Monday, December 17, 2007
redirecting to my new locale.
A surge of randomness at 7:08 PM, Singapore time.
absolut garbage.
Now that's an idea for the absolut vodka company to use to openly slam any fakey-fakey imitation stuff that ever appear :) Haha, not that anyone will actually want to. Oh well. Anyway,
"I have been tagged" by someone who refers to himself as wheelchair boy, even though his legs are perfectly fine. Yup, these kind of people actually exist, but I guess we need to embrace diversity, ya? Haha. I'm so sorry kernchoong :) Apparently this kind of totally lame quiz has
rules too, but I can't really be bothered to list them all here cos that would be wasting a couple of minutes of my life copying/pasting/reformatting something that no one cares about. So.. yeah.
I don't actually see any point in revealing so much info about yourself.
But since I'm super bored, I shall humour kc. :)
FavouriteColour: Orange, yay :)Food: Anything's fine except raw fish urppp
Movie: Simpsons!! Hahahaha. I still rmb byap, Leon and I went to watch before crosscountry AND Leon almost made us late cos he left his wallet at GV :D :D
Sport: Anything :) Except volleyball, cos that hurts my hands? I play too many sports to list here. Haha.
Day: What about... Holi-day? :)
Season: I think the EPL season's fine. But maybe winter. Like.. I win-ter competition? Ok never mind.
Ice-cream: Everything except weird flavours. What do I mean by "weird"? Durian is weird. Mango is weird.
CurrentMood: Bored, tired (that's totally not a mood, but whatever.) Wait. My
current mood is
electrified. Hmm. That didn't make sense.
Clothes: Random t-shirt, shorts etc. none of which you need/would like to know.
Desktop: 
:D
Time: 3.51 pm.
Surrounding: My... house? Ok let's describe what's on my left, right, and back! (in front's obviously the co. screen) On my left's my ipod, plugged into the laptop. On my right's this nice & bouncy gym ball which my siblings and I use as a chair most of the time. Behind me is an insane trebuchet made out of an old badminton racket amongst other things that my brother helped build for my sister for her science project -.- It can shoot tennis balls up to 10 meters, so don't play play. It works.
Annoyances: Haha. Really want to know? Man U. They relegated Southampton on the last match of the season by beating them what.. 5-2 i think. Can't really remember. And I'm annoyed by extreme stupidity, if you know what I mean.
FirstsBest Friend: Haha can't really remember.
Movie: Homerun (the Jack Neo iranian ripoff one. the school forced us to go!)
Crush: What about.. not going to tell you?
Music: What about Majulah Singapura? No wait. There have got to be some songs from kindergarten. Not sure..?
LastsDrink: Coffee with icecubes innocently floating around inside. At the coffee shop at serangoon gardens. You know. What's ironic is going to a coffee shop and buying tea. But never mind.
Car Ride: Um. 22nd november. The last homestay day when Xu Minghan's dad drove us to the Wuhan school? Yeah. Think so. My parent's don't drive. Go figure. At least we aren't decimating the ozone layer like millions of people elsewhere :)
Crush: I crushed a can of h20 during training.
CD Played: Since all my songs are on itunes, theoratically the last cd I played was Undiscovered by James Morrison (the album) on the way to Costa Sands for some chalet and my neeon was at creative service centre. I borrowed my sister's cd player. Haha. (Digression: The stupid 58 took so long to reach Pasir Ris- almost 2 full album's worth. I brought Life In Cartoon Motion too. That's almost 2 hrs.)
Have You EverDated one of your best friends? Nope.
Broken the law? Don't think so......?
Been arrested? Haha yes. All the time, after I wake up from a good sleep. Always, after sleeping, I feel... er... rested.. (ahahahhaha geddit?) Never mind.
Been on TV? I think my TV will break if I'm on it. But, seriously, don't think so. NO WAIT. We were on Wuhan TV :D Serious- they treat us like celebrities there.
Kissed someone you don't know? Why would I?
Random5 things you're good at: Sleeping :) Sports, except volleyball. It hurts my fingers, remember? And maybe other stupid-er sports like boxing. YES, another irony, why isn't anything to do with
boxing SQUARE,
except the arena which they box in, and even then, that
square is called a
ring. Really, I don't understand these things some times. Eating (i just ate a lot for lunch. and now i feel bloated haha). Talking on MSN until late late late at night/early early early in the morning. What about.. getting gold for NAPFA every yr? :) Haha.
4 things you've done today: Talked on MSN, went for training (random scgs girls randomly came today as a "surprise" -.= wonder who organised it.), ate lunch, did this thing. Ohwell. I have a really fun life, don't I?
3 things you hear right now: *the monotonous pitter-patter of raindrops gently colliding with earth*..., Prostitution Is The World's Oldest Profession (And I, Dear Madame, Am A Professional (it's not a sick song, sry Lincoln :D) by Cobra Starship, the keys of the keyboard constantly being pressed.. haha. Unlike KC, my fan is apparently not turned on. The wind is super strong :)
2 things you'll probably never do: Get even.. a pathetic gpa of 2.0 for physics. OH WAIT! I
don't take physics. Oh well. And run off/marry another guy. Yup.
1 thing you seriously regret doing: not choosing a confirmation name. Haha. Maybe not. But maybe I should have :) Oh well :D
5 people to tag: lets see. I bet most of these people aren't going to do it anyway. But. Jon Shin, Lincoln, Deborah, Bryan Tsui (hahahahhaa.) and Pauline. (who wants to bet that none of these people are actually going to do it? But hahaha lets just see :D)
A surge of randomness at 3:02 PM, Singapore time.
Saturday, December 15, 2007
i think i've officially screwed up my blogskin.
at least i saved a copy of the old one. :)
A surge of randomness at 3:51 PM, Singapore time.
administrative
my blogskin is officially under renovation!if you pop by and are greeted by strangely distorted pictures/misaligned words etc. etc, don't panic. :D
since i haven't written a piece of code in about 6 months, i'll probably be taking a long long time trying to figure stuff out.
woosh.
andrew :)
A surge of randomness at 2:51 PM, Singapore time.
show me the way home.
I can't believe it.
I almost got lost in my own neighbourhood. How pathetic can that be. I took the MRT back from Tanjong Pagar after the CO concert just now, and reached Bishan at 11. I waited 40 minutes for the stupid 54 that never came (that was like.. totally deja vu- I waited ages for the 54 after rafflesian spotlight at around the same time.) Anyway, I didn't have much choice, so I started walking back through the Peminpins (a bunch of twisty, intersecting roads lined with landeds) and basically wasn't sure which way was the right way and spent about 20 minutes worriedly walking around alien roads. And it didn't help that there was this eerie silence that lingered.
I still can't believe it.
Anyway. I'm super super super super super tired.
That means, my post is finally not going to be about a thousand words long.
gdnight from the candyland castle.
A surge of randomness at 1:13 AM, Singapore time.
waiting on the world weather to change
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Hooray. My boredom has taken new heights- now I'm even slashing at song titles above my post (hahaha geddit? geddit? above? taking new heights? argh whatever.) in a bid to get some cheap humour? Argh. I can tell why cavemen invented fire. They were probably as bored as I am now- heck, that's probably why the era of caveman is called the stone ages. All they did was stone. In caves hollowed out from stone. Argh. Ok, I'm slowly losing my mind :)Since I'm feeling so bored and have nothing to blog about since I didn't really do much today, I shall blog about... music! (Again.) I spend too long (in my opinion) listening to music, but too bad- most of the songs in my ipod are just too addictive. Anyway. Here are my "top 25 most played" as told by iTunes. iTunes is weird. It comes with default playlists that don't even make sense. Especially the one that's called "90s music" which is automatically filled with rubbish that totally isn't 90s music. But whatever.
Wait, I think I'll change 25 to 10. :) I'm bored but not that bored. I'm some failure at giving reviews. Don't blame me if you see the words "great", "cool" etc. etc. being repeated at least 20 times. :D
1.
The City Is At War - Cobra Starship: The first track off Cobra Starship's latest album, ¡Viva La Cobra!, The City Is At War is the first reason why Strange Glue [
link], which gave the album
0 STARS (yes, it's totally what-the-hell-inducing), is wrong. It has a super-catchy instrumental melody, and I love the whatever-you-call-that instrument in the background. I think it's called a keytar. That's a stupid name, but whatever- wikipedia says that's what its called. Byap- Cobra Starship is loads better than Interpol xD
Bang, bang, shoot 'em up, yeah!
2.
Me Love - Sean Kingston The second single from the totally strange and random self-titled album, Sean Kingston, is about a million times better than the million times more famous 'Beautiful Girls' track which is annoying times a million. Anyway, Sean Kingston mixes Reggae and R&B perfectly, and the tune is just too addictive! Argh. I feel kind of guilty cos I play this song so much that most of his other,
lesser tracks sit in a pile, neglected. :)
3.
Tears And Rain - James Blunt If you think James Blunt is all about stange falsettos squealing "You're beautiful", then you're totally deluded. Tears and Rain is a nice song that has all the elements of a song that puts you to sleep, and I don't mean it in a bad way. For example, you listen to Interpol with the intention of listening to a good "Rock" (or at least that's what the genre thing says) song, and you fall asleep and get super annoyed that you fell asleep when you wake up, but you listen to James Blunt you feel really.. relaxed? Ok never mind. That was a stupid analogy. No wonder I didn't score really high for SS EOY.
4.
Crash - Gwen Stefani It's an unbelievably addictive track from Love.Angel.Music.Baby, which is Gwen Stefani's first solo album! Haha. I didn't really know about it until I watched this totally pointless video of random people jumping on tramps and being total sadcases and landing like.. on the floor, the frame, everywhere. Anyway, as some sort of joke, the author of the video put Crash as the BGM, so that's the first time I heard it. Haha.
5.
Stronger - Kanye West Stronger is an amazing lead single of Kanye's latest album, Graduation. It samples from this daft punk song- something like Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger- um. Something along that lines. Anyway, Stronger is totally different from the Daft Punk techno babble (yeah I know, totally wrong usage of that phrase), and it's a perfect mix of strange robotic backup vocals and Kanye-West's brand of anti-50cent-absolute-garbage hiphoppy rap. Hey! Strange minus the A (absolute garbade 50cent rap) and plus an R (r for robotic freaky background vocals) -> Stronger :O OMG. Kanye West can do his AMATHS! Ok, never mind.
6.
My Love - Westlife Cringe not, boyband haters (especially Leon)- My Love is not only a pretty good song despite the age-old fact that "it came from like.. 1833 or something" (quote Lincoln :D). Anyway, deep down, it possesses some sort of significance for Grp 2 of our Wuhan OIP group! It's the song that 2 of the guys from our class (the one we were teaching) sang for the English Salon (yeah I know, salon is such a stupid word to use for a random concert), and it's also the song that we sang along with every single time the two 12-yr-old China students came up to sing it. :)
7.
Who Am I - Casting Crowns Another song with like.. special meaning behind it- it's one of the last songs we ever learnt- and one of the last that we sang together as a con3 batch during the november retreat :S Haha. Plus, it has added significance. Since there wasn't a church in Wuhan, it's one of the songs that I actually remembered most of the lyrics, so it's one of the random songs in a medley of badly butchered hymns that really doesn't commeasurate (OMG I CAN'T REMEMBER HOW TO SPELL THE JUN SEAN HISTORY-RA WORD!) for the lack of mass, but has to do. Oh well, at least Eugene and Gabriel (who happen to be in Holy Spirit Church too- wow) were with me, so the three of us missed mass together =.-
8.
Clumsy - Fergie It's the 5th single off The Dutchess, after London Bridge, Fergalicious, Glamorous and Big Girls Don't Cry- all (except the last one) which contain overdoses of Paris Hilton slash Britney Spears sluttiness. Anyway, Clumsy is totally different, and surprisingly, it isn't overflowing with vulgarities like London Bridge or Glamorous :D And the music video is super super cool. :) Go check it out on youtube. I'm too lazy to get a link to put here.
9.
Jimmy Gets High - Daniel Powter One of the less-popular songs off the album Daniel Powter by, surprise, surprise, Daniel Powter (WERE YOU SURPRISED? Admit it.) Daniel Powter joins the fray (not the band, but literally) and competes with Mika and James Blunt in the battle of the soaring falsettos! In an attempt to become Prince of the High Cs, right behind Pavarotti, Jimmy Gets High is a statement from Daniel Powter that he can produce a nice song that has only a few lines that aren't in the female vocal range. :D
10.
Lollipop - Mika Mika has the unofficial yet pretigious honour of being the artiste of the first ever legal album (I'd like to underline that word, legal, at least a few million times) that I bought! After watching Grace Kelly about 10 times on MTV, I actually decided to buy an album with my own money :P, and I wasn't disappointed by Life In Cartoon Motion, which has tracks like Lollipop (which is a totally random song about love and lollipops :P) and Billy Brown (about this guy who's gay. yup). I think it's one of the best tracks on an already great album, so it's like.. the creme of the creme of the creme of the cream.
If any literary gems of the earth would like to sue me for my blatant butchering of the cliched phrase, creme of the crop, I'd like to remind you that Singapore doesn't have any space for agriculture.
Anyway. There are more songs, but none that I'd like to review, in the great interest of time :D Like One Way by Hillsong, Baby Love by Nicole Scherzinger, Hold On by KT Tunstall, blah blah. :) Maybe I'll save that for another time. I've written too much. At least I've managed to kill about.. what.. an hour? ++? :D Hooray for activities like writing long, drab essays on your blog! They totally totally kill time!
Only problem is-
who's organising the funeral?
A surge of randomness at 8:53 PM, Singapore time.
when the city sleeps, we rule the streets chat on msn.
OMG. IT'S 6PM AND IT'S NOT RAINING. I'm going to play soccer and even though my feet are super blistered and all from running around barefoot
almost every day, I'M GOING TO PLAY SOCCER YAYYY! I better hurry before it rains. That's the worst kind of logic (if there is any in the first place) but OMG. It's not raining argh argh argh. SOCCER! Yay :D :D :D
A surge of randomness at 6:04 PM, Singapore time.
the sun will set for you
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
I think I possess super-failure maths skills. After calculating and recalculating and staring at numbers and numbers, today I realised that the chance of making it to the school team next yr isn't that slim after all. :D Yay! IF (sorry, I don't trust my maths) everything goes according to plan, I can actually make it just ahead of Timothy by 1 pathetic point overall! :O
But never mind. Talking won't get me anywhere for now- I need to pull every single trick I have out of my comparatively small bag and make ZERO mistakes. Arghhh. The margin for error now is like.. zero. after I screwed up TWICE, any mistakes are going to cost me :( I have this feeling that I'll make it
near the end and I'm almost there, I'm almost there and then before I know it, 2008 is going to be a really free year for me. :X TOO MUCH PRESSURE! Argh. This is even than nationals itself. Argh. Argh. ARGHHHHH!!
Today was going to be a good day. The sun was shining brightly the whole day. When I woke up, went for training, ate lunch with Kim Wee and Michael at serangoon gardens market, went home- the sun was shining all the way!!! Haha. I was looking forward to finally going down to play
real soccer, but guess what? Nature has this annoying way of tormenting you when you least want it- and it started raining. If this wasn't the monsoon season, I'd be posting long rants about how nature is probably punishing the world for global warming. Haha, never mind.
My posts are getting longer and wordier. That obviously shows how bored I am. Bleah, whatever. Anyway, the only Linkin Park song that I really like is Shadow of the Day, and argh it's nice. I don't see how people can like What I've Done or Bleed It Out, cos I don't really like screamy songs. Haha. But anyway, the lyrics are surprisingly meaningful. I mean. Better than some songs like Yummy by Gwen Stefani, which has got to be the most pointless song ever. I mean. The first line is "I'm feeling yummy head to toe". IT DOESN'T EVEN MAKE SENSE, hello?
I close both locks below the window
I close both blinds and turn away
Sometimes solutions aren't so simple
Sometimes good bye's the only way
And the sun will set for you
The sun will set for you
And the shadow of the day
Will embrace the world in grey
And the sun will set for you
In cards and flowers on your window
Your friends all plead for you to stay
Sometimes beginnings aren't so simple
Sometimes goodbye's the only way
And the sun will set for you
The sun will set for you
And the shadow of the day
Will embrace the world in grey
And the sun will set for you
And the shadow of the day
Will embrace the world in grey
And the sun will set for you.SELECTIONS! Argh.
A surge of randomness at 6:21 PM, Singapore time.
the power of your love
Monday, December 10, 2007
wow. I'm blogging from my iPod. It isn't the easiest thing to type on but I'm getting better. Whatever. I've been unceremoniously barged off the computer so guess what. I've actually found something to do :( yeah and I'm feeling totally terrible about selections- but I shallsave that for tomorrow. Bleah.
A surge of randomness at 10:48 PM, Singapore time.
drastic fantastic
Hold on, to what you've been given lately.Hold on, to what you know you've got.Hold on, to what you've been given lately.Hold on, cos the world will turn if you're ready or not.I'm suddenly hooked on Winning Eleven again. I'm playing Master League with some Gimnastic Tarragona, and I um. got rid of the entire first team, so basically, everybody in my team now is under 25 :) My team is the team of the future! Not a soggy bunch of war veterans who are around 30+ and run as fast as hippos :D Haha. Anyway I didn't have much money to buy a whole lot of players, so I have about.. 17? Not sure.
My *youthful and vibrant* squad plays 3-1-2-2-2. It's basically 3-5-2, just that the players don't cram up in a stupidly long parallel line like the formation name suggests. And if Tsui's around- my team totally owns your dream team that's half made of ex-Arsenal oldies :) Haha. My starting eleven is Gomes (PSV), Kompany (Hamburg), Heitinga (Ajax), Dawson (Tottenham), Jagielka (Sheffield Utd) Yaya Toure (some french club), De La Red (Real Madrid B), Sneijder (Real Madrid), Ivanschitz (Panathinaikos), Wallner (Farkirk) and Huysegems (Twente). My team > yours! :D Yay!
Haha. I'm off to play more Winning Eleven. :D AND I just realised that in soccer, you can't win all the time, so Konami should change the name of the game to The Eleven that Wins, Loses, Draws but Generally Plays Soccer. :D
A surge of randomness at 8:36 PM, Singapore time.
funny how things just tasted better when we were young
Sunday, December 9, 2007
Looks like quoting random lines from random songs is a habit that I'm not going to kick in the near future :) Anyway. I'm probably going to collapse from exhaustion- from searching high, low and medium for things to do. Holidays are supposed to be fun! FUN! Fun is spelled F-U-N, not B-O-R-I-N-G-G-G-G-G-G-G.
Ok anyway, I've officially run out of things to do besides talk on MSN and play Winning Eleven (and even that's super monotonous after 3 matches in a row.) It doesn't help that my music is taking up 4.5 GB of space- that's probably the hugest reason why I feel super guilty when I install about a million games like my brother. It's like I'm killing the computer or something. Haha. It doesn't help that the rain keeps pouring. I can't go down to play soccer or something. Argh.
mother nature, you hear me?argh.Ok enough randoming. I officially give up trying to learn the F2L method of solving a rubiks cube. I can solve it layer by layer and I'M STOPPING THERE. Argh. It doesn't matter how fast you do it. I can see like.. zero point in solving a cube super super fast. I mean. If I take 1 and a half minutes to solve a cube and you take 30 seconds, what do you gain? 1 minute can't buy you much except maybe you officially have 60 more seconds of your life more than me that's not wasted. (puts on a fake authoritative accent to cover up for lack of cube-solving skill) Yes, solving a cube fast is a totally useless skill! :D :D
ARGH. My aching muscles are killing me. Everywhere is like.. giving me some extent of pain. Hamstring, thigh, back, everywhere. Bleah. I have training tomorrow. I have training on tuesday. I have training training training training. AND I have a stupid fitness test to pass. 4.8km is supposed to be a short run, but it seems like a long long long long long long (x48) way. I'm probably the unfit-est guy in my entire CCA, but sadly there's no prize for that. No wait. I just realised, I can't be the unfit-est guy in my CCA. (SMILES :D :D) But heck. I'll settle for runner-up.
When raindrops can't stop falling from the sky,Crystalline clear tears dropping from blurry clouds of grey,Innocuously dripping on these plans of mine-There're only a few things to say:If the rain must fall
If I lose it all
If the world comes down and takes any soul
If the sky turns black
And there's no no way back
It won't matter much to me - James Morrison, If The Rain Must Fall
DON'T RAIN ON MY PARADE
THESE HOLIDAYS ARE MINE.
A surge of randomness at 11:48 PM, Singapore time.
i wonder where they are.
Saturday, December 8, 2007
I should really stop quoting random lines out of random songs and putting them as titles. And I should stop using weird-coloured fonts everywhere. It's probably one of the reasons why Wesley thinks blogger sucks compared to wordpress "Blogger is like one big graffiti board", says Wesley. Haha. Anyway, if you're the type of person that gets really bored when reading stuff that's all the same colour then, TOO BAD! Wahahaha. :D
[random interjection]
RED and YELLOW and PINK and GREEN!
PURPLE and ORANGE and BLUE!
I can sing rainbow!
Sing a rainbow!
Sing a rainbow too![end of random interjection]
ANYWAY. Due to popular demand, I shall randomly blog about Wuhan! According to Lincoln, "it's really fun when you get down to it". (Oo how's that for incorporating a quote in a coherent sentence :D I'm so going to top the class for lit again next year!! *smiles to self*). Haha. So anyway, I shall ramble on about one of the activities I'm probably not going to forget, so let's go! :)
get ready for a "long, drab essay"!!This is no longer my blog.
This is.
Wuhan.:)
(ack the suspense is killing you. don't deny it. :D)
Here's a pic
shamelessly taken from
Gabriel's blog. Um, if you're wondering why I couldn't use one of my own pictures, it's probably cos I was taking part in the debate? :) Haha. I was kind of sabo-ed into it, but who cares. I unleashed all sorts of cheem language that was floating around in my sea of vocabulary. Haha. Ooh and you can see me next to Zijie writing my killer question that Kenneth couldn't answer :P Anyway. The motion for the debate was (inserts string of chinese characters which mysteriously metamorphosize into strange squiggles after a few days). Translated into english, it's basically cooperation v. competition, which one induces more progress. Simple enough? Not really.
Haha. To be honest, I wasn't really confident at first. I didn't prepare AT ALL cos I was feeling sick the previous night and went to sleep at 530pm. Yeah, there's no typo error. My host's dad was pretty amused, but I didn't really care. In a land where the sun sets at 4.30 and screws your body clock up, there's only one way to unwind the contorted springs and that's to
sleep. So basically, I didn't prepare anything, and my opponents, Kenneth, Wee Ping, Lincoln and 2 other English Club members from Hua Shi Yi Fu Zhong, were like.. exuding airs of extreme confidence, which, to be honest, was quite intimidating. When Lincoln came up to me during lunch and declared "THIS DEBATE IS A WAR AND WHEN YOU LOSE YOU'RE NOT GOING TO BE ABLE TO HOLD YOUR HEADS UP HIGH IN HUA SHI YI FU ZHONG AFTER YOU
LOSE", I guess that competitive flare in my got ignited.
Basically the format of the debate required me, the 4th opp speaker (supporting competition) to answer and then ask the a question from/to the 4th prop speaker, which happened to be Kenneth, who happened to know nothing about Marxist-Leninist Societies which we were forced to study during SS, and it's totally ironic that the only time I apply such totally obsolete knowledge is in a debate. -.=. Ok, so Kenneth's question (he confessed that actually Wee Ping thought of it), was to ask for my opinion on the fact that "competitive societies will fail due to individuals with personal agendas".
Ok, so as a lit student, the thing that I do best is coming up with crap that sounds convincing, but has some logic behind it, right? So anyway, I rambled on and on, with my typical "lit-essay" vocab about how "it was extremely unfair and ludicrous to claim that individuals with personal agendas exist only in competitive societies- in fact, there exist such individuals in co-operative societies, such as Marxist-Leninst ones- and it has occured before- implosions of such societies due to individuals with their own personal agendas attempting to break free of the rigidly cooperative social stratification blah blah blah blah." I went on for 1 and a half minutes without stopping :D :D :D I guess that sounded convincing enough cos the whole audience clapped like.. really loud for me, which was slightly touching, and massively confidence-boosting. :)
For my question, I decided to attack one of the China-student's points- she said "competitive societies means that everyone is a cold-blooded killer". Yes, that's a totally ridiculous point that wouldn't have stood anyway, but anyway I decided to counter that example with an extremist one of my own- the only difference was that mine was REAL, and hers was hypothetical. Haha. So anyway, I asked for Kenneth's opinion on
Jonestown which is a co-operative society led by the insanely stupid Jim Jones, and anyway, their utopia ultimately ended with the mass suicide of almost all of the residents.
Ok I'll admit. I thought of that point while Zijie was speaking. Haha. I was initially going to ask for their opinion on a 100% FAKE "AC Nielsen survey" complete with fake quote from "Bill Gates" :D :D :D :D :D, but then I was randomly thought up Jonestown- I watched the documentary about it on Discovery about a week before leaving for Wuhan and realised that was example to raise, so I did. Kenneth couldn't answer. He stood there stumped until his time ran out. The audience clapped like crazy. I felt really bad for Kenneth but I couldn't help laughing with Zijie :P since the whole situation was like.. really amusing. Haha.
The free debate was madness, and I stood up a few times and came up with more cheem words to use on the spot. Our closing speaker was quite rubbishy- his points were totally NOT what we said- clear evidence of a pre-prepared speech xD, but Wee Ping (the other Lit-taker) couldn't come up with enough to come close to saving his team from impending doom. Wahahaha. And Suzie (the blue jacket girl) totally ruined his speech cos she used his quote, so when he came up to say it as a clincher, it was just some crap. Repitition doesn't go well with any judge. Needless to say, we won. :)
I got special mention from Mr Justin Yap! Yay!
Um. I didn't mean to write a novel. Haha. But Lincoln, you're right- it IS fun :D
A surge of randomness at 9:28 PM, Singapore time.
the words that i could never say
Thursday, December 6, 2007
Optics Valley Exhibition Centre in Wuhan: An idealistic room of exhibits featuring China's ideal community which probably will come true in the year 3999, and that was just a rough guess.Guess what. I burned half the day in school and half of the other half of the day sleeping, so I don't have much to write about. Eugene says my blog is emo haha. I've been meaning to write a nice long post lambasting the emo population of the world, but that takes up way too much effort :) I need to save up all the energy I can get to do my Chinese homework. And I have some kind of weird feeling that I'm going to keep rambling about my big pile of Chinese rubbish- all the way until January. :D Haha.
ANYWAY. Back to emo. Emo is supposed to be short for emotional- so if you
aren't emo, then that means you're like. void of emotion, and that makes you a conformist robot and not a human, so whoever decided to coin that totally retarded term should go and soak his or her head in a bucket of hmm. a bucket of what. Whatever. Hey that's a drink. Ok whatever. I think emo is a really stupid word in the first place, so yeah. Every normal person has emotions- and if you try suppressing them, you're some total loser who also probably doesn't take lit. :)
My blog has officially become some kind of totally random place of ramblings that don't really make sense in the context of modern society, and is also being filled by absurdly long sentences which have at least 30 words in it, and, with it, an obscenely large number of totally useless adjectives, and each paragraph of my really strange blog comprises only one sentence!
I'M STARTING TO WRITE LIKE. OMG OMG. OMG. I can't bear to say it-
BRYAN TSUI!!Haha. I can't forget Mrs Smith getting ultra irritated at him for writing his essays with paragraphs that are one sentence long. "One sentence
long" is totally the right phrase to use :D (Hey and, if your mum is reading this, Tsui, that statement wasn't meant to be libellious :) I'm just freaked out at the prospect of my writing style being remotely close to yours :O)
It's 6th December.What have I done this holiday?Nothing.
(inserts a really big smiley here.)
Me and all my friends:
We're all misunderstood,
They say we stand for nothing and
There's no way we ever could.
Now we see everything that's going wrong
With the world and those who lead it.
We just feel like we don't have the means
To rise above and beat it.
So we keep waiting- Waiting on the world to change- John Mayer, Waiting On The World To Change
A surge of randomness at 8:49 PM, Singapore time.
hey, that's the story of my life.
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
what songs i keep playing in my ipod lately:
the city is at war - cobra starshipcrash - gwen stefanishadow of the day - linkin parkwho am i - casting crownstubthumping - chumbawamba2 man show - timbaland (ft elton john)give me some love - james blunthold on - kt tunstallbaby love - nicole scherzinger (ft will.i.am)home - michael buble
while in china, i missed my music :( having to settle for days and days of other people's music and making your own music can get pretty tiring- on your mind and on your throat. (and I shall start using proper punctuation now!) Throughout the 14 days in freezing Wuhan, music isn't just the only thing I missed.
And the ironic thing is that now that I'm back I never ever see you online! (That's going out to what.. 3 or 4 people in my pathetic contact list of about 250 people). And Inconsolable just kept playing in my head almost every minute of the way in China. Didn't really help that no one new the song, but a silent soliloquy of song is sometimes more relaxing.
Baby I don't want to waste another day
Keeping it inside it's killing me
'Cause all I ever want, it comes right down to you (to you)
I'm wishing I could find the words to say
Baby I would tell you every time you leave
I'm inconsolable - Backstreet Boys, Inconsolable
I'm not really in the mood to post more about China at this point in time. I just burned what.. 4 hours of my time filling in the absurdly long reflections template. I mean, it's totally dumb to have us slog away doing some reflections which kind of ruins the nostalgic joy of the OIP trip. At least I finished doing all my reflections :D, now I only have a BIG STACK OF CHINESE HOMEWORK
AND A COMMONWEALTH ESSAY TO FINISH! Hooray for me! Haha it's been raining all day for some reason- maybe it's mother nature's silent protest to Mr Justin Yap's brutally long reflections assignment.
And I can surf the net on my ipod! It's really amazing, and I can even go to my blog and my cbox. Unfortunately, due to my ridiculously unmaneuverable design, I can't really scroll down or anything, so guess what? If I feel like it, I'm going to make a new template again! It's something that I'm starting to love to hate, but I guess reading my own blog sometimes makes me feel.. I don't know. It makes me feel satisfied for some reason that's probably more random than the comic that I drew on Bing Yang's laptop.
Do you know that you'll never know what you don't know until you do?Mr Quek must have been silently stunned when he read my OIP journal. I hardly wrote anything related to the homestay, the museum, the lake, or the school- my journal is filled with totally random stuff, random thoughts like the one above, and lots of random drawings. Of camels, or dogs, of bears, of cats, of hippos, of dinosaurs. Anything to remind me of the people I left behind in sunny Singapore,
and the broken cassette in my head chattered,
a battered tune that never went away
Another aeroplaneAnother sunny placeI'm lucky I knowBut I wanna go home
Let me go home
I'm just too far from where you are
I wanna come home.
A surge of randomness at 6:12 PM, Singapore time.
memories
Monday, December 3, 2007
I was feeling random, cold but more random than cold, so I drew this on Bing Yang's laptop in Wuhan.
A surge of randomness at 5:46 PM, Singapore time.
another aeroplane, another day
I'm finally back in a land where I can come out from the shower without shivering, where I don't have to freeze despite wearing 3 layers of clothes, where I don't have to worry about dividing the price of everything by 5, where the sun sets when it should- not at 4.30pm. I'm finally home! Whee! Haha. Taxis are real scams, and I'm not talking about China taxis. I mean Singaporean taxis. There's nothing more heartwrenching/nervewracking that seeing the airport+midnight surcharge surge up every few seconds. I paid $25 to get home from the airport.
Anyway.
Wuhan is a really weird city. It's super, super cold right now, and when we left it was averaging at around 5 degrees celcius in the morning. And that's when the sun is bright and shining and all. The people there eat a lot. Even more than I can ever manage :D, and I'm serious. The houses in Wuhan are also really deceptive. Everyone says "don't judge a book by it's cover", but nobody really cares about that line until you get freaked out by the ultra disgusting/
slum (I SO DID NOT SAY THAT.) looking facade of the apartment building that you're going to be homestaying in. Haha.
Hua Shi Yi Fu Zhong is also a super super nice school. Firstly, its HUGE. About what.. 5 times the size of RI? It has its own stadium, boarding complex, about 10 classroom blocks, design centre, arts centre, science block blah blah blah. It's gigantic. AND it has a garden. Not a pathetic plot of land with a few pots of plants, but a real garden, complete with river, pavilion and stone bridge. Scary.
Anyway. It's 4.41 in the morning (That Gwen Stefani song again -.-.. well, around there.), and I'm not in any writing mood at all, so I'm going to let some photos to do some talking while I mess around with my badly missed itunes.
hua si yi fu zhong
Clocktower Super long name, and it's a shortened version of the super super long something something chinese name. It's super nice. Argh. When I go back to school, RI's going to look pretty pathetic :D
THEY HAVE A GARDEN! I wasn't kidding.
And, this is a school. Not some science park thing.
lu shan 庐山by the way. we were supposed to go to 3 gorges dam, but the trip was too long so we went here instead.
while in wuhan, we found out that there was a landslide at 3 gorges, and 3 people were killed. thank god we didn't go near that place.
Man-made lake. This photo is dedicated to Kenneth who told me that I couldn't take any photos since the bushes were blocking. :) Haha.
Random. I somehow like this photo very much :)
east lake
hua si yi fu zhong middle school
Eugene gets mass taupok-ed by the 12 yr old kids :Drandom
Me and Kenneth on top of the Lu Shan waterfall trail which took 3 hours to climb :)
Lushan waterfall! (L-R) Kenneth, Wee Ping, David, Bing Yang, Gabriel, Lincoln, Me, Jonathan. Yay!
and something that I just found on Deborah's blog.
con3 camp group photo :D whee.it's blur, but heck.
good night, from
Singapore.
A surge of randomness at 4:06 AM, Singapore time.
Monday, December 17, 2007
redirecting to my new locale.
A surge of randomness at 7:08 PM, Singapore time.
absolut garbage.
Now that's an idea for the absolut vodka company to use to openly slam any fakey-fakey imitation stuff that ever appear :) Haha, not that anyone will actually want to. Oh well. Anyway,
"I have been tagged" by someone who refers to himself as wheelchair boy, even though his legs are perfectly fine. Yup, these kind of people actually exist, but I guess we need to embrace diversity, ya? Haha. I'm so sorry kernchoong :) Apparently this kind of totally lame quiz has
rules too, but I can't really be bothered to list them all here cos that would be wasting a couple of minutes of my life copying/pasting/reformatting something that no one cares about. So.. yeah.
I don't actually see any point in revealing so much info about yourself.
But since I'm super bored, I shall humour kc. :)
FavouriteColour: Orange, yay :)Food: Anything's fine except raw fish urppp
Movie: Simpsons!! Hahahaha. I still rmb byap, Leon and I went to watch before crosscountry AND Leon almost made us late cos he left his wallet at GV :D :D
Sport: Anything :) Except volleyball, cos that hurts my hands? I play too many sports to list here. Haha.
Day: What about... Holi-day? :)
Season: I think the EPL season's fine. But maybe winter. Like.. I win-ter competition? Ok never mind.
Ice-cream: Everything except weird flavours. What do I mean by "weird"? Durian is weird. Mango is weird.
CurrentMood: Bored, tired (that's totally not a mood, but whatever.) Wait. My
current mood is
electrified. Hmm. That didn't make sense.
Clothes: Random t-shirt, shorts etc. none of which you need/would like to know.
Desktop: :D
Time: 3.51 pm.
Surrounding: My... house? Ok let's describe what's on my left, right, and back! (in front's obviously the co. screen) On my left's my ipod, plugged into the laptop. On my right's this nice & bouncy gym ball which my siblings and I use as a chair most of the time. Behind me is an insane trebuchet made out of an old badminton racket amongst other things that my brother helped build for my sister for her science project -.- It can shoot tennis balls up to 10 meters, so don't play play. It works.
Annoyances: Haha. Really want to know? Man U. They relegated Southampton on the last match of the season by beating them what.. 5-2 i think. Can't really remember. And I'm annoyed by extreme stupidity, if you know what I mean.
FirstsBest Friend: Haha can't really remember.
Movie: Homerun (the Jack Neo iranian ripoff one. the school forced us to go!)
Crush: What about.. not going to tell you?
Music: What about Majulah Singapura? No wait. There have got to be some songs from kindergarten. Not sure..?
LastsDrink: Coffee with icecubes innocently floating around inside. At the coffee shop at serangoon gardens. You know. What's ironic is going to a coffee shop and buying tea. But never mind.
Car Ride: Um. 22nd november. The last homestay day when Xu Minghan's dad drove us to the Wuhan school? Yeah. Think so. My parent's don't drive. Go figure. At least we aren't decimating the ozone layer like millions of people elsewhere :)
Crush: I crushed a can of h20 during training.
CD Played: Since all my songs are on itunes, theoratically the last cd I played was Undiscovered by James Morrison (the album) on the way to Costa Sands for some chalet and my neeon was at creative service centre. I borrowed my sister's cd player. Haha. (Digression: The stupid 58 took so long to reach Pasir Ris- almost 2 full album's worth. I brought Life In Cartoon Motion too. That's almost 2 hrs.)
Have You EverDated one of your best friends? Nope.
Broken the law? Don't think so......?
Been arrested? Haha yes. All the time, after I wake up from a good sleep. Always, after sleeping, I feel... er... rested.. (ahahahhaha geddit?) Never mind.
Been on TV? I think my TV will break if I'm on it. But, seriously, don't think so. NO WAIT. We were on Wuhan TV :D Serious- they treat us like celebrities there.
Kissed someone you don't know? Why would I?
Random5 things you're good at: Sleeping :) Sports, except volleyball. It hurts my fingers, remember? And maybe other stupid-er sports like boxing. YES, another irony, why isn't anything to do with
boxing SQUARE,
except the arena which they box in, and even then, that
square is called a
ring. Really, I don't understand these things some times. Eating (i just ate a lot for lunch. and now i feel bloated haha). Talking on MSN until late late late at night/early early early in the morning. What about.. getting gold for NAPFA every yr? :) Haha.
4 things you've done today: Talked on MSN, went for training (random scgs girls randomly came today as a "surprise" -.= wonder who organised it.), ate lunch, did this thing. Ohwell. I have a really fun life, don't I?
3 things you hear right now: *the monotonous pitter-patter of raindrops gently colliding with earth*..., Prostitution Is The World's Oldest Profession (And I, Dear Madame, Am A Professional (it's not a sick song, sry Lincoln :D) by Cobra Starship, the keys of the keyboard constantly being pressed.. haha. Unlike KC, my fan is apparently not turned on. The wind is super strong :)
2 things you'll probably never do: Get even.. a pathetic gpa of 2.0 for physics. OH WAIT! I
don't take physics. Oh well. And run off/marry another guy. Yup.
1 thing you seriously regret doing: not choosing a confirmation name. Haha. Maybe not. But maybe I should have :) Oh well :D
5 people to tag: lets see. I bet most of these people aren't going to do it anyway. But. Jon Shin, Lincoln, Deborah, Bryan Tsui (hahahahhaa.) and Pauline. (who wants to bet that none of these people are actually going to do it? But hahaha lets just see :D)
A surge of randomness at 3:02 PM, Singapore time.
Saturday, December 15, 2007
i think i've officially screwed up my blogskin.
at least i saved a copy of the old one. :)
A surge of randomness at 3:51 PM, Singapore time.
administrative
my blogskin is officially under renovation!if you pop by and are greeted by strangely distorted pictures/misaligned words etc. etc, don't panic. :D
since i haven't written a piece of code in about 6 months, i'll probably be taking a long long time trying to figure stuff out.
woosh.
andrew :)
A surge of randomness at 2:51 PM, Singapore time.
show me the way home.
I can't believe it.
I almost got lost in my own neighbourhood. How pathetic can that be. I took the MRT back from Tanjong Pagar after the CO concert just now, and reached Bishan at 11. I waited 40 minutes for the stupid 54 that never came (that was like.. totally deja vu- I waited ages for the 54 after rafflesian spotlight at around the same time.) Anyway, I didn't have much choice, so I started walking back through the Peminpins (a bunch of twisty, intersecting roads lined with landeds) and basically wasn't sure which way was the right way and spent about 20 minutes worriedly walking around alien roads. And it didn't help that there was this eerie silence that lingered.
I still can't believe it.
Anyway. I'm super super super super super tired.
That means, my post is finally not going to be about a thousand words long.
gdnight from the candyland castle.
A surge of randomness at 1:13 AM, Singapore time.
waiting on the world weather to change
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Hooray. My boredom has taken new heights- now I'm even slashing at song titles above my post (hahaha geddit? geddit? above? taking new heights? argh whatever.) in a bid to get some cheap humour? Argh. I can tell why cavemen invented fire. They were probably as bored as I am now- heck, that's probably why the era of caveman is called the stone ages. All they did was stone. In caves hollowed out from stone. Argh. Ok, I'm slowly losing my mind :)Since I'm feeling so bored and have nothing to blog about since I didn't really do much today, I shall blog about... music! (Again.) I spend too long (in my opinion) listening to music, but too bad- most of the songs in my ipod are just too addictive. Anyway. Here are my "top 25 most played" as told by iTunes. iTunes is weird. It comes with default playlists that don't even make sense. Especially the one that's called "90s music" which is automatically filled with rubbish that totally isn't 90s music. But whatever.
Wait, I think I'll change 25 to 10. :) I'm bored but not that bored. I'm some failure at giving reviews. Don't blame me if you see the words "great", "cool" etc. etc. being repeated at least 20 times. :D
1.
The City Is At War - Cobra Starship: The first track off Cobra Starship's latest album, ¡Viva La Cobra!, The City Is At War is the first reason why Strange Glue [
link], which gave the album
0 STARS (yes, it's totally what-the-hell-inducing), is wrong. It has a super-catchy instrumental melody, and I love the whatever-you-call-that instrument in the background. I think it's called a keytar. That's a stupid name, but whatever- wikipedia says that's what its called. Byap- Cobra Starship is loads better than Interpol xD
Bang, bang, shoot 'em up, yeah!
2.
Me Love - Sean Kingston The second single from the totally strange and random self-titled album, Sean Kingston, is about a million times better than the million times more famous 'Beautiful Girls' track which is annoying times a million. Anyway, Sean Kingston mixes Reggae and R&B perfectly, and the tune is just too addictive! Argh. I feel kind of guilty cos I play this song so much that most of his other,
lesser tracks sit in a pile, neglected. :)
3.
Tears And Rain - James Blunt If you think James Blunt is all about stange falsettos squealing "You're beautiful", then you're totally deluded. Tears and Rain is a nice song that has all the elements of a song that puts you to sleep, and I don't mean it in a bad way. For example, you listen to Interpol with the intention of listening to a good "Rock" (or at least that's what the genre thing says) song, and you fall asleep and get super annoyed that you fell asleep when you wake up, but you listen to James Blunt you feel really.. relaxed? Ok never mind. That was a stupid analogy. No wonder I didn't score really high for SS EOY.
4.
Crash - Gwen Stefani It's an unbelievably addictive track from Love.Angel.Music.Baby, which is Gwen Stefani's first solo album! Haha. I didn't really know about it until I watched this totally pointless video of random people jumping on tramps and being total sadcases and landing like.. on the floor, the frame, everywhere. Anyway, as some sort of joke, the author of the video put Crash as the BGM, so that's the first time I heard it. Haha.
5.
Stronger - Kanye West Stronger is an amazing lead single of Kanye's latest album, Graduation. It samples from this daft punk song- something like Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger- um. Something along that lines. Anyway, Stronger is totally different from the Daft Punk techno babble (yeah I know, totally wrong usage of that phrase), and it's a perfect mix of strange robotic backup vocals and Kanye-West's brand of anti-50cent-absolute-garbage hiphoppy rap. Hey! Strange minus the A (absolute garbade 50cent rap) and plus an R (r for robotic freaky background vocals) -> Stronger :O OMG. Kanye West can do his AMATHS! Ok, never mind.
6.
My Love - Westlife Cringe not, boyband haters (especially Leon)- My Love is not only a pretty good song despite the age-old fact that "it came from like.. 1833 or something" (quote Lincoln :D). Anyway, deep down, it possesses some sort of significance for Grp 2 of our Wuhan OIP group! It's the song that 2 of the guys from our class (the one we were teaching) sang for the English Salon (yeah I know, salon is such a stupid word to use for a random concert), and it's also the song that we sang along with every single time the two 12-yr-old China students came up to sing it. :)
7.
Who Am I - Casting Crowns Another song with like.. special meaning behind it- it's one of the last songs we ever learnt- and one of the last that we sang together as a con3 batch during the november retreat :S Haha. Plus, it has added significance. Since there wasn't a church in Wuhan, it's one of the songs that I actually remembered most of the lyrics, so it's one of the random songs in a medley of badly butchered hymns that really doesn't commeasurate (OMG I CAN'T REMEMBER HOW TO SPELL THE JUN SEAN HISTORY-RA WORD!) for the lack of mass, but has to do. Oh well, at least Eugene and Gabriel (who happen to be in Holy Spirit Church too- wow) were with me, so the three of us missed mass together =.-
8.
Clumsy - Fergie It's the 5th single off The Dutchess, after London Bridge, Fergalicious, Glamorous and Big Girls Don't Cry- all (except the last one) which contain overdoses of Paris Hilton slash Britney Spears sluttiness. Anyway, Clumsy is totally different, and surprisingly, it isn't overflowing with vulgarities like London Bridge or Glamorous :D And the music video is super super cool. :) Go check it out on youtube. I'm too lazy to get a link to put here.
9.
Jimmy Gets High - Daniel Powter One of the less-popular songs off the album Daniel Powter by, surprise, surprise, Daniel Powter (WERE YOU SURPRISED? Admit it.) Daniel Powter joins the fray (not the band, but literally) and competes with Mika and James Blunt in the battle of the soaring falsettos! In an attempt to become Prince of the High Cs, right behind Pavarotti, Jimmy Gets High is a statement from Daniel Powter that he can produce a nice song that has only a few lines that aren't in the female vocal range. :D
10.
Lollipop - Mika Mika has the unofficial yet pretigious honour of being the artiste of the first ever legal album (I'd like to underline that word, legal, at least a few million times) that I bought! After watching Grace Kelly about 10 times on MTV, I actually decided to buy an album with my own money :P, and I wasn't disappointed by Life In Cartoon Motion, which has tracks like Lollipop (which is a totally random song about love and lollipops :P) and Billy Brown (about this guy who's gay. yup). I think it's one of the best tracks on an already great album, so it's like.. the creme of the creme of the creme of the cream.
If any literary gems of the earth would like to sue me for my blatant butchering of the cliched phrase, creme of the crop, I'd like to remind you that Singapore doesn't have any space for agriculture.
Anyway. There are more songs, but none that I'd like to review, in the great interest of time :D Like One Way by Hillsong, Baby Love by Nicole Scherzinger, Hold On by KT Tunstall, blah blah. :) Maybe I'll save that for another time. I've written too much. At least I've managed to kill about.. what.. an hour? ++? :D Hooray for activities like writing long, drab essays on your blog! They totally totally kill time!
Only problem is-
who's organising the funeral?
A surge of randomness at 8:53 PM, Singapore time.
when the city sleeps, we rule the streets chat on msn.
OMG. IT'S 6PM AND IT'S NOT RAINING. I'm going to play soccer and even though my feet are super blistered and all from running around barefoot
almost every day, I'M GOING TO PLAY SOCCER YAYYY! I better hurry before it rains. That's the worst kind of logic (if there is any in the first place) but OMG. It's not raining argh argh argh. SOCCER! Yay :D :D :D
A surge of randomness at 6:04 PM, Singapore time.
the sun will set for you
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
I think I possess super-failure maths skills. After calculating and recalculating and staring at numbers and numbers, today I realised that the chance of making it to the school team next yr isn't that slim after all. :D Yay! IF (sorry, I don't trust my maths) everything goes according to plan, I can actually make it just ahead of Timothy by 1 pathetic point overall! :O
But never mind. Talking won't get me anywhere for now- I need to pull every single trick I have out of my comparatively small bag and make ZERO mistakes. Arghhh. The margin for error now is like.. zero. after I screwed up TWICE, any mistakes are going to cost me :( I have this feeling that I'll make it
near the end and I'm almost there, I'm almost there and then before I know it, 2008 is going to be a really free year for me. :X TOO MUCH PRESSURE! Argh. This is even than nationals itself. Argh. Argh. ARGHHHHH!!
Today was going to be a good day. The sun was shining brightly the whole day. When I woke up, went for training, ate lunch with Kim Wee and Michael at serangoon gardens market, went home- the sun was shining all the way!!! Haha. I was looking forward to finally going down to play
real soccer, but guess what? Nature has this annoying way of tormenting you when you least want it- and it started raining. If this wasn't the monsoon season, I'd be posting long rants about how nature is probably punishing the world for global warming. Haha, never mind.
My posts are getting longer and wordier. That obviously shows how bored I am. Bleah, whatever. Anyway, the only Linkin Park song that I really like is Shadow of the Day, and argh it's nice. I don't see how people can like What I've Done or Bleed It Out, cos I don't really like screamy songs. Haha. But anyway, the lyrics are surprisingly meaningful. I mean. Better than some songs like Yummy by Gwen Stefani, which has got to be the most pointless song ever. I mean. The first line is "I'm feeling yummy head to toe". IT DOESN'T EVEN MAKE SENSE, hello?
I close both locks below the window
I close both blinds and turn away
Sometimes solutions aren't so simple
Sometimes good bye's the only way
And the sun will set for you
The sun will set for you
And the shadow of the day
Will embrace the world in grey
And the sun will set for you
In cards and flowers on your window
Your friends all plead for you to stay
Sometimes beginnings aren't so simple
Sometimes goodbye's the only way
And the sun will set for you
The sun will set for you
And the shadow of the day
Will embrace the world in grey
And the sun will set for you
And the shadow of the day
Will embrace the world in grey
And the sun will set for you.SELECTIONS! Argh.
A surge of randomness at 6:21 PM, Singapore time.
the power of your love
Monday, December 10, 2007
wow. I'm blogging from my iPod. It isn't the easiest thing to type on but I'm getting better. Whatever. I've been unceremoniously barged off the computer so guess what. I've actually found something to do :( yeah and I'm feeling totally terrible about selections- but I shallsave that for tomorrow. Bleah.
A surge of randomness at 10:48 PM, Singapore time.
drastic fantastic
Hold on, to what you've been given lately.Hold on, to what you know you've got.Hold on, to what you've been given lately.Hold on, cos the world will turn if you're ready or not.I'm suddenly hooked on Winning Eleven again. I'm playing Master League with some Gimnastic Tarragona, and I um. got rid of the entire first team, so basically, everybody in my team now is under 25 :) My team is the team of the future! Not a soggy bunch of war veterans who are around 30+ and run as fast as hippos :D Haha. Anyway I didn't have much money to buy a whole lot of players, so I have about.. 17? Not sure.
My *youthful and vibrant* squad plays 3-1-2-2-2. It's basically 3-5-2, just that the players don't cram up in a stupidly long parallel line like the formation name suggests. And if Tsui's around- my team totally owns your dream team that's half made of ex-Arsenal oldies :) Haha. My starting eleven is Gomes (PSV), Kompany (Hamburg), Heitinga (Ajax), Dawson (Tottenham), Jagielka (Sheffield Utd) Yaya Toure (some french club), De La Red (Real Madrid B), Sneijder (Real Madrid), Ivanschitz (Panathinaikos), Wallner (Farkirk) and Huysegems (Twente). My team > yours! :D Yay!
Haha. I'm off to play more Winning Eleven. :D AND I just realised that in soccer, you can't win all the time, so Konami should change the name of the game to The Eleven that Wins, Loses, Draws but Generally Plays Soccer. :D
A surge of randomness at 8:36 PM, Singapore time.
funny how things just tasted better when we were young
Sunday, December 9, 2007
Looks like quoting random lines from random songs is a habit that I'm not going to kick in the near future :) Anyway. I'm probably going to collapse from exhaustion- from searching high, low and medium for things to do. Holidays are supposed to be fun! FUN! Fun is spelled F-U-N, not B-O-R-I-N-G-G-G-G-G-G-G.
Ok anyway, I've officially run out of things to do besides talk on MSN and play Winning Eleven (and even that's super monotonous after 3 matches in a row.) It doesn't help that my music is taking up 4.5 GB of space- that's probably the hugest reason why I feel super guilty when I install about a million games like my brother. It's like I'm killing the computer or something. Haha. It doesn't help that the rain keeps pouring. I can't go down to play soccer or something. Argh.
mother nature, you hear me?argh.Ok enough randoming. I officially give up trying to learn the F2L method of solving a rubiks cube. I can solve it layer by layer and I'M STOPPING THERE. Argh. It doesn't matter how fast you do it. I can see like.. zero point in solving a cube super super fast. I mean. If I take 1 and a half minutes to solve a cube and you take 30 seconds, what do you gain? 1 minute can't buy you much except maybe you officially have 60 more seconds of your life more than me that's not wasted. (puts on a fake authoritative accent to cover up for lack of cube-solving skill) Yes, solving a cube fast is a totally useless skill! :D :D
ARGH. My aching muscles are killing me. Everywhere is like.. giving me some extent of pain. Hamstring, thigh, back, everywhere. Bleah. I have training tomorrow. I have training on tuesday. I have training training training training. AND I have a stupid fitness test to pass. 4.8km is supposed to be a short run, but it seems like a long long long long long long (x48) way. I'm probably the unfit-est guy in my entire CCA, but sadly there's no prize for that. No wait. I just realised, I can't be the unfit-est guy in my CCA. (SMILES :D :D) But heck. I'll settle for runner-up.
When raindrops can't stop falling from the sky,Crystalline clear tears dropping from blurry clouds of grey,Innocuously dripping on these plans of mine-There're only a few things to say:If the rain must fall
If I lose it all
If the world comes down and takes any soul
If the sky turns black
And there's no no way back
It won't matter much to me - James Morrison, If The Rain Must Fall
DON'T RAIN ON MY PARADE
THESE HOLIDAYS ARE MINE.
A surge of randomness at 11:48 PM, Singapore time.
i wonder where they are.
Saturday, December 8, 2007
I should really stop quoting random lines out of random songs and putting them as titles. And I should stop using weird-coloured fonts everywhere. It's probably one of the reasons why Wesley thinks blogger sucks compared to wordpress "Blogger is like one big graffiti board", says Wesley. Haha. Anyway, if you're the type of person that gets really bored when reading stuff that's all the same colour then, TOO BAD! Wahahaha. :D
[random interjection]
RED and YELLOW and PINK and GREEN!
PURPLE and ORANGE and BLUE!
I can sing rainbow!
Sing a rainbow!
Sing a rainbow too![end of random interjection]
ANYWAY. Due to popular demand, I shall randomly blog about Wuhan! According to Lincoln, "it's really fun when you get down to it". (Oo how's that for incorporating a quote in a coherent sentence :D I'm so going to top the class for lit again next year!! *smiles to self*). Haha. So anyway, I shall ramble on about one of the activities I'm probably not going to forget, so let's go! :)
get ready for a "long, drab essay"!!This is no longer my blog.
This is.
Wuhan.:)
(ack the suspense is killing you. don't deny it. :D)
Here's a pic
shamelessly taken from
Gabriel's blog. Um, if you're wondering why I couldn't use one of my own pictures, it's probably cos I was taking part in the debate? :) Haha. I was kind of sabo-ed into it, but who cares. I unleashed all sorts of cheem language that was floating around in my sea of vocabulary. Haha. Ooh and you can see me next to Zijie writing my killer question that Kenneth couldn't answer :P Anyway. The motion for the debate was (inserts string of chinese characters which mysteriously metamorphosize into strange squiggles after a few days). Translated into english, it's basically cooperation v. competition, which one induces more progress. Simple enough? Not really.
Haha. To be honest, I wasn't really confident at first. I didn't prepare AT ALL cos I was feeling sick the previous night and went to sleep at 530pm. Yeah, there's no typo error. My host's dad was pretty amused, but I didn't really care. In a land where the sun sets at 4.30 and screws your body clock up, there's only one way to unwind the contorted springs and that's to
sleep. So basically, I didn't prepare anything, and my opponents, Kenneth, Wee Ping, Lincoln and 2 other English Club members from Hua Shi Yi Fu Zhong, were like.. exuding airs of extreme confidence, which, to be honest, was quite intimidating. When Lincoln came up to me during lunch and declared "THIS DEBATE IS A WAR AND WHEN YOU LOSE YOU'RE NOT GOING TO BE ABLE TO HOLD YOUR HEADS UP HIGH IN HUA SHI YI FU ZHONG AFTER YOU
LOSE", I guess that competitive flare in my got ignited.
Basically the format of the debate required me, the 4th opp speaker (supporting competition) to answer and then ask the a question from/to the 4th prop speaker, which happened to be Kenneth, who happened to know nothing about Marxist-Leninist Societies which we were forced to study during SS, and it's totally ironic that the only time I apply such totally obsolete knowledge is in a debate. -.=. Ok, so Kenneth's question (he confessed that actually Wee Ping thought of it), was to ask for my opinion on the fact that "competitive societies will fail due to individuals with personal agendas".
Ok, so as a lit student, the thing that I do best is coming up with crap that sounds convincing, but has some logic behind it, right? So anyway, I rambled on and on, with my typical "lit-essay" vocab about how "it was extremely unfair and ludicrous to claim that individuals with personal agendas exist only in competitive societies- in fact, there exist such individuals in co-operative societies, such as Marxist-Leninst ones- and it has occured before- implosions of such societies due to individuals with their own personal agendas attempting to break free of the rigidly cooperative social stratification blah blah blah blah." I went on for 1 and a half minutes without stopping :D :D :D I guess that sounded convincing enough cos the whole audience clapped like.. really loud for me, which was slightly touching, and massively confidence-boosting. :)
For my question, I decided to attack one of the China-student's points- she said "competitive societies means that everyone is a cold-blooded killer". Yes, that's a totally ridiculous point that wouldn't have stood anyway, but anyway I decided to counter that example with an extremist one of my own- the only difference was that mine was REAL, and hers was hypothetical. Haha. So anyway, I asked for Kenneth's opinion on
Jonestown which is a co-operative society led by the insanely stupid Jim Jones, and anyway, their utopia ultimately ended with the mass suicide of almost all of the residents.
Ok I'll admit. I thought of that point while Zijie was speaking. Haha. I was initially going to ask for their opinion on a 100% FAKE "AC Nielsen survey" complete with fake quote from "Bill Gates" :D :D :D :D :D, but then I was randomly thought up Jonestown- I watched the documentary about it on Discovery about a week before leaving for Wuhan and realised that was example to raise, so I did. Kenneth couldn't answer. He stood there stumped until his time ran out. The audience clapped like crazy. I felt really bad for Kenneth but I couldn't help laughing with Zijie :P since the whole situation was like.. really amusing. Haha.
The free debate was madness, and I stood up a few times and came up with more cheem words to use on the spot. Our closing speaker was quite rubbishy- his points were totally NOT what we said- clear evidence of a pre-prepared speech xD, but Wee Ping (the other Lit-taker) couldn't come up with enough to come close to saving his team from impending doom. Wahahaha. And Suzie (the blue jacket girl) totally ruined his speech cos she used his quote, so when he came up to say it as a clincher, it was just some crap. Repitition doesn't go well with any judge. Needless to say, we won. :)
I got special mention from Mr Justin Yap! Yay!
Um. I didn't mean to write a novel. Haha. But Lincoln, you're right- it IS fun :D
A surge of randomness at 9:28 PM, Singapore time.
the words that i could never say
Thursday, December 6, 2007
Optics Valley Exhibition Centre in Wuhan: An idealistic room of exhibits featuring China's ideal community which probably will come true in the year 3999, and that was just a rough guess.Guess what. I burned half the day in school and half of the other half of the day sleeping, so I don't have much to write about. Eugene says my blog is emo haha. I've been meaning to write a nice long post lambasting the emo population of the world, but that takes up way too much effort :) I need to save up all the energy I can get to do my Chinese homework. And I have some kind of weird feeling that I'm going to keep rambling about my big pile of Chinese rubbish- all the way until January. :D Haha.
ANYWAY. Back to emo. Emo is supposed to be short for emotional- so if you
aren't emo, then that means you're like. void of emotion, and that makes you a conformist robot and not a human, so whoever decided to coin that totally retarded term should go and soak his or her head in a bucket of hmm. a bucket of what. Whatever. Hey that's a drink. Ok whatever. I think emo is a really stupid word in the first place, so yeah. Every normal person has emotions- and if you try suppressing them, you're some total loser who also probably doesn't take lit. :)
My blog has officially become some kind of totally random place of ramblings that don't really make sense in the context of modern society, and is also being filled by absurdly long sentences which have at least 30 words in it, and, with it, an obscenely large number of totally useless adjectives, and each paragraph of my really strange blog comprises only one sentence!
I'M STARTING TO WRITE LIKE. OMG OMG. OMG. I can't bear to say it-
BRYAN TSUI!!Haha. I can't forget Mrs Smith getting ultra irritated at him for writing his essays with paragraphs that are one sentence long. "One sentence
long" is totally the right phrase to use :D (Hey and, if your mum is reading this, Tsui, that statement wasn't meant to be libellious :) I'm just freaked out at the prospect of my writing style being remotely close to yours :O)
It's 6th December.What have I done this holiday?Nothing.
(inserts a really big smiley here.)
Me and all my friends:
We're all misunderstood,
They say we stand for nothing and
There's no way we ever could.
Now we see everything that's going wrong
With the world and those who lead it.
We just feel like we don't have the means
To rise above and beat it.
So we keep waiting- Waiting on the world to change- John Mayer, Waiting On The World To Change
A surge of randomness at 8:49 PM, Singapore time.
hey, that's the story of my life.
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
what songs i keep playing in my ipod lately:
the city is at war - cobra starshipcrash - gwen stefanishadow of the day - linkin parkwho am i - casting crownstubthumping - chumbawamba2 man show - timbaland (ft elton john)give me some love - james blunthold on - kt tunstallbaby love - nicole scherzinger (ft will.i.am)home - michael buble
while in china, i missed my music :( having to settle for days and days of other people's music and making your own music can get pretty tiring- on your mind and on your throat. (and I shall start using proper punctuation now!) Throughout the 14 days in freezing Wuhan, music isn't just the only thing I missed.
And the ironic thing is that now that I'm back I never ever see you online! (That's going out to what.. 3 or 4 people in my pathetic contact list of about 250 people). And Inconsolable just kept playing in my head almost every minute of the way in China. Didn't really help that no one new the song, but a silent soliloquy of song is sometimes more relaxing.
Baby I don't want to waste another day
Keeping it inside it's killing me
'Cause all I ever want, it comes right down to you (to you)
I'm wishing I could find the words to say
Baby I would tell you every time you leave
I'm inconsolable - Backstreet Boys, Inconsolable
I'm not really in the mood to post more about China at this point in time. I just burned what.. 4 hours of my time filling in the absurdly long reflections template. I mean, it's totally dumb to have us slog away doing some reflections which kind of ruins the nostalgic joy of the OIP trip. At least I finished doing all my reflections :D, now I only have a BIG STACK OF CHINESE HOMEWORK
AND A COMMONWEALTH ESSAY TO FINISH! Hooray for me! Haha it's been raining all day for some reason- maybe it's mother nature's silent protest to Mr Justin Yap's brutally long reflections assignment.
And I can surf the net on my ipod! It's really amazing, and I can even go to my blog and my cbox. Unfortunately, due to my ridiculously unmaneuverable design, I can't really scroll down or anything, so guess what? If I feel like it, I'm going to make a new template again! It's something that I'm starting to love to hate, but I guess reading my own blog sometimes makes me feel.. I don't know. It makes me feel satisfied for some reason that's probably more random than the comic that I drew on Bing Yang's laptop.
Do you know that you'll never know what you don't know until you do?Mr Quek must have been silently stunned when he read my OIP journal. I hardly wrote anything related to the homestay, the museum, the lake, or the school- my journal is filled with totally random stuff, random thoughts like the one above, and lots of random drawings. Of camels, or dogs, of bears, of cats, of hippos, of dinosaurs. Anything to remind me of the people I left behind in sunny Singapore,
and the broken cassette in my head chattered,
a battered tune that never went away
Another aeroplaneAnother sunny placeI'm lucky I knowBut I wanna go home
Let me go home
I'm just too far from where you are
I wanna come home.
A surge of randomness at 6:12 PM, Singapore time.
memories
Monday, December 3, 2007
I was feeling random, cold but more random than cold, so I drew this on Bing Yang's laptop in Wuhan.
A surge of randomness at 5:46 PM, Singapore time.
another aeroplane, another day
I'm finally back in a land where I can come out from the shower without shivering, where I don't have to freeze despite wearing 3 layers of clothes, where I don't have to worry about dividing the price of everything by 5, where the sun sets when it should- not at 4.30pm. I'm finally home! Whee! Haha. Taxis are real scams, and I'm not talking about China taxis. I mean Singaporean taxis. There's nothing more heartwrenching/nervewracking that seeing the airport+midnight surcharge surge up every few seconds. I paid $25 to get home from the airport.
Anyway.
Wuhan is a really weird city. It's super, super cold right now, and when we left it was averaging at around 5 degrees celcius in the morning. And that's when the sun is bright and shining and all. The people there eat a lot. Even more than I can ever manage :D, and I'm serious. The houses in Wuhan are also really deceptive. Everyone says "don't judge a book by it's cover", but nobody really cares about that line until you get freaked out by the ultra disgusting/
slum (I SO DID NOT SAY THAT.) looking facade of the apartment building that you're going to be homestaying in. Haha.
Hua Shi Yi Fu Zhong is also a super super nice school. Firstly, its HUGE. About what.. 5 times the size of RI? It has its own stadium, boarding complex, about 10 classroom blocks, design centre, arts centre, science block blah blah blah. It's gigantic. AND it has a garden. Not a pathetic plot of land with a few pots of plants, but a real garden, complete with river, pavilion and stone bridge. Scary.
Anyway. It's 4.41 in the morning (That Gwen Stefani song again -.-.. well, around there.), and I'm not in any writing mood at all, so I'm going to let some photos to do some talking while I mess around with my badly missed itunes.
hua si yi fu zhongClocktower Super long name, and it's a shortened version of the super super long something something chinese name. It's super nice. Argh. When I go back to school, RI's going to look pretty pathetic :D
THEY HAVE A GARDEN! I wasn't kidding.
And, this is a school. Not some science park thing.
lu shan 庐山by the way. we were supposed to go to 3 gorges dam, but the trip was too long so we went here instead.
while in wuhan, we found out that there was a landslide at 3 gorges, and 3 people were killed. thank god we didn't go near that place.Man-made lake. This photo is dedicated to Kenneth who told me that I couldn't take any photos since the bushes were blocking. :) Haha.
Random. I somehow like this photo very much :)
east lakehua si yi fu zhong middle schoolEugene gets mass taupok-ed by the 12 yr old kids :DrandomMe and Kenneth on top of the Lu Shan waterfall trail which took 3 hours to climb :)Lushan waterfall! (L-R) Kenneth, Wee Ping, David, Bing Yang, Gabriel, Lincoln, Me, Jonathan. Yay!
and something that I just found on Deborah's blog.
con3 camp group photo :D whee.it's blur, but heck.
good night, from
Singapore.
A surge of randomness at 4:06 AM, Singapore time.
