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| winter clothing shopping almost done! (i think)
KOREA IN 2 DAYS! (roughly around there bah) apparently singapore's winter clothing is horribly overpriced. but looks like we wont have much of a choice. dont feel like freezing the moment i step out of the airport. ANYONE KNOWS WHATS THERE TO BUY IN KOREA? oh and in the first place, are the things there cheap? whats there to buy (that you cant find anywhere else, except most probably china, since most stuff are made there...) korean chopsticks are cool and different right!?
haha my mum mistook zara for zaza. i think the name's horribly catchy. ZAZA. eh someone go open a shop with the name ZAZA! (fyi said with a childish twang!)
ewan wai choong and myself finally caught my girlfriend is an agent! haha the movie was hilarious. a welcome change from ytd's paranormal activity. some parts were funny (ok fine MOST parts were funny. like the MESSAGE ERASED part), corny/run-of-the-mill/seen-it-before bits, like the taxi and the auntie. but overall very funny! oh and there was the kissing scene as well in which the female lead actress apparently bled. like hey guys do the actors really have to kiss that hard to have the same effect! for me, it was kinda fake and gross. if you want to catch a movie, and you want a good laugh, go watch my girlfriend is an agent, cuz the other alternatives are 2012, paranormal activity or astro boy (or well, when i went to cathay today that was)!
one lesson u can learn from the movie is, whenever you're in a tough situation, act tough, bark loud and ask the other guy
"whos your trainer!" and then shout random names :D
eheh the big black frame spectacles worn by most actors/actresses is just a fad right? any idea when the fad will end? | | |
| had a few first's today. lemme list them here
attended my first hockey training in months! watched my first NC16 movie? (ehhh i know its like 11 months overdue, not my fault that PG films somehow appeal to me more right?) eerrr... then there were the more regularly occuring ones.
E.G.
BLISTERS! owww i have this horrid blister on my left hand. huge gaping spot where there was (previously) skin. and since you play hockey with both hands, i basically had a not-so-fun first training after the halfway mark or so. sigh. EH and whats up with drama club? O.o" WELL anyway training was cut short halfway. the good weather couldnt last and soon it rained before LIGHTNING struck. to be honest it WAS pretty scary. gulshan walked all the way to the ri(jc) bus stop just so that there was minimal risk of lightning strikes on his impossibly tall frame (touch wood)
BEING AN UNFORGIVABLE BLUR KING. SORRY EWAN AND WAI CHOONG. i honestly saw a 1.50 pm movie!!! just that well, maybe i wasnt exactly paying attention to which cinema!!! well anyway, paranormal activity was.... okay-ish as well?
i shall talk about the movie! to be honest, it really wasnt AS scary as i thought it would be. the last part was (i would assume) your usual horror stuff with all the sudden/unexpected action (i am assuming because, yeah, i dont watch!), but the whole thing was just too jerky for me. and this is coming from a person who survived 5 minutes of ju-on before escaping into the neighboring room, and was rather freaked out by the TRAILER of drag me to hell (like it was just SNIPPETS in the theatre adverts!............. ok wait. i should stop dissing myself) BUT REALLY it wasnt THAT scary.
lets talk about MONDAY (and sunday)
MONDAY :D had a wonderful tennis game with moses. followed by the wet and wild board chalet!
i didnt know it was so much fun to dump pails-ful of water on unsuspecting victims from the 2nd floor of the raja block. im sincerely apologetic if anyone was drenched. it was all in the name of good fun. REALLY. haha omg and kaiyang was really crazy. we tried to hook up a hose with a tap so we could spray the rest of the prefects with water. alas, it wouldnt fit. but heck it was hilarious and comical! you should've seen the look of concentration on han kun's and josiah's face as they racked their brains to connect the hose and the taps.
oh and had a blast playing tennis with moses. PLAY AGAIN SOME TIME. it truly is awesome when you play with someone whos around the same standard as you. i.e they dont own you and frustrate you, but yet their good enough to not bore you! FUN :D moses has a wicked back hand slice and cross court forehand :)
and SUNDAY :D
SHOPPING! hahaha shopping for winter wear or clothes you wear to winter climates is not VERY fun. for a start, you look at those jackets etc and you go woooh! i want one! but then you think about the price tag and how you're most likely going to use them once a year if you're lucky.
so in the end, we more or less decided on jackets and sweaters that are more.... practical in the singaporean climate (sounds weird since we're talking about winter wear but YEAH). so if we do upload photos, dont forget to check out my dad and i in XL winter wear (courtesy of my mum's friend's husband whos, you guessed it!, much larger than people who wear size Ms)
i wonder, do people usually buy the "last piece" for clothing?
OMG revelation. the stock market can actually crash and companies can actually disappear or "vanish" in neopets. courtesy of ewan chee XD | | |
| T I R E D. the only reason why im still awake is because my hair is still wet at 1230 am (this is a relatively late time for someone like me btw)
ohhh one more reason to sleep early : apparently your hair only grows when you're asleep. (the moment jarrod heard this, he wanted to sleep at ding's house XD)
i guess bathing at 1230 is not as shiok as 3 am but im not complaining.
i shall narrate about TODAY!
basically two things happened, movie 2012 and singapore vs thailand.
2012, as a movie was (i felt) your usual kind of thriller movie. fast paced, CGI, explosions here there everywhere, some sub plots like those of family, themes like selflessness, selfishness, your romances here and there, bits of nobility (like the USA president staying back to face the dust cloud only to get squashed by a US aircraft carrier) your usual kind of apocalyptic bring-out-the-best-in-humanity bits.
there were funny bits. ESPECIALLY THE BENTLEY JOKE! inexplicable bits. like the guy on the radio forecasting the doom. the totally random bits. like the "ships" being "arks" a la noah's ark. but overall, a lot of special effects. but personally it was okay-ish to me because i was never much into the special effects thing. if its computer generated then it loses its appeal (somehow for me) but there was no way this film could've done without the special effects and there were tons of them here.
not sure how accurate the film was with reference to the real nostradamus maya thingies but if things really were to pan out the way it did in the movie, well then, ggxx. quite spectacular, the way the whole place was just shredded apart, the waves were diaoz but the way bits of earth rose so high and leaving the rest down into some lava thingy. yeah.... u get the point?
NEXT! singapore vs thailand!
sigh i realise of the few times ive actually caught singapore live in action, they end up losing. pretty disappointing really. LIKE C'MON SINGAPORE LETS WIN A FEW TIMES. FOR MEEEE D: the stadium atmosphere this time round wasnt as electric or funny i guess. not like the vietnam match. maybe it was the rain, maybe the rest of the crowd was feeling the same lethargy and weariness i felt. but somehow it didnt click. it didnt help that people forgot their horns until it was too late --> after the match.
throughout the match, the horn guy was MIA and it was only after the match where we heard the loud chorus of the malay expletive yelled after a series of coordinated hooting sounds from the horn. guaranteed to provoke giggles! and its really fun to join in as well, even though i dont really know what the word means (tho im VERY SURE its some expletive or erm... coarse and unpleasant word. i mean theres no other explanation for those reactions right?)
overall i felt singapore was hopeless at finishing. they had a couple of good chances that they failed to put away and thailand duly punished them. even though the singapore brand of football isnt the most attractive you will ever find, i find it endearing that the team were all strong physical players who were industrious and hardworking (except the wingers, who i felt had a nonexistent game, or well at least a low key game that failed to live up to most expectations)
i would advise anyone who has yet to catch a singapore game at the national stadium to give it a go! if you need company i hope you have my number! XD i mean you dont need to a sports junkie, or a football mad person. i think its pretty sad if you didnt go witness a proper live soccer match at the old national stadium ONCE before its torn down (and it seems to be taking its time to get torn down. the reason why i went for my first live game there was to catch a game there before the stadium was torn down anyway)
hmm. i shall end off with something more reflective. i shall reflect about company. i read somewhere (ok, its called guan lin's blog) that sometimes, the activity or the venue isnt important. its the company.
we all lament and moan about the activity being not inclusive enough, fun enough, exciting enough, cool enough. and likewise for the venue. but we should really be focusing on the company.
hockey munjens/the whole team lah (is this how u spell it?) even though we might very well split up into different cca's. hope the camaraderie and such outings will continue! you have always remained approachable and out going, especially in times of dire boredom. (and of course it helps that some of our interests coincide, and the convenient but unfortunate truth that holidays CAN get boring)
even though we dont have the mass gatherings or special events/whatever that some other ccas have, i had a blast! really cant imagine what ri would've been like without all of you! :D hockey wont be the same without all of you but heck thats life. | | |
| and im back to winning award winning/shortlisted for awards fiction.
ive been feeling this unmistakable urge to blog about what has happened the past half month. this is due to two main reasons. one, boredom and the second, so much has happened. yet i cannot seem to find the words to explain that lethargic-ness that seems to engulf me at the most inopportune of moments (or basically when i find myself lifelessly staring at a computer screen, and with the weblog entry window hidden behind other windows or tabs)
so yes, back to the shortlisted for awards fiction.
i now realise that my reading speed has dropped dramatically. i have a vague feeling a slim 200+ pages book is read-able in less than a day. yet somehow this sluggishness has permeated that aspect of my life as well.
okay. the above is the result of spending the whole day "bumming at home" in the words of some people.
i shall talk about the more happening past.
lets start with the most recent three events.
4L PARTY AT DING HAO'S HOUSE.
alright, those of you who have never ever been to the sentosa cove houses part of sentosa, dont, because u need to pay 2.50 apparently. (ok fine this entry fee extends to the whole of sentosa thats why) but if you do, the houses there are AWESOME. so basically AWESOME HOUSE DING HAO. the teachers who came (mai lao shi, mrs lim, sorry mrs tay!) were pretty much stunned and agape.
there were projectors and tvs everywhere. so basically the class was clustered in the basement level for the most part of the afternoon to evening. there was a pool table complete with many cue sticks for people like niccol to get practise to a new sport/game. an air hockey table for nick ng to show his formidable swiping prowess. a ktv room complete with chairs, carpets and those ktv systems you see in ktv (this room also doubled up as a place to play guitar hero so daniel had a whole night and early morning to get into the groove)
quote jarrod : life is unfair (uttered and echoed many times over the course of two days)
but it was fun :D spent the late evening having great food for 10 bucks (compard to 60 for....) spent the late night singing english songs with the entire class (and getting a horrible throat) spent the wee hours chatting with classmates at the front deck/porch of ding hao's house overlooking the sentosa golf course. (watching ships moving slowly out of the port of singapore). spent the early morning talking nonsense with everyone in the first of ding's 2 guest rooms (and being entertained by vishaal's sudden really horny spurt.. i mean of randomness) showering at 330 am in hot water (and sparking of the mass exodus to the toilet to try out first hand for themselves how shiok it was) falling asleep on a huge bed with jarrod, gerald and vishaal (yes, somehow there was space for him as well) for company.
then waking up in the morning to breakfast and a trip to school to collect our APRs.
4L WE NEED TO PARTY AGAIN SOON! :D
and the second event.
GRAD NIGHT
truth be told, for 60 bucks, the food wasnt that great. i think most ri guys would agree with me. but to be honest, we didnt pay the 60 bucks for the food alone, it was about the venue and location.
but above all that, the price tag of the company : priceless.
ok im not out to copy the mastercard slogan (was it? or was it some other credit card company) but we were there, not for the food, the performances (i know im sorry, but thats the truth, and although there were some funny and entertaining moments, it wasnt THAT great) WE WERE THERE FOR THE PEOPLE!
yes there was alot of looking (and the weirdness of it all was compounded by the fact that we were all guys wearing clothes that most of us wouldnt normally wear otherwise. except ME :D or well thats what i think. REALLY. ok fine maybe the others would wear THAT out too. when i see it ill acknowledge it) but when we got over all that,
PHOTOTAKING :D everywhere lightbulbs went off (except my camera because flash is a no-go with me ;) ) i felt that perhaps they could've left the lights on(and set it brighter if that was possible) because most of us were taking pictures. having to resort to flash in a dark room wasnt very fun, and for flash-less people like me, it notched up the camera's ISO (i think thats what its called) so a steady hand was necessary for shots to turn out satisfactorily. (and since most of the people who ended up helping me take the shots decided one hand was enough, i ended up with many duplicates and failed attempts BUT HECK THANKS ANYWAY!)
and for me,
TOSSING :D:D getting tossed into the air is fun. tossing is also fun. LOVE YOU HOCKEY GUYS. sigh another thing that i guess i will miss in RJ (especially if i end up in hockey in 2 months time) is the people who won't be walking alongside me. i understand their reasons. to be honest, i empathize. heck, i am feeling the very same reasons. it really is a quandary, and to quote jarrod, well "life is unfair". i hope things pan out well, or well, i hope i reach a decision that i will not learn to regret.
and last but certainly not least,
HIGHER MOTHER TONGUE O LEVELS
i felt that over the course of the past weeks. during the leadup to the eventual exam, i really put in effort to prepare for a chinese exam. perhaps it seems so foreign to me because ive never ever really prepared that hard for a language or chinese paper. but come january when i receive the results, i know i will get that certificate knowing in my heart that i really did try somewhere close to my best thus far. even though one could argue that my best came a year late, 4 years late, 10 years late, it did come.
in life where we keep climbing new mountains (i know it sounds cliched, but...) this was a new mountain for me. i successfully managed to write a composition a day (albeit with the help of reference books, and that almost every essay was exactly 4 sides (and maybe a bit) long) since the... end/a week before the end of dmp i think? i guess more work could've been put into practising paper 2s, especially since i only started doing a paper 2 a day in the last 5 days or so. but the point is, i really hope that the (very very very very belated) effort will be translated into actual results that i can be proud of. i guess maybe some people will lament and complain that its unfair someone who crams only in the last 4 weeks shouldnt hope for great results when others have been putting in constant effort throughout 356 days or longer. but that's the whole point about hope isnt it?
and i hope i gave a good account of myself in paper 1. paper 2 zhong he tian kong was a landmine, the first 2 easier passages should've been error-strewn but my fingers are crossed. very crossed.
whew that was a long post. | | |
| nawwww now we only have till the 16th of november to decide on what we're gonna spend our next 2 years studying! perhaps for those who have already made up their minds, the deadline couldnt come any sooner. BUT for incredibly fickle people like me. its a NIGHTMARE.
someone give me the direction i need now.
for me, its really a question of biology or physics. economics or some random humanities subject. ok the above sounded rather biased towards humanities subjects. but really. to me, history was fun and relatively stress free pre EOYs. hearing from joel, my trusty j1 friend who's turning out to be a major source of my jc advice (indirectly or directly) history sounds like a whole different ball game in jc.
biology vs physics.
everyone says physics is the more "applicable science". biology is just studying and mugging and time and what have you. well, i agree. and thats the whole problem. today the jc deputy principal advised us to marry interest with ability. way to go mdm. :l ok fine i understand that's the ideal situation. to follow soon hong's example or not to. thats the question.
economics vs humanities subject.
economics. the subject where 900 rj students take and 100... PASS (according to deputy principal again if im NOT WRONG) how encouraging. yet people still take it. what a headache.
dilemmas. the dreaded d word. and theres the S word.
Should.
i should be studying. i should not need too much time to decide anyway. i should just follow my heart. i should just decide based on my interest. interest works interest rocks.
i should be practising chinese. D: | | |
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