What THE heck? What's up with THE (pronounced by some as TE-ER)? A scan through movie times and THE Life! section of THE Straits Times uncovers many movies which are hitting THE shores.
Here are some of THEm:
THE Black Dahlia
The Covenant
The Departed
The Guardian
THE O in Ohio
The Prestige
THE Sinking Of Japan
THE Tiger And The Snow
I know THEre is already THE Chinese High School (now known as HCI, can be mistaken as hyrdochloric acid at times also). Is it just me, or is THE word "THE" giving more prestige and a higher-classed meaning to THE thing? Sounds plausible, but why do THEy want to start with THE word "THE"?
U can hear people say "Duh?!" and it still sounds THE same as "THE". Interchangeable? Seems true. HAHA.
I've gotta stop THE-ing else THE people up THEre would come and THE me for THE-ing my whole blogpost. THEz outz...
Current Mood: 
Awake!
Current Music: Christian Bautista - THE Way You Look At Me
An almost 24-hour marathon of activities - well just 2 only, but I'm really satisfied and happy with that already! It's been some time since I've last enjoyed myself with back-to-back activities away from school work, rovers work, running and other what-nots. Just a day with friends - any friends will do.
Started off yesterday, after the CN2123 weekly test, I gathered my class guys for a K-ing session...but before that we hit the Macs in school to get a 'cheap' brunch and sat there talking cock and playing the 'finger game', 动得到动不到 game, and some other lame stuff...proceeded on to Clementi K-Box where Zhansheng, Jialiang and I checked in first to start our warm-up session. K-Lunch seemed the cheapest for us, even though we had already had our meal. Just asked for the people to serve our food later on, which worked out perfectly fine.
Ghim Song and Gongyu joined in the action soon after, with Ghim's rapping songs (think: 潘瑋柏) and Gongyu's unbeatable renedition of some 周杰伦 raps sure makes me become envy of them...I can NEVER sing so fast, probably 'cos my mind doesnt move as fast as my mouth does, so I cannot process the words I see fast enough to let the mouth voice out something...that's why I'd prefer more of the slow songs, those songs with beats, those without great variations in tune (aka easy to listen and sing).
However, we still had fun. Despite having to leave at 3pm, we managed to hold out till 4, then we got our butts out, and proceeded to the nearby arcade to play...DAYTONA!
Imagine 5 young adults going into an arcade full of teenagers glued to the computer screens. How we varied in our dressing certainly showed. Well, had fun in being in the driver's seat again (and no it's not like normal driving), and we had a (rather short) play with the Time Crisis 4 machine. Just din feel that the shooting scope was accurate. Ugh.
Played pool later on, it was pretty good I must say, though for 5 people to play within an hour at a pool table, it was kinda slow. Nevertheless, we had fun, and Wenyong came shortly after to meet Ghim before they went off together for their meeting - the rest of us just continued for a while more. My skills...rusty already, long time no play. Geez. Reminds me of the times in my army camp when we went to the Mess to have pool 'practice' after lunch. Cool aint it? Relaxing, chit chat, yet enjoyable. Old times? Hmms...hope we have more of such stuff!
Went over to Yihui's house after that, 2 hours earlier for the Okailer gathering! Went over to Bukit Batok and to his house, played LOTR on his PS2 for about and hour plus, HwiBee came over, then we went down to meet the rest of the people - Celina, Haiping, Jianlong, Pei Geok, Shuying - at West Mall for dinner. Proceeded back to his house with food and other stuff...then mahjong-ing session is officially open and started!
Just played throughout the night of mahjong (w/ some PS2 cos 8 people cant play mahjong, rite???) Haha. But, lost momey. Jialut. It was bad enough cos it was late (will 6am???), it was even worse when u dun get to even win!!! From the minimum 3 台 I usually have, I had to get myself satisfied on just 1 or 2 台! Oh wells. But we had fun. It was night where we saw Geoks do a full flower set, Yihui doing a 大三喜 and continuing being 庄 for 4 conscutive games when it's almost the end of the game!!! Ugh.
Then we lazed around, had MacDonalds' breakfast....and home now. :)
Gonna sleep...zzz...
Sleepy
YouTube? No longer...well, after being bought over by Google that is.
Pensive
After a barrage of mid-terms and tests...It seems to have stopped, or has it?
The long weekend (?) is here! Well, it COULD HAVE BEEN if not for a (stupid) Monday test which requires all to just come back to school on Monday. Gosh. If not we'll have a 4 day break (or 5 if u take Friday into account!) But presentation tomorrow, which is why I'm still awake doing a tutorial now. Haha.
Saw Guang, Zhihui, Jason, HwiBee and Wanling at the table today. Not all at the same time of course, but one after the other. Sometimes, it makes me wonder why the same people always appear at the table. Hmms.
Went running today. Totally shiok feeling. Though it's gonna be more of a routine with Thursday runs, 'cos of the upcoming 42km in Dec. Well, no choice, even with the haze, barely 2 months left till the crunch! Luckily I've some friends who're into the SCM thingy, like Junyong and Zhihan. Makes training much easier also.
Ran to Holland Road and back, about an hour's run, great weather and pretty good speed, though I think we've slowed down for the past few weeks 'cos of the (stupid) haze. I'm toying with the idea of Bukit Timah...Hmms...Seems do-able.
And...I saw HwiBee AGAIN at night in Clementi whilst I was having my dinner!!! OMG. It's so qiao lor. So many kopitiams in Clementi and yet the same one -_-" Hmms, fated? LMAOs. Damn funny la, anyway. Introduce her to another TA (again), just like how I intro-ed Andreas to her. HAHA.
Ugh...getting incoherent and crapping...Time for the tutorial to get over and done with!
I need to increase running slots. Anyone interested? Of course, it's haze-dependent now x_X
Finally, a lotta movies up - The Departed, Death Note (watch the anime, it's freakin' cool), World Trade Centre - time to move ur body to the nearest cinema also! :)
Current Mood: 
Tutorial Preparation time!
Current Music: Christian Bautista - The Way You Look At Me
Pensive
And a first sample is made! Looks pretty cool...wahahaha...learning how to make it from Hwi Bee and Zhihui sure was interesting!
Met Zhai @ NUS and we took 33 to meet HB @ BB (Bras Basah, not Bukit Batok like what Zhai thought. Haha) Went over to Artfriend to source for some of our materials, and we saw so many cute stuff!
So many ideas, so little time, so little money.
And when we finally settled on an idea (whilst I was busy discussing with Luiyee on the other event - Farewell party), we decided to go over to Bugis Junction to find more materials! And we realised they DO sell things which NTUC doesnt, so we trooped over to the one opposite Fu Lu Shou complex.
Been some time since I was last there. As usual, the NTUC was still empty due to the time in which we entered it.
Returned back to Bugis Junction with our growling stomachs, and we tucked into bowls of ramen @ Ajisen! Too bad, the day in which we require the camera, I did not bring it o_O"
So we were wondering how to camera-whore with our new sample, and we remembered that Zhai has her cameraphone!
So we took the picture of the sample...looks cool sia! Eager to get more done...woohoo!
Then, went to PS with Hwi Bee, where she met her bf and I saw Lijun there doing her project. lol. Damn funny la. Somemore there was a live band due to a band competition organised by Power 98 FM. Their music sound cool and soothing, even though they were just covers of the original songs, like Coldplay and Daniel Powter. Alas, we didn't stay long, and left for home shortly after.
Seems like the haze is clearing up...which is better! At least it makes it easier for me to go running. haha!
Current Mood: 
Listening to Music
Current Music: Daniel Powter - Bad Day
Vivocity is HUGE! O_O"
(But not as huge as compared to Suntec, me thinks)
Went to this new shopping mall at Harbourfront with Eups on Monday, after her driving lessons. It's been so long since I've met up with her! Hmms...and she's pinkish. Haha!
Anyway, the possible reason (I could think of) why Vivocity's not bigger than Suntec would most probably due to the fact that less than half of its tenants are ready for business. It's very much like a half-opened oyster now...only F&B outlets available, but it's good enough! (Think: Gloria Jeans', Pacific Company, Haagen Daz, THE Coffee Bean etc!)
After browsing the mall, which was quite crowded despite being newly opened and it being a weekday, we settled at Haagen Daz for some ice cream (plus they were having some promotions!) Alas, the crew were kinda lost, possibly due to them being new. Greenhorns tend to be lost if there are no proper on-the-job training, which reminds me of the times in Army when new technicians have to quickly learn the skills from the lao-jiaos a.k.a. ORD-ing personnel.
Then, we had a sudden urge to just go K! Off we went! To Suntec somemore...haha. 97 was fast, brought us to our destination, and we went over to K-Box. Managed to get myself a replacement set of earphones (my old one apparently is dead on one side -_-" Prob a wire loose.)
And it was a ear-opener to listen to my jie sing, despite her flooding a lotta songs to let me sing o_O" But at least, with 2 people, singing is fast and furious, u just go on and on...and before we knew it, we had exhausted our 3 hours there pretty fast! There were also hardly any people at Suntec, and Eups quipped that most likely they went over to Vivocity, but I was thinking more of the effects of Monday blues. Haha.
Seems like I'd gotta get a fix of Gloria Jeans...too bad they do not have an open-air lounge like that of Pacific Coffee Company, admiring Sentosa whilst you have a cuppa. Tried their coffee and blends over at KL when I went Batu, hope it's as nice here!
The amphitheatre was nice, the outdoor parts were nice...the lil' playground is simply too irresistable! Hahaz...A place to chill? Maybe ;)
A damn nice song...once again...天天夜夜 by F.I.R. This time, with lyrics!
Pensive
Just finished a good read~ haaz...it's Mitch Albom's "for one more day". It's so wistful and nostalgic...About family, about love, about children, about life.
I'd recommend to you guys...you've just gotta read it! I think my love for books is returning...woohoo! Not the text books, but novels like these. Intruging, and yet they strike a chord within you.
"Kids want you to hurt the way they hurt."
- "for one more day", Mitch Albom
How true.
Anyway, today's weather was great! Woke up feeling nua, yet I'm feeling great 'cos the haze had miraculously disappeared! (So was it due to MAF that it appeared? I wonder...)
Had buffet lunch with my parents and bro, and his gf too! Japanese, Western and Local buffet in one! First time that I've eaten till I could hardly take in any more. Geez...But it was fun, after all, lunching with parents = no need to waste money haha.
Spent the day studying. It kinda sucks to have your weekend (or Sunday to be exact) devoted to studying. Geez. It's just NOT right. But what to do...we're students, after all.
2 more months to end of term! Time flies...
Current Mood: Pensive
Wow...how wonderful it would be if our stock markets were to emulate the trends of our PSI level readings...wouldn't it be WONDERFUL? It just keeps increasing!
3-hour PSI = 130 as at 10 am 7 Oct 2006
3-hour PSI = 128 as at 11 am 7 Oct 2006
3-hour PSI = 115 as at 12 noon 7 Oct 2006
3-hour PSI = 150 as at 9 pm 7 Oct 2006
We're all in Genting or Mt K, yea? This is wonderful mans...*lol* But lucky thing is, it decreased to 140 tonight, so it's pretty much better. I'm just lucky that I wasn't out in the open breathing in 2nd hand smoke.
Which brings me to the point on why I still see people smoking and puffing heavily away despite the haze. It's just adding on to the haze. And one wonders if the haze is contributed by all 4million Singaporeans smoking together at the same time. lol!
To all: Drink more water! It just seems that the weather is too bad to do any physical activities. Running in excess of 100 PSI is a no-no to me, at least. It's crazy to run in such haze, not to mention the possible respiratory problems you might have to suffer from after a crazy idea. Hehs. And I'd think all of us just had our lives cut by 7 months from the thick haze yesterday.
Oh how I hate it. Can't we make some shield to protect ourselves, or simply give money to our neighbours to stop this yearly ritual?
On the point of money, there's an interesting piece of news in a blog which I surf - Wei Kiat's Blog. This is the picture featured...
Awake
Berkelah participants dinner + Mid-autumn gathering turned out to be fun Fun FUN!!!
Was running with Zhihan in school on Thursday at 8pm. Even though it was late, the haze was pretty bad. We both wondered how the heck we managed to complete our NUS-Dover Rd-NUS route. Sheesh. Amazing, but true! Munchies had their 2nd anniversary, yet they closed early at 9.30pm. Woah. So in the end, we had to make our way to Clementi, where we had dinner (and he had his fix of stout).
It was then that I realised that Octoberfest has arrived! Wishing you were in Germany now with free-flow beer? Haha....
Next, had to endure 5 listless hours in school yesterday. But well, managed to meet up with some of my Berkelah participants like Phoebe, Lijun, Terence, Hong Quan, Tan Ching and Steph, my junior from my course!
But the day turned out to be better even thought the haze got worse.
After meeting the Berkelah paritcipants - Lijun, Hong Quan, Dennis and Terence at the Science Library, together with Weiguang, we proceeded to meet Grace at Fish n Co at The Glass House. Being the hungry us, we quickly ordered our food, and whilst waiting for them to be dished out to us, we photowhored like mad. Muhahaha...That's how the battery runs out damn fast even with 2 cameras present!
Jason and Phoebe arrived later, and after our meal, whereby Weiguang and Jason had to leave earlier, we finished up the food with some good 'ol games!
With too much money left over (due to some calculation errors o_O") we proceeded to PS to do our shopping for our lil' MAF celebration. The haze was getting worse and we could see lights lighting up the dust particles along the light pathway.
And the underground path was so dense with smoke! (Another realisation: Grace cannot reach the ceiling of the underground walkway even though she jumped o_O")
Shopping in Carrefour was fun! Searching high and low for our lanterns and candles...an almost impossible task that was finally done after our meticulous searching! Being non-smokers, we had to buy a lighter (as always) and we trooped to Marina Square, where we had more pictures, more haze inhaled, and realised that the skyline of Singapore became super blur.
A surprise find was a "Start" sign to the Lantern Lighting Route. Totally amazing! We didn't know that there was an event being held at the Esplanade. We set about lighting up our paper lanterns and gingerly held them with our ultra-long satay sticks...it was super duper fun! Walking down the Esplanade area with our lighted lanterns, enjoying the haze (O_O") and the friends around me...simply amazing! I'd think that this group of participants would bond more after the trek...can imagine the continued gatherings which might happen...
Whilst the others left (having Geo field trip the next day), Phoebe and I stayed for some drinks...and live band. I just needed to get myself into the mood of Octoberfest! Hahaz...Hoegaarden was great! But more people would definitely be better...More talk, more fun :)
I'm looking forward to more gatherings! Whee~ Happy, happy, happy!
Current Mood: 
Celebration to Octoberfest!
Current Music: Sun Yan Zi - Yu Tian
It's finally over...YES! 3 consecutive tests over! Just a take-home test which still has approx 27 hrs to go before submission. But should be okay la...Been busying myself with the books for the past 3 days, it's sure horror.
Why do we mug and study so hard? Just to get that paper? Maybe there's more to it...
Like how you stupidly study so hard for a 6 question MCQ with differential point system, and it's a clear sign that you'd either get full or none. Wow. What a way to boost one's morale. It's just plain lazy of the lecturer to want to sit down and mark 300 scripts. It's all on the wall for us to see.
Well, we are lazy by nature, aren't we? It's easier to want to do less things than to do more things and get yourself bogged down by the indocracies of having to settle the 'more' things.
Time to get some runs done. Been a while since I trained. It's gonna be bad if I just can't run during my SCSM. It's like a long way to go...
I can't believe half a semester has gone by. Some things have changed, interesting things have appeared, and I think by spending more time with my class, it seems better...Crazy moments and talk-cock sessions surely a part of our 'gatherings'. Haha.
Feeling better now, won't get depressed or down for too long anyway, since that's ME. But things will always be at the back of my mind. Maybe by not thinking of the situation, it would be better?
A nite of slacking yesterday sure pays off...even though I'm pretty pissed with myself for not knowing my stuff when I tried to do homework without revising. Sighs...
Looking forward to the Berkelah participant gathering on Friday! Woohoo! I wanna go pub! I just need to relax... ;)
But time and tide waits for no man. This, is absolutely true.
Current Mood: 
Hyper
Current Music: Dong Li Huo Che - Zhong Yu Ming Bai
I've never liked hospitals.
It just reminds me of sadness. Why?
And there I was, standing there, looking out at the very same view as I did 2 years, 3 months ago.
Why such a surreal feeling? I hate it. Pls dun let it happen again...
I'm just keeping my fingers crossed. And giving a silent prayer.
Sorry all, if I'm kinda 分心 now. I'm really sorry.
How I wish some things can turn for the better instead...
Just being strong...staying firm in despair? I hope so. Well, life is full of lessons anyway.
Current Mood: 