Random thoughts

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I'm so-damned-super-duper-uber sick of this blog skin already. But still couldn't find a suitable one after so many failed attempts.

As I embarked on another "journey" again to search for blogskins this morning, I found a really nice one but when I pasted it to my template, blogspot says there's an error in it. Unlucky~ :X

First, comments section magically removed and I don't even know how to recover it; second, template problem. It's just a matter of time before I shift my blog to somewhere else.

I dunno why blogging and decorating blogs has habitually become a pleasure during exams.

I really wanted to start counting down the days I'll be heading to Taiwan, but haven't received any notices from Chengchi Uni informing me when school starts. I wonder if working adults have deadlines to meet, because I have been getting late replies from institutions and corporations. Probably student-related-matters are the least in their priorities.. If that's the case, I've got no qualms about that. I understand, haha.

This time, my exams period is accompanied by a serious flu and blocked nose. For the past few days, I haven't been able to breathe properly. Breathing with mouth is an uncomfortable practice, because that's not the main purpose this organ is designed for.

I tried very hard to blow my nose to remove the block, but then my ears got affected. Probably due to some pressure thingy I guess. ARGH! I think I'll soon finish up the new box of tissue Mum got for me. Horrible + Terrible (don't tell me equals to vegetable).

Wish(unfulfilled) for the day: GET A NEW BLOGSKIN!

心疼

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看到年迈的三轮车夫被三名年轻力壮的外国人欺负，真为那三轮车夫感到心疼。真的，很心疼。

我无法忘记老公公在向三名壮汉要车费时，那历经风霜、一脸无助的面容。我不能忍受年轻、有知识、阶级地位高，却没有道德的人欺负弱者。

为什么要这么羞辱一个只是单纯用体力换取金钱酬劳、一个只是在踏踏实实工作的年长者？


新闻来源：老外欺负本地三轮阿伯还把过程放上youtube

Campus Yummy

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Lived like a crazy and mad ghost for the past two days, because me and my project mate had to submit a 16-page layout magazine in three days. But minus away our lecture time and etc, Wendy and I in fact only had one full night and a few hours of the day to finish it. And that's why I lose sleep for two whole days!

Fortunately, I had Campus Yummy filming @ NTU to brighten this terrible week. Need to thank TS and the crew for giving me the chance to take part in it. (: But since I had been living like a ghost then, felt it was a pity that 我不能美美上镜. HAHA!

What is Campus Yummy (美食大专攻)? (http://yummyhunt.mediacorptv.sg/yummy)

It's a Channel U show hosted by Dasmond Koh and Felicia Chin. With the help of a student campus yummy guide, their mission is to hunt down scrumptious yet cheap food on tertiary campuses in Singapore.

In each episode, the yummy guide will take the hosts and a group of food tasters to a few stalls within the campus to try out the food. At the end of the day, the food tasters will vote for the best meal they have tasted.

So, one of the stops is at NTU, and I am one of the two NTU yummy guides.

On the recording day itself, we went to three places to try out the food. As a guide, I had quite an easy job, haha. I did the opening introduction with the hosts, helped out with the voting, and mentioned a few special points about the dishes I recommend.

This time's experience is fun, I start to like programme hosting, though I may look quite unnatural since it's my first time. I also got to witness the behind-the-scenes during the prog recording, and saw the dedication and patience of this production crew.

Initially I thought I would be left out since I am considered as the outsider (quite a reasonable act lah, cos the crew and the hosts already knew each other and have worked together as colleagues), but the executive producer, producer and the research writer were very friendly and caring towards me, the cameramen and assistants were very helpful too, which totally changed my impression of the TV crew and made me felt awfully good.

The food tasters were chatty too. If they had not initiated conversation, based on my "anti-social towards strangers" personality, I wouldn't have had a chance to make friends with them.

What I want to say is, this recording has sparked my interest in programme production. Hoorays! (:

Campus Yummy premieres 27 Nov, Tues 8pm on Channel U. NTU episode will be aired on 11 and 18 Dec.

Burnt

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This weekend was horrendous. There was a publication layout assignment due on Saturday midnight. Everything was very rushed and packed because I have got other commitments, so is Wendy, my project partner.

She came to my house on Friday night and stayed up all the way until around 11am the next day, where she hurried to another location to help out her coursemate with video filming. I was impressed that she actually survived without one night's sleep. Me too, I slept only for a miserable 1.5 hr and woke up to rush, rush, rush. Horrible.

I continued with the assignment until 4.30pm, when I had no choice but to leave for work from that evening until the night (aiya wrong timing!). Wendy came over in the evening and completed the unfinished parts. It was like a running relay, with batons passing from one to another. Just that this is a mental relay.

Besides finishing a 32-page booklet, we also designed a logo for our imagined design house:

Amateurish but I was quite proud of it, cos it was done by ourselves!!

Sunday was spent doing the preparation for the next assignment for this Publication Deisgn course. I don't know why the assignments were scheduled to be due at this point in time when the exams are nearing. Don't want us to study is it. Very inconsiderate leh.

By the way, wanna say a big THANK YOU to the very super duper uber kind Darwis for spending his Sunday afternoon till night to help us out. (:

Once gone, never return

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I lost 500+ songs from my MP3. All because of an unnoticed mistake that she and I made.

Feel very very miserable now, as though part of me has been ripped off. 五月天、元若兰、卓文萱、南拳妈妈、S.H.E、王力宏、刘德华、阿杜、旺福、陈绮贞 etc etc albums are all gone. Being someone who live on music, the consequence of this accident is just too hard for me to bear.

I start to hate MAC.

The time and energy I had used to arrange those songs have been wasted.

How long do I have to take to recover from this shock?

一阵鼻酸，就足以让泪流下。痛彻心扉。

思念

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在你的心上 种一亩田
再像农人 坚守岗位

在你的心上 化成蝴蝶
飞舞在今天的鲜艳

不知此时此刻的你
在用什么方式
让情绪排遣？

我呢，在这个夏夜
为你编织了一整个宇宙的 思念

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Went out for a while just now and thought of this poem on Dad's lorry. Traveling on a private transport triggers inspiration, haha (:

A piece of silent night, peace of me

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I must have been crazy. Just "tortured" myself with a can of coffee on my way home. It's turning 4am and I can't sleep.

張震嶽's concert at NTU was another excellent show. Full house, enthusiastic audience, live band, great hits. I never expected 張震嶽 to come perform at NTU, and I am glad he did. (:

Ever since I watched Sixplus live concert outside the Esplanade, I started to enjoy live band performances. And those live band experiences I had as an audience at the concerts at Singapore Indoor Stadium made me appreciate the live music even more. No matter how well arranged a minus one is, it cannot be compared with melodies played live. After all, musical notes carry emotions-- the musicians encode them, and the listeners decode them.

I wish to write more, but I feel my brain freezing.

Freak. I enjoy the tranquility, but I'm worried about my eye bags and aging skin.

A piece of silent night, peace of me.