Great.. chess individuals today were totally so... BLEAH!!! See.. I'm just not cut out for individuals. Bad bad bad bad bad bad bad!!!! Ya well at least not yet. Need to practise!!! Horrible horrible horrible!!!! K thank goodness I didn't go all the way down to board 100.. Which was what I feared.. But it's just not good la.. Team in july.. So little time left.. June holidays is ONLY for mugging midyrs.. BLEAH! At this rate, don't think I deserve to be put in already.. *TOTALLY FREAKS OUT* Some can win but never win. Got queen but still never win. The point is.. although it could have been, IT WASN'T! URGH!!!

But I guess I realised why I agreed to go.. Although I'm so anti-individuals.. Cuz I missed the chess scene-ish environment.. And the people there who don't just play for themselves but also rooting for you to win while you're thinking the same for them.. It's like.. Everybody's there for each other in an unspoken way.. Feel like the real fun is in there.. Hmm.. heheh.. maybe that's because I didn't even get into "The Room".. With all the zai people.. And I'm just consoling myself.. Ha yea yea...

Was quite funny this morning.. With everyone coming so late.. And SOME PEOPLE even making everybody wait outside their house.. *evil grinz*.. And other bus stop dramas.. Then this mr vincent chong kept on smsing EVERYONE of us (rich guy..) 3 times per person telling us how late we were.. Half wanted to zao to town cuz we thought we wouldn't be able to make it for registration and watch star wars with terry or something.. Prize presentation was also quite stupid la when we were waiting for it to start.. Like some birthday party like that.. With all the small kids and the over-enthu guy entertaining them.. Started snatching each others name tags which were damn obiang, arm wrestling and taking weird pictures..

Wanted to go chomp chomp to eat but apparently the rest of the chess people who skipped the prize presentation got there first.. Ended up going to macs.. Took more "disturbing" pics.. Especially the sauce one.. Ewww.. Haha...

Went for my much-needed retail therapy when I got back to novena.. Though this is not good.. Too spendthrift. It's turning quite addictive.. Like those wonderful dark chocolate m&ms in the fridge.. I'll be broke in no time.. Must save money!!!

Watched starwars again on sunday.. Cuz my dad was treating.. Though kinda thought I would be damn bored watching the same thing again.. But it wasn't as bad as I expected..

MORE SPOILERS

At first, I thought that the reason why anakin went to the dark side was because circumstances gradually steered him towards that path and it was something that couldn't be changed. But now, after knowing how things would end, I realised that he was steered towards that direction entirely from lord sidious. Every action and sentence said by lord sidious slowly planted seeds of doubts into anakin's mind and fertilised these seeds to sprout into something so concretely terrible.

Lord sidious is such a total genius! First, he told anakin to kill count dooku (what a stupid name.. cuckoo dooku..) so that he could gain the trust of the jedi and ensure that there would be a position open for his new apprentice - anakin. Then, he requested that anakin become his bodyguard in the council(sth along those lines..) so that he could make use of all the private time they had together to slowly influence him onto joining the dark force.
At the same time, he knew that the jedi would be compelled to agree with his decision much as they were against it, because they knew that anakin had gained his trust. So, this would make anakin the best candidate to spy on him. Lord sidious also knew that the jedi would ask anakin to do such a thing out of his conscience, which would just shake the trust anakin had in the jedi.
Then, in the conference of the star systems, he told anakin where count grievous (another stupid unimaginative name) to gain even more trust from the jedi, while using this as an opportunity to appoint anakin to kill count grievous. Doing this while knowing fully well that the jedi council will never agree to such a thing, thus sparking anakin's resentment in them. In the conference, he was also sharing snippets of information of the dark side to bring about immortality as he knew about anakin being unable to let go of padme.
Hence, anakin grew loyal to lord sidious and doubted the jedi, and also saw that the only way to save his wife was to turn to the dark side because that was the only option he knew of available to him. Moreover, it wasn't very hard for him to change sides as he slowly grew to see the jedi in bad light, so his attachment to them wasn't as strong.

So beautiful, the strategising. If only my games were like that today.. Heh. Yea.. lord sidious has such a strong, manipulative grasp of what he wants to get. If only he weren't so merciless and ruthless to innocent lives.. Then he's damn worthy of respect.. What a brilliant mind.

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