rey's ramblings

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Plug-in: Me & U - Cassie

With National Day over (yes, happy N'Day fellow Singaporeans),
the signal for the beginning of really intense studying has started
for those in the O Level stream. Still, some time has to be taken
off for relaxation or an appointment at the nearest hospital would
be imminent.

After tuesday's routine celebrations at school, I chilled out for a
while at javier's house before heading for orchard to meet esther,
joel and charisse for lunch. Decided to eat at pepper lunch in taka's
basement. Being my first experience there, the food was relatively
okay although the beef tasted a bit uncooked at times...

Loaded up with some dessert later at the basement's food hall. The
cream puffs at beard papa were going at really low prices, so it was
definitely an opportunity not to be missed.

Spent the national day holiday itself at home mostly, but took time
off in the night to watch the fireworks at kallang with family, followed
by supper thereafter.

Not much to do today either, just a lot of revision I guess...

A bit of update on the scene, there's a lot of brand-new material coming
up from the music industry. Artistes releasing their albums and hence,
hopefully successful (they would wish) singles this fall are:

Justin Timberlake with Future Sex/Love Sounds containing funky new
beats like SexyBack. Pop diva Christina Aguilera's throwback to the 20's
in the form of Back to Basics and the loud, catchy number Ain't No Other Man.
The not-really-worth-mentioning Paris Hilton with her self-titled attempt at
breaking into the scene, Paris, and what she claims to be the song of the summer,
Stars Are Blind.

Post-divorce Jessica Simpson's A Public Affair and the similarly-titled single.
Fergie's breakoff from the Black Eyed Peas, The Duchess, and the utterly
surprising #1 Billboard hit London Bridge. John Mayer's next effort at the
Grammys with Continuum and new single, Waiting on the World to Change.

Beyonce's sophomore release B'Day, teaming up with beau Jay-Z on Deja Vu.
And amongst others, upstarts such as NY model Cassie and new girl group
Danity Kane's self-titled debuts and Janet Jackson's comeback 20 Years Old.

Fans of rock music can wait for Jet's Shine On, The Killers Sam Town,
Evanescence's The Open Door, Incubus's Light Grenades, My Chemical
Romance's The Black Parade and a soundtrack from Tenacious D for their
upcoming film The Pick of Destiny.

UK music lovers will have their fair share of tunes. Artistes coming up with
new EPs are Kasabian (Empire), Elton John (The Captain and the Kid),
Scissor Sisters (Ta-Dah), Decemberists (The Crane Wife), Modest Mouse
(We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank) and currently untitled releases
from Bloc Party, Arcade Fire and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah.

Of course these are just the more popular and credible few. So, with at least
3/4 of the music industry rolling out new stuff, you can expect the airwaves
to be kept busy for the upcoming year or so.

I crossed the bridge at 6:02 PM

Sunday, August 06, 2006

Any monkey business is bad business

Plug-in: Deja Vu - Beyonce feat. Jay-Z

Friday was one of the most lazy school days ever in the
history of lazy school days. There were absolutely no lessons
at all and practically half the class wasn't present. Actually, I
could have stayed at home too if it were not for our ss teacher
ms Ho-Toh and her test, which was the sole reason for me to make
it to school that day. Without any prior notice, the test was ditched
at the last minute, making the rest of the day worthless since all
the other teachers were either mysteriously posted to haven at the
last minute or pre-emptively announced their disappearance for that
day.

Anyway, I still left for the school's cross-country run at macritchie
later in the day with changming. I was put on the competitive list by
ms neo and richie but due to some admin problems, I left the starting
point almost a minute after everyone else. Less than midway through
the jungle portion of the run, I had the misfortune to run into a bunch
of umm... territorial? monkeys which chased me until the next checkpoint
where yet again, it was just my luck to trip over a root, landing me with
a sprained ankle.

The whole thing kind of really freaked me out for a moment there. It's
just like some very surreal sci-fi creature horror movie experience.
Who ever knew that monkeys could turn aggressive and violent in
Singapore? I guess it must have been some new reforms where they
raised the taxes on importing bananas.

As a result, I did finish quite far behind although surprisingly enough, still
ahead of some sec 4's and even sec 3's. It was quite a disappointing finish
for me considering the house medals I managed to get in sec 1 and 2. But
on closer consideration, tkk performed quite miserably this year so there
was no way of getting anything even if I finished close to the top ten.
Oh yeah and a big thanks to all those who showed their concern... teachers,
classmates and people from other classes.

Thankfully, the sprained ankle's okay after some ice treatment. Walking
around is fine, it's just that I can't do anything beyond that - like running
for example. Went home early but I was able to move around by the time
it was late evening. Ended the day by having dinner at fish&co @wheelock
with javier.

Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke
about a father-in-law?

I crossed the bridge at 8:25 PM

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