| Sherlock Holmes Was Wrong |
[Jan. 6th, 2010|01:38 am] |
in the past few days i have:
1. gone out with jacq who is as ever industrious and hardworking and already has some internship which she is already busy with, whereas i am doing absolutely nothing. well i polish chandeliers and clean window grilles now, that has to count for something. we both <3 cotton on now very muchly. bought pretty skirts from there (: (mom later said that yes it was indeededly a very very nice skirt...and proceeded to muse on how she could convert it into a top, to my horror. well i don't think she meant it...) and enjoyed our 3rd-last day to get a student discount on anything ):
2. met tsi yin and desiree (: milked the absolute last opportunity to use student concession and got into the egyptian exhibition at the national museum, which tsi yin pronounced as not being worthy of the $16 entry fee we would have paid otherwise because there was 'only one body' but otherwise egyptian skill and detail and aesthetic is incredibly intriguing and amazing.
3. played taboo for the first time with cousins on new year's eve. have figured out that alex is straight and also racist, as all sji guys are wont to turn out, although thankfully in a harmless way. most hilarious game ever. lisa and i have psychic connection! "WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THIS SWEET THE OTHER DAY THE ONE WITH A HOLE IN IT" and "MY FAVOURITE FURRY ANIMAL FROM THE ARTIC"
3. met up with megan, clare, sam n, lay cheng, chrys and farhanah!!!!!!!!!!!! i haven't laughed so long and so hard for a very long time (aside from taboo evening) and it was awesome possum. so so very happy now (: it felt really great to see them and they were all superbly irrepressible and noisy and funny tha ti think the waitress at manhattan fish market was incredibly perturbed by us. or at least by megan and her antics. heh heh. AND TRAVEL FARE IS SO EXPENSIVE NOW ):
4. read Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer (FINALLY) and while it was extremely confusing as to who was addressing who and who was narrating as the narrator switches, it was really lovely. it actually kind of defies description actually, not least because of the 'visual writing' Foer employs. granted oskar can be really irritating and mean and petty, which annoyed me a fair bit, his mettle and determination to just go out there and get something done, even in the face of suffocating fear or hesitation make me admire that 9 year old boy very very much.
5. read The Three Incestuous Sisters by Audrey Niffenegger whose illustrations are so simple and lovely and dark and every line means something and i wish i could create art like that.
6. HAVE PURCHASED THE GRAPHIC NOVEL VERSION OF NEIL GAIMAN'S NEVERWHERE i forgot how gripping it was, although this comic book adaptation leaves off all the narration, so i think i have some re-reading to do.
7. watched The Young Victoria at the club. was expecting a bit more of her policies and etc but it is a gripping movie. initially, anyway, what with conroy and the duchess of kent! and that insulting speech the king gave at the dinner party, of which two-thirds apparently was what the king did say, verbatim. and lehzen and how she was once so important to the queen but in some ways proved to be hampering her as price albert showed her. and i find it so sad that victoria had albert's clothes laid out every morning even after he died at 42, all the way until she was 81.
8. watched Sherlock Holmes! and it is a splendid movie, with action and adventure and murder and mystery and humour and the occult and every possible element put into the mix in such beautifully measured amounts - all that witty repartee between robert downey jr and jude law is incredibly funny, and not to mention it is rather clever of the writers to pick a supposedly supernatural background given sherlock holmes' reputed supernatural and uncanny scientific and logical ability to deduce and observe. HOWEVER, and i have read all the 4 novels and 56 short stories of Arthur Conan Doyle, i...take issue in the characterisation. surely watson was never that astute and that sharp - wasn't there always this sense that watson was very much in awe of holmes, always? and holmes himself was detached and distant, very seldom ever revealing any fondness or affection for watson? i believe in one of the stories where watson was injured watson himself said he was surprised and very moved to see holmes moved to tears, and hear his menacing reproof of the culprit who shot watson. and there was never so much emphasis on the fighting although one must concede it is often alluded to in the books...bleh in all i suppose theirs is a justified interpretation of the characters and maybe i am just precolored by the usual bumbling fool portrayal of dr watson.
9. have been learning to apply eye make-up by trial and error. nobody has remarked anything so far so i assume i must be doing something right. although i have very little eyelid to apply anything on actually, mom says my eyelids are actually too small to cover my whole eye and when i sleep my eyes aren't actually fully closed.
10. currently reading Sherlock Holmes Was Wrong by Pierre Bayard, which i find a bit egotistical and all-too-precious and a bit arrogant. imagine nitpicking the great holmes himself just for wrongly reading a clue occasionally, or misinterpreting something ever-so-slightly, as in the case of the yellow face. honestly. and as the Bayard says so himself 'the world that the literary text produces is an incomplete world' so i'm not so sure why he is so fussed about it.
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| The Valentine's Day stock is appearing in supermarkets here already! |
[Jan. 4th, 2010|11:11 pm] |
I was looking at an old post and saw this:
So. Resolutions for '09:
1)Work hard for As
2)Live,laugh,be chill and good natured mostly
3)Continue smiling=)
4)Look to the present and future, and less of the past.
5)Lose 4kg. at least. haha.
I can't say I fulfilled them all but I can say this, I tried, I think. Not sure about 1) though =X
Oh well. I miss Singapore. (cue shock and horror of readers, haha!)
Is it really 2010?
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[Jan. 4th, 2010|10:31 pm] |
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[Jan. 4th, 2010|02:13 pm] |
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I want to read Captain Corelli's Mandolin!
In other news, my throat's a lot better! (: |
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[Jan. 3rd, 2010|10:31 pm] |
5 things i have learnt about life in 2009
1. it's a lot uglier than it seems.
2. it's also a lot more beautiful than it seems.
3. sometimes it's much simpler than you think.
4. it's also damnably much harder and more intractable than you think.
5. that God gets you through it all somehow.
10 things i want for 2010
1. lose the bad habits
2. be at peace with self and life and work
3. read a lot so my brain will not dry up into a culturally deprived wasteland and my vocab bank be as disastrous as wall street on the day of the lehman brothers crash
4. to continually be happy and content in relationships
5. not let bad things interfere with what i can do with myself and my time
6. continually make art that counts
7. earn $
8. to write
9. good grades -fingers crossed very very hard-
10. NO MORE GURMIT SINGH ON TV
i had a dream the other night that i was sitting for my a level h2 maths paper again, and that i hadn't touched maths for a few months and i was steadily working up a panic before i woke myself up when i actually exclaimed aloud in my sleep.
then the other night i dreamt i got a U grade for maths. please let this not be the case.
i think i see a recurring theme in my dreams. am scared to go to sleep now. |
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[Jan. 2nd, 2010|05:15 am] |
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I went to watch Avatar again, which is great because;
1) I didn't have to pay for both movie outings
2) I love the movie.
( why the naavi people aren't fat )
I walked back home munching twister fries, with very good company.
That was another day of doing nothing. So was today.
I know I need a job so bad but life now is good as it is. =) |
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| My Happy = |
[Jan. 3rd, 2010|01:54 pm] |
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Nutella on toast. Rainbows. Perfect weather. Sleeping in on a rainy day. Ending the day on a good note. Happy people. When my iPod plays the song in my head. Pictures in photoframes. Baking. The smell of cookie dough. Seeing my friends in love. Letters/notes/post-its. Swings. Having a good dream. Sitting in my room. Long bus rides. Polaroids. Meeting someone I haven't seen since forever but still being able to feel absolutely comfortable around him/her. Receiving unexpected texts that make me smile. Balloons in every colour. Comfortable Silence. People I love. Being able to relate to a quote, as bad as it may be. Friendly neighbours. Yakult. When the radio plays a familiar song and I can sing along to it. Smile exchanges. Making up after a quarrel. Not having an awkward conversation. The feeling being remembered. Seeing the people around me happy. Coloured candles. Having an 11:11 come true. Successful birthday surprises. Love, laughter, a hello, a smile, a hug, Home :)
What makes you happy? |
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[Jan. 2nd, 2010|11:46 pm] |
MARRY ME QUEEN AMIDALA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11 |
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[Jan. 2nd, 2010|09:35 pm] |
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Shall use January to teach myself some French. Oui. |
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[Jan. 2nd, 2010|03:58 am] |
I'm down with the flu and all I want to do is stay in bed and try to finish the enormous amount of library books I have when my dad says "Who wants to watch Avatar?"
And I jump out of bed saying "I don't mind watching it again!"
And he laughs so I don't know if he's serious.
Finally finished installing my new mood theme. Took me 45 minutes to do so because photobucket's got menopausal tendencies.
I LOVE Shinkai Hajime and his pilot cap.
So I'm going back into my burrow of blankets to
- watch ep 132 of 1Night 2 Days again because it's so bloody hilarious. I can watch it again and still laugh despite knowing what happens.
- try watching Tokyo Dogs mainly because of this screencap;
-maybe watch crows zero 1 again because it's understatedly funny and definitely very cool
- wait for Smile, You to air because I have serious withdrawal symptoms.
Unknown little girl is cute but that stupid expression on Jung Kyung Ho's face OWNS.
-trap Levi under the covers and make him fall asleep so I can finally cut his claws!
- surf around various tumblrs to laugh at the most hilarious of pictures.
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| all my loving |
[Jan. 2nd, 2010|12:07 am] |
i've had an amazing journey through 2009,
not without flat tyres and breakdowns,
but it's been a good run :)
here's to 2010 being a fresh new journey with the same old special! |
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| The new year. |
[Jan. 1st, 2010|06:13 pm] |
Resolutions- Speak less vulgarities. Change my character. Control my temper. Eat more greens.
Shanice's house was fun, the no laughing game is a great game.
Carried a pretty lady as well. Lucky she double dared me =]
You know that after all you have done, she wont be touched or affected by it.
It's really time to give up Eugene.
She is not the best friend you once knew, and will never be. |
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| hello 2010 please be good to me |
[Jan. 1st, 2010|04:01 pm] |
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I'm at Sarah's house; slept over there for the new year and we opened (fake) champagne and got crazy as usual and we fell asleep. We woke up, played cards, spin the bottle, yada yada yada.
So yes my 2010 started off well, with people I adore. =)
2009 was the "A LEVELS" year; it was difficult, but it was also rewarding because I grew to really enjoy being in T3. I lost 10kg, weight I never thought I could lose (much thanks to Joy who was inspiring!). So yeah, 2009 was good enough for me.
Can you tell I'm being super lazy?
Of course you can. |
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[Dec. 31st, 2009|10:03 pm] |
HAPPY NEW YEAR MA SINGAPOREAN FRIENDS.
It's still New Year's eve morning here but hey=)
I hope your 2010 brings you more fulfillment and happiness than the past year. That you all stick to your resolutions and become more mature and fun simultaneously =D And that no matter what happens in 2010, you'll learn from it=)
continued list of observances in the land of Maple leaves:
1) They sell Twilight make up in I think it was Walmart. And by that i mean the lipstick and eye shadow and all have "Volturi" imprinted on it, vampire related colours and even body mist. LOL.
2) It's cold enough that the soap/shampoo comes out in lumps and not a smooth flow of liquid. hehe.
3)The door handle of the car gets stuck overnight cause it freezes and i have to tug on it to open the side door when we wanna go out. ahahahaha.
4)We went for a car wash on the first day and the moment we got home we had to wipe the car down cause all the water was freezing up!
5)Sales sales everywhere=) But I'm not buying much...
6)They have kinder bueno EGGS here! the ones Singapore stopped selling!!! With a toy inside=D
ogay
continue later and with my resolutions.
BYE=D |
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| It was a very good year |
[Dec. 31st, 2009|12:11 am] |
Walt Whitman, "Continuities"
Nothing is ever really lost, or can be lost,
No birth, identity, form--no object of the world.
Nor life, nor force, nor any visible thing;
Appearance must not foil, nor shifted sphere confuse thy brain.
Ample are time and space--ample the fields of Nature.
The body, sluggish, aged, cold--the embers left from earlier fires,
The light in the eye grown dim, shall duly flame again;
The sun now low in the west rises for mornings and for noons continual;
To frozen clods ever the spring's invisible law returns,
With grass and flowers and summer fruits and corn.
I like that alot, just like how 2009 has been so generous to me. I remember writing quite the moving speech the last time i did this, had lots of thoughts in my head then, because there were alot of things just ahead of me back in last December. Things like results, resolutions, and of course, dear old army. Usually I love to write in ambiguous and sometimes sinister Chuck Palahniuk ways, but I'm just gonna keep this one nakedly honest.
Army's changed my life, alot, it's taught me more than I thought I'd have learnt, in more ways than one. I write worse now, for one, haha. Been out of touch for so long. No matter! Walt says nothing is every really lost anyway.
Anyhow, there's that thing from the ages most people have a habit of making at this time of the year, so I got myself a mental to-do list for the long year ahead.
I'll keep all my resolutions from last year, because they've served me brilliantly, very awesome. I will persevere and see out my months left in service, cannot wait! I need to get more organised, planning wise, because my head is a perpetual blender where everything's a blur and things are rarely properly set down. And, of course, the most important thing of all, is that I'm gonna put all my heart into making things that matter so much to me bloom like a field of one thousand sunflowers. Look long enough and they'll smile at you haha.
Have a totally boomz year ahead friends!
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[Dec. 30th, 2009|01:50 am] |
i normally never feel very sentimental about new years and things like that, but i do get nostalgic at ends of years and wonder how i've changed. seasons change but people don't (fall out boy). there is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered (nelson mandela). the more things change, the more they stay the same (no idea who, but i believe corrine bailey rae sang this). be the change you wish to see in the world (ghandi).
2009 was a horrible year. it is the year where i was at my worst - i let all the bad things come and take me. or i went willingly with them. i don't know. i let myself be swept away in some sick disgusting maelstrom of hubris, arrogance, impatience, intolerance, anger, fury, sanctimony and every other abject sin possible. and looking back at how i treated people i feel so small and ashamed and revolted with myself that it's a wonder how people still extend a hand to me and hug me and give me chance after chance after chance after chance.
i've learnt the beauty in a hug.
i was never a touchy child. i seldom hug my family. but secondary school changed a lot of that. hugs bring you in and they offer you comfort in ways that no words ever could and hugs always made me cry because they are such kind things (jess, now you finally know why i burst out crying when i saw you that day in the hallway, not because you did anything wrong, but because of your kindness). but this year, being hugged and forgiven by people i've hurt - goodness knows how wonderful and condemning it feels at the same time.
2009 was also the year i learnt about...certain abstract nouns.
i really learnt what Empathy means. it's remembering, even when you are over your head in anger, misery, self-righteous madness, self-pity and whatever overwhelming emotion it is, that you have been in that other person's position before, and dredging up that time in your life and recalling how you wanted people to feel towards you back then, and then having the strength to walk away from that all-consuming emotion. needless to say easier said than done and i've let myself wallow and stew in my own shit far too long to haul myself out of it, and am now trying my hardest, before it wrecks my relationships with others.
i've also learnt about Screwing Up (although i realise this is technically a verb and can hear an extremely cross, Whitby-esque voice in my head yell "JESUS MARY AND JOSEPH, YOU HORRIBLE CHILD.") because i did exactly that at A Levels where it counts the most. and after all this time i realise that sometimes that slip of paper with letters printed out on it doesn't matter as much as what you're made of. because the latter has the infinite capability to prove itself again and again. and i'm going to try remembering this when i get that fateful and horrible slip of paper come march next year. after the shattering maths, gp and econs papers, (i cried every day during the a level period) mom picked me up from sova and before i'd even finished telling her about how the paper was she launched into this lecture about how it doesn't matter as much as i let it, actually. that it's also about mettle, and life, and the big picture. and that yes it is galling that the most crucial performance wasn't my best, that maybe the results will not reflect what i'm capable of, but that's the way life is. she even used american idol as an analogy. i love my mom for that.
and one particular pronoun above all - God. because He was there even when i didn't pray. when i turned away from Him. when i tried (and failed) on my own.
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[Dec. 28th, 2009|09:01 pm] |
1)It's cold is an understatement, haha
2)It snowed last night
3)I am wearing gloves to type
4)Instead of drinking cold water, it's warm water now
5)I kinda miss the bustling Singapore, everyone/everything moves so slowly here
6)Jet lag didn't really affect me?
7)Can't run for two months- oh the horror=(
8)My brother is big and my father is small
9)There is an endless supply of Christmas cookies/cake/cheeseballs/gingerbread men on the dining table=) / =(
10) 2010 is coming too fast=((( |
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| 2nd Batam Visit part 2 |
[Dec. 29th, 2009|06:43 am] |
I forgot to mention in my previous post that I bumped into Sandy 2 times in Batam and he didn't recognise me. It's okay though. He was rushing around as usual, probably doing things for another tour group.
PICTURES
I love Batam children; they always seem so happy despite having so little, unlike Sg children who seem so unhappy despite having so much. Love the boy's expression; it's like, "Eh brother, your armpit smelly ah."
This is only funny for people who understand Malay.
It means something like "Healthy Period Drink".
Ditto.
Ditto.
FREAKY TELETUBBIES CANDY BOTTLE. RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!!
Tao Kae Noi rip-off.
Madness in the lift.
Spa room! I had my facial in a similar room.
Too lazy to post more up.
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[Dec. 29th, 2009|03:37 pm] |
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I am looking through my iTunes now and different songs remind me of different people. It's like how reading through your old letters, flipping through your photo album, rummaging through your box of cards/notes and everything else can bring you back to some sort of memory. Kinda like how it also reminds you of how much that someone means to you. I don't exactly know what I'm trying to say but I have absolutely nothing to do now other than continue reading 'The Perks of being a Wallflower', trying to put up pictures on my walls, listening to some Rachael Yamagata, and hoping that time will pass faster. The year is coming to an end, or more like in about 2 days. 2009 has been a challenge in every way possible. I know how regret doesn't go away but I'm slowly learning to accept it, knowing that nothing can be changed and the only thing I can do is to have a braver heart. No one wants to see someone else sad, and I will hold on to that for as long as I can to stay in this fight. but 2009 also placed me in possibly the best company. Wouldn't have survived a day in school without the class. As much as we seriously cannot tolerate each other at times, with gender wars and everything else, I'm thankful for all of them because I wouldn't trade all of them for the word. Special mention to my 4 favourite girls in class. Without them, school would kill. And for the people who go crazy over taking photos, guitar hero and who say the funniest things, my Wednesdays and Fridays would suck without y'all. 2009 surprised me by letting the most unexpected things happen, in a good way of course. Until now, I still think it's quite a dream but everything can only get better and as Deathcab would say 'cause I built you a home in my heart'. I've made many mistakes this year, some of them I'm still trying to stop myself from sinking in deeper but 2010's a new start and whatever happened in 2009, I can only say 'I gave what I gave'. |
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[Dec. 29th, 2009|12:56 am] |
1. WHO ON EARTH CARES WHETHER SEZAIRI OR SYLVIA WON SINGAPORE IDOL. THE WHOLE FRANCHISE IN SINGAPOREAN TERMS IS PAINFULLY LUDICROUS AND PRETENTIOUS, AND NOT TO MENTION DOWNRIGHT EXCRUCIATING ON THE EARDRUMS. neither of them can sing to save their lives. okay that's a wee bit harsh, they aren't tone-deaf but they are so downright unpleasant to listen to and can't even speak in proper grammar. 'so much obstacles' good god it's 'so MANY'. and in all honesty - look at your previous singapore idols and how they faded off into obscurity. and how they can't even use the most prosaic, basic phrases of the english language correctly. and gurmit singh is so way over the hill he should really just retire.
2. read The History of Love by Nicole Krauss! FINALLY! although i am sorry to say to yee hui and jeanette i think her first book Man Walks Into A Room was better, although both are beautiful brilliant amazing books.
3. Christmas celebrations were only mildly painful this time around. have gladly accepted that nobody really listens to what i say and am learning to deal with long and painful silences that accompany whatever i proffer in conversation, and to know that i should really just keep my mouth shut all the way, actually.
4. have also learnt that i can never make it in politics because i am completely incapable of hiding my true feelings and keeping them off my face, just like meg murray of a wrinkle in time, but seriously, who can muster up that much muscle power to look excited over the cheapest calendar which is not in your taste at all, with the price tag still attached to it? but i do feel guilty about my ungratefulness bleh blip on the horizon.
5. why is it every time i try to solve a problem on my own - like you always tell me to do - i always end up doing it wrongly in your eyes? why do you always have to criticise? nobody's going to want to help you very much after this.
6. i feel lost as a light is lost in light, and not a good kind of light but an uncomfortable, obliterating one.
7. i like books, no matter how unsophisticated and far away from the crystal halls of High Literature, that just encapsulate the simplest feelings that you have always felt innately, drawing them out and making you aware of that subconscious feeling or emotional reflex. and that is why i am not ashamed to admit i am reading The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants. i draw the line at twilight though that is just horrific gratituous self-indulgence that adds to the misery and sad decaying state of the world today. nothing enlightening or liberating about it.
8. i.want.a.job.at.ij.so.badly.admin.office.please.please.please.reply.soon.
9. we do not have a kitchen at the moment. woke up at 9am to hear the workers downstairs dismantling the kitchen. i hate the dusty floors but i hate the thought of vacuuming even more. yuck. now mom will really know if i have or have not been doing it thoroughly. AND I JUST VACUUMED YESTERDAY.
10. watched The Changeling last week and it was gripping and frustrating and moving and i have to grudgingly admit that angelina jolie was spectacular, she was completely, so totally in the part that you're completely absorbed, and you have to hand it to her that her fame has not hampered her audience reception as how it has for other A-listers.
11. i feel like embarking on another Art Project. like Monsters II or something. maybe that way i won't be so bummed if i don't get the relief teaching job. need to collect my damn file with my drawing paper inside though. crosses fingers that it isn't thrown away. and that i can get my coursework money back.
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