High Art

Unexpected ending. but it really is romantic. plot is simple yet quite intriguing.

my mum left me at home, again… i guess till exams’ are done. anyways, ima gonna hit the club on the very last day!!

Classify myself

• ouppz, i’m ready for some boozing!
• mama kitty hit me today. this is the 2nd time in my lifetime that a cat has hit me. she luvs her baby, that’s what i tell myself.
• cat food’s finished! restock!
• i dun wanna talk, or even think, about today’s paper. let bygones be bygones.
• my frens are nice people. i feel the energy when i’m with them, even though i’m still low-batt.
• a little encouragement gives warmth. i’m learning to be more generous with encouragements. =)
• i luv mcCafe. double choc rocks me this afternoon! not forgetting to mention that i got a 50c discount from my coffee devotee card! whoots!
• i watched “floored by love”. luv it luv it luv it!!!!
• daddy sounds real when he said he’s gonna get me jabbed for the swine flu 2 wks before departure… scaring me hell outta me…
• who should i dress up as my favourite tv actress for our photo shoot?…

Slumdog Millionaire

i wanted to give  a very different discussion of this oscar smashing film… i give u my 3 hehe unique points to its path of success haha

-> i believe the audience, i.e. people who are able to afford  movie tickets and have disposable time for entertainment, are enjoying this movie partly because of its given insight into a relative poorer life: the massive size of slums, the living conditions (remb the toilets), the violence (killings, secret societies like the kids beggers, the religion fighting), the justice and interrogating procedure (the arrest, beatings, electrifying)… it kinda gives audiences a ‘oh, realli?’ or maybe ‘oh no, u mean this is happening in reality?’. maybe to geographers and many others, we’re aware of such things happening… but to the masses, the film has an impact on their perception on the other part of the world.

–>  borrowing the immensely popular game show as the skeleton for the film: i think this is rather brilliant. no doubt before actually knowing more about this movie, i was thinking, geezz another simple flick and i dun even like who wants to be a millionaire, i mean i dun care who. but frankly speaking after being ‘forced’ to spend 2 hours in the theatre watching it, i realized the plot is really  brilliant ~ amazingly, by using the game show to tell an eventful story which starts from young, is totally clever, and effectively, and not boring! not forgetting that it appeals to those who actually like watching the game show too!

–> the current economic slump: well, i think no matter how little this point contributes, it is still relevant. and i think i can throw in similarfactors like terrorism too! wahahahaha! so the crisis leaves pple with less propensity to travel and – ta-da- u get more cinema goers!

tetralogy, and going on

YATTA! Sem break is HERE!

Mock my exclamation, cuz this holiday ain’t holiday at all. As usual, the facade never fades (i.e. U u U u better make bloody good use of this bloody week to clear up ur bloody mountains of reads and assignments!). So, i am still working like a slave here, at least i am trying to. ha-ha

I realized that I’m a quite a sloth in my geography modules, but a worker in others~ well, maybe not meaning in studying the other modules, but of being more commited and inclined to work on their assignments n all. while sometimes i really feel that being year 4 gives me the extra bling in school, cuz ya noe, i am senior and u all are my little kiddos~ wahahah *evil grin*, but coming to work, esp. group work with juniors, i feel my responsibility. ok now i’m talkin real, it’s not the ‘trying to take charge in a condescending way’, but on the contrary, the benign desire to share my experience with others so that they do not need to suffer, it’s my offer of short-cut to them to save the pains, and of course, i’m not a sadist enuff to enjoy seeing others being grilled or so.

ok enuff of a penny of my thought on school stuff, here comes the girly bitchy matters~! i opened the blog saying sem break is here, but nevertheless the facade of break vs. the reality to complete work leaves some cracks for some jolly good times!

I term this 1 week break for Semester 2 AY2008/09 the GIRLY Movie Galore!

he-he-he! I urge readers to drop suggestions of fantastic girly/bimbotic/romantic (but not heart wrenching, sch’s tough enuff for now)/blondie/lovey-dovey under the comment box below! =) thanks!

Saving Face

i simply adore…

or should i say i just luv this genre?… =) it’s beautiful!

Happy 2008!

hey yo~ welcome to 2008. a brand new year with lots of surprises awaiting… let’s pull up our socks, as well as our foresights, and embrace 2008 with even more love, attention and hard work!!!!

yoz. i’m really in a n euphoria realm now, cuz i’m blasting my speakers with real goooooo~oo~ooD korean hip hop grooves~ well, i guess those are added with bit of pop, but they’re really so good that enliven my mood instantly. wooooz~ it’s a marvelous vibe feast for my ears.

it’s preety busy these few days and my feet are aching without enuff rest. those blisters surfaced, tortured me, burst, once again appearing, crucified me again and again… what to do, giving you good shoes yet u all still have the guts to do it again and again~ argh~ dun care lar dun care lar… and so i went out, having the first till the last footstep aching.

recently, i had my first veg meal in a prim and proper restaurant. big hugs and thanks to those who made it thru the meal, as well as the efforts to receive my ovation. but i’ve a message that i really really wanna shout out, but it’s too impolite to do it there. hehe “the veg stall in causeway point’s food court rates 10x better than 7 sensations…, in my opinion…” in anyways, i’m still trying to keep up to the promise i made to high5 at the table.

have been shopping in those craze sales almost everywhere on the island. while i was mostly in orchard area, i was really awed and disgusted by the large flow and heads in this stretch of road in Singapore. guess i was always at the wrong place at the wrong time where peepz are just pumping in and in… geez, peepz get off my heals and toes, and stop the shoving, get out and lemme sit on that seat in food courts and train, man!~ oh, yea~ ! here’s a big food fetish that i’m hooked on these days: food republic stores unbelievable good foodS! i favour particular stalls, but i’ll explore more i guess they will hardly disappoint me… the ambiance, service, speed and efficiency. thumbs and toes up for ya!

lastly, here’s an offer offer to peepz out there~ sadly and stupidly, i bought this vcd instead of its dvd format which is what i wanted. i’m selling it here at 10 bucks, cheaper than the price i took it off from TS… one of the few best korean movies i have in mind: a moment to remember. buy from me, buy from me, buy from me, buy from me, buy from me, buy from me, buy from me, buy from me, buy from me, buy from me, buy from me, buy from me, buy from me, buy from me, buy from me, buy from me!!!!!!!!!!!

Better than chocolate

though chocolate is still much better, this movie ain’t too bad. i shouldn’t be watching this now, but i just… turn my com on and then start to surf the net… gosh~ anyway, there are quite a few interesting stuff inside, just too vague if i were to write about them, just go watch it!

back to books…

Love My Life

hello.
i just finished watching this movie and i find it great… gotta intro to u all…
well, from the movie poster, i guess u all should had got it right – yes, it’s about gay love.
nothing surprising or fanciful inside… just a peaceful and cheerful way of interpreting such unique love. it makes such infatuation so pure that everything seems to fit harmoniously. well, of course there’re some social constraints and repulsions, but overall, the movie gives a very friendly and happy mood, and also a very important perspective for all… nice one~! support the message inside too:

“Because I’ve realized that being myself, it protects me more than anything else.”

Busy… busy… sucking away my life…

hi all!

it’s been really really busy these few days and I’m choked with stress, pressure and lack of sleep.

my parents are constantly asking me the details about the trip and prompting me to pack my luggage with this and that. the questions keep coming and it’s getting irritating, though i deeply understand that they care about me. but the sheer pressure of their questionings is making my days darker darker.. darker…

Monday, went out with my WAT partner for discussion as well as shopping for the trip. we had lunch at Just Noodles at suntec, and it was great~ it’d never disappoint me since the very first time my boy and i discovered the restaurant years ago. i guess i had blog about this place in my past entries… haha the shopping was terrible for the working pants. breaking into a holiday after a tough sch sem in a large mall like suntec, and the shopping agenda is the WAT items… hai`

dear biao jie came after that and i realized how fortunate i am to have such a cool and dear cousin. being with her never goes wrong. she’s the one who i can share everything with and receive the truest response that i will never doubt. we had a great time shopping, chatting, dining at yummy din tai feng and tasting great cream custard puff which has a cute name of “Chou Cookie”. the cream puff is really nice and cheap~ i’d never tasted beard papa, but this puff really blows me up, and at a cool price of 1 buck~ go get it at the exit of the market place at raffles city. our last stop at ya kun for a cuppa kopi and barley and some real cool local kaya-butter toast ended both of our day.

lastly, i just wanna say that i went out in the early afternoon (which is also the time that i wake up) and return home late at night. back home, i have tons of stuff to do, and my battery is really really dry. i can’t crave for more sleep now than in other times…

Tuesday was bit irritating and stressed out. woke up and was working with my papa on the web cam and stuff, which came to no conclusion nevertheless. changed my hammies’ bedding (did i mention b4 that this process is quite a tedious one? it’s 3 big sections and i will be sneezing throughout the whole clean-up) before getting out of my house, sweaty, to bugis. my parents brought me to guan yin temple at si ma lu and the place was like~ so crowded- okay, so that day was a public holiday and the 15th day of the lunar month. anyway, mama bought me a lotus flower for me to offer to guan yin ma. the flower is so big and beautiful, it’s the first time i’m holding on to this pink plant and i feel a special feeling after i noe that it’s going to be a gift from me to guan yin ma… hahah sounds silly?

okay, so bugis area was so crowded and i’m dealing with some meeting matters which almost blew my mind. thanks mh and my boy for giving me assurance and channels to disseminate my frustrations.

met lily and baoyue at jurong point and it’s been quite a while since we last met. Tuesday was a bad day cuz i kept running into wee things that really annoyed me. for example, i was at the food court when i made a (almost) u-turn. this fat short aunty was holding on to a tray of soup or whatever behind me and was bit shocked by my u-turn. then she looked stun and said ‘hot’, referring to her bowl of food. i was like wanting to slap her and punch her, even though i was wrong with that sharp turn. but who cares? she made me feels bu shuang and i wanna punish her for that. apart from this matter, there’s some hooligans at jp, annoying me too.

after all the activities, my boy came and bring me home. it’s a mind-blowing and tiring day, and it feels good to see him and also his effort in lessening my suffering..

today is Wednesday, my day with my boy. felt so guilty about my lateness in the morning and i’m so sorry that i’d shown a black face in the beginning of my day. i noe i shouldn’t have done that, but i just can’t help it. my mood was foul and i dun have the energy and mood to explain the things that are shadowing me

we watch spider man 3 and it is really cool! a great great movie indeed! the actions are sometimes, too violent and bother me quite a bit… overall, it is really good. the parts that intend to get the audience’s eyes watery achieve the aim quite well. after the show, went to my boy’s house for wii !!! hahah the new Nintendo game console is great!~! the games are cool and are really exhaustive~ my arms are aching right now. i’m good at bowling, interested in boxing and lousy at golf. hahahahha boy forced me to get some sleep and i really appreciate that. =)

V-Day, Ghost Rider, Reunion Dinner

hi everyone~
today’s is the eve of Chinese New Year. and yea, it’s the biggest festival in our Chinese tradition~! and we’re priding it quite well huh? think of it this way, we, the chinese homosapien, had celebration this festival in ‘roughly’ the same ways many many years way back then. and now, it’s celebrated not only in our Mother China. it’s all over the world~ wahahahaha~

so i woke up late today n read the papers. interesting article on pigs caught my attention and i read this:

Pig are greedy: False

Pigs do regulate their food intake, and stop eating when they are full, unlike some animals, including humans.

ahhaha i was like laughing inside cuz it’s sooo true~!!! hahaha~ okay so this phrase is gonna stay inside my head for quite some time.

i’ve been spending lotsa time with my boy since v-day… and i feel that this is year is really different from the past years that we’d date… the change, i mean a positive one, should most probably be due to D-day. aniway. i was invited to his reunion dinner last night and it was like a bit pai seh cuz it’s a reunion dinner and his papa was there… hahaha but eventually things turned out quite well. the steamboat was really yummy compared to mine, and the atmosphere wasn’t that bad cuz his father is quite a nice friendly man. his brothers were cute too and i think his little bro is still like a little child clothed in secondary sch uniform. and also yesterday was the first time that i rode in the new blue toyota driven by my boy. bit shaky though, he can still get the car moving. hahaha okay, he’s not that bad lar.

few day back, watched Ghost Rider, and i can truly understand why boys and girls differ in their tastes for movies. oh, and bout v-day, it was a damn simple fare which i love max max max~! i just hate the conventional ritual – roses, couple tee, candlelight dinner or somewhere that’s romantic, soft toys etc. we had dinner at Suntec food court and the place was like spookily empty. it was such a different feel with no ’si gin na’ screaming and other pple’s chat-chanting. and i had a fairly delicious katsu curry rice~ thereafter, i picked up some real gold while shopping, and that’s really lucky of us cuz that shop was just about to close when we stepped in~ hahaha

well, that’s bout all that happened these few days, and some shall just stick inside my head. here’s a video which i find it quite cool, seeing his head getting redder and the sucking of air getting more haste
http://www.youtube.com/v/59ZX5qdIEB0

電車男

today, JS lecture screened this movie called 電車男 or Train Man. our group members were sitting together at the last row of seats because we’re going to have mini feast while watching the movie~! hahaha and i was pretty sad cuz my contribution wasn’t as delicious as i thought. nah~ aniway, my group mates are lovely and we had a great time sharing food.

okay, this movie, in my opinion, is above average and is definitely funny. apart from the ‘geekiness‘ fun, the show is also very sweet and heartwarming at times…. and i must admit that those scenes remind me some of the sweet moments by my boy. hehe

aniway, the remaining of the week is gonna be tough… with mountains of readings and endless projects, life seems like a ‘long and winding road’~ ahahaha nonetheless, i will fight on and live on for another ‘SATURDAY’ (nah, it isn’t that saturday on the calendar… hahaha)!!!

Last day of holiday

hey people!!!

8th January, that’s tml!!! and today is the last day of my holidays!!! arrrggghhh!!!

okay, so i’m starting school tml and I’m not mentally prepared for it yet. bidding was, kinda, successful even though i got over-worried about it. cheers to the CORS team, u guys are doing a great job and are slowly erasing my first sem’s bidding memories.

so i’m going to pack my school bag later…. it’s sad that i can’t find a suitable backpack during this entire holdiay and that leads me to the continual suffering under the straps~! aniway, there’s nothing to pack though – throwing in my folder with some lousy foolscap papers, my slim pencil case, the very much overdued library book which the library-swat-team has been haunting me to vomit out, some necessary stuff, and of course a music player. who can tolerate the boring trip to school. it’s the same old scene that i’m going to watch for the remaining 1 and a half years in the ever ’sian’ mood.

okay… so a review on my holidays… i have been watching so many movies in terms of youtube and dvds. and the arrival of the tv was a boost but the Taiwan earthquake shook my youtube so hard that it’s not working for me up till now~~! aniway… the movies are great and most of the time after i finish a movie, i will go like: phew luckily i catch this one, this is great~!!! yea, they may not be some top films but are good enuff for moi~ and i mean movies like The pink panther, Fearless, Pirates of the Caribbean, Zathura, Mr and Mrs Smith, Daisy etc……

i just found an LG phone which i ultimately crave for right now. it’s a simple looking one that has so cool functions~!! well, but the most important thing is that it is an LG phone. mua hahahah haha hope it’s in town right now for me to grab it.

oh, i needa talk something about my new timetable. after seeing timetables with japanese language classes for about a year, i’m not really getting used to this current one. it seems so bare and ‘white’ to me~ hahah very much shorter school hours and almost no free timeslot in between classes. would it be more fun this sem? would it be easier this sem? one thing i’m sure about is spending less time in that freezing lib acting to be studying. and my bro is not going to be in sch this sem…. arts canteen is shut… meaning more Mac?? ahahaha aye, here i go to embark on this slightly different semester!

The Grudge 2 and selling of TB

hello~! i just watch The Grudge 2 on youtube and it was definitely a daring try of me. ghost movies have very very very persistent after effect. but i think i should try this show cuz edison is in it~ hehehe and also, i was curious to know how scary can this ju-on sequel be. And so, to prevent any possibility of serious consequences, i watched the show half-heartedly by opening another window by its side and do something else. haha one of the scary part which i’s watched full-heartedly is the pic at the left. pretty scary… but, you noe, when the video screen is so small and volume down to almost 0 decibel… hehehehe it’s still okay lar~

okay okay. now i’m going to sell 2 textbooks here. they were for my science module “Great Ideas in Contemporary Physics” in the past semester. both books are in very good condition and only one book has minimal highlight and underline. 2 books for $15. leave a note at the tagboard if u’re interested. oh btw, the titles are “Cosmology – A Very Short Introduction” and “Introducing Quantum Theory“. And also, the books are meant for beginners and thus, they’re easy to read and understand. suitable for casual reading or to widen your general knowledge~ [click pictures to have a clearer view]

kbox + pink panther

hey hey~

LG is really making my Life’s good.
goong, i’m currently re-watching that on dvd since my last view on youtube in April or so earlier this year

woo it’s been quite lag in my blog entries… oppz… hang in there…
yea, amazingly, i had been sleeping alot~ really alot~ i wonder how can my body take in that much of excess sleep. in return, i got an irritating headache. it’s like a cycle, i got headache and so i went to sleep; awake with the pain still pestering me, i got back to sleep again. yea, that’s it…

today is a beautiful day, i was up at an amazing hour of 7.30AM. wahahaha even seeing my papa off to work and playing with my hammies who are having their last tinge of energy left before they head on to their daytime sleep till the evening.

i had my first ever kbox session on Monday after a very long wait. hahah i think i haven’t been going karaoke since the start of the last sem~ wooo~ it was great seeing my good old pals~ we grew together, dun we? ahhhh it’s nice and sweet to see all of them well and fine…. and i’m really sorry that i’d to leave early. muack!

ooo, during the session in cine kbox, i met this really rude and not service-industry-ethic-educated worker who, received my tidbits bowls w/o stopping her footsteps and not letting me finish my sentence. i just hope kbox company would see this can do something, oh mighty please.

then, this morning, i went to mac for lunch and this service crew was also, not paying attention to my “can i have 4 packets of ketchup, please”. and i have to repeat like thrice cuz she was repeated distracted by the callings whatever to and from the kitchen.

watch your back babies, i’m in a damn tough service industry before and i noe my stuff even though i’m just a teeny staff. maybe that’s what my harsh working env had brought me to such scrutiny, but whatsoever, get rid of that real time attitude b4 something happens

watched ‘the pink panther’ movie this afternoon and it’s real damn goood~ oh gosh~ stupid yet and, u noe, the lameness is not just pathetic, it is over-pathetic~ it had cross that very thin line and definitely is FUNNY~ wahahahahah Steve Martin roxXx!

these days, i have a guesstimate that i’m going to end my Japanese language education soon. real soon… kept having the thought that the module is getting damn difficult, and immoral. racking nerve racking to imagine the unspeakable grade appearing on my report card that’s gonna be due on, i dunno, christmas time? hai~ aniway, it’s like having so much tutorial and lecture hours and effort (imagine memorizing so much vocabs and kanjis which are snowballing sem after sem), i guess the pursue is/may be reaching my limit…. aniway, my interest is in Korean though, i just dun feel gan wan (or gan yuan) that i had to forsake the language which i took pain to learn for a year…

A Moment to Remember

Divided into four segments, A Moment to Remember follows the theme of discovery in a relationship and the burdens of loss caused by Alzheimer’s disease.

The first segment of the film, staged in romantic comedy style, introduces the protagonists, a woman named Su Jin and a man named Chul Soo. The movie highlights their accidental meeting in a convenience store and confusion over a can of soda, followed by their subsequent courting despite the social standings that should have kept them apart.

The second segment follows the couple now settling into married life. Su-Jin learns to be a housewife as her husband cares for her. But as the segment progresses, Su-jin begins to display forgetfulness, including an incident in which a fire breaks out because of a forgotten stove. While Chul Soo caught the fire in time, the seriousness of the incident and others draw them to seek medical help.

The third segment involves the revelation of Alzheimer’s disease and the couple’s consequent response to it. Su Jin is heavily burdened by the knowledge that she will forget her husband and hides it from him at first until he seeks advice from the doctor himself. Despite the disease, they make the commitment to stay together and as the disease progresses, the trials the couple go through increase because of Su Jin’s forgetfulness.

The fourth segment reveals Su-jin in the final stages of the disease and the grief Chul Soo experiences because of it. Yet he remains beside her, despite her lost memory, hiding his eyes behind sunglasses when he visits her so she can’t see his tears.
[extract from Wikipedia]

Watched this korean movie last night and it was terrible. i mean it hurts terribly. the entire movie was quoted to be ‘near to a masterpiece’. and i definitely can’t agrree more to it. read the summary above and u’ll get a rough idea of the storyline. but when u watch it, it’s totalli a different experience. strong advice here, get load of tissue with u. i can’t believe that no one will tear after watching this great number. i nearly dropped my eyeballs out last night.

Life is cruel. U can’t be too confident.
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