Settler’s Cafe

Anyone heard of this place? I spent last friday there and really enjoyed myself. dunno what to say other than, its a really cool place to be in! On the surface, it may not seem much though. Basically what you do there is BOARD GAMES! yeah. really cool board games that people usually don’t find elsewhere.

The fun is we had free flow of drinks and a meal for just 10bucks, from 2-6pm. 4hrs of solid gaming and it still wasn’t enough. So many games to try and enjoy, ranging from knights of camelot to errm.. settlers of something. and there’s a choice of drinks too, coke or green tea.

Shalln’t bore you with e details and rules of the games here =P but one day, i might arrange an outing there for a grp of you. till then

New table?

Saw this corner workstation at ikea recently, and i kinda liked it, espacially with all the additional lightings and stuff as shown in the display model. Wonder if i should get it. Afterall, my room's furniture are getting rather old, and a new look might just spice things up abit

My friend suggested an alternative, but the design was minimalistic, and costed alot more (nope i won't mention prices here) haha. Regardless, we did a blueprint of my room, and several proposed rearrangements to fit the new table. If i feel like it, i might add another glass panel for my laptop as well, it all depends on SPACE and my budget.

Another problem might be the lightings that looks so good in the display model. They're halogen bulbs! Which means lotsa heat when i turn them on. I'll need to find somewhere to put a fan to cool em down, or i might have to have my aircon on everytime i step into the room, not an idea.

Lastly, i guess this time, i'm gonna do the electrical wiring properly. I already have in mind a plan to fit all the cables snugly, with PROPER switches so i don't have to reach back everytime i feel like flicking a switch on or off. I might decide to redo the networking cables too, as they've been in disarray since the last rearrangement. And i have to throw more stuff. Not including the 8bags of stuff i threw away in my last packing(a few days ago)

Just to add, some of the bags were so heavy, i was literally draggin them down e stairs. Hard to believe how much junk i accumulated eh? Well, believe it or not, this is one of my first packing attempts ever, aside from my parent's futile attempts to clean up the ever intensifying warzone of my room. After 8 bags, my room's still messy. Something ought to be done, but the holidays are at an end. More planning i suppose 

Walking towards etherealism

After the close-down of diary-x, and my subsequent lost of posts, i finally found a blog-host that i'm satisfied with and finally found the motivation to write the starting entry after sitting on it for awhile.

For all of you who missed out, i'm not longer in Junior College, and moved on to Polytechnic cuz i didn't like the environment there. Well, Poly isn't ideal either, i guess the grass is always greener on the other side. At first glance, it seemed ideal, i expected openness, more choice. While the latter is true, openness amongst the general populace is lacking. Sure, the environment seems open, people seem open, the problems is the seeming openness.

In fact, most people there are less open than my JC counterparts, and my encounter with silent muggers has been less than glorious. Summing it up simply, poly seems to be a "all-talk, no action" type of school. People there pose, act, and try to attract attention. They lack originality, and typically employ herd mentality. Just not-my-type of people.

Unlike secondary school, where i faced waves of politics and group disagreements, you can expect the opposite here, where most people lack substance and pose more often than work. Here, i get to pass my ideas across very easily, even when i question its credibility. In fact, i seem to be the only person in my group who actively tries to propose and reject ideas.

Another thing i encountered is the different thinking of seemingly everyone around me. I.e. Accounting. The starting lessons were harder to absorb as they were missing many links, but it gradually got easier for me. It was the opposite for others, who found it getting progressively harder as more gaps were filled, and links created, possibiliy due to an increase in number of concepts

Furthermore, the topic of sexuality seems to remain a taboo everywhere i go. I've found people here, who haven't heard of vibrators, hentai anime, tampons. give me a break. I also encountered people who'll insist that masturbation is wrong no matter what you throw at them, health benefits, enjoyment?

Simply, most people there don't think like me, and from what you've read, definately don't fufil my criterias. Unfortunately, i've already attracted a lunch group. Sometimes i wonder if i ought to try isolation, or should i actively try to find my ideal clique while attracting unwanted attention?