(o1) Describe about urself?
That person whom everyone looks down on.

(o2) Where will you go if someone sponsors you a tour ticket?
I'd go home.

(o3) What's your favourite thing(s) to do?
Slack. Heh.

(o4) Do you think money can buy happiness?
If you think so, then you obviously have too much money.

(o5) If you can have 1 dream to come true, what would it be?
The dream of living a meaningful life.

(o6) Do you believe you can survive without money?
Yes. There is always the way of a thief.

(o7) Do you think there is such a thing called 'LOVE'? Reason?
Yeah - Losers Obviously Voting Excessively.

(o8) What's love?
You don't need to know, and neither do I.

(o9) What do you dream of doing in the future?
Staying alive.

(10)List out 3 good points about the person who tagged you.
She's got good nature, she's got fun attitude, and she has the willpower.

(11) What makes you happy?
Seeing other being happy. Or suffering. If they're my enemies. Or outright bastards.

(12) What type of person do you hate the most?
Outright bastards. >_>

(13) Where do you see yourself 10 years down the road?
In a camo uniform holding an M16 and running through the forest.

(14) At what age do you intend to get married?
It's definitely not this one.

(15) What do you think is the most important thing in your life?
Living for a purpose - one which I do not have.

(16) If you had a chance to change your life, what would you want to change?
I would want to change myself. I'm a failure.

(17) What is the thing in life that you would like to achieve?
Changing myself. Heh.

(18) The love of your life now?
I don't love anyone, and they don't love me. Full-stop.

(19) Are you courageous enough to tell a person that you like him/her?
Right about now, I'd be courageous enough to face a ghost. Which I do, anyway.

(2o) Would you rather follow your heart or mind when deciding for the right one?
Logic is power, and I follow my mind. My heart only comes in when I decide that the situation involves morale, and even that my mind does.


I'm not crazy. I'm just someone who does some extraordinary things that people don't understand.



.Arshad

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ALEXANDRIA


I just got back from Ubin yesterday. Man, it was one hell of a camp there.

The first day we set foot on the island we played an 'Amazing Race' of sorts. We ran around to four places not even 1km from each other, then marched about 2km all the way to the campsite. Most of us got tired half-way through, but when we got there we really thought it wasn't worth it. Yes, no error.

We started to pitch up our tents. I'm useless at campcraft so I just stood there holding the poles and making sure the balance doesn't tip the tent to one side while my teammates did all the tying. We only had four people, so that's three people tying fourteen knots and tightening the pole sheets in five minutes. I really felt like I loser, seriously.


KREITHOLBIEN


So after that we had our dinner. We had maggi mee. Fascinating. The CIs gave us the whole three-day ration packs and we had to decide how much we wanted to eat during the three days' meals. We settled for the bare minimum - at least one pack of maggi for every major meal.

So yeah, we accidentally went to the Sec 2 pondo to eat our dinner. No one told us otherwise, not even the CIs standing there. That night we had one hell of a scolding just for that. Fun.

The next morning we got up at 6 AM and had to fall in by 7. Not really good because the tents were uncomfortable. But hey, 4 people in a 6 man tent? Come on man, we had enough space to fit two elephants in. The tent was bare and empty except for us and our bags. Mosquitoes and ants visited us relentlessly the whole night, and some of us managed to get about an hour's worth of sleep.

Had physical training about thirty minutes later. Ran up and down the campsite. After that we had our breakfast - dry biscuits. Couldn't even eat one, but I somehow managed to stuff it in.

We didn't do much throughout the whole day except for Jetty Jump, thanks to the rain. Instead we just sat at the hall and chatted around. Our unit decided on what we were going to do for the campfire performance.

Then we went for Jetty Jump. We jumped from about three meters from a plank into the sea. Almost everyone tried it. The ones who didn't couldn't imagine what they missed. Before we jumped in, the CIs made sure we were conscious of what we were doing, then let us onto the plank.

I was in the air for about 1.5 seconds. The sea water had actually risen because of the rain, but the sun was beating down and the sea had receded since the last time I saw it. I didn't expect to be there for the last one second. Then BAM - I was in the salt water. I went in about 4 to 8 meters, then rose back up because of my life vest.

They had a rope attached to the ladder up from the sea. I grabbed onto it and screamed something to the CI who asked me if I was okay. I pulled on the rope (even though I could swim) and went back up to my squad. Ridhwan was already soaking. He had jumped before I did. He saw me soaked and he grinned. Then he became all EMO again. Guess what? I EMOed with him. LOL!!

So anyway, like I said, it was the only activity we did. Went back and changed, took a bath while Group 5 ate dinner. Showered for thirty minutes in the sec 2 toilet because the CIs let us use the CI toilet. So yeah, Daniel, Ridwhan, me and one other guy were the only ones there - tons of space and no water shortage!! Man, we indulged like we would never take a shower again.

When the Sec 2s got here, we dried ourselves and left. When we passed by the hall our sir shouted at us "Thirty minutes, arh!". We grinned. Four of us in a shower shed that can fit about eight people - and we took thirty minutes. Oh god, it was fun. We had another extra thirty minutes because they let us shower/eat for one whole hour. So while the rest of the Sec 3s complained that there was not enough water flowing from their showerheads, we were standing outside, showered and all.

Then we had dinner. Maggi Mee. Nom nom nom.

To be frank, since we had an entire hour to eat, me, Hediat and Alex dropped in three whole packets of maggi mee and baked it till it was dry and sticky - then we ate until we couldn't. Our group CI came by later and asked us to help him finish up some biscuits.

After that, we had our campfire. I was sleepy throughout, so I wasn't as enthusiastic as I would've been. But what the heck, it was fun.

After that we were dismissed to go to bed. I mean tent. Because that's what we sleep on. A tent.

Some of the other tents got flooded because of the rain, so the people inside were either sent to sleep in other tents or at the canteen. Canteen! Lucky bastards. But anyway, Wei Xiong joined my tent, so we had five people inside. Some of us were afraid of powder on the tentage (yes, powder, not ants, but powder), so we squeezed in. Heck, fun again.

The next day, we unpitched our tents and sent the stuff back to logistics after we scrubbed every piece of equipment sparkly clean. You think that was easy? Imagine scrubbing one side of the tent sheet clean, then wondering how the hell to turn it over on the mud. Since we only had four 'actual' tent-mates, we struggled. Eventually our sit came in to help us, and everyone chipped in. Yay. >___>

After that, we had one hell of a time. We took a photo on the flag podium - an honor we couldn't resist. Few people were ever allowed on the podium, and we were one of them. Wohoo!

So after that, the unit cheered and did whoknowswhat. We fell back later into our units and gathered our bags - then we collected all those extra rations. My bag was almost overflowing and I had to pull my sleeping-bag out - I had used it as a pillow. It wasn't heavy anyway, so I put it over my main bag which could have easily weighed about ten kilos thanks to all the retained water. Then we waited. Vans came in to collect other schools, and we waited for our own vans. I sat there beside a police van and admired the mud-clogged wheel. I decided to amuse some of my friends and joked around about it. Well, they laughed, Faris said "What the hell, man?" and yeah, our van came.

The Sec 2s left first, so we took the second van. All the way back, my squad-mates and ma'am spoke in Malay. Since I didn't know a god damned shit about Malay, I didn't say anything. Yeah, they talked about me. They had no guts to talk about me in a language I understood. But I understand - their gutless morons. Chickens. Like I'd give a bloody damn.

As we boarded the boat back, no one said a word. We left Ubin behind, a distant memory we'd keep for a few years to come. Until NS, anyway. And we reached Singapore, got off the ship, and proceeded to the awaiting bus by the jetty.

I fell asleep on the bus. Wei Xiong woke me up when we reached Yew Tee. The bus was quiet. Everyone was either emo or listening to their own damned music.

We got off the bus, and we bid our farewells to each other. Oh, and we got more homework. Damn. Anyway, Ridh and Dan went to change and have their lunch. I went back home, the sordid loser I was. I went back home and thought, "Wow, and look, I'm still alive".

It was, after all, a survival camp.






.Arshad

Here it is.


AMANZIAIKA:The Story So Far Part II

As the expedition-turned-failure drifted forward into space, the people inside the crafts discovered that they were the only humans left in the universe. In utter desperation and with nothing to live by anymore, the humans decided, in a moment of madness, to destroy each other by detonating the fuel rods in the ships.

However, communication was severed when a large electromagnetic wave hit the ships from a nearby planet, disabling their ability to detonate themselves. They subsequently lost control of their ships, and they crashed into several desolate planets in an isolated system, some of the ships crashing into other planets much further away.

The original crash land occurred in an extremely inhospitable environment on the planet of Urmaron. The planet was infested by a type of crystal that ionized and transformed any matter it touched into more copies of itself. At the time of the crash, the resulting heat-waves from the fuel cores burned the crystal away, giving the survivors some space to contemplate on.

The second crash occurred in an abandoned planet called Mar Sara, after the Craft Wars that occurred in the area some 32 millennia ago. The survivors there found themselves in a planet much like present-day Earth. The survivors began to rebuild their foundations and attempted to start another civilization, and ultimately survive from the supposed fate they thought occurred to the first group of ships.

The Urmaron survivors struggled to survive in the environment they were thrust into. They hopes began to drop and thoughts of imminent doom crept into their minds when the fuel cores began to fail.

However, an engineer managed to repair a piece of equipment and altered it to facilitate crude communication between them and whoever was out there that could save them. The engineer attempted to call for help, but the survivors’ hopes continued falling lower as no response was heard – a sign that the others had already died.

However, after repeated attempts, and nearly giving up all hope, the survivors picked up a distant response coding from a ship. The ship questioned the survivors on their location, but they could only respond to the ship about their immediate surroundings.

The ship, unknown to them but was in fact Deep Space Relay, configured their communications to facilitate maximum coverage and gave them details on the deadly crystals the survivors had to cope with, showing them how the crystals could be utilized to rebuild.

Within about two centuries, both colonies of survivors had rebuilt their infrastructures and began to expand to other planets. The Mar Sara survivors – the Confederacy – focused on technology and organization, building up a strong defense system out of fear that the past would repeat itself.

The Urmaron survivors built up their civilization with the mysterious crystal they called Ichor and built an expansive empire of planets around its systems. The planets they inhabited formed the Umajon Union, or more formally known as the Union.

By the year 4982, the Urmaron survivors lost contact with Deep Space Relay, but had already advanced extremely far in Ichorian technology. Besides being deadly, Ichor was now a key factor in the Union’s military, and weaponization of Ichor lead to some interesting and new concepts of combat.

The Confederacy, however, expanded using known technology, and kept improving. As more and more planets were inhabited, more and more technological advances took place. Some of the planets had ancient technologies used by indigenous species that had died out long before the Confederacy arrived.

About three years later, 4985, the Confederacy stumbled across a lonely planet that was filled with a strange blue crystal. Upon entering the atmosphere of the planet, they found out that the crystal was extremely harmful to humans, and on further investigations was discovered to have the ability to ionize and transform certain forms of matter around it into more of itself.

However, the crystal had economic value – it was a composition of materials that could be extracted and recycled. The immense value of the crystal prompted the Confederacy to find ways to harvest the crystal. They were successful in their very first attempt – using technology found on Mar Sara, the Confederacy designed machines capable of resisting the crystal’s ionizing properties by counteracting the ionization with hyper-charged particles, which could also slice through the crystal.

Although the crystal was proposed as a solution to economic problems on some planets, the true origin of the crystal was not known. The Confederacy decided that a race of silicon-based lifeforms had previously existed in the planet, named Korhal I, and could survive in the atmosphere that surrounded it.

However, the Union fleets arrived about eighteen years later. By then, the Confederacy had begun full harvests of the crystal they termed Terranium, after it’s ability to transform terrain.

Upon first contact, the Confederacy completely flustered. The Union used technology that prominently utilized the crystal, and these made the Confederacy believe that the Union were not humans but in-fact the indigenous species originally from Korhal I.

Initially, the Union believed that it had stumbled upon an indigenous race in the planet capable of surviving in Ichor infested environments. However, on further investigation, they found out that the only forms of life there were not life forms but in fact harvest machines resonating a heavy ionic aura.

As the Union descended onto Korhal I, the Confederacy decided to sit and watch and only communicate when they communicated first. The first signs of the ‘aliens’ captured by satellite cameras showed that they were humanoid, and initial observations showed that the ‘aliens’ had “properties and thought processes that are almost human-like”.

The Union, curious about the machinery operating all alone on the planet, did not realize they were being watched until they came across the flight-path of a satellite. They also discovered that the heavy ionic fields being generated by the machinery were causing Ichor to turn volatile and recede, allowing the bonds between its molecules to weaken.

Because the Confederate knowledge of the crystal was not wide, they did not know that this caused the crystal to turn volatile, and since the entire planet surface was encrusted with the crystal, a slight alteration to the chemical fielding could cause a massive chain-reaction, causing the planet to actually detonate like a super-bomb.

The Union, however, knew this, and because some of their colonies were nearby, feared that the machinery could trigger a detonation that would affect its sister colonies. The Union immediately mobilized its militaries to rid of the ticking time-bomb’s machinery.

The Confederacy was utterly surprised at this response to its machines and could not understand why. They took it as a sign of hostility and mobilized its own militaries to retaliate.

However, since they did not know much about surviving in an environment as hostile as that in Korhal I, all the confederacy could do was bombard the Union from space. The Union, unsuspecting of such a sudden strike, fell so quickly that initially the Union believed that the planet had reached its limit and has begun the detonation process. But when they investigated, they found that the Ichor compounds were not volatile enough to even begin a hyper-charge, and turned their heads to the sky.

The Union fleet engaged the Confederate one in space, nearly decimating the Confederate fleet with its Ichorian weaponry. The Confederate lost its nerve, never having seen such weaponry before, but a silencer ship, Cradle V, infiltrated one of the Union ships and managed to capture it before retreating with the rest of the fleet.

The Union, having lost control of a transport vessel, pursued the Confederate fleet and managed to place a tracker before they lost track of the retreating fleet.

Cradle V returned heavily damaged to the nearest Confederate outpost, Yamato. On investigating the transport vessel that it had captured, the Confederacy discovered that their enemies were not aliens, but actually humans. Startled by this discovery and the fact that there had been another batch of survivors, the Confederacy was in utter confusion on how to proceed.

However, an unidentified force arrived shortly and began a massive bombardment of the Yamato. Within thirty minutes, the entire surface of Yamato was bombarded so heavily that all life was extinguished.

The Confederacy believed that the Union had proceeded with the bombardment, but a recuperation and counter-attack so fast would have been impossible considering the distance between Korhal I and Yamato. As of now, they thought, anything could have performed the vicious attack.