Filed under: daily, random, reflective | Tags: movie, random, reflective, tired
it’s 1.34 am
i’m alone by myself in the living room
and all i can hear is the the bubbling of the fish tank
the whirr of air-conditioning from under the neighbours’ windows
the cpu buzzing away
the laguid tick-tock of the clock
people returning from where ever they were, car doors slamming downstairs
and the occassional person in his car speeding along the road outside
it’s times like this, all these combination of sounds that make me think the city is sleeping, like a giant in slumber. it’s funny how in other places, like while vacationing in hk or staying at my aunt’s place in shanghai, the traffic never seems to stop in the middle of the night, and people are honking away randomly like nobody’s business. it’s barely 2 and everybody’s all sleeping! even the neighbour who screams at her children late at night sleeps at 11, haha.
anyway and it’s the first time in a while i’m not in bed by 1. heh. that’s cos was trying to finish an essay! my shoulders feel cramped and sore from being hunched over fore the past 2 hours from doing them on the comp. :( i needs a massage guys, i feel like the hunchback of notre dam with a right big lump on my shoulders now.
hmm i saw the paranormal activity trailer on youtube! well, technically speaking i saw it but didn’t watch it because i didn’t dare to, LOL. if not i wouldn’t be sitting here calmly typing this – i’d probably be hiding under my covers in bed and listening to the radio to block out the sounds of the room creaking and all that jazz, which seem more frightening when you’re in that heightened state of paranoia for some reason. heh. gosh i hate the after effects of getting spooked out. that’s why i stick to watching b-grade, retrotastic b-grade horror films: because their “horror” is a bunch of zombies that look like they came from the set of Thriller, moaning ‘brains!’ and staggering around town, and ain’t no scary dead girl coming out of a tv screen or a stupid well, haha. and above all b-grade horror films are super funny, especially when the protagonists are all scared shitless and running away from zombies and you’re laughing your ass off at the one dressed like a character from Dynasty circa 1980, complete with ugly pearl necklace, shoulder pads and shoes to match. (not that i watch Dynasty though, soz for the stereotype) with that said i caught a bit of return of the dead on max before i was chased back to my room and i laughed more than i was scared (which was none). wish i could’ve finished watching it though, i wonder what happened to all those zombies…
right better go sleep now, toodles!
you know what the government should do? they should give out like incentives for students to do well, to get straight As. for example free tickets to the F1 race, or front row concerts, or free xbox/laptop/mac/etc, or a free entry into clubs (ok this one i kid haha) if you get all As for your A levels or 42 and above for IB. like how america used to give kids free tickets to baseball games if they get straight As. haha if this policy is implemented all the ivy league universities will surely be flooded with singaporeans. hmm
OR in addition to giving baby bonuses to couples just for having/adopting babies, why don’t the government give cash payouts for each teen reaching university? like $10k for each kid that reaches a good university. although that might be slightly disastrous seeing that it’s not the kid that’ll get the cash but the parents. or maybe if you get into uni the government awards you with a trip to a country of your choice, that’ll be nice!
if any MPs are reading my blog please take my humble ideas into consideration! who knows, maybe by 2020 thanks to my policies 100% of singaporeans will be university-graduates. haha. but oh well, just joking guys. not as if we’re a welfare state-ish country anyway.
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the part at 06:13 when they get out of the car at the middle of the road and start dancing is sooo funny haha. the construction worker walks past and he gives this face like, ‘what the’! after watching this i didn’t think paris hilton is so bad, she seems to actually be a nice person?
and as pam would say it, i baoed the physics paper today. haha. like paper 1 was so totally screweded up. i didn’t even have enough time to finish the whole thing so at the last possible moment i ended up shading option c for all of the last 10 questions that i didn’t have time to fill in. well, the only consolation was that i found out i got 3 out of those 10 questions correct. yippie.
hmm halfway through prelims and already i’m so tired. i can’t even study properly after dinner because i get so tired and can’t focus. :( after ib i’ll start doing stuff again, like painting! watercolours and acrylic :D but i think my art skillz are non-existent now after years of non-use. :/ hmm what else. i’ll go to the beach more often! AND I’LL FINALLY WATCH RESERVOIR DOGS and all the movies in my to-do after ib list. and maybe i’ll learn how to cycle (somehow), and exercise more. like learn some martial art! i wanna learn boxing. haha. then next time if you go to big cities overseas you can learn to defend yourself when you’re mugged or something.
oh well. guess i’m planning too far ahead again. gotta work harder for prelims or i really cannot get into a uni. :(
p.s. the weather is so nice and cool now :D it’s a perfect day to be on the beach playing volleyball or drinking martinis. or something.
Filed under: daily, memories, videos | Tags: cousin, exams, food, friends, music, random, tired, work
hmm just finished math tuition. BL and i were reliving our memories by listening to certain songs. it’s interesting how memories can be evoked by just one scent, one picture, one video, or in this case, one song. like the song above! haha oh man it was funny how it was my fave song but i had no idea who it was by or where it was from. that and naive too. because they both played on the radio at that time… which was almost 3 years ago? we were like “wow” for a while, like stunned, thinking about the days associated with those songs. ahh miss the sec 2 and 3 days. i was such a carefree and happy girl then. haha. i would take long bus rides home from nanyang everyday on 852, and then there was this once when this song came on, and i was passing the stretch of yiochukang road right before katib mrt; the road was framed with these trees whose canopies spread over on both sides to form a sort-of tunnel over the road, and i remember watching the dappled sunlight, which formed lace-like patterns on the roads, as the bus whizzed past, and with the strains of guitar from the earphones and the nice cozy temperature inside the bus, i thought to myself: all is right and well in the world. :) lol, but that was so long ago. i haven’t felt like that in so long. :/
oh right. where was i before i went down memory lane… i wanted to send the songs to BL’s phone, but then i realised she didn’t bring it. and she told me there’s something wrong with her phone, yet again, so now she’s stuck with one circa 2001, with no camera and bluetooth, only infrared. HAHA don’t worry you’ll get an awesome new phone soon too!
and during lunch band of brothers was on max, so i was trying to explain the concept of paratroopers and radars to my gran. which wasn’t so difficult, except for the fact i was trying to explain in dialect. i was trying to tell her how the us invented this jet that can evade radars, but in the end i gave up. haha. didn’t know the word for radar in shanghainese. then mom joined us and gave us the whole rundown of what happened at normandy beach. ’twas a blast from the past guys. i’m glad we aren’t embroiled in some war now. i rather 10 times of ib torture than singapore getting involved in a war haha. that’s how grateful i am.
hmm yesterday i met kk and omy to study at kap. well the plan was to study at the new starbucks near coro but it was filled with hwach people so, to no avail. study study all the way (which reminds me, ong ming yi is crazy. she mugged until she got a giant blister on her pinkie from too much friction because she wrote too much), and then vernon joined us and then we had dinner at this peranakan place. hmm the food was nice, but i made the mistake of saying that it looked unappetizing in front of the owner. whooooops. got death glares from kk and my. haha oh man. hm ming look slightly down though… cheer up babe it’ll tide over! don’t think so much and just do it, haha
oh yeah i saw A LOT of ac people. well, singapore is too small and there are only a few places the people from elite schools can go to study – i.e. KAP. what else. hmm oh kk insulted my thighs. she said they were fat and wobbling all over the place, WHAT THE. i was sad for a while. :( oh yeah what else… oh right, i went home and i got an upset stomach. guess peranakan food ain’t for me, haha.
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
