rey's ramblings

All Good Things...

Plug-in: River - Sarah McLachlan

It's yet again that time of the year when we wrap up everything and reflect
on what has passed in the last 12 months.

But first though, some events of the past week to recall. Family christmas dinner
was held on tuesday night at morton's steakhouse, really great steaks they have
there. Then we got over to lido to catch curse of the golden flower, which despite
all its gaudyness was relatively well constructed. And despite what it seems, its
subtly more of an anti-wuxia film unlike what you'd expect it to be - those chinese
period epics and dramas you see on channel 8 that romanticize dynasty rule. This
show exposes all the undoings of having a patriachal system in place and the tragic
chain of events that follows. I suppose its one of the better chinese martial arts
films I have seen, crouching tiger hidden dragon nevertheless, is still the best.
I'd give it 3 and a half stars.

This morning was bowling with esther, vanessa and joel opposite great world city,
where strangely enough, we all had the same number of strikes each! o.O This was
followed by lunch at crystal jade kitchen. We then caught night at the museum,
which really didn't have a very stable plot but contained sufficient laughs enough
so that we weren't bored from beginning to end. Poor esther had to rush off to the
toilet more than once due to severe laughing episodes! I'd give it 3 stars.

I guess 2006 was a fairly eventful year where I got to learn many new or old
things about life. It was certainly both fun and stressful at the same time with
the O levels, my first national exam in 4 years, taking place. But besides just lots
of studying, there were also plenty of new things that helped alter my perspective,
I made many new friends especially towards the end of the year during the holidays
and also I think I widened my general knowledge (by heavy newspaper reading) and
helpful stuff! I have to be truly thankful for 2006 because it was a year that really
made me treasure all the small things in life and I learnt not to overlook other people
and the stuff that is part and parcel of daily routines.

Things like these are hard to summarise, you just can't put down all the wonderful
stuff that happened in a year on one page or even a short story. I'm just very thankful
for church.. joel, charisse, vanessa, esther, marcus you guys all truly rock!

All those in school.. javier, elgin, johannes, abbie just to name a few have been great
friends and how could i ever forget our super hilarious and wacky class of 3.2/4.2?

There're just so many more people that deserve a mention but right now i just don't
feel its right if i can't put in the best words to thank them.

I really look forward ahead to the great year of 2007.. there's just going to be a lot
of new opportunities and challenges lying ahead and i know it all sounds cheesy but
yeah, it's going to be a change of environment for sure and i'm really excited about
what's in store for jc life and I guess everything else!

Anyway, 2007 will also be a superbly wonderful year for entertainment and just like
I would do every year to cap off 2006, here are just some lists I made so that I won't
forget about all the great stuff that was around this year too:

Movies Watched in 2006 (new releases):

The Constant Gardener (a wonderful socio-political commentary about corruption
and the plight of human rights activists)
V for Vendetta (has its flaws, but was still a great action-political film making snide
references to modern corrupt conservative governments)
Inside Man (a great mindboggling heist thriller that was overlooked)
Rent (good, but mostly because it was borrowed from its adapted play)
Mission Impossible 3 (blockbuster action..)
X-Men: The Last Stand (more blockbuster action...)
Cars (nice animation with good themes but too SLOW for a movie about cars)
Superman Returns (grand, but too stale for younger audiences tastes)
Pirates of the Caribbean Dead Man's Chest (very entertaining! ^^)
The Devil Wears Prada (Meryl Streep killed everyone else with her portrayal)
Snakes on a Plane (very overrated but still a fun ride)
Little Miss Sunshine (WONDERFUL MOVIE, VERY HEARTWARMING. GO WATCH.
Expect it to win a number of Golden Globes, Oscars etc.)
Casino Royale (a marked improvement over the latest Bond flicks but still not up
to the standard of the Connery ones)
Step Up (a touch better than your average teen flick, dancing was A+++!)
Happy Feet (good animation, good music, bad ending)
Eragon (slightly overrated, not as epic as other fantasy trilogies etc but worth a watch)
Curse of the Golden Flower (cleverly orchestrated period epic)
Night at the Museum (draggy and flimsy but good on the laughs)

Since there are just countless lists out there naming the best, there really isn't a
point in listing what was good this year. Favourites would be a more appropriate theme:

Top 50 fav songs of 2006 (both old and new ones in no preferential order)

Pop/Dance/Country
1. Hips Don't Lie - Shakira feat. Wyclef Jean
2. Promiscuous - Nelly Furtado
3. My Love - Justin Timberlake feat. T.I.
4. Hurt - Christina Aguilera
5. SexyBack - Justin Timberlake
6. Breathe (2 AM) - Anna Nalick
7. Unwritten - Natasha Bedingfield
8. What Hurts the Most - Rascal Flatts
9. Life for Rent - Dido
10. Jesus Take the Wheel - Carrie Underwood

Rock/Alternative
11. How to Save a Life - The Fray
12. Move Along - The All-American Rejects
13. Starlight - Muse
14. Crystal Ball - Keane
15. Here It Goes Again - O.K. Go
16. America - Razorlight
17. Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol
18. Fidelity - Regina Spektor
19. Snow (Hey Oh) - Red Hot Chili Peppers
20. By the Way - Red Hot Chili Peppers
21. Love Like Winter - AFI
22. Crazy - Alanis Morissette
23. When You Were Young - The Killers
24. Boston - Augustana
25. Suddenly I See - KT Tunstall
26. Black Horse and the Cherry Tree - KT Tunstall
27. Bad Day - Daniel Powter
28. Smile Like You Mean It - The Killers
29. What Sarah Said - Death Cab for Cutie
30. Love Me Like You - The Magic Numbers
31. Goodnight and Go - Imogen Heap
32. Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
33. I Write Sins Not Tragedies - Panic! at the Disco
34. Dakota - Stereophonics
35. Steady As She Goes - The Raconteurs
36. Let Me Go - 3 Doors Down
37. Times Like These - Foo Fighters
38. Float On - Modest Mouse
39. Chicago - Sufjan Stevens

R&B/Soul/Hip-Hop
40. Get Up - Ciara featuring Chamillionaire
41. Irreplaceable - Beyoncé
42. SOS - Rihanna
43. So Sick - Ne-Yo
44. Ordinary People - John Legend
45. Crazy - Gnarls Barkley
46. Diamonds from Sierra Leone - Kanye West

Jazz
47. Georgia On My Mind - Ray Charles
48. All at Sea - Jamie Cullum
49. Home - Michael Bublé
50. Dance Me to the End of Love - Madeleine Peyroux

the joy of music to carry you away

I crossed the bridge at 11:00 PM

Monday, December 25, 2006

And on this day...

Plug-in: Grown-Up Christmas List - Michael Bublé

Ironically enough, christmas shopping over the weekend wasn't really
as crowded as would be predicted.

This was especially so on saturday, which was officially "Relatives Day" :D
Spent most of the day out with my cousins, whose age ranges are amazingly
wide!

We met at toa payoh for lunch at the fortunATE dimsum restaurant, something
I've never tried before, especially in singapore. The food there was pretty good,
definitely more authentic and tasty than the dimsum menu at crystal jade outlets.
Our sinful indulgences were har gow and gong bao chicken, which were the best
items on the menu.

MMPF. Then went shopping around town. This is my fourth, or fifth? record-breaking
time shopping this week! I got to check out places I hadn't been to yet, like e.g. velocity
at novena square which is an extension of the old block but isn't really anything much
honestly.

We finally ended up at paragon's coffee club and spent an extra long time just talking
about a lot of stuff. Took the train back to their house at bishan where we had a christmas
party. Had a great time exchanging presents and tucking into the wonderfully prepared
christmas feast. Thanks so much for the topman vouchers and i'm also grateful to my
aunts for the crumpler bag. Orange and brown colours are a strange combination but
nevertheless it's well appreciated! :D

Yesterday afternoon's lunch was at vil'age, with esther, joel, charisse and vanessa, where
the old marche was in heeren. Funny though, their concept's hardly different from marche.
Then it was a simple dinner at country manna with family before heading off to church for
the midnight service! Loved this year's message about forgiving and moving on.. It sounded
very inspirational and they tied it very well to the story of Christ's birth.

Woke up this morning slightly dazed (it always happens on Christmas Day, don't ask why)
and prepared to go for our church's christmas lunch at marina mandarin! The food was
really good and the company was even better.

In due thanks:
for the topman voucher (again!) esther
for the FiRST subscription (unusual present!) charisse and vanessa!
for the converse tee joel
for the chocolates serene!

and for all the cards and hugs everyone else!

Merry Christmas!

love, white as snow

I crossed the bridge at 10:09 PM

Friday, December 22, 2006

Whispers from above

Plug-in: A Great Big Sled - The Killers

The effects of bali still have not worn off me yet. The whole experience
still feels very much like a vivid memory.. I guess some places do have
a hold on you.

Went with jessie, esther, joel and serene for shopping on tuesday not
heeding the very likelihood of a heavy downpour. Turns out that was
one of the single worst-hit days in recent singapore history for rainfall
and floods.

We had breakfast at roti prata house along thomson road before going
off to vivocity. I had only been to vivocity twice before, so i took this time
to explore the place in greater detail. We shop-hopped a lot and bought a
number of gifts. Had lunch at earle swensens, the grilled cod there was simply
done but still managed to be very delicious at the same time.

Afterwards, we left to pool at cineleisure. Never been there before, the place
was great although i still preferred meridien. My pool skills are quite okay
but i'll probably lose to anyone who's been playing on a regular basis these
holidays though as evidenced by a defeat to joel... :O

We hopped over to heeren and paragon for a bit more shopping afterwards
but we didn't get much especially at paragon because we had made most of
our purchases already and i think we were on a rather tight budget. =P

Orchard was like Manhattan on steroids that day. The roads were all flooded
and the heavy downpour was so relentless that you'd get soaked by simply not
being indoors.

Yesterday evening was sarah's (other) house party which was deep inside the
ulu seletar airbase. Got to know some of joanne's and her friends. Played some
random games like murderer. Mm the homecooked food (mussels, wedges,
salad) was also great stuff. Oh and there was a treehouse, which we climbed up,
tried not to fall off and climbed down.

joanne, rachel, nathan, matthew, me (it was a very dimly-lit place...)

A big thanks to sarah for playing the hardworking host despite not looking too well!

I crossed the bridge at 11:55 PM

Monday, December 18, 2006

Tropicana Paradise

Plug-in: Somewhere Over the Rainbow - Israel Kamakawiwo'ole

Just got back from bali at night yesterday. The three or so days spent there
were really fun. The trip was quite a wind-down on city life so it was very
relaxing and therapeutic although some parts of bali are starting to develop
into mini urban sprawls as well. Still, its mostly low-key and noise-free
thankfully. Went with my sister, esther, her parents, joel and his dad. My
parents couldn't make it in the end because my mom had to pull out and
as a result, my dad as well.

We took a flight on friday morning from changi to denpasar international.
Upon arriving, we were whisked off straight to the Ritz Carlton Bali in the
seaside resort town of Jimbaran. We got this really lovely villa suite facing
the ocean and plus the whole hotel's perched atop a cliff so the view's quite
panoramic in the evening. We spent the afternoon mostly at the beach, playing
volleyball and beach soccer.

We had dinner at LIA, one of the seafood restaurants along the stretch near
the Inter-Continental and it was super delicious. Everything was grilled on
coconut husks instead of charcoal and smothered in layers of sauces and spices.
The tiger prawns were simply to die for. O.O After that we went night shopping
at the Kuta night market, which was the biggest one on the island. They were
selling all kinds of stuff on the street sides such as pirated CDs, imitation clothing,
jewellery, handbags and souvenirs such as indonesian handicrafts. The only things
we bought were the souvenirs... the handcarved paperweights, back-scratchers
etc. xD because all the others weren't really necessary and could be found in most
other places. The shopkeepers there are really scary though, some of them tried to
chase and trail us in an attempt to sell their wares!

Supper was at this streetside cafe where they sold really good banana fritters
along with milkshakes.

The next day, we had the hotel continental buffet breakfast which was quite on
par, if not better than an average 5-star hotel's breakfast buffet. The selection
was really wide.. they even had sashimi, frankfurters and lobster bisque!

We lazed around at the pool afterwards, which was a really magnificent one - it
had an infinity edge to it, such that when you swam to one end and you looked
directly down, it would look as if you're floating right over the edge of the cliff!

Spent some time reading Life of Pi before we were off to sanur for lunch at a
place called Gateway of India which had some really yummy indian food. The
tandoori chicken here was especially good, but one problem was that the place
was in open-air and it wasn't the best of times to have such spicy food in the
midday sun, but nevertheless!

After lunch, we left for this parasailing centre at nusa dua beach where we had
a go at it. Most of us were screaming our heads off (esther, especially the loudest!)
whilst high up in the air above the water. The motorboats were going at incredibly
crazy speeds so it was quite a thrill ride.

We went back to the ritz, where we changed before leaving for dinner at this
place called kuni's which was in an open-air garden setting, a very charming
idea in the evening. They served modern japanese cuisine and some items
like the beef shabu shabu salad were really not bad. The grilled swordfish,
eel etc. were all very nice too.

The next morning we had the continental breakfast buffet again. Immediately
after that, esther, joel, my sister and I tried out surfing further down the beach
with rented surfboards. Couldn't surf very well since it was my first time but
managed to get a wave or too. We were all beginnners, excuse us. x)

Our last meal, lunch, was at Padi's, a thai restaurant in the hotel itself. The food
was authentic, the mango salad very delicious, but it was not as spicy as thai food
should have been.

We checked out and took a shuttle back to denpasar international and caught an
evening flight back to changi. On the rather short flight, I watched a couple of choice
episodes... grey's anatomy "as we know it" and the pilot of this new series studio 60
on the sunset strip, which was a drama about the politics in a studio producing a prime
time talkshow. The plot's quite interesting and it's a lot like grey's anatomy except that
of course it's not in a medical setting.

Was quite happy to touch down back in singapore but bali was really a beautiful place
(albeit an expensive one) and I would definitely want to go back sometime in the future.

Christmas is a week away and I haven't bought anything yet.

I crossed the bridge at 10:13 PM

Wednesday, December 13, 2006

That epic trilogy again

Plug-in: Keep Holdin' On - Avril Lavigne

Went for the Eragon premiere yesterday night at cine with han an. I received the
tickets at a really late hour (the very night before) and almost everyone I knew was
either overseas or at camps already so I was initially faced with the prospect of having
to go alone or sell the tickets but luckily, I managed to get han an eventually.

About the movie, Eragon is really not a story with great literary depth or abound
with creative flair. After all, the novel was penned by a 15-year old who although
was trained in creative writing, did not have enough experience to draw ideas from
his own mind. There are many close resemblances to other epic trilogies, series etc.
For example, there's the archetypal aged mentor Brom who is mysterious and seems
weak initially but turns out to have played a very important role in the past. He dies
midway which is a great opportunity to evidence for the emotional resolve in lead
character. Isn't this all like Star Wars, A New Hope and Obi-Wan being the mentor
instead? Yet another example would be the presence of the main villain who stays
behind-the-scenes (at least for the earlier installments) letting his super bad-ass
protege do all the work for him. Sauron and Saruman in Lord of the Rings?

Basically, Eragon has many borrowed ideas and concepts mish-mashed into one
story but let's not get ahead of ourselves here. The movie in itself is great, the
special effects and panning shots are stunning amongst many things. In fact, the
movie can even be said to be on par or better than the book itself. This is because
reading the book feels stuffy as the themes that run throughout have been reused
in countless other epics before but watching the detail come to life. And you've got
to admit one thing, the dragon is just so much more good on celluloid than in your
imagination.

One gripe about eragon is that the running time is way too short for an epic: 104
minutes, roughly the length of a rom-com. It's probably in part due to the novel
itself being a very short one anyway. I'd give the movie 3 stars.

After the thing ended close to midnight, we took one of the last trains back after
stopping by at centrepoint macs. Chatted about holiday plans on the ride home.

The Golden Globes 2007 nominees are out and the selection seems quite good
from this year. Some of the major contenders are Babel, with the most nominations
at 7, The Departed and The Queen. I've watched Little Miss Sunshine, The Devil
Wears Prada and Thank You for Smoking which were all really well-crafted satires
so I suppose the rest of the films on the list are more than commendable. I still have
not managed to catch The Departed, which I really so badly want to watch (many elder
peers have said it's bloody good! no pun intended), and Borat which is going to be
impossibly difficult to catch here as it's been slapped with R21. Babel, The Queen, Blood Diamond, Dreamgirls and Letters of Iwo Jima all look really good as well so hopefully I'll
be able to view them.

MOVIES

Picture, Drama: Babel, Bobby, The Departed, Little Children, The Queen
Actress, Drama: Penelope Cruz, Volver ; Judi Dench, Notes on a Scandal ; Maggie Gyllenhaal, Sherrybaby ; Helen Mirren, The Queen ; Kate Winslet, Little Children
Actor, Drama: Leonardo DiCaprio, Blood Diamond ; Leonardo DiCaprio, The
Departed ; Peter O'Toole, Venus ; Will Smith, The Pursuit of Happyness ; Forest
Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland
Picture, Musical or Comedy: Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make
Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, The Devil Wears Prada, Dreamgirls, Little
Miss Sunshine, Thank You for Smoking
Actress, Musical or Comedy: Annette Bening, Running With Scissors ; Toni Collette,
Little Miss Sunshine ; Beyonce Knowles, Dreamgirls ; Meryl Streep, The Devil Wears
Prada ; Renee Zellweger, Miss Potter
Actor, Musical or Comedy: Sacha Baron Cohen, Borat: Cultural Learnings of
America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan ; Johnny Depp, Pirates of
the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest ; Aaron Eckhart, Thank You for Smoking ; Chiwetel
Ejiofor, Kinky Boots ; Will Ferrell, Stranger than Fiction
Supporting Actress: Adriana Barraza, Babel ; Cate Blanchett, Notes on a Scandal ;
Emily Blunt, The Devil Wears Prada ; Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls ; Rinko Kikuchi, Babel
Supporting Actor: Ben Affleck, Hollywoodland ; Eddie Murphy, Dreamgirls ; Jack Nicholson, The Departed ; Brad Pitt, Babel ; Mark Wahlberg, The Departed

TELEVISION

Series, Drama: 24, Fox; Big Love, HBO; Grey's Anatomy, ABC; Heroes, NBC; Lost, ABC
Actress, Drama: Patricia Arquette, Medium ; Edie Falco, The Sopranos ; Evangeline
Lilly, Lost ; Ellen Pompeo, Grey's Anatomy ; Kyra Sedgwick, The Closer
Actor, Drama: Patrick Dempsey, Grey's Anatomy ; Michael C. Hall, Dexter ; Hugh
Laurie, House ; Bill Paxton, Big Love ; Kiefer Sutherland, 24
Series, Musical or Comedy: Desperate Housewives, ABC; Entourage, HBO; The
Office, NBC; Ugly Betty, ABC; Weeds, Showtime
Actress, Musical or Comedy: Marcia Cross, Desperate Housewives ; America
Ferrera, Ugly Betty ; Felicity Huffman, Desperate Housewives ; Julia Louis-Dreyfus,
The New Adventures of Old Christine ; Mary-Louise Parker, Weeds
Actor, Musical or Comedy: Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock ; Zach Braff, Scrubs ; Steve
Carrell, The Office ; Jason Lee, My Name is Earl ; Tony Shalhoub, Monk

It's a great time to catch up on primetime TV series that are airing in the states now
but have not made it here yet because their network programming there follows a
certain routine and all major series have been paused for the year-end holidays until
the start of next year in 2007, roughly around january til' early februrary.

Anyway, I've finally gotten around to starting on Neverwinter Nights 1 (yes, old!)
ever since I got the Diamond Edition which includes all expansions, add-ons etc.in
august, so now that there's more time available I shall embark on the 100-hour
campaign (more sleepless nights included) and i'm borrowing daniel's nwn2 after
i'm done. (Or maybe not, see whether i want to risk the first month of school :P)

Found this out courtesy of joanne. Just watch the girl with "Boy" pasted on her
back. This is an ominous sign.

3 parts fool, 1 part courage

I crossed the bridge at 9:50 PM

Friday, December 08, 2006

There's always tomorrow

Plug-in: Here It Goes Again - O.K. Go

The good news I've just received is that my mother's steadily recovering
and she will be back by tomorrow. Nothing serious for her in the long term
but she will have to go for regular medical check-ups.

Went for lunch with my sister a couple of cousins who came to visit my
mother today. We ate at the pizza hut across at united square before having
some snacks at the cedele bakery depot in novena square. They were really
encouraging and nice even though I haven't seen them. One of them, amelia,
also just took her o's and we talked about pae and everything. Her choice is
quite interesting, she wants to get into sajc at least if not she would rather
go into polytechnic instead of compromising for lousier jc's.

Anyway, in the meantime I've been catching up on primetime television series
that are airing in the US and haven't made it to sunny singapore, cable or other
wise. The seventh episode on the 3rd season of desperate housewives, Bang,
had a hostage scene at a supermarket which was extremely tense and a very
emotional ending, which finished off with an uplifting postlude. Although the
quality of DH has deteriorated slightly recently after the non-stop tirade of
scandals, this one's really well made and had very high ratings. So far, the 3rd
season has been pretty okay.

I've just began following this super-hyped up brand new series that started airing
in the states a couple of months ago called "Heroes". Apparently, it's the most
watched series right now there and the story seems very closely related to the
whole x-men mutant thingamajig. Which should probably be a recipe for disaster
and at first glance the whole plot about individuals across Earth discovering they
have powers like altering time, being indestructible etc. seems cheesy and very
been there, done that before. But I guess it holds its ground well by stuffing each
and every character's closet with dark secrets along with the provision of lots of
drama and internal conflict in their lives amidst the special effects, the kind of tactic
that recent hits like Lost, Grey's Anatomy, Desperate Housewives and House have
utilised to make serials hip again and knock off reality programmes.

Looking up the official websites of Fox, ABC, NBC etc, I realised there are a lot of
critically acclaimed shows in the US that I've never heard of before or never watched
an episode of and all of them have really intriguing plots and premise. Sadly, I don't
think I'll ever have time (especially once December is over) to get down to try to watch
all (or even half) of them unless i want to risk addiction. Sigh, if only we had such good
programming.

It's Official: Pirates 2 Joins Billion Dollar Club!

I know it's a bit late but the facts and figures listed are still astounding. Hopes are high
for At Worlds End out next year on May 25. Will the 3rd and tentatively final installment
top the best sequel of all time or sink? Apparently the teaser poster with chinese cloth
background was out long ago (without a title). Footage was also revealed at San Diego
Comic Con at an exclusive showcase:

-> "The footage was about two minutes long and included brief interviews with producer
Jerry Bruckheimer and Orlando Bloom. Chow Yun-Fat's character had many speaking
lines in the clip, which featured lots of Singapore floating village shots(!), a
rescue Captain Jack Sparrow scene, a scene where Sparrow has to convince the crew to
run back and forth on the shipdeck to rock a ship over, Jack the undead monkey in
Chinese Warrior armor, shots of Barbossa and Sparrow amid a huge shipboard sword
battle, and a swordfight between Sparrow and Davy Jones atop a crows nest in a giant
storm."

just because it ain't over yet

I crossed the bridge at 10:44 PM

Thursday, December 07, 2006

The passing blur of lights and sounds

Plug-in: Mad World - Michael Andrews

Something really upsetting happened on monday. Just some time around the
late evening when I reached home, my mother suddenly collapsed and had to
be immediately rushed to the hospital. Apparently the doctors said she has a
severe bout of stomach flu but somehow the virus has spread to her kidney
as well.

When I was in the front seat of the ambulance (we had to take one because my
father wasn't around at the time), I had some time to reflect on life and the whole
fragility of it. My mother was glowing with health just a few weeks ago despite
being in her 50s so this came as a really abrupt shock to our family. Being a youth
certainly doesn't give you much opportunity or responsibility to really grasp the true
value of life because we get over things easily due to our capacity to be able to move
on emotionally and we really can't be blamed for not being able to do so but sometimes
I just wish it wasn't so.

I haven't really been like the best a son could be to her and I don't talk to her often
because she also happens to be a very busy woman.

I just hope everything's going to turn out alright.

I crossed the bridge at 11:33 PM

Monday, December 04, 2006

Sleepless in Singapore

Plug-in: Starlight - Muse

I've been sleeping at increasingly late hours these past few days.
And i'm afraid it might be getting into my biological routine because
i get restless when i try to sleep earlier. Not in that sense which you
have a lot of things to ponder about but just plain ol' body refusing
to sleep. Hrmph.

I'm still a bit dazed as to why acs(i) is probably like the only school to
not only hold their grad night before the exams and have it at their
school hall. The life! newspaper article today which elaborated on
how top secondary schools and jc's hold their proms extravagantly
didn't help much, especially when they mentioned how proms being
held in school halls and auditoriums were a thing of the past. Oh my,
we're outdated.

Spent friday night at vivocity watching fireworks (yes, i'm a sucker
for those) and then retreating to pacific coffee company with jessie
and annabell. That night, I truly comprehended that the target consumer
of most shops at vivo aren't as wide as the shopping centre itself.

Hauled my ass to the Sitex fair at expo on saturday to meet vanessa
and marcus as we walked around the entire place viewing and mulling
over whether we should purchase anything. It then dawned on me
that I should really have gotten a temp job over the holidays although
I intended not to move my bum at all after a major examination like
the 'O's but I guess the problem of having not enough money will always
be knocking on your door. Sadly, I wished the world wasn't so money-centric
(i'm starting to sound like a communist), but enough bohemian thoughts!
Back to the fair, we left afterwards for marcus's house to stone and ended up
watching movies I've sworn never to watch like AMERICAN PIE: BAND CAMP
and GIGLI (how on earth did you acquire these movies marcus?!).

Earlier today, went to BK for lunch after church following which we decided to
do something I swear I've never done for a long time (i don't think anyone else
has!) - GO FLY KITES @ marina south. But it was super duper fun and windy
conditions just made it a lot better (watching ourselves go mad running about
the entire field). Yay, i'm quite glad i did something so simple and enjoyable in a
long while.

take it easy, sparkle up your life

I crossed the bridge at 1:49 AM

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