I know I know.
Soon :)

Reason: Shagged

This is it. The start of my semester exams.
Last paper on the 13th so do expect an update.
An update on the things I will spend my holidays doing.
Haha!

Till then,
Ciao!

Let me be honest.
I have really lost the muse to blog.

Exams are approaching.
HOPING to get on with thorough revision like SOON.
Final semester projects are coming right at me like a speed train.
Other outside commitments are slowly coming alive from my monthly planner.
(Yes, I am rather organized when it comes to dates)
Not THAT kind of dates. Haha!

And I have thought of changing my blogskin to something simple.
With all that in mind, I am not motivated at all to do proper entries.

So till then, till my exams are officially over,
I'm gonna leave this blog on hiatus.

If you occasionally see me once or twice updating this blog, consider yourself lucky.
Ironically, I am active on Facebook.

Aiya! Got my number? Call or SMS lah!
Maybe can arrange for some meet-up over a cup of coffee. Ceh!
KEYWORD: Maybe
Yet again, no harm trying.

CHEERS!

Initially, I wanted to do a proper entry. But when my eyeballs looked at the bottom right corner of the monitor screen, I realised that the time isn't doing any justice. Plus, I'm exhausted from the random outing with the normal peeps over at the other side of Singapore - Boon Lay! Man, that place has changed a lot since the last time I went there.

So anyway, in replacement of a supposed entry, which is long due, I will basically be putting up videos from Youtube (where else?!) that caught my eye. And maybe perhaps a short entry with interesting pictures I found while blog-hopping (which reminds me, I really need to explain to people what my definition of "blog-hopping" is).

So, the video of the day shall be by the name mentioned in the title of this entry. Mr "however-you-pronounce-that". Haha!


This video makes me wanna learn the guitar and learn this style of playing. Rather than those typical mats who would sit at void decks screaming the only one song they know. Haha!

And wait . . . . . . .

Doesn't Mr "however-you-pronounce-that" looks like....

In future, when I feel like giving up, I will promise to watch this video.
And this should be an inspiration to those who are having their majors soon.
Hope it helps.

Cheers!

P/s: I'm so dead. Gotta wake up early and I'm still awake at 3am. Best.

Alright, I think it is best if I be polite and update a little. I should really get out of the habit of updating once each week. It is unhealthy isn't it? Oh boy, what have I got myself into. There are just too many things to update. Ok lah, I should pick the one that is more prominent in my brain cells - Hari Raya.

Hmmmm, I must say that during the fasting month (which I must add went passed in a blink of an eye), the anticipation was pretty much at zero level. But as Hari Raya neared, with all those good work-outs (painting the house) and making our place look nice, the mood began sinking in. And I must highlight that it felt good. The mood is still there. Can you imagine if one day Hari Raya feels like just an ordinary day?

Part of me was thankful. Parents decided not to visit our house at Malacca. With all those dishes Mom cooked for our last Iftar - it was awesome! I seriously can't imagine waking up in the morning of Hari Raya to see Maggie Mee on the table.

Anyway, the 'malam raya' (the night before Hari Raya), headed to Thomson because Mom wanted to get fresh flowers. I helped Mom picked and she allowed me to arrange the flowers in one of the vases. Haha! I know it sounds a little sissy but I enjoyed doing it. I show you? Heh....



Then headed to Geylang - Mom wanted to get curtains for our living room. By then, I felt so sick; as in unwell. With all the people flocking down to do their last minute shopping, bloody hell. I wonder how can they survive the pushing. I hate it especially when there are ignorant smokers who would smoke in such a crowded place. I was literally holding my breath just so I won't be a prime victim of being a passive smoker.

Got home close to 1AM and stayed up till like 4AM to finish up clearing the stuffs, and make last minute decor improvements. I will stop here for now and continue on with Hari Raya itself in another entry. Don't wanna get carried away and turn this entry into a bore. Heh.

Ciao!

You walked with me
Footprints in the sand
And helped me understand
Where I'm going

You walked with me
When I was all alone
With so much unknown
Along the way
Then I heard you say

Chorus
I promise you
I'm always there
When your heart is filled with sorrow and despair
I'll carry you
When you need a friend
You'll find my footprints in the sand

I see my life
Flash across the sky
So many times have I
Been so afraid

And just when I
I thought I'd lost my way
You gave me strength to carry on
That's when I heard you say

Chorus

When I'm weary
I know you'll be there
And I can feel you
When you say

When life starts to go against you,
feeling like there is no way that you could live another day,
please save the following video -
to constantly remind ourselves how cute life can be sometimes.
And that all we need is someone to cheer you up.

Disclaimer: Semi-nudity :P



Credits to my elder brother, Dane for sharing this at 5:45AM.
I laughed so loud that I feel so wide awake right now.

Well anyway, gonna "roll" and hope the cold floor would lure me to Lala-land. Haha!
Food for thought: Why is it called Lala-land anyway?

Ciao!

I got knocked off from school a little too early on Monday. Knowing that I had time to kill before heading down to Simpang Bedok for the Iftar gathering, I decided to meet up with some of them. The girls (Fidah & Nina) had some random sudden urges to visit IKEA to survey prices (or was it something else?), together with Fauzi and Izzat.


While I had my eyes washed with so many inspirational items up for sale, I stumbled upon this DYI cardboard box that comes with a lid. Believe it or not, it cost only 90 cents per box. I have always needed proper storage spaces - as in a place to store my past textbooks, notes or whatever that I wish to keep for future use (I hope).

It was rather large. So I think I will drag my parents down for easier transportation. Nope, I did not buy them. Haha! BUT SOON!

Walked about and I guess hunger was taking its toll. All of us were tired if not, famished.

Headed towards Simpang Bedok (SB) to meet the others for the Iftar session. Well, it was suppose to be an alumni gathering but apparently, the usual group of us turned up - none other but truly famous people: KBBG.

Had a fair share of laughs and exchanging of quirky but cute remarks. Oh, and not forgetting the usual mini Cornettos for dessert. Definitely, it has always been so warm to be just around these wonderful people. Feeling comfortable even if by means of insulting or throwing indirect sarcasms across tables. All in all, I would not trade any one of those precious memories for anything else in this world. Well, if I had the most delicious chocolate bar that can make me go higher than cloud nine, then perhaps yes. Hahaha! Kidding!


Spent quite a bit there and decided to trail down (by bus while some fortunate group got to hitchhiked on Aminoor's car) towards Tampines - we apparently had some weird cravings for J.CO Donuts.

Upon reaching, went to look for the girls (Yup, the group guilty of taking Aminoor's car) and I got a rude shock. Haha! They planned an advance birthday surprise for Izzat. It came to me as a surprise too. Matter of fact, I was wondering why I could hear them singing the birthday song when none of ours falls on that day. Well, not till I took my mobile out and saw two text messages from Fauzi saying that the girls are planning something. The wrong person got surprised - ME! Slow aye. Oh well.

All of us got ourselves fork and spoons and one by one we start to dig into the cake, literally! We got too lazy to cut the cake evenly, and distribute it that we decided to just eat it as a whole; together. It was kinda a barbaric sight. One thing for sure, the cake was simply divine.

It was chocolatey - I like.
It was hazel nutty - I like.
It was extra chocolatey - I like.
Too much of all the above - Makes me (and the rest) sick. Haha!

Ended the meet up with a group photo and after which we went our separate ways.


Awesome day with awesome friends.
Till the next entry.

Cheers!

A concert that I will be performing on September 6th.


Reveal the beauty of Spanish music by one of the most exciting composers of wind music today.

From Valencia comes talented composer Luis Serrano Alarcon, who will conduct the 60-strong wind orchestra in a special programme that mixes works by the award-winning composer with unmistakably Spanish music culled from the country's rich culture.

Enjoy works such as Little Suite for Band, Memorias de un hombre de ciudad and the pasadoble, El Torico de la Cuerda, in Alarcon's first-ever appearance in Singapore.

Prodigious Chinese cellist Qin Li-Wei joins the wind orchestra in Alarcon's melancholic solo piece for cello and band, Tramonto, which evokes a beautiful Italian sunset. The celebrated cellist has won many awards and prizes, including the First Prize in the prestigious 2001 Naumburg Competition and the Young Australian of the Year award in 2002.

Come and be part of this Spanish Fantasia!

Interested?
Choose any one of the methods

1. Contact me via my e-mail (located at the side)
2. Text me via SMS
3. Head down to any SISTIC outlet and make your direct purchase there
4. Visit HERE and scroll to the very bottom and follow the instructions
   

See you there!
Cheers!

Before I continue, have you seen this advertisement involving this two freaky eyebrow-moving duo on the telly before? I bet you would have right? So the other day me and two of my friends were walking to some stationery shop near our school. While walking, two purpled-shirt pair approached us. I got rather shocked because they came from behind and we thought they were going to rob us. Hahaha!

Lucky thing they explained why they "followed" us in from outside. They explained that they are going around taking videos of people who can imitate the eyebrow movements in the original video. Or at least try to follow or groove it to our own beat. At first, me and my friend (Mohan) were very reluctant but at the end of it, after much persuasion from the two, we decided to just go ahead wih it. Little did I know that it was going to be embarrassing. I look like a Mr Pervert aka Cikopek can?! Hahaha!

Well anyway, since this is a contest, I would need all of your help by submitting votes to our video. Just click on the following button and it will bring you to the video. One thing to take note of - You have to be a citizen of Singapore to vote. Oh, and another thing - You are only allowed to vote once each day. So vote everyday alright? Hahaha! The voting closes on 30th August if I am not wrong. Go ahead, click on 'VOTE!' to.... well.... VOTE!

Thank you!

I swear Blogger is being such an ass. It is just so hard to update when the interface is in an utter mess - everyone must and should know I HATE that. Haha!

Well anyway, I doubt that this is going to get fixed anytime soon so I figured I will just have to make do with what I have. Better than nothing right? The thought of switching from Blogger to somewhere is just too troublesome. It sucks even more to know that I can't blog randomly. Sometimes when I take a cup of water to quench my thirst, or showering, or while watching TV, or be it ANYTHING, I tend to have random thoughts and that sudden urges to pen it down somewhere is a must. Since Blogger kept throwing unexplainable fits this past week, some of those "precious" yet random thoughts might be gone.

Moving on to the objective of this entry.


Date watched: August 12, 2009

Been wanting to catch UP since it first released the show date. Initially it was somewhere during July and eventually got pushed earlier to August when it got scheduled in September <--- Took me a while to digest after typing it. Haha! ANYWAY, it was kinda a random thing to catch UP. Headed down to Cathay Orchard Cineleisure with Rene to meet her friend and Nina after class.

Short synopsis: A young Carl Fredrickson meets a young adventure spirited girl named Ellie. They both dreamed of going to a Lost Land in South America. 70 years later, Ellie has died. Carl remembers the promise he made to her. Then, when he inadvertently hits a construction worker, he is forced to go to a retirement home. But before they can take him, he and his house fly away. However he has a stowaway aboard. An 8-year old boy named Russell, whose trying to get an assisting the elderly badge. Together, they embark in an adventure, where they encounter talking dogs, an evil villain and a rare bird named Kevin.

My personal opinion of this movie?

Just one word to describe it - Awesome! Wait. In fact, it is more than awesome! The whole experience of watching this movie leaves me with an entire mix of emotions. Not forgetting the 3-D effect was incredible. I still have no idea why people kept saying 3-D is just not worth the money. So much contrast between what we usually see and it made us feel like we are in the movie too. I guess that is the whole point of 3-D movies. You don't expect things flying at you or the characters to start walking towards you like some high-tech hologram right?

This movie, not like any other movie, made me teared not once, not twice.... BUT THRICE! Why? It is just so sad and touching. A love of someone (Carl in this case) for his wife (Ellie) touched me deeply. Details I shall leave it to you to catch it (if it is still showing that is). It hit me so hard because I find the value of family oh-so important. No matter how alone you are in this world, there are always someone else looking over at you who will help you through your toughest time - even though they might not seem like the sort of person who will.

Of course the entire movie is just not all sad. No doubt that the cute and funny Russell was there to keep us entertained. His naivety was just too cute and I wished it never end. This would be the perfect family movie of the current era. Teaching young kids about being the first to offer unconditional love no matter who you are (younger or older). AND also the importance of friends - to stand by each other no matter what the circumstances is.

For those of you who have yet to catch this movie, I would personally recommend you to watch this fast! Definitely not to be missed. My rating? I would give it 4.5 out of 5 stars.

Posts are piling up.
GI Joe movie review is next.
That is all for now.

Cheers!

Before I start to lose my muse to blog, I better get this blog updated.

Headed down to many places on Friday with Fauzi and Izzat - specifically the entire stretch of Orchard. Explored the two newly opened malls. Namely, Orchard Central Mall and ION Orchard. Took 'Wendy' out and started snapping pictures. I am no professional photographer alright. Hah!


Explored Orchard Central Mall first. Seriously, there is nothing much around there. It is like all the shops that people would least likely to visit all in one mall (with an exception of one or two of course). Apart from the public lounge area and the interesting express escalators, which jump up from the 3rd floor to the 7th, the view from the top was awesome. Never have I seen the entire stretch of Orchard Road from that height. Breath-taking? Yup! They had another express escalator from the 7th floor to the 11th, but it was closed.


Orchard Central Mall also houses the tallest indoor Via Ferrata in the world! Sadly, I was too awed by it that I did not managed to take a picture of it. Haha!


One more thing. I kinda liked the concept of the public toilets. It felt like we were in a hotel room. The inside? Just like a hotel room with dark wood all over! With no beds of course! Haha! Pretty neat place. Was too embarrassed to take 'Wendy' out to take pictures; especially with strangers doing their small little business at the urinals. Hahaha!

Got rather bored there, so finally we made our way to ION Orchard. By then, I was rather beat that I abandoned 'Wendy' for a while = no pictures of ION.

Have anyone of you went in there? I felt insulted in a good way. Haha! Segmentation was hugely present! The mall comprises of 8 shopping levels. 4 of which are basements. And the remaining, floors 1 to 4. From 1 to 4 is where all the high-end brands are - Giorgio Armani, Louis Vuitton, Dolce & Gabbana etc. Whereas the levels "below the ground" were where the affordable brands are located. Seclusion from the rich and famous! Hahaha! Well, it is just my opinion. Maybe they set out to satisfy both the rich and the not so rich. Needless to say about its architecture because it was magnificent!

I will not go all out to do a promo for that mall. If you wanna know more about it just click here.


Headed to Topman to get my tops and I must say the decision-making was a difficult one. For those who have gone shopping with me, you will know what I mean. I am quite fussy or rather fickle-minded when it comes to shopping. Hahaha!

Took the express lane up to the MRT station (which was situated below ION Orchard itself), met Fidah and Nina and trained down to Eunos. Fairuz fetched us up and had supper somewhere near Bedok Police Headquarters.

Had a great catch-up session with them nonetheless though I was beat. Many things gonna happen this week and next. So, gonna gear up and be ready for what may come charging towards me.

Ciao!



P/S: I wanna change my blog's skin, but can't seem to find the time to do it. Sigh! Never thought I would be this busy.

Finally blogger has recovered from a bitch fit.

Anyway a week back or so, Dad came home with this letter - from Nuffnang. I have been waiting for it since the day I clicked "Cash-out!". Dad passed to me and all he saw was me smiling like some retard. He asked what contains this envelope and who was it from.

My answer: Some blog stuffs (Haha!)

When I tore open the envelope (with great care knowing there is something "precious" in it), I took out the papers that were in it.


The first paper - A slip of paper. It is pretty interesting though. There were small wordings at the bottom-left saying "We have cut down on paper size to save more trees". I feel that it is good thing because whatever piece of paper it was, it is going to end up in the bin anyway. This little initiative by them will definitely be a huge favour to our planet Earth. So Kudos to them!

The second paper which isn't just an ordinary paper was the cheque! I shall disclose the amount because it is rather embarrassing. Haha!

See, it really works! They do pay bloggers! Be it amateurs, semi-professional, celebrity or just bloggers like you and me!

Thank you Nuffnang for the opportunity to generate "revenue" from my blog, though it has never reached my mind that I would earn from blogging alone!

Cheers!