and on a random note, today on the mrt on my way to school i saw a woman who was crying. i don’t know who she is but i hope she’s ok now.
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watched the last half an hour of the miss universe pageant today while munching down dinner (some leftover ricecake and preserved fish from shanghai). it was pretty funny because that was the so-called difficult question and answer round. there was a question which was something along the lines of, “what do you think could be done to eradicate the gender discrimination women face in many parts of the world face even until this day?” in which miss Venezuela answered, well, i don’t think anything needs to be done because there is a lot done already!
this made me realise that the purpose of the q&a round is not, contrary to popular belief, to flaunt the extreme intellectual aptitude of the contestants, but instead is designed in such a way that contestants’ll score high points for waxing lyrial about life while looking glamorous. geez. if only we could answer tok questions with such relative ease. “how do you quantify truth based on the different ways of knowing?” “well firstly, i would like to say how thankful i am for this wonderful experience, because i believe in telling the truth. and also i think truth consists of with beauty, compassion and intelligence…” haha. there’s an A for tok right there.
and it was damn funny cuz venezuela won twice in a row right? this year and last. when they announced that miss venezuela won, the ex-miss universe and the current one ran towards each other and started hugging and crying and jumping around in circles in unison. and 2008’s hair just kinda disintegrated into this bird’s-nest type of thing when she jumped around. ok i kid. but seriously, the best part was when 2008 was crowning 2009. i’m sorry did i say crowning? i mean throw-the-million-dollar-diamond-tiara-on-head-of-your-successor a la those carnival games where you have to throw mini-hoops into the bottle. it was damn funny!
oh well, if only the world were a giant beauty pageant: there would be answers to every single pressing question; does god exist? were the pyramids really built by aliens? is doomsday really in 2012? will we all die then? what can we do to survive? do we hide food in the basements? if so what type of food? will we remember to bring can-openers or starve to death because we were too stupid to open the food without them? will there be tinned mangoes? what the hell am i saying exactly?
anyway if you haven’t figured, the magic phrase to all of those questions above is ‘world peace’. or as the homies back at the ‘hood say it, ‘peace out’.
appearance vs reality: sometimes you shouldn’t laugh at the weirdo.
p.s. sorry for the randomness guys, i’m really damn sleepy, and this is coming from after my 4 hour nap. haha. i failzz at lifezzxxss
p.p.s. maybe i should become lianxxzzz
p.p.p.s. can lianzzxxx win miss universe?
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my weekend was full of spending quality time with my bed, pigging out on cornetto royales, fervently praying that i’ll get a maya angelou extract for ioc (serious!), trying to figure out the gender ambiguity and undertones of the male-actor-dressed-as-a-female-dressed-as-a-man Viola-or-hould-i-say-Cesario in 12th night, enjoying a peaceful night in my hovel- i mean, room while the storm and tempest still outside, apologia pro eating seconds of stir-fried ricecake for dinner, while still having time to catch a tv movie. namely HOT FUZZ!
two words: it. was. epic! probably ranks up there in the list of most ridiculous movies that i’ve ever seen (but still love). somehow brit comedies are so much funnier than american ones. can’t remember the last time i’ve properly laughed (like clutching stomach, tears streaming down face laughed) at an american film. which reminds me, i caught a certain the animal on channel 5 on saturday. it was just… ew. surprisingly dad and bj were in fits over it, but i quickly switched the channel when they went off grocery shopping. i would use “disgusting” and “utterly revolting” to describe it but… well i don’t want to be sued, do i? :)
anw ioc in three days. i really hope i get caged bird!! i really love that book. yes so what if its black-mama-korean-drama, but at least it features female empowerment and not to mention it’s very inspirational! and colour purple too. at least they don’t portray women in a derogatory light, like miss julie (who’s a skank) or hedda gabler (she’s nuts) or medea (cold-blooded child-murderer). who else… mayber lear’s favourite daughters, regan (president with same name was assassinated) or goneril (named after an std… yikes). okay fine, those two i kid. :P
(if you’re male just skip the last bit, sorry. it’s nothing much, really)
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love this song so much. i wanna watch 500 days of summer :)
and i was thinking how the universe is a metaphor for life. see, everyone’s a planet in this vast, inter-connected expanse of darkness. everyone’s held at an arm’s length of light years from each other, and the universe is at equilibrium, all the planets orbiting precariously within the status quo of gravity.
there’s you, you’re earth, you’re surrounded by the 7 other planets in the solar system.
there’s jupiter, the friend who you gravitate toward, the largest planet in the solar system.
there’s saturn, the friend you’d like to be closer to but can’t cuz he/she’s surrounded by a gazillion moons.
there’s neptune, the friend who’s always in a state of emotional flux, whose moods perpetually swing from stormy to acrid to lukewarm, just like the weather.
there’s venus and mars, the pair of friends who always seem to be at loggerheads but whom you know will get together eventually.
there’s mercury, the hot-headed friend who’s the closest to the fire, and who sticks up for you when you need it the most.
and then there’s the sun; that’s the most important person in your life. it keeps you warm, it keeps you alive. too close and it gets unbearably hot, because he’s just too bright to stare at for too long.
well. we hope for the best for asteroid belts to keep away, for the sun to stay sane and to keep the solar flares in, for the supernovas and black holes to remain at light-years’ distance away. so that the balance isn’t disrupted. sometimes i wish i were a star right up there in some far-flung and lonely galaxy, like one of those tiny stars that float around doing nothing but speeding on it’s orbit the whole day. but that’s kinda sad you know? being a star. cuz stars are so pretty yet they’re slowly dying from inside, that’s why they shine.
haha this post is so monumentally geeky and cheesy. whateverrr! btw guys remember to check out the song, you’re bound to fall in love with it. (too bad the band’s broken up; the lead singer has a real nice british accent)
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the weekend’s been really productive. hopefully i’ll be able to retain all that info though! seems to be a stretch but hopefully it happens. and my goal for the prelims is to get at least a 6 in all HLs and 7 for chem and 6 for physics. i got 5 for chinese a2 but since we’ve gotten the score for our written papers for ib back already and have already submitted the ias, i hope i get a 7!
suddenly i have this real urge to go study in the uk, just seems like such a great place to be. even though i know it’s selfish because it’s sooo expensive and i should just remain in singapore and go to nus (because well, given the job climate now if i do get into law in the uk i’ll probably stay there after i graduate). well but my long term goal is to buy my parents a house by the seaside (lol mom i know you’re reading this) and then pay for my bro’s uni tuition fees so i guess anywhere’s fine as long as i get a job. cus you know, confucius ranks high on my list of life’s philosophies (after maybe say… uhhh)
haha. i know right? and if i have enough money left i’ll save up for my wedding. HAHA!
but since i’m so bad at saving i’ll prolly be a perpetually poor student even after i graduate. boohoo.
and i’m spamming a lot of indie music in my itunes recently. idk the stuff they sing about’s catchy and laid-back at the same time. and it’s cute how a lot of indie bands name themselves with the article “the” at the start of their names:the red jumpsuit apparatus (hmm is that an indie band?), the crib, the pigeon detectives, the ramones, the scientists… aaaaand this band called the kooks whose music i really like recently!
this song’s pretty good, and i used to be really crazy over their song ‘naive’, except then i didn’t really know which band played it. except half the time i can’t understand the lyrics, hm. maybe sometimes things are made to be appreciated, not to be understood.
p.s. this is random, but i’m suddenly craving that sweet, white and thick chinese hot dessert. rahhh
