Lightning... In Memories

Finally, right after our convocation in September, our life in Lightning has come to an end. Though, there are some of us who still continuing our legacy, with the juniors. There also some of us who further their studies to the next extend (not that 'extend'). To make things fun, let's call all of them the "Lightning Spark". Lightning Spark refers to those who stay in The Universe for this time being.

So, I think maybe there's no more story to tell since the Lightning has ended. Well, no. I've got tons of story kept safe in my memories, waiting to be told. Of course, I can't remember all the details clearly, or understand the situation from other point of view. So if there is any biased point, please contact me to clear any misunderstanding, or you can just send a 'bolt' at the right side of this blog.

Some working, some studying, some got engaged (hehe), none yet married... but if there is, I'm not sure I can come to the ceremony. Because I personally hate attending wedding. Sure I've been attending some, but that just because there is a thing I hate more than attend a wedding. It is "being keep in the dark".

Of course there's some way to lure me to your wedding. And that is...

1- Put a karaoke set full with 'Rock Kapak' soundtracks at your wedding.
2- MAKE SURE (not just invite) all my 'key' friends come to your wedding. Find out yourself who my 'key' friend is. Who you rarely see them without me, or me without them.
3- Arrange me to 'bersilat' in front of you and you groom/bride during your ceremony. I don't know silat, but I have many other skills in my arsenal. (Not that 'arsenal', The Leisure Planmaker)
4- Make me your (or your partner) best man, WITHOUT 'best woman'. (need confirmation)
5- Get married in the cloud. You know... somewhere impossible. I like impossibles.


Of course it's fine if you don't mind not having me. After all, who am I compare to other guests. Additionally, If I'm really not coming, you are very welcome to get your revenge (by not coming to mine). It's just a shell with "happiness" drawing after all. Inside.... ooh gosh, I started to sound like a tragedy boy all over again.


Alright. That's all for now. Take care and toddles~

Mock VS Mokc

One day, I don't have any classes but I've got works to do, so I'm staying in my room. I open my YM, without intends to chat, just to make sure I'm up-to-date through any latest issues. (I bet you do that too) And when I started to feel bored with my work, I checked out my fellow Lightning's status, and found out something fun to write about.

One of the college is suffering water depletion, some of them, I read, complaining in their status. Some cheering for the water supply they get from another college. (One that I remember is The Smile Lady) But some other, who live in the college next to the "wasteland college", is putting taunting message in their status. I don't remember how many person are doing this, but one that I remember most is The Dirty Mocker. (Mock time!)


He funnily stated that all water supply in the "wasteland college" were composted water from their place. (Hoho, that's dirty) But, what's more fun is that some of the residents of the "wasteland college" changed their status in response to that. I remember most of them, but the person I want to highlight most is The Comment Girl. Because it's been a while since last time I saw them (The Dirty Mocker and The Comment Girl) having a mouthfight. (This isn't really a mouthfight though, but..) It's fun to see the interaction between divisions. I don't really remember what The Comment Girl put in her status, but they both keep changing theirs in response to one another, until at some point, I have no interest to watch anymore.

That's it, Mock versus Mokc. What is 'Mokc'? You Lightning guess...

The Rain Gathers Lightning

Nowadays, we Lightnings are all separated. Normally I expected this from Shards of Lightning, but not Lightning Boyz. We've been separated into three divisions now; Light-Tronics, Micro-Lightning, and Commu-Lightning. (Geez, I just like everything's called my way). I don't want to write the list of in which division they were belong to here. It's tiresome, and boring because I'm harassing no one that way.

You Lightning know where you belong. And any Lightning wannabees who read this, try to figure it out yourself. This page is officially not for you.

But I can tell some special trivia about each division's;

Light-Tronics
-I (The Sarcastic Freak) am in it.
-Division with most Boyz.
-Only 4 Shards are in it: The Cold-Blooded Princess, The Ustazah, The Solitary Lass and The Soft Part (yes, he is Shards).

Micro-Lightning
-All Military-Lightning (The Sentimental Soldier and The Frontline Defender) are in it.
-Division with least Shards; The Sweetest Scent, The Slim Figure and the remainder... I mean, The Reminder.

Commu-Lightning
-Division with least Boyz, they are also known as 'The Three Musketeers' (or should I call them 'The Three Moustache-ers'? They shave): The Fallen Genius, The Problem Solver and The Scandal Boy.
- Division with most Shards, including the trio from the 'Three-Stooges' Shard (The Comment Girl, The Smart Slacker & The Smile Lady) and the duo from 'The Forgotten' Shard (The Girl Next Row & The Dancing Doll).

Okey, now storytelling time, kids.

Since the divisions were established, the Lightning Boyz had hard times to gather.

One day, the Light-Tronics had just finished their class for the day. It's evening. Usually, when they have free time in the evening, they throw some feast at The Caffe' (it's just a regular cafe). Person who most of the time suggesting this is no other than The Loiter Planmaker... I mean, The Leisure Planmaker. And that evening, we (including me) spend our time there, eating and chatting. I can still remember, all Light-Tronics Boyz were there; The Middle Man, The Card Addict, The Transporter, The Calm-Minded Kid, The Love Dude, The Lame Entertainer, The Old Timer, The Fast Rider, The Hat-Trick, The Multi-Purpose Guy, and we were all having fun.

Suddenly, the rain falls heavily. Since all of us were riding on motorcycles, there's no way we can leave The Caffe'. So, we patiently waited there and spent our time chit-chating. No rushing.

A couple of minutes later, the Micro-Lightning Boyz make entrance at The Caffe'. You guess, they're also trapped in the rain. Not all of them are there, since The Bojoy Who Lived and The Sentimental Soldier are driving, they luckily escaped. We haven't seen each other since the industrial training and before Hari Raya. All of us were really excited for the coincidence meeting (Well... at least, I felt so). In the excitement, I said to The Card Addict, "Now only the Commu-Lightning are not here, hahaha.".

Guess what. After few seconds, 'The Three Moustache-ers' appeared. I and The Card Addict really laugh at the coincidence. I said in my mind, "The rain do gather the lightning together".

I said in my mind again "There's no way The Shards can do something like this". Few days later, I saw the picture of them together, celebrating The Slim Figure's birthday. I smiled.

The Game Plan

Always up to a plan, The Leisure Planmaker rounded a number of Lightning Boyz to take part in many-many-many-many futsal tournaments. I assume, all of his team are from the Let's-Kick-Some-Football Club (see post "Lightning 23: Sports In Lightning"). I know, many had said, "The Leisure Planmaker plans aren't going to work anyway...". Well, that was very wrong! The true sentence is, "The Leisure Planmaker plans that aren'tt related to football aren't goin to work anyway...". Still remember the midnight-futsal plan and jersey-printing plan?

I asked The Leisure Planmaker, what is their team called?

Leisure Planmaker: "Sedo FC!!"
Sarcastic Freak (me): "Don't you have a better name to put on?"
Leisure Planmaker: "I want to put the name 'Elexcy'. But then I think we weren't good enough to use that name. That name brings the pride of the whole Lightning. We don't want to spoil it."
Sarcastic Freak(me): "So that's why you use the hilarious name instead of this... cool name? You don't want to use it until you think you all are good enough to spoil it? Is that right, Mr Planmaker?"
Leisure Planmaker: "...............◦"
Sarcastic Freak(me): "Thanks, bro. For the interview."
Leisure Planmaker: "Now go away!"

Well, the interview isn't actually like that, I can be worse. But let me introduce you to the member of Elexcy!!! (I keep the non-hilarious name inside my blog, 'Lightning and Its Shards' standard must be maintained)

The Bojoy Who Lived (Keeper)

I heard he's the keeper. Though I never saw he'd became one. He must has some special technique, something like "The Bojoy's Palm" (like "The Buddha's Palm", but this one is non-magical). With this technique, he can block all the ball kicked into him. The ball kicked into the goal is different story.



The Transporter

 
I see him as a second person in charge (after The Leisure Planmaker). Other than transporting the player to the court, I've never seen much what he's capable of. But I do remember he did a 'kick-in' (kick the ball that was out-of-bound in) during play. I don't know if that was the right term, but I'm very sure that it is not a 'throw-in', like the one in field football.



The Leisure Planmaker (Captain)

As a captain, (I assume he is) the main thing I heard him babble about is 'training, training, something-about-leaving-sweet-memories, training'. He is the one who starting all this tournament plan, very much like the backbone of this team. I'm not sure what is his specialty, but as a captain, his skill must be exceptional than the others.




The Sly Sportsman

The master of sports in Lightning... well, only if we don't have The Hat-Trick. All about him that I remember is during the badminton game. He's kinda tricky. So I bet he's also like that in futsal. Other specialty? I don't know.




The Lame Entertainer

It is not weird if he's entering the sport world. He's done with entertainment world. (I don't call that 'entertainment world' if I were in his shoe). His special ability maybe is the "Boo Endurance". You know, like, when people booing you, you can endure the tension. Good soft skill if you are about to play in the opponent's home.



The Dirty Mocker

I bet everyone in Lightning (espeacially Boyz) already familiar with what this guy is capable of. Yes, that's right... "Psycho". His "Howl of Provocation" really put on the opponent nerves, challenging them to control their emotion. If he's lucky, maybe he can place some of the opponent players out of play, through red cards (by forcing them to act brutally). Wait the second! Is there any cards in futsal??

Let's Continue!!

I know, I know. Its been a while since the last time I'm writing. Everybody keep telling me to "Continue! Continue!", like the story just come along by itself. Yeah, the story DO always come by itself. But, who do you think write it? It's ME! You have no idea how tired I am... to making fun of all of you, and then twist the story a little bit so that some sensitive inhabitant doesn't walking pass through me while pushing my shoulder with sour face.

Another thing, I don't know if some of you had already noticed. I am no longer using the Lightning Conversion callings. For example, I use the name "The Lame Entertainer" instead of "The Laughing Stock". I don't like the concept that the Lightning Conversion is all about "changing" them; because I am no fan of making changes. I love their first callings. My rough idea of Lightning Conversion is about "changing depend on situation" rather than "totally transformed". For example, The Problem Solver is still a problem solving expert, but for some time, he'll becoming The Problem Maker to release tension and have some fun (At least, I think so). So, I've decided to change the terms of Lightning Conversion to Lightning Phase-Shifting. It is still sounds cool to me, heh heh.

Let's continue with me harassing people, shall we?

Lightning 25: Gluttony Genius

Last months, the Prosperity Burger returns to McDonalds™. The Fallen Genius ask me if I want to follow him searching for it. There are two known "Iron Stomach" in Lightning for The Fallen Genius to choose to go with him, but why should The Fallen Genius ask The Reminder when he has me. Besides, The Fallen Genius wants to go to the karaoke after that. Better choose a member from the Rock-Singing Team, right? (But I still questioned him why he didn't invite The Scandal Boy along. It will be fun.)

Our main target in this city is obviously, the 24 Hours McDonalds Restaurant near the PKNS building. Unfortunately, when we get there, there are almost no parking. Since both of us haven't took our dinner yet, we don't want to wait too long. So, we giving up the Prosper and decided to take our dinner at the mamak stall near the karaoke place, at Warta.

After The Fallen Genius has parked his car inside the building, during we en route to the mamak stall, suddenly I think, how far had The Fallen Genius fall from his geniusity? There was another McDonalds Restaurant nearby here. Why I can't remember it earlier and luckily we are not arrived at the mamak stall yet? (WARNING: "geniusity" is not even a word, don't use it in English lesson, but nothing can replace it here)

Then we go to the nearly-closed 12 Hours McDonalds Restaurant, we did get our Prosper (yiehaa!) and we talk about life while eating. We talk about our destiny in this world and how our death and mate have already been written, and I still argue if we could still change it by any means. After that, we went straight to the karaoke place. The Fallen Genius can't sing all out, because he was full (and fool also, which singer would sing after eating?). I forced my voice all out, I was lucky I didn't puke here.

The Worst Lightning

Some time ago, a "higher authority" (or in real world known as "lecturer") made a statement that our batch of Lightning is the worst Lightning in history. Yeah, THE WORST! Compared to other departments such as Radiation (chemical), Force (mechanical) and Panorama (civil), we are the worst, based on the exam result statistics (I don't know if there is any other statistics). I don't know whether this is true or not, but if we look into our beloved Lightning ourselves, we cannot say that it is totally not true.

I heard this from The Old Timer (wait, is it The Leisure Planmaker... ah, who's care!) who heard it from The Transporter. The Transporter was the one who face to face with the "higher authority" when he made that statement. The "higher authority" said, no one in our batch Lightning ever scored Dean's List since first year and when I say "Lightning" here means 24 + 14 = 38 of us (excluding other races).

After we heard this statement, many people assume that our only hope is The Steady Student and The Calm-Minded Kid (although, of course, they deny it out of low profile). Who can we depend on in The Shards? I don't know. They frequently kept their results secret and always cheating on "Trading Results Mini-Game" (a mini-game played after the results is out) as shown in dialog below:

TRADING RESULTS MINI-GAME

Boyz: How's your result?
Shards: Urmm, you tell me first.
Boyz: Just 3.40. Now, you??
Shards: It's nothing. Not as high as yours... (bla bla bla, and not telling the exact answer until the afterlife)

I admit that our batch of Lightning is a kind of... we could say, urmm... the "enjoy type". We playing badminton and futsal if there is no class tomorrow, we watching movies or go home every weekend, we copy the assignment at last minutes. Its really look like that we had over-enjoyed ourselves and we had pay the price for it. But for me, it is not true. At least, some of us really had tried our best in studies, just it is not our luck. And besides, we were always studying in group together during the study weeks. The last time study week is the most lively study group I had ever attended. We were close towards each other and that's matter.

But, yeah, the last study group was the most happening ever... and so do our results after that. Like we all have already know, the results after that also is the WORST in our own history. So, I can't deny that we really had enjoyed ourselves too much. We need to change!