bones sinking like stones.

2006-08-19T23:25:00.000+08:00

well. i've moved for good! just felt like changing.

go!

501

2006-08-14T15:07:00.000+08:00

oooh. ok. so i wanna move, but i'm too lazy to do so.

i replayed the presentation i recorded with shan(its so hard to just type his name without any accompanying adjectives) and i think... i shldnt have replayed it.

and then.. its the holidays! its really weird without any work to do after the mad rush that we had. but im kinda enjoying doing nothing at home. and! i finally played some stuff after 2 whole full weeks of not practising at all.

i was reading the script that we're gonna use for the dv fest and... it's quite exciting! i wonder how much all of us are going to fork out for it. we're going to hold auditions but im really worried about getting the releases for one of our locations..

other than that,
HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

fucking fuck you sial kepala buto puki. stunn.

2006-08-10T21:39:00.001+08:00

the reason why i would wanna change is that. this is my 500th post in blogspot. just a year ago, the way i wrote my posts differ greatly from the way i write it now. even worse from 2 years ago. i think it's high time i change. but if im still too lazy to do a nice one in livejournal(i like the comment system.) then you can still find me here.

after all this. i plan to get a full body massage from my dad. get a job maybe with picky. i'll be taking up my license, shamefully my parents will be paying for me. work enough to get rid of this really no-longer-trustworthy machine and get a new one.

summertime?

2006-08-07T22:53:00.000+08:00

im gonna change blogs soon. i'll tell you guys later. wanna guess? haha.. ok anyway!

today. we made selene cry. because no one believed that she really really really really does have a boyfried. like.. really have one. and no one believed her. even when we believe her, she believes that no one does.

ALMOST the whole of mcm 2.2 (ok, over exaggeration there) did their work in school even when there was no school. cool eh? all of us so hard working to avoid bad peer evaluation. haha. some of us working hard by doing nothing to prove to some idiots that we're not as useless as they think we are behind their double layered questions and silent innuendos.

hhmmm. i was thinking.

of nothing.

then i remembered. i think im lucky my eyes get tired very easily. cos after 15 mins of literally staring into the screen my eyes will start to .erm. squeeze or strain or shrink and it's like some auto timer for me to look away from the screen. thats why i dont need to wear specs! then again. maybe its my genes.

ok go here we go

2006-08-06T10:03:00.000+08:00

the guy in hot pink pants ALMOST fell. and i liked when they did the 360 rotation. cool ah.

this is dormant. alwayssssssss.

2006-08-05T01:18:00.000+08:00

somehow, even though the onslaught of newswriting AND public relations caught up with me today. i'm very happy. for a number of reasons. one of which is actually quite sad.

i interviewed a guy who was really sad about his situation, and as much as he tried to stay calm and collected, it's quite hard when things are beyond your control and you have to explain your situation to reporters. and there was the off the record bit which i wish we can use. but.

finally, i feel the rush of doing work. and i really want to do it, and i know i can do it. cleared the whole of my weekend (cept for that fmss meeting, which is now a MUST HAVE) and i have one idiotic idiot of the highest order to thank. his condescending questions and remarks won't just go through me just like that, ok.

and! of course la. sarah's gift was like.. waaaaaaah. i can just stare at it all day long when i have nothing to do (in a week's time) and just listen to astreal's june 12. i think.. i'll write about it again soon. for now. eat and sleep!

i dont like.

2006-08-03T20:09:00.000+08:00

EH! like, wtf. whaaaat is up with the gloves? evvverrrryyy single show she wears that glove. like.. over ah. i bet she never washes it at all ah. banyak punye rocker.

I Don't Know What I Can Save You From [Röyksopp Remix]

2006-08-02T01:30:00.000+08:00

5 presentations on monday and that was quite tiring. at one point i felt like some boring engineering lecturer and only danny boey was listening to me mumble.
"i think you've got the makings of a great lecturer, heikal" (ok maybe not exact quote).

but today, we went around and i bought a CD and the person over the counter did something and i asked why.
"huh? oh i just felt like doing it for you." (maybe not exact quote also)

guess what she did for me!

pyrats

2006-07-29T17:53:00.000+08:00

quite interesting. but the female pirate caught my eye. i'm sure you noticed too.

reminder.

2006-07-28T22:07:00.000+08:00

so i've been saying how fucking boring life is for the past week or so. and how i've not no motivation to do work. none at all.

then so my harddrive crashes. not really a big deal ah.not much work to do. yeeeeeaaaaaaayyyyyy!!!!!! now, i've got what i wanted. a whole load of work all lined up to be cleared over the weekend. so, again, i can't go and watch the short cuts AND pow wow.

good:
new hard drive means that my laptop has so far gotten a new keyboard, new mother board and new hard drive. its gonna be a practically new laptop if i manage to replace the casing and screen.

good that the technician guy simply replaced the hard drive just like that. no checking of what's inside the harddrive. i think some of you know why i dont really want him to see what's inside. haha.

bad:
ALL MY BOOKMARKS ARE GONE. which is super irritating cos i really liked my current bookmarks. all the film and music and stumble upon sites were bookmarked. and there wasnt much blogs compared to my last few collections. now i have to go and harvest a new bookmark and this time i'll upload it online.

every single fucking thing is gone. from all the fmss documents and interview transcripts and all my work from this sem to my coldplay pictures.

my las vegas season 3 is gone also. nvm nvm maybe i'll be getting family guy season four from dan tmr.

i should learn to back my work up in my giant hard drive and not use it just for crap.

oh i did say there's alot of work to do right? yea, there's horrendously alot of marcomm to do for the 100th day event (which is still on ah by the way.. been hearing stuff that its cancelled already) and there's newswriting!

i heart newswriting.

oh! quite interesting ah to see the email.. quite surprised.

soursop.

2006-07-25T20:08:00.000+08:00

sia la. funfair siollll. they're burning the sticks and papers like there's no tommorrow. makes you wonder if the after-life people have bank accounts up there. i kinda miss watching those chinese/hongkong serials in the kung-fu hustle period with all those police and thieves and sometimes ghosts searching for their lost loved ones..

but anyway! like its everywhereeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. wonder why the romantic candle idiot didnt wait another day to do his magic fire show. stupid right. if he did it today, no one would have given a fuck.

anyways, today was the last day of my favourite lecture. how sad. i want to jump down and break a leg. sob sob sob.

s.o.b.

films.

2006-07-23T21:55:00.000+08:00

According to the DVD commentary, Eli is based on writer/director Eli Roth. Playboy models appeared in the movie: Sung Hi Lee and Karen McDougal, and originally both Brianna Banks and Jenna Jameson were slated to appear in this film.

sounds exciting. but really. i think this movie was a waste of my night a few nights ago. had your typical teen comedy elements of sex, high school settings, hot chicks, a cross state adventure with tables being smashed and the main character being chased along with their loser sidekicks and a story that ends well in no particular order.
but i think i enjoyed it abit.

there's an idiot trying to be romantic by lighting up candles behind the letter boxes for the past 10 mins. i think he is stupid because.
he should have laid out all the candles before lighting up the girl's name and half of the heart.
now half of the heart and the girls name will be half melted when the girl comes.
he should not have done it infront of so many windows - because i can just throw a pail of water and spoil his night.
he should not have done it behind the letter boxes. because if the letters get burnt (somehow..) its his fault.
i bet he wont be there later to clean the mess up.

ooh! he's calling the girl to come down now. i think. i hope it rains in awhile. or maybe the neighbourhood cats can come over and pee all over his candles.

aww the wind is blowing away his heart...
aww he just burnt his finger trying to relight his heart.

if only battlefield has a flamethrower...

aww the girl came down and now they're hugging and kissing..shit they wall is blocking me!!!

HAHHAHAHA!!! some ass hole (not me) called in the police ! hahahaha. its hillarious!
hahahahahaha... well at least the girl is helping him clean up.. even the police are laughing. hahaha. imagine they take him in for vandalism or something. haha. its quite funny la..

my neighbourhood quite happening ah. eh.. the girl dissappear already. well, thats something to bring up when they're doing their break-up arguement.

secrets.

2006-07-20T13:36:00.000+08:00

In conclusion, families in 12 Storeys all harbor secrets one way or another. More pertinent is the film’s portrayal of the ways secrets, whether personal or household ones, are managed, along with disclosure, discovery and/or concealment. Secrets can adversely impact communication within families and contribute to dysfunctional relations among parents, spouses, children, siblings and neighbors. For Khoo, such widespread, persistent communicational dysfunction within families, between neighbors and among individuals points to a larger level of urban isolation and alienation. These motifs in his films attack the Shared Values national ideology and other state discourses.

In 12 Storeys and Khoo’s other early films, the neighbors avoid each other; the nation-state has not fostered mutual community support and respect for individuals. Individuals in turn are too engrossed with their own secrets to take notice of the world around them or to forge meaningful relations with others, within and/or outside the familial domain. Khoo’s early films create analogies to trace the disparity between the visionary endeavors articulated from the top and the reality of daily doldrums that anchor the everyday people firmly to the ground. By giving privy to the “lived” reality of HDB-dwellers who experience endemic urban alienation, 12 Storeys presents an alternative, albeit gloomy, way of seeing the nation-state: It is a sunny tropical isle high on economic achievements but low on other endeavors, especially human(istic) ones. The alterity of Khoo’s early films bears the mark of an honest and bold filmmaker.

http://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/jc46.2003/12storeys/text.html

life goes on.

2006-07-18T14:09:00.000+08:00

and, for the rebels out there. click me!

Awesome video of a crazy busy intersection in India with no stoplights. Greatness.

take a bow.

2006-07-15T02:58:00.000+08:00

ooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh and my parents love me!!!!!!!!!
oooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh and my girlfriend loves me!!!!!!!!!!!!

poptart was fun! just that they didnt play EDILYL&L but they played other kaiser chiefs and more bloc parteyyyyy. just as i thought the 1st day of baybeats was gonna suuccccck.

i also thought that muse's latest black holes and revelations album was gonna suck, i now think its worth every single cent the 11 track cd is gonna cost me.

but i'm still skipping day 2 of baybeats. because its not worth the energy. speaking of energy! its 3am and i just realised the only solid food that has gone trhough me was the 4 hotdogs, 2 eggs & 4 toast that i had at 5pm. faux english breakfast for pre-dinner.

and i survived a super small mosh - i tell you the security there is super boring. you might as well bring a fuckin book on sunday, sit infront of astreal and lunarin and read 6 chapters through their sets. and fizah's favourite you-know-who is playing after etc. i do hope that etc makes it a tough act to follow.

like today's tiramisu's drag queen theme made KL's fern look horrible. i still got poptart in my body!

aaaHHAAAHHHHHH.la la la la la laaaa.. oOOOooooooOOOOhhh AAAAAAAAAaaAAAAAAHh!!! I PREDICT A RIOT! I PREDICT A RIOT! X2
blablablablabla....

oh! i failed my webD because i left one of the pages as blablabla. but i did well for radio! so life goes on really.

i'm quite happy nowadays. but somethings like fmss are really making my hair grow long and dry. can you imagine 4fuckingthousanddollars for the whole of this year to plan so many fucking events and we might as well scrape all our plans and build fmss for our predecessors to do well in. no thanks to our seniors, who did nothing for the school in the past, we can forget about asking for much money, if any. and thanks to everrrrrrrrrrryyyyyyyyyoneeeeeeee who was duped into believing we had enough money to open a prata stall with our own dedicated sugarcane and teh peng/ teh tarik bussorrah street corner downtown. and i dont just mean our favourite kenneth ok.

that is all for this semester! i've waited quite long to shoot my mouth, and i can actually talk alot about the reactions all around. but thats for me to know!

what was in store for me thanks to fate or serendipity (not kidding k, but im gonna spare you the small details). on the bus home, i met.. erm.. apa nama dia.. nadia i think.. and she woke me up cos i took up too much of her space. but i think we talked for an hour or so.. from great spy experiment to travelling to SIM and back on adult cost sucks big time.

but im super hungry, and poptart is slowly going off..

all that noise, all that sound.

2006-07-12T23:37:00.000+08:00

Lets play spot Tony, Ash(abit difficult ah..), May's tall friend and side profile of ME!
(remember where's wally?)
(pict isn't mine)

and the travesty! have you seen today's Life section in the straits times?
horrendous! can you believe that they actually placed a 3-400 word (ONLY?!!) review of THE CONCERT OF THE YEAR on top of some fucked up "emperor of rock" china band preview- which was ALSO 3-400 words. i mean, if it was a short write up of robbie's coming concert, it'd prolly make sense (most prolly not though.)

justice has not been served to chris, will, johnny and guy. coldplay deserves the whole of life's back page. not just 1 fuckin quater of it. at least it was sujin thomas doing the report. (i know im abit anal, but its quite fun to be anal and analyse things here and there.)

actually ah. hahhaa. our videos and pictures beats all those on youtube hands down. haha. if afiq had recorded more, i'd prolly be able to compile them and make a music vid out of it. oh! pictures from the last post were taken by may and afiq. forgot to give them credit.

yellow - ka-pop.

Twisted Logic 2006

2006-07-11T22:34:00.000+08:00

May, Tony, Heikal, Afiq

You Had Me At Yellow - one of the many indonesian friends of Coldplay

Tony, May, Ash, Afiq

Countdown

Square One - Guy Berryman

Johnny Buckland & Chris Martin

Chris!

Will Champion

Guy Berryman - looking cool!

Chris

at Yellow

he burst the giant ballons and confetti flew!

Johnny

the crowd right behind us. see that lady at the corner? she sang 'talk's guitar riff with us =) that girl behind the white dude looks creepy..

till kingdom come

trouble

Clocks!

i'm sure the puzzle spells out to be - Twisted Logic X&Y

Thank You!

you ok?

2006-07-11T00:11:00.000+08:00

yay to may! ashley! tony! afiq! and even claire!
my new coldplay loving bestfriends... hahaha. now this merits a bimbo post. and a long one.
you can skip my version of the night and just read this guy's review of the twisted logic tour (in which they never played twisted logic, nor don't panic - my current fave).

awsome! i don't really know where to start. so i'll tell you every single thing that happened. the more important ones worth jumping, or made me jump for at least. haha! i'll neverrrr everrrrrrrr everrrrrrr forget this concert.

reached the queue at 3pm and after mistaking the front of the line for the back of it, i think i ended up being the 20th or 30th in line. waited in excitement with all the sound checks going on! thuddings of will's drums was sooo exciting. listening to them doing a full song (a few only) sound check was also exciting. then being in the 1st batch of coldplay loverrrrrsssss to enter the hall was also exciting. what was also exciting was waiting for the idiots in the seats to come in slowly and the show started only at 9pm.

of course, we got into the indoor stadium at 7.30.. at 8pm.. i smartly got the rest of us to stand up (they made us sit while waiting for the rest) then everysingle one in the free standing area also stood. thats when the mini nudging free for all began.. but i felt quite bad blocking the small indonesian girls (they were really small.. and they really wanted to see the stage). all these wldnt have happened if i just continued sitting down.

but anyways! chris' stage antics was quite exciting also! everrryyything was exciting. but i also felt bad/good(more bad than good, but you'll know why soon) abt the girl who was stuck in front of me the whole night. and also the bastard behind me who kept pushing forward, and the lady beside him who warmed up after awhile. and the small indonesian girls who never stopped pushing, even when i pushed them infront of me so they'd stop pushing me.

and the many times chris asked if we're ok, of course la we're ok. even if my crotch is perpetually stuck to the butt of the girl infront of me and the small girl beside me rubbing her hair on my arm and the guy behind me shoving (pushed turned to shoving after awhile, all in good nature so no worries) and how much hair shampoo im breathing in just for having so many hairs at my nose and not forgetting the number of times i had to brush whose ever's hair for them because my hand got tangled in them quite a few times. and the fact that the show was near carbon copy material of the other live twisted logic concerts all made us shout OK! when he asked.

oh! tony caught one of the disposable cameras he threw! SO EXCITING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ahhahaha.. phewwwwwwwwwww. oh! and i got the girl's email, so its ok. proper explanation awaits. every single $230 spent on the concert was worth forking out for. i'm glad to go broke for the next few days (weeks abit long ah beb..) and yes, to some of my friends, i'd rather spend nearly 300$ on gigs and going abroad than on stupid magnetic mattreses or pillows.

i'll be honest, i really got sick of listening to coldplay for the last 5 days. but after tonight, hahhaa.. nothing else will be going into my ipod. for awhile at least. maybe more live coldplay clips, and that johnny cash's ring of fire. and that one- off MTF-ish song he sang in between..

sigh. the whole set was nicely timed, you have no idea how tired the people on the ground was. jumping and jumping and screeeeaaaamingggg and clapping and swaying and putting my arms around people i was clueless about.

oh yea! that bastard behind me. i have no idea what he was up to. he slowly crept up behind me. then pushed a few times. then told me to enjoy it. hahha.. that's why im calling him the bastard. as long as it brought me closer to chris martin! haha.

oh! we were only 2 rows behind the railings, but by the end of the night, i have no idea how many girls crept up infront of me without me knowing.

met up with the other indonesian girl we met while queing and her girlfriend and her two brothers outside after the whole thing ended. oh! also met erm.. .. crystal! and shaun!

now, what the fuck did i go home so early for?

the heart's a lonely hunter.

2006-07-07T20:34:00.000+08:00

ok lets try this again, proper. i've got more time on my hands now and i don't like cluttered comment boxes.

If you comment on this post:
1. i’ll respond with something random about you
2. i’ll challenge you to try something
3. i’ll pick a colour that i associate with you
4. i’ll tell you something i like about you
5. i’ll tell you my first/clearest memory of you
6. i’ll tell you what animal you remind me of
7. i’ll ask you something i’ve always wanted to ask you
8. if i do this for you, you must post this on yours

the geylang massacre

2006-07-06T01:35:00.000+08:00

just as i said i won't be blogging for awhile, i come up with a post the very next day.

but only because i want to say that the perth screening was not a waste of time even though i still have a newsangle to think about. because meeting up with everyone i met today, like the producer, the soundscapist, the dop, the art director, sunny pang and adam habib and sharon ismail.

and we got the many dirty little secrets about perth from andy the art director after the whole thing and he's quite a funny guy. like how djinn(the director) told a street casted actor to 'be like a tiger' during one of the fight scenes and the guy literally went, "roarrrrrr, roarrrrr". and juan foo, the producer and an ex-fsv lecturer teaching a now-defunct module for budding producers, is pretty receptive to our sgNewwave idea. ada potential!

chatting and chatting with all the different people till quite late, i wonder if they are just there talking because it's their job or because they really wanted to share us their stories because we kept them there for quite late.

but whatever it is, perth's my 1st violent local feature film (i don't consider 15 violent, cos i didnt squirm or jerk during the film). and it was good.

death & glitter.

2006-07-04T23:32:00.000+08:00

i'm waiting for my groupmates to come online to pass me whatever material they've been able to conjure up during break time today. and its so late already i wonder if they're trying to pull of some kind of stunt.

had quite a weird day today. press conference was a total waste of a bore. i have no idea what im gonna write about. and we can count the hours that newswriting is due. and the 100th day issue has gotten to some of us already. but the amount of money with have in our fms account is near obscene. and we'll be getting the money for the vid journ competition prizes by next week hopefully. after 100th day, will be the MTV awards gig. i have no idea if we should be looking forward to it even after the super protracted venue decision.

and lets just say that irritance does get to everyone, no matter who you are. one time too many!

i can feel the assignments quickly moving into 4th gear (or 5th or 6th if you're driving a fast vehicle). but there's still time for play! coldplay next week! yay. the nano will be full of all the coldplay i have in my collection. i didnt get the last single though. wonder if hmv can bring in singles..

ahh. seeing that this will be the lone post for a long time,

If you comment on this post:
1. i’ll respond with something random about you
2. i’ll challenge you to try something
3. i’ll pick a colour that i associate with you
4. i’ll tell you something i like about you
5. i’ll tell you my first/clearest memory of you
6. i’ll tell you what animal you remind me of
7. i’ll ask you something i’ve always wanted to ask you
8. if i do this for you, you must post this on yours

got it while blog surfing around a few days back.

Projektion.

2006-06-30T12:20:00.000+08:00

i am screeewwwwwwwwwwweeedddd. my laptop's crashed and i have no desktop/laptop to start on my press conference research, or do the press conference article. and i have nothing to surf the net with. and i have nothing to watch all my shows with over the weekend.
and IBM has no stock of the replacement part that i need and i have to wait till monday to see if the shipment has arrived.

and they don't have any temp laptop to spare. bitches.

LIFE SUCKS!!!!!!! haha. at least i'm not in the middle of an apple project or something like that..

the new way.

2006-06-26T22:28:00.000+08:00

as said by ms chittick herself, astreal's soon to be released MV. to premier on MTV asia soon..

and i am in no mood at all to return to school tmr. the sls retreat came at the most perfect of times. not too early to lose the relaxed vibes, not too late to carry over any holiday hangovers to school. you get that sometimes, when you spend too much time on holiday, you're bound to miss the different atmosphere/culture/mood/time zone/food/hostel/hotel/taxis & busses/people from the break.

oh, unlike most, i dont think i have any cravings for junk food. except for the occasional ice cream. i dont think i have any craving for anything in fact. i just eat whatever there is. hahaha..

but the troubles of 100th day will be carried over nonetheless.

jengjengjeng!

2006-06-25T02:14:00.000+08:00

countdown to coldplay.

time to memorize all the lyrics and make sure i dont sing wrongly there.

this is nothing new.

2006-06-24T19:37:00.000+08:00

it was just like some weekend get away. with the whole night to ourselves on friday and saturday left with just the presentations. wacky new found friends and free buffet all day. fun fun fun!
the blankets were super plush, pillows not too soft nor too hard and the whole bed was so freaking big. you can almost forget what you're there for. almost.

and then i just realised that i gave my wrong email to all of them. now i won't have any of them on my msn. so so sad!

if you do know where i can get or watch the following films, do tell tell me.

15 - full length
4:30
cut
the old man and the river

now to add on,

Sort by Song -
First Song: - - b-quartet
Last Song: Zombies Walk!! (Sufjan Stevens vs. Kanye West) - sufjan stevens

Sort by Time -
Shortest Song: 09.First of all ... it didn't do a thing here - the beatles (0:07)
Longest Song: filthy fingers2 - brother's friend's house mix (1:39:40)

Sort by Artist -
First Artist: (Bjork Vs Photek)
Last Artist: zohar

Sort by Album -
First Album: 'Serendipity' - OST
Last Album: Franz Ferdinand- You Could Have It So Much Better With Franz Franz Ferdinand [UK]

Search the Keyword - song title only - and see how many songs appear:

"Sex": 17
"Death": 14
"Love": 373
"You": 567
"Me": 980
"Drug": 2
"Hate": 6

Shuffle your library and list the first five songs. No padding your playlist you hipster, you (whatever padding yr playlist means..) Be honest!! or I'll kill you. (not really ah..)

1. muse - The Grove In The States (Live at Top Cats)
2. the beatles - 09.Honey Pie
3. eric clapton - Walkin' Blues
4. the streets - Dry Your Eyes Mate
5. myrra - The Only Thing That I Can Think About Is You

(lousyyy selection.. i've never listened to 3 & 4 before.. and the reason is down below)

Total music: 4471 songs, 14 days, 24.6 GB

abit too much songs. and i have no keane in my selection. my high society collection is missing. and its quite disorganized. but try organizing 4471 songs. killer yo.

12 storeys

2006-06-23T00:15:00.000+08:00

i'm still unable to understand a couple of the short films in here. but they are interesting as hell.
and today's screen literacy seminar was quite interesting.. made me wish that i'd gotten singapore shorts instead of royston's shorts instead.

i'll be off then in a few hours. first to school at the most ungodly hours (7:30 in school...), then off to jb's sofitel resort for some student leaders seminar. the only reason why i didnt try to avoid having to go was because it's at a 4 star resort and all i have to do is take notes and present to the committee back here.

plus it's free.

and when i get back, the holidays are over. and assignments due on the 1st monday itself. tests the following week.(or is the the same week?) and our exciting monotonous school going ritual continues. but we dont ever get sick of it.

i seriously think zadie smith is one of the few authors i'll never be able to warm up to. like yann martel. booooring. but i picked up tony parson's collection of articles during his journalism days (he's still writing for the mirror, he looks like derek zoolander in his photo byline.) and it's quite exciting!

deceptive cadence

2006-06-17T16:55:00.000+08:00

i got my exams certificate today and i asked ms sue if i should continue playing the piano. since the only benefit i see that i can get from this is being able to teach once i get my final grades. this comes after a period where i don't feel like playing the piano at all, again.

and i'm glad that she said its normal for me to question myself because i've been playing for.. nearly 10 years. she kindly reminds me that i'd probably won't be the same person that i am if i had never touched the piano at all in the 1st place. i'd probably be listening to more kanye wests than what i have in my cd rack. i'd probably won't even be here studying masscomm with all you loonies. tony parsons might not even be my favourite author.

if i stop now, i'd be throwing away at least 9 years of musical education, countless hours of practice(not really much since i've always been a lazy ass) and probably saying goodbye to someone who has actually seen me grow from a short fat ass kid to .. a tall fat ass kid.

wash whites with darks.

2006-06-16T14:43:00.000+08:00

quite a surprise i say. nearly stopped my heart from beating. you should have seen how azhar said surprise! but it's still a nice low key affair :)

i think developing my own pics is gonna be as exciting as those holgarians with their own adventure with all the spots and freckles i found in the lenses..

yay! another picture of myself thanks to fft.. i think i have less than 10 decent ones..

yea, no surprises that the drink wasn't mine..

thank you all for the msgs though. :)

preludes are my favourite.

2006-06-15T12:42:00.000+08:00

"Now, the exciting part! As soon as your friends fill in their secret details in the questionnaire, the data will be mailed to you!! 99% of the time, your friend will fill in all their secrets. Imagine knowing all your friend's secret just like that. =)"

what a freaking lie.

this was wallflower.

2006-06-13T19:13:00.000+08:00

the neighbourhood kids found the buttons to the gigantic rubbish collection point below my block and locked one of themselves inside.

young punks.

open umbrellas in crowded places

2006-06-09T22:18:00.000+08:00

i just got my 1st sleep of more than 6 hours in 3 days. made sense? 3 hours of sleep in the past 2 days (nothing to be proud of. just means that you don't know how to do your work earlier), just 1 conversation lasting for more than half an hour in the past 3 days.
spent 21 hours at danials place with azhar in the past 3 days.
definitely lesser hours was spent in my own home. but i plan to stay in and watch all 35 shows for the next two weeks! and also catch up on my bus rides.

but its all over now for two weeks.
but theres always PR and comm issues to pretend to worry about, just to feel busy.
and theres fmss things to worry about.

and apparently what happened with our video was that it's been viewed by pleasantly unintended people. some even mailed the lecturers.. apparently life in fms hasnt changed one bit. :(

but world cup is here! all that means is that falling asleep halfway through the match.

NDP at Simei

2006-06-05T16:55:00.000+08:00

hello, june.

2006-06-03T20:10:00.000+08:00

1. Are you in a relationship?
no

2. Do you hate more than 3 people?
no, dunno

3. How many houses have you lived in?
1..2..3..4

4. What is your favorite candy bar?
mars

5. What are your favorite shoes?
jack purcells which aren't mine

6. Have you ever tripped someone?
yes, then i get beaten up.

7. What was your least favorite subject this year?
newswriting.. no communication issues, we practically do nothing. fun fair ah beb.

8. What was your favorite subject this year?
loc vid, radio. celebrates 70 years this year. no more 65.

9. Do you own a Britney Spears CD?
never, ever.

10. Have you ever thrown up in public?
no..

11. Name something that's always on your mind.
is there food at home? who else do i owe money. i hope i find a $50 note in my pocket suddenly.

12. What is your favorite music genre?
my ipod is constantly filled with indie, space rock and electronica albums. then there must always be one jazz or rock album, and some soft music to sleep with. and at least 1 local band.

13. Whats your zodiac sign?
gemini

14. What time were you born?
1.30am i think

15. Do you like beer?
no, haha really

16. Have you ever made a prank call?
haha.. yeah.

17. What is the most embarrassing CD you own?
uhmm.. evanesence and hoobastank.

18. Are you sarcastic?
no

19. What are your favorite colors?
brown. black. ligther shades of blue. green. yellow.

20. How many watches do you own?
1

21. Summer or winter?
winter.

22. Spring or fall?
fall

23. What is your favorite color to wear?
brown

24. Pepsi or Sprite?
sprite

25. What color is your cell phone?
slvr

26. Where is your second home?
train. i spend 2025 mins or 33.75hours. thats 3.5 days a week!

27. Have you ever slapped someone?
yeah. then she slapped me back. no fair.

28. Have you ever had a cavity?
i think i have 4. in primary 2 some more.

29. How many lamps are in your bedroom?
one reading light above my bed. but i never read in bed.

30. How many video games do you own?
one spoilt xbox.

31. What was your first pet?
i wanted tortoises, but my mum told me to get goldfish. damn boring la.

32. Have you ever had braces?
no

33. Do looks matter?
yes, sometimes.

34. Do you use chapstick?
no.

35. Name 3 teachers from your high school.
mr said. mrs tan-soon eng peng! and... cikgu zuariah.. haha

36. American Eagle or Abercrombie?
abercrombie

37. Are you too forgiving?
yes

38. How many children do you want?
dunno

39. Do you own something from Hot Topic?
no.

40. What is your favorite breakfast?
mutton chop

41. Do you own a gun?
no

42. Have you ever thought you were in love?
i think so

43. When was the last time you cried?
hari raya i think

44. What did you do 3 nights ago?
slept early i think. been sleeping early nowadays.

45. When was the last time you went to Olive Garden?
never heard before.

46. Have you ever called your teacher mom?
yes.

47. Have you ever been in a castle?
at some pasar malam in tampines

48. What are your nicknames?
haha... dunno actually.

49. Do you know anyone named Bertha?
no.

50. Have you ever been to Kentucky?
no..

51. Do you own something from Banana Republic?
no.

52. Are you thinking about somebody right now?
no.

53. Have you ever called someone Boo?
no.

54. Do you smoke?
no.

55. Do you own a diamond ring?
no.

56. Are you happy with your life right now?
im not happy that my newsangle sucks and i cant watch my lost episodes cos there's so much to do. life sux.

57. Do you dye your hair?
no

58. Does anyone like you?
no.

59. Do you like anyone?
no.

60. What were you doing May of 1994.
i think i was in the middle of Primary 1.

61. Do you own a Backstreet Boys CD?
no.

62. McDonald's or Wendy's?
if only we had wendy's in singapore.

63. Do you like yourself?
tough question.

64. Are you closer to your mother or father?
both. you can also say neither.

65. Favorite body feature of the opposite sex?
legs i think.

66. Are you afraid of the dark?
no. but in the fms building yes.

67. Have you ever eaten paste?
yes i think.

68. Do you have a webcam?
yes

69. Have you ever stripped?
jengjengjeng.

put things back where they don't belong

2006-06-01T23:03:00.000+08:00

my book/cd rack is over flowing and i've just realised that i dont have tony parsons, irvine welsh and at least 3 other books in my possesion.

books read:

the hitman diaries - danny king
son's story - son 120%
The fuck up - arthur nersesian
Blood Price - Jon evans
catch me if you can - frank w. abagnale
autobiography of a one year old - rohan candappa
the winter queen - boris akunin
marrying buddha - wei hui
trainspotting - irvine welsh
acid house - irvine welsh (MISSING!)
Man and boy - tony parsons
man and wife - tony parsons
one for my baby - tony parsons
family way - tony parsons (MISSING!)
stories we could tell - tony parsons
stories we could tell - tony parsons (smaller version)
the leader - guy walters
jaded - lucy hawking
skinny dip - carl hiaasen
Music : An appreciation - Roger kamien
life of pi - yann martel
i don't know how she does it - allison pearson
the curious incident of the dog in the nighttime - mark haddon
eats, shoots & leaves -- lynne truss
the cottage - danielle steel ( i swear the only reason i bought it was because i thought it was a thriller..MISSING!)
johnny angel - danielle steel (then i got hooked...)
the suicide kit - david l. hayles
the da vinci code - dan brown
people die - kevin winall
XXX -mel doom
mankind have a nice day - mick foley

books not yet read:

earth, air, fire and custard - tom holt
nine hundred and ninety-nine steps - michel faber
automated alice - jeff moon
trainspotting - irvine welsh
love you madly - alex george (i think this is a chick book written by a guy..)
half a world away - tom bromley
the bad mother's handbook - kate long
the auto graph man - zadie smith

i've got 4 racks of cds full.. a trip down to ikea soon during the breaks i predict. and i saw an ikea shuttle bus at the tampines mrt the other day. :)

cover up your mistakes and pass the bucket.

2006-05-30T20:15:00.000+08:00

haha, alright i swear i didn't know there'd be an influx of comments on stelf's blog.. and most of the comments came during lecture hours.

its true, blogs are personal and bla bla bla what have yous. you still have to be able to back what you say and the organization/person you're talking about does have the right to respond (as we've seen with the Lee family).

so i'll admit that the reason i commented on stelf's blog was because i had this strong feeling that she was commenting on the session we participated in. and i did comment on during the participation, so it did come off as something more personal to me. and there were lines in her post indicating that none of the commenters had any tact in trying to attack the presenters.
if i was 100% sure that she wasnt talking about the same session, i wouldnt give a rat's ass if she was to say that mcm is full of snorty uptight high society wannabe students, simply because there's so many other blogs dissing the our course online. and lets face it. being admitted into mcm automatically subjects you to critics and negative stereotypes. so technically she's just one of the fishes gnawing at the seaweed that has been going on for sooo long, and still will. (haha... i think anto and fizah shld be able to get this.)

and the whole point of the whole session was to see if the presenter's ideas and notion held ground if they were shaken by the audience/facilitator. and if you compare the questions shot at the 1st, 2nd(i dont think they were asked anything.. cept by hafiz.. even then they didnt really answer i think) and 3rd group showed how much the floor understood each group. but anyway, chong ching liang(the guy beside mr d.) did a fantastic job in stopping the train from crashing.

ok i'm done with this brouhaha already.
daniel ong was one of the 2(remember the other dude in webD?) guest lecturers today. and he was this really cool guy and made the lecture fun with all his anecdotes and pointers. come to think of it, it seemed as if he was doing one of those gigs he does over the weekend.
haha, i wanna talk more about him, but it's as if nothing much happened.

anyway, i uploaded the video for a 2nd time since the previous link is expiring soon.

crash private meetings with a big smile on your face.

2006-05-29T22:05:00.000+08:00

alright then, i've got quite alot to say today.

but i'll keep short anyway. i can't remember the last time i wrote something more than a page long.

well recently i've been chatting online to this couple from china through skype. i know it sounds shady but they're really nice people trying to learn english. we don't really talk much but the wife is reeeallly interesting (naturally). she's an editor for an internal publication somewhere in south china while the husband works at some HIV prevention clinic as an assistant. they really sound like any of us and its quite fun talking to them.
then there's always the possibiliy of them being fakers and cheating my feelings. maybe i'll talk to the wife one day and see if she has any china accent. skali she goes and say fuck you la dey!

then i found this little blog in livejournal dissing us masscommers for being too loud during the symc. rubbish! ok la. maybe one or two stories i heard from the other parallel sessions could probably be incident that she's talking about, but i can't help but to think that she's referring to the session we took part in. seriously, i think that that particular group's arguement was pretty much one sided and they kinda brought the wrong topic to the wrong school with the wrong buch of people. its like coming to an event organised by fms, and yet saying that singapore is lacking of institutes training future media professionals. but yes, she did have her points.

then i've not really talked much about our travel tales for the past few months havent i? i think its just because we ghetto people have finally MASTERED the art of train travelling in packs. but the 3 of us (danial, azhar and me) got beaten to a two seater during Xmen night by a small little girl! you should have seen her run for the seat la. me and danial was already at optimum speed (fast enough to beat an old lady, but slow enough to still look cool) but, just like that, the girl snatched the seats away..

oh, and there were reports of train disturbances by certain ETs... apparently these ETs are not very familiar with the rules of taking the train with a ghetto.

rule no1. never.. ever.. disturb a very tired ghetto member on the train.
rule no2. forget about us giving up our seats just so you can put your laptop on your lap.
rule no3. come with your own set of bitching stories. we don't share.

haha.. kidding la. you know im a sucker for all news juicy.

oh! we presented to the year ones today about some video blog competition. i tell you they're damn lucky with all the events and ipods we're literally throwing at them. this current competition alone, we're giving away 30gb ipod videos for the 1st prize. nanos and shuffles for 2nd and 3rd and ntuc/cold storage vouchers as consolation. all we got last sem for the apple project was 2gb nanos... but then again, with all the crappy workload the year ones are having around this time, i wont be surprised if less than 5 teams take part. if that's the case, i think we can just submit our own video and win the ipods for ourselves..

here was the video that we created last week as an example to show during the presentation.

ahh, that was quite long already.

be generous with backhanded compliments.

2006-05-28T13:37:00.000+08:00

i got myself the smaller version of tony parsons' latest version today at the book sale. :D hehe too bad i couldnt find any other cool tony parsons book. so thats 6 tony parsons book in my collection.
also got zadie smith at 6$ and some other non-conventional books.

caught x-men 3 with the others last night. so shiok! haha if only they had a cure for acne in a gun shot also.

ok there's alot to do now that week7 is upon us. jengjengjeng..
mat jengjeng.

accuse, confuse and refuse

2006-05-26T01:36:00.000+08:00

i cant beeeelieve i forgot to credit myself for today's video. that's quite sad. :(

i also can't believe we lost yet another match last week end. this time 5-1 against hafiz's team who looks wayyy better than what he makes it out to be. only 10 of us turned up for an 11man match so we kinda expected to lose anyway.

you should have just seen how the ball just slipped through my legs once, twice thrice after 70 mins..

and due dates and more events are coming in by the numbers

and the numbers in my bank account is slowwwwly going up. how exciting that is! coldplay and merchandises (i hope they sell limited edition whatever!) and baybeats survival kit and more cds and books!

it's so tempting to upload the video from today, but i shldnt!

and nope.. no one could never have ever thought of it to be like now :)

nope, no secret msgs here...

borrow handkerchiefs to blow your nose.

2006-05-25T01:15:00.000+08:00

whoa, a whole week full of late nights AT SCHOOL. 9.30pm(and beyond) is slowly becoming a normal time to end work and somehow reaching home only at 12am.. horrrrible.
i've missed out on tubs and tubs of icecream my father has been monopolising for the past week.
today i missed my first ever lesson in mass comm after a whole year. quite a landmark.

but! work has been wonderfully fun, stressful and just simply exhillarating. give me an extra hour or two and the project wld have been flawlessly edited. i've uploaded some of the audio files from radio sessions of azahar and selenie bantering about when they should be recording good air time. quite hillarious.

nyeah. i'll upload the files some other time.

oh! we did some filming for the presentation next week. oooommmgggg. its work in progress non stop with this fmss shit and the filmophile group. so stressfully exciting!

i have banana split at home. hah hah hah

procrastinate and someone else will definitely do it.

2006-05-21T19:48:00.000+08:00

i think that barbers strike a conversation with you only to find how old you are. no matter how many times you've visited them they'll ask you if you're in poly or jc or ns or whatever.. and i think thats only because they want to make sure they charge you in accordance.

just realised i have tonnes and tonnes of password.. at least 10..
i went on a download frenzy after chatting online about damien rice. and downloads are completed!

for all the good people with the coldplay tickets already in hand. twisted logic tour.
answers to the band search here.

race for the last seat on the train

2006-05-20T23:22:00.000+08:00

i've always thought that lj was for girls and was pretty boring. but i've gone to find a couple of interesting communities every since fizah switched and showed me some of the wonders of being an lj.

i've always wondered why they don't show nudity in singapore. its everywhere on the internet anyway now. but 600 polaroids? this guy must be crazy..

and fizah showed me this also. find allll the bands you can find in here. i have the answers also. but i don't think i'll post it up now and spoil it all for you. filled my night/afternoon yesterday. (or was it today?)

lets get cracking on all those family guy shows then.

leave the price tags on presents.

2006-05-19T23:26:00.000+08:00

now then, the fmss meeting was quite interesting. we've technically assumed our positions and our 1st project's pre production work is nearly complete. suddenly there's a rush of things to be done but it's more exciting than stressful(hopefully).

we've got a couple of projects on our hands already with the video competition to be presented in a week's time, the 100th day in fms party, and the most interesting would be the MTV asia party/event(i've forgotten what it's all about, but boy is it big.)

so exciting!

heads you win, tails you win

2006-05-19T00:35:00.000+08:00

managed to catch da vinci code in the end at century square with back row seats on opening day! haha. i just found it quite exciting.

the movie lived up quite to its hype and all. there's not much to deviate from the book itself so it was quite exciting to watch the whole process going on. but i've forgotten what happened towards the end, so even if they changed the whole ending with the cameo from the whole priory (which i dont recall), i wldn't know.

it didnt feel like there was no school at all today, and i'll certainly feel the long hours of tmr at the end of it. 5.30am... urghhh.

signal left; turn right

2006-05-17T22:45:00.000+08:00

oooooohhh my god. starve for the whole day and just keep on eating and eating and eating at night. for free! bbq food and mee hoon and beef steak and satay and chicken and fruits and bbq sting ray and and and.. ice jelly cocktail. i think i ate a meal fit for 4 people on a diet.
it's so tepmting to just jump into bed and sleep but there's the champions league final in 3 hours.

i dont see why sel's so unhappy with the speculation and scandal mill's latest(or recent, at least) production. haha.. i better not say much or i'll get multiple bitch slaps and she'll quickly finish her salads before i can come.

ohh esther, the baybeats schedule is out! just in case you wanna catch any particular bands then.

saya might join cikgu melanie's lecture minggu depan. sungguh exciting!

stop! the bitch.

2006-05-16T23:07:00.000+08:00

burger ramli bliss at clementi from now till the 21st. something tells me they're from malaysia.. lagi shiok yo!

Family Guy season 2 bliss thanks to joel! no more lonely nights.

music cd bliss when i found the difference in quality between a normal CD and a 320kbps at the highest vbr rate to be very different. will be reverting back to the cd player in a short while.

money woes still part of reality, need to get a job BY THIS WEEKEND.

and lets finish k545 by this month ya? i shld not forget about clementi's sonatinas too...

hmm.

everyday i love you less and less.

2006-05-15T20:23:00.000+08:00

today my best friend refused to lend me another $0.40 so that i can buy just one measly chicken pie.

that's one person less to look out for during rainy days...

$0.40!!!

dry.

2006-05-15T00:11:00.000+08:00

they just want me to spend. this book sale is making me so excited!

my first ever mph book sale ( i think.)

this is wallflower.

2006-05-14T14:20:00.000+08:00

i nearly missed broadcast last night. simply because i'd forgotten that 13th May was yesterday.

there was this guy from couple(KL) performing on his own since his bandmates cldn't make it. quite sad no? plus his set clashed with lunarin's opening. so we rushed off just in time for their first song. oh but they really should have some kind of platform for the performers so we audiences can see them while standing up. sitting down for the whole night really does not help your back maintain any kind of comfort.

i'd have bought more cds if i weren't saving up for coldplay. but i guess four in one night is more than enough. the auction for linda ong, however, was not enough. for $88 you get a date with her, a free meal, a cd and some tickets to some other gig. urhg! im so jealous. i think they shld have paid someone to bid for her higher. i didnt stay on for astreal's ginette's auction, i do hope she fared better.

and today, it's either watch alonso win the spanish grand prix or catch the young guns film screening at the esplanade. something tells me i'll end up taking pictures for my webD assignment. it's quite exciting! hehe. i need to think of a story. but here are the characters so far:

a horny wooden monster
a hungry Apu (direct from the Kwik-E-Mart, he has a freaking Ph.D!)
a lovelorn storm trooper (emo alert.)
and more. i can't think other characters to add.

i got myself a 2nd for good! compilation album last night. i'll be selling it off again too. now i wish i'd gotten myself astreal isntead of lunarin. :(

rescue mission #3

2006-05-12T23:08:00.000+08:00

no more gay pop ups!

reformated the laptop today, only to have my school documents encrypted for the last set of user-ship pre-reformatting. i wont bother explaining. just means that i lost all my bookmark links and other documents. thankgoodness i've yet to start on my webD assignment.

but i installed over 20 plugins/extensions/search engines for firefox and many other useful software to get through life. a quick check and i found myself with 7642 songs in my harddrive.

i forgot that im having the lead test tmr morning. damnn.

but lets not care about that. let's care about this:

1. At the movies: When you meet acquaintances/friends…
Stupid Question: Hey, what are you doing here?
Answer: Don’t u know, I sell tickets in black over here…

2. In the bus:
A heavy lady wearing pointed high-heeled shoes steps on your feet…
Stupid Question:- Sorry, did that hurt?
Answer:-No, not at all, I’m on local anesthesia…..why don’t you try again.

3. At a funeral:
One of the teary-eyed people asks…
Stupid Question: Why, why him, of all people.
Answer: Why? Would it rather have been you?

4. At a restaurant: When you ask the waiter
Stupid Question: Is the “Butter Paneer Masala” good??
Answer: No, it’s terrible and made of adulterated cement. We occasionally also spit in it.

5. At a family get-together: When some distant aunt meets you after years
Stupid Question: Munna, Chickoo, you’ve become so big.
Answer: Well you haven’t particularly shrunk yourself.

6. When a friend announces her wedding, and you ask…
Stupid Question: Is the guy you’re marrying good?
Answer:-No, he’s a miserable wife-beating insensitive lout…it’s just the money.

7. When you get woken up at midnight by a phone call…
Stupid Question:- Sorry. were you sleeping?
Answer:- No. I was doing research on whether the Zulu tribes in Africa marry or not. You thought I was sleeping…. You dumb witted moron.

8. When you see a friend/colleague with evidently shorter hair…
Stupid Question: Hey have you had a haircut?
Answer: No, its autumn and I’m shedding……

9. At the dentist when he’s sticking pointed objects in your mouth…
Stupid Question:- Tell me if it hurts?
Answer: No it wont. It will just bleed.

10. You are smoking a cigarette and a cute woman in your office asks…
Stupid Question: Oh, so you smoke.
Answer: Gosh, it’s a miracle …………it was a piece of chalk and now it’s in flames!!!

i dont think long weekends are good for me. i practically do nothing over the weekend.

it's always ok with you, bitch.

2006-05-12T01:17:00.000+08:00

help me out here. BUY AS MANY AS YOU WANT. but no discounts.
conditions of each cd is in good condition unless stated. coldplay has arrived.

snow patrol - final straw
usher - confession/confessions(whatever)
john mayer - heavier things
alicia keys - the diary of alicia keys
keane - hopes and fears
maroon 5 - songs about jane
green day - american idiot
fat boy slim - palookaville
fat boy slim - you've come a long way , baby
hoobastank - the reason
dido - life for rent
the black eyed peas - elephunk
evanescence - fallen

go! contact me.

lets go broadcast, ok?

2006-05-11T22:01:00.000+08:00

thanks to valerie, the climatic episode of prison break was quite tame knowing what was going to happen in the end. the most i could garner was a jump on the bed during one of the final scenes.

radio assignment's progress has been fantastic and we visited the candy empire in millenia walk after work. now wasn't that tiring?

one of our works from the time we were in chiang mai is up for downloads to your right. i cant youtube it since it more than 10mins. it could have been better if we weren't so sick of editing it after 10 days of doing the same thing. (you might have to scroll down if you're on an older version of IE- time to get firefox anyway)
only up for 6 days/25downloads.

but i've got more videos here:
the evolution of dance.
a conversation.

happy holidays!

the glowering.

2006-05-11T00:31:00.000+08:00

the day was well spent crawling around the kampong glam district recording our interviews for the radio assignment. it went pretty well but the session with mister al-majlis was so damn long. when asked about how sheesha has turned to be a fav past time with some youths, he rambled on about clubbing and msning and talking and going back to basics. somehow he managed to connect that with our question successfully.

his part of the interview was 12mins, all this for a segment lasting no more than 4-5 mins. thank you for making our editing process a bitch later on. but i wldnt have known my dad was in the KGBa committee if dr talib didnt mention anything. and of course in the true good old sense of "janji melayu", he skips the past two general meetings after being appointed just recently.

another long weekend awaits. its practically a 2 day week for me this week. lectures on tuesday. class today. and tmr's class is cancelled, with vesak day on friday.
oh yea. i'll be back in school on saturday for newswriting.
suchabitch.

rabbit's foot.

2006-05-10T00:18:00.000+08:00

mi:3 was really a blast, but the review in yesterday's life pages made me realise that tom cruise really did do almost everything there was in the book spies. from elevator shaft escapes to the rescue mission on the bridge scene.

and name me one movie which does not have an 18wheeler truck behind a convoy of VVVIPs only to be forced to break just in time to avoid the whole flurry of crashes just 30m away, conveniently blocking the road for the perfect television report shot of a jammed bridge with a hole in the middle, which all just happens coincidentally in an action packed movie.

those of you who skipped comm issues lecture today missed out on the biggest quiz of your life man. super rings, cheeseballs, OC posters, AI tees and egg cakes thingy flying past your head like there's no tmr. and everyones paying attention in lecture nowadays, writing every single word on the lecture slides. way to go!

ah, we're having our radio interview tmr now. i'm semi excited about it; almost the same vox pops and interviews as the chiang mai video but this time, its graded. have i already said? this semester is too easy to be true. not counting newswriting and webD, we've got at least one whole weeks worth of lectures and tutorials cancelled for every other subjects somewhere in week 5/6/7/8/9/10/11/12/13/14/15. thats like a waste of our school fees.

i leave my laptop home for a day and i come back to find 66 viruses on the desktop and pop up windows everywhere. time for a reformat. and did i say? i got the for good! compilation cd. its really good!

polaris.

2006-05-08T23:42:00.000+08:00

... As you can see, the low education names are usually mis-spellings - intentional or not - of more standard names. This seems typical of (mostly Chinese) Singaporean names as well. Tell me you don't know any kids with names like Elvyn, Febii (pronounced Phoebe) and Lawrenz or shit like that. And all the crazy made-up names from god knows where, Brayden (Zoe Tay's kid), Adoncia (a friend professed this would be her child's name), and so on.
One favourite Singaporean trick is the adding of a 'son' at the end of everything. For example, Johnson, Billson, Davidson and the like. It's embarrassing, man. I'm just waiting for the day someone decides to one-up everyone else and name his kid Johnsonson. Mind you, I think it'll happen. So anyway, my point, is don't give your kid a crazy name. Not only does it make your kid look stupid, it kind of infers that you're not that sharp yourself. ...

got this off from zerotwohero who plans to read one book a week(and he's still on course). i take an average of 2 months to read one book, well below national average.

fork it out!

2006-05-07T11:46:00.000+08:00

better late than never, there are 14 reasons to get Aging Youth's compilation CD called For Good!

the obs' This Sad Song's chillbeat remix originally found here will be the opening track on the compilation.

listen to selected tracks.

high society.

2006-05-04T22:08:00.000+08:00

so they change in ways that you can never imagine.

suddenly we're turning into subway fans, spending $6 on sandwiches. i've always felt the pinch after subway, but never realised how painful it pinches.

i wonder how heavy this whole FMSS is going to be for us, and there's alot of help needed if we're running any events, so if we just happen to volunteer you.. don't go running away ok?

radio is the only exciting module this sem so far. public relations and newswriting shld be taking off before we even notice anything. i hate slow starts to a semester. because in by week 5/6/7/8/9.. you'll suddenly feel "shit only 6 weeks left till end of sem. i'm so fucking sccreeewwweeddd!"

OI! when the hell are we gonna get our own personal copies of the chiang mai ~~holiday~~ expedition video?! they didnt act out their survivor and amazing race skits for nothing dudes...

elections on saturday... so exciting. i saw the ice cream propaganda van around bedok during our last match(which we lost again..) reminds me of the propaganda van in red alert 2 during the 1st few allied mission. shoot them down and you get bonus cash. maybe the ice cream propaganda van is full of money also.

i'm quite dissapointed with tony parson's latest book. i'm having mixed feelings with his 3 protagonist approach. makes the book fast paced, but i dont get soaked into the whole story. which is sad.

that's 7 topics in one post.

search for it!

2006-05-03T22:43:00.000+08:00

after 2 days of starving and checking on my spending strictly, i blew $20 on cab fare to school. and that's not all. the driver was itching to tell me his story even though i had my iPods on. as predicted, today's topic was the general elections and potong pasir. then.. came the references to the japanese, the world war two.. and... hitler. wtf?!

i'm late for class and he drills me with the conversation during the highway jam.. i was still late in the end. useless waste of money.

i need to find a job asap. coldplay in july and i need to return shaun fizah and steph alooot.
erhghgh.

make your own face: create your own police mugshot thingy!

Adeline Koh encourages stupidity (elitism)!!! (from togoparts.com)

2006-05-01T13:57:00.000+08:00

"By Adeline Koh: Its no secret who's better

I hate to be blunt, but JC students are better than polytechnic students, period.

Politically incorrect I may sound, but here are the facts. Entry requirements at JCs are far more stringent than those at polys. As a result, large numbers of students who do not make the cut for JCs are "forced" to opt for a poly education.

Those who enter polys of their own choice remain the exception, rather than the rule. Also, when the Public Service Commission awards scholarships to Singapore's best and brightest, they look to JCs, not polytechnics.

Yes, polys have improved in recent years, but there is still a long way to go before the average poly student matches up to the average JC student.

Sad to say, but this is an open secret."

haha, i wonder if there were responses in the forums. its super flame bait material and it's as good as social suicide. i wonder where does all these comparison put those who have gone through both jc and poly, and those who went private.

of saturday mornings.

2006-04-29T21:45:00.000+08:00

i was walking down the bowling alley with ashley when we saw this girl eating nasi lemak on her own. so we approached her, trying to be the nice male senior looking after his female junior.

oh the horror!

she turned out to be a not-so-young lady. (which automatically rules out the possibility of her being a student) she had that classic "why the fuck are you disturbing my dinner??" soon panic starts to sink in and we made really small conversation about us being in year two and her teaching the other cohort currently.

but i wonder why i told her our names. what if she remember us next sem? ashley and i can forget about doing well for that module.

i'd say the bowling event went pretty well. i dont think there was any hiccups besides the supper messy start at the start. but after that, went with a couple of people and the new kid on the block to watch jasmine faint behind me in the middle of the tunnel of fun at zouk during rush hour.

all the spaces we've grown into.

2006-04-27T00:18:00.000+08:00

i can't find a time to play the piano this week. even though i dont have class tmr. i also dont have class on mondays.

stayed back to watch the short film screening by the fsv people. anthony chen dropped by and held a Q&A session with us. 17k for G-23. thats alot for a student proj. which reminds me, i still owe shaun 20$ from last sem! he was quite nice, considering he had won awards all over the world for G-23 alone. sel thinks he's hot.
but i think the ismail guy is hotter.

(hehe, bummed this off sel's blog.)
wut's in town, but my batt keeps running low. how to call?!

the minions and the ypilepsi.

2006-04-24T23:25:00.003+08:00

wonderful end to the holidays i guess. the documentary was very well done even though there was a rush towards the end. just can't wait to burn it to a dvd and send it out to the interviewees. which reminds me, wut's flying in tmr!

so 3 weeks editing the video and 2 weeks planning for the scavenger hunt. all paid off quite handsomely. i must say, everyone who came down to help out today fully deserve the CCA points AND more(if only we had saved enough for the volunteers). we(me,nat,jarryl,steph,elaine and kris) can't thank everyone enough. it was a good thing only half of the expected turn out, turned up. it'd be hell if 80 people were all there.

there's still work to do. school starts tmr!
8.30am, ghetto people!

i just realised we're gonna be called the ghetto people for the next 2 years and even after we graduate unless we move out of the slums. i still remember how danial came up with the ghetto. haha.. hari raya. ok la.

ghetto power!

see you soon.

2006-04-23T22:45:00.000+08:00

5 years on and the timing's still spot on.

anthology 3.

2006-04-19T21:02:00.000+08:00

Create your own Music List @ HotFreeLayouts!

i've misplaced some of the cds here and i can't remember where it is. i've stopped buying any cds for the longest of times because i'm broke and that nano allows me access laptop's music library.

my favourites includes all.

i'll never be truly happy till the day all my cds are returned(and i return all those that arn't mine) and my tony parsons book returns safely.

from charity's camera

2006-04-17T22:09:00.000+08:00

this is azhar, but i'm more fascinated by the shadow of my hand. it's quite big, YO!

discolight.

du du duut duuu.

2006-04-17T20:52:00.000+08:00

editing is starting to be sickening. same routine - i'll come slightly earlier, jas will start on the subtitles (which is a pain in the ass, but the answers by the participants are quite interesting) then kristy will do her magic. we have to be done by wednesday if not we'll be screwwwwwwed.

there was a heavy pile up on the road opposite NP. and there was no cab on the road going the other way. BUT! i had a nice chat with the taxi driver back home.

that made my day.

azzaharr's pahtee.

2006-04-16T17:35:00.000+08:00

ooohhhhhhhhmmmmmyyyyyygod. its 5.40 and i just woke up. i feel like i just got pounded on the left side of my head. and with cramps at both my little-cows(calfs). but the party was great (in a un-OC, more chino style)

i mean a night full of chicken wings, mini sausages and some white sausage. what else can beat that?

now it was nice to see almost everyone getting high. but im glad some of us stayed sober.. actually, i'd have preferred if catherine wasn't sober. i think i just embarassed myself infront of her the wholeeee night. and while i remember only bits and pieces abt it, i think she remembers everything.

well then, now we all know what we want when we go for another of his parties huh?

i can't decide.

2006-04-15T00:06:00.000+08:00

well then, one of our friends is getting engaged later on in june and she's our age too.

shotgun? no...
true love beb.

fujiya&miyagi

2006-04-14T20:19:00.000+08:00

relationships with sin.

2006-04-12T17:15:00.000+08:00

the mac crashed again for the 2nd time,
but editing is back on track and mr yeo gave another ambiguous answer to whether we can push the deadline for the documentary, so i guess we can relax and watch our that 70s show, greys anatomy and other shows again.

not a thing to do, but talk to you.

2006-04-11T22:05:00.000+08:00

i was clearing my junk mail when i thought i saw a mail from one of the people from chiang mai. and they asked me to add them online. which i did. so we talked for alittle before i got on to my 70s show show. anyway, from her site, she says she's from singapore. but something tells me she isnt...

bitchmac.

2006-04-11T20:35:00.000+08:00

if not for some music and tony parsons, the 2 hour long bus ride home from school would have been the longest i'd have had in a long while.

if not for one mac corrupting our documentary when nearly 60% is done, i'd have taken the train and not need to be in school by 9 to redo the documentary from scratch.

well at least preps for the scavenger hunt for freshie's first day is going well.

lets watch 70s show... i got 4 seasons to catch up on.

gua lapar ah. mau makan skarang. jumpa lagi ah beb.

just tell me...

2006-04-10T20:59:00.000+08:00

how many moves you took to complete this puzzle. i got 270 at 2nd try and i stopped.

and this is alanis morissette. distant relative of ms melanie.

gundu gang fund

2006-04-07T00:28:00.000+08:00

well it has been raining alot hasnt it. im quite happy with posting pics nowadays, since all i do is stay home and watch days go by. except for the past two days, where i edited in school and had dinner outside and today, where i went to sentosa! and marine parade! and home!

this is how my neighbourhood looks like. very clean because of the hardworking foreign workers working hard all day/night.

but it rained heavily after their afternoon sweeping shifts of sweeping in the afternoon.

so it looks really dirty just 15 mins after they clean up the place. like reallly dirty and weird with all the giant worms coming up from the red bricks when it rains.

we went to sentosa today.

we played the luge four times, for free because we gave them free slurpees for slogging their ass off and speaking in different languages daily since picky works there. i got knocked off by a thai boy who looked scared with his helmet tilted to the side and laughing nervously when i laugh.

oh, we took this thing 3 times, and each time the skies got darker and darker till it covered the island.

and recently on the chiang mai trip, i confirmed that i get motion sickness from cars too. i hate taking the train on my own cos thats when i get motion sickness too. esp when i get it at tanah merah. then i'd have to hold it till dover. suxxxx. but my vision doesnt go blurry when i get motion sickness. i just keep quiet and say alot of stuff.

the holidays is coming to an end! 24th april. and tmr is shear's bday celebration-cum-gathering. spend more money and im not working. nvm. i think i can buy less food, but eat off everyone's plate to save money. =) they dont eat much anyway.

put your ear on the cup on the door!

2006-04-06T01:16:00.000+08:00

i'm feeling quite bittersweet right now. i bought the casing for the hard drives i have, only to find out that my 80gb harddrive is spoilt. i think the xbox blowout caused some evil to happen in the hdd and it makes clinkclinkclunk noises when its moving.

so i took out the 120gb harddrive from my no-power desktop and, its working! means that i have 120gb to transfer around. isn't that nice? but im still sad about the 80gb. i spent.. ard 120$ for it when i was 15 only. and it was my own moneyyyy. and now its spoilt. im quite sad.

but the fun thing about the 120gb is that all the programs can be run in my laptop too. so i have moodlogic(some fun software to sort my music according to the mood of the music), i have ..well thats all i guess, i didnt really install much. but i have my bright eyes music now.

and some of eunice's stuff. her friend's quite hot. so many pics of her in the hdd. oh!
i still have 788 baht with me. im gonna keep it and use it the next time i go thailand. anyone else wanna donate their left overs to me? =)

i met leona, tiffany and anna today! over a year since i've not met tiffany. ahhh. those were the days.

very unorganised post today. so many things to do. and i dont think im going to danial's to watch soccer. but he doesnt know. but i think he knows. haha.

enjoy your day/night!

walter melon.

2006-04-03T22:08:00.000+08:00

as long as you're headed somewhere.
images by wut. wutt. wuuttyyyy.

machine says yes.

2006-04-03T21:48:00.000+08:00

ok, at least i did something significant today.

lets see. the past 2 days, i've not met any other living person besides my family or my piano teacher. today i tried to do some bicycle crunches but i almost fell asleep while resting between sets. but i did cycle, for a mere 50 mins. familiar route, but took the long way.
the only reason i got back early was because i made a wrong turn somewhere and decided my legs were too tired after a year(or so) of inactivity.

i reeeeaaaalllllyyyy want to watch some tv show. but im too lazy to download any(even though im online nearly 24hours now) and i kinda like doing nothing at home. its something new to me(staying home and doing nothing). i guess this is what you call a holiday.

but editing starts on wednesdays.. and we have to do tonsss over tonsss of subtitles on final cut. but i am looking forward to the fms videos. hehe.. im sooo glad they didnt do any recording during the white water rafting meelee.

supporting studies.

2006-04-02T16:08:00.000+08:00

change of template to kubrick. a little too late, but it's still blue.

i had a weird dream. (even weirder, i recalled my dream while talking to shear.)

started sweetly, with vespa gang people.. riding here and there. nothing much.
then i got sucked back to some room. i think charity was there. plus other people. but all of them had their heads tucked in.

because, i was in a room full of vampires.

i swear! the vampire baptising me into one, was the same fella who tried to sell his insurance policies to me. omg. yea! it was him!! that blood sucking fella.. well anyway, i got vampired and he led me to the window and head-nudged me on. "fly.. come on.. try it."

and there i was! flying. (im leaving out the gory stuff that was still going on in the room, because it's boring.) but the insurance/vampire-man wasnt flying. he was piggy back riding on my. now in my mind i was:
why the fuck is he on my back. i want my freedom man!
but it turns out that he cant fly, but is invincible to flying bullets (will get there soon.)

so we ended up at changi prison, to look at the beach. we climbed up one of the walls but he's oblivious to the guards on the watchtower waving at us to get off, also to the CCTV just to our right. i pull him off and we try to fly off. but noooo.. i had to run to get some momentum.

ran past a lazy female guard who just stood her ground but took a shot at me, at this point of time, my insurance/vampire-man tries to grab the bullet since he's immune to it (but im not, weirdly.) the bullet goes past him(cos he's immune) but it hits me.

dumb.then we flew off.

whether blue or grey be your sky.

2006-04-01T01:49:00.000+08:00

shit, im trying to be emo here and i'm talking to azhar about un-emo stuff.

but im not the emo kind who sulks 24/7 telling ppl i have problem with life and that its better that i die before all of you. i actually tried, but it didnt seem right so i deleted it.

its just not innate. and it comes out more innane than anything else.

to me, at least.

just like you said it should be.

2006-03-31T18:49:00.000+08:00

we'll both forget the breeze.

i put on damien rice and it's raining ! quite heavily. quite fitting music for the mood. im actually glad it didnt rain in the 2 weeks we were in chiang mai. i wouldnt want to see the drain/river infront of our guest house flooding into our relex corner.
none of the vespa gang people from CM have a friendster account.

and i just remembered that i forgot to contact the Chiang mai uni mass comm girls at all about meeting up again. whoops. they said the 200 baht massage place we went was quite a riiiiip off. since outside rate is nearly half of that.

but in singapore old men pay 30$ for thai/sweedish/traditional massage, so i guess 8$ is ok, with free transport.

a little colder.

2006-03-30T14:33:00.000+08:00

roar.
i am so pisssed offf. heart wrenching. to know that i missed out on Franz Ferdinand, Oasis, sold my tix to Kings Of Convenience for the chiang mai trip, Jason Mraz, Damien Rice.
now i have a few days to decide for jamie cullum.
which i dont think i'll be going since i dont really wanna go for crap seats.
thats it man. i'm gonna make a reserve for concerts and purely concerts.

and now since the time tables are out, i have mondays free, thurs and friday afternoons free too. so i can work and earn. yay. but i know i wont. urgh.

life suxxxxxx.!

on the brighter side, klazz brother's mozart meets cuba is out.

i'd choose marry.

2006-03-30T03:42:00.000+08:00

i was looking at sel's pics when i saw how our guesthouse looked like. hmmmmm.

whee, i did quite well for this semester, WAYYYY better than last semester. and yes, studies infront of everything else that matters. it feels good, but not as good as i was in chiang mai. hahahaha.. laughing just thinking of it.

especially that STUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUPID moment during white water rafting. all the versions of what happened im getting from people who have the littlest idea are allll wrong. of course it is. anyway, i was just playing in the water ( no other horny thoughts running through my head/pants), and anto just had to go around looking at my crotch. haha. i dont wanna go on any further about it. embarassing. but funny nonetheless. hehe.

it was nice spending time back in singapore with ssssoong, sssteph and sssshawna. but i must say, i prefer the people over in thailand. i dont remember spotting any ahbeng or overly-dressed-up teen walking around loudly over at central airport plaza or warorot market.
but i remember the boy who played basketball and injured his knee and told me to massage hard and i gave him the free blue lanyard i stole from the fms openhouse.

i think i blogged too many times this past 48 hours.

notes of chiang mai.

2006-03-29T15:00:00.000+08:00

i slept for 15 hours straight last night. the only thing i dreamt about was checking my bank balance to be only at 30$. what a nightmare.

the two weeks passed really quickly and i cant recall what we did during the 1st few days, besides checking out the power thai eatery with power thom yam. and eating at the arabian place. and bamboo rafting and elephant riding and trekking and visits to the night bazaar.

work officially started on . i cant even remember when. but i seriously wish i had taken up english teaching or outdoor games. then at least i'd have made friends with the kids there. they're so young and cute. sounds like im a paedophyllic cannibal.

then we met wut, our 1st interviewee who became our friend. he's a really nice guy with flair for photography (real deal here, not our typical teen interested in photography but only on the surface). some of us already got him to help out with out photography module later on. =)

i can't say much about the mass comm girls from the chiang mai university since we didnt hang out much with them.

unlike the vespa geng. they're reallly nice people with wonderful persona. on the final night of our trip, they brought us riding to 7 different places just for the fun of it. i promised ping i'll make my 1st bike a vespa. it didnt end off that nicely since we had 4 mean looking guys scaring the vespa gang away. but im sure they had better intentions. some of the vespa gang even came over to send us off, and as awkward it was (thanks to language differences and not-so-daily-goodbye-for-life-sad-rituals), them being there just .. well, was nice.

time passed like nobody's business and i miss being there already. the fact that living on the other side of the wall was nat and jj. and other friends just a knock away realllllly was great fun. that made the work we were doing become a secondary objective of the trip. i miss the 4 hour bus rides up and down the country. i miss waking up to double slices of bread with cold eggs and cheap groceries.

ok i got to go now, meeting some AIA guy who has been pestering me for the past 2 months to meet up with him. he has some power memory (orjust an organized organizer.)
so just some pictures from the trip.

tired heads on the way back to the guest house. from white water rafting day.

night ride with the vespa gang. end with a bang!

weird shots of them

teaching over at the christian school

selene and some cute beggars at chiang rai

fizah and heikal.

colourful costumes for work.

the few pictures i have of myself.

azhar, ms mel and jj.

danial. haha. looking dumb.

the t103 girls. minus some.

ping! and or!

am, neng and tum!

YAY!

strange feelings.

2006-03-28T16:29:00.000+08:00

my room never felt so big before.

i missed my mum. =)

2006-03-22T19:08:00.000+08:00

some reallly old dude hit on me today at wawee cafe. you have j.lo's word for it.

3 things you cant live without.

vespa.
money.
women.

thats what the vespa gang-interviewee group said when asked. more from them later when i upload my pics.

the listener

2006-03-20T17:37:00.000+08:00

its pretty hot here in chiang mai, dryer than singapore though. we've pretty much spent 7 days doing minimum work and almost shopping every day (if not staying in to play "team bonding games") . real work starts tomorrow when we film our 1st group of interviewee from chiang mai uni.

they're pretty much laid back here in chiang mai compared to singapore or bangkok. less hustle and bustle and they really have nice mountains to see from far out in the city.

we went trekking and elephant riding and bamboo rafting (typical tourist things that locals never do).

things are getting real mad with the mass commers here. the guys getting high on all sort of stuff they got from the hill tribes, and the girls.. haha.. faking orgasms. pranks are set to be pulled off on manyy people and i got my right leg shaved while i was knocked out by ... i dont even know who. now i gotta watch my back while doing anything.

hmm, i really want to pee. i think i'll update tmr after filming. they have the latest G5s at their cafe.

to the moon and back.

2006-03-13T21:55:00.000+08:00

YES AH!!! ricky martin is up and running. but i accidentally deleted one album.

i'll be gone from this freakkking hot and dry country and jumping straight into an even hotter land. for 2 whole weeks beb. 14 days... nah.. fun starts at night.. 13 nights... pwheough.

well then. i should make a list of things to buy stuff for, since i never bother to buy anything for anyone unless i see something that reminds me of someone. and you dont really want me to bring back the suckling pig or that white elephant, or ... you get the idea.

jasmine was telling me how this is not the best time to visit chiangmai/thailand with all the political turmoil embroiling at the heart of the nation and how the neighbours are busy culling the poisoned chix.

oh well, in 14 days.
till then,
take care!

streets of uptown

2006-03-12T19:50:00.000+08:00

i dont know about you but i have a problem with eating chicken. i hate the fact that i have to claw in between the bones to get the flesh out. i'd get visuals of the chicken alive and running around, then suddenly getting chopped on a chopping board. it'd be worse if i'd have to break the bones.. then i think of kittens and other cute animals.

i've been resting alot for the past few days, spending my whole day at home and feeling lazy to go out to meet anyone. i'd be turning into a recluse if i'm not leaving for chiang mai in 2 days.

and i reeaaalllllyyy want to bring ricky martin with me to thailand.. all the power songs he sang before he converted into hippity-hoppity.

remember private emotions?
or that.. i'm a desperado, underneath your window..
or she's all i've ever had
just one more night before i finish downloading.

yay! i got my 1st pay cheque from cnet. quite a substantial amount for barely 4 days worth of work. heh heh heh. and some tax form from oriental singapore... weird.

now... to magically turn the cheque into cash asap...

at least we tried.

2006-03-10T22:39:00.000+08:00

i downloaded mitch albom's 5 people you meet in heaven audio book thinking i'd walk around listening to it.

but i fell alseep after 10 mins.

our streets full of lizards.

2006-03-09T23:15:00.000+08:00

One of our 1^st few interviewees was this girl who warmed up to us in a space of 3 seconds. She’d been working the street getting people to do surveys for a talent spotting agency, and she is tremendously full of life. Her character was beyond warm, more of hot and sizzling. It would have taken quite some stuff to keep her quiet.

I would say for a Singaporean, she was really un-Singaporean. We didn’t get any one else more spontaneous than she was in her answers. Which makes me wonder why Singaporeans wouldn’t appear in front of the camera if their lives depended on it.

And she did well enough with her languages (A1s for eng, Chinese, higher Chinese) that she could go to any course she wanted. but she allowed ngee ann’s poor exhibitions to help her decide that she’d rather go to the SP’s mass comm equivalent.

I wish her well, and we finally have something concrete (though still hazy for certain parts) to follow on the documentary. I cant wait to fly offfff. Suddenly $200 doesn’t seem enough for 2 weeks.

Weather has been hot hasn’t it?

----

i find this realllly cute, but sad at the same time.

more.

c is scary

2006-03-08T21:29:00.000+08:00

the 1st leg of our documentary went... quite ok. singaporeans can be quite hard/shy/looserish/boring to interview. quite tiring after just afew hours. can't imagine doing it over in CM.

mardhiah tagged me. why is it called tagging anyway? its like i just got out of prison for probation and i got tagged and i have a curfew.

which reminds me. i kinda changed number for awhile. (yea. i am, for one, able to relate handphones with prison.) which means that im missing out on a lot of msgs (i would think so). so for now im using my mum's phone since i(my dad, actually. but i told him im paying on my own now.) didn't pay the bill yet. and im gonna be using this line longer than expected.

anyway,

The Perfect Lover.

(1)
(2) ability to talk effortlessly. silence is for the golden years
(3) love for good reads/music (for this will lead to love for other good stuff)
(4) an affinity for life
(5)
(6) travel! but never one to spoil herself
(7)
(8) but there's no such thing as a perfect lover.

not surprisingly, i cant think of any others. superficial wants only do so much.
i mean, i can be funny (being laughed at.. it never changes..) or i can bitch with you 24/7, but that can only provide companionated or fatuous love (ok i dont really like this word) or companionship.

and dont talk to me about consumate love.

oooooh. happy 18th birthday, jasmine! im reeeeally glad im working with you two for the documentary la.. i think i can actually sit back and just listen to instructions and still have fun.

i reeeeally wanted to see how zouk is like, but i dont really want to be asked for id and stuff. (and i was feeling lazy) another time.

(i think im supposed to ask ppl to do the perfect lover thingy.. but i know no one will. so, just do if you think you can do a better one than mine. thats not really hard to do)

making the most of it.

2006-03-06T00:49:00.000+08:00

we'll be flying off next tuesday, and the documentary is still at 20% only. nothing definite after 3 days thanks to mr ambiguous. " if its good enough we'll broadcast it on discovery channel. " only 3 more days to plan the whole shoot. just what happens if - when we get there, the thai prod team happens to have the shoot alllll planned and we're there to be the grip, or cam assistant or just to 'watch and learn'. the 3 of us will go crazy if that happens. but it seems to be a possibility since no-body knows anything.

anyway. im sure things will come out great and im sure chiang mai will be one hell of a blast!!! ooohhhhhh hhho.. tuk tuk rides with our thousand dollar equipment! hahaha.. im laughing just thinking of it..

do you still remember that crazy shortcut the tuktuk driver took, picky? hahaha..
and fired rice.. hahha..
and dah bingit nye(pissed off) shopping style at suanlum night market.

funny!

ooooh. we MUST visit any starbucks and take advantage of their $5 grande coffees. singapore's a rip off after you've done thailand.

the obs is a must have for chiang mai. and i've still not gotten myself lunarin's album.

things i want to do before the trip.

hit the gym daily (hey... i did state in my intentions form that the trip is motivating me to hit the gym.. heh. right..)
learn one new song. romeo and juliet theme maybe. or libestraum
update passport
finish reading winter queen so i can bring a new book

taking control.

2006-03-05T02:03:00.000+08:00

hottest ride i've come across today.. but the seat post make the seat look like an ostrich head.

maximixing your ROI at pizza hut : the things you do to show how hungry/kiasu you are.

emO.C : parody of everyone's fav. i love the way ryan punches at the beach.

real life simpsons intro (soong.) : as said, someone actually went to do alll this?

hunger strike.

2006-03-05T00:58:00.000+08:00

my neighbour rang my door asking if my video doorbell thingy has recording capabilities. some monkey left garbage outside his house twice today. its reallly childish because its realllly easy to figure out which stupid family the rubbish belongs to. it has to be a 2nd storey family with infants/small monkeys since they have baby food in the garbage.

and its not really the 1st time this has happened. when i was in sec 3 or 4 they left their garbage at the staircase landing for weeks on end. so i printed a realllly long note and pasted over their garbage saying its quite obvious who they were and bla bla bla.

the guy never looked at me in the eye or smiled at alll since then. haha.. i was just 15/16 then man.. and he does this now, lazy mother fucker.

.

met up with... peggy! finally, to get my 80bucks for the KOC tickets. so i have some money for now. i ALMOST went to gramophone to get myself some cd. i still dont have mraz's latest album. but im quite sad that my cd collection is in seriously bad condition. ppl are not returning my cds (AND TONY PARSONS' THE FAMILY WAY. im seriously sad because of this. shall not think of it.) and i cant remember who borrowed. no more lending from me. >:(

and i covered 45 pages of the winter queen today. man.. i seriously have a boring life.. but i did get to watch a girl knit throughout the bus ride home. that was interesting.

butt cramps.

2006-03-03T21:10:00.000+08:00

i just watched jamie oliver in his school dinners series, where he campaigns to get british kids start eating healthy grub. im not sure if this was the 1st episode, but he horribly failed. he has to compete with the orginal cook whose main concern is to feed the youngsters on time, at any cost. jamie on the other hand, makes healthy but not so yummy food and gets his ass kicked by the head cook in the school (he has to work together with her to get the kids to eat his food).

so everyday, the kids have the choice to eat normal canteen food, or have jamie oliver's school-canteen cooked meals. and they still choose normal canteen food over his. im going nowhere with this review of his show. the fun stuff is when you see jamie being scolded by the old lady(cook) for doing things wrong in HER kitchen. and all the fucks come out. now thats what i call reality show. where the stakes are real, and the fights are not staged. (maybe they are. but. why would they?) (so obvious studying med soc has not helped me one bit.)

but before watching that, i think i had ass cramps in my right butt. i still have it. i think i sit too much on my right ass. tried to massage it also. didnt work.

i came across this while reading up on jamie cullum. (i jumped links quite far...)
and i like this alotttt.

are you hoping for a mircacle.

2006-03-02T22:16:00.000+08:00

i have the ability to sleep less than 30 mins into a soccer match, just missing out on the game's 1st goal. and waking up RIGHT AFTER the final whistle, or just before. giving me time to recover from my groggy state and curse for falling asleep then taking a quick glance at the score.

then i go back to sleep.

yay. we won 2nd prize. ipod nano. yay.

but i think the chiang mai prep work today took more importance la.
change of instructions.
lack of instructions.
weird instructions.
wrong instructions.

it'll suck the life out of us.

my hobby when im not tied down.

2006-03-01T01:16:00.000+08:00

one down,

8 more books to go.

From my last 2 book heist;

~~The Hitman Diaries~~ ~~danny king~~
The Winter Queen boris akunin
The Suicide Kit david l. hayles
The Hundred and Ninety-Nine Steps michel Faber
~~The Acid House~~ ~~irvine welsh~~
Trainspotting irvine welsh

~~Marrying Buddha~~ ~~wei hui~~
~~Blood Price~~ ~~jon evans~~
Half a World Away tom bromley
People Die kevin wignall

~~I Don't Know How She Does It~~ ~~allison pearson~~
The Bad Mother's Handbook kate long
Stories We Could Tell tony parsons. =)

reading books sounds boring. but i'm gonna make it fun!

read naked.

joyful.

2006-02-27T20:00:00.000+08:00

i have deng deng(beef bakwa) in my kitchen!!

=D .

Clockwork Psychopath

2006-02-27T10:47:00.000+08:00

life is clearly in black and white. and the grey area to me, is when the dreams come to you non-stop. black and white, because the more you think of why things happen, the more reasons you have to explain it. and confusing as hell, i can't figure out all 3 dreams i had today. ok, so the last one i had is probably related to my new-found obsession with .. something. but the rest of the dreams ive been having lately, are down right weird and do not connect on any level. i guess thats the whole point of having grey areas in life.

i stepped out of the lift and at the corner of my eye, i saw someone standing still at the staircase. and a split second later, he was at the top and jutting his head out only for me to catch a glimpse of it for a split second.

i tell you i would have pee-ed my pants soaking wet if i hadn't vomited there and then.
i thought it was another ghost dream.
so the young bastard just comes down and asks, 'why are you vomiting?'.

bastard.

Jamie Cullum in Singapore

2006-02-26T12:53:00.000+08:00

in the sun, some mumbles.

2006-02-24T23:50:00.000+08:00

just some things before the weekend starts,

i've been having quite weird dreams lately. that super surreal dream where i was lost somewhere(in a car- the car suddenly dissapeared though.) and then i saw that pochong ghost (zombie who's wrapped up in white cloth and the cloth is tied up at the top of the head.) and i guess it was scaring me. i think i fainted in the dream(luckily).

and how firman was actually getting married (not the actuall marriage ceremony.. just sitting down and talking). and i didnt really like the fact that he was getting married. im not sure if it was the girl he was marrying or whatever issue made me unhappy. he has a girlfriend now too though.

and that stupid dream where by the people who were in charge of MCs(med cert. not mc hammer mc..) for one class i was having would be chosen to go to survive somewhere (this was the day after i had the chiang mai briefing). so there's 4 types of MCs. the normal mcs.. like go doctor.. then on leave mcs(not really mcs then?) ..and 2 other equally weird types of mc.

those incharge of the normal mc had to pack and leave for africa and.. i dunno why we were leaving in such a rush too. i tell you, it was just weird.
then in charge of on-leave mcs went to japan/korea for their winter survival thingy .
then there was india i think..
then i was the last group.. and i went to australia. quite dissapointed because i felt that i shld have gone for africa instead. and not waited what other places there was to go..

if you're bored reading..

try this maze game. i got to level 10 of it. quite fun endnig
or make your own bombay movie. or watch this subbed-over version.
then there's this cool d&b of sheeps.

.. i was talking to fizah the other day how i wished there was this machine to cure all acne problems. there'll be a pump where you stick it in your mouth. then you start pumping..(ok... its starting to sound wrong). then after enough pumps, all your acne on your face will fly out like they've never been squeezed out before. if only...

there's this fat guy at work.. who thinks that office politics are rampant in that place where im working. ok, here are my reasons why there shouldnt be any politics in my workplace:

half of the temp staff there are either old, or in between jobs or just wanna make money during our school hols.
everyone wants to get out of that 9-6 boring job(unless you find joy and feel that you have passion to haggle strangers to attend boring seminars by IBM 9-6pm 5 times a week, all your life.)
everyone unleashes their classified ads during lunch time to find a new permanent job.
the pay is too good to make trouble with anyone
no body hangs out with each other and goes to lunch on their own.

but this fat dude tells me things like

there's a mole inside the office to find out who's saying bad stuff bout each other
we shouldnt talk much to each other about work in work
we shouldnt talk much at all
dont say out loud "hey lets go makan,its break time"; i should instead just stand up, look at my watch and wink at the door. he'll follow me in a while. (i actually accidentally did this while wanting to meet fizah.. i had to run off and hope the elevator would come fast..)
he says that all the malays(ie, me and him) should stick together and not interact much with the rest.

no wonder he's still stuck there.