it's not really time to take a pill down your throat for learning thread chairs cos a call comes to keep your mouth shut.

31st

Wednesday, December 31, 2008 0 comments

Today's the 31st.

Time for reflection and thanksgiving.

Thanksgiving post

Tuesday, December 30, 2008 0 comments

i've just finished 2 and a quarter GLASSES of tequila, and went breaking after that. so im kinda like tipsy now. And for such, i will type my thanksgiving post. I brand myself for being honest and completely sincere to my friends with anything I say, so with all my heart and all my sincerity, this is for you :) Also, because im tipsy, my neural processes aren't as controlled as they should be, this is because your subconscious processes slow and become less controlled.. not totally uncontrolled that's the thing, but i want it to be less activated so what i say would be equally sincere, but more honest and true. I'm known for my super-intrapersonal knowledgle and rationality even when I'm completely drunk, but heck it, this night at 1.24am, i will just let it loose abit, that's if i can.

Well, where should I start? ok kyensai first, you other guys will flow into my mind later :)

Daniel and Christina - Hey you both, it's been a few years and i've blogged roughly the same stuff. You guys may be bored of it, but well, it's sincere and from my heart, not any of this is the sort of copy-paste shit you see in mass-produced thanksgiving cards. The fact that acknowledge you 2 together is because i see you 2 as one, i mean, when i confide in any 1 of u, i will do so equally for the other party. Thanks for offering a rational voice and supporting me in my actions and stuff. Hanging around with me in school, being good company and talking about so many things in the world man. A piece of information: what makes a couple stronger is not how strong their personality start with, it's how much they've been though and called it their past and future.

Xinfu - You, my son, are an awesome creature. I really wish for more of you people to be around the world when needed man, people who would really advice me, would really bereate me, and who would really offer his honest and brutally honestest honest opinion to me. I haven't beeen very very close to you yet, but your rationality in reasoning and the fact that you're unafraid to hurt people's feelings and the very fact you're completely honest about what you feel and what u tell us when you mean it earns my ton of respect. I would rather someone walk the walk, talk the talk, and mean every word he say instead of live up to a certain expectation.

Edmund - Just about one of the closest persons i've been close with this year. Thanks for lending a listening ear, after all, you're not a person who's quick to advice and talk, but you're one who is able to listen and empathize. You're just about the person who know what's going on in my life, and thanks for being in such a position because recently you heard alot of shit lol. But well, also, friends forever, brathars forever. You know, that's one thing about brothers, they don't leave each other. Bros before holes (random comment lol honest). But for so long we've known each other, perhaps you are the friend which knows so much about me, and thanks for tolerating with that. Oh thanks for your straight-up honest comments sometimes. I really need them cos sometimes i don't really know what i'm doing. But returning a favour for a favour, i will return the same you gave to me, thanks brother.

Jyong - Hey jyong, instead of thanking you for this and that, I would like to apologize for my inadequacy as a friend in the past few months I've known you. Yes, i'm tipsy, but im completely brutally honest. But still, thanks for teaching me mills and backflips. Let us be real brothers and friends. I don't call everyone brother.

JT - Thanks for trying to understand my psyche lol, you guys are those who i seldom confide in, but when pressed i would. remember when the time i told you about being like weird and stuff? Thanks so much for it. I have excellent memory and remmeber random things and things which are small and rather insignificant to people. Though I know you are the few who can really listen, i get to realize it first hand that night when we talked to 3+am. Thanks for listening to me :)

Kyensai - you guys have been my closest in these few years. Though i seldom or never in these few years had a best friend, you kyensians serve to be my closest fellowship i've ever had. No words can thank you enough, although i told and confided and talked to you guys little, you guys are the brothers i really love.

Parabola - as if you visit this blog, i will email you this thing. Alright for oryx and crake, I'll return you the book soon later :) And alrite, thanks for the random encounters on the corridors of the sch having conversations about anything in the world man! also like the phrase "are you thinkiing what i'm thinking?" which made the trademark of the years HAHA. (that, which actually means squash). But really, you intelligent boy who offers a differing view to the situations.

J.Wong - for all the sports and all the brotherhood you brought to us, the toast for the future ahead. The tennis, the badminton, gym, soccer, you are like a sports friend man! Well thanks for trusting me and letting me listen to some of the stuff you would tell me and you said to trust me to keep it :)

Bobbie - yupps, for the shopping sprees and hang-outs, it was fun (including saving alot alot of money HAHA), and yes, thanks for it of cos. OH thanks for the diarrhoea incident too.

PeiWen - Hey well haven't talked in some time, but yea, thanks for the diarrhoea incident LOL.

TianYong - We hadn't talked much this year, but thanks for expressing concern for me. Well we remain good friends don't we. Had got to know about complexities, had gotten to explore our mirroring thoughts and ideas. And too, the growing phase of obsession with intelligence. Well im sure both us had grown and developed alot over the past few months, but be assured, that when a friend is needed I will be there to listen and I mean it. And same on the other side. Deal?

Teachers - you guys were the largest part of my education journey. The determination and dedication you mentors displayed cannot be put to words. Passion indescribable, efforts insurmountable. Chinese A2 teachers, you have inspired me and spurred me on beyond much i could expect of myself. You guys made be believe in myself and the fact that it's possible. The efforts and dedication you guys pump into work is amazing. Special dedication to them, they deserve so much. But I would also have to mention other teachers, who had played such important part in my learning journey, driving me along the way, challenging me to greatest heights.

WeiYang - You have been such an inspiration during my learning process in Chinese. You never stopped spurring me on and inspiring me and encouraging me. I started diffident, unconfident, and ended up accomplished, contented and well-challenged. Thanks for inspiring me and encouraging me, because i really understand what it means by your encouragement. You too, are an inspiration and an encouragement. So much progress, development, maturity overseen through the past year, so much path trodden, and I assure you, there will be friends that will last always.

Seth Chua - Yes, you're still a friend, a important friend of my dear. Thanks for entrusting me with such secret information which i am nt really very supposed to know. But whatever it is, i know you are there willing to be a friend which will listen and stuff. Weirdly, that's what i felt you were. All the best fo the year ahead!

Parents and family - hey dad, mom, brother, grandma had given me limitless support that i feel like i'm free to do anything. But that's aside the point. It means alot from one's parents to affirm their sons, and for my brother to trust me enough to talk to me. I mean, i really feel that I have somewhere to return to, I feel that i am rooted, and i really know that i have somewhere to go, and a responsibility to bear. Although I may call it a chore, the support and love you all give me, i truly appreciate. I shall stop calling myself a good son no more. Just because i return the favour with good grades don't amount to the efforts you guys put in for me. I truly appreciate that.

Victoria - hey nice knowing you Vic. I really never had any female friend who I am so talkable and sociable with in my life before. Nice the PTNH, then the hanging out at fairprice, then the random astroturf-dancestudio picnics and all sorts of random stuff. Thanks so much for being there. Also helping out in the studies lol. Espcially with math when im like stuck then u come out with some solution and i start banging my head asking myself why am i so dumb. Please pardon my pride and esteem :( Thanks for listening to my saikang, all the entity, all the simple complexities and all the 1000 thought processes in the head must be quite alien to understand right? Aiya simple one la, im a simple dude man :) But really nice getting to know you. Really hope to get to know you better and keep in contact through NS. Sorry for the first impression thing, but it is hard to erase. Now it's fine, and i see you as such a nice person. I truly treasure this friendship.

And so these are the people who had moulded my past year. Without whom, i would not have became the YH of today. The development I went through is crazy, much to the people here. Thanks for being such great friends and such great support. Excellent voices of advice, indispensible companions, unforgettable brethrens, and the much-needed companionship. Albeit having many friends, you guys are really the ones who are important to me, who were so instrumental in shaping and moulding me the past year. Not enough thanks can be accredited to you guys, for you all are just awesome and inspiring. I had so much fun, renewal and rejuvenation with every one of you.

Every single one of you are just awesome.

Labels: friends n loved ones, heart, life, sincerely

a sweep of ib, 7 things

Thursday, December 25, 2008 0 comments

A random note. i've reached my target weight of 60kg. I overshot till 61.5. with a BMI of 23.1. So i am officially overweight :)

let's talk about the aims.

Accomplished 16, 10, 5, 6, 3. if you wanna see them you can go find them on amongst the first posts in January. Came close to some others, and failed in some others.
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But more importantly one should review significant chapters. Oh lets talk about the last 2 years.

1. a wrecked first shot
well it's the first time i've shot. And it went into the net but it's stolen. It made me much stronger emotionally and mentally. Finally being able to see myself to die for social activity and friends and stuff. But they've been so much of a help. Sadly, my world and the MOTOS are never the same again. Is it something which will harm me in the future? Definitely it is and still is. No,no it's not about that basket i've missed, but is about all the basketball players.

2. WoW
My encounter with kids did affect me alot. for i've never been able to communicate and open up with them that easily. This is with a language barrier. It so made me lighten and love them.

3. joining DANCEDANCEDANCEDANCEDANCEDANCEDANCEDANCEDANCEDANCE
Amongst my greatest contentions are joining dance again (concordantly, amongst my greatest regrets is being absent from dance for six and half months.) It had posed such amazing influence on me, that i feel more myself and more liberated when dancing. Not just an outlet of expression, i feel it is the very essence of myself, being on stage, hitting the beats.

4. Rafael Nadal
one of greatest influences is Rafael Nadal. I've been a fan since i first watched him. Yes, he doesn't have the finesse of Federer nor the talent half that of Gasquet, but it's his determination, physical and mental strength which wears down his opponents, enabling him to win matches from behind. What a hell of a sportsman. Had been a great example and helped in many areas of life. trained me in discipline which i hardly had.

5. Chinese A2
My fault for choosing this just because i don't wanna lose chinese. But also, i developed an interest in pri.5 towards chinese. Not the hardcore memorization shit, but the beauty of the language. Though i didn't master chinese A2, nor get a 7 for it, this period of time led me saw the beauty in Chinese which i once wanted to see. It made me believe in myself for never i've expected myself to get 79% for chinese. I never thought i would even make a 6! But thanks to the teachers, and the students it made me wake up and realize that there's so many people who are helping me, and giving so much for me to get a 7. So all i can do is to repay them with my best effort. That's something i did give when i decided to go for it.

Oh and yes, without chinese A2, i will never be able to do well in english.

6. Friends
Kyensai, again, you guys just don't break up. there when it was hell, though not so bad at times. anyway thanks so much for your endless brathahood man. parabola! your oryx and crake. im finishing it, and ill rmb the endless random encounters at the corridors of the school in-between classes and SQUASH! WeiYang! Though you were disagreeable at times, the year was greatly influenced by you, and it weren't be the same without you, your support and your inspiration and you're an inspiration too! Christina! nonstoptalkingagain, but still, the rational voice and someone who is neutral, and just like kyensai, oh you are part of us haha, just like them you guys always remain neutral and dont always barge in and try too much to help! Victoria! thanks for being such a friend the past few months. i never had any female friend i was so talkable with. ok ill do a proper one at thanksgiving post.

7. BBOYBBOYBBOYBBOYBBOYBBOYBBOYBBOYBBOYBBOY
it's a great mistake for being a slacker bboy for almost 3 years and working hard for 1andhalf year. but yea, it's an escape. Honestly i don't really die and have corrosive passion for it, but i still love it. Still at crucial times it made me feel alive :) forsaking it is a mistake and i've done it again and again and again. Well my nonstopaction body is easily lured by sports. Taken up stuff like pumping iron, tennis, badminton, squash.. Though i try convince myself forsaking it isn't a mistake it still is. all the time.

7 things which critically altered my life and cornered it bringing it and (sometimes giving) it ups and downs. Without any of these, yh will never be yh of today.

Labels: dance, education, friends n loved ones, life, love

review: made of honour

Wednesday, December 24, 2008 0 comments

Made of Honour is a romantic comedy featuring Michelle Monaghan and Patrick Dempsey. And yes you're thinking why im so free and im so free now cos later is a massive stayover and drinking session JEAH CANT WAIT! so since i've watched many movies so far let me go review some of them.

I've watched this movie twice. First is with Victoria at starbucks (i forgot how on earth we ended up there tht nite haha), and second was with Lucy, Mish and Victoria at Lucy's house after prom. I thought that i watched it twice, enough to be familiar with the show.

Basically it's centralled on the protagonist Tom Bailey (portrayed by Patrick Dempsey) and his relationship with his friend for over a decade, Hannah (portrayed by Michelle Monaghan). They were best friends and were shown to have a deep knowledge of each others' likes and dislikes, a unparralleled understanding towards each other although their lifestyles are vastly different: Tom is a player (though he had never had sex nor a relationship with Hannah), Hannah is a typical office-woman with a steady career looking for an equally steady relationship. They both have a unspoken and undiscussed and unexplored and unprobed romantic attraction to each other, but since they are friends they rather label themselves as that and go no further (this is portrayed by them in the movie before Hannah leaves). But Hannah takes a 6 week leave to go to Scotland for her job. And during this absence, Tom discovers that there was no one who could match Hannah the way she was and how well they could click with each other. But when Hannah returns he discovered she's engaged to a Duke called Collin and Hannah asks him to be her Maid of Honour. through a series of attempts and disappointments, he finally manage to win Hannah back from the man she was engaged to. Sorry for the long description, but I needed to explain it or else it will sound stupid.

First off, the story in general was good, well discussed and taken a good approach on focussing on Tom's problems and every action he takes to win Hannah back. The portrayal, too was excellent. It was the last 30 minutes of the show where it really showed. Monaghan's portrayal was downright accurate, Dempsey's acting constantly brings to mind his dillema and troubles ahead of him. The facial expressions and interactions between these 2 characters were excellent. you can literally write them in words like "why the hell am i kissing you im engaged and i shouldnt be doing this but i really love you but i cant think this way".

The entire film is centralled on the intially-independent-but-in-fact-interelated internal conflicts within and between Tom and Hannah. And of course, the friendly-but-flawless sidekick Collin. Characterization was colorful and varied, making it exciting and engaging. The slow change of Hannah's opinion towards Tom is sufficiently arranged, and the element of rivalry, though not superbly developed, was enough to appeal to the emotions and make it funny.

But talking about the story again, although it gains credibility by the sufficient presentation of the background between Hannah and Tom, it wasn't very realistic at the end as it comes off as too abrupt and a little too much of a comedy. Up to the point where Hannah and Tom kissed in the bar, the realism was high enough, but when Tom barged in to tell Hannah he loves her, though it is sweet and puts a fullstop, it put the fullstop when it word isnt complet. That i felt could have been better.

But in sum, this movie, i thought was a good movie, in a sense that it suceeded it's take as a romantic comedy really well. Though lacking in some parts, directing and portrayal made up for it. The emotional journey this movie takes the viewer across is realistic and heart-wrenching. And it does give the audience a new perspective on love and relationships. I would recommend this movie. But if you're a very emotionless person, you'll probably not like it very much cos you're distracted about the incredibility of the last part.

Genre: Drama
Sub-Genre: Romantic Comedy
Cinematography: 4/5
Dark at the right times, light at the right times. with the camera constantly moving, it keeps it upbeat and somehow shows the development of Tom.
Portrayal: 16/20
It isn't like Christian Bale in American Psycho or something. But the portrayal in this movie is something which made this movie look very realistic. If the acting and script isn't up to this standard, this film won't score well under the story section. Dempsey's and Monaghan's portrayal are able to make the reader feel and connect with the reader emotionally really well.
Directing: 13/20
The artistic and dramatic aspects of the play, including music. The three weddings were accurate and very distinctive. The monitor of the scripts and environment is good to make it convincing. The ideas brought about in the film made it damn funny at times. However, the chain of event which follow appear to be too abrupt, more effort should be put to make it more convincing and understandable.
Story: 15/25
Emotionally, this thing is powerful. It scores high on the area, but in terms of intellectuality, i mean, the intellectual relatability of the story, it suffers. However, there is sufficient development of the character and conflicts, and that pushes up the score again. But again, a lazy and inadequately barren finale deflates emotional build-up. In general, a sufficient story.

Total: 48/70
or
68.5%

0-20 = Pontianak
21-40 = Pussy
41-50 = Prosaic
51-60 = Pass
61-70 = Prefable
71-80 = Polished
81-90 = Professional
91-100 = Paramount

Labels: reviews

review: just a kiss

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back to reviewing movies. and one of the movies i've watched recently is: just a kiss. Basically, this is the movie description I read on the programme information on cableTV: "a simple kiss between a couple led to the breaking up of friendships and relationship, causing them to find comfort in the hands of strangers. Can they go back to when it's 'just a kiss'?" The show starts at 2am and ends at 3.45pm. And i thought it was about 2 people who like love each other but made a mistake and now are trying to salvage everything. But it's nothing close to that level of depth. It's just as simple as it seems. Take that description totally literally.

The plot is centralled on the consequences on this tight-knit group of friends, Halley, Dag and Peter, due to Dag 'accidentally' kissing Peter's girlfriend Rebecca and ended up having sex. Halley broke up with Dag. Peter is emotionally wounded. Rebecca, out of remorse, gives Halley her room keys. While staying there, she meets Andre a Cellist and had sex with him. Meanwhile, Peter meets Andre's wife Colleen on a plane and they kissed. But because later Peter decided to use the phone to call Rebecca, the plane crashed. Rebecca who had always had emotional problems hears Peter's final words and kills herself. However, peter isn't dead. He is seen on national TV as one of the 2 survivors, the other being Colleen. Colleen is shown in the same news channel to be knocked down by a firetruck in a somewhat comical and dramatic fashion. While all these happened, Dag, who is also remorseful hung out at a bar while he hooks up bartender Paula and was about to have sex, when Paula kicked him off her balcony and he ends up in hospital.

While these 3 are in hospital, Colleen dies from her accident, Rebecca dies from drug overdose because Paula wanted to get rid of her (her real crush is on Peter), and Dag was frightened to death by Paula. Finally the movie rewinds to the scene where Dag only kisses Rebecca but resists sex, thus it's "just a kiss". And resultantly, the consequences were nothing that severe.

Well as a whole you can see that the plot is very happening. But it is amongst the most superficial plots i've known. It was unexplained, uninspired and unnecessary. The idea could have been much more understandable and relatable without the effects they used, with better cinematography and use of music. There seems to lack serious drive in the movie, with narrative drive coming mainly from the quick sequence of events and complexity of break-ups and adultery instead of the expectation of the audience. The movie have failed to appeal to people as a medium of influence, as a emotionally and intellectually altering tool (logos, ethos, pathos). The disconnection between the media and the audience is mostly because of the unrealism of the plot. Though such stuff may happen, the sequence of events make people go "so what?" after the movie. Unfortunately, the acting, atmosphere and ambience did nothing to make it better.

The characters, though, are distinct but flat. Distinctions of character bring through the different courses Halley, Dag and Peter take. But the acting was just enough to make the cut for the character distinction (that isnt a compliment). Although the movie plans to show the adverse consequences on friendship and relationships after even a mistake of kissing someone you shouldn't, the plot goes in a continuous lateral spiral which ends with uncertainty and inconclusion.

Genre: Drama
Cinematography: 3/5
Because camera angles aren't that important in drama, the requirements are bit lower. It has sufficient camera angles professionalism some of the time, right choice of ambience, but poor lighting.

Portrayal: 7/20
Actress portraying Halley did OK. Actor acting Dag was crap, even i could do it. that's how bad it is. Actor portraying Peter was like below average. Actress portraying Rebecca was little lower than average. The script does not escalate the element of tension and conflict, nor does the body language shown in the acting. But it's not the worst portrayal i've seen, so, i'd give it a 7.

Directing: 5/20
The artistic and dramatic aspects of the play, including music directing. Firstly, superficial stories can only go so far right? Secondly, a lack of drive, an insufficient script. Disconnected series of events which go linear at the end don't work out also. The switching between characters and the story makes it look like a joke and decreases the value of the film sadly. The use of the 'fade out to matt drawing' effect looks nice but wasn't complimented with other elements (it didn't make it worse, nor does it make it better, but since it's unnecessary, it's bound to worsen it). Finally, there is a lack of atmosphere and feel and thus expectation and effect on audience is severely limited.

Story: 3/25
Since it's a drama, I've increased it to a 20 to rate a emotionally, intellectually engaging and influencial story. To achieve this, films must have credibility, realism, relatability and must develop the central idea with enough width and depth. However, although it has a good direction, it fails in realism and relatability. The series of events were badly portrayed and these events were just too unrealistic. It may have been a comedy, but this show IS a joke. It has a little bit of relatability because lust, as we know, is a common problem. The development was very wide but haywire at the same time. The unrealism, and undependable development nake this an incredible film lol.

final score: 18/70
or
25.714%

Other scores:
IMDB: 52%
RottenTomatoes: 19%

psst. a part of me died when i saw the imdb ratings.

Labels: reviews

2008

Sunday, December 21, 2008 0 comments

i havent much time nor desire to write about what happened so far this year, but the resolutions ive set to achieve had failed. quite miserably actually. but thats short of the point.

aside resolutions, aims, plans, and goals are things life throw at you along your way. it's hard to fix aims and goals to set the direction for the year ahead. though important, there are the thousands and millions and billions of laughs, sai kang, joy, fits, rage, feelings of dejection bla bla bla one encounters as to set out to achieve these goals. as for such, one must not be totally fixated on pursueing his or her goals.

but that's not my reason for falling flat on the face. it's after all, a journey for you to decide, a journey where there's a balance of teaching and self-learning, responsibility and inner conflict.

as always, 2008 had been an eventful year for me, of course majorly cos of the exams. (a few days ago i dreamt of myself having to study chinese a2 all over again cos the exam papers didn't make it or something). it also witnessed the entrance of a few people into my life, i mean, T.I.P list. the voice that goes "grow up" speaks softly now, but the urge to mature swells exponentially. i somehow always see myself as a student.

before this year ends i will have to write a thanksgiving post, which is, literally, thanksgiving. and to acknowledge events and shit and hurdles and heartbreaks and disappointments and achievements by toasting to each and every single one of them. its funny but its my self-made custom to commemorate life's memorable, both the pleasant and the horrible moments, all the right and wrong decisions.

so how should i end this post? i feel flashbackish. or, as if i've neared an end. it's an end in many ways. end of my formal education, the long long break from studies which i will sadly lose contact with many of the friends i see around for years. its losing people in the TIP list, praying you'll see at least some of them again and hope they hadn't wasted themselves after 2 years. still a point of time while waiting for my results, uncertainty which contrasts the certainty of formal education.

and next time when we grow up, we'll sit in the car with our kids beside us and tell them "cherish your schooling days for it's the best times".

it was really great times.

Labels: school

a killsometime post

Monday, December 15, 2008 0 comments

I have not done this for ages. And so let me rant about my past few days of my life now, for several long minutes. Let me see how skilled (unskilled) I am on crappin about what happened in the day.

Saturday
I woke up, rolled around on the bed till like 10+, then I woke up to brush my teeth. I still hadn't much got used to the short hair, but I'm trying. No la, maybe it's just the fact tht i always look at the smoothness of my hair on the mirror. Sometimes reminding you of the controversial Roy Keane. "As if he took a metal bar to smoothen, flatten, shinien, and polish his head" is what i used to say in my primary school days while describing his hair. Though I don't liken his flat hair to mine, I would like to parrallel the smoothness of the hair.

Anyway, I woke up to take breakfast, my standard breakfast of 3 slices of bread. This time with jam. I would prefer to have one slice with peanut butter, maybe kaya. Just for a little variation in a otherwise plain and rather featureless meal. Without eggs this time. Cos I'm lazy. Then I turned on the TV to watch my usual documentaries. Not long later lunch came. Prawn mee. The quality of mee is like balls. But mum did enough to save it :) At about 12.30 i managed to capture a slice of House M.D. funny and really nice as usual.

(omg its so verbose)

I was reminded of the warehouse sales i would go later, so i plucked out the hours-old copy of the straits times from the top of the stack and read it. No, not just for offers. Though i would discover a FCUK and BCBG sales. Deciding it wasn't enough, I logged on to the net to find out more about warehouse sales and expectantly, there are so many going on around singapore (and it's also the usual agents. Sports brands, FURNITURE -.-). Took note of 5 warehouse sales on my phone and set off to meet bobbie at 4 at kallang.

OK i reached there and we set off to the first sale in LANDEX (some warehouse i think lol) which involved brands such as Adidas, Thomas Smith, Princess, Jean Perry, Alain Delon, Cornell, Kelme, Nike, Power rangers, Luzerne. I bought a long sleeved Alain Delon shirt for 15$ and a nike polo for 19.90$. Damn cheap cos the Alain shirt was around 50, and nike polo at least 40. Oh yes, and Bobbie bought a green striped polo and a white polo. I also saw a Feraud polo supposedly for guys but the sizing was for girls. Sizing. I don't mean the cut.

Anyway around 5.30 we went to a hawker center to eat. Fish joined us after being missing for the first part of the day. I bought 3$ of charkway teow, bobs ordered rojak and duckrice, fish ordered curry rice which he finished in 4 minutes. Interestingly, even after all these Im still hungry so we went to some finger food store to buy finger food. But we cannot help but to be put off with the broken english. I forgot what they said onthe signs and cant take a picture of it, but i remember they spelt it "befor" instead of "before". NVM. you should take a look at it. it's almost something you would see in china.

At around 7 we took bus 65 from kallang to wisma for the FCUK, BCBG, Island shop warehouse sales. It was good la. I bought a pair of pants cos the shirts LLB. Bobs bought many more. A top, a top. Oh ya thts it. I forgot la. Fish bought a shirt and a pants. No wait did he buy a shirt? Ah shit. I only remembered tht all the items i bought tht day had at least 70% discount.

It was around 8.30 when we finished shopping. Fish wanted to go home cos we wanted to eat icecream and he had no money. Job our junior joined us for icecream at cathay. We ordered a tub of dublin mudslide which apparently contained BAILEYS. Yes. We tasted the cream, but sadly the alchohol must have been used to cool the icecream instead. Oh yea, it was a chill-out night as so they called it. Some dude came in and sing records like angels and demons, viva la vida, stop and stare, in the end. He had a strong and sharp voice, which sounded good cos he made it sound so easy. People came to watch and i believed he did a really good job. Bobbie also grabbed a job application form to work and ben & jerrys (ok, now we know why).

I DID IT. I BLOGGED IN SHORT DETAIL WHAT HAPPENED IN ONE DAY OF MY LIFE.

But there are like many more days just as fun, or even funner.
And i have no stamina to carry on.

lol.

Labels: random

killsometime

Tuesday, December 09, 2008 0 comments

Ive been staring and stalling at the "new post" page for 2 hrs, wanting to say but avoiding it, longing to explode but curbing it, sliding down the walls of deep thought but wrangling myself out of it.

so, i ended up with this thought on everyone's heads now. how to kill time?

1. read the previous post
2. keep in contact with old friends
3. MUST KEEP IN CONTACT THROUGH NS. PLEASE.
4. Read
5. Purchase "That's how it goes"
6. br8
7. California fitness 2 wks free trial lol

ok so that probably fills up the list for the next weeks..

Labels: events, out

things to do before enlistment

Tuesday, December 02, 2008 0 comments

ice skate
buffet
sentosa
cut hair :(
badminton
tennis
reach 60kg
twilight
maybe eclipse
maybe new moon
watch the sun

Labels: events

exams prom and everything

Monday, December 01, 2008 0 comments

Finally i had a chance to blog although it cant be long cos im going off soon.

So much happened the past few months. too many to say, too verbose to be compacted, too detailed to be summarized, too precious to deserve a short 2-paragraph footnote.

Worked like damn hard the past few months. From 28 in midyrs to 34 raw in prelims, and hopefully, a very good score in the IB. Had loads of fun hanging around with friends, or rather, friend (thanks victoria haha). Hadn't much impression till the last few days before the exams cos everyday was just kinda like studying.

After exams was the funny part. I was like thinking where the hell to hang out. Ended up playing 2.5 hours of tennis then doing drinkning at night.

Nothing much to talk about la. Oh then there was prom. I didn't prepare much for it, just went to shop last minute wif Victoria's family (cos i cant enter robinsons -.-) for a shirt. I love the shirt :) it's a mild-striped shirt from Thomas Smith. The day itself was fun, if not for someone losing his wallet -.- :\ :( But well, its kinda settled already ba.

But what's left after all these aside from content and the knowledge that you're going to do well for the exams is tinged with regret and reminiscence. Regret that you didn't do enough. Regret that you took a step back. Regret that I did not go after. I do sometimes start to regret following my conscience, i do look back and think how could it have been. Why did i step back when everything is so damn obvious? I can't stop thinking about this and can't get it off my head. I would have to stare at my actions and question the fact of why must this be an amalgam of resolve and regret. I must have been a real dense and dumb guy. Or perhaps I'm not, or is it a test of time, or is it a reminder that i can't always trust my inner voice, or is it a prayer spoken, marred by my own flawed, overly precarious, jaded perceptions?

God knows.

Well, I've gtg for a lunch with friends now. AND IM LATE :(

Labels: exams, mistakes, school