Monday, February 26, 2007
::talking stomach::
I have always wondered why is it that people take drugs; what is the kind of satisfaction they derive from taking it. I really wanted to know what is the driving force for them to so desire it after trying it only once. How is it like? What is the sort of high they experience? What is the so-called feeling as though they have no worries at all? But after watching
Protégé today, I believe I will never want to know how it is like. There's this scene in the movie where this junkie died from an overdose; she was having spasms all over when she was dying, it looked as though she was possessed or something. The cop came to look for her and saw her body covered with rats. They were eating her corpse and hell it was gross. Terrifying.. for a moment I thought I was watching a horror film. Nightmares!!! Daniel Wu plays Nick, the undercover cop who has the same question. Nick said he finally realized why people take drugs after the female junkie [who was his neighbour] and Andy Lau's character [his 'mentor' and the guy the cops are after] died. He says it's because of emptiness that people take drugs. But which is scarier? Emptiness or drugs? Well it is a good movie.
Saturday, February 24, 2007
::sick::
Yes, since CNY, I've been sick. On the 2nd day of new year, I got a sore throat and fever, due to too much sun from walking around all over Singapore. The sore throat was getting better until today when it got worse because of school. Talked to much perhaps. Now I have a sore back as well, due to TKD today which kind of hurt my back again. Phuket is next week but I am not exactly looking forward to it. I know so little about the entire trip I feel as though I am not the one making the trip! (Just emailed Hamon to get some answers.) Anyway, I believe my period will come when I go to Phuket, which is going to be a greater damper to my spirits. I really hope it'll be more fun than Redang, nonetheless.
Today I bumped into many friends but they kind of behaved in a weird manner. For example, when I was in the laundry Jiachi came in just as I was about to leave. I totally didn't see him because my back was facing the door. It's so obvious he saw me!! Anyway, it was only at the lift that I saw him and I said "So the other person in the laundry room was you.".
He said something like I was so unfriendly because I didn't greet him!! OMG. And he had this grin on his face when he said that. And when I retorted with me not seeing him and him definitely saw him, the grin got wider and for a moment I thought I have never seen him smile like that before. Well I'm glad the lift stopped at his floor when I ran out of things to say.
Another one was when I was going for Accounting tutorial and I bumped into this TKD friend. We are just mere acquaintances but I still waved because the whole group of us had had dinner together several times after TKD, even though we didn't talk much. I waved but he kind of stoned and I waved again and he felt weird, like who was I waving to and looked around and realised it was him I was waving to so he waved back. And then I said if I wasn't saying hi to him who was I greeting? (Which was a rather lame statement but whatever). I saw him during TKD and he said he totally didn't recognise me and was thinking why was that person waving to him and even talked to him and it was then he realised it was me............. That's why I dislike waving to people.
And then when I was at South Spine I saw this other guy (another acquaintance from TKD) who kept saying I looked really familiar and I could hear what he was saying and knew he was referring to me even though I was quite a distance away. As I walked closer he just kept repeating that sentence so when I passed him, I said cos I'm from TKD that's why. When I saw him during training, he said after I told him I was from TKD he finally remembered where he saw me from. I don't blame his memory but it's kind of dumb to keep saying someone looks really familiar and to keep staring at the person, you know.
And on the train I had a discussion with Judy about our clique in TKD and certain people. It was an interesting conversation especially when she asked me who looked better, Desmond or Junzhe (whatever his name is) and I had no answer because I felt they can't really be compared because they are either on par or too different. Bleah, it's 1+ already!
Monday, February 19, 2007
::傻傻的勇气::
如果没有奇迹我创造一个给你。你让我相信我可以！
Some lyrics from some Chinese song that I'm currently listening to. It sounds pretty sweet doesn't it...? I managed to watch Ghost Rider today. I felt that it was nice but my sister thought that the plot was quite thin. Well maybe it was, but somehow I just liked it. Elektra was the worst comic to movie adaptation I've ever seen so far anyway. There are quite a lot of nice movies now, like Letters from Iwo Jima, Notes on a Scandal, Babel, Dreamgirls, Little Children, The Protege and Last King of Scotland. And I really hope I can watch 3 of them (Letters from Iwo Jima, Notes on a Scandal, and Dreamgirls). Babel was nice (gripping and thought-evoking, every story in the movie has a different kind of emotion and feel attached to it and it makes me anticipate about how the plot will continue to thicken) but not exactly my cup of tea though. I remember a friend once said: "If there's only one movie that you can watch the whole year, that would be Babel.".
Well, I don't think so! Spiderman 3 and Harry Potter all sound much more exciting that Babel! =p Can't blame me for saying this, after all, Spidy and Harry are some of my greatest idols!
Saturday, February 17, 2007
::cab snatchers!!!::
The world is full of inconsiderate pests and I had the great misfortune of bumping into not 1 but many of them yesterday!! I took the train from school to Outram hoping that there would be cabs at the taxi stand but to my surprise there were none at all. I was hurrying back home because my family was having the reunion dinner earlier this year as my mom and grandfather would be overseas by New Year's Eve. The queue at the taxi stand was quite long and the taxis were all on call and none stopped. To make things worse, some idiots stood before the taxi stand queue trying to flag taxis!! And that was extremely unfair to those in the queue because if everyone did that, those in the queue will never be able to board the cab and hell, what's the purpose of the taxi stand then!?!??! MY GOODNESS can't they be more gracious and considerate?!? It's not as though they are the only ones in the world who is in a hurry!!!!!!! Anyway, after someone successfully hailed a cab by snatching it and this old couple with their granddaughter in tow tried to do the same thing. And they were at the back of the queue, next to me. The guy who was in front of the queue confronted them by telling them that what they were doing was wrong and told them that if they wanted to get a cab, they should join the queue like everyone else. Boy weren't they pissed at him! Anyway, after grumbling amongst themselves for a while, another guy at the back managed to snatch
another cab and the horrible old hag started scolding the poor guy who had told them off. She was saying why didn't he lecture the other guy who had boarded the cab and yada yada yada. Now this was when I got seriously pissed at her and yes, a pissed me isn't to be trifled with! I told her off immediately, saying in Mandarin why couldn't they be like everyone else, join the queue and wait. It's not as though they are the only ones in a hurry and all that, why can't they be considerate? And I said all this in a very calm tone, all the while leaning against the bar infront of me. The bitch PRETENDED not to hear me and I got disgusted and tapped her shoulder. And that's when she got all ballistic and that's when the fun started!! =)
Old Hag (looking damn pissed): Why you tap my shoulder?!?!
Me (looking dead calm): Because you were ignoring me when I'm talking to you and I wanted your attention.
Old Hag (looking more pissed): Then why you tap my shoulder??!? I ALSO DUNNO YOU!!
Me (looking still as calm as ever): Ok lor, then it's my fault that I tapped your shoulder, so?
Old Hag (looking slightly smug) + husband smirking there happily watching the show: Where are you from?!?! (你哪里来的?!?! was what she said in Chinese and she was looking at what I was wearing while asking the question.)
Me (thinking about her amusing little question): 什么我哪里来的？(What do you mean where do I come from? At this point many answers came to my mind, for example: Boon Lay, Singapore, NTU. Poor thing, surely you are not thinking I am from from JC or Poly or Sec school where you can write to and complain?!?! But if she's thinking that, then I should be happy! I look younger than my real age!)
Me (happily trying to continue with my reasoning while she pretended to ignore me again): Why are you so inconsiderate and impolite? Why can't you spare a thought for those people in front of you who have been in the queue for so long?
Old Hag (totally can't stand me anymore and told her husband): Let's go! -yada yada-
Me: Ok lor, it's for the better that you are leaving! So old already still so rude!
Old Hag (continued mumbling in the distance in hokkien): that woman blah blah blah ...
And guess what, after she left, all the taxis started coming and soon I was already the 3rd person at the queue! At this point, I saw something that made me feel good. The next 2 taxis that came did not stop for those outrageous cab snatchers who started appearing! They came all the way to the front of the queue!! I salute those taxi uncles for doing the right thing! The cab that I got on also had a very nice taxi uncle who totally agreed with me telling those people off. We had a pretty good chat. He said I did the right thing! I had the right to fight for my own rights! But the saddest thing was that he thought I am a teacher! Surely I don't look that old? However, those who were in the same queue as me were totally passive about those pesky cab snatchers and only know how to "look at show" and cast not-very-nice glances at me as I scolded the old bitch. But hey, I'm doing everyone who is in the queue a favor and that's what I get? Icy stares? It's sad that many Singaporeans are so kiasi. I recounted the incident to my family when I got back and they also felt that I did right. My father felt that I shouldn't have tapped that woman's shoulder though. Ok, I'll be careful with the shoulder tapping thing then. =)
But anyway, the reunion dinner was good and I was happy, fell asleep with a full stomach. Happy Chinese New Year everyone!
Thursday, February 15, 2007
::my golden pig::
Check out my new pet!!
Can you see the golden pig? I haven't thought of a new for it though. Will be asking my roomie for suggestions later =) The pig made my day!!! CNY is coming soon!! I wanna buy new shoes...
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
::finances::
Today I just spent $83 on 2 t-shirts!!!!!!!!! OMG!!!!!!!!!!
Huiting owes me $90 after today. I can't wait for CNY so that my bank account will grow fatter. It took me so much pains to make it go past the 1k mark and now it's in deficit again -_- I still need to buy bottoms for CNY!!
::if not then what::
Yesterday I was having dinner with some of my hall mates and one of them was asking if I regretted joining Aero. Well I think I said yes.. or was it no? Ok I think it's a yes because my friend asked what course would I choose if I didn't pick Aero. Actually it's a tough question for a person like me with no particular interest and have no realistic idea about what I wanna do in the future. After thinking about it I realise I really kind of regretted joining this course. Although I was discussing with Luuan Chin on a particular day about how things fall into place naturally and will eventually bring me closer to what I want. Ya, so if not Aero then what? Sometimes I wish that I was in the same course as my roomie; we can discuss about school work together. Now there's no one to discuss school work with. It's kinda sad.
On my way back to hall I saw Prof Shaker. Greeted him half-heartedly and quickly walked down the stairs. His presence scares me. You never know what he's thinking.
Monday, February 12, 2007
::where's my roomie::
Nearly a month has passed!
ええと。。
Nothing very interesting has happened, except that I have been learning Japanese for more than a month already!! And I watched many concerts as well. The SSO Rach II concert was すごい！！And I'm also going for the Phantom in April!!! ^^
Anyway, I collected my driving licence after much difficulty last week. I combed the entire Bedok Central for the stupid post office!!!!!!! I asked for directions but somehow I couldn't understand what was said to me. I was carrying my Accounting textbook!!! It was damn heavy. I though I would die walking!!
Last Friday I went to TKD and got kicked until there's this bruise on my right thigh >< I totally didn't expect my friend to be so serious about sparring. She's not my usual sparring partner so I didn't know she could be that rough. Of course I kicked her back. Now I know you can't really show too much mercy to your opponent even during trainings. My poor roomie's aunty and mom had a hard time searching for me after TKD because they all thought I would be hitching a ride on their car. But I kind of went missing and did not answer my roomie's calls so I felt really bad for making them wait for nothing....... ほんとにすみません！
I found my calculator though.. my friend took it after Accounting thinking it was his!! And to think he didn't tell me about it until I asked him if he saw it!!!
Anyway, homework time! And CNY is next week!!! And Phuket is next next week!! Ayu's a-best album is coming out soon too!!!!!!!!!!
EDIT
I was just looking at my wishlist and I realised 2 of them have been fulfilled!! I can't get the super bandana anymore though. It's no longer dropping and I seldom Maple nowadays.
Can you see the golden pig? I haven't thought of a new for it though. Will be asking my roomie for suggestions later =) The pig made my day!!! CNY is coming soon!! I wanna buy new shoes...