21st of February

What? I couldn't think of a title, OK?

Jit Sin High School is performing today and so we've got a chance to meet up with the people from CLB, namely our KaoYao gang. (I finally have something to put in my blog ...)

I picked them up from the jetty at about 5pm with WuenTing and her sister tagging along and we went to Queen's Bay to just hang around for a while before the actual performance. We overstuffed ourselves at Kim Gary.

There was so much confusion between seven of us while ordering fries that we bought one of each type.

Admittedly not the best idea we had.

We arrived at Dewan Sri Pinang at about 8pm and found it packed with people. People from other school bands, various school alumni, parents, teachers, etc. It was a frickin' full-house. I was very impressed.

But they played the first piece and I changed my mind as I sit at the top of the stairs. Considering their past achievements, I, no, we were expecting a little bit more. And we were disappointed.

Although they got better when they were playing without the strings, the overall performance is, to my (and probably a few others') opinion, a let-down to their previous gold medal-winning performances. Many of us (you know who you are. *wink wink*) think they no longer deserve to use the term "philharmonic" in their name.

There's more, but I seriously don't want to relive that anti-climatic performace in my head.

Again, another day they come and they go. Our KaoYao gang, I mean. To see them leave just like that is ... is ... well, it's unhealthy for my heart.

Aisling

I lost a bet to Aisling. After many days of oversleeping our hiking trips, she finally decided to wake up on her own, without the help of my messages and missed-calls. I, of course, didn't buy it. But she did get up on her own and so it's another morning of chatting up and down the hill.

The damned stairs leading towards the Moongate rest-point.


The ineffably awesome view from the hill. It looks better if you see it in person.

Oh, and we argued over her choice of name for quite a while. She didn't think "Aisling" sounded as funny as I thought it was. She rants on about it being the name of some iconic figure in Druidism. Druidism?!

And so I did a little digging and what I found had nothing to do with the mythical Celtic priests (Hah, in your face!). The name, in fact, is an Irish term meaning "dream" or "vision", and is also a common name for girls.

Aisling (pronounced as "ash-ling") is also a poetic genre and has spawned names such as Ashlyn or Ashlynn. Oh well, that's OK then, as long as it's not pronounced "ice-ling". Now that sounds weird.

So there, Aisling, what about them druids, eh?

Reference: Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aisling_(given_name)

Blade & Soul

I like the trailer for this game. I haven't played any online games with so much blood spraying everywhere, so this is something new and interesting to me. This game is still in development, though. ETA: August 2008.

PS: I think it's better to watch it on the site (link below) because the dimensions don't fit my layout.

Video provided by video.mmosite.com