Saturday, January 31, 2004
Hmmn.. Let's play the guess-the-mystery-man/woman game! Who's "shy" and "jh"? I've never disclosed the page to anyone, 'cept link on this blog, hence
clue #1: the bugger reads my blog. SPY!
The catch? I don't tell ANYONE my blog.
clue #2: somebody I know.
Will the real slim shady please stand up?
DAI rocks! Been previewing their discs day in day out and I must say that they were a good investment!
Anyway, I'm a juvenile. After 23years on the lonely planet. My achievements in life are thus far:
1) Maintaining a CAP of 3.57 in uni after 1.5 years,
2) Maintaining a multi-faceted academic lifestyle not bounded by books entirely,
3) Maintaining my agnostic beliefs.
FUCK U ALL X-TIANS and CATS! Jesus may rule, but the bulk of worshippers just simply disgrace him. I shan't even elaborate and break out into a religious discussion here. The most ridiculous thing I've heard so far was, "You can't say that you don't have a need for him without even trying it out!" That's just about as good as saying you can't say that smoking harms your family without even trying it out.
Agnosticism (I don't even know how to spell it, but do i care)? Well, you DON'T know how much you can NOT need him until you even try, you coward. Everyone just have to step out of their comfort zone.
Anyway, MY neighbour is now thinking up his business proposal to manage a CAFE in campus and I'm here blogging. How sad can that be. Business is the way to go for big bucks! It's time I wake up and step out of MY comfort zone.
Thursday, January 29, 2004
My punctuality problems are really getting out of hand and getting on my nerves. Mental note: tardiness is not cool! Woke up at 1010h when the meeting's at 10am. Well, the sleep-conducive overnight rain and cool air didn't help very much at all, and coupled with the fact yesterday was a fun writing complaint letter against some loser in N U S S U gave me all the more reason to sleep late and wake up even later.
Anyway, I think I would have finally cured my addiction for CM4, now that I've finished playing 1 season, using Leeds and managing an impressive 4th placed finish (without restarts - computer hanging doesn't count), as well as a League Cup and FA Cup double! Damn lucky in the semis for Charlton to bear crazy Chelsea on penalties for me to avoid playing them in the Finals! Whoohoo!
...So anyway, it's time to shift my gear back to work. Things to do today before choir practice:
1) Zap Psycholinguistics readings (part 1/2).
2) Zap 1 reading for next week's Bio Psych tutorial.
after practice:
1) Do sets!
2) Read supplementary readings for SSB2216 since I STILL don't have the textbook.
3) Finish up the lame crossword puzzle for tutorial tomorrow.
...AND aim to sleep before 230am tonight. How's all that for a great challenge?
Wednesday, January 28, 2004
Suddenly thought of this show a long time ago.
"If two people love each other, but they just can't seem to get it together, when do you get to that point of enough is enough?"
Tuesday, January 27, 2004
I want to learn flash. Then maybe I will stop playing these mindless games and waste my time creating mindless flash games for others instead!
Anyway, the stupid site is down for some reason.
Saturday, January 24, 2004
Nothing beats driving in the pouring rain, trying to park at a weirdly angled parking lot at 12 in the morning. ...but that was yesterday night.
Suppose somebody invites you over to their house for CNY and u decline on account of the weather, would that appear insincere on your part? Well, I mean it's really raining men out there, let alone cats and dogs... I just hope they'd understand.
Thursday, January 22, 2004
Somehow, CNY late night TV has never fails to tug at my heartstrings. I think i'm that sort of man.
Happy CNY!
...ok, so i cheated, but it's the thoughts that counts rite? Plus, you get the idea.
Wednesday, January 21, 2004
Yay! Finally, some pictures!
A continuation from yesterday... Went KTV after the superb show to celebrate my birthday, and in trademark GHZ fashion arrive 1.5hr late. :P I was even late for the great movie earlier on! (-_-" So anyway, CNY's round the corner. "Relac 1 korner lah dey!" Jangan tension! Not feelin much CNY cheer recently, must be a 23 thing.
Dogville. They could might as well have called the movie 'Irony and denial'.
I used to not like (note: not dislike) Nic Kidman but respect her acting, but this show really moved my world. I mean, I've heard Lars Von Trier is good, but this is at his best. There's simply so many details to marvel at, so much so that the parallel between soul and set can never be closer potrayed. The (no)location, the names (Tom Edison - morality is an invention?, Grace - ditto), the only-in-your-dreams tabula rasa speckled with evil from the start... If we could ever externalise our souls and introspect visually, this would pretty much be the closest metaphor one can get. Much of the 1st 1/2 of the movie was spent by me trying to decipher the symbolicism of the construct being as such, and soon as it hits you, the next 1/2 was spent as a citizen of dogville. You'd like to think you are not, but the moment such thoughts arise, you become one of them.
For the 1st time ever, since all my many years of movie watching has i seen anything like it, at the same time, never before have i experienced such raw 'energy' and vibes coming from the movie. Definitely provoking and blunt, it's as apt a potrayal of the no-frills-no-holes-barred human soul in its most brutal ugly truth. And let me tell you the picture is quite an ugly one. A little freudian at times, with it's themes of lust outplayed at every possible chance, it's as if you are seeing the primal sexual instinct outplayed at your very eyes. The contradictions, stuggles, denial and coming to terms, then turning into selfish self-defensive mechanisms, are just the sort of emotions we go through EVERY SINGLE DAY. Everybody's soul is a dogville. We all think we are way better than Tom Edison Jr but at the end of the day, do we really want to be saved by thy grace?
Sunday, January 18, 2004
Happy birthday to me.
Celebrated it springcleaning my room. Wow! Such a fun-filled activity and full of entertainment value! (-_-"" ...Well, wasn't feelin' up to anything else really, so might as well spend it doing something constructive instead rite?
23 years of my life and I'm already so jaded. I need serious help. Anyway, kudos to thee who bothered wasting 5cents on me. They are (in no respective order):
1) Janice Chan "Yun Yun"
2) Adeline "Babe"
3) "My best friend" Lavinia
4) Hatsuee Foo
5) Aaron "Pok"
6) JL Teo
7) Simon "Gu gu jiao"
8) Michelle See
9) Fiona Tsang Ka-Yin
My deepest gratitude to those who remembered as well, be it through ICQ or by other means, it's the thoughts that counts.
For the rest, FUCK YOU ALL for forgetting! No seriously, who cares right? That's the attitude!
So I've said my peace. Now I can go and die. Goodbye cruel world.
Right. In like a 100 years time or so. Plus/Minus.
Wednesday, January 14, 2004
Things I wanna do but most probably won't end up doing (in no particular order):
1) Design NUS Choir logo
2) Do my readings for all the lecture 1 and 2
3) Get ALL the D.A.I. CDs
4) Celebrate my birthday with a small bang
5) Use my Centro card more often (in which by not indulging is a good thing actually)
6) Submit entry for Arts Fac Club Tee design
7) Blog everyday
8) Procrastinate less and stop wanting to be a pain in everyone's ass
9) Think of something to write for this line
10) Compile less of these stupid top 10 (in no particular order) lists
Whoo! Time flies when you have lots to do. Yes, I know that's like super cliched. Still, life's all about cliches, isn't it?
This blog thingy is waning in interest and novelty value as my work piles up more and more... Everyday, my timetable is as follows:
Morning - breakfast
Late morning - lessons
Early afternoon - CM4 / Gunbound
Afternoon - Lunch
Late afternoon - CM4 / Gunbound / Sleep
Early evening - Sleep
Evening - CM4 / Gunbound
Late evening - supper
Early morning - CM4
This holiday has GOT to stop soon... Tutorials in 1 wk's time!!
Wednesday, January 07, 2004
So anyway, there i was saying. It's weird having the 1st day of school on a Tuesday. Bragging rights are only fun for so long. Wasted the whole of Monday shopping! The current Topshop sale is such a con!! Nothing to buy! Despite me visiting 3 of their outlets (on 3 separate occasions of course...)! What a sham! ...Not that it's a bad though. Quality time well spent. Cliched but true, it's the company that matters...
Went into the wrong LT for the 1st class of the sem too. LATE as usual. So much for NY resolutions. It didn't help that the lecturer was PRC, and he looked like the sort who'd teach chinese translation, so... Things only got fishy when i saw the other peeps take out their disgustingly 'PINK' course reader and the lecturer mentioning the module name. By then i had already squeezed myself right smack in the middle of the LT!
Remedied action: Farts club rm to borrow terminal to check REAL lecuture venue. Somehow, I'm ALWAYS pulling stunts like that!
Fuckin shit! Wtf is this new format of posts anyway? I just lost my post when i click post. Idiot. Now i sound like the average everyday whiner blogger online. Hello! Prozac Nation is SOOO 1999!! It's just too bad things didn't go well in your life sucker!
Sunday, January 04, 2004
I hate doing things that i don't believe in. I mean, what's a life without passion right? It's not that you don't have things or people that you are/were not interested in, it's just that there's always that element lacking. In life, I'm just not passionate enough.
Anyway, just had supper @ geylang with Joyce and Tithima (i still can't get her name right). Good catch up session! Sometimes, it's really not about the act but the company, and it feels really good to be with the same crowd all over again... I must say all my friends are pretty successful so far, amidst all the "bad" economy and stuff, most of my friends are employed pretty soon after graduation or pursuing a higher degree. Me? I'll bet i'll still be jobless. It's the pasison thing.
Prior that, it's dinner @ geylang with the NUS choir. I must say the crowd's really getting more and more happening! Just that they lack direction. Hmmn... They've got great potential to carry the choir on though. We'll see what happens... Once again, I must say that OUR recruitment drive was a resounding success! haha!
Saturday, January 03, 2004
How is it possible to be addicted to 3 game simultaneously? I believe i just did. When the stupid 32Mb Ram Memory hangs up my CM4, i play Angel Empire. When THAT hangs too, it's gunbound time! Just dl the game today and still haven't quite gotten the hang of it. but i can see where the appeal lies... BUT it's still more A's for my modules that come 1st.
My affections for hall life has dimmed somewhat after getting closer to the varsity choir peeps after some time. I suppose hall life isn't just all of university life that i've envisioned. It's just more and more senseless unpurposeful projects one after another. Not to mentioned i have ex SAF scholar as the master! A real pain in the 'mole' if u get what i mean! haha!
Friday, January 02, 2004
Gasp! My secret project has been unveiled! GodDamnShite. Now I will need to update this thang regularly.
Merry New Year!
Fireworks @ esplanade were great man... 'Cept for the stupid trees blocking like 1/2 the spectrum.
1 step closer to armageddon, 1 foot closer into the coffin. Why do people 'celebrate' the new year anyway? It just means school's starting all over again. & it can only get worse once u get a job.
I need to windsurf man!!!