Filed under: memories, rambling, random, videos | Tags: blast from the past, dad, mom, movie, random, reflective, television, video
ahh… what a blast to the past. i love disney movies :D well i’m not afraid to say it, even though some might deem it childish, but i think when you’re all grown up and you revisit these childhood classics, they take on a whole new meaning. i know this is stupid, but when i was a kid i totally had a crush on robin hood… who technically was an anthropomorphic fox. and i hated maid marian because she was his gf. haha! oh man typing all of this really makes me wonder what was going on in my head when i was young. but now rewatching the movie it seems to me to be a great good-truimphs-over-evil, true-love-exists-no-matter-what type of love story. which also happens to be insanely saccharine sweet… which is exactly the way i like it!
well, disney just doesn’t make movies like that anymore y’know? like movies with that tinge of old hollywood glamour of the 40s (or is is 50s? 60s?); the slightly muffled, gramaphone-like sound quality of the film, the classic fairytale romance, the female protagonist who can attract animals with song (for some funny reason). i can’t really describe it. but the closest way i can put it is the way disney movies used to have the ability to make children believe in magic – talking animals, flying carpets, exotic places, fairy godmothers etc etc, the list persists. now it’s, hmm, miley cirus and her hoe down throw down. -_-
the animated movies that i loved the most as a child were the land before time, robin hood, hercules and the fox and the hound. i remember my dad used to buy me these cd-rom games which featured the movie characters from the disney films, like this hunchback of notre dame game i remember, it was like break the bricks with the ball thing, and i used to challenge my mom to see who was better LOL. well somehow there seemed to be a never-ending supply of games (mostly educational… like that sat prep game what was modeled after doom i played when i was 6. wow, i wonder which developer thought it was a good idea to make a game for children which had like a dark maze full of skeletons jumping at you at random. it still scares me btw), maybe perhaps my dad worked in a video game developing company last time (i think).
so anyway my favourite animated movie was land before time: i watched it when i was 4 or 5 and it had a profound impact on me. it was about how this group of orphaned dinosaurs went on a journey to find their parents, and i remember pretending the spinach in my porridge was the leaf-transmitter thingy that the dinosaur used to see their parents. i remember being grateful that i wasn’t an orphan. haha. ahhh memories. it’s funny how some things from your childhood remain with you all these while, and other things you can’t remember at all. hmm.
oh well this wass such a self-indulgent post. like a spectroscopic flight of fancy. and the subject matter doesn’t really suit my image at all – maybe i should stick with listening to death metal. haha! :P
Filed under: daily, random, rants, videos | Tags: angry, brother, dad, exams, food, movie, pissed
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)
Filed under: daily, reflective, videos | Tags: brother, dad, exams, family, life, mom, money, music, school
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
Filed under: daily, rambling | Tags: brother, dad, friends, movie, random, weird, work
just watched wolverine with the bro!! it was a awesome movie but some parts were really accidentally funny (like the part deadpool (or deathpool?) was falling/spiralling down the empty cylindrical chimney and was cutting it into slices from within using cyclop’s laser-eye ability… it’s funnier actually watching it, seriously). so anyway i was almost falling asleep on the couch while waiting for dad and bj to fix up the tv while studying chem, but at least i finished most of medicine&drugs and organic chem today. whoopee for me! and anyway the movie was pretty nice cos a) wolverine was hot b) his girlfriend was hot c) hugh jackman’s acting was pretty good d) daniel henney (agent zero) was also hot (at least for the 10 min that he was in the movie). but seriously i felt it was better than the x-men franchise movies cos you didn’t have all these expectation of who does what yadda yadda (and there’s no jean grey… hurray!) like a breath of fresh air!
monday i watched state of play w/ pam at shaw. the screen was so small i swear it’s the same size as the tv in my house (as in proportionately) when i first saw russel crowe i was like (pardon me) “woah jesus (sans beard)”, but overall the movie was pretty good; y’know going on about journalistic integrity and political lobbying (i think that’s what it’s called) with a good amount of irony and twists thrown in for good measure. but well i thought they cast ben affleck wrongly cos he seems too dumb to scheme anything. then walked around with pam shopping… (her new obsession is zebra shirts lol) and she told be this disturbing thing on the mrt on the way home it’s still giving me nightmares (hahahaha).
overall today was a pretty good day cos i managed to mug even though i fell asleep halfway. lying on the sofa is not a conducive way to stay awake guys, i learnt that today. and recently i haven’t been sleeping well at night. first of all i keep getting episodes of sleep paralysis (that’s when you wake up at night in this semi-conscious state but you can’t move your body) and it doesn’t help that i keep thinking i’m being possessed. and it’s not even scary anymore i mean it happens so often i get really irritated when it happens, like even in my semi-conscious state i go “walao not again” and try to kick my legs. second of all there was this day i kept getting woken up by, get this, pains in my knees. *crickets chirping* i kid you not i think i have rheumatism. but that happened only after monday cos i walked a lot around orchard and over exerted my granny joints, haha. lastly i keep dreaming of pomeranian puppies (which is kinda nice, actl.) but when i wake up it’s just my bear. how disappointing. i like my bear but i really want a real pom. :(
Filed under: daily, random, rants | Tags: angry, brother, dad, life, pissed, random, reflective
whoopee. my dad blocked facebook for the whole family network due to my brother’s incessant obsession with mafia wars/ restaurant city/ mouse hunt and what have you. which has deprived me of my once great source of online distraction, so now i’ve resorted to mugging econs to pass time. how sad guys.
3 questions i ask myself after i realised proxy sites don’t work and subsequently falling to my knees in horror:
1) why do i feel squirmish without checking fb at least once a day?
2) why do we see a need in finding out our friend/acquaintances’ activities through a social website, and feel disconnected from the world when we don’t?
3) why is there a need to see your friends’ results of “which highschool stereotype are you” “what sex is your brain” “which desperate housewives character are you”?
that’s it; fb is all about me me me, and the exhibiting that innate self-centeredness for the whole world to see, while at the same time looking at other people’s examples of self-centeredness and then affirming egos by liking and commenting on each other’s statuses. so by partaking in this whole social hullabaloo i guess i’m kinda self-centered too. suddenly it has become less of chatting with friends’ you’ve lost contact with and more of… idk, the fact that you got a high score on a game?
well, or maybe i’m just bitter cos fb’s blocked. as bitter as dark chocolate, which i’ll eat now while staring angrily at the proxy site that doesn’t work. >:( curse you to eternity stupid website block function )*&^@#$%^
