music:cathedrals-jump,little children
mood:satisfied

just ate yummy home-cooked pasta. yumm. so im pretty happy right now.
so. block test. i probably shouldn't make such a big deal about it, it's just a test right? right. probably should have studied a bit more. maybe?
taking a breather right now, before bio and math on tue. yippy. i can't wait for it to be overrrr.

in the cathedrals of New York and Rome
there is a feeling that you should just go home
and spend a lifetime finding out just where that is

prettiful song. i like jump, little children.

three words: i am fucked.

i probably shouldn't have spent all that time on dr.house,the cute brothers from supernatural and overall too much teevee. tv really is evil.

anddddddd. pablo my podster died on me again. i really should doubly underline it for emphasis.

pooey.

music:sewn-the feeling
mood:perky

give me the song &i'll sing it like i mean it
give me the words &i'll say them like i mean it
NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH
(the nahs were possibly the catchiest part of the song.haha)

-daddyo came back from japan on thurs with plenty of japanese goodies! they looked really prettiful, each of the boxes all nicely packaged and wrapped up. they remind me of christmas, and i can't wait. obviously i opened all of them.

-CIP at toa payoh polyclinic/daycare yesterday. we made a rather yummy-looking fruit salad! i love cold canned peaches :) total LOVE. i kinda made a friend, i know she liked me 'cos she wanted so badly to share her food with me. heh. but some of us left early :/ and stupid baowu beat my high score with powerpuff. growl.

-wisdom literally fell from above and struck me hard in the head last night. haha. i was shifting books around and the 'little book of simple wisdom' decidedly fell hard onto my head. i would quote something from the book, but i really don't understand those little nuggets of 'simple wisdom'. they could have made it plainer.

-do you ever feel so stifled some days, and are fighting to get out and see the world? while other days you just want to stay in your bed and in your head.

music:hate (i really don't like you)-plain white t's
mood:lethargic

dance was abruptly over on saturday night after the rj Sentio charity concert. as usual:mixed feelings bout it. in any case it's high time i start studying. pooey. so i guess a self-imposed hiatus is in order and blah blah blah.

and hahaha i LOVE this song. it's just so applicable/relatable.
hate is a strong word but
i really, really, really don't like you
heh. cue huge sing-along.

see how easily distracted i am? not good..

anberlin/copeland

music:everlong-the foo fighters

mood:happy

a heads up, this is gonna be mostly a photo (read:brainless) entry.

-as guest performers at tjc's reverie3. dancers at their most unglamorous moments. savour these. in our defence: oddly enough, there was only reception in the toilet of all places. hence the amount of time spent in the toilet. heh. (L-cindy(STD), R-yours truly)

-anberlin/copeland! it was pretty good. had my reservations but it turned out to be a great show. totally worth my 60bucks, 3 and 1/2 hours worth of music for that price is a pretty good deal, no?

peewee's eyes rimmed with eyeliner artfully applied by ME. of course, up close it was pretty bad/messy.

copeland's set. we were treated(endured) to 4 supporting local bands prior to them though. copeland's lead singer was pretty cute. heh. they played 'pin your wings' aka the amanda song! haha. i liked that.

anberlin's set. it was pretty obvious that most came for THEM. crowd went crazy, pretty scary moshing occurred. they played several of my favourite songs (day late friend!), ie ones i can actually sing to. they are amazing live!

i couldn't get to sleep last night despite feeling fatigue all over. i've concluded that i'm pretty stressed up, probably. i need to study. and think of better transitions into blocking. erps :/

blah.

music:brighter than sunshine-aqualung
mood:sleepy

EEE. i love this song. it's impossibly sweet.

let the rain fall i don't care
i'm yours and suddenly you're mine
love was brighter than sunshine

oh, i changed the layout! i think the new one's pretti-ful (: call me fickle or whatever, but the previous layout had to go. the pink flowery details were getting old. pooey. short update--

tjc reverie3 and we were guest performers. i thought we were pretty blah, but apparently we were pretty neat. so yay for us i guess. i thought tj's video was really cool especially when set to 'listen' by beyonce. i didn't study much unfortunately, but i've a new nickname for jun and i! LB1 and 2. haha.

slept over at cin's after it ended. scrubbed hard at my face and scalp to remove all the glitter and gel. yuck. slept without a pillow, but with a full stomach. heh. woke up early for a mac's breakfast. yum.

didn't have tuition today! hoho. buttttt i really need to get a move on with the homework and studying :/ ehh. maybe tomorrow. VETTING TOMORROW! holy geez.

anywhoo, this is a bit belated, but : sometimes i'm amazed at how similar we mother and daughter are. not just in temperament but also the relationships we have. maybe i should have told her this on mother's day.

golden(:

music:day late-anberlin
mood:hungry



HAHA met up with my BFF on tuesday right after dance (gruelling as usual). realised only then how much i missed her! haha just look at that picture, totally hamming it up for the camera. with both of us talking at a mile a minute, catching up was pretty fast! sleepover soon kay (: and please get a boyfriend soon. heh hehs.

finally got the anberlin/copeland tickets after making TWO trips down. oh wells. can't wait! and i wanna eat my tang yuan peewee! i should probably start learning the words to some of the songs. don't wanna get moshed out by hardcore fans..this is a start:

we are who
we are who we were when
we could've been more
but at least you're still my
day late friend

plans

music:hear me out-frou frou
mood:happy

so how do i do normal?
-----------------------
so listen up
this sun hasn't set
i refuse to believe that it's only me feeling

• school's over &the hols are here. this means work though! pooey :(
dance &the impending bt2. bleh.

• OCCIDENTAL orient viewing at republic poly. woah i totally fell in love with their ginormous (haha that word looks funny, but apparently is spelt correctly) dance studio. 3 full-length mirrors across the 3 walls! like cindy said, we could hold 3 dance item practices simultaneously there. &then there were --

jump

shots
we went to causeway point after that. i love pasar malams. there's always too much tantalising food and way too many things to see. and woah causeway point's damn happening siaz~ too many people around for my liking :/

• watched 3-iron today. korean dramas are way overrated and sappy, but korean arthouse flicks are a totally different matter. i didn't quite understand what the movie was actually about, but the guy was pretty cute and there was a semi-sweet ending, without the nauseating saccharine sweet aka predictable&boring conclusion nor the cliche cancer-stricken-death-that-turns-on-all-the-waterworks. OOH and i finally finished watching hollywood homicide. can i gush again about how adorable josh hart(hot)nett is?! he really is too cute.
• watched wildboyz and sweet sixteen on mtv as well. my two favourite shows :) there's something about stupid boys on tv acting real stupid &spoilt rich brats on tv being spoilt rotten that's so interesting. i believe that's called reality teevee.
• i've got a wonderful breakfast waiting for me tomorrow! baowu and i are gonna try subway's breakfast :) before the geepoo remedial and dance. yummy. i hope.
• &&! pirates tomorrow! whee.

(in point form 'cos i can't really think in full, propurrr sentences. also, notice how there's not a single mention of work/homework/study/revision? ahah)

earthquake on her mind

music:pretty handsome awkward-the used
mood:distracted

you look pretty low,
very handsome awkwarddddddddddddd

ive got a billion and one things running through my head at a mile per second. and we know lynette isn't really capable of such complexity. anywhoo. ticking things off:
-syfers! (: im glad the tears weren't for nothing!
-family dinners are never complete without bad karaoke family singers and public humiliation on the 'dancefloor' : OOH and my baby nephew is the cutest thing ever. i'm still amazed that that itsy one year old can say apple,blue,ball!
-rapture is too soon! we've in total approx 10hours worth of practice for each item before they go on stage. not good. im worried :(
-on the otherhand, me and xin finished the blocking complete with necessary sequentials today! looking good (:
-manda true friend! rest loads okay, take care. and things WILL work themselves out. they always do.
-BT2 in about 4 weeks! and not a single schedule or note in sight :/
-i absolutely cannot wait for the weekend, then holidays.

im so sleepy. but my brain is still buzzing.

scattered÷d

music:wherever you will go-the calling
mood:distracted

been really busy doing things other than what i should be doing. no good at all. i'm struck with the urgency (think BT2, rapture) but can't really shake off the complacency and overall laziness. bleh. i'm sooo disgusted with myself! and yet here i am, blogging and singing out of tune instead of writing my lit essay. pooey.

so dance yesterday. was actually looking forward to learning choreography for rapture, but zaki hit us with a surprise vetting session and xinyi wasn't there with me! :/ and there's gonna be another next week! haha how many more eights do we have left? A LOT.

hahaha. i was this close to getting a real pet this week ( i think it happened during this week, but i'm not so sure, my days just seem to meld together). and by real pet i mean bigger than a terrapin (a faux turtle in my opinion) or a fat balding hamster. but it's okay! i am getting me a puppy one day! although i'm not sure my irresponsibility counts for anything.

and then blahblahblah other things happened to other people. and i'm glad i just have school and dance to contend with. you know, i'm not too good with multi-tasking. maybe i was supposed to be a boy.

it's going down

music:mexico-jump,little children
mood:dazed

argh. my computer is frustratingly slow. anywhoo. i've got a major update. sorta.

phantom of the opera
but first, went to amanda's house ALL BY MYSELF! woahh. i took a bus there and everything. and had a minor unfortunate accident which left me embarrased more than a slight sprained ankle. then we went down to plaza sing and scurried round the whole building looking for something to help my minor wardrobe malfunction. good gawd. anywhoo then i left for new york new york to meet my BAOWU! her other homies were there too and thankfully it wasn't as awkward as i had expected. and i was so envious of their long tresses. anyway. phantom was real good! the effects and props and costumes were excellent! i swear i didn't jump at the gun shot. and i felt so sorry for the phantom at the end of the show, i almost teared unlike an unsympathetic someone! haha but the guy seated behind us had the most monstrous laugh ever. i have never heard anyone snort so loudly and clearly inbetween laughs before :/ we were supposed to go to dxo after that but that didn't happen in the end, but it's okay!

somebody's house party
i ended up joining manda,keisha,mau,xin,mock,jesse at the somebody's BUGE house. it's kinda funny how we had no idea who's house or party it was. oh wells. the dj didn't stay long! so we just played some drinking games and xinEEE! was pretty damn high. manda too! i just had a little buzz going on. but we eventually got our asses up and out. we took some pictures in the middle of the road! anywhoo. we didn't stay up to watch the sunrise in the end, but it was alright (: thanks true friend for the stay over!

and now, im busy fiddling with some mp3 mixer thingy. fingers crossed for this IT-illiterate!

short and bittersweet

music:dancing shoes-the arctic monkeys
mood:perky

-my podster dies on me again :/
+my podster lives again!
+the labour day holiday
+xinEEE! and me finishing 1 full combi (8eights peoples!)
-realising we have 32 more eights to go
-school after the labour day holiday
+pizza with cin today :D
-biology test on friday
+the BFF staying over friday
+phantom,dxo,sunrise on saturday :)

net result=a happy week.

nothing gold can stay?

music:say this sooner-the almost
mood:exhausted

syf
it's slightly scary and unnerving how 6 months of sweat, frustration, dead skin, tears, worry, blood...can all be compressed to a mere 7.03mins. i barely registered i had ran onstage from the wings before i was running out again. but we were all pretty happy it was all over. and zaki said he was pleased :)

results
we got gold. i won't lie, there was definitely disappointment and perhaps a bit of relief. well, it's forward and onward with rapture!

on the upside, we emerged a stronger and tighter team :)
SA DANCE;

2.4km
hahahha. i hit a personal best today! 12.37mins. go ahead and laugh, but it almost killed me to run in that sweltering heat. but i learnt that after the 3rd round, sheer human will takes over. pity i've got so little.

a line from 'the wind-up bird chronicle' by haruki murakami-
a person's destiny is something you look back at after it's past, not something you see in advance.
just a simple sentence that stuck i guess.

oddicity.

music:as you sleep-something corporate
mood:sleepy

singing my thoughts back to me
and watching heartache on tv

okayy this is a little long overdue, but here goes &thanks to shijie my dear funny friend:
This is what you are supposed to do. Cut and paste if you decide to participate in the tagging game. Each player of this game starts off by giving 6 weird things about themselves. People who get tagged need to write in a blog of their own 6 weird things as well as state the rules clearly. At the end, you need to choose 6 people to be tagged and list their names. After you do that, leave them each a comment letting them know you tagged them and to read your blog.

1.call me anal or whatever, but i can't stand my WHITE rice being TAINTED with sauce from other dishes. like, if its on a plate, the little mounds of vegetable/meat/rice have to be SEPARATE, with an invisible inch-thick wall between them.

2.i talk to myself on a pretty regular basis. hopefully the voice that answers is just my conscience. i don't have a problem, really.

3.i detest fish but to me, cod/salmon/tuna aren't fish.

4.is it weird how much my podster and itunes library are of a lifeline to me? maybe not if you're a music junkie too.

5.my unhealthy love for vinegar. apparently i can't say "auntie, add vinegar" enough. apparently the auntie can't add enough vingear into my noodles.

6.i'd choose discovery, travel and living over nickelodeon anytime. somehow david tutera the party planner (see: gay) and the mythbusters' crew are more entertaining than all the spongebob episodes combined.

people tagged:xinyi,jolene,chun lei,glory,pei hui,yuwen

&& my new word: ARRANT (adj/n/whatever)
1. _______'s face is ARRANTLY hideous.
2.You are ARRANTLY vile to me.

HAHAH. too cool.

pooey

music:my lack of skill-the early november
mood:exhausted

haven't updated in a while.
sat:dance and then malaysia, without a car! thank goodness my cousin was with me otherwise i could very easily have been a)lost
b)raped
no kidding. aunt's birthday went alright, usual karaoke and crazy dancing and good food. too much good food. too much karaoke and bad singers in the family.

wed:dance wasn't so good. the seniors came down and we possibly gave them a heartattack. (what a coincidence-as i type this, the SYF music plays on itunes) SYF is too soon :/ not good. my nails have been reduced to yucky stubs because of this and homework that conveniently piles up. bleh.

thurs:KEEWEI (baowu!) SAVED MY LIFE.

fri:project work results &then dance. it was kinda cool, maurine and i played around with the cc lights! no wonder stage lightning is a specialised course offered, no easy shit yo'.

and then i'm shit tired.

side note-i love/hate the SYF song. i hate how it screams "emote! emote!" and i just can't, but i love how it's so rich :/

NERDFACE! :/

music:dead end-the format
mood:schweepy (sleepy)

hold on there's a hole in my heart
everyone can see right through me
it goes all the way to the waves
where my love she tried to wash it away
I'm looking for a dead end song
we sit and find flaws in everyone
I want to keep you by my side
holding off tidal waves

hahhahaha. this song is soo damn catchy and tooth-achingly sweet. kinda. anyways. yay for the LOOOONG weekend as the teachers have gleefully pointed out as they dish out more homework. pooey. so much for good friday and easter bunnies.

dance on wednesday was pretty good, in the sense that it was encouraging. 20 more days! holy crapola, but we're gonna pull through it definitely. 3 weeks to StotheYtotheF and 3 weeks to start of rapture preparations. it's almost never-ending, and that's just the way i like it.

i've got my hands on the 'wind-up bird chronicle'! can't wait to start reading although i do have the afore mentioned shit loads of homework and peeNpee (60 fricking chapters!) to finish.

picture perfect:

music:gravity-john mayer
mood:tired

alrights photos finally up from sat night, courtesy of clarahhhhh! cin and i met the others at jalan kayu for prata right after dance. it was kinda amusing, having to bathe in school and cin even brought her hair dryer?! weirdo. anywhoo. prata is pretty good, minus the oil, the heat, the smoke, the flies. haha. im serious. lots of laughs definitely!and then we lounged by kenneth's mulit-million dollar mansion's pool. you know, he has like 100 units all to himself! anywhoo, photos from that night:

me,mel,clarahhh,kenneth&cin. kenneth looking wayyy gay as usual.

me &cin. i hearts her muchos.

our random posse pose.

i hope you get ungrounded real soon clarahhhh!

then we can go out more! shopping?!

me and mellums. twinnies forever. haha. playing telephone with the paper thosai.

i swear i mean it when i say it was BUGE. totally worth my $3.50!

i love photos. they totally capture the essence of that particular moment.

dance today was pretty bad. rehearsal at UCC :/ oh wells. we can do hella lot in 3 weeks! jiayous.

it feels so weird to not have tutorials to rush through, but it feels nice :)

i am an invisible monster!

music:catch my disease(that's the way)-ben lee
mood:amused

my head is a box filled with nothing

and that's the way i like it

my garden's a secret compartment

and that's the way i like it

now that the block tests are over, it kinda feels like i finally have decades worth of time on my hands. time i wanna spend on:


BOOKS-
-invisible monsters by chuck palahniuk
-a heartbreaking work of staggering genius by dave eggers
-the wind-up bird chronicle by haruki murakami
-ectasy:three tales of chemical romance by irvine welsh

MOVIES-
-the history boys
-TMNT (teenage mutant ninja turtles for the uninitiated)
-colour me kubrick
-300

&also,
-reruns of dr. house
-prison break season2
-30rock
-reruns of futurama
-heroes

now back to the wait for something substantial.

over and way the fuck out of the way!

music:futures-jimmy eat world
mood:perky

block tests are finally over. i think they were so misleading, 'test' connotes something of lesser importance..at least that's what i told myself. in addition to: i am not nervous, i am sorta-almost-not-quite prepared. but it appears my head knows me better. i couldn't sleep well for this whole week with dreams of numbers and possible questions. but it's okay, they merely bordered on irritating. but they're just TESTS. i can't even imagine the nights leading up to the big A-S.

anywhoo. i am super excited! lotsa shit planned for the post-bt1s.
and then there's dance.
and im in dire need of retail therapy.
and i need to stop chewing on my nails.

ooh. i've got a not-so secret admirer. and a whole bunch of other secrets.

sweetness (ohhhh)

music:bethamphetamine(pretty pretty)-butch walker
mood:skippy

sweet:

-BETHAMPHETAMINE. can't help but to croon along

"yeah you're real pretty pretty, you're pretty strung out for a girl"

-left toenails painted red, right toenails painted black
-"i love you like a million m&ms" courtesy of CHEWY &her obsession with chickflicks
-wearing my "paul frank is your friend even in outer space" hoody tomorrow. imma be the coolest kid in the exam hall
-attending math tuition the day before the paper &learning how much you DON'T know
-homemade roast chicken sand'ches with a dollop of mustard

2 down, 3 more to go!

oh yeah,
erps. i'm feeling guilty for spilling the porridge all over the bin purposely.
and ewww. i'm swearing off gum after having it tortuously disintegrating in my mouth.