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A huge chunk of A levels passed and we're left with physics MCQ and music written, yes, more music even after the horrifying hours we spent it. Went for hockey yesterday and I must say, my skills certainly diminished a lot a lot after the many months of not touching the stick. Couldn't sleep well last night, every time I adjusted my sleeping posture some muscle in my body will scream and I'll have to spend some time looking for the most neutral position to sleep in. Waking up had always been a mental challenge, but today, it was also a physical challenge. Serious stuff I'm telling you here, every inch of my back hurt like nobody's business. Guess it was my back which wasn't exercised during those rare sessions of self-initiated jogging.
Anyway, the whole music level was engulfed in the cascade of homework which was dumped onto us last weekend, so no time to play during this few-days-long break, haven't been really studying either, I've been mainly doing homework, going for lessons and sleeping. Very eventful and exciting life I have here. I'm suddenly not really looking forward to the post-As period anymore, think too much of the "looking forward to it" has caused this opposite effect. Guess maybe I'll get the high feeling back after next monday. Yea, I think I will.
Funny, I think I sleep more during exam period. Can still remember how I used to sleep 10hours during O levels. It's not that extreme this time, but I still sleep a lot. It's during the holidays that I sleep less. It does make sense somehow, strangely enough. During holidays I'll have a packed schedule when my mornings will probably be gaming and occasionally piano. I'll be working during the day, and my nights will be gaming again. And you know, sometimes when you work so hard single-mindedly towards a specific goal such as leveling up your character, time really flies. So I'll end up sleeping really late and waking up early again so that I can continue with the pursuit of my goal. And so on. During exam period, there's so little to do, I can only study eat or sleep... I really wonder if anyone can stand studying the whole day. Even though it's not physically straining at all, my brain will sort of go on strike and refuse to absorb anything I spoonfeed to it.
Music.
And before I forget, my brother has kindly offered to loan me his wow account! And I think warcraft is a more expanded version of maple with a fantasy setting in 3D so if there's nothing wrong with girls playing maple, there shouldn't be anything wrong with one playing warcraft lah. It's just the name that makes it sound so male-dominated right... And so that's one of the many things I'm looking forward to after As though I don't think I'll get to spend my entire day at home playing it, just like what I've envisioned.
Music. Homework.
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Yeaa... I can become burn up all my newsweeks and use the current day's newspapers to wrap durians, and I can return to my once simple life where GC meant Guidance Curriculum only and only~ The end of the first week was also the end of my math mugging and gp reading. Same thing happened for both papers, my mind just went blank after the papers ended. Don't want to think about it anymore, it's over, there's nothing I can do about it anyway.
Took a breather yesterday and completed Feeding Frenzy 1&2 ! Stress-relieving game. But I created more stress for myself by pushing myself to complete Garden Queen too, which is basically like a more complicated version of DinerDash. So that's that and I'm all ready to do Chemistry!
And Physics.
Monday, November 9, 2009
It's here, finally here. I was actually too lazy to even come online to update my blog, but I thought it won't be very nice to leave a demoralized post as the top post. Been studying I think. I'm not too sure if I've really been studying because I seem to do so little even though I spend so much time so-called studying, and I can't really see me improving. There's still so much to do and so little time. Or to be more exact, there's no more time.
Math was kinda like my pride and joy last time, because I could do it. It's a total different story now, I don't even have the confidence to say that I can see me scoring an A for math, my so-called best subject. I think I'm finally seeing the light in chemistry, after doing all the paper 3s I have. But I'll still get stunned by acid-base equilibria questions and I think I take a gazillion years to do just one question. Er, I haven't been really doing much for music, except listening to the set works when I do work. I realized that my grade for music has been more or less decided, since 60% of the paper has already passed; 20% portfolio, 40% performance. The sucky thing is that I still can't relax, cos the remaining 40% is still a huge grade-deciding chunk. GP... I think, I'll just pass.
Every time someone tells me something like "it's going to be over soon." I get this really complicated feeling. I mean, yay - it's all going to be over soon, no more studying yes? But then again, the chance to study more and get a perhaps satisfactory grade will be kinda gone too, no? I think I was so much more confident for my previous "big" exams that it really unsettles me when I think of how I'm so not prepared for this final and most important exam of my life so far.
So these three weeks of hell will fly by, and all of us will be so overwhelmed with relief that we'll go crazy with joy and start playing our days away before the day for the release of results descend upon us and all the anxiety and insecurities will start invading our lives again. And I don't think I'll feel at ease till after that day.
To end on a brighter note, I'll be going Japan (finally) on the tenth for about a week. Better start ordering your mangas/ novels/ magazines/ CDs/ snacks etc from me now! Can't wait to start my otaku life after As, I shall hole myself in my hole and use the computer 24/7, finishing all my mangas/anime/games I've been saving up so far. And I shall practice my piano like a crazy inconsiderate neighbor and finally learn all the pieces I've always wanted to learn. And I shall go work too, to start the stream of money coming in.
Then, I'll start worrying about my future, or lack thereof.
Good luck to all for A-levels!
Thursday, October 15, 2009
I thought it couldn't get worse, but it did. Guess what? We stayed in school yesterday, till nearly one. ONE EH-EMM... 1AM! Kills a music student every time exam season nears. The mad rush yesterday to print/photocopy everything was just too exciting for me. Especially when we only have 4 computers to share amongst the 5 J2s. Especially when we're passing around viruses on our thumbdrives to all the computers too. Exciting man. So I was safely home by 1... cos I was lucky enough to hitch a ride from Audrey mommy's car and cos I left school by 12.45, which is approximately 1 I guess. My family members are such pigs, sleeping when I got home yesterday, and still sleeping when I'm going off to war today. Sighs.
I wonder what's next, it can't get worse right...
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Thursday, October 8, 2009
One more month.
Anyway, A level practicals was on Wednesday, and I'm sort of glad that it's finally over. Was one of the most worrying and stressing 'papers'. I mean, a music practical is even worse that a science practical, there's no way you can repeat anything, once the note has been played, it's gone. No correction fluid allowed either, not like there's any use for it. Well, plenty of interesting things happened this week besides my blog image disappearing from photobucket for a while.
Let's see, I went to school on Monday, I went to school on Tuesday, and I went to school on Wednesday. No, it's not that boring really, it's quite interesting one, let me elaborate. I had a chem mcq test on Monday, only remembered it on the very day itself so ... I didn't do that well. Not that remembering has anything to do with that. Got a smack on the head from MrLow when he saw how much pencil lead I was wasting, drawing crosses all over my paper. Yea, even though I was only using HB lead. Then from 12.30 onwards I had no lessons yay, because music was cancelled for coaching. Haha, so I stayed back till almost 9.30 for coaching. Should have brought a sleeping bag. Almost the same stuffs happened for Tuesday. I had math tutorial and I was pretty pissed at myself for my unsatisfactory grade. I mean, since math is the only science subject which I dare to actually care for... Anyway, I had math and chem, and my lessons ended at 12.30 again. But then again, I had coaching till about 9.30 too - afterall, Wednesday's our big day. Stayed in school tilll 10.30 waiting for my parents. How stupid, I could have taken the bus and still reach home earlier.
Oh, I nearly forgot, Tuesday, the very day before the exam, we accidentally dropped the piano key into the exam piano! How very exciting. Deirdre was lifting the lid when the key just disappeared. So almost the entire music level was involved in the Search for the Missing Piano Key. Actually it was just four of us hammering the higher register keys and shining handphone lights into the piano, hoping that the key will jump out saying "you found me!" or something. Li Chen thought that it was impossible to drop a key through the piano strings, I thought so too, but the key was nowhere else to be found, so it had to be inside the piano. After some time spent on doing the above, our efforts were finally rewarded when we heard something jiggle when the highest B was hit. So the key's confirm inside and bla, we were all pretty worried about it cos if the sound's affected, the practical will be affected; what if they change the piano? Or what if they can't change the piano and we have to live with the fact that the piano key's dancing about inside the piano when we play our pieces? Then MrSeow came back from standardization. Our hero just held onto the piano keyboard lid, pulled it out of the hinges, stuck his hand into the newly created gap, fished out the problematic key and left us goggling at the naked grand piano. So... problem solved. But how exciting it was.
Then on the big day, I woke up extra early, and reached school extra early... at 0723hrs. Saw the PE teachers in the lt5... I guess they're in charge of our practicals too? Did a run-through of the songs, and avoided practising my solo/duet pieces. Too much practice right before the practical is never too good anyway. Waited and waited and waited before my practical with MsEng outside the lt5 before LiChen finally came out. Waited some more before it was finally my turn. I had two examiners, a friendly-looking female from TJ and a cool-looking dude from YJ; both excellent performers I heard. That's bad, because performers usually have much to criticise when others perform. But it was just our luck anyway. They sat right in the middle of the lt5, where it's the sweet spot for students who sleep during lecture. Maybe they'll fall asleep on those cursed seats as well, and not hear my mistakes, or so I thought. Other than the "two important people I must flash my dazzling charming cheshire grin at", there were a few other people, the video camera man armed with his video cam, and some calefare, didn't really take much notice of them.
Songs went alright, played one wrong note for the second song though. Chester left the lt, and I was left alone with the whole gang eyeballing me from their seats. Chopin was alright, forgot my LH for a bar, and when the bar repeated some time later, I couldn't remember it again. Relied on finager memory for the third and fourth repetitions and somehow managed to get the right notes out. Debussy was pretty good, I don't remember making any mistakes, and I played better than I did the previous day phew. Bach was.. alright. No major breakdowns for the first time in my life during practicals and it was pretty okay though I did make some slips here and there. DUET. MY DUET. I signalled to the cleaner auntie by the lt door that I needed my duet partner to come in, and I had this ultra high feeling; the torture's ending! I was so happy that... that I ended the duet in a minor key instead of the original major edition. Improvisation. And so my practical ended. Oh and we found out later that the "cleaner auntie" was actually the admin chief examiner. Oops.
Went out with music people for lunch after that. I realize that we really spend a lot of time together. First, we stay back in the evenings till about 7 or so, for composing. And we thought that it was late. Then rehearsals and recordings started, and we're all staying back till around 8. We thought that was late. Then practicals near and coaching stretches till 9.30++. I'm feeling a lil apprehensive about the coming month, will we stay back till 10plus for music make-up lessons? or will we have a music concentration camp in the school?
What's over is over. Will probably miss playing the piano all the time though. It's like some post-concert emptiness kinda thing I guess, especially since I can't be giving that much time to piano now. Gotta. Do. Chem.
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Eh, I'm like infatuated with my new blogskin. Just realized that it hides the default blogger toolbar thing usually on top of pages.
GP's over, was so lax in the morning that I went out of the house pretty late, despite being ready quite early. Got onto the bus at near 7 because I missed TWO consecutive 74s. I mean, the buses came together, so missing one is the same thing as missing both. Was so afraid of having my name taken down at the track there that I nearly walked in via the main gate. Glad that I didn't, because Mr Sham didn't bother us J2s with the latecoming sheet. It would have been CWO for me if my name gets taken down. Didn't go for morning assembly, and was kinda buying bubble tea when SP was saying something about SH2s still having to go for assembly. Nair didn't even come anyway, but I'll make sure I'm there for assembly on friday yes.
GP was quite fun actually, because we took the paper with the class. Not sure why that makes it fun, but well, I thought it was quite fun. Spent quality time the previous night reading up on media, so I immediately zoomed into the media question and started scribbling. I pity the teacher who's going to mark my essay. Anyway, was really relieved that media came out, because I didn't prepare any other topic! I mean, when your teacher stresses so much on a particular topic, she's either hinting something or ... she has to be hinting something I mean. Angeline Koh gave us two stacks of readings on media and actually spent a whole lesson of group work on it. Yea, and I gotta say that her notes kinda helped, content-wise. Compre was .... normal. I guess.
Math will be my next paper. Hurray... ... ... I gotta admit that once, I thought that things will straighten out somehow before prelims. Somehow I'll just magically see the light and understand all the nonsensical chemistry/physics stuff that I never knew how to do before and somehow I'll just get a not so indecent grade and get what I aimed for, or at least satisfy myself with an achievement I can be proud of. But now I feel, that getting all those Us isn't impossible really; it seems so real and unavoidable that I don't even know if it would be a wiser choice to give up now or struggle and give up later. Even if I want to start now, I don't even know where I should be starting from, there's just so much to cover... But yea, I know, we're at this crucial turning point in our lives and what we do, what we get determines the course of our live. I'll try to fight for what I know I don't deserve to get, so that I can look back years later and not regret so much. Perhaps.
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Yay new skin with very hard-to-read font color. Too lazy to alter that now, will do that when I'm in the mood next time.
Life hasn't really been filled with mugging for me, and I'm starting to get worried about the fact that I'm not worried yet. Even though my brain tells me that I have every right to start freaking out and stressing about how little I know about everything, I just find it impossible to get me lazy butt to worry.
Sprained my ankle rather badly a month ago, and it has healed nicely, but chasing after a bus is out of my league currently. Made up my mind to go for chinese tui na soon, even though it's going to hurt like shit, I mean, most good stuff come in a terrible unappealing form, yes?
Been stressing out lately over recording, but it's finally over. First rehearsals was on Wednesday, second one on Saturday and yesterday was the recording. Can't say it sounds exactly like the audio sample I've listening to all along, am glad that it sounds nicer. The whole process of composing, getting players, arranging rehearsals, rehearsing and recording was a really good experience, I learned lots. Though it wasn't as terrible and humbling as Mr Seow had warned us it might be, since my players were all really nice and talented players (almost all of them I mean), it was humbling/terrifying enough. For the first time in my life, "thanks for understanding", "sorry to bother you", "really appreciate your understanding", etc became common in all of my smses and I think the number of smses I sent in this short week amounts to months worth of smses. Learned that I shouldn't confirm rehearsals until all my players have told directly that they can make it, regardless of whether they previously said that they're free or not. Let's face it, schedules can change suddenly. Learned to be really thickskinned or at least act thickskinned when my conducting/work gets commented (criticised?) on. Learned that the most diva player may not necessarily be the best player, in my case, my nicest player was the most talented musician there. And the most diva one happened to be the weakest player there. How... ironic. Am glad that it's over anyway. Was really touched to hear my piece played life, and it really makes my day when my players tell me they like my piece. Think I'm a lil crazy for even feeling this way, but I feel a lil sad that this composing/recording business is over. No more poring over the sibelius notations and worrying about instrumental limitations till after As. Sad huh.
GP paper tomorrow, I'll die if media question doesn't come out. So, in an attempt to try to save myself, I shall prepare for another topic. Not technology, and not gender equality issues; doubt if those topics are going to come out.
Haven't been watching anime or playing Sims lately. Thankfully. I grew sick of the Sims after playing too much of it. Paused in my anime-watching after finishing Eden of the East... Just couldn't bring myself to watch another anime so soon after the impactful ending of Eden of the East.
Not sure when's the next time I'm blogging again, but I guess it'll be after prelims? I doubt I'll blog when I get back my results though, will probably be too unhappy to type anything readable. haha.
Good luck to all for all ye papers!
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Labels: books: robin hobb, life, studies
So Common tests came and they went.
And on the 3rd July when I turn 18 (:, we (hockey) went to the zoo!
Group photo with the parrots.
The otter family.
WHITE TIGER
WHITE TIGERS PDA-ING
Ah Meng's grand-son napping.
Squirrels (:
Some Leopard cat
Mouse deer.
Some flying squirrel thing.
The super sad-looking hairy monkey thing whom we were taking pictures of.
The polar bear.
Feeding time.
Some don't-know-what thing.
Maned wolf.
Rhino.
Deer.
Zebra.
Leopard.
Ostrich
I like to move-it move-it.
LION
Jaguar?
Orchid no. 1
Orchid no. 2
Butterfly.
Fruit bat.
Lemur?
Horse.
Short horse = ?
Very furry rabbit.
White tiger again.
Yep and so it was the first birthday I spent at the zoo, definitely the most memorable one.
After that was chionging for practicals and practicals itself, which was catastrophic. Long way to being ready for As yea.
Other than that, I've been reading and reading, Robin Hobb and Robin Hobb. Yea, highly recommended (:
Not in a very blogging mood.
Saturday, June 27, 2009
Labels: life
What I've been doing during the holidays after I came back from Berlin.
I read books, specifically HER books and I highly recommend all of you to too.
Watched fire-fighters come fight some mini fire in our block.
Had hockey chalet.
Practiced piano.
Did rubbish
And of course, studied.
No, I barely watched anything because my computer died. along with my external hard disk. Sigh, curse the whatever H2N2 virus which attacked my poor poor computer. Now I have to wait while it receives treatment from the hospital. It has been slightly more than one month already. How long more?
Friday, June 12, 2009
Labels: music, trip: germany
Here's a colorful description of my Germany trip. Finally.
26th May, Tuesday
The plane ride there was 12 hours, sat till butt pain. I think my butt became flatter after the trip. Luckily nobody was sitting at the window seat next to Kelly so I gladly took the seat. Watched Bride Wars, The Changeling and the first bit of Madagascar 2 on the plane. The plane food wasn't too bad, and I learnt how to eat fruits with yogurt. Landed at Amsterdam Airport in their early morning. The time there is 6 hours behind Singapore time, so it was probably late morning on the 27th over here.
27th May, Wednesday
The view from the plane from Amsterdam to Berlin. I got the window seat again, this time - legally.
Reached Berlin airport and it was still quite early in the morning.
As you can see now and later on too, Germany's buildings are decorated with graffiti and more graffiti.
Vending machine for cigarettes. Meaning anybody can buy cigarettes as long as they know how to insert the coins and push the button. Scary ah.
Our Berlin hostel.
This bear seems to be some Berlin thing. It can be seen in many places.
Their MRT. The system over there is like - you get a day ticket and you'll be able to ride on any line throughout that day. Sadly, we didn't get to meet a ticket checker during our time there.They really count a lot on your integrity over there. Same with the toilets. There'll usually be a plate on a table just outside the toilets with a sign saying how much you have to pay. Sometimes there will be a lady there, sometimes nobody. and even if there's a lady, she doesn't seem to really care whether you actually pay the money (ranges from 30 to 80 cents EURO). Think about it, $1.60 just to pee.
You can do anything on their Mrts. You can eat, drink, bring you dog in, bring bicycles in, whatever.
We went walking about on the very day we reached Berlin, and here's some places we passed by. Beautiful sky, great weather. We had our first sausage lunch that day and we had to figure out 1)what the menu says and 2)how to order. It wasn't that hard, the second part I mean, since I think they can sort of understand us even if we pronounce their words way wrong. After a few days, I think we could recognize the sausages over there already. There's only the roasted pork one and the curry one anyway.
Berlin Dom, which we will visit during the last few days.
Our dorm, we shared 6 per room with 3 bunk beds and a small toilet. Had pasta for dinner that night.
The concert that night, and our whole row fell asleep. It was some Mahler songs and Erwatung. Didn't really see much of the concert hall that night cos I was too busy concentrating on the back of my eyelids.
28th May, Thursday
German neighbourhood, taken during our walk to the Modern Art museum. We walked a lot during the whole trip. A LOT.
Some random sign which I found interesting.
Yay... ... so we got to the modern art museum and we get to wander around on our own with our cameras (without flash) and english audio guides. There were paintings and drawings by Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee and Henri Matisse.
Soe cool thing. Oh, and I set off the alarm twice. Once, by backing into a painting while trying to find a better angle for my photo. The other time, by getting too close to the painting while posing the camera. Aye, embarrassing.
Herren = male, Damen = female. Very very important if you don't wanna walk into the wrong toilet like what one of us did.
After effects of the art museum.
The duck of the music room was actually brought along for the trip, lucky thing. and it was brought everywhere we went too. Twice, we thought we left it behind, but luckily it survived the trip and it's probably sitting happily in the music room now.
Had Kebap for lunch. This is some statue thing outside this Baroque Palace we visited during the afternoon. No pictures allowed inside the palace, so I can only use words to describe. Those rooms that were preserved or rebuilt were heavily ornamented with elaborate stuff like gold-guilded patterns, chandeliers (show of power), paintings after paintings of the king's family (to assure the visitors that they have heirs etc), porcelain (they had this strange fascination with porcelain, they even have a room dedicated to showcase A LOT of porcelain cups/bowls). Lastly, the palace layout is such that the rooms are all next to each other and when all the doors between the rooms are opened, you can see from one end of the building right to the other end, and the building is huge okay.
The even huger Baroque gardens behind the palace.
The gardens.
There you go, the palace.
Flowers in the garden. Germany's filled with brightly colored flowers.
Part of the Berlin Wall, covered in gum and graffiti, alongside part of Shouyu.
The German Sony building.
Their green man.
Place where we ate at before our concert that night.
Their Victorian concert hall. a million times better than our victorian concert hall man. Concert that night was some terrible modern music; the only piece I remembered was the water music where 3men blew air through a tank of water during the piece.
Just wanted to show our smaller-than-small toilet-and-shower cubicle, which is like, 3metres by 1.5metres wide? But later we learned, that having a toilet in our room itself is a blessing for hostel life.
29th May, Friday
Berlin train station, waiting for train to Leipzig.
View from the train. Sure reminds me of Fullmetal Alchemist, again.
Arrived at Leipzig. HOTEL!!!
We were supposed to go for some Bach tour, but something went wrong and it got cancelled. I was flu-ing that day and was feeling terribly tempted to chop off my nose. Took clarinase or something and it worked miracles. Felt much better after that thank goodness. I hate getting sick during trips.
The St. Thomas Church, the group of us trooped in and sat down to hide from the wind and the cold. They happened to be performing some string chamber work for this group of tourists and we just got a free concert. We walked about taking photos (yes without flash) and I even took a few pamphlets about the place. After we walked out, someone noticed a sign at the entrance. Entrance fees - 1euro. oops.
Had our lunch and we visited Mendolssohn house next. This is his ORIGINAL piano, or maybe they bluffed us and rebuilt a new old model. whatever. Anyway, Mendolssohn sure had bad taste in carpets.
Flowers outside Mendelssohn haus.
Next, Schumann house which is now a Kindergarten. I was nodding off while standing when the english guide was talking and I assumed that the medicine made me drowsy. I later found out that the medicine wasn't supposed to cause drowsiness. Oh well.
Not a clear representation of how their people were dressed cos I didn't want to get beaten up, but in Leipzig when we were there, there were people dressed in gothic/punk/lolita wear, EVERYWHERE. They were wearing those stuff just like how you wear your tees.
Another sneak shot, and I want to draw your attention to her platform boots. Cool stuff ya.
oh my god HOTEL!
Bigger-than-small TOILET! with bath tub!
The view of Leipzig from the hotel. I think it's prettier than Berlin.
AH HOTEL! Anyway, we had some time before the concert so we settled down in our hotel rooms, 2per room and i shared the room with Lichen. We played Bridge and I think my winning rate was 25% or 33%. Aye must be getting rusty.
Concert that night was great. I started to fully understand how the term "lush" can be used on strings after hearing them play Bach and Beethoven. The strings were so together and the sound was so.. er.. sharp? No words can describe it man.
30th May, Saturday
Saying a teary goodbye to our hotel while Lichen takes care of a cockroach(?) in the corner. Had packed breakfast from the HOTEL. and it was SUPER delicious. I loved the ham. And my flu was completely gone by then. haha.
So we head over to... Bayreuth.
Their toilets on the train, which can't be opened manually. Gotta press those buttons to open, close and lock the door.
Reached Bayreuth, it's quite a country area.
Beautiful flowers in some park.
The peaceful surroundings of the park.
Oops, looks like I didn't upload the Wagner museum photos. Anyway, it was huge lah. But everything was in German though. Franz Liszt museum after that.
"Here's a sigh to those who love me, and a smile to those who hate; and whatever sky's above me, here's a heart for every fate." The guidebook didn't say anything about this poem thing he wrote in english (RARE since everything's in german) But I took a picture of it anyway. Liszt was good-looking when he was young, but grew 5 moles when he grew older. As observed, his portraits/photos when he was older were all taken from this particular angle where his moles won't be seen. LOL.
There were other museums in the area but we only went to the two; Wagner and Liszt. Had dinner at this bar/dining place after that and there was live german folk music. The atmosphere there was really nice save for the cold wind which kept blowing at us. We had some traditional german dishes with ahem, tap water while all the other tables had mugs of beer. The germans, some of them got really high and they were like clapping/singing along with the music. One of them even got up to dance. Seemed like we foreigners were really foreign to them cos a few of them even took out their cameras to snap a picture of our group eating our meal. We had no concerts that night, so we strolled back to our hostel feeling very high. Didn't bath that night cos the hostel had like, one shower cubicle for 5 rooms? and two toilet cubicles.
31st May, Sunday
Woke up early and we trekked to the concert house Wagner designed, just to have a look at it. The above picture is just some random house we passed by. Oops, seems like I didn't upload the picture of the Wagner concert house, just imagine a huge house with a lot of brightly colored flowers in front of it. Yea, That's all we saw of it, from outside the gate. Apparently people have to queue for 10years for a concert in there.
Fish and chips after our LOOONG ride to Berlin. The look-like-wedges things are the chips, the rounder things are the "fish".
It's a german tradition to deposit all their bags and coats at the counter before watching any kind of performance, so we do that too. and that's the tag they always give after we hand them the bags. We were late for Tannhauser so we had to run all the way to the Opera House. Was fun. The Opera stage was really cool and the Tannhauser's voice was very clear and nice too. Had dinner at an Italian restaurant and we were super high even though we were super tired. The chef at that place was a very friendly man. Played "ji-gor-pa" on the train ride home and we continued to be high.
1st June, Monday
That's the goddess of victory on the Brandenburg Gate behind the sign. Since all shops are closed in Germany on Monday, we visited other places that day, and that night got no concert too.
Drain.
Their parliament house, where we toured that morning.
A model of the area around the parliament house with braille.
Mr Seow:" This is the balcony where you declare all sorts of rubbish."
Cleon:" I'm going to the toilet!"
You can see the dom thing above the roof, we went up to the dom later.
Heh can you see two little figures being reflected there ?
View of the central pillar thing from the top of the dom.
The hole at the top of the dom thing, to allow air circulation of something. Reminds me of the Cat Returns. Now I've thought of it, I think the building in the anime was modelled after the dom, it's almost identical in design.
The ramp we took to go to the top.
Germany! Deutschland!
Our lunch that day, curry wurst.
We finally arrived at Sachsenhausen Concentration camp after a long train ride.
The model of the concentration camp.
The gate(the one behind) which symbolizes fear and absolute power of the ss(Hitler's secret police).
Arbeit macht frei = work sets one free. How ironic, this was on the gate.
Peaceful surroundings, this is where the prisoners used to gather everyday for roll call.
Outside the cells.
View from inside a cell.
This is where they hang people to death, as seen in the picture below, they hang people by their hands which were tied together at their backs.
Remains of the gas chambers. Apparently they were only used a few times, according to our guide, who also insisted that Sachsenhausen wasn't a death camp.
Memorial for the dead.
Remains of the furnaces used to cremate the dead, or the alive.
We missed the last bus, so we had to walk all the way from the concentration camp to the train station. Had spare ribs for dinner and we were super high when we went back. Think we were doing some random stuff like comparing teeth and performing a farting symphony for our dormmates.
Carriage for bulky items.
View from Landsberger Alle station, the station closest to our hostel.
2nd June, Tuesday
The Hanns Eisler music school, where Kelly, Deirdre and Gayle had their masterclass. That morning, we learned through Deirdre, that the proper way of eating an apple is to eat till there's only the stalk left. Had our cheapest lunch at their cafeteria and we headed over the Tannhauser opera house for our backstage tour.
Due to superstitions, no whistling, no caps, no drinking in the opera backstage. About the whistling, we asked the guide and he said that last time when there were no electric lights, candles were used. Opera houses kept birds which will whistle when there's a fire. So whistling is a bad sign.
Elektra, one of the operas we'll be watching. Links = left.
This is just a picture on the wall, last time it served as a marker for the crew when they had no electric lights.
Tannhauser props.
Their huger-than-huge workshops.
Tannhauser props. The guide for the opera backstage tour was really great, can see that he's really into what he does. He also let us play around the sets and props, explained everything in great detail blabla.
U-bahn, Alexanderplatz where we had our dinner. They have U-bahn and S-bahn, urban subway and suburban subway respectively.
The white grand in the mall where they hire people to perform live. The next time we went there, this guy just went up to the grand, open the piano and played this really nice classicized pop song for his girlfriend I think. Nice huh.
Exuberance! with a head. Unlike the piece of crushed up aluminium in our atrium.
Had dinner and the italian waiter made fun of Cleon and Shouyu. Guess all Italians generally very friendly and fun, compared to the Germans. We speed-shopped at the H&M over there after our dinner, before rushing off for our opera.
The Elektra opera house.
The stage. After that hot night in the opera house, I truly understood the meaning of bowing. Think we all feel that it's just a tradition to bow before and after the performance, but that night, when the audience just wouldn't stop clapping for the performers, who had to keep coming out of the curtains to bow again and again, I could really feel that they're bowing out of gratitude for the applause. And the audience was great too, the whole hall was filled with their thunderous applause. I could so feel that they really meant it when they applauded and that they're not doing out of habit or tradition.
That night, we took the wrong train twice and ended up in some dark, ulu station. Luckily there were so many of us.
3rd June, Wednesday
Berliner Dom, the one I took picture of on my first day here.
The organ in the Dom.
Inside the Dom, only the altar area was decorated with gold oornaments and marble and pretty stained glass windows while the rest of the Dom was sandstone. Above picture clearly illustrates that I hope. The King did that because he had no money. Haha.
Yes, this is the view from the top of the Dom. Yes, it's Berlin.
Nicer view of Berlin yes? If I'm not wrong, the white thing in the distance is an American spytower.
We had lunch at the exact place we had our first lunch a week ago. And as usual, the birds around us had a feast. The interesting thing is, when we threw a crumb high up in the air, the birds will actually fly up to fight for it. Social Darwinism in Germany among the birds.
Went to the History of Germany Museum after that. At first I tried to pay attention to the guide, but he was spewing some stuff about Germany's super early history, something about how Germany hasn't been formed yet. blabla and I lost track. After a while I just ended up wandering around looking att random articles that interested me.
I sort of remembered this as their old-style table tennis, but it may be tennis.
Model of their gas chamber + furnace. sure reminds of the one we went to.
Berlin wall, imported into the museum.
We slept like logs during the 45mins we were given, instead of exploring the museum. Guess we were just too tired. Went over to Dussman store for CDs and scores, and I found...
The Girl who Leapt through Time! Collector's edition! 62.99 Euros.
And more anime (:
Finally, after some time of going through all the anime there, I made my way over to the music score area.
After having dinner at the Thai restaurant (we had curry with rice. CURRY. RICE!) we headed over to the concert hall for our second last concert - French lieder.
and for once, we get to see the empty recital studio. For once we didn't rush, we weren't late!
Took off our shoes suring the interval and our feet were giving out poisonous fumes which nearly killed the people around us, including Kelly.
My favorite concert of the trip, the singer was GREAT, she had strong vocals and an attractive stage presence. The accompanist was also "exceptionally good" according to Seow.
I was super high with Lichen on our way back, and we terrorized Phoonyu with Jay Chou songs. Learned how to sing the ET song from Lichen. It was Liang Jie's birthday the next day, so we had the usual song and cake for him. Cos it was quite late at that time, some of us encountered a few drunkards on our way back to our rooms and it was a lil scary I guess. We (Lichen, Kelly and I) met this angmoh family who thought we were from Japan and greeted us with a "sayounara" when we stepped into the lift with them. I played along and told them "konnichiwa" and a "oyasuminasai" completed with a bow before stepping out of the lift. Haha, gotta love the look on the angmoh's face.
4th June, Thursday
16-18th Century art museum!
Basically, they painted lots of angels, religious figures and naked people. Other than those, there were food and some scenery paintings.
Paintings are to be read from left to right, so this painting kinda depicts men falling to sin or something.
Another interesting painting with some name like "the upside-down world" or something.
The brick red tiles on the right make up the bicycle lane, the small tiles make up the border while the grey tiles on the left make up the pedestrian lane. Nice change from our yellow lines which marks out the lanes.
The building where we shopped at.
Taken on the way to the accompaniment masterclass.
The place where Shoujin, Audrina, Liangjie and Chester had their accompaniment masterclass. Another Hanns Eisler music school.
We had Thai curry with RICE again, before going for our last concert in Germany. We were all split up and I sat with Deirdre and Chester. Bartok was very nice (surprisingly), but I slept for Ravel, missing the most tonal piece and forced myself to stay awake for Boulez's composition which was. Noise to my ears. We took a wrong train that night again, but this time, only once.
Last night in the hostel. Lichen and I both ate cup noodles that night. And we had drunkards knocking down some of our doors trying to find girls to have fun with. Either they didn't knock on our door, or we didn't hear them and ignored them.
5th June, Friday
History of Musical Instruments.
Harpsichord.
Overview of the museum.
I think, organ which is operated by tthe foot pedals?
Theater organ, the real thing. Those electric organs which are capable of producing all kinds of sounds from drum rolls to telephone ringing to birds chirping, are only shallow imitations of this!
After the stops are pressed, the manuals will be connected to the respective gears and the real drums/real pipes will be made use of, to produce the right sound. That's why the organ, especially the theater organ takes up a lot of space.
The aftermath of the museum visit.
Lunch at the Vapiano, which is like shokudou/Marche. That's the card, and a vibrator and my pasta. The vibrator was given to Lichen by the counter guy after she ordered her pizza, said that it will vibrate when her pizza's done. Cool stuff.
Our last view of Berlin airport. Paid our last 30cents for a toilet visit, did some last minute shopping, claimed our GST and boarded the plane. The last exciting thing happened when Audrina's violin tuning pegs were viewed as potential weapons and she was actually taken away by the custom officers to somewhere. But all went well, she boarded the plane safely with her violin after much hassle.
And so it's goodbye to Berlin. The ten days were really enjoyable and enlightening for all of us.
Time to return to the real world.
Monday, May 25, 2009
Labels: boarding, hockey, life, trip: germany
I moved out of the boarding school last Friday. I actually gave myself only half an hour to pack *gasp* everything. Like, everything EVERYTHING. But obviously I failed. And I underestimated the amount of luggage I have - I could hardly fit everything into my bag. Hard to imagine how come my room can have so much unimportant important stuff that I so had to bring into boarding, and so had to live with. So much so that I couldn't carry everything by myself. Heng, Paul and Caleb were there and they helped me with my barangs down 5 storeys. Don't wanna imagine what would have happened if I had to do it myself.
Only seemed like yesterday when I first stepped into my room and started uploading my first impressions of boarding school; Here I am, about to give my last impressions of it. So, time flies. Surprised anyone? No. Time has always flew. Yea.
Anyway, We're finally going to Berlin tomorrow, or today! Packed. and Ready!
Had this piano "masterclass" thingy on Sunday. I probably improved quite significantly since Saturday, when I was still reading the notes one by one... but it was pretty catastrophic. But oh well, no major breakdowns, nobody died listening to me, no neighbours complained, no global crisis caused. And I was super high after it too.
Woke up at 6 in the morning today because my parents thought I was late. No I wasn't, and I was supposed to wake up at 6.30. I'm back to the non-boarding life where I have to drag myself out of bed, comforting myself with the thought that I can have a long nap on the bus ride there. If I were still in the boarding school, I would have woken up at 7.45.
Went to trek Bukit Timah with Dolly, Norman and Derek today. Think we took the wrong turn somewhere and we ended up heading for Woodlands. Haha, luckily there were map-boards along the way, and we could make a detour to Dairy Farm instead. Hoho, I must say that I was quite proud of myself for remembering, or at least, finding certain routes/places familiar. Last time during sec3, we had a camp at the MOE adventure camp place and we trekked through Bukit Timah too. 
Scholarship with Creativity
Leadership with Sensitivity
Dominique dominating Derek
And here are some photos I took during our before-game naps.
Sunday, May 17, 2009
Hm, I neglected my blog for one whole month; been busy I guess with hockey and hockey. It has been some time since I last watched my anime and I can't remember when's the last time I did any homework. Haha, I know, that's quite bad huh. I kept convincing myself that I'll start after season. Well, season has ended and I'm totally in a slacker mood now. Because holidays are coming (so school's ending) and I'll be going to Germany with the music people next Tuesday. I hope. I get a fairly excited when I start thinking about it, but I guess I shouldn't; it may just get canceled.
Anyway, College Day on Saturday was so interesting. Greenery started sprouting everywhere, flowers started blooming in the hostel - on Friday. And on Sunday, all the beautiful flowers that adorned our beloved hostel DISAPPEARED, like magic. Gotta commend our school for being so sensible and efficient. On Saturday, school was never more happening. Students dressed in full grey and a bright red tie went about the school eagerly, carrying out the tasks they've been chosen to perform. A particular group of students, handpicked from each class, streamed into the hall to play their part as the enthusiastic and attentive audience our school pride our students to be. Yea, I was one of the lucky ones who got chosen. I was so overwhelmed by being chosen, that I only woke up at 9 that day; we were supposed to meet at 9. But fear not, our school probably foresaw the latecoming problems it will face on its birthday and arranged the meeting time to be an hour before the ceremony starts. So I didn't miss a minute of the ceremony, joy.
The talks were interesting. However, the speech our principal made was so impactful, so mind-blowing that I sat through the rest of the speeches and prize ceremony in a subconscious haze. Oh, I recovered at the start of the performances and was able to pay full attention to the stage from then on till the end of the whole ceremony.
Went out after that with the federation for lunch at pizza hut, not kfc but pizza hut and we had a few laughs here and there. It has been a while since we last went out like that. Went back to hostel and did some laundry and gta-ed before I had to go down to start on my next duty. We played board games like diligent students, only until the guest leaves our area though. Dinner that day was exceptionally good and we had a 'party' after that. Party = live band, games and fun. yea. and College Day ended, the day when our hostel fountain bubbled to life, the day when our whole school became a thriving forest of potted plants, the day when our hall had EXTRA airconS switched on; a memorable day indeed.
Since I'll be staying in hostel for only one more week, I decided to start packing away stuff I don't usually use. The extra clothes, extra jacket and my many pairs of long socks. I'll pack my stick away too, if I can. But it's lying on the other bed, collecting dust for now. It will be quite some time before I use it again. Somehow, I'm actually quite glad that I don't have a clear recollection of how we lost. I can only remember seeing a ball fly and land, with a resounding thud in our goal. Then I stoned at the top of the D. After what seemed like a thousand and one years I finally turned around to see two green-jerseyed girls giving each other a high-five. Okay, let's fast forward to the part when we got a short corner against us, and the umpire said that we have five more minutes of gameplay. I decided that two and a half minutes per goal was possible. Fast forward some more to the part when Amanda got cramps. Umpire said that we have twenty two more seconds to go. Eleven seconds per goal won't sound impossible if we were playing against (insert own words because I can't come up with any). and so, we lost. Season ended. I kinda saw myself typing those words over and over again, before Wednesday. The fact that I'm actually typing it makes me feel guilty, as though it was my speculation ringing true. Maybe if I had believed, MORE, that we will get through it, we'll actually be having training tomorrow. But then again, my stronger belief would have made me cried harder. By the way, I'm really proud of our team for not crying, or at least, I didn't really see anyone bawling their hearts out for longer than a few minutes or anything. We carried ourselves like the champion team George believed us to be. If only we could play a few more games together as a team.
Aye, I don't know what to do with all the free time I suddenly find myself with. Okay, that was redundant, I should be studying. Anyway, I got obsessed with the recent gta release, chinatown wars. If I hadn't forgotten to bring my DS charger, this blog post wouldn't even be typed, I would have chosen to spend my time speeding around Liberty City killing people and trading drugs. And here's some show of my belief that we would have gotten into the finals - I actually borrowed not four but five books to read! because I thought it would be a huge waste of time if I just went to sleep every night... you know, without doing homework. Finished two, can't seem to make myself continue with the third - a book about a mad boy. I got a little scared reading the first few chapters, guess I should just skip it. As usual, Hobb's book was so addictive that I couldn't stop after I started reading it. Oh, I've only read one of her books before, so I can't say 'as usual', but whatever. The last time I read her book, I ended up sleeping at 5 the next morning because I couldn't stop until I finished reading the whole book. I chose to pick up another one of her books on Thursday, and had to force myself to sleep at 3 because there was school the next day. and it was too thick a book for me to finish before school starts on Friday anyway. Conclusion: great author, addictive novels, make sure you borrow her books and note that her books come in trilogies. I borrowed blindly and found myself with the second book of a trilogy I have never read before. That book was utterly depressing, just like how New Moon and Halfblood Prince had been, probably because the second book of a trilogy has to pick up the pieces the first book left and build up some stuff for the third book to enter and end grandly. Utterly depressing, yet still addictive. See how great her books are?
Time to transform into my inner full-time mugger-self who only appears during the major exams. She will internalize ALL my notes inside-out, replace my jap songs with nothing but indian music/gamelan music/set pieces, practise math like lao li's model student and practise the piano like a maniac.
Mugger liu shall go mug now because she can't seem to sleep. Think it's the results of waking up too late + sleeping in the afternoon. I shall ace the chem test tomorrow and shock lkp. Actually I shall be realistic and just aim to shock him by passing. Yep I shall do that.
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Labels: korean
Okay, I'm specially making this post in the middle of a week, because I'm here to share a vid.
Sunday, April 12, 2009
The previous week in Hillcrest Hotel was quite fun. We witnessed the birth of a new vocal group consisting of seven talented young men, Norman, Derek, Kenyan, Calvin, Jacky, Edward and Yang Sheng. They named their group the "Voices from ... Heaven?" and Hillcrest Hotel had the honor of hosting the spot which will be the background of their album cover. Let us await the day when they will shock the world with their debut album! Haha.
Spent my Good Friday going to piano lesson and watching movie with Angeline. We watched Knowing and I finally got a new pair of slippers! Bought an anklet from that shop at Cine, the one I've been eying ever since last year.
Knowing was kinda cool, a lil scary at some parts though. Though there were a few spastic moments, I thought it was like some sort of modern day version of the "great flood" thing. quite cool. Gosh and I think cinemas are out to get our ears man, I thought I was going to go deaf inside there with all the super loud sound effects. But it was kinda strange that I was the only one who thought so, must be due to the fact that I seldom go for movies. I actually stuffed my earphones into my ears halfway through the movie cos I couldn't stand it lor. I felt a bit ahmah, but at least I'm protecting my ears lah hor.
Woke up at like 7.30 on Saturday and started watching anime. I'll probably put up the screencaps later. Since I'm only meeting Dolly, Ade and Suenli at Coro at like, 10, I thought I had a lot of time, so I just watched and watched and watched - "one more episode, just one more.." until I was late for our brunch. And since I was goign to be half an hour late, I kinda offered to treat drinks, cos I thought the natural response will be "oh you poor thing, have to rush all the way here, no need lah..." haha, but ... that didn't happen! cos dolly's the kind who will be shy with strangers but thick-skinned with friends. haha, so I ended up treating. and suenli was later than me.
During our lunch, Dolly explained her grand plan to us: later while 3 of us walk into the school via main gate, one of us will stay outside and flag for a cab. Then she will tell the uncle to drive into school to pick the rest of us up. Ade kindly offered to be the one "flabbing" for a cab. After our meal, we took a bus to the main gate bus stop before strolling into school, leaving Ade outside. Packed stuff and called Ade, who was dying from breathing in too much carbon monoxide. And so we got onto a cab, finally. Since we were going to be late, like confirm late, we decided to pad up in the cab. While we were padding up in the cab, the cab uncle commented on the poisonous fumes coming from the shin guards and he actually opened his window after Dolly opened hers! Even though that happened right after I opened my shoebag, maybe it's just something like the power of four lah hor. But anyway, I shall wash my shin guards after tomorrow's training.
Reached Northland and the sun was hotter than ever. We played two 20-min and one 15-min. We were all quite dead from being exposed to the sun. We drew with SA, I scored that goal. Pam hit into the D, I put my stick down, the ball hit my stick and flew into the goal. Hurray... ... then after the game,
George (smiling): So Liumin, was it because of that day's training that you decided to deflect into the goal?
Me: Hm... er....
George (still smiling): Or did you deflect the ball unconsciously?
Me: er.... (awkward silence)
George : or were you trying to stop the ball...
Me: er.. kind of...
Had another match after that and we won for the first time. Think that boosted our morale quite a lot, maybe we'll win our next match next saturday too, who knows. And so, my whole saturday was spent on hockey.
Sunday ah, I slept till I woke up naturally - at 10.30 and my mom told me about how we may be going to Hokkaido at the end of the year. Yea man, but it's still too early to get too happy about it.
Derek's birthday today, we got him a cake and a bottle of non-alcolholic tea with fruit flavor. Think we sang his birthday song really loudly, cos the teacher-in-charge for the night actually took up a mic and made some speech about how we shouldn't be making noise during the study prep time. Our table was eating our cake quietly and listening to him attentively though. But, he also said that celebrations should be done somewhere else. So... yea.
Spent the last hour before lights out making friends with Bartok, and I think I'm finally starting to hear sense in my piece. At least I don't hate it as much as I used to. Ms Lim will be having some sort of performance class thing on 20 something of May and we'll ALL have to play for each other. Hurray... I'm so totally looking forward to it. Let's hope that I don't shock my fellow classmates huh.
Season's starting in less than two weeks' time. Guys' first match tomorrow. All the best!
Sunday, April 5, 2009
Labels: anime: bus gamer, anime: gintama, anime: kurenai, boarding, life
My home computer died. Officially. Can't even switch it on. So that's why I gotta blog from hostel, I mean boarding school. Nothing much happened the previous week, other than hockey, school, hockey, school, boarding, and hockey. I think I managed to watch some episodes of Kurenai, till episode 5 and I'm missing the rest. Aye.
What makes me happy right now:
1) Tiramisu
2) My anime
3) Good Friday
4) Home
What worries me right now:
1) Hockey
2) The letter (signed by house mistress) boss is demanding for
3) Composition
4) No piano in boarding
Anyway, my parents just got back from Japan and they bought lots of snacks, took lots of pictures and video-ed most of the trip for their never-been-to-japan kids. I'm so going there next year.
Yea. and for the first time, I went down to the dining hall without my pencil case. Actually it was very time-wasting, cos I didn't have to use so much time for my facebooking, hotmailing, anime-checking etc. And I barely blogged down there. So much of the time was spent laughing (singing?) and talking. Well, at least I didn't feel guilty about it, since I didn't intend to do work in the first place. Guess I'll have to try to get a no-time-limit for the math holiday homework, but somehow I get this feeling that even though it's possible for Jasmine, it may not be so for me. Hm. But I guess I'll still try.
Boarded for two weeks, six more weeks to go.
君が君らしいのは 自由に羽ばたくから
Every game becomes a match for me to prove myself; every minute for me to redeem myself.
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Labels: anime: blade of the immortal, anime: kurenai, anime: natsume yuujinchou, anime: skip beat, anime: white album, drama: hanakimi
Natsume Yuujinchou SECOND LAST EPISODE.
Next week, we can say byebye to Natsume Yuujinchou and Skip Beat. To compensate for that, I've started on Blade of the Immortal and Kurenai. Both seem like good animes, no wonder they survived my mass deleting of unwanted animes. Looks like I wouldn't be continuing Bleach any time soon with these two animes to occupy myself with.
Besides the obvious, I don't want to watch One Piece or Naruto (I don't see it on the raw schedule... does this mean that the anime is finally over?) and after reading up reviews of White Album, I've decided to officially drop that series. Pure romance just isn't my cup of tea. Have decided to get started on RideBack and Casshern Sins, both mecha animes.
And maybe. maybe I'll get myself started on Soul Eater, even though I kind of have in mind what it's going to be about. Oh come on, how far can shounen stray from the generic plot of - a weak guy who suddenly gets a huge responsibility entrusted to him, along with some powers. So wow, he has to defeat the bad guys and protect the place/get the treasure. and along the way he makes friends and bla bla bla. There you go, no need to watch anymore of those typical shounen anymore.
About the Hanakimi special, it was so retarded/full of stupid fan service that I stopped half way.
Gahh how dare they make Shirota Yuu act like a #$&*%@# stupid dreamy giggly uke!
April is one happening month with almost 50 new animes showing in Japan. Talking about the land of the rising sun, my parents just left the house two hours ago to get on a plane which will fly them there. Lucky them. Anyway, here are the animes I will DEFINITELY watch: Phantom ~Requiem for the Phantom~ and Fullmetal Alchemist (which will be a remake based on the manga's plot). Hanasakeru Seishounen, Tears to Tiara, 07-GHOST Sengoku BASARA, Valkyria Chronicles, Eden of The East are the other good ones I sifted out. See how lah.
I've already packed what I'll be bringing to home2 tomorrow. Hangers, my own pail, food food food, water jug, two cartons of juice (the kind that doesn't need to be refridgerated), more food and more food. Gosh how am I going to fit that all into a bag?
Friday, March 27, 2009
No.
No pictures, no screencaps, because Liu just came back from a week of concentration camp. Yea, I had my phd and laptop over there, but... I just couldn't bring myself to watch anime in the boarding school, you know. It's like how you'll automatically hush your voices in the library. Anway, I kinda finished watching all the new episodes before I boarded. So I had nothing except Code Geass R2, Jigoku Shoujo and Kurenai to watch over there. Wow, that was irony. Anyway, I shall work hard and finish watching all my new episodes at home. Then I will watch ONE episode on Tuesdays and Thursdays only, so that I can slowly finish the 3 series. Will do that.
So far, I've been going through almost the same routine every day at my new home. Every morning at 6.50am, my alarm no. 1 will ring. I'll snooze it till 7.01am, when my alarm no. 2 starts ringing. I'll get up and switch off both alarms, grab my toothbrush toothpaste contacts case and trudge to the toilet which happens to be next door, lucky me. After putting on my contacts, I'll spend some time staring at the anyone who happens to be in the toilet, hoping to recognise her or at least get the chance to smile at her and make a new friend. Unfortunately, the interest always seems to be one-side;, none of them will really make eye contact with me, let alone stare/smile. How to make friends like that you tell me. But I guess I should stop it before I get mistaken as some pervert one day.
After the toilet visit, I'll return to my room and change for school; the convenience of rooming alone. I'll gather whatever's on my desk, stuff them in my bag, then head down for breakfast. Breakfast is always with the usual four: Tingyun, Norman, Derek and Kenyan.
After the first day, I learned not to take the drinks in the dining hall. I shall only drink my own juice/milk/ovaltine, and I'll probably drink the dining hall drink only if it happens to look like pink ppt. Fruit punch yea. The other drinks so far, are like, orange ppt (sour plum water), white ppt (fake barley), dirty green ppt (unknown substance) and so on. Their milo is good sometimes, depending on your luck. Otherwise, it will either look fine then taste terrible, or look terrible until don't dare drink. Homemade ovaltine is still the best.
After breakfast, we'll take a leisure stroll and usually reach the main gate by first bell. Then, normal school starts. and thanks to my consecutive late-sleeping habit, I'll be dead during most of the lessons, especially GP and chem. After school/training, I'll go back, bathe, eat. Then the five of us + Edward (sometimes) will study/talk/laugh/eat till about 9 when the supper will already be out. Eat somemore, then study/generate noise till 2330 when we'll all go up to our own rooms. That's when I check my hotmail, facebook, finish up my work till about around one when I prepare my stuff for tomorrow and finally, sleep. End of day, if you wanna hear more about the days, go back to line1.
In slightly more than 3 weeks' time, we'll have our first match of the season. And I can't hit now. Argh.
I love the fridge at home, I love it I love it.
“I can become again the man who once crossed the surrey park at dusk, in my best suit, swaggering on the promise of life.” Robbie Turner/Atonement
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Labels: boarding
I'm sure some of us must be wondering about the boarding school, at least, those of us who haven't been in it. Here's Liu Min's report on the boarding school. It is only based on the few hours I've spent here though.
My room.
Personal desks, orange plastic chair, drawers with lock, cupboards with locks. If you look closer you'll see the power outlets available.
The room is split equally into two...
The view from my window, through the mosquito netting.
The toilet, showering conditions seems to be fine, no shortage of cubicles or flooding in the toilet.
Rules here seem to be really strict, but different house masters have different ways of enforcing them. I'm glad that I'm not from a particularly yellow house now. I‘ve decided that from now on, I’ll use the stairs when I’m going from the dining hall to my room/vice versa since it doesn't really make sense to head for the lift, which is directly opposite my room. I have to make a merry-go-round just to get to it, then wait like shit for the lift, jab the lift button which never lights up no matter what, and finally make another merry-go-round to get to the dining hall.
I'm not sure if this is some blessing or what, but I'm rooming alone. ALONE. no roommate yea. It's quiet alright, I guess it's better this way. It will kinda feel weird when I'm typing away at my laptop, listening to my own music on loudspeakers when there's someone moving about in the room doing her own stuff too. Oh well, was afraid that I'll have trouble adjusting to the lack of privacy anyway. Gosh, what if I don't wake up in time tomorrow ._. thank goodness I brought along two alarms.
Boarding life seems kinda good, except the fact that I don't really know my neighbors. Yea.
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Labels: anime: natsume yuujinchou, anime: skip beat, boarding, camp, hockey, life
Tuesday started off with me reaching school at 7 to do some last minute practice at the piano. I was supposed to play my highly unstable Italian Concerto for the class that day. It was too early even for our beloved muggers to be around the oasis or round tables area, so nobody saw my painful 100m struggle with the thousand and one bags I brought for camp.
Kay, before music started, I found out that Audrey's boarding too! and actually, I think all who sent in their applications got in. The boarding school must be losing money cos nobody boards. Music was funner than usual, probably because we were feeling higher than usual. We spent so much time on Kammermusik that we ended up doing only that. So the music class didn't have the honor of listening to my heart-stopping rendition of the concerto. oh well.
Started off the camp with a frisbee game and then captain's ball - in the freaking hot sun. Lunched in the canteen, where it was so happening cos most of the ccas were eating their lunch then. Watched Coach Carter after that. Other than the minor problems faced with the cable and connection thing, the movie was nice. Nice but long.
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine as children do. It's not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own lights shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
After the movie, we jogged to Botanic Garden for our bonding session (while the guys had their pt). then we went off to Adam's for dinner, satay bee hoon with juice and the super milky ice kachang. took bus back to our wondrous place... only to find the side gate locked. and it was 7pm sharp. So we had to walk all the way in through the main gate to get to our classrooms. Finding a toilet to bathe in later was a nightmare. Amanda and I went to the toilet next to the student lounge and found about 5 people queuing for ONE cubicle. then we went to the gym toilet. Surprisingly there was nobody there. I actually went into the cubicle, got ready for a refreshing shower then I pressed. NO water! Wth. and then we went to the grand stand toilet, obviously there were lots of people queuing for it. blabla then we finally settled for the tb toilet and hurray we're finally clean.
Watched olympics after that, and those cheenananarians are. so. manly. and I shall learn the reverse hit next training. Slept out on the field that night and it was super hot at first, but at about 3, all of us woke up cos the winds were so strong that I thought Singapore's finally seeing her first hurricane. We moved our settlement to the Grand Stand when Derek said that it's going to rain; and it did. I truly understood why we should never litter at the grand stand that night. When the wind blew, the rubbish flew everywhere. I was quite afraid that a bottle of H2O will hit my head or that an empty bubble tea cup will find its way near me.
Woke up at 6plus, washed up, ate breakfast and went for kweepeng lessons. I stood at the back of the class for 30mins cos kp caught me sleeping. Not like I was trying to hide it anyway. and not like I could help blinking slowmo anyway.
cabbed down to delta for the friendly with IJ, still in half asleep mood. Girls played first and I kinda did some rubbish hockey. All of us got scolded by George for our first half and he threatened us with pt if we don't get 3 goals in the second half. and yea, though we tried harder than we did in the first half, no goals. plenty of tries, but no goals. and thankfully, no pt after that. he's probably saving it for monday.
Went to Tiong and had steamboat buffet! with personal pots! for 10.90+++! Was so totally worth it man, the juniors and pam missed out so much.
That night/yesterday night, I actually came up with this list of things I'm going to bring for boarding school. Think I may end up regretting the decision, but I probably won't regret gaining the experience. It should be interesting, even if it's unpleasant. 2 months.
Just visited Facebook, and I was wondering who the hell was the one who has the team photos at Botanic Gardens and like, why aren't they up on facebook. Then I was transferring some music from com to phone, and I saw them. The team pictures in my phone yea.
Anyway, along with the team photos, I found two interesting pictures:
and my beautiful SN pitch.
It wasn't really on purpose. It just happened to be raining when I whipped out my phone for a shot in NJ, and it just happened to be sunnier in stnics then.
Some anime I managed to watch:
and the next time you hear me say "I'm boarding", try not to look at my hair.
生まれて初めて、こんなふうに誰かを幸せにしたいと思った。
Saturday, March 14, 2009
Labels: anime: gintama, gaming, life
Bleah, only managed to watch an episode this week. Looks like I'll only have an episode for next week too. Anyway, March holidays are like here, finally. Looking on the bright, it means that I have a week (minus minus minus) for me to try completing my tutorials.
My week was pretty mundane - homework, lectures, tests, tutorials, trainings.
Monday - training
Tuesday - Masterclass
Wednesday - interesting Contact watching class videos, loved the "a whole new world" and the scary toilet auntie one. Had friendly with AJ later, Talked like there's no tomorrow with Michelle on the bus ride there, met Jerm and Joanne. This time, I managed to be more calm while taking on players but I'll still panic during the goal scoring part. Hopefully I'll get to practice again on Sunday.
Thursday - Physics consol test. Changed for training, just in time to see the lightning alert flashing. Yea, the sun was shining too.
Friday aka today - Mr Tan marked the physics mcq and actually flashed our marks individually on the visualizer for the whole whole WHOLE class to see. Okay lah, heng I passed mcq. Now it all depends on my structured - whether I needa go drink teh with the vcheng. Hopefully not.
My phone. died. as in it really died this time, it didn't just pretend to die then revive secretly when I wasn't watching. I guess I'll just wait for it to secretly revive again, hoping that it's just taking longer than usual today.
Hockey camp next week! and I'm playing for the music class next week too, I bet he moved my playing week forward cos he knew that I never practice lor. Time to practice, I have 3 days - to hockey camp, to music, and to hand up my chem skill A.
Went on a temporary Fma craze this week, and I'm trying to get Bluebird's Illusion now! It is a fan-made fma game which actually sold 100 copies in Hong Kong Ebay before authorities banned its sale. Pride, the very character I was puzzling over for years, turned out to be a character from this game. Chey. Anyway, I thought it sounded suspiciously familiar, then I chanced upon this screencap of the game, and I realized! that I actually played it before, it's just that I either (1)got stuck in the game or (2) got sick of it and deleted it without completing it. think it was more of (2) since it's that kind of "story-game" where all you need to do is to read click read click choose click click read etc. and it's in CHINESE. But ah, after watching this particular amv about it, I changed my mind. Maybe it's worth playing. Since I deleted the game last time, I'll have to dl it again. Cheers.
It is not titles that honor men, but men who honor titles.
Sunday, March 8, 2009
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Good news for all Fullmetal Alchemist fans: there will be a second season coming out on the fifth of April. After how the first season ended, I wonder what the second season will cover ._.
3/8
11:03
Mio/Kyoko
Gintama - Okita was really cool here.
and during this few episodes, my Hijikata actually got reduced to a hard-core 2D otaku.
Zoku Natsume Yuujinchou.
Whoa, I love the scenery and yes, I know it's just... cartoon but still.
I don't think my weeks are that boring actually, neither are they made up of only anime. It's just that I don't remember things that happened. Not that clearly anyway.
My flu is really bothering me like shit. For the first time in my life (in NJ), I started to dread going into LT5 and the music room because of the air con. and for once, I can blame my lack of endurance on my blocked nose/running nose. I took 'chloropheniramine' yellow solid on Thursday night, finally and I think it worsened my condition, I still have lots of substance in my nose... and it's so irritating. I just hope that the stuff in my nose disappears soon.
Had a match yesterday, our first ever match with the Tornadoes, against Dutch club team A. Since we still weren't that familiar with each other, you can actually hear us calling each other by numbers. So it was like "21! 21 mark your man!" so for the first few half I thought to myself: who is the 21, always being shouted at. and guess what? I am 21. haha. Short corner run out was disastrous. I just claimed the position of second runner since nobody ran out after the first runner. Luckily someone actually ran out as a first runner. Needless to say, we lost by quite a lot of goals. Not like any of us bothered to count actually. But it was a pleasant game with the Dutch club cos they were basically really nice people; good players who would apologise for hitting you accidentally. Soon, club trainings will be on Tuesday nights then I'll have Monday school training, Tuesday club training, Wednesday school training, Thursday morning pt, Friday school training, Saturday/Sunday div1 game. My life will be so hockeyful and georgeful.
突き放してしまえば、この苦しさから逃げられる。その後にもっと辛い一瞬が待っているようで、怖い。
Sunday, March 1, 2009
March. Already.
19:51I didn't get my usual dose of anime this week, which explains the lack of screencaps. The subbers have yet to release the new episodes anyway. Sigh, just hurry up and release them for the thousands of fans out there who're waiting for it man, let's be thoughtful shall we.
and OH I got back my JLPT3 results that day. I passed, and it'll be nice if you can ask me how much I got out of 400... haha, I only got 15 marks deducted for grammar and vocab and I'm quite proud of it. Taking JLPT2 this December and I expect my score to be lower since the gap between 3 and 2 is very big. Shall worry about it... later.
The past week was so busy that I only had time to copy a chem tutorial and give up on one math tutorial. We had a friendly on friday and missed the highly anticipated harp appreciation. We weren't really playing our usual during the game and pam concluded that it was because of the messed-up pitch dimensions of hockey village. Yes, there's this place called hockey village at 66 (or 88) boon lay place, beside boon lay cc and a bus ride away from jurong point aka boon lay mrt. George said that my hits have to be "deadly" and I got a nightmare from it considering the dire situation my hits are in now.
I've always been curious about dreams and I finally went to read up on it today.
http://www.why-we-dream.com/index.htm
"We evolved to forget our dreams because we need to be able to distinguish between the metaphorical world of the REM dream state and the ordered reality we see when we are awake. So nature is working to draw a veil over them. (If we didn’t do this we would all suffer from permanent psychosis.)"
Quite an interesting read.
Road run was... totally refreshing and energizing, especially those upslope bits. Before the run started, there was already a whole line of out-to-win girls at the starting line. and when the horn was sounded... whoa, great singapore sale. Anyway this year's road run, despite being exactly the same as last year's, seemed less draining somehow. Hurray, proof of us benefitting from George trainings. Suenli was the 13th for our run!
So, after the wonderful run, we strategically parked ourselves beside the milo truck and I got a constant flow of milo thanks to my wonderful networking/cutting-queue skills so I was one of those annoying people who made you honest people queue for an even longer time. Anger not, for I felt sick afterwards from too much milo. The major tanning session came when we had to sit under the hot sun and watch the prize presentation. I think we were supposed to cheer though. We were like cookies in an oven; some cookies, however, were smart enough to whip out their umbrellas while others ponned.
After the whole thing ended, we spent some time organizing ourselves into the letters spelling "hockey", spent some more time getting a photographer, spent the last bit of time admiring our wonderful photo which looked like "corpses on the field". Went for a bath with Vinnie (in seperate cubicles) before engaging in a bridging session of 33.33333333% win rate with Dolly, Suenli and Vinnie. We got pangsehed by Derek for lunch. On the way out, Leo and Chenxi joined us. Went across to Chinatown and I ate my usual sweet and sour pork + fried rice + drink. Note: their serving of sambal fried rice is HUGE. and Strange, I remember kopping all the can tabs for lignum during the meal, but I can't seem to be able to find them now. Maybe I threw them away accidentally again.
Whew, the start of March, the start of yet another week.
Monday, February 23, 2009
Mega Post
21:55
This very scene started my dislike for Sebastian. What's with that #*&$^ pose?
Natsume Yuujinchou
Oh my, let me explain this episode, it was so sad okay. I don't care if you're sensitive to spoilers, just skip this paragraph, close your eyes, whatever. Natsume suddenly lost his ability to see spirits (can still hear lah) and in that particular scene, he totally couldn't see Madara; they showed him looking around an empty room and he was like calling out "sensei? sensei?" but somehow Madara didn't answer him lah. Then when Natsume finally gave up calling, Madara blew air at the back of Natsume's head. Wa, I could totally see Natsume's relieved expression spread across his face when he realized that Madara's still in the room with him can.
Skip Beat!
Wee, I left my blog untouched for half a month. I'm usually at a loss when I sit myself down to make a blog post, don't know what to type. And since I can't bear to just delete this blog, I guess I'll be posting my anime screencaps from now on, along with random remarks and random paragraphs (if I can find stuff to talk about) about my week. That's what I've been doing anyway.
So let's see, what happened this week... I realized that I have to start thinking of university admission, and what course I want to take. What if I can't take music? That will be terrible since I have absolutely no inkling as to what other subjects I'll be interested in. Besides, the "what if" is starting to become a "when". Gotta think gotta think gotta think... Bleah.
Oh I've only recently armed both my computer and laptop with an anti-virus program despite my super-pirate activities. Cleared about 500 infected files from my laptop's memory and probably twice that number from my desktop's. Deleted a lot a lot a lot x infinity number of infected files from my com too and now, my once heavily diseased computer is VIRUS-FREE! All thanks to - avast anti-virus. Haha.
Have been taking the later buses to school nowadays, seems like I'm finally getting sick of going to school early. When I think about it, I realize that when I reach school at 7plus (last time), the only thing I did was to stone at round tables while drinking my daily cup of cereal. Now? I've mastered the art of reaching school at around 7.30. Just as long as I'm not late.
Got the piano album for Rozen Maiden. As you can hear, one of its songs is on my blog now. Pretty emo piece though. Took down the cbox cos it was giving me some problems, think I can do without it anyway, not like I'm an active blog-hopper hor. Changed the "Alexa" finally. Shall keep my current background of sunflowers since I'm in a little bit of a Samurai Champloo fangirling mood.
I'm finally being promoted to PA3 in Bunka, it's such a pleasure to scroll past all the elementary/intermediate class schedules, all the way down to PA. And to think that I was once an elementary student gawking at the schedules and idolizing PA students. haha.
AND oh my gosh, my mother's going to KYUUSHUU/JAPAN on the 22March for 8 days! AHHHH.... I was asking if she could bring me along and all, but DUH how can I go when it's season ... there's school and the sp to deal with. Sigh. The unfairness of it all.
Rewatched Memoirs of a Geisha that day... yesterday I think, when they were showing The Pianist on TV ._. and I also rewatched Kung Fu Panda during the weekend. It all started out with me "testing out the movies" that I got from Pam some time ago. Somehow, I just couldn't stop myself and sampling movies became watching movies. Haha. My mom became quite frustrated/exasperated at me, especially since my brother was like mugging throughout the whole weekend. What a stark contrast.
Anyway, someone once told me "don't mug your life away when you're in JC/Uni, make sure you do what you enjoy doing and play. By the time you start working, you'll be so tired everyday that you can only collapse on the bed by the time you get home. There's no time for anything else except work, work and more work. I totally regretted not spending my time doing more enjoyable things back then cos the grades that I had worked so hard for could only earn me a higher starting position in the workforce; how you get promoted after that totally depends on how hard you work from then on." What she said really stuck in my head because I think it's the semi-truth. Also, she's actually telling me to play, now. Wow. Guess that doesn't necessarily mean that I can play my A-level year away, she's probably trying to tell me that I shouldn't have no life outside mugging lah. Think I'm pretty safe here. Hope that little bit of what I've heard has inspired you to... not over-stress yourself during this crucial A-level year. Sure, grades are important. But they aren't everything.
どんなに足掻いても、取り戻せない。
Friday, February 6, 2009
Orientation Week
20:20
Whew, I'd love to have my meal at a place overlooking such scenery.
and I'd love to have such a bedroom too.
That day (don't know which day) I finally decided to watch the 3rd series of Jigoku Shoujo aka Girl from Hell.
I can't believe they actually started a 3rd season... I'm actually watching it because I'm curious to see what kind of plot they can come up with after such a final last episode in the 2nd season.
two words. FILLER ARC.
Skip Beat!
Picture above is from White Album episode 1, a romance anime ._. I read positive reviews about it and decided to give it a try. True enough, the first episode was pretty encouraging. At least I didn't get turned off by silly girls/backbone-less guys/act-cool bastards. The animation, in my opinion, was pretty unique and the plot seems to be quite down to earth. And that's enough to get me going on to the second episode.
A year later, we'll be free from this thing called 'A' levels while the current J1s will be looking at their own juniors enjoying orientation week.
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Bowling
21:41
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Sayounara January
21:00
Zoku Natsume Yuujinchou
Time flies, January has gone by already~ It sure sucks to imagine what I'll be doing half a year from now.
Monday, January 26, 2009
HAPPY CNY
16:30
NATSUME YUUJINCHOU 2nd series
and I finally finished Vampire Knight Guilty...
HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR!
It seems really strange to have Chinese New Year almost right after school started, it feels as though I haven't really gotten myself out of the holiday mood and we're already enjoying another holiday. Friday was sort of a half day, we had our class party thing which, in my opinion, was quite a success. Went back to St. Nics after that and talked to some teachers + ate orange bowl. Had reunion dinner with my father's side of relatives that night at Vienna United Square.
Went to NTUC on Saturday and the whole world was there, blocking up every aisle and queuing for every cashier counter. It was a nightmare when I had to weave my way through the maze of trolleys and bawling kids. Sunday was our second reunion dinner, which was held at our house and we had steamboat.
TODAY, went to my mother's side for lunch; we'll be going to my father's side for dinner later. (Haha, I'm using a semi colon~) Oh man, after tomorrow we'll have to go back to school and don't even ask me about homework. I think I'll have to carry oxygen tanks with me if I wanna reach the summit of my homework mountain.
I shall try to do Alcohols while waiting for ALL my beloved fansubbers to release the latest anime episodes.
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Bleah
23:18
Monday, January 5, 2009
盧廣仲
15:55
Sunday, January 4, 2009
Taiwan 2008/09
21:40
Taoyuan night market. Drank super delicious 奶茶 and papaya milk here.
Day 2, at the farm. Strawberries.
Tomato, duh.
Flowers, still at the farm.
This HUGE dog, supposedly a labrador. Click on the picture and read the sign at the top right hand corner. We definitely don't get this in Singapore, someone would have called the SPCA.
同心协力
Waiting for the train ride to Hualien.
And the train comes.
We had hotpot shabu shabu that night, like personal hotpots you know. haha.
I'd love it if Singapore has shabu shabu on conveyor belts too.
Taiwan beer which tasted like Guinness.
Day 3, Taroko National Park.
"Rockfall before, keep the left side."
Hm, the 导游said, "好山好水，好无聊。"
Traditional bamboo rice.
Hot spring.
Day 4, "bullet" train.
Farm stay, Fireworks (of course this is the picture of sparklers, I couldn't take any decent fireworks picture.)
茶花
It's kinda dark, "Don't overtake 6 men".
Day 5, Alishan. We stayed at the Sun Moon lake that night, in my favorite hotel so far.
Day 6, 九族文化村
Went to Shihlin after this, quote the 导游："好脏好乱，好好玩。"
Day 7, at this strange restaurant where we had our lunch.
Fish fish.
The 101 building.
Went to Ximenting after that.
The next day aka last day, we went to the bookshop for some last minute shopping and flew back after that. Reached Singapore at 10plus. Whew, the trip was very fun, very tiring, very "上车睡觉，下车尿尿" ,but it's definitely something I don't regret having signed up for.
Sigh, back to reality.
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Merry Christmas
09:10It has been a super long time since I last updated. Let's see, basically, my life hasn't changed much in the last ten days minus the trainings. I'm still watching my anime, my dramas and practicing piano last minute. Oh, due to low disk space, I started to play my ds games so that I can delete some off my computer.
Finished watching Miss No Good.
Watched Gintama.
Watched Vampire Knight Guilty 10&11.
Watched Gossip Girl.
Went over to Adalia's on Monday and we watched charmed, which was unexpectedly funny. Fortunately, I didn't find it addictive. The next day we tried to make brownies and kaya at my house... and we FAILED. put too much butter in the brownies and they turned out really soft. Kaya... I don't know how to start describing that disaster so I shan't.
Watched Twilight on Friday, last friday aka our last training day. Only 3 girls + Dolly and ONE guy turned up that day, and I reached - 40 minutes late! Haha, and that makes me poorer by 8/9 bucks. Anyway, that day's training cosisted of running 4 rounds of fart-legs, slacking around and Twilight.
Twilight isn't really the worst movie I've ever sat through, but it is definitely far from the best. I was kinda against everything in that movie, the cast, the soundtrack, even the story. Glad that I spent only $6 on the ticket.
I'll be flying off to Taiwan on Saturday and I started packing already. Can't wait, haha. I actually thought that I could fly off to Taiwan without my mother noticing about my earhole no.2, but she found out about it yesterday. and surprisingly, she was pretty cool about it, meaning she spent less than a minute on the issue of my ear holes. Phew.
Hm, think I'm getting sick of updating my blog. That explains why we see more pictures than words here yea.
Here's wishing all a merry merry christmas!
Sunday, December 14, 2008
橋
01:04Piano lesson was changed, so I spent my whole day bridging. The number of times I've lost is nearly the same as the number of times I've won, so all I can say is that I'm gaining experience. Yea. And I actually sat down with three others, and all four of us just played continuously from... 12 all the way till 10 or 11. Scary stuff, and we didn't really talk at all throughout the 10-11 hours.
That's basically all I did today, unless you want to count the few hours of piano practice I squeezed in this morning when I thought that I had piano today.
I have 4 episodes of the Bu Liang Xiao Hua to watch... I shall try to sit through the first episode despite the retarded-ness of it all... and hurray... my Gossip Girl loading at a maximum rate of 10kb/s, finally reached a grand percentage (if there's such a phrase) of 9.0%! I shall be patient and wait for another light year before I can start watching it.
ずっとま
Friday, December 12, 2008
Bridge
21:09Think I'm hooked onto bridge.
Watched Vampire Knight Guilty 9, FINALLY. Some pretty shocking stuff was revealed in this episode, not much of a shock or cliffhanger for manga readers of Vampire Knight though. I just can't wait for the story to move on. It's either that I didn't read the manga properly, or the anime rushed into explaining things. Whichever it is, the anime makes things clearer.
and I tell you ah, I totally hate guys who don't clean up after themselves. and it's not even in the case of "don't know how to" leh, it's just plain "don't want" or "don't bother to" whatever. and come on lah, let's get real. Just how difficult can washing up get? Not like you need some diploma cert in dishwashing techniques to be able do some simple washing up RIGHT. wl, next time if my husband's like that ah. @#&*%@*.
I think I should start finishing my Maou soon, it has been a long time since I last watched it. Hm, my Gossip Girl is like at 4.7%... it's gonna be a long time before I can start watching it. I hope I'll still be in Singapore then. Ahh... piano tomorrow.
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Old Blogs
20:43I don't know if you count this as a blog, but ya whatever. Used to have this blog last time which I updated frequently, with lengthy posts, if my memory isn't failing me. Don't know what happened to it, probably got deleted or something. I would have cringed if I read my sec2 posts. Anyway, updated links.
Downloading Gossip Girl season 1 and 不良笑花.
Rewatched Final Fantasy VII Advent Children.
かつて、この世界を愛し
この世界の仲間達と共に過ごした人々へ、
再び集いしこの時を捧ぐ─。
Beautiful places that you'll never get to see in Singapore...
Cloud.
Cloud.
Kadaj.
Tifa.
Vincent.
The president of Shinra.
Definitely something that I won't mind rewatching once in a while.
I’ll go wherever you will go
Torn
19:48Don't blame yourself babe
Don't cry out anymore
儚く散る花は Vanilla
守れない情熱 空（くう）をきる感情
sweet pain, heart beat
Break me down
ひとつまたひとつ
むき出しになる君の
心 こんなにも
愛に傷つき怯えてたなんて。。。
優しさだけで抱きしめられるのなら
包みたい 汚れ無き花びら
君の笑顔までも焦がしてしまいそうで
今すぐには近づけないYou&me
Wanna touch your lip babe
Wanna take you anywhere
色づきやまぬのはBurning love
無力な言葉たち ループして消えていく
step by my side... Can you feel?
せめて今だけは
僕を信じて欲しい
きみの悲しみを
拭うためなら悪にでもなるよ
愛しさだけで痛み癒えるのなら
この想い 全て捧げるのに
君の心までも焦がしてしまいそうで
これ以上は近づけないYou&me
優しさだけで抱きしめられるのなら
包みたい 汚れなき花びら
君の笑顔までも焦がしてしまいそうで
今すぐには近づけないYou&me
愛しさだけで痛みが癒えるのなら
この思い 全て捧げるのに
君の心までも焦がしてしまいそうで
これ以上は近づけないYou&me
Since typing "Torn Ryokura lyrics" never gives me results with satisfactory lyrics, I had to wiki out Nishikido Ryo and Oukura Tadayoshi's name in jap, copy paste copy paste and search " 大倉 忠義 錦戸 亮 torn 歌詞" instead. What a hassle, but it was worth it I guess. The first search result got me what I wanted. Accurate (kinda) and kanji lyrics.
Monday, December 8, 2008
First Kiss
22:27A bitter-sweet and uplifting comedy drama about a young girl Mio and her brother Kazuki. To treat her illness overseas, Mio has been living away from her older brother Kazuki for the past ten years. After learning about the upcoming surgery, which she has only a fifty percent chance of survival, Mio decides to fly back to Japan to spend time with Kazuki. Looking forward to seeing his sweet younger sister, Kazuki anxiously awaits Mio's return in Japan. However, their reunion is nothing but full of surprises as Mio has transformed from the innocent sickly girl Kazuki remembers from ten years ago into a sassy woman with an attitude. Kazuki has difficulty dealing with his wickedly selfish younger sister, but soon learns about the truth of her medical condition and has a change of heart.
from wiki
her again. pretty right...
Yuki Akio!
her brother who super loves her.
heh. they look pretty awkward here.
:D
note: he cut his hair.
:D !
and I think her acting skills are like, greater than great.
yay.
Kay end of screencaps... I like, totally dehydrated myself by crying so much near the end. But ah, it's very touching lah hor. sniff sniff. and Mio is so pretty, her brother is so cool, the Yuki is so ... ... er... actually I don't think I like him that much lah hor, I kinda like his car more. and I actually didn't really like the supporting characters much during the first feew episodes, but they grew on me and sniff sniff I love them all now!
Sunday, December 7, 2008
Torn
19:20
Torn (WATCH IT WATCH IT WATCH IT!)
The "mother" episode of Gintama.
JLPT today, it was pretty interesting; my first time sitting for it. Went to Adalia's house after that and we sang Torn+ I got back my PHD aka portable hard disk. In other words, I can finally watch First Kiss and fangirl about it or something. yea. AND vampire knight guilty episode 9, which has been on youtube forever, hasn't been released on torrent yet! Gintama subbers have been MIAing for quite a long time too... sigh. Time to rewatch Gintama.
Just thinking about you
puts me in such a bad mood
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Discipline Regime Day 1
13:06Okay... let me start with describing my yesterday. It. Was. Terrible.
Had training in the morning. Think I ate something wrong, so I ended up vomiting after our 20mins run. and then I just couldn't do anything right during training - George had to like, stop me and correct me after every single drill. Nothing he said went into my head, nothing got processed, and I just kept ... not doing the right thing.
Left early for my long awaited piano lesson. I took 30 minutes just to change, get ribena and crawl out of the main gate. and on my way out, I realized something very important: I forgot to bring my piano book... took 156 home because the stupid 74 just wouldn't come. I practically had the whole bus to myself during the whole of my ride, so I made use of the privacy and did my stretching and sleep like nobody's business. The bus ride took about a few light years. When I finally got home, I grabbed my book and unleashed the powers of money, and cabbed down to her house.
Piano lesson was ... not too bad I guess. At lease she stopped asking me "When are you taking A levels?" and she didn't scold me for the most recent misunderstanding we had about lesson timing. Oh, and I realized that she has the Italian Concerto score, meaning: I could have just went straight to her house as planned and borrow her score. oh wells. After lesson, 我踏着轻快的脚步 and walked out of her house with the satisfaction that I don't have piano until two weeks later.
Now here comes the best part of my day, I went home, and SLEPT like a pig till 6 something 7. Had this urge to eat pearls, so I went to NTUC. Bought about a gazillion other random stuff, but failed to get my pearls.
Oh, just in case you don't know, today's the first day I planned to implement my discipline thingy. As in I actually have this time table thing which I'm supposed to follow, and everyday got slots for work, piano, leisure lah. Hm, so far, it's failing.
So that was my yesterday. Today, had training in the morning, and I have yet to 1, embark on my journey home to start work and 2, do any work in school during the hockey study session. and tonight got sleepover at Adalia's. and tomorrow got pitch in the morning. ahh.....
Quote of the day:" We start together, we end together. The process doesn't matter."
Friday, November 28, 2008
Ai Nante translation
23:59Just how far have I walked?
If I looked back behind me, I'll find a trail of tears.
I was wounded, and hurt others in return.
And now I've finally reached the place where you are.
Such a thing as love, for me there's only you
I've always demanded too much...
Such a thing as love, if you're not here,
It's meaningless, I can't live.
Do you really love me with your heart?
Even now I’m insecure.
All alone I reached that place within my dreams,
And you were there, shivering.
Don’t cry, I will never let you go,
Even if I were to abandon everything else.
What’s the future?
Without you, I can't see it.
Without you, I don’t need it.
In the morning sunlight,
Seeing your sleeping face and your shy smile
Gives me such happiness.
That’s the love I believe in
For eternity.
Such a thing as love, for me there's only you
I've always demanded too much...
Such a thing as love, if you're not here,
It's meaningless, I can't live.
Although I love you, it is impossible
What is the future?
Without you I can’t imagine it
Without you I don’t need it.
Hockey Camp/Chalet
21:31Went for hockey camp/chalet which lasted from Tuesday till today. Whew, slept like a pig when I got home today, till about 7 plus when I finally got hungry. Anyway, let me just go through the camp and chalet so that next time I can read it when I forget what happened. This post's probably not for you to read, cos you'll die halfway from boredom or my longwindedness or something.
We started camp on Tuesday with a pitch training, George didn't make us do much physical stuff cos it was PITCH. We basically did pushing, sweeping, hitting, passing drills that day.
Went to Adam for lunch before going to school for the scheduled bonding activities and cross training. BUT, we ended up playing bridge, daidi, slap jack and the "country game". So in other words, our "sit-down bonding games" were the card games - Pam, Amanda, Suenli, Farouq and I played together while the rest of the guys played their multi-racial daidi. During the theory session, the guys did short corner I think. The girls.... continued playing cards! The "country game" was super funny, especially when we took on other people's names, even teachers' names came into use. We played charades, then soccer after that. So, we kinda did have some sort of bonding and cross training lah hor.
We lagged too much and the gate closed before we even left the grand stand. Quote from gate uncle: "You wait for the gate, the gate doesn't wait for you." So we embarked on our first gate-climbing experience, for most of us anyway. It was pretty fun, and none of us lost our mother-days.
Suenli, Pam and I went over to her condo aka our chalet location to stay over for the night. Went to Tiong and I ate Kimchi noodles, again. Shopped at NTUC+ did seniors' messages+ did team vision/philosophy/whatever before we KO'ed.
Wednesday. I think we all had in mind, a very different version of what was going to happen for the testimonial matches. But the first thing George said that day was, "I want you all to be tired before the match starts." Hence we sprinted... a lot a lot before the matches. the guys played full pitch while we played half pitch because our team was effectively 4 players and the seniors had 6. We played 5v5 and everyone got pretty tired. The actual score was 2-2, but George said "last goal wins" so we kinda won I guess. Anyway, he said a lot of stuff after the match, and we can sadly conclude that there will definitely be more stamina training next week. Guys played another match after that and the j1 girls subbed in for the senior guys' team. The game went on forever and I think it ended at 11. Note: we booked pitch from 8 to 10. Whew. Oh, and I scored the last goal! Okay lah, it was kind of by luck, I should probably be only credited for being there then.
Went to Tiong for lunch, I ate pig organ soup this time. Returned to the chalet and we (Pam, Amanda, Suenli and I) played cards. Made agar agar, washed our clothes, played some more games with the j1 guys (Derek, Norman and Zhihao) before the 10-course buffet thing came. By then, the seniors had already started drinking already... decided to give them their presents after dinner - before they get too drunk and too high. They seemed generally pleased with their presents... I think. After that, we retreated to our room to resume our card games. We kinda shouted ourselves hoarse during the "country game" when we used our seniors' names. It was super funny, we'll be screaming stuff like "AHHHHHHH, LABLALUABAA BEIXIPUEYEE" then start laughing like maniacs. Derek got carried out by the j2 guys halfway through. A few minutes later, a pants-less Justin got carried to our doorway. After that, the j2 guys took one of the rooms and called Zhihao in. Think that's when the J2 girls started to do their prank calls while we waited outside for Zhihao wondering if he's alright.
Went to Tiong park and Tiong after that, ate dessert and drank bubble tea, AND increased my debts cos I kinda didn't bring enough money for the whole thing. Went back to see our seniors red but relatively somber, playing truth or dare. We decided to start sleeping when the seniors+Pam started playing twister. The girls had quite a lot of space while the guys were cramped up instead, think Norman only had enough space to sleep in a fetus position. He kept asking "what position am I in now?" which somehow led to us daring him to go out to the living room to ask Pam, "Pam, may I sleep with you please?" in front of everyone. and because we were so insistent that he does the dare, we all went out to the living room. Wa, I think I very longwinded. So blabla, then we played twister. Suenli vs Zhihao, Amanda vs Derek, me vs Norman. Went back to sleep while the seniors continued with Taboo.
Next morning, played mahjong and mass asshole daidi before the seniors+Amanda+Suenli left. The remaining 5 of us shopped for our dinner before going back to the house to nap. We slacked all the way till dinner time, quote from Norman: "I'm going to strip." Cooked our dinners - porridge, combat rations and maggie. Played com games before Derek and Zhihao went for their night swim while the rest of us just slacked around the pool. Had some interesting sharing session by the jacuzzi. Played somemore com games back at the house while the guys bathe. Learned the basics of Dota and completed Metal Slug 4 with Norman. We had the speakers on and our characters were basically screaming throughout (from dying). After that, the four of them (Pam, Derek, Norman, Zhihao) went to Mr Teh Tarik while I stayed at the house alone cos I was too tired to go out. Watch Vampire Knight Guilty 07 before falling asleep on the sofa. Not too sure about what happened next, think they came back, then I started eating bread, then Pam and Norman played worms.
Next morning I woke up on the sofa, only the worms people managed to make their way to the beds before they fell asleep. Today's basically cleaning up and going home. Yep.
愛なんて
20:44どれだけ 歩いてきたんだろう?
振り向いたら涙の跡
傷つけ 傷つき 辿り着いた場所
今ここに君がいる
愛なんて 君だけさ いつでも求めすぎて
愛なんて 君なしじゃ 意味ないよ 生きられない
本当に 心で愛せているの？
今でも不安だよ
一人きり 夢の中 辿り着いた場所
震えてる君がいるよ
泣かないで 離さないよ 全てを投げ捨てても
未来なんて 君なしじゃ 見えないよ いらないよ
朝の陽だしに 君の寝顔と 照れた笑顔で 嬉しくなれるから
そんな日々を感じたいよ 永遠に
愛なんて 君だけさ いつでも求めすぎて
愛なんて 君なしじゃ 意味ないよ 生きられない
愛しても 愛しきれない
未来なんて 君なしじゃ 見えないよ いらないよ
Monday, November 24, 2008
Bus Rides
15:31
Pokemon Parody Episode 2, feel like slapping the producer of this.
Anyway, here's something nice I found.
Everyone takes a bus some time in their life.
For me, it was the first transport that I ever took.
My grandfather used to bring me on different long bus journey. We would do nothing, just look out the windows and observe the many places which the bus travels.
He said it was the cheapest way of enjoyment because we only pay less then a dollar for the bus ticket and we get to enjoy almost an hour of time.
For many of us, we do it when we were young and probably still doing it almost everyday. Be it to work, to school or another location for shopping, it would definitely be one option of travel.
As you stood aimlessly at the stop and waits for its arrival, you notice a group of people moved as it approaches. There seems to be many different numbers that they waited.
Different numbers would mean different journey, something which you won’t know until the day you take it yourself.
As you observed the group of people that took the same bus with you at the same time, have you ever notice that there would be a few of them whom you would always see?
Somehow their schedule is the same as yours, boarding the same bus almost everyday as you. Although you’ve never spoken to any of them, deep down however, you would feel a strange sense of bonding. Somehow you look forward in seeing them each day as they board the bus at the different sections of the journey.
Where are they going?
Where do they work or study?
We probably won’t ask them because we would be mistakenly regarded as a stalker to them out of our curiosity.
I love to take the bus.
I love to look out in the window on the journey as the bus moves.
I love to look at the many people who board and alight from the journey.
I love to take the bus with my wife now. I would show her the places which I’ve been to as the bus travels.
I would tell her the stories that my grandfather used to tell me when we were traveling.
Someday, perhaps I will also do the same thing to my kids.
For many of us, we would probably take for granted on the journey because we are driven by the destination of where we want to go.
Take a step back as you travel on your next trip.
Make some observations during your journey.
Remember, it’s the cheapest form of entertainment and it’s not the destination but that journey that matters, my friend.
And…
When was the last time you took a long bus journey with the one you loved?
fromJournal of Life, came across it in this bookmarks folder labeled "random".
Anyway, training today was my first real real training with George and oh my god. I predict we'll all suffer early deaths if we train under him for another 10 years or so. In other words, I'm glad my secondary coach wasn't him. In some ways he reminds me of Jude lah, but Jude will never make us bend so low and he focuses on skills, not brute strength. And, hello? Bend so low and try to force your way through, you're like asking to be hit or something. But ah, I get this feeling that our team will become stronger under him lah. Trainings with a coach is definitely so different from our past trainings.
Going for training with George tomorrow, followed by hockey camp then hockey chalet. Packed week ahead! Oh, hope that I can postphone my piano lesson this saturday, otherwise we can just see Ms Lim's hair growing whiter and thinner every time I go for her lessons.
Oh, this is just something which was supposed to be in the yltc post, but I cut it off cos it was too... kua zhang. Anyway, I'll put it in, since I think it's quite wasted to just discard it.
oh wells. they had this capsizing drill for the dragon boat. and oh my god, the first time we capsized, I was stuck under the dragon boat.. I remembered what our instructor said, "if you're stuck under the boat, don't worry, there's air, just swim out of it." so I was preparing to take a deep breath before maneuvering myself out of the boat, then I got pushed under. At first my belief in the instructor's words was so strong that I tried to push myself up for air still, but nah, the boat was so heavy that I couldn't get any air at all. I kinda cursed the people who were pushing it down and thoughts of dying ran through my mind just as water gushed into my lungs. It was pretty dark, and I was wondering if anyone had ever died from dragon boat capsizing drills. After concluding that it's too stupid a way to die, I remembered what the instructor said about pushing yourself to the other side of the boat and I kicked hard, successfully freeing myself from the grasps of darkness. I reached out for the ray of hope and, I broke to the surface, gasping and spitting out sea water. Was wondering if anyone noticed my near drowning experience, but nobody seemed to have missed me at all, so I concluded very sadly that I was probably gone for only a few seconds or so. It seemed long down there, I guess there's like what, a time gap or something.
Oh my god so qua zhang.
Friday, November 21, 2008
YLTC Camp
20:29I didn't have the chance to blog before I go off to five days of camping so my blog experienced a bit of stagnancy yea.
The camp started off with all of us gathering at the parade square and somehow I was so convinced that I was in group four that I just sat down with the group. I even signaled to the teacher that "I'm here" and told Gibson that he was in the wrong group. Then, I found out that I'm actually in group 3. Oh man, what a start.
Anyway I sort of knew quite some people in my group already- Jacq, Leena, Karen, Andy and Melissa. Ice-breakers were fine, we played a few games. 1) The hold hands and tangle with each other then try to untangle everything one. 2) Everybody get inside this loop of rafia and form shapes with the rafia. 3) Answer questions to let others know you better.
Then we started our Land Expedition. Our first stop was Chinese Garden, followed by lunch at KFC (self-initiated) then the reservoir at Khatib, VivoCity, Sentosa and finally East Coast Park Food Centre. We got off at the wrong stop at East Coast, so we had to walk all the way from Macs to the Food Centre only to find out that we're the 6th team and that we have to walk another few km, all the way to our campsite. BUT, our team ( oh by the way we're called Tenacity) was so resilient that we overtook some about 3 teams and became 3rd. BUT the order was determined by what time we reached our last station so our super-walking efforts were kinda wasted.
Our flag got stolen by the teachers a short while after we reached the campsite, but luckily we got it back. Ate dinner and prepared for night cycling. We cycled with helmets, backlights and we actually pushed our bicycles across overhead bridges etc. Quite safe hor. We went all the way to Bedok something Park then back. The trip there was okay, but the trip back was more fun cos I went all the way to the back of our entire group then more relaxed lor. But near the end I got bored so I went forward to find some friends.
The first day I learned that:
1)The toilet got millipedes
2)The food there not bad
3)Punctuality is very very important
Second day- it was depressing to think that we weren't even halfway through. We woke up at 6 something 7 for pt which was jumping jacks I think. We did rafting after breakfast and dragon boating after lunch. We were in charge of dinner and we had lots of fun terrorizing everyone else by giving them abnormally huge portions of food. We had some leadership talk after dinner, played some games, learned a lot of important stuff and had lots of fun. The speakers were great.
I learned that:
1)Punctuality is very very very very very important
2)How to capsize a dragon boat
3)How to react when it capsizes
Third day! and we were all sick of counting down to the final day. Pt started at 7.30, then breakfast, then kayaking. Kayaking was quite fun actually and I wouldn't have minded if we went further. Came back with salt/sunburns all over us and got ready for outdoor cooking. We were pretty efficient during the whole process lah, and it was quite. enjoyable. Somehow I can't really remember what I did, but nevermind lah hor. After that was alumni talk, and I couldn't really keep my eyes open so I closed them. anyway, even if my eyes were opened, I wouldn't have listened to them cos they weren't exactly very... interesting I guess. We used the time before lights out to rehearse our skit for the campfire, and everyone was super high for no reason. We had lots of fun, the guys were fooling around and the girls were laughing our heads off at them.
Most frequently said phrases of our group:
1)Where's our flag?
2)Chai ying, what's the time now?
3)Laxing mood
Fourth day, we had our ropes course and I enjoyed the abseiling the least. The rest was fun. As usual, there's this climb-onto-pole-and-jump-to-catch-the-bar thing. That one was a bit scarier than the rest - the jumping off part. I really had to convince myself up there that my teammates will catch me when I fall. I mean, of course they will catch me, but there's still the fear there ah. Anyway, I didn't catch the bar and thanks to my fbts inside my track pants, the harness didn't hurt at all. Most of the girls had no problems lah.
We rehearsed a cheer for the cheering competition and also the skit for campfire. Had lots of fun. The campfire, was, weird. Firstly, The fire was as good as a garbage can or a painting. I guess it was pretty cool that they actually had a real fire for us, but we basically had our session as though it wasn't there at all. had songs and skit. Most of the skits were super long, so we didn't have time for the usual songs and stuff. Our skit went okay, it was funny, but I guess the teachers have another criteria in mind. But I think we all didn't mind the teachers not recognising our efforts in rehearsing the cheer and skit, cos we really had lots of fun lah. though the cheering competition thing was still a bit qian bian ah. The campfire was the most... un-campfire-like campfire I've ever been to.
We were more or less prepared when they woke us up at 3 in the next morning for the final challenge. The challenge was a 10km run. The group with the most points started out first and so on. We were the 7th, so we started out 7th, 13 mins after the first group. We sort of paced ourselves, and oh my god our group rocks okay. Karen led us at first, then Joseph/Chengxi led after that. Yichie and Reuben carried all the bottles while being the sweepers. The rest of us did a good job of staying together and cheering each other on. I thought that Jacq, Chai Ying and Amy were great during the run. aiya, everybody was wonderful.
AND WE FINISHED FIRST! FROM SEVENTH TO FIRST CAN! 10 km in one and half hours, I can't believe we ran for that long.
Anyway, we went back to school on an AIR-CON BUS and got our prizes - 100plus and nike bottles. After that, we went for group lunch at KFC. We started with KFC and we ended with KFC. By the time we parted ways, I was dying for some shut-eye time already.
Slept on the bus, slept when I reached home till almost 7. Pangsehed my dinner date with Kelly (sorry!). I realized that apart from washing my hair, I haven't bathed since last night. So, I went to bathe! Unpacked all my stinking clothes and yea, started blogging. oh my god I'm still sleepy.
Alright, the camp was unforgetable because:
1)It was my first 5-day camp
2)First time I do kayaking/dragon boat/ropes course/10km
3)Made lots of friends
4)Had lots of fun
5)Learned lots (like how to take the initiative, how to sacrifice, punctuality, discipline, etc)
6)My group was great
7)I know it will never happen ever again
and oh my gosh I started at 8.30. Thanks to all the facebooking, hotmailing, msning, I spent almost 3hours on this picture-less post. alright good night all!
I love all of you, not because we won, but because we're
T-E-N-A-C-I-T-Y
TEN-TEN-TEN-TEN-TEN-TENACITY
ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR, FIVE, SIX, SEVEN, EIGHT, NINE, TENACITY!
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Blah
01:22Feeling shittier than shit after submitting an approval form for a raise in my monthly allowance. Gee I sound like an ungrateful brat.
MWO became boring.
They found that dog's owner.
Will be collecting my specs tomorrow, supposedly.
I can't see my own cbox on my firefox, somehow.
Shall I train tomorrow?
Argh. Is it really the holiday season now?
Anyway, pierced my second pair of ear holes today with Li Chen and Audrey, will upload photos some other day. I wonder what disaster will strike our house, particularly me, when my doubly-studded ears get exposed.
Monday, November 10, 2008
Lost Dog
23:52I had quite an interesting day. My day started at 12 something 1, when I was awaken by the personification of a fire alarm. I was already late for the day, like really really late, so I hurriedly packed my bag, gobbled down my lunch and went for training.
Training was fun, but I'm beginning to feel our limits without a coach. Glad that we'll finally be getting one. After hearing that his name is "George", we were wondering if he's a "George Raja" or "George McCafe". I read his letter, and I think he's just "George Lim" or something. It'll be quite a change to get a coach who's not Indian and I'm looking forward to it.
Oh, forgot to mention, that I was up till 5 playing Magic World Online, which is your standard MMORPG. Thought I'll give it a try since I keep seeing its advertisements on my downloading agent. What I've noticed about MWO, which in my opinion sets it apart from the others, will be the un-crowdedness during game play (which may be a bad sign). Also, the usual characters will be mage, warrior, archer, assassin or healer whatever. This is the first time I see a summoner - pretty cool stuff. I plan to try Atlantica after I grow sick of MWO too.
after training, I went for music. The timing was like, perfect. training ends at 5, music starts at 6. So I had the time to go bathe and lala my way up to the music room. Actually I was expecting it to end at 8 or 9, well, it did end at 8 plus. Let's just say that I was quite surprised when he was willing to let us off before the uncle come to chase us out.
Anyway, here's some funny clips.
Pokemon Parady
Rowan Atkinson conducting the famous Beethoven Symphony no. 5
Rowan Atkinson playing Beethoven's Pathetique and Moonlight Sonatas.
On my way home, I came across a missing dog! It was just sniffing the ground with its leash trailing across the ground. I brought it around, asked if anyone knew her, I even went to the local mama store and the community center. I heard the same comments everywhere I went, "ah this dog so cute, so obedient. Bring her home lah, the owner will put up posters if he wants her, if not you can just keep her." Fat hope.
After the visit to the cc and my mother actually demanded to speak to the man at the cc. But he managed to talk her into it and I brought her home, thinking that she really doesn't mind putting up with a dog for one night. I guess I even thought about the "what ifs", what if nobody came for her, and so on. However, my mother wasted no time in contacting my cousin whose friend immediately volunteered to become the dog's new owner. Here's how the dog looks like, I googled the image though. Aye, anyway she really looks like this can already lah.
German Spitz. I personally have my own doubts about her new owner... Okay, let's just say I'm prejudiced against people who can suddenly bring home a dog/cat at 10pm and tries to feed it milk, thinking that "drink plain water very poor thing". Yea, I know I'm probably being very kinda unreasonable here, but oh wells.
But I hope she at least google up some guide at home lah hor. Anyway looking on the bright side, since she took in the dog so impulsively, maybe she had dogs before, or better still, maybe she currently owns dogs. But I don't think so leh. Ahh. Out of sight, out of mind.
To bed, tomorrow cannot be late for pt, my wallet's at stake.
何もかもオレのせいかな。
Saturday, November 8, 2008
Assassin's Apprentice
21:29Went to the library on Friday and I borrowed lots of books without knowing how many I'll actually read, as usual. But, yesterday when I actually sat myself down at 10 plus and picked up a random book, I couldn't put it down till I finished reading it, when dawn was breaking.
It was Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb. That guy's name sounds really familiar, perhaps I read his books before. Anyway, it was a really good read and it has been a really long time since I stayed awake throughout the night doing something that's optional.
Next, I FINALLY watched Vampire Knight Guilty! I'm quite glad that they're sticking quite closely to the manga, and I'm currently waiting waiting waiting for episode 6 to be aired. Excitement excitement ~
I was really surprised to find out that there's a third season of Jigoku Shoujo, one of my favorite animes. The first season was pretty aimless and left lots of questions unanswered. The second season created more confusion but answered to all of the questions and brought the plot to a closure, or so we thought. The third season seems pretty redundant to me, even though I don't mind more of Jigoku Shoujo. I just hope that the producers aren't hua she tian zu-ing.
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Fangirling
21:06Adalia came over to my house today, and as usual, I started fangirling at some stuff she showed me.
Nakajima Yuuto
CHINEN
Nakajima?
Ryosuke haha. Ladies, get ready.
*melts*
Remember the other smirk (footnote: from Maou) which I fangirled over... well, Ryosuke wins. Duh.
And we also watched Gintama:
The front part of Episode 39 - a MUST-WATCH episode.
part of Episode 20 - another MUST-MUST-WATCH episode.
A retarded part from one of the episodes.
Another retarded part from Episode 44.
and and, we made TIRAMISU! It was a really fun experience and I can't wait to make it again (: haha, visiting the fridge has never been more fulfilling.
Today, I learned that I have to be a more responsible handphone owner and stop missing calls/not replying smses. Sigh, I hate owning a handphone.
PW
11:14
PW's OVER! Somehow we got through it together and .. and EVERYTHING'S OVER! I think our group was a pretty peaceful group which survived through the year without quarrelling or anything. Though I gotta admit that at the beginning of the year, we always treated PW periods as lunch time or handphone gaming periods, I think we really worked hard together last minute and managed to put together something not too bad yea. I'm glad to have traveled this journey with all of you! Others may heave a sigh of relief when PW's over, I mean, ya lah I'm glad that it's over too, but it feels like something's missing from my jc life ah... no more moaning over PW, no more dragging the deadlines and picking at every single piece of unjustified claim in our WR. and what am I going to do about the PW folder in my hotmail? aye.
Anyway, everybody kept asking us where's hao cheng (okay, only the assessors and the teacher-in-charge asked) and I think we all started to miss him kinda. Then the teacher didn't let us take his entry proof! (you know the one that we all have to stick on our uniforms, the one that just doesn't stick to our uniforms.) I guess they need it to prove that he didn't come huh.
I cannot not post this picture cos I really think it's very nice. hee hee.
Last Saturday was our last PA1 lesson with Maeda sensei, and we took class pictures. This is probably the first time I took a picture with my japanese class, we were a really fun class (: so I'm really glad that I have a picture of this class. I can't really remember my previous classmates, I mean, yea, they were nice people too, but we just kinda lived through elementary and intermediate classes ignoring each other most of the time huh.
