*counts*
There's 23 letters there! *gasp* Oh no...has it found a new person to be hooked?!
Ok you might be thinking what the hell I'm doing so damn early on a Saturday morning with dripping wet hair. Just got home, a little tired but still awake nonetheless. Basically I was out the whole night after watching a movie at 9.40pm at The Cathay - Number 23.
I went home first to place my stuff, but got stuck in a traffic jam in Toa Payoh! OMG. Luckily, the bus I'm on managed to move to the next bus-stop, I got down and quickly walked home, hoping to see the cause of the jam also! Apparently the flyover from TPY to Braddell Road is closed, leading to the massive jam!
I got home and had dinner with parents, the sumptuous dinner more than made up for the lack of soccer today due to the incessant rain! Sighs. Was on the computer doing nothing and talked to Adeline, and realised she's also meeting Jac, so I had someone to go down with! Met her on 105 (which passes by my house area) and we went down to meet Jac, Hongwei and Peng Siang at The Cathay.
The movie was so-so la, guess Jim Carrey now no longer is the funny man we knew in The Mask?
Was still reeling from the effects of the test. Sighs. Thought of going home, to sleep and dunk myself in water (maybe). This very bad feeling did not subside despite 6 hours of doing nothing. Was talking to Alvin before we saw Selina, and then I had noticed Shuang Hui in the library so went to look for her after the 2 of them left for their classes. To say that I was a sorry figure mopping around in library would probably be an understatement?
I guessed I cheered up somewhat seeing Shuang, and we went down to Forum to see what is there, and we noticed the GREEN van! MILO! (And from then on someone morphed into Milo-girl o.O")
In the midst of the small and pathetic crowd awaiting the Milo's truck opening we saw Weiguang and Janna, and to think that 4's not a crowd we also saw June! Mini-Rovers gathering of some sorts, without planning too! And slurping up the delicious thick Milo was great! But just remember NOT to be the first few to drink 'cos you'll get those yucky powder stuff still in the drink (right Shunag?)
And after that, we brought up 2 more cuppas for Shuang's friend Yanping, who incidentally is also another Milo fanatic. Luckily, there were 2 cups. Any lesser would be deemed a crime (of sorts). 
Went for Cac+us performance today! Support support Anqi, Junhao and Wenyong in their production, and it was quite good! The acting seemed natural (or maybe it IS considering how lame Matthew can normally get). On top of that, I did not know beforehand that Matthew and Lixiang were involved in the production as well! -rawr-
Nonetheless, the show was great, despite the slip-ups at times (well it happens when you look at a person and call her (2x!) by her real names on stage instead of using the alias), and if we didn't ask, we probably won't know that there were many slip-ups! Kudos to the fast reactions of the actors on that part!
Heng Hong, Weili and Me in the theater (b4 it starts lol)
Me and Mark before the performance
Fuego!
After-event!
Ok while the event ended there and then for the performers and the audience, for some of us it hasn't! Weili, Mark, Huiyan and I went out outside to look at the sky, and found some steps in a form of an open-sky theater! After trying to take a couple of pics here and there, we decided to try taking the SMU jump! Countless and numerous pictures ensued as we tried to coincide with the timing of the flash! I think there were probably 3-5 good pictures out of the 20++ pictures we took!
The jumps definitely made one tired...so we sat around, and went over to the loading/unloading bay to see if there was anything we could help (or take pictures of). Instead of really helping, we just continued picture-whoring and snapping away!
Alas, time passes fast while having fun, and as we walked in the empty underground carpark, I realised how time had passed me by. 2 years in NUS already, moving on to 3. Yet, I'm still not finding a direction in this wilderness. A calling? Chem Eng is nice, but the grades dun reflect that. And that sucked.
Managed to catch a super-fast 105 home after taking the last 96! Woohoo! This is the most interesting nite I had in school! A night of fun, not caring about a thing... Time to recharge the batteries!
Heads and chins up! I'll bounce back...grr..
Current Mood:
ExhaustedCurrent Music: Sun Yan Zi - Wo Huai Nian De
I dun hate England. And I'm not it's greatest fan even. Just that it's kinda disappointing to see how a team full of Premiership's finest stars (?) cant seem to gel together and score against seemingly lesser opponents. Dun forget how pathetic they looked against Israel. Absolutely pathetic.
And in response to growing concerns over England's last 5 (pathetic) games with 1 goal to boot, the manager McClaren decided to do a stun. (I thought that he sounded as though he's from the F1 league, and I aint that wrong. Or is he another walking burger? Who knows?)
Steve McClaren looks set to drop 'indispensable' Owen Hargreaves for tonight's Euro 2008 qualifier with Andorra as he desperately tries to prove his assertion that Frank Lampard and Steven Gerrard are compatible in central midfield. (Soccernet, 28 Mar 2007)
How many games does Mc-Ah-ren need to have to prove that Gerrard and Lampard can't really operate together on the same pitch in the same game in central midfield? Even a non-football person can tell you that Lardpard should be dropped for Owen (not Michael) and pair with Gerrard, who happens to be performing WAY MUCH BETTER than Lardpard.
How I wish that England can be screwed by Andorra. Just that they are really meeting lesser opponents in Andorra, which is a pity. I'm hoping for the day when they get walloped by the likes of Germany (woohoo!), Argentina or Brazil.
To think that the England fanboys think they can just strut into a match and win easily...that's super cocky.
There's another way: Just compensate Mc-Ah-ren 2.5 million pounds, pack him away and bring in another more capable manager. He's not tactically astute, nor sound in choosing his formation or players. Who picks a squad with no capable left winger or left-footed player playing the left flank? Seldom, in fact. But he has options, just whether he wishes to use them, and it's kinda sad to see England slogging on and the manager just witless to outwit the opponent. Ha.
May you lose to Andorra, England.
Time to study! 3124 is equally as bad with a super lousy lecturer. Well, I pay thousands for such a lousy lecturer. It's just a redeemable fact that I've had some pretty good lecturers this semester, for my CN2116 and CN2125, as well as tutors like Prof Lakish and even graduate tutors (like Nikken) and lab demonstrators (like the one who taught us T4!). It's just sad that some old fellows decide that teaching is bad and students seem to be second priority compared to that of their research?
Reminds me of Ti-Hwei Chen from last semester. Gosh.
I think the newer batch of professors and lecturers are much more on-the-ball than the older ones. They should just retire or concentrate on research. (Which is like, highly impossible.)
Time to study. Ciaos~
Current Mood:
BusyCurrent Music: He Ren Dong - Bai Wu Zhi Lian
Talk about BIG TOILET BOWLS. There you go
Who would require such a big (fat) toilet bowl?!Somehow it reminds you...of someone? *pokes Jinyao*
In view of Spidey's new movie, Spiderman 3, hitting our very shores, we have here a SNEAK PREVIEW of the latest movie starring...who else but Spiderman!!!!
*dances to the opening sequence*
Oh man...the execs at Marvel should have done a better job than their Spiderman 1 & 2 releases...they should use the opening sequence here!
It's not just cool. It's uber cool.
Imagine a Spiderman who's a biker stud who is damn
vs 
See the difference? You can't really tell other than the stupid MJ being there, right?
The funniest thing must be the grey 'box' which he wears. Super cool. Maybe some day there'll be a toy for this dude. Better than the old Spiderman (then again, which came first? Marvel or 1978 Toei? U decide :P )
Oh another picture of Spiderman...
Spiderman kenna searched
Eh...wrong pic...damnit the censors must have stopped working.
Ok this seriously shows that I NEED the sleep. Gonna sleep...after a 4v5 match. ROFL.
Current Music: Spiderman Theme Song - Spiderman! Za!
4th post for the Movie Marathon mania...woohoo! (I din even know that it would be a marathon till I realised I've been catching 4 movies in 4 days. lol)
This time round I'm introducing...*drum roll*...The Pursuit of Happyness! 
"And it was at that time that I thought about Thomas Jefferson writing that Declaration of Independence. Him saying that we have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And I thought about how he knew to put the 'pursuit' in there, like no one can actually have happiness. We can only pursue it."
It was a heartwarming and emotionally engaging for me, not simply a rags-to-riches story, but more of a story where it tells us that life is full of possibility if you put your heart into it and don't give up. Like when you do not get As for your exams, does it mean you're doomed? I'm now thinking twice about this now, because, to quote Adidas, "Nothing is Impossible".
So what is possibly? Possibly is a high chance, and probably means there's almost no chance. Well, just something I've learnt from the movie itself. But the inspiring message about the implacable power of love and determination drives home, and I'm sure the audience in the cinema were astounded at how Christopher Gardner faced adversity and managed to overcome the odds to pull through, sell his remaining bone density scanners, and deal with a rocky financial situation, all the while trying to keep his son happy.
There's no "Y" in happiness, only "I".
How true.
I thank Liyang for this picture hehe.
This movie is meaningful and I'm sure it is applicable to all people...in fact I was asking Ruhui if it ever is possible that a person like Gardner in OUR society were able to rebound from all those setbacks (or equivalent) and rise to his current status...Seems impossible, and I must say that he sure has a good deal of luck!
One of the best quotes of the film, "You got a dream, you gotta protect it. People can't do something themselves, they wanna tell you that you can't do it. You want something? Go get it. Period."
Maybe I should start believing in all these. Preserve on and you'll succeed (eventually). Fight on. Believe in yourself. Be good with people and do things with great determination. Lastly, protect my dream...
A night of ponderment again
Current Mood:
PensiveCurrent Music: Sun Yan Zi - Ni Guang
Not TNT but TMNT - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles! Fourth feature film for these green creatures, but I guess their value has not gone down...yet!
Luckily for me, this was a movie which was decided in advance; TMNT was due to open on a Friday instead of a Thursday, possibly to catch the evening crowd after a long week of work and with a weekend round the corner! Was in a fully-packed cinema with Yanling, and then a guy who sits so straight up (or is he tall? I dun think so...) plonked in the seat right in front of me! Darned. I tried to sit straight to view the movie, but his round head just blocked out the entire picture in the bottom center, which is super irritating. So I had no choice but to keep shifting my head left and right to watch the movie.
Maybe the design of the cinema was not meant for people sitting so straight up, or for tall people, but I had hoped that there would be some sense of understanding if you're tall and in the center of the cinema and sitting up straight. After that I had a sore neck...awww..
Anyway back to the movie...it was great to see a fully animated movie! But the turtles were a tad too slim for me 
Just didn't work out for me 'cos in my opinion (and from comics and the TV series) they were supposed to be much fatter and stockier. Wassup with the change in image? Dieting?! (I wonder how one goes dieting on a diet of pizzas. bUrP~~~~)
Overall it was quite good! But maybe I expected more from these green creatures, to deliver and to give a cool show. Mikey's jokes still crack me up, and the individual turtles' personalities were still more or less intact.
Was discussing with Yanling whether to go to St James or Clarke Quay to destress...to relax. After all, exams are coming in a month's time. Sighs. And still a lotta assignments to go, lab reports to chiong, and TESTS! OMG. Mid-term tests next week.
Totally sian.
After a short walk down Orchard Road, with the traffic thinning out from Cine to PS, and after some inconclusive decisions, we decided to go home. Well, rest well girl! You need the rest! Think of it as postponing of event. Haa~
Managed to catch the last train on NEL, last train on NS line, last feeder bus from my interchange. Phew! And that meant that I reached home at...1am. HA~
3rd movie in 3 days...1 more tomorrow! Long time never watch movies liaos...lol.
Current Mood:
HappyCurrent Music: Byul - I Think I
Was wayyyy late for the meet-up with Marcus. Darned. Was jammed in traffic. Maybe the rain had something to do with it. Or maybe, Singapore has too many cars roaming the streets at certain periods of the day.
This was the movie which I initially wanted to watch, but did not have time to do so...and finally I can! Well I managed to go home early to rest, since there were no tutorials in the afternoon. Hit the gym in school first before I headed home, with no lunch (but I ain't hungry anyway) and having little more than a piece of duck and 2 tau sah piah for 'dinner'...it DOES help that they were food which I liked!
The movie was rated M18, but I wondered whether the rating was correct, or should it be R21...then again other than showing nipples and breasts and bare-chested dudes with outrageous 6-packs, the artistic style of filming it does not seem to be R21-rated (which I think is for shows with explicit sex scenes...like Basic Instinct?!?) But then again...18 year olds can view girls in (almost) full nude mehs? Hmms. Well this is something I wondered aloud during the course of the show.
Anyway to move on, it's inspiring to guys 'cos you're definitely awed by the 300 men each having 6-packs. Well the production notes stated that the cast had to undergo vigorous gym training to train up those "packs" of theirs. It helps that post-production helped to stencil the abs to make them more clear and defined.
The cinematography was very "Sin City"-like - the colours, topography, forms and even the dramatic sequencing of certain events and fighting scenes helped to increase the 'visual dynamics' of the movie. It was astounding, and the soundtrack accompanying the movie was of equivalent class.
But well, the violence might be something which can be considered to be gory and times, while visually stunning in certain scenes. Dramatic it might seem, but I think the type of gore and bloodshed in this film might tend to put off some of the women from watching the movie.
Felt hungry after the movie, but didn't get anything till I reached home, ate a tau sah piah (remaining 1) and worked on my lab report. *yawn*
Personal goal from henceforth: Gym more, eat less and healthily, achieve those outrageous stenciled 6-packs.
Current Mood:
Hungry
After trying to shove aside some time (and much-needed sleep) aside, I finally watched my first movie this month! Wow...the last one was Letters from Iwo Jima with Ruhui and PWC. Had a list of movies which I wanted to watch, such as TMNT, Pursuit of Happyness, etc, but I watched Stomp The Yard with Weili! Managed to catch our show in time too! Just that there was a person checking the tickets at the very same cinema...darned.
I must say that the dance scenes are pretty great to watch...something along the line of Happy Feet or Step Up, but the overall plot is simply bad to begin with. But well, at least we're entertained by the step-dancing and lovely movements they had to make.
The sub-plot of the guy chasing a girl who has a boyfriend...mans...maybe all of you out there should watch it...somehow. Teach you few tricks here and there *lol*
But overall...still passable based on the great dance movements! Plot sucks, so if you're going for a real good movie, maybe you should tune in to other movies instead :)
After the movie, we basically walked around - we had not shopped in Orchard for quite some time le, so we made our way to places like the Apple Shop @ Cine and NewUrbanMale at The Heeren. The giant screen for the iMac is uber cool! OMGosh. I think if you watch videos on it you can just chunk out your old TV if yours aint a Plasma or LCD type. It's super big and clear! Not to mention, WHITE :D
I wanna watch more movies! Pirates of the Carribean 3, TMNT, Pursuit of Happyness....the list goes on!!!!