MELIA'S To-Do-LIST
Black = Melia's Writing
BLUE= Mine
1. Start working on my Art Portfolio.
(Yes! I will dig out my past art-stuff. One of my future projects will be helping Danial design his 'The Virus' characters.)
GAWD I love that novel soooo muchhhhh....Danial write FASTER !!! I wanna see Melia design my character if I get a cameo >.<
2. Start working on my novels.
(Very excited about this. Though I'm not sure if I can get myself published, but I have enough friends who support me to still wanna go ahead with this.)
You seem excited and pumped up ! I'm writing one too ^.^ But my grammar too SUCKISH, so not gonna make it public =.=
3. Start sending articles to newpapers and magazines.
(Hm, not so sure about this one. I need 'contacts', it seems.)
I WONDER....Is the publicity good for a person ???
4. Bug daddy for laptop.
(Not successful. Dad had just paid RM 5000 for our trip to Taiwan next March- which I didn't even agree to- and he's a bit worried about my driver's license as well.)
Just got one for RM3K ++ ^.^ Bugged my MOM instead...Soooo happy...
5. Get laptop.
(I'm thinking, not until next Easter. Or Christmas. Or maybe when I get a job because that's when I can pay for one.)
I already have one ^.^
6. Camwhore with laptop.
(Please.)
What's Camwhore ??? o.0
7. Clean my iPod.
(Oh, yeah hor. Almost forgot this.)
I don't really WANT an iPod
8. Go for driving lessons.
(With Mel, Daph, and James? Next Saturday! :D Fee: Around RM1K)
Too young XP RM1K IS ALOT...
9. Organize a picnic with friends.
(I WANT!! At the beach!! Guys, how's about it??? Think of the pictures we can take at sunset, omg!)
Already, 3K beach party 12 boys 1 girl from our class and 1 boy 2 girls from other classes
10. Bug daddy for camera.
(Mission: Success.)
Bug MOMMY ^.^ But have to wait, I prioritize laptop before camera
11. Get camera.
(Got it.)
NOT GOT IT
12. Take videos with camera and become vlogger like Nana.
(Not yet. Not until I get a laptop.)
My laptop has a webcam but too shy to show my FUGLY face
13. Start working on my personal music album.
(Oh yeaaah baby. Girls, wanna jam? B) )
I cracked my voice 2 years ago XO
14. Watch Ouran Host Club.
(Not until I get my own set of Ouran Host Club ORIGINAL. But I guess... Sighs. Never meant to be laaah. :'( )
Not interested in Ouran ^.^ Wonder why so many people like this anime so much ??? Izzit the twins that I keep hearing about ?
15. Buy Garth Nix's 'Keys to the Kingdom' series.
(Money problems. Sighs.)
What's Gar Nix ?
16. Get a job.
(Solution to money problems!! I wanna work with Stan! But then, transportation problems. Sighs.)
I'm a temp web designer for my piano teacher. Ima gonna get paid only if she's satisfied (and I know it's only gonna be like RM10 T.T)
17. Organize c.o.r.e.
(With Jinho around? Yeah right. We depend on him like we're a ship and he's the entire ship's bottom. Until he goes, no one will be up to the jobs like he is.)
What's CORE ?
18. Paint room.
(I have to make sure that I'm actually staying in the room for at least two more years before I invest in this. If I do, I wanna invite friends over to put their mark on my walls too! :D)
Too bored to move everything out =.=
19. Start living minimalist life- donate/sell my stuff.
(In the process. Boy, my room looks so empty without all the tonnes of BOOKS and BOOKS.)
I treasure all my LOVELY books (except academic-related ones, OF COURSE) But my mom won't let me sell them 'cuz my brother's gonna need it.
20. Stalk someone and blog about it.
(Any candidates? B) )
I STALK EVEYRONE (including you Melia)
21. Photoshoot with friends at beach, school, seaports ect.
(YES. Have to arrange this carefully though, because we will need extremely transportable transportation. Will discuss this tomorrow during outing.)
Already have one from the beach party
22. Take pictures of all my belongings and blog about them one by one in a special blog.
(YES. I think I'll start soon. :D People are so nice, give me so, so nice stuff that I MUST blog about them!!)
My belongings are not worth to blog about.
23. Lose 5 kilograms.
(In process!! Without any exams haunting me, I find that I can actually resist food quite easily. *smirks*)
Everyone is already saying I look all-bones T.T Weighing 50KG+
24. Take Grade 7 piano exam.
(Oh boy.)
Gonna take Grade 5 Pratical next July but my written exam still a long way for me to go.
25. Take up lessons for another instrument (drums/violin)
(Oh boy. Money problems again.)
Not really interested, but the Triangle looks easy.
26. Make friends with neighborhood kids.
(I already know Eugene, Julian, Benjamin and Lee Hong. My brother's playmates.)
I'm a mystery to them. They're a mystery to me.
27. Create own blog layouts.
(Oh boy. I don't think this will happen unless I get my own laptop.)
I wonder will Jega be willing to teach me how to design with Photoshop ?
28. Write thank-you notes to teachers.
(Yes! :D Will wanna do this properly!)
Oh BOYOYYY, writing Thank You notes to teachers will make me "GOOD", No way. But i still thank them from my heart. Which is now filling haemoglobin with oxygen (16=Relative Atomic Mass...YAY I studied ^.^).
29. Go out with Jeffrey (he's been bugging me about this.)
(Sorry about letting you down with the 1K dinner thing. :( After your exams, we go out, okay? :D This time I have no more excuses anyway. :P)
Who's Jeffrey ?
30. Go out with Nico (always tunda.)
(Have to contact him. That guy's been AWOL from my life since, like, long time ago.)
Dunno who's Nico
31. Start writing diary.
(YES!! Not in a public blog though. :) Diary as in, KEEP OUT, bwahaha.)
Too busy for that ^.^
32. Buy Weekday Socks to wear (NO SHARING)
(YES!! But I need money first, though.)
I don't like socks...
33. Force myself to wear my retainers.
(Forcing in progress. Though I'm suspecting that it got bent or something, because when I wear it, it doesn't fit in properly.)
I don't need retainers 'cuz I rejected them
34. LIFE camp.
(Thanks to Chinese exam, can't go. But it's okay... I think. They'd better not to laughing about inside jokes when they get home...)
Me no Likey Camp
35. Install the softwares Qay gave me for 16th birthday.
(not until I get my laptop. Those are PRECIOUS and I don't wanna waste them on a shared, virus-happy computer.)
None of my friends ever gave me a software (got 1 but I sold it for RM5 in Primary 6)
36. Force myself to visit voluntarily old folks home and Chesire House.
(Anyone interested? :) )
Ummmm.....it depends !
37. Write drama scripts.
(Yes! For next year's drama competition in school. I won't be taking part, but I'd like to provide the script...)
OMG I WANNA HELP
38. Design costumes for said drama scripts.
(Sounds fun. XD Loads of work, though.)
NO CREATIVITY, can't even draw right.
39. Design stage plans for said drama scripts.
(Loads of work here too; gotta get real creative.)
If it's background design then it's EASY =.=
40. Buy Irish Coffee and drink.
(Have to wait till I'm eighteen lah. XD)
I like coffee 'cuz of it's CREAM not CAFFEINE.
41. Cook own laksa.
(After I lose my five kilograms. Then we talk about this. See?? No appetite anymore when no more exams.)
Not gonna eat it anyways
42. Bake soft cookies.
(But this one I'm still interested. :D I wanna give them as x'mas gifts to people! I need recipe from Kavita, Kiren's sister. YUMMILICIOUS!)
Make I should invited Charissa to come over to do it with me sometimes.
43. Draw using my sidewalk chalk on nearby playground, basketball court, and jogging hill to take pictures.
(Have to check this out. I think I might get sued or something for this. Vandalism? But those are washable chalks! T__T)
I'm not a big FAN of the OUTDOORS, and bending down to write makes my back hearts XD
44. Buy roller-blades and learn to blade.
(Unlikely. Sobs. But will work on this. (: )
I have the WORSE balance in the world.
45. Help Red Team to win the first place we never had.
(Problem is, they've created ORANGE and PURPLE houses as well for next year. And a few of our core Red Team members were sent off to the new Houses. Everything is reshuffled. Hm.)
GOOD BYE RED TEAM, I leave with a heavy heart......and stomach. NO MORE YOYO !!! Worse of all no more friends and I'm stuck in Green Houe ( GAWD If I join pebarisan in Green Team next yeear....SOOOO GONNA GET LAST PLACE) So Melia, what house are you in ?
46. Bug daddy for pendrive.
(Will start bugging tonight.)
I already have one but it's filled with virus, maybe I'll snatch one at an education fair !
47. Get pendrive.
(Wait for bugging success.)
DITTO
48. Videotape mini-movies with friends to induce vomitting and intense sweating from viewers.
(:D Yes! But I need friends for this, hehe.)
I'd like to volunteer ^.^
49. Get my W300i back from daddy who always forgets about the poor thing.
(HE SAID CANNOT REPAIR!! NO!!!! I don't want a newer, better handphone, I want my W300i!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *infinite exclamation marks*)
I have neither of them
50. START READING BIBLE DAILY AND FASTING WEEKLY.
(Oops. XS)
Tried and Failed
51. Blend fruits to make fruit juice.
(Need a blender...)
Not a very big FAN of Juice
52. Learn how to make milkshakes.
(Need a blender...)
Good Idea !
53. Make puppets and a stage.
(:D YES! But what for? :O)
Not a kid anymore
54. Make dolls and make clothes for said dolls.
(YES! :D Oh, by the way, all my childhood barbie dolls were given away. Mum thought they were my sisters, so she got permission from my sister to give away my dolls. No comment.)
Boys don't DO DOLLS
55. Spend days in library.
(<3)>
OK As long as I'm not gonna do "Check Stock"
Lolz, is this overly ambiguous ? Well, you do have ALOT (more than me) of time left, I only have about 3 weeks left. And then it's Form 4 HELL - o. Chemistry is easy but the having-to-memorize-everything-for-every-known-element is hard. DON'T GET ME STARTED ON ADD MATHS...I could write a whole page of insults about it and still feel energized.
Now that I'm at home, I'm bored and have nothing to do but to play the computer, but am TOO lazy to finish my tuition homework...Ima gonna learn how to do HMTL coding 'cuz I'm sure it'll be a vital tool in my future despite being good at nothing. I saw the Facebook Career page. Looks like a pretty sweet job to me. A few people solved their coding puzzle like PHP puzzles and got hired. And they have hack-a-thons, you code and create a new program for the whole night 'cuz everyone was busy in the morning, then everyone sit in different groups and start coding while drinking alot of RED BULL. >.<>.<>I was an out-of-work animator looking for a job here in Tampa Bay (which is not a hub for animation so I didn't hold out much hope) and against all odds I saw an ad on Craigslist looking for local talent to animate using Flash.
I just happen to specialize in Flash in college, so I figured I would send in my resume and portfolio, not expecting anything back. Less than an hour later I got an e-mail from a guy calling himself Galanoth asking when a good time to call would be.
The next day I was at the mall drawing people in the food court when I got a call from Artix and Galanoth, explaining what AdventureQuest was (it was our only game at the time), and could I come to "the office" to try out. I agreed.
I arrived at "the office" only to find out that it was Artix's house... specifically his dining room table. I was dubious.
I went inside and Artix introduced me to the team (at that time it was Artix, Gal, Zhoom and Safiria). Artix asked me to take a little test. He sat me down in the back room and asked me if I could draw a helm. He left me to my devices and I drew the best helm that I could, my hands shaking. If you look at the helm you can sven see where my hands were shaking when I was drawing the plume.
A minute later I came out: "Oh, did you need something else to get started?", Artix asked. "Nope, i'm done," I replied and showed him the helm.
The next day I began my week long trial employment by drawing 200 swords and Artix and I invented the Sneevi for the new secret project (DragonFable). Seven days later, Artix offered me a job as an artist for AE and I did a little happy dance. I have always been a gamer but never in my wildest dreams had I hoped or imagined that I would actually be MAKING a video game!
And here's one of the busiest weeks there at Artix Entertainment (who's name is about to be changed into BattleOn Games) Written by CEO, Adam Bohn a.k.a Artix Von Krieger: (I recommend if you're gonna read, you better wear your reading glasses)
AdventureQuest Worlds
It is LIVE! As I write to you it is Friday the 13th and 28,000 players are online rocking out to a music concert inside of our web-based multiplayer game, AdventureQuest Worlds. In a few moments the song will end, and they will all put on giant “deady” bear costumes and destroy an island full of undead. The reward for teaming up and bringing down the box will be a key that opens a treasure chest full of unlucky weapons, pets and items. However… if you asked me what we were going to release just 4 days ago on Monday… I would have said, “No idea, let me see if there are any good ideas on the forums.” This is the secret, behind-the-scenes story of a real, regular release week at the studio of Artix Entertainment.
My name is Artix Krieger (Or in that real-world thing people keep talking about -- Adam Bohn). On a release week we drop all the ego-fluffing titles and are ready to do whatever it takes to make the best game for our players. Note: For over 6 years and for all 4 of our online games… every week is a release week.
This story starts last weekend when I put up a post saying, “OMG! Next week is Friday the 13th!” Superstitious gamers from all over the world know Friday the 13th is the most unlucky day of the year. We are anxious to celebrate and throw a special event for every special day we can. Needless to say the players responded with an endless sea of great ideas. Some of them were things we have done in the past. Some of them were brilliant but would require re-coding our entire game. (Probably worth it.) Last time, we threw a live event with musical guest star Voltaire. Why not turn this into a tradition?
Voltaire was on tour. He had just finished playing a show in Mexico when I talked to him on the phone. He said he was interested and offered to go to the recording studio on Tuesday when he got back. It is amazing that he will make up all new lyrics based on the game and re-sing the song with it. All we had to do was pick a song. We chose "Day of the Dead" since we had just missed the holiday of the same name on the 1st.
Later on Monday, I met with Cysero, who is currently in charge of AQWorlds. We brain stormed and reviewed the player responses. Then he put his headphones on and starting writing. Less than 2 hours letter he sent out a battle plan to the team. Meanwhile, this is an important week. We just acquired another gaming company and the new team was visiting the studio for the first time. With only 3 weeks left to launch their game we had to do a lot. This happened to include the creation of our new master account system… which would unify all of our games. One login and password to rule them all! If that was not enough, we also were going to create our first television commercial that week. Our controller (I do prefer calling him supreme ultimate accountant lord) asked, “Wow, great. What company did you hire to make the commercial?” There was an awkward pause. He suddenly looked panicked and said, “Oh no….”. I smiled. We do everything ourselves. Galanoth, the head of the original AdventureQuest was in town. We stayed up until 2am in front of my home computer writing a script and doing a mockup video (Also with the help of player suggestions and fan videos – thanks Skyline). To have the commercial air on Network TV we needed to get an ESRB rating. So we had to make that video too and submit it too.
Tuesday descended into chaos. At 9am, four of us met at my house, fired up Pro Tools and proceeded to do professional voice recording for the commercial in my guest bathroom. Meanwhile Miltonius began work on all of the monsters, weapons, pets and items for the release. This included the boss monster and a super unlucky rabbit who was missing all four of his lucky rabbit’s feet. We need enough items so that our free players and our paid members all get something new. J6 also had four days to create a skull themed stage in our main town, an animated band and an entire new jungle zone with destructible terrain. We also needed marketing materials… because we really wanted more than my Mom to show up for the event. This may sound easy so far… but perhaps you forgot about the programming part.
We did not have the song or art done yet. So programming had to be done “blind”. Zhoom is one of our two legendary super coders. He effortlessly pulls of miracles every week so this would be a no brainer for him. Except he had to deadline to finish embedding AQWorlds into the Tagged social networking site by Tuesday night, and then he had to switch gears and work on the newly acquired game. He was converting their entire database from MySQL to MSSQL and all of their code pages from PHP to ASP. Then move on to helping rig their system to support multiple servers. So, he was out. Fortunately, just like in Yugioh, we always keep our strongest card until the last moment. Er… scratch that. Unfortunately, the other legendary super coder, Minimal, was in the middle of a complete game-rewrite (see, we could have used some of those player suggestions after all.) He just launched our first Test Server where the players got to try out PvP and Stats. He was not planning on opening it until Thursday, but it opened up in a 3 hour special test event after being coerced by a flood of LOL-catz posted by the players.
That left Lucien. He is a hybrid artist, animator, programmer. No problem. All he had to do was figure out to get the animated event to run every hour, on the hour for all players. (Which we suddenly decided we needed on Wednesday.) We also needed a system wide message to warn players when it was about to start. Um, and add an unhackable button to automatically equip the Deady bear costumes. Not to mention the code to make the quests, destructible terrain, concert special effects, and other little things work… like being able to make the NPC’s in the concert, across all of the servers, say something in all of the rooms at the exact same time.
The good news is a new episode of the show “V” would be on my DVR we got done with Mauy Thai Kickboxing that night. We have a deal with the martial arts school that allows anyone on our team to train there if they want. The sensei is brutal and merciless… and cracks funny comments while torturing us. I think taking this sort of beating prepares us for the rest of the week.
On Wednesday morning I got a PM from Reens. She asked how everything was going. She already knew the answer before she asked. Which is good, because Wednesdays was so crazy it took me over an hour to respond. Nothing was done. Nothing was testable. And any questions about how any piece of this release will specifically work would be met with, “Um… I am not sure yet, but we will think of something!” The teams for all four games are in the same situation with their releases. Wednesday has a funny feeling to it. Sort of like throwing a ball into the air as far as you can throw it. There is a moment when it hits the highest point that it seems to almost float. You do not know where it is going to land… or whose window it is going to break… but you sure know it is coming down! There is only one day left between us and Friday… and then a player showed up at the studio.
We have had a few visitors at our office. I have been shadowed by young players whose parents flew them in from New York and California. We even had an entire school come visit once. (Yes, it was VERY cramped.) One of my favorite memories was a young girl who was brought by her mother on her birthday. This is not the sort of thing we normally do. But they were visiting from out of town… her mother called every day for a week. When I finally heard about this, we dropped everything we were doing and got her a cake, card and inevitably went over-board hurling our remaining out-of-print swag at her. Which reminds me, we celebrated a double birthday on this day too -- Zazul from player support, and Nightwraith from the new game. As per usual we fired up the amps in the band room and sang a heavy metal happy birthday while serving cake. The cake had game characters printed on it. Wow, did I get off topic.
THURSDAY is crunch day. It is the most vital and critical day of the week. We cannot afford to lose a moment of time. So naturally I had to leave for an all-day meeting.
Meanwhile, back at the studio, Cysero put on the Kamikaze headband that I bought him in Japan. He does this every Thursday. “It gets me through the week. I don’t know what I would do without it”, he says. The stress levels are running high as Thursday night approaches without a working prototype of the event. With less than 24 hours left on the clock things were looking very bad. Thursday night is mostly about faith. Beleen had just finished our email newsletter and turned in 3 articles for game related websites. She made the mistake of asking me to proof-read them. I do not know why I am compelled to rewrite everything I touch (For example: you should see how many times I rewrote this story). We started posting what we had available to promote the event on Twitter, Facebook, Myspace. If you had seen how little was actually working went we left to go get beat up at Martial Arts class… you would have blinked twice, allowed for an awkward pause, then burst out laughing. There was good news though. Voltaire called. We have a song!
During my meetings today I met with our marketing guru and business advisors to work on “big picture” items. Like buying more ads for the games, turning down more investors, coming up with next year’s project list, and drawing little stick figures. It takes a lot of strength to get excited about tomorrow’s completely uncompleted release while listening to high level execs from competing game companies explain why you will be crushed like a grape in the oncoming wave of annihilation. That is why I like the show, “The Office”. Thursday night’s was a pretty good episode too! But my favorite line was from the episode where Michael was negotiating an offer for Dunder Mifflin to buy his newly formed Michael Scott Paper company. “Our company is worth nothing. That’s the difference between you and I. Business isn’t about money to me, David. If tomorrow my company goes under I will just start another paper company. And then another and another and another. I have no shortage of company names.” I love that statement, because it has so much heart. Just like us… we are addicted to the players, games and the lifestyle. We would work out of a cardboard box to keep doing this… well, as long as the box had a high speed internet connection… and suddenly, it was Friday morning.
The first unlucky thing about Friday the 13th – was having to wake up early. I brought Starbucks into the studio for the early birds. We started a “play by play” on the homepage. Updated hourly or faster, it told the players every horrifying train-wreck quality mess-up we made as we struggled to make release live by 6pm. We had a lot to write about. The concert was not functioning, none of the quests worked, the player’s hair would pop through the giant Deady costume’s head. It looked like someone put a wig on its eye. We dubbed it the “Eye-wig feature.” My job was to fix the concert and add “things” that would happen as Voltaire played his song. J6 made me some last minute smoke FX and an explosion. Swarmed by bugs I was not able to add my first effect, which was Voltaire and his skeletal band poofing onto the stage, until 1pm EST. Cysero was having similar luck on his quest. 5 hours remained until launch.
We played musical chairs. Up until today the team had been pretty spread out working wherever they sat down with their laptop. Zhoom, Cysero, Llusien, and Beleen all moved into the War Room with me. Minimal, J6 and Miltonius would have sat with us too, but it is a long drive for them from Philadelphia, Canada and LA. They and roughly 60% of our 46 team members telecommute from all over the US, Canada and Europe.
After plugging my laptop into the 74” TV at the end of the conference table that we use for a monitor, we wished we had invested in some headphones instead. We listened to the same 11 seconds of the song starting a maddening gazillion times. Somehow Zhoom kept his focus through the noise and was able to setup two new servers for the game. We could not choose between the names Kabroz or Truffle for our newest moglin safe safer. These ultra safe canned-chat only servers are always named after our popular in-game mascot creatures called Moglins. So we let the players vote. It was really close. Also, Zhoom rigged prepared our Content Delivery Network (CDN) to offload the strain of tens of thousands of players loading the giant concert/music file… at the exact same time… every hour….
At 3:30pm, Safiria and Nythera finished answering thousands of player emails. They brought their laptops into the war room to help. We heard a cheer in the other room. DragonFable’s release had just gone live. MechQuest was about to go live too. I was biting into a luke-warm piece of non-dairy pizza as Adobe Flash found new creative ways to try and break both my file and my spirit. What we were doing was pretty crazy in the first place. We load a map file. Then we load players into that map. We also have game characters built into that map. THEN… we load a music file along with a script that makes everyone sing along and dance to the song. Needless to say, it all broke.
The room was as busy as a military command bunker in the middle of World War 3. The phone rang with Voltaire’s name on the caller ID at 5pm. I remember clearly because Safiria answered and I could hear her guiding him to the development server right as we crashed it. Someone hit a button and wiped out the game in a wave of errors. From the last few paragraphs you might have noticed – I have no idea what anyone else is doing. There is not a lot of idle time while broadcasting the countdown date to all of the players, updating the homepage, tweeting, and trying to resist the urge to see if I can buy my Prime Downtown Lot in Mafia wars yet. We have been doing this together for a long time though. If there is one thing I know, it is… WHAT DO YOU MEAN IT IS 5:45!? Prepare to roll all files live! Server restart in 5 minutes!
That is exactly how it happens.
See, the concert event is set for every hour on the hour. So if we are not up at 5:50, the players will not have time to get back online before 6:00pm when the first concert begins. There is exactly 1 minute and 15 seconds of testing on the staging server before we “roll” the files live. Worse yet, for obvious reasons, the final version of the file cannot have any of the developer test buttons still on it. So there is not actually anyway to see if that fancy CDN stuff works. Or… to see if ANYTHING would work. Except to go to the concert alongside the players at 6pm… and find out together! Exciting? Definitely. This is my favorite part of every week!
Zhoom says, “Alright. Bringing the servers back up.” At 5:59 Voltaire’s message to greet the players is broadcast to all of the servers. There was moment of silence….
Two hours later I got a call from my girlfriend who drove over to my place, and then accidentally locked herself out of my house while walking my undead slaying battle-Pomeranian, Daimyo. She is so sweet. She knew I would be working late with the team. In fact, she was here during the last Friday the 13th event where we crashed not only the AQWorlds servers but ALL the games on our network on that fateful launch 6 months ago.
Not tonight! The players cheered and messaged us with “Best Friday the 13th ever”! They loved the concert and even more people showed up for the later shows. We have never had a flawless, lagless release before. (Not counting that, um, “Eye wig feature” of course.) The entire team did such an amazing job. Including those mentioned in this article and all of the folks you have not heard of… yet. Voltaire, had not seen the event until it went live either. He was amazed we pulled it off in such little time and congratulated the team for all their hard work. Cysero, at long last took off his Kamikaze headband and he pressed the power button on his laptop. At 5:30am the next morning a few of us were still online. Rocking out with the players at the hourly concert.
What are we going to do next week in AdventureQuest Worlds? No idea, let me see if there are any good ideas on the forums. Did I mention we have been doing this for 6 years ?
Did you make it here by reading all that or did you just scroll down here ?
How about my To-Do-List ?:
1. Finish Website
(The website that I'm working on for my teacher)
2. Learn how to use Photoshop
(Jega, plz teach me ^.^)
3.Learn HTML to a whole new LVL
(My HTML is still noobish, but I wanna learn how to do all those FANCY features)
4.Be able to play Maple Story again
(I miss that game soooo much T.T And now it's incompatible with Window 7
5.Finish Chemistry Chapter 3
(I think I'll read and finish till Chapter 3 today but finishing Chapter 4 would be even better)
6.UNDERSTAND ADD MATHS
(I don't really care how much progress I make about this Subject but I just need to understand, thats all)
7.Return TYY's File
(Accidentely forgot to return TYY's Report File on the last day and we need to plan to meet together when we go take our PMR Results. But we haven't planned the time yet and I lost her number T.T)
8.Get Good PMR Results
(Though it's already decided I really wish I got an average result, getting 1st in class but failing PMR is not gonna help get me into a Science Stream Class...)
9.Prepare myself for SPM
(Let myself go to a waste like in the past 3 years is NOT gonna happen again)
10.Go to more outings
(Outings with friends are expensive but it sure is FUN !)
11.BUY Dance Dance Revolution
(Addicted to the game, I wish I can BUY it but it's expensive. But it's quite effective as a work-out tool, some schools in Canada...i think..use them for their fitness program...Trade in fats with bad eye sight)
12.Go get a hair cut for GAWD sake
(Haven't gotten one in almost 2 months and my hair is getting un-controlable...Would've gone to SNIPS but there was no one to accompany me, and organizing a trip would be FAR too complicated for me)
13.Get a CAMERA
(After seeing Nana's Sony Ixus, I can't wait to get a camera !!! It'll be a new way to blog ^.^ And the photos taken are much better...)
14.Spend some time with my beloved
(She's not allowed to go on ANY outings so I can't see her for like....2 months T.T)
15.Continue my novel
(One of my greatest weakness is called "Procrastination" which leads to "Discontinuity". I wish I can REALLY finish my novel 'cuz I've though of a plot that'd fit 2 books but my dull vocabulary prevents me from doing much. Inspired by Danial ! Melia release yours faster, I wanna read)
16.Pass my Grade 5 Practical Exam
(I'm soooo nervous about this one, 150 marks total, I need to get at 100% to pass. Worse of all, my cousin took the exam this year and failed and Andre barely passed, and he's a pro !)
17.Get 1st,2nd or 3rd at next year's Music Festival
(Got 1st place this year but I dunno what will happen next year. I duet with Andre, I guess that's why I won, 'cuz Andre is on MY side...)
18.Get the rank AJK in any of my kokum
(Well, I AMMMM Form 4 so I should get one, I hope...Cikgu Zahirah did say she was gonna recommend me for AJK something something....not a core AJK though)
19.Bake a cake or cookies
(Inspired by Melia. Gonna get some ingredients and bake bake bake !!! With 1 of my friends. 2 or more will just be a disaster)
20.Learn more Japanese songs to play on the Piano
(I love Japanese songs and I'd love to play them but my teachers just don't like them that much, so they're not very WILLING to teach me T.T)
21.Reduce pimples on my face
(Don't even try convincing me to go for facial, my mom already tried doing that about a hundred times already and it never worked on me. I'm just using the thing that they stick on your nose then wait for like 15 min and then tear it off. I practically put it on for like 2 hours 'cuz of hardcore computer gaming. Ouch ! That's gonna sting.)
22.Figure out my ambition
(Well, a lot of people say they don't know mainly because they don't know what they are capable of now and in the future. I wanna figure mine out =.=)
23.Get an iPod
(It's really just an extra since I don't really listen to songs wherever I go so I'd get one MAYBE if I got to college. The downloading part is the worse since my Internet connection is sooooo SLOW)
24. GO TO COLLEGE
(Should I ? Of course I should. I'm just too scared later my brain gets overloaded and I go mad and starts to drink and SMOKE)
25. Take care of new laptop
(Now and always...)
26.Buy more books
(Most related to HTML, I saw a really good and hilarious one in KL that day but it cost around RM130+. Still ,it's a good try to TRY it out)
27.Get to a better class
(I hope I go to a better class, not that I don't like the students in 3K but my mom doesn't really like. At first, she said on the first day of school:"so what class did you get into ? 3 Sabar ?" "3K" "Nah See...I told you, you blah blah blah"
But now, she's like, "I'd be good if you can get into at least 1K" to my brother since he's in the Best Class in primary 6 but only got 4As and I got 5As last time while I'm in the 2nd best class...)
28.Rock in Rock Riot
(It's an easier alternative of DDR and it's fun. I reconfigured the keys so I only need 1 hand to play)
29.Earn Some Money
(This SOOOO spells out JOB. But the holidays are almost over so I can't find one and probably won't next year 'cuz SPM is in the year after.)
30.Fit In !!!
(Hope I can fit in next year XP)
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