Wednesday, September 30, 2009
♥ 1:00 AM
It's a pity that there aren't points for class participation for my development module. Maybe cos I have a small tutorial but I did speak up quite a bit today. And made some intelligent points if I do say so myself. Am proud of self. :) Still don't love the module though..
I can always count on hozheng not to mince words. He's a rather special fella.
Had a few odd dreams again. One where qing yi (not the cedar one) and I were at amk and he was giving me directions but playing psp at the same time. And another one where there were 2 people hanging from the ceiling, sorta like bats. I think I've been using the bat emoticon on msn too often. :S
Okay shall do landscape reading and edit photo essays tomorrow.
Am craving for all sorts of food. But the idea of heading to town makes me kinda blah. Maybe chinatown or little india next..
Monday, September 28, 2009
♥ 9:24 PM
Awesome. The world loves lego. :) Check out his other pictures: http://www.mikestimpson.comSemi-eventful grand prix weekend. Didn't attend the races or go stargazing despite being in town the three consecutive days.
I was in town for three days straight. Boy do I dislike town. Orchard is boring.
Although I would go back for the couches. Haha.
Saturday night was crazy. Had supper at Rail Mall with Zkai, Aggie and Lwei. Quite a nice place but really out of the way. Stressful talk about finances and the future. Then AFTER that we headed to the amk forest macs to meet Gwei after work. By then I was super zonky. But we stayed up till about two plus to talk.
I don't know I don't know I don't know. But I want to know. But it might just kill me.
Watched the first four episodes of Glee. Emma is so cute ! I love her red hair. And that Mr Schuster, can you scream adorable ? Plus he sings and raps. Heh. HIMYM after tutorial tomorrow, yay.
I wish the word limit for the photo essay was a thousand instead of 500. Bah. I have so much to write about stray cats...
I'm not pretty
Isn't it a pity
That you won't kiss these rotten lips
-Ol Black and Blue Eyes, The Fratellis
Love the way those scots pronounce preet-y and peet-y.
Saturday, September 26, 2009
♥ 12:42 AM
A rollercoaster ride is the only way to describe it.
Turkish food is awesome ! Although a tad too much meat and where is my turkish delight ???
Sigh, the time for SEP registration is here again. I am so tempted...
Thursday, September 24, 2009
♥ 11:44 PM
Fuck the damn rollercoaster ride.
I cannot deal with this.
I can't figure out if I am more unhappy now or if my life has always been this way.
***
Why a year one science student would want to take a year three social science module is beyond me. It is extremely tiresome.
♥ 3:37 PM
Just watched St. Elmo's Fire. Time to watch The Breakfast Club..
♥ 1:57 AM
SIGH. Miserable may be too strong a word but it is the only one I can think of right now.
And how can I be sure that this is really what God wants ?
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
♥ 10:24 PM
You talk like Marlene Dietrich
And you dance like Zizi Jeanmaire
Your clothes are all made by Balmain
And there's diamonds and pearls in your hair
You live in a fancy appartement
Of the Boulevard of St. Michel
Where you keep your Rolling Stones records
And a friend of Sacha Distel
But where do you go to my lovely
When you're alone in your bed
Tell me the thoughts that surround you
I want to look inside your head
I've seen all your qualifications
You got from the Sorbonne
And the painting you stole from Picasso
Your loveliness goes on and on, yes it does
When you go on your summer vacation
You go to Juan-les-Pines
With your carefully designed topless swimsuit
You get an even suntan, on your back and on your legs
When the snow falls you're found in St. Moritz
With the others of the jet-set
And you sip your Napoleon Brandy
But you never get your lips wet
But where do you go to my lovely
When you're alone in your bed
Tell me the thoughts that surround you
I want to look inside your head, yes I do
Your name is heard in high places
You know the Aga Khan
He sent you a racehorse for chistmas
And you keep it just for fun, for a laugh haha
They say that when you get married
It'll be to a millionaire
But they don't realize where you came from
And I wonder if they really care, they give a damn
But where do you go to my lovely
When you're alone in your bed
Tell me the thoughts that surround you
I want to look inside your head
I remember the back streets of Naples
Two children begging in rags
Both touched with a burning ambition
To shake off their lowly brown tags, yes they try
So look into my face Marie-Claire
And remember just who you are
Then go and forget me forever
'Cause I know you still bear
the scar, deep inside, yes you do
I know where you go to my lovely
When you're alone in your bed
I know the thoughts that surround you
'Cause I can look inside your head
:))) Reminds me of Paris somehow...
♥ 1:04 AM
Am feeling miserable because I'm down with the flu. Bah, what a way to spend recess week. As a result, I had to cancel on gwei. :( Sigh.
On the plus side, I caught up with two episodes of Gossip Girl, two episodes of Entourage and the season premiere of HIMYM ! Awesome ! I heart Neil Patrick Harris. :D
Also managed to finish Alex Garland's The Beach in both novel and movie form. (400+ pages in under two days I might add..) Has anybody who has read it want to discuss it with me ? I have questions ! The movie was SUCH A DISAPPOINTMENT. Deviated from the book a lot and the characters weren't fleshed out as much. Blah. I loved how Richard left Francoise alone in the book despite feelings for her. But nooooo.. In the movie they were lovers. Sheesh.
Okay it's already wednesday, boohoo. There's little time left to feel less guilty about school. Oh I really think I should draft out a little something for the photo essay and contemplate the forseeable disaster that is my development project.
Monday, September 21, 2009
♥ 3:20 AM
It makes my heart melt and it makes my heart ache. I'd probably rank this as my favourite classical piece. It's so incredibly beautiful yet haunting. And yet there is a quiet but passionate wistfulness. Ahhhh.. Something inside of me is brimming with tears.
♥ 2:07 AM
20.09.2009
I didn't realise how nice they look beside each other. It was a good sunday. I got my hair trimmed at bedok for 7 bucks. Contemplated becoming a maroon head but decided against the drasticness of it. Saw the most gorgeous kitty in the carpark. It's probably a siamese cross ? But it ran away so quickly before I could say hi. That made me a little sad.
Luba was kind enough to spend the rest of sunday with me. We walked the istana grounds ! Or at least the parts accessible to the public due to Hari Raya. I was so impressed by the amount of unobstructed space ! Grass, grass and more grass. Oh and random mini ponds and swans. Perfect for picnics and rolling about. (yes, I actually saw two girls trying to roll down the gentle slope) :) It's such a pity that it's not open to the public all year round. The tour of the ground floor of the istana itself was disappointing though. Apart from the chandeliers. But they're standard fare I guess.
Made me think of the gardens of the versailles palace which we didn't fully cover, sadly. :( But made me think about relating gardens and nature to power and legitimacy. Shall propose that at my group meeting tomorrow. :B Should start on my photo commentary research ! Fortunately, managed to take pictures of some kitties at bedok today.
I digress. Anyway, we caught Tokyo Sonata and it was a really good show (albeit expensive). It had the right amount of lighthearted moments and of course a very good dose of irony. It made me feel quite...overwhelmed (but maybe because the little boy played clair de lune at the end ?). Many things to think about. Whether it is possible to 'start over', whether we are able to break out of our parents' mould, whether we can withstand a 'role' defining each of, whether the larger structures determine the course of life (i.e. the inevitability of it all), whether we can find someone we really love and maintain whatever that love is/means across the trials of 'life' as it is 'imposed' on us... Okay in short everyone should watch it and think.
Dinner was a subway sandwich in istana park and deep conversation. :) Mmms, it was a good sunday, thank you. Now for a good monday, I'd better get some rest before my project group meeting...
Sunday, September 20, 2009
♥ 1:33 AM
Ups
1. Towning with my aunts and the pretty, long cardigan from Bebe ! :D
2. Finally completing episode 1 of The Office after multiple failed streamings. FUNNY !!! Especially the Andy is gay thread, heheh. Andy Bernard is hilarious.
3. Kinda getting through around half of O Magnum Mysterium. It's been awhile since we tried older music.. Pretty satisfying stuff !
Downs
1. The THOUGHT of work. I think about work a lot but the inertia, ooh the inertia... (omgah, I just thought of the readings I have to zap from the RBR for devt.................................)
2. Calls not being returned. It's been awhile.
3. Kinda getting through around half of O Magnum Mysterium. The fourths and fifths take a while to get used to. And we can't do octaves ! Damn.
***
Feel like chopping off my hair. Should bring self to dentist. Ought to take Clara to the vet. Why aren't there driving lessons for me to buy ? What's with all these 'one night stands' ! Crystal. Clear, that is. And so is the answer right ? Either way I think I should be depressed. I'm sure zkai and gwei are rolling their eyes. Hrms. So lethargic and yet so very restless, I am. Can't believe it's exactly a month till my 21st birthday. Somehow I feel kinda blah-mopey thinking about it. Not sure why it seems to matter. Time to sleep.
Friday, September 18, 2009
♥ 11:34 AM
I have the piano score ! And it's naiiiise ! -ecstatic- :D
♥ 2:21 AM
Was fiddling with my daddy's DSLR.. Still makes my eyes wonky after a while. And shaky hands are not good when your exposure's over 0.4s. Bah. I feel like getting a holga tlr ! Almost half the price of a blackbird fly ?Yay, wordcount is approximately 969. Although awesomecount still is apparently zilch. Done with the biblio too, thank heavens for the biblio form on MS word. Shall just refine it tomorrow and then head all the way to the geog department to submit it. Oh, but not before putting on some nice clothes for dinner.. Recess week ! :D
Up next will be my photo essay and following that the individual lecture commentary. Bzz bzz how did I ever manage to cope with five modules !
Need to take a poll. Still wondering if I should switch to auto. It's so hard to get lessons. Haven't had them for 2 weeks. I am losing interest. Not good.
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
♥ 8:30 PM
Well I'm actually not sure of what I do well and what I can be paid to do. :/ Oh yes and thanks to wikipedia, I realise COMPARATIVE advantage and COMPETITIVE advantage are not the same thing. Shucks, ECONS FAIL.
Ultimate sian balls. The entourage episode I downloaded is of unwatchable quality. Damn. Just as I got my hopes up. I couldn't finish watching project runway either cos parts of the episodes were unavailable and unstreamable. ARGH. And the fall season of my tv shows will be starting soon ! How to watch like that ! Bollocks. Maybe I should try going back to firefox.
I'm having an ice cream craving now. Mmms, chocolate chip cookie dough please.. Or the Swensen's buffet ! Ahh ! We should meet up to have it !
I'm thinking I should head to burlington square and get my slide film scanned into a CD. Would be bloody wasted if it weren't. We shall see. I will be HAPPY once friday rolls around. WDR commentary would be submitted ! Although am reading camera forums instead of steadfastly toiling on it.
Everyone should just get tumblr so they can check out all the awesome stuff people post and I wouldn't have to repost them here.
It's fascinating but I just realised that Clara's been around for more than half of my life. I can't imagine it without her. The sound of her nails clicking or her collar jangling when she walks.. The furry white tufts of her belly and her really soft ears.. The way she cocks her head to one side sometimes just makes me melt. It's so easy to tell her that I love her.
One wonders...
I could tell you but then I'd have to love you
♥ 12:18 AM
Very cranky. Report is extremely ugh-inducing. Am not even sure what I should write. Crankiness is compounded by the fact that there aren't any driving lessons that I can book and that flooble is down and that it's going to take another hour (2.5 in total) to download my less than 25 minute Entourage episode. GRRRR. I NEED TO SLEEP ALREADY.
Another awesome tutorial I had today though. Couldn't stop smiling because we had a mini forum/debate during resources tutorial about the mekong and mainstream hydropower dams (I was a local NGO) and after it all my lecturer said that I deserved to be the woman of the match (he loves football.....) cos I was particularly fiery ! (yes my impassioned plea about the irreversible damage of dams to these poor communities who only know fishing in their lives)
WOMAN OF THE MATCH !
Phwoar ! Thanks Carl. :D
Ten am tutorial tomorrow and my 1000 word commentary, boohoohoo.
No giving up when you're young and you want some
No Gideon, that is not a sexual nickname. And no, the rest of my friends, I am not wanting/going to get laid anytime soon.
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
♥ 11:50 PM
TELL ME YOU DON'T LOVE HIS GREEN GLITTER DOC MARTEN'S BOOTS AND HIS RED HAT !!!
I don't love him dancing in his undies though. Put some clothes on boy ! Other than that, it's addictive !
Monday, September 14, 2009
♥ 11:57 PM
It's not very clear from the picture but it says 'Don't kiss me now, I'm busy'. How adorable is that ! I want !!! Kate Spade, US$175 though, MEH. Made some extremely FAIL meringues today. Looks like chocolate but they're actually kinda burnt. Second batch was much better though. Think there might've been something wrong with the temperature in the instructions. Had to whisk (BY HAND !) it till my right arm ached, haha. But still, not bad ! Tastes like marshmallows.
Looks like I don't have much time for driving lessons, shucks. Especially with one deadline a week. Thanks to markmark I'm semi-addicted to Mika's We Are Golden. Tsk.
♥ 12:04 AM
'You don’t know me but my name is Edward Bloom and I love you.'
Big Fish. This was what, 2003 ? It's Ewan McGregor by the way. :)
An above average Sunday. Completed tutorials for crime fic and resources (including skimming through a 20+ page report on the Mekong fisheries by Baird. Lucky most of it consisted of fish names and villages). Currently trying my darndest to go through Falah, 1996.
Oh, forgot to mention that I had steamboat with LT at Gerald's on Saturday. BLISS. :D Thanks uncle ! Maybe I'll have it again tomorrow/today. Ma la huo guo makes my mouth water.
I think it's one of those extremely blah times of the year. Everyone's in down in a funk. These oscillations are not good at all. I bet it wouldn't look good on the dance floor either. Brownian motion, bobbing and knee jerking. Hello when shall we pay Timbre a visit ?
Who is up for a mooncake/birthday tea/halloween party !
Read Matthew 5 & 6. Surprise surprise.
If you care to find me
look to the Western sky
Listening to the soundtrack makes me really miss London, dreariness and all.
Sunday, September 13, 2009
♥ 1:16 AM
'Today at work, I found a sign up sheet for a company barbecue. We were supposed to write what we were bringing. I wrote "sexy back". Everyone is looking forward to my dish. MLIA.'
Haha, I love that I am finding loads of funny pretty awesome stuff on tumblr.
Oh and apparently Tim Burton is doing 1984. Like what ! Seriously ? Need to re-read that one too..
'Not seldom enough !'
Guess the question to the above. Hahaha. :x
Friday, September 11, 2009
♥ 9:39 PM
My sister and I decided to accompany my father to the IT fair after my brother decided to stay at home. Nothing exciting about it at all. Comicon was tonnes more exciting. What I did enjoy however was a GINORMOUS serving of fairy floss :D Hehehehe, naiiiise.
Intended to get The Beach on dvd at HMV but was extremely excited when I found the novel by Alan Garland being sold there as well ! Yayy HMV, you are my favourite bookstore haha ! And I got both dvd and novel for 20 bucks, glee. Also, my dad was kind enough to get shirts for us so I have another beatles tee, hoho. Really quite like the kings of leon and franz ferdinand ones too..
Am thinking it's time to re-watch The Royal Tenenbaums and Lost in Translation. I think I've grown to appreciate the subtlety of artsy films more.
Leah Garrett's article about landscape in the Jewish imagination should be a model for all papers and book chapters. Concise, easily digestible and with sufficient examples. Not to mention only 11 pages long. What a joy to read !
Didn't do a thing today and yet infinitely exhausted. Meh, work work work. Wonder what exciting or unexciting things I'll be up to tomorrow. Such great weather for sleeping.. The late morning thunderstorm was really scary. The few really monstrous times where flash of light and clap of thunder combined made it literally seem as if a cloud had exploded. Or maybe some bomb had. Scary stuff.
Yay, I love singing carols. :)
♥ 1:10 AM
Finally done with ploughing through the 32 page overview of the 2009 WDR. Major snoozefest, I'm sorry. Maybe it's because I'm not reading any territorially specific policy suggestions. Just bits and blabber about institutions, infrastructure and interventions. Repetitions of integration. Meh. Uninspiring to say the least. Modernization theory seems to be implicit. And I have to write a 1000 word commentary. Humbug.
In other news, tumblr is addictive, Sooks, to my surprise, ordered threadless tees for me, my nails are hot pink (toenails are peach) and I spent the last 30 odd hours going out of my mind.
Trust me, it wasn't pretty and I'm not prepared for anything similar anytime soon.
Finally resources tutorial is out. Have that and crime tut to complete. Also my readings for the next landscapes tut. Okay I pretty much have my friday objectives. Chunkfest sounds exciting but ahhh the SUN and the QUEUE.
Turns out that mich is going to erasmus in rotterdam where xunny will be and aggie will be in san diego. ALL MY GOOD FRIENDS ARE GOING OVERSEAS. (not including my good friends who are already overseas) I am saddened and jealous much ! Or maybe I should qualify.. They are going to Europe/America ! Not that Thailand won't be exciting but it's just different. Meh. Am thinking if I have the time and money to visit xunny and mich..
Meow, yes ice cream sounds good. Also, if anyone reads this, please go check out The Fratellis ! Try Whistle for the Choir. Really good stuff. :)
♥ 12:45 AM
HELLO AWESOME !
New addiction. :D
Am having the 5 of their songs that I found on loop..
Wednesday, September 09, 2009
♥ 11:28 PM
Exceedingly crappy day.
John Mayer and Rachael Yamagata on loop.
Too often, we lose sight of life’s simple pleasures. Remember when someone annoys you, it takes 42 muscles to frown, BUT it only takes 4 muscles to extend your arm and bitch slap the motherfucker upside the head.
Damn right.
I'm thankful for my dog. Clara is there when I need a hug. And thanks Aggie. :)
09/09/09. One of those 'I can't go on like this' days.
♥ 12:18 AM
five things you wish you could say to five different people now:
- Maybe the only way to get over you is if we become best friends.
- I'm torn between 'everyday should be like this' and 'I cannot go on like this'.
- Sorry I'm so horrible so often.
- When will I see you all again ? (this is to 7 people so I'm cheating :x)
- Hello we should have dinner again sometime.
ten things about yourself:
- A mass of contradictions. A mess of contradictions.
- Random but I feel like getting a tattoo. Of music notes..
- On lazy afternoons, which is often, I like to nap diagonally on my parents' double bed.
- There is nothing that I am good at. Or hopefully just nothing that I know of yet.
- I'd like closeness in space.
- I always try to wear my jeans/pants two to three times. Saves water !
- I hate the feeling of always being the one to do anything and everything.
- I get bored very quickly. Not good.
- Impatient and obstinate.
- When I say no, I really mean yes.
seven ways to win my heart:
- Challenge me to try new things but accept challenges yourself.
- Love animals. :)
- Respect my ideas and values.
- Love my friends and family.
- Entertain my randomness. Like lying on grass !
- Surprise me.
- (shall keep gwei's last one) Hold my hand because you want to.
seven things that cross your mind alot:
- I'm doing less work than I should be doing. Crap.
- Why am I so broke ?
- Mmms, fooood..
- I am bored.
- I need to exercise.
- I really seem to be balding !?
- So much work, so little time, so darn lethargic.
four things you do before you fall asleep:
- Set my alarms.
- Clear my bed of all my readings/books/stuff.
- Think, so that I'd fall asleep.
- Pray.
four things you see right now:
- Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None
- MAC lipgloss
- Senghong's souvenir- a London bus keychain
- Studio Ghibli collection which my father just bought :)
three songs you listen to often:
- La La La by The Bird & The Bee (ringtone, heh)
- Starlight by Muse (alarm ringtone)
- Use Somebody by Kings of Leon
two things you want to do before you die:
- (more than two things but well..) Do justice to God, myself, family and friends.
- Love and be loved in return.
one confession:
- I dislike showing any signs of weakness. Which is ironic sometimes given how I can be oh so unflinchingly lazy.
***
A MINUS BABYYYY ! :D Yay for nice prof ! Now on to the WDR.. I realise I don't have groupmates for the project. Shucks. Sigh.
This is one of those days. A day in which I ask why I even bother. Why can't I have simple ? Even if I don't think about the bigger picture, the smaller frames are painful.
Perhaps I'm just holding on to something that's bad for me.
Smiled at curls and had a short chat with larry lee at the punggol station. What a day of coincidences !
Funny how it seems that the time I stopped attending church was pretty much the time everything started to go downhill. Or something. Oh, also the time when boys came into the picture. Disgusting.
Tumblrs are so pretty. I like pretty and sparkly and happy. Why can't life be a dream ?
Monday, September 07, 2009
♥ 10:49 PM
According to the beijing 101 advert I saw on the train, what I presume to be a 'source spot' is actually an early sign of baldness !!! Ahhhh, horrible ! Need to reduce sodium intake. Up the veggies and fruits man.
I'm sick of everything globalization related. I cannot wait to do readings for my other modules.
I feel quite stressed now. I don't know where to begin for resources ? :/ And yet I just received a short term job offer. I think I will be paid peanuts but still, I could use peanuts ! It might clash with most deadlines methinks ? :S
You could distinguish Miles from Coltrane.
♥ 2:16 AM
You sit there in your heartache
Waiting for some beautiful boy
To save you from your old ways
You play forgiveness
Watch it now, here he comes
He doesn't look a thing like Jesus
But he talks like a gentleman just like you imagined
When you were young
***
Beautiful acoustic version. :) brandon flowers ! Where is the gentleman I imagined when I was young..
♥ 1:55 AM
I love lolcats ! :D These kitties made me smile.
It's been ages since I stayed up to do work. I am uninterested in the economic aspects of development and I realise now that the module focuses on it. Definitely, it is inextricably linked but I'm more concerned with the social and environmental parts. BAHHH.
Starting to rub my eye a lot. Time to put my powerpoint aside and turn in. Meow.
Thursday, September 03, 2009
♥ 8:36 PM
All the desirable things in life are either illegal, expensive, fattening or in love with someone else.
Wait, so where does a 4.0 cap figure in the above ??? Haha.
As much as jiechao doesn't like it (and he was the one who commented that I could have a one on one human geography lesson !!!!!! right. EWW.), I can't help swooning over my handsome professor. He has really nice eyes and he's funny. Hahaha. Normally I don't say a word during tutorial but by default I had to speak since my project group just clammed up and that made me brave enough to make another comment. After which he said that I made an excellent contribution !
BEAMS. :D What a fabulous tutorial session ! :))))
Yesterday was mighty eventful. Db's car battery died so after an hour of chatting near my void deck we had to call the road assistance guy. So we were basically sitting on the kerb like two weirdos till about 1am. Haha..
Watched Clueless again on tv today. (luba, avert gaze) Paul Rudd is so super cute I can't take it ! Hahaha. :D Anyway it makes me want to watch Emma again.. Oh Mister Knightley, where art thou !
Oh and for some reason, zkai told me that when he was having dinner with pyong and aggie, they concluded that I'll be the first amongst us to get laid. WHAT?!?!?!?! I wonder what gave zkai the notion that I was not against PMS. Tsk.
Xunny and I are two peas in the slack and broke pod. We just want to dive into pools of money after selling our multi-million dollar geeky video game idea.
I thought I ordered a side of normal ? Meh.
Wednesday, September 02, 2009
♥ 12:17 AM
I know I know. A jealous bitch. And then some. Mikuru-san ! Mikuru-san ! Hahaha.
Mmmms. Cute brother. Naiiise, hurhur.
Don't get me wrong. I love the weather. Just not when it makes my nose run marathons and mars my mugging plans. It does feel like it's summer in europe though. Without the sunshine and sitting on the grass. :B
Shucks, I have a ten am (UNPONNABLE) class and I'm not in bed !
Tuesday, September 01, 2009
♥ 1:59 AM
Omgahhhhhh year three week four and I haven't done any work !!!!! PANICS !!!!!
Except for the crime fiction tutorial questions. But that was easy and nonsensical. Oh and the three fiction texts so far. But they don't count either as much as I try to bluff myself that reading storybooks constitutes school work. Shucks. Time to mug. Time to unleash my inner smugger-and-book-voucher-recipient michelle tang ! Okay, will do culture readings tomorrow. Wednesday through to friday will be for development readings. Plus initial write ups for resources project.
I realise that the tension is between enjoying the now and the bigger picture. It always is, isn't it ?
Now I don't feel so chirpy about tuesday plans. :B Everyday should be a bright new day to study, HAHA.
I watched The Little Shop of Horrors today. :D It's funny ! And the music is so cute ! Guowei, you should watch it. :) You'd find Audrey very familiar. Hilarious cameo by Steve Martin too..
I wish I was in Bangkok. Fun dee na..