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and i'm still so shocked that i won!

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sad

green black elves won pro tour hollywood

congratulations to charles gindy

beating merfolk in the finals

oh well, jan reuss

at least you tried

decklists from the finals

Charles Gindy Pro Tour-Hollywood Top 8
Main Deck 60 cards 3 Forest 4 Gilt-Leaf Palace 4 Llanowar Wastes 4 Mutavault 1 Pendelhaven 2 Swamp 4 Treetop Village 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth 23 lands 1 Boreal Druid 3 Chameleon Colossus 4 Civic Wayfinder 4 Imperious Perfect 4 Llanowar Elves 4 Tarmogoyf 4 Wren's Run Vanquisher 24 creatures 2 Garruk Wildspeaker 3 Profane Command 4 Terror 4 Thoughtseize 13 other spells	Sideboard 3 Cloudthresher 4 Kitchen Finks 2 Primal Command 2 Shriekmaw 2 Slaughter Pact 2 Squall Line 15 sideboard cards

Jan Ruess Pro Tour-Hollywood Top 8
Main Deck 60 cards 4 Adarkar Wastes 1 Faerie Conclave 4 Mutavault 11 Snow-Covered Island 4 Wanderwine Hub 24 lands 4 Cursecatcher 4 Lord of Atlantis 4 Merrow Reejerey 4 Silvergill Adept 3 Sower of Temptation 3 Stonybrook Banneret 2 Sygg, River Guide 2 Tideshaper Mystic 2 Venser, Shaper Savant 28 creatures 2 Ancestral Vision 3 Cryptic Command 3 Sage's Dousing 8 other spells	Sideboard 4 Burrenton Forge-Tender 1 Cryptic Command 2 Reveillark 2 Serrated Arrows 1 Sower of Temptation 3 Sunlance 2 Unsummon 15 sideboard cards

it's quite hard to get all the questions wrong
but hey
i think i did it!


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can you do it too?
on purpose i mean

you can't all be idiots too you know
you have to be born idiots

are you inclined to try to (purposely) get all the questions wrong?
if so copy and paste this into your blog

i solemnly swear that iq tests on the internet are for noobs

i so so so hate finals
keeps me away from playing magic

well day 2 of pro tour hollywood is done

seen a lot of innovation but not much has changed since shadowmoor was added
a few decks got a few cards but on the whole not many things have changed and the metagame looks similar to what we had after morningtide

oh by the way
the top 8 includes a dude from

singapore

18 year old choo yong han

playing uwr reveilark combo (don't worry. if you don't understand, you're not meant to)

complete profile of the top 8 can be found here

Yong Han Choo Pro Tour-Hollywood Top 8

Main Deck 61 cards 4 Battlefield Forge 2 Faerie Conclave 4 Mutavault 4 Mystic Gate 2 Reflecting Pool 4 Snow-Covered Island 1 Snow-Covered Plains 2 Vivid Creek 23 lands 2 Aven Riftwatcher 2 Body Double 2 Greater Gargadon 4 Mulldrifter 4 Reveillark 4 Sower of Temptation 2 Venser, Shaper Savant 20 creatures 2 Careful Consideration 4 Coldsteel Heart 2 Mind Stone 2 Momentary Blink 2 Pact of Negation 4 Rune Snag 2 Wrath of God 18 other spells

Sideboard 2 Aven Riftwatcher 3 Crovax, Ascendant Hero 2 Kitchen Finks 2 Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir 2 Teferi's Moat 1 Vesuvan Shapeshifter 2 Wheel of Sun and Moon 1 Wispmare 15 sideboard cards

pretty standard uwr reveilark maindeck
beats just about everything except faeries

other top 8 decklists here

just a random aside
the merfolk deck of jan reuss looks so .....random

only 2 ancestral visions?
and random 1's and 2's in the sideboard?
at least it worked out for him

i'll be rooting for you jan!


but the way the lots were drawn he won't have to face the only faerie deck in the top 8 until the finals

strange fact: only 1 faerie deck in the top 8 (paulo vitor dama rosa)

a breakdown of the top 8 stands like this

Round 16 Standings

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Rank	Player	Points	OMW%
1	Nakamura, Shuuhei [JPN] GB Elves	40	62.9650%
2	Bohny, Nico [CHE] Doran	39	57.5521%
3	Lybaert, Marijn [BEL] RG Ramp	37	64.3229%
4	Ruess, Jan [DEU] MERFOLK!!!! yay	37	61.0677%
5	Mihara, Makihito [JPN] UWR Lark	37	59.9001%
6	Choo, Yong Han [SGP] UWR Lark	37	58.4635%
7	Gindy, Charles [USA] GB Elves	37	57.4219%
8	da Rosa, Paulo Vitor D [BRA] Faeries	36	61.8490%

so as we can see
even though going into the tournament faeries was the best deck/ deck to beat

it just barely made top 8

9	Yurchick, Adam [USA]	36	60.9375%
10	Petric Maretic, Grgur [HRV]	36	58.3333%
11	Scheel, Brandon [USA]	36	56.9754%
12	Kopec, Mateusz [POL]	36	55.5804%
13	Wafo-tapa, Guillaume [FRA]	34	64.3973%

4 more players were on 36 points and PVDR just got in on better tiebreakers

the other sad part is wafo tapa
(love these weird names)

he was undefeated day 1 but a couple of unintentional draws and a loss in the last round saw him knocked out of contention

still, he brought a very innovative deck to the tourney designed by manuel bucher

video is here



oh poor wafo tapa

you can get his decklist here


or for your convenience

Guillaume Wafo-Tapa

Main Deck 60 cards 1 Dreadship Reef 2 Fungal Reaches 1 Grove of the Burnwillows 2 Mystic Gate 4 Reflecting Pool 2 Sunken Ruins 4 Vivid Creek 4 Vivid Grove 4 Yavimaya Coast 24 lands 3 Cloudthresher 4 Kitchen Finks 4 Mulldrifter 1 Oona, Queen of the Fae 4 Wall of Roots 16 creatures 4 Careful Consideration 4 Cryptic Command 3 Firespout 3 Makeshift Mannequin 4 Rune Snag 2 Slaughter Pact 20 other spells

Sideboard 1 Cloudthresher 1 Detritivore 3 Mind Shatter 1 Murderous Redcap 2 Primal Command 1 Shriekmaw 3 Teferi's Moat 3 Wispmare 15 sideboard cards

maybe i made a mistake by saying not much has changed
shadowmoor made the manabases of preexisting decks much better

so much better in fact that you can play cards like this

and this
both with insane colored mana requirements in the same deck
when lorwyn was first released we thought that these would only go in monocolored decks
funny how much the format has changed

can't wait to see how the top 8 turns out

to all those who are turning your age dial forward by 1 year today

congratulations

welcome to the 1 year older club
membership is exclusive to those turning one year older
(which is just about every human on the planet, so it's kinda not so exclusive)

enough nonsense
now for an orgasm of cute pics










don't let this happen to you











had enough?

apparently not





now say thank you




besides all this i would like to thank my boss for the wonderful meal she treated us to yesterday evening.
it was wonderful

thanks

and once again happy birthday to those who have made my life slightly better than what is already is

it's been too long since i used a one worder for a title

but it's for a special reason

i would like to direct your attention to this page

click on it

now

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sad right?
no human should go through what mr adrian has gone through

my heart goes out to him

may he find whatever happiness there is left for him

then
may he rest in peace

things don't always work out the way we want them to
but that's life

this is an excerpt taken from a leading newspaper somewhere on the planet earth
(specific enough for you, hmm?)

Thursday May 22, 2008

School uniform sexy, says group

KUALA LUMPUR: A Malaysian group condemned the uniform worn by girls at government schools, saying it encouraged rape and pre-marital sex.
“The white blouse is too transparent for girls and it becomes a source of attraction,” National Islamic Students Association of Malaysia vice-president Munirah Bahari said in a statement.
“It becomes a distraction to men, who are drawn to it, whether or not they like looking at it,” she said, calling for a review of uniform policy so that it did not violate Islamic ideals.
In multicultural Malaysia, home to majority-Muslim Malays as well as ethnic Chinese and Indians, female students at government schools have a choice of wearing a white blouse with a knee-length skirt or pinafore.
They may also wear a “baju kurung” and a headscarf is optional for Malay students.
Munirah said that “covering up” according to Islamic precepts was important to fend off social ills, including “rape, sexual harassment and even premarital sex.”
“This leads to babies born out of wedlock and, to an extent, even prostitution,” she said.
“Decent clothes which are not revealing can prevent and protect women from any untoward situations,” she said, suggesting that girls wear a blouse of a different colour or with an undergarment.
However, the girls themselves also came in for criticism, with the association saying that some used the white blouse to lure men.
“This is the source of the problem, where we can see that schoolgirls themselves are capable of using this to attract men to them,” Munirah said.
“This could see them getting molested, having premarital sex and all sorts of things.” – AFP

of course if you don't believe me (as if i'm that free to make up a story like this) you can always check it out yourself by clicking here.

now i think what this guy says is kinda unqualified
i never got horny looking at my classmates in their pinafores (got turned off akshully)

seems i'm not the only one thinking that way

Friday May 23, 2008

Teachers and students scoff at ‘baseless’ statement.

By TAN EE LOO

PETALING JAYA: Some teachers and students have hit out at National Islamic Students Association of Malaysia for saying that the uniform worn by girls at government schools is “sexy” and “a tool to lure men”.
One male teacher even suggested that instead of debating the sexiness of the uniform, more focus should be directed towards male self-control.
SMK Assunta Sixth Form student D. Presana was appalled by the group’s comment that the uniforms “encouraged rape and pre-marital sex”.
“Pre-marital sex has nothing to do with what girls wear to school. It is the couple’s mentality and the spiritual guidance they receive that influence their behaviour,” she said.
The association’s vice-president Munirah Bahari had called for a review of the uniform policy, saying that some girls used the “transparent” white blouse to lure men.
A teacher at a girls’ school in the Klang Valley said Munirah should not have made such baseless statements.
“She should carry out a study and see if our school uniform is indeed a factor that contributes to rape and pre-marital sex,” she said.
The teacher added that it was compulsory for female students at her school to wear a camisole under their baju kurung and only white and skin-coloured bras were allowed.
A Form Five male student of a school in Penang said the suggestion that female students “cover up” might not be a smart move, as it is hot and humid in Malaysia.
“It would make them feel even more uncomfortable studying in our hot weather. And I have not heard of any complaint from my female schoolmates that their uniform (with the pinafore on) is transparent,” he said.
A Malay teacher in Malacca, however, suggested that thicker material be used to make the white blouse.

click here

see.
to all you doubters out there
breaking news

i'm normal

normal you hear!

here's another story


Friday May 23, 2008

Islamic group’s uniform comment slammed

By LISA GOH
PETALING JAYA: Something must be seriously wrong with local men if the sight of girls in their school uniform turns them on, says Sisters in Islam.
Programme manager, Norhayati Kaprawi, describes claims made by National Islamic Students Association of Malaysia that the school uniform worn by girls at government schools “encouraged rape and pre-marital sex” as baseless.
“I totally disagree with the statement. What? Even wearing baju kurung is still not enough?” she asked.
“As for the white blouse being too transparent, Malay women who are in mourning wear white baju kurung. Even Umno women wear white baju kurung. So what is the issue?” she said when contacted yesterday.
The student association’s vice-president Munirah Bahari had stated that “the white blouse is too transparent for girls and it becomes a source of attraction to men, who are drawn to it, whether or not they like looking at it.”
She also called for a review of the uniform policy so that it did not violate Islamic ideals.
Women’s Aid Organisation executive director Ivy Josiah said what was needed was ”a review of misguided beliefs about women's attire,” not a review of the uniform policy.
“Statistics and research has shown that all women – young, old, women clad in tudung (headscarf), miniskirts, even babies in diapers – have been victims of rape and sexual assault.
“It is entirely irresponsible for anyone to suggest the idea that rape is a result of attire. Rape is not about attire, it’s about power that perpetrators feel they have over their victims,” she pointed out.
Even men spoke out against Munirah's logic.
Men’s Action Network Against Violence (man.v) member David Anthony said such statements stereotyped men as people who don’t see women as anything other than sex objects.
“It’s the wrong attitude ... it’s perversion,” he said.
Women, Family and Community Development Minister Datuk Dr Ng Yen Yen declined comment.

click here

i don't know who this munirah fellow is, but he just made what in political circles we call a gaffe.

idiot

yes, it is exactly as you see.
a charming young lady has seen it fit to bestow upon me the honor of receiving a cake.

the occasion

teacher's day

zomg
the charming young lady in question

the cake in question
looks delicious doesn't it?

appreciation is never a bad thing
thank you alicia!
cake good






now on to the bad news
ftz is dead

this was taken at the scene of the murder


ftz

at 12 pm.
on a monday
empty.

teh horror!

fortunately
the murderer in his arrogance saw fit to leave his calling card

we're coming for you.
run and hide assholes

we're coming for you!



bonus pics








no comments

and it was obviously coincidence
(you know, stars aligning just right with the tectonic plates of the earth balh blah blah)

that a turtle and an ostrich appear together

author's note: you need to be proficient in lolspeak to understand this post


she wuz mai neighbur
i long tiem i iz lieking her
but find it diffikult to tell




den one dayz i did

she sez




it wuz all smooth sailing from there








til one day she found out my sekrit
i iz gangsta kitteh
bein hunted by gang




den she do dis




dey lots of bad kittehs
lotsa lotsa bad kittehs




dey come 4 me and cage me




she sez to me




i sez yes

adn the itteh bitteh kitteh commitee in de sky wuz touched,





dey sendz angel to guard me



not dat angel,

dis angel




adn so de bad kittehs were foiled




i goez find her and asks




she sez




i so happyz i do dis




becos





den we livez happili eva after adn haz lotsa littel kittehs








teh end






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for iewnihc

this is a shark

first a big thank you to the guys at tsheets.com for sponsoring this competition. you guys rock!
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first, some background info. i work as a teacher for a class of overly rambunctious class of primary school students. hell hath no fury like a class of 20 hyperactive seven year olds.

when i get to work (time 0.00) the first thing i do is wonder why on earth am i spending such a beautiful morning cooped up in a classroom (with no air conditioning, i might venture to add) with the aforementioned seven year olds from hell.

i get out my marker pens (time 0.50 minutes), clean the white board, and contemplate how to use the duster as a lethal weapon. funny how seven year olds can inspire such hatred. in fact, i usually wonder why teaching a class of seven year olds is not used as a substitute for capital punishment, the suffering is neverending.

by this time, (approximately 1.03 minutes since i arrived) the class starts to get noisy. if you've never been to a heavy metal rock concert before, you can simulate the experience with a class of at least 15 seven year olds. really. not joking.
i call for silence, already, the day seems to be dragging on......

next on the agenda, the dreaded roll call (time 2.36 minutes). somehow i believe that the ability for a child to recognize and respond to their name only manifests itself at age 8, because my charges never, let me emphasize this, never respond when i call them. mostly, it's just me reading off their names and ticking down the names of whomever i see present. at least i've developed the ability to separate my thought processes into 2 so that i can call names (i wish... :p) and tick names independently of each other.

collecting their homework assignments (time 3.44 minutes) is an experience that borders on the traumatic.
incomplete scripts, illegible handwriting, smudges of brown on the edges (ewwww) etc.
thank god not all of them hand in their work.

and finally the first 5 minutes have passed
at this time, i glance at my watch, realize i have a whole day in front of me....
and i weep inside

it's been such a long time since i last watched pck, and sadly it seems to have lost some of its appeal.
the jokes are not funny anymore, and the acting is nothing if not subpar.

but still it is nostalgic watching the original made in singapore mole man in yellow boots doing what he does best..



enjoy

and for those of you who didn't read my previous post/didn't check your email/didn't log in to the groups.........
ms faizah gave birth to a wonderful baby boy in hukm at 8.43 pm on the 13th of may 2008.

send your regards to her

oh, by the way
i usually don't like to talk about the past, but i feel this is something worth dragging up

on the 9th of may 2008 at approx 11.10 am
i said
"oi buggers, show some respect la. its your last day here and ms. chan wants to discuss paper 5 with us so can you f@cking take out your paper now?"
then i started coughing from the exertion of shouting at a class of 20+ ruffians.
i won't say i did not regret my actions
i do care deeply for each and every one of you, and as they say "let the bugger without sin cast the first stone" (or something like that), i'm not free of blame myself...
in fact you can say (if you are so inclined) that i am the reason for all of you being so noisy
but it's high time you guys took a look in the mirror.

i know some of you took it quite personally and i have written a comment on someone else's blog that runs like this

"hey, i didn't mean to be so mean (pun XD) but did you guys even for 1 moment consider ms. chan feelings?
just because you want to talk on the last day doesn't mean you can just disrupt her lessons.
i can tell you frankly thats the reason she's so pissed at our class and why she doesn't put effort into teaching us.
i don't know about you but i feel shortchanged, just because some of you want to make noise i have to suffer subpar teaching.
do you guys even consider your finals?

just try to think rationally for a while
even when i'm pissed there is a reason"

if even a blockhead as dense as myself (yes, i am oblivious to 95% of what happens around me, which is how i manage to stay sane) can tell she is pissed at us, i don't believe that the rest of you can be unaware of that fact....

guys (and girls, damned feminists)

i like all of you, and i'm sorry i snapped
but please just try to reflect on your own actions

comment if you feel you have anything to say

took my muet speaking test yesterday

got some random topic like whether the health services in malaysia should be improved or not

now i just want to rant for a while so bear with me

doctors are the most maltreated class of humans on the face of the earth (don't give a damn about what happens beneath the surface)
especially doctors in the employ of the government

they work 36 hour shifts
get nuts for pay
and they see nuts everyday at work
its a wonder they don't crack (get it, nutcracker, oh never mind)

i think the government does this on purpose
if you want to treat the patient well, you can't just sympathize with the patient, you have to emphatize.
that's why the doctors are put through hell, so that no matter what the patient goes through, the doctor can understand perfectly what kind of pain it is.
this also helps to ease the pain of losing a patient,
if they die, they're obviously moving on to a better place compared to the living hell that is a government hospital....

only a fool will choose medicine as a career

apparently there are a lot of people in my class who chose to do medicine or a related field....
that explains a lot

today is the 13th of may

39 years ago, blood was shed

today, let us remember why such stupidity occurred in the first place so that we may avoid future "complications"

wars begin when ego overtakes logic
that is a truism that has held true over the course of human history

someone is always out there to prove he (or she, feminists.....) has the biggest penis
usually this involves a lot of killing and a lot of innocents get in the way

i'm not here to dwell on the past, but to propose that we just f@cking get along well in the future, is that okay?
i'm colour blind, and i hope you are too.
sincerely


but enough with the humdrum stuff
let's celebrate

one of my mates (there's ozzie slang for ya), adiel turned 19 today
and ms faizah, my chem lecturer gave birth to a wonderful baby boy
i would like to see photographic proof though (hint hint, wonder what the google groups are for?)

so congratulations to the both of them!

and the baby too! happy 0th birthday

went to the idp fair today for god knows what reasons
applying to australia was not part of my master plan for world domination.
but it was still kinda fun i guess....
and the best part?
applications were free! woot! nothing to sneeze at if you're as cash strapped as me.

first up, the anu booth (don't know anu? google it)
thats jerry czub (don't ask me why his name is spelled like that) on the right and erm...mr... idunno on the left
both were very helpful and anu seems quite appealing on the whole
next up
unisa (google it)
brad williams on the right and ms...erm...idunno on the left
its in adelaide, so the cost is slightly cheaper (correction, much cheaper) than other parts of australia
not many people here as you can see

since i was in pwtc, i popped by the mita fair(yes, i don't know what it stands for too, but something to do with machines)
big boys toys

apparently this is some powder spraying machine
industrial scale cooler, could probably freeze all the hair off your head



on the other end of the spectrum, an induction heater
it uses a current to induce a magnetic field that can heat the iron bar in the middle to temperatures in excess of 3000 degrees centigrade.
wow
also tried to go to the umno assembly, but......
well i'll spare you the gory details....



mao zhai!!!!!
so cute
this was a photo i took last year in singapore
the guy in the middle is gurmit singh (yes, i kid you not) better known as phua chu kang (google it)

can't really recognise him without his hair though....