School Is Gonna Start Early For Me I Guess...

Just came back from the World Skills Singapore breifing. About 24 students from SIT were chosen. I think they are all from either DBI or DIT. It was kinda interesting to see what the prospects were. If I manage to make the first cut I will be facing alot of certification tests to show that I know what I'm doing.

Had to choose between either IT/Software Applications or IT/Network Support. I chose to go for network support as it involved putting together PCs, managing servers, system security (I think) and system admin. It's the heavier of the 2 skills. Software applications just requires expert knowledge and execution of key Microsoft Office Tools. Seems easy but trust me, it's not.

In case you didn't know, they will be training us for World Skills Singapore 2008. That's 2 freakin' years. In that time, I need to know how to use Windows and Linux server OS, a bunch of Cisco networking stuff including certification and a whole lot more. But my first test will start next week. For 1 and a half weeks, I'll be in school working my butt off from 9 to 5 and there will be an elimination test at the end of the whole thing.

Hope I can get over that hurdle 'cause after that there's more eliminations which will lead to World Skills Singapore in 2008 which will then lead to The World Skills Competition in Canada in 2009.

Sidenote: I think I have a rough estimate of how much the school might be sponsoring me for all these training sessions/workshops, certifications and performance enhancements. There's 4 certifications, a whole bunch of workshops/training sessions and 2 performance enhancement workshops (and 1 of them is that darn Adam Khoo workshop. Thank God it's just performance enhancement and not "I'm Gifted And So Are You!") which adds up to about a cool $10,000 to about $13,000. Cool...

Ringin' Through My Head...

My playlist has been kinda weird lately. I actually realized how freakin diverse the rock genre has become. Let's see, there's rock, hard rock, metal, hardcore, metal-core, heavy metal, death metal, black metal, progressive rock, progressive metal, emo, punk, screamo, punk-core, emo-core, ska, nu-metal, rap metal, and many more which I will not bother naming. Go and find out your freakin' self why don't you!? Hehe... So here's the top 25 of my bloody playlist.

I'll start off with the rockgods 'cause without these guys, even cheesy-sorry-excuses-for-rock like McFly won't be around.

1.) Metallica - For Whom The Bell Tolls/ Fade To Black
2.) Iron Maiden - The Trooper/ Aces High/ Run To The Hills
3.) Black Sabbath - Sabbath, Bloody Sabbath/ Iron Man/ Paranoid
4.) Pantera - Primal Concrete Sledge

Now something a bit more current. First, the heavy...

5.) Bullet For My Valentine - (Pretty much every single song from their debut album 'The Poison')
6.) Avenged Sevenfold - Unholy Confessions/ Chapter Four/Beast and The Harlot/ M.I.A
7.) Atreyu - Ex's and Oh's/ Right Side Of The Bed/ Bleeding Mascara
8.) Killswitch Engage - The End Of Heartache/ Last Serenade/ Fixation On The Darkness/ World Ablaze
9.) Shadows Fall - Inspiration On Demand
10.) Slipknot - Before I Forget

Now that that's done, here comes the music that I was raised up with. PUNK!!

11.) Blink 182 (Sad to say, they are no longer around) - Dammit/ Adam's Song/ What's My Age Again?
12.) Anti-Flag - The School Of Assassins/ Die For Your Government/ The Press Corpse
13.) MxPx - Punk Rawk Show/ Responsibility / I'm Ok, You're Ok / Barbie Girl (Punk Cover)
14.) NoFx - The Decline / Stick It In My Eye / Bob / Seeing Double At The Triple Rock
15.) AFI - Total Immortal / The Boy Who Destroyed The World (Sidenote : Miss Murder = AFI selling out)
16.) Rise Against - Paper Wings / Like The Angel
17.) Goldfinger - 99 Red Balloons/ Open Your Eyes/ Spokesman

This leaves me with one last set. One of the newer rock genres so to speak. Emo...

18.) Comback Kid - Lorelei / Wake The Dead / Losing Patience
19.) Motion City Soundtrack(Note: this is the name of the band) - Everything Is Alright
20.) Alexisonfire - No Transitory / .44 Calibre Love Letter
21.) Saves The Day - Third Engine / The End
22.) Taking Back Sunday - Spin
23.) Story Of The Year - Anthem Of Our Dying Day

Finally, these are just a couple of odd-one outs but sound good nonetheless.

24.) Placebo - Every You, Every Me
25.) Crazytown - Butterfly

Heh. Now that I think of it, my playlist does seem quite weird. I've got a bit of pent-up anger in there, some political hate (ok, alot), a couple of ripped hearts, quite a bit of suppressed emotions and some outright wackiness. Can a shrink help me analyze this?

Another Year Marks The Passing Of Another Tragedy...

Another year has passed marking my first breath...

Another year passed makes me 1 year older...

Another year marks the eve of a tragedy...

Another year marks the meaningless death of 3000 people...

Another year brings me a year of hope...

Another year mourns those who died...

Another year makes me seventeen...

Another year makes me wonder...

What will another year bring...

Fear...Anger...Death...Emptiness...

Happy birthday to me...