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Delaqroux Inc Updates and yep, it had been awhile. Can say i was quite busy these days and the fact that i’m becoming lazier and lazier to write doesnt help much either. Well, here’s a quick recap of what have been going on when i was away;

1) defense of the LAN port is rising up again. Previously, the war was waged with the warden but this time around, the seniors arises as the new nemesis. The date of war shall be 28th January aka tomorrow during the dormitory meeting. Figured that i will end up being the human shield against the seniors though. Put the blame on my competency in Malay language. When you’re up against a bunch of retarded, old-fashioned malay dudes, the only way in making the attempt of negotiating with them is to talk in a language that they can understand. That is where i came in as the only malay among my non-malay buddies.. Oh well, i have been through hell in trying to obtain internet connection in our dormitory. Might as well step into hell’s gate one more time..

2) i foresaw assignment coming in, piling up at us. Well, just a couple of weeks ago, we have already received two; Linguistic studies written assignment and presentation whilst the other; Human development written assignment. Figuring that i may belong to the small few who actually have started to write something, i doubt i actually wrote anything useful. I might be rewriting the whole essay all over again due to the fact that my recheck on what i have wrote for my assignment last night resulted in precisely zero sense. Oh well, at least the introduction paragraph make sense ^^

3) i just found out that i suffer from split personality disorder (again). One side of me just wanted to have fun while the other feels sinful getting involved in all those ‘fun’. First of all, with "having fun" comes the need to spend plenty of moolah. Secondly, instead of spending hours in MidValley and frequently dragging my buddies alongside, i should be dragging them to focus on the assignment and the work piled up for us. Not to mention our Cohort 5 fund-raising project which i’m in charge of something but i’m barely planning anything for that stuff. Oh yeah, and lastly… wait… i cant remember what…

In any case, happy chinese new year… whooo…

Delaqroux Inc Updates and yyyeaaahhh… there aint much to blog about actually.

Let me just provide you a brief explanation on my surrounding aka DKC. Okay, basically, all i can hear out now are simply people talking (mostly Adam) and some Sean Paul singings. Someone is having it on the phone and yep, as much irritating as it is, the fact that God is talking on the far right of my seat’s row is even more annoying. To think that i’ll be seeing this douschebag for two years in McQ; goddamnit. I hate God. Oh yeah, i dont mind God as in the almighty guy in the sky, i meant some asshole who was my housemate last year and hell, i freaking hate him. In any case, he just give out a loud annoying laugh. Judging by that fucking irritating high pitch and sudden low voice of talking, i bet he is trying to get some attention. Freakin attention seeker retard. Anyways, Preenie’s gone. Figured that she might have left for library or something. We’re not exactly having class now, just learning support and actually neither of us need any. Oh wait, she just came in. Looking responsible with all Adam’s dirty work as usual. Sort of missing the old her who will come sit next to me, ask me why am i alone and i’m just going to end up, teasing her about her boyfriend or something. Nah, whole new resolution for her i guess and whatever it is; i dont think i care that much whether she’s even here or not. Apart from me, sitting in a corner like a no life with my laptop in the corner, there is also Myn sitting on the total opposite corner from where i am sitting… and she’s using her laptop of her own as well. Guess i dont look much like a total no life now that i have, somewhat, a ‘company’. Funny how you can feel both accompanied and lonely at the same time when there is no one anywhere close to you, but only seeing that they are just as lonely from metres away. Another icing in the room is Adelynn and Shen-Ann, sitting not far from me. I can hear what they are speaking but it is of not my concern what they are speaking of. So, i choose not to eavesdrop- basically because there is totally no point to do so. Estee just came in with them and thus they began to talk in Chinese. Okay, totally out of my reach now. And so does Nancie. haha. She’s not in this class. As a matter of fact, she never was in my cohort. Come to think of it, there used to be people who have made me glad that i chose to go with the one-grade-skipping years back. But for now, let’s just say Nancie is the one so far that made me regret what i did back then.

The rest in the room? Well, they are all insignificant. Precisely as insignificant a guy alone in the corner with his laptop on.

Delaqroux Inc updated here and we are live! celebrating the ponggal festival right here in IPBA!!

Well, it doesnt really sound that hyped up though coz throughout the event, i was speaking english with my Indian accent, in which you cant really make it work here… Anyways, ponggal valthukal deyh macha!

THroughout the entire festival as well, i had this feeling where i dont really belong in this ponggal celebration (Well, duh, its an indian festival and what is a race-confused guy doing hanging around there?) So what i did was taking out my K810i and start documenting the whole thing and it turned out that i became a self-proclaimed man of the event. w00t!

In any case, there is not much stuff to talk about the ponggal festival. It’s something like a harvest festival indian style. So, ponggal is actually a kind of dish in which rice is cooked with… uh.. milk, cashewnuts.. what else.. gula melaka (a lil dark dirty indian secret here, they were no gula melaka available so they used lotsa syrup instead..) All this ingredients (and a whole lot more) is cooked inside a lil heat resistant pot on a fire and in a while, the rice and milk is gonna pop out of the pot, signifying that its fully cooked. And all of the ppl watching and cooking will then yell out "ponggal’!! YAY!!

Ok.. so, thats about it. I had a real good time and for once, i think i made a good indian cameraman.. hehe.. all for the hype of Cloverfield this coming week baby! In any case, Ponggal Valthukal everibadi!!!

Delaqroux Inc Updates and for this time around, i shall make a movie review post instead of a blogpost. "Why not make this at the review section"? Well, let’s just say the space i very limited there and there is one helluva bible of stuff to write down on this movie.

First up, the sypnosis. First of all, this movie based on the popular game Dungeon Siege centers on a guy called Farmer, who works a farmer at a farm.. (DUH!!!) Regardless, the movie is not about farming or neither it has to do with farming for the king. From the start of the movie, this farmer guy shows a good sense of wit and fighting skill which suggestively tell us that he might not be a farmer before.. Anyways, this farmer is not a happy farmer. His village was attacked by these fugly orc tribe knows as the Krug who are definitely not farmers. So, his farmer kid got murdered by this Krug army and his farmer wife was kidnapped to be among the slave for Gallion to do his heavy work, in which does not involve farming, to take over the kingdom of… (gee… i forgot the name of the kingdom…). Anyways, this Gallion is not a farmer as well, he’s a Magus who works with… i cant remember his name… i simply call him Adam throughout the movie.. the throne hungry cousin of the King Kruneid. So, Farmer must stop farming and farm the Krug to save his wife by killing Gallion and Adam, thus saving the kingdom at the same time. In all, this movie is about war, about a man fighting for the kingdom, about a throne is high at stake.. not farming..

To be frank, this movie was the first movie in my whole life in which centers around a war and i was wishing its a movie about farming. Why? Well, i’m not quite an agricultural dude but if a war scene in a movie is just as boring as taking care of plants, then i’ll watch a movie about farming- it wastes as much time, but at least its productive. Seriously, there is strictly zero thing to be awed during the warscene. The Krug army were simply dudes in orc-ish make up, screaming something like "Aoooagh aooagh" all the way. The batallion of human army doesnt make much sense. There were your normal swordsman, archers and… ninjas? Any massive army’s war vehicle like bigass catapult or that elephant-ish thingy like the ones in LOTR to bring down the whole army? No. There were just three catapults in action (at least, thats all that i can see in action and all of them are Krug’s). Any magical creatures alongside the normal human and the not-so-magical-but-fugly Krug? Well, i saw one. I think i did notice the druids, a bunch of odd looking ladies drangling down from streets who tried to make their gliding around as graceful as possible- but failed miserably.. What else can you condemn of the movie? Oh yeah, for a mythical medieval era, the lines are nothing special. Nothing of which you cant understand nor awe on. Let’s say the movie 300 have some catchly lines in which might not be suitable for ancient Greek toungue but In the Name of the King’s sucks. Even the villain cant say something evil enough and that sucks. The heroes are a lil too showy however. The dude is just a farmer, and although his line sucks, his heroic quotes sucks even worse.

In all, the whole movie is strictly NOT a Dungeon Siege tale. Here’s something for this movie; in the name of the king, **raises middle finger** F OFF…

Delaqroux Inc Updates!

And yes, i do admit, this post is made way off behind schedule. Apparently, our college have finally announced our future twinning university for the year 2009-2010 during the first week of IPBA 2k8 (about effing time!) and yep, this is Dark A. Delaqroux and i’ll see you in MacQuarie University, Sydney, Australia in exactly another years time!

In any case, there were some complications. Actually, the first time we were accepted for this course, our acceptance later from BPG have already stated whether will we be future primary or secondary school teachers. Then again, the letter is null and void. Henceforth, the ones who would be in primary according to the letter previously, might get place in secondary (and vice versa). That’s when the complication arises. I’m just gonna go brief on this one. Perhaps, the complication is still in the air and everyone is trying to forget about it (at least, till next year when we are actually flying overseas)

Anyways, my complication is mostly on who shall be my university mate. First of all, i do wish Preenie would be up with the same university with me. The first time when our head coordinator call out the names for Aucklanders and VUW students, Preenie and RJ’s name are both not mentioned. I was a little excited thinking that i might have either one of them with me as my first choice is neither of those Us. So, my name was announced in MacQuarie and that wasnt too bad. Can say i got what i wanted. However, life have this lil tendency of giving a happiness package with a small piece of the gift gone elsewhere. Preenie didnt get the same U with me. She got MARJON, a primary school teacher training university and that was never in her choice. Instead, Reva who wanted to be in MARJON got MacQuarie instead! For the first few days, i tried so hard to actually get them to swap place. But, both of them set their minds up. I’m just a guy who’s always not satisfied with what i’m getting- not much reason to back up my persuasion no? And another thing is, i was starting to get over this issue when suddenly fate toys around again. Can say that i spend the whole night hoping that Preena and Rev would change their mind for the swapping- or at least, some miracle. Indeed, fate did granted my wish… or should i say; half of it. A miracle did occur. None of them change their mind but our coordinator just came up to us saying that there will be one open place in McQ- totally free-for-all. Now the place is there, Revathy dont have to do any swapping with Preenie and minus all the tiresome process of writing a pleading letter for an exchange. Now, all is left is whether Preenie wanted to be in MacQuarie or not now..

But, she chose not to.

Well, fate gives happiness in packages- only at times, you realize one package is missing and thus, the whole set is incomplete. Cruel, but, still, you still have accept it. Well, time to wear the mask of "i dont care of anyone and anything" again and walk off. Still, this is Dark A. Delaqroux, and in one year time, i’ll be a proud MacQuarian and who cares about other people? it’s time to live for me to the fullest once again…

Delaqroux Inc. Updates and yeaaaah, i bet some of you out there is asking, "what happened to the Dorm Evil series?". Welll, lets just say that nature made me to be lazy and Dark’s love nature, protects it and abide by the law set by nature which made him lazy in the first place… so he (aka me) is very de lazy. I know it doesnot make much sense but.. i dont care.

Anyways, recently, my no-lifeness was stripped right away from me due to the fact that ipba reopens and using the internet at least six hours per day is almost impossible. Thus, we decided to subscribe to MAxis 3G broadband connection with 3Mbps- three times faster than our normal network here in IPBA (at least, thats what they said). Fortunately, our area is in the coverage range based on the coverage area highlighted on the map in the maxis website (at least, thats what they said). Furthermore, its not that expensive- its just rm98 per month and with 10 people using it and paying for the monthly fee, it’ll be rm10 per month per peeps. In all, its a good deal (At least, thats what they said)

Well, THATS WHAT THEY @#$%ING SAID!! The connection sucks! it went no more than 500kbps- 1/6 of what its supposed to be. Uber dissapointing man! Even worse, our dorm men just gave in. Some of them pasrah and some just suggested that we call off the subscription. But it aint gonna be so with Dark A. Delaqroux. Cite this–> Dark A. Delaqroux sucked at everything and that also means, he sucked at giving up! So, i just called the careline. Went to a conversation with the customer service guy (oh ya, maxis careline is 1800-82-2000.. and they charge you for it!! So much for ‘care’ line huh?) and demanded my refund.. and yep, in the end, customer service guy zero- dark scores one! We get the refund.

So yep, refunding it sounds easy than it seems. I went for a solo crusade to Lowyatt only to found out half way that i forgot the receipt. Nearly turned back but i didnt. Lowyat’s maxis outlet cant do anything bout the refunding so i went off to KLCC. Thankfully, they have no need for the receipt coz i did registered for a maxis account and thats all they needed. Well, fellow readers and bloggers, word from the wise and experienced, NEVER TRUST A MAXIS PROMISE! They said, just because you are within the coverage area in the online map, doesnt mean you’ll get the 3G! So, what’s the @#$%ing use of the online map if its not telling the truth??

Anyways, me need internet! The time we subscribe the maxis 3G crap, we also bought the router for rm160. Yeah, the modem can be refunded but the router have nothing to do with it. So, having a router with no net whatsoever equals a total waste. Thus, we cracked a new plan and its record breaking! If we cant grab net into our room wirelessly, we grab the wiredly. Yep, we grabbed a LAN cable (same with the one you use to connect your PC to a LAN port to get connection)… only its a friggin 30 metres long! First, we pllug it into the common room on level one of our dormitory, trail up the cable to level 5, connect it to the router and activate its wireless routing capability… VOILA! We have an internet supply enough to power up 10 no life-ers wirelessly!!! The speed, well, lets just say no-life-ly satisfying. So whats the name of this network?

Well, lets just say its gonna be the darkside of Teratak Kasih Mahligai Sayang (IPBA’s well known server connection that’s always down when you need it the most)… It’s.. Teratak Benci Mahligai Menyampah..

This is Dark A. Delaqroux, logging out but staying online.

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Friday, 28th December 2007

1200-1300
Today will be my first time waking up in block one. Yet again, the tension was a little high to celebrate. Yep, today, we will try to rendezvous with madam fatimah to get her to back us up in case such raid from madam hamidah occur again. Its a longshot though. I doubt that madam fatimah can help much. Neither the fact that we should remain in block one now that the protocol had been sounded off. IN any case, Adam is not with me as he had left early morning for some business outside and as soon as i woke up, i headed out for lunch in Thoiba. Perhaps, it was paranoia that lead me but i was a liitle careful not to alert madam hamidah. Crossing her floor was like walking past a lion while he is asleep. The sneak was successful, fortunately.

1300-1400
However, on my way out, i detected a distress signal from the guard house ahead. It was Izzy. It was a relieving minute to actually saw another human being and Izzy was also the first sign of hope that more reinforcement is on the way. True enough, Izzy was in a trouble herself. Nevertheless, more terror ensues as i found out that, according to Izzy, the guard was reluctant to let her in earlier. Thats right- the protocol have reached the front gate and the only way out and into the dormitory is the guardhouse. Madam Hamidah have set a blockade on our entrance and exit route. Anyway, Izzy planned to meet up madam fatimah as well. Guess she cooked up the same plan with us and i told her that me and adam, after the attack last night, plan to do so as well and finally, we agreed to do the rendezvous together. Unfortunately, madam fatimah will only be available at 1500 hours.. which means; i have to come back from lunch before that.. seems like it will be a race against time…

1400-1700
I tried to finish lunch early but Thoiba was overpopulated with customers. Thanks to that, i didnt manage to come back on time. Izzy had to meet up with Madam Fatimah without me. I rendezvous with Adam upon reentry to the dormitory compound and we made one last attempt to get our backup.. but with no avail. Madam Fatimah was already gone. Desperate, i called Izzy for backup and Izzy said that she did meet up with Madam Fatimah. Yet, my guess was right, she wasnt able to help much with anything. Regardless, Madam Fatimah left a tip for our survival- stay low. That’s right; stay low and away from the wardens or the security guard. It sounds easy but i figured it would be tough as to stay away from the security means to avoid using the frontgate. How would we get food supplies from the outside then? Madam Hamidah is indeed flushing us out for good. Figuring that staying in block one might not be a good idea to stay away from the wardens, we established temporary perimeter in block 4. Our line of defense is, obviously, thinner than a thread. Getting caught again by the warden means goodnight for our stay in the dormitory. But then, the sanctuary is enough to hide us for the day..

1900-2000
With the surroundings going dark, we figured that we had to go out of our temporary haven for dinner and thus, means that we have to pass by the front gate- and yes, madam hamidah’s blockade. For the time, we tried not to use the main road- at least, not with all the cars passing by. One of the cars was a wira and it was madam hamidah’s and it was a dead close call. Strangely, the warden’s office was full with cars parked outside. From the looks of it, it looks non hostile but just to be safe, we tried avoiding the warden’s office in block 6 and at the same time, the main road- and we succeeded. Scouting the front gate ahead, it was wide open and no guards can be seen. Time to move out! Still, this moment reminded me of one of those movie moments when the convicts thought that the guards had left the escape route but only to discover when they are outside that defense is still on top-notch. Yep, the guard is outside and as a little bitter icing, it’s the primitive crossed face pak guard who has a good habit of providing considerably an amount of pain up on ipbarians ass… and we were busted..

2000-2130
We managed to word things out and survive his crappings. Apparently, he mentioned on reporting us to the warden and let the warden report us to the board of directors- precisely the same sentence with the one madam hamidah was using agaisnt us yesterday. Cunningly, i manage to trick the guard with a fake surrender. Like how is stated in the way of the samurai- provide victory to the opponent first, and then struck to tell the opponent that the victory was a fake one. True enough, we assure him that our name is written in the logbook the time we got in and it looked convincing enough for the low mental capability of the guard that we are surrendering. Perhaps proud of his authority, he left us and we had our dinner, home free. Nevertheless, as how stupid the guard is, he is even stupidder to tell us that the warden will be doing a sweep throughout the dormitory blocks to make sure no one stays in. Knowing that the warden is seldom around during day time, we figure that the sweep will be done at night, thus means that we cant stay inside the dormitory at night. Thankfully, we thought of another potential temporary haven- the tower block..

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