptic command tapping his creatures and bouncing the magus to my hand, making the lignify fall off.
then i recast the magus, hoping to ride it to a win eventually

then, a second lignify
lignify
yes
i died to lignify


of all the undignifying things
almost makes me want to quit magic
so so embarrassing.

been testing mishra intensely on mws
had very good results against creature rush decks as not only do i run fatter creatures, i run 8 board sweepers.

not sure if i can update for quite a while
been very busy and feeling under the weather lately..
bleh

good luck
play artifacts

pey june got a lollipop from someone in the class... wonder who is it.. hmm?!

goddamn it. class was so noisy today!!! and yet... since when our class is quiet with people like goo..
unbelievable!!

somehow, no one beleives me when i tell the truth, but no one beleives me when i try to joke either.
and chin wei's dog does not have cancer, it has thyroid (liver damage because it refuses to drink water) wonder why?
am i joking?

melvin has a secret
(he ate roti canai for lunch)

saw a tortoise again
damned tortoise

taylor's had an animal fair today
makes one wonder where spca gets so many cute dogs
and what do they do to all those dogs that are uncute?
do we discriminate not only amongst humans (a given) but do spca members also discriminate agianst dogs.
i hate dogs.


on a more serious note...
our country is still in turmoil
complications in appointing MBs in several states
not only those under the BR but also those under the BN

wonder how this will turn out

well, it was boring for me anyway.
seems like quite a few scandals have passed me by without my noticing
i'm actually blurrer (more blur?) than i look
hmm
i already look quite blur

first off we have chong kuan

and the mystery woman

names censored for privacy of course

next
there is su tyng (not sure if i spelt it right)

apparently 2 people are chasing her
(technically 1 person and 1 wolf, but who cares about technicalities)

now just because she sat next to me during physics, both of them are angry at me
wtf?
i'm innocent
really i am

why is this world so complicated?
now i understand why the police like duit kopi so much
for all the shit they have to take, they really need a lot of kopi o panas kurang manis to cope with it

so next time you see a policeman, you know what to do la......
i didn't say it
you did it ok?
i'm innocent
case closed

p.s.

what happened to lingam?
no news on him for what seems like a whole month now
can they really just sweep something like that under the carpet?
do they really think the whole nation is as blur as me?
come on man

shadowmoor preview images are UP!!!! (monkeys use caps when they want to, so there)

on the mothership www.magicthegathering.com there is a sample booster pack with the art, mana symbols, name etc but no text. except for the rare demigod of revenge which is a 5/4 for 5 mana with flying and haste and some sort of graveyard interaction thrown in for good measure... seems like a good deal
and lurebound scarecrow! a friggin artifact creature!! yay

preview images of the art available at magicdeckvortex.com and mtgsalvation forums as usual
keep up the good work guys.












why am i not asleep?

why indeed, i'm overworking the monkey

it seems that bn has lost almost 5 states
only 1 word

wow

for once, we may have actually witnessed history in the making.
bn has lost

not all its seats obviously
but enough to give the ruling coalition a rude awakening.

many incumbents who had been hot favourites to carry on for one more term may be waking up to the possibility of finding a new job.
my heart bleeds for them.

truly i am still in a state of shock
the invincible stronghold that was bn now does not look that invincible anymore, shaky even.

i don't know what kind of chaos i will wake up to tomorrow, how will bn retaliate?
can they still pull up their socks and continue?

who knows?

ps
played with a real tarmogoyf for the first time today
a 5/6 for 2 mana? with no drawback? really? did they really print that?
no wonder its so expensive. http://sales.starcitygames.com/cardsearch.php?game_type=1&singlesearch=tarmogoyf
shoutout to my friends going for city champ trials tomorrow
good luck!!!

went to the local polling station and i can only say how impressed i am.
impressed that the "helpers" who would not give a sh!t about you normally would reach out to shake your hand warmly and give you the thumbs up sign. i need to wash my hand..
i can't even friggin vote.

i love my country and i have nothing against the current administration, well, almost nothing but i can't tell you right?
try to get out more and interact with the friggin rakyat if you really want to win, the election is yours for the taking if you do a good job.
we the rakyat are not stupid, we can tell a job well done from a piece of smelly t*rd as well as any financial analyst
try to do a good job ok

we love you.....

i have now made a decision to type without caps.
which is another way to say i am too friggin lazy to bother.
just making it sound like a conscious decision sounds waaayyyyy cooler.

election is just around the corner.
feeling quite excited as now it probably really IS an election instead of what we've been getting prior to this.
(there.. i used caps, couldn't resist so sue me, and another disclaimer, i know nothing of what we've been getting for these past few years, nothing at all, which is the politically correct stance to take)

yay for political correctness!

oldbean
signing out

p.s.
shadowmoor previews out!!! yay

it's been more than a year since my last post
so much has changed yet everything is still the same.
i feel like a part of me has died.
finding it hard to smile now when i am alone, i constantly need to find ways to distract myself
i thank god i have a job to at least divert some of my attention..

good news though, i am definitely better at dota now than i was a year ago

cheers to me

yay

or not

i stopped smiling again...