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Back to old times

2010-10-08T18:47:00.001+08:00

I don't know why, but with some people, it just flows so easily.

With others, everything is so...controlled and though out carefully.

Ahhhh at least tomorrow I can let loose and just have fun! I hope.

Aww

2010-10-07T23:06:00.001+08:00

See how awesome iPhones are now. You can't do this with a blackberry can you :P

I'm totally not into korean

2010-10-05T01:46:00.003+08:00

But, just to show something quite impressive.

So I'm watching this show called 'You're Beautiful' right, and there's this guy called Lee Hong Ki who's apparently a damn good singer.

But my impression of Korean songs have been that they are all cheap American imitations of auto-tune and dance-y tunes.

Anyway I was bored so I went to Youtube him.

LO AND BEHOLD he sings freaking good.

Like, usually Asian singers don't really have a strong voice unlike those in America, especially those black, soul kind of people? Except for exceptions like Charice who are one in a million.

But his voice really damn good man. Too bad I don't know what the hell they are all singing about. Which is the main reason I don't listen to Korean.

Anyway.

He's in a band and is the lead singer. This is apparently one of their famous songs. I don't know cause I'M NOT INTO KOREAN ahem:

Not bad right?

Now check him out at age 13:

What the shit man I wanna sing like that at age 13. DAMN.

Apparently he was discovered because of this and trained for 5 years under some entertainment company to form this band.

If only I can sing like this...

I will throw away all my notes on organic chem immediately and move to Korea and burst into song and dance on the streets until some company spots me and trains me to form some new boyband.

Damn. I'm so envious of talented people.

Playbook vs iPad! (and ramblings about korean dramas)

2010-10-01T22:12:00.010+08:00

(A totally irrelevant post to many people cause I'm gonna go all geeky and talk about some iPad stuff)

So Blackberry, the one who makes the phone with the little balls, just released this:

It's called the Playbook and it's supposed to compete with the iPad. Everyone thought they were gonna call it the Blackpad -.-

Anyway.

Here's how big it is:

So here's a list of stuff that it supposedly can do: (don't bother reading all I didn't)

7-inch LCD, 1024 x 600, WSVGA, capacitive touch screen with full multi-touch and gesture support
BlackBerry Tablet OS with support for symmetric multiprocessing
1 GHz dual-core processor
1 GB RAM
Dual HD cameras (3 MP front facing, 5 MP rear facing), supports 1080p HD video recording
Video playback: 1080p HD Video, H.264, MPEG, DivX, WMV
Audio playback: MP3, AAC, WMA
HDMI video output
Wi-Fi - 802.11 a/b/g/n
Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR
Connectors: microHDMI, microUSB, charging contacts
Open, flexible application platform with support for WebKit/HTML-5, Adobe Flash Player 10.1, Adobe Mobile AIR, Adobe Reader, POSIX, OpenGL, Java
Ultra thin and portable:
Measures 5.1"x7.6"x0.4" (130mm x 193mm x 10mm)
Weighs less than a pound (approximately 0.9 lb or 400g)
RIM intends to also offer 3G and 4G models in the future.

(shamelessly copied and paste off from Engadget)

So I bolded the important stuff that it has. The rest are what the iPad has as well.

Notice they don't mention battery life. It probably sucks balls compared to iPad who has 10 HOURS OF BATTERY LIFE.

So firstly, they use their Blackberry OS. Competing with the iPad iOS, it probably won't win. After all, Apple was the first company who came up with iOS which is probably the first, real, touch-based OS that can act as a replacement for OSes in computers.

iOS has the App Store, millions of people already know how to use it (brand loyalty; barriers to entry ahaha), currently at its 4th version and probably is already developing the 5th for iPhone 5 next year (woots), and simply put has a huge head start that a company like Blackberry cannot catch up. They've been losing market share for phones since the iPhone was introduced.

Not to mention other touch-OSes all have elements of iOS. Like, the squarish App icons that you see in touch-screen phones were popularized by Apple. The kinetic scrolling (where you can flick a list of things with your fingers and it rotates like a real roll) was also popularized by Apple that is trademark now of touch-OSes. The 'slide to unlock' function, or similar forms of unlocking were also popularized by Apple. The list goes on.

Oh and the stuff regarding cameras and microUSB (whatever they are) and the lighter weight are probably going to be addressed in iPad 2.0. Especially the camera part, with Apple releasing their video-conferencing technology, Facetime and wanting it to be more widespread.

And who cares about Flash. It lags my laptop, so it will probably cause greater lag on tablets, including the iPad. I only use it to watch videos, which are in turn limited cause I download them instead of viewing them online. Except for korean dramas. Like Playful Kiss. But I digress.

Yes, maybe Apple excluded Flash so that we can't play Flash games, hence forcing people to buy apps and earn more revenue. Okay, so you pointed out their strategy and how smart they are. Thanks.

Which brings me to my next point, which is that every time other companies start releasing competing products to attempt to bring down Apple, Apple has already moved on to the second or third generation of that device.

This is because Apple SETS trends, not follows them. By coming up with all these innovative products, they have this huge lead on other mobile producers like Motorola, Dell, Samsung, GOOGLE, Nokia who are all releasing tablets or smart phones or their own touch OS.

Can you even remember the era before iPhones? Touch phones (USING FINGERS NOT STYLUSES) are so widespread now that we seem to have forgotten the time when we texted by pressing buttons. It seems as though touch has been around, since like, forever, when in actual fact it only gained greater recognition in 2007 when the iPhone was introduced.

So kudos to Apple for setting trends, not following them. When they start releasing touch-screen COMPUTERS get ready for an onslaught of similar products from all the other companies who seem to just wait to see what Apple will produce before shamelessly copying their strategy or product design. (Seriously every other tablet others are releasing takes after the iPad in one way or another)

Will the Playbook beat the iPad? Probably not. They are gonna release it next year, when iPad 2 will be released. That's probably a bad move since the iPad 2 is going to be even better than the current one. Which already rivals this and rocks.

That's the problem now with all these copycat companies. They all invest in products to beat whatever Apple releases, but they fail to look beyond that and come up with stuff with the potential to beat whatever Apple is releasing.

Oh well, waiting for iPhone 5 and iPad 2 to come out woots! I am such a tech geek damnnnn.

Okay end of boring rant about Apple and stuff which you probably didn't read.

Anyway recently I have been watching this particular korean drama:

It's damn niceeee lah. Ahahaah

Okay let's get this straight I am not those crazy-in-love with korean culture people. Like, I'm not into korean stuff at all.

Except for the occasional drama here and there, or maybe a song or two, I don't really search on korean stuff.

Anyway, this drama 'Playful Kiss' (the name is quite dumb) is quite nice lah. It's about this smart guy and this dumb girl and how they fall in love. With a lot of shit happening in between obviously.

It is currently airing in Korea now, so not all the episodes are online and I am dyinggggg while waiting for them.

OH for some reasons, the ratings for this drama are quite bad. It hit a low of 2.8% in Korea which sucks big time.

Because of that right, I heard that they are cutting down the episode number from 20/24 to just 16!!!!

AHHHHH.

I hope they don't. If not I'll buy the DVD and hope it has everything. And it already is at episode 10, and not much has happened, so if it's just 16 episodes, I don't know how they are gonna conclude everything in 6 episodes. It's gonna suck if it appears rushed and everything.

Here's to hoping they don't cut the epsiodes.

Sigh talking about korean dramas make me feel nostalgic. I remember when the korean wave first hit back in 2004/2005 or so. Like, when korean dramas were more mature and realistic and not so teenage based or fake.

I mean seriously, Goong was popular but the thing about the royal family; like when will that ever happen in real life?!

The first korean drama I watched was this one called My Name Is Kim Sam Soon which my mom, a victim of the korean wave, watched and introduced to me. She even bought the OST.

It's not the 100 episodes one that was on Channel U or whatever. That one was screwed up and damn gross lah okay. I am talking about this one:

My name is Kim Sam Soon

And after 5 years, since I last watched, the drama is still stuck in my head and I even remember the tune of the iconic song:

It's seriously damn nice. Click it now to play and listen.

It's not like your typical korean drama songs you hear now. It's damn catchy and nice.

I don't know what the hell they are talking about, but it sounds nice, so, just listen lor.

Oh man now I feel like re-watching it! It's damn good lah. I don't watch a lot of korean dramas, but it's my fav. Hahahaha.

How come korean dramas so nice, then I can't give a shit about Singaporean dramas? The last Singaporean drama I watched was Little Nyonya (spell?).

Anyway, it makes me wanna watch more korean dramas. Any nice ones to introduce?

And because I was watching Playful Kiss today I didn't study sigh. Did you?

DAYUM

2010-09-28T17:48:00.001+08:00

DAYUM. KILLED IT.

Glee does britney!

2010-09-25T12:54:00.004+08:00

There is just too much epicness in this one post.

Posted in order of awesomeness; listen to the first few first if you don't wanna listen to all! TOXIC IS A MUST SERIOUSLY.

AHHHH can't wait for the episode itself.

And does anyone notice the trend that everyone is doing dance music now?

Like so many songs have dance-y, electro, techno, synth beats.

I mean, even people like Usher, Chris Brown, Ne-yo, Rihanna etc. who usually sing R&B ballads or Hip-Hop (remember With You by Chris Brown?) are all singing dance-y music now.

I credit Lady Gaga with bringing the craze of dance/party music to us with her first ever hit:

DAMN she looked so normal and pretty last time (relative to her extreme weirdness now).

She needs to go back to her just dance music, and stop with the Alejandro creepo-goth music videos.

Glee epicness coming your way

2010-09-22T22:42:00.002+08:00

Is that Glee I see ruling the top ten songs in iTunes?

Glee is ruling the world. Deal with it.

Oh and I came across this little thing:

Omg. Just when you thought it couldn't get any better.

Can't wait.

Love at first sight

2010-09-19T23:11:00.000+08:00

I think I JIMPed a little when I saw this:

CAN YOU SAY SEXAYYYEEEEEE

DAMN!

One of, if not THE nicest headphones I have seen. Usually I don't like headphones cause I think they are really ugly and they mess up your hair.

Unless of course you are a famous celebrity with impeccable hair or a black man who is bald and nothing will happen to you.

But seriously WHO CAN RESIST SUCH BEAUTY.

I'm totally fawning over these headphones. But they are freaking EX.

It doesn't make things easier that the white one is totally nicer:

The name of this shiz so cool also. "Beats by Dre"

Sighhhhhh. I want ~~both in two colours~~ one.

Oh I also cut my hair like super short. This is a historic day.

I finally followed my primal instincts and chopped off all my hair for real this time. I have a freaking asian mullet.

Yes the asian one, cause apparently the mullet we know is not the same as the ang moh one. Go google mullet to see what I mean by ang moh mullet.

Anyway, finally got rid of my irritating fringe. Freaking hot and annoying ~~Singapore~~ weather is just not suitable for long hair.

Okay for me at least I seriously couldn't take it.

And I'm totally unprepared for promos. Damn. And here I am blogging wasting precious minutes.

Okay kthxbai.

Before I forget

2010-09-09T21:31:00.002+08:00

To reply your tag, Jerry Chan, I had this as a draft hahaha.

Anyway.

We celebrated Jerry's birthday yesterday!

It was a day of waiting, waiting and more waiting.

So I met Choon Searn early to study first, since I correctly predicted no studying would be done after that.

Then afterwards Jia Wei and Wenjie came along and we started discussing what presents to get and stuff.

For some reason I was feeling quite stressed out. Cause I had this thought that it was going to be an epic fail, and awkward and uncomfortable.

Anyway, we decided to get him a cake, card and some cool shades to put him on the same level as Ryan.

Ryan came soon after and helped choose ~~porn~~ this um, unique card for Jerry.

The waiting commenced after that.

The plan was supposed to be like this:

4:30 - Jerry and his group goes for PW consultation

5:30 - They come out

6:00 - We go for dinner

8:00 - End

At least that was what was going through my head.

But for some reason, their consult ended at 8.

So everything was pushed back by 4 hours *sigh*

Oh well, we waited in school for 2 hours plus plus.

Finally, with him totally unsuspecting, and us ambushing him outside the lift, I must say it was quite nice a surprise hahahaha.

Had dinner after that and a nice conversation :)

Hahah pictures on facebook go see yourself.

And Happy Birthday again to Jerry!

Videos of the week!

2010-09-09T15:25:00.004+08:00

British talent for all you folks to go gaga over:

The next Cheryl Cole. Step aside bitches (lol). Must watch!!

Quite good. Weird song though.

This was from last year but still mind-blowing after watching it after song long. GO WATCH SERIOUSLY MUST WATCH.

Cannot find embedded video (assholes who post but don't allow embedding!) so here's the link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYDM3MIzEHo

All these young talented people...

I'm jealous :\

Bleh.

2010-09-01T23:30:00.001+08:00

Sorry to all 10 of you (THIS IS A ROUGH ESTIMATION THERE IS MORE I AM SURE) who still read my blog.

But I just don't feel like blogging right now even though a lot of things have happened.

In the meantime, you all can check out Xiaxue or something to while your time away.

Oh, and Happy Teacher's Day.

It was a fun day. I guess.

We won't be young forever

2010-08-14T17:26:00.003+08:00

I am considering moving my blog to wordpress or livejournal.

Blogger is soooo irritating. I cant blog on my iPad or iPhone unless I type in HTML mode which is quite stupid.

I also cannot add pictures, change colours, add video etc.

And for some reason the app to write on wordpress is free while the app for blogger is 2.99

Blogger can go screw yourself. Why is your app 2.99? So what if it's an app? Are you going to charge us 2.99 for every blogpost we write in the future?

Pffffftt. I'm very irritatable when I'm sleepy. That's probably why I have been so miffed the past 3 days of school.

The stress is building up, I totally have to start focusing and study!

I must either a) study or b) sleep to rest so that I can study later.

Isn't my life so exciting.

And I think my dance is getting worse. I suck!!!!! I think being buff will help a lot in my dance.

Anyone willing to be my personal trainer? I will, uh, pay for your blogger app?

OH and I totally need to stop playing baking life on Facebook. It is taking up so much of my time. I keep going back to check on my shop even though there's nothing I can do cause my cakes are baking and I cannot do anything.

Speaking of which PLEASE GO TO MY PROFILE AND CLICK ON THE BAKING LIFE RELATED NOTIFICATIONS!

Okay anyone watching YOG opening ceremony? Or does nobody care?

At least it will be better than NDP lol.

National Day 2010!

2010-08-09T21:34:00.003+08:00

Live our dreams! Fly our flag!

That's the theme for this years' NDP!

I don't even know how that is a theme, but yay I guess.

Anyway...

Happy National Day!

Even Google is celebrating with us!

I have a shit load of HW to do so bye.

If I could just sigh.

2010-08-06T00:31:00.003+08:00

I don't really know what I feel.

Affected by many ~~big~~ little things that just culminate into a big snowball that crushes me and suffocates me.

What am I to do?

Life would be so much simpler.

The iPad

2010-07-31T22:49:00.010+08:00

That's what most people thought when the iPad first came out.

But after using this device for over a month now, I must say that it is a pretty impressive piece of hardware. That's is probably why I'm actually taking time out to write what I feel about it.

It looks good, feels good, and more or less delivers everything that Apple promised it would.

No wonder Steve Jobs keeps on saying that it is a 'magical' product.

Yes Steve we get the message loud and clear.

So if this is really such a revolutionary product, what's with all the hate and negativity towards it?

Ever since its introduction, people have been constantly whining and moaning about what the iPad lacks: camera, flash support, multi-tasking etc. but yet they fail to see what the iPad brings to the playing field: a large multi-touch display, capable of supporting numerous hand gestures which creates a completely new and engaging interface that enhances gameplay, content creation, web browsing, mail management...the list goes on.

As someone who has used this, I can honestly say the issues that have been brought up have not significantly affected me enough to want to get my money back.

To prove my point let me give my take on these 'issues' that have been brought up.

The first issue that everyone seems to be talking about isn't exactly an issue at all. It's more of a case of stupidity arising from lack of information.

People are always saying, "It's just a giant iPod touch".

Okay, so what are you trying to say? The size of the iPad is the main feature which defines it from all other touch devices that Apple has put out. This 9.7 inch screen allows you to type decently with a upsized touch keyboard. It allows you to use all ten fingers to interact with the screen when playing games, surfing the net, or choosing your music.

Yes, I guess the iPad is a lot less portable than the iPod touch.

No way it can fit snugly in your jeans pocket, and it's huge screen is more susceptible to wear and tear. But to give up a fraction of portability for a whole new user-experience? Sign me up.

There is a reason why there are different sizes of laptops or different sizes of TV screens. You don't hear anyone saying, "The newly released TV from Samsung is just a bigger version of our old one. No point in buying it." That is because the size of the device does actually matter, because it changes the way we perceive things.

After using the iPad and going back to the iPhone, it feels a bit weird to have to adjust back to having everything mini-sized again. And it is definitely more comfortable viewing all your information in one webpage, rather than having to swipe continuously left to right and back to read full sentences on the iPhone.

Who knows, Apple might even introduce different sizes of iPads in the future to cater to different markets.

All this hate on the iPad, terming it "a bigger iPod touch"; it's all arising from people not accustomed to having seemingly similar products in different sizes, when these two products are actually completely different in their own right.

There are also the minor problems that I cannot understand why it is such an issue in the first place. The lack of camera functions seems to be bothering everybody, and personally I don't find it as big of a handicap as many people make it out to be.

Imagine if you had a camera on the iPad; you are walking down the street one day, and seeing a pretty flower on the sidewalk, would whip out your iPad and take a photo?

Of course not, you would look simply retarded.

The thing is, the iPad was not meant to be a photography tool. That is simply not the market the Apple is intending the iPad for. Yes, it is definitely a lot cooler and convenient to take photos and edit them on the iPad itself rather than syncing to your computer all the time. Apple might probably add a camera to the iPad in the future, but it is not their main priority now so why bother wasting precious space in this super thin product to input a camera?

If you really insist that the iPad has a camera before you buy it then...

Here, you got your wish.

And then there's the issue of a front-facing camera for video conferencing and all that. To be honest, I don't webcam or make video calls a lot, and it isn't really hindering my iPad experience at all. I haven't found myself pulling my hair out in frustration when I go online on the iPad and want to make a video call only to realize there is no front-facing camera.

A bigger problem everyone is griping about would be the lack of Flash support.

I would have to sit on the fence for this one, though I am still leaning more towards Apple's side. Yes, the lack of Flash is pretty annoying. Especially when I am surfing the net and come across an interesting video that I want to view, only for a black square box to appear in its place with a question mark in the middle. But in due time, I will get over it. I will get used to the lack of Flash. And if the video really warrants my attention, I simply reach for my laptop, which doesn't happen often.

What's more, Apple claims that Flash would drain the battery and cause the system to lag. I'm no expert when it comes to technical details, so I can't argue with that. But there are numerous videos on YouTube showing that Flash on mobile devices does cause it to lag, so I guess it's pretty true as well.

Also, to make up for the lack of Flash, Apple has offered us an alternative which they claim is everything that Flash is not: HTML5. While it is rather new, it certainly helps in overcoming the problem of lack of Flash as more and more videos are HTML5 based which the iPad supports. The benefits outweigh the problems lack of Flash bring, and ultimately the lack of Flash won't kill you. So suck it up and live with it.

Of course, an obvious feature of the iPad would be that its operating system seems to resemble that of an iPhone or iPod touch. Many people are disgruntled by the fact that it's not running on Mac OS X, which is the Apple operating system for computers, and are running some lame mobile phone platform. But this 'mobile phone platform', coined iOS, happens to be one of the most stable and advanced touch-based platforms in the world.

iOS is better than Mac OS X for the iPad in so many ways.

It allows for a touch user interface that is the trend for majority of mobile devices now.

It allows for developers to take advantage of it to produce applications that blow our minds.

It handles multi-tasking (currently only on the iPhone and iPod touch) in such a way that it doesn't drain battery.

The iPad is after all, a mobile device that is using one of the best mobile platforms in the world, and while initially I was also a bit surprised it was running iOS I have come to accept that it is the better OS of the two for the iPad.

Yes, iOS is not perfect and is lacking several key features that have been around in others for a long time. But remember, Apple only came into the mobile device industry three years ago, and already iOS is on its way to perfection as we speak.

Oh, and the part about multitasking? It's coming in the fall, so shut up already and wait patiently.

The iPad has more features than a smart phone, but not sophisticated enough to be a laptop. That's because it was was created with the intention for creating a new class of devices between smart phones and laptops. So has Apple succeeded in that aspect? Yes, it has been a freaking incredible success.

Looking at the fact that it took just eighty days for the iPad to sell thrice as many units as Windows tablets in a year, no one can deny that the dawn of the iPad is just beginning.

And to all the haters, Steve Jobs is probably laughing at you while sitting on a pile of cash and iPads.

Considering that probably no one is going to read this entire thing, let me just conclude by saying this: to the iPad haters, screw you and your lame arguments; you know you all secretly want one.

Just Dance 2010

2010-07-28T23:00:00.001+08:00

Woohoo this is a nice song:

She sounds a bit like Lady GaGa, but not so much to say that she copied her.

It's like, the Just Dance of 2010? Hahahaha.

I approve!

Living in a teenage dream

2010-07-24T00:33:00.005+08:00

I was taking a look at my previous blogposts dating maybe May 2009 or so, and I realized I used to blog so much more carefree and was generally less emo!

My blog posts were all quite long and interesting to read (self-praise HA), and there were not many blog posts with a few lines, saying how emo I was, or how I wish that airplanes in the night sky could be shooting stars cause I could really use a wish right now.

And it got me thinking that I really want to go back to that kind of blogging!

Oh, it has also come to my attention, like, I use a lot of, like, the word 'like' in my sentences. Regardless of whether it is in writing or speech.

I can't really remember when, but I was re-reading a blogpost, or something which I had written, and I freaking CRINGED at the number of 'like' in each sentence.

It's as though I'm some blond bimbo on drugs that cannot control herself and goes around spewing the word 'like' as though she's having verbal diarrhea.

So yes, I shall also limit my usage of the word 'like'. Please help me if you hear me 'like' this, 'like' that, and slap me and ask me to talk properly thanks.

So about a week back I had my guitar exam. It's a pretty low grade, so I wasn't as worried as I thought I would be, cause I somehow got this general notion that they are pretty lenient and can't be bothered with small fry like me.

It's the same as with a primary school kid taking exams; teachers don't really care much, and that's why we ended up with 100/100 for maths papers if we just tried that little much harder. And it is obviously not happening now in JC.

Anyway.

So I rushed home from school and changed into some bermudas and shorts, thinking, you know, after guitar exam I'm going back to school for dance, so I shall just dress casual -.-

So I went for the exam in slippers also.

And just before I went into the room, the teacher told me, "Oh yes, next time I would recommend shoes?"

And I was thinking "Screw off! FML!"

But I said "Oh of course."

The exam itself was pretty...not happening?

It started off quite badly I guess.

When I started the first song, I messed up the first bar, and thoughts like 'I'm so dead', 'I'm gonna fail,' started going through my mind. And to make things worse the air-con was blowing wind like it ate a lot of beans or something and it flipped the pages of my book.

So I had no choice but to stop halfway, and say in a rather stupid voice "Uh, the air-con blow my book."

As though I freaking expected her to, I dunno, stand in front of the air-con to prevent the wind from reaching me.

-.-

So after adjusting my seating position (Duh) I continued.

I don't feel confident AT ALL.

I was hoping for a distinction, now I don't even know if I can pass. If I don't pass it will just add to my long list of failures pfffft.

Hopefully the results come soon. From what I read online it can take anywhere from a week to a month.

LET ME PASS DAMN IT.

Oh oh oh, on more exciting news, iPad is finally here in Singapore!

Nicer than any laptop you own. Suck it haters!

People who are saying it's just a giant iPod touch, and that it's a stupid concept, are STUPID.

They are just jealous that they don't have one, and they secretly all desire one like all of us. Who live in the Apple dominated world ruled by iPhones and Macs that was invented by the genius that is Steve Jobs.

And yes, it's a GIANT iPod touch. THAT'S the entire concept of it!

It's the size of this device which is meant to be attracting people to buy it. It is due to its very size that makes it different from the iPod touch. It's size gives it the ability to be used as a laptop replacement for several functions that the mini-sized iPod touch doesn't allow us to do, allows it to create content (MS word etc) and makes games so much more enjoyable. Oh, not to mention it is freaking faster than a iPod touch thanks.

(I sound like some disgusting fan-boy. Oh well)

But yea, it is out in Singapore, and last I heard, it is sold out EVERYWHERE!!

Damn I want to work for Apple when I grow up. And design iPhone 5, 6, 7, 8 and then I can earn enough money to buy the company and get future products for free.

Rocks to be Apple now, sucks to be you~

Oh, and speaking of Apple, I realised I'm quite the geek :\

Like, I actually read up on Apple related stuff.

As in, I have done this way before since I got the iPhone, and it got me interested in Apple.

But now I'm genuinely interested in tech and stuff. It's quite interesting. I don't know why I'm giving all of you more things to make fun of me but so be it. I shall embrace this side of me.

And to make me look geekier, I'm super unfit -.- (in terms of NAPFA test)

Sighhhhh I really need to start exercising I don't wanna have 2 extra months of NS FMLLLLLLLL.

On a lighter note, I went to watch Cat High drama play last night!

Omg it was actually good.

I mean, not that I was expecting it to be the shit or anything. Or maybe I was I dunno.

But it was a really good show. I think it would have been more fun to act in this play than last years' LOTF.

Sighhhh and watching the play actually made me miss drama. Something that I have not felt in a long time because I thought I am super contented with dance. But I realized I actually am not :\

I don't know what's the difference, but there's just something missing. Maybe it's the same thing as what I mentioned at the beginning of this post, which is that drama was so much more carefree. Everything now is so controlled, reined in, dictated.

It kinda reminded me why I quit dance in Sec 2.

Oh well. Kudos to the drama gang! It was a good show! Worth my money hahaha.

Katy Perry has released a new song!

It's called 'Teenage Dream' and for some reason or another I really really really like it.

And don't say I like all of her songs or something. I thought 'California Gurls' was catchy and nice and everything, but it doesn't make me want to replay it over and over again and sing it all the time.

And 'California Gurls' was full-out fine, fresh, GAY, but 'Teenage Dream' is not THAT bad. It's actually more catchy than bimbo.

This 'Teenage Dream' actually has a bit of that nostalgia feeling, even how it sounds. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that she is singing about not wanting to grow up, hence living in a teenage dream.

Ugh I put my iTunes on shuffle and Kris Allen started playing after 'Teenage Dream'. ADAM LAMBERT WAS ROBBED. HE SHOULD HAVE WON.

Wow. This post damn long. It's making me feel lazy to blog in a looooong time.

Let's run away and don't ever look back.

I could really use a wish right now.

2010-07-19T22:39:00.003+08:00

I realize I tend to want to blog when I'm feeling kind of down.

Which makes me update everyday! Bleh.

Good things come in intervals? Or whatever the phrase was lah.

School is SHITTY.

I miss dance.

I don't know what else to say...?

And I'm not about to tell you what I ate for lunch, or like, the route I took to go home.

Hmm maybe it's up to me to decide whether school is shitty or not.

After all, why should I give in? If they really are what they say, then it should be just as easy for as it should be for that person no?

But I don't feel like it leh.

Somehow I knew this was coming. Oh well.

I just gotta shake it off and go back to being me.

Sleep and rest

2010-07-18T18:28:00.001+08:00

For all those who have wondered.

And pondered upon this issue for oh so long..

This is how peter chao looks like without his sunglasses:

Hahaha.

Okay I was just being bored.

Shit just hit the fan.

2010-07-16T01:00:00.002+08:00

I haven't gotten such shitty results since...for a long time.

Sucks to be me :(

Oh well, time to clean up my act I guess. It's a good wake up call.

Ahhhh I really wanna join O'team! But I don't know if I have time or not.

If all the overseas trips I have at the end of the year are confirmed, I would be gone for a freaking month.

That's like, thirty days.

Sighhh.

And I don't even know which committee to join also :\

Song and Dance? Storyline?

Bleh.

I should stop updating everyday. Yucks.

Just remember: BECCD

Dance was fun and all, but...

2010-07-14T23:05:00.001+08:00

I'm like, such a disappointment and a loser.

GAH.

Goodbyes, cupcakes, soccer balls with a dash of Spanish victory.

2010-07-12T18:59:00.004+08:00

Soo much shit went down the past 3 days.

Like, good shit. Not the kind which hits the fan and splatters on everyone.

Event No. 1!

So on Friday first and foremost was Dance farewell.

It was a pretty mad rush. We were left with decorations, notebooks for the seniors not done, and basically all the nitty gritty details that were still left undone.

So I rushed down to KayTee's house at around 4 plus to finish up all the deco and stuff, before going down to Liting's house where the actual farewell would be taking place.

Let me just say. Her house is a huge ass piece of building.

The front doors to the house already intimidated me. It looked like those olden day chinese doors that were super tall and wooden.

And the house has a freaking central air-con system. Yes, it is so big there are no separate air-con units for each room. Basically it has an air-con system like our school -.-

Did I mention the PAVILION beside the POOL in the backyard?

Okay so we were just having some batch time before the seniors came, and we were just hanging around the big house, talking, eating, jamming on the guitar (Baby lol), finishing the souvenirs etc etc...

And the seniors came at around 7 plus and the partay started~

I guess it was a success. It was quite fun, especially the charades and whatnot. And everything pulled off pretty smoothly. Phew.

But I mostly enjoyed the later part of the night during the sleepover. Everyone just went to different parts of the huge house to talk, HTHT, hang out.

In the end everyone knocked out around 4 plus and I woke up at 6 to go home since I had something on in the afternoon.

Reached home at 7 and bathed and slept all the way until 1.

Event No. 2!

So at 1 I got woken up by Ben's phone call.

My head was throbbing from lack of sleep due to the sleepover and I was quite irritated, but we had to prepare for Chelsea's birthday dinner!

So the plan was for Ben to come my house to use my oven to bake cupcakes, and before you get too impressed that we are baking cupcakes, we used the Betty Crocker pre mix thing so it was not that tough to bake.

However, I found out later that my house had no oven. I didn't even realize that we threw ours away untill then -.-

So Ben went home to bake, which gave me more time to rest and hopefully my headache would have gone away. Which it didn't.

We arranged to meet at Aston's at Suntec, and luckily the queue wasn't that long, so we got in pretty fast.

The food was quite good, but that wasn't the highlight!

After the meal, we went to arcade for awhile to Bishibashi which I didn't know they had a new one.

Then we went to Millenia Walk or something at this fountain place. And that was when we sprung the mini surprise on her.

We took out the cupcakes and laid it in the shape of 17 and lighted it up with candles and said "Ta-da!". It was pretty awesome.

Camwhored for a while before heading home. Another success! And my headache was gone!

Event No. 3!

On Sunday, Jerry suggested having a World Cup sleepover, and since for some reason my interest in World Cup suddenly appeared this year I was like oh that's a cool idea.

So around 10:30 last night I went to meet the gang at Serangoon MRT.

We ate, played LAN (where I got irritated with this loser), then went back to my house where we made it just in time for the match.

OMGGGG it was...

Freaking boring.

Like, they didn't score until the 110+ minute that kind of thing, and a lot of close shaves here and there. It was getting kinda sian and everyone was dozing off and stuff.

And Jerry missed the goal cause he slept. Ha. Sucks to be you.

After the match we played xBox for a while then everyone slept for an hour or so before I chased them out since I had to go somewhere.

Yup it was a pretty eventful weekend.

Hahahaha lucky RJ got holiday on Monday if not I would dying in school from lack of sleep.

I'm totally gonna blog about the shit that was Eclipse soon. It was crappy as hell. -.-

It's getting to me more and more.

2010-07-08T23:45:00.006+08:00

Today I was told by people that I don't update my blog regularly...

Even by people who don't do it themselves -.- (sheng weng)

So I shall now update and post about this totally epic video I came across.

This is a must watch.

Even if you have been ignoring all the video posts I posted before, this one you MUST SEE.

WHAT. THE. SHIT.

Either these people (or person, rather) are super talented...

Or they are super boh liao.

Whatever it is, it is seriously epic ttm.

If you didn't even enjoy that one small bit then...you didn't have a childhood? Your inner child is starving? Whatever.

And I didn't know that the Pokemon theme song had like, a second verse, bridge etc.?!?!

Sigh it brings back memories.

Even with all the new versions coming out like Black, White, and whatever other color they haven't done yet...

This one still takes the cake for me:

(My fav pokemon generation even though Squirtle is ugly as hell, and in fact every other pokemon. Isn't it creepy squirtle has a human looking face?)

Mad love ♥

So many thoughts like going through my head now, like the first time I played pokemon, why the hell do I like bulbasaur the best (still do btw), trying to remember how to catch mew, how the hell did this turn into a pokemon post etc...

Anyway, first week of school has been pretty bleh.

Dance is like so...unpredictable. Sometimes I love it, sometimes I don't.

Class is...pretty much the same -.-

OH WELL.

Until next time folks.

Only if you are willing to help yourself

2010-07-05T18:14:00.003+08:00

Edited my blog somewhat.

It was getting pretty messy and cocked-up looking so I cleared some stuff and made it more neat.

OH and if you haven't noticed I added not one, not two, not three, but 4 photos of me >>>>>

In 4 different colors also! :O

AND PLEASE FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER BY CLICKING ON THE LINK HERE THANKS.

Shall update more later on.

Going out for dinner to catch up with friends!

When life just isn't going your way

2010-06-29T17:11:00.001+08:00

If you are not even good at studying

Then what exactly are you good at.

I hate exams.

2010-06-24T19:44:00.003+08:00

This made me laugh a little.

Okay maybe not a laugh, more like a snigger. Or a smirk.

Hahaha.

This made me like...I dunno...touched? Swoon? Lol whatever lah. This song is quite touching hahahaha.

Sighhhhhh can't wait for exams to be over!

Time just rushes and whirls by when you least expect it.

2010-06-22T01:13:00.005+08:00

Okay it's officially half-way through the year.

It's just insane thinking about it: just a few months ago I was at my orientation feeling completely stranger in the new environment.

Now there's exams, CCA, outside activities, AND TIME SPENT ON MEETING UP WITH SECONDARY SCHOOL FRIENDS.

As in, it just took 6 months for me to settle in and now there's just so much stuff to do.

Anyway, reflective posts are BORING. Moving on~

Okay I realize that I really really REALLY (I even put it in caps) wanna spend more time with my secondary school friends!

Like, I don't have the luxury of having them in the same school like majority of my school people...

And I don't wanna burn bridges!!!

Ziheng, Nathan, Zong Da-I-see-your-tag, BOTC, ex-council mates, juniors from cat high, whatever.

We totally have to meet up and go out and just chill and catch up lah!

AFTER MYEs I SHALL GO AND HUNT MY PEOPLE DOWN WHETHER THEY LIKE IT OR NOT HAHAHAHAHA.

...

Sigh.

I miss the days in Cat High.

On a much lighter and sweeter note, I have fallen in love...

With THIS:

Hahahahah I got the image off Xiaxue's blog and she did a blog entry about it so you can go check it out also. It's quite cool.

ANYWAY.

I think their shop is freaking cool lah!

Okay basically, they are this sweet shop which makes rock candy.

And the special thing about them is that they freaking make it RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU.

The process is also super fun to watch and everything.

Check out this video. I'm to lazy to describe the entire process and whatnot at 1:26am (while waiting for the new iPhone software update hahahaha)

Seriously.

If all else fails, I might just go work for them lah.

So much fun! Hahahaha.

You can go check out their facebook page here. I'm already a fan! :D

YESSSSHHHH!

2010-06-20T22:46:00.004+08:00

THE LINE IN MY ____ IS GONE!!!

WHOOOOO!

Anyway, in other news...

Sigh. I have been thinking too much about this recently:

Sighhhhhhhhhh.

Back to real intensive studying tomorrow. Panic attack kinda set in last week for CTs OMGZZ.

And I have no words to say.

2010-06-13T16:15:00.003+08:00

Take a look at the video below, oh ever blind and obsessd Taylor Swift fans.

That is Taylor Swift, reigning Female Vocalist of the Year, as compared to Carrie Underwood.

You be the judge, but judging from the blood flowing from my ears after the first 10 seconds of the video, I think I already know who's the winner.

I say that Taylor Swift should audition for American Idol to prove that she won't even make it past Hollywood Round. Anyone with me?

I don't hate her or anything, just that I got irritated hen I saw this and thought if her winning all the vocal awards when she has no, well, vocals.

Abrupt end to post.

Sighhhhhh

2010-06-11T23:13:00.001+08:00

Days like these are the worst.

And they are becoming increasingly common.

What's my purpose actually? What's the point?

Ionic bonds, chicken legs and a whole lotta fries

2010-06-07T22:48:00.003+08:00

Omg omg omg omg.

I officially HATE Long John Silver.

In fact, I think after today, I just hate all fried and disgusting fast food (KFC, Macs etc etc etc.)

LJS has this meal with some sawadee chicken.

Its some thai tasting chicken meat.

It was quite tasty I guess...?

But omg, the amount of OIL.

Okay I'm not being ano or whatever shit.

But seriously, when I cut it open right, there was this mini pool or oil collected at the bottom of the piece of meat.

It was pretty gross.

I mean, I usually don't care what I eat and stuff, and people who know me know that I don't really give a shit as to fitness and whatever.

But seriously the pool of oil.

Should have taken a picture now that I think about it.

Disgusting ttm.

Had to shake it dry before eating it.

Now I just feel sick. Like, wanna puke but got no puke come out like that. Which is even worse than the feeling of puking itself.

Oh wait, it's called nausea. Right.

But oh mannnnnnnnn. I feel like slapping myself for eating it.

Ahhhhhh.

Anyway, on a heavier note, I guess I have to start really intensely mugging soon.

Everything I have done so far is so...insignificant.

Sigh.

NO MORE FRIED FAST FOOD INCLUDING MACDONALDS AND WHATEVER SHIT. STARTING IN 3...2...1...

I HATE PW

2010-06-03T23:37:00.003+08:00

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Yes this post is dedicated to my unparalleled hate towards PW.

PW sucks major balls.

My hate for PW is could be described as passionate, fiery, burning etc...

I HATE PW. GAHHHHHHHHH

P.S: My current blog song 'Undo It' is quite apt here -.-

Tis post is dedicatedzzz to de one and onli Jerry Chan

2010-05-31T00:52:00.003+08:00

Lyk, sherioushly no one typez like Jerry.

I was scanning thruz jerry's past posts, like waayyyyyyy back in 2005.

I laffed lyk sum mad dog.

Cuz lyk, the way he typed his wordzzz were epic ttm.

Basically how imm typing nao.

Check out an excerpt from his postz:

"went to cousin's new house todae... dam big... got tv that is projected frm projector (lol).... totally new man... old house not lyk this... nice.....

I cycled there while my mum walked. on the way there was this junction and my mum asked me to go to the right but i went left, i tot it would be shorter but it was longer than i tot.... uphill.. :( finally reached there with difficulty... *pant*

play com there until evening then reach home. luckily my father came to fetch me home... if not i would have fainted... *faint*..."

Lyk, fahnee until?

Fine, given he was only sec 1 den...

But still fahnee :D

Omg Jerry you are super awesome! Lubbbss the way ya write :D

TodaE, I lyk have a new impression of Jerry.

~

Hahahahha jerry you're so nice you won't mind this one mocking post no? :D

And yes I have finally replied every single tag. Aha!

The holidays are here!

2010-05-30T01:27:00.002+08:00

The JUNE HOLIDAYS are here!

I don't know whether to be happy or not.

Cause while this means I get to slack, sleep and wake up at unearthly hours, it also means that I have nothing to do!

I am totally free during the holidays. Damnnnnn.

I guess that's a good thing, cause it means I can focus on my studies. I have been really behind my tutorials and everything, because of Dance and all it's performances, and so this is a good time to catch up on everything.

Not to mention that exams are on the very first week that school reopens, so this isn't really much of a holiday anyway.

Oh well, I can dedicate my time to studying, catching with friends, going out, WORKING OUT TO PASS NAPFA (OMG SERIOUSLY I NEED TO GET DOWN WITH THIS), and just resting and recuperating cause term 3 is probably going to be a bigger bitch.

Okay so for the past few days I have been pretty busy though.

Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday we had dance rehearsal and performances.

It was pretty intense cause tuesday we had rehearsal until about 10 pm AT REPUBLIC POLYTECHNIC IN WOODLANDS and the next day we had GP exam.

But I think I still did okay? Like, I managed to write quite a bit for the essay, and even though I think I lost some marks in the compre, I should be fine. Hopefully :\

The performances were quite good I guess.

The feeling on stage just never gets old. It's like this short burst of adrenaline, where everything you have practiced so hard for suddenly just comes all to you at once in like 4 minutes. Pretty intense.

The first performance on Wednesday was the shit though.

The bloody stage manager, technician, whoever was in charge of the lighting should just go eat shit and die okay.

Like, maybe he was nervous, or maybe he was scratching his eye, or maybe he was distracted by some pretty woman in the audience.

WHATEVER.

He freaking got our lights wrong?!?!

Like, it was super embarassing. Before we could even put the chairs properly the lights and music came on.

We were all like "WTHBBQOMGZWTSSSS"

I think the audience were laughing. Screw them and their immature minds.

Couldn't they tell that it was part of our dance? *shifts eyes nervously*

At least I could remain angry for the rest of the dance, which is the emotion we are supposed to have.

Our choreographer screamed at some people after that for being the idiots that they are.

Good for her. Sucks to be them.

Thursday went well though. No complaints ahahaha.

Ultimately, I think the highlight of this entire RP performance experience had to be...

THE DINNER.

It was damn awesome. They had rice with grilled chicken or fried chicken, sometimes fish, and cabbage or potato wedges. SOOOOOOOO much better than the food we had during Dance Night. Dance Night food was like shit.

Friday was the first day of the holidays!

Had dim sum lunch with the family to catch up and stuff. Especially since I have been home late recently for the past few days.

Came home, took a nap before heading out for a dance performance by our choreographer's company!

I was quite excited to watch cause I heard one of them would be using music from our Dance Night and Poker Face by Lady Godga. Yeah, you saw it right, I called her Godga. She's like awesome until?

Anyway, the performance was alright I guess. Expected from our choreographer ahahaha.

Saturday was pretty slackk. Woke up super late at 12:30 before lepaking until 4 before heading out for dinner with Elgyn.

Hahahahah it was the first time we met in like 2 months? So I guess we had a lot to catch up on. He was sick though, so we called an early night.

Ahhhh Topman totally cheated my feelings.

Before the dance performance on Friday, we (dancers) were shopping in Topman cause they were having a half price sale.

There was this label on this awesome pair of shoes that said it sold for freaking 24 bucks.

24 bucks!!!!!

Like, dirt cheap lah, considering it's Topman somemore.

So I decided in my heart that I would buy it soon.

Then, when I went out with Elgyn on Saturday, we went to the Topman at Vivo only to see that they actually sold for 43 bucks and that the label at the outlet we went to was wrong?

KNNBCCB.

Angry ah! :@

So now I shall go Muji buy shoes. Topman just lost a potential customer. Hmph.

P.S: Study dates anyone?

And so life goes on

2010-05-23T21:12:00.002+08:00

It has been such an unproductive weekend. Tutorials not done, GPP not really set into stone yet, and ISLE seems like a chore to do.

*Sigh*

Even though GP CTs are this wednesday I can't seem to be bothered.

Not only is there nothing much to study, I can't bring myself to start reading the handouts and whatever other stuff.

Oh not to mention that there's a performance on the day of the exam and a full dress rehearsal the night before.

With everything more or less falling into equilibrium I can't help but wonder where I had gone wrong, or what I could have done right.

Hahahahaha I kinda miss Cat High. Didn't think I would ever say this.

I'm just not used to all this inactivity.

It doesn't seem as fulfilling as it could be. I could have done more to get the opportunities but I just let them slip through my fingers.

Not to mention I feel caught up in the middle of this...tension. Like, right smack in the middle where you get hit by all the crossfire.

Ha I might even be leaning more towards one side now without even realizing it.

Actually now thinking about it, maybe things are just there for me to grab. I just need to have that extra effort to achieve what I want.

And while not everything may go my way, it is ultimately inevitable and I just have to make do with what I have.

But there will be no regrets knowing that I have at least tried.

I cant depend on anyone forever.

Hmm school is pretty quiet now. Everything seems to have slowed down since CCA has stopped.

After all, the practices for dance night (which I have yet to update about) were pretty insane.

I think it's really time to start taking charge of my life now. Can't let such matters affect me.

*sigh*

Hopefully things will pick up soon I guess.

Dance just isn't as fun as it used to be. In fact, not just dance but school in general.

THIS IS A MUST WATCH

2010-05-13T21:55:00.004+08:00

This is a bit disturbing considering they are like nine and wearing such costumes BUT OMG ARE THEY AWESOME OR WHAT?!

Seriously man. Those girls can dance.

Anyway.

More updates on DANCE NIGHT soon :)

Dance Night '10

2010-05-08T00:01:00.000+08:00

I got a feeling~

Ooooooo oooooh

That tonight's gonna be a good night ;)

Here we go again

2010-05-03T02:09:00.006+08:00

(YES CHEN WEI HERE'S YOUR UPDATE)

Like Eenette's facebook status said, this week is going to be a dancey week!

Dance Night '10 is coming on Saturday and I must say I'm pretty excited.

I don't know how to really describe it, but I get a different kind of thrill when I'm on stage dancing as compared to acting.

For dancing, you really need to get the moves right and it is more difficult to hide your mistakes whereas acting you can just improvise to cover up.

So I guess it's more adrenaline pumping in that sense.

I have always admired dancing more than acting anyway.

So the schedule this week is really, really crazy.

There's basically dance every day, and to cap it off, all the practices end at 9-10 pm. Madness.

But I like it :)

Oh did I mention I got really shitty tickets for Dance Night?

Okay, I don't exactly know how they gave out tickets but apparently they used the GC random function or something to give out.

But still, who the hell are occupying the first few rows?

Oh wait, it's not just 'few' but rather a lot.

Damn crazy. My best seats are 'W' and I'm pretty sure they run in alphabetical order. So yea you get my point.

Oh and Dance Exco results are coming out! *nervous*

Hopefully at the end of this entire selection everyone is happy. I don't wanna see our dance batch broken up over conflict or politics. *sigh*

So anyway, today I went for Steffi's birthday party! Happy Belated Birthday! (Had to cancel dinner plans last minute. Sorry! ><)

It was alright. I didn't know a lot of people there. I mostly just stuck with my classmates and a few dancers

Oh, highlight of the night was the entire group of us breathing in helium from the multitude of balloons and making us sound like chipmunks.

Like, it actually works. When I used to see people having that nasal high-pitched voice after helium-inhalation I would think they were making that up.

But trust me, it actually works. I don't know why but it does.

And damn the Wen bitch for saying I sound like that all the time. Damn you!

Oh and Happy Birthday to Ben.

Hmm I was thinking what would my birthday celebrations next year be like..?

Would my Sec 4 clique wow me with a surprise, or will my new class do something? *hint hint*

~~Or nothing could happen and I could just rot and die in a corner.~~

I have dance tomorrow at 8. It is 2:30am now. FML.

Sometimes I think I really think too much. I can't put the blame on anybody after all. And what more can I expect? I don't think I can ever feel comfortable around them. And instead of focusing on them and indirectly burning bridges with my past, I should just try to work on what I already have before I really lose everything.

Why couldn't life be simpler..?

2010-04-24T22:41:00.002+08:00

I took my 2.4 on Friday and the timing was kinda shitty.

Like, I missed the higher grade by 1 second. FML.

Oh well. Not that I'm going to pass NAPFA anyway.

Life in JC is really flying past in s blur.

It's already, what, week 6 of term 2?

It'd difficult to find time to do work now. Especially with the intense dance practices since DANCE NIGHT is coming up.

I realized that so many other people have 2 ccas. I seem to be in the minority who does not have a second cca.

I guess I have the ISLE enrichment course which is basically overseas CIP. But I don't think you can dally count that as a second cca right..?

Well right now what's really stressing me out is PW.

PW is a bitch.

And I don't know hoe true are the stories I heard, but it's really making me feel uneasy.

I don't want to end up in the 40% of RJ that does not get an A for PW.

We seem to be really behind time compared to other classes.

Apparently for some classes 3/4 of them have already gone for their consultation and are happily working on their GPP.

Only 4 people or so in our class has gone for consultation.

Yet even though it seems that we are really pressed for time because we have to submit both our PI and GPP around the same time, we were told that it's supposed to work this way.

I wonder whose fault it is for our extremely slow progress for this A Level subject which will appear in our certificate.

And to make things worse my group hasn't started on our GPP discussion or other PW stuff!

I really hate PW.

P.S: I need to get used to typing on this man. Oh and hopefully wen jie gets well soon. See, I'm so awesome to wish him well :D

Can we pretend that airplanes in the night sky are shooting stars?

2010-04-18T22:43:00.000+08:00

(I just realized I haven't updated for so long. Dayummmm.)

I wanna be a billionaire, so freaking bad~

That's a line from the totally awesome song 'Billionaire' by Travis McCoy feat. Bruno Mars:

This Bruno Mars person is suddenly appearing everywhere, being featured on songs and stuff. ~~But he has such a stupid name and he doesn't have wikipedia entry, so I guess he is not that famous yet.~~

Anyway.

The sung chorus by Bruno Mars is seriously so much nicer than the rap by Travis McCoy. Like, Travis McCoy should just shut up and let him sing. And turn the chorus into a full song.

In other matters, ISLE bonding camp planning is so tedious. I'm not even going to deny it man.

It's kind of a different situation than previous camps or events I planned.

I am planning a camp that I was suppose to have gone through myself. Not plan it and be in charge will results in me being detached from the rest of my batch.

And it's a camp for 110 people. Stress much?

But I guess most of stress just faded away when Jane told me "There's no point being so stressed cause if not you won't have fun right?"

Well, after all, it's supposed to be a fun bonding camp. No point worrying too much. Whatever will be, will be, que sera sera~

School has been flying fast sooo freaking fast.

It's already week 5 which means NAPFA is coming.

Bleh.

I'm prepared to fail this year I guess. I think it's so freaking unfair that if you fail one station, you fail all.

What if you get all As, fail one station and hence fail everything; does that mean you are as unfit as some super obese person? No right?

And what about pull-ups? Does this mean that a person is fitter than me because he can do one and I can do none? (you can start to mock me now)

That was my bitterness speaking out.

Oh and I never ever thought I would say this but I LOVE GOING FOR DANCE SO MUCH.

Like seriously, past bad experiences just made me quite apprehensive at joining dance at first, but now sometimes it is all that I look forward to after school!

The people there are so awesome, and we all can just be our usual, crazy selves and have fun!

Dance Night is coming and practices are becoming more intense, but who cares! It's so fun!

The dance practices were what I could mostly remember about the past week anyway.

No hope, no love, no glory, no happy ending~

Class has become a bit blah.

But still fun of course :) well, let's just say I am putting my hopes on class camp tomorrow!

~~I know you're watching me from the corner of your eye.~~

OHHHH did I mention that:

Is back???!!!

Omgg I love this showww!

Hmm but I felt that the first episode after the FREAKING 4 MONTH HIATUS felt a bit rush.

[WARNING SPOILERS BELOW]

Like, they reset all the characters to their original statuses.

Finn is not with Rachel anymore (though he is chasing her! Ha!)

Mr. Shue is not with Emma.

Sue Sylvester HBIC is back (Head Bitch In Charge) from her suspension.

Hopefully the next few episodes will be better.

Hahahah heard they are giving Kurt a boyfriend or something lol.

And next week's episode is Madonna themed! :O

Cannot wait for their rendition of 4 Minutes.

[END OF SPOILERS]

AND FINALLY FOUND SOMEONE (YONGHAN) WHO IS, LIKE ME, IN LOVE WITH MY BLOG SONG. TOLD YOU GUYS IT'S AWESOME ALREADY! :D

Cause I could really use a wish right now.

Life's a bitch

2010-04-09T23:06:00.002+08:00

Okay things are seriously not going well.

Let's talk about the more...tangible stuff.

There are are couple of lecture tests next week and I haven't studied. Not to mention PI draft is due on Monday and I have no idea what to do and I only have the weekend to do this.

Great.

Dance night is coming and rehearsals are getting more intense. Don't get me wrong, I love the time I spend during dance and don't regret it, it' just that I'm finding I don't have enough time/motivation/energy to do work after that.

I only have 8 tickets to sell for Dance night. And I have more than 8 ppl I wanna sell tickets to.

Selections...

As for the emotional stuff, everything is a mess.

It's probably just my own insecurities, which is why I don't really rant to people cause I don't wanna appear so.

Anyway.

It's been close to 4 months now since I came to this new school.

The people whom I thought I could trust do not trust me. Apparently I'm just some person that is supposed to listen and entertain, but when it comes to the stuff that really matters, I'm not the person to go to.

I'm just some person that people look for for a laugh, not the person they wanna talk to about the stuff that bothers them. And people just continuously complain and I soak up everything like a sponge, even though I know what I'm soaking up has probably been filtered and thought of carefully cause no one dares to trust me with anything.

Also I feel that I'm being taken advantage of. After this I'm probably gonna be thrown to the side and be neglected. Again.

And really, I don't know whether the things I do are right or wrong. All this emotional stuff might just make me lose my focus and not allow me to get what I want. But I seriously don't know what to do anymore.

They have a totally different mindset. I don't know what to do or not do. What I used to do used to be considered as acceptable. Now when I do it I just feel guilty.

Speaking of feeling guilty, I feel really bad right now. But then again, I don't know whose fault it is to begin with.

And just when I thought there was finally somebody that I could most likely talk to, I just start thinking about how little I know about that somebody and how that somebody doesn't seem to tell me stuff.

Like I said, no one really thinks of me when it comes to this kind of stuff.

I just feel so excluded from everything.

Even after typing all this shit I don't feel any better.

iPhone OS 4.0 is gonna be released in two months. The only good thing that happened today.

What I wouldn't give for things to be the same

2010-04-06T22:11:00.002+08:00

Bieber fever has taken over the world!!!

Hahahaha he has some mad catchy songs!

This is my fav I guess:

It has this really...happy feel to it.

Like, really chirpy and cheerful :)

I spent like damn freaking long trying to find a video with a less gay pic of him okay! You all better listen.

But it doesn't work all the time.

A long but fruitless weekend

2010-04-03T20:47:00.007+08:00

It has been such a longgggggg weekend.

Well technically we RJ ppl have a longer weekend cause since we did well for A levels, we got an extra day off on Thursday.

I think the principal is damn smart to have it on April Fool's.

So anyway, the title basically sums it all up.

I haven't got any work done at all.

I think I'll just pia everything on Sunday (as usual).

Anyway, I haven't been in the mood to do anything since I'm disturbed by some misunderstanding happening.

I cannot believe that over this long weekend, I haven't had the chance to sleep in at all.

Thursday had to wake up early to go J8 and discuss ISLE proposal.

Friday my mom had us all wake up early for tim sum brunch at this place. Since this place doesn't allow booking ahead, we had to go early to avoid the queue. In the end, it was so crowded still that we ended up having to go grab our own food the moment it came out of the kitchen cause they were understaffed. Wake up early for nothing. Quite phail.

Saturday had DANCE! Which I actually am enjoying quite a bit :) See, I even took the trouble to colour the individual letters hahahahahaha. (lame)

So yea, had to wake up early for all 3 days and couldn't sleep in. So today after dance I totally napped the entire afternoon away after eating lunch.

I sound like some pig. Eat, sleep, then wake up eat again. Bleh. But then again, pigs don't blog so I'm not one! :D

(I'm damn lame. Must be influenced by Wenjie the Yoona addict)

Speaking of being influenced, I think I might be succumbing to the extremely toxic and poisonous thing known as the korean wave.

I mean, I try to tell others (and myself) that it's just those few songs from SNSD that I like, then I start doing the dances, then I move on the Abracadabra, then I talk about wanting to learn the dance for wedding dress by Tae Yang....

OMGMANNNZXXXXWTHBBQ I'm totally falling over to the dark side. Succumbing to temptation. Slowly my sanity will be consumed by SNSD's act-cute faces.

Argh. Got so many videos of me on facebook dancing now.

Oh, recently I watched two movies that are quite hot now. By hot I mean the must-book-before-hand kind if not you confirm cannot get seats.

They are How to Train Your Dragon and Clash of The Titans.

The former is damn awesome. The latter was disappointing.

Let me talk about this first:

Let me start off by saying this movie is friggin' awesome can?

It's not childish AT ALL unlike popular misconception (I thought it was before I was enlightened when I watched it).

It's a really good MOVIE, not some lame ass show.

I seriously recommend everyone to go and watch it. No kidding.

Oh, and watch in 3D if you can. I heard it's pretty awesome. Anyone wants to watch in 3D? I was stupid enough to watch it in 2D :(

So anyway, this movie is really really really good. It's been a long time since I said that about a movie. The last time I said it was for Avatar. Hahahahaha.

Next we have:

This was quite disappointing.

I mean, I expected a really epic movie, amazing special effects, good storyline...

And it has Jake Sully from Avatar! (his real name is Sam Worthington)

But even though the effects were good, and yes it was pretty epic, everything else just falls flat.

The storyline is damn lame, cheesy, cliched. Totally can expect what happens next without watching the movie.

But it will probably earn a lot of money anyway. It's like transformers you know? A lot of action and special effects and explosions, but the story SUCKS.

So if you had to choose one to watch, watch How to Train Your Dragon.

OH! RJC IS HAVING DANCE NIGHT WHICH MY CCA IS PERFORMING IN! I don't know when they are selling tickets...BUT COME AND WATCH! MORE UPDATES SOON :D

Hmm I don't have much to update anymore.

I think my blogging has been quite boring recently.

Like, I'm not spontaneous and bitchy like I used to be ahahahaha.

Ohwells.

I seriously don't know what to do.

P.S: Looks like Rihanna's latest album is not bad after all. My new blog song by her, 'Te Amo', is pretty awesome, no?

So to whom shall the blame belong to?

2010-04-02T11:38:00.002+08:00

Quite a nice emo song to listen to when you're, well, emo.

I'm still bitter.

I don't know what to do anymore

2010-03-23T21:27:00.003+08:00

Term 2 has started!

It's quite amazing how time flies.

We received a timetable with all the major events of the year today and I was like OMGWTHBBQ it's Term 2 already!!?!?!? -.-

We had the first lecture test today :(

Even though I did okay, I realized that I still am unsure of a lot of concepts and stuff.

Stresssssssss.

I guess I have been kinda caught up in the whirl of things.

Everything passes so fast, and sometimes you just don't know if there's time to care about such things anymore.

New school, new culture, new people.

I feel that I'm losing old connections, yet not gaining any new ones in the process.

Maybe I try too hard to not think about problems.

You don't really have to be happy even though you appear to be chirpy and cheerful all the time.

I don't know who's fault it is in this stupid issue. I would like to think it's mine.

I also don't know why I am so affected.

And root of all evil affects us all.

2010-03-12T21:08:00.002+08:00

Watch this video by Taylor Swift for her song 'You Belong With Me'.

YOU MUST WATCH IT FIRST BEFORE SCROLLING DOWN BELOW:

Watched?

Now watch THIS:

THIS IS FREAKING HILARIOUS.

Don't you think so?!?!?!

I laughed like mad when I watched it.

Anyway, the March holidays have come.

Last time in Secondary School holidays used to arrive with a big BANG where we will all get excited and start planning our holiday activities over lunch after school at J8.

Now, holidays just seem to come and go like a bomb that has been extinguished before it has exploded. Pssshhhhhhhh.

Oh well. At least there's CCA to fill time.

And I guess with studying more time can be filled up.

~~Not to mention class and OG gatherings!~~

Wonder how this March holidays will be.

Please leave a tag when you visit :D

I wish I was the only exception.

Wishing that love exists somewhere

2010-03-11T21:18:00.007+08:00

HELLO FRIENDS.

At least that's what a lot of people seem to be saying in RJ when they see each other.

Anyway.

I am suddenly motivated to blog! :D

So I shall take advantage of this sudden adrenaline rush and blog my heart out!

Alright. Here goes:

Life has been such a rush.

Time passes so damn freaking fast here you know? (maybe not fast enough during lectures)

So initially I guess I started out thanking my lucky stars that I have an OG that still meets up every morning, a crazy, fun class where we will eventually bond and become the most awesomest class ever, and having a really busy and packed schedule in school where I will have a fulfilling 2 years in RJ spending my time on projects, CCA, and other stuff after school apart from studies.

My impression of the first two counts have kinda changed :X

I shall be shameless and say it now:

Sad to say, I feel that my OG is crumbling bit by bit.

Sure we meet every morning (this small clique of us which actually bothers), but yet I don't seem to feel the connection...?

Like, I guess I can safely say that the person I talk to the most would be J.

The rest would be doing homework and studying while we meet up in our precious morning OG time.

I don't know. I cannot say that I have not been wishing that I was in some other OG when I'm with my friends' OGs, or when I see them having fun and laughing with their OG.

I would be lying if I said no.

Why oh why do I have to be stuck with you?

And my class...well...things have gotten pretty sticky there :X

I won't call it class politics, but I just don't like unnecessary tension between people ya know?

I guess it has kinda broken the dynamics of our class.

I feel that we used to have a lot more fun in the past as compared to now. It doesn't look like we are going to be super bonded like two fingers stuck together like super glue at the end of two years.

I really hope things can change.

I am finding it kinda hard to talk to people.

Someone teach me how to socialize successfully?

Still haven't found any best friends here in RJ :(

~~I thought we had something going on but I don't think we will end up that way.~~

Oh I think that my blog song really reflects the mood I am thinking now. Like I am not so much Ke$ha crazy, fun-loving, 'Kiss N Tell' anymore.

More like calm and composed, yet full of emotional turmoil inside like Pixie Lott's 'Gravity'.

Pulling me back, pulling me in. Just like gravity.

It has been a month in RJ!

2010-03-07T21:57:00.001+08:00

I might actually resume blogging soon!

Rejoice my readers! (all 15 of you!)

P.S: I love Carrie Underwood to bits and pieces.

A mini-comeback for the time being

2010-02-28T22:43:00.002+08:00

I think that this music video by Shakira is HOT:

Now this video is hot because of four reasons:

1. Shakira. Can you believe she is 33 freaking years old? Damnnnn.

2. Rafael Nadal. Tennis stud. Need I say more?

3. Both are like mexican/italian descent. Or something. Same lah. They should totally date man!

4. Chemistry between the 2 are amazing!

I just loveeee this song, 'Gypsy', by Shakira. It's so simple, so pretty, so...her.

Not like 'She Wolf' or 'Give it To Me' or some other Timbaland rubbish song.

Hais. Love this.

Anyway, sorry for not blogging so long.

And yes, Guo Chang, I am waiting for a fanbase to build in RJC first. HAHAHAH.

I shall admit; viewership numbers motivate me to blog. Who the hell wants to blog to nobody!

It's as though you are desperately trying to tell the world your life but no one wants to listen to you.

Hahahahahahaha.

Resume hiatus.

This blog is

2010-02-13T23:27:00.001+08:00

OFFICIALLY ON HIATUS (for now)

Ra-ra-ra-raffles~

2010-02-10T18:11:00.003+08:00

So...

*dust flies and cobwebs away*

I know I haven't been updating.

It's been what, 2 weeks since I updated?

Anyway.

Raffles has been pretty awesome I guess :)

I'm lazy to elaborate so I shall just stop here...for now.

The question is: should I join Dance, Drama, ~~Frisbee~~, Interact, or run for Council?

This is it.

2010-01-27T21:47:00.003+08:00

Like really really really IT.

We have officially all moved on to different paths.

This is not just some...little adventure we are going on before meeting up together with our friends from Secondary School.

"This is it" - Michael Jackson

I quote his song.

We are all moving on.

It seems so surreal.

Last clique outings.

Last time seeing all the familiar outings...

My OG leader called me just now.

His name was Ernest.

And no offense if he sees this, but he sounds SO FREAKING DEAD.

Like, he was being super formal and official, and very polite sounding, and sounded absolutely bored out of his wits.

He was saying everything in this monotone.

"I need some of your personal particulars"

"Do you have any dietary restrictions?"

"Could I have your email address please?"

"Please bring.....tomorrow at report at lecture theaterette 2"

Could you have some life please?!

I am feeling quite scared cause Choon Searn was saying how his OGL was super excited and high and damn enthu.

She even asked him to keep dinner free cause she is planning some OG dinner can?!?

And mine was like... -_-

Okay okay, shall go pack my bag and go sleep already.

Gotta start waking up early again *groans*

Kthxbye.

And my fate is sealed

2010-01-27T10:56:00.001+08:00

Here I come.

Choon Searn's Birthday Celebrations!!!

2010-01-24T20:25:00.007+08:00

DISCLAIMER:

~~Time to be thick skin~~ I'm going to claim 60% of the credit for the celebrations, its success, Choon Searn's happiness, everyone's enjoyment, and basically the whole event. Buahahahaha.

So what exactly went down during the celebrations?

Let me give you a breakdown of how the celebrations came about.

17/1/2010

There I was, laying in my bed, and being the wise 17 year old (HA! how many of you can say that HUH?) I am, I was thinking about the various which plague our world today:

Why am I so tall? Why can't Apple stop releasing new iPods and iPhones a few months after each version? Does maggi mee have a coating of wax on it? Will I die if I drink its soup?....

And then being the wise philosopher that is me, I realised, Hey! It's that guy aka Choon Searn's birthday this thursday!

And so I began to think of a plan to surprise him on his birthday.

After all, I'm going to be in the same school as him most likely, and ~~it won't hurt to pretend to be nice and get his votes for Council!~~ I really treasure him as a friend.

So I roughly thought of an idea to shock his socks off; basically it involved us going to his house while he was distracted by another group of people. And when he returns, he will be surprised to see that so many people actually care about his birthday!

I am so awesome right.

So I was feeling rather jittery and excited about the plan and I dialed Zi Heng up to discuss with him the details.

And this was what we came up with; a step by step guide to surprise the goon that is Choon Searn:

Step 1:

Get two groups of friends. Preferably close to him. If not, find some people and bribe them with cake to get them to follow your plan.

Step 2:

One group will bring Choon Searn out for the day to distract him. The more the boring the outing, the better. Make him feel as though no one gives a shit about his birthday muahahaha.

Step 3:

The other group must while away the afternoon on their own with lame movies such as Legion and Tooth Fairy to pass time until about 5 before buying a cake and making their way towards Choon Searn's house.

Step 4:

The other group will leave Choon Searn and rush back to his house to join the group already there to wait for his return to surprise him.

Step 5:

When he returns, scream as loud as possible to surprise him.

Yea, something like that.

So I immediately assigned people to their roles. Hahahah I sound so commader-ish.

Ngiap Seng, Hong Shing, Ying Xun, Colin Cheng, Kenneth Wong and Zhi Ying will go out with him to distract him.

Meanwhile, me, Zi Heng, Elgyn, Nathan and Zong Da would go buy the cake and wait at his house.

And for the next hour or so I became like some kind of madman by calling up everybody and repeating the plan over, and over and over and over and over...

18/1/2010 - 20/1/2010

Over the course of the next few days we basically were confirming the details.

Where to meet, buy what present, what time, call his parents to ask for permission to use their house...blahblahblah.

Zi Heng called up his parents after my reluctance to do so hahaha.

Oh, we spent a lot of time discouraging Choon Searn that no one cares about his birthday.

"Nathan working leh. He cannot go out with you on thursday already"

"Zong Da's father wants him to work or something"

"Elgyn says he isn't really close to you, so he doesn't wanna go out with you"

Evil, but with good intentions.

And so the plan was set.

21/1/2010

Zi Heng, Nathan, and I met up first to go and watch movies to pass time. We had the whole afternoon while Choon Searn was out with Ngiap Seng and company.

We watched like 2 movies because there was simply THAT much time to waste -.-

We then went to meet Zong Da and Elgyn who already bought the cake at Khatib where Choon Searn lives. Muahahaha I should reveal where you live on the world wide web for everyone to see :)

Anyway.

We ended up at Choon Searn's house pretty early...around 5:30 or so and we even hid our shoes in this cardboard box outside his house cause we didn't want him to suspect anything.

We didn't do much for the next half an hour or so while waiting for Ngiap Seng and company to come and join us.

I took out Choon Searn's guitar and showed my incompetency at the instrument.

So Ngiap Seng and company came around 6 while Hong Shing had stayed behind and dragged Choon Searn somewhere else to allow them to leave.

Hong Shing appeared about 10-15 minutes later sweaty and everything after having ran from the MRT station back to his house before Choon Searn.

The atmosphere in the house got very tense after that because no one dared to make any noise just in case Choon Searn came home.

And there was this period of time when we thought he was outside, but he was not, but we didn't know that -.-

So, we sat there with the cake and everything, and REALIZED THAT WE FORGOT TO TAKE MATCHES TO LIGHT THE CANDLES.

We started to panic like siao.

Untill his dad or mom (can't remember) opened the door and said: "He's not home yet"

And we were all like "CHEYYYYYYYYY!"

So we took some matches and lit the candles which started to melt pretty fast and we got quite nervous cause if he didn't come back home soon, the cake would have a second layer of icing of wax.

Then we heard 3 knocks on the door by the parents, meaning that he was home!

We kept quiet and silent....

And after 3 minutes he opened the door....

"SURPRISE!!!!!!!!!"

And he went "OMG!"

And stoned at the door in shock for like another 3 minutes.

His parents had to come in and on the lights and we had to shout at him to cut the cake before the candles melted before he could move.

It was a pretty good cake.

There are videos of the surprise and everything on facebook so you can check it out there.

We had pizza and snacks for dinner courtesy of Choon Searn's parents after that which left us seriously damn full.

However I was not about to say no to his treat of Swenson's ice cream!

So we went to Northpoint for some ice cream!

It ended off pretty well with some light-hearted humour about High School life.

And who can forget to take a group picture!?!

I am so glad that it was a success!

And like, I think birthdays are really really really important! Cause they show you how much your friends care about you and everything.

I mean, it doesn't have to be some surprise like the one above; even if it's just a simple lunch or dinner treat, it still goes to show that your friends actually care about you.

I was not all about surprise birthday parties actually, only until recently when I got surprised for my past two birthdays.

So it's not really about the surprise (though it helps) but to know that people actually bother to wish you and go out with you and give you presents and stuff; it's really nice :)

So, school is starting.

And I just wanna say that I am filled with dread and anticipation after hearing both negative and positive stuff about the school I probably will be posted to.

It's just going to be damn weird not seeing the usual faces when we walk into the unfamiliar compound.

I won't see Zong Da at his desk listening to music and doing homework anymore.

I won't see Elgyn talking to "Say Wei!" at the front anymore.

I won't see Choon Searn rushing in late just in time before the bell rings.

I won't get to to see BOTCH gang.

I won't see Zi Heng walking through the classroom which usually gives me a sense of comfort cause I get to start talking to him about basically anything.

Am I going to survive this? I hope so.

Happy Birthday to meeeee!

2010-01-16T21:40:00.012+08:00

So....

What happened over the past three days...

WAS A BLAST. HAHAHA.

~~I'm not in the mood to blog about all the happenings now, so I guess I will update this post tomorrow or something will all my reflections.~~

Feeling all crappy now...thanks to something that happened.

Argh. Can't get this feeling to go away.

Screw this. And it's my birthday somemore.

At least I had fun up till about an hour ago. So it isn't so bad.

Again, screw this.

I'm totally in the mood to blog about my birthday! :D

Okay, so my birthday celebrations officially started on 14th of January!

So shiok right?! One birthday celebrate over three days!

That's why I think birthdays are awesome lah! Cause when you see your friends take the time of to plan and do something for you it means that you probably have done something right in this friendship to deserve such love.

Hahahah I'm exaggerating a little lah but really lor. Can't ask for better friends :)

So anyway, on the 14th, I was still pretty stressed out over which JC to choose.

I simply couldn't decide whether to go HC or RJC. Had a lot of questions in mind. (will address in later post)

I was feeling really stressed out.

But thankfully, Irwin, Wei Ren, and Zong Da asked me out on the 14th of January which really helped me to shake of the stress.

So I went to meet them at 4:30 at City Hall.

Then, I found out the ACTUAL MEETING TIME was supposed to be 5:00, but they told me 4:30 so that I wouldn't be late -.-

ANYWAY.

We decided to go and eat first at Irwin's suggestion ~~cause he was tired of me lamenting about which school to go to.~~

We went to eat at Fish & Co!

We ordered this humongous platter of seafood to share amongst all of us.

It wasn't enough. At all.

Like we were all hungry, and we were looking at the menu trying to decide what else to order. But the food there all so expensive!

So we ended up sitting around drinking iced water.

ALL OF A SUDDEN OUT OF THE BLUE.

The Fish & Co staff brought out two high stools and asked:

"So, who's the birthday boy today?"

I sat there in my seat, too stunned and embarrassed to say anything.

And the three partners in crime with evil grins on their face (Irwin even prepared his camera!) singled me out.

Thank god the restaurant was pretty much empty besides two other patrons cause what happened next was embarrassing ttm.

They made me stand on the tall stools, which brough out my fear of heights :( , and then the staff gave me a little sparkle, like those you that you light up and it starts fizzing, and proceeded to sing a birthday song/cheer for me.

I was feeling, embarrassed, happy, and a little annoyed all at once.

Not to mention I was trying to ignore stares from passer-bys outside.

After the cheer and song, they took out a scoop of vanilla ice cream with a candle and asked me to blow from where I was standing from.

Like, on the freaking tall stools.

So on my second attempt, which I almost died doing cause the stool wobbled like crazy, I blew out the candle and they gave me the ice cream before allowing me to come down.

It felt strangely satisfying even though I couldn't stop smiling like an idiot for the next twenty minutes while they stared at me eating my ice cream.

And then it struck me: NO WONDER THEY CHOOSE FISH & CO TO EAT LAH!

So afterwards, we went to while our time away at the arcade and played stupid shooting games which we suck at :)

And that sort of concluded my little birthday bash pt. 1

But the best was yet to come.

On the 15th of January, I woke up feeling a little groggy. (okay I always wake up feeling groggy)

I woke up pretty early that day. Like, 9:30 around there.

Who the hell wakes up so early right?!

Anyway, it was good I woke up early. You will see why in a minute.

So my grandma, mother and maid were bustling around the house as usual cause they wake up even earlier (so crazy).

And they were all like:

"Quickly get up, got people coming to see the house...."

"Go wash up, got people coming to see your room..."

I naturally thought they meant that some curious neighbors wanted to come see our renovated third floor. Cause, we recently renovated the house, and other neighbors who wanted to see how we did it cause they were considering renovating usually come to see see.

So anyway, I had to finish my JAE registration early before I was SUPPOSED TO MEET ZIHENG AND COMPANY AT CITY HALL AT 1:30 to celebrate my birthday with them.

Boy was I wrong.

So, I went to wash up and started on my JAE.

My mother meanwhile was with me in my room and guiding me through deciding what to choose.

Then suddenly she was like "You want to eat breakfast? I help you get cornflakes."

I was like "Uhhh...okay" but I was actually thinking 'Why you so nice today LOL.'

So I was sitting in my room, eating cornflakes and all, when my phone rang.

'Elgyn'

I picked up and we started a converstation:

"Hey you choose your school already?"

"Yea deciding now. You know ah..."

So I started rattling off like explaining my choices blah blah blah.

Then I realized that Elgyn was super silent.

"Hello? Hello? Elgyn? Are you there?" No reply.

ALL OF A SUDDEN OUT OF THE BLUE.

I heard Zi Heng's voice at the door of my room.

I HEARD ZI HENG'S VOICE AT THE DOOR OF MY ROOM?!?!?!

I turned, and there was the whole Back Of The Class gang (BOTCH) with a cake in hand screaming "HAPPY BIRTHDAY YEUNG KAI!!!!!!"

BOTCH gang meaning Qing Shan, Min En, Johnervan, Zi Heng, Choon Searn, Elgyn and Zong Da.

I then ooked at my mother who was smiling at me. Then it hit me. Hard.

They freaking planned all this behind my back?! She was an accomplice!

I just sat there and said out loud "Ohmygod".

And my whole clique just streamed into my room with a cake and started singing Happy Birthday.

yk bday pt1 [HQ]

Check out the link above for the video which Choon Searn took...which basically shows you a tour of my house while he films the surprise -.-

Anyway, they sent me on some treasure hunt to look for my present with some clues put all around the house.

I'm just thinking: 'How the hell did they manage to do all this behind my back lah?! Got time to put clues for treasure hunt somemore!'

So I eventually found it and it turned out to be flowers -.-

Look at my stupid smile -.-

By the way the flowers are real and I put them in a vase though they are rotting slowly day by day.

We went to Seoul Garden after that, and I treated them to lunch to thank them for the awesome surprise!

Seriously for them to go so far to plan all this; even my grandmother knew about it and I didn't lah!

So anyway, that was my birthday bash pt. 2

Then on my actual birthday itself on 16th January, I woke up to messages on facebook and my phone.

It's a nice feeling to have knowing people actually take time to wish you haha!

Then at night we went for a Japanese buffet with the family!

It was seriously damn good.

Cause it's ala-carte, meaning we don't have to keep walking to the buffet table to get food, but rather can just order from a menu and they bring to you.

Good for lazy people like me.

Then we went home where we had cake!

And then at night, I had the surprise of my life when Guo Chang wished me Happy Birthday and even told me he is sending me a present via post to me!!

I was literally like :O

Then he gave me a link to Lua Jia Wei's blog, his best friend, to show me that he also wrote a birthday post on his blog for me!

I went like :OOO

And that concludes birthday bash pt. 3

I want to thank a lot of people:

4-8 duo Irwin and Wei Ren hahahah! Thanks for the trip out that day!

BOTCH GANG! Seriously surprised me with their house visit! Can't thank you all enough!

All who SMSed me to say Happy Birthday! :D

All on Facebook who wished me! :D

My family of course, who brought me out for dinner and even played a part in the surprise :)

I know I seem pretty insincere by not mentioning everybody's name, but really that is just ridiculous cause it will take to long, and it doesn't mean I don't appreciate what they have done. Trust me, you have no idea how much it means to me when someone just says a simple 'Happy Birthday' to me via SMS, facebook, whatever. Really. Thanks A LOT A LOT A LOT A LOT :D

I actually have like a lot to reflect after this birthday one. Cause it was even better than my 16th birthday.

It made me treasure all my friends a lot.

A lot of reflective posts coming up about various people I need to thank and mention for various reasons!

AVATAR

2010-01-13T21:56:00.007+08:00

I know I'm a bit lag to blog about this...

But nothing can stop me from declaring my love for the movie:

AVATAR

I watched it TWICE okay! Both times in 3D somemore! Doesn't that prove my love or what!

I watched it like damn long ago (both times in 2009) but I was just lazy to blog :X

Anyway.

Okay firstly, for people who haven't watched it, I only have one thing to say:

WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR.

Seriously. That movie is soooo last year. Literally.

With that out of the way, here's a bigass picture of the movie's poster:

It's really damn nice lah!

No wonder now it is the second highest grossing movie of all time just behind Titanic, and it shows no signs of slowing down, meaning it might overtake Titanic as the highest grossing movie ever.

Yup, you heard me. And it is the fastest movie to ever hit 1 freaking billion dollars at the box office, and I'm not talking about rupees.

And to the idiots who think this is some sort of animated movie that is all about blue cartoon monkeys, go find a wall and knock your head.

Let me show you this video:

Is this like freaking cool or what?!

Actually I had my doubts also as to how much acting was involved in this film.

After watching this, and a few other related videos, I'm am pretty much convinced that about 80% of the stuff in there is done by pure, raw, acting.

And how cool it is that the na'vis of the actors look like them hahahaha.

~~I want to see how I look like as a na'vi.~~

Oh, as some interesting info, the sex scene in the movie is actually longer.

They had to cut most of it out to meet the PG-13 rating, but it's going to be released as a deleted scenes bonus in the DVD.

I am so buying the DVD. And I swear it's purely for my love of the movie.

Btw, for the curious people, they have sex by connecting their tails to one another.

So anyway, I was surfing the net for Avatar related info and I came across this:

And it is mad funny!!!!!!

So basically, some guy simplified the story of Pocahontas:

And canceled out the Pocahontas related material and replaced it with Avatar stuff, to prove that Avatar is basically Pocahontas in space.

LOL.

You need to read the story above man.

Got me laughing like mad, and after my laughter I went like 'Oh yeah hor'.

But I still love the movie. Humph.

P.S: MY BIRTHDAY IS ON SATURDAY PEOPLE DO SOMETHING!! :D

And the results are in...

2010-01-11T18:41:00.004+08:00

...AND I AM SO FREAKING RELIEVED AND HAPPY!

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

L1R5:

HELL YEAH

Now it's time to go and unearth the JAE booklet from somewhere...

So: Raffles, Hwa Chong, VJ, NJ?

P.S: BTW PEOPLE MY BIRTHDAY IS LIKE THIS SATURDAY OFFICIALLY, BUT I WON'T SAY NO TO ANYTHING YOU ALL...UH...PLAN SHOULD IT FALL BEFORE SATURDAY. IT'S ON THE 16TH JANUARY IF YOU DON'T KNOW :D YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO NOW.

Bodyworld

2010-01-05T23:00:00.017+08:00

Today was an interesting day indeed.

We made a trip down to the one and only BODYWORLD!!

For the ~~ignorant~~ few who don't know what it is, it is basically this exhibit of human bodies showing the organs, nerves, muscles, tissues etc. for educational purposes but using real human bodies.

How cool is that?! You actually get to see dead bodies without committing murder.

I had thought that it would actually be pretty gross.

You know, with all the dead bodies and stuff; everything is just gonna be bloody and gory.

Oh, it would be really cold also, cause like they will freeze the bodies to preserve them or something.

I know I sound bimbo-ish lah.

However, I was wrong at all counts.

This is because of this super amazing method which this doctor gerad something something invented in 1978 (HA! I remember okay!) to preserve human bodies for study.

It is none other than: plasti(c)nation. I dunno if got 'c' or not so I put in brackets.

So I was reading this super long and whiny explanation on a poster which was explaining the process of this plasti(c)nation.

Imagine, this version I'm reading is probably the dumbed-down version yet it is still so disgustingly long and boring; the scientific explanation must be damn anal to read lah.

Anyway, it involves submerging the bodies in liquid polymer and switching to different liquid polymers throughout the process, then arranging the bodies in the desired position and cooling the polymer through gas, light, heat to make sure the body stays that way and is preserved basically forever. Non-biodegradable :)

Oh, it takes like 1,500 hours to plasti(c)nate ONE body, and spans over the course of one year.

I think it's like damn sian to keep cooking one dead body in polymer for one year. And quite the shitty job also.

Imagine facing the same dead body 365 days a year with it's eyes staring back at you (yes they are open).

So the whole exhibit is arranged in this passage which you can follow till the end.

And it is really quite cool.

I'm not going to be boh liao and describe every exhibit like a certain somebody who went to post like a gazillion photos of every exhibit on facebook cause it is sooooo important to announce to the world that you went to the science centre that day.

Ahem.

I don't wanna ruin it for anybody also.

But I would recommend you all to go.

The whole exhibit will involve a lot of standing and reading. When you reach the end you will feel a little bored, and your feet will be aching like mad, but after you think about it you will find it worthwhile.

I mean, you don't get to see dead bodies everyday right? Unless you're some...mad rapist/murderer that rapes little girls before dismembering their bodies and burying them in Bukit Timah Reserve.

Oh, and most of the bodies are male. It's pretty obvious, and easy to tell which are male or female, if you catch my drift.

But the highlight of the trip had to be the freaking funny guestbooks we found at the end.

So we were waiting for Elgyn to finish looking at the exhibits cause we went at our free time as we all read the stuff at different speeds and he read the slowest.

We decided to while our time away at the guestbook counter which I must say, was totally worthwhile!

It was so freaking funny!

And because it was very quiet inside, like a library, we had to contain our laughter which made the whole situation even funnier.

I mean, the SHIT that people write in there; PRICELESS.

Some pics of the guestbooks to show the ridiculous, but nevertheless hilarious comments.

A shot of Choon Searn grinning cheekily while snapping a shot of something on the guestbook.

Confirm must be someone draw a picture of a boob or something (yes there was a lot). Look at his devious smile!

The shit that people can actually come up with. THREE BOOKS FULL.

The people at the science centre asking for it. Not like they don't know the kind of crap Singaporeans can come up with.

And I don't know why is there some random bottle of gatorade there.

Speaking of crap that Singaporeans can come up with:

The message BELOW the 'BOOMZ' is even funnier if you can read.

Must be some ugly desperate dude.

Must be an ugly gay desperate dude.

I laughed so freaking hard at this. Like, you must have some fetish regarding sex with animals to even think this right?

...

Laugh until I want to die can???

This guy is damn stupid, expecting a dead naked woman to be exposed just like that when OBVIOUSLY at BODYWORLD the only breasts they show are wrinkly, dead, exposed flesh.

No idea what this mental weirdo was talking about. Hopefully he gets arrested.

The chinese ones took the cake.

While we were engaging in all this nonsense the security guard was slacking off talking to somebody. Slacker!

Two things: 1. Damn impressive 2. The person is damn boh liao, stand here so long to draw this.

Anyway, overall it was a pretty good experience at bodyworld!

P.S: Have LOTS of things to update about. Will slowly do so over the weekend.

Happy New Year.

2010-01-01T00:01:00.000+08:00

For those who have been reading my blog regularly ~~guo chang~~

You may have noticed that there wasn't this post on January the 1st.

I kinda, well, cheated a little and adjusted the post settings to have a post on that iconic day. First day of 2010!

So anyway...

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

WTFWTFWTFWTFWTFWTFWTFWTFWTFWTF

2009-12-27T23:10:00.003+08:00

Not that I am an avid fan of Singapore Idol or anything...

(I only watched 2 episodes: the finals and the episode after NDP)

BUT SERIOUSLY.

THIS:

Won over her?!:

During the finals where they had the Top 12 perform, the previous idols, CHARICE (GOD I LOVE HER SO MUCH NOW)

This is what I hereby conclude:

Tabitha and Sylvia should have made it into the finals and a girl should have won this year.

I mean, based on vocals alone, Tabitha and Sylvia were killing it.

On the other hand, Suzeri or however you spell his name killed the winning song. The angels one. And I don't mean that in a good way.

Just listen to his falsetto. *shudders* too bad the choir wasn't loud enough to drown him out.

And to me, I think Tabitha and Sylvia have more stage presence than that guy.

In fact, if Tabitha and Sylvia made it to the finals, I would have preferred Tabitha to win. I mean, what a voice!

...

GRRRRRRRRRR.

Okay I admit I sort of knew that that guy would win.

Based on previous wins you can tell already...

But damn, what a waste. It would be interesting to have a female Singapore Idol for once and see how her career takes off.

THANK GOODNESS I am not THAT attached to the series since I didn't watch...

But what a disappointment.

MERRY CHRISTMAS~~~

2009-12-25T13:36:00.003+08:00

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!!MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

P.S: It's supposed to be a christmas tree.

I'm on a blogging roll here! Post number 2 of today!

2009-12-18T21:13:00.002+08:00

Must be the relaxing afternoon I had today lol.

Anyway.

When I was in Japan, one of the few sources of entertainment on the tour bus rides which can span up to 3 hours was my mp3!

So I had a lot of time to listen to the new Glee songs.

And this particular one had the most impact:

It's Imagine by John Lennon.

I think that it is one of the most meaningful songs I ever listened to.

No joke. Just listen to the lyrics.

For those who don't wanna listen, or don't know what the hell the song is talking about ~~cause you are gundoo~~ it's a peace anthem basically.

It talks about how the entire world is living in peace.

No wars, no greed, no hunger, no religion. The world just living as one.

And the singer of the song sings "You may say that I am a dreamer (for thinking that the world can ever be in peace)"

"But I am not the only one (who thinks this way)"

I just think it's soooo good a song.

Speaking of Glee, I just wanna say again that it is a damn good show.

It helps to introduce people to old songs back in the days.

Like, real meaningful songs that were written in the past, not some mindless rap about sex and drugs.

Oh. And I just saw Rihanna's new music video for her song 'Hard'.

Here it is:

What the HELL happened to THIS girl:

I think like Chris Brown ~~hit her too hard~~ really affected her.

I mean, I like her song 'Hard'. I think it's the best off her new album.

But I dunno why she is suddenly so dark and goth.

I mean, she actually pasted masking tape over her nipples *ouch*

I think like, after the video shoot, when they peel it off, it must be damn effing painful.

~~Stage crew: Okay, Ri, you gotta stop moving-~~

Rihanna: I can't help it yo, it's stuck-
Stage crew: (pulls off in one large swiping motion)

~~Rihanna: WHAT THE- Where did my nipple go?!~~

Yea. Painful indeed.

But I like the song. I think it's nice.

Abrupt end to this post.

Time to chill and relax~

2009-12-18T14:53:00.000+08:00

It feels soooo awesome to finally just sit back, relax and while the day away with meaningless and waste time activities.

So right now I'm at the club with a latté blogging in comfortable conditions just watching people bowl while I laze around.

It feels so good~

I just completed a swim, had an excellent lunch with a lot of chicken, and am feeling totally rejuvenated.

Even if I had waken up at the unearthly time of 9:40 am. Crazy right?!

Anyway.

I really could enjoy this kind of life all day.

You know, do nothing, feel no pressure around you to complete anything.

Just...everything going at the pace you enjoy and want to go at.

Ahh~

This is the lifeeeee, hold on tighttttt~ - Hannah Montana.

So anyway.

I think I will do a post of japan with pictures.

Like a real actual first hand description of my experience there, complete with pictures of my Kobe beef steak :P

Not that the post below isn't a real description or anything, but it was done rather slip-shotly.

So yea, maybe over the weekend or something in between my lazing around periods. Haha.

So while I was swimming, trying to ignore the burning in my lungs...

I thought: you know what? It's time to really forget about council already.

I finally understand why people look at me funny and ask me "why you still going back?"

Don't get me wrong; not that I won't care about what is happening, or who's gonna be exco that kind of thing.

I think me wanting to know what's happenning and checking back occasionally is inevitable.

There's just that connection I guess.

But what I mean when I say forget about it, is that even after I know what's going on, I most probably won't act upon it.

There's really no point.

And to think, I almost wasn't allowed back. I feel like a fool for telling people I'm going back while apparently the rejection was already set.

Just one message though: enjoy the experience you have now in council. Cause once you are out, you are out. In every sense of the word.

And besides. It's kind of difficult being around...certain people if I'm ever going to move on with my life.

If only I had slowly started to become more detached as the years passed instead of the other way round.

Should have learned from JJ lol.

Whatever. I'm gonna try to not bother already.

I say try cause I dunno if I can but it beats the unecessary stress or worry that comes with it.

There ya have it. My two cents worth.

Okay I'm going back to relaxing and doing nothing.

Crap my latté is cold. -_-

Next post will be a picture post of japan!

I'm back from Japan!

2009-12-15T22:37:00.002+08:00

For good this time.

At least during this holidays.

I am really too sian to blog much about the Japan trips...(uploading photos is such a chore!)

I shall just rant about whatever comes to my mind.

First things first...

I realised that I HATE TRAVELING

Long distances, to be exact.

I simply cannot stand long plane rides.

When I was young and naive (which was like up to last year) I liked these plane rides.

Can watch movies.

Eat aeroplane food (I can't believe I ate with such gusto)

Know that you are up in the air dunno how many thousand feet blah blah blah (I always wondered why they used 'feet' instead of 'metres'. Isn't metres like the international unit or something?)

But I have finally been enlightened.

I seriously hate long plane rides.

Like, the constant noise of the engines and vibration of the entire freaking contraption makes me nauseous, and it slowly builds up.

So freaking shitty.

And, as you all know, the cabin air is very dry, so basically it makes your lips hurt real bad since you are in the plane for long periods of time.

And cause it is quite chilly, I keep sneezing and my nose is always stuck.

And the aeroplane food? Don't get me started cause I will never finish.

Argh. HATE HATE HATE long plane rides.

Secondly...

I do not function well in cold countries.

Tokyo was around 5 to 10 degrees average everyday.

Hokkaido was snowing.

In both places, I came down with fever at least once.

Sore throat every morning I woke up cause it is so dry.

Blocked nose 24/7 cause it is so cold.

And it is literally only when I step into the place that I start sneezing and my cold comes on.

And when I am in Singapore it literally stops.

For example, I could taste the hokkien mee I ate today cause my nose wasn't blocked.

I don't know why...but I don't remember having this problem in Hong Kong last year.

Maybe it was because it was not as cold. Hong Kong was just like walking in Takashimaya or something.

Whatever. The only good thing I see so far about cold places is that I get to wear many layers of nice clothes and cool-looking jackets and jeans all day without feeling hot or anything.

Yes, I know I am superficial.

Thirdly...

LOVE LOVE LOVE Japanese food.

It is seriously one of the best in the entire world.

Even just their rice is like damn nice. Cause, you know, it is sushi rice.

The sticky sticky kind. Glutinious, was it?

Oh, and sashimi, cold soba, BEEF, tempura, yakitori, BEEF, spring onions (not the small lousy ones here in S'pore, but really big and fresh and juicy), BEEF, chicken karage.

LOVE IT.

And I finally tried the fabled kobe beef and fatty tuna belly that has been constantly been shown on Japan Hour on Sunday mornings at 9 which makes the people go "Oishiiiiiii~"

It's as though your mouth is orgasming.

The kobe beef is damn smooth and fatty. The fats simply melt into your mouth and the meat is damn soft.

The tuna belly also. Melts in your mouth.

And what does Singapore have to attract tourists? Chicken rice? Oh puh-lease.

Try harder.

Fourthly....

I have finally seen snow and seen it snowing.

There's a difference if you don't know.

The former is just the thing itself which coats everything and is damn nice and soft.

The latter is when the snow falls from the sky.

I could just about die without regrets now that I have got to experience both.

Remember when you would watch movies or TV shows from USA or some foreign country with four seasons and the people would be playing with snow?

I finally am in their 'I got to play with snow and see snow and am so much happier than you' club.

And and the snow sparkling in the sun....let's just say I finally realised where they got the inspiration for the sparkling of the vampires' skin in the sun.

It's exactly the same. No kidding.

Hmm...I can't really remember everything I enjoyed or hated about the Japan trips right now.

But something like that lah. I lazy to write already.

Oh, our tour guide for when we were in Hokkaido was damn good.

I had reservations cause it was in Chinese. -_-

But she was super zai.

Japanese, English, Chinese all can speak.

Super informative.

Very friendly.

Extremely helpful.

Chatty and interesting to talk to.

Thank god we got her.

Okay, so for the next remaining 4 weeks of my holiday I shall be spending it on exercising, GOING OUT (PEOPLE PLEASE CALL ME), slacking and pampering myself and eating. A lot.

Oh, did I mention I bought a DS lite? Lol.

Okay, I think this post would be more interesting if I had out in more effort and added some pictures for dramatic effect.

But for some reason now I don't really care. Blah.

I don't know what I want anymore.

Try to forget about everything? But then it just doesn't seem right to just let go of it all.

I finally see what they mean by labels. And I agree.

It doesn't define anything or anyone.

If it could happen now I definitely would jump at it.

Ha, it's laughable to even imagine that it would be possible.

I mean, look at you. You don't seem like it at all.

Then again, it may just be something in passing. It might just fade away on its own and amount up to nothing.

But for now, it's just so...torturous.

I'm leaving for Japan...

2009-12-08T21:09:00.000+08:00

...again.

See y'all in a week.

New Moon!

2009-12-06T13:15:00.007+08:00

*UPDATED*

Watching The Twilight Saga: New Moon was the most enjoyable movie experience I ever had.

What I mean by that is that I actually had fun while watching the movie!

Instead of the typical 'oh the movie is interesting/not bad/okay' kind of feelings I get when I watch movies, I loved watching this one cause it was so much fun!

By the way I watched it with Zong Da who was so bored that I didn't think it was possible.

Anyway.

It was so enjoyable cause mainly of two reasons (no, not because Taylor Lautner takes his shirt off):

Firstly, the movie itself is good lah, IMO.

I get it that it didn't do well with the critics and everything, saying that it is too "faithful to the book" and that people who have never watched Twilight before will be confused with what's happening.

But the thing is that, I don't get what is wrong with staying close to book and incorporating as many elements from the book as possible.

Take Harry Potter for example.

The first two movies IMO were the best. Because they captured the essence of the book and left in all the important parts of the book.

And it was literally a movie version of the book in the sense that it basically followed the book and did not have much changes.

On the other hand, take the latest Harry Potter movie for example.

SO FREAKING BORING. I am sure a lot of people agree.

Cause they tried to make it artsy-fartsy and, I dunno, more like a real movie instead of what the fans want and changed the plot here and there, removed the action and added a lot of boring dialogue to showcase Daniel Radcliffe's acting and whatever.

And while the critics said it was good, I am pretty sure a lot of people found it boring.

So yea. You get my point.

And also, it had the right amount of action, comedy (more than Twilight) and the typical drama-rama politics with the vampires and werewolves.

It definitely was more than what I was expecting, and Kristen Stewart (Bella) is a really good actress btw.

Secondly, the audience is freaking funny.

Okay, so like I was scanning the the audience and, not surprisingly, most of them were teenagers.

And, just to let you know, most of the hype from Twilight is Taylor Lautner taking his shirt off cause he is buff and whatever (I know right.... -__-)

Warning; Spoilers ahead

So there's one scene where Bella falls after riding a motorcycle and her head is bleeding.

And Taylor Lautner's character, Jacob, for some reason or another has to take off his shirt and clean the blood off *rolls eyes*

So it went something like this:

Jacob: Omg Bella, are you okay?

Bella: Yeah, I want to continue riding.

Jacob: What? No way, no more bikes. You're bleeding!

*proceeds to take shirt off to wipe the blood and the following scene appears*

Girls in audience: oooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHH (getting progressively louder)

Entire audience: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

Damn freaking funny.

It happened everytime he took his freaking shirt off. Which is a lot. And it was damn hilarious.

Then there was another scene where Bella and Jacob were about to kiss.

Jacob: I promise I will never hurt you Bella.

Bella: ...

Jacob: (leans in for the kiss. His lip touches her upper lip)

Stupid telephone in the movie: RIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGG. (Jacob leans away to answer)

Random guy in audience: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

Entire audience: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

DAMN FUNNY CAN?!

Finally there's one last scene at the end. Edward comes back and is discussing with Bella about changing her into a vampire.

Edward: I will even change you into a vampire myself...on one condition.

Bella: ...anything.

Edward: ...You have to...MARRY ME.

Entire audience: Awwwwwww....

Same random guy in audience: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

Entire audience: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

Hilarious lah!!!

That's why I say the experience of watching the movie is the best ever, instead of just the movie being nice, watching it is also fun.

I recommend those who want to watch it better watch it now when there's audience. You know, to get to experience the same thing cause it's really damn funny and makes the whole movie feel so much better.

All part of the package and fun~

*UPDATE*

Found this hilarious skit that Rihanna did when she went on Saturday Night Live, which is like this comedy show in America.

Hilarious.

P.S: Changed my blog song (finally)!

THIS.

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♥~

If you are too lazy to watch the whole thing, just watch from 2:20 onwards till the end.

P.S: Lazy to blog about Japan. There's just too much shit to cover. Maybe I will do a collective post after Hokkaido :)

OMG OMG OMG OMG

2009-11-25T22:22:00.002+08:00

I'm having a panic attack.

I am leaving for JAPAN in like 5 hours.

Feeling anxious and nervous as usual...

I think it's because I don't know what to expect there.

Like, the uncertainty of it all makes me jumpy.

That's why, only after I have been there for let's say...a day, and settled down and got used to the flow of things there I probably won't even notice I am in a different country.

I need to adapt to something as quickly as possible. Then I will feel comfortable in the new environment.

I guess it's just the way I roll.

So anyway, I have decideded who to buy souvenirs for!!! It's quite a long list when I think of it mentally in my mind -_-

I think I will be super flustered shopping for souvenirs untill I forget to buy stuff for myself.

This blog's gonna be dead for a week...not that it wasn't rather dead before :X

Keep my tagboard alive people! I can see from Japan if there's free wi-fi with my iPhone hahahahahahaha.

Oh, just to show that I'm not biased AT ALL in my Taylor Swift - Carrie Underwood vocal comparison, here's a video just for laughs.

Enjoy:

See what I mean?

See y'all in a week ;)

Plans for the holidays...or not.

2009-11-21T22:45:00.002+08:00

Guess what people.

I'll be going to Japan.

TWICE.

For the holidays!!!

OMGZMANZWTHSDSXXS

I feel stupid for doing the full stop thing leading up to the huge 'TWICE' cause people with large computer screens will be able to see it anyway.

Whatever.

Who wants souvenirs?

Like seriously, I need to think of who to buy for. -.-

So now you have a reason to drop a tag! :)

For the past couple of days since Friday I have technically been sorting my stuff to bring there.

"Technically" cause nothing much was done.

In fact I spent most of my time finishing the first 3 books in the super duper AMAZING Twilight series!!

Hahahaha it's really quite good.

And yes, a big THANK YOU to Jonathan Koh who got it for me :D (it must have cost a bomb)

I am trying to abstain from reading the last book but it's so difficult!

Cause ~~there's this supposed sex scene between Bella and Edward which causes her to get pregnant~~ I am super desperate to find out what happens next!!

And also I want to save the book for the long trip to Japan. I can just imagine how boring it will be stuck with Jonathan for 6 hours in a plane.

So my holiday plans are something like this:

- days leading up to 26th November preparing for Japan trip.

- 26 November to 3 December?? in Japan.

- 4 December to 8 December free

- 8 December to 14 December Japan again (omg going Hokkaido and there's snow)

- 14 December to 19 December again free

- 19 December to 21 December there's Council Camp...which I don't know if all my time will be spent there unless the other EXCO will be there (Duo Geng, Desheng etc.) ~~The current batch like to gang up and bully me.~~

- 21 to 23 December free

- 24 to 25 December Christmas!!

- 26 December to 14 January (whenever O Level results come out) free

So basically in between all the major events like the camps and travelling overseas and whatnot, I need to kill time by going out or doing something.

Oh, and then there's guitar lessons which I will be resuming...

Anyway.

Any takers to go out? I PROMISE YOU SOUVENIRS.

Hahahahahaha.

I seriously have no plans in between and I need to escape! Have fun!

So yea...

What are YOUR plans people??

GRAD NITE '09!: The actual event!

2009-11-17T20:29:00.051+08:00

Life in Catholic High School officially came to a close at 11:15 pm last night at Swiss Hotel.

First let me rant just a little about the cons about the event:

1) Venue was half the size of last year.

I helped out two years for Grad Nite and it just so happens when it was my year, the venue was downsized. Great.

But then again, at least we had a Grad Nite!

2) The seating was pretty screwed up at first.

Some major drama regarding the seating arrangement. ~~Most of it caused by me~~ but we still managed to have a good time after that!

3) The shit that happened before and after the event.

But at this point, who cares.

4) The goodie bags were...-_- interesting.

I don't have anything against oreos, but seriously?????

With that out of the way, let me just say that Grad Nite '09 was pretty awesome!

I admit I had my reservations about the event.

I was afraid that I would have no one to sit with, it would be boring since I most probably already knew what was going to happen etc.

All that kind of pessimistic thoughts.

But the even really was a HUGEEEEE blast :D

I had so much fun and I stayed true to my promise of not caring what other people think anymore and just enjoy myself!

So I started prepping up by 5:

And reached the hotel by 6!:

Being the last night we would see everybody and all, and dressed in our best (most of us anyway) I went photo crazy and went around demanding to take photos with everybody!

Me with Keefe and his suspenders

FAIL

That's better

Tall people in front. Taller people at the back.

4-3 peeps!

What is Benedict doing. -.-

The tall people insisted on being behind the taller people.

FINALLY the doors opened at 7!...and we continued taking more photos.

Our table for the night! BOTCHES!

Min En!

We were all a little TOO hungry waiting for the food.

Duo Geng the stone!

Amidst the flurry of photo-taking, the emcee announced that it was time to eat!

But the teachers went to take food first -.-

Off they go.

We just continued taking photos then!

Lol. Mr EmbRace P.D. aka Tay Zhi Ying

Ralph and Jack.

When we could finally eat the food, there was a mad rush towards the buffet table:

Okay, this photo doesn't do the mad rush justice.

And I cannot believe I forgot to take picture of the food! The dessert is all I have:

It was not bad.

Had performances by this live band which sadly not many people paid attention to:

People taking pictures like crazy.

This gorilla, our class mascot, was eating enough food to feed Africa for 3 months.

Had to drag him from F3C table before he graced us with his presence.

Out of the two pictures I took with him, I purposely choose the more spastic one.

Random fact: Si Yang is like, 19 years old. Cannot tell right?!

There was also a lucky draw in which I didn't win anything -.-

And the councillors kept asking me what number I was and I actually thought for a second that they will rig the thing and help me win something.

Obviously they didn't.

Some lucky guy winning something.

Not only did they not help me cheat in the lucky draw, they stood in front of me and blocked me during the whole night. -.-

We had the Mambo King contest which was pretty fun to watch!

Duo Geng's catwalk was painful to watch and extremely cringe-worthy.

All the contestants on stage. Yay to Qing Shan for winning!

More pictures!!:

The guy that will always listen to whatever I have to say ahahahah!

Irwin was wearing heels that night. Explains why he is suddenly the same height as me.

Mr Krishnan! Woots! Awesome SS teacher!

Of course, all good things come to an end. The event ended and guess what we ended up doing?

Taking more pictures -.-

It's hard to see us in dim lighting. It's even harder to see Kun Liang.

Um...Okay...

Omg it's the Mambo King.....a contestant that lost.

Yay! Mrs Bernissa Loh made it!

Students' Council Exco '08-'09

Council again! Everyone was acting cool and not smiling widely. Only me who was honest enough bared his teeth and smiled for the world to see.

SLB '08-'09! Apparently it's funny to step on me.

Our final class photo and what I think is the best one of all! It actually makes me a little excited for our class chalet...

Of course, I had to take pictures with the planners of the event: the Councillors!

This nanapok refused to smile can! Wlau!

Had to force him to show some teeth. And so reluctantly somemore. -.- Lee Guan Jie you are an idiot.

Kit Chong!

Marcus!

Joel!

Jeffrey's darkness engulfed me.

Wanted to take a shot with all five of them but Jeffrey was missing and Duo Geng the stupid camera man didn't say anything. Guan Jie still refuses to smile.

And then Duo Geng's photo with them so perfect. Jeffrey is there, Guan Jie is smiling (do you have a crush on Duo Geng lol).

At least there's this.

Soon the place was empty. With only a few people left.

Wow, that post was long and painful to do.

So you all better read.

I really had a lot of fun that night!

It was definitely a hundred times better than what I was imagining it to be (which was pretty bad).

Food was good, atmosphere was wild, prizes were great (though none ended up in my hands).

Can't believe the last time we would see all of us in one place again just went by in 4 hours.

At least it was fun :)

Well. I shall give my ~~super boring~~ emotional and insightful thoughts on graduating some time later.

IF YOU SEE THIS SENTENCE GO BACK AND READ THIS POST AGAIN. TOOK ME SO DARN LONG TO UPLOAD THE PHOTOS BETTER APPRECIATE.

Yay for Grad Nite '09!

GRAD NITE '09!

2009-11-15T19:28:00.002+08:00

I also dunno why I type the title in caps as though I am excited when I'm not -.-

I know it's supposed to be fun and everything...

But I think for some reason, shit's gonna hit the fan and I'm gonna be miserable trying to clean up the mess.

But whatever it is, I am going to heck care about everything

Push all insecurities aside.

Ignore other people's feelings.

Kick tiny puppies on the sidewalk.

Slap babies across the face.

Burn all bridges I have with other people.

And just think for myself and have fun :)

I thought I would be extremely ecstatic after O Levels, but I am so freaking nonchalant about it, it scares me.

I think cause the last few papers were MCQ, so I didn't really study like everybody else and that O Levels were actually 'over' a few days before the last MCQ paper.

Yea.

So I spent the last 3 days doing some hardcore shopping. And I am spent.

I haven't been to town for about 3 months plus plus cause of Os, so I think my stamina is gone already.

I was so tired that I could have just slept on the display shelves on the stores lah.

At least tomorrow I have the whole day to slack before Grad Nite at 6:30 pm.

And I found out that a hundred and one people went to this particular shop which me and a few others discovered a while back to buy their leather shoes.

Like, a gazillion people over the weekend went at different time intervals for the past three days to buy the shoes. WTH.

We are all gonna wear the same shoes!

YIPEE YAY SCREAM FOR JOY!

....

Even the de facto Retard Gang went to get their shoes there.

At least my shoes were bought months ago so the design I have is pretty exclusive hahahahah.

Whatever I am lazy to type more.

I just wanted to update since I had previously announced my blog was revived on facebook.

And I cannot possible backtrack and eat my shit, so I have no choice but to update.

Bleh.

AT LEAST MY VIEWERSHIP IS BACK! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Taylor Swift cannot sing live.

2009-11-12T20:24:00.002+08:00

There I said it.

I said what everyone was thinking.

Taylor Swift sounds like SHIT live.

So how she won the 'Female Vocalist of the Year', I have no idea. I guess the people who voted are tonedeaf.

ANYONE else nominated in that category except Taylor Swift deserved to win. *cough* Carrie Underwood *cough*

Seriously. Like anyone should have won besides her.

Taylor Swift won for 'Album of the Year', 'Music Video of the Year', and 'Entertainer of the Year' at the annual CMA awards. It's for country music. (Ironic since Taylor Swift is ANYTHING but country. Addding some banjo to your songs is not country)

Okay I have no issue on her winning those 3. Her album was HUGE, sold over 4 million copies, so yea, she can get Album of the Year.

Music video of the year for Love Story? Sure, it was a huge hit.

Entertainer of the year? Her feud with Kanye West was amazing. And entertaining.

But VOCALIST??!?!? Are you shitting me?

Compare her performance of her song, Fifteen, at the CMA awards:

To Carrie Underwood's Cowboy Casanova:

I mean COME ON.

There's Taylor Swift, sitting comfortably in her chair, and she can't hold a damn note without sounding like she's gonna break into asthma.

Carrie Underwood's dancing a little and moving around the stage and she still sounds WAAAAAYY better than her.

Seriously. Taylor Swift a vocalist????

Songwriter maybe; her songs are darn good and catchy.

But she needs to go a long way before her voice can be used for singing without bringing bodily harm to people.

Pfffft.

I'm pissed.

Oh GREAT

2009-11-08T00:11:00.003+08:00

I was using my computer and it suddenly hanged.

Thinking the application just wasn't responding, I tried to "Force Quit" it, which is the same as quitting the application using the task manager in Windows.

When I clicked "Quit", the whole system hanged.

Just laughing it off as a typical hang since my macbook is the oldest version available, I pressed the shutdown button to off the whole computer.

BOY WAS I WRONG.

I switched it on again cause I wanted to continue watching Ellen Degeneres's Oscar monologue.

And this screen came up:

Getting a little worried, I went to check what this could mean.

And so far from what I am reading online from forums, it means that MY HARD DRIVE IS TOAST AND I BASICALLY LOST ALL MY DATA.

I got this computer in 2006...so that's about 3 years worth of music, pictures and other miscellaneous stuff which I cannot remember simply washed down the drain.

Most probably anyway.

Don't care about school stuff lah. O Levels are almost over, and I was going to delete everything related to school to clear space and make way for JC.

Of course, that was the plan I had before my computer died.

All this happened because I was slacking and not studying, but rather, watching Ellen say her speech during the Oscars.

FML.

Don't Stop Believin'

2009-10-25T21:25:00.002+08:00

On my constant replay in iTunes:

It's like my song for the O Levels.

Loves~ ♥