yandao.com - Memoirs of a player wannabe

NO! THE RUMOURS ARE WRONG, AGAIN! YANDAO.COM IS STILL ALIVE AND KICKING. =)

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..together pieces of er, information together to enable one to form something, as a whole.Cannot? Not satisfying? Okok. I show you kinky pics we took in the classroom, while the facilitator wasn’t looking…

We got on top of one another…

We positioned ourselves perfectly for…

We set things in motion…

Mmmm… Kids under 16, please, uhm, cover your eyes.

(as usual, click to see a larger version.)

Seriously - what did you expect? Descriptions of how to get it on? *raises eyebrow* Come on!

No, no, no. I’m an extremely innocent person, and I intend to keep it that way. Please, do your utmost best *not* to corrupt me in any way possible, (including allowing me to sit on your left side since your left leg is probably more sensitive than your right. Right?)

Personally, I’m a very descriptive person - in other words, I prefer to use words to make things happen. Written words, text, stories, analogies, puns, and the works. I do believe the part on my speech could pull it off, like when the audience somehow seemed to laugh non-stop, as depicated below. Wah piang eh, I think actually got people lau sai (Hokkien dialect slang for diarrhea) a little bit after the continuous er, 5 minutes laughter.

You see, I’ve even circled squared them for you (you click the picture right, it become BIG BIG, then you can see those faces which laugh until almost die. Even the other speakers also laugh until almost pengsan [another Hokkien slang for faint]):

Okay, back to my standardized Singapore-British B3-standard English, I should emphasize the point that Talk is NOT Cheap. No, really. Talk is something that everyone, well, can relate to, and in turn, can be used to get your point across.

Last week, I gave three talks - my “Got Virus?” talk, a small talk at Derek’s secondary school, and one at NAFA; covering a few slides for Pacesetter IG . Yes, the above was the one at NAFA where everyone almost laughed their heads off.

Oh, and yes, I’m their IT Co-ordinator. Not their lead makeup artist or something - you ask me to draw Chinese calligraphy still can, but you ask me draw on face, I think I’ll do a great job at China panda art

I believe, in all 3 talks, my point did get across, eventually - but that required the listener to think for themselves quite abit. I would consider myself not a very direct person: I.E, If I wanted your number, I would find an excuse that you’ll have to SMS me a virtual kiss which you owed me ten minutes ago while chatting on MSN . (right, Lafina darling?)

However, at times, disbelievers in my talks tend to turn to, er, other channels.. (which I am not at liberty to discuss)

Others however, just prefer the heck care look… Ahh well, you can’t please everyone.. Wanna make a visit to Bukit Brokeback, Wei How? =X

Edit: Name and photo censored. Due to the fact that we practise self-censorship.

Oh, and today I went over to talk to our friends over at the school’s Office of Information Services , and found out how they thought of the photo database. Not bad - but after some discussion, we realised that we could turn the idea into something more producitve, and I agreed on that point.

Bwahahah. RP-ster (derived from Friendster) in the near future?

Some people often comment that I think too much, be it professionally, socially, or well, er logically - as in thoughts. (and as a side note, I am *never* emotional, since Sophia states that emotional guys “Turn her off”. No really, I never want to be seen as a turn off, even though it’s the direct opposite of a “turn on”.)

Actually, the closer of my friends will definitely agree with the thinking too much part - as for then part about turning on, I will have to check with Lafina on my progress. I think its actually considerably amazing, actually. Well, she is.

Okay, I had intended to write this article, or rather, post for a few days, since like Sunday - but somehow I could never bring myself to do so. Excuses flooded my head - busy with powerpoint slides for talks, busy with gaming, busy with movies, blah and blah. Thus, I made Yandao.com a priority, the slot under my darling’s name, and decided to clear my 3 page long todo list so I could get to it.

See, this is called commitment. Good, right, me? (actually, the 67 readers who had voted in the previous post also had an impact on me)

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Almost everyone, at some point of time, has actually wondered what kind of friends they have, and do not have.More importantly, they tend to wonder which of their friends fall under where. Questions like “Can she be trusted?” and “Will he help me out in times of need?” are repeatedly asked to oneself. Then, answers based on premature assumptions are formed. (Still, no matter how much education and lectures we receive about assumptions, it can never be stuck to our heads - we make the same mistakes over, and over again.)

Many at times, I have actually thought to myself - out of the several hundreds people whom I actually know and talk to occasionally in school, who, can I call up in the middle of the night at 3AM and ask out for a cup of hot milk tea at the nearby coffeeshop? Strangely, immediate names come to mind, and when the time actually came, I was pleasantly surprised that my, er, subconscious recommendations are actually rather accurate - when they do show up, of course.

Maybe it’s because of this, that some people label me as connected - not because I have that *MANY* friends, but rather, for the friends I have made so far from all different aspects of life, work, and play. That, I really appreciate out of those who were and are very good companions. I could rattle off names, but it wouldn’t really be fair to the others whom I didn’t. So, no.

But putting the more in depth categories aside, what really constitutes a friend? And differentiates that from a contact, or an acquaintance? (greym0nk was asking me a similar question the other day, I gave a quite flimsy reply because I was VERY stoned).

From my definition, this is how I would differentiate them - the way you do might differ. (But also note that I’m a very selectively organized person, I am not contended calling everyone I know a friend)

Contact - Purely superficial friendship, the parties in it act as if they *are* friends, but actually, we just need to use each other in some ways or another.

Acquaintance - Yet-to-be-friends, as I prefer to call it. We know each other, talk to each other, but aren’t really willing to compromise. As long as the goals each other has does not mess with the other, it’s okay to do it. Otherwise, we’ll just ignore each other for a while

Friend - Someone who is willing to try to see eye-to-eye with you. So much that you’re willing to do the same back. True, this person can really be of help to you at times, but instead of a sense of repayment being felt, gratitude is felt instead. You don’t just feel like giving back, rather, you do something MORE than that. You know you can depend on assistance to the fullest extent with such people, and that you will give it your best shot when they need your help, too.

I have loads of acquaintances, and contacts, but alot less friends. I suppose it would be somewhat similar for almost everyone else, unless they’re an extremely influential person who can others to kneel down and worship - that one is different story. We’ll talk about it sometime later.

Still, as with any of my posts, I do conduct a little research, and thus, I came out with this - 11 types of good friends a GUY should have. Gals, too bad. You’ll probably have to refer to that magazine in your shelves somewhere. Print copy works, too.

Out of those 11 types stated at that website, I actually found it mildy amusing that I’ve like 9 out of the 11 types, as good friends who I can really rely on, and hope to continue to be able to do so

How about you? When are you going to start looking out for yourself?

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Hmm.. When Kelvin goes missing for several days, it probably means that he’s really caught up, or lazy. But for this time, ONLY, I’ll admit that I’m both this week:

It all started off when Derrick, NOT Derek, from my IG’s Committee ascended upon the oversized Oreo, er, cake. It looked somewhat the size of 2 pieces of cheesecakes, but since it came from the Cafe Galilee in the school’s library, I guess we couldn’t complain. (Plus, that lady who’s always at the cashier stand knows me by now, and makes me special drinks for certain special orders…)

Then came Sophia’s 2 friends on Sunday who claimed to be able to transform me into a roller-blading-genius in 30 minutes or less.

An hour after they said that, I ended up with 2 and a half giant blisters on my calf, while the others who learnt along were enjoying the sweet taste of success. Argh. I should just stick to my geeky computer stuff. (as commented by my darling, too, besides SOP.)

Naturally, they started fighting. Over some really small objects - but I guess it must have some sentimental value for them to tug so much. (though the word “tug” can be used in a kinky way, yes. Google it.)

Oh, and of course she won. Otherwise she wouldn’t be posing for this photo already. Imagine a tiny voice saying “YEAH!”.

Zhenxiu ’s niece First Month celebrations took up half of today. But I do think it was quite worth getting her reaction when I told her I was the guy behind Yandao.com (refer to the photo on the right). She was like “WOW. OMG! He’s so… WOW!” (insert additional BHB self-praise here.)

But frankly. Cute, right?

Oh, and yes. In around 10 hours or so - I’ll be giving my “Got Virus?” Lunchtime Talk! WOOHOO. Those who can make it, PLEASE turn up. Ok? Treat it as a request from me, then maybe I will update more features to mess with the school - besides the revamped Yandao.com RP Photo Database which looks like the official Team Assignment.

Yes, I know. Got silent ringtone from long, long ago. But I don’t really read the papers, nor do I watch the news, nor the occasional printout of interesting crap happening out there. So you can’t really blame me for being slow - and besides, loads of us *still* don’t know about this, what…

For those, who like me, have had no idea what this is, basically a ringtone whereby we, er, teens, can hear, but adults cannot hear.

Excerpt from NY Times : In that old battle of the wills between young people and their keepers, the young have found a new weapon that could change the balance of power on the cellphone front: a ring tone that many adults cannot hear.

Yes, that means, in class can use to replace the “Silent” mode without anyone knowing. Anyone of authority, that is.

It should sound something like this (this is just a sample):

It’s supposed to sound like a VERY high pitched sound! Like EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!

Edit: Salihin couldn’t hear it from his speakers. He used earphones then can hear..?

The REAL “Silent” Ringtone can be obtained from HERE (Right click it > Save Target As or Save Link As).

Play it with your favourite music player (Winamp, Windows Media Player, Foobar, iTunes, etc) and ask your mum or dad whether they can hear or not… (You might wish to laugh at them, together with your brother/sister, when you realise they cannot hear)

Then, try copying that to your handphone and set it as your ringtone! Heh.