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Monday, June 19, 2006
june nineteen And this life is a beautiful one And though I seen it comin undone Well I know most definitely It always works out the way it’s meant to be So baby keep your head up Keep it on the up and up And know that you got all my Love love love one day passes so quickly, and there's so much to be thankful for. million thanks to all who made today special for me- in any little way. you know who you are! my dear family esp mum & dad, hanyi navjote snee shum liy matthew/ynwa dani ramu waikit jean jenny xtine beli zongjin glenc aysuria shib yeeler elly iz junyi leslie ajit js cc russell/adam ziing gavin jonk zee uglen alan nash trix kalpana jerrine huanna stef wespank. i ought not to have missed anyone out- because i write (mostly on hotel paper). you're all loved, all of you. and here's to another year. a new beginning of sorts. it pains me not to be able to while away more time here. but alice brenda cindy edgar fred gary hector and ian are waiting for me, and i have to go. (see p&c revision tutorial pg2) haha so there's that! ive been pretty lonely this whole hols, just the world cup, math and me. the surprise really more than made up for it all. here's to a smooth time ahead, for everyone! thanks for being so selfless and sparing a bit of thought for those around you. this is what we should do, always. because it makes them feel special. trust me, i know :]
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Tuesday, June 13, 2006
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forever charmed when i think back on those times i think about where ive been and what ive done and i think to myself what a life ive lead. and what a life i have led but to follow the lives of people i never thought i would get to know but grew to love all the same, even if these people arent real. charmed was phenomenal tonight. and it's really surreal what an amazing journey it's been, and how it ended all in one episode. i rmbr i didnt even fancy the show when prue was still alive but season 4 started and it was kind of fitting that as it began on a fresh note i started watching it too. and what a magical experience these four years have been. i never quite saw smthing like that before- what with energy balls and psychic visions and time stopping and orbing and spell casting...the list goes on. i seriously didnt know how to feel when everything was wrapped up in the last 15 minutes, flashing forward to their futures and how they all got their peaceful happy endings with children and love and how the future generations took on the mantle. it didnt seem right that all the past eight years should end just like that- because for the past few seasons everyone thought that the finales were good endings to boot, but they kepy coming back for more. thank god for that. today's episode was one of the best, even though i didnt think so at first. what i was looking for was some emotional dramatic finale with lots of grieving and magic manouevring. that happened, but not to the extent i wouldve preferred. but then now i look back on it and think, was that what i really wanted? that wouldve made it like all the other finales, and there wouldnt be enough time to address the emotional issues of the characters. this show did just that- it went deep down into the characters and showed us how after all these years the family bond prevailed all odds to survive at long last. the book of shadows was a comforting familiar sight to behold, and the last scene where all three of them wrote in it was just a tear jerker- voiceovers and a glimpse into their futures. piper finally got her restaurant and leo to play scrabble with, phoebe found true love with coop published her book on finding love, and paige had a successful balance of marriage and magic, embracing her inner whitelighter and teacher. it was nice to see how all three of them had children of their own too, and how leo went back to magic school to teach, and grams and patty coming back to help. one sad ending was billie's however- when she vanquished her sister the anguish that overcame her was extremely unimaginable- cant imagine how it mustve felt. it looked as if she cried blood. at times we have to wonder if what christie said was right- were the charmed ones really too selfish? i guess after all that christie put them through she deserved to die- but not at billie's expense? that's smthing that will never be resolved i suppose. i guess it was a sister that billie was never destined to have. the travelling back in time was made less cool by the silly cupid ring, but it made us realize that what binds us ultimately is love, and that put simply, everything starts somewhere. going back in time was great in observing how so many things have changed in the charmed ones' lifetime. the deaths, the losses, the separations and strifes. there's nothing to measure what they've accomplished all this time. and i might sound extremely silly treating this like it's some real story- well it isnt, but suffice to say it has inspired me all the same. it wldnt have been the same without all the hocus pocus, and im so thankful that i embarked on this journey, which was lonely most of the time, with not many others watching it as well. when the old piper and leo walked past the new photos on the wall and the really sad music played, it was just that lingering feeling of soaking up the last moments for what they were worth. i liked how they showed piper cooking again with the port, just as she did and froze time with in the first episode ever. and how her granddaughter closed the door with her mind, just as prue did at the end of something wicca this way comes. one thing to note was they didnt really use their powers in this episode, but that didnt really matter. for once it wasnt about their powers, but as the showmakers have been trying to tell us all the time- they too are humans, and this gift can sometimes be a curse- this time it was about their lives, and what it was living them. if they were real they would have touched so mant lives. i only wished prue and cole and darrell returned, but alas it wasnt meant to be. but really at the end of the day it truly didnt matter. the end was just a mess of tears inside that made us the viewers appreciate it for what it was and how it was. it was a simple affair, a happy ending that was not cheesy, that they so deserved. perhaps i have to thank charmed for making this whole thing so real to me. because you gave me strength to believe that there is a little kind of magic in all of us, and that like them whatever magic we do in our lives, hopefully we will live to see the fruits of it and enjoy life happily ever after. the charmed ones got the chance to revisit the past and travel to the future (and perhaps that makes it all the more emotional- can u imagine seeing yourself when you were little, like how piper saw herself with grams? or in the future, your kids coming to visit you like chris and wyatt?)- well, we cant really do that, so im just reminded of how much i have to cherish the now. charmed...forever. thanks for the ride of a lifetime. i really dont know how to compare you with just shoot me but let's just say last episodes always find me in a soppy mood. why oh why do good things have to come to an end? well, i just felt i needed to pay tribute to this hellagood show. no more fantasies for me now. it's the cold hard reality of life. how i wish i could stop time.
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Monday, June 12, 2006
we live in the flicker so tell me what ive been doing for the past week or so. erm rmuning, slacking, slacking, slacking. which really pretty much sums up everything! given that i promised myself this would be the most productive june holidays ever, i think im gonna let myself down again. why do i have to do this? i can tell that if i dont buck up this time round my mom's gonna be very disappointed too. she's been talking abt me studying and stuff. but no i choose to sleep and watch tv and i dont get why the urgency aint sinking in. at all. argh i just feel like crap when i know i cldve accomplished so much more. there's this car ad on tv which talks abt time. and how we want it to stop and fly or whatever. yes time i need you to rewindd. i dont get why im losing grip and now i only see two weeks before me which is nothing compared to what i have to cram in. this is why i hate myself. and i feel extremely pressed in now. that sinking feeling in the chest. like. i. cant. breathe. my back's been giving me some problems so my left chest isnt exactly painlesss when i inhale. oh yeah that reminds me i feel guilty abt not exercising too. i dont cherish time enough. i dont know what the hell im doing. with. myself. but you see i also promised myself i would rest. considering the first week was spent on sats and the second on rmun, i think im entitled to all the tv i want- no? well, not when everyone else seems to remind you about the looming cts. and watching The Scholar only motivates me and makes me wanna get off my lazy ass and do some serious stuff. but suffice to say i have no more excuses left. my cca life is officially over, save for a handover ceremony for mt, but other than that, rmun was it. you know, muns always have me in hesitation the day before. i really feel like pulling out each time cuz i shrink to become this cowardly amoeba who wld rather have no face and form so he wldnt be recognized. but then i attend the mun and it changes my life, in some ways. and i need to thank so many pple this time round. thanks snee for giving me the chance to head press corps! it was my first mun post last year, and boy have i grown with it, what with hmun and all. it's seriously my passion in the mun and nothing can compare to it. there's smthing so underrated abt press corps i swear- and pple dont always appreciate the hardwork that goes into it. i mean seriously- our deadlines are impossible but we still achieve it. well all i have to say is it may not be as "intellectual" as some pple might put it (how snobbish of you, btw), but it has so much more in other respects. i needa thank the amazing team this year- hoho, jenny & yanci for being the bestest coeditors i cldve asked for. made my job so much easier. and the team this year was simply amazing. i hope they had as much fun as i did. well, since i was a hermit in comlab2 most of the time, i can only suppose everyone else had fun too, and i guess it was a really fulfilling experience for us organizers too. kudos to the functioning portions of the hissoc exco who pulled this off, and so many friends and classmates- amazing job! jean i will always rmbr the crisis video filming and you waiting for me and yousendit, huiting our ex-presscorps experience and this time you running around doing everything snee wasnt, lawrence for letting me know a different side of you and our av ventures, stef for being such a great coemcee! and navjote and cc and zhifeng and aysuria and shumin aiyah everybody lah. oh yes musnt forget mr kwok, our un chameleon. btw the longstanding rumour that i have a lookalike culminated in walter and i finally acknowledging that we bear some sort of resemblance to each other. btw i do believe that we all have a twin somewhere out there waiting for each of us, and this guy came the closest for me. haha. well rmun has taught me so so much, be it self taught or whatever. a pity i couldnt make it for d&d, but im sure it was great- everyone said so! instead i spent time with my family at grandma's bday dinner! it was a modest keppel club chinese restaurant dinner- but it gave me time to settle down and i dunno recuperate? my shoes unceremoniously cracked on me (cc style) btw, so i had to dump it after doing an old man in peru limerick parody. which brings me to the point of needing new clothes and shoes and new everything. fine call me materialistic but as i was saying- i dont think ive a bad fashion sense, it's just that i dont have enough to mix and match around with. ah nvm. im not gonna be anything other than me. i dont wanna be. it was more or less friends week also, with cc and alan for badminton and table tennis on monday, and cc pissing me off in many ways. but im not one to bear grudges so im gonna let go and forget. thanks to alan for the superman kfc buddy meal and shopping at big bookshop after that- haha, rediscovering the magic of big bookshop. i sorta idled my tuesday away and found myself lacking sleep over the rmun days. i think if there's one thing to be proud of rmun this year it's the fact that we sent the reporters feedback on their writing after editing. i enjoy helping pple on a learning curve i suppose. saturday was the day i was pretty much looking forward to the whole hols i suppose. jonk's bday outing. we started off at plaza sing's mac's for breakfast at my suggestion. roamed around pretty much and trooped down to marina square for our x3 movie! nash and cc joined us and it was jolly good fun finally catching that movie which so many pple had spoilt for me. all i can say is mystique rawks and she's a kickass babe no matter human or mutant! in fact i felt for her the most- magneto betraying her and all. grrr. anyhow the whole movie was too short. wldve appreciated more action and the buildup wasnt there. phoenix was the best no doubt but when cyclops died i was like wthh and professor x too i mean you better give us a 4th installment esp after that teaser after the credits!!! and i want magneto and mystique to come back! and jean and scott and charles! ok basically all who died. oh i just cant believe it's over. maybe i just didnt want to watch it so it didnt have to end. it's gonna be a long wait now. anw we went to a lot of places but pretty much accomplishing nothing but eating and slacking and talking i guess. stopped by the arcade where nash got trashed by the cheena bitch shion in kof11. ahahaha! i cant wait to play again! for dinner we settled for kenny rogers, and i got my chicken pot chicken pot chicken pot pie! ambience was pretty cool esp with the red lights and all. it was a fuzzy feeling i guess. the kind that you get when you know that for once time is on your side. even if just for one night. made our way to esplanade and passed my this weird harmonic whirlie performance. there was a cool live painting thing going on too...after the presents we went to mos burger but i felt so guilty i got a small piece of strawberry shortcake for jonk- and i really soaked in the few seconds for which we sand happy bday in whispers. it was so intimate and powerful, with just one flickering candle as our focus- as conrad wrote, "we live in the flicker". following which was a very heartfelt conversation which depth i felt couldve have been more consistent throughout our friendship- now that there's barely a few months of jc left it somehow seems, once more, a race against time, to know each other all over again, before we part our ways. i dont know if there is such a thing as friendship that lasts forever. but i think im gonna try and find out. for now i needa sort out this abhorrent lifestyle that i am leading- sleeping for 3/4 of the day. and then i will bounce back, and gain the momentum i need, and the results that i deserve (while enjoying what's left of this holiday, i suppose). germany!
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Saturday, June 03, 2006
invisible SATs are over! it's been a week of SATs SATs SATs and seriously im extremely superbly relieved! so phew! there! haha. been literally cooped up at home the entire week, and it all started on that faithful monday afternoon after the psycho thingyy. who wldve thought i would actually make it through the entire bio princeton review book? oh man looking back i think ive really achieved a lot in such a short time. and for all the effort ive invested, i must say that today it felt good knowing that i could actually do most of it and knowing that i worked my way there myself. from scratch. so yeah im gonna give myself a pat on the back, no matter what the results say, i think ive tried and really tried and nothing's gonna change that. there's this bad feeling about lit, but i guess it was a common consensus that lit was -_- i think the moral of the story is you cannot have a lit mcq exam! it's just wrongg. math was thankfully not as tough as the barron's papers, and i gave my all i really did. as for bio, let's just say i love the subject so much- wish i was taking it now actually- that i actually enjoyed sprouting scientific knowledge. so im hoping it went okay. you see the thing abt this is that any wrong answer would get you a penalty and gosh i really dont wanna think abt all those careless mistakes i probably made. alright im rambling but yes great thanks to jean and shib and jon for being such encouraging sat colleagues, let's hope we make it through champions! and honestly, a huge thank you to jonathan, for the encouragement, advice and zapping the bio book for me- trust me it helped so so much. thanks also to my sis and parents for being there! although the former spent most of her waking hours gloating and watching judging amy, it was nice to use her old books, as always. and to those i talked to today! denise, trish, snee, stef etc. wheee. it's over and no point dwelling i suppose. good luck to all of us! i think i figured out why i missed project runway on wednesday!!! arghh. was mugging bio- sad i know- and also coupled with the fact that i had this sudden surge of fighting spirit after looking at my SAT reasoning scores. hmmm. let's just hope everything paid off :] so it was one hawt week with very little distractions, except for the occasional distractions such as taylor's do i make you proud and mary j's one and nelly furtado's maneater! on youtube (good stuff), and of course ashleesimpson.net- new single dudeeees! invisible! catch this: Making of the video for "Invisible" will air on June 19, 2006 and the video will world premiere on TRL that day too. Be sure to mark your calendars! yea man my calendar's always marked on that day anw :] so now it's time for a little bit of slacking and relaxing before i get started on the big cee tees. so much to do in so little time. im really excited to meet up with friends and just chill out. hmm. junyi mentioned smthing on his blog abt family and friends and whether i would spend time with family? i think i would actually. well, not on a daily basis- i think cuz we see them everyday we take them for granted?- yeah so im really excited when it comes to bday parties and dinners cuz i can see my cousins and grandparents and aunties and uncles and that makes me happy just seeing them i suppose. i used to be so excitable- i guess im less of that now but i wanna cherish it for all that i can and all that it's worthh oh well before i forget, here are some random quotes from all over. sometimes we say the most darnest things, the funniest, the nicest and whatever it is, i guess they mean something. so here's to that. [Soulstice] says: you realise [Soulstice] says: that mcconnell's mum LABOURED to have him born today! [Soulstice] says: so labour day has diff meanings for all of us my Labour Day is spent labouring Till I regain my sanity. says: don't be sorry. life goes on, however much we wish that for one moment, it will just stop. jo ai piah jiah eh yiah! says: i can't wear a lot of clothes jo ai piah jiah eh yiah! says: cos i'm flat jo ai piah jiah eh yiah! says: HA. jo ai piah jiah eh yiah! says: straight As. junyi. you're says: get me a lifesize doll jo ai piah jiah eh yiah! says: i like ur face when it's broody jo ai piah jiah eh yiah! says: you MUST be broody to be sexy jo ai piah jiah eh yiah! says: when you brood u hv a gravity that is incredible!!
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