I'm lazy again. But because of my resolution to at least update my blog once per day (partly because if i don't, my traffic will go way down down down down down), i will not succumb to the temptations of slacking! So here's another lazy (but good!) post again.

Went through my emails to see if Detective Lukey can once again be in action today but sadly there's no mysterious cases or hoax emails for me to crack my brains on. However, there's these pictures of these cute little fellows that i found:





The emails says that these koala bears got no other way to find water or to cool down due to the overly hot temperature in Australia. They now have no choice but to approach humans for water! How about that?

I guess the next thing you'll know would be having rats, cockroaches, dragonflies or any other "cute" creatures that we normally find around the place we're living coming into our room looking for water. Which make living in Australia so much more better. At least they have koala bears.


Okay, i guess now is a better time than never to save more electricity and do something for global warming.

I hate exams.

I hate i hate and i hate exams.

I know the hating exams part is hardly original (it probably existed since the birth of exams) and there are kazillion blog entries about hating exams in the kazillion blogs out there. Probably the only thing that i share in common with all those bloggers out there is the unstoppable desire to tear the fellow who invented exams into pieces. Or maybe make him sit for exams eternally. Something like the hell concept where offenders are are repeatedly punished with the acts that they have done in real life. 

(Bill Gates will have to endure repeated Windows crashing i guess)

Making the inventor of exams endure his creation again and again and again and again and again...

Alright, that might be too cruel. That poor dude was probably trying to invent a system based on equality of opportunity and didn't know it'll end up as some sort of child torturing tool. So i think i'll just let him off.

Besides, like it or not, examinations are here to stay. Judging by our society today, i don't anticipate it to disappear any time soon too. So which brings us to my next important point, how to deal with examinations! Like the old saying that goes, "If you can't beat them, join them!"

So on this special edition Lukey's Ranting blog post, Professor Lukey will teach you the way to deal, like and cope with your exams! Please pay attention!

Ways To Overcome Examination Fear and Phobia and actually like it!

1. Keep repeating the words, "I Like Going For Examinations" for consecutively for 2 hours each day for the rest of your schooling period. This method works on a concept called self visualization that allows you to partially dupe yourself into believing that you actually like examinations!

2. Treat exams as a way to earn extra pocket money! Strike a deal with your parents saying that for every A you get in exams, your parents will give you 100 dollars. And the deal could also be extended to include more family members. There more family members you could persuade to sign the deal with you, the money money you'll earn!

3. Poor at sports? Suck at singing? No handsome genes? Fear not! Viewing exams as your only way to gain popularity and to finally ace that pretty girl will make you like exams instantly! 

(Caution: Only works for nerds/geeks/ah piaos)

4. Kidnap Doraemon from Nobita and steal the bread looking device that allows you to literally "eat" your book! Beware of over-bloating though.

Unfortunately, this professor has only 4 workable ways for someone to like examinations. Of course, the best way to make someone not hate exams would be to study and prepare for the exams but if you're already studied and prepared for it, you wouldn't be looking for a guide not to hate examinations. So i'll hope you enjoy using these 4 techniques in the never ending quest to combat examination fears and all the best!

Caution: The above methods to like examinations are purely fictional and nonsensical. It is not supported by any relevant scientific theories or statistics. The guide should only be used if options like studying is way out of the window

I'm gonna be real lazy today since my Examination Battle is still going on and to ensure that i'll still be in university next year, it's advisable to devote the remaining of my brain power to figure out why 1 + 1 = 2. So i'll just go through my email, find something funny or outrageous, post it here, rant on it and i'm done.

Just give me a moment.

*Searches through email*

Hmm, maybe my insistence of not forwarding any funny or chain emails sent to me has caused my friends to stop sending those emails to me. Aha! Got it. Check this email out:

Click on it if you can't see it clearly. Or if you're lazy, here's the the content of the email:

Hoax or not? I don't know. But it certainly seems to me that many people do believe in the fact that this poor guy has testicle cancer and out of goodwill forward on the message to 50 people in their contact list, thus increasing my inbox count to 1000+ messages, judging from the sent list in the email.

To settle this matter once and for all, the handsome detective, Sherlock Lukey decided to embark on another journey to bring to you the truth and nothing but the truth!

( Oh gosh, what happened to just a simple blog post and back to studying >.< )

Forgive me for using this picture again, but i guess everytime i mention Sherlock Lukey you'll be seeing this picture as part of a promotional campaign for my upcoming TV series, 
CSI: Lukey's Rantings  :p

Using my handsomely investigative skills, i have finally uncover the real truth behind this mysterious email. It took me painstakingly months and years to locate the clues bit by bit until i finally managed to discover the integrity of the email. 

Actually it just took me 0.17 seconds because i Google-d and well, looks like the Sherlock Lukey's intuition is correct again! Thank you, thank you!

For those who cannot see the message and is lazy to click it again, here's what it says:

I guess there's a good lesson to be learned from here.

Next time if you have someone you hate so much but couldn't do anything about it, just send a fake email forward saying that how that fella get some disease like AIDS because that fella like sleeping around and now he/she is looking for kind people to forward the email because very forwarded email will generate 20 cents to help in his/her treatment. And voila, before you know it, the person whom you hate is now famous around the world for being AIDS infected due to his/her sleeping around.

Of course, checking the details of your email could be another lesson, but i much prefer to stick with the first one.

Can you imagine it? This is my official 301st entry in this blog! A cake might be good as a celebration for my 301st blog entry. Though i may still lose out to famous blogs out there who gets tons of visitors despite having only a few dozen entries, well, at least this blog is still alive and kicking! Cheers to Lukey's Rantings!

A cake for a blog celebration, what else better can i get?

Ok maybe the paragraph up there does not need quite the imagination. How about letting your imagination fly somewhere else? Imagine this: one day, a fifteen year old girl walks up to you. She's pretty and she's hot and guess what? She wants to have sex with you! Not because you're handsome, it's just that she wants a baby, that's all. And the only way to get one is well, through sex. Unbelievable? Check out the video.



I found this video while i was blog surfing yesterday at http://jocelyn-s.blogspot.com/ and this video really captured my attention. Not because of the hot looking Victoria to clarify, though i must admit she's quite hot, but i'm sure many of us would be shocked of what is portrayed in the video. 300 times at age of 15? That must be some kind of record i must say. Me at the age of 20 have even barely touch the 1 time mark yet.

Some of us might wonder what on Earth is she thinking inside, thinking she's one ungrateful child and blaming her for doing all these kind of horrible stuff. Some of us might blame the mother for failing in her duties as a parent. Some might blame the media for portraying the belief that premarital sex is good and okay. Or maybe blaming the guys that she slept with for being unable to control themselves and exploiting her. Or blame her peers for all the bad influence.

But seriously, who's really to blame? What actually went wrong?

To be honest, i have no idea. There may be a lot of factors that eventually resulted in her situation but there's really no one major source whom we can heap the cause on. If we are seriously looking for someone to blame for what is happening, maybe we should take a look at ourselves first for failing as a society. I mean seriously, for guys especially, if a gorgeous girl were to come up to you naked and request for sex, can you say no amid all the raging testosterone? And by participating in premarital sex yourself, you are indirectly supporting the notion that premarital sex is okay.


Let the one who did no wrong before cast the first stone, yeah?

Of course, if you realized, the above video is not complete and is only part of a whole episode. One more thing is that the video is more than 6 years old. Which means the 15 year old gal must be 20 plus by now. So where is she then now? Is there an ending to the story?

Of course, to not disappoint you guys, i went for some CSI detective work on the internet using a very powerful tool that every detective must know, Google.com!

After much investigating and snooping around, finally, an answer!

From http://www.mauryshow.com/story/did-this-wild-teen-change-her.php :

"Although she stopped intentionally trying to have a baby, Vicky did get pregnant.  At seventeen years old, Vicky gave birth to a baby boy.  However, she has completely changed her ways.  Rather than stealing for her child, she has two jobs to support him.  She is also going to school.  We wish her the best of luck!"

True or not, it's up to you to believe.
Guess as long as you don't stop trying, you'll eventually get your wish right?

Someone once said that going to exam is like going to war. If this is the case, maybe i should write a letter back home! You know, before i become a "war casualty".

Dear Mummy and Daddy,

          Today was the first day of my battle. I know i had spent more than 6 months preparing for this but like they say, no matter how much preparing you do, you'll still be ill equipped for the real thing. The fact that me falling asleep whenever the Lecturer General gave his speeches did not help much. To make matters worse, i had another stomach ache again. Can you imagine that? Running away to toilet just before everyone was about to rush in. Well, you can't really blame me for the nervousness, really. I mean they have so many crazy soldiers out there who can even shoot accurately even with their eyes closed. How am i going to compete with them? Even in the midst of all the tension, i can even see this guy calmly shooting away while i was by his side panicking with a blank mind! I can imagine the University Command giving him some sort of recognition like the Dean Lister Star or the Student Achiever Cross already.

          Tomorrow i'll be sent out for another fight again This time it'll be at some Geography Ridge. Then it'll be at the Sociology Bridge and another Genes & Society Town. If i manage to survive all those, well, there's still one final score to settle at the Plains of Developmental Psychology. I can't imagine the feelings that all my comrades are going through right now. Each day, each night, most of them are hunkered down in bunkers memorizing all the war plans, strategies and tactics to defeat this enemy we like to call CAP. Me? I just think of ways to escape, if there is any.

          And yeah, in the case that i did not make it back alive, due to being unable to shoot the questions thrown at me correctly, i would like to apologize for everything i've done that may have angered both of you. And one more thing, do you all still remember the cookies that keep disappearing and you thought it was the rats doing? Well, honestly, it was me.

Yours truly, 

Luke

Chains... check!

Lock... check!

Guess there is only one thing left to do then.
Time to tie up my laptop, lock it and go study!!!!

See you guys preferably after exams! 

If i manage to make it out alive, that is.

I realized that both me and Kenny Sia (Malaysia's most famous blogger, for those who don't know) started out blogging around the same time. The only difference is Kenny Sia is now a world famous blogger with each of his post getting at least 100+ plus comments while my blog occasionally attracts one or two flies. Aside from that, there is only cobwebs and dust.

You know about houses that gets haunted because it got neglected for too long and nobody visits it? I think my blog is something similar to that. If there was a Haunted Blog competition, i think mine could easily win hands down.

His latest blog post was about being invited by the Australian Tourism Ministry to visit Tasmania (for free!), sampling the local delights there (for free!), staying in a awesome hotel (for free!) and doing some cool activities like flying-fox (for free!). Best of all is it's all free!

(you can check out the post here: http://www.kennysia.com/archives/2010/04/launceston-tasm.php)

Coming to think of it, maybe i can do an exact blog post like him about my stay in my university hostel! Well, since i'm stuck here with no other place like Tasmania to go, might as well use the situation. With the exception that i'm invited by Singapore's Ministry of Education and it's my parents are paying their a** off to cover my fees, but heck, who cares?

Introducing you to the universally designed room offered to me by the university! No need to get all jealous about your neighbor's awesome room design because both of you are sharing the same design!

Well, at least the roof doesn't leak or there's no other species (eg: cockcroach) sharing the same room with me, so it's quite okay.

The hostel also boasts an innovative toilet design! Realizing the need of constant socialization and the dangers of isolation, designers have foregone the jacuzzi, spa and bathtub designs that are so prominent in the 5 star hotels and made it a communal toilet!

You can talk and gossip about the latest news with anyone who happens to be in the toilet at the same time (bathing or shitting) which is a good thing to promote friendships among the residents! Besides, you don't have to worry about bathing alone and getting attacked by some crazed killer with a chainsaw or even a spoon!

Of course, one of the most important thing must be about the food.

One big difference about the food here and about the food you'll normally find at expensive places is that you'll normally do not dare to eat the food because it looks so nice. Here, you'll still wonder if you should eat the food, nothing to do with the food design though, it's just after the first taste of the food you'll be wondering whether it's better to stay hungry or to sacrifice your taste buds. However, sometimes the design is sufficient enough to scare you away.

Lastly, the activities that you'll be able to participate in is also an important part of the hostel life. Sadly, we do not have exciting events like flying-fox or relaxing events like visiting the spa to make the stay here more enjoyable. We do have a series of activities that is very beneficial for the mind though which is

Studying...

Studying...

and Studying...

Hmm okay, maybe there is a reason on why there is such a big gap between KennySia.com and cherhong90.blogspot.com. I guess i should just go to a corner and emo there.

You know you're terribly addicted to blogging when your exam is three days away and all you can think about is why the number of visitors to your blog is in the decline and how you can fix it.

Time to seek out professional help?

I try and try and try to be a good neighbor.

I try to tell myself that maybe the fella is a heavy sleeper, which is why he needs an alarm that rings so loudly.

But when you have an alarm ringing constantly, waking you up from your sleep or bugging you when you're studying, you can't.

And to make the living hell worse, the owner of the alarm isn't in his room. Which means you have a frigging annoying alarm ringing in an empty room thus making the whole argument that the person is a heavy sleeper and needs a loud alarm invalid.

So banging on the bugger's door won't work.

Calling him won't work either, because for some reason the dial tone goes, "Sorry the number you called is currently unavailable, please dial again later."

Time to take a deep breath and shout this out loud and proud... FML!!!!!

A very wise man once used to say, "Too much stress is not good for health. Therefore it is advisable to go out once in a while to de-stress." Ok, maybe not exactly like that sentence, but you get the idea. And when could be a better time to de-stress than one week before the exam? Which is why when 90% of other students is busy camping the libraries, lounges, tables, toilets or whatever place they can find to study. 16 brave souls from NUS decided to do something completely different and went chilling out!

To formalize the event, we even gave our outing a name!

DragonRice!!

One reason was because we're watching the movie  

How To Train Your Dragon. 

(The movie got a 98% rating at RottenTomatoes, which tells heaps about the movie's quality because very very few movies can even hit more than 90% in the first place. It's nice, simple and exciting, so go watch it! Epic awesome-ness man!)

The other reason was, well, we're having rice for dinner after the movie. Hence the name DragonRice!

(There is an alternative explanation for the event's name, according to its creator, Lim Xian You, but i'll just stick with mine cause it's less confusing)

And also to fully formalize our event besides just giving it a cool name, we also brought a Canon 50D camera to cover the event, i mean the outing, along with a full time photographer!

Mr Teh Jason, our full time photographer, not the handsome-est photographer around but at least he works for free.

That's me trying to copy the handsome Jason pose

With a cool event name and a free photographer in place, we're off to de-stress! Following our event's objective, all of the members in our group tried all sorts of activity to de-stress (aside from watching the movie and eating the rice). Among our various ventures to learn which activity helps us to de-stress the most:

1.) Helping out the security division of the shopping mall

2.) Holding a cheek pinching competition

3.) Auditioning to work part-time as lingerie models

4.) Wearing pink!

5.) Chalking up a huge sum of money on our food bill

6.) Trying to capture Mr Patrick who is extremely camera shy in our photos

As you can see, he keeps trying to run away from the photographer

7.) Kicking each others' balls. Literally

8.) Last but not least, following the popular trend of the youths in our society today, most of our members also tried acting cute, acting cool and acting like dunno what. Also, the frequency of acting cute, acting cool and acting like dunno what is further increased with the presence of the DSLR camera around.

Lukey Acting Cute

 Patrick looking cute with the lollipop

Cixin acting cute

Teh Jason trying to look cute with the tongue

Emilia trying to be cute even in the background

Vivian acting cute

Xian Yong imitating the cuteness of some Korean celebrity

Kok Weng looking chicken-y cool with his vest on his head

Sie Wee and Chenfang looking cool together (jealous... >.<)

Huang Hua and Carolyn looking cool too!

Mr Lim Xian You, cute as ever

And of course, the dunno-what pose award goes to:

Shu Hui, Erin and Eunice!

Well, in the end, despite all the activities that we tried out in our quest to de-stress, i think most of us would agree that nothing beats de-stressing as compared to hanging out together with friends. What's the point of acting cute alone anyway without your handsome friend there to take your photo? And watching movies alone can be so depressing.

Friends ROCK to the max!

Okay, de-stress time is officially over! Time to go back, stress and continue my study!