strange things that dont happen evry sunday...

- bro sam scolded the congregation saying if u come spdlight 2 pass ur time, then dun bother... wah.. feels like some discipline head.. haiz
- the lady that sells yu pian mi fen treat me jared and eugene free drinks 2day..... ...... ........... wah..
- i nearly got knocked down by a car .. seems like i lost my sense of balance... n coordination.. wadeva i didnt even look in that direction... zzz
- err... ehh.. errrrr ... leet

Probability/chance

nooooo..... i lost my breastplate of valor to a warrior yesterday (in world of warcraft).. the guy not only won my valor , but he got spaulders of valor and 2 brilliant chromatic scales in that same run. In WoW, when a item drops, evry1 has a chance to roll (or pass on it), in which the computer will generate a random number 1 - 100, with the highest number among all winning the item.

So lets try to count the probability of that warrior taking all the loot happening.... figures from allakazam..

Probability of...
Finding a brillant chromatic scale off a Chromatic Whelp --> 0.299
Winning the roll against 15 people --> 0.299/ 15 = 0.001993
Finding another brillant chromatic scale off a Chromatic Whelp --> 0.299
Winning the roll against 15 people again- 0.299/ 15 = 0.001993
These 2 events happening in the same run/time --> 0.001993 * 0.001993 = 0.000003972
Finding Spaulders of valor --> 0.1353
Finding Spaulders of valor and 2 scales AT the same run/time --> 0.000003972 * 0.1353 = 0.0000005374
Finding Breastplate of valor --> 0.0656
Finding Spaulders of valor and 2 scales AT the same run/time and seeing valor drop --> 0.00000003525
Since there are 2 warriors on the raid, he will haf to roll against me, dropping the probability of him getting the valor chestpiece by 0.5
Finding Spaulders of valor and 2 scales AT the same run/time and winning valor BP against me
-----> 0.00000003525 * 0.5 = 0.00000001763

If i convert that probability, it basically means the probability of all that happening at the same time is
1 in 56,721,497 times
Ok i made a mistake im assuming there are only 2 whelps, which is wrong since there are about 20 killed per run, so i will haf to multiply the number i got by (20/2) = 10
which makes 1 in 5,672,150 times

So watch out when people say maaaybeee, they mean theres a chance/probabilty that it may happen, even if its 1 in 5 million , it can still happen. haiz to think i was still joking about about that happening 2 me n it happened..
haiz this is only a mmorg, if u think of how evrything that has happened in ur life n try 2 use probability in it, haha the number will be astronomical... by chance ???

attempts to blog

Today is Youth challenge sunday... nv heard of this kind of thing in LE b4 , ate lunch den went for the 3 pm service wearing yellow, but its 1/4 wearing yellow maybe??? The message was good, n i went home after that...
Pastor Rony said smthing like: Its not how good we are, its whether we know Christ or not.... how true, but i cant help but tink of my blog title... haha . Of course my blog title is crap .. indeed what we can see and think is so finite..... we cant seem to see wads behind the scene ( or the bigger picture )...
zzzzz this is an attempt to blog so 2 show im alive yeah.... i got a problem??? y do i remember these things?? y do i care? xtra? bleah.....
6 days to saturday, 7 days to nxt sunday......

Its all good

celebrated the birthday of Isabel, Amelia and Flannery 2day ... ........ ................... i can't tink of anything else 2 write but its all good..... ok... yesterday was the outreach 2 evergreen circle, was pretty fun n the response was better than wat i expected (maybe i was too negative) , n there's this grandpa that went missing after the programme... n we actually haf 2 split up n look 4 him... it was kinda impossible 2 find if u ask me, u noe, how limited people are .. its like we can only do so much, but i noe some1 that can do much moreeee... couldn't find him in the end but thank God he went back home the next day =D (imagine how his son felt wif his 80+ yr old father touring around town the whole nite, its not funny at all...)
yeah its all good...

Created a acc in maple but that game is too boring 4 me... its the perfect cure 4 insomia. Playing X Hero Siege on lancraft instead... using the mountain king wif avatar 4 pure ownage... i can hit 10k damage wif my aura that absorbs 200% of attack dmg per hit meaning evry hit i do i get back 20k hp!! but im always lagging in kills cuz im this melee guy that got 2 run ard..

My blog is turning 1 yr old in 1 month 10 days!!!! i juz realised yesterday that my blog is 'borned' on the 18th!! like me, jon, wq, and 'maybe jeremy if i recalled correctly' !! that mean guy told us his bday last time but use some trick 2 make evry1 forget .... very good...

MIA

Firz day doing cameras for spdlite 2day!! It was pretty fun and scary... like u noe when ur hand shakes the congre can see... n when u go live n u thot its not u or vice versa ...or when u didnt capture the whole person n stuff...but anyway .. the point is to read the lyrics!! dun look at whats in the screen ... nothing went wrong phew..
Anyway i saw a ex-spdlighter/cg member today in the toilet after spdlite... he say he come becuz of a friend ... and left b4 i could say bye properly... he told me less then 1 yr ago that he is not attending church anymore.. but at least he came 2day yea..
mia, mia, mia....... bleah i lost my blogging touch so im not typing anymore... quite alot of post recently.....

Today is Saturday

went kayaking wif my cg 2day!! i was abit late .... but i was quite shocked that there were quite a number there already... quite strange since when we meet last time, i was normally abit late but the earliest there.... n den i realised that this time its becuz the usual latecomers were not there haha.. Reached costa sands but the weather looked bad ( like always =( ) decided not to kayak firz n ended up playing polar bear... haha i got chosen as the polar bear along with Joanna and Gina but they were making "alot" of noise, so i decided to stay low hehe... N i actually won wahaha ... watching the villagers kill off each other while not a single accusation was made against me lolx, im the silent assasin /kill.... i even voted off Gina -.-
the weather got better n we get to kayak yea!! Arg too long nv exercise but it was fun hehe... n i didnt puke.. Went to eat lunch at the LJS in bedok and after that accompany Jonathan to Jeremy house.. eat papaya drink coffee there and then got 2 take cab down to LE for MS ... blah becuz i left late.. couldn't get a cab for awhile( was abt to get pissed but i will be patient :D) but managed to get in 1 and reach there with 2 mins to spare :P:P ... Ate dinner after MS n went home after i finish my dinner loh... and no im not eating the hokkien mee my mother is giving me now :O nice nice ...

feel like

...... i feel like whining .. lolz on how i got 2 drag myself 2 school evryday and wait 4 5.30 pm to come... but i wont... becuz i choose to ... not becuz i can ...
wahaha
tok about whining ... n now my blog is distorted :(... i really should count my blessings :)

the magic word...

the magic word of christianity ... its found here..
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=faith
read especially the paragraph below....

cant use logic.....

Get a life...

..... 9 am service 2day was on the divine cause.... towards the last part, pastor rony actually said smthin like, "u often hear people use this phrase "u go get a life" which was often used on lazy people hu are not doing anything"... it is oso used 2 refer 2 gamers hu stay at home for 16 hours on their com 7 days a wk or close.. ie. refered to as 'hardcore' gamers.. these people cause much discontentment among those hu cannot do so .. becuz they r often leeter as they play more, those "casual" gamers (wad they call themselves, since they haf a life, or claim to) will then cause the old argument will start on how they got work, family, friends blah blah blah. and cannot play as much n are thus lousier and take comfort by accusing those hardcore player that they haf no "life". Often when i see/hear this statement (which comes out quite often), the firz thing that come across my mind is, "What life u toking???" .. yup thats the problem, what life are u exactly toking abt.?? for what cause?? of course pastor rony went on n talked abt the "divine cause" of all christians =)
Spdlite was even more ....... , becuz i never hear this kind of message being preached b4... the heck m i tinking
back to my "life" of 9 to 5.30 evry wkday in my workcell.....

Black n White

Firz time serving at the video room 2day.... well its not supposed 2 be 2day, but miscommunication so juz ended up doing powerpt slides...
The point is 2day is special, becuz theres something wrong with the communication lines 2day, or "excessive noise" in technical terms. So all the cameras cannot connect 2 the mixer, tried 2 vaccum the room but it went from poor signal to no signal haha... so 4 praise n worship, we flashed directly from the computer to the screen (u get 2 c the lyrics software !!) , n when its announcements, we actually got 2 manually switch from com to camera (we plucked out the wire between the com n projector n reconnect it 2 the camera, becuz the cam is not linked 2 the mixer, so the camera can use.. if u dun understand .. its ok) .. den when its time 4 the powerpoint, got 2 reconnect 2 the other com..the powerpoint is black n white becuz if got color the whole screen will screw again, was saying thats retro...
probably the firz time seeing black n white in LE ....cool sia.. zzz got sch 2morrow.

Anything...!!!!

i finally found out y im liddat!!! its because evrything oso anything!!! woot!!! so so long 2 find that out .... i got this exceptional ability to accept evrything around me thats y im anything!!! its probably trained becuz i got nothing i wan ... n thats fine becuz its anything lar... This skill is probably trained thats y xtra.. thats y im so resistant 2 change ... becuz its ANYTHING!!!!
den again they say staying content is good..... doing nothing muz be bad
remember... whateva happens................. anything!!!!111

and so xtra was born....

stuff like this dun deserve a title

O.o O.o O.o O.o .... 2day is the day where my NSC training officially start.. report sch at 9 am
the trainer frm the company (festo) dropped by 2 give us a training lesson at 10+ am.. so 2 give a basic idea of wad its abt..

NSC stands 4 National Skills Competition n will be held next year... n since im taking part in the mechatronics component...
Mechatronics can be spelt as Mecha-tronics ... Mecha means mechanics and tronics means electronics ... Yeah!! i finally found a way 2 explain wad my course means after 2 year muahaha.. ok so there will be 2 people per team n we are supposed 2 assemble(mechanic part) and program (electronics part) an automated system ...(think mini factory). There is the distribution, testing, handling, processing and sorting of stuff. The trainer taught on the the basics of programming these, caught it quite quickly cuz its similar 2 wad i learnt, but it went on all the way to 5.30 pm wif only a 15 minutes lunch break (supposed 1 hr) as the canteen is full so might as well dun eat n go back...so 2wards the end my mind actually shutdown... zzz. Learnt the handling part today, and we actually haf to know the rest by monday when the trainer returns. N 2day is thursday, so i only got 2morrow 2 learn all remaining 4 parts.. hardcore i must say.....

Ohh lastly im most likely doing the mechanical part as my partner specialises in programming, n according to past results, its always the mechanical portion that drag us down... i guess those people r leet huh... ITE people (fast fingers) , and NYP (they were the first) previous round actually haf this guy that can do programming without looking at his screen, heck, teacher say supposed 2 learn until it become like a reflex (like that guy). I cant even play time crisis 2 looking away , hey i tried to say hi while playing... lost a life =(, n failed to finish the game.But mostly its pretty reflex tho, tats cuz i play for like 7 yrs already. Even then, its still far from perfect, like i nv will be. The above paragraph only shows how liable i will be, n thats the true meaning of liability..

SIP

2day is my firz day of my SIP (Student Internship Program) which is training 4 NSC.
Basically move things around 2 my work cell...

I also got transfered to video crew 4 my tech team in church .... play wif cameras n lyrics n slides now...
zzz 9 to 5.30 evry weekday .......
boringz.

Born like that

watched a programme on this research on the effect of guides on babies....
Setting: A baby was getting to his mother, on this track ... with a customised slope.... The slope can be set at different angles (no slope,gentle slope, steep slope etc). So the research was done with 3 varying degrees of steepness, the gentle, the in between(middle) and a very steep one.
The gentle:
As the baby approached the slope, his mother (in front) instructed the baby to stop walking. At first, he stopped. However , after some hesitation (he probably thought that he can walk down), he contined to walked down the slope . Despite his mother repeated instructions to stop, he moved slowly and eventaully reached his mother.
The steep:
As the baby approached the slope, his mum instructed him to continue walking. He stopped n refused to move. No matter how hard his mum tried to persuade him to get down the slope, he refused.
The in between:
As the baby approached the slope, his mum asked him to continue walking. He didnt really walked at first as he was not sure if he can make it across, but his mother persuaded him to walk. Step by step he moved down the slope, with his mum constantly reassuring that he can make it. He got to his mum finally.
The conclusion of this research is that they only listen to their guides/mentors when that are unsure of their situation, however, in cases where they are not, they are able to make the desicions themselves.

So was he being rebellious or excercising his survival instincts?? Born like that to listen only when in doubt . Ha.

Failure is not an option

"Adapt or lose out" thats the law of nature i suppose.. spieces that are able 2 adapt to changes in their surroundings faster often gain the upperhand over their fellow mates.. those who fail to often ended up dead/xtra. For example, people who issist on fury/arms in pvp often ended weaker than those who follow the trend and went arms/fury. They are often considered weaker compared 2 the other warriors (am i out of point?? sorry...) Even if there are exceptions, like good fury warriors, they are always arms/fury warriors that will be better becuz there are designed that way. Those fury warriors will than hope for a change in their talent trees by blizzard(ie. surroundings), something they do not have control of... but nonetheless hope for a buff in their trees even though its not confirmed n thus remain stubborn.

Ok sorry again if u fail to understand/dunnoe what im toking about...Went for 11 am service today only haha...
Failure is not an option -Darth Vader. Hey he said that in one of the shows(episode 4 i tink) n im watching star wars 2morrow ... yay!

Pointless computer programs

http://www.mess.be/inickgenwuname.php
hey check this out when u run out of online nicks haha
Cool man
XtraXtraXtra from this day forward you you will also be known as
"Unlucky Hunter"
and
Xtra from this day forward you you will also be known as
"Violent Menace"
Sivam Murthy from this day forward you you will also be known as
"Wacko Assassin"

hahahaha. quite funny what a few random codes can do to my nick =( wow sivam got smthin 2 do with assassins lol.. wads the probabilty of that happening man?? the programmer doesn't noe sivam like assassins rite?? n xtraxtraxtra is unlucky??? dun curse me go away :P. n Xtra is definitely non-violent n ferendly, rite? yup, freak accidents do happen , even on websites.....

Running...

When u go runnning, do u carry ur big heavy school bag wear your old worn out shoes n ur formal clothing?
or do put that bag aside, put on ur sports attire n running shoes?

argh rotting at home i tink i gonna die 1 year later when i enter NS, haven't been running.....

This is a pointless blog post meant 2 take up space..

pointless!! waste space!! alrite i wun do it again in case u get bored ... :P
Last thing .. nice huh?

The "legacy"

So one day i decided i was too extra n decided 2 use Xtra as my online nick!! looked at wad happened after that.......
direct cut and paste from Sivam's blog
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if u all go to xtra's blog u'd learn abt wat the gm told him abt his nickname.. long story short Xtraxtraxtra was not acceptable as it was 3 words.. and they didnt allow 3 words. so he reverted to Xtra, which breaks a long chain of memories so i honour the livelihood of Xtra! Here are some of his names..
Tactical Commanders
Xtra [the beginning. no more Xtra After that]

Elysium Online:
JianShenXtra [A l33t SwordGod, if u look below JianShenXtra actually means SwordSaintXtra(edited by me)]
GeneralXtra [l33t halberdier]
KillerXtra [He used an Assassin to store items. ahaha]

Fairyland Online:
SwordSaintXtra [ dumb game but we gave him tt name cozhe didnt wanna use JSX. A Warrior]

Knights Online:
SirSwordSaintXtra [Knights hence the Sir; a valiant Warrior]
StyloShooterXtra [Made this archer to spam money]

Cronous Online
XtraXtraXtra[A fighter class but the nly class with the heal ability... a warrior with heal? OMG NERF]

MapleStroy
XtraXtraXtra[u said it. a warrior as usual.. going thru the ways of the sword]

Ragnarok Online Priv Server
SwordSaintXtra[lv255 knight! not crusader coz he said crusader are gay and dun use sword. which was true. they didnt use swords.]LaLaLaXtra[His alternate Bard.i gave him tt name coz i was sleepy and i made a dancer so he made a bard to combine the powers of music]

R.O.S.E Online
XtraXtraXtra [ His first Ever female main! Soldier class. and instead of sword type he went polearm. strange aint it? dex based so it was like kinda in my territory but nvm. i kind ferend{he broke 3 ruels: amle char rule, weapon rule and stat rule!]
FunkyOldXtra[a healing mage. had green hair and old man face.. hence FOX! ahaha]

Shattered Galaxy
XtraXtraXtra [A l33t player]

ASDF Hoverboard
XtraXtraXtra[lv30 acceleration specced boarder. l33t guy]

World Of Warcraft
Xtra [mean gm spoil.... supposed to be XtraXtraXtra][he is currently a lv 55 warrior ongoing 60! gogog Xtra!. bte he switch back to sword... good.]
XtraKiller[rogue lol]
LiabilityXtra[Tauren druid only lv4..enuff said.]

Tribute to the Greatest Warrior of All time! XtraXtraXtra!Tomorrow i shall post abt the legacy of mi! yea!
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In return?? an increase in degree of my specs n lots of scolding from my mother...
what a legacy.. kinda nice tho
too lazy 2 write smthin like that O.o
what else 2 say??? hmm.
what else 2 do?? ahh.

Its not in me

blah juz rejected a offer 2 be a TP orientation mentor... wad m i doing?
cant imagine myself as a mentor lol.. how am i supposed 2 be one, i noe im gonna be super xtra la.
those yr 1's r gonna be bored stiffed if its me man, i mean like the whole class will expect me 2 tok alot(im 'off' type) ... which i can't..
never worked these kind of stuff.. i noe i will choose not 2 tok haha
its just not in me, have 2 learn maybe, but no teachers no textbooks -.- not serious on the textbook thing i hate studying ahh
how can it be done???
chose not 2 again ... ..... ........