Syprux says: I ♥ Music

Tuesday, May 15, 2007,1:05 AM

Here I am, covered with blood

On my heart, does sorrow flood.

I lift my head, look to the sky,

Darkness swirls, and hopes they deny.

I have stumbled upon this path,

Lost, Broken, and battered I’ve become.

Never have I been more foolish,

To have swayed to Their lies.

Here I lie, blanketed in sorrow,

In my heart, does feel hollow.

I lift my head, towards the heaven.

Death, merciful as it is, shall beckon.

Thursday, May 10, 2007,1:17 AM

SIT college 2007 Annual Dinner & Dance

I'm part of the committee that'll be organizing this years SIT college's annual dinner n dance (yay~!) Since it's open to everyone (preferably alive...) i would like to invite u guys to attend the ball as there would be dancing (lots of it), and 4 genre's of dances/music over the course of the event ^^
The prices are in the above poster (or u can ask me personally for the prices). DO let me know if ur interested (or if u have friends tht are interested ya) xD

Tuesday, May 8, 2007,3:51 PM

Tuesday

Today is tuesday. Had a quite wonderful opening yesterday . We've managed a sale of 10 tables (well, partially paid bookings if you will...). Kinda funny to see that many committee members all in similar formal black garments (with a tie n all) trying to convince people to give the event a look. Surprisingly (or unsurprisingly). the Pharmacy dept students booked 4 tables almost immediately when they saw of the existence of such a AD&D event. On the other end of the spectrum, ADP students (my dept) were very much reluctant to even to asked to attend the ball. Kinda ironic to view such extreme ends of the spectrum amongst to groups of students who studies less than fifty feet from each other.

In addition to ticketing sales, i had to attend a seminar held by college for a whooping 6 weeks (!) Seminar being named "high achievers course" or something... heaven knows why am I in there anyways. The seminar had students from various depts in my college, namely the ADP, Engineering, Pharm, Dip. Bus, and CIMA.. As usual, such seminars are filled with 'motivaitonal' talks about making us students into nation builders, and also world dominators... maybe not.. and also the usual slew of games that are thrown into the fray. I actually had a moment of self-realization during the playing of games during the event. I had noticed that over the years, i had become less self concious and also less introvert, in a positive light. Some students that attended were very much reluctant to dance, participate in games involving a group, and were generally wooden thru out game time in fear of, i suspect, looking silly to others. I remembered a time when i was just like them. Exactly carbon copies of them. A few years back, you could never get me to willingly partake in such games/activities, such as dances or group games as i wouldnt want to look silly, or also be riddiculed if so happen i stumbled. What i did not realise, is that such actions shouts out loud of being socially inadept, and also the sore lacking of self confidence. My fears of being riddiculed, and refusal to look silly to the participants would actually coerced me into not participating, and ultimately, end up looking silly and riddiculed. Talk about irony, that the cure would be worse than the ailment. I'm sure many of you all have come accross such people in your lives. Painfully shy people whom are very much lacking in self confidence. Coming back to the current setting, the 'me' yesterday, was enjoying myself and having barrels of fun twisting and turning during dance, and also falling into a heap of crumpled up humans in some body puzzle-thinggie, and laughing it off with the others, making new friends, and also getting someone cute's number..or maybe strike that last part off.... Make me wonder sometimes, what took me so long to realise that i was being plain silly and depriving myself of having fun and social interactions in the past. I would not proclaim outright that i am already totoally free fo reservations, as i still need time to warm up to a new crowd/activity with others, but i would dare say that i have become a better person over the years, and have a much healtier does of self confidence in social situations as such as this. If i am to look like a fool, hell im gonna enjoy every minute of it. (come to think about it, i just realised i have no reservations about dancing a slow dance with a guy, as long as it's kept cordial and infused with humour. like wookie for example. xD) Heck, i'm even gonna be dancing all nite long for my upcoming ball(s) that i would be attending, namely my college one and also (tentatively) the prefect's reunion, even tho im not a prefect...but that's a story for another day.

Lianne, this time if we dance, i'll do what i was supposed to do at the last dance ya. (warn u first) :P

Monday, May 7, 2007,1:03 AM

It's coming!

Tomorrow/Today would be the grand opening of the ticketing booth and also the beginning of ticketing sales for my college's annual ball. Finally. After such planning, glitches, hitches, and also lots of procrastination, it is finally falling together...well, just the ticketing part... we've not even addressed the event itself proper... and for some weird reason, i got picked to join the high achievers seminar in college... heavens know why, as i dont study.. my college mates can vouch for that, but i'll just attend and see how long i'll stay interested :D

No cards to review today as i'm plain busy with event organizing and also trying to finish this game i've been at for a while now... ^^

Friday, May 4, 2007,12:57 AM

First Post!

I do realise that it took me THAT long to actually make my first post on blogspot. I do blame my other committments and also my unavoidable built-in sense of procrastination, and also the existence of another blog ^^

Nonetheless, my this blog would mostly be a rather insane random mixed bag/blog of stuff, but i would mostly rant and rave my opinions about magic cards on this particular blog. (considering the fact that my other blog already have rant and raves about how i wish to conqueor the world and bring it to its knees...) But there isn't a hard and fast rule about my blog contents cause after all...i IS my blog. i can do whatever i wish. *insert inane laugher*

To kick things off, i'll start off with a card from Future Sight which i believe is rather *ugh* overpriced, and overvalued at given time.(but which Bob i suspect would adoringly adore, right Bob?)
Yes, i am addressing the current chase rare, Pact of Negation.
For the uninitiated, Pact of Negation (or PoN), is..

...that thing as posted above. I would say this card is good except for the niggling detail as stated in the 3rd part of the text. Notably the 'not so obvious' lose the game stuck on the card. This card has been touted as the re-incarnation of Force of Will. I beg to differ. FoW is a much better cost namely due to it's pitch cost, (what is a mere 1 life and a card when u can distrupt another players strategy) and also it's lack of LOSE THE GAME text.

Some player would debate that as long as u win before ur next upkeep, the 'you lose' clause isnt that all important. Problem is, what if u dont? In a combo deck (dragonstorm for now), it might be useful to both upp the storm count, and also counter anything that threatens to distrupt you going off. But in other decks, for a control player to tap 5 mana (3UU) might be the factor that loses you the game (especially in early-mid game) making this counter a mid-late game card. In early games, this counter is near useless, and would take up space in ur hand when ur in dire need of a hard counter instead.

As some would (and have argued), this card is good because one can catch the opposition off guard, especially in the state where the player holding this is tapped out. But what are the odds that i would be enough to actually swing the momentum of the game? Most good (well, above average..) players wouldnt over extend in almost any situation, which would dearly hamper the impact that this card would give when it hits the board.

Some would say that, the upkeep can be handled with 'tron in play (hell, i don't know who came up with such an idea) cause if u already HAVE 'tron, Spell Burst would be so much more irritating and effective.

I wouldn't go all out to condemn this card, as i believe it is still *to an extent* playable, but not as 4-ofs in a deck. The most i would dare recommend would be 3. or less...

Last note, this card for now is definately (IMHO) not worth the RM27+++ price tag tagged onto it. I would gladly let you have it for that price if so happen i crack one. :D
(PoN rating: 2/5)