27 April 2008

The Road Not Taken

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The Road Not Taken - Reminded of this poem learnt in Form 4 few days ago.

After a long consideration, I decided not to resit IELTS for 3rd time because I feel really annoyed. Instead I had requested for a remark of my previous paper but the chance are very slim. So entering Melbourne University is no longer my priority choice.

On the other hand, I decided to apply for RMIT without using my IELTS as Darryl proposed. Still, this is also a try luck method.

Spent hours staring at the ceiling every night before sleep these days to think of my future plans. What if my attempt to apply for RMIT's Engineering Degree fail? Should I take RMIT's Associate Degree, which doesn't appeal me because it sounds like Diploma level? Or should I take twinning program in Malaysia? If so, which local institute should I go?


I have reached in front of a junction, and I need to make a hard decision.
A choice that makes my life completely different,
yet my knowledge to choose is not sufficient.
I look down the roads as far as I can, but all of them seem to be the same.
Which road actually suit me most? I hope somebody can tell me that.
This is the point of no return, and I need to make a hard decision.


23 April 2008

DotA The Movie

It's an official DotA Trailer by PizzaSlide. (Don't ask me, I dunno who's that neither)

Specially For DotA geeks like me.

Part 1


Part 2

21 April 2008

My MashitMaro

Being under depressed mood these days. Yet TMnut's ScreamyX successfully made me scream because of its poor connection. So I'm glad that I had decided to create MashitMaro blog that can distract myself from depression. Although there are actually only a few readers but at least I'll have something to entertain myself.

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Well, these 'Shitians' didn't pop out from no where. Actually I'd created it since Form 5 and the 1st 'Shitian' I drew was Shitaro instead of MashitMaro. But I never named it Shitaro at the time. Later I created MashitMaro as Mashimaro was famous during that period. I like to draw, but I have no talent. So I always draw it (because it's simple to draw) when teachers were babbling boring facts or time when finished exam papers. I would like to show if got chance, MashitMaro appeared in almost every SPM question paper of mine.

You might took only few seconds to read a post, but it actually cost me hours for it. As I'm not familiar with Photoshop and lazy to learn its complexity, I use only Paint and ACDsee to done the jobs.

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Paint: For simple drawing and colouring.

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ACDsee: For resizing because Paint's resized quality is awful.

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Photobucket.com: Never upload pictures to blogger but using this web-host instead. Used photobucket for long time, no special reason though.

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My 'database'...

1st try to colour the background in my recent post. But since Paint is not as powerful as Photoshop, the instant colouring feature is not perfect enough. So I had to zoom in to colour the boundary click by click... That wallpaper took me almost 3 hours to complete! @_@ I think only this blanking period that I'll have so many times to waste...
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After completed it, I just realised I should keep the refined drafts so I can change the background colour by 1 click next time without doing the same work again. But I never did so, stupid me... Now I'm redoing the same thing, colouring click by click for future ease. Haha... No problem, I got time!

17 April 2008

A Fairytale

Long time ago, there was a young farmer. Although his life was not wealthy, he still live happily because he satisfied with his current condition. One day, he saved a bird found injured in his little farm. He wrapped up its wound and gave it a plate of milk before sleep. In the midnight, the farmer awoke by a beautiful lady. And the beauty told him she was the bird he saved just now.

"You saved my life young man. I'm a fairy from the wonderland. I'll tell you a secret in return. A secret to become a fairy, just like me. In the jungle north from here, there is a cave. Inside the cave, there is an apple tree. Eat the apple, and you shall become one of us." Finishing her words, the fairy change into a bird again and flew away. The farmer stunned by what he saw.

The next morning, he decided to search for the apple tree the fairy told him. After a long journey he finally found a cave. He walked deep into the dark cave, and what appeared in front of him was a very tall apple tree with apples hanging highly on it. The farmer start to think: "The tree is tall, but I think I still can climb it and pick an apple." The farmer's mind was filled with desire to become a fairy.

"Ah!" The farmer slipped and fell from the tree. He broke his left arm, but he did not gave up although he was in pain. "It's just a mistake, I just stepped on a wrong branch. I can reach the top if I climb more carefully." So he stood up and start climbing again.

"Arggh!" And again, he fell. He climbed to a higher place before falling, causing heavier injury than the first time. This time, he broke his right leg. The pain of broken arm and leg made the farmer suffered. He finally realized, it's beyond his capability to reach an apple. But he was too late to regret. It was impossible for him to go back alone with his injury now. He had no choice but to believe that he can get an apple.

He rested for awhile before he start climbing for the third time. In his mind, he understood that it was his last try and last hope. If he fall again and break his remaining arm or leg, he wouldn't be able to climb the tree nor return to his home anymore......

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