welcome to the interweb

wooo.. first of all, welcome to the world of movie streaming, dad! hahaha

well, as you all can see, my blogging spree's over. woohoo.. lol.

forget it. thinking of cutting my hair tmr. that's it.

spent.

spent last night at gran's house stayover. aunt said she'll wake me up in the morning but woke up by myself at 8am. lol. then remembered i didn't bring a toothbrush. O_O

anyways then spent the day following rituals and stuff. last night almost drank the coffee for prayer purposes. I swear i did not know that u are not suppossed to drink la. u made it like u need to drink the coffee.. anyways i could swear that i heard ppl laughing when i was made to hold the drink again. haha

then spent afternoon folding papers, and then the night chasing cats. yep. its been a good day.

somehow endless love comes to me when i hear the chants played. saddening issn't it? and the fact that my dream last night was so real, made me wanna hear it more. at least i do now.

为了你而活

in case anyone is wondering why i'm still online even though i slept at 2am last night, its because i slept for 3 hours in the afternoon. There is nothing as satisfying as napping, especially considering the fact that I always got work to do during the week.

the week was fine, and although i was not able to donate my blood, at least i tried.

Haruhi season 2 is finally out! at least this will be a way to while through the hours absolute boredom.

P.S. I need advise! give up?
P.S.S I really hate the GBE teacher. too strong a word. dislike
P.S.S crankiness level tuned way high again. lol.

long day..

spent the day doing surveys, GBE project and napping.
god i hate GBE.
I guess i must be the biggest idiot in the whole world. don't ask me why.
alright. off to sleep!

rejected and dejected.. =(

yeah.. so i got rejected today. man it feels terrible sia. It's not that I don't have a big enough heart or anything, but its because of that that i feel so terrible.

She just said, "ur veins too flat. may collapse". this is one of the reason that stunned me. lol. i thought that maybe because i'm underweight for my height or vein too small. but too flat? what kind of logic is this. I actually felt ashamed when i walked out of the hall. not including the fact that they handed me a sticker that said "Please treat me kindly. This is my first donation."

oh man.

take action..!

yahhh wad a surprise yesterday!

mann congrats ok?

anyways seems like my blogging streak is over. been too freaking busy to blog because of items such as GBE projects, BD surveys and the likes. HATE them. but what to do?

Glad to see that I'm still surviving over here. and i'm having a big headache as of now. ok faster do my BD now. I have nothing to write anyways. haha xD

the start of everything

whew.. spent the weekend travelling to grandma's house to see her. just that will explain my disappearances and my no time to do homework or projects etc. but i did do ok?

sian sia. freaking schoolwork taking my life away. damn. I still cant get rid of lee hyori sia. so i guess i'll be sticking with her much longer. her album is nice. niceness all round with hyori!

actually thought of getting around to do my iaf tutorial, but after doing the first question i lost all drive. wonder how i did that.

ok back to the killing grounds for me. better do my report for gbe..

P.S survey thingy isn't going too well. hard to find pet lovers sia. lol.

P.S.S i really need to get back to my report. haven't even half started.

muses

oh ya. never knew youtubing is so addictive sia. spent the better part of the afternoon youtubing for some live performances. time passes slowly then, so there was no need to mind. once its nightfall, time passes so fast its crazy.

right. was still searching for lee hyori songs. lol. I'm in over my heads with her songs lol. who ask that korean girls all looks so nice huh? haha.

today's the shortest entry yet.

P.S. Hyori, Hyori..

P.S.S I feel happy. at least I have some confirmation of something.


again. *prays* Get well soon Grandma.

problems after problems..

well, today I signed up for the blood donation! the website says that 45kg and above can go for blood donation, so I'll just go try my luck, since I'm underweight. =X

right. went to the hospital to visit my grandma. MAN. She's so thin now la. damn. ya. i almost teared up. twice. damn. what can I write here since it's private matters? couldn't even say a word to her. damn.

Hope you get well soon. Grandma. Let's gamble when you wake up, ok?

P.S. It's not all about me anymore. Can't be so selfish. Can't be so immersed.

P.S.S Reminder to myself. Please don't give that freaking grin and don't watch too much SNSD and Hyori. Wouldn't want to have just a virtual girlfriend. lol

Eye contact..

finally got my phone! its preloaded with 1000 songs in it! all in english though. sad.

the IAF tutorial sure was hard - spent an hour plus doing the tutorial, and its not even halfway through. and its just 3 questions! *rolls eyes* dumb shit.

at least my part for GBE is done for now. tomorrow i can focus on thinking up survey questions, and sign up for the blood donation drive. Its not as much as for karma but for an obligation to go for the activity. why not? anyways i was afraid of being alone therefore i never really applied, but with Junhao and Seto who are so "on", I'm not that afraid anymore. Let's do our part for society!

I'm getting too sensitive to things. must be the after effect of having too much time on my hands.

alright time for some rants. now I know another thing I hate. People not giving eye contact when talking to them. maybe I'm just too sensitive. shit.

P.S BD lecturer said don't do unto other what you don't want others to do unto you. I agree. Not for the karma bits la. but its at least polite that way, best not to hurt others or their feelings even if you wanna do bad things. somehow I feel as if I've becomed a oyaji for speaking here. LOL

waiting is hard..

ARGHH! how much longer till the guy calls me to collect the phone?? waiting sure sucks.

On a graver note, my grandmother went to hospital yesterday. Hope she will get better. =/ *prays*

with age comes experience, and i'm not that immature anymore

Spent the best part of last week struggling against my doubts and fears. my mind was in turmoil while i gave some serious thought to what i was doing with my life. And partly it was because of her that made me feel so insecure and fill with excitement, anxiousness. In some ways it was like going to a battle - in that the feeling you get before you enter the battlefield, not that I've been to a battle before. Frankly I both love and hate her so much that it hurts. It was just a figure of speech though. There were times when I felt that I made the wrong decision. And I regretted it. But it was done though, what could I do?

As people generally know me, I'm a person who will keep thinking back to how I could make things better. So there's types of mistakes that really gets into my head which I then push to the back of my head with, only for them to come back with a vengence when I was reminded of it or when I was alone. Of course, there are also matters that makes me smile stupidly. A very satisfying chat with her would make happy for weeks. But as things go, the only thing people remember often or the longest would still be their mistakes.

They say that life is made up of 98% suffering and hardships and 2% happiness. But life must still go on, and that is also part of the reason why when you achieve happiness you always feel so so so sweet. Seeing a post on friends and friendship also made me think. How many friends could I actually rely on? Right now I can only think of a few but it doesn't matter. It hurts, and for my friends I can rely on, U may not be able to contact them or anything, but at least I know that I will be able to depend on them when the time comes, right?

Talking about this topic, I guess everyone knows that they will not be able to make lots of lasting friendships during their school period, but they try, and gets rewarded for trying. At least they won't be lonely at school. There are also these types of close friendships that will disappear once people graduate from school. Its a pity actually. Well, I guess I'll just go with the flow.

People learn from their mistakes, that's a given, in order not to make the same mistakes again. Once they mastered it, they mature a little bit in the process. This I call the "Human Process of Learning". Its interesting really. People avoid mistakes so as not to experience failures, but the real thing I think they're afraid of is actually the feeling of failure. No one likes that, but its unavoidable, or else how do people actually learn? My idea of the feeling of failure is a kind of sinking feeling that makes you very uncomfortable, maybe like the feeling of getting caught/failing in exams/shi lian? Yet another one of life's mysteries.

For me myself, I have the balls to fail in almost everything but my parent's expectations of myself. That's why I always study and play hard like there's no tomorrow. No wonder I always failed in other non related areas. I know that I'm not a good judge of character, but i can be counted on to help my friends when in trouble. I'm the kind of person to be fiercely loyal to my friends. It cuts both ways though. At least I don't have to worry about food and stuff. Right.

One thing I can be sure of is that I will be better off than what I'm now a few years down the road. That said, I really admire those people who have a clear goal of what they want to do the year after, or even ten years down the road. I, for now only just decided that I'm going to get into a University after National Service. The rest is still very vague. Guess I'm a "Cross that bridge when we get to it" kind of person.

P.S. This was written like 2 weeks ago, when I was feeling down and particularly inspirational. lol. anyways if you get to this point, thanks for reading my super long and boring post. Guess I'll do a part 2 if I feel like it, or feel down. At least I don't have readership problems to worry about, as the saying goes, "the fewer the people to have seen or heard of it, the better" =)

P.S.S Oh ya. I wasn't intending to post about it, but since I typed it into my phone, and I getting traded-in tomorrow, might as well la. haha

UWAHHHH

seems like blogging spree is ending, and not a moment too soon. I predict that I will be too busy to blog from next week onwards. Not counting the tutorials that I haven't start doing, I currently have a GBE presentation on 19/5, and the GBE report to pass up on 18/5. Not to mention that our group haven't really started doing it yet.

Next, I have Business Development to do. Due to be presented on week 6 or 7, we just touched on macro environment, not to mention that we have to do a survey for at least 100 to 200 people. And the report is to be handed up on 8/6.

One, no two words. Severely out-of-time

anyways, yesterday went to eat out with my family at Sembawang Shopping Center. that was frankly the first time I've been there since it was renovated and i was pleasantly surprised that its becoming better and better.

We went to Astons and I had a Prime Sirloin (Medium) there. It tastes nice, and I really am full after eating that dinner. The Mashed Potato my brother had looks veryyy good and the French Fries was nice.

After that me and my father went to the Singtel Exclusive Retailer shop to see if I can change my phone or not. The guy there said I need to wait till today to change. Imagine how disappointed I was, considering that this is the first time i get to choose my phone and trade-in and so on.

So today I went, and the guy said the W705 is out of stock. MANNNN.. Hope the guy keeps his promise and deliver the phone to me by tomorrow, and don't need to get my father to come down again just for his IC and signature. Else I think I'll probably say WTF is this service and storm out. lol.

better go watch my shows and start planning what to do for my projects, else I'll never forgive myself. It's not that I don't trust my groupmates or anything, but more of a responsibility type of question.

nervousness abounds thinking minds. I'm thinking too much, really.

just did a quiz, and felt obliged to share it around.

seems i prefer quality time/physical touch

I feel loved when...

The Five Love Languages

My Primary Love Languages are probably Quality Time and Physical Touch

My Detailed Results:
Quality Time:	9
Physical Touch:	9
Acts of Service:	6
Words of Affirmation:	4
Receiving Gifts:	2

About this quiz

Unhappiness in relationships is often due to the fact that we speak different love languages. It can be helpful to know what language you speak and what language those around you speak.

Tag 3 people so they can find out what their love language is.

Take the Quiz!
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I just don't know you that well..

today's gym day. went training for a bit, but frankly the atmosphere at the SP guildhouse better, if only it didn't cost that much to use the facilities there. These past week i kept bumping into old friends, and it makes me happy, since it's always the best to meet everyone you know everywhere.

this reminds me of during BD class when we thought up of a party organiser thingy. and imagine everyone telling "Happy Birthday, (Insert Name)" to you. I will be damn stunned and pleased and surprised and happy at the same time la. hahaha.

Went to Bugis street to buy a slingbag. think i need one as different occasions calls for different items to bring. anyways experienced mild post purchase cognitive dissonance but nvr paid heed to it. went to buy a shirt, polo and pants for myself and got nagged by my mum that i have too much clothes. I feel otherwise though, since i feel i wear the same clothes everyweek to school =/

right. today's lecture is quite relaxing ba. if you can minus away the tiredness that arises from lack of sleep. seriously i needs to sleep for 10 hours for one day, just to get a feel of what life during the holidays was.

P.S. Can't believe I nvr heard of Lee Hyori. Her smile is dazzling.. How about a smile for me, please? =D

Everything takes time. just hope i have the patience and that little something.

the clear blue sky

I'll daydream if everyday's like this, so please don't give me false hope..

slept for 6 hours last night. freaking tiring was the day.

at least today's gems was fast, and ended at around 930. the only regret was.. this i would keep to myself. during IAF class, i was the only (ignorant) one taking a temperature check, since i don't know that it was canceled. got laughed at but i don't mind, since taking a temperature check wasn't that bad anyways. At least it did helped me to escape some questionings from Mr Ben. haha.

during break i folded some stars with strips of shiny paper that i got from joy and bianca. the one useful thing i learnt was that huiwen and joy don't like people (guys) to give them stars since it was so stupid, and bianca was ok with it so long its someone her type. lol. my first time folding stars and i folded 6 in an hour! yea that pretty much sucks but at least i know how to fold now. *beams*

now waiting for some chance to learn how to fold hearts, and get to know people better in the process =)

BD group is moving sloooowly. at least we about finished our business description, and now we will be starting on macro environmental forces. hope can finish phase one by end of week 5. it isn't very reassuring that projects are now starting to pile up. will start on brain drain phenomena once i get my brains back.

P.S. been lazy lately and quite forgot to do my exercise at home. will try to get back into rhythm.

just let me.. *forgets line

woah!

obviously, to continue to pump up my blogging spree credentials, i managed to blog 4 days in a row! *gasps

went to K with huiwen, kaming, samantha and jerry today.. was rather fun and blew my throat off now. damn. never knew that samantha was that crazy. lol. at some point we just said that she was suffering from ADD or Attention deficit disorder, and that just got her cracking up more. she's tough man. real tough.

kaming, huiwen said that he was out of tune but ya he just kept going, while denying everything. haha. this makes it all the funnier and better to sing with. jerry was in his usual SJT voice and a couple english songs really cracked me up. Huiwen was almost as crazy as Samantha and, i think no one was sane enough during K-ing la, in all those times i've been. that's a good thing though!

P.S. went surfing the net and found a 10 girl korean band. yes they're good looking and almost the same age as me, but 10 girls? not surprisingly they became quite popular. I, for one would not mind one as my girlfriend. =)

check them out here:

bad bad bad tuesday

i wonder what's wrong with me. blogging like 3 days(?) in a row?

anyways, today i got back money for the ITP trip. $150++ in total. yet i lost something too. my water bottle! *saddens. my water bottle is at least dependable, since it don't leak too much, and yeah. i lost it. mannnn..

going for K tmr with some pals from the OITP and also huiwen. ryan pangseh-ed us sia. lol

P.S sorry mr lee for saying you're an idiot that loud. guess it's just a spur of the moment thing. pls dun make my life difficult. yea i regretted it the moment the words came out. sorry. peace.

mon mon monday

uwah today's finally monday. I always get the feeling that i wanna go to school on the weekends, but that doesn't mean that i would like going to school when the time comes. haha.

somehow i get the feelings that i wanna see how my friends in schools are doing, and then the urge to see that someone also makes it all the more compelling for me to go to school. what a retarded guy i am. haha. many was the time that made my class go *thump thump when i go to my class.
ok i'll stop that now. haha

anyways, tomorrow's the temperature taking day. fun huh?
we need to scan our admin card when we go to school from tomorrow onwards too. must be because they want to find out who's in school to quarantine us IF an outbreak occurs =O
I don't care so long as they don't take up too much of my time la. time is precious you know?

the library also needs to scan our cards when we enter. must be same reason as above.

P.S the "Will you survive the swine flu?" quiz I took at Facebook does not bode well. Says that I will die through none of my fault. Is this fair? hope it wont happen in real life though =/

Review and Response

here's the review i said i would find =)

"It’s been far too long, Round Table.

I’ve said it once, and I’ll say it again: Round Table never fails to capture my mood in the best way possible. Every album they put out (all three of them, to be fair) exhibits full control over the music, and the sophistication is in another league. However, I was just a bit concerned when I saw the release notice for Distance, because there’s a whopping five singles/b-sides on the album. Given that the album’s total length is really only twelve songs (ignoring the useless intro and outro songs), that’s not a lot of wiggle room for original content. And while this is nothing new for Round Table, I can’t help but feel like each album is a bit of a risk, because there’s not too much room for error, given the small amount of content they’re working with. Nevertheless, they haven’t messed up majorly in any of their albums so far, so I’m not exactly about to reprimand them prematurely, especially considering how solid this album actually ends up being.

Skipping the singles, one of which I’ve already given an analysis of here, the first track Sayonara is really worth noting, because it’s perfect Round Table. Every album they manage to produce one song that completely steals the show, and surprisingly enough it’s never a single. April had Beautiful, which was a b-side, and Nino had Message, which as far as I can remember was also a b-side. Sayonara is an original track produced for the album, and it really manages to shine. Round Table tends to do best when given an upbeat tune and lots of layering in the music, and all of that presents itself wonderfully in Sayonara, along with a bit of catchiness in the vocals, especially during the chorus.

The sixth track, Toki wo Koete, is also a fairly interesting one. I really didn’t like it too much at first, and it never really seemed to stick in my mind overall. However, after listening to it several times, it’s really started to grow on me, and now it actually ranks fairly highly on my mental list of Round Table songs. The song’s very smooth, and is actually a pseudo-duet between Katsutoshi Kitagawa (who used to do the vocals for Round Table before Nino came along) - think Uinona. It’s an interesting song, very laid back and, at least for me, it really grows better over time with repeated listening.

Finally, I’d like to mention Takaramono. Ah, Takaramono. I remember when it came out on the Koi wo Shiteru single (in a ‘homemade demo’ version), I absolutely abhorred it. It was easily what caused the Koi wo Shiteru single to lose serious points in my book, and the song felt, in an uncharacteristic move on Round Table’s part, very sloppy. But things have definitely changed, and for the better. It sounds remarkably similar to the track that precedes it, Yokogao (which I expected to be amazing having heard it before as the insert song for Aria the Origination), and has actually become my favorite track on the album. While I’d have to give the nod to Sayonara in terms of overall quality, I feel that given how terrible the demo version on the single was, as well as the level of sophistication and catchiness in the song, I can’t help but love this song and come back to it over and over. A beautiful piano track plays in the background and accompanies the delicate rhythm section, and the composition allows for an extremely complex and rich song, that just exudes quality. Very well played, Round Table.

I could go on and on about how much I love this album, but there’s really only one way to vindicate my obsession with this band: check them out for yourself. You’ll either love them or hate them, as I’ve found very few people that have found them only so-so. If you hate them, all you have to lose is a few minutes, and if you love them, you’ll be able to understand exactly why I love this band so very very much. So check them out, post impressions, and see if you can find what I’ve found in all of their awesome songs."

right man. so now's my review, or synopsis, or whatever.

right now, my personal favourites are sayonara, koi wo shiteru, ahh everysongs la. the songs are really very refreshing, and it mixes genres together. like jazz and pop and whatever. from a mishmash of things u think that its a futile attempt. but its good. like real good.

the time when i was introduced to this band was after watching Welcome to the NHK, a very interesting anime that is my cult favourite. ok. time passes very quickly when u listen to their music, and its really very entertaining. I still haven't lost interest in the album after i've listened to it for a week plus. that's the best part.

" Round Table tends to do best when given an upbeat tune and lots of layering in the music, and all of that presents itself wonderfully in Sayonara, along with a bit of catchiness in the vocals, especially during the chorus."

yep. this is really true of the band. the reason why the album keeps a hold of me is due to the fact that there's something new to listen to in everytime. real good.

"it really grows better over time with repeated listening."

this senctence really hold true for me. i would'nt be listening to this over and over and before i sleep (yes, i do listen to songs before i sleep) if this is not true.

do give the album a try. You’ll either love them or hate them, as I’ve found very few people that have found them only so-so. If you hate them, all you have to lose is a few minutes, and if you love them, you’ll be able to understand exactly why I love this band so very very much. So check them out, post impressions, and see if you can find what I’ve found in all of their awesome songs. => my views

one very important thing.

EDIT: Review taken from "http://unchained.nu/logomania/?p=41"

Good day =)

today's a nice day to take a nap =)

nice album by the way. I'm gna copy paste someone's review abt this someday..

sayonara



Koi Wo Shiteru