Soundtrack of My Life..

The whole of yesterday.. I was thinking of "One Night Only" song in Dreamgirls. I was so crazy that I even changed it to "One Round Only" for jogging during PE haha.

The whole of today I was thinking of Bang Bang You're Dead by Dirty Pretty Things (because of river banks lesson in Geography haha. Bank Bank!), No Distance Left to Run by Blur (I really like the melody of this song.. shall search for its lyrics. I saw the video clip long time ago... and it was quite different haha), and Tender by Blur (please.. I think some people may mistake this as some gospel-ish song if they don't listen to the song properly.. because of its choir element. But I think it really suits the song).

Let us see what other songs my friends have to be tortured listening to tomorrow :)

Satisfaction Guaranteed

Last week was a really rollercoaster ride for me. There are things that I moan about, while there are also things that I cheer about. So today, the video for ACJC Science Research Symposium was finally presented.. and the response thankfully was good. Okay, beside having to make the video, a last minute thing popped up. Ahah. I have to talk more about it on the school stage during the assembly. In front of 1,500s pairs of eyes. Heh. It was quite an interesting moment. Well, let me tell you frankly. I sometimes thought that I have not ever gone up the ACJC stage to receive any prize... and kinda accepted the fact that I will not have to do it haha. Because I seldom join competitions heh. Drama... there are no real competitions. Academic-wise.. ehh... ya. I can't compete with the smart scienc-y, maths whiz kids haha. So yeah that kinda left me with practically zero chance of going up the stage. Hence the acceptance over the fact. So... today provides an interesting event for me. Now I understand when some people spoke of when they realised that a life changing event may occur soon. I got that feeling. Well speaking in front two thousands eyes doesn't really change your life. I was more afraid that mistakes I made on stage would remembered by many. So I guess if my life changed, it'll be for the worse haha. Thankfully I managed to brush aside that thought, and once I was on stage, the nerve kinda calms down. I just hate the build-up nervousness part. Well, mission accomplished :)

Last Saturday, I watched the Fountain. Which is superb and exceed my expectation. Ahh. Even if you're the kind who are really sick of lovey-dovey kind of film, well I guess at least you'll appreciate the visual experience this movie presents. The Fountain is about 3 parallel love stories between two characters played by Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz. In all of the stories, Hugh Jackman is trying to rescue Rachel Weisz from dying. The movie is presented in non-orderly manner, and I guess that helps to make the movie more interesting and less direct. I can't believe with all those visual stunner the movie only cost $40 million to make O_O Anyway, if you're an emotional kind of person, be prepared to feel depressed watching this movie. I cried watching this movie :'( Another fact that amazes me is how on earth Darren Aronofsky could link stories from Book of Genesis (Bible) and the Mayan belief to this story. Both really make good representations of one of the recurring theme in the movie, which is life versus death. Obviously the other theme is love. This movie to me is more of an unconventional love story. Oh ya for your information, Darren Aronofsky is Rachel Weisz's fiancee. I wonder what he thought when filming the bath tub scene haha. Hmm on the last note, let me warn you the ending is kinda weird and strange. But I guess it brings the movie to a full circle :) 7.0 stars out of 10. (Hope Aronofsky's next project won't took so much time to come out..).

After watching movies, my friends and I had dinner. And then some of us (3 to be exact) went bonkers after the dinner. Since the road between Orchard Road to Youth Park is closed, we decided to do some random stuff on the road. First, the move is quite a tame one. Just stretching your arms and smiling. Then it goes to sitting down and posing the zen position haha. I guess we're too inspired by Hugh Jackman's zen position in The Fountain. As we posed several times, we also have to be aware of cars coming out of Meritus Mandarin parking lot haha. Well in the end, 2 of my friends got freaked out and don't dare to do anything silly on the road :( Oh our attempt to recreate the Beatles crossing the road picture failed miserably haha.

Pictures are in order of being taken.. (i'm the photographer for most of them :P)

At first the idea isn't that crazy or dangerous..

Nas and Vithya scream all their might (no they didn't scream =])

Me.. trying to act like a tai tai with lots of bags haha.

Then the screamers become 3...

Trying to be Beatles... but the oncoming car doesn't want us to be Beatles..

Meditating in Orchard.. such a Unique experience.
(pun intended)

We have found peace in Orchard Road haha. (well not exactly, cause a group of people took picture of us doing this.. while after this other people began to copy our ideas haha)

Yippeee!

I'm 18 now! Ehm.. I don't know why but I am still not that excited about turning 18. Maybe over time it'll sink in.. and I'll start appreciating of being 18. Well, being 18 means that I'm officially legal. 18= can watch m18 movies, can go clubbing muahaha.

I got the perfect birthday present today. My application for GYLC (Global Youth Leader Conference) got accepted! Yayyyyy. I feel fortunate for the success of my application, because application doesn't guarantee the fact that you'll be able to join the conference. So... after spending 3 days in Batam in June holiday.. about 5 days later I'll go to United States haha. But, before that, I have to apply for my visa first. Heh. GYLC will be about 12 days long.

The past two days have been really tiring. Me and a group of friends stayed back to work on the publicity video for ACJC Science Research Symposium. It's a very taxing task.. and really requires you to pay attention to details. Sigh. I'm glad that tomorrow we'll only need to do minor tweaking before finally handing in the thing. So one project down.

By next week, two more projects will be down too. The submission deadline for Geog blog is Sunday and my Economics project presentation will be Wednesday. So I think after Wednesday I can relax a bit more (and catch up with my studies haha).

Later.

Ni Hao!

Hellow. Happy belated Chinese New Year!! So how did your Chinese New Year go? Mine went okay... haha I went to my paternal grandmother's "village" (it's not that village-y, just a bit rural, 3 hours train ride from Jakarta). This year I got a lot of hong baos! Muahahaha. I have to admit I didn't expect this at all haha.

So 3 days of my holiday was spent in the village. Not much time left for me to spend in Jakarta. I really need to do more updates of my Geography blog project.. or else my team mates are gonna kill me, yikes. Tomorrow I'll be reaching Singapore at about 4.30. Hopefully I'll have enough time to do a huge update on the blog.. as well as do my Econs homework haha.

Can't wait to finish up my space video project (in collaboration with 3 other people) video for ACJC science research syposium. We've had a lot of fun making it. Hopefully the product will be as close as we envisioned it.

There's something that is kind of going on right now in my life. Hopefully it all works out well. I'll tell you if it works. If it doesn't, well I'll still share with you :)

Cheers.

Birthday Wishlist

1. Olivia the Pig book series - Olivia (available at Borders) (preferred choice)
2. Olivia the Pig book series- Olivia saves the circus (available at Borders)
3. A hardcover sketchbook
4. Muse Absolution Tour DVD
5. Anything to help my shopping :)
6. Book- The Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffeneger (print as large as possible)

That's all I can think of for now haha...

6 more days to 18 muahahaha.

10th February

So the weekend has finally arrived. Some interesting things happened this week. On Monday, I had to go to the Habitat for Humanities office to book the Batam slot. Their office is in Tanjong Pagar.. which led me to wonder if it's near Maxwell Food Centre. You see, there is this shop which sold nice Pisang Goreng in Somerset, but then it closed and moved to Maxwell Food Centre. So, I was really excited to go and buy the pisang goreng. On Monday morning, I was still not sure if I was that desperate to go and buy the pisang goreng. I really didn't know how far it'd be. In the end, my desperation got over me, and so I took 15 mintues walk from the office to the Food Centre. Ahh, once I bit the pisang goreng I thought it was all worth it... until I saw the address of another branch in the paper bag. "Tangs Orchard Basement 1". Hahahahahahaha.

Tuesday was reallllyyy interesting. I've been seeing this ACJC girls in the bus stop for the past few Tuesdays. I've only seen her this year. Then... this Tuesday because we missed 106, so we decided to take a Taxi together. We began to chat...

Girl: "Where do you stay?"
Me: "Leonie Hill Road"
Girl: "Ahhh me too. Which building?"
Me: "Grangeford"
Girl: "What? Me too.."

Hmm the coincidence doesn't end there. We chatted again after we got off the taxi..

Me: "Eh, which unit do you live in?"
Girl: "21-##.."
Me: "What the heck.. you live in Grangeford right?"
Girl: "Yaaa.."
Me: "I live in 21-#%..."

Hahahahahahah... Same building.. same level... and we never met the whole of last year. However, I found out yesterday from one of my friends, whom is also her friend, that she actually moved into the building only in the last half of last year. Hearing that, I feel somewhat less guilty haha.

I realised that now I got soooo many projects :s Let me list down..
1. Geog blog project
2. Econs project
3. National Weather Studies project
4. Science Research Syposium publicity project

I attended a briefing on this project called "Art Kicks Ass" organised by *scape and Singapore Arts Museum yesterday. The briefing was okay, very few people attended it (well, 4 to be exact including me). At first I really don't know what to do for the project.. because you're supposed to do a proposal on your project, and then the organisations will help to facilitate your project. Well, today while having dinner alone I somewhat got some ideas. Haha, I think I'll have to go Singapore Arts Museum first to see what they have there... and if I'm really serious with doing this, I'll have to begin pulling people in. I guess I'll think more of this project once Geog, Econs and Science Research project are over (they'll all be done by week 9, which is like 3 weeks away). By then I'll have more room to think.

I watched Half Nelson yesterday and Little Children today. Two very different kind of movies. Well, let me start with Half Nelson. The movie is very enjoyable. To me, the movie is rather unconventional, in the way it is shoot as well as the circumstances of the story. I guess the handheld shooting method gives a more intimate feel between the movie and audience. It gives the movie a documentary kind of mood and hence adding sense of reality in it. This movie succeeds in weaving different subjects together (eg. social issues, drug issue, friendship). The score and music somewhat adds mood to the movie. Ryan Gosling really brings humanity and vulnerability to the character. His character is somewhat someone whom some of us would have encountered in real life. Overall, a great original movie to watch. 7.0 out of 10.

Little Children in contrast deals with relationship affairs and pariahs of the society. There are two storylines in the movie. One is about a suburban housewife having an affair with a stay-home married man (Kate Winslet plays the housewife). The other one is about a former sex offender being ostracised by the community he moves into. I was absorbed by the movie for 3/4 of the movie. The last part of the movie was somewhat draggy, and at least the ending was okay, except for the ending given to the married man. That ending was rather disappointing. Other than that, I learnt some technical stuff through this movie. I would want to watch it again to write the technical details down. 7.0 out of 10.

That's all for now :)

Hello February! "It's Friday!"

Hello haha. So the week went okay. My Mondays are no more cursed, and I get by my homework. Well, barely. I had decided to dedicate my weekend to homework and revision. I so need to catch up with them, especially with the tests coming up. I barely caught enough sleep for the past few days. Something I learn this week. Despite having Thursday as one of my end early school days, I shall never go out on Thursdays again (well for the time being at least). I noticed that Thursday is a crucial point of the week for me to catch up with homework and stuff. I wasted my Thursday yesterday by shopping at Vivocity until 6.30 pm haha. Then when I thought I could reach home earlier by catching a bus from Clark Quay, there was a massive traffic along River Valley Road because of the road closure for Thaipusam haha. Well, at least I'm still able to live through the week.

Today I had an audition for Love ACtually event for Valentine's Day. It was quite a complicated story. Let me try to explain. At first, I only thought of playing Come What May in piano. But the councillor told me that it's supposed to be a singing event. So I must get some people to sing in the song. Thankfully one of my classmates, who is auditioning herself too, and another guy from a band who auditioned as well were willing to sing it. So, we spent about an hour on stage trying on Come What May haha. The experience was quite something. Then at the last minute I decided to sing "Other Side of the World" by KT Tunstall. But I think I was singing that well, because the councillor was like saying the song doesn't really suit my style of singing. So she asked me to sing another song which I could remember impromptu. As always, my favourite impromptu song is "Eternal Flame". Hahahahaha.

I'm gonna watch Life of Brian.. so that I can borrow Fight Club from Emma hahahaha :D :D so happy *thinks of Edward Norton*.

Hmm, I'm glad that the Batam Trip thingy is on the verge of being confirmed with the organisation. I'm gonna make payment on Monday to book the slot. Yayyyy! I'm so proud of my team and myself.. because this trip is self-initiated. Not school initiated. Haha. I can't believe I've done much of the administration thing :)

Ok more on the next entry :)