The Pteronophobic One

College Reopens

noreply@blogger.com (Kareema Ramli) — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 11:58:00 +0000

College has begun..

Orientation day was fairly successful..

Considering the fact that everything was done on a 'wing-it' mode..

I've got new comics drawn and written down..

But I have yet to get to my scanner..

This was what happened..

I drew the comics..

And I was about to scan it..

But then I was kidnapped by an evil caffeinated squirrel in my imaginations..

And I have yet to be returned back to my original place..

So I'm gonna have to wait for the squirrel to fall asleep so I can shave off his eyebrows and then he'll die, leaving me free to go..

THEN I get to post the comic 8D

Quest to Search for the Shadow of Colossus Disc

noreply@blogger.com (Kareema Ramli) — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 10:40:00 +0000

Isn't cute that out of ALL the games that are in their proper place, you just HAVE to always get a craving for the one that's missing?

It's like the brain has this intuitive centre with a 'hey-you-are-unaware-that-your-{item name}-is-missing-so-please-decide-to-develop-a-craving-for-it' function...

Trust me. It looked MUCH worse in real life..

(But it ain't THAT bad, really.. I made my ~~pet~~ sister clean it up afterwards.. Well.. actually most of the 'looking-for-the-disc' was done by her as well. Heh)

And this, kids, is why you want to make sure you put everything back where it belongs...........

I made a fascinating discovery, though..

Never realised I had THAT many games..

40 percent of which have never worked in the first place accumulated from those times when I was too lazy to go back to the store to get a replacement..

I could probably buy a new PS3 if I had instead saved the money for that purpose..

I shall now find a corner for myself to sulk and blame the world in comfortably..

Daddy, Can I Drive?

noreply@blogger.com (Kareema Ramli) — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 14:31:00 +0000

It's been more than a year since I got my driver's license but I have yet to be given the right to drive. As I saw where this ~~life story~~ ~~one-sided~~ conversation was headed I knew that I was as good as defeated. So after being dismissed I went up to my room and took my anger out on some innocent civilians.

Well actually to be honest, deep down, at the very deepest core of my heart I was kind of glad and somewhat relieved that they said no. I knew full well how the degree of the atrocity of my sense of direction had the potential to reach a hazardous level.

They say that human intelligence is measured based on a number of things, one of them being SPATIAL INTELLIGENCE which is responsible for sense of direction. I always imagine that if somehow they were to be able to look into my brain they would see something like this.

I was allowed to drive but only around my housing area. A dead area where the probability of encountering a fellow car per unit time is approximately one per hour. Still as for that particular moment, I was content since I had never even done that prior to the acquirement of my license.

The following year, I was out with my friends, Atif and Kanaga, to buy some stuff at the mall. Upon reaching the parking lot to go back home, Atif offered me her car key.......

My first ever REAL driving experience was heavenly. Despite the fact that it was ruthlessly tainted by Atif's paranoiac screams and the fact that my head couldn't fully reach beyond the height of the steering wheel, I had a wide grin on my face all the way.

I did make a mental note to sit on a pillow next time. My friend Tongong suggested that I should sit on an encyclopedia but I wouldn't want to disrespect 'knowledge' that way.

So from then on I would drive Atif's car from time to time and I would mysteriously forget to tell my parents about it when I got home.

However, one day I consumed a LOT of chocolates after a long while of not having any so I was basically having an uncontrollable hyperglycaemic fit. It got me jumping and flailing my arms about around the house for hours and eventually led to me telling my parents that I drove back home from the library with Atif's car. Their reaction was priceless.

I was lucky, though, that I did it during dinner. The atmosphere at the dining table in my house is usually the least tense. My family respects food as God's blessing and would refrain from saying anything nasty in front of food. The conversation ended there.

One day, I was alone at home with the maid, Bibik. My dad was at work and my mum and sister were in Jakarta. I was in the midst of exams and had no papers for that particular day. I had no classes, either. To cut things short, I HAD NOTHING TO DO. This awakened the hyperactive kid within me that was beckoning me to satisfy its thirst for absolutely pointless activity that would in no way benefit the society.

At the same time, I was having a HUGE craving for Nando's. I remembered jotting down the delivery number sometime back so I called to place an order.

I was distraught. I tried to be patient but my craving for Nando's was only getting stronger and stronger beyond all self-control. I was starting to feel hopeless and was ready to give up on life..

When out of the corner of my eye, I saw my mum's car through the window.

I considered sneaking out and back without a word but I was afraid that God would punish me and I would get into a car accident and die...

Then my dad would find out and kill my mangled corpse..

So with the knowledge that all hope of me even considering to go on my life, however bleak, rested upon my dad's approval of me driving to Jusco and devouring my beloved Nando's, I decided to call my dad to ask him if I could take the car and drive to Jusco with Bibik (I needed her to show me the way).

I expected a 'no' for sure, so after laying down my plans to squeeze myself into a washing machine full of razor blades, I called him anyway for the sole purpose of conforming to my personal need to adhere to suicidal protocols.

To my utmost delight, all he said was, "Okay. Drive slowly."

So YES..

On the twentieth of October, year two-thousand-ten...

20102010...

MY DAD LET ME DRIVE ON MY OWN!

Lady Gaga: Alien Invasion?

noreply@blogger.com (Kareema Ramli) — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 01:33:00 +0000

On March 2010 our world was invaded by an unknown creature... Its origin is uncertain but since its arrival into our world it has been gathering human followers at an alarming rate.

BEHOLD! The creature believed to be in some ritual.

Name Sex Kingdom	Lady Gaga Yet to be confirmed Unknown
Phylum	Unkown
Class	N/A
Order	Unkown
Family	Unkown
Genus	Unkown
Species Type	Unkown Grass/Abnormal
Power Plant	Hollywood
HP:	1/2
Mana Points:	82
Strength:	5
Intelligence:	Level 1 (and a half)
Luck	999999999999999999999999
Weight	Secret
Special Attack Most intelligent quote	Sing Live "Ra ra ra a-aah.. Romma.. Romma-ma.. Ga-ga.. Oo-la-la.."

Top 5 Ways to Cope with Exam Stress

noreply@blogger.com (Kareema Ramli) — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 12:40:00 +0000

So AS is upon us.. and while some of us are stressed out because they're studying away I think MOST of us who are less fortunate-as we have not been blessed with enough 'diligence'-are actually more stressed out with the fact that we're stuck at home with nothing to do thanks to the fact that the dates they set for our papers were stretched REALLY bad.. as in.. exceeds-elastic-limit bad..

No classes yet we can't really have much of a 'life' since we're bound either by commitment or sheer guilty conscience (ahem). So here's my list of top 5 ways to cope with that stress..

5. WATCH KOREAN DRAMAS

Although.. I can't really say that this is the best influence for our ~~lazy~~ young minds.. The heroes are ALWAYS CEOs of some bigshot company.. And even if they're not, and they come from some kampong and with no education they will still CEOs be in the end because some random rich man with some sort of big business will pop out of nowhere and will turn out to be their 'actual dad' or something like that (as conveyed by a particular Physics lecturer).. Or they'd maybe be superstars..

And for the girls.. since all guys will be CEOs or Superstars.. We'll all mary CEOs or Superstars.. And live happily ever after..

4. PLAY THE SIMS

Where you get to determine the fates of the people you created and be as sadistic as you like..

Maybe you could create a family..

Send the teenage child to college where all they have to do to do well is to sit on a chair and read until their performance meter is full..

Do well in college and graduate as a doctor..

Fall in love and get married (to another Sim you created yourself since all the default sims are UGLAY)..

Then you decide to build a house for them..

Find that you don't have enough money to finish it halfway since you planned it too extravagantly..

Make their parents die by flies or by building a wall around them until they starve to death or maybe by getting them bitten by a vampire and sending them out into the sun to get fried..

Get their money..

continue building..

run out of money again..

decide to start using the cheatcode 'motherlode' to instantly get $50,000. Over and over again..

If only real life had cheatcodes..... >.<

3. KILL STUFF BY SHOOTING

Ahh.. blood and gore.. How delightful <3

2. KILL STUFF BY SLICING AND STABBING THEM SENSELESS

or for those who are really THAT stressed..

he's like.. "BAH! SCREW WEAPONS! IM HAVING MY EXAMS AND I'M EMO! IMMA RIP YOUR HEAD OFF BENCH!"

1. FACEBOOK

As I am sure would be the case for everyone else.. Facebook.. You can do ANYTHING on Facebook..

From stalking people.. to poking people that will never feel it.. to gardening with plants whose leaves cannot be seen.. to keeping pets that will never defecate.. to cooking food that no one will ever eat.. to killing stuff that don't bleed.. to fighting wars you can't even see..

Be warned, though.. If this is your only method of stress relief, once you wake up from fantasy world your depression will increase by tenfolds because you'd then realise how 'takde life' you really are. =.='