Saturday, April 30, 2011

FFN

was reading a chapter announcement on FFN, apparently the author is taking the story off cause she's going to rework it and publish as an original book. this is my rant that i want to 'review' but thought, better not, wouldn't want to make enemies when there are apparently 'fans' of her work.

i mean, seriously? why are you taking a work that was dedicated to the fandom/pairings and rework it? when reworking probably just means changing the name of the character. what does this exactly say about your characters? that they were never 'in character' and therefore, by replacing their names, they could be anyone else? you might as well just change the name and publish it in several fandoms.

if someone saw that work and went 'wow' and offers to publish it as an original for you, shouldn't the logic be that, you reject and offer to write another original story? it's not as though you are that bad of an author and only has one remarkable work.

okay fine, so maybe there's the temptation there, with the honour that someone wants your work, but that piece was originally for that fandom, for that pairing, and you are willing to take it off the site and just change their names and publish it? something is seriously wrong with the way you think. where is your pride as the author of that story, as a fan of the fandom. where is your respect for your readers who liked it when it was a FANfiction?

it's worse if it was actually you who went to find a publisher to publish that. unfortunately (luckily for me) i never did join your 'fanclub' so i'm not sure about that.

on the topic of fanclub, i believe the word means that it is a club created by fans for a work/author/something/someone they respect. you creating your own fanclub is already strange as it is. and then you went on to organise events, labelling events like [yourpenname]contest. come on, who are you to do so? you're not even a 'fan' (unless it is possible to be a 'fan' over your own work, which is just wrong and self-obsessive on so many levels)

there are so many authors (in that fandom and otherwise) much much better than you. your characters are not always in-character; your stories drag out too long and loses the original main attractive idea; you create original characters and have spinoffs, sequels on them. i don't see these other authors creating fanclubs.

i have 398 favourite stories on my page, only 2 of them is yours, 1 of them i would like to delete but thought to leave it since it's marked as completed. should i just wait for you to take it off so that you could publish it and earn some profits for yourself?

seriously.

*[[ And they lived happily ever after... ]]*
|12:50 AM|


Saturday, April 09, 2011

seriously, i know you probably think i'm dumb, and i'm probably not smart either, but you don't have to be so blatant about it. i can practically feel (touch) that.

*[[ And they lived happily ever after... ]]*
|11:02 PM|


Thursday, March 10, 2011

no place else to rant

sometime, some people are just so irritating... insisting on their views... the worse is when the next person agrees with them...

i hate this project group =.= its just full of nonsense

and did i mention? i hate people who act cute during project, argh
and the very same act cute person to think that she is correct and acts all self-important

KILL MEEEEE!
or better, kill her!

*[[ And they lived happily ever after... ]]*
|1:45 PM|


Sunday, August 30, 2009

the Incident

was completely pissed off by a 'friend' the other day, shall post the whole thing here and let's call her Person B

Day One During Tutorial:
Tutor - Please discuss DP Identity
B - Okay, let's start, so *blah blah* So we have to show how to get DP Identity
Me - No need lah, textbook already showed le, see *points* and they say DP Identity is just made up of XX, YY and ZZ
B - Huh, no lah, have to *blah blah blah*
Me - Really, just have to state XX is so-and-so...
B - Noo! Aiya, just shut up lah! (said in a very rude way and interrupting me too)
Me - *stare at her as she continues talking*
B - *finally turns around to me* So..?
Me - What? You call me shut up what, I'm shutting up (mimes zipping of mouth)
B - *stares a while before continuing discussion with other group members*
Random group members - So we just have to state that DP Identity is made up of XX, YY and ZZ?
B - Yeah
Me - *rolls eyes* (which B did not see since she was sitting next to me)
Long silence
B - Will you forgive me if I say I'm sorry?
Me - *already super pissed, therefore scoffed and ignored*
Long silence
B - You are being very petty leh
Me - *even more pissed*
Long silence
B - Eh, you do know I was joking earlier?
Me - *still pissed, and therefore scoffed and ignored*
Long silence

Day Two Another Module Project Meeting
*......basically we ignored each other and the third person in the meeting, mutual friend, sort of got stuck in the middle... but ended up debating/arguing with B about the case analysis*
Meeting ends, we walk off
SMSes log:
B - Hey it was very petty of me not to say bye juz now. I went back to say bye but u were gone... Im still very pissed w u for being such a brat yesterday. But i forgive u if u would forgive me. U probably find this war pretty fun but i dun. R we still friends? If u dun reply its considered a challenge to fight to e end! N fyi, if i did swallow my pride to say sorry to you, at least have e courtesy to respond. Brat!
Me - Hello, in the first place, you have never said sorry. Telling me to shut up was rude and wrong of you. Asking whether i will forgive you if you apologise is not an apology. Stop making it seems as though it's my fault and that i was petty when you don't even realise what went wrong.
B - I did loh, yesterday. I said, im sorry alright? But u smriked at me like its funny. Tad's when i got pissed at u! Anyway, i am sorry for telling u to shut up, but i did tad coz u were really rude to me when arguing with me! N sorry abt not saying bye juz now. Put a stop to this stupid episode right now k? Friends still my dear? U noe i love u :'(
Me - Sorry, i never hear you said that ytd, i only heard your half qn apology. Rude? I merely speak slightly louder than you. Okay, fine maybe it was abit rude, but shut up was unnecessary. I would probably been fine if you never send your first sms, can you back, read it and watch your tone. You need to know when it's okay to insult someone and when's it's not. Reread it, then we'll see.
B - Haiz, if u mean by e brat part, i was trying to be funny. Apparently tad failed. Im not apologising for tad coz if u cant take tad joke u dunno me at all
B - N maybe u didnt hear me apologise yesterday. But u ignored everything i said okay? I said i didnt mean it, i tried to get u back into e discussion. U IGNORED ME. So i think im justified to make fun of u coz im not e only one at fault here no?
Me - I ignored because i'm pissed, what else.
Me - Unfortunately it did not sound like a joke. Show it to anyone, they will tell you the same.
B - I reread e first sms n still tot it was pretty funny. U didn't pick up my call mah. Would have been better if i said it personally lah.
Me - Show it to a third person. It's completely insulting to me. And i don't always have my phone with me, so it's not as if i choose to not pick up.
B - Hm, i think i would... Lets have a poll nxt time k?
B - Hm i asked D and she sad tad from ur point of view it was rude, but from mine it wasn't. I didn't mean to be rude but rather tot exaggerating your behaviour as being a brath would lighten e situation.

Me - Well, it totally didn't lighten, in fact, i think it only worsen.. Let's just forget it and move on since both of us can't really seem to give in..
B - Yay im glad lol

note the use of proper full stops.. i only do that when i'm actually angry or pissed.. towards the end of the msging, i was super tired le and really couldn't be bothered...

maybe i was being really petty and stuff for getting angry at being told to shut up... i super super super pissed off when she told me that though, and her half apology thing really didn't strike me the right way.. it sounded more like "hey, i don't want to apologise leh, but if it could get her quiet, aiya, just anyhow apologise lah.. but still, better test water and see if it's worth it or not"... it's not even sincere...

i thought it was damn ironic that the thing she told me to shut up about was she was going to come to conclude in the end..

and really, i was actually okay by the second day... still don't really feel like talking to her but still.. then the msg came... seriously, the problem is not just the part about being called a brat and yes, ending a msg with 'Brat!' is quite rude, don't you think...

anyway, quoting
"But i forgive u if u would forgive me." does it sound sincere?
"U probably find this war pretty fun but i dun." war? abit serious arh.. and you think i find it fun arh? just make you sound so much more narrow-minded that you have the mindset that i'm a child to you.. or a brat
"If u dun reply its considered a challenge to fight to e end!" is this an attempt to joke? sounds more like an arrogant challenge than anything else...
"N fyi, if i did swallow my pride to say sorry to you, at least have e courtesy to respond." note the IF there, it means that actually she didn't say sorry even though she claimed she did... and don't 'N fyi' sounds super rude?
"So i think im justified to make fun of u coz im not e only one at fault here no?" honestly, no, you are not justified..
"Lets have a poll nxt time k?" i think she finds it more fun than me..

note that i never actually apologise and neither did she disagree with me for saying that we both won't give in... this just means that the whole 'attempt' to apologise is completely insincere and is probably just to get us on speaking term, otherwise our projects would be gone... and since we are in the same project group for one module, only 'companions' for another tutorial, perhaps she was just thinking about her grades..

and during the day two discussion, she got abit angry with both me and our mutual friend since we started talking about random stuff.. thing is, the analysis we are supposed to hand in one page per week and she came empty-handed to the discussion and was trying to find where the questions to answer the analysis was... and guess what, i've already written one page and shown it to our mutual friend... in the end, she ended up in a argument/debate with our mutual friend when said mutual friend was trying to do a summary of the case study.. we didn't do any work, wonder when we are going to meet to finish..?

oh wells...

so then, any thoughts on the above exchange? i promise i won't get angry if you say that i'm being childish and immature and really, shouldn't have been angry and petty and should have just forgave her...

though really...

*[[ And they lived happily ever after... ]]*
|12:42 AM|


Saturday, August 22, 2009

Saturdays

i am now officially sick and tired of saturdays... january, please come
(saturday - hateful, dreadful, awful, sucky, irritating, tiring, frustrating, pissed me off)

i think i can survive in a mountain by myself, but of course must have internet and nice comfy place to nua... feel super antisocial when the term just started, super tempted to ignore everything and go about at my own pace, blehhh

thinking of buffet again, unagi.........

managed to hammer most of the hiragana into my brain, but hiragana memorising was supposed to be done by last wednesday and i'm supposed to be doing katakana now... the lecture is bloodly fast, by second lecture must do self study and remember hiragana, by third lecture, memorise katakana, rocks

and my timetable is.... quite awful.... i end most days at 6pm.. thursday could have been earlier if i had been allowed to ballot for the morning japanese tutorial, but noooooooo, the stupid bsp2005 tutorial was pre-allocated there and cannot be moved away at balloting round, what the hell... now i have no lunch on wednesday and friday ): okay friday will probably skip half of bsp2005 lecture to eat lunch cause frankly, the lecturer sucks...

talk about wednesday, was originally given an accounting tutorial on tues/sat (tues before recess week and sat after recess week) and for obvious reasons, i can't go for that tutorial... honestly, i was hoping that the school could pay the contract-breaking fee for me, but yeah, that's wishful thinking ): so had to go down for manual tutorial registration just to change the tutorial slots since only wednesday tutorial group is wed/wed... and the thing is, it seems like they entertain everybody, never ask for reason de... strange... in the end, the person-who-i-forgot-her-name just 硬硬 slot me into the wed slot (after i came back again at lunch =.=) so now, wed is a 10 to 6 day with zero break and midway i need to rush from business to arts... hopefully i won't get lost on my first day of tutorial

saw something funny on ivle forum, the sale of used textbook de... someone was selling her book at 22 bucks, then the buyer asked if it was available, seller said yes, then buyer went "can you give the book to me? like... for free" i laughed lah, the buyer only a bit cheapo and suagu, zomg...

hmm, blogging is good for destressing and de-sianing

maybe

*[[ And they lived happily ever after... ]]*
|11:01 PM|


Thursday, June 04, 2009

coming sunday, picnic with seven wonders at east coast

today, test drive to go to east coast

12noon, going for lunch

1215, right turn, hit curb, tore through two tires

0115, watching the towcar

cried for nearly an hour

parents never say much, father was only angry for about 5-10 minutes

useless useless useless

angle too sharp, too sharp too sharp

i do not know how to describe, the feeling when you see the tow-car fixing your car onto their truck and pulling it away, knowing that everything was your fault

my fault

everything my fault

useless lousy person

cannot even do a proper right turn after so many months

i am not driving ever again

side note, i am also not going for the picnic this sunday, do not bother trying to dissuade me, i will probably only end up crying or being sullen the whole trip, there is no point

*[[ And they lived happily ever after... ]]*
|2:09 PM|


Tuesday, March 24, 2009

i managed to write out a page and three-quarter for my part in mkting proj!

anyway, something funny happened on our trip to pool, we went to take 151 at kr terminal, so we waited (btw, leonard was late so he treated us to half a dinner each XP) and missed a bus, took the next bus 151a... but when we boarded, the ezlink system was out of order... the bus driver still usher us on board though, i think he think he can fixed the system... so he circled the buspark once, trying to fix, still cannot... at first we thought he wanted to let us down to take the next bus but he turned out of the bus park... at the traffic light, he flipped the board 151a around so that people cannot see... then =.= at the traffic light before the first bus stop, he flipped it back again... then at the first bus stop, he flipped it again! thereafter he never picked up anyone else le... and we got a free ride (: so the bus was empty, there was not much jam and he does not need to pick up people, so we got to the place pretty quickly

novita was trying to convince me to join SoC FoC =.= erm, i'm not even computing student le lehh... then she saying it's okay, not like they will check... the thing is if the freshie ask, "so what major are you taking?" or "is computing modules difficult?" how am i supposed to answer? "er, i dunno, i'm not computing school, but i kenna pulled over?" so anyway, is actually yihong asked novita to join as OGL cause they're lacking in girls =.= ehh, well, if novita asked yihong who will ask the recruitment in charge that it's okay for non-soc people to join, then maybe i'll go (provided she'll meet me on the mrt on the day itself!)

ate pizza hut for dinner and we displayed the typical cheapo attitude... cause they had this smart choice meal thing but never write timing and we were thinking is it for the whole day... if it is then we'll eat, if not we'll walk away... hahah, it was and we went it... took quite some time to decide what to eat (leonard even went "eh, does girls always take so long to decide what to eat?") we ordered three meals with two sides, criss-cross fries and garlic bread... our ordering drinks was v funny
me: we can have any of the soft drinks right
server: yes, you can choose 7up, coke, root beer or...miranda orange
me: okay, i'll like a root bear
server: sure *scribble*
novita: er, make that two
leonard: three
then we started laughing

anyway, we waited for quite some time, i think maybe abt 25 min after we ordered, they came and tell us their oven break down for a while and whatever they are cooking have to be recooked... we were thinking they should give us discount since we had to wait so long... so waited waited waited and then suddenly they served us some star hashbrown thing... at first we thought it's complimentary since they made us wait but we didn't dare to eat, went to ask another server and she went about asking why we had that... turned out that they don't have the fries and served us this instead, the reason is cause they are both potatoes... erm hello, hashbrown and fries are v v different... besides, if they don't have, shouldn't they ask us whether we want something else instead of just replacing it... anyway, we rejected the hashbrown and went back to waiting for our food... novita's and mine pasta came a short while later and we started eating... halfway through, they tried to serve us six piece wing... but we said not ours... continued eating, and then they tried to serve us the wing again =.= leonard's baked rice came v late but he ate damn fast, eating the hot rice like nobody's business... i think he finished his baked rice in around 5 mins...

asked for the bill, which also took quite some time... and our bill still have the criss cross fries and the six piece wing... the manager had to come and correct the bill... leonard was double checking the bill just in case...

went to pool, and we were late for half an hour like that... amazingly, the president was there! wao... then he started psychoing us to join the committee... hahah, the thing is, during dinner, we were already talking about it and saying that since it's a free position, we should join... so when the pres start to psycho us, we went and ask some question about the position... apparently, committee members have free training O.O then he say actually not a lot of things to do but then cause he's involved in alot of things so it actually don't feel like alot =.=

learnt some new rules from the coach, apparently must call which ball you want to go into which hole... if something else went it or the ball didn't go into that hole, it's a foul and it's the other person's turn... blehh, so tyco no longer works, hurr hurr

nearing the end, abt 9.35, novita started going "assignment six assignment six!" at first i couldn't really hear what's she saying, keep hearing simon says... then i was super blur... we hurriedly started another game (cause that time, leonard not done yet i think), then novita became super zai... she v quickly started shooting in those that don't seemed likely to go in, we were done before 9.45, damn good

woke up this morning (tuesday), feeling like i half slept throughout the night... then my thighs and knees started hurting and it was a pain to stand... had to do some stretching... managed to make it to 96 before it started hurting again... and seeing that have to use the leg that hurt to support my weight in the bus, wah torture... mrt was equally crowded but standing on the inside is better, cushioned and blocked by some other people so that no one will squeeze you around... attempted to sleep on the mrt but the laptop was being a bother and like can't really support it... sigh...

now in dsc tutorial, and most of my answers are correct, yay!

*[[ And they lived happily ever after... ]]*
|9:17 AM|


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