And so this is Blog Entry #500!

Eh. Yeah.

What?

Whenever I chance upon a disturbing video, I think that I should share it with everyone right here. It’s only fair that everyone will have the same disturbing images going through their head for the coming days.

Viewed near three-quarters of a million times*, this is the original footage. Filmed by myself in St. James Park, London Sunday 7th August 2005.

I’d just finished film school and had hired a Z1 as a graduation present. Fifteen minutes after setting up, near Princess Diana’s Memorial Walk, this happened. In front of me with the camera rolling!

A few days ago, the school opened the Honours Night nominations to the school.

Whereby you submit, er, your own name for nomination.

The logic is a bit weird, and all you need to do is to fill in your name, class, CCA and some other details. Attach a photo of yourself and submit to your form teacher.

It was as simple as it could get, so basically everyone just nominated themselves.

Four catagories of awards: Outstanding Service Award, Service Award, Colours Award and Merit Award.

The Colours and Merit Awards are for the sports people. Win something at the national level and there, you qualify. They’re both about the same, just that Colours is much more prestigious.

The Service Awards are basically for clubs and societies and whatever other activities that do not happen to be a sport. Pretty much the same logic, with Outstanding Service being more outstanding than Service, duh.

So with my credentials, Outstanding Service shouldn’t be that hard. But then again the school recognises the Astronomy Society like how we’d recognise Hitler if we were to piece back every single dust and particle of his ashes.

Well, we’ll see.

And then I didn’t really bother about the Colours and Merit Awards because I haven’t won anything substantial at the National Schools competitions. Two years in a sport CCA ain’t gonna get me anywhere near the national standards of ‘A’ Division.

Then came along my Bowling teacher IC and captain, who both suggested that being in reserve of a team that clinched the National Championships isn’t too bad at all. Besides, the entire bowling team nominated themselves. Colours Award is too far-fetched, but I may stand a chance for the Merit. So I took out my pen and I’m down for another award.

So if all goes went, I’ll get two awards on Honours Night. But I highly doubt it.

But what I’ve really been trying for, and would really want is a place on the Principal’s Honour Roll.

The Honour Roll goes out to a mere handful of students — really special students. I may have won enough awards to be sick of going up on stage, but at this point in time, I do think that Principal still doesn’t know me. Which also means, she can’t shortlist me.

Darn, I should’ve won something better at IOAA.

I don’t know what I have done to deserve this, but my mobile phone’s spoilt — again.

Before the holidays, I sent in my phone for servicing because more than one-third of the keys of the keyboard were unresponsive. Typing a message was as difficult and tiring as playing finger wrestling.

After a good and painful two-three weeks at HTC Care, the phone came back. The entire keyboard was replaced, and I was one happy boy as I brought my fully-working phone to Europe.

Of course, Time is this irritating thing that causes this frustrating thing called Wear and Tear.

Now, just barely over two months after my phone came back from the service center, MY ENTIRE TOUCH SCREEN DOES NOT WORK.

Yes, every 320 by 240 pixels.

After my previous experience, I know how painful it would be to go another two-three weeks without my phone (with all my appointments and tasks planned down carefully on the calendar), so I tried using my PDA phone without the touchscreen.

…it felt like using a computer without the mouse. And so I’m having my Dad to send it in, again.

So right now, don’t laugh at how slow I am when messaging with a T9 keypad phone.

When The Dark Knight was released, it saw screens in a record number of theaters - 4,366.

When the first numbers came rolling in from midnight shows, record #2 was in the books — $18.5 million is the highest midnight opening of all-time.

And by the end of the first day, The Dark Knight sets one-day record of $66.4 million.

Came the weekend and just today, The Dark Knight has taken in $155.34 million for best opening weekend ever at the box office.

And I’m one of those guilty.

Sure, I loved the The Dark Knight but soaring to #1 of all the movies ever created is a bit…